[Genealib] Huge hike in Ebsco genealogical periodical handling fees

[Grundset, Eric]

Everyone,

Have any of you whose libraries use Ebsco for periodical subscriptions
been notified that they will be adding a $12.00 per subscription fee to
all titles on which they do not make a profit? We were told about this a
couple of months ago, and our rep talked with the regional director who
insists that the fees will be applied. Naturally, we're not going to add
$5,000 to our periodicals budget and are going to have to do direct
renewals with 4/5ths of our subscriptions by check and credit card. 

Clearly, Ebsco doesn't want to handle these titles any longer for
obvious financial reasons. If you use Ebsco and don't know about these
fees because you don't deal directly with periodical renewals, you will
likely take a hit on your periodicals budget if you have a substantial
number of titles involved. I was very surprised to see many major
historical and genealogical journals in the list of titles affected not
to mention to smaller state and local newsletter, magazines, etc.

Eric G. Grundset
Library Director
DAR Library
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
1776 D St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20006-5303
202-879-3313 (phone)
202-879-3227 (fax)
egrundset at dar.org

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