Re: Aspen/Little Brown

From: Jim Mumm (mummj@vmsb.csd.mu.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 03 1997 - 13:40:36 PST


I just talked to our Aspen rep, who doesn't think there should be a
problem with our Little, Brown notifies.

-- 
Jim Mumm
Acquisitions / Serials Librarian
Marquette University Law Library
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Milwaukee, WI 53201-3137            mummj@vms.csd.mu.edu

Mary Brandt Jensen wrote: > > We had all of our Little Brown titles on notify which meant that we > receivied notice when supplements were ready, but they were not shipped > unless Little Brown recieved signed authorizations from us. Now Little > Brown is becoming part of Aspen. Someone at Aspen told our acquisitions > assistant on the phone just before Christmas that Aspen could not do > notifications. I am almost positive that I have received a few such > authorization notices from Aspen in the past. With the number of > government institutions and large corporations which cannot make payments > without a purchase order, I have difficulty believing that such a large > company cannot accomodate our need for notification and prior > authorization before shipping supplemental material. Has anyone else run > into this problem? If so, how are you handling it? With all these > mergers, we no longer have the option of dropping all the companies who > don't want to provide the service we need. > > Mary Brandt Jensen University of Mississippi > Director of the Law Library University, MS 38677 > Assistant Professor of Law mjensen@olemiss.edu



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