ACQNET v1n057 (April 7, 1991) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v1n057 ACQNET, Vol 1, No. 57, April 7, 1991 ==================================== (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (19 lines) (2) FROM: Karen Schmidt SUBJECT: _At the Same Table_ or, What's cooking in acquisitions librarians' kitchens tonight (34 lines) (3) FROM: Kathy Wachel SUBJECT: Combined monograph/serial acquisitions departments (13 lines) (4) FROM: Judith Eannarino SUBJECT: Czech exchanges (8 lines) (5) FROM: Rachel Miller SUBJECT: Pushkin notebooks (17 lines) (6) FROM: Doina Farkas SUBJECT: Technical services organization (10 lines) (7) FROM: Doina Farkas SUBJECT: Minority vendors (23 lines) (8) FROM: Jim Logue SUBJECT: Minority vendors (25 lines) (9) FROM: Margaret Peeples SUBJECT: Addendum to job announcement (ACQNET, Vol. 1, No. 56) (11 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: April 6, 1991 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today ( lines) Dawn Bick Ann E. McKee Director, Collection Development Bibliographic Services Librarian Houston Acad. of Medicine-Texas Arizona State University Library Medical Center Library E-mail: ICAEM@ASUACAD.BITNET E-mail: DAWN_BICK@LIBRARY.TMC.EDU Anne Myers Judith Hopkins Head of Technical Services Tech. Svces Research & Anal. Officer Boston Univ. Pappas Law Library SUNY - Buffalo E-mail: LAWI2HN@BUACCA.BU.EDU E-mail: ULCJH@UBVMS.BITNET Ellen Ouyang Technical Services Librarian University of Utah Law Library E-mail: OUYANG@ADMN1.LAW.UTAH.EDU (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 3 April 1991 17:49:54 CST From: Karen Schmidt Subject: What's cooking in acquisitions librarians' kitchens tonight Some friends and I decided it would be fun for vendors and acquisitions librarians to have a cookbook of their favorite foods - since they're always eating together anyway - called _At the Same Table_. Bound with this and upside down (i.e. on the opposite side of the page with the recipe) would be another book of acquisitions librarians' and vendors'favorite aphorisms/adages/ sayings, to be called _Tall As a Cucumber_ (there is a story behind this but it's too long to explain here.) - to be sold at cost and nicely illustrated - or if we could ever agree on a charity, we could actually make a bit of money and send the profit off to it. For a start on the aphorisms, etc., here are a few: Experience is a comb to a bald man (I think I have that right); Living well is the best revenge; Twenty percent of the Gordon & Breach titles take up eighty percent of the budget (no, actually, I made that up...) What I need from people is this: - a favorite recipe that they would like to share with colleagues and - potentially - would make for their favorite vendor(s); - their favorite adage/saying/aphorism/whatever - it can be made up of course; - a little something about how they pass the time when not hacking away at the acquisitions game. I mean, how many people know that Betsy Kruger is a fantastic weaver or that I am a closet weight-lifter? *I* want to know what Richard Jasper or Joe Barker do for fun and stress-relief (at least, I think I do...) ANYWAY: Would ANYONE be interested in this other than my friends and I? If so, please send me your recipes and stories. I'll only do it if I get enough entries from acquisitions librarians (say at least 25) - and then we'll have to get in touch with the vendors. (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 91 19:24 CST From: Kathy Wachel (319) 335-5877 Subject: Combined Serials and Monographic Acquisitions In a rather belated response to Vicky Reich's query regarding combined serials and monographic acquisitions operations, the University of Iowa's serials and monographic acquisitions units merged in 1985. The Acquisitions Department now includes monographic searching, ordering and receiving; serials check-in and serials control, which among other things includes searching, ordering and the setting up of check-in records for new titles; fund accounting. Our acquisi- tions activities are centralized with the exception of those of the Law Library, which operates autonomously. We are almost totally automated using NOTIS software. Our online system is called OASIS. (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 07:51:45 EST From: Judith C. Eannarino Subject: Czech exchanges Someone recently mentioned on ACQNET that their Czech exchange partner cancel- led suddenly; she wanted to know if anyone else had experienced this. Our partner from Bratislava cancelled our exchange agreement abruptly and with no reason. (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 91 07:46:41 CST From: Rachel B Miller Subject: Pushkin's Workbooks We ordered the Facsimile Edition of Pushkin's Workbooks in June 1990. Our check for $1750 was returned to us this past February. The