Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 16:29:12 CST6CDT
From: Donna Sue Yanney <dyanney@COLEMAN.PVAM.EDU>
Subject: Gifts

Good morning, serialsters!

My library receives a variety of gift materials--newsletters with
membership and unsoliticited freebie magazines, etc., some of which
we check in.  I have tried to create order records for the checked in titles.
On these order records, accessible only to technical services staff, I have
tried to differentiate the claimable (or claim worthy) from the not claimable.
The note I use for the not claimable is "accept what comes" meaning we'll
check in what they send us but if we cease
to receive them, don't take any action.  I've recently been told that
"accept what comes" is not a professional  message.  Do any of you use a
similar, yet more respectable and comprehensible phrase,
to identify this concept?  Any input will be much appreciated.

Thanks much!

Donna Sue Yanney
Assistant Periodicals Librarian
Prairie View A&M University
donna-yanney@tamu.edu
Phone: (409) 857-2756 FAX: (409) 857-2755