A record for _Network_, ISSN 1170-7992, can be found in the ISDS Register
which is available on fiche (only through 1996) and as a CD-ROM entitled
_ISSN Compact_.  According to the ISSN record, the title began in 1991 and
is quarterly.  I also suggest that lack of start date and frequency
information should not, of itself, be a reason not to create an original
record for a serial, if you are sure that it is, indeed, a serial.
Although these elements are useful identifying information, the serial's
title, issuing body, and place or country of publication, all taken
together as they would be present in this record would probably be
sufficient to identify this serial.

Further information on ISSN Compact and other ISSN products is available
by e-mail from issnic@well.com or on the ISSN International Centre home
page at http://www.well.com/user/issnic.

Regina Reynolds
Head, National Serials Data Program
Library of Congress
rrey@loc.gov

> ----------------------------Original message---------------------------
>
> Subject:  Desperately Seeking ....
>
> Our library just received volume 4 of _Network_ magazine, ISSN
> 1170-7992.  We need to catalog it and get it onto the shelves. Two of us
> have searched OCLC exhaustively and have checked the CONSER database,
> catalogs of other libraries, Ulrich's, and everything else we can
> think of, and can find no copy for this title.
>
> It appears to be published by the Network Publications, the National
> Training Resource Centre in New Zealand.  Volume 4 consists of four issues
> dating from "Autumn 1994" to "1995."  An order form at the back of v.4,
> no.1 confirms that the title was _Network_ at least as of volume 2 (but
> does not list publication dates).  I have contacted the publisher via
> email but had no response.
>
> Our dilemma--we do not have access to volume 1, and therefore can't
> establish a start date or frequency for the title in order to do an
> original record for it.  Someone else out there must own this title!  If
> anyone either has it and can fax us a copy of the title page for v.1,
> no.1 OR can direct me to catalog copy for it, I would be most grateful.
>
> Kay E. Lowell
> Catalog Librarian
> James A. Michener Library
> University of Northern Colorado
> Greeley, CO  80639
>
> kelowel@bentley.UnivNorthCo.edu         fax: (970) 351-2540
>