Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:00:08 -0700
From: "Parang, Elizabeth" <Elizabeth.Parang@pepperdine.edu>
Subject: Pre-payment of subscriptions -- Jeanette Skwor

Because I'm at a private institution, we prepay in June but the money comes
out of the next fiscal year's money - our fiscal year starts August 1.  We
pay from a one line invoice.  We use Endeavor Voyager and are able to load
the "final" invoice electronically in November.  I always keep a copy of the
paper renewal list as a reference until November.  But, we only have around
1600 subscriptions and use only one vendor

Elizabeth Parang
Serials/Electronic Resources Librarian
Pepperdine University Libraries
Malibu, CA 90263
(310) 506-4046
elizabeth.parang@pepperdine.edu

-----Original Message-----
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:17:52 -0500
From: "Skwor, Jeanette" <skworj@uwgb.edu>
Subject: Pre-payment of subscriptions

John Lucas wrote:

We try to take advantage of any early renewal and prepayments.
We use the money we get back for whatever database, journal,
etc. that it is needed for.

which came in the middle of me wondering how much we actually save by
pre-paying when the cost of re-paying to come up to the actual cost is
figured in.  It seems to me we are entering every title twice.  Has anyone
done any study of this?

TIA,

Jeanette L. Skwor
Cofrin Library, Serials Dept.
University of WI - Green Bay
2420 Nicolet Drive
Green Bay, WI 54311-7001
(920) 465-2670