2 messages:

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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 08:16:06 -0500
From: Pauline Bryant <bryantp@HOST1.SWOSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Government Accountants Journal (Deborah Harrell)

We received the message yesterday (08/06/1996).  How could you
*accidentally* change a title?  Fortunately, we missed the issue
that proclaimed the title change and did not know about it.
Pauline Bryant
bryantp@host1.swosu.edu

At 08:34 AM 8/7/96 -0400, you wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 08:23:19 -0400
>From: Deborah Harrell <dharrell@WESTGA.EDU>
>Subject: Government Accountants Journal
>
>Has anyone out there received a letter from the Association of Government
>Accountants stating that their *title change* was not a title change?
>They state
>        We also wish to inform you that the name of the *Government
>Accountants Journal* was accidentally changed to the Association of
>Government Accountants Journal in the Winter 1996 issue.  The official
>name of the publication is the *Government Accountants Journal*.
>
>Doesn't that just take the cake?  This was six months ago, and we put it
>in OCLC in February (OCLC#34037684)!
>
>I think this one takes the *Worst Title Change of the Year* award.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Debbie Harrell
>Ingram Library, State University of West Georgia
>phone: 770-836-6498
>fax: 770-836-6626

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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 09:58:17 -0400
From: Cheng-Yee Wang <WANGC1%LION@WPGATE.UOFS.EDU>
Subject: Government Accountants Journal (Deborah Harrell) - Reply

Hi, Debbie:

   I totally agree with you on the nomination of "Government
accountants journal" for the "worst title change of the year"
award.
   When I first noticed the title change early in the year,
they not only changed the title, the format was changed in the
middle of the volume.  This creates a big problem for binding
too.  We had gone through all the trouble to change the title.
I decided to wait before sending them out for binding.  Then I
received this letter on Monday.  I was so angry with the
publisher, I felt like to punch them right in the face.  In the
letter, they not only tell you that we missed one issue which is
now out of print and to have the nerve to tell us that the title
was *accidentally* changed is unbelievablly irresponsible.  I
wonder if they realize what we have to go through to change a
title.  May be next time they will tell us they *accidentally*
changed the format too.
   Sorry that I have to vent my anger.  But of all the excuses,
I think this one tops them all.  Well, It was Monday when I read
the letter. :(

Jane Wang
Weinberg Memorial Library
University of Scranton
e-mail: wangc1@uofs.edu