Re: Reliability of Faxon reports? David Goodman 03 Jan 2003 20:06 UTC
Personally, if I had many titles with Faxon, and I had paid Faxon and the publishers had not received payment, I would in such circumstances look very carefully at the use and cost of the titles, before paying for them a second time. Dr. David Goodman email address: dgoodman@princeton.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: Alexis Tibor <alexis.tibor@UAA.ALASKA.EDU> Date: Friday, January 3, 2003 2:29 pm Subject: Re: Reliability of Faxon reports? > We are still looking at the report we got. For the moment we are > checking items that say they were issued a check AND it was cashed. > So far I've called 6 publishers and 5 of them were okay. I am not > sure why the one publisher didn't gel and will probably call them > back to look into it > furth er because we have four titles through that publisher 3 paid, > 1 not (according to faxon) and of the 3 paid only 2 reported to be > by the publis her. sigh. > > Anything that has a December pay or order date we were told (by > Faxon) that it has N OT been paid. We requested a list by publisher > of our subscriptions. That way we can cover several titles with > one call. We have already recei ved two invoices from publishers > that had all the items listed > that we get through them (neither h as been paid). Unfortunately, I > think that in the end we will have to make sure we check all of them. > > -Alexis Tibor > > "Skwor, Jeanette" wrote: > > > Someone said awhile back that info on Klibrary on renewals was > not correct. My vendor rep said that just applied to certain dates > and certain publishers, and she sent me a report listing our > subscriptions that have/have not been paid. Now I've been told > locally not to trust the report. > > > > Any experiences someone can share? Contacting publishers is > getting me snowed in . . . > > > > TIA, > > > > ***~***~***~***~***~***~***~***~***~***~*** > > > > Jeanette L. Skwor > > Cofri n Library, Serials Dept. > > U-W Green Bay > > 2420 Nicolet Drive > > Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 > > > > My continual hope is for Peace on Earth, > > Goodwill toward Men, and anything chocolate. > > > > ***~***~***~***~***~***~***~***~***~***~*** > > -- > > Alexis Tibor > Consortium Library > University of Alaska Anchorage > 3211 Providence Drive > Anchorage Alaska 99508 > ?