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I gave up on the Haworth Press some time ago. Our serials clerk just ask me
why we didn't receive ARSQ any more. I don't remember if we didn't renew, or
if we just stopped getting it. I had a personal subscription to the cataloging
journal and caught on to their scheme. "Quarterly" does not mean 4 times a
year, but 4 issues - whenever they come. But I found I would get 2 issues and
then wait forever for another. When it came, it would be No.3-4, "double
issue". In other words, you get 3 issues per subscription - not 4. Then they
would immediately demand renewal for "4" more issues. I got tired of that game
and quit subscribing. The Press told me that was common, not to have a yearly
subscription, but base it on the number of issues. I can't recall ever seeing
any other periodical working this way. I'm surprised that a library-oriented
press would be able to get away with this for so long, without libraries calling
them on it. Does any one else think this is "common" practice? If it isn't,
then I think Haworth should be boycotted. If, as Ed Teague has said, it is
hard to get contributors, then be honest and say you will publish only 2 or 3
times a year.
Marti Pike
Woodbury University
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