4 messages:

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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1999 14:11:02 -0800
From:         Robbie Varney <robbie.varney@SPL.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Wacky Binding Scheme (Daniel Burgard)

A possible solution may be found in the LC record for this title (
sn88-12988 ) as found on WLN:

$500   Comprised of alternate sections on animal and
physiological psychology and on human experimental
psychology.

However, I much prefer your version!!
Robbie
(Ms.) Robbie Varney
Coordinating Library Technician
Seattle Public Library / Serials Unit
1000 Fourth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104-1193
(206) 386-4182  Fax: (206) 386-4185
robbie.varney@spl.org

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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 14:44:02 -0800
From:  bsonka@nu.edu
Subject: Re: Wacky Binding Scheme (Daniel Burgard)

The lighter side of serials?  I'm not going to run out and check my shelves, or
even my  databases, but given the nature of serials, particularly in the
sciences, it is quite possible that this title is published with different
subtitles and a distinctly different subject matter in alternating issues with
separate year-end indexing, requiring separate binding and even classification.
We've all seen worse.  This is the lighter side only if you have the career
serialist's appreciation of the absurd.

Bud Sonka
Head, NULS Serials Unit
National University Library System
San Diego

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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1999 07:09:50 -0500
From:         "Lynn K. Cote" <lcote@LIBSTAFF.LIB.UCONN.EDU>
Organization: Univ. of Connecticut Libraries
Subject:      Re: Wacky Binding Scheme (Daniel Burgard)

Since this began publication in 1964 it's a possibility that the
"hazy, drug-induced" binding thought at the time was to keep each of
the "alternate sections" in one binding unit thinking it was good
"customer service."  See below from OCLC record #1588074.

500     Comprised of alternate sections on animal and physiological
psychology and on human experimental psychology.

I did check our volumes and fortunately we chose to bind our
issues in numerical order.

Lynn K. Cote
Serials Receipt Coordinator
Collections Services, U-5BC
University of Connecticut
Homer Babbidge Library
369 Fairfield Road
Storrs, CT 06269-1005
(860)486-6495
lcote@libstaff.lib.uconn.edu

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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1999 08:04:27 -0600
From:         Maija CRAVENS <maija.cravens@CCMAIL.ADP.WISC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Wacky Binding Scheme (Daniel Burgard)

     Our catalog has a note: Comprised of alternate sections on animal and
     physiological psychology and on human experimental psychology.
     Perhaps your library just wanted to keep animals and humans separated.

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Subject: Wacky Binding Scheme (Daniel Burgard)
Author:  <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU> at IPNET
Date:    1/6/99 5:09 PM

And now for a lighter side to serials...
Stephen Clark, Co-Moderator

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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 15:49:55 -0600
From: Daniel Burgard <dburgard@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU>
Subject: Wacky Binding Scheme

Here is a humorous (and true) binding story to start off the new year.

Ok, has anyone ever heard of binding even numbered issues of a journal
volume in one piece and the odd numbered issues in a separate physical
piece?  We  just discovered four volumes bound this way in a small
psychology library/reading room I run here at the University of Illinois.
>>From 1964 to 1968, our issues of Psychonomic Science are bound in this odd
fashion.  Issues 1, 3, 5 ... are in one piece and issues 2, 4, 6 ... are in
another.  Four years in a row were done like that!  It is very avant-garde
but not too user friendly.

I am assuming this is some type of hazy, possibly drug-induced binding
scheme which might have been popular in the mid to late 1960's.  Since I
was not very old at that time, I was wondering if some of my more
experienced colleagues could shed some light on the thinking behind this
odd and even binding scheme.

I can tell this is going to be a good year.  Perhaps we should stop shelf
reading and checking our holding so that we don't discover interesting
items such as this.

Daniel Burgard
Psychology Subject Specialist
100 Main Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1408 West Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL  61801
217-244-1866 (phone)
217-333-2214 (fax)
dburgard@uiuc.edu