-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Victor Kamkin -- Kim Maxwell
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:31:11 -0500
From: Susan Davis <unlsdb@acsu.buffalo.edu>

We too received renewal invoices for 2002 subscriptions and processed
them
because they arrived before we heard from other suppliers describing
payment problems.  However, we have received more 2001 issues (as
recently
as September), so I am hoping that the financial difficulties are being
resolved.

Susan Davis
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Susan Davis                       Chair, Serials Section (ALCTS)
Head, Periodicals                    2001/02
Acquisitions Dept.
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Lockwood Library Bldg.
Buffalo, NY  14260-2200
(716) 645-2784
(716) 645-5955 fax
unlsdb@acsu.buffalo.edu

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Victor Kamkin -- Christopher Waldrop
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:10:59 -0500
> From: Kim Maxwell <kmaxwell@mit.edu>
>
>
> We've received those letters as well.  I have written to Kamkin, looking
> for their official response.  We are currently in the midst of a
> discussion, and I'm hoping for some more concrete answers soon.  I was
> glad
> to have the information from these two companies, but I felt Kamkin
> should
> be given the opportunity to explain their position.  I have received my
> 2002 renewals from Kamkin, so they do seem prepared to invoice us for
> next
> year.
>
> Kim Maxwell
>
> At 04:59 PM 11/27/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >-------- Original Message --------
> >Subject: Victor Kamkin.
> >Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:44:12 -0600
> >From: Christopher Waldrop <Waldrop@library.vanderbilt.edu>
> >Organization: Vanderbilt University
> >
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I apologize if this has already been brought up--I looked through the
> >most recent messages and didn't see anything about it, but I may have
> >missed it.
> >
> >At Vanderbilt, we've been contacted by two different sources
> >informing us that Victor Kamkin Bookstore, which supplies most of
> >our Russian periodical subscriptions and standing orders, has run into
> >trouble. Apparently they're not going to be able to supply periodical
> >subscriptions or standing orders in 2002. I don't know, but book
> >orders may be affected as well.
> >
> >According to one person I spoke to, several libraries are already aware
> >of this, but I thought I'd let others know.
> >
> >
> >Christopher Waldrop
> >Serials Coordinator
> >Vanderbilt University Library
> >Order Services Department
> >Tel: 615-343-3831
> >Fax: 615-343-8834
>
>
> ________________________________________
> Kim Maxwell
> Serials Acquisitions Librarian
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> MIT Libraries, Room 14E-210
> 77 Massachusetts Ave.
> Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
> phone: 1-617-253-7028
> fax:   1-617-253-2464
> email: kmaxwell@mit.edu
>
>