5 messages, 133 lines: (1)---------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 16:15:39 -0700 From: Julia Franklin <JFRANK@ISL.STATE.ID.US> Subject: Re: EBSCO free magazines Idaho State Library has also been receiving these free issues. We send them off to the breakroom for the staff to read on breaks, lunches or even take home if they want. We do not catalog them, nor do we add them to the collection. At Clean Sweep (once a month total cleaning of the break-room) the old issues are tossed. That is what we do here at Idaho State Library Julia Franklin <JFRANK@ISL.STATE.ID.US> (2)---------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:30:10 -0900 From: Deborah Ludwig <LIJDL@LIBRARY.CI.ANCHORAGE.AK.US> Subject: Re: EBSCO free magazines We also receive these free subscriptions. Ebsco usually sends out a card stating that we will receive this free subscription. Sometimes it comes after we've started to receive the title. It is especially annoying when it is a duplicate of a title we already subscribe to. I have called the Ebsco toll-free number and requested them to stop sending the listed title. When I asked why the library was receiving this title, the person responded that someone had responded to a survey, which I know isn't the case. At this time, there doesn't seem to be a way for them to stop doing this. Perhaps Ebsco could explain what is the purpose of this program. My Ebsco customer service rep also receives a lot of complaints about this. Deborah Ludwig Serials Librarian Anchorage Municipal Libraries Anchorage, Alaska <LIJDL@LIBRARY.CI.ANCHORAGE.AK.US> (3)---------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:06:00 -0500 From: Eleanor Cook <COOKEI@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU> Subject: An open plea to EBSCO: RE - Free magazines We too are not an EBSCO subscription agent customer and we too are getting these magazines and so like someone else observed, I suspect the division of this large organization that is doing this is NOT the EBSCO we are familar with. HOWEVER, the right hand should know what the left hand is doing and so we beseech you - STOP! I liked hearing about how other libraries are dealing with the issues and have passed on the comments to our serials checkin manager. Happy New Year, Eleanor ********************************************************************* Eleanor I. Cook 828-262-2786 (wrk) Interim Coordinator, Materials Processing 828-262-2773 (fax) & Serials Specialist Belk Library, PO Box 32026 Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608-2026 cookei@appstate.edu ********************************************************************* (4)---------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:45:52 -0500 From: Pam Matthews <pmatthew@GETTYSBURG.EDU> Subject: Re: EBSCO free magazines Oy! I REALLY hate this bizarre ploy of EBSCO's! I called the 800 number on the notification card and got them to cancel the magazines. However, when I talked to the person at the 800 number she was unable to tell me whose idea it was to do this. (I wanted to tell them exactly what I thought of their "generosity" in providing us with stuff we don't want.) Has anyone found out exactly whose brainchild this was??? Pam ____________________________ Pam Matthews Acquisitions/Serials Librarian Musselman Library Gettysburg College Gettysburg, PA 17325 717-337-7007 (phone) ** 717-337-6666 (fax) pmatthew@gettysburg.edu (5)---------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:17:26 -0500 From: Regina McEneaney <mcenear@SUNYSUFFOLK.EDU> Subject: Re: EBSCO free magazines We at Suffolk Co. Community College are getting free copies of YM, FITNESS, and ESPN for all 3 campuses. We are so far throwing them away because nobody wants the confusion of a browsing verses a library subscription. Hope EBSCO decides to stop this practice soon. Regina McEneaney <mcenear@SUNYSUFFOLK.EDU> > -----Original Message----- > From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum > [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU]On Behalf Of Karen Chobot > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 12:01 PM > Subject: EBSCO free magazines > > Lately, EBSCO has taken to sending us free subscriptions to magazines, > apparently as an appreciation gift. I have written to them twice asking > them not to do this, as the items sent are fairly marginal to our > collection and I don't want to bother with cataloging them or dealing with > them. If they really want to give us an appreciation gift, they could > reduce the service fee! > > Are any of the rest of you getting these, and how are you > handling them? I > hate to throw them out, but I really don't need YM... > > Maybe if the EBSCO folks see comments here, they might reconsider their > program. > > Thanks, Karen. > > Karen M. Chobot, MS, MLS > Reference/Serials Librarian > Mildred Johnson Library > North Dakota State College of Science > 800 N. 6th St. > Wahpeton ND 58076 > 701/671-2385 > <chobot@PLAINS.NODAK.EDU> > > "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and > outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life." Sherlock > Holmes, in "The Red-Headed League."
