ACQNET v1n023 (February 5, 1991) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v1n023 ACQNET, Vol 1, No. 23, February 5, 1991 ======================================= (1) FROM: Editor SUBJECT: Who's new in ACQNET today, ACQNET goes international! (36 lines) (2) FROM: October Ivins SUBJECT: Splitting Acquisitions and CD in ALCTS (26 lines) (3) FROM: Carol P. Hawks SUBJECT: Splitting Acquisitions and CD in ALCTS (14 lines) (4) FROM: Richard Jasper SUBJECT: OCLC to DOBIS transfer, OCLC PRISM (34 lines) (5) FROM: Joe Barker SUBJECT: _International Subscription Agents Directory_ (13 lines) (1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: February 5, 1991 From: Editor Subject: Who's new in ACQNET today Today, thanks to Marcia Tuttle and her _Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues_ which hit the electro-magnetic waves last night, we harvested a bonanza of new members. I think 6 of the 8 specifically mentioned the _Newsletter as the source for their ACNET queries. The new members are: Robert S. Runyon Judith C. Eannarino Library Director Head, Selection Unit University of Nebraska at Omaha Technical Services Division E-Mail: RUNYON@UNOMA1.BITNET National Library of Medicine E-Mail: JCE@NLM.NIH.GOV John H. Reidelbach Jeffry Larson Chairperson, Collection Devel. Bibliographer for Romance Languages and University of Nebraska at Omaha Literature E-Mail: JREIDEL@UNOMA1.BITNET Yale University Library E-Mail: JEFFRY_LARSON@YCCATSMTP.YCC. YALE.EDU Jane Johnson Gordon Law Library Acquisitions Krannert School Librarian [I think!] E-Mail: JJOHNSN@USCN.BITNET Purdue University E-Mail: LAWG@PURDUE.EDU Bill Britten Kat McGrath University of Tennessee Serials Librarian at Knoxville [I think!] University of British Columbia E-Mail: BRITTEN@UTKLIB.LIB.UTK.EDU E-Mail: USERKATM@UBCMTSL.BITNET My apologies for the [I think!]s. I did not get complete information back from these people in time for this issue. The next directories will fill the gaps. A special welcome to Kat McGrath. Her joining us means that we are no longer a little U.S. network. We are now a little international network. Growing pretty fast, though. (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 05 Feb 91 08:22:19 CST From: October Ivins Subject: Splitting Acquisitions and CD in ALCTS Thank you for providing a forum for this fruitful discussion. I have learned a great deal from the comments but have a few concerns to express about the leadership of ALCTS. I first heard about this idea several meeting ago (Dallas, Annual 1988 maybe?) where I heard "the collection development people want to create their own section by wiping out the Serials Section." This generated some alarm among SS folks, but we were reassured that such an action was only under consideration and news would be forthcoming as warranted. I haven't missed a Midwinter or an Annual since then and have dutifully attended committee meetings, discussion groups, and programs at the division level and in SS and RS. I have asked people about the status of the proposal and no one I talked to had any definite information. I am really puzzled that the ALCTS Board, having heard the initial concerns and being aware of the potential for divisiveness and misunderstanding would take this action without holding a public hearing or at least running some discus- sion of these concerns in the ALCTS Newsletter. Actually, it has taken me awhile to get to "puzzled". I started out feeling hurt, miffed and excluded. ACQNET is wonderful, but many of our colleagues and ALCTS members don't have access to bitnet or internet. I hope the lack of information and apparently precipitous nature of the decision doesn't jeopar- dize the vote. (3) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 05 Feb 91 14:31 EST From: "Carol P. Hawks" To: CBY@CORNELLC.BITNET Subject: ALCTS Reorganization Joe's assessment of the positive side of the split-off of CMDC is exceptional reflecting the creative thinking and articulate prose we have come to expect from him! As a member of the Reorganization Taskforce, I believe that I can speak for the other members, Judith Niles (Chair), and Caroline Early. We welcome your comments, concerns and questions on how the RS (or ALMS) section will be re-formed for Acquisitions only, e.g., committee structure, committees needed, etc. I agree with Joe that this provides Acquisitions with an extraordinary opportu- nity to realign for the future. Few sections have that luxury. (4) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Jasper Subject: OCLC to DOBIS transfer, OCLC PRISM Date: Tue, 05 Feb 91 14:31 EST The item below was addressed to me and various tech services types here at Emory. I really *don't* understand all the ramifications of this. However, I do know this much: It's a pain in the behind to create a bib record from scratch in DOBIS Acquisitions so we're really, really counting on being able to transfer in OCLC records to order against. Anything that makes an OCLC to local system transfer more difficult is a big, big problem from our point of view. ---------------------------Original Message---------------------------- One or all of you are members of tech. services discussion lists on BITNET. I'm not -- and I can't afford to join any more lists. I'd like to press you into service. I'm thinking of the recent success of various discussion groups in forcing Lotus/Equifax to their corporate knees. OCLC is recommending that libraries stop using screen save format and use MARC record transfer function of PRISM. The problem is, if someone needs to check their upload file (called BIBOUT.DAT), what they will see is a bunch of raw MARC records, one leading into the other. Trying to identify problems from this mess is something like trying to divine the future from reading a pig's entrails. I called OCLC UCD last week to leave a suggestion that OCLC should develop (and distribute for free, perhaps in OCLC Micro) a DOS utility program that would take a BIBOUT.DAT file and format it for human eyes. Output should be to screen, disk, or printer. If you could raise this issue on a list, I'm sure it would be taken up by others, and spread like wildfire. Selden Deemer (404) 727-0271 (5) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 91 12:45:30 PST From: Joe Barker Subject: Jana Stevens' inquiry on the _International Subscription Agents directory An update of the ISA is in process. The editor of the last ed., Lenore Wilkas, may or may not re-do the next. If she doesn't, the Serials Section Acquisi- tions Committee has decided it will do it. The RS Acquisitions Committee is also doing a _Foreign Book Dealers Directory_ that will include the serials and the monograph agents used by the major area-studies collections. Its slant is selective and whereas the ISA's slant is comprehensive and limited to serials agents (some of whom, of course supply monographs, too). ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE *****