Thanks Kathie. That has been a very popular suggestion! One that
seems like it could be fairly easily adopted by the providers. It
will definitely be on our best practices list!
Cheers,
Tracy
At 11:12 PM 2/3/2009, Kathie Sullivan wrote:
>not just being able to opt out....but what about not getting
>mulitples of each mailing? that is...clean up the mailing lists,
>make them current, then allow opt outs.
>
>Kathie
>
>Kathie Sullivan, B.S., M.L.S.
>Principal
>
>Sullivan Information Management Services
>194 Valleyfield Drive
>Colchester, Vermont 05446
>
><mailto:Kathie@sullivaninfo.com>Kathie@sullivaninfo.com or
><mailto:sims713@hotmail.com>sims713@hotmail.com
>www.sullivaninfo.com
>
>
>802-655-7673 (ph)
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>
>From: Lorelei Broskey <LoreleiBroskey@lehighcounty.org>
>To: Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki <tracy.thompson@yale.edu>; law-lib@ucdavis.edu
>Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 11:57:04 AM
>Subject: [LAW-LIB:57961] RE: The Greening of Legal Information - A
>CRIV request
>
>Provide libraries an opt-out option for unsolicited mailings! YES!
>
>This is one of my pet peeves. The sample newsletters that don't even
>relate to our court really get me. See photo of a pile from last
>year. I've been calling publishers requesting my accounts be put on
>the no mail adverts lists for years. I would get one copy of an ad
>for every one of my Judge and office accounts. Sometime we'd get an
>entire bin of junk mail mixed in with real bills and it would take
>precious time just to open and sort it out.
>
>Now I only get one ad from each publisher, not upwards of 20. My
>daily mail is much easier to handle. But it really should be easier
>to opt out. And no one should be mailing a zillion sample
>newsletters. Since it's the marketing people who send the ads, there
>is often a real disconnect between the customer service people on
>the phone and the people who mail the stuff.
>
>
>Lorelei A. Broskey, MLS
>Director of Library and Information Services
>Lehigh County Law Library
>Phone 610-782-3308
>
>----------
>From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu]
>On Behalf Of Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki
>Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:45 AM
>To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
>Subject: [LAW-LIB:57959] The Greening of Legal Information - A CRIV request
>
>Hi Law-Libbers,
>CRIV received a great idea from the library staff at Fredrikson and
>Byron, P.A., in Minneapolis. The library director there, Rebekah
>Anderson, held a brainstorming session with the staff to think about
>ways the library could 'go green' to support the firm's green
>initiative. The group came up with the idea of contacting CRIV to
>see if we might help develop and promote some 'best practices' with
>legal information publishers and vendors. CRIV unanimously agreed
>that this was a perfect match for our charge and we'd like to
>develop a green best practices document to distribute to libraries
>and vendor/publishers. We need your ideas. How could information
>providers improve their carbon footprint? How might they support
>sustainable practices? Are you adopting environmentally friendly
>practices in your library? Please share your ideas with us by
>responding via e-mail to tracy.thompson@yale.edu.
>
>To get your creative juices flowing here are some of the ideas
>generated during the Fredrikson and Byron session:
> * Reduce packaging whenever possible; use recycled packaging material
> * Reduce the distribution of paper brochures and catalogs
> * provide e-mail links instead
> * ask staff of a particular library if they'd prefer to
> share a set of brochures and catalogs, rather than distributing a
> full set to each staff member
> * Provide libraries an opt-out option for unsolicited mailings
> * Provide donations to charity on behalf of customers, rather
> than cheap, gimmicky giveaways
> * Provide preferred pricing to customers to encourage electronic
> formats over print
>We look forward to hearing from you!
>
>Cheers,
>Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki, Chair
>Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV)
>
>******************************************************
>Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki, Executive Director
>New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO)
>55 Main St.
>Keene, New Hampshire 03431
><http://www.nellco.org/>www.nellco.org
>603-357-3385 (voice)
>603-357-2075 (fax)
>tracy.thompson@yale.edu
>
>"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson
******************************************************
Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki, Executive Director
New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO)
55 Main St.
Keene, New Hampshire 03431
www.nellco.org
603-357-3385 (voice)
603-357-2075 (fax)
tracy.thompson@yale.edu
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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