ACQNET v2n035 (March 12, 1992) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v2n035 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 35, March 12, 1992 ====================================== (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (23 lines) (2) FROM: Libby Cooley SUBJECT: Lost/damaged books processing fee (10 lines) (3) FROM: Caleb Hanson SUBJECT: Ordering staff productivity (13 lines) (4) FROM: Joseph Gabriel SUBJECT: Acquisitions and document delivery (9 lines) (5) FROM: Pamela Rose SUBJECT: Publishers' catalogs (15 lines) (6) FROM: Keith Stetson SUBJECT: Publishing statistics (8 lines) (7) FROM: Ann Palomo SUBJECT: Indian booksellers (10 lines) (8) FROM: Carol Hawks SUBJECT: Expert systems in acquisitions (7 lines) (9) FROM: Peter Stevens SUBJECT: Fernando Garcia Cambeiro (8 lines) (10) FROM: Joe Barker SUBJECT: Architecture approval plans (17 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: March 12, 1992 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Cara Beth Stevenson Ordering Supervisor University of Texas - Austin Library E-mail: LLCBS@UTXDP.BITNET James W. Romer Head University of North Carolina - Greensboro E-mail: ROMERJ@UNCG.BITNET Marc L. Langston Library Technician (Acquisitions) National Gallery of Art Library E-mail: MARC@WAM.UMD.EDU Stanley Bert Johnson Head, Acquisitions University of North Dakota Library E-mail: AUSBJ@UNDJES2.BITNET (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 08:16:36 EST From: Libby Cooley <3669eac@prime.acc.Virginia.EDU> Subject: Lost/damaged books processing fee What formula do people use to determine the processing fee for a lost or damaged book? I realize most institutions use one flat fee, but how is that fee determined? Please respond to: Elizabeth A. Cooley, Assistant Director for Collection Services, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Box 234, Charlottesville, VA 22904 (804) 924-1944 (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 10:20 EST From: "Caleb C. Hanson" Subject: Ordering staff productivity We are also just starting to articulate productivity guidelines, and have developed some goals/standards: 20-25 orders per hour is our target base rate. The best person on our staff can double that on a good day (and she'll be reading this); much less than the 20-25 rate would not address the volume of our workload. We are an INNOVACQ site, creating the bulk of our orders by downloading from OCLC. We have 3.5 staff downloading 1 or 2 hours per day, 5 or 7 hours per week - schedules vary depending on other responsibilities. (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 12:55:23 -0500 (EST) From: Joseph Gabriel Subject: Acquisitions and document delivery I would be interested in getting information on acquisitions departments that are handling document delivery services. Since the function is similar to ILL functions, why was acquisitions chosen? Why not merge ILL into acquisitions as well? (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 14:04 EST From: Pamela Rose Subject: Publishers' catalogs In reply to Kim Hale's question regarding publisher catalogs, we have just developed a policy here at the Health Science Library, SUNY at Buffalo. I am currently unable to transfer the text of that file into my e-mail, and will retype it if enough demand, but will mail it out to any interested parties. Just send me your fax or snail mail address. In short, we route certain things, discard others, and keep the rest in a publishers file for use by acquisitions, reference, library school students, etc. The file is routinely weeded, keeping only the last two years. We do not distribute by subject area as a policy, although this does occur. We do use the pre-publication information for ordering if it is all we can get. (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 15:49 EST From: Keith Stetson Subject: Publisher's Title Output The March 9, 1992 _Publishers Weekly_ charts by publisher, on pages 28-36, "the new titles and new editions published during the January-December period in both 1990 and 1991, as reported to R.R. Bowker's _Books in Print_." This information is particularly interesting for those without access to _BIP+_. (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 10 Mar 92 15:05:00 EST From: Ann Palomo Subject: Vedams for Indian titles At Cleveland Public Library we've been using Vedams as a supplier of some of our Indian titles since 1989. We receive a 10% discount on all book purchases from Vedams despite the fact that we order from other Indian suppliers. Vedams' invoices appear to state that the 10% discount is a routine library discount. We do pay shipping charges, but they're not high. We also use D.K. Agencies and other suppliers for Indian titles. (8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 22:27 EST From: Carol P. Hawks Subject: Expert systems in acquisitions Pam Zager's presentation from the 1991 Feather River Institute on her expert system will appear in _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_ v. 16, no. 2 (due in late April). (9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1992 09:09:32 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Stevens Subject: Fernando Garcia Cambeiro Does Garcia Cambeiro still have a US address? A recent order cancellation addressed to their Miami address (7225 NW 25th St, Suite 100) came back with the postal note that the forwarding order had expired. Their phone number has been disconnected as well. (10) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 10:59:00 PST From: Joe Barker Subject: Architecture approval plans At UC Berkeley, we have architecture covered in part by a Yankee approval plan, and an exhibition catalog plan for architecture with Worldwide. We supplement the plans significantly with a very satisfactory arrangement with a San Francisco bookstore: William Stout Architectural Books, 804 Montgomery St., San Francisco CA 94133 (415/391-6757). Stout sends slips to us on books matching a profile we spelled out. Domestic and foreign books are covered from publishers not covered by or excluded from Yankee. We order the books from Stout and have them quickly, because they are in their inventory. Discounts and returns are both satisfactory, the former enhanced by our prepayment of what we anticipate spending every six months or so. In a field as eclectic and international as architecture, the expertise of a specialized bookstore who gathers to please a specialized clientele in invaluable. I assume Stout would be willing to work with other libraries as well. ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 35 ****** END OF FILE *******