My first thought was those fundraiser sites that schoolkids use,
such as: http://www.resourcefundraising.com/fundraiser_magazines.shtml
They usually offer short term subscriptions, and at a discount: http://www.resourcefundraising.com/forms/magazines2008.pdf
Some college campuses use these fundraisers too. Not sure
how to shop though, unless you’re supporting a particular school.
Lucy Duhon
Serials Librarian
Carlson Library/Serials Dept.
University of Toledo
Toledo, OH 43606
(Mail Stop # 509)
(419) 530-2838
(419) 530-2542 [fax]
From: SERIALST: Serials
in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Lynne
Weaver
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:08 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