6 messages: 1)_____ From: "Susan E. Sturgeon" <susan.sturgeon@salemstate.edu> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:36:38 -0500 Subject: Re: Gift Subscriptions Er created a "recreational reading" shelf and put them there. What happens after that, we couldn't care less. On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 08:59:02 -0500 "Tuscano, Theresa" <ttuscano@URSINUS.EDU> wrote: > Please excuse me if this topic has been covered before but I'm fairly new to > the list; I became the periodicals assistant last fall after being in > circulation for over 18 years. I'd like to know what other people do about > gift subscriptions that you receive from publishers. We get a number of > them including Spin, Vibe, Men's Health. The most recent addition is GQ. > One magazine I contacted said we were getting the complementary subscription > as part of their Waiting Room Subscription Service. Do you check in and > catalogue these titles or do you just put them out in a lounge or reading > area for people to read? Since I don't have any idea of how long we will be > receiving these titles, I don't particularly want to go through the trouble > of cataloguing them. I'd appreciate hearing what others do with them. > Thanks for your input. > > Theresa Tuscano > Periodicals/Government Documents Assistant > Myrin Library > Ursinus College > P. O. Box 1000 > Collegeville, PA 19426 > (610) 409-3607, ext. 2292 > mailto://ttuscano@ursinus.edu ------------------ Susan Sturgeon Serials Librarian Salem State College Library 352 Lafayette St. Salem, MA 01970 (978) 542-6765 susan.sturgeon@salemstate.edu Email: susan.sturgeon@salemstate.edu Salem State College 2)_____ Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 09:50:51 -0500 From: Amy Wise <aew@canes.gsw.edu> Subject: Re: Gift Subscriptions Theresa, we just put them on a shelf near the lobby - when a new one comes in, we just discard the old one. They're not cataloged. Amy Wise 3)_____ From: "Steve Black" <blacks@mail.strose.edu> Subject: RE: Gift Subscriptions Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:19:59 -0500 We have a reading area with the current issues of the more popular magazines. Most are checked in, and shelved in the stacks when the next issue arrives. But we don't check the freebies in, nor do we have bib records for them. We just put them on the reading area display shelves, and discard them when the next issue arrives. Since there's no record in the ILS, this relies on the memory and diligence of staff to make it work. Steve Black Reference, Instruction, and Serials Librarian Neil Hellman Library The College of Saint Rose 392 Western Ave. Albany, NY 12203 (518) 458-5494 blacks@mail.strose.edu 4)_____ From: "Eddie Mc Laughlin RSHM" <McLaughl@mmc.marymt.edu> Organization: Marymount College Tarrytown Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:19:34 -0500 Subject: Gift Subscriptions After pondering this question for many years I have finally hit on a solution that works (at least for me). I put a very large bright orange dot in the upper left hand corner of each gift subscription and they are shelved in a separate section of serials. They are not catalogued and as a new issue comes in I discard the previous issue. In this way they are available for reading but are not checked in or catalogued. I don't know about you but I am currently receiving 25+ copies of GQ !!!!! which I promptly consign to the open shelf in the post office. They are usually gone within an hour! (Could have something to do with the fact that we are an all-women's college!) Hope this helps. Sister St. Edward McLaughlin RSHM Serials/Research Librarian Gloria Gaines Memorial Library Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY 10591-3796 Phone: (914) 332-8311 5)_____ Subject: RE: Gift Subscriptions Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:01:56 -0600 From: "Skwor, Jeanette" <skworj@uwgb.edu> ***We've had so much experience with these coming for a few months & then petering out, I've gotten really hard-nosed about them, and don't even think about cataloging them until they've been coming over a year. ***IME, it's been an Ebsco thing (although deeply buried in their enterprises, and most people are not aware of the connection) and claiming, etc. was a nightmare. So we just stopped wasting time on them. In early 2000, a rep was out, having us choose the freebies. Of the 8 we selected, 3 came for several months and one, ESPN, is still arriving steadily (said with crossed fingers so as not to temp fate . . .) ***Our catalogers have better things to do. Jeanette L. Skwor Cofrin Library, Serials Dept. University of WI - Green Bay 2420 Nicolet Drive Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 (920) 465-2670 6)_____ Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 12:33:21 -0600 From: janice_sayers@und.nodak.edu Subject: Re: Gift Subscriptions We have an area with miscellaneous uncatalogued publications which we have not ordered. Gift subscriptions go there. Then if we see people are trying to check these items out, I think about ordering them. Mostly we just keep the three most current issues and throw out the older issues. 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
