Response 1:
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 10:57:02 -0400
From: Marsha Hamilton (Ohio St. Univ.)<hamilton.8_at_osu.edu>
Subject: ACQNET: RE: How came you to Acquisitions?
How we got started in Acquisitions? I was a Middle East subject
Specialist for 8 years, responsible for reference; outreach and
liaison to the teaching faculty; a reading room; original monograph
and serial cataloging in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish; supervision
of a copy cataloger; and collection development. Of those duties, I
enjoyed collection development most, especially technical aspects
of acquiring materials, balancing budgets, and procedural changes
to save time and money.
When our monograph acquisitions position came open, I made the move.
With various title changes, I've done acquisitions work for 22 years.
It's a great field.
Marsha J. Hamilton
Head, Monographs Department
The Ohio State University
1858 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1286
(614) 292-6314
hamilton.8_at_osu.edu
*Response 2:
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:52:10 -0400
From: Noelia Rendon (Interamerican Univ. of Puerto
Rico)<nrendon_at_inter.edu>
Subject: ACQNET: RE: How came you to Acquisitions?
I started in subscriptions. Always I was interested in Commerce and
Finance. I have 25 years looking for materials in some languages from
Different countries. I like and enjoy my work like it was the first
day. I have had the opportunity to apply new technologies and I feel
very satisfied. Also, I think that I learn each day new knowledge
from professional literature, experiences, and colleagues like you.
Noelia Rendon
Acquisitions Librarian
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
Law Library
----Original Message------------
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:10:44 -0500
From: Patrick Bickers (U. of Missouri-Kansas City)< BickersP_at_umkc.edu>
Subject: ACQNET: How came you to Acquisitions?
Hello Colleagues,
Over the years, I have gotten the impression that most of us did not
start our librarian careers with the idea of being acquisitions
librarians. I became interested in acquisitions because my first
SLIS-student job was as a firm order clerk. I would be curious to
know if most acquisitions librarians took a similar route, or if most
of us "inherited" our positions because "someone had to do it?"
Thank you for your comments.
Sincerely,
Patrick M. Bickers
Monographic Acquisitions Librarian
Miller Nichols Library
University of Missouri-Kansas City
800 East 51st Street
Kansas City, MO 64110
Phone: (816) 235-2225
Fax: (816)333-5584
email: bickersp_at_umkc.edu
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