Re: The fine art of counting Connie Davis 17 Jan 2006 17:38 UTC

My personal favorite is Industry Week which has been a monthly for years.

Connie Davis
Sys Admin, Cataloging, Serials
Library @ Agilent

Agilent Technologies, Inc.
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Palo Alto, CA 94304
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Date:    Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:07:20 -0500
From:    Bob Persing <persing@POBOX.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: The fine art of counting

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