ACQNET v5n031 (October 12, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acqnet-v5n031 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 5, No. 31, October 12, 1995 ======================================== (1) FROM: Richard Jasper SUBJECT: Telephone solicitations (34 lines) (2) FROM: Ben Hood SUBJECT: Out-of-print quotes (22 lines) (3) FROM: Norma Dunn SUBJECT: Looking for info. on _Internet Letter_ (11 lines) (4) FROM: Glenda Payzant SUBJECT: New Baker & Taylor invoices (19 lines) (5) FROM: Anda Purens SUBJECT: Technical services structures/workflows (29 lines) (6) FROM: David Moody SUBJECT: Resources for the Acquisitions Dept. (36 lines) (7) FROM: Elsie Pritchard SUBJECT: Charleston Conference discussion leaders needed (21 lines) (1)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 22:10:59 -0400 From: Richard Jasper (Emory Univ.) Subject: Telephone solicitations I didn't think it would come to this but it has. Today I received the second call in as many weeks from a telephone sales rep for a major STM publisher, asking to speak to someone who selects materials in chemistry. I pointed out that I'd given him the name of the chemistry librarian the previous week but he replied that this was a new title. So I asked for the name and number of his supervisor. Not, mind you, that I have any problem with the telephone sales rep. He's just doing his job, wretched though it may be. (I tried it once, for three days, before I walked out with no notice...) "Look," I told the marketing supervisor, "I don't have any problem with your salesman, per se, but I think this is a totally inappropriate way to solicit an academic library's business." And I then proceeded to tell him what I thought was appropriate. All of which seemed to go right over his head. "What I can do is put you on our no call list," he pointed out. It's kinda sad, don't you think? Richard Jasper, Head Acquisitions Department Emory University General Libraries Atlanta (2)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 15:23:07 -0400 From: Ben Hood (Stonehill College) Subject: Out-of-print quotes I'd appreciate hearing about anyone's experience with letting out-of-print dealers ship titles automatically if they have prices up to a maximum dollar amount ($50, $75?). We currently ask for quotes on all titles, and we have lost a few offers during the past year due to the delay between our dealer locating the book and checking with us on price and condition. I'm inclined to change to some kind of maximum price system, asking that quotes be sent only for titles priced above the maximum. I am curious whether this would have any drawbacks in terms of rising costs, loss of control over the condition of the books or types of bindings, etc. Ben Hood Stonehill College (3)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 16:53:39 -0400 From: Norma Dunn Subject: Looking for information about _Internet Letter_ I need help locating the name and address of the publisher and annual cost of the subscription to the newsletter _Internet letter_, published in Washington, D.C. Thanks. (4)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 09:34:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenda J. Payzant (Greater Victoria Public Lib.) Subject: New Baker and Taylor invoices We just received the first of the new style invoice from B&T. It had one title on it [a backordered item] and was a two page invoice. If that wasn't bad enough, there were seven copies of this two page invoice! It is on 8 1/2 by 11 good quality paper. We find this offensive in the extreme! Does anyone else feel this way? How can any business so blatantly ignore the costs of devastating our forests, not to mention the immediate issue of rising paper costs, due to world wide shortages. Glenda Payzant Greater Victoria Public Library Victoria BC Canada (5)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 00:59:13 -0400 From: Anda Purens (Univ. of Melbourne) Subject: Technical Services structures/workflows With the replacement of our old computer system with a new one (INNOPAC), we are reviewing structures and workflows in Technical Services. We would appreciate it if you could take the time to respond to these few questions and/or make any comments on the benefits or otherwise of various models you may have tried. Could you provide an outline of how Technical Services fits into your organisation? What areas of responsibility are covered? What is the management/staffing structure? What are the numbers/levels of staff? What is your level of automation? How is the workflow organised, e.g. subject or function based team or other? Any words of advice? With many thanks in advance, Anda Purens Bibliographic Searching Librarian Baillieu Library University of Melbourne (6)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 11:26:44 -0400 From: David Moody (Univ. of Detroit Mercy) Subject: Resources for the Acquisitions Dept. I'll confess up front that I'm a cataloger with no experience in acquisitions. That's why I need your help! I have been given a very small budget to start building a resource collection for our Technical Services Dept., including both Cataloging and Acquisitions. Cataloging I can handle, but I would appreciate advice on basic, helpful sources for acquisitions. We are a medium-sized private institution. I don't know our budget offhand, but we add about 7500 new titles a year with about 2000 currently received serials. Our Acquisitions/Receiving Dept. consists of three people, none of whom are professional librarians: A Dept. Head, a person in charge of ordering and receiving books, and a person who does serials check-in and bindery. Acq/Rec's responsibility extends only to ordering, receiving, and accounting; collection development decisions are made by librarians in other departments. We use OCLC and NOTIS for cataloging, and a system called NONESUCH to keep track of orders. We have copies of Books in Print, Publishers Trade List Annual, and Forthcoming Books in the department, but no other sources. Our Dept. Head had no suggestions to make. Given this situation, could we have suggestions for useful resources? Thank you for your time. David Moody Cataloging Librarian University of Detroit Mercy (7)-------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 20:04:22 -0400 From: Elsie Pritchard (Morehead State Univ.) Subject: Charleston Conference - Discussion leaders needed Attention all Charleston Conference registrants! I need one librarian for each automated system represented to coordinate small group discussions at the Automation Lively Lunch on Friday (Nov.3) of the Conference. If you'd like to be a group leader, please send me your name, institution, automated system, and e-mail address. Thanks! ================================================================ Elsie Pritchard e.pritch@morehead-st.edu Asst. Dir. for Tech. Serv./Automation voice 606-783-5120 Morehead State University fax 606-783-5037 ================================================================ ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 5, No. 31 ****** END OF FILE ******