ACQNET v2n006 (January 16, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acq-v2n006 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 6, January 16, 1992 