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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:34:01 -0700
From: Mitch Turitz <turitz@SFSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Donations

Leslie:
  Our experience with donations is that faculty truly intend to give
current issues to the library, but after their initial good
intentions wear off, they don't bring them in a timely manner, they
keep issues they really like, claiming issues is impossible, they
don't bring them during the summer when they are off, or on
sabbatical, etc.
   We accept them if we want to have second copies of a title, but we
do not rely on the faculty member for personal subscriptions.  There
are also legal matters here and it is not worth the price difference
for the amount of extra work involved.
   Our library came up with an "adopt-a-journal" program where instead
of the faculty or department donating physical issues, they donate
the cost of the particular journal to the library, so that we
maintain the subscription, the claiming, etc. and we get the issues
in a timely manner.  We put their name/department on a plaque in the
periodicals department and give the faculty/department a certificate
acknowledging their donation.  Also the professor can take the
donation off his/her income taxes.
-- Mitch Turitz

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:35:43 -0400
From: Leslie Berger <Leslie.Berger@PO-BOX.ESU.EDU>
Subject: Donations

Friends,

       As a fairly new periodicals librarian I am wondering about the
legalities, etc. of donations of a title from an individual to a library. A
faculty member here wants to give us back copies of a title that he
currently subscribes to. He's also willing to give us the more recent issues
when he's finished with them. Will we run afoul of the publisher if he
donates current issues of a current subscription to our University Library?
I'd appreciate hearing from those of you who have more experience than I
with this.

      Thanks in advance for the input

    Leslie Berger
    Kemp Library

Leslie A. Berger
Periodicals/Electronic Resources Librarian
Kemp Library
East Stroudsburg University
East Stroudsburg, PA 18301-2988
(570)422-3597
lberger@po-box.esu.edu

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