ACQflash: The end of CD HotList

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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:52:35 -0800
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Subject:  The end of CD HotList
From:  Rick Anderson <rick.anderson_at_utah.edu>
Date:  Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:36:29 -0700

Dear CD HotList readers,

I'm sorry to report that Baker & Taylor, owner of CD HotList, is
discontinuing the program.  The November issue will be the final one.

Some of you will remember that I started CD HotList by myself in 1999, as a
rather spartan web page hosted at UNC Greensboro, where I worked at the
time.  Several contributors joined me a few years later, and I signed it
over to B&T in 2004, at which point it expanded to cover 40+ titles each
month.  What will happen next is unclear.  I need to try to dig out a copy
of the original consultant's agreement that I signed with B&T and determine
whether or not I still own the CD HotList name, and then decide whether it
should continue in a new form or perhaps with a different host, or whether I
should go back to doing it as a simple public service, or whether it's time
to let it die a natural death.

Thanks to all of you who have read, and commented, and contributed over the
years.  I hope it's been useful to you -- it's certainly been fun for me and
the other CDHL contributors.

-- Rick Anderson Assoc. Dir. for Scholarly Resources & Collections 
Marriott Library Univ. of Utah rick.anderson_at_utah.edu (801) 721-1687

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