ACQNET v1n092 (July 10, 1991) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v1n092 ACQNET, Vol 1, No. 92, July 10, 1991 ==================================== (1) FROM: Richard Jasper SUBJECT: Back from ALA... (66 lines) (2) FROM: Jeri van Goethem SUBJECT: Micro-based serials check-in? (5 lines) (3) FROM: Filis Fahey SUBJECT: DRA query (9 lines) (4) FROM: Scott Wicks SUBJECT: Zentralantiquariat (5 lines) (5) FROM: Joyce Ogburn SUBJECT: Tenets of Acquisitions Meeting (18 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: July 10, 1991 From: Richard Jasper Subject: Back from ALA I'm back, as no doubt most of you are, but then I didn't have particularly far to go, namely from downtown Atlanta to suburban Decatur, a distance of about seven or eight miles. And I did it every day, so I feel like I logged about as many miles as some of you who actually came from out of town to be here! ALA seemed to go well this year. I didn't realize it until after it was over, but Atlanta has more hotel rooms within walking distance of each other in its downtown area than any other city in the U.S. It seemed to me that people were able to get around fairly well, although the shuttle buses were occasionally very crowded, people had difficulty sometimes deciding whether to walk down certain streets, and all the humidity in the world seemed to concentrate on the MARTA subway platforms. I didn't have much chance to go to programs or the exhibits, given a rather insane number of prior commitments, but the ones I did attend were quite good. The ALCTS Preconference on "The Collection Development Librarian: Personal and Organizational Management Issues" was just dandy--a great relief for those of us involved in planning it since details really came together at the very last minute. Likewise, Ross Atkinson's talk (at the Acquisitions Administrators Discussion Group) on the role of acquisitions librarians as change agent in the evolving electronic environment was a knockout; Ross has submitted it to LRTS for publication and I would encourage all of you to bend Richard Smiraglia's ear to get it in ASAP--it's a "must read" for all of us. Ross's theme dovetails extremely well with the focus of the first ALCTS Serials Management Institute being planned for this fall in Chicago; the planning committee, which met in Chicago in April and again in Atlanta last week, has tried to incorporate as much as possible a "forward looking" orientation, with emphasis on strategic planning, agenda building and developing coaltions for change. I missed out on the "Tenets of Acquisitions" lunchtime get together, but not too worry--Joyce Ogburn, in her usual timely fashion, has provided a succinct report on the discussion, which you will find below. No doubt we'll be hearing more on this topic in the coming weeks. Finally... Most of you may have been blissfully aware of the unfortunately terrifying amount of violence that was occuring in our midst last week; there were apparently five shootings, two of them fatal, in the downtown area during the six-day Thursday-Tuesday period you all were here for ALA. The incidents included: (1) a lawyer was shot, apparently at random, on Peachtree Street between the Hyatt and the Ritz-Carlton Thursday a.m.; (2) another person was rumored (I never saw a news report on this one) to have been shot in the Omni over the weekend; and (3) three bank executives were shot as they walked across the plaza above the Five Points MARTA station Tuesday afternoon--one was killed instantly, another died a couple of days later and the third remains in critical condition. Police believe the same individual was responsible for both the Peachtree Street and the Five Points plaza shootings. I'm rather sure I was changing trains down below just before the latter shootings occurred, although there were no signs of the commotion that was to occur up above. It's scary, but as a columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution pointed, no scarier than what was happening out here in the suburbs at the same time. We live, after all, in violent times. Here's hoping the next time ALA returns to Atlanta--in less than 90 years?--that shootings will be a thing of the past... (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: June 26, 1991 From: Jeri Van Goethem Subject: Micro-based serials check-in? Can anyone suggest an off-the-shelf pc software package which can be used for serial checkin in a small library? Our Marine Lab library is remote from our main campus and unable to use our INNOPAC system. They would like to install something simple for managing their journals. Thanks. (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: July 5, 1991 Name: Filis Fahey Subject: DRA query |NOTE: Ms. Fahey's Mount Allison University is in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, for those of you who wondered--as I did! rpj| We have the Data Research Assoc. On-line OPAC system in use at this time. Within the next year we will be putting our acq. and serials on the system. If you have any info on DRA, I would be very interested in reading it. Thank you. (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: July 8, 1991 From: Scott Wicks Subject: Zentralantiquariat Does anyone have definite information about the demise (or non-demise) of Zentralantiquariat? Cornell had been informed that this formerly East German central distributing agent was no longer functioning as such. Today we received 3 issues of NOVA (forthcoming books) which bear the stamp of Zentralantiquariat. What gives? (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: July 10, 1991 From: Joyce Ogburn Subject: Tenets of Acquisitions Meeting A group of 18 people (more than anticipated!) met Monday July 1 in Atlanta to discuss the concept of acquisitions tenets as a useful means of describing and advancing our profession. The most obvious result of the meeting was the indication of a strong interest in finding some way to communicate to others our role as acquisitions librarians and the value of our contributions to the profession. After discussion of why we are unique and important, the group was able to start thinking in the tenets mode and to articulate a few more tenets to add to the original list. Of particular value was the suggestion that tenets were needed to describe the professional in addition to the environment in which the professional operated. The author is currently expanding the list of tenets. Invitations have been received from several journals for publishing a final work, so there is a clear indication that other librarians would be interested in reading about the acquisitions professional. The author wishes to thank those who were able to attend the meeting and those with whom she has talked since. Further contributions to this project are welcome. ****END OF FILE****END OF FILE****END OF FILE****END OF FILE**** |