Oops. I guess it shows I’m long in the tooth in the serials business!

Neodata got bought out ages back, it appears, but I remember (about a billion years ago) that Neodata that was the biggest and baddest.  Neodata was synonymous with sub trouble (If you do a SERIALST archive search for Neodata it’s a trail of tears).

(Sorry for the confusion—I’m residing more on the e-side of things, these days)

Someone else asked what if you don’t have credit cards available and if they take purchase orders—

Basically we figured that they were set up to handle personal subscribers rather than libraries, so we tried to act as much like a “person” as possible. We ordered through a form, a phone call or online and just took the  “bill me” option.  They never really seemed to understand traditional purchase orders—they’d mangle our addresses when they squished them up to fit their system and I never once have know them to actually quote a purchase order when billing.

Long before we had credit cards available we paid each renewal notice with a campus check but made darn sure that a vendor form copy went with that check and everything went fine.

I mean we definitely wouldn’t want to do this with a whole lot of titles, but as a University library we don’t have a  whole lot of popular titles and we mainly do this for subs with more than one copy across campus libraries.

Stacy

UC San Diego

From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Shankle, Jean
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:00 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Neodata-type Fulfillment Houses

I am going to show my ignorance, but what are neodata-type fulfillment houses?

I know what fulfillment houses are, it is the neodata-type I don't know.

Thanks.

Jean

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Miss Jean Shankle

Periodicals Coordinator

jshankle@pcci.edu

Pensacola Christian College Library

Box 18000

Pensacola, FL 32523

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