ACQNET v8n029 (September 20, 1998) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/serials/acqnet/acqnet-v8n029.txt ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 8, No. 29, September 20, 1998 ========================================== (1) FROM: B. Weir SUBJECT: Telephone books (33 lines) (2) FROM: D. Heady SUBJECT: Online order requests (30 lines) (3) FROM: N. Kraft SUBJECT: RE: Out-of-print databases (58 lines) (4) FROM: D. Marshall SUBJECT: RE: Out-of-print queries (17 lines) (5) FROM: G. McKiernan SUBJECT: Number/percentage of web-only E-journals (50 lines) (6) FROM: T. Hardin SUBJECT: Ingram's I-Page (19 lines) (7) FROM: J. Tousley-Escalante SUBJECT: Online _Economist_ (33 lines) (1)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 15:09:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Barbara Weir (Swarthmore) Subject: Telephone books We're wondering how others are dealing with telephone book collections. We have a collection of about 50 phone books from major U.S. cities in our reference department, many of which are outdated and should be replaced. Our questions are: 1. With so many web-based phone directories, are other libraries maintaining collections like this? 2. To complicate matters, our campus computing center oversees telecommunications and we are not able to buy any phone directories directly from the phone company, since computing 'owns' the number. The computing center is willing to order them for us and charge us, but it seems silly to go through computing to buy what is essentially a reference book. Have other libraries had this problem? 3. Are there vendors out there who supply phone books? Thanks, Barbara Weir ================================================================ Barbara Weir 610/328-8443 Acting Technical Services Librarian bweir1@swarthmore.edu McCabe Library Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA 19081 ================================================================= (2)-------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:30:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Donna Heady Subject: Online Order Requests We are working on creating a Web-based system for the placement of order requests by our librarians and teaching faculty (and, possibly, the student community as well). I've seen many examples of Web-based forms but don't have any way of knowing how the mechanics of the process operate at the institutions using these forms. We need to develop a system that will allow the order requests to route to our liaisons before coming to the Acquisitions Department. If anyone has such a system and would be willing to share information, please contact me. In my previous position, we developed an online ordering system that was quite effective, but that was Vax-based and, therefore, quite different. The Web designers here would really appreciate any input--they don't want to totally "reinvent the wheel" if there are systems in operation that will do what we want. ******************************* Donna M. Heady Head, Monographic Acquisitions Dwight B. Waldo Library Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5080 Phone:616-387-5216 Fax: 616-387-5193 donna.heady@wmich.edu ******************************* (3)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:05:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Ned Kraft (Smithsonian) Subject: Out-of-print Databases A while back I posted a query to ACQNET asking if anyone had found an internet resource for non-U.S. out-of-print titles that remotely resembles what Interloc, Bibliofind, Bibliocity, and ABE are doing for US (and some UK) imprints. I'd like to summarize the responses. I'm posting this to ACQNET and to the OP Discussion Group list, apologizing for the duplication. Thanks to all who responded to me directly or to ACQNET. The two most interesting sites for finding foreign o.p. titles are these... *Rare and Secondhand Books* (RSB) (www.rsb.ch) Although this Swiss site appears to be pan-european, using fairly vague title keywords in French and German (*cahier* and *kunst*) I didn't get as many hits as I would have expected. So I think the database may still be fairly small. Purchasing appears to be centralized through RSB, not direct to the dealers. This might be a site to watch in the future. Steve Trussel's *Books & Book Collecting* (www2.gol.com/users/steve/f_books.htm). This is a great site, not so much because it answers my original question, but because Steve has put together a great set of links to every search engine an acquisitions librarian might need. And there are a few links here that address my question. *Antiquarian Bookworm* says of itself *British Isles and around the world,* but from their member list I'm not seeing too many continental addresses. The hits you get will be primarily dealer catalogs, not single item quotes. Two Dutch sites *Antiqbook* and *Boekenvondst* look promising. Both are multi-dealer databases. Antiqbook appears to be limited to Dutch and American dealers. Boekenvondst is Dutch and Belgian. Both, though, appear to be primarily antiquarian, not so much out-of-print. *Zentralen Verzeichnis Antiquarischer* looks like a good multi-dealer site for German imprints. *Virtual Bookshop* looks promising too, but I saw only US and Dutch dealers. Now, I did not search every link that Steve's site offers, only those that looked like they might answer my original European/o.p. question. You might want to try others in case I missed something fabulous. Let me know if you find something! So in our quest for a pan-European searchable database along the lines of what's available for American dealers we are still unsatisfied. There are promising single-country or multi-country sites, but no one-stop shopping for European imprints. I'm still hoping to put together an O.P.Discussion Group session on European resources, but right now it looks like I still need to do some research and that presentation might have to wait until summer of 1999. Ned Kraft Smithsonian Inst. Libraries Chair - ALCTS Out-of-Print Discussion Group (4)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:21:05 -0400 (EDT) From: David L. Marshall (Georgetown U.) Subject: RE: Out of print queries SLAM [Syndicat national de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne], the French antiquarian booksellers association, maintains a free web search service at http://www.franceantiq.fr/slam/search.htm as part of the France Antiques web site. Or email them at search@franceantiq.fr David Marshall Head of Acquisitions & Serials Lauinger Library Georgetown University (5)------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:15:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Gerry McKiernan (Iowa State U.) Subject: Number/Percentage of Web-Only E-Journals _Number/Percentage of Web-only E-Journals_ For a Think Piece on the application of Intelligent Software Agents for Identifying, Organizing and Managing E-Serials, I am interested in learning about the number of _Web-Only_ E-journals that are currently available. By Web-only e-journals, I mean networked journals that do *not* have a parallel print counterpart. [I am aware of the **excellent** review article by Steve Hitchcock, Les A. Carr and Wendy Hall published in _Serials_ (10(3), (Nov.1997): 285-299 entitled "Web Journals Publishing: A UK Perspective" Also available at URL: http://www.mmrg.ecs.soton.ac.uk/publications/archive/hitchcock1997/ that offers a fine historical review and analysis of Web journal publishing. [It is well-worth The Read!] While I would prefer an overall number/percentage, data on specific fields (e.g., Science, Technology, and/or Medicine (STM)) would also be of interest. Those interested in becoming better acquainted with Intelligent Software Agents may wish to wish my clearinghouse _LibraryAgents(sm)_ that provides links to major Agent resource sites. _LibraryAgents(sm) is available at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Agents.htm As Always, Any and All Contributions, Queries, Questions, Concerns, Critiques, Comments, etc. are most well. Joy! Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian and Curator, CyberStacks(sm) Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/ "The Best Way to Predict the Future is To Invent It!" Alan Kay (6)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 12:54:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Tana Hardin (Kansas City PL) Subject: Ingram's I-Page Are there any DRA public libraries out there who are making use of Ingrams' new I-Page and downloading selection lists? If so, I would be interested in talking with you about procedures... I would appreciate it if you could reply directly to me, but I can summarize for the list if there is any interest. Thanks for your help! Tana Hardin Tana Hardin Acquisitions Librarian Kansas City Public Library Phone: (816) 221-2685 311 E. 12th ST. Fax: (816) 421-7484 Kansas City, MO 64106 E-Mail: MT_TANA@KCPL.LIB.MO.US (7)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:10:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Joanna Tousley-Escalante (VIC Library) Subject: Online _Economist_ I fear that others before me may have already raised the questions I'm about to post, but we're desperate here - so..... I need to set up FULL online access to the _Economist_. We have 9 subscriptions arriving to our Library. But we have our subscriptions managed by a vendor. Therefore we do not see the labels with our subscription number and the exact date of expiry for the subscriptions. What we want, and what our users are screaming for, is the ability to have a "Library" registration that will allow users here to access the full journal, archives and the "related topics" that _Economist_ has at the end of some articles [which is actually archives access]. One password and ID to log on [perhaps 9 total while we have 9 print subscriptions], one setup, which would be done by Library staff. This information would be given out to our staff and access would be available, as is the case now for our print copies. Have other libraries been successful where the _Economist_ is concerned? I will very much appreciate your views on this e-journal and the online setup. Joanna Tousley-Escalante VIC Library I.A.E.A. Vienna, Austria j.tousley@iaea.org ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 8, No. 29 ****** END OF FILE ******