ACQNET v2n020 (February 11, 1992) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v2n020 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 20, February 11, 1992 ========================================= (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (23 lines) (2) FROM: Ann-Marie Breaux SUBJECT: Burt Franklin Publisher (15 lines) (3) FROM: Andy Stancliffe SUBJECT: African approval vendors (15 lines) (4) FROM: Scott Wicks SUBJECT: African approval vendors (24 lines) (5) FROM: Miko Pattie SUBJECT: Library education, acquisitions education, Ross Atkinson's "Acquisitions Librarian as Change Agent...." (19 lines) (6) FROM: Anne McKee SUBJECT: Library education, acquisitions education (25 lines) (7) FROM: Adrian Alexander SUBJECT: Internet, use by vendors, X12 (24 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: February 11, 1992 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Cage Slagel Student Univ. of Kentucky College of Library & Info. Science E-mail: DCSLAG00@UKCC.UKY.EDU Pat Callahan Associate Director for Technical Services University of Pennsylvania Law Library E-mail: PCALLAHA@OYEZ.LAW.UPENN.EDU Theresa Connaughton Section Leader for Collection Management Los Alamos National Laboratory Library E-mail: THERESA.CONNAUGHTON@HYPERION.LANL.GOV Ann Thompson Associate University Librarian University of Cincinnati Libraries E-mail: ANN.THOMPSON@UC.EDU (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 09 Feb 92 17:14:18 EST From: Ann-Marie Breaux Subject: Burt Franklin In response to Joann Crocker's request for information about the publisher Burt Franklin, I offer the following: B. Franklin is a reprint house, and I have actually seen books with a B. Franklin imprint on them. (They've reprinted a lot of the Hakluyt Society books.) They have been in our "do not order" file since before 1988. I don't know exactly why as their tenure there predates my being in the acquisitions department here. Our main U.S. vendor will not order from B. Franklin. I recently received some requests for a few B. Franklin titles, and ordered them directly about a month ago. I have not had any response to my orders yet. I do not intend to make any prepayments to them, should they request it. (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 07 Feb 92 15:50 PST From: Andy Stancliffe Subject: African Approval Vendors At UCLA, we have had good experiences with Hogarth as an approval vendor for Nigeria. Last fall we added several countries in West and Equatorial Africa, and our African Studies Bibliographer, so far, is pleased with the shipments we've received. Hogarth offers a big discount for no returns (30% for Nigeria, 10% for countries using the CFA franc and 20% for other countries). Our Gifts Section sells any duplicates or unwanted material that would normally have been returned. African Imprint Library Services (AILS) is our approval vendor for the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, except for South Africa. Returns must be made in 90 days, and we have a high rate of return to AILS. (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 07 Feb 92 09:05:58 EST From: Scott Wicks Subject: African Approval Vendors Lynne Brown is correct in her understanding of the relationship between Hogarth and Leishman & Taussig. Hogarth covers West Africa and L&T East Africa. I recently wrote to L&T to inquire if they could supply a title published in the Sudan (East Africa.) They responded that acquiring Sudanese publications was next to impossible, but they included a list of the other countries where they do conduct business. I haven't used either Hogarth or L&T enough to justify an evaluation of their services. Another option which is available (at least for East African imprints) is to let the Library of Congress do your buying for you. You might consider participation in the Library of Congress Cooperative Acquisitions Program for Eastern Africa. While their subject parameters are very broad (Agriculture, Language/Literature, Law, Medicine, Religion/Philosophy, Social Sciences, and Science and Technology), LC estimates a total cost of $950. (+ 50% administra- tive charge) for one year's supply of monographs. The major disadvantage to such a plan is that you are not dealing with a typical vendor. Don't expect too much help with titles not supplied. Don't expect a claim to be filled. Don't expect any type of returns procedure. In short, you get what you get. (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 14:56:12 EST From: Miko Pattie Subject: thanks THANKS FROM THE CLASS AT UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY I can't say enough thanks to all of you opening your arms to my class. I am anxiously waiting to hear what they have to say tonight when we meet. Since we are in the acquisitions component right now, I am curious as to what you all think about Ross Atkinson's article -- "The Acquisitions Librarian As Change Agent in the Transition to the Electronic Library" (LRTS Jan.'92). I have assigned this as part of the reading. On the education of acquisitions librarian, I have also assigned Karen Schmidt's article on the survey she did of ARL acquisitions librarians. Only 26% of their acquisitions training should come from library school, the group responded. Why so low? Yet, Joe Hewitt stated--"...the lack of coverage of acquisitions in library school curricula is most detrimental (to the relative isolation of professionals in acquisitions)..." Perhaps the current curriculum being offered brings about the low expectations from practitioners. Stay tuned! (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 09:42:55 EST From: Anne E. McKee Subject: MLS vs no MLS I have read with {great} interest the last few issues concerning whether an MLS "makes" you a "good" acquisitions librarian. Let me add my few cents! Considering that I worked for 6 years as a support staff person before obtain- ing my MLS-I must agree that an MLS doesn't magically "make" one anything but it does give you the scope, the frame of reference and the philosophy of what librarianship really is and does AND how to apply it to your position. My 2 academic positions (post MLS) have really taught me the ins & outs of serials acquisitions. But I did have wonderful hands-on experience during my MLS program. My collection development course was great in teaching both the philosophy and "how to do good" in selecting appropriate material for your institution. Only in grad school would you be given the experience of planning from the ground up how to set up a special library-the budget, space consider- ations, staffing etc. What has surprised me the most however is how much I have utilized what I learned in the {dreaded} required management course. Much to my surprise, I have fallen back on the knowledge gained from that course numerous times. I believe it is just not experience or just not education that makes one a librarian but the mixing, combining, meshing of both. I would not change my experience OR my education for anything! (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 7 Feb 92 11:03:00 EST From: Adrian Alexander Subject: Internet, use by vendors, X12 Marsha Clark raises two good questions on a very timely topic - use of the Internet by vendors. On the first question of "trusting" the Internet to carry really important data such as orders, invoices, claims, etc., let me urge her to heed the warning she received at ALA. Our EDI technical staff have strong reservations about using a network like the Internet for transferring data, because data does get lost on the Internet, and there is no recourse when that happens. Also, the "hot" topic in the area of electronic data interchange (EDI) for libraries, vendors, and publishers right now is the emerging X12 standard for sending and receiving transactional data such as order, claims, and invoices. As it stands right now, the Internet is NOT technically capable of carrying X12 traffic while maintaining the structural integrity of the message, according to some of our staff. As for Marsha's second question, one of our top Internet staff, Karen Roubicek, has assured me that the kinds of applications we are doing now in the library community represent a very small piece of what goes across the network present- ly, when compared with other work such as serious number-crunching on remote super-computers, etc. Karen says that the applications that can really overload the network are things like remote modelling, full-motion video, and transmitting high-resolution x-rays. ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 20 ****** END OF FILE *******