ACQNET v8n004 (January 26, 1998) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/serials/acqnet/acqnet-v8n004.txt ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 8, No. 4, January 26, 1998 ======================================== (1) FROM: L. Garza SUBJECT: Obtaining Music materials (26 lines) (2) FROM: J.G. Wee SUBJECT: Claims Outstanding for Book Orders (52 lines) (3) FROM: J.G. Wee SUBJECT: Looking for: _When Mandela Goes_ (15 lines) (4) FROM: A. Finnegan SUBJECT: RE: PromptCat (26 lines) (5) FROM: V. Scheschy SUBJECT: Disallowing indexing of your Web site (34 lines) (6) FROM: L. German SUBJECT: Affixing Labels (23 lines) (7) FROM: P. Stevens SUBJECT: RE: Credit cards (32 lines) (8) FROM: P. Stevens SUBJECT: RE: Amazon.com (26 lines) (1)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 14:22:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Lucy Garza (Cal Tech) Subject: Re: Obtaining Music Materials [Ed. note: Try posting this on a music library list also. There are some ACQNET postings from a few years back that might also be helpful - look at the back issues on AcqWeb, esp. 2.8.5; 2.11.3; 2.11.4; 2.58.5; 2.58.6; 2.60.5] Currently our vendor for music materials in Theodore Front, but unfortunately they have not been very responsive to our requests. Our library acquisitions would like names and phone numbers of other vendors we can place orders through. We are interested in acquiring all types of music, from classical to rock for scores, CD's, and videos. Your assistance is greatly appreciated." Thank you! Lucy Garza California State Polytechnic University Library Bibliographic Access Services Bldg.15, Rm.505 3801 W. Temple Ave. Pomona, CA 91768 (909) 869-4402 FAX: (909) 869-3103 (2)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:36:34 +0800 (SST) From: Joo-Gim Wee (National U. of Singapore) Subject: Claims Outstanding for Book Orders [Ed. note: Any time you have a question related to your acquisitions automated system, try posting to the list for that system. The Innopac Users Group, for example, has a very active list where you can find help] I believe Acqnet-L members could help me. We are using INNOPAC and we have dutifully set the claim cycle according to different types of orders as well vendors we deal with. Our frustration is that often, many of the orders we have placed turned out to be NYP from reports of vendors and we have to go and re-set the claim again (i.e. to postpone claims). Sometimes reports received from vendors don't even give a clue of the expected date of publication and hence we have to keep on sending the claims and getting the indefinite answer about delay in publication. We were often deluded by publishers' new titles catalogs or announcements which often carry full imprint info inclusive the year of publication. We find it very time consuming to initiate the claims, print the claims notices, send and then record the replies received and re-set the new cycle if publisher delayed the publication. Do you feel the same? How do your handle claiming on time and yet not bogged down by the paperwork? Do you assign your staff (professional or supporting staff?) to do the claims *regularly*? How regular do you run your claim programmes if you do *regularly*? Our staff (the professional level) are "crying" because of the amount of paperwork each time the claims are churned out. The supporting staff who update the claim status reports are also "crying" because many are the NYP cases. I am thinking of cancelling the orders once it is NYP reply. But then my fellow colleagues are of the view that we may not be aware of the publications once they are published if we don't register in the system and they also feel that it is a waste of time to re-order if we opt for the cancellation and re-order method. But I feel that if we retain them in the system, we have to keep on reviewing and claiming and updating the reports so often, which is also time consuming. Any advice or tips I could learn from acquisitions librarians will be very much appreciated. Joo-Gim Wee Deputy Librarian (Technical Services) National University of Singapore Note: This is about claims for book orders and not serials subscriptions claims. (3)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:34:52 +0800 (SST) From: Joo-Gim Wee (National U. of Singapore) Subject: Help to trace a title Has anyone known of a publication by the title _When Mandela Goes?_ If you do, kindly let me know the bibliographic details, imprint and price please. We have been asked to order but could not trace the details. TIA. Joo-Gim Wee Deputy Librarian (Technical Services) National University of Singapore (4)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:50:04 -0800 (PST) From: Anne Finnegan (UC-Irvine) Subject: RE: PromptCat [Ed. note: Actually, people are asking about PromptCat frequently. Please check the ACQNET index: recent postings include: 6.29.2; 7.8.7; and 7.39.4. Unfortunately, we are not getting replies from people using PromptCat. Please consider posting to ACQNET any experiences you are having - Thanks] It has been a while since there has been a discussion of PromptCat on this list and I wonder if anyone would be willing to share their library's experiences - good or bad - with this service. We are a medium/large academic library with an integrated III (Innopac) system and will soon start using PromptCat for our orders to Yankee Book Peddler. I am particularly interested in evaluations from acquisitions staff. You may reply to me off-list, if you prefer. I have some specific questions for those willing to share their experiences in depth. Anne Finnegan e-mail: alfinneg@uci.edu Acquisitions Department phone: 714-824-7316 University of California Library fax: 714-824-2059 Irvine, CA 92623-9556 http://www.lib.uci.edu (5)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:15:38 -0800 (PST) From: Virginia Scheschy (Univ. of NV-Reno) Subject: Disallowing indexing of your Web site [Ed. note: One of our colleagues has had problems with this very situation. Do NOT put internal "blacklists" of publishers on your public web page! You may find yourself dealing with legal threats from publishers.] At an ALA midwinter meeting dealing with Acquisitions Dept. Web sites, I was asked to post information to ACQNET on the following: If you have a departmental Web site, it will likely be indexed by Alta Vista and a number of the other indexing services out there. You may have data that you don't wish to share with the rest of the world relating to internal minutes, procedures, etc. Though not a completely fool-proof method, there is an answer for those of you who want to be ignored by the major indexing services, but would still like to provide access to people outside your IP address range who have your URL. Add a file called robots.txt to the directory that you do not wish to have indexed. The text of the file is: User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /internal/ Though indexers are not obligated to follow your wishes and ignore your site, most of them will do so. Virginia M. Scheschy * Director of Technical Services * E-mail: scheschy@unr.edu Getchell Library/322 * Phone: (702) 784-6500, x227 University of Nevada, Reno * Fax: (702) 784-1751 Reno, NV 89557-0044 * (6)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:48:56 -0500 (EST) From: Lisa German (Univ. of Ill) Subject: Call Number Labels [Ed. Note: I suggest Lisa also post this to AUTOCAT] To affix call number labels to books, we have been using Quietwriter typewriters with a Se-Lin labelers for about ten years. These typewriters are no longer being made. These labels are ironed on to the spines. I'm interested in knowing; 1) opinions about the merits of ironed-on labels vs. stick-on labels and; 2) if you use an automatic label program when cataloging. I'm trying to get on top of this before the typewriters break down and we have a big problem! We mark about 150,000 items per year. Thanks! Lisa German phone: 217/244-2071 Acting Head of Acquisitions lgerman@uiuc.edu University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign 1408 W. Gregory Dr. Urbana, IL 61801 (7)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 07:58:05 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Stevens (Univ. of WA) Subject: RE: Credit cards We've done a lot of ordering over the past six months directly to OP dealers and others over the Net, without using a credit card (since our university folks haven't okayed any for university staff). The e-mail messages we use have gotten us the books we want without request for prepayment 99.9% of the time. Here's the stock message I use: This library would like to order one copy of the title above, as offered in the ____________ database. Please ship and bill to the address below, citing our purchase order number _______ at your price of $ ___ plus shipping. Please include your tax identification number on the invoice. Acquisitions Division University of Washington Libraries Campus Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195-2900 U.S.A. Thanks in advance! Peter H. Stevens Email:stevens@u.washington.edu Head, Acquisitions Division Phone: 206-543-1919 University of Washington Libraries Fax: 206-685-8782 Suzzallo Library Box 352900 170-B Seattle, WA 98195-2900 (8)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 08:55:52 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Stevens (Univ. of WA) Subject: RE: Amazon.com Even though Amazon.com is right here in Seattle, we don't use them for ordering though we do make a lot of use of their database for searching purposes. The Amazon.com database is based on the Baker & Taylor database, supposedly, so it reflects what B&T has learned in ordering thousands of titles and is much more useful than the _Books In Print_ that is available on our campus network. We don't use Amazon.com for ordering because we can get a much better deal from our regular book vendors. The Internet book dealers charge much more for shipping than we normally pay, since we normally get free shipping from our major suppliers. Much of Amazon.com's speed of supply is due to its heavy reliance on Ingram. Since we also use Ingram, we get very fast turnaround time and better discounts. For those all-important rush orders, we rely in large part on our local University Book Store, whose inventory we can search on the campus network and whose title inventory is one of the largest in the U.S. We receive our books from them via campus mail. Peter Stevens Head, Acquisitions Division University of Washington Libraries ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol.8, No.4 ****** END OF FILE ******