ACQNET v2n099 (October 26, 1992) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v2n099 ISSN:1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 99, October 26, 1992 ======================================== (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: ACQNET to stop for one week (14 lines) (2) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: FTPing ACQNET files (7 lines) (3) FROM: Elisabeth Dolby SUBJECT: Educational videos (7 lines) (4) FROM: Elisabeth Dolby SUBJECT: Indonesian vendors (7 lines) (5) FROM: Thomas Syseskey SUBJECT: Jack Beatty's _The Rascal King_ (13 lines) (6) FROM: Barbara Winters SUBJECT: Drug-free vendors (23 lines) (7) FROM: Richard Jasper SUBJECT: Electronic ordering (84 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 07:51:35 EST From: Christian Subject: ACQNET's Fall hiatus Every year at this time I take off after the Canada geese. While they stop in and near Chesapeake Bay, I continue on down to Charleston, SC to attend Katina Strauch's conference on acquisitions. It will be so again this year, starting on November 1 when I will leave Ithaca. ACQNET, therefore, will cease on that date for one week. If you have anything on your mind, make sure you send it to me prior to Friday. I expect to send one more issue, and possibly two, before I leave. (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 08:55:22 EST From: Christian Subject: FTPing ACQNET files ACQNET directories and back files will be unavailable for anonymous FTP for the next week or so while equipment is being re-deployed. I will let you know when the files are again available. (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Oct 92 10:28:25 GMT+1000 From: Elisabeth Dolby (Queensland Univ. of Technology) Subject: VIDEOS Does anyone know of any good suppliers of educational videos published in the United States? It is impracticable to go direct to the publishers from Australia. (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Oct 92 10:25:33 GMT+1000 From: Elisabeth Dolby (Queensland Univ. of Technology) Subject: VENDORS IN INDONESIA Could any reader assist by giving names and addresses of vendors in Indonesia who can supply Indonesian material suitable for supporting Indonesian language courses, please. (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Oct 1992 08:31:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Syseskey (Holy Cross College) Subject: Jack Beatty's _The Rascal King_ If your library has acquired any copies of Jack Beatty's _The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley_ (Addison-Wesley, 1992), please check to see that the pages are complete and in order. Our library ordered five copies, all of which had the same defect of lacking a signature of pages as well as some others being out of sequence. When we contacted the wholesaler concerning an exchange, all copies which that whole- saler had in stock had the same defects, thus necessitating the wholesaler's having to exchange all of its stock of that title with the publisher. (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Oct 1992 12:46:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Barbara Winters (Wright State University) Subject: Vendors and Drug-free Work places Christian, this posting appeared on the COLLDV-L list. I have received permission from the author, Mitch Turitz, to cross-post it to ACQNET. I am certain that acquisitions librarians will have strong opinions about this practice. *************************************************************************** From: turitz@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Mitch Turitz) I just found out last week that the California State University system is now requiring that any vendor who does more than $10,000 worth of annual business with a CSU campus must fill out a form certifying that they (the vendor) are a drug-free work place. I am in the process of finding out more details of this, but I have confirmed that several other CSU campuses have already received these forms and some vendors have replied that they are refusing to fill them out. If the vendors do not have a form on file with the business office of the campus, the purchas- ing office may refuse to issue checks to these vendors. How are others coping with this? (8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 92 14:14:23 EDT From: Richard P. Jasper (Emory University) Subject: Electronic ordering Every few months it seems we hear another person saying, "Gee, I'd like to do electronic ordering--what have other people done?" or we see another materials vendor bringing out a new system for electronic ordering or making their approval plan holdings available online. Recently I even saw a survey from OCLC asking whether we would be interested in having our approval plan vendors be able to send us OCLC records directly. And then there is all the stuff about BISAC, SISAC, X.12, and EDI. Still, through it all I haven't heard anyone say "THIS precisely is what I in Acquisitions need to have right NOW, and THAT is what I want to have a little ways down the road." For my part, this statement is key to the whole proposi- tion--I have yet to do electronic ordering because I haven't obtained a satisfactory answer. Herewith is my attempt to outline what I would like to see in an electronic ordering system: 1. I don't want an electronic system that involves my blindly sending ISBN numbers or any other kind of number off to the vendor and having to wait for some kind of reply, whether that is electronic or in paper. Instead, I want to go online with the vendors system and see bibliographic records for titles that are in stock or expected to be in stock. I'd *really* like to be able to tell, at the same time, how many copies the vendor has available, how many (if any) are already promised, how many more are expected and when. 2. I want to be able to create for myself in the vendor's system an order record attached to a particular bibliographic record. I ought to be able to indicate how many copies I want and any special handling that needs to occur. Moreover, I ought to be able to update, within a reasonable amount of time (e.g., 48 hours?), the order record in the vendor's system with a purchase order number from my system. I don't necessarily (this would be rather obnoxious from a vendor's point of view, I'm sure!) want to be able to cancel the order record I have created in the vendor's system, but I do want to be able to call the vendor and say, "Uh, sorry, never mind, could we please cancel?" Better yet, if the vendor's system doesn't show the title in stock or on order I'd like to send or create my own bib and order record in the vendor's system. 3. I don't care whether I get immediate or even delayed confirmation of the order, whether online or some other way. I don't ask my vendors to acknowledge receipt of paper orders I send them, why do so with electronic orders? If I haven't received the book in a timely fashion, I will inquire. 4. On the other hand... The MAIN thing I want to be able to do is to get the vendor's bib and order information into MY system without having to re-key it. At this point, it doesn't matter to me whether that occurs the clunky way (by screen capture downloading to disk and uploading to my system, as we do with OCLC records currently) or the slick way via FTP or whatever you would call it in this environment. I will NOT, however, re-key bib and order information from the vendor's system to my system. I'd rather spend the time searching and keying records into my system, even it does mean I'm going to have to mail them out and have to wait longer to get them. 5. Naturally, I want the material vendor to send me the book with a slip reflecting the bib/order information as it appeared in the vendor's system, with the vendor-assigned order number and my purchase order number. Once I've got the book...? Well, has anybody got a good idea about how to get rid of my order record in the vendor's system without my having to go into both my system and the vendor's system to say the item has been received? If there is a system out there that does this already, please let me know. Unless I'm just completely misunderstanding what everyone has been saying--and this is always a distinct possibility, in my case--it just "ain't there" yet. But maybe we're getting close? I'd love to hear from people regarding both what they HAVE and what they WANT. ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 99 ****** END OF FILE *******