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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 11:29:02 -0500
From: ANNE GORDON <970CGORDONA@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU>
Subject: 1994 Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Awards

Thanks to all who submitted nominations, each and every one deserved an
award! Thanks also to the members of the committee, Adriana Pilecky-
Dekajilo, John Radenchich, and interns, Linda Rosenstein and Katy Ginanni.
Several former committee members are in the process of preparing a
retrospective look at previous awards.  If you are interested in written
copies of past awards, please contact the new chair John Radencich, at
Florida International University, Radencic@servax.bitnet or
radencic@servax.fiu.edu.

Anne Gordon
Chair-1993/1994 ALCTS, WSTC Committee

1994 Worst Serial Title Change Awards:

1.  Here's looking at you Award: Jornal of Refractive and Corneal Surgery.
Formerly Journal of Refractive Surgery (and) Refractive and Corneal
Surgery. This title change has left many medical librarians searching for
a pair of trifocals.

2.  While here in Miami Beach on the beautiful Atlantic Ocean, we can not
neglect to award Atlantic Monthly with an honorary "greased pig,"  for
their inability to get a handle on their title.  Like many of us traveling
back and forth between Miami and the Beach (on seemingly month long
journeys) Atlantic Monthly has dropped the "monthly" twice in its long
history, for a total of five title changes.  We're hoping that they don't
move to San Francisco, we'd hate to see what they'd do with the Pacific.

3.  Two journals have the honor of sharing an award this year.  Archives
of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine--formerly American Journal of
Diseases of Children, and Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric
Nursing--formerly Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Mental
Health Nursing; are hereby awarded the Give The Kids A Chance Award (aka:
Give the Librarians a Chance Award).

4.  We would like to honor the Institution of Electrical Engineers for 11
separate title changes during 1994.  Unfortunately, we are sure they will
continue shocking us with future changes.

5.  The Students Choice Award is presented to the student newspaper at
Louisiana State University.  The title began as The Almagest, changed to
The Sentinel-from November-April 1994, and after a student poll, changed
back to The Almagest in April 1994.  So who says we're the only ones that
care about title changes?

6.  The Incredible Shrinking Title Award, is bestowed on Public Utilities
Reports Fortnightly.  Which became Public Utilities Fortnightly and has
now been downsized to Fortnightly.  Anything smaller and it just might
disappear entirely.

7.  An award of distinction is presented to the Journal Of Scholarly
Publishing.  According to the publisher, and I quote, "Not every change
we've introduced will seem an improvement to everyone" (and we agree) "we
hope that through the spirit with which Scholarly Publishing was founded
there will be a constant, connecting the journals past with its future."
Unless of course you shelve by title, and then never the two shall meet.

8.  With the topic of health care leading everyone's agenda, we are proud
to present the PRIDE Institute Journal of Long Term Home Health Care,
which is now known as The Journal of Long Term Home Health Care:
(subtitle) The PRIDE Institute Journal.

9.  THE WORST SERIAL TITLE CHANGE OF THE YEAR AWARD COMMITTEE'S WARNING:
TO MANY TITLE CHANGES ARE HAZARDOUS TO A SERIAL LIBRARIANS HEALTH.  In
clear violation of this warning the Pennsylvania Department of Health has
presented us with Health Risk Behaviors of Pennsylvania Adults, Behavioal
Health Risks of Pennsylvania Adults, Health Risks of Pennsylvania Adults,
and finally Behavioral Health Risks of Pennsylvania Adults.

10.  Lest you think all we do is criticize, we want to thank the editors
of Advances in Wound Care--formerly Decubitus, for healing the wounds of
incomprehesible title changes.

11.  The Snake in the Grass Award is presented to the Journal of
Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Information Supply--formerly the
Journal of Interlibrary Loan for borrowing bad publication practices and
delivering unnecessary title changes.

12.  THE WORST SERIAL TITLE CHANGE OF THE YEAR AWARD, is presented to
Barron's for returning to its original title after a brief 52 year
experiment as, Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly.  After 52
years couldn't they have waited for a new volume to make the change?

ENJOY!! SAVE THOSE SUBMISSIONS FOR 1995!