We could always bombard them with emails complaints as well ;-)
<https://secure.customersvc.com/wes/servlet/Show?WESPAGE=am/Services/wes_email.jsp&MSRSMAG=SI>

And the NYT headlines read:
"Disgruntled Librarians Flood SI.com Server"
March Madness coverage disrupted as librarians battle Time's questionable
SI swimsuit ed. policy...

-Brenda

--
Brenda L. Battleson
Head, Print Periodicals/Serials
University at Buffalo
134 Lockwood Library Blg.
Buffalo, N.Y. 14260-2210
USA
Ph. 716.645.2305 x232
Fax 716.645.5955
blb@buffalo.edu

--On Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:01 AM -0600 "Skwor, Jeanette"
<skworj@UWGB.EDU> wrote:

> And so what was the response when you told her the request was not
> authorized by your dept & (my assumption, anyway) to go ahead and send
> it?
>
> One would think this would be a great prank for teenagers and drunken
> college parties.  My goodness, they could wreak havoc at their college
> library!  (Or their rivals')
>
> I am finding this whole discussion very interesting, and want to
> encourage you all again, to call Sports Illustrated yourselves.  In this
> case, perhaps to say, do they have many people call & request that
> issues not be sent?  Do they always honor them?  Can you request, then,
> that the next issue not be sent to your neighbor because he has an
> unnatural interest in Tiger Woods, who you hear is going to be on the
> cover?
>
> Think of it as a good deed, to enliven their workday & sharpen their
> thinking skills ;-)
>
> Jeanette L. Skwor
> Cofrin Library, Serials Dept.
> UW-Green Bay
> 2420 Nicolet Drive
> Green Bay, WI 54311
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
> [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Couillard, Monique
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:55 AM
> To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Sports Illustrated policy
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> This is very interesting because we noticed last week that we have not
> received the Swimsuit issue either!
>
> I too contacted my rep at Ebsco who then called the publisher.  The
> response my rep got was as follows:
>
> "I called the publisher and they told me that they have a request from
> someone at the University to not send Volume 106 #7 which is the
> Swimsuit Issue"
>
> I can safely say myself or my two supervisors did not authorize that
> request!
>
> What other answers have libraries received from the publisher on this
> question?
>
> Monique
>
>
> Monique Couillard
> Serials Check In Supervisor
> University of New Hampshire
> Durham, NH 03824
> (603) 862-1972
> moniquec@cisunix.unh.edu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
> [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Lynne Weaver
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 4:20 PM
> To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
> Subject: [SERIALST] Sports Illustrated policy
>
> Hello, Folks -
>
>
>
> Shame on the people at Time, Inc., who apparently have decided to censor
> our receipt of Sports Illustrated.  We did not receive v.106 no.7, the
> Swimsuit Issue.  (This is usually dated midway between the second and
> third February issues, this year the 12th and 19th, so I'm guessing
> February 16th?)  I've been checking a couple of other colleges, who
> hadn't gotten it either, so I just figured it was delayed.  When it
> still hadn't arrived today, I called EBSCO to claim it.
>
>
>
> My customer service rep said they've gotten many calls claiming it, and
> so contacted the publisher.  The publisher's response was that they did
> not send it to "institutions" because they didn't think it was
> appropriate to do so.  It seems to me that if one has a subscription to
> a title, all issues for that subscription period should be sent.  It is
> up to the recipient to decide what to do with the issue once it is
> received.  By the way, I checked and found that our public library did
> receive it!
>
>
>
> I asked our rep to claim it anyway.  I'm hoping that all of you out
> there will also do that.  I also intend to send e-mail to SI customer
> service complaining and claiming the issue.  Maybe if they get enough
> complaints, they'll send it.  (I know; I'm an optimist.)
>
>
>
> If any of you have different/better information, please tell the rest of
> us.  Thanks.
>
>
>
> Lynne N. Weaver
>
> Serials Coordinator
>
> Lipscomb Library
>
> Randolph-Macon Woman's College
>
> 2500 Rivermont Avenue
>
> Lynchburg, VA  24503
>
> 434 947-8396
>
> 434 947-8134 Fax
>
> lweaver@rmwc.edu
>
>
>
>