Re: E-mails suggesting purchases?

I also received e-mail from Bernice Williams requesting us to for purchase 3 titles (which turned out to be self-published). The e-mail asked me to contact her when they arrived. Upon further investigation, I saw she wasn't even registered in our system. As Suzy Orman says, "Denied!"



Rachael Sherwood

Acquisitions & Collection Development Manager

New Haven Free Public Library

New Haven, Connecticut



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We had someone spam our book request form and I think I remember it was a Bernice Williams (I think someone else mentioned getting an email from this name in another reply to this question).


Caitlin Cooper
Coordinator of Collection Development/Management & Acquisitions
Delgado Community College Library
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Is anyone on the list receiving unsolicited e-mails from people unaffiliated with your library asking you to purchase specific titles and then contact the sender when the books arrive?  We have been receiving these types of e-mails approximately two or three times per month for quite some time, and the e-mails are addressed to either the library director (not by name--just "Dear Library Director") or the reference librarian (again, generically, with "Dear Reference Librarian" in the salutation).  Most of our e-mails come from someone named Bernice Williams.

Some of our librarians have ordered books requested this way before, thinking that it was a local patron asking. However, I'm suspicious, and think that possibly the e-mails are sent in mass to multiple libraries in an attempt to sell more of a particular author's books.

Thanks,

Ann Tenglund
St. Bonaventure University Library
3261 West State Road
St. Bonaventure, NY  14778
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