Comments on: Reference Question of the Week – 11/14/10 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/11/20/reference-question-of-the-week-111410/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Mon, 13 Jun 2016 16:19:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/11/20/reference-question-of-the-week-111410/#comment-1958 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:07:27 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1221#comment-1958 Yeah, there’s probably not a strict rule every publisher follows. It just seemed like seeing this as a “display until” date made the dates make more sense to me. Of course, we leave the most recent copy as our “current copy” on display until the next one arrives, regardless of cover dates.

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By: Cari http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/11/20/reference-question-of-the-week-111410/#comment-1957 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:33:25 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1221#comment-1957 That makes a lot of sense. I use the magazine’s pub date as my pull date for the Magazine Express collection (current issues that are able to be checked out). While our regular magazines get replaced as soon as the new one comes out, sometimes Magazine Express will have two copies of a title, one pubbed this month and one dated this month. Then we get some more circ time on them too.

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By: walt crawford http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/11/20/reference-question-of-the-week-111410/#comment-1956 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:13:21 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1221#comment-1956 I’m sure there’s no uniform rule. It’s certainly the case that some magazines come out with considerably extended issue dates. I’ve already received the January/February 2011 issue of Analog Science Fiction and the January issue of Asimov’s, and I wouldn’t be surprised to receive the February issue of Asimov’s before November 30. I suspect mags with heavy newsstand sales do date further ahead.

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By: Winnie http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/11/20/reference-question-of-the-week-111410/#comment-1955 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:19:33 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1221#comment-1955 I look after the ordering, cataloguing and processing of magazines at our library and I don’t belive there is a single reason for this. It isn’t universally true, either. Our American publications usually have the greatest discrepency while Canadian publications usually appear about two weeks prior to the cover month and MacLean’s tends to arrive Thurs/Fri with the following week’s Monday date. Of course, some of this appears to depend on the post office. With quaterlies and even some bi-monthlies, the is often a display until date next to the UPC code. In our subscriptions, it appears to be the bi-monthlies that are most out of whack, especially those which have gone to a single month dating ie Jan instead of Dec/Jan. The Dec/Jan issue often appears sometime before Hallowe’en and if it is dated just Jan it seems really early.

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