Citations for Serial Literature v5n09 (December 23, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/csl/csl-v5n09.txt CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE ISSN 1061-7434 Volume 5, number 9 December 23, 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this issue: Serials Review, Vol. 22, no. 2 _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_, Selected Contents, Vol. 20, No. 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIALS REVIEW ISSN 0098-7913 Vol. 22, no. 2 Focus Section: the Viability of the Concept of an International Library School: Selected Papers Edited by Czeslaw Jan Grycz, with contributions from Judith Rowe, Richard Quandt, and Czeslaw Jan Grycz. Page 1 Electronic Research Data for Scholars and Students Judith Rowe By providing a historical perspective on how patrons have received both reference service and access to primary numeric data in the United States and elsewhere, the author sets the stage for the growing role of the research library as a site for these services. Traditionally statistical agencies, data libraries, data archives, research institutes and even computer centers have been primary players but as this decade comes to a close, the research library is now the primary player. Page 5 Electronic Publishing and Virtual Libraries: Issues and an Agenda for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Richard E. Quandt The paper discusses the economic development that have affected research libraries adversely in the past 20-30 years and reviews what is known about the causes of the increases in the prices of library materials. It then turns to a discussion of the promise of the new electronic technologies, possibly as an avenue for mitigating the cost squeeze libraries find themselves in, and pays some detailed attention to questions concerning the economies of electronic publishing and related issues. Finally, the paper turns to a discussion of the electronic and digital library agenda of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, states the general principles of the Foundation's program and reviews the individual projects funded to date. Page 9 Serials Librarians in the 21st Century and What to Teach Them Czeslaw Jan Grycz This article is based on a talk given on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Nicholas Copernicus University in Torun, Poland, which coincided with the announcement of the new initiative to establish, in Torun, a new "International Library School" that would help train managers of the Digital Library of the Future. The author predicts that libraries can perform highly important leadership roles, perhaps especially in Central and Eastern Europe, (but not exclusively in those regions), by embracing the change to move from the mind-set of "collections" and "acquisitions" and towards a concept of "managing electronic information." He also suggests that Serials Librarians are at the vanguard of these changing possibilities, because traditional scholarly journals are so quickly adopting electronic technologies. Having had to deal with rapid technological changes, serials librarians are the first to experience the trauma of change but also the benefits change can bring. Page 25 The Transformation of Scholarly Communications and the Future of Serials Richard R. Rowe Scholarly communication and scholarly journals are being transformed by digital technologies and the Internet, leading to fundamental changes in the way knowledge workers create, share and use knowledge. Multimedia, interactive Personal Libraries and Knowledge Centers will foster the proliferation of virtual scholarly communities. Public leadership supporting the emergence of such communities is essential. Page 33 Union Listing on OCLC Pat, Present and Future Myrtle Myers, with contributions from Cathy Kellum, Cecelia Boone, and Laurie S. Linsley With all the talk of document delivery and full text databases over the past several years, the usefulness of union listing has been discussed. OCLC statistics on the use of union list holdings data by interlibrary loan staff shows that use has grown in double digit figures in recent years. All the hard work by serials staff in creating and maintaining local data records is being rewarded through the heavy use by ILL staff to fill the increasing demands for information. This article looks at union listing on OCLC starting at the beginning through the reimplementation of Union List in the PRISM environment and into the future. It includes sidebars on the reimplementation of Union List from the perspective of a library and two OCLC Regional Networks. Page 45 Accessing Abbreviated Journal Titles in the Online Catalog at Los Alamos National Laboratory Kathleen Pratt Since library patrons often know only abbreviated journal titles, and because it is inefficient to have to determine the full title from outside sources before searching the online catalog, a way to search the online catalog with the abbriviated title information is needed. This article describes how staff at Los Alamos National Laboratory library provided retrieval by abbreviated journal title in our online catalog. Page 57 From Printed Page to Cathode Tube: The Evolution of the Laboratory Primate Newsletter Judith E. Schrier The Laboratory Primate Newsletter is a source of practical information for scientists, animal caretakers, veterinarians, and others using and caring for nonhuman primates. This paper follows the evolution of the newsletter from eighteen hand-typed and mimeographed pages (in 1962) to a computer type-set journal (in 1982), and on to a presence on the World Wide Web. Page 61 Electronic Journal Forum: Providing Access to E-Journals through Library Home Pages Tom Moothart Serials departments are being deluged with announcements from commercial and society publishers which provide access to either the full-text or the abstracts of their pubications. Examples are given of how four libraries are providing access to electronic journals through their library home pages. Page 71 The Balance Point: Selecting the Serials Module of an Integrated Library System Edited by Carol MacAdam, with contributions from Sylvia Martin, James R. Mouw, Linda Richter, and Sandra Hurd The process of selecting an integrated library system, with specific focus on the serials control module, is discussed by and ILS developer, a subscription agent, and two librarians. Page 79 Tools of the Serials Trade Edited by Teresa Malinowski, with contributions by Martin Gordon, James Mouw, Laurie Sutherland, and Kathleen Meneely Martin Gordon reviews Advances in Serials Management, Vol. 5, James Mouw reviews Access, Ownership and Resource Sharing, Laurie Sutherland reviews Practical Issues in Collection Development and Collection Access: The 1993 Charleston Conference, and Kathleen Meneely reviews Advances in Collection Development and Resources Management. Page 93 Serials Spoken Here: Reports of Conferences, Institutes and Seminars Edited by Susan Davis, with contributions from Carol S. Robinson, Pamela M. Rose, Linda L. Rosenstein, and Michele Crump Reports from the ACRL New England Cahapter Fall Conference, the 1995 Charleston Conference, the ACRL Journal Costs in Academic Libraries Discussion Group and the ALCTS Automated Acquisitions/In-Process Control Systems Discussion Group. Page 101 Serials Review Index Douglas A. DeLong The editors scan approximately 150 journals in all disciplines for reviews of serial publications. Journals published since Spring 1995 were monitored for this installment of Serials Review Index. Page 111 ******************** SERIALS REVIEW is published quarterly by JAI Press Inc. and edited by: Cindy Hepfer Health Sciences Library Abbott Hall State University of New York at Buffalo 3435 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14214-3002 (716)829-2139; Fax: (716)829-2211 Internet: HSLCINDY@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU ************************************************************ _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_ Selected Contents Volume 20, Number 4 Editorial Winters, Barbara A. But I Don't Have Anything To Write About. pp. 391-394. Manuscripts Nisonger, Thomas E. Authorship in Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory. pp. 395-419 Authorship in Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory, volume 1, number 1 (January 1977) through volume 19, no 4 (Winter 1995) is analyzed. A literature review identifies numerous other studies of authorship patterns in library and information science (LIS) journals. This study's major findings are: 80.6% of LAPT authors contributed a single article, while 3.9% wrote four or more; 15.6% of the articles were collaboratively written by two or more authors; 65.4% of LAPT authors were academic librarians and 10.6% were vendors; a majority (53.9%) were male, but longitudinal analysis shows an increasing portion of female authors; and 15.3% of LAPT authors were from outside the U.S. Comparisons are made with other LIS journals and explanations for the findings are briefly speculated upon. Schatz, Bob and Diane J. Graves. "Request for Proposal" or "Run for Protection" Some Thoughts on RFP's from a Librarian and a Bookseller. pp. 421-428 Increasingly, academic librarians are using the RFP (Request for Proposal) to assist them in selecting materials vendors. While this has been a common practice for integrated library system selection for some time, it is still a relatively new phenomenon in the acquisitions field. The authors, one a library administrator and the other a bookseller, review the pros and cons, pitfalls and benefits of using the RFP method for purchasing library materials. Cornish, Brian A. and G.E. Gorman. Acquisitions Expenditures By Australian Libraries: Report of a Survey. pp. 455-473 Based on a questionnaire survey of Australian academic, special and public libraries, this study seeks to determine the amount that Australian libraries spend on various types of materials. It presents detailed quantitative data on the acquisitions expenditure of the various library sectors in relation to selected categories of materials, and draws broad conclusions about the present state of acquisitions expenditure and library spending in Australia. Conference Reports Kidd, Tony. United Kingdom Serials Group: 19th Annual Conference & Exhibition, Keele University, Staffordshire, England, UK, 15-17 April 1996. pp. 475-482. ******************** Carol Pitts Diedrichs Head, Acquisition Department Editor, Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Avenue Mall Columbus, OH, 43210-1286 tel: 614-292-6314 fax: 614-292-2015 Internet: diedrichs.1@osu.edu ************************************************************ CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE is an electronic index which publishes the table of contents and abstracts, when available, for articles related to the serials information chain. It is NOT an electronic discussion list. All complete and selective table of contents materials in CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE are reproduced with the permission of the original publisher. The section of this index entitled "Serendipitous citings" includes relevant citations from journals not generally listed here. 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