ACQNET v1n052 (March 28, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acq-v1n052 ACQNET, Vol 1, No. 52, March 28, 1991 ===================================== (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (13 lines) (2) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Publisher consolidations and mergers: Springer, Birkhauser, Elsevier, Pergamon (29 lines) (3) FROM: John Saylor SUBJECT: More thefts, _U.S. Patent Gazette_ (14 lines) (4) FROM: Carol Hawks SUBJECT: Electronic publishing (10 lines) (5) FROM: Marsha Hamilton SUBJECT: ACQNET directories (8 lines) (6) FROM: Marsha Hamilton SUBJECT: Copyright and dissertations (31 lines) (7) FROM: Marsha Hamilton SUBJECT: Pre-bound paperback monographs, preservation (23 lines) (8) FROM: Marsha Hamilton SUBJECT: ALCTS guide to preservation in acquisitions processing (7 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: March 28, 1991 FROM: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Keith Stetson Fred Ryan Collection Development Librarian Dir. of Info. Res. Planning & Support Fairfield University California State University - Chico E-mail: KSTETSON@FAIR1.BITNET EESTA2M@CALSTATE.BITNET Judith Holliday Fine Arts Librarian Cornell University Library E-mail: ATWA@CORNELLA.BITNET (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 14:29:30 EST From: Christian Boissonnas Subject: Publisher consolidations and mergers: Springer, Birkhauser, Elsevier, Pergamon Early this morning our mathematics selector asked us why he hadn't seen any Birkhauser imprints recently. We called Yankee, our approval vendor and found out that Springer had purchased Birkhauser. I know nothing more about it, except that it seems to be oldish news that missed Ithaca altogether. Later this morning I received a call from "a reliable source" asking me if I knew that Elsevier had just purchased Pergamon. I said: "Hold it! It's Springer and Birkhauser." He said: "No, that's old news." My day went down from there. About Springer/Birkhauser, I know nothing more. Maybe some of you do. If so, please enlighten us. About Elsevier/Pergamon, I know a little more. At least I know it's true, even if I don't know why. I called John Tagler at Elsevier who confirmed the announcement. That is, he confirmed the fact of the sale, and that it is public information. It appeared in the London _Financial Times_ this morning. He didn't have the details, but will ask Karen Hunter to get in touch with me when she returns from London next week. We still don't know why we haven't seen any Birkhauser imprints, but Yankee is working on that. It's been a hell of a day, friends, and I don't know what any of this means. I can speculate in all sorts of nasty directions, but I'd rather some of you told me what I should think. How about it, Chuck? (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 28 Mar 91 11:03:45 From: John Saylor Subject: More Microfiche Theft An update from Syracuse as a follow up to my message from yesterday: "This AM we discovered that our U.S. Patent Gazette in microfiche--1960--February, 1991 is also missing. Five microfiche drawers are empty! Checking back further--we find that those fiche were there on March 6, and our SAE Technical Papers were there on 2/26/91--so both thefts have occurred since 2/26. If anyone on the listserv has any ideas, please contact me. Lee Murray LIBLMM@SUVM. Syracuse University Science and Technology--(315) 443-2160." (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 15:03 EST From: "Carol P. Hawks" Subject: Cornell Conference In response to Jana Stevens' note about the Cornell Conference, it was called Integrating Electronic Publishing into the Concepts and Practices of Collection Development. Selected papers and higlights from the conference appear in volume 14, number 4 of _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_. The papers of Maurice Glickman, Emily Fayen, Ross Atkinson, Robert Hayes and Rowland Brown are published in full. (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 14:32 EST From: "Marsha Hamilton" Subject: Membership list I use the membership lists frequently to find the e-mail addresses of col- leagues. I don't know any easier access to them than ACQNET. Twice a year publication sounds ok to me but I wouldn't mind them as often as quarterly. There are a lot of people joining up. (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 14:26 EST From: "Marsha Hamilton" Subject: Copyright (ugh!) In response to Beth Jacoby's question concerning copyright...This is a question to which we have given much thought. In the case of your 1954 dissertation, who holds the copyright? One would assume it is the author. In that case, you would need the permission of the author to legally copy the piece. Practical- ly, it might be difficult to track down the author of a master's or disserta- tion if that person has not published anything subsequent to that. In some cases, the institution has made an agreement with students that they may grant permission to copy. In that case, we would send a form letter requesting permission to photocopy (on acid-free paper!) for our records. If the author cannot be tracked down, I would still ask the university for their permission while continuing a good faith attempt to get hold of the author. Since you have made an attempt to obtain written permission, and you are not depriving the author of income by your actions, and the copy will be placed in a library (a non-profit organization), it is highly unlikely that you would be considered a major violator of copyright. On the other hand I'm not a lawyer. We make good faith attempts to obtain permission, we keep all the paperwork and then use our judgement about whether to make the copies. (e.g. an out-of-print Elsevier title we would never make a copy of without written permission of the copyright holder; a 1954 dissertation by an author that could not be traced where the university offers permission, yes, I would go ahead and copy.) If the author eventually contacted you and objected, you can either destroy the copy that was made, or agree on a payment for permission. In this case, we take the amount the copyright holder requests from the book fund as part of the price of the work. However, we almost always get permission to copy free. (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 14:01 EST From: "Marsha Hamilton" Subject: Binding of paperbacks The discussion regarding binding of paperbacks is missing a very important factor--preservation. Regardless of whether the books are bound properly or not, the paper used to produce paperback editions in some cases is of a lower quality than that used to produce hardcover editions. If the library saves a few dollars by producing its own binding, how much is the system paying in the long run when the title printed on acidic paper must be reformatted or re- placed? A non-scientific survey of paper and hardback materials at OSU showed a much higher percentage of hardcover titles were printed on alkaline (non-acidic or so-called archival quality) paper than were paperbacks. Admittedly, some publishers will use alkaline paper for both editions however I am sure many of us can provide anecdotal evidence of an acid-free paper hardcover edition with nice wide margins compared to a pulpy paperback with poor binding margins. I often ask myself in discussions like this, "Will we pay a little more now, or a lot more later?" At the OSU Libraries, it is policy to purchase only the cloth edition if available. Only if it is not available will we process a request for a paperback. (8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 14:01 EST From: "Marsha Hamilton" Subject: ALCTS guide to preservation in acquisitions processing I am currently working with the ALCTS/Acquisition Committee/Guide Sub-committee on a guide to preservation in acquisition processing Is anyone else in ACQNET-land working on this topic? ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE *****