Would somebody please speak to copyright issues in accepting donations?
We have been advised (in a class on copyright) that since individuals did
not pay the (greater) library price for their subscription, we should not
make donated copies available to the public.

Thanks,

Barbara Rehkop, Manager
Information Services
St. Louis Public Library
St. Louis, MO
<brehkop@slpl.lib.mo.us>

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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 2:42 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: Donations of older personal copies (2 messages)

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Date:         Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:25:36 -0400
From:         Gerre Wescott <WESCOTT@LYCOMING.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Donations of older personal copies

Hi Sandra

What we do here at Lycoming, is take any and all donations with the
understanding that if we can't use them, we will offer them to other
libraries on duplicate exchange - backserv or backmed.  If no one wants
them in a resonable amount of time, they go in the trash. At least we've
tried to recycle them.

We get a fair amount of issues from professors when they retire but we
have not been overwhelmed with donations, so it has worked fine so far.

Gerre

Gerre Wescott
Periodicals Technician
Snowden Library
Lycoming College
700 College Place
Williamsport PA 17701-5192
570-321-4089 - phone
570-321-4090 - fax
<WESCOTT@LYCOMING.EDU>

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Date:         Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:44:55 -0500
From:         Janice Sayers <janice_sayers@UND.NODAK.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Donations of older personal copies

FYI,

        At our public library, we accept all issues donated.  If we don't
need them, we place them on our swap rack for other patrons to take.
With donated issues, we check to see what we have and what condition our
copies are in.  Our periodicals circulate and they do get damaged.  Plus
some patrons still like to cut out articles.  We then can exchange our
older used issues for ones in better condition.  We do not bind anything
and except for National Geographic we only keep our periodicals for 10
years.  If things stay on our swap rack, we either throw them out or
recycle them.

Janice Sayers
Grand Forks Public Library
2110 Library Circle
Grand Forks, ND 58201
janice_sayers@und.nodak.edu
Phone 701-772-8116   Fax 701-772-1379

----------- Original message ------------
Date sent:              Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:22:50 -0400
From:                   Sandra Kennedy <sandra.kennedy@CHMEDS.AC.NZ>
Subject:                Donations of older personal copies
To:                     SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU

> Hi
>
> I have been asked to find out what policies other libraries have about
> accepting runs of older journals from individuals. We have a policy of not
> accepting donations of current journal issues from individuals who have
> personal subscriptions. However, we do accept older journals which would
> otherwise be thrown out. What do other libraries do? Do those libraries
> who do accept donations of older material have a cut-off point - say
> material older than a year? Five years? Thank-you for any guidance that
> you can give.
>
> Sandra Kennedy
> Collections Librarian
> Canterbury Medical Library (N.Z.)
> sandra.kennedy@chmeds.ac.nz