Hi all!

Thank you for your help, feedback and empathy.

The official word I got from IW, as Mina suspected (below), is that
Dec-Jan is combined in name AND enumeration; eg, although it did not
appear as such, its actual enumeration is

Vol 250, no 15/Vol.251, no. 1

making Feb 2002

Vol 251, no 2

Thanks again for your help. I'm kinda new at this!

"I'm pullin' for you. We're all in this together." --Red Green

Max Shenk
Periodicals Assistant
Montgomery County Community College Library
Blue Bell, PA
<MShenk@MC3.EDU>

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Date:         Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:45:11 -0800
From:         Mina Muessigmann <minamues@MAIL.SDSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Industry Week hijinks

Max,

A number of publishers do this dastardly thing--they issue a combined
issue at the end of the year (with numbering for the earlier volume only),
but when their first issue of the next volume comes out--they call it
no.2! Blast them!

Another title that does this is Billboard. Our microfiche supplier films
the combined issue twice--once at the end of the earlier year/volume,
again at the beginning of the new year/volume. They had us confused for
awhile because our fiche was coming in beginning with no.1, when no.1 was
not really published as such.

Mina Muessigmann
San Diego State University Library
<minamues@MAIL.SDSU.EDU>

At 03:16 PM 01/30/2002 -0500, Max Shenk wrote:
>Hello all....
>
>Is our library missing an issue of INDUSTRY WEEK or are their last two
>issues misnumbered?
>
>To wit...
>
>Vol 250, No. 15 -- December 2001/January 2002
>(per their masthead--"published monthly except combined December-Janaury
>issue mailed in December")
>
>BUT....
>
>Vol 251, No. 2 -- February 2002
>
>As Manuel said in FAWLTY TOWERS, "que?"
>
>Max Shenk
>Periodicals Assistant
>Montgomery County Community College Library
>Blue Bell, PA
><MShenk@MC3.EDU>