We have 2 mini-grants that pay for certain magazine subscription within their
area. We were given suggestions of titles to choose from. One is a blues
minigrant and 1 is an earth science minigrant.

For awhile, one of the community colleges was providing a few titles through
their (& ours) subscription agency. That is discontinued at the moment.

We also have a few (2-4 maybe) subscriptions that are gifts from patrons.

Along those lines, I believe Ebsco has a program for donors to order
magazines or pay for magazines for libraries.

Obviously, there are some strings attached for the gifts and grants. If we
are lucky, the patron asks first if we want a certain title. But not always.
Hopefully the publisher notifies us that a gift sub has been paid for--but
not always either.

Some publishers give a 1 year gift sub. Mainly because they hope you will
continue it the next year & pay for it.

Vicki Combs
Serials Associate
Kansas City Kansas Public Library
Kansas City, KS USA
vcombs@kckpl.lib.ks.us
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 In  DYANNEY@COLEMAN.PVAM.EDU writes:
> Good morning!  Budget pitfalls are making life in my periodicals department
> rather dismal.  My supervisor was wondering outloud to me yesterday if per-
> haps there isn't money out there somewhere that could help us.  To the best
> of my knowledge there isn't grant money available for collection building
> but I have never researched the possibility.  I was curious if other
> periodical departments have come up with creative money to bind or purchase
> subscriptions or buy/maintain equipment.  What might help is a Friends
> program, which my library does not have.  Does anyone have success
> stories or ideas to share?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Donna Sue Yanney
> Assistant Periodicals Librarian
> Prairie View A&M University
> donna-yanney@tamu.edu
> Phone: (409) 857-2756 FAX: (409) 857-2755