Subject:  Re: Advice on notifying faculty of cancellations -- Valerie A.
Lang
From:  David Goodman <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:16:59 -0500

You are not canceling any APA periodicals--you are merely improving the
format in which you acquire them. My advice is that you think of  it
yourself in this positive sense, and notify your users in positive terms
only, for example:

We now have available all the APA journals back to the beginning of the
journals, in complete electronic format, available both in and out of
the library ....
For some of the most used journals we will have the print format as
well, available in the library.  We are sure you will all be delighted
at this great improvement in access and usability. "

If anyone asks specifically which ones will not be in print next year,
then you can explain things personally, which is much better than a
memo--especially because if you have chosen well, the title(s) that
instructor wants will be among those you have kept in paper.  I am
willing to guess that if you have 20 faculty members, you will get 5
responses of pleasure, and possibly one complaint at most. If any one is
really unhappy about a particular title, you can add it back in paper
and stop getting paper for some other one.

Please--  you are not canceling anything!
Cancellation is when you stop getting a journal in any format. Then it
takes a little more planning and prior discussion.

 >
 > Subject:  Advice on notifying faculty of cancellations
 > From: "Valerie A. Lang" <langval@hvcc.edu>
 > Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:51:16
 >
 > Hi All,
 >
 > It is nearly certain that we will be purchasing PsycArticles, a
 > full-text online database which  includes more than 25,000 full-text
 > articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological
 > Association.
 >
 > As a result, due to cost constraints, we will be canceling some APA
 > psychology journals.
 >
 > Does anyone have any experience with explaining this to the pertinent
 > faculty, in memo format? Any tips are greatly appreciated.
 >
 > Many thanks.
 >
 > Valerie Lang
 > Periodicals Librarian
 > Hudson Valley Community College
 > Troy, NY  12180

-- Dr. David Goodman Princeton University Library and Palmer School of
Library and Information Science, Long Island University
e-mail: dgoodman@princeton.edu