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Subject: Re: Business Week -- Deborah Harrell
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:49:56 -0600
From: "Kevin M. Randall" <kmr@nwu.edu>

At 08:28 AM 2/23/2000 , Debbie Harrell wrote:
>The last issue in 1999 was Dec. 27, 1999-Jan. 3, 2000 and used #3661.
>The
>next issue, dated Jan. 10, 2000 used #3663.  Since the last issue in
>1999
>covered two weeks, do you think they just failed to print #3662 inside,
>or
>should the Jan 10th issue be #3662 and they "messed up"?  I looked back
>at
>the end of 1998 and beginning of 1999 to see if they skipped a number
>then...and they didn't.

This is a *very* common practice by the major news magazines (Time,
Newsweek, Business Week, etc.).  The last week of Dec. and the first
week
of Jan. will usually be combined into a "double issue", and will usually
only carry one number when actually the issue is two numbers.  (And with
Time and Newsweek at least, that double issue spans two
volumes--AAARRRGGGHHH!)

Kevin M. Randall
Head, Serials Cataloging Section
Northwestern University Library
Evanston, IL   60208-2300

email: kmr@nwu.edu
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