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Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 10:14:14 -0700
From: Miriam Palm <mwpalm_at_stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Survey for AcqFlash or AcqNet

Foreign Book Dealers Directories Survey

The Foreign Book Dealers Directories Survey, a Subcommittee of the ALA 
ALCTS Acquisitions Section Publications Committee, asks your assistance 
with the following brief survey.

The subcommittee publishes three directories of book dealers:

* Asia/Pacific --  http://www.ala.org/alcts/publications/asia/index.html
* Africa/Middle East --
http://www.ala.org/alcts/publications/africa/index.html
* Eastern Europe/Former Soviet Union --
http://www.ala.org/alcts/publications/easteur/toc.html

The present directories, available at the URLs above, were originally 
compiled from surveys of ARL libraries conducted between 1991 and 1995; 
this project served to update the 1979 print publication Third World 
Booksellers: a selected list of Bookdealers in Africa, Asia and Latin
America. (Latin America was eliminated as a category because of the 
excellent directory published by SALALM). Since the surveys were 
completed, the committee has worked to update information contained in 
the directories and migrate it to the Web. All three directories have 
had their Master Vendor Lists refreshed in the past year. The directories 
are available free in this format, and no print editions are planned.

We issued this survey in February 2001 and received seventeen responses. 
We are hoping for more responses, but if you replied in February, no need 
to reply again, as we have saved those replies.


1. How often have you used the ALCTS Acquisitions Section foreign book 
dealers directories:
____never  ____occasionally ____regularly

2. Which sections of the directories do you find most useful?
a. ____Master vendor list (alphabetical by vendor name)
b. ____Country list
c. ____Vendors by institution who reported using them
d. ____Vendors by categories of materials supplied

3. What would make these directories more useful?

4. What other resources do you use to locate vendor information?

5. How useful would it be to have these directories updated regularly?

____not useful  ____somewhat useful  ____very useful

6. What additional comments do you have for the Directories subcommittee?



DEADLINE FOR RESPONSE: April 15th 2001. 

Please respond to Miriam.Palm_at_Stanford.edu


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