Call for Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Nominations

Each year the ALCTS Serials Section Worst Serial Title Change of the
Year Award Committee solicits your nominations for its prestigious
awards.  The award winners will be selected at the Annual ALA Conference
and featured in a future ALCTS Newsletter and also posted to a few
online listservs.

AWARD CRITERIA include:

1.  A frivolous title change for NO APPARENT REASON, and producing no
advantage;

2.  The unnecessary change of an old, respected title;

3.  Repeated changes, the latest being no better than any earlier ones;

4.  "Snake in the Grass," or "Et, tu Brute?" category of LIBRARY
publications;

5.  The title change must have occurred during 1998 to be considered.

Please supply complete citations for the change, including title, number
and/or date of the last issue with old title, number and/or date for the
new title, and the offending publisher's name and address.  Photocopies
of relevant pages or cataloging printouts are useful as verification.

Please use the following form for each nomination:

WORST SERIAL TITLE CHANGE OF THE YEAR NOMINATION

I nominate the following publication for the 1998/99 awards:

Current title:

Former title:

Suggested award name: ("Et tu, Brute?" etc., or your own award title)

Other related information:

Please include a printout of the bibliographic record, if possible.

Your name:

Library Address:

Deadline for nominations:  May 15, 1999

Please send your nominations to:

Linda Horiuchi, Chair, Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Award
Committee
Idaho State University Library, Box 8089
Pocatello, Idaho 83209-8089
FAX 208-236-4295
Email: horilind@isu.edu