CDL: Last chance to take ACQNET/AcqWeb Survey

Subject: Last chance to take ACQNET/AcqWeb Survey
From: Eleanor Cook <cookei_at_appstate.edu>

On December 13th, I posted a message about a survey we are conducting.

If you missed this message, lost it in the holiday shuffle, or just 
never got around to it, you still have a chance to respond.  We will 
close the survey on TUES. JANUARY 16.

Please take a few minutes to answer the survey for us.  It's at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=616062828256


Thanks so much for your time.

Eleanor Cook
Chief Editor, ACQNET-L



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Date:  Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:32:54 -0500
From:  Eleanor Cook (Chief Editor, ACQNET-L) <cookei_at_appstate.edu>
Subject: If you care about ACQNET and AcqWeb - PLEASE READ THIS

Greetings Subscribers of ACQNET!

It's been a very long time since I have addressed you all this way as 
Chief Editor, but we need your attention concerning a survey that the 
ACQNET Editorial Board and I think is rather important.  So PLEASE 
take the time to read this, if you will.

I know there are many surveys out there right now - but this one is 
different - it's fast and easy and it's important for our future - 
see:  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=616062828256

Many of you know AcqWeb - ACQNET's sister web site - http://www.acqweb.org
This is where the ACQNET archives are located, along with our 
editorial policy and subscriber instructions.  But AcqWeb has been far 
more than that in its history.  Before Yahoo and Google and similar 
search engines, AcqWeb was one of the best avenues for Acquisitions 
folks to find publisher web sites and other useful resources related 
to the day-to-day activities of acquiring library materials.  AcqWeb 
was created in 1994 and was faithfully
maintained for many years by Anna Belle Leiserson, at Vanderbilt 
University. Since 2004 AcqWeb has lived at Appalachian State U.and has 
maintained by Paul Orkiszewski.  Unfortunately, Paul has not been able 
to keep AcqWeb up-to-date and maintenance has been hit or miss. 
Indeed, not much has been updated since the transfer occurred.  So we 
want to review the usefulness of AcqWeb and determine what next to do 
with it.

A second interesting development has to do with ACQNET the list.  Some 
of you may have heard that other independent discussion lists have 
made moves recently or are about to do so.  The LidAdmin list, which 
was moderated for years by Pamela Bluh, has moved to ALA's LAMA 
Division - SEE:  http://blogs.ala.org/lamaleads.php?blog=20&page=1&paged=5
AUTOCAT, the list for cataloging topics, is in the process of looking 
for a new home as I write.  While ACQNET's home at Appalachian State 
is secure as far as I know, we think it's time to look at the current 
technologies available and determine if there might be better ways to 
manage the information we want to provide for acquisitions work.

So we have developed a very short, hopefully uncomplicated SURVEY that 
we would like you to complete.  We have been talking about doing this 
survey for almost 2 years and I, like Paul (and probably like you 
too!) have not had to time to devote to thinking about this and then 
doing something about it. So finally, here it is, and we REALLY want 
to hear from you!

The survey is available at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=616062828256

We know that some of you might be just as happy if nothing changes 
with ACQNET the list and that's OK, tell us that if you want to.
But we know we have to do something with AcqWeb, and soon.

This message is being posted to ACQNET-L, CollDev-L, SERIALST, and 
thanks to Pamela Bluh, to appropriate discussion lists within AALL.

Please take the survey - and we thank you!

Sincerely,
Eleanor Cook
Chief Editor, ACQNET-L

-- 
Eleanor I. Cook
Serials Coordinator & Professor
Belk Library, ASU Box 32026
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608-2026
828-262-2786
828-262-2773 (fax)
cookei_at_appstate.edu