We still check-in our paper journals, but it takes considerably less
time as we get so few paper journals these days.  I am curious, however,
as to how librarians are accounting for their electronic subscriptions?

Do you send in a check and assume they are working unless users
complain?  We've started using our Voyager check-in module to set-up a
"tickler" of sorts so that twice a year we can have a student check the
electronic subscription and make sure that all is well.   It's
interesting that with a paper subscription, if we didn't get an issue
(or a whole volume), we'd get a credit.  What happens if a publisher
gets behind on an electronic journal?

Jen Holman

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Jenifer Holman
Acquisitions Librarian
Murphy Library
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
1631 Pine St.
La Crosse, WI 54601

phone: 608-785-8395
fax: 608-785-8639
email: holman.jeni@uwlax.edu
http://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Cynthia Hsieh
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:59 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Serials check in?

 Examples of lots talk, but not true include the Millennium Bug and the
paperless society.

Cynthia Hsieh
Head of Technical Services/Assistant Professor
University Library
University of the Pacific
3601 Pacific Ave.
Stockton, CA 95211
Tel: (209)946-2571

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Anderson
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:05 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Serials check in?

> If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that the paper journal is
> becoming obsolete, I wouldn't have to come to work anymore.

Just because people say it a lot doesn't mean it's not true. :-)

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dir. for Scholarly Resources & Collections Marriott Library
University of Utah rick.anderson@utah.edu
801-721-1687