Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:43:38 -0400
From: Joanne Deeken (Univ. of TN-Knoxville) <deeken_at_email.lib.utk.edu>
Subject: Automated Acquisitions/In Process Discussion Group at ALA Orlando
The Automated Acquisitions/In Process Control Discussion Group met
Sunday, June 27, 2004
in the Mariott Grande Lakes Hotel in Orlando. This hotel was far removed
from other conference
locations which contributed to the lower than usual attendance at the
meeting. Approximately 40
people attended the meeting.
Katharine Farrell of Princeton was elected Vice Chair/Chair Elect.
Lynne Branch Brown of III became Chair.
Katharine Farell of Princeton and Shelly Neville of Dynix were our
discussion leaders.
Katharine spoke of how Princeton uses vendor records. Vendor records
can come into play at
any point in the Acquisitions process: from selection records on a
vendors site through various
points in ordering to Cataloging. Since Princeton's policy is to get
the best record in their system
as soon as possible, Princeton downloads records from a utility and then
uses EDI to send an
order to the vendor. Other libraries may get short order records from
the vendors with attached
order information. Others may choose to get records at receipt.
Shelly concentrated on the Vendor Interface Protocol (VIP) developed by
Dynix. Dynix is
offering this interface to any interested vendor in the hopes it will
become a standard. They have
developed a tool kit for material vendors to use in establishing their
end of the VIP, making set up
easier. The Dynix implementation of VIP lets a user place an order on a
vendor site and to have
an automatic check of the library's holdings prior to order placement.
While this feature was
popular with audience members, Dynix staffed stressed that this
particular feature was in Dynix'
application of VIP and not a standard part of the protocol. The VIP is
the automatic transfer of the
order by machine without having to send an FTP or e-mail message between
the library and the vendor.
As usual, several people in the audience talked about the need for
standards for acquisitions data,
though no one volunteered to work on them.
The event ended early in order for attendees to go to the Acquisitions
Librarians/Vendors of Library
Materials meeting scheduled for 10:30. A plea for future topics will be
placed on AutoAcq-L
[AND ALSO ACQNET-L PLEASE? - Ed.] and people were encouraged to use
that forum for
further discussion.
JoAnne Deeken
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