[LIBRARYDIR] gift subscription ethics

[Stacy Prest]

All-
We have had faculty and/or staff offer to furnish the library with a "gift" subscription to a journal in their field.  They want them to be catalogued and available for students to check out.  My ethical concern is that the "individual" cost is being paid for, not the "institutional" rate.  Is this an ethics violation?  If any of you have experience with this or have had any rulings on it, I'd love to know how you handle it.  And, of course, we all know that there are costs involved with these "gifts"!  :)
Stacy

Stacy L. Prest
Director of Library Services
Walla Walla Community College
500 Tausick Way
Walla Walla, WA 99362
509.527.4294


ACRL "Excellence in Academic Libraries" Award Recipient 2013
       WWCC Library: Connecting Students to Information

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