ACQNET v5n013 (April 29, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acqnet-v5n013 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 5, No. 13, April 29, 1995 ======================================== (1) FROM: Hannah King SUBJECT: RE: Replacement Costs of Monographs (14 lines) (2) FROM: Stephen Clark SUBJECT: South African Vendor Summary (42 lines) (3) FROM: Tom Oertal SUBJECT: Contracts with Serials Agents (26 lines) (4) FROM: Dina Giambi SUBJECT: ALA Midwinter Micropublishing Discussion Group Report (35 lines) (5) FROM: Marylou Hale/Maggie Parhamovich SUBJECT: OP Government Publications (37 lines) (6) FROM: Stephen Clark SUBJECT: EDI Software (18 lines) (7) FROM: John Archer SUBJECT: Yankee Book Peddler Purchase Order Barcodes (44 lines) (1)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 22:54:15 -0500 From: Hannah King (SUNY Health Sci at Syracuse) Subject: Re: Replacement Costs of Monographs Re: Replacement Costs of monographs -- (ACQNET 5:11) I use Ballen's print out which lists the average cost of each class of books during a year's period of purchasing. We receive an annual report from Ballen. We add a $10 processing fee to the average cost for the class. Hannah King SUNY HSC Library at Syracuse (2)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 16:42:19 -0400 From: Stephen D. Clark (William & Mary) Subject: South African Vendor summary Thanks to Marylou Hale for posting her message on using the Index to find out information from past ACQNETs as a reminder to summarize what I found from folks in Acqnetania on vendors of South African materials. Thanks to all of you who kindly responded, and here now is an updated list of vendors: African and Caribbean Imprint Services 236 Main Street Falmouth, MA 02540 Clarke's Bookshop 211 Long Street Cape Town 80001 South Africa Fax:+21 236441 Voice:+21 235739 Can provide a catalog for selection Fons Libris E-mail address: 100100.1003@compuserve.com Address your message to Mrs. Toni Aspinall Frank R. Thorold, Ltd 3rd Floor Meischke's Bldg 42 Harrison St, PO Box 241 Johannesburg 2000 South Africa Fax: (011) 838-4715 Phone: (011) 838-5903 Can provide selection slips. Stephen D. Clark phone: 804-221-3107 Acquisitions Librarian fax: 804-221-3088 E.G. Swem Library College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA 23185 (3)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1995 11:53:36 -0400 From: Tom Oertel (Univ. of Utah Law Lib.) Subject: Contracts with Serials Agents Dear Colleagues, This was cross-posted to LAW-LIB, excuse the duplication. Last fall our library was audited by the university administration. One auditor's recommendation is that we have a written contract with our serials agent, EBSCO, and monographs agent, Midwest Library Service. We have a long association with both, but lack documentation outlining specific duties, responsibilities, terms, et cetera. My need from helpful colleague(s) is a copy of an academic library's contract with a subscription agency (EBSCO, Hein, Rothman) which we may use as a model. Naturally, all information will be held in confidence. Advice or comments on your negotiating experience would be helpful as well. Thanks for your help. Tom Oertel, Head, Acquisitions University of Utah Law Library Salt Lake City ph. (801) 581-7213 fax (801) 585-3033 (4)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1995 15:31:22 -0400 From: Dina Giambi (Univ. of Delaware) Subject: ALA Midwinter Micropublishing Discussion Group Report The inaugural meeting of the ALCTS, Preservation and Reformatting Section, Micropublishing Discussion Group was held during the 1995 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia. Three panelists representing the micropublishing industry, Dan Arbour, Vice President, Marketing, UMI; Mark Holland, Vice President, Editorial and Publisher, Research Publications; and Norman Ross, Norman Ross Publishing, Inc. discussed the topic "Stayin' Alive: Micropublishing in the '90s." Some common themes and observations were shared by the three panelists. Microform sales are continuing to increase and predictions are that this will continue into the next century. Factors contributing to this trend include the continuing role of microforms as a cost efficient storage format, permanence and stability of microforms, and their appropriateness for low use materials. A complete visual reproduction is needed by some users, especially for newspapers, which other formats do not provide. The size of the headline or placement of a story on a page conveys the level of importance that it was assigned that might otherwise be lost. CD-ROMs and microform versions of the same title do not necessarily attract the same market. In fact, some new CD-ROM products have not done as well as was originally expected. There were two issues that were raised by the panelists that evoked the most comments and questions from the attendees. Equipment manufacturers need to continue work on standardization and the further development of output devices. Bibliographic control of microforms was a concern which many felt needed more emphasis. Both these issues were thought to be good topics for discussion at future meetings of the group. (5)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 08:52:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Marylou Hale (Univ. of Nevada) Subject: OP Government Publications I contacted our Head of Government Publications regarding the questions posted by Penny Schroeder on March 17. Her response is below, and she has given us permission to use it. It is easy enough to get microform copies but paper copies are going to be difficult. OP publishers will print/sell popular hearings but those are only going to be for the hearings which have a popular appeal. As far as the regular hearings, they will find this difficult. Some libraries may discard their older hearings so this library may want to contact their local depository library to find out if some hearings are being discarded. Personally, I prefer micro for these since they are not used on a regular basis. The use stats on hearings are appropriate for micro format. The other reason I prefer micro is that original hearings are printed on a "newspaper" like paper. They do not hold up well over time. The binding is paper or stapled. For items which we own and know that we want a paper copy (Nevada topics, major issues such as GATT, etc), we will send those items out to the bindery. However, the paper is such that we consider this a second copy to our microfiche. I hope that helps but finding print copies for older hearings is difficult. CIS sells the microfiche though and their indexing is superior. Maggie Parhamovich Head, Government Publications, Dickinson Library (702) 895-1571 University of Nevada Las Vegas fax (702) 895-1207 magoo@nevada.edu (6)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 18:15:45 -0400 From: Stephen D. Clark (William & Mary) Subject: EDI software I am interested if anyone can recommend (or *not* recommend, as the case may be) any EDI software. Any comments as to quality of the software would also be helpful. If you would send your comments to me directly, I will summarize for the list. Stephen D. Clark phone: 804-221-3107 Acquisitions Librarian fax: 804-221-3088 Earl Gregg Swem Library College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA 23185 (7)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 11:04:00 -0700 From: John Archer (UC-San Diego) Subject: Yankee Book Peddler Purchase Order Barcodes In a pilot project with the University of California, San Diego, to debug the process and determine costs, Yankee Book Peddler will print UCSD's Innopac purchase order number as a barcode on the slips inserted in the books shipped. This means that the correct order record can be accessed and received right out of the box. Keystroke errors are eliminated. Hundreds of thousands of keystrokes are saved each year. Also, by attaching the slips to the invoice and scanning the barcodes again to pay for the material, payment is expedited. Thus, both the library and the vendor benefit. Alternately, the slips can be left in the books and forwarded for cataloging where the barcode could be scanned again as part of an overlay command. Again saving keystrokes and eliminating the problem of the wrong record being overlaid. To estimate savings in keystrokes and time, use the following formulae: (number of characters in order no.) x (number of times record accessed) x (number of orders) = Number of keystrokes saved. (number of characters in order no.) x (number of times record accessed) x (number of orders) x 3.15 seconds = Time saved. NOTE: "Number of characters in order number" don't forget the ".", "o", and "carriage return". Thus a seven digit Innopac order number = 10 characters to access the record and an eight digit character = 11 characters. This project sets a new standard for data exchange between trading partners. For more information, please contact Yankee Book Peddler. John F. Archer Assistant Department Head Acquisitions Department The University Library, 0175A 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 5, No. 13 ****** END OF FILE ******