I hope that some of you will share with me how your library budgets and pays
for membership invoices.

As you well know, many "memberships" are, in reality, subscriptions to
journals.  That is, in order to receive the desired journals, you must pay
for a membership even though you will not use or even receive any other
membership benefits.    In the past we have paid for these out of our
periodicals budget.  This year our accounting department is insisting that
they be paid out of our "membership" budget.  For us, this will mean
extracting all such membership titles from our Ebsco invoice and paying them
separately.

If there are others interested in this topic you might wish to reply to the
list.  Otherwise, a response to me "offlist" is fine.

Thanks for your input.

Linda

Linda Harding
Periodicals Assistant
Elmhurst College Library
190 Prospect Ave.
Elmhurst, IL 60126