ACQNET v1n122 (October 30, 1991) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v1n122 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 1, No. 122, October 30, 1991 ========================================= (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (13 lines) (2) FROM: Mary McClaren SUBJECT: Vendors of music on CDs (7 lines) (3) FROM: Keith Stetson SUBJECT: CD-ROM products directories (12 lines) (4) FROM: Mary McLaren SUBJECT: Female-owned booksellers and publishers (13 lines) (5) FROM: Gene Dewey SUBJECT: Minority vendors (17 lines) (6) FROM: Scott Wicks SUBJECT: Superseded BIPs (16 lines) (7) FROM: Renee Mansheim SUBJECT: US vendors for German imprints (12 lines) (8) FROM: Judy Johnson SUBJECT: Gifts processing (17 lines) (9) FROM: Judy Johnson SUBJECT: Publishing as a PhD requirement (12 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: October 30, 1991 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET Teresa G. Powell Kirk Russell Library Specialist, Serials Acq. Firm Order Unit Manager University of Arizona Library Brigham Young University Library E-mail: TPOWELL@ARIZRVAX.BITNET E-mail: LIBKAR@BYUVM.BITNET Lynn Riebel Graham Black Acquisitions Specialist Associate Librarian - Tech. Services Intel Corporation Univ. of Central Queensland Library E-mail: RIEBEL@PTD.INTEL.COM E-mail: BLACKG@TOPAZ.UCQ.EDU.AU (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 91 13:52:36 EDT From: Mary McLaren Subject: Music CD vendors A vendor we use for music CDs which I don't recall being mentioned yet is Educational Record & Tapes Distributors of America located in Freeport, NY. We are pleased with their invoices, reports, and their service in general. (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 91 11:02 EST From: Keith Stetson Subject: CD-ROM Products I find Ebsco's _CD-ROM Handbook_ to be very useful. It's not exhaustive - For example it doesn't include UMI products. The latest I have is an Edition V, Spring 1991. It includes alphabetical, subject, and publisher indexes, and separate sections for IBM- and MacIntosh-compatible products. Most entries include price, frequency, description of database, producer, and hardware and software requirements. It carries a price of $19.95 on the cover, but you can get one free from a sales representative or at the Ebsco booth at conferences. (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 91 13:45:09 EDT From: Mary McLaren Subject: Female-owned booksellers and publishers If Joyce Ogburn is still in need of names of women vendors, she might want to post her query on a women's studies list. One recommended by the director of our Women's Studies program is: wmst-l@umdd.bitnet. One bookstore she suggested by name is BOOKSLINGER, located in Minneapolis. It is particularly good for small press publications. And yet one more suggestion she offered was to check with a business librarian for a guide to women- and minority-owned businesses. (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 18:17 CDT From: Gene Dewey Subject: Minority booksellers Just when the traffic on minority booksellers has died down a bit, I am finally getting around to sending some info from America's Dairyland. I cannot vouch for either of these vendors, but the University Purchasing Dept. is encouraging us to use minority vendors, especially local ones. They have sent me catalogs from: Praxis Publications, Inc., PO Box 9869, Madison, WI 53715 (800-733-5636) The catalog lists nearly 250 multicultural books from nearly 100 publishers, in a wide scope of subjects. Reader's Choice, 3805 N. 20th St., Milwaukee, WI 53206 (414-444-9955) Supplies books by minority authors and educational books on minority interest and culture. Includes books for children through adult levels. (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 11:35:23 EDT From: Scott Wicks Subject: Retaining Bowker's OP/OSI Call me an ignoramus, but ... Why would anyone want to search through several back volumes of OP/OSI to see that a title is out-of-print? Isn't it enough that you search BIP to see if the said title IS in print? I don't feel that we at Cornell are missing much by not consulting this OP/OSI source before placing an order. In fact, we don't even check a title in BIP unless the title's publication date is more than 3 years old. What other unnecessary volumes will be added to the Bowker package called _Books In Print_? Coming soon to a library near you ... _Books That Were Supposed to Have Been Published, But Weren't_, or BIP (v. X) (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 16:13 EST From: RENEE MANSHEIM Subject: U.S. distributors of German books We are after an atlas of mycology published by a Berlin company, Grosse Verlag GMBH. This is an unusual publisher for us and the book is not available from our regular sources. Would anyone have a recommendation of a state-side distributor of German publishers (the book is in the English language, at least there is an English version published)? I'm sure there are several textbook distributors, even specialists in medical texts. But this is outside our sphere of experience. (8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 14:37:00 -0600 From: Judy Johnson Subject: Gifts processing We are revising the form which we use to officially transfer ownership of books from the donor to the library. I would greatly appreciate receiving examples of forms used by other libraries when gifts are received. The forms may be sent to the following address: Judy L. Johnson Acquisitions Dept. University Libraries University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln NE 68588-0410 (9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 14:48:18 -0600 From: Judy Johnson Subject: Publishing as a PhD requirement I learned of another facet to the on-going concern of serial papers prolifera- tion/glut, and I'm wondering just how big a problem it may be. In a recent conversation with a friend who is working on a PhD in linguistics at NYU, I learned that her department has a requirement that she publish two papers before she begins working on her dissertation! Has anyone heard of any other departments/universities that have such a requirement? Is this a new phenomenon? ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 1, No. 122 ****** END OF FILE *******