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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003
From: Julia Gammon (Univ. of Akron) <jgammon_at_uakron.edu>
Subject: Discussion Group Meeting Announcement
ALCTS Acquisitions Administrators' Discussion Group
Topic: Ordering Electronic Products from Non-Traditional Vendors
Date: Saturday, January 25, 2003
Time: 10:30am-12:30pm
Location: PCC 201B
Did you recently try to purchase an electronic product for your library and
the vendor didn't know what do do with a library order? "You have how many
users?" "You want to link it to how many sites?" "You have to have a
license?" Or does the electronic products distributor seem oblivious to your
print subscription? "You have to subscribe to the print first." "You
haven't renewed yet." "We don't have record of your payment." Or do they
simply not understand library processes? "No, we don't invoice." "You
have to re-subscribe every year."
Relax! Join the ALCTS Acquisitions Administrators' Discussion Group and
brainstorm on key issues with other acquisitions and collection management
librarians who may have had similar experiences. (Vendors welcome too.)
Let's try to change the system. Issues raised at this Midwinter meeting
will
be compiled, and vendors will be invited to respond to them at the ALA
Annual
Meeting in Toronto.
Julia Gammon (University of Akron) and Trisha Davis (Ohio State University)
Co-Chairs ALCTS Administrators' Discussion Group
Julia Gammon
Head, Acquisitions Dept. & Marketing Manager
University Libraries University Press
University of Akron Akron, Ohio 44325-1708
jgammon_at_uakron.edu
330.972.6254 (phone)
330.972.5132 (fax)
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