Dealing with unsolicited periodicals W Ted Rogers 15 Nov 1995 22:28 UTC

I am seeking information on how effective it is to contact publishers
when they continually send you issues of a periodical that you did not
order. Please respond to the following questions directly to me; I will
summarize for the list.

1. Did contacting publishers with requests for information on why they
   are continually sending issues of an unsolicited title yield any
   results or did your requests go unanswered?

2. Did contacting publishers with requests to stop sending issues of the
   unsolicited title yield any tangible results?

3. Did the results (if any) justify the staff time expended in such
   efforts?

Thank you for your time and trouble.

W Ted Rogers, Serials Librarian <wtr100f@shakespeare.lib.odu.edu
Old Dominion University Library <wtr100f@oduvm.cc.odu.edu
Norfolk VA 23529-0256  Ph.: 804 683-4144 or -4152  Fax: 804 683-5035