ACQNET v2n059 (June 2, 1992) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v2n059 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 59, June 2, 1992 ==================================== (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (13 lines) (2) FROM: Gordon Anderson SUBJECT: Acquisitions librarianship in Poland (54 lines) (3) FROM: Shirley A. Reuter SUBJECT: Transferring MARC records to local systems (10 lines) (4) FROM: Jeri Van Goethem SUBJECT: Bar coding new receipts (9 lines) (5) FROM: Betsy Kruger SUBJECT: Map vendors (9 lines) (6) FROM: Barbara K. Nelson SUBJECT: African vendors (30 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: June 2, 1992 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Patricia Denholm Fairfield Chris L. Sugnet Acquisitions Librarian Acquisitions Librarian Essex County College University of Arizona Library E-mail: PDF@PILOT.NJIN.NET E-mail: SUGNET@ARIZVMS.BITNET Lisa Ann Mitten Lawrence Richard Keating II Social Sciences Bibliographer Head, Serials Department University of Pittsburgh Library University of Houston Libraries E-mail: LMITTEN@PITTVMS.BITNET E-mail: LIB1D@JETSON.UH.EDU (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 May 92 09:01:16 CST From: Gordon Anderson Subject: Acquisitions librarianship in Poland The following letter (in translation) by Ewa Wozniak, Foreign Exchanges Librar- ian at the Warsaw University Main Library, appeared in the Warsaw daily _Gazeta Wyborcza_, no. 84/1992 (8 April). * * * * What can a library do to get publishers, obligated in accordance with existing legal regulations (Ministry of Culture decree of 3 August 1968), to have the printer send a depository copy to the library, when the library has no author- ity to enforce this order? How can library staff remedy this situation when they, like bookdealers and readers, have no idea how many publishers are cur- rently operating in Poland? It would suffice for librarians regularly to visit bookstores (after work, of course) and carefully note the names of new publishers. Also, we must not overlook the book-stalls, second-hand booksellers' street-stands (with books displayed on beds), and the many kiosks at train stations and hotels. The next stage in the operation is to keep in contact with colleagues near and far in case they hear that somewhere, in someone's private apartment, sits a publisher we're looking for. Am I joking? A little bit at the most. Speaking completely seriously, in the matter of obligatory depository copies, even a television appeal by the Head of Acquisitions of the Warsaw University Library to publishers and printers did not help. Still, it did serve to remind them of their obligations. Thus we search, we telephone, we beseech; in a word, we try to manage by our- selves. And what can librarians abroad, deprived of basic information about the Polish publishing market, do in this situation? Most often they are powerless. It is not easy to explain to our Western colleagues why _Zapowiedzi wydawnicze_ (the Polish weekly bulletin of forthcoming books) does not cover the publishing market completely, why they discontinued publishing their foreign-language ver- sion (of ZW), why we cannot afford a booksellers-librarians-publishers journal, why no one cares about advertising and promoting books, why publishers prefer to sell books on the street. We know the answers to these and other questions: paper, prices, profit mar- gins, publishers interested only in maximum gains, etc. To library col- leagues from the USA responsible for Polish collections, I offered as consol- ation the masochistic argument that, fortunately for them and for us, the new publishers have little to offer. And to tell the truth, that was consolation in itself. But it is hard to take comfort in the thought that in foreign libraries (even those of the highest rank) there can be gaps in their Polish collections. But is this of concern to anyone else? * * * * Translated by Gordon Anderson, Director, Kansas Univ. Lib. Slavic Department (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 May 1992 16:22:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Shirley S. Reuter Subject: Ordering, using full MARC records I should like to hear from anyone exporting (downloading) order records from their utility in full MARC, to display in their OPAC. Our catalogers want us (the Acquisitions Department) to consider doing this, to provide more access points to material not yet cataloged. If you do this, who is responsible for authority control of authors' name and subject headings? When is the holdings symbol added to the record in the utility? What problems has this procedure caused? Do you recommend for or against? (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 May 92 10:52:14 EST From: Jeri Van Goethem Subject: Bar coding new receipts Although this isn't strictly an "acquisitions" matter, I would like to inquire how libraries are handling the bar coding of new receipts, i.e., which area of your library processing chain carries out this function and why? Do libraries divide the work of attachment of barcodes and the reading of barcodes into the automated records? (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 28 May 1992 08:13:33 CDT From: Betsy Kruger Subject: Map dealers We are interested in finding out which dealers other libraries with large map collections (or even small ones, for that matter) use for acquiring non-U.S. maps, especially from Europe, Africa, and South America. Our domestic map sources have checkered success in obtaining maps from other parts of the world. Do any libraries use European book vendors for this purpose? (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE: 28 MAY 1992 08:47 -05 FROM: Barbara K. Nelson SUBJECT: African vendors There are several African vendors which we have used. 1. African Books Collective Ltd., The Jam Factory, 27 Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HU, England They send large, well-annotated catalogs of material from English-speaking Africa. My understanding is that it is a non-profit organization and money goes back to the publishers to publish new materials. 2. Hogarth Representation, 1 Birchington Court, Birchington Road, London N8 8HS, England They specialize in West & Equatorial Africa and send regular lists of titles. 3. Ms. Henrietta Dax, Clarke's Bookshop, 211 Long Street, Capetown, 8001 South Africa They cover South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lesotho, and Namibia. I believe they also provide lists of op and new material. 4. Leishman & Taussig, 2B Westgate, Southwell Notts, United Kingdom NG25 0JH I have not used this vendor, but they were recommended as were all of the above at a Pre-conference on Out of Print materials held at the Charleston Conference in 1990. I have been pleased with the 3 vendors I have used. ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 59 ****** END OF FILE *******