Re: Periodical donations (5 messages) ERCELAA@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu 20 Jul 2000 21:26 UTC
5 messages: 1)_____ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:33:49 -0400 From: Debbie Holme <dholme@ZOI.LIB.UWO.CA> Subject: Re: Periodical donations (Karen Bolton) Karen: The following is my two cents worth on this subject. The concept is good, but I suggest if the library decides to persue this arrangement that the arrangement is clearly understood by the faculty. The Engineering library where I worked had this same type of arrangement for a couple of titles. There were a few pitfalls. Over the years one Engineering faculty member donated a couple of titles to the library. At first the.arrangement worked well. As time went by, the arrival of the issues became rather sporadic. It meant I had to contact the faculty member regarding late / or missing issues. Sometimes they indicated they brought the issue to us, in actuality they sometimes forgot, (it arrived months later). Sometimes the faculty wanted to keep a particular issue if the articles pertained to their research area. I ended up waiting for issues to arrive, binding incomplete volumes and not being able to claim via a vendor... In the end I believe the faculty member moved to another university.We eventually closed our holdings as a cancellation. This is my experience on the topic. Hope this is not too much of a downer. Deborah Holme Processing / Access Services Taylor Library, UWO 2)_____ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:13:59 -0400 From: Julie Preisser <jpreisse@SINCLAIR.EDU> Subject: Re: Periodical donations (Karen Bolton) You are exactly right in being worried. There have been a few faculty in my experience who have been very careful about getting issues to us promptly and regularly - but they have been the exception. My policy now is not to cancel a subscription until I have a year's track record from the faculty to go on - in other words, for a year I may have duplicate copies. It is not that faculty are being deliberately careless - it is just that they forget with one issue, take another one home to read in bed, give another one to a colleague because there is an interesting article etc etc. Julie Preisser Periodicals Librarian Sinclair Community College 444 West Third Street Dayton, OH 45402-1421 Email: jpreisse@sinclair.edu Phone: 937-512-3006 Fax: 937-512-4564 3)______ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:22:33 -0500 From: Barbara Attebery <BATTEBERY@OCHSNER.ORG> Subject: Re: Periodical donations (Karen Bolton) Hi, Earlier this year there was much discussion about this on MedLib listserv. Basically, there could be a big problem if you accept journals paid at a personal subscription price in order that you don't have to pay the institutional price. The discussion involved copyright infringement and also it could be illegal in your state because the publishers could possibly bring charges that you are committing fraud and accepting these journals at a cheaper price than you should be paying and they would be right. We dropped the journals that we were getting as gifts or began subscribing to them ourselves. We removed the issues already on the shelf on the ones we did not subscribe to because in the MedLib discussion it was brought out that neither patrons or librarians should copy or interlibrary loan information from these journals I suggest you discuss the question with your legal department before you make any decisions. Good luck. Barbara Barbara J. Attebery, MLIS, AHIP Librarian - Collection Development Alton Ochsner Medical Library 1516 Jefferson Highway New Orleans, LA 70121 Ph. (504) 842-3760 Fax (504) 842-5339 battebery@ochsner.org http://www.ochsner.org/library 4)______ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:51:36 -0400 From: Jeannette Ward <jaward@MAIL.UCF.EDU> Subject: Re: Periodical donations (Karen Bolton) This can be a serious problem for some titles. Many of the scientific associations clearly state on the cover if there publications that the issue is a personal copy not to be used in a library. Where there is a difference in price between the library/institution and personal/membership copy, the library may be getting into copyright issues. Jeannette Ward Acquisitions Librarian University of Central Florida P.O. Box 162440 Orlando, FL 32816-2440 (407) 823-2575 (407) 823-6289 (fax) jaward@mail.ucf.edu 5)______ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 Subject: Re: Periodical donations (Karen Bolton) Sender: "SEREDIT: SERIALST Editors" <SEREDIT@LIST.UVM.EDU> We had a department head who insisted we cancel our subscription to a title because he was on the editorial board and would be sure we had a copy. It worked until he went off the board and forgot to tell us! You never get the issues until they are ready to bring them in after they have read them. If your users don't care if they have the most recent issue as soon as it is published, it might work. But... Also it seems like you usually miss an issue here and there. Anne C. Bunting University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center Memphis