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I also hate the Nursing Times and resent the shelf space swallowed up by out of date job adverts. I've gone as far as considering having them bound without the offending classified section (a big move as we do not usually bind anything). I think that a campaign would be a great idea, although I wonder whether an organised approach would be better than folk firing off their own letters. What about mobilizing regional library units to moan - or any co-operative buying schemes? Frankly, the darn thing must now be so bulky and awkward to produce, pack and distribute that you would think by now it would've occurred to the NT to split their journal in two! Sara Stock In message <GW42-001109104026-881@MHS>, [log in to unmask] .nhs.uk writes >I wonder if anyone else, like me, resents the amount of shelf space which >Nursing Times occupies? Typically about two-thirds of each issue consists of >job adverts which become "ephemeral" after 2 or 3 weeks. Yet I keep NT for 10 >years (and even so, get asked for articles that appeared 11 years ago!). > >I also find photocopying from their non-standard page size is difficult. I >wonder why they can't use A4 which is now so standard in UK. > >I've written to them twice about this, suggesting that they issue a separate >classified section (as with BMJ and our own dear LA Record) - but have never had >a reply, which is symptomatic of something or other. > >Is anybody else prepared to write to them - perhaps we could have a bit of a >campaign? > > > >Christine Reid >Medical Library, Seacroft Hospital >York Road, Leeds LS14 6UH >Phone (0113) 206 3675 >Fax (0113) 206 3325 >e-mail: [log in to unmask] > Sara Stock Library Services Manager North Essex Hospitals' Library & Information Service Colchester General Hospital Turner Road Colchester Essex CO4 5JL T: (01206) 742146 or 742396 F: (01206) 742107 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%