摘要：I T IS THE CURRENT practice of several medical society publications to number each issue of their journals without regard to the effect it will have upon the appearance of the volume when ultimately bound. If the advertising sections are included in the pagination for the total volume, the result is an unnecessarily bulky volume, the contents of which look far less attractive than in those volumes where the advertising matter could be deleted or at least separated from the main matter of the journal. One librarian reports that she directed the bindery to eliminate the advertising pages anyway and to insert an extra sheet behind the title-page, whereupon she indicates, "Missing pages in this volume represent only advertising and irrelevant matter." It seems a shame to do this in that the volume bears an appearance of mutilation. But it was pointed out that the practice did reduce waste of vital shelf space and proved more popular with the borrower who had to carry several such volumes.
