What about checkin online?  Would you edit the checkin to be whatever the
piece said, or would you create another checkin and just edit the original
checkin to "expected-never"?  And if you circulate the item, and it has
two labels on it, how is it identified when it is returned?  Two labels (I
think) would complicate the matter.

What you could do, is make a note in the OPAC bib record that "such and
such issue is actually this other issue".  Then all your records would
match one single item.

Debbie Harrell
Ingram Library, State University of West Georgia
phone: 770-836-6498
fax: 770-836-6626
<dharrell@WESTGA.EDU>

On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Bud Sonka wrote:

> 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>
>
> -----
>   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>