ACQNET v3n046 (April 28, 1993) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v3n046 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 3, No. 46, April 28, 1993 ====================================== (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (19 lines) (2) FROM: Roxy Zimmerman SUBJECT: Australian booksellers (8 lines) (3) FROM: Catherine Wolfson SUBJECT: Acquisitions statistics (40 lines) (4) FROM: Barry Fast SUBJECT: Chinese vendors (28 lines) (5) FROM: Gail Defendorf SUBJECT: Routing professional literature (8 lines) (6) FROM: Carol Hawks SUBJECT: 1993 _LAPT_ research award (31 lines) (7) FROM: Sharon Propas SUBJECT: Vendors for Japanese out-of-print materials (9 lines) (1)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: April 28, 1993 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Deborah Lee Christopher James Daniel Acquisitions Librarian Monograph Acquisitions Supervisor Mississippi State University Library Univ. of Missouri - St. Louis Libr. E-mail: DOL1@RA.MSSTATE.EDU E-mail: SCJDANI@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU Sen Rong Lee Nora C. Gaines Acquisitions Librarian Acquisitions & Serials Librarian Indus. Tech. Res. Inst. (Taiwan) Libr. Bank St. College Library E-mail: AD30LRS0@ITRIB.ITRI.ORG.TW E-mail: NGAINES@BNK1.BNKST.EDU Penny Ann Swanson Technical Services Librarian Douglas College Library E-mail: PENNY_SWANSON@DOUGLAS.BC.CA (2)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 93 08:25:59 EST From: Roxy Zimmerman (National-Louis University) Subject: Australian booksellers I am trying to find some information for a faculty members and was hoping that our friends in Australia could help. I need the addresses and fax numbers for 2 organizations: Australian Booksellers Association and Old Meadow Bookstore in Melbourne. Thank you. (3)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 22 Apr 1993 17:06:12 -0700 (MST) From: Catherine Wolfson (University of Arizona) Subject: Acquisitions statistics I am the Head of Acquisitions at the Arizona Health Sciences Library, and am in charge of ordering, receiving, claiming, and paying for all books, journals, media and microcomputer software, and CD-ROM products. Approximately twice a month I submit report to the person in charge of collection development showing expenditures for books (broken down by firm order, approval, and standing order), serials, and microcomputer and media software lumped together. The CD-ROMs are serial in nature and are lumped with the serials. I show both completed expenditures and outstanding invoices, broken down in the same way. Our Collection Development officer passes my reports to our Library Director, I believe with some input of her own. I am not exactly sure what the Library Director ultimately sees, and how much of my reports she actually sees. I have just been informed that our Library Director would like to see not only reports of expenditures, but trends in expenditures as well. I do offer some of that, such as comparing fiscal year-to-date with previous, showing that if approval expenditures are not modified, how quickly we will probably run out of money, and that sort of thing. I have tried to project how much money we would need for serials, based upon our history of expenditures, and what our vendors believe will happen with serials prices. However, our Library Director apparently wants more. What are the rest of you in ACQNET space doing as far as tracking and analyzing expenditures? What types of reports are you providing, with what sorts of data, to whom, and what sources are you using for information? If you would be willing, I would appreciate very much receiving representative samples via "snail mail". Please reply to me directly, and I will summarize for ACQNET if there is interest. Thank you very much in advance. My address is: Catherine L. Wolfson, Head of Acquisitions, Arizona Health Sciences Library, University of Arizona, 150l N. Campbell Ave., Room 1149, Tucson, AZ 85724 (4)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 23 Apr 93 14:22:40 GMT From: Barry Fast (Academic Book Center) Subject: Chinese books & American libraries We have a friendly, non-business relationship with a book distributor in the Peoples Republic of China. This company distributes Chinese books to Chinese libraries, and they are interested in learning about the American library market. At some point in the future they may want to expand their distribution to the US market. We at Academic Book Center have no interest in getting involved in such a venture (we think dealing with American publishers is challenging enough), but we offered to give them some advice and to pass on any helpful information from librarians. It is difficult for distributors in developing countries to sell their books here because everything from logistics to pricing to low demand works against them. Yet some of their publications are important, and it is in all our interests to keep information flowing among our countries. When all is said and done, it is the distribution of information that defines us all. Any information on how libraries acquire books from China would be valued by this distribution company. They are specifically interested in how libraries select Chinese books, what selection criteria are used by American libraries, how book suppliers are located and how terms of business are established, and how American librarians think that service on Chinese books could be improved. I will pass on any information you give me to our Chinese friends. (5)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 08:58 CDT From: Gail Defendorf (Kansas State Univ.) Subject: Routing professional literature We solved this problem at Kansas State University by routing only a photocopy of tables of contents. The journal can go directly to the shelf and the photocopy instead is the item that takes months to circulate! (6)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 09:10 EDT From: Carol P. Hawks (Ohio State University) Subject: _LAPT) research award announcement _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_ (LAPT) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 1993 Research Award, Samuel Demas [Yeah, Sam! -- C.], Anne S. Caputo, and William J. Kara [Awright, Bill! -- C.]. Mr. Demas is Head, Collection Development and Preservation at Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library in Ithaca, NY. Ms. Caputo is Manager, Academic Programs at Dialog Information Services. Mr. Kara is Acquisitions Librarian at Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library. Their proposal, "Viability of the Vendor Model of Information Delivery Through a Library Gateway," has been funded as the 1993 _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_ Research Award. The study "aims to determine the viability of the 'vendor model' of information delivery through a library gateway. By offering a campus community unrestricted access to an unprecedented scope of electronic information, libraries and vendors will learn for the first time: which files are used, how much they are used, by whom they are used (e.g. faculty, staff, students), and at what times of the day and night. This data is essential for database vendors trying to structure fixed fee pricing schedules, and for libraries in selecting files, choosing access mechanisms, and planning information delivery systems." The Call for Proposals for the 1994 Research Award will be released shortly. Questions concerning this award should be addressed to: Carol Pitts Hawks, Editor-in-Chief, _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_, 2129 Sandston Road, Columbus, OH 43220 (614) 292-6314 FAX: (614) 292-2015 Internet: hawks.1@osu.edu (7)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 14:55:04 PDT From: "Sharon Propas" Subject: Vendors for Japanese out-of-print materials Could anyone recommend a good source for Japanese out-of-print materials? We have some good suppliers for current materials but have not found a satisfactory source for older things. We are especially interested in art titles. ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 3, No. 46 ****** END OF FILE ******