ACQNET v1n125 (November 3, 1991) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v1n125 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 1, No. 125, November 3, 1991 ========================================= (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (8 lines) (2) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: ACQNET suspended (9 lines) (3) FROM: Heather Miller SUBJECT: _LAPT_ contents (7 lines) (4) FROM: Ann O'Neill SUBJECT: _LAPT_ contents (8 lines) (5) FROM: Ann O'Neill SUBJECT: Bowker, BIP products (9 lines) (6) FROM: Ann O'Neill SUBJECT: Publishing to fulfill degree requirements (13 lines) (7) FROM: Caroline Early SUBJECT: Israeli vendors (8 lines) (8) FROM: Beth Jacoby SUBJECT: Procedures manuals (13 lines) (9) FROM: Joyce Ogburn SUBJECT: Procedures manuals (21 lines) (10) FROM: Wanda Dole SUBJECT: Blackwell North America, retrospective buying (16 lines) (11) FROM: Christian Boissonnas SUBJECT: Net Book Agreement (20 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: November 3, 1991 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Cynthia Roberts Coordinator, Collection Development Catonsville Community College E-mail: AB62@CATCC.BITNET (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: November 3, 1991 From: Christian Subject: ACQNET suspended With this issue we suspend operations until I come back from Charleston, which will be on November 11th. Please continue to send anything that you want to post but don't expect to see it appear for a while. Look for the next issue when you get to work on the 12th or the 13th. I am looking forward to seeing many of you next week. (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1991 11:15 EST From: Heather Miller Subject: _LAPT_ contents In response to the publication of the _LAPT_ Table of Contents in Acqnet: It is a good idea, for just the reason Carol states. However, I would like to see the Tables of Contents in advance of publication of the issue. (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 91 19:17 From: Ann O'Neill Subject: _LAPT_ contents On listing _LAPT_ contents: I am glad to see this being added to ACQNET. Even "living" in a library school library its very difficult to keep up with the literature and trying to remember to check which issues of which titles are due out when. This will save me a great amount of time. (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 91 19:17 From: Ann O'Neill Subject: Bowker, BIP products On Scott Wicks on Bowker products: At last, somebody who is willing to speak up about the endless Bowker BIP products, many of which duplicate each other to a large extent. I have not found the OP/OSI volumes to be of value for work, research or personal use. Do we really need to be spending money on ALL of their products? (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 91 19:17 From: Ann O'Neill Subject: Publishing to fulfill degree requirements On Judy Johnson on publishing as a Ph.D requirement: I do not know of other departments or universities that demand published papers as part of the requirements for the doctorate. I have heard of departments that were consid- ering a requirement that the student produce papers of publishable quality instead of a dissertation. However, to demand that the student add an addi- tional 1-2 years to their studies while waiting for a paper to be published just to get the degree is unconscionable. Given the delays and rejection rates in some fields, especially the humanities, 1 or 2 years may be a short wait. (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 1 Nov 91 08:05:00 EDT From: Caroline Early Subject: Israeli vendor, mail to Israel Has anyone noticed problems with mail not reaching Israeli destinations? Can anyone recommend a good Israeli vendor for an approval plan? We have so far not had any response to our letters to Weinberg. We have not given up, but would like to know of any other possibilities. (8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 91 08:45 EST From: Beth Jacoby Subject: Acquisitions manuals There seems to be at least a fair amount of interest among acquisitions librarians to see each other's procedure and policy manuals. Although we have one, it is in poor condition, some procedures being out of date, some proce- dures never written up, etc. -- not really in any condition to send out to another library. It's also rather large and unwieldy. In any case, I was wondering if an acquisitions manual would be an appropriate topic for an ARL SPEC Kit, and if so, how does one get the ball rolling for something like that? (9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 1 Nov 91 11:16:35 U From: Joyce Ogburn Subject: Acquisitions dept. policies and manuals In regard to Helen Mack's comments about needing a manual of policies and procedures, I offer this advice. I have found that writing a manual of general practices to be a useful way to get most of the information about the workings of the department documented. By practices I mean a short description of the basics of what things are handled by whom and how, a combination of policies and procedures expressed in broad terms. A practices manual does not replace manuals for policies and procedures, but developing it serves several useful functions: 1) a practices manual serves as a guide to the scope of acquisitions for new staff members and for recipients of acquisitions services; 2) a manual can serve as a conceptual framework for evaluating acquisitions programs and for developing further documentation; 3) practices are much easier to write than policies and procedures precisely because they lack detail; and 4) the writing of policies and procedures evolves naturally from writing the practices. I don't know how many libraries have taken this approach. I would like to hear from others about this. (10) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1991 13:56 EST From: Wanda V. Dole Subject: Blackwell North America, retrospective buying In response to Ann O'Neill's question about retrospective buying, BNA's service is not an "approval" plan as such. It is possible to write a BNA profile for the subject(s) for which a library wants to do retrospective buying and to have that profile run against the database (which includes all materials covered by BNA since its inception and before that by Richard Abel--back to 1970). Lists or forms for the titles which would have been sent to the library during the time period specified (or back to 1970 if desired) are generated. The library can then check these titles against its holdings and produce a want list. The list checking process has been done by running a list of the titles in machine- readable form against the library's on-line catalog. Scott Smith or someone else from BNA can probably explain this all more elegantly . (11) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 91 11:35:54 EST From: Christian Subject: Net Book Agreement This requests actually originated with Julie Gammon who called my attention to columns that had appeared in _Publishers' Weekly_ and _The Economist_. I had seen the PW column but it hadn't registered on my brain. Anyway, there is something happening in the United Kingdom right now about which we need to know more. Reports in the above publications, and some that I have been reading in the _Bookseller_ for a while, refer to the impending demise or inevitable abolition of the Net Book Agreement. At the same time I am reading about UK bookshops discounting which, I gather, is a new practice for them. The two phenomena seem to be linked but I don't know enough to undertandd the connec- tion. Nor do I understand what effect, if any, this will have on our purchas- ing of UK imprints. Could someone either educate us, if the answers are already known, or take this on as a mini-research project? For anyone who's willing to take this one, check with me and I'll tell you if you're the first to volunteer, and who to coordinate with if you're not the first. ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 1, No. 125 ****** END OF FILE *******