<div dir="ltr">That email is appalling! Vendors/publishers should not be involved in our decision-making other than to provide requested use data, or make a better offer. For them to also imply that the library isn't working with its patrons, planting the seed that the library is not to be trusted, is even worse, with potential long-term implications. I'd love to know who this vendor is and the profession really needs to make a statement in response. Their actions are dirty pool.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Karen Jensen<br>Collection Development Officer<br>Rasmuson Library<br>University of Alaska Fairbanks<br></div>907-474-6695<br><div><a href="mailto:kljensen@alaska.edu" target="_blank">kljensen@alaska.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Sathi, Katherine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ksathi@wustl.edu" target="_blank">ksathi@wustl.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Hello my fellow beleaguered eresource librarians –<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Like many libraries, we are cancelling some subscriptions beginning in 2017, for budgetary reasons. After consulting with faculty in their respective areas, subject librarians identified titles to cancel to
meet their individual budget targets. I sent the compiled list of cancellations to all subject librarians at the end of May, and my staff begin notifying the vendors and publishers of our cancellation decisions this week.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Today a faculty member forwarded the following email from a publisher:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">“Dear colleagues -- I regret to inform you that your library has taken the decision to stop the subscription to [database name] of Washington University at St Louis, despite steady usage by students during the
academic months of the year. I'm not sure whether or not staff has even been consulted on this matter (my suspicion is that it was not). We have asked them to provide us with some reasons why they have made this decision and will inform you when they get back
to us. We would be grateful if you could take this issue up with your library representative, if you wish your students to benefit from continued access to the LE. Let me know if I can provide you with further details. Thank you for your attention and support,
as ever, xxx”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">The faculty member asked us, “</span><span style="color:#1f497d">Can you please let us know when and how this decision to cancel was made and whether faculty were involved?” (</span><span style="color:#1f497d">The
database was paid for from one subject area, the faculty members contacted by the publisher are in a different department).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I’m curious to know, how would you respond to the faculty member? What would you say to the publisher, if anything?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Kate<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Kate Sathi<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Databases/Serials Librarian<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Washington University in St. Louis<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="mailto:ksathi@wustl.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">ksathi@wustl.edu</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="tel:314.935.3363" value="+13149353363" target="_blank">314.935.3363</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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