On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Frank Drake wrote:
> In addition to the incomplete General Index book (which did not contain an
> index!) reported earlier, the supplemental pamphlet for volume 13 is
> labeled on the cover "Secured Transactions/Letters of Credit" instead of
> "Sale of Goods/Commercial Paper". Volume 15 contains "Secured
> Transactions/Letters of Credit".
>
> This, of course, may be remedied with a simple pen and ink change, but I
> would hope that West will send out a crack and peel replacement cover
> along with the complete Subject Index to the set.
>
>
> Somebody on West's editorial staff must have had a bad night.
>
>
> FRANK DRAKE
> Chicago Association of Law Libraries
> Information Vendors COmmittee
Frank... et al.
West/Thomson needs to get back on track for editorial quality
control. I fear this is the beginning of a new trend of goof ups, rather
than just a bad night. We are seeing supplements that aren't
specifically marked as to whether they are "practitioner's edition" or
not, so we spend time calling to find out ~it doesn't matter~ whether
that supplement goes to the regular edition, or the practitioner's
edition. It makes a difference for libraries that have both editions.
I am seeing increasing editorial confusion for Shepards
publications as well. Ask your technical services staff how they are
handling the new Matthew Bender editions and filing instructions as Bender
dismantles its _Business Organizations_ series. If this is what we are
getting from corporate mergers and downsizing by firing senior managers, I
don't like the resulting end products.
In the case of West and the index above, the paying customers (we)
need to ask West to re-do the entire volume, so the customers don't have
to deal with fixing up West's errors. We shouldn't need to get out our
magic markers and peel and sticks sheets to fix up errors.
The peel-and-stick approach is very very bad in terms of
preservation. I see this quick and easy method of correcting publishing
and writing/editorial errors in law reviews more and more. It's not a
good trend! The long-term affect of peel-and-stick pages will come to
haunt research libraries in the next several decades, as the glue starts
to work on pages beside them.
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