Re: Possible sideline (RE: Possible Scam: Standing Order for OSHA publication) Bob Scheier 31 Oct 2002 15:42 UTC
And with the added value we can then claim copy rights....hmmmmm ===================================== Robert H. Scheier Serials/ILL Librarian New York Institute of Technology Wisser Library Wheatley Rd., P.O. Box 8000 Old Westbury, New York 11568-8000 Phone: (516) 686-7624 Fax: (516) 626-2914 Email: rscheier@nyit.edu Library Web Site: iris.nyit.edu/library College Web Site: www.nyit.edu ===================================== "I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent. " -- Martin Luther King from his speech, Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence, Riverside Church, New York City 4 April 1967 ##-----Original Message----- ##From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum ##[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU]On Behalf Of Rick Anderson ##Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 4:05 PM ##To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU ##Subject: Possible sideline (RE: Possible Scam: Standing Order for OSHA ##publication) ## ## ##> He was willing to repeat the publication title but, when I looked it up ##> in the online catalog and told him that (1) the library does not own any ##> previous editions of the title and (2) the OSHA publications that the ##> library DOES own are received as part of the government depository ##> shipment program, he rather angrily told me he would be canceling the ##> library's standing order and hung up on me. ## ##You know, this could be a potentially lucrative sideline for librarians. ##Anyone want to go in with me on a start-up venture? I'm thinking we could ##sell subscriptions to government documents. The best approach would be to ##sell them online-only, I think. In exchange for $50 per year we ##will grant ##the user unlimited access to the complete array of online government ##documents. As an added-value service we'll take their orders by credit ##card, thus relieving them of the burden of dealing with those pesky annual ##renewal notices... ## ##------------- ##Rick Anderson ##Director of Resource Acquisition ##The University Libraries ##University of Nevada, Reno "Beware any theory that ##1664 No. Virginia St. explains everything and ##Reno, NV 89557 predicts nothing." ##PH (775) 784-6500 x273 -- Richard C. Galbraith ##FX (775) 784-1328 ##rickand@unr.edu ##