ACQNET v1n138 (December 17, 1991) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v1n138 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 1, No. 138, December 17, 1991 ========================================== (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (8 lines) (2) FROM: Nancy Doyle SUBJECT: Princeton Microforms, Princeton, NJ (13 lines) (3) FROM: Pamela Rose SUBJECT: Ecofoam, popcorn packing (21 lines) (4) FROM: Pamela Rose SUBJECT: Paperbacks vs. hardbacks (11 lines) (5) FROM: Michael Gorman SUBJECT: Paperbacks vs. hardbacks (7 lines) (6) FROM: Lenore Coral SUBJECT: Polygram Classics (8 lines) (7) FROM: Richard Jasper SUBJECT: Oxford University Press recall (18 lines) (8) FROM: Eileen Hardy SUBJECT: Oxford University Press recall (7 lines) (9) FROM: Dennis Gibbons SUBJECT: Buying Vietnamese books (10 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: December 17, 1991 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Christy Hightower Collection Development Coordinator Univ. of California - San Diego Science & Engr. Library E-mail: CHRISTY@NOWALLS.UCSD.EDU (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1991 13:09:03 -0500 (EST) From: Nancy Dagle Subject: Princeton Microfilms I am trying to find out whether any libraries have had any dealings with Princeton Microforms in Princeton, N.J. They have contacted some of our science faculty with offers to swap the library's paper backfiles of certain titles in exchange for microfilm, plus an ongoing microfilm subscription either free or at a much lower cost than UMI's. I've never dealt with such an issue before and am having trouble understanding how it might work. What happens, for example, when the journal's copyright is still valid, or if the library has subscribed under certain conditions? (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1991 12:39 EST From: Pamela Rose Subject: Ecofoam, popcorn packing In reply to the issue of "popcorn" packaging, we recently received books packed in something called "ecofoam", advertised as a "starch-based loose fill" produced by the American Excelsior Company. The vendor (can't remember which one offhand) inserted a card pointing out the new packing, and I followed up with a few phone calls, then received the advertising literature from American Excelsior. I've passed it on to the members of a committee I serve on which is part of our University's Environmental Task Force, but we haven't had time to research it as yet. The claim is that it is 95% starch, and will readily decompose. It does disintegrate in water quite nicely. One critic expressed concern that if the box got wet, would the books inside be ruined as the packing broke down? I have, on a one-to-one basis, urged our vendors to be more attentive to this issue, but am hoping our University will issue a policy that will be sent out to all vendors we deal with. I do agree, however, that popcorn (the food) can create problems. Ecofoam may be a better alternative, although, one might wonder if the starch component might attract insects as well. (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1991 12:39 EST From: Pamela Rose Subject: Paperbacks vs. hardbacks This year we instituted a policy of purchasing paperback if there is a $10 difference between the two. It costs us about $5 to bind a paperback, plus the processing, which seems cost-effective to us for now. However, we have no good data on the long term costs associated with possibly replacing the book because of heavy use. But, since our medical materials are frequently updated, and currency is more critical than in some other disciplines, this will probably not be an issue for us. (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 91 7:42:16 PST From: Michael Gorman Subject: Paperbacks vs. hardbacks Is it not important to distinguish between kinds of paperback as well as kinds of paper in deciding whether to choose hard cover or paperback copies? Or is it assumed that we are discussing trade paperbacks and not mass market? (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 08:17:22 EST From: Lenore Coral Subject: The Polygram classics subscription service We have just recently resubscribed to that service -- we had a subscription several years ago, got good srvice and lots of records, then they decided they only wnated radio stations. Now they are back to allowing libraries in on it. We haven't had a shipment yet, but are not anticipating any problems. I'll keep you posted. (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 91 09:32:50 EST From: Richard Jasper Subject: Oxford University Press recall, text of OCLC message I asked our cataloging folks about the OCLC message regarding the OUP title. Here is the text of the printout they saved yesterday: ATTENTION LIBRARIANS: Oxford University Press must recall all copies of Paul Murphy's The Shaping of the First Amendment (cloth ISBN 109-505556-X; paper ISBN 019-5055578). Oxford University Press will reimburse the full amount, and return postage. Please return books to Mark Copithorne, Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016. By the way, the first ISBN is incorrect; the correct ISBN is 019-505556-x. We don't own this title, nor do we have it on order, but it is the sort of thing we would expect (I think) to receive on approval. Has anyone heard anything else from OUP? Vendors, any enlightenment from your side? (8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1991 08:37 EST From: Eileen Hardy Subject: Oxford University Press recall Since our copy had come in on our approval plan, we contacted our vendor (Yankee) to see what was up. They contacted OUP, which confirmed that the titles was being recalled due to "copyright problems". (9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 91 10:23 CST From: Dennis Gibbons Subject: Books from Vietnam One of our biology professors has a Vietnamese student with a language problem, and he has asked the library to identify an English-Vietnamese scientific dictionary. Using the catalog of the University of California at Berkeley, I identified two dictionaries, but they are both published in Hanoi. I have never tried to acquire a book from Vietnam. Does anyone have any experience or suggestions? ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 1, No. 138 ****** END OF FILE *******