ACQNET v1n044 (March 17, 1991) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v1n044 ACQNET, Vol 1, No. 44, March 17, 1991 ===================================== (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (8 lines) (2) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: ACQNET readership survey (90 lines) (3) FROM: Scott Wicks SUBJECT: Irish approval plans, Kenny's Book Shop (18 lines) (4) FROM: Barbara Winters SUBJECT: Ethics (17 lines) (5) FROM: Barbara Winters SUBJECT: Recruiting acquisitions librarians, library education (25 lines) (6) FROM: Meta Nissley SUBJECT: Worldwide CD_ROM database (7 lines) (1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: March 17, 1991 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Kathryn C. O'Gorman William E. Meneely Head, Acquisitions Department Head, Collection Development University of Cincinnati Georgia State University E-mail: OGORMAN@UCBEH.BITNET E-mail: LIBWEM@GSUVM1.BITNET (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: March 17, 1991 From: Christian Subject: ACQNET readership survey ACQNET Readership Survey Here is a diagram which represents the distribution pattern of ACQNET. I have drawn it so that, if you set your screen right, it will all fit one on screen. ----------- | Editor | ----------- |------------------- ///------ | | | ----------- ----------- ----------- LEVEL 1 | Member 1 | | Member 2 | | Member n | ----------- ----------- ----------- --------------|------------------- /// ----- | | | | ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- LEVEL 2 | Reader 1 | | Reader 1A | | Reader 1B | | Reader 1n | ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- |----------------------------- | | | ----------- ----------- ----------- LEVEL 3 | Reader 2 | | Reader 2A | | Reader 2n | ----------- ----------- ----------- | | ----------- LEVEL n | Reader n | ----------- I send ACQNET to its members (Member 1, Member 2, Member n). Some members (Member 1 here) distribute it to readers (readers 1, 1A, 1B, 1n) who, in turns, distribute it to other readers (readers 2, 2A, 2n) who, in turns .... You get the picture. At this point we have no idea through how many levels this distribution occurs, and how or why it occurs. I would like to try and find out, hence the little questionnaire below which, I announced last week, would be forthcoming. As I promised, it is short. Question 1: Are you a member [ ] or reader [ ]? Question 2: If a reader, using the chart above as a sample, do you know at what level? yes [ ] or no [ ] Question 3: If yes, which level? 1 [ ] 2 [ ] 3 [ ] or other (can you tell which?) __________ Question 4: If a reader, do you get ACQNET electronically [ ] or on paper [ ]? Question 5: How many people do you send ACQNET to? At your institution __________ elsewhere? __________ Question 6: Do you print ACQNET? Yes [ ] No [ ] Question 7: If yes, why? a. For yourself [ ] b. For people who don't have e-mail [ ] c. Other _____________________________________________ Question 8: I assume you heard of ACQNET from someone else who is a member or reads it, the _Serials Pricing Newsletter_, or a meeting at ALA Midwinter. If not, how did your hear about it? _________________ __________________________________________________________________ Question 9: If you are a reader rather than a member, why have you not asked for membership? ________________________________________________ Question 10:Please give your title here ____________________________________ If you wrote "Acquisitions Librarian", or some other title can could be ambiguous, please tell me if you deal with monographs [ ], serials [ ], or both [ ]. That's it. To respond, you can: - Write your answers directly on this issue and forward it to me (CRI@ CORNELLC.BITNET). - Send me an e-mail message simply listing the question numbers and your answers. - Do the same using the US Mail. Send to: Christian Boissonnas Acquisitions Department Cornell University Library 110A Olin Library Ithaca, NY 14853-5301 Please feel free to add any comments you want. (3) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 12:15:16 EST From: Scott Wicks Subject: Kenny's Bookshop & Art Galleries, Ltd. as approval vendor Our collection development people are encouraging us to establish an approval plan with Kenny's Bookshop for Irish materials relating to literature, history, sociology, politics, and economics published in the Republic of Ireland. We currently receive many of these titles by means of unit orders through the various UK dealers. I've compared prices we've paid with those Kenny's quotes and they are comparable. Does anyone have such an approval plan with Kenny's? If you have other UK plans as well (or domestic plans) have you been experiencing any amount of duplication? Kenny's mentions having plans with LC, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, UCLA, Columbia, and others. Hey y'all! If this is so, I'd appreciate any feedback you may have as to your approval experiences with Kenny's. Thank you. (4) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 06:22 EDT From: Barbara Winters Subject: Ethics Another agenda item for ALMS should perhaps be an ethics statement or resolu- tion or position paper. Again this week I have gotten a firsthand account of fiscal malfeasance on the part of the acquisitions librarian in a non-academic library near me. A colleague phoned me to ask me to put the situation to the ACQNET group. (She, as a public librarian, doesn't have access.) I mentioned to her that I believe a resolution on ethics by ALMS was an important agenda item. (I realize that ethics is one of the areas covered in the librarian's code. I want to see us focus it, expand on it, and so forth.) This resolu- tion, statement, paper would, of course, address broader issues than just fiscal integrity, but it would include this issue. At the least, an open discussion on the topic at the Acquisitions Administrators' Discussion Group is in order. My colleague agrees that this topic is an important one to address in ways that we haven't addressed it heretofore. We both wonder what you think. I'll pass your comments on to her. (5) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 06:16 EDT From: Barbara Winters Subject: Recruitment I heard this week of an ARL library where the Search Committee for a Head of Acquisitions vacancy is having so much trouble recruiting that the Director is considering downgrading the position from a professional to a high-level paraprofessional one. I am dismayed by this news and feel strongly that I want to intervene in this situation; but, of course, I don't really know how I could do this: offer to help the committee recruit? express a strong opinion, which has not been solicited? SOMETHING. Maybe *I* can't and shouldn't do anything. But *we* might be able to, not in this particular situation but in the profes- sion in general. We talk a lot about education of our colleagues (or potential colleagues), the impact this has on recruitment, and so forth. (Joyce Ogburn did a fine job of incorporating a section on recruitment in the paper on education she presented at the Acquisitions Administrators' Discussion Group at mid-winter, for example. For those of you who missed it, it will be published in LAPT.) But we aren't DOING anything as yet, at least I don't know of any initiatives we're taking; maybe we're all uncertain about what to do. I hope that this issue is high on the agenda of the new (and more focused) Acquisition of Library Materials Section -- or whatever it's called -- of ALCTS. Meanwhile, I'd like to hear your opinions, experiences, etc. (6) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 15:09:37 PST From: Meta Nissley Subject: Worldwide CD-ROM database To: CRI@CORNELLC Is anyone using an online file published by Worldwide on CD-ROM databases? If so, has it been useful for collection development purposes? Thank you. ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE *****