Question re accepting gift issues of a serial (2 messages) Birdie MacLennan 17 Sep 1996 03:42 UTC
2 messages, 89 lines: (1)------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:37:00 -0700 From: David_Fisher@UCSDLIBRARY.UCSD.EDU Subject: Re: Question re accepting gift issues of a serial Comments: To: mrioux@CORNELIA.WHOI.EDU, SERIALST@UVMVM.UVM.EDU Maggie: I'm assuming the scenario you've described has him delivering each issue he receives to the library as he finishes with it. Seems to me the big issue here is reliability - how will you handle claims? He's got to be the go-between because you have no standing with the publisher. Does he bring each issue in on the day of receipt or several days or weeks later? If they aren't on your shelves when other subscribers already have their copies does it matter to your users? Is he prepared to claim missing issues or replacements for defective copies or for issues damaged in the mail? Encourage your patron to support this subscription by donating the cost of the subscription directly to a library gift fund. The library can then maintain the subscription and take advantage of the subscriber services libraries normally depend upon to help maintain their collections, whether dealing through an agency or directly with the publisher. He can take deduct the value of the entire donation immediately rather than waiting for the end of subscription year after he has handed over the last issue on the subscription he paid for a year earlier. David (Dave) Fisher Head,Acquisitions SIO Library Scripps Institution of Oceanography 9500 GILMAN DRIVE DEPT 0175C La Jolla,CA 92093-0175 (619) 534-1221 voice (619) 534-5269 FAx dfisher@ucsd.edu ------------------- We have a scientist who is a regular library user and who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He WANTS to give us his copies of the Proceedings (which he gets free). We have a paid subscription which could be cancelled. Is it legal for us to accept his issues as the library copy? My director is of the opinion that we could take a gift of back issues, but that it would be illegal (violation of copyright law) to take issues from his current subscription. I'm not aware of any text in the journal itself that says not to give it to a library. I also think that the only differential pricing NAS does is members (who are elected as an honor) vs. everyone else. Anybody got definite legal information? Maggie Rioux ********************************************************************* * Maggie Rioux | Email: mrioux@mbl.edu * * Information Systems Librarian | Voice: 508/289-2538 * * MBL/WHOI Library | Fax: 508/457-2156 * * Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. | Foot: Clark Lab, Room 135 * * Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 | Quissett Campus, WHOI * ********************************************************************* (2)------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:57:00 -0700 From: David_Fisher@UCSDLIBRARY.UCSD.EDU Subject: Re: Question re accepting gift issues of a serial Comments: To: mrioux@CORNELIA.WHOI.EDU, SERIALST@UVMVM.UVM.EDU Maggie, Mea culpa! Since your patron doesn't have to pay for the subscription copy offered to your library, the advice I just sent you concerning patrons supporting gift subscriptions is of little relevance here. I'd be chary though about accepting monthly gift issues provided free by the publisher to a third party to supplant a cancelled library subscription. I can't believe the publisher wouldn't have covered that fact explicitly with your prospective donor, if not within the covers of the journal itself. Dave Fisher SIO Library dfisher@ucsd.edu