Publishers of serials like to keep things interesting -
two cases in point.
When ArtUS changed titles from ArtText in 2003, the first issue of the new title was called an ‘Inaugural Issue,’ and the subsequent issue was called ‘no. 1′.
This is further complicated by the fact that, in our holdings, we are missing issue no. 1 of ArtUS, but we retain the inaugural issue and issue no. 2.
To both effectively communicate to our patrons what we have in our holdings, as well as to bind these issues in a sensible way, we decided to
1) Lyfguard (laminate) the ‘inaugural issue’
2) Bind issues 2-10 together
3) Compose the holdings statement: Lib. has 2003 Inaugural issue, 2 (2004)- 14 (2007), 16 (2007)-
such that the inaugural issue will sit laminated on the shelf and all other issues will be bound.
Likewise, when Sinorama changed titles to Taiwan Panorama in 2006, the last issue of Sinorama was v. 31 no. 1 and the first issue of Taiwan Panorama was v. 31 no. 2.
One proposed solution was to bind the last issue of Sinorama (31:1) with volume 30, but volume 30 was already bound and we were hesitant to tear it apart again.
The solution we agreed to involved Lyfguarding 31:1 of Sinorama and binding Taiwan Panorama beginning with v. 31 no. 2.
Apparently, when in doubt, Lyfguard.
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