At 11:45 AM 9/13/2006, you wrote:
>If Haworth was to offer standing orders for Reference Librarian, Serials
>Librarian, Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, Collection Management,
>etc., you just might be pleased at the response ...

Hmm, well, I'm not so sure about that.  I've never felt that standing
orders "work great", at least not through subscription agents or book
jobbers.  They get dropped from one's list.  "Not yet published" notices
and expected dates may be erratic and unreliable -- sometimes one finds out
that the volume reportedly "not yet published" actually came out three
years ago and is now out of print.  Sometimes a standing order is
duplicated in one's approval plan.  And so forth.

I had these same problems with a few different vendors (never Ebsco,
tho').  It's been quite a few years since I've had to deal with standing
orders -- is any of this still common?  Have they worked out all those
problems?  SW

Susan Wishnetsky
Electronic Resources Librarian
Galter Health Sciences Library
The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
303 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611-3008

(312) 503-9351
FAX (312) 503-1204
pasiphae@northwestern.edu