Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 08:20:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Pamela Wells <pwells@LEO.VSLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gifts (Donna Sue Yanney)

Dear Donna,
        We also receive many unsolicited gifts. We use the
phrase "No MIR's" (No missing issue requests) to let our staff
know that we do not want to spend valuable time tracking down
issues which we deem a bit less than "top priority."
                                        Pam Wells

> 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
>

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Pam Wells                                    E-mail: pwells@leo.vsla.edu
Serials Librarian                             Phone: 804-278-4325
Union Theological Seminary                      Fax: 804-355-3919
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