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Subject: Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Award Winners
From: "Horn, Marguerite" <HORNMA@sysadm.suny.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:41:13 -0400
To: "'SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU'" <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU>

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[I'd like to personally thank all those serialst folks who submitted
entries this year -- we couldn't award prizes to every one ... and some
actually changed outside the year we were considering ... but keep those
cards and letters coming folks!!! ... Maggie Horn]

2003 Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Award Winners

The ALCTS-SS Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Awards Committee is
pleased to announce this years winners of the coveted  trophy(ies).
Each year the Committee creates and presents awards for serial titles
which changed in the previous year for  what appear to be spurious and
doubtful reasons.  Awards are occasionally given for other variations in
publication, such as  changes in format, frequency, and numbering.
This year's awards, honoring titles which changed in 2002, were
selectively  presented in Toronto at the ALCTS annual award meeting.

Presented below is a precis of the presentation and a complete list of
the award winners.

Here we are in Toronto - a very unusual place for the American Library
Association to be holdings its conference.  So this  year, we thought
we'd have an unusual award recognizing a momentous event that occurred
this past year, but which was based  on work done in Toronto a few years
ago.    We would like to present to the Anglo-American cataloging rules,
2nd edition, 2002 revision, the "We're Not About to Change the Title of
Our Committee to the 'Worst Continuing Resource Major/Minor Change  of
the Year Award Committee' Award"

Now for the formal list of award winners:

1) "The Gender Bender Award" goes to the Journal of women's health,
which changed title from the Journal of women's health & gender-based
medicine in Sept. 2002, thus reverting to the title which it had from
1992-1999.

2) "The Ranganathan Save the Time of the Reader Award" goes to Utne
reader, which changed to Utne in Nov. 2002 because "...we  are not
simply about reading but also about thinking."  Maybe they should have
put more thought into the title change!

3) "The It's About Time Award" goes to the Association for the Study of
African-American Life and History which finally  changed the titles of
its two publications:  Journal of Negro history to Journal of African
American history and Negro  history bulletin to Black history bulletin.

4) "Snake in the Grass" is a tie!  To:
         a) ALA's Federal and Armed Forces Libraries Roundtable who,
after 21 years of producing Federal librarian changed the  title to
Federal and armed forces libraries in 2001 and then reverted to Federal
librarian in fall 2002 with vol. 1, no.5;  even though this is a
quarterly magazine.
         b) Michigan Library Association for changing their publication
Michigan librarian to Michigan libraries.  They were  so excited about
the title change that the last issue of Michigan librarian and the first
issue of Michigan libraries are  both v.67, no.3!

5) "The Birkenstock Flip-Flop Sandal Award" goes to Friends of the
earth, published for 10 years under that title; for two  years as Earth
focus; and now as Friends of the earth.  They"re learning how to reduce,
reuse, and recycle titles.

6) "The M-I-C-R-O-C, Why? Because it's Latin Award" goes to Microchimica
acta, whose new editor was so bothered by the mix of  Latin and Greek
spellings in the title Mikrochimica acta that he received permission
from the publisher for a change in  spelling, "... even though this
initially may lead to some confusion when looking for the journal in the
listing of a library  or on the net."

7) "The Carpal Tunnel Award" goes to The occupational therapy journal of
research, which changed to OTJR: occupation,  participation and health,
causing us all to keyboard yet another correction to records

8) "The Research? We Don't Need no Stinkin' Research" and "The Give Me
an 's' Awards" go to the Journal of receptor and  signal transduction
research for changing its title to Journal of receptors and signal
transduction.

9) "The Why Should I Change My Monogram When I Upgrade my Image Award"
goes to Computers in nursing, which changed to  Computers, informatics,
nursing: CIN.

10) "The Hands Across the Sea" or "Even non-English Titles Can Change
Award" goes to Comptes rendus de l'academie des  sciences whose 6 series
all dropped their series numbering, changed the main series title to
Comptes rendus, changed most of  the subseries titles, and added one
more.  This is just the latest in a long-standing history of merges,
renumberings, and main series changes - and we're sure it won"t be the last.

11) "The Ugly Duckling Award" goes to Beautiful British Columbia which
changed to British Columbia magazine.  British  Columbia isn't beautiful
anymore?

12) "The Matthew Brady Is Very Disappointed Award" goes to Civil War
times illustrated which changed to Civil War times.

13) "The Fresh and Not Boring Award" and "The No New ISSN for You Guys
Award" goes to People weekly who dropped "weekly" from  the title, but
haven"t technically changed their title (according to their customer
service) because they wanted to "keep  everything fresh and not boring."

14) "The If You Can't Reduce It, at Least You Can Manage It Award" goes
to Inventory reduction report which changed to  Inventory management report.

15) "The Bouncing Ball Award" goes to AIHAJ which changed to AIHA
journal and which won an award in 2000 for the 1999 change  from
American industrial hygiene journal.

16) "The Boldy Go Where Many Have Gone Before Award" and "The Worst
Serial Title Change of the Year Award" goes to Science  fiction
chronicle which changed its title to Chronicle.  We read from the
Editorial pages: "... frankly the current title is  misleading.  The
name Science Fiction Chronicle implies that all we cover is science
fiction, which just isn't so". So,  Chronicle is better????

The Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Award Committee for 2002/2003:
Marguerite (Maggie) Horn, Chair
Jennifer O"Connell
Nancy Slight-Gibney

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