Amanda,

We are a small college library with 1300 titles. Though we currently work
with EBSCO, we are also considering eliminating the jobber. I am very
interested in the replies you receive to your question.  Would you share
them? Thank you.

Marianne Simmons
Serials Librarian
Lavery Library
Saint John Fisher College
msimmons@sjfc.edu
585-385-7399

-----Original Message-----
From: digest Amanda Myers [mailto:AmandaMyers@FERRIS.EDU]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:22 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: Faxon/Rowecom/divine

Hello,

With the Divine confusion, we are considering not working with a jobber
but instead, ordering titles directly from the publisher.  I'm at a
state-assisted university serving 9,000 FTE students and 500 faculty.  We
were obtaining approximately 600 journal titles from Divine.  I'm
interested in learning of any library out there with demographics
comparable to ours that is getting their journals directly from the
publisher, i.e., without using a subscription jobber; is anyone doing or
considering doing this?

Please feel free to email me directly.

Amanda Myers
Serials Librarian
1010 Campus Drive, FLITE 208
Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan 49307-2279
email: myersa@ferris.edu
phone: (231) 591-3012  fax: (231) 591-3724