ACQNET v1n101 (September 2, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acq-v1n101 ISSN: 1057-5308 ACQNET, Vol. 1, No. 101, September 2, 1991 ========================================== (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (14 lines) (2) FROM: Joyce Ogburn SUBJECT: Richard Abel Company (8 lines) (3) FROM: Karen Muller SUBJECT: Book selection software (31 lines) (4) FROM: David James SUBJECT: Latin American Bookstore, Ithaca, NY, Latin American approval plans (14 lines) (5) FROM: Richard Jasper SUBJECT: UNIFO Publishers (13 lines) (6) FROM: Ann O'Neill SUBJECT: Request for nominations for G.K. Hall Award for Library Litera- ture (51 lines) (7) FROM: Kent McKeever SUBJECT: Owolabi Awosola, Nigerian book dealer (17 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: September 2, 1991 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Karl Debus Susan Smith Leader, Order/Fiscal Unit Head of Acquisitions Acquisitions/Serials Branch West Georgia College National Agricultural Library E-mail: SSMITH@UGA.BITNET E-mail: KDEBUS@ASRR.ARSUSDA.GOV Mary Fry Colin Galloway Acquisitions/Periodicals Librarian Book Acquisitions Librarian The Brookings Institution Libr. Glasgow University Library E-mail: MFRY@BROOK.BITNET E-mail: GXLX39@CMS.GLASGOW.AC.UK (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 29 Aug 91 09:22:02 U From: "Joyce Ogburn" Subject: Richard Abel Company I just moved into my new office this week, the office that was used for the Chief Acquisitions Librarian in the past. Regina McPartland, the previous chief, had been at Yale for forty some years. Among the books left in the office was a 1973 Series Catalog from the Richard Abel Co.! A little bit of history comes back to life when you aren't even looking! (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 29 August 1991 11:18:41 CDT From: "Karen Muller/ALCTS 312-280-5031" Subject: Book selection software As Executive Director, I frequently receive calls seeking advice on handling some aspect of technical services. I have received a call from the director of a major public library seeking a "paperless" solution to the selection process undertaken by the branches. In this case, information on new library materials from a wide variety of sources is compiled by the ordering staff into selection lists for the branch managers. The branch managers are networked to the main library on an Ether- net/AppleShare network which includes both DOS machines and Macintoshes. Although this enables exchange of documents, the selection list is too cumber- some in its present WordPerfect (for Macintosh and for DOS) form and must be printed out, marked up, then returned to the ordering staff. The library is also an INNOVACQ customer (and has been in contact with INNOVACQ staff al- ready). Does anyone know of software that would enable the library to capture data on new books, whether downloaded from such sources as BIP Plus or scanned from checklists, into a format--perhaps a multiuser database--that can be shared on a network of PCs and Macs, manipulated by users at various nodes on the network, and returned to a central point? In an ideal world, the same data would be uploaded to the INNOVACQ system, but that is less critical, as even the first stage would reduce paper and keyboarding. I'm willing to accept e-mail answers directly (u19466@uicvm) or you might respond through Christian if this is of broad interest. [It is! C.] I could see adaptability to academic branch and/or faculty selection, for example. (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 91 15:02:26 EDT From: David James Subject: Latin American Bookstore, Ithaca, NY, Latin American approval plans The Eisenhower Library has a Latin American approval plan with Latin American Bookstore in Ithaca. The plan basically is designed to collect materials in the area of literature. The plan works well for us. The vendor requires prepayment each year and sends monthly statements of expenditures, etc. We also order most current imprints from Latin America from them. This allows us to avoid (try to avoid, really - it doesn't always work) duplicates. This plan was set up before I arrived at Hopkins, so I don't know the particulars of its background. If Marsha needs/wants more information, I'll try to get it for her. (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 91 11:17:37 EDT From: Richard Jasper Subject: More on UNIFO Regarding UNIFO's previously announced plans to publish an English language only edition of the U.N. treaty series: Liz McBride, our documents librarian, wrote Timothy Lent of UNIFO in mid-August asking for any promotional material he might have on the proposed series. Earlier this week we received Liz's letter back with a two word reply: "Series cancelled." So our previous discussion looks to be moot. (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 91 13:01 From: Ann O'Neill Subject: Request for nominations for G.K. Hall Award for Library Literature I have received the following from Charley Seavey at Arizona, and he would like to have it included on ACQNET. Thanks. Ann O'Neill Dear Colleagues: As chair of this years American Library Association G.K. Hall Award for Library Literature Committee I am casting the widest possible net for nomina- tions for the award. The award is presented annually to one author and/or co-authors who make an outstanding contribution to library literature issued during the three years preceding the presentation (which will be 1992, so books published in 1989-1991 are eligible) The general criteria are fairly broad. 1. The literature to be considered should be a book - that is not a continuing publication such as an article, serial, or annual. 2. It should be an original work by the author/co-authors. In the past the committee has interpreted this to mean that edited works are not eligible. 3. Country of author(s) and publishing origin will only be U.S. or Canada. 4. English language material only. Their are a number of specific criteria, but they all add up to "Is it a good book? Well written, conceived, and with a reasonably important topic?" I am sending snailmail (paper, stamps, etc) versions of this request to all the library book publishers, the ARL directors, the heads of all library schools in the U.S. and Canada, assorted friends, and just folks in Libraryland who strike me as interesting observers of the field. As far as I know this is the first time the G.K. Hall Award request for nominations has gone out electronically. If you are on a listserver or bulletin board other than MAPS-L or GOVDOCS-L, feel free to forward on - I'd like this thing to spread as widely as possible. If you have a nomination, send me the appropriate bibliographic informa- tion directly to me (don't bother the list servers) either via E-Mail at Bitnet: DOCMAPS@ARIZRVAX Internet: DOCMAPS@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU or: Charley Seavey Graduate Library School University of Arizona 1515 East First Street Tucson, AZ 857l9 (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 11:03 EDT From: "Kent McKeever " Subject: Nigerian law dealer Colleagues: Beware the offerings of a dealer from Nigeria named OWOLABI AWOSOLA. We recently ordered a set of "Nigerian Treaties in Force", 10 Volumes @ $200 and another set called "Revised Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990", which is designed to supplant the 1958 recompilation, at $500 for 25 volumes. He has shipped both, but has billed us $850 for the treaties and $5,300 for the statutes! We have received the treaties, and I expect the statutes any day now. I have sent him a letter rejecting his terms and expressing our intent to return the material. I will keep you posted on the outcome. ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE ***** END OF FILE *****