Responses to: Gifts (Mary Page) Marcia Tuttle 14 Jul 1993 08:12 UTC
3 messages ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 07:04:22 EDT From: Kate McCain <MCCAINKW%DUVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> Subject: Re: Gifts (Mary Page) Mary -- it may be that the comments were based on the requirements of members' subscriptions to society journals. My memory is that the American Chemical Society has a 5 year restriction on deposition of the "member's copy" in a library. Other societies may have similar restrictions. Kate McCain "bibliometrics R us" College of Information Studies Drexel University mccainkw@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 08:56:04 CST From: Patricia O'Neill <peo1@CORNELL.EDU> Subject: Re: Gifts (Mary Page) Certain organizations will make this type of requirement when their members purchase journals at reduced rates. For example: The American Chemical Society does not allow persons who purchase their journals at the personal subscriber rate to donate these journals to a library until they are over 5 years old. If a person does they will (I believe) drum you out of the society if you donate your journals earlier than that. The ACS is so serious about this that for some time (and perhaps currently) all journals mailed out to personal subscribers were stamped with the message "Personal subscription. This journal may not be donated to a library for 5 years." Patricia E. O'Neill peo1@cornell.edu Physical Sciences Librarian (607) 255-6038 Clark Hall Cornell University Ithaca NY 14853 ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 10:20:22 -0400 From: JUDITH HOPKINS AT SUNY BUFFALO <ULCJH%UBVMS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> Organization: University at Buffalo Subject: Re: Gifts (Mary Page) If I am not mistaken the decision not to accept serial gifts unless they are x number of years old relates to those serials whose publishers (usually societies rather than commercial publishers) have a two-tier pricing structure: one for their members (or perhaps all personal subscribers) and one for libraries. Such publishers sometimes include a warning in the publications that it is forbidden for individuals to pass their copies on to libraries. I don't think the legal status of such warnings has as yet been tested in the courts but some libraries, in an attempt to respect the restriction, will refuse to accept such serials as gifts unless they are several years old. ======================================================================== Judith Hopkins VOICE: (716) 645-2796 Technical Services Research and Analysis Officer Central Technical Services FAX: (716) 645-5955 Lockwood Library Building State University of New York at Buffalo BITNET: ulcjh@ubvm (OR, ubvms) Buffalo, NY 14260-2200 INTERNET: ulcjh@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Listowner: AUTOCAT@UBVM or AUTOCAT@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU ========================================================================