I think a more appropriate analogy would be charging for every viewer of a television program. So if we have five people in our family and  you have ten, should you pay more?

Best regards,

Wilma Weant Dague
Serials  Coordinator
Benedictine College Library

St. Benedict's Abbey Library
1020 North 2nd St.
Atchison, KS 66002

(913) 360-7610
wdague@benedictine.edu

From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Sarah D. Tusa
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 9:00 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Just a thought . . .

This thought just occurred to me:  It’s a good thing that bread manufacturers don’t charge by the number of full-time-equivalent members of a household, or by the number of “potential users.”

Sarah Tusa, Associate Professor

Coordinator of Collection Development & Acquisitions

Mary & John Gray Library, Lamar University

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Beaumont, TX  77710-0021

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