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Date:         Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:57:12 -0500
From:         "Jeanette Skwor" <skworj@UWGB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: ESPN the magazine

***No answer, but Cofrin Library has been similarly
mysteriously gifted.

Jeanette L. Skwor                       Email:skworj@uwgb.edu
Serials Dept., Cofrin Library           Phone: (920)465-2670
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay       Fax: (920)465-2783
Green Bay, WI  54311-7001

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Date:         Tue, 6 Jun 2000 16:24:05 -0400
From:         Teresa Saunders <saunderst@WCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: ESPN the magazine (17 messages)

We've been getting 6 free subscriptions to magazines via Ebsco.  We are a
university library specializing in Business studies.
We receive:
     2 copies ESPN
     2 copies Fitness
     2 copies YM- Young & Modern
We called and complained that if they were going to give us anything free,
at least it should relate to our subject matter, but that didn't work.
So now we file them in the trash unless our student workers take them.

     Teresa Saunders
     Library Technician
     Robert S. Young Library
     Western Connecticut State University
     Danbury, CT 06810
     (203) 837-9136

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Date:         Tue, 6 Jun 2000 12:53:24 -0400
From:         Martha Spicuzza <Martha.Spicuzza@HILLSDALE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: ESPN the magazine

EBSCO has sent out this title (among others) as a "gift" for being a
valued customer.  We do not catalog or check in the title.  It goes to
recycling at our library.

Martha Spicuzza
Technical Services Librarian/Serials
Hillsdale College Mossey Library

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, tracey delillo wrote:

> Since January, our library has been consistently receiving issues
> of _ESPN the magazine_ (issn 1097-1998).  Now, we never subscribed to or
> paid for the magazine, as far as I can tell.  I was wondering if anyone
> else has been mysteriously receiving this publication, and if anyone could
> shed any light on WHY i suddenly have this subscription.  Possibilities
> that I considered were: (1) that the magazine is somehow affiliated with
> another sports magazine, and the subscription is therefore free, (2) that
> it's a marketing ploy, and the minute i break down and catalog and shelve
> these issues, they'll send me a bill.  Does anybody else have this
> problem?  Anybody have an answer?
>
> Thanks,
> Tracey DeLillo
> Serials Librarian
> Bell Library
> Texas A&M - Corpus Christi
> tdelillo@falcon.tamucc.edu