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Date:         Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:16:08 -0400
From:         Tim Lawrence <lawrencet@NKU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Newsweek & end-of-year combined issues

Mike Beier wrote:
>I would have to disagree that it is annoying only to us (serials
>dept).  Patrons looking for bound volumes also have to deal with not
>finding the issue they want, because the last issue of volume 20 is
>bound with volume 21, or visa versa.  And it is also annoying to the
>bindery process.  And even if the the information is printed on the
>spine, it then also becomes an annoyance to the labelling process who
>has to think of creative ways to indicate on both labels that an
>extra issue of each volume is included, or missing, from that
>binding.  Problematic all the way around.  The larger the
>institution, the more people and areas it annoys,  especially
>the patrons.

A good point about the binding. We don't bind weeklies, so it didn't occur
to me, but it should have. Still, I doubt Newsweek, Time etc will care. I
wonder why they did it in the first place (and a lot of them did this year).

Tim Lawrence                            Northern Kentucky University
Serials Assistant                       Steely Library Serials/Periodicals
lawrencet@nku.edu

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Date:         Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:12:03 -0600
From:         Jeanette Skwor <SKWORJ@GBMS01.UWGB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Newsweek (v. 129 #1 ???)

***Some good points here.  Does anyone know what it serves for the
publisher?  Why they do it?

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> Kevin M. Randall <kmr@nwu.edu> wrote:
> >I have been noticing an increasing trend for journals to combine the last
> >number of a volume with the first number of the next volume, and it is very
> >disturbing.  Does anyone have any idea of how we can broadcast our extreme
> >displeasure about this?
>
> I find this annoying as well, but how is it our business to criticize this?
> It makes sense to howl about bad title changes, because these are bad for
> everybody in the end, including publishers and subscribers. But end of year
> combined issues are for the most part awkward only to us. And by far the
> biggest reason they are awkward is that our automated prediction systems
> aren't designed to handle them, and that's nobody's trouble but ours.
> Patrons might find such citations irritating enough to just skip sometimes,
> but this isn't going to hurt a major popular weekly.
>
> Tim Lawrence                            Northern Kentucky University
> Serials Assistant                       Steely Library Serials/Periodicals
> lawrencet@nku.edu