Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 19:00:42 -0500
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I can't say anything about Oasis either, but can build on the comments about GOBI in the email below. I use the peer list feature described below and I find it helpful in decision-making. I would suggest that the problem described below with books not appearing in the slips could be addressed by the library making changes in the slip profile, or it might be related to specific alert emails to the GA that also could be adjusted. Additionally it is possible to get table of contents and book review info for some titles. Other thoughts: * One important factor is that if you have your automatic approval profile book shipments with YBP (and standing orders too), you can reduce the risk of ordering duplicate books by using GOBI for the firm orders as well. * GOBI allows selectors to share suggestions via comments, email, folders (i.e. a variety of communication tools and methods). * Selectors can use folders to manage selection choices (e.g. order next, maybe order later, etc.) or to manage by subject (e.g. history, political science, etc.) * You can run your own reports of activity (purchased, ordered, title lists) and expenditures and export to Excel. * Selectors can use templates to apply fund codes (and other metadata for the library system acquisitions module) when deciding to order a selection, which saves labor and eliminates mistakes in the acquisitions process. * E-books from 3 vendors are in GOBI and you have options for seeing those or not seeing them in slip views. * You can push alerts to faculty and they can click to make suggestions without needing a login to GOBI. I wish YBP could enhance GOBI to use LC classification better (more granular level) for controlling of slip viewing and for reports (this won't be news to YBP). I wish I could set slip views to eliminate translations of foreign literature and to break out based on academic level (e.g. basic, research, supplementary, etc.). I wish there was a batch load means to set up the email addresses of all the library employees in the Contacts in GOBI to make it easier for selectors to email things to each other within GOBI. This can be done when migrating between email systems so there should be a way to do it instead of every person with a login manually typing in email addresses into individual contacts files - but you only have to deal with that once if you bother to deal with it at all, so I concede it is low priority. -- Lauren Corbett Director of Resource Services Z. Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC Ph: 336-758-6136 Fax: 336-758-4652 From: acqnet-l-bounces_at_lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:acqnet-l-bounces_at_lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:13 PM To: acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org Subject: Re: [ACQNET-L] Question for users of Collection Manager, GOBI,& OASIS I have some experience with GOBI through my position as a graduate assistant at the Business and Economics Library at the University of Illinois. For our purposes, its a rather straight-forward and easy-to-use purchasing system. Based on the profile we have with GOBI, we receive book slips each week for books that we can purchase through our fund. As a GA, one of my tasks is to find books that should be in that list of slips that aren't - and the ratio is usually 3 : 1, which is not good since at Illinois we can only (easily) purchase from the list we receive. Some other pros to GOBI: you can set a list of peers and see in the slip if they have purchased the title, the slip also tells you how many copies have been sold through GOBI, the table of contents is usually included through the slip (as a link) as well. I haven't seen OASIS, so I cannot offer any comparisons - though I do know that GOBI is the primary site in use at Illinois. Brock Peoples Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign On Jan 26, 2010, at 12:59 PM, acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org wrote: Hi all, As a result of Baker & Taylor acquiring Blackwell, we have to decide on another online ordering interface. I would be interested in knowing the pros and cons of GOBI & OASIS. Looking forward to your response. Thanks in advance. Dolores ~~~~~~ Dolores Yilibuw Acquisitions Team Leader & Economics Liaison Eastern Kentucky University Libraries 521 Lancaster Ave. Richmond, KY 40475 Phone: 859-622-3068 Fax: 859-622-1174 Dolores.yilibuw_at_eku.edu _______________________________________________ ACQNET-L mailing list ACQNET-L_at_lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/acqnet-l _______________________________________________ ACQNET-L mailing list ACQNET-L_at_lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/acqnet-l
