Re: Message from Kevin Guthrie, JSTOR's President

[jwatson <jwatson@mail.pratt.lib.md.us>]

I agree with this approach. It is a lot easier to increase if necessary
than decrease. You can increase within a day. Decreasing usually has to
wait until the license is up, and even then sometimes I've been met with
resistance.

Jamie Watson
Enoch Pratt Free Library
400 Cathedral St.
Baltimore, MD

Tom Williams wrote:

> Bernie, when we purchase new licenses for e journals, we generally start
> out with a very small number(1 to 3).  It usually takes a few months for
> our users to catch on anyway, no matter how much PR we do.  Then we
> monitor it closely and as we begin to get too many busy signals we call
> them and add more users - very easy and fast to do.  They'll generally add
> on the extra licenses that same day and bill you.
>
> --
> Thomas L. Williams, AHIP
> twilliam@bbl.usouthal.edu