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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 08:21:00 -0600
From: Dena Lahue <dlahue@FAULKNER.EDU>
Subject: Spine Labeling of Bound Serial Volumes (Suzanne Costello)

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 11:43:43 CST
From: SUZANNE COSTELLO <SUZANNE@WTAMU-LIBRARY.WTAMU.EDU>
Subject: Spine Labeling of Bound Serial Volumes

Has anyone come across the following situation:
A serial which originally had an incorrect volume and issue
number assigned to it years ago has now been corrected by
its editor midstream.  Unfortunately, the editor did not begin
the correction with issue 1.  This now gives us a volume and
issue number earlier than the one we started with.  For ex.,
we began the year with vol. 79 and are ending the year with
vol. 77.  We are now struggling with binding issues(e.g.
spine labeling).
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to best handle
this?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks for
any input.

Suzanne Costello
Asst. Catalog Librarian
West Texas A&M University
suzanne.costello@wtamu.edu
======== Fwd by: Dena Lahue ========
Suzanne, I've seen that happen a few times before and I understand how
frustrating it is and also how confusing it can be for the patron.  However,
we have gone ahead and bound the volumes with the spines printed accordingly
and then in our holdings list which our patrons use, we make a notation of
any title/vol changes.

Dena Lahue
Faulkner University
Gus Nichols Library
5345 Atlanta Hwy
Montgomery, AL 36109-3398