ACQNET v9n011 (June 19, 1999) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/serials/acqnet/acqnet-v9n011.txt ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 9, No. 11, June 19, 1999 ========================================== (1) FROM: J. Poston SUBJECT: Using Amazon.com (21 lines) (2) FROM: G. Mckiernan SUBJECT: Reactive E-journals (42 lines) (3) FROM: B. Attebery SUBJECT: Collection Age Restrictions in Medical Libraries (29 lines) (4) FROM: T. Hardin SUBJECT: Shelf-ready Spanish Books and Shelf-ready AV services (20 lines) (5) FROM: K. Burris SUBJECT: Evaluation Techniques for Corporate Libraries (21 lines) (6) FROM: T. Karlin SUBJECT: Baker & Taylor On-order Records in the Online Catalog (31 lines) (1)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 14:15:49 -0400 From: Jan Poston (Spalding Univ.) Subject: Using Amazon.com We are a small university with about 2,000 students and 2 doctoral programs. We have a large enrollment in nursing, education, and psychology. We currently belong to a consortium of private colleges and get a 17% discount on books through a specific vendor. We have heard that other colleges/universities are using a web site such as Amazon.com to order all their books. We are interested in hearing from other libraries as to the advantages/disadvantages of ordering this way. Please e-mail us directly at spaldlib@iglou.com. We will summarize for the list if others are interested. Thank you and have a great day, Jan Poston Ill/Cataloging Services Librarian Spalding University Library 853 Library Lane Louisville, KY 40203 (2)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 17:47:03 -0400 From: Gerry Mckiernan (Iowa State U.) Subject: Reactive E-Journals _Reactive E-Journals_ I am greatly interested in identifying additional e-journals that provide an opportunity to comment on a published article within the e-journal either as an annotation to segments of the article or as a separate component of the e-journal such as found within _Earth Interactions_ (EI) [ http://EarthInteractions.org/ ] _Earth Interactions_ "is an electronic journal dealing with the interactions between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere in the context of global issues or global change. It exploits the capabilities of electronic communications technology and provides its authors the opportunity to use animations and other visualization techniques that traditional publications cannot accommodate." In addition to offering Embedded Multimedia, _Earth Interactions_ also provides a moderated threaded discussion section that allows interaction among authors and readers of both EI articles and preprint manuscripts. For details, see http://eij.gsfc.nasa.gov/E-JOURNAL/react/ As always, any and all contributions, queries, critiques, comments, questions, concerns, etc., etc. regarding this post are most welcome. Regards, Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu (3)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 16:20:13 -0400 From: Barbara Attebery (Ochsner Medical Lib.) Subject: Collection Age Restrictions in Medical Libraries We are a fairly large hospital library as hospital libraries go, but have limited shelving space. We would like to know what kind of policies do other hospital libraries have for the length of time to keep medical books. In medicine, currency of materials is of great importance. Do you set a specific time frame of 5 years, 10 years, or what? In the past, we would keep 15 years plus any older books that our medical staff deemed worthy of keeping. But, we have reached the point where we are running out of space and would be interested in other library's policies and procedures. Please answer as soon as possible since our Library committee will be meeting in a couple of weeks and I must present a plan to them. Thank you. Barbara Attebery Librarian-Technical Services Alton Ochsner Medical Library 1516 Jefferson Highway New Orleans, LA 70121 (504) 842-3760 battebery@ochsner.org (4)-------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:13:26 -0400 From: Tana Hardin (Kansas City PL) Subject: Shelf-ready Spanish Books and Shelf-ready AV services I have two questions: 1. Does anybody have a good resource for shelf-ready Spanish language books and/or media? 2. Has anybody had experience using Follett Audiovisual Re- sources shelf-ready services? Please reply directly to me & I will summarize for the list if there is interest. Thanks! 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 (5)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 11:37:44 -0400 From: Katherine Burris (Raytheon) Subject: Evaluation Techniques for Corporate Libraries Hello, I am in the process of putting together a collection development policy for our corporate library. Our core collection includes engineering and telecommunications materials. The collection contains approximately 15,000 titles and 20,000 books and documents. I need to come up with at least two methods for evaluating this collection by June 11. Does anyone have any suggestions as to the most logical and efficient methods for such a library? [Sorry this was not posted in time - ed.] Thank you, in advance, for your help. Katherine Burris Katherine_Burris@res.raytheon.com kathjohn@gte.net (6)------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:28:44 -0400 From: Tricia Karlin (Lawrence, KS PL) Subject: Baker & Taylor On-order Records in the Online Catalog I would like to ask if any other libraries use the free Baker & Taylor Link on-order records in their OPACs. We do not have an acquisitions module, but could upload our order records (MARC format) from Baker & Taylor Link into our OPAC. The only problem is that these records do not have anything in them that states that they are on-order records. The records are very short (minimal information - author, title, ISBN, publisher, OCLC number). The only thing that distinguishes them from a real bib record is that the records are in all caps (all upper case text in the record). Therefore, public services staff are very concerned that patrons will only be confused by these records. They anticipate a lot of questions and extra work to answer patron questions. They suggest that we may simply wish to continue using our paper 'on order' file. Do any other libraries use these records? If you do, could you respond, and explain how your public and staff responded to the on-order records? Listing of pros and cons would be very helpful. Thank you! Tricia Karlin Technical Services Coordinator Lawrence Public Library Lawrence, KS 66044 tkarlin@midusa.net ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 9, No. 11 ****** END OF FILE ******