accompanying letter from E. E. Plumridge said this: "Unfortunately the situation in the Gulf and the current economic climate have resulted in the project progressing far more slowly than anticipated. We have decided that it would be unfair to keep subscriptions indefinitely, and are therefore returning your money. In spite of the delay, our resolve to complete the project remains undiminished. We have kept a record of your order on our files, and when we have a firm new publica- tion date you will be notified ... With luck we will be able to give you some very positive news shortly." [Gene Dewey (University of Wisconsin-Madison) also reported receiving the same letter. C.] (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 91 08:07:37 EST From: Doina Farkas Subject: Technical services organization Our Acting Director of Technical Services has just appointed 3 task forces to recommend workflow and procedures that could combine acquisitions, cataloging and possibly collection management functions for approvals, bibliographic searching and serials. The task forces are also charged with recommending pilot projects for each of the 3 areas. Depending on the results (due Oct. 31, 1991) we will determine the direction of technical services. (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 91 08:07:37 EST From: Doina Farkas Subject: Minority vendors At the University of Florida the Libraries were asked sometimes in 1987 to idenfify minority vendors in the State of Florida. The Acquisitions Department made a good faith effort to comply with this act (Florida Small & Minority Business Assistance Act of 1985), but was not very successful in this endeavor. We ended up with a file of approximately 18 vendors, mostly individuals who supplied us with esoteric and/or Spanish language materials on a one-time basis. Fortunately we kept this file and have been adding names each time we thought the individual may fall into the category of minority vendor (not all sellers returned the questionnaires requesting them to identify themselves as minorities). Last August a consulting firm was appointed to follow up on the 9 state universities (including their libraries) track record in complying with the above-mentioned Act. We fared well thanks to the list we had on hand. The University of Florida campus Minority Purchasing Coordinator was satisfied with our effort but also recognized the futility of this act for library purchases, and also with the Act itself, since no particular state agency was given the mandate of verifying the true status of a business stating that it is a minority business!!! Sometimes you wonder at the marvels of laws and lawmakers. (8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1991 07:59 MDT From: Jim Logue Subject: Protected Class Booksellers The identification of protected class book vendors poses too many problems for an acquisitions department as small as ours. If we were to be required to identify these vendors, we would be forced to turn the work over to campus accounting. Once they had identified vendors we have used in the past, we could consciously send more orders their way, but there is no clear cut method of identifying NEW vendors. [How do you bill yourself as a protected class? "Welcome to One-Armed Joe's Library Services" - nope, too tacky. "Chicano Book Supply" - close, but ambiguous: chicano books, or any book sold by Chicanos?] If a protected class vendor has the ability to compete (that is, provide the same services at a similar cost) with a Baker & Taylor, an EBSCO, a Midwest Library Service, then, yes, we would love to do business with him. We are a tiny library with a tinier budget, so we'll get our books from the folks who can provide them with reliable service and the lowest cost, regardless of gender, creed or political party. [What's next? Flash! Oct. 3, 1993 - Libraries now required to identify vendors who have not ceased distribution of books published by companies who have not disinvested in South Africa. Flash! July 15, 2003 - Shipments of GPO docu- ments suspended to libraries that have not allowed FBI access to circulation records.] (9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 08:23:39 -0800 From: Margaret Peeples Subject: Job opening listed on ACQNET Vol. 1, No. 56 The job opening listed on ACQNET Vol. 1, No. 56, April 4, 1991 is for a current opening at the University of California at Santa Cruz. The job title is Head of Serials Acquisitions Unit. It is NOT in the librarian series but part of the Administrative and Professional Staff series and is ranked as a Library Assistant V position. There are only a couple of these positions in the library and we listed it on ACQNET hoping to get the word out about this opportunity to a wider group of people. ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE *****