<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Not at this time. Money issues & my objection to turning book purchases into more big packages on the journals model.<br>Tom Izbicki<br>Rutgers<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Celeste Feather" <celeste.feather@lyrasis.org><br><b>To: </b>lyrarl@lyralists.lyrasis.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, June 1, 2012 2:10:20 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Lyrarl] Response requested re: Project MUSE Ebooks<br><br><style><!--
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">As June 30 and the end of the fiscal year approaches for many of the US libraries, we’d like to have a </span><u><span style="color:#C00000">quick</span></u><u><span style="color:#C00000"> </span></u><span style="color:#1F497D">show of hands about how your local decisions on the Project MUSE ebook offer through the ARL Licensing Initiative are proceeding. We’ve received some orders already, but as we turn our attention to more potential negotiations for university press ebook collections it would be helpful to have a broader sense of how this first offer has been received in advance of the August 31 deadline.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please respond to Celeste at <a href="mailto:celeste.feather@lyrasis.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">celeste.feather@lyrasis.org</span></a> and let her know if:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">1)</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:#1F497D">Your library is considering a purchase of MUSE ebooks prior to June 30</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">2)</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:#1F497D">Your library is considering a purchase of MUSE ebooks between July 1 and the August 31 deadline</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">3)</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:#1F497D">Your library is not considering a purchase of MUSE ebooks.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1F497D">Thanks,</span><span style="color:#1F497D"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Julia Blixrud (ARL)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Celeste Feather (LYRASIS)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Celeste Feather</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Licensing Program Account Manager</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">LYRASIS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:celeste.feather@lyrasis.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">celeste.feather@lyrasis.org</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">800-999-8558 ext. 2954 (Toll-free)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">678-235-2954 (Direct)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">404-550-6459 (Cell)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">celeste.feather (Skype)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.lyrasis.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.lyrasis.org</span></a></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">LYRASIS: Advancing Libraries Together.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></b></p></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Lyrarl mailing list<br>Lyrarl@lyralists.lyrasis.org<br>http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/lyrarl<br></div><br></div></body></html>