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Re: Vendor info-Victor Kamkin Gerald Saunders 05 Nov 2003 22:45 UTC

Hi,

In light of the news in this thread, we tried earlier today to make contact
with the Kamkin company, and were told they had indeed gone out of business.

If anyone is *still* doing business with Kamkin & has received shipments
recently (say, the last month or so) could they post to this list what
contact info, they currently have for Kamkin, since the other info. seems to
be out of date.

Thanks,
Gerald.

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Gerald Saunders

Team Leader, Serials Acquisitions (SerAcq)
Project Leader, Serials Holdings Display Project (SHDP)
USC Information Services Division
213-821-5610
213-740-0959 (fax)
gsaunder@usc.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU]On Behalf Of Michelle Flinchbaugh
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:58 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Vendor info-Victor Kamkin

Kamkin did not go out of business, it was evicted from one of several store
sites. Kamkin has continued to maintain all of its other store sites. No
materials were destroyed, the books were all placed in libraries. We have
continued to do business with them. I don't know the actual reason why they
were evicted, and don't remember ever having read it.

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Jack Hall
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 12:17 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Vendor info-Victor Kamkin

I'm still curious about this. Using google, I found a Kamkin website which
implies to me that it is still in business: www.kamkin.com
phone 301 990 4010  fax  301 990 4822  Located: 220 Girard St., Suite 1,
Gaithersburg, MD 20877

So are people still doing business with Kamkin, or not? The website has a
copyright date 2003.

In March, 2002, there were stories in the Washington Post (see their
archives) about rent paying problems, causing a possible destruction of
books, which I think did not happen. The stories at that time said the
company was located in Rockville, MD. The google search also turns up items
about an earlier lawsuit concerning company and stock ownership.

Jack Hall
114L University of Houston Libraries
Houston, TX  77204-2000
telephone:(713) 743-9687
e-mail: jhall@uh.edu
fax: (713) 743-9748