Just when you think you've heard it all a publisher pulls a new stunt.  First, one would think a business would
1. Use real paper instead of scrap paper
2. Type the response, not write by hand

But Notarize?  That's legal swearing that their statement is true.  I used to be a notary.  How does that person know for certain that your issue left their shipping facility?  Did that person personally put it in the mail?  We all know of the error possibilities that could occur in a publishers' shipping facility.

IMO that person put themselves in a precarious position notarizing that paper.

Carol

Carol S. Feustel                    
University of Cincinnati        phone: 513-558-0179
Health Sciences Library       fax :   513-558-0472
Journals Specialist               
121 Wherry  / Box 561
3225 Eden Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0561

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Dolores Coyle
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 1:48 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Claiming-Anyone else ever have this happen?

Our serials assistant just received an unusual response to a claim and I am
wondering if this has ever happened to anyone else.  After claiming an issue
of the journal "Attitude" she received a hand written, NOTARIZED, note on a
piece of scrap paper stating that we had been sent the issue in January.

Just wondering if notarizing scrap paper is the new trend in claim answers?

Dolores Coyle
Supervisor Serials Acquisitions
Paley Library 017-00
1210 W. Berks Street
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
voice: 215-204-1359
fax: 215-204-8550
email: dcoyle@temple.edu