ACQNET v10n007 (March 19, 2000)
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              ACQNET, Vol. 10, No. 7, March 19, 2000
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Dear Subscribers,

You may be wondering, especially if you are in favor of the change to the 
proposed moderated list format, what is taking so long? 

Here's the story - I received a additional 26 replies after my last plea 
for feedback. These were mostly in favor of the changes, with a few 
additional contributions I'd like to share, in summary.  I am not going 
to bore you with the verbatim replies this time - at the end of this 
message I will acknowledge the individuals who responded, and I thank them 
for their effort. 

We will move forward to implement ACQNET as a moderated listserve and 
the name will stay the same. Some people suggested a name change but 
more people favored leaving it the same. The serials cataloging experts at 
LC suggest we close out ACQNET the newsletter but continue ACQNET the 
listserve. A title change is not really neccessary.

Two really fruitful exchanges occurred in this last bunch:

1. Someone suggested AUTOCAT as a model, and I assured this person we 
would **never** set up ACQNET to be like AUTOCAT. While AUTOCAT is a great 
list, such a free-for-all model is not possible for ACQNET. We are so 
vunerable to advertising, so we must be moderated. 'Nuff said.

2. Another colleague complained that I was obsessing over this too 
much and basically gave me the message - OK, get on with it! It made me 
realize how concensus-focused my own institutional setting is and how 
many subscribers of ACQNET probably work in faster-paced organizations. 
So many of you are probably asking yourselves, "What are they waiting for?" 
But it's not just the concensus-building that holds us up - like many of 
you, we are struggling this time of year to spend a budget that we will 
lose if we do not get it encumbered soon. So, between now and the end of 
the April, my daily efforts must go in that direction.

Our goal is to cut-over to the new format by the beginning of May. In 
the meantime, we'll maintain the old format. 

In the meantime, we're going forward with the press release format on 
AcqWeb - more on that soon. 

I'd like to thank the following individuals for their feedback:

Tom Loughran  - Book vendor
Kim Laird  - State Library
Barbara Weisner - Small Academic
Karen Douglas - State Univ. Law Library
Ineke Middeldorp - Large Dutch Publisher
Gretchen Wolf - Large Academic Law Library 
Lauren Corbett - Medium Academic
Mary Kitchens - Medium  Academic
Peter Picerno - Small Academic
Helen Anderson - Medium Academic
Diane Goodman - Public Library
Ladd Brown - Large Academic
Jeanette Mosey - Community College
Ruth Kallenberg - Medium Academic
Dina Giambi - Large Academic
Nancy Cowden - Medium Academic Law Library
Jonathan Dunnavent - Community College
Pat Noonan - State Multi-type Consortium
Katy Ellis - Large Academic
Kathy Jackson - Small Academic
Stephanie Row - Public Library
Jean Lenville - Medium Academic
Anna Belle Leiserson - Large Academic Law Library
Joyce Ogburn - Large Academic
Dae Borneman - Medium Academic
John McDonald - Large Academic

While the majority of ACQNET subscribers are out there silently 
appreciating us, I have come to realize that it is understandable that 
many subscribers do not respond - as much as I'd like them to respond, 
I have to accept they are not going to do so!

I am pleased to report that the responses I received are from a 
variety of types of librarians and others - not just the academic 
librarians - public librarians, community college librarians, small 
and large publisher representatives, as well as from folks from outside the 
U.S. See above for the breakdown.

Thanks,
Eleanor Cook
Editor, ACQNET

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