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Subject: Re: SPECTATOR -- Joyce Nelson
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:50:26 -0400
From: Rebecca Floyd <floydr@ncat.edu>

At NC A&T State University in Greensboro, NC, we did not receive
Spectator
from Jan30 through May8, 1999 except for one issue we received for
March15.
I have filed claims with EBSCO.

Rebecca Floyd
Serials Librarian
F.D. Bluford Library

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: SPECTATOR
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:15:09 -0400
> From: Joyce Nelson <JOYCEN@HSC.EDU>
>
> Just a brief request for those persons who subscribe to the British
> periodical SPECTATOR (issn 0038-6952) - please send your response
> directly
> to me and not to the list.
>
> Here's my request:  have you had a lapse in your SPECTATOR subscription
> although your vendor placed the order for the year (1999) and payment
> was
> made?  Was the explanation for the lapse (which possibly lasted 2-3
> months)
> along the line that the publisher's office had claimed not to have
> received
> the original payment and was requiring a second payment? Were you
> refused
> the missing issues as part of your reentered subscription?
>
> I know of at least three of us in this boat (not all using the same
> vendor), and I just wanted to determine how widespread this might be.
> It
> would indicate to me that possibly the publisher should be made aware of
> problems in the circulation office.
>
> Thanks for sharing!
>
> Joyce Nelson
> Periodicals/Government Documents
> Eggleston Library
> Hampden-Sydney College
> Hmpden Sydney, VA  23943-0007
>
> tel: 804-223-6278
>
> joycen@hsc.edu