Citations for Serial Literature v2n06 (May 9, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/csl/csl-v2n06 CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE ISSN 1061-7434 Volume 2, number 6 May 9, 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this issue: Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, NO 80, April 21, 1993 Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, No. 5, March 1993 (selective) Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory, Vol. 17, no. 2, 1993 (selective) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES NO 80 -- April 21, 1993 Editor: Marcia Tuttle CONTENTS 80.1 "ACADEME THIS WEEK," Judith Turner 80.2 RESPONSE TO FRED FRIEND'S COMMENTS IN NO 79, Ted Dobb 80.3 RATIONALE FOR STM JOURNAL PUBLISHERS' "PROMOTIONAL" PLANS, Tony Stankus 80.4 FROM THE MAILBOX The NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES (ISSN: 1046-3410) is published by the editor through the Office of Information Technology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as news is available. Editor: Marcia Tuttle, Internet: tuttle@gibbs.oit.unc.edu; Paper mail: Serials Department, CB #3938 Davis Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC 27599-3938; Telephone: 919 962-1067; FAX: 919 962-0484. The Newsletter is available on the Internet and Blackwell's CONNECT. EBSCO and Readmore Academic customers may receive the Newsletter in paper format from these companies. Back issues of the Newsletter are available electronically. To get a list of available issues send a message to LISTSERV@GIBBS.OIT.UNC.EDU saying INDEX PRICES. To retrieve a specific issue, the message should read: GET PRICES PRICES.xx (where "xx" is the number of the issue). To subscribe to the newsletter, send a message to LISTSERV@GIBBS.OIT.UNC.EDU saying SUBSCRIBE PRICES [YOUR NAME]. Be sure to send that message to the listserver and not to Prices. You must include your name. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------->> ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LIBRARIANSHIP MARCH 1993 NUMBER 5 PAMNET: A LISTSERV FORUM FOR PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY AND MATHEMATICS LIBRARIANS: LINES 440-617 BY JOANNE GOODE, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY LIBRARIES This article gives a brief history of PAMnet and details the kinds of discussion that take place on this list. Of particular interest to serials librarians are serials pricing alerts and issues related to electronic journals. PAMnet also posts a Journals Cancellation List. RLG'S NEW SEARCH SYSTEM DEBUTS AT DARTMOUTH--RLG: LINES 656-697 This announcement discusses RLG's new search system, Eureka, which is now available at Dartmouth College. Among Eureka's features is the capability to search CitaDel, RLG's citation database and document delivery service. Issues In Science and Technology Librarianship is a publication of the Science and Technology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. The Editor: Harry LLull. This publication is produced at the Centennial Science and Engineering Library, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and sent out in electronic form only over the internet. Requests for subscriptions or for whole issues may be sent to the editor at ACRLSTS@HAL.UNM.EDU. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_ Selected Contents Volume 17, Number 2 Technology for Acquisitions and Access -- special section edited by Carol E. Chamberlain Chamberlain, Carol E. Technology for Acquisitions and Access: Beyond the Automated Acquisitions System. Introduction to special section. Ray, Ron L. The Dis-Integrating Library System: Effects of New Technologies in Acquisitions. This paper examines deficiencies for acquisitions in the integrated library system (ILS) concept of library automation. The extension of technology to the library by materials vendors and the telecommunications and networking advances that foster that extension, are two technological developments that may undercut the primacy of the ILS acquisitions module. Identifying priorities for interfacing ILS automation with materials vendor automation can be undertaken meaningfully only when acquisitions as a subprofession identifies its mission and operational priorities. Bonk, Sharon C. Acquisitions in the Nineties: Surviving the Fragmenting Future. Articles forecasting the effects of automation on libraries have only recently begun to recognize the impact technologies external to the library will have on the acquisition function and librarians in all parts of academic libraries. Although the technologies appear to be fragmenting the acquisitions process within and external to the library, these technologies offer options that will dramatically change how libraries serve their clientele. At this time, these options may preclude traditional organizational design. Acquisitions librarians and their peers in all library departments must explore and learn about these technologies and the information they can provide, and actively participate in the design of new services. Shirk, Gary M. Contract Acquisitions: Change, Technology, and the New Library/Vendor Partnership. This paper outlines some of the technological and other changes affecting library/vendor relations. It explores in particular one possible result of these changes, contract acquisitions, i.e., libraries contracting with private sector vendors to provide traditional acquisitions services. This article enumerates some of the issues to be considered and urges libraries and vendors to collaborate more closely than before. Nissley, Meta. Rave New World: Librarians and Electronic Acquisitions. This paper focuses on the role of librarians in the technological environment of the future. The accessing and collecting information generated by electronic means and distributed by new electronic media and the attendant challenges presented to acquisitions and collection management librarians are discussed here. Librarians will experience changes in expectations of products and services of vendors and publishers. Vendors and publishers will make changes in what they offer to libraries to stay competitive in an age of electronic information exchange and delivery. acquisitions librarians will find themselves straddling two worlds, the traditional and the electronic, to meet the information needs of contemporary library users. Manuscripts Hoadley, Irene B. Access Versus Ownership: Myth or Reality. LAPT Interview MacEwan, Bonnie and Carol Chamberlain. An Interview With Sanford G. Thatcher. Director, The Penn State Press. This interview was conducted at The Pennsylvania State University Libraries on April 30, 1992. Sanford G. Thatcher candidly comments on issues relating to university presses, the current state of the publishing world and his views regarding scholarly communication and the future of scholarly journals. Conference Report Robnett, Bill. Shaping Our Future: A Report of the Society for Scholarly Publishing Seminar. Review Section Saxe, Minna. 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