ACQNET v3n086 (November 1, 1993) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acqnet-v3n086 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 3, No. 86, November 1, 1993 ======================================== (1) FROM: Marylou Hale SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (19 lines) (2) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: ACQNET to stop for a week (9 lines) (3) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: ALA (46 lines) (4) FROM: Rae Dubois SUBJECT: Gift books (35 lines) (5) FROM: Judy Falzon SUBJECT: Spanish periodicals (19 lines) (1)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Marylou Hale Subject: Who's new in ACQNET tonight Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 14:26:52 -0400 Christopher Mark Reinhart Donna Karen Hawk Library Technician 3 Library Assistant III Acquisitions University of Colorado at Denver Chattanooga St. Tech. Comm. Coll. CREINHART@CUDNVR.DENVER.COLORADO.EDU HAWK@CSTCC.CC.TN.US Richard William Herendeen Prue C. Holtman Library Assistant I Acquisitions Manager North Carolina State Univ. Libr. College of Wooster Library RICHARD_HERENDEEN@LIBRARY.LIB.NCSU.EDU PHOLTMAN@ACS.WOOSTER.EDU Carolyn Scott-Savage Emily C. Hutton Acquisitions Assistant Head of Collection Development Acadia University Colgate University Library SCOTT@ADMIN.ACADIAU.CA EHUTTON@CENTER.COLGATE.EDU (2)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Christian Subject: ACQNET to stop for a week Date: November 1, 1993 It's that time of the year again, folks: Charleston Week! So, once again, I will leave this icebox that we call Central New York and the snow that dumped on us this weekend to enjoy Charleston and get energized by a bunch of you who will (I hope) say deep and provocative things. (3)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Christian Subject: ALA Date: November 1, 1993 I was in Chicago last week. The main purpose of my trip was to examine my newly-arrived grandson Brendan. He is, naturally, perfect, and I won't bore you with the details. Being only one month-old, Brendan's attention span is somewhat limited, he sleeps a lot, and restaurants don't really interest him yet. So I had plenty of time to kill and went to ALA on East Huron Street. This was a thrill. There is a real building there, it says "American Library Association" in bold letters on the front, and we own it. That's right we, ALA members, own it. But the best thing is that it is full of really nice people, whose sole job is to work for us. It's hard to remember sometimes when we get inundated with paper, crab about the impossible ballots, or the organization that moves at a glacial pace, that it is there for us. Believe me, the people there haven't forgotten it. Among many other things I found out that they print between 750 thousand and 1 million pages a month. That's right, a month. In support of our business. We could argue that an association that needs that much paper has an organizational screw seriously loose somewhere, but that doesn't change the fact that a bunch of people are working hard to crank the stuff out for us. I got a chance to talk with some folks who I will never see in a million years at the conference. Why? Because they are RASD and I'm ALCTS. It's a pity because it turns out that we have a lot in common. I got a chance to see Membership Services, a department that was literally humming with energy, as they were fielding members calls. I would like to feel that kind of excitement in my library. It is contagious. In ALCTS things were quieter, as befits an organization dedicated to library collections. There are not a lot of people in ALCTS. I forgot the exact number and I don't have my _Handbook_ here, but I don't think it's a lot more than five, and one of those does double duty: Karen Muller, Executive Director of ALCTS is also Executive Director of LITA. Talking to these people has made the organization much more real and meaningful to me. It increased my feeling of connection with my profession and lowered my exasperation with ALA a bit. I hope they were as happy for me to be there as I was. I asked Karen if they had many members drop by and she said no. That's too bad. Next time you are in Chicago take an hour to go to ALA and meet the staff. You will get something out of it, and so will the staff. (4)----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rae Dubois (National Agricultural Library) Subject: Books for Africa Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 11:07:46 -0400 I'm responding to Mr. George Pope's request concerning sources of gift books (ACQNET 3:84.2.) The surplus of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) is, by USDA regulation, available to foreign nationals only if they are exchange partners of NAL; that is, they must publish titles which they are able to send regularly to USDA. Mr. Pope might want to contact the following organizations: 1. International Book Bank, Inc. 608-L Folcroft Street Baltimore, MD 21224 (410) 633-2929 Toll-Free 1-800-US-GRANT 2. WBVS Book Project The World Bank 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433 (202) 676-0419 3. International Book Project 1440 Delaware Avenue Lexington, KY 40505 (606) 254-6771 4. Books for Africa 5233 Silver Maple Circle Minneapolis, MN 55343 (612) 939-9889 (5)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Judy Falzon (Western Maryland College) Subject: Spanish periodicals Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 15:42:55 -0500 I am hoping to get experiences, opinions, whatever, about suppliers of Spanish periodicals. We have an exceedingly small budget and have been using Puvill for our subscriptions. One of our professors has brought me information on ARCE-- Asociation de Revistas Culturales de Espana. Our other option is going with our main jobber, namely Turner subscriptions. Puvill's prices seem a bit high when compared with the price in pesetas for foreign subscriptions as checked against Ulrichs. Any comments good or bad will be very much appreciated. ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 3, No. 86 ****** END OF FILE ******