Frustration
This morning I finally remembered to go looking for my most recent issue of the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE). I pay a bit extra to get this publication along with the regular, 10x year, more tradey organization publication. JEE is published quarterly and is a research publication.
Why do I need to go looking for it, you ask. Well, I work in a library, where we are regularly receiving copies of journals as part of the business we do, and we get a copy of this particular publication for our shelves. Last year I needed to recover 1 issue from the shelves and 2 from the duplicates box (destined for recycling). The publication cycle is Jan, Apr, July, Oct so I was figuring my new issue should be around.
I checked the shelves, there is a January issue there, but it's the library copy. OK, verified that the subscription issues have been sent. When to check the duplicates box, and it's EMPTY! It was dumped on Thursday.
In theory, after I pulled all of the issues from last year from random locations, people are supposed to be keeping careful watch for these (both JEE and ASEE Prism, the tradey one) so as to be sure we are getting our personal copies. Despite that, I'm fairly certain my January issue of JEE went to the dumpster on Thursday.
Yes, I can get to the content online, but that's just not the same and really not conducive to carrying around for reading at odd moments between meetings, etc.
Why do I need to go looking for it, you ask. Well, I work in a library, where we are regularly receiving copies of journals as part of the business we do, and we get a copy of this particular publication for our shelves. Last year I needed to recover 1 issue from the shelves and 2 from the duplicates box (destined for recycling). The publication cycle is Jan, Apr, July, Oct so I was figuring my new issue should be around.
I checked the shelves, there is a January issue there, but it's the library copy. OK, verified that the subscription issues have been sent. When to check the duplicates box, and it's EMPTY! It was dumped on Thursday.
In theory, after I pulled all of the issues from last year from random locations, people are supposed to be keeping careful watch for these (both JEE and ASEE Prism, the tradey one) so as to be sure we are getting our personal copies. Despite that, I'm fairly certain my January issue of JEE went to the dumpster on Thursday.
Yes, I can get to the content online, but that's just not the same and really not conducive to carrying around for reading at odd moments between meetings, etc.