My library has been experiencing some of this, too—as well as getting duplicates of previously received issues from a year ago.
You might check with your campus faculty just to make sure that these issues aren’t part of a gift subscription or otherwise donated by them (we have some of
our faculty do this). Some of these titles we process and put on the shelves—only challenge is that if we don’t get an issue, we can’t claim it and get a replacement.
If they’re issues of a publication you used to subscribe to but then dropped, you might contact your subscription vendor (or the publication directly if you
don’t use a vendor) and see if there’s an issue on their end. We had a situation last year where this happened to us, and it ended up that an outdated list was being used to prepare shipments. In this case, you’d probably just scan the relevant mailing labels
and send them off to the proper party.
When we get unsolicited issues, we let them accumulate on my shelf and then when we’ve got a box-worth, send them off to our vendor (Ebsco) to their missing
copy bank. We get reimbursed for the shipping cost so we aren’t out anything by doing this.
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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu]
On Behalf Of Jessica Harris
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 8:17 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Print journals arriving that we don't subscribe to
All,
Lately, my institution has been receiving print issues of journals we don't subscribe to. Does this happen at any of your libraries very often? If so, what do you do with them? My inclination is to just recycle them, but I'm wondering if
anyone takes the time to send them back to the publisher instead.
Any help you can give is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Jessica Harris
Electronic Resources Librarian
University Library
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
408-554-5356
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