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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 12:02:33 -0700
From: "C.D. Thompson" <cathompson@UPS.EDU>
Subject: Re: TRANSITION(S) from OMRI (Marla Edelman) (fwd)
TRANSITION has had a title change to TRANSITIONS: CHANGES IN
POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETIES with v.4:1 June 1997 issue. We received this
issue on June 20, 1997.
Carmel Thompson
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA 98416
At 02:30 PM 6/27/97 -0400, you wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 11:10:52 CDT
>From: E. Gaele Gillespie <GGILLESP@UKANVM.BITNET>
>Subject: Re: TRANSITION(S) from OMRI (Marla Edelman)
>
>In reply to Marla Edelman's inquiry re the title, TRANSITION (Czech Republic),
>published by Open Media Research Institute, Czech Republic/and Wash., D.C.,
>I checked our records and did a bit of sleuthing with these results:
>
>We've not received any issues past vol. 3, no. 6 (Apr. 4, 1997), which we
>received on 4/16/97.
>
>We are currently claiming for vol. 3, no. 7 (Apr. 27, 1997) which we were
>expecting 5/25/97. We subscribe directly to the publisher in the Czech
>
>We subscribe directly to the publisher in the Czech Republic but also have
>OMRI's Washington, D.C. address as an add'l address in our source file for
>this publisher. We were unsuccessful in obtaining a phone number through
>Information or from the most current issue. I just did a quick search of
>current eds. of Ebsco's _Serials Directory_ and _Ulrich's_: Neither tool
>had a state-side phone number, but both had the Czech Republic ofc. phone
>number (011-422-61142114). _Ulrich's_ also gives the Czech Republic ofc.
>fax # of 422-61143184 and e-mail address of transition@omri.cz and the
>URL of http://www.omri.cz
>
>Due to uncertain and expensive telephone service in the former Soviet block
>countries, e-mail usually works best, because it's the more inexpensive alter-
>native at their end (faxes are expensive for them). This useful information
>has been furnished to us by our library Slavic area studies dept. colleagues,
>and we try to keep it in mind to apply when our initial system-produced claim
>letters aren't responded to for those titles we obtain directly from the
>publishers in countries such as Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, etc.
>
>If Marla or anyone else out there knows anything else, please let us all
>know via SERIALST, and thanks! -- Gaele
>
>
>E. Gaele Gillespie / Serials Librarian / University of Kansas Libraries
>Internet: ggillesp@ukans.edu Serials-Retrieval Services / 210 Watson
>Bitnet: ggillesp@ukanvm Lawrence, KS 66045-2800
>Phone: 913-864-3501
>Fax: 913-864-3855
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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 15:17:01 -0400
From: "Melodie A. Salzer" <masal@CONNCOLL.EDU>
Subject: Re: TRANSITION(S) from OMRI (Marla Edelman) (fwd)
In response to questions concerning "Transition (Czech Republic)":
We receive ours through Ebsco, and the last issue we rec'd was v.3, no.6
for April 1997. Vol.4, no.1 is June 1997 and is a title change to:
Transitions: Changes in Post-Communist Societies, ISSN# 1211-0205
I have not checked OCLC to verify this change, or looked to see if there
was anything published after v.3, no.6 under the old title. I have the
1st issue in hand however, and it is still published by the Open Media
Research Institute. Their email address is: transitions@omri.cz
Hope this information helps.
Melodie Salzer
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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:37:30 -0400
From: "Helen M. Aiello" <haiello@WESLEYAN.EDU>
Subject: Re: TRANSITION(S) from OMRI (Marla Edelman) (fwd)
On June 19,1997, we received v.4:no.1 (1997:June) of Transitions. Yes,
the publisher does admit, via a lengthy explanation, as to why "...this
issue has been renamed slightly as Transitions." (The ISSN is noted as the
same as the one for Transition (sans 's). We subscribe to this title via
the vendor Harrassowitz and so perhaps that is why we have had a different
service versus your direct subscription: it's serials, right, why bother
trying to explain!
Additionally, v.3 was completed with no.6 (Apr.4,1977). In the publisher
blurb they indicated Transitions is published monthly although it is not
spelled out how many volumes will comprise a year's worth.
In any case, in this most recent issue, there are listed the following
telephone nos.for OMRI:
Advertising Info (I know, not subscription, but better than nothing!)
North America: Ellen Abrams; Kalish,Quigley & Rosen; 850 Seventh
Ave.;NY,NY 10019; Telephone: (212)399-9500 Fax (212)265-0986
Europe: Anne Harvey Whipple Tel: (420-2)216 74 500; e-mail:
whipple@omri.cz
The publisher also lists the Tel: (420-2)216 74 500 for their the OMRI
publishing office in Prague.
Hope this information helps. Certainly our receipt of v.4:no.1 (1997:June)
of only a few days ago implies it is alive and well, albeit under a
'slightly' changed name.
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Helen M. Aiello, Serials Librarian
Wesleyan University
Olin Library
Middletown, CT 06459
Voice: (860) 685-3828
e-mail: HAIELLO@Wesleyan.edu
Fax: (860) 685-2661
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Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 09:53:35 -0500
From: Jeffrey Steely <Jeffrey_Steely@BAYLOR.EDU>
Subject: Re: Transition(s)
SERIALSTers,
ON 23 June 1997 we received Transitions (note the "s" at the end),
Vol.4,no.1, June 1997. On pp.2-3 the editor writes a history of
periodicals with the title "Transition." On p.3 the editor states:
"And then there is our own, now monthly, magazine, which with this
issue has been renamed slightly as _Transitions_. The change has been
made less to distinguish us from others than to reflect the notion that no
single set of transformative rituals will or should apply to all countries
within the former Soviet Union and formerly communist Europe...."
The new e-mail address is (naturally): transitions@omri.cz.
Unfortunately, there is nothing that I can find in the issue to indicate
whether there were any issues published between vol.3,no.6, 4 Apr 1997 of
_Transition_ and vol.4,no.1 of the "new" title, _Transitions_. I have
e-mailed the publisher requesting this information and will share it on
SERIALST when I hear back from them.
Also...if anyone is sitting on an extra copy of vol.3,no.4 that they would
be willing to part with, please let me know. Ours must have sprouted
legs...
Jeff Steely
Library Associate I
Baylor Libraries: Serials
PO Box 97151
Waco, TX 76798-7151
Jeffrey_Steely@baylor.edu
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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:48:31 EST
From: MARLA EDELMAN <edelmanm@SESAT.UNCG.EDU>
Subject: (Fwd) Transition s
I received the following very helpful message from Caryl Ward in response
to my inquiry:
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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 12:28:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Caryl Ward <cward@library.lib.binghamton.edu>
To: edelmanm@SESAT.UNCG.EDU
Subject: Transition s
Hi Marla! We did not receive nos. 7-10 of vol. 3, but if you read "A
Letter to Our Readers" in the beginning of v. 3 no. 6, you will see that a
6 week "pause" was planned. That being the last issue of the old title,
it appears to me that a new volume (4) began with the new title. Can't
help with the phone no.
Cheers,
Caryl
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Caryl Ward Serials Dept
Binghamton University Library
cward@library.lib.binghamton.edu 607 777-4922
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Marla Edelman, Serials Librarian
Jackson Library - UNC Greensboro
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