6 messages: 1)____ Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 14:51:40 -0700 From: Beverly Butler <butler@LIB.STATE.CA.US> Subject: Re: Issue arrival times (Dani Lichtenberg) I receive my personal issues of magazines about one week earlier at home than we do at the library. Our subscription agent is Faxon. Beverly Butler butler@lib.state.ca.us California State Library Acquisitions/Serials 2)_____ Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 07:22:54 -0400 From: Barbara Eastland - Library <eastland@HAL.MUHLBERG.EDU> Subject: Re: Issue arrival times (Dani Lichtenberg) It has been my experience in the years I've worked in serials that the "popular' magazines that you refer to almost always arrive later in my library than the personal subscriptions arrive in homes. I think it has some connection to the fact that most of these popular titles are handled by clearing houses who are responsible for the mailings. And we all have had experiences with such clearing houses as Neodata, etc. While that probably won't satisfy your patron, it's a fact of life that most magazines get to the home before they get to a library. Regards, Barb Barbara B. Eastland VOICE: 484-664-3561 Serials Manager FAX: 484-664-3511 Trexler Library eastland@hal.muhlberg.edu Muhlenberg College 2400 Chew St. Allentown PA 18104 > Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 17:17:44 -0400 > From: Dani Lichtenberg <p005386b@pb.seflin.org> > Subject: Arrival times > > I would very much appreciate hearing some discussion about arrival dates > for subscriptions received via such services as EBSCO. > > One patron is adamant that our subscriptions arrive significantly later > than those of individual subscribers. There are certain scholarly > journals (as we've been discussing recently) that simply are produced > later than they are supposed to be. But he is refering to regular > commercial magazines. I know the ones that I like to read seem arrive in > my branch right around the same time that I see them on the newsstands or > in my own mailbox. But my patron is complaining about financial magazines > such as Smart Money and Fortune. Can it be that Newsweek and Vogue come > in right on time, but the inscrutable EBSCO gods send the financial > magazines in late just to bedevil would be investors? > > Does this patron have a valid complaint? He is sure that "his" magazines > are being sent to a warehouse somewhere and that they just sit there until > they are yesterday's news and that then and only then are they sent to our > library. > > Does anyone have any feelings about this theory one way or another? Are > institutional subscriptions handled differently than individual > subscriptions? A slower postage rate, perhaps? A different distribution > system? > > Thanks for your help, > Dani Lichtenberg > Palm Beach County Library System > > p005386b@pb.seflin.org > 3)______ Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 07:40:13 -0400 From: "Heath, Janet P" <HEATHJ@MAIL.ECU.EDU> Subject: Re: Issue arrival times (Dani Lichtenberg) Dan: Institutional subscriptions are handled differently. I have always heard, and I have worked in serials for almost twenty years, that individual subscriptions come out first and that institutional subscriptions are always last on the totem pole. I wouldn't go so far as to say that they sit in a warehouse somewhere, but we are considered last when it comes to shipping them out. Janet P. Heath Serials Coordinator Health Sciences Library East Carolina University 600 Moye Blvd. Greenville, NC 27858-4354 Phone 252-816-2234 FAX 252-816-3369 e-mail: heathj@mail.ecu.edu 4)_____ Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 08:05:12 -0400 From: Nancy Hanacek <nancy.hanacek@law.csuohio.edu> Subject: Law Libraries with Online Systems from Innovative Interfaces Hi Dani, Browse through some of the library catalogs at this site. You can see their check-in records and determine if your cycle of receipt is the same of yours. Hope this helps. Nancy http://www.bu.edu/lawlibrary/tech/lawlibs.htm 5)_____ Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 09:37:17 -0400 From: GEORGIA SMITH <smithgr@LYCOMING.EDU> Subject: Re: Issue arrival times (Dani Lichtenberg) I'm not sure about financial magazines specifically, but I know from having worked in a shipping/receiving department at a previous library that our librarians got their personal subscriptions before the library received their copy. I think it's just the way the publisher prefers to handle the distribution. Georgia R. Smith Instructional Services Librarian and Assistant Professor Snowden Library Lycoming College Williamsport, PA 17701 voice: 570-321-4352 fax: 570-321-4090 smithgr@lycoming.edu 6)_____ Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 08:50:52 -0500 From: "Skwor, Jeanette" <skworj@UWGB.EDU> Subject: Re: Issue arrival times (Dani Lichtenberg) ***Is this fellow related to the person here who is convinced we hide the _Chronicle of Higher Education_ in a cave for at least a week to keep it safe from prying eyes before we bring it in & shelve it? ***Generally speaking, I would say our (Faxon) subs get here the same time as any place else. And if you are in the habit, as I am, of looking at other libraries holdings, you will see that at any given time, there is a fair difference between the date a library 100 miles away from yours will get any specific issue, and the date you get it. Or, as someone recently suggested, you can check a library that uses Innovative Interface & see when any particular issue actually arrived. ***I can speak specifically to two titles: 1) I get _Consumer Reports_ at home, and we get it here at the library. Often it arrives on the same day; almost always within the same week. 2) There was a particular cover/story on _Rolling Stone_ awhile back I wanted my neice to see. We left on a trip to North Carolina the day after it arrived at the library, were gone 10 days. We checked at every bookstore we stopped at (and we do tend to have a problem passing a bookstore ;0) and couldn't find it - the ones on the shelf were *two issues* behind. We were home over a week when I saw it in a bookstore & emailed here that it was out. ***Periodicals are sent, what, 3rd class? The PO can deliver them pretty much as they feel like. Sometimes they lay in a bag at your po; sometimes they lay in a bag at my po; sometimes someone else gets 'em first. ***Our postal system has enough problems as it is. Can you imagine them trying to work with a system that has them sending out mail at different times/different rates, according to who the *purchaser* is? ***If you come up with a cure for your Pain In The Office; let me know; I'd like to try it on mine. Jeanette L. Skwor Serials Dept. Cofrin Library University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 (920) 465-2670
