ACQNET v4n014 (February 27, 1994) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acqnet-v4n014 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 4, No. 14, February 27, 1994 ========================================= (1) FROM: Kathy Mitchell SUBJECT: Foreign vendors (22 lines) (2) FROM: Nancy Slight-Gibney SUBJECT: Document delivery (12 lines) (3) FROM: Carol Hawks SUBJECT: _LAPT_ Contents, 18:1 (1994) (178 lines) (1)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Kathy Mitchell (William Jewell College) Subject: Foreign acquisitions Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 13:44:32 -0500 We are a small college library with no acquisitions librarian (I'm the cataloger). We're having some difficulties identifying and acquiring European and Central/South American books for our Modern Languages Department. I would like some help in finding good sources (publishers and/or jobbers) for new titles coming out of these areas for our faculty to peruse. Our German Professor has some good sources already, so I am mostly interested in sources for French (including French Canadian) and Spanish titles. I would also like some advice on the best (preferably the least expensive) way for a small library to acquire foreign titles. Any experiences in this regard would help us immensely. For instance, is it easier/cheaper to go with a jobber or directly through the publisher? Thanks in advance for any and all help you can give. Please reply to me directly, as I don't regularly read ACQNET. (2)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Nancy Slight-Gibney (University of Oregon) Subject: Commercial Document Delivery Date: February 26, 1994 The University of Oregon Library System is considering the feasibility and cost/benefit of cancelling little used journals and using the funds to subsidize or partly subsidize commercial document delivery to our patrons. I would be very interested in talking to people at institutions who have done this. I would also be interested in general opinions on the subject. Thanks for your help. (3)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Carol Hawks (Ohio State Univ.) Subject: _LAPT_ v. 18, no. 1 -- Contents Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 12:28:07 -0500 _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_ Contents Volume 18, Number 1 Pre-publication Information Issue Expected on 2-18-94 Editorial Carol Pitts Hawks and Marcia Pankake. Milestones. 1994 Research Award Announcement. 1992 LAPT Research Award Anna H. Perrault. The Shrinking National Collection: a Study of the Effect of the Diversion of Funds from Monographs to Serials on the Monograph Collections of Research Libraries. A precipitous rise in the price of library materials, especially serials; an increase in worldwide publication output; and a decline in the funding base of research libraries have resulted in a drastic erosion of the purchasing power of research libraries. This erosion of purchasing power has in turn directly resulted in a reduction of the number of nonserial printed materials acquired by academic research libraries in the United States in the latter half of the 1980s. This study is a comparison of the number of nonserial imprints acquired by the 72 Association of Research Libraries members whose bibliographic records for the imprint years 1985 to 1989 are included in the 1991 edition of the OCLC/AMIGOS Collection Analysis CD-ROM database. The results of the study confirm that there was a decline in the holdings of the 72 libraries from 1985 to 1989 by language and subject groupings. This led to a greater concentration on a core of materials by the 72 libraries. Manuscripts Adrian W. Alexander. Periodical Prices, 1991-1993. Annual comparative periodical price study. The price review compares serial prices and identifies price changes, patterns, and trends over the most recent three- year period. Special Australian Section: Supplier Performance & Evaluation Jerelynn E. Brown. The Quest for Quality: Evaluating Supplier Performance: Papers from Australian Seminars. Elisabeth G. Dolby. Quest for Quality: Quality Aspects of Supplier Evaluation. The paper relates assessment of the quality of suppliers to the basic tasks of acquisitions. Checklists are provided to assist the reader to relate supplier services to the needs of the library. Anita Crotty. Why Bother With Evaluation? This paper puts supplier evaluation into the context of the changing environment in which library acquisitions are carried out. A number of "forces of change" are identified, and the relevance of supplier evaluation to these forces is reinforced throughout the article. Some practical suggestions for making time for evaluation and making evaluation work for your institution conclude the article. Graham Black. Why Do Evaluation? This paper examines why library staff involved in the acquisitions process undertake vendor surveys and what they hope to get out of them. Briefly addressed are personal and professional issues involved in the survey process, as well as the resulting personal and organizational benefits. Ross J. Todd. The Collection of Library Statistics for Supplier Evaluation: A User-Friendly Guide. In the light of recent economic constraints and a rapidly changing, if not volatile, publishing industry, supplier evaluation is a critical component of library collection development and management. The paper presents a number of guiding principles considered important in the collection of library statistics with a view to supplier evaluation. It identifies approaches to descriptive statistics; presents some helpful guidelines for decision making based on descriptive statistics; and discusses some issues relating to selecting a sample and establishing an appropriate sample size. Janet L. Gordon. Measuring Supplier Performance. This paper examines the advantages and disadvantages of conducting supplier evaluations, particularly manual evaluations. It considers sample size, the impact of variables, and what to do with the results. Phil Roberts. How To Evaluate Suppliers in a Manual System. Supplier evaluation in a manual system is necessarily limited but emphasizes the usual questions of reliability, speed of supply and cost. Simple data collection formats for these three are suggested, with guidelines on interpretation and use of the data, and acknowledgement of some pitfalls of analysis. Philip G. Kent. How To Evaluate Suppliers With an Automated System. Vendor evaluation data in online and offline format such as reports varies according to your system. The volume of data is also a key determinant. Advantages and disadvantages of using data obtained from automated systems are compared with those from manual surveys. The paper concludes that statistical data should not be the only input to ongoing supplier evaluation. Philip G. Kent. How To Evaluate Serials Suppliers. Price and service are two considerations in evaluating serials suppliers. Pricing aspects include establishing a business relationship with your supplier, knowing their pricing policy for your library, negotiating your service charge and dealing with exchange rates and invoicing currencies. A checklist of service criteria is offered. The experience of the CSIRO Library Network in evaluating serials suppliers is explained. Multiple vendor policies are examined, and advice on changing suppliers is provided. Elisabeth G. Dolby. Closing the Circle: The Final Stages of the Evaluation of Library Suppliers. This paper discusses interpretation of raw results and the advantages of preparing a formal report. Methods of using the report to improve relations with suppliers and raise the profile and performance of the acquisitions department are outlined. ALA Annual 1993 -- Conference Reports Christa Easton Reinke. Book Publishing 101: From Writer to Reader": An ALCTS Preconference. Lynne C. Branche Brown. Document Delivery: Where Collection Development and ILL Meet : an RASD Collection Development and Evaluation Section Program Lynne C. Branche Brown. Let's Negotiate: a Report of the ALCTS Acquisitions Librarians/Vendors of Library Materials Discussion Group Christian Boissonnas. Copyright: the TRLN Document "University Policy Regarding Faculty Publications in Scientific and Technical Scholarly Journals": a Report of the ACRL Journal Prices in Academic Libraries Discussion Group Thomas E. Nisonger. Acquiring and Accessing Electronic Information: Report of a Program by the ALCTS Acquisitions Section Cynthia Crooker. Highlights of the ALCTS Scholarly Communications Committee/LAMA Program: "Academic Libraries At Risk: Scholarly Communication and the Academic Library." Marsha Hamilton. ALCTS Preorder/Precatalog Search Discussion Group. Meta Nissley. Electronic Publishing: Implications for Libraries & Librarians. Part I: Two Views -- The Commercial STM Publisher and The Library Educator: A Report of the ALCTS Electronic Publishing Discussion Group. Trisha L. Davis. Serials Claims: Responsibilities, Responses, & Trade-Offs: A Program Sponsored by the ALCTS Serials Section Acquisitions Committee. ALA Annual 1993 -- ALCTS Automated Acquisitions Discussion Group -- EDI and Acquisitions: The Future Is Now! Julia A. Gammon. EDI and Acquisitions: The Future is Now!: An Introduction. Wilbert Harri. Implementing Electronic Data Interchange in the Library Acquisitions Environment. Betty Landesman. EDI Standards for Acquisitions: They're (Just About) He-ere... Basil W. Sozansky. NOTIS, Faxon and University of Minnesota Libraries' Electronic Data Interchange Pilot Project for Claims. Review Section Susan Davis. Vendor Evaluation and Acquisitions Budgets. Gail Munde. Bowker's Complete Video Directory 1993 and The Video Source Book. Michael Cramer. Collection Management for the 1990s. Forrest E. Link. Managing Acquisitions and Vendor Relations: A How-To-Do-It Manual. Nancy Gibbs. Managing Acquisitions and Vendor Relations: A How-To-Do-It Manual. Minna C. Saxe. Guidelines for Handling Library Orders for Serials and Periodicals. Revised Edition. Judy L. Johnson. Guide to Preservation in Acquisition Processing. ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 4, No. 14 ****** END OF FILE ******