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Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:19
AM
Subject: Re: New flat-rate subscription
for CILIP
Here in the Netherlands we pay
a flat-rate subscription regardless of salary to our professional association.
The basic rate per year is Euro 29.00, we pay Euro 37.50 for our
equivalent of "Update" (and this is still a 50% reduction on the normal
subscription rate), for each special interest group we pay Euro 7.50.
(A subscription to our professional journal
is optional, thus reducing the cost further).
So to compare with the rate that I pay to CILIP (sterling 43), my
subscription to the Dutch Library Association costs sterling 54 (= membership
fee, journal, plus two SIGs), not much difference really.
Personally I'm all for the change.
This is generating just as much heated discussion as
the proposed introduction of ID cards in the UK did on another list. It's
quite amusing to follow from the continent, just imagine the uproar there will
be when it is announced the UK is going over to the Euro!!!
Sarah Humphrey, Documentalist
Records Mannagement Office
Director
General's Cabinet
European Space Agency
European Space Research and
Technology Centre
Noordwijk, Netherlands
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