Two responses to the following post:
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From: "Kris Gerhard" <KGERHARD_at_gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
Iowa State has been informed that, starting July 1, YBP will no longer
honor our usual discount on approval books from the following publishers:
Ashgate
CRC
Edward Elgar
Greenwood
Haworth
Edwin Mellen
Neal-Schuman
Nova Science
Charles Thomas
We are examining the output of these publishers to see if we can drop any
of them from our approval plan, or switch from receiving approval books for
one or more of them to receiving slips only.
Have other libraries received this notification? Have you made any
particular plans to address this loss of purcahsing power, by adjusting
your approval plan profile, writing the publishers, writing to Yankee, etc.?
Kristin H. Gerhard
Collections Officer
303 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
vox 515/294-2485
fax 515/294-2112
email kgerhard_at_iastate.edu
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From: "Kevil, L H." <KevilL_at_missouri.edu>
Hi Kris,
We use Academic for approval. Out of curiosity, I checked their list of
publishers covered on approval against your list. It turns out that 7 of
your publishers are covered at the regular discount. Two are not covered at
all: Neal-Schumann and Nova Science. FWIW,
Hunter
L. Hunter Kevil
Collection Development Librarian
176 Elmer Ellis Library
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65201
KevilL_at_missouri.edu
573-884-8760 voice
573-882-6034 facsimile
==2==
Yes -- we recieved the same letter. However, as a community college with a
rather small book budget, I don't think this will affect us much. We
certainly don't have any publisher-based approval plans where we are
getting all the output from certain publishers. We have a slip only plan
and do select a few titles from CRC, Haworth, Neal-Schuman, and Charles
Thomas, but it's not a significant amount. Isn't it interesting that two of
those publishers publish in library science? One would think that they
would understand the budget needs of libraries.
--
Martha Starck
Library E-MAIL: starckm_at_milwaukee.tec.wi.us
Milwaukee Area Technical College Phone: (414) 297-6424
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233 Fax: (414) 297-6798
Received on Mon Apr 30 2001 - 09:28:00 EDT