ACQNET v2n002 (January 13, 1992) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v2n002 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 2, January 13, 1992 ======================================= (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (58 lines) (2) FROM: Jim Mumm SUBJECT: Oxford University Press recall (6 lines) (3) FROM: Dennis Gibbons SUBJECT: Japanese booksellers in the U.S. (6 lines) (4) FROM: Richard Jasper SUBJECT: The Challenge (54 lines) (5) FROM: Eric Carpenter SUBJECT: ALA meeting announcement (10 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: January 13, 1992 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Wilfred Drew Serials/Reference/Computers Librarian SUNY College - Morrisville Library E-mail: DREWWE%SNYMORVA@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Donna Heady Acquisitions Librarian University Library at IUPUI E-mail: ISUF100@INDYCMS.BITNET Karen Foster Library Assistant, Collection Development University of Nebraska Medical Center Library E-mail: KFOSTER@UNMCVM.BITNET Carol Schaafsma Head, Serials Department University of Hawaii Library E-mail: CAROLS@UHUNIX.BITNET Hannah King Collection Development/Reference Librarian SUNY Health Science Center Library at Syracuse E-mail: KINGH@SNYSYRV1.BITNET Mara Sprain Science Bibliographer Auraria Library E-mail: MSPRAIN@CUDENVER.BITNET Nancy Slight-Gibney Head, Acquisitions Department Santa Clara University Library E-mail: NSLIGHT_GIBN@SCU.BITNET Barbara Parker Assistant Librarian for Collection Development U.S. Naval Academy Library E-mail: Q21030@N1.USNA.NAVY.MIL Elliot Palais Coordinator for the Social Sciences Arizona State University Libraries E-mail: IACESP@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU Mererid Roberts Deputy Divisional Librarian University of Tasmania Library E-mail: MARIA_MCINNES.L@QM.UTAS.EDU.AU Caitlin Robinson Head, Technical Services and Automated Systems University of Iowa Law Library E-mail: CADCAITS@UIAMVS.BITNET Rose Robischon Serials Librarian United States Military Academy Library E-mail: UR6146@USMA3.USMA.EDU Lawrence M. Caylor Head, Collection Development University of Massachusetts - Lowell E-mail: CAYLOR@LIBVAX.ULOWELL.EDU (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1992 08:25 CST From:Jim Mumm <9724MUMMJ@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU> Subject: Oxford University Press recall Does anyone know what work was plagiarized that this book, _The Shaping of the First Amendment_ is being recalled? (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 92 14:12 CST From: Dennis Gibbons Subject: U.S. vendors for Japanese publications At Texas Christian University we have had good luck with Kinokuniya Bookstore, 10 West 49th Street, New York, NY 10020 (Tel.: 212-765-1461) (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 09 Jan 92 17:34:04 EST From: Richard Jasper Subject: The Challenge Happy New Year to you all! Here's hoping that 1992 will be everything we need and want it to be... I couldn't think of a single, big thing I'd like to change about academic librarianship; I guess I still like it too much to want it to change to radically. There are, however, a number of small to medium things I would like to see change--or maybe they're big and I just haven't had the presence of mind to notice! They include: (1) An end to the "tyranny of the urgent," a quote I've gladly appropriated from Barbara Winters, who always has quotable things to say. In Barbara's view, which I share, we very often get so caught up in the details of day-to-day that we don't have time to think long-term. I think that more of us, both as individuals and as institutions, need to be intentional about carving out space for just plan "thinking" time. (2) An end to parochialism and passivity in the face of technological change. I don't think enough of us, again either individually or institutionally, are thinking about what the coming hyper-networked environment is really going to mean for us. I don't think we have done very much in the way of connect ing with the other people--scholars, network operators, publishers, vendors, ATT, lawmakers, you name it--who have a stake in what's coming to say, "This is what we need--what do you need? Can we work together or are we going to be on opposite sides?" Having some "thinking time" would sure help this process along, don't you think? (3) An end to the "we're only here to serve" orientation, which gets turned into a hyperventilating free-market "only give them what they want and charge 'em for it" idea. We do have a mission in life, don't we? Isn't it both to give our current users, as much as possible, what they need AND to make sure that we're hanging onto the other stuff that somebody 20 years from now might want? I'm afraid the latter half of the equation is losing out these days and that 20 years from now we're all going to be terribly sorry. (4) A pet peeve: An end to the "shouldn't the library function just like a bookstore?" mentality that so many of my faculty seem to have. No, dammit, a library shouldn't function just like a bookstore. "I could have gone to Japan and transcribed all that I needed in the time it takes you to get the book." Heck, give me $2,000-$3,000 and I could go to Japan and do the same thing (well, since I don't speak Japanese it would be a LITTLE harder but still...) but it seems like an awful lot for just one book! And I better end now, before I commit the worst sin, whining, an end to which can't come too soon! Look forward to seeing you all along the Paseo del Rio in San Antonio... (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 10:30 EST From: Eric Carpenter Subject: ALA meeting announcement The Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries Discussion Group will meet at ALA Midwinter, Sat. Jan. 25 from 2 - 4PM at the Marriott Rivercenter, Salon C. John Price-Wilkin (U. Mich.) will lead a discussion on Providing Electronic Resources for Humanists. Flo Wilson (Vanderbilt) will lead a discussion on Collection Assessment Using Automated Techniques. ACQNET readers are invited to attend/participate. ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 2 ****** END OF FILE *******