ACQNET v1n049 (March 26, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acq-v1n049 ACQNET, Vol 1, No. 49, March 26, 1991 ===================================== (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (8 lines) (2) FROM: Jeffry Larson SUBJECT: Paying in local currencies (20 lines) (3) FROM: Mary McLaren SUBJECT: Combined monograph/serial acquisition departments (24 lines) (4) FROM: Rosann Bazirjian SUBJECT: Combined monograph/serial acquisition departments (10 lines) (5) FROM: Timothy A. Balch SUBJECT: Paralegal Bookstore, National Paralegal Association (18 lines) (6) FROM: Jana Stevens SUBJECT: BookQuest (7 lines) (7) FROM: Jana Stevens SUBJECT: Non-book materials acquisition, electronic formats (13 lines) (8) FROM: Jana Stevens SUBJECT: Pre-bound paperback monographs (15 lines) (9) FROM: Beth Jacoby SUBJECT: Copyright and dissertations (11 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: March 26, 1991 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Caroline Early Helen Reed Head, Acq. & Serials Branch Director, Access Services & Budgets National Agricultural Library University of Northern Colorado E-mail: CEARLY@UMDARS.BITNET E-mail: HREED@SLINKY.UNIVNORTHCO.EDU (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 22 Mar 91 09:46:06 From: "Jeffry Larson" Subject: Follow-up on paying in foreign currencies I guess I should indicate what we have in fact done in recent cases. We have: 1) ignored the requirement & paid in US $, with varying success, depending on the size of the invoice; 2) trotted down to the one remaining local bank that has an international dept. & bought foreign currency out of our personal pockets [needless to say this is done only out of professional good will, when the amounts involved are small, & cannot be recommended as a general policy); 3) asked a local dealer to pay the invoice & add a commission; 4) asked the North American representative of a foreign dealer to effect payment (that way we ended up paying both a bank conversion fee & the dealer's commission). We have not gone to a local bank with an institutional check, as it takes us too long to get a check cut & exchange rates are too volatile. On the whole, #3 seems best. We are inserting a vendor memo code into our local NOTIS system to the effect that if the vendor requires payment in local currency, a bank conversion charge should be added to the invoice. I have already done that manually in correspondence with a national library in a hexagonally-shaped Western European country, & it was ignored, so maybe nothing will avail. (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 91 16:00:12 EST From: Mary McLaren Subject: Combined monograph/serial acquisition departments The Acquisitions Department at the University of Kentucky's M. I. King Library is responsible for the ordering, receipt, and payment of both monographic and serial materials. Serials cataloging is additionally included in the department in order to keep all the serials-related technical services functions together. (We have been very pleased with this arrangement.) The Acquisitions Department is divided into four units (Order Processing, Central Serials Record, Serials Control, and Accounting) and has a total staff of 20. The University is planning to build a new library (!), though, and its building program calls for an integrated Serials Department which would handle all aspects of serials management (public services as well as technical services). One exception to this plan, however, may be the exclusion of serial orders placement. We're still a long way off from the new building's realization, and are very interested in hearing what works (and what doesn't) for other people. (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 11:01:39 EST From: Rosann Bazirjian Subject: Combined monograph/serial acquisition departments To continue the combined monograph/serial department conversation, Syracuse University currently has the Serials Unit under the Head of Acquisitions. We are thinking, however, of moving that Unit to the Serials Cataloging Unit, which is in the Cataloging Dept. We have just begun check-in on NOTIS, and the logic of receipt lines and volume holdings on that system almost seems to dictate that these two areas be combined. (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 10:45:00 EDT Sender: Library Administration and Management From: Tim Balch Subject: Problem with Book Supplier Has anyone had problems getting books from the Paralegal Bookstore or National Paralegal Association, both of Solebury, PA? Our reference department has several long-outstanding prepaid orders. Messages have been left on their answering machine by both reference and acquisitions staff, including the threat of legal action, and we've still had no response. Any information or assistance will be appreciated. Thanks. Timothy A. Balch LIB007@MARSHALL Head of Public Services LIB007@MARSHALL.WVNET.EDU Morrow Library, Marshall Univ. 304/696-2335 [Please reply to ACQNET and I will forward replies to Mr. Balch. C.] (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 10:28 EST From: Jana Stevens Subject: BookQuest Bookquest - I found you study informative and I look forward to future perfo- rmance studies (including my own). I think that in all fairness to ABACIS, we should measure their performance only after more records are loaded in. (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 10:28 EST From: Jana Stevens Subject: Non-book materials acquisitions, electronic formats Last year Cornell (I think) sponsored conference on acquisition of non-traditi- onal formats. I do not know what was covered at the conference but I think that it is a very important topic for all of us in acquisitions to address and continue to discuss. For example CD ROM products and software packages: who is going to be responsible for their acquisition? Who is going to be responsible for negotiating licenses for networked CD-ROM databases? And, when all of our institutions have integrated LANS and an encyclopedia is available in an interactive format, who is going to decide on the format and then who is going to be responsible for its purchase? (8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 10:28 EST From: Jana Stevens Subject: Pre-bound paperback monographs I am increasingly concerned about an arrangement we have with two of our book vendors who automatically bind paper editions if cloth is not available. These two vendors are instructed to purchase cloth but, if only paper is available, they will arrange for binding at a very reasonable rate, about $3.50 per item. Now, after handling hundreds of damaged books, I am not only questioning the poor workmanship of these "vendor-bound" materials but also the economics of this arrangement. I would like to hear from those who have, or have recently evaluated similar arrangements. I should also mention that we do not have an in-house bindery or a preservation dept. (9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 13:53 EST From: Beth Jacoby Subject: Copyright I have a copyright question. The University of Delaware wants for its collect- ion a copy of a 1954 dissertation done at the University of Wisconsin . The dissertation is not available from UMI. Wisconsin suggests we borrow their copy through interlibrary loan and make our own copy. Wouldn't this be a violation of the copyright law? Is there any way around this and similar situations in which a library wants a copy of something which is not commer- cially available? What are other libraries doing in these situations? ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE *****