ACQNET v7n013 (March 19, 1997) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acqnet-v7n013.txt ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 7, No. 13, March 19, 1997 ======================================== (1) FROM: Steve Johnson SUBJECT: Gift and exchange pages on the Web (56 lines) (2) FROM: Barbara Agosin SUBJECT: Model RFPs and contracts for periodical vendors (14 lines) (3) FROM: Dennis Van Arsdale SUBJECT: Re: Community college acquisitions program (44 lines) (4) FROM: Peter Stevens and Donna LaFollette (two messages) SUBJECT: Amazon.com Internet bookstore (47 lines) (5) FROM: Barbara Weir SUBJECT: Alerting services (42 lines) (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:39:03 -0400 From: Steve Johnson (Clemson U.) Subject: gift & exchange pages on the Web Dear members of GIFTEX-L and ACQNET: I recently created some Web pages for gifts and exchanges. The pages are intended as a worldwide resource for librarians involved in this branch of librarianship. They were unveiled at the Gift and Exchange Discussion Group at the ALA Midwinter Convention in Washington (as a side note: my car, which was parked on the street 2 blocks from the meeting site, was stolen during the meeting; expressions of sympathy would be much appreciated). I had intended to finish the pages before I departed on a 2-week trip, but find myself faced with leaving tomorrow and the pages are not yet complete. If you are interested in giving me feedback, I am eager to hear your suggestions. Although some of the links do not lead anywhere, you can still see what my intentions were. The Web address is: http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~johnsos/G&E/GEHome.html SOME NOTES ON THE PAGES 1. 2 primary pages were created - a short & E-Z version and a lengthier one, called "Introduction." This seemed to be the best way to do it, figuring there will be 2 groups of users, those who already work with gifts and exchanges and those who don't know much about it. Does this approach make sense? 2. GIFTEX-L: For this page (which you can't see yet) I copied some of the introductory information from the message sent to those joining GIFTEX-L. I haven't really thought out how an archive would work and if it would be a good idea or not. Comments? 3. Personal resource links - these would be names of individuals knowledgeable about gifts and exchanges. Each entry would include the following information: NAME TITLE NAME OF INSTITUTION AREAS OF EXPERTISE WORK PHONE EMAIL LINK I will need to create a form for people to send me this information. Please give me your feedback and I'll respond when I return from the trip. NOTE: This message is being crossposted to GIFTEX-L and ACQNET. Sincerely, Steve Johnson ***************** Steve Johnson Acquisitions Unit R. M. Cooper Library Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-3001 tel. (803) 656-5175 fax. (803) 656-7156 ***************** (2) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:59:24 +0100 From: Barbara Agosin (Int'l Labour Office) Subject: Model RFPs and Contracts for Periodicals Vendors I have been searching for model RFPs and contracts for the provision of periodicals but without much success. Does anyone have a model or an actual RPF and/or contract that they would be willing to share? Please respond to me directly. Many thanks for your help. Barbara Agosin Acting Collection Development Librarian International Labour Office 1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland agosin@ilo.org (3) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 08:25:05 -0600 From: Dennis VanArsdale (Westark Comm. Coll.) Subject: Re: ACQNET 7:12: acquisitions program (Community Colleges) I would be interested also. The only solution I have found for handling bookkeeping AND bibliographic/ordering information AND information on requestors/divisions/departments has been to use a commercial database program [in my case, filePro] to create my own system. Even then, since the campus went to new purchasing software, I can only do some of what I want. I wonder if we have enough impact to make some recommendations for acquisitions modules to vendors, and have them actually try to incorporate some recommended functions. At least we could try (and I already have, not that I've seen any results yet). I have a "wish list" for functions in an acquisitions module; would anyone like to endorse, add, change these?: 1. allows comments by people on subject matter, classes assigning this material, etc. Better if faculty can be authorized to browse and add comments themselves. 2. searchable by multiple faculty members and library staff members recommending purchase, with a priority (1, 2, 3 or something) for each person (so we can show how much was requested by and purchased for a certain person). Better if faculty can add their own names to endorse a purchase. This data should be _retained_ for the long term (at least several years). 3. searchable by multiple divisions and departments that the title is relevant for, with customizable codes for specific programs as they are added to the curriculum. Accreditation committees often require us to give a number of items purchased, usually during the last three fiscal years, for a given division or department. This function is invaluable for that! This data should be _retained_ at least 3 to 5 years, to match with pricing. 4. independent bookkeeping so amounts of money can be matched to divisions and departments (again, for accreditation committees). This data, at least to work with divisions/departments, should be _retained_ at least 3 to 5 years. 5. track donations so we can show what was bought with whose money in memory of whomever [pardon my grammar!] and be fully searchable, of course. We also need bookkeeping interfacing. 6. [wish unfulfilled by my own system] be fully compatible with data from OCLC and BIP+, to avoid manual transcription 7. [wish unfulfilled by my own system] be fully compatible with passing data back and forth to campus purchasing software. While the last one will depend on the local software, the others should be possible, if vendors listen. Comments? ################################################### Dennis G. Van Arsdale, Technical Services Librarian Boreham Library, Westark Community College********* (4) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 07:46:42 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Stevens (Univ. of WA) Subject: Amazon.com internet bookstore (1 of 2 responses) Since Amazom.com is a Seattle enterprise (employing a number of librarians who used to work here), I checked with them about a year ago to see if they accepted library orders. At that time, they did not. Since then, I've noticed that I can get better discount deals and at least as good speed of supply from my usual vendors as what I see offered by Amazon.com so my interest in ordering from them as a library is nil. They do offer a great bibliographic database, however. For verifying U.S. books, it's far better than any Bowker/Reed service. Peter Stevens, Acquisitions Division University of Washington Libraries Seattle, WA 98195-2900 ------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:47:45 -0800 (PST) From: Donna LaFollette (Cal State-Northridge) Subject: Using Amazon.com (2 of 2 responses) We have been using Amazon.com for some orders for approximately six months now. I am very pleased with their service, both via internet and telephone. Their customer service people are the nicest and sharpest I have met with in my 8 years here. The major drawback is that we cannot use Amazon.com for titles we need expeditiously. When we pay a proforma invoice (provided by Amazon.com), they ship all the books on an invoice together. That means that if it takes them 2 months to acquire one of the titles on an invoice, you won't see ANY of the books on that invoice for those 2 months. However, even though their policy states one shipment will be made, they have frequently shipped all but one title, when that remaining title appeared to be delayed from the publisher. Currently, they have filled 100% of the orders we have submitted to them. Surely Amazon.com will soon be able to accomodate libraries and accept institutional purchase orders. In the meantime, despite the lag time, we will use Amazon.com for some of our non-RUSH items -- especially those hard-to-find titles. Please feel free to contact me should you desire more details. Ciao! Donna LaFollette Monographic Ordering Supervisor Library/Acquisitions California State University Northridge (818) 677-2256 dlafollette@csun.edu (4) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:54:02 -0500 (EST) From: Barbara Weir (Swarthmore College) Subject: Alerting Services [This is being cross-posted to other lists; please excuse the duplication.] We are considering offering an alerting / document service like Reveal or ISI's Journal Tracker to our faculty as an alternative to purchasing some of the journals we now buy. What we want to do is set up a deposit account and allow faculty to order articles from the table of contents information that is sent to their email accounts. Before we get into this, we want to know who else has tried this or is doing it now. We'd like to know: 1. What service you are using? 2. Are you and your faculty satisfied with the service? Timeliness of receipt of articles? Availability of articles requested? 3. Do you allow faculty to place orders themselves, or do they request articles through an ILL or Doc. Delivery office in the library? 4. Do you offer this service to students? If so, are they allowed to place orders themselves, or do they go through ILL or Doc. Delivery? 5. How much money have you allotted for this service? Do you find that you have enough budgeted to cover expenses? 6. Are the faculty ordering more than, fewer than, or about the number of articles you expected them to order? 7. Do you find some people go crazy and order way too many expensive articles? 8. What problems or surprises have you had? I would be happy to summarize this for the list if others are interested. Thanks in advance to all who respond! Barbara Weir 610/328-8443 Acting Technical Services Librarian bweir1@swarthmore.edu McCabe Library Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA 19081 ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 7, No. 13 ****** END OF FILE ******