Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:01:27 -0700
From: Steve Shadle <shadle@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Re: ISSN query (Donna Sue Yanney)

Donna -- The ISSN was assigned retrospectively, either later at the
request of some library or possibly as part of the initial base
assignments which were generated from several reference sources.  The ISSN
standard and ISSN Network were established somehwere in the early to
mid-1970's.  (Memory escapes me as to the specific year)   --Steve

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> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:56:43 -0400
> From: Donna Sue Yanney <dyanney@MAIL.GCSU.EDU>
> Subject: ISSNs
>
> Good morning!
>
> I am looking at a bib record in OCLC for a serial published between 1818
> and 1820.  This record has an 022 and an ISSN number.  I'm dubious; have
> ISSNs actually been in existence that long?  The record in question is for
> the Virginia Evangelical and Literary Magazine, #8960776.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Donna
> -----------------------------------
> Donna Yanney
> Serials Librarian
> Georgia College & State University