CDL-ALA Acquisition Section Foreign Book Dealers Directory now available

From: "Debus-Lopez, Karl" <KDebus-Lopez_at_nal.usda.gov>

I am happy to announce that this Web publication is now available. Please 
forward this message to any who might be interested.

FOREIGN BOOK DEALERS DIRECTORY RETURNS TO THE WEB



The ALCTS Acquisition Section’s Publications Committee is pleased to 
announce that its Foreign Book Dealers’ Directory is now available as a 
single, searchable Web publication. Most recently available as three 
distinct Web sites, the information has been combined into a single file, 
with access points by vendor name and country (or countries) whose 
materials each vendor can supply. To replicate the three previous regional 
versions, there are also lists by region that can be accessed by either the 
“point and click” world map on the home page, or by a pull-down menu. The 
original three regions, Eastern Europe-Soviet Union, Asia-Pacific, and 
Africa-Middle East, are now six regions: Eastern Europe, Central Eurasia, 
Asia, The Pacific, Africa, and Middle East.

This project first began in 1990 and its first iteration was print 
publications. It migrated to three Web-based lists over time, and has been 
reconstituted in its new version over the past several years.

The information will be improved by being used, and we encourage its users 
to send us comments, along with corrections, additions and changes. The 
site contains a link for Feedback.  Miriam Palm, former editor of the ALCTS 
Newsletter Online, will serve as editor for the coming year.

The home page of the new directory is at 
<http://www.ala.org/foreignbooks>http://www.ala.org/foreignbooks . We look 
forward to it being heavily used and continuously improved.

Thanks are due to Karl Debus-López, Thelma Diercks, Kay Granskog, David 
Marshall, and Scott Wicks, the most recent subcommittee members, as well as 
Christine Taylor, Charles Wilt and Kirsten Ahlen of the ALCTS Office and 
Amos Lieberman of ALA-IT, for making this long-awaited publication a reality.


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Miriam Palm
Librarian Emerita
Stanford University Libraries
phone and fax: (650)  327-8989
<mailto:Miriam.Palm_at_Stanford.edu>Miriam.Palm_at_Stanford.edu



Karl E. Debus-López, MLS, MRP

Head, Acquisitions and Collection Development Branch

and Chief Collection Development Officer

National Agricultural Library

Agricultural Research Service

United States Department of Agriculture

10301 Baltimore Avenue, Room 002

Beltsville, MD 20705-2351

e-mail: KDebus-Lopez_at_nal.usda.gov

phone: (301) 504-7230

FAX: (301) 504-5243