Re: Donations of older personal copies (Barbara Rehkop) Barbara Rehkop 26 Oct 2001 13:52 UTC
Would somebody please speak to copyright issues in accepting donations? We have been advised (in a class on copyright) that since individuals did not pay the (greater) library price for their subscription, we should not make donated copies available to the public. Thanks, Barbara Rehkop, Manager Information Services St. Louis Public Library St. Louis, MO <brehkop@slpl.lib.mo.us> -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 2:42 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: Donations of older personal copies (2 messages) 2 messages, 77 lines: (1)--------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:25:36 -0400 From: Gerre Wescott <WESCOTT@LYCOMING.EDU> Subject: Re: Donations of older personal copies Hi Sandra What we do here at Lycoming, is take any and all donations with the understanding that if we can't use them, we will offer them to other libraries on duplicate exchange - backserv or backmed. If no one wants them in a resonable amount of time, they go in the trash. At least we've tried to recycle them. We get a fair amount of issues from professors when they retire but we have not been overwhelmed with donations, so it has worked fine so far. Gerre Gerre Wescott Periodicals Technician Snowden Library Lycoming College 700 College Place Williamsport PA 17701-5192 570-321-4089 - phone 570-321-4090 - fax <WESCOTT@LYCOMING.EDU> (2)--------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:44:55 -0500 From: Janice Sayers <janice_sayers@UND.NODAK.EDU> Subject: Re: Donations of older personal copies FYI, At our public library, we accept all issues donated. If we don't need them, we place them on our swap rack for other patrons to take. With donated issues, we check to see what we have and what condition our copies are in. Our periodicals circulate and they do get damaged. Plus some patrons still like to cut out articles. We then can exchange our older used issues for ones in better condition. We do not bind anything and except for National Geographic we only keep our periodicals for 10 years. If things stay on our swap rack, we either throw them out or recycle them. Janice Sayers Grand Forks Public Library 2110 Library Circle Grand Forks, ND 58201 janice_sayers@und.nodak.edu Phone 701-772-8116 Fax 701-772-1379 ----------- Original message ------------ Date sent: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:22:50 -0400 From: Sandra Kennedy <sandra.kennedy@CHMEDS.AC.NZ> Subject: Donations of older personal copies To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU > Hi > > I have been asked to find out what policies other libraries have about > accepting runs of older journals from individuals. We have a policy of not > accepting donations of current journal issues from individuals who have > personal subscriptions. However, we do accept older journals which would > otherwise be thrown out. What do other libraries do? Do those libraries > who do accept donations of older material have a cut-off point - say > material older than a year? Five years? Thank-you for any guidance that > you can give. > > Sandra Kennedy > Collections Librarian > Canterbury Medical Library (N.Z.) > sandra.kennedy@chmeds.ac.nz