Jeanette,

What we do with misnumbered or misdated issues is try to make the
situation as clear as possible for library users.  We show it in our
holdings as received and add a note in OPAC using the general formula of
"Issue dated  <       > published as <vol/iss whatever>, shelved as
<correct vol/iss>".  This means a researcher looking for the issue from  a
citation with either the right or the wrong information will know where to
find it.  Then we double-label the issue with the same notations.

If it turns into a long run of misnumbered issues, as WWD, for instance,
frequently does, then we go back and identify the first wrong issue as
incorrect so we don't need to have a note for every individual issue
thereafter.

I need to do this two or three times a week for various titles (remember
in January when both TIME and NEWSWEEK skipped issue No. 1?), but I think
it is best way guide our library users through the unfathomable
idiosyncracies of publishers.

Bud Sonka
Serials Supervisor
National University Library System
San Diego
 <bsonka@NUNIC.NU.EDU>

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  On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Jeanette Skwor wrote:

> Re: Monthly Labor Review & Other Fast volumes
>
> Bud Sonka <bsonka@NUNIC.NU.EDU> wrote:
> > That issue was only misprinted on the title page.  The correct volume,
> > v.120, is on the spine.
>
> ***As opposed to Geographical Magazine, which was vol. 169 through June,
> then turned to vol. 170 #7 for July and vol. 171 #8 with the August issue
> we rec'd last week.
>
> ***There's another title that's been zooming up a volume a month for some
> time, but can't bring it to mind at the moment.  What's with these people?
> And what are other libraries doing about it?
>
> Jeanette Skwor
> Cofrin Library
> UW-Green Bay
> <SKWORJ@GBMS01.UWGB.EDU>