Responses below to the following posting:
From: Madeleine Lefebvre <madeleine.lefebvre_at_STMARYS.CA>
With the increasing number of faculty retirements, likely to
accelerate in the next few years, we are noticing that our
gifts activity is demanding more and more resources in terms
of staff, time, and space. I believe that attempts to
curtail this traffic would reflect negatively on the library
in terms of public relations; but we have begun discussing
ways we could refine our policy and streamline our processes
to maximize the benefits and minimize the workload.
Has anyone amended their gift policy or refined their
processes in light of the increasing number of facuty
retirements and donations?
==#1
From: "Pamela M. Rose" <pmrose_at_acsu.buffalo.edu>
One way to keep good relations with retired faculty,
minimize workload, and maximize benefits is to refer the
potential donors to my Donations Program for Books,
Journals & Media web site at
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/hsl/cms/donationprograms.html.
The listing is organized alphabetically by country and then
by name of the program, so donors can easily find a cause
with which they can identify.
-- Pamela
==#2
From: Donna Signori <dsignori_at_uvic.ca>
Hello Madeleine,
We ask donors for lists of titles, whether serials or monographs so that we
can check them ahead of time. This works quite well but of course there
will be the reluctant donor. Sometimes we go and look at the material
especially if it is a large amount and determine if we really want any of
it and if agreeable to the donor just take what we think we want. In our
policy, which is on our Gateway, we state what we do NOT accept which might
seem unusual, but it is a good way of making donors think about what they
have to offer and whether it falls into any of those unwanted categories.
==#3
From: Ellen Chapman <ellen_at_hawaii.edu>
More and more we are going to the potential donors' offices and homes to
do a general assessment of materials. One or two people can usually do
some triage that requires far less time than accepting everything and
having to deal with it all in the library.
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Received on Mon Sep 17 2001 - 08:46:05 EDT