Re: Print newsletters moving to e-mail Mary Bailey 30 Jan 2007 22:09 UTC
I wish I could cancel them. But it is not only newsletters. International Congress Calendar - sent PDF files of 4 issues over 100 pages each. We are supposed to print out for our patrons use. That means binding before use, etc. Accents online - used to come as an e-mail. I printed it out and sent it to the reading room. Now it is in html. How do you make this available on the university level? We forward it to a subject librarian who forwards it to her faculty and students never even see it. Five owls - sends an e-mail that the newest edition is online. I have to use a password to download and print it for student use. I could go on, but you all know the problems. Does anyone have answers? I have spoken to a some of these places asking if they would consider setting up web IP access or other ideas and gotten very few "positive" responses. --Mary Mary E. Bailey Serials Librarian 509 Hale Kansas State University Libraries Manhattan, KS 66506-1200 Voice: (785) 532-0678 Fax: (785) 532-7644 e-mail: redhead@ksu.edu >>> CSmit@ALBANYLAW.EDU 1/30/2007 2:46:38 PM >>> We've been cancelling these subscriptions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Colleen E. Smith Head of Technical Services Albany Law School Albany, New York csmit@albanylaw.edu (518) 445-2341 >>> sl24@TXSTATE.EDU 1/30/2007 2:48:55 PM >>> We are noticing a trend of some smaller print newsletters moving to e-mail distribution only. So far we have seen three varieties: Aviso (0739-7747)* email links to a web-version. Libraries are authorized to post the electronic version, or print out the entire newsletter. State Capitals Newsletter- (0016-1705) .pdf will be emailed. Printing is limited to 5 copies. Specifies: "do not forward email outside of subscriber's organization" WEF highlights (1087-3384) * a link to electronic newsletter will be emailed out for each issue. We don't have details yet, but it appears you have to have to log in on the website. Unkown whether the newsletter can be easily printed. We have been unsucessful in contacting the publisher to provide them an email address as instructed. Are others noticing this trend? If so how are you handling this? - Cancelling the subscription? - Printing out the newsletter? - Posting the newsletter on a local server? - Forwarding the newsletter to interested parties? - Other Curiously, we have not yet received anything from the publishers since we provided them with an email address. If you choose, you may reply off list to sl24@txstate.edu Thank you, Stephanie Larrison Serials Acquisition Librarian Texas State University - San Marcos