ACQNET v7n043 (December 9, 1997) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acqnet-v7n043 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 7, No. 43 , December 9, 1997 ========================================= (1) FROM: R. Glazier SUBJECT: Printing runs for books (14 lines) (2) FROM: J. Celli SUBJECT: CIP response to "How necessary is CIP?" (45 lines) (3) FROM: W. Gim SUBJECT: How necessary is CIP? - personal viewpoint (23 lines) (4) FROM: K. Cargille SUBJECT: Iraqui Embargoes (95 lines) (5) FROM: M. Whipple SUBJECT: Acquisitions Automation (28 lines) (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 13:52:49 -0600 From: Rhonda Glazier (U. of Missouri - Columbia) Subject: Printing runs for books A professor called me and asked if there was a way to find the publication run for a specific title. He is not looking for historical information. He wants current titles. I have been able to locate sales information - but not actually the number published. Does anyone out there know of a source that gives that type of information? Please send any ideas - or information direct. My e-mail address is elrhonda@showme.missouri.edu Thanks, Rhonda Glazier Ellis Library University of Missouri-Columbia (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 17:34:18 -0500 From: Wendy Hope Riedel (Library of Congress) Subject: CIP response to ACQNET 7:40 Item 3 John Celli, Chief, Cataloging in Publication Office, Library of Congress asked me to post the following response to Mr. Peranteau's item in ACQNET 7:40. Wendy Riedel Voice: 202-707-6089 Senior Automation Planning Specialist Automation Planning & Liaison Office Fax: 202-707-2756 Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540-4101 INTERNET: wrie@loc.gov The mission of the Cataloging in Publication program is to reduce cost and save resources for libraries so they can redirect savings to other ends such as purchasing more books for their collections. When a book has CIP data in it, it comes to the library precataloged--the name authority work, subject analysis, LC classification, the descriptive cataloging, etc. is all done. This bibliographic record can be readily transferred to their catalog and the book made available to the public. Many libraries have automated systems and can also download these records (at a cost) from a vendor as LC distributes these records in machine-readable form at the same time the catalog record is sent to the publisher to be printed in the book. Most of the nation's 115,000 libraries, however, do not have automated systems. Most do not have professional librarians. When CIP data is provided to the publisher, it is provided with the explicit understanding that it will be printed in the book. (An exception to this are multinationals who print UK CIP data, German CIP data, etc. and who have also obtained LC CIP data. LC's record does not have to be printed if one of the other records are printed.) Publishers who do not have sufficient time to obtain CIP data to print it in the book, should obtain a Library of Congress card number (see http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pcn/pcn001.html). A card number can be obtained in a shorter period of time and without submitting a full galley or manuscript which is a requirement of the CIP program. In this instance, libraries do not have the advantage of CIP data in the book but they have the control number for the record that will be created after the book is published. The LCCN will enable libraries who are online to search the title and obtain cataloging from another library or bibliographic utility. The LCCN assists the nonautomated library in a similar way though in this instance the card number is used to order the cataloging from a vendor. Book stores and others dealing with books use the LCCN as a fast and efficient search access point. (3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:11:29 +0800 (SST) From: Wee Joo Gim (Nat'l Univ. of Singapore) Subject: Re: How necessary is CIP? (ACQNET 7:40) Some personal viewpoints on item (3) "How necessary is CIP" CIP printed at the verso of t.p. is useful for some libraries which do not have the resources to copy catalogue Marc records easily or which still rely on manual system in their cataloguing, especially when there is also lack of manpower to do the nitty-gritty cataloguing. Often, to expedite the cataloging work, prior to getting the LC Marc record (after some searches), if there is a CIP record (whether British or US Marc), I would recommend the inputter to just copy from the available CIP print and release the book as quickly as possible rather to retain the book indefinitely, waiting for the final LC Marc record to be copy catalogued. I am thinking more of the needs of libraries in some developing countries where electronic means is still a dream. Joo-Gim Wee Deputy Librarian (Technical Services) National University of Singapore (4)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 13:17:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Karen Cargille (UCSD) Subject: Iraqui Embargoes ______________________________ Forward Header ___________________________ Subject: embargoes Author: Ronnie Coates at UCSDLIBRARY Date: 12/5/97 8:30 AM Karen, This email is about the prohibition of purchase Iraqui books. I don't think it applies to us on this campus, but perhaps you might want to forward it to others in the UC--if you thing it's applicable. Ronnie ______________________________ Forward Header ____________________________ Subject: embargoes Author: rld@pobox.upenn.edu at @UCSD Date: 12/4/97 4:23 PM Dear friends, I thought it might be helpful, in the light of the discussion on this topic at our meetings in San Francisco, if I provided the text of the decision I received from R. Richard Newcomb, Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of the Treasury, when I asked if I could safely pay an Iraqi book dealer for a debt incurred before the Gulf crisis. The text is attached below. Please note that my original query was dated 9/25/96, and the reply I received was dated 1/6/97! I sent along with my letter a copy of al-Muthanna's letter in Arabic, with a very literal translation to English. Bibliographers, take particular note of the fourth paragraph. --Robin Roberta L. Dougherty Middle East Bibliographer & Head, Middle East Technical Services University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 telephone: (215) 898-3795 fax: (215) 898-0559 e-mail: rld@pobox.upenn.edu URL: http://pobox.upenn.edu/~rld [letterhead] Department of the Treasury Washington, D.C. [date stamp] Jan 6 1997 FAC No. 153404 Dear Ms. Dougherty: This responds to your letter of September 25, 1996, requesting an opinion whether the University of Pennsylvania may discharge a debt incurred prior to August 2, 1990, to the al-Muthanna Bookstore in Baghdad. You note that the owner of the bookstore has established an office in Amman, Jordan where he can receive payments and orders. This transaction is governed by the Iraqi Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 575 (the "Regulations"). Section 575.201 of the Regulations requires that any property in the possession or control of a U.S. person in which the Government of Iraq has an interest be placed in a blocked account in a U.S. financial institution in the United States. If this provision were applicable, you would not be able to forward payment to the bookstore or its owner; however, based on the information you have provided it does not appear that either are entities of the Government of Iraq. Section 575.210 includes a prohibition against U.S. persons directly or indirectly transferring funds to a person in Iraq. Pursuant to this provision, you may not send funds to an individual or business entity in Iraq, including the bookstore or its owner. You may remit payment to an account in a third country owned by a person in Iraq, provided that provision is made to avoid the retransfer of funds into Iraq. This can be accomplished by obtaining a written undertaking from the bookstore owner not to transfer the funds into Iraq. You should note that section 575.204 prohibits the unlicensed importation of Iraqi-origin goods into the United States. Accordingly, you may not order Iraqi-origin publications even from a location outside Iraq without first obtaining a license from this office. Please feel free to contact me (202/622-2510) or Susan Klavens Hutner of the Chief Counsel's Office (202/622-2410) if you wish to discuss this matter in greater detail. Sincerely, [signed] R. Richard Newcomb Director Office of Foreign Assets Control (5)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 15:02:56 -0800 From: Marcia Whipple Subject: Acquisitions automation We are between a rock and an hard place here at this naval research and development center. Acquisitions is almost completely paper-based. We do have an account with one vendor with whom we can do online ordering, and the center has an electronic ordering system that is scheduled to disappear and be replaced (by what??). Also the Navy is implementing a new automated financial system. All this is to be ready in March ... We have been using the 3x5 order forms to create various files. The Chief Librarian refuses to order anymore order-slips. We keep handwritten logs and files. Some of the logs must be kept to satisfy the center's requirements, such as tracking the numbers of the stubs for credit card purchases, tracking the BPA orders for annual audits, etc. ... We have selected Virtua by VTLS to be our new IOLS, but it is not ready. So we are going to VTLS as a stopgap. However, the acquisition subsystem is DOS-based and our environment is mandated to be Windows based. The subsystem will not be of help to us. So we wait until summer (?) when Virtua becomes available. Are any of you in this predicament? Have you created some home-grown system that helps? Are you willing to share, especially if you are a government library? What do you suggest as stop-gap measures? Thank you kindly Marcia Whipple San Diego, CA whipple@spawar.navy.mil ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 7, No. 43 ****** END OF FILE ******