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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 13:37:30 -0600
From: Dana Belcher <dbelcher@MAILCLERK.ECOK.EDU>
Subject: Selling last year's periodicals (Donna Sue Yanney) -Reply

How do you get away with selling them?  As a state university, we are unable to
"make a profit" by selling ours.  We can only ask for postage reimbursement.

Dana Belcher, Periodicals/Acquisitions Librarian
East Central University
Linscheid Library
200 S. Stadium Drive
Ada, OK 74820

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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 13:46:57 -0400
From: Donna Sue Yanney <dyanney@MAIL.GCSU.EDU>
Subject: Selling last year's periodicals

At my library, we keep back volumes of many periodical titles on microfilm.
 When the microfilm for a title arrives we pull the old paper issues and
sell some, dup exchange others and discard some.  Anyway, my question is :
what is considered a good price to get from a back issues vendor for a
complete volume?  Is it common practice to get the same (small) amount for
any publication regardless of original purchase price?    I'd appreciate
any insights anyone has to offer, including the best vendors and prices
offered and even contract negotiation techniques.

Thanks much,

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Donna Sue Yanney, Serials Librarian
Ina Dillard Russell Library
Georgia College & State University
Campus Box 043
Milledgeville, GA  31061

Voice   912.445.5573
Fax      912.445.6847

"To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks."  --Eeyore

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