How about making it part of their class assignments to go pick
up the week’s copy at the supermarket or drug store?
Mary E. Edwards
Director of Library Services
The Art Institute of California - Los Angeles
2900 31st Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405-3035
310-314-6154 (tel.)
meedwards@aii.edu
From: SERIALST: Serials
in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Lynne
Weaver
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:08 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] student subscriptions?
I’m looking to you
clever folks for ideas for this.
A professor came
to me this afternoon to ask about subscriptions, wanting to use a weekly
magazine for a class next fall. She’d like her students each to have a
print subscription, in this case to Sports Illustrated. She’d prefer, of
course, short-term subscriptions (4-6 months), preferably at a group or student
rate.
Have any of you
run into this with any of your professors? I found her the customer
service number for S.I., checked with my jobber (1-year terms only), and have a
call in to the local delivery service through which we get some
newspapers. There’s the lead-time factor, too, and the campus post office
not dealing with student magazines over the summer problem. I suggested
she might have to collect money from the students in April when they register
for the course, order the subscriptions herself, and use her home address for
all of them.
This query isn’t
quite library related, so contacting me off-list is fine.
Lynne N. Weaver
Serials
Coordinator
Lipscomb Library
Randolph College
Founded as
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
2500 Rivermont
Avenue
Lynchburg,
VA 24503
434 947-8396
434 947-8134 Fax
lweaver@randolphcollege.edu