My favourite is one from years ago that I would have liked to have
included in the bibliographic record, as the publisher sincerely intended
it as the serial's frequency. It was a religious publication of some kind
that was to be issued "As God allows."

Wayne

At 08:07 AM 2006-01-13, you wrote:
>A little serials humor for a Friday:
>
>ALCTS gives out awards each year for the �worst serial title change�. As far as I know, there�s no similar award for numbering, but I see a lot of numbering problems each year that are pretty amusing (in retrospect).
>
>The one on my desk right now is The American Enterprise (ISSN 1047-3572). Here�s what it said on its masthead in 2005:
>
>Jan./Feb. through July/Aug. issues: �Published eight times per year�
>Sept.: �published monthly�
>Oct./Dec.: �published ten times per year�
>
>How many issues did it actually publish in 2005? Seven.
>
>Anyone have other good recent examples?
>
>:-) Bob Persing

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