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Date: | Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:58:12 EST |
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Folks,
Well, it could only happen on Leap Day. There I was, blithely
checking in the new USGS reports, when I came across Professional Paper
1409-D. I whipped out my check-in card-- but I already **Had** a
1409-D. Yikes! Was that a prior check-in error or a 2nd copy? I ran to
the shelf, to check-- and I already had a copy. But wait-- they didn't
look identical: one was fatter. So I checked more closely..... Oh, no...
Same number. Same title. Different authors. Different years.
Ack--- Different text.
But-- there's no obvious note that the later one is a revision.
I quickly called Linda Newman. Her copy hadn't gotten to her
yet, so she hadn't seen this. She suggested that we change the
numbers to 1409-D-1991 and 1409-D-1995.
This is quite a boo-boo. Gonna be a real mess when a library
user asks for PP 1409-D, or we try to cite it.
With luck, though, we won't have another error this bad until
the next Leap Day-- in 2004. Let's hope...
-- Connie Manson
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