Agree. Also, our campus procurement office would question such practice as well.

Clement Chu-Sing Lau
Assistant Director for
Technical Services and Administration
University of Baltimore
School of Law Library
LC420A, 1415 Maryland Ave.
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
U.S.A.
410-837-4592 (voice)
410-837-4656 (fax)
cclau@ubalt.edu
http://law.ubalt.edu/lawlib/index.html

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum on behalf of Stephanie Hess
Sent: Fri 1/23/2009 5:10 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Claiming not worth it? (RE: [SERIALST] futile claiming)

Unfortunately our auditors would never permit that. :(

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Anderson
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 4:23 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Claiming not worth it? (RE: [SERIALST] futile
claiming)

Those who are finding claiming to be frustrating may want to consider
doing away with routine claiming altogether.  I realize that sounds
crazy, but if you do a rigorous cost/benefit analysis you may be
surprised at how little benefit you end up getting from your investment
in the claiming process for most titles.

Just a thought.  (And one that some of you are probably surprised it
took me this long to share.)

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dir. for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library
University of Utah
rick.anderson@utah.edu
801-721-1687