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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:27:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Deborah Harrell <dharrell@westga.edu>
Subject: Re: Sports Illustrated (Lynne Stevens)

Oh, wonderful.

Right now we have
        October 18 (special) v. 93 # 16a
        October 23 v. 93 # 16
        October 30 v. 93 # 17
        November 6 v. 93 # 19.

So if I change Oct. 18 special to just plain # 16, October 23 to # 17, and
October 30 to # 18, that would fit in with the November 6 issue.  Course,
maybe they published another "special" between October 30 and November 6!

Debbie Harrell
Ingram Library, State University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA 30118-2000
phone: 770-836-6498
fax: 770-836-6626

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:03:58 -0400
> From: Lynne Stevens <lstevens@RMWC.EDU>
> Subject: Sports Illustrated
>
> I've about had it with special issues!  The latest gem is from Sports
> Illustrated.  According to the man I spoke to in their customer service
> office, the two most recent regular issues are correctly marked as:
> October 16, 2000   v.93 no.15
>         October 23, 2000   v.93 no.16.
> The "Special Olympic Commemorative Issue," dated October 18, 2000, also says
> v.93 no.16 on it.  The customer service rep informed me that they usually
> number a special issue like the preceding one, but with a letter after the
> number.  It looks like someone at SI forgot to tell the printer, who just
> used the next number.
>
> Depending on your level of obsession-compulsion, you could: call it 15A
> (which it should have been), call it 16A (to differentiate it from the
> "real" 16), call it 16 (having two with the same number but different
> dates), or list it under special issues and not give it a number at all.
>
> Our collective thanks to Newsweek, who primed us for this by sending us
> issue 17A last week!
>
> Lynne N. Stevens
> Serials Coordinator
> Lipscomb Library
> Randolph-Macon Woman's College
> 2500 Rivermont Avenue
> Lynchburg, VA  24503
> 804 947-8133
> lstevens@rmwc.edu
>