ACQNET v6n029 (September 30, 1996) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acqnet-v6n029 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 6, No. 29, September 30, 1996 =========================================== (1) FROM: Peter Stevens SUBJECT: OCLC Selection Service (14 lines) (2) FROM: Eleanor Cook SUBJECT: PromptCat Vendors (31 lines) (3) FROM: Jean Farrington SUBJECT: Acquisitions Staffing (40 lines) (4) FROM: Rebecca Green SUBJECT: Reviewing the monographic order processing workflow (26 lines) (5) FROM: Carole Bell SUBJECT: ALA OP discussion group report (73 lines) (1)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:44:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Stevens (Univ. of WA) Subject: OCLC Selection service I'm looking into OCLC's Selection service, formerly called PromptSelect, and would be interested in hearing from any acquisitions departments who are utilizing this option. I'll summarize what I learn and report back to ACQNET (if I hear from anyone). Peter Stevens, Head, Acquisitions Division, Univ. of Washington Libraries (2)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 From: Eleanor Cook (Appalachian State U.) Subject: PromptCat Vendors A number of people have asked: Who are the current PromptCat vendors? A number of the vendors want you to know who they are. Therefore, here is a list provided to ACQNET by OCLC recently. There was also a press release that was handed out at ALA this summer that gave the same information: The following vendors are either fully operational with PromptCat or plan to be very soon: Academic Book Center Ambassador Book Service Blackwell North America Majors Scientific Books Yankee Book Peddler The following vendors have signed agreements to become active in the future: Baker & Taylor Books Book Clearing House Brodart Books Casalini Libri Eastern Book Company Puvill Libros Rittenhouse Books This is posted to ACQNET for informational purposes and is not to be construed as an advertisement or endorsement. (3)-------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 16:01:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Jean W. Farrington (Univ. of Pa) Subject: Acquisitions staffing As we prepare to migrate to another automated system, we are looking closely at our staffing and our work flows. I am interested in knowing how other libraries are staffed for acquisitions work, particularly the monographic acquisitions functions (searching, ordering, receiving, payment, etc). I would be most appreciative of any information any of you would be willing to share with me on the following. You can send your replies to me at the e-mail address below. Thanks very much for your help! 1. How many professional and clerical staff work in acquisitions? If the department is a combined acq/serials dept., give the totals or provide estimates of how many staff deal with monographs. 2. What is the scope of the responsibility of the monograph acquisitions dept.? --Is it the only acq. dept for the library? --Are there exceptions to what kinds of materials are handled (special languages, etc.)? --Is cataloging upon receipt done by acquisitions staff? 3. Where is the accounting function (creating and processing invoice records, monitoring expenditures, etc.) for the materials acquisitions budget located? In the acquisitions dept. or elsewhere? 4. What is the size of the budget the acquisitions dept. is responsible for expending? (optional) Jean W. Farrington phone: (215) 898-7563 Head, Materials Acquisitions fax: (215) 573-9610 University of Pennsylvania Library jfarring@pobox.upenn.edu (4)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 10:48:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Rebecca Green (UC-Berkeley) Subject: Reviewing the monographic order processing workflow The Library at the University of California, Berkeley, is planning to review its entire monographic order processing workflow, with special emphasis on streamlining invoice payment procedures and monitoring approval expenditures. Our monographic budget is approximately 3 1/2 million dollars, and includes a number of approval plans of varying size and scope. We use Innopac for ordering and fund accounting. We would be interested in hearing about the experiences of other libraries which have gone through a similar review, especially if they used outside consultants as part of the review process. Please contact the U.C. Berkeley Library's Director of Financial Planning and Administration, Mike Rancer, if you would like to share your experiences with us. He can be reached at (510) 642-3773, or by email to mrancer@library.berkeley.edu. Rebecca Green Head, Order Division Tech Services Dept., The Library University of California, Berkeley rgreen@library.berkeley.edu (5)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 13:26:20 -0500 From: Carole R. Bell (Northwestern U.) Subject: ALA report, OP Discussion Group, Mid-winter & Annual 1996 This report has been cross-posted to Acqnet, Colldv-l and Serialst. 1. Report of the Annual Conference meeting of the Out-of-Print Discussion Group, New York City, July 7th, 1996: Business meeting: New Vice-Chair/Chair Elect: Narda Tafuri, University of Scranton. Chair for 1996/97: Bill Slater, Brigham Young University Topic: OP from a publisher's perspective Allen Schulz, VP for Manufacturing Technology, McGraw-Hill, discussed McGraw-Hill's new publishing process using electronic Docutech color processes to produce texts electronically. This innovation will allow books to be printed on demand and will eliminate the need for OP in the immediate future. He discussed the various printing methods currently available to publishers. New pricing structures for the new forms of printing are being reviewed and will hopefully be more reasonable in the near future. The name McGraw-Hill is using for this new philosophy of publishing is "Title Life Management". They will be developing partnerships with other companies like Kinko's, R.R. Donnelly, etc., to produce print on-demand titles and will also be able to sell titles electronically over the Internet or on CD. Susan Kudrak, Sales Manager for Greenwood Publishing Group, took a more traditional approach to our topic, explaining the 3 reasons for a title going OP are: legal problems, the author wants his rights back, the publisher never had the original rights and only has reprint rights for a limited amount of time and that time has expired. She discussed the definitions of OP, OSI and OS from the publisher's point of view and how a library might get a title. She also talked about partnerships with libraries to go about reprinting a title. Greenwood keeps a file of requests for reprinting and will proceed if they have enough titles requested. She also discussed the remaindering process and selling off stock to remainder dealers. They are also getting into the print on- demand arena. They identify titles at the beginning of the process and create shorter print runs and then will produce on-demand additional copies at a later time. Crysanne Lowe, Marketing Director for Academic Press, discussed the business model for print on-demand. She added information to Mr. Schulz's talk about the docutech process, but talked more about on-line publishing and serials projects that Academic is involved with for full text, web-based journals. 2. Report of the Annual Conference meeting of the Out-of-Print Discussion Group, San Antonio, January 21, 1996 Topic: Using firm order vendors for Out-of-Print Searching. Speakers: Knut Dorn, Harrassowitz; Charles Wittenberg, BNA; Miriam Lindsay, Lindsay & Howes. Summary: Each speaker discussed the methods used by their respective companies to provide an OP searching service to their customers. They discussed how a library can set up a profile to provide for automatic OP searching, eliminating the search and quote process. They stressed the need for librarians to respond quickly to quotes and talked about the methods each uses to search for OP titles, publishers, authors, book dealers. A discussion ensued about procedures for handling the workflow with the library to set up these profiles and plans. Carole Bell discussed a project she conducted to study methods of acquiring recent out-of-print titles using these 3 vendors. She felt that this method of acquiring recent OP titles has been very successful at her library. ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 6, No. 29 ****** END OF FILE ******