ACQNET v3n087 (November 14, 1993) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acqnet-v3n087 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 3, No. 87, November 14, 1993 ========================================= (1) FROM: Marcie Kingsley SUBJECT: ARL publications (30 lines) (2) FROM: Anda Purens SUBJECT: Publishers' catalogs in electronic form (15 lines) (3) FROM: Donna Lively SUBJECT: _El Croquis_ (29 lines) (4) FROM: Rebecca Drummond SUBJECT: Out-of-print art dealers (13 lines) (5) FROM: Emily Hutton SUBJECT: CD-ROM purchasing (12 lines) (6) FROM: George T. Crafts SUBJECT: E-mail & French vendors (19 lines) (7) FROM: Mike Weber SUBJECT: Music scores to give (22 lines) (1)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Marcie Kingsley (Western Michigan University) Subject: ARL publications Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 16:43:12 -0500 Ordering ARL publications: One of the things I try to avoid like the plague is unnecessary pre-payments for monographs -- along with any unnecessary "direct" orders. I guess I have not fully convinced my staff because it turned out we recently pre-paid $250 to the Association of Research Libraries for some material that has never been received. When a staff member called to claim the titles (including one on diskette -- the cumulative _Research Library Statistics_ for $150), she was told by ARL that the material had been shipped to us by postal service Library Rate. There was no way to trace it. If we wanted the material we would have to re-order and re-pay (although we would get a discount). First, colleagues, is it an acceptable publisher practice to send $250 worth of material including a $150 rate uninsured and untraceable? Nearly all our monographs come UPS, so they can be traced and we can always find out who signed for anything that has gone astray -- or we have them delivered directly into our department, arriving by truck from our wonderful vendor here in Michigan. I guess we're not used to this flippant treatment of material. Second question: is the disinterest of ARL in replacing the material the best we can expect of a library-oriented organization? In contrast to their policy, I once had to call the American Mathematical Society about replacing a CD-ROM backfile disk that had cost over $2000 and had gotten lost/strayed/stolen here on campus. AMS replaced it free even though they and we could verify that AMS had gotten it here safely the first time. I know the real answer is to order ARL titles from a vendor (one of my staff is now convinced), but I am not sure whether we can get titles in electronic form that way. Have others had better experience with ARL? (2)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Anda Purens (University of Melbourne) Subject: Publishers' catalogs on Internet Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 12:25:10 -0500 I have just come across an announcement in a trade journal (_Publishers' Weekly_, 9/27, p. 12) that a company, Inforonics, has developed a service by which publishers can have their complete sales catalogs published on the Internet. Any kind of customized search information is available, as well as the function for ordering books. Does anybody know yet of any publishers that can be accessed this way? I do have already the Acqnet 2.54.8 posting on Telnet access to one University Press. This means of access would open a totally new avenue for communicating with publishers databases and does bear investigation. (3)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Donna Lively (Univ. of Texas at Arlington) Subject: Spanish periodicals Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 11:34:50 -0500 In reading Judy Falzon's recent inquiry regarding vendors of Spanish periodicals, I realized that I have an inquiry of my own. We have been trying, unsuccessfully so far, to establish a subscription for a Spanish architecture periodical called _El Croquis_. We placed the subscription in March 1993 through Harrassowitz to start with number 56. Months passed. We received nothing. In September, our architecture librarian contacted William Stout and discovered that not only did Stout have no. 56 but also no. 57. We called Harrassowitz and were told that they just that week received an invoice from the Spanish publisher for the subscription submitted in March. We have been waiting since and still no number 57, meanwhile our architecture librarian has discovered that Stout not only has no. 57 but also now no. 58. Stout will only sell issues of _El Croquis_ one at a time (for a price much higher than the price in pesetas) not on a subscription or standing order basis. I am wondering if the expense and trouble of obtaining this periodical is the reason for the excessive mark-up. I am also wondering if going direct will prove as frustrating as going through a vendor has done and I am wondering if the only alternative is paying someone like Stout or, perhaps, Puvill an excessive amount to go through the frustration for us. Does anyone out there have any insight on this? (4)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Rebecca C. Drummond (Georgia State Univ.) Subject: O.P. Art Books Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 11:02:49 -0400 I have recently had a professor ask that we search for some out-of-print art books. In recent years our budget has not been adequate enough to justify searching for O.P. materials. Therefore, our out-of-print dealer list is outdated. Has any one on the list had experience with out-of-print dealers? I would appreciate any names you could furnish and it would be great if the dealer specializes in art. These are mostly domestic imprints, but it would also be useful to learn of foreign dealers for future reference. (5)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Emily Hutton (Colgate University) Subject: inquiry re: CDROM vendors Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 18:09:25 -0400 I am trying to standardize my methods of acquiring and paying for the various CD-ROM subscriptions under my control. I am interested in learning which vendors other libraries use to acquire CD-ROMs. Any information about quality of service, ease of billing, discount rates etc would be much appreciated. I am especially interested in any experience anyone has had with UPDATA in California. Thanks in advance for your assistance. (6)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: George T. Crafts (University of Virginia) Subject: E-mail and French vendors Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 09:36:05 -0500 Connie Kelley and I would like to hear from any of you who are communicating with vendors located in France via electronic mail. Which vendor do you use? Do you often communicate with them through e-mail? How successful is the process? We are finding it useful to communicate with other European vendors via the Internet, but our French dealer does not have electronic mail. We would also like to hear from anyone who is communicating with their French vendor via Minitel. Was it difficult to get a Minitel account for you? It is cost-effective for you and your vendor to communicate in this way? Thanks for sharing your experiences. (7)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Mike Weber Subject: Music scores to give Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 16:03:01 -0500 Does anyone knows where we can find a good home for some music scores? We no longer need our collection, so we are discarding them. The collection consists of about 700 volumes. Most of them are Kalmus Study Scores. All are nicely bound. The collection covers arrangements by a variety of composers. The following is a partial of the composers that are cover. Bach 141 volumes Beethoven 83 volumes Brahms 62 volumes Haydn 34 volumes Mozart 121 volumes Schubert 33 volumes Please contact me if you are interested in any of the collection or if you know of an institution that could us them. ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 3, No. 87 ****** END OF FILE ******