This is cross-posted from ACQNET:

>On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, ELEANOR COOK wrote:

> Hello Stephanie,
>
>    I am the editor of ACQNET, one of the lists that has been
> documenting the Hawaii Outsourcing situation. I attended the
> Hawaii Working Group panel discussion at ALA in San
> Francisco and saw you speak. The whole panel was quite
> interesting.
>    As a serials librarian, I have a nagging question that I am
> surprised no one has asked: what happened to periodical
> subscriptions? Surely the HSPLS has some periodical subscriptions
> somewhere - Time, Newsweek, or something -- and Baker & Taylor is
> certainly NOT a serials vendor. So did you all continue to use a
> serials vendor or did you cancel all the subscriptions? Surely
> the HSPLS administration addressed this but if they did, we never
> heard the details. At the panel discussion at ALA I heard about
> how B & T almost totally ignored reference standing order
> serial titles and that did not surprise me, since they are not
> known for handling those kinds of materials anyway.
>    I would like to post some info. about this on ACQNET and
> SERIALST so if you could give me some appropriate info. or
> direct me to who could, I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks so much,
> Eleanor Cook
> Editor, ACQNET
> ************************************************************
> Eleanor I. Cook                   704-262-2786 (wrk)
> Serials Specialist                704-262-2773 (fax)
> Belk Library
> Appalachian State University
> Boone, NC 28608                  cookei@appstate.edu
> *************************************************************

Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 16:36:11 -1000 (HST)
From: Stephanie Strickland (HSPLS) <steph@netra.lib.state.hi.us>
Subject: Re: Question about the B & T Outsourcing for Serials

Aloha Eleanor,

     Glad you asked this question.  You are absolutely right about
nothing being mentioned about it.  When everything was either being
abolished or downsized, the State Librarian decided to cut
periodical subscriptions.  Every branch library, regardless of
size, had to cut their number of subscriptions to 50, including
newspaper subscriptions.  The regional libraries had to cut theirs'
to 100.  The main library, Hawaii State Library, cut their budget
in half. Waikiki cut from 162 to 50.
     The State Librarian decided to subscribe to IAC.  His selling
point was that we would be getting full text on a number of items
so why bother with subscriptions?  This tends to work better in a
school or academic setting.  Some libraries have large numbers of
students.  Waikiki does not.  Our patrons want to read a magazine,
not an article on a computer screen.
     EBSCO is our vendor.  We also deal directly with some vendors.
This selection was never outsourced.
     Hope this answered some of your questions.  If not, you know
where to find me.

Stephanie Strickland
Branch Library Manager
Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library