Dear Colleagues:

We were caught up in the divineFaxon debacle this year.  We will become
EBSCO customers for 2004.

What advice do you have for me as a newcomer, in terms of deciding which
serials we should get through an agency, and which, if any, we should
subscribe to directly?

In the past our library  used divine for about half of our subscriptions.
We have approximately 325 subscriptions, some of them coming from other
countries, some from big publishers, but also many of them coming from very
small publishers. After having spent many staff hours contacting publishers
directly this year, I am curious why we would want to get any subscriptions
directly, if it could be avoided.

Elyse Hayes
Director of Library & Information Services
SEMINARY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
440 West Neck Road
Huntington, NY  11743
phone (631)423-0483 ext. 140
fax (631)4232346
ehayes@icseminary.edu