This is my favorite.

"Beginning in the Winter of 2000 when we first began publishing The
Mandate as a magazine as opposed to it's previous newsletter format, the
first one was Volume 8, #1. We had originally planned on publishing 4
magazines a year but it ended up varying through the semesters so when we
had 2000-2002 bound into one book there were 8 issues. Then when we
resumed in the Fall of 2002 we changed the volume to Volume 9, #1 for
bindery purposes. We just completed Volume 9, #4 (in press) and will
continue numbering that way until we have 8 volumes to bind. Each year
varies as to how many times The Mandate is published. For example, during
2003, we only had one issue and only 2 in 2004, yet in 2002, there were 3.
But you are correct, the volume number changes after 8 issues."

Pat Fowler

Patsy D. Fowler
Head, Cataloging Department
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Archives and Information Services Division
pat.fowler@tsl.state.tx.us
www.tsl.state.tx.us
512-463-7102

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU]On Behalf Of Susan Davis
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 9:58 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] The fine art of counting

I won't name any names, but I'd like to nominate any journal still trying
to use Roman numerals!  It's a lost art and sometimes for the folks are so
confused they aren't even close!

PS. The ALCTS Serials Section retired the Worst Serial Title Change award
after 2005.

Susan

Susan Davis
Head, Electronic Periodicals Management Department
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
134 Lockwood Library
Buffalo, NY  14260-2210
(716) 645-2784
(716) 645-5955 fax
unlsdb@buffalo.edu

--On Friday, January 13, 2006 8:07 AM -0500 Bob Persing
<persing@POBOX.UPENN.EDU> wrote:

> A little serials humor for a Friday:
>
> ALCTS gives out awards each year for the "worst serial title change". As
> far as I know, there's no similar award for numbering, but I see a lot of
> numbering problems each year that are pretty amusing (in retrospect).
>
> The one on my desk right now is The American Enterprise (ISSN 1047-3572).
> Here's what it said on its masthead in 2005:
>
> Jan./Feb. through July/Aug. issues: "Published eight times per year"
> Sept.: "published monthly"
> Oct./Dec.: "published ten times per year"
>
> How many issues did it actually publish in 2005? Seven.
>
> Anyone have other good recent examples?
>
> :-) Bob Persing