Dear Werner,

You're right. In addition to more theoretical discussions, this list can
also be used to facilitate exchanging of discarded/duplicate
books/periodicals.

But please hold on a little bit. I'd like to start a discussion on ethical
issues related to library booksale next week. We don't want to bombard our
colleagues with lists of duplicate materials from the very beginning :)

Shixing Wen
GIFTEXCH list administrator

----- Original Message -----
From: "Werner Lind" <wlind@MAIL.BLUEFIELD.EDU>
To: <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] new Gift and Exchange discussion list

> Would this be a list for exchanging discarded/duplicate periodicals, in
> addition to its
> other purposes?
>
> Shixing Wen wrote:
>
> > As you know, the GIFTEX-L was disbanded last week. A new gift and
exchange
> > discussion list, called GIFTEXCH, has been created at the University of
> > Michigan.
> >
> > To sign up to the new list, please
> >
> > 1. send an email to: giftexch-request@umich.edu
> > 2. leave the subject line blank
> > 3. in the body of message, type:
> >      subscribe your first name and last name
> >      (for example: subscribe Shixing Wen)
> >
> > One of the issues I intend to discuss on the new list is the ethical
issues
> > related to library booksale. Anybody interested, please sign up.
> >
> > Shixing Wen
> > Head of Exchange & Gift Section
> > University of Michigan Library
>
> --
> Werner A. Lind
> Assistant Library Director
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