Re: Visa card for subscriptions/STOs (3 messages) Birdie MacLennan 29 Jan 2001 17:01 UTC
3 messages, 87 lines: (1)--------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:54:29 -0600 From: Jeanette Skwor <skworj@UWGB.EDU> Subject: Re: Visa card for subscriptions/STOs ***Our Financial Specialist has been using one for awhile, for things like newspapers which normally don't have a long time between invoicing and expiration. Beginning this year, the job has been rolled over to me doing it myself. I guess I'm not quite understanding what your question is. Jeanette L. Skwor Serials Dept. - Cofrin Library University of Wisconsin - Green Bay 2420 Nicolet Drive Green Bay, WI 54311 (2)--------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:04:10 -0500 From: Madeline P Windsor <windsor@EXCHANGE.BNL.GOV> Subject: Re: Visa card for subscriptions/STOs We thought about it and decided not to. We do fund accounting (different titles are charged against different account numbers), and there was no way we would be able to keep it streight when the credit card statement came in?? Madeline P Windsor <windsor@EXCHANGE.BNL.GOV> (3)--------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:53:11 +0200 From: Rachel Ben-Eliezer <rachelb@MACAM98.AC.IL> Subject: Re: Visa Card for subs. Dear Kim This is a very interesting question. The accounts department at the College has just given the library permission to purchase monographs and subs. by Credit Card. The book acqusitions department has had no trouble using it. But my subscription agents (Swets Blackwell and Teldan) are unwilling to accept this form of payment. They claim its too expensive for them! I was quite disappointed because as you pointed out cheques get lost and they take forever to order from the bank. Maybe the "Serials Librarian community" could pressurise publishers and agents to consider again. Hope to hear more on this subject Rachel Ben-Eliezer Serials Librarian DAVID YELLIN TEACHERS COLLEGE LIBRARY POB 3578 JERUSALEM 91035 ISRAEL E Mail : rachelb@macam.ac.il -----Original Message----- From: Kim Maxwell [mailto:kmaxwell@MIT.EDU] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 4:25 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Visa card for subscriptions/STOs Our Monograph Acquisitions department has been using a Visa card for some months now, and we are now considering one for our Serials Acquisitions department. I'm wondering if anyone is using a Visa card (or other credit card) to purchase subscriptions and/or standing orders on an ongoing basis. I know many places use them to order monographs (or other one-time purchases), but I'm interested in how a Visa could be used in the "and continue" or "til forbid" sense. I'm thinking it might help alleviate problems with checks getting lost in the mail, or taking forever to reach foreign countries, etc. Thanks for your help, Kim Maxwell ________________________________________ Kim Maxwell Serials Acquisitions Librarian Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Libraries, Room 14E-210 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 phone: 1-617-253-7028 fax: 1-617-253-2464 email: kmaxwell@mit.edu