I’m looking to you clever folks for ideas for this.

A professor came to me this afternoon to ask about subscriptions, wanting to use a weekly magazine for a class next fall.  She’d like her students each to have a print subscription, in this case to Sports Illustrated.  She’d prefer, of course, short-term subscriptions (4-6 months), preferably at a group or student rate.

Have any of you run into this with any of your professors?  I found her the customer service number for S.I., checked with my jobber (1-year terms only), and have a call in to the local delivery service through which we get some newspapers.  There’s the lead-time factor, too, and the campus post office not dealing with student magazines over the summer problem.  I suggested she might have to collect money from the students in April when they register for the course, order the subscriptions herself, and use her home address for all of them.

This query isn’t quite library related, so contacting me off-list is fine.

Lynne N. Weaver

Serials Coordinator

Lipscomb Library

Randolph College

Founded as Randolph-Macon Woman's College

2500 Rivermont Avenue

Lynchburg, VA  24503

434 947-8396

434 947-8134 Fax

lweaver@randolphcollege.edu