ACQNET v2n025 (February 22, 1992) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v2n025 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 25, February 22, 1992 ========================================= (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (15 lines) (2) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Michelangelo virus alert (20 lines) (3) FROM: Pamela Rose SUBJECT: Documents sold commercially (10 lines) (4) FROM: Judith Eannarino SUBJECT: Scandinavian approval plans (6 lines) (5) FROM: Rosann Bazirjian SUBJECT: Acquisitions and document delivery (15 lines) (6) FROM: Georgina Sorrentino SUBJECT: College bulletins and catalogs (17 lines) (7) FROM: Joyce Ogburn SUBJECT: Private offices for technical services staff (31 lines) (8) FROM: Beth Jacoby SUBJECT: Private offices for technical services staff (26 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: February 22, 1992 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Patricia Kantner Head, Technical Services Purdue University Libraries E-mail: PKANTNER@MENTOR.CC.PURDUE.EDU Gwen Bertram Sales Representative - Northeast The Faxon Company E-mail: BERTRAM@FAXON.COM (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 92 12:09:00 EST From: Christian Boissonnas Subject: Michelangelo virus This item is definitely out of the mainstream for ACQNET, but it is important. If you already know about it, skip it. There is a nasty, destructive, IBM PC (NOT Macintosh) virus around. It is known as the Michelangelo virus and it's due to do its thing on March 6, 1992 (Michelangelo's birthday.) Its thing is the eradication of data from disks, both hard and floppy. I bring it up because 3 computers in our library, not even public machines, turned up infected. Between now and real soon you need to get some software that will check your machine, if IBM PC or clone, and eradicate the virus if it is present. Please don't wait for the last minute. There is no recovery from this one. You need to check all you disks, floppies and hard, backup, used or new. That virus has been found in shrink wrapped commercial software and brand new Leading Edge computers. If you don't know what to do, start with the computer gurus at your institutions. (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1992 14:05 EST From: Pamela Rose Subject: Documents sold commercially I found a duplicate publication item that I thought others might want to know about. The title _Healthy people 2000..._ is published concurrently by Jones and Bartlett, c1992, at $50.00 or so, and also issued by GPO, DHHS publication no. (PHS) 91-50212, c1991 at $31. The full titles and pagination of 692 p. are identical. We paid for the Jones and Bartlett copy, then received the GPO copy as a gift from the issuing agency (PHS). (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 92 08:40:14 EST From: Judith C. Eannarino Subject: Scandinavian approval plans I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has an approval or slip plan for Scandinavia. (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1992 08:22:34 EST From: Rosann Bazirjian Subject: Acquisitions and document delivery Have any Acquisitions/Technical Service departments developed procedures for the actual handling of document delivery? As larger portions of our materials budgets are allocated to this means of access, there is potential for ILL or Reference departments to take a certain amount of responsibility for ordering, receiving, and processing. At Syracuse University, the Bibliographic Services Department has gotten involved only so far as setting up deposit accounts and monitoring statements from our document delivery vendors. The possibility of becoming merely a processing unit is frightening. I am interested in knowing if any acquisitions or other technical service areas have become responsible for securing items via document delivery, and what procedures, work flows, etc., have been set up. (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1992 15:26 EDT From: Georgina Sorrentino Subject: College Bulletins and Catalogs on Microfiche In response to Gary Flanagan's question, about two years ago, Canisius College switched to Micrologue, P.O. Box 2260, Boulder, CO 80306, phone 803-444-4216. The reasons for the change were lower price and compatibility with the lenses on our fiche copier. However, it has not been without its flaws. While the overall quality is good, every once in a while we encounter a fiche which is unreadable and will not produce a readable copy. Micrologue was apparently unaware that State Univer- sity of NY at Buffalo and State University College are two different institu- tions and provided the catalog for only one. They were advised of the error but have not provided the second catalog. We don't know if this is an isolated instance. (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 21 Feb 1992 09:19:33 U From: Joyce Ogburn Subject: Private offices For acquisitions managers who are dealing with confidential budget information and are negotiating with vendors, a private office should be provided. It is extremely difficult to call or talk with a vendor in a non-private office. Often you must discuss performance problems, which is not something you want to air in public. Or you must negotiate terms of business, which can be delicate as well. Also being out in an open area or in a cubicle is distracting to you and your staff. Acquisitions managers are on the phone a lot talking to vendors and to colleagues. No one else really wants to hear all these conversations. An office is not a barrier to communication. The bibliographers will come to talk to you and feel welcome if you, in fact, welcome them. They probably prefer you having a door on the office as well because of the nature of the business that often must be discussed. When staff want to confide in you, they don't want to go to a cubicle where everyone can see and hear your conversa- tion; they want to go where there is a door AND a ceiling. I offer my office to any of my staff who need to make a private phone call, supervisors who need to talk to their staff or to call personnel about a potential problem, or anyone who needs to get away to a private place for a moment of personal time. The door is open 99% of the time. It's a more difficult call on whether to provide an office for all supervisors. Supervisors need to see what is going on in their units, while having some space and separation to do their own work well. At the very least an area close by or in the department should be available to supervisors to talk in private with staff. (8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 92 09:37 EST From: Beth Jacoby Subject: Private offices As an acquisitions librarian who has no private office, I am very much in favor of private offices for supervisors, whether they be acquisitions, cataloging, or other. In addition to having a place to privately counsel staff under one's supervision, private offices allow for greater concentration when writing procedures, writing confidential performance evaluations on one's computer (now anyone can walk up to my area and see what's on my computer screen before I have time to dim it), and just plain thinking and planning, which doesn't happen often enough. I end up having to do most of this work at home, or staying late at work until all my staff have left for the day. I always been envious of my colleagues who do have private offices. My colleague in Serials does have a private office. She keeps her door open 99% of the time, and told me that her having an office (which she shares with her assistant) has not seemed to inhibit either her staff or the bibliographers from interacting with her. I think bibliographers who want to interact with their colleagues will do so whether there are private offices or not. Like- wise, bibliographers who prefer to do business by inter-library or campus mail or e-mail will do so whether the acquisitions librarian has a private office or not. Marylou, please do plan to have private offices for your supervisors! ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 25 ****** END OF FILE *******