ACQNET: RE - MDSC Publishing & other business directory scams

From: Eleanor Cook <cookei_at_appstate.edu> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:50:46 -0400 To: acqnet-l_at_listproc.appstate.edu

Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 07:03:10 -0400
From: Peter V. Picerno (St. Edward's U.) <pvp_at_libr.stedwards.edu>
Subject: RE - MDSC Publishing & other business directory scams

[Ed. note:  ACQNET-L has many threads pertaining to business directory
scams
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There is a link to this on AcqWeb:
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One thing which would be good is if the list of known scam publishers
which
was published on this list some time ago were available again (I'll
admit
to not having searched the archives so I don't know if it's there). In
the
meantime, my library was sent a card some time ago from a publisher of
education and employment law (advertising itself as being 'formerly'
another publisher) informing us that they would send the newest edition
of a
volume of a series (and we don't have the particular series mentioned)
unless we
returned a card saying we didn't want this particular volume. While this
is
not as egregious as sending unsolicited materials to libraries, it runs,
in
my mind, a very close second. I was wondering if anyone else has met up
with this and how it was handled.

Peter Picerno

Dr. Peter V. Picerno
Scarborough-Phillips Library
St. Edward's University
3001 South Congress Ave
Austin  TX  78704-6489
512.464.8825
fax 512.448.8737

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