ACQNET v5n036 (November 20, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acqnet-v5n036 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 5, No. 36, November 20, 1995 ========================================= (1) FROM: L. Hunter Kevil SUBJECT: Acquiring statistical material from the CIS (28 lines) (2) FROM: Marylou Hale, William Wan, Eleanor Cook SUBJECT: RE: Purchasing phone directories (3 responses) (51 lines) (3) FROM: Peter Stevens SUBJECT: Acquisitions departments web sites (13 lines) (4) FROM: Janet Flowers SUBJECT: The Future of gifts in the electronic environment (25 lines) (5) FROM: Jeanette Mosey SUBJECT: Publishers of Facsimile Books (7 lines) (1)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 10:08:10 -0500 From: L. Hunter Kevil (Univ. Of Missouri-Columbia) Subject: Acquiring statistical material from the CIS Can anyone suggest good ways to get price quotations for statistical publications such as the following: o Demographic Yearbook 1994 (Demograficheskiy yezhegodnik 1994). Interstate Statistical Committee of the CIS, Moscow, 1995 o Statistical Bulletin no 3 (Statisticheskiy Byulleten no 3). MinStat Belarus, Minsk, March 1995 o Turkmenistan in 1993: Statistical yearbook, 2 vols. Goskomstat Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, 1994 o Statistical yearbook of Lithuania 1994-1995. Lithuanian Dept of Statistics, Vilnius, 1995 Thanks for your assistance, L. Hunter Kevil Head, Serials Dept University of Missouri-Columbia mulkevil@mizzou1.missouri.edu (2)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 09:14:59 -0800 (PST) From: Marylou Hale (Univ. of Nevada) Subject: RE: Purchasing phone directories In Vol 5, No. 34, Margaret Axtmann requested information about purchasing phone directories. We have purchased phone directories from the following companies. They are great at supplying rural Nevada directories, but might also provide directories for larger areas as well. Phone Directories of Provo, Utah Consolidated Communications Directories of Effingham, Illinois American Business Directories of Omaha, Nebraska ALLTEL Pubications Corporation of Hudson, Ohio [NOTE: Contact Marylou for more information on these companies -- Ed.] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 13:13:34 -0500 From: William Wan (Texas Woman's U.) Subject: RE: Phone Books We had a similar problem as Margaret Axtman in purchasing paper phone books from the local phone company. We have since added a telephone CD-ROM to our collection and they are not much more expensive than buying the phone books individually. You can get these telphone CDs from any software store for under $50. However, the CDs may not contain the same information as the phone books. We are also looking into the OCLC FirstSearch's Prophone online product. William Wan Texas Woman's University Library +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 From: Eleanor Cook (Appalachian State U.) Subject: RE: Purchasing phone directories We still purchase paper phone directories, although we cannot always get all the ones we'd like to have. We have a standing order with the regional provider (in our case, Southern Bell), and the cost of these extra directories is billed to the library's phone account. The campus communications office handles this. It is a weird way of doing things but it seems to work most of the time, though it took us a while to figure out who to talk to when we had claims. We also discovered that we were getting duplicate phone books in some cases when we requested a suburban town's listing. For example, Cary, NC is included with the Raleigh, NC phone book, so we were getting identical directories with different names on the spine! We managed to eliminate this problem by looking at the directories a bit more closely. (3)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 18:06:31 -0500 From: Peter Stevens (University of WA) Subject: Acquisitions departments web sites As some ACQNET folks may already know, I maintain a collection of links to other acquisitions departments on my web page, to which there is also a link from AcqWeb. So far, my collection of links includes Auburn, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, MIT, NE State, Oregon, Otago, South Carolina-Aiken, UCSD and Vassar. If you know of any other acquisitions departments with web pages, please e-mail me. My acquisitions web address is http://staffweb.lib.washington.edu/acq/. (4)------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 08:57:49 -0500 From: Janet Flowers (UNC-Chapel Hill) Subject: The Future of gifts in the electronic environment My Gifts Coordinator is interested in knowing about what is happening to gifts as a books-in-hand, "forever manual" process, in the context of processes that are increasingly electronic and streamlined. She would like to know about ways other libraries have streamlined their gifts operations through the use of technology. She also would like to know how gifts units are fitting organizationally into the new workstreams being designed by acquisitions departments who are increasingly relying upon vendors and technology for other aspects of their operations. If you will respond to me, I will be happy to summarize the responses for this list. Thank you for your insights. Janet L. Flowers Head / Acquisitions Academic Affairs Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB 3902 Chapel Hill, NC 27514 919-962-1120 (5)-------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 10:05:23 -0500 From: Jeanette Mosey Subject: Publishers of Facsimile Books Does anyone know of a list or directory of publishers of facsimile books? ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 5, No. 36 ****** END OF FILE ******