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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 07:38:21 -0600
From: Vickey Baumli <VBAUMLI@ACAD.NWMISSOURI.EDU>
Subject: Re: Full Text Ejournals and Printing Costs (JoAnne Griffin)

PLEASE, PLEASE, share your replys with the list-our library is
struggling with this also-we are thinking of putting our printer
at the Circulation desk and will probably charge the same as
a photocopy or mf copy-8 cents with a debit card. Vickey Baumli

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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:47:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Deborah Harrell <dharrell@westga.edu>
Subject: Re: Full Text Ejournals and Printing Costs (JoAnne Griffin)

Our solution is not yet in place.  We have had some hardware wiring
problems, but should be up and running hopefully to start next quarter in
January.

The first year (last year), we simply *gave away* copies...and not only
did it eat us alive, but it also almost killed our printers.  We had just
gone with a vendacard system for our regular copiers, and decided to get
these installed on the printers on our LAN.  So we bought the reader
units.  Then when we had the service techs come out to install the units
on our HP printers, he found all the wiring in the printers was one
color.  Even someone who knows nothing about electricity knows that the
different colored wires mean different things.  The tech is trying to get
more information from HP so he will know what wires to connect to the
unit.  In the meantime, what we are requiring is that the patron sent a
job to a que, giving it a unique name.  Then s/he must go to the
*dumb* terminal attached to that printer, find his print job, and send it
then to the printer.  At the end of the day, one of our staff goes to
each of these dumb terminals and kills all remaining jobs.

I know this seems like a lot of work, but it has cut down dramatically on
wasted paper and backlog of print jobs.  We are looking forward to
getting the vendacard units up and running, but the procedure will remain
the same except the patron must put his card in the unit when he sends
his job from the dumb terminal to the printer.

Thanks.

Debbie Harrell
Ingram Library, State University of West Georgia
phone: 770-836-6498
fax: 770-836-6626

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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:43:44 -0500
From: Craig Fairley <fairley@TAP.NET>
Subject: Re: Full Text Ejournals and Printing Costs (JoAnne Griffin)

I have heard of libraries who treat this as the equivalent of photocopying
an article, and therefore charge the same "per page" rate.

>Hello, everybody!
>
>We are moving along with full text ejournals here at Tufts and I have a
>question I hope you can help us with. How do you folks handle the costs
>involved with patrons printing articles from these journals? Do you pass
>them along? How do you determine what is a fair price? We have done
>some research in trying to estimate what the avge # of articles/pages
>per journal is -- has anyone done it differently? How has printing from
>ejournals impacted your library?
>
>Thanks for any insight you can give us.
>
>****************************
>JoAnne Griffin
>Tufts Health Sciences Library
>145 Harrison Ave.
>Boston, MA 02111
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>jgriffin@opal.tufts.edu
>****************************
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