8 messages, 141 lines: -------------------------- On Thu, 3 Jun 1993 12:55:31 EDT Sarah Tusa said: >Does anyone have an update on the title HG/HOUSE & GARDEN? Our >vendor reports it as "discontinued." Our serials cataloger disputes >the the suggestion that it has ceased. If anyone is subscribing >through FAXON or direct from the publisher, could you report on >its status? ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 13:30:00 CDT From: Michael Coleman <MCOLEM@NOMVS.LSUMC.EDU> Subject: Re: HG/House & Garden - request for info. Our library received the June 1993 issue of HG on May 4th. According to an NPR report (I believe it was a Weekend Edition: Susan Sanborn was the reporter), the publication will cease with July 1993. Ms Sanborn lamented the passage of this venerable icon, and said the publisher attributed HG's demise to stiff competition from Architectural Digest. We have not received official notice from the publisher, however, or from our vendor--EBSCO. Michael Coleman Serials Librarian LSU Medical Center Library 433 Bolivar Street New Orleans, LA 70112-2223 fax: 504/568-7720 e-mail: mcolem@nomvs.lsumc.edu --------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 15:07:12 -0400 From: Deej Baker <dbc@POE.ACC.VIRGINIA.EDU> Subject: Re: HG/House & Garden - request for info. We subscribe through Faxon, and they notified us that it has ceased. There was also an interesting segment on NPR one morning about it's demise, so I am sure it has really died. -- ************** Deej ************** ---------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 13:28:19 EDT From: Kate McCain <MCCAINKW@DUVM.BITNET> Subject: Re: HG/House & Garden - request for info. As a subscriber I have not been officially notified. However, it was in several of the newspapers (including the NYT) that HG had been dropped by its publisher --perhaps because of the decline in the "coccooning market" and because it seemed to address the same market segment that read Architectural Digest. Unlike the Connoiseur disappearance, where we were "made whole" by a partial subscription to Town & Country, I have not been told that I will get AD in lieu of my HG subscription. Kate McCain "bibliometrics R us" College of Information Studies Drexel University mccainkw@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 13:23:21 -0500 From: "Scott B. Wicks" <sbw2@CORNELL.EDU> Subject: Re: HG/House & Garden - request for info. Cornell uses FAXON. We've received through June 1993 but annotated our check-in record with the info that FAXON advises the title is ceasing. We, like you, are waiting for additional information as to the exact date/issue of ceasing. --Scott Wicks Acquisitions Librarian ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 12:26:10 CDT From: Kevin M Randall <KRANDAL@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU> Subject: Re: HG/House & Garden - request for info. I remember reading recently about some titles discontinuing in the home/architecture area. (I think I read it in TIME, NEWSWEEK, the Chicago READER or the TRIBUNE or something like that...) It seems that the publisher of HG acquired another title, or HG was acquired by another publisher, and whichever publisher that was decided that one of the titles had to go, and HG was it. (Was "Architectural Digest" the one that remained?) This is all sort of fuzzy in my mind, but the one fact that I definitely DO remember clearly was that HG was to be discontinued. (Sorry I don't have anything more concrete to offer as evidence; I'm sure someone else is going to come up with it in a few minutes anyway, though.) Kevin M. Randall Head, Serials Cataloging Section Northwestern University Library ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 14:04:37 -0400 From: Shiela Osheroff <osherofs@ccmail.orst.edu> Subject: Re: HG/House & Garden - request for info. CHKM - CHECKIN SINGLE COPY SET SKO LCN : 10506330 CALL #: NA7100.H58 ISSN: 0018-6406 TITLE : House & garden. ***** a SERIAL IMPRINT : [New York : Cond e Nast Publications] LCCN: 12016045 //r6 +-+----------------+-+----------------+-----------------+-+----------------+ |1|ISS 03/16/93 +-+v.165 no.4 1993 APR |Received |2|ISS 04/14/93 +-+v.165 no.5 1993 MAY |Received |3|ISS 05/07/93 +-+v.165 no.6 1993 JUN |Received |4|ISS 05/05/93 *+-+v.165 no.7 1993 JUL |Item due per phone call to pub. this is last issue [staff reports pub. going/gone out of business] FAXON also shows as ceased w July issue. -- Shiela O. --------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 14:26:27 EDT From: Susan Davis <UNLSDB@UBVM.BITNET> Subject: Re: HG/House & Garden - request for info. We have received through v.165:no.6 (1993:June). It has been coming regularly right along. I cannot look at the issues as they are shelved at our other campus, but I am puzzled why it would seem to be listed as discontinued. (By the way, our sub is with Faxon). Susan Davis, University at Buffalo --------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 13:07:33 -0500 From: Sarah Tusa <TUSA@LUB002.LAMAR.EDU> Subject: House & Garden Thanks to everyone who replied about the cessation of HG. It was very helpful to have collaborative reports. Sarah Tusa