I find the USBE membership well worth the cost.  I email or fax them my
complete wish list after I've received the coupon.  I receive 20-30 issues
each time.

Carol

Carol S. Feustel                                 phone: 513-558-0179
Journals Specialist                            fax:       513-558-0472
Health Sciences Library                   email: carol.feustel@uc.edu
University of Cincinnati
121 Wherry Box 670561
3225 Eden Ave.
Cincinnati, OH  45267-0561

-----Original Message-----
From: Marynelle Chew [mailto:Chewm@BYUH.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:02 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] USBE

Greetings all,

I searched the archives for posts about USBE (United States Book
Exchange)  and the most recent ones I found were from 2001.  They seemed
to indicate that using the services of this company was very labor
intensive.

I am relatively new to acquisitions and serials and yesterday I
received a renewal invoice from USBE.  I didn't even know we had a
subscription to renew (although given the date I should have seen one
last fall), but I did find evidence of purchases made in previous fiscal
years.  That aside, do you subscribe to USBE and do you find it useful?
Is it worth paying $150 for a "stars renewal"?

Thank you for sharing your collective wisdom.

Marynelle Chew

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Head, Technical Services
Joseph F. Smith Library
Brigham Young University-Hawaii
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