ACQNET v1n025 (February 10, 1991) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v1n025 ACQNET, Vol 1, No. 25, February 10, 1991 ======================================== (1) FROM: Editor SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (40 lines) (2) FROM: Editor SUBJECT: Membership directories (9 lines) (3) FROM: Joe Barker SUBJECT: ALCTS reorganization and serials (36 lines) (4) FROM: Richard Jasper SUBJECT: Naming the proposed ALCTS Acquisitions Section (9 lines) (5) FROM: Chuck Hamaker SUBJECT: Naming the proposed ALCTS Acquisitions Section (5 lines) (6) FROM: Caleb Hanson SUBJECT: Ordering direct or through vendors (19 lines) (7) FROM: Jeffry Larson SUBJECT: OP searching in Western Europe (7 lines) (1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: February 10, 1991 From: Editor Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today We became international last week with our first Canadian member in British Columbia. We now have Canada completely covered, with the joining of Holly Melanson from Nova Scotia. Today we welcome: Tricia Masson Holly Melanson Acquisitions Librarian Coordinator of Collection Development Brown University Dalhousie University E-Mail: AP201031@BROWNVM E-Mail: HMELANSO@AC.DAL.CA Carol Jeffries Library Associate University of Kansas Library CJEFFRIE@UKANVM ****** AND FINALLY ! ***** [Trumpets, drum rolls, fireworks, big cheering noise] From that jewel of sub-tropical America! Unique! Never before encountered on ACQNET! Our very own KATINA STRAUCH!!!!! It took me forever to convince her that ACQNET was worth pushing the South Carolina bureaucracy for her own, working, BITNET address. I finally got her by sending her printed issues and telling her I wouldn't send her anymore. So, here she is. We can now proceed to fulfill our destiny. For the few who may not know, here are Katina's particulars: Katina Strauch Head, Collection Development College of Charleston Libraries E-Mail: STRAUCHK@CITADEL.BITNET (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: February 10, 1991 From: Editor Subject: Membership directories I'll be sending new directories after I send this issue. We now have 93 members, which means that the directories I sent you before are way incomplete. I have followed Marcia Tuttle's suggestion and only included complete addresses in the listing by name. Please continue to send me corrections and changes as needed. (3) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 91 08:39:03 PST From: Joe Barker Subject: ALCTS reorganization and serials A concern and hope for the ALCTS reorganization: It is not clear to me whether SS Acquisitions and RS Acquisitions will be able to work together better or with more difficulty in the future. ACQNET now has the readership of a number of serials specialists. I would like to hear/read some discussion of this them. My own view is that my need to work in close concert with serials acquisitions is probably of equal importance as my obligation to support collection develop- ment. There are many seamless and "seamy" aspects of the line between serials acquisitions work and administration--and then there's the massive strength of serials budgets shaping so many features in our future. There is a lot of serials work that is unique. There are also areas in monographs and serials acquisitions where processes are parallel. At Berkeley we have been looking for years at "redundancy" in the parallel parts, while watchin out not to compromise the unique processes that must have special attention to avert disaster. The experience of both serials and monograph acquisitions specialists in other institutions in of inestimable value in helping us distinguish between what appears and what is redundant or unique in the many steps in the processes involved. This is but one reason I would like to be able to attend and participate in both serials and monographs acquisitions groups, meetings, etc. at ALA. And it may also point to the absurdity of divorcing the two completely. In my view, serials acquisitions and monographs acquisitions can better see how each needs distinct attention by remaining in close proximity. I could say a few thousand more words about this, but I'll stop and turn it over to ACQNET, with this question: Is the new organization going to help or hinder serials-monographs understanding and cooperation? (4) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 91 09:13:08 EST From: Richard Jasper Subject: ALMS I'm not sure how often this happens, but I'm in total agreement with Chuck Hamaker on the question of a name for the new Acquisitions Section. ALMS is easy to remember, but it's just altogether the wrong connotation, dammit. Chuck's suggestions are all great, especially the MAS one. (5) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 91 12:09:52 CST From: Chuck Hamaker Subject: ALMS, MAS, or ... Or how about NOSAPS (Non-Serial Acquisitions Publications Section?. (6) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 1991 16:59 EST From: "Caleb C. Hanson" Subject: Vendor v. Direct The acquisitions procedures manual at Wellesley College Library begins this way on vendor assignment: "Always *prefer* sending orders to a vendor." (We have four principal domestic firm order vendors). There then follow a slew of exceptions and rationalizations about ordering direct, including the same sort of things cited by Scott Wicks (timeliness, or specialty items, or particular publishers' difficult policies). We will order direct if the book is needed rush for course reserve and is not in stock at the vendor - this represents a greater proportion of the ordering of a college library of our size than of a major university library. The bottom line is that 80+% of our orders go through vendors, and 20-% direct. Since virtually none of our foreign orders are direct, this means the domestic numbers slight vendors by a little more - say, 75-25. Which places Wellesley between Berkeley (50-50, "No rigid policy works") and Cornell (95-5, "we will try our damndest") in philosophy as well as numbers. (7) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 7 Feb 91 16:30:10 U From: "Jeffry Larson" Subject: OP searching in Western Europe If this isn't redundant of previous material, could you carry: Which Western European dealers will perform OP searches of recent imprints? Which ones do so as an automatic default with orders for titles that are recently OP? ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE *****