International Standard Serial Number International Standard Serial Number An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication. The ISSN is especially helpful in distinguishing between serials with the same title. ISSN are used in ordering, cataloging, interlibrary loans, and other practices in connection with serial literature. The ISSN system was first drafted as an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) international standard in 1971 and published as ISO 3297 in 1975. ISO subcommittee TC 46/SC 9 is responsible for maintaining the standard. When a serial with the same content is published in more than one media
A Pack of Lies it should be enjoyed, re-tasted and remembered with pleasure." McCaughrean won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for "A Pack of Lies", the two most prestigious British children's book awards. Dudley Jones made the book co-subject of a scholarly essay on fiction and metafiction in 1999. —immediately, early US edition not in the national catalogue A Pack of Lies A Pack of Lies: twelve stories in one is a children's novel with metafictional elements, written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Oxford in 1988. It features a family antique shop whose new salesman tells historical tales to sell