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> From:
> "Lange, Janice" <LIB_JPL_at_SHSU.EDU>
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>Sarah,
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>If I am interpreting correctly what you have included below, this publisher's book appears to be a compilation of copied articles, so you need to decide if the cost is worth the convenience factor. Do you normally purchase reprinted material for your collection? We don't at my library, but we might make an exception if the requestor can provide a case for the request. I suggest you contact the requestor. (BTW, are you sure the requestor is one of your library community? We put our library request form behind our proxy after we found that requests from "faculty" for several books from an off-the-wall publisher were not from faculty at our institution.)
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>Janice
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>Janice Lange
>Assisstant Director for Collections & Technical Services
>Newton Gresham Library
>Sam Houston State University
>Huntsville, TX 77341-2179
>Phone: 936/294-1620
>Fax: 936/294-3780
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-COLLDV-L_at_usc.edu [mailto:owner-COLLDV-L_at_usc.edu] On Behalf Of Lynn Sipe
>Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 12:18 PM
>To: COLLDV-L_at_usc.edu
>Subject: CDL-Alphascript Publishing Wikipedia Articles
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>>From:
>>Sarah Brown <sbrown_at_tcpl.lib.in.us>
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>>Hi, Collection Management Folk!
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>>I've received a purchase request for a book (ISBN: 6130245629; amazon url below)
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>>from Alphascript Publishing featuring "high quality content by Wikipedia
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>>articles." According to the Alphascript web site, they specialize in publishing
>>"copyleft projects." Has anyone purchased print resources from Alphascript
>>and/or wikipedia? This is puzzling to me - What are your thoughts?
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>>http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Alexandria-mathematics-Hellenistic-civilization/dp/6130245629/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1263476883&sr=8-1
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>>Thanks!
>>Sarah
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Received on Thu Jan 21 2010 - 03:01:54 EST