Re: Ref ?: Kanhistique Susan Wishnetsky 15 Mar 2006 14:57 UTC

At 03:25 PM 3/14/2006, you wrote:
>Hello.  Has anyone noticed anything weird going on with the journal
>_Kanhistique_?  I was about to bundle some issues for the bindery when I
>noticed the following:
>
>v. 29 (May 2003 - April 2004) - we have these 12 issues in bound periodicals
>v. 29 (May - Dec 2004) - suddenly the number of issues per year changes to
>9 and the volume number repeats
>v. 30 (Jan 2005 - Mar 2006) - suddenly the volume does not end with December
>
>How do you deal with issues like repeating volume numbers and titles that
>don't seem to have a regular number of issues?  Do you bind them with the
>volume # that is printed on it and hope for the best?  I tried to find a
>website for this journal to see if they printed a "real" volume number
>there, but it doesn't list table of contents.

When it's that serious, I'd write to the publisher, explain the problem,
and ask them to straighten things out.  Firmly.  SW

>Barbara Pope, MALS
>Reference/Periodicals Librarian
>Axe Library
>Pittsburg State University
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Susan Wishnetsky
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