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On Thu, 3 Jun 1993 12:55:31 EDT Sarah Tusa said:

>Does anyone have an update on the title HG/HOUSE & GARDEN?  Our
>vendor reports it as "discontinued."  Our serials cataloger disputes
>the the suggestion that it has ceased.  If anyone is subscribing
>through FAXON or direct from the publisher, could you report on
>its status?

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Date:         Thu, 3 Jun 1993 13:30:00 CDT
From:         Michael Coleman <MCOLEM@NOMVS.LSUMC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: HG/House & Garden - request for info.

Our library received the June 1993 issue of HG on May 4th.
According to an NPR report (I believe it was a Weekend Edition:
Susan Sanborn was the reporter), the publication will cease with
July 1993. Ms Sanborn lamented the passage of this venerable
icon, and said the publisher attributed HG's demise to stiff
competition from Architectural Digest.
We have not received official notice from the publisher, however,
or from our vendor--EBSCO.

Michael Coleman
Serials Librarian
LSU Medical Center Library
433 Bolivar Street
New Orleans, LA  70112-2223
fax: 504/568-7720  e-mail: mcolem@nomvs.lsumc.edu

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Date:         Thu, 3 Jun 1993 15:07:12 -0400
From:         Deej Baker <dbc@POE.ACC.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: HG/House & Garden - request for info.

We subscribe through Faxon, and they notified us that it has
ceased. There was also an interesting segment on NPR one morning
about it's demise, so I am sure it has really died.

--
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Deej
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Date:         Thu, 3 Jun 1993 13:28:19 EDT
From:         Kate McCain <MCCAINKW@DUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: HG/House & Garden - request for info.

As a subscriber I have not been officially notified.  However, it was
in several of the newspapers (including the NYT) that HG had been dropped
by its publisher --perhaps because of the decline in the "coccooning market"
and because it seemed to address the same market segment that read
Architectural Digest.  Unlike the Connoiseur disappearance, where we were
"made whole" by a partial subscription to Town & Country, I have not
been told that I will get AD in lieu of my HG subscription.

Kate McCain                         "bibliometrics R us"
College of Information Studies
Drexel University

mccainkw@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu

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Date:         Thu, 3 Jun 1993 13:23:21 -0500
From:         "Scott B. Wicks" <sbw2@CORNELL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: HG/House & Garden - request for info.

Cornell uses FAXON.  We've received through June 1993 but annotated our
check-in record with the info that FAXON advises the title is ceasing.  We,
like you, are waiting for additional information as to the exact date/issue
of ceasing.

--Scott Wicks
Acquisitions Librarian

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Date:         Thu, 3 Jun 1993 12:26:10 CDT
From:         Kevin M Randall <KRANDAL@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: HG/House & Garden - request for info.

I remember reading recently about some titles discontinuing in the
home/architecture area.  (I think I read it in TIME, NEWSWEEK, the Chicago
READER or the TRIBUNE or something like that...)  It seems that the
publisher of HG acquired another title, or HG was acquired by another
publisher, and whichever publisher that was decided that one of the
titles had to go, and HG was it.  (Was "Architectural Digest" the one
that remained?)  This is all sort of fuzzy in my mind, but the one fact that
I definitely DO remember clearly was that HG was to be discontinued.
(Sorry I don't have anything more concrete to offer as evidence; I'm sure
someone else is going to come up with it in a few minutes anyway, though.)

Kevin M. Randall
Head, Serials Cataloging Section
Northwestern University Library

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Date:         Thu, 3 Jun 1993 14:04:37 -0400
From:         Shiela Osheroff <osherofs@ccmail.orst.edu>
Subject:      Re: HG/House & Garden - request for info.

                  CHKM - CHECKIN SINGLE COPY SET                   SKO

 LCN     : 10506330   CALL #: NA7100.H58
                  ISSN: 0018-6406
 TITLE   : House & garden. ***** a SERIAL
 IMPRINT : [New York : Cond e Nast Publications]            LCCN:
12016045 //r6
 +-+----------------+-+----------------+-----------------+-+----------------+
 |1|ISS   03/16/93  +-+v.165 no.4  1993 APR   |Received
 |2|ISS   04/14/93  +-+v.165 no.5  1993 MAY   |Received
 |3|ISS   05/07/93  +-+v.165 no.6  1993 JUN   |Received
 |4|ISS   05/05/93 *+-+v.165 no.7  1993 JUL   |Item due    per phone

call to pub. this is last issue  [staff reports pub. going/gone out of
business]  FAXON also shows as ceased w July issue.  -- Shiela O.

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Date:         Thu, 3 Jun 1993 14:26:27 EDT
From:         Susan Davis <UNLSDB@UBVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: HG/House & Garden - request for info.

We have received through v.165:no.6 (1993:June).  It has been coming
regularly right along.  I cannot look at the issues as they are shelved
at our other campus, but I am puzzled why it would seem to be listed
as discontinued.  (By the way, our sub is with Faxon).

Susan Davis, University at Buffalo

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Date:         Thu, 3 Jun 1993 13:07:33 -0500
From:         Sarah Tusa <TUSA@LUB002.LAMAR.EDU>
Subject:      House & Garden

Thanks to everyone who replied about the cessation of HG.  It was
very helpful to have collaborative reports.

Sarah Tusa