ACQNET v3n049 (May 13, 1993) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acq-v3n049 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 3, No. 49, May 13, 1993 ==================================== (1) FROM: Mary McLaren SUBJECT: _Times of India_ (9 lines) (2) FROM: Diane Kovacs SUBJECT: _ARL Directory of Electronic Publications_ (98 lines) (3) FROM: Liz Chapman SUBJECT: First visit to ALA (13 lines) (4) FROM: Miko Pattie SUBJECT: OCLC OLUC Task Force report changes (26 lines) (5) FROM: Pam Zager Rebarcak SUBJECT: Commercial binding preparation (11 lines) (1)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 May 93 15:03:36 EDT From: Mary McLaren (University of Kentucky) Subject: _Times of India_ Our library has been notified by Faxon that the distributor they had been using to obtain the newspaper, _Times of India_, has gone bankrupt and that they have not been able to find a new one. Can anyone advise me (and Faxon) how this newspaper can be obtained? (2)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 May 93 12:31:30 EST From: Diane Kovacs (Kent State University) Subject: 3rd Edition of _Directory of Electronic Publications_ ARL Expands 3rd Edition of _Directory of Electronic Publications_ AVAILABLE for delivery as of May 15th, 1993 For Further Information Contact: Ann Okerson, Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing, ann@cni.org Responding to the library and academic communities' increasing use of and interest in the burgeoning number of electronic publications, the Association of Research Libraries is publishing the third edition of the hard-copy _Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Scholarly Discussion Lists_. With the extraordinary expansion of microcomputers and linked networks as vehicles for scholarly exchange, the problem of how and where to find various academic forums grows continuously. Although many journals, newsletters, and scholarly lists may be accessed free of charge through Bitnet, Internet, and affiliated academic networks, it is not always a simple chore to find what is available. The new edition of the directory is a compilation of entries for 1152 scholarly lists and 240 electronic journals, newsletters, and related titles such as newsletter-digests -- an increase in size of close to 60% since the second edition of March 1992 and nearly 2.5 times the size of the first edition of July 1991. The directory provides specific instructions for electronic access to each publication. The objective is to assist the user in finding relevant publications and connecting to them quickly, even if he or she is not completely versed in the full range of user-access systems. Author/compiler of the journals and newsletters section is Michael Strangelove of the University of Ottawa. Diane Kovacs of the Kent State University Libraries, continues to lead the KSU team -- nine individuals who collaboratively created the third edition's scholarly discussion lists and interest groups section. The ARL directory is derived from network-accessible files maintained by Strangelove and Kovacs. The directory points to these files as the authoritative sources. The third edition is produced in 8.5 x 11 paperbound format. Scholarly lists are grouped by broad subject areas, and journals and newsletters are in alphabetical order. In a new enhancement, a substantial index of keywords, titles, and institutional affiliations is provided. As in the previous two years, front matter of value to electronic serial readers is included. Again, a scholarly article on networked scholarly publications leads (James J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania with a provocative view of "St. Augustine to NREN"), followed by bibliographies commissioned from David Robison, University of California at Berkeley Libraries and an editor of the e-journal Current Cites, on electronic publishing; and Michael Strangelove on electronic networking. Finally, a widely felt need is addressed by inclusion of the standard format for citation of electronic serials, bulletin boards, and electronic mail. This was prepared by the National Library of Medicine and is now accepted for use among many scholars and scientists wishing to make adequate reference of networked information. DIRECTORY OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS, NEWSLETTERS, AND ACADEMIC DISCUSSION LISTS (ISSN: 1057-1337), Third Edition, April 1993 To order, contact: Gloria Haws, Publications Manager, Association of Research Libraries, 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036 Voice: 202-296-2296 Fax: 202-872-0884 E-mail: osap@cni.org ALL ORDERS MUST BE PREPAID in US DOLLARS, Please. Name: Organization: Address: (street, city, state, country) Price per copy: $42 US PLUS: Postage, Shipping, Handling: $ 5.00 USA $ 8.00 CANADA $12.00 EUROPE (air mail) $15.00 OTHERS (air mail) N.B. 1. Some copies of the 1992 edition are available for sale at a reduced price. 2. A diskette version will be available. Contact us for price and details. 3. Special prices for orders of 5 copies or more and Special prices for the 119 libraries which are members of the Association of Research Libraries are available. Please contact us for these. (3)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 11:55:24 +0100 From: Liz Chapman (University of Oxford) Subject: First visit to ALA I am going to ALA in New Orleans this year for the first time in my life and would welcome advice on attending (or not attending) meetings. My major interests are in acquisitions, library budgeting, training of library staff, equal opportunities, official statistics from all over the world and collecting coffee mugs with bibliographical/library connections. I am an overseas member of ALA but not of any group/chapter/round table etc. I look forward to reading your advice. (4)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 93 14:08:36 EDT From: Miko Pattie (University of Kentucky) Subject: OCLC OLUC Task Force report changes Earlier this year (ACQNET 3:29(2) and 3:31(4)) there was a discussion of the OCLC Users Council Task Force on the Future of the Online Union Catalog _Preliminary Report_. The discussion centered on the observation that acquisitions functions were under-represented in the report. The report has been revised and I compared the preliminary and the final versions. Here is my report: 1. The 5 categories of use of the Online Union Catalog (OLUC) have been changed to include acquisitions. In fact, acquisitions/collection development has been listed as the first use category. 2. The Universal Catalog concept is intact; the approaches to achieve transparency and unification of these databases of varying levels of bibliographic records have been left up to OCLC to decide. The first version recommended the use of separate databases for those less-than- standard records. 3. The term for those data files has been changed from "ancillary files" to "enrichment files". This final report has not been accepted by the Council. This will be done in our next meeting, May 23-25. (5)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 93 15:57:22 CDT From: Pam Zager Rebarcak (Iowa State Univ.) The Iowa State University Library is contemplating moving commercial binding from the Technical Services Division to the Collections Division where Preservation is located. Have other libraries removed commercial binding from the Technical Services workflow and purview? If so, how is it working? Have libraries considered the above mentioned arrangement and decided against it? If so, what were the reasons for continuing the operations within Technical Services? ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 3, No. 49 ****** END OF FILE ******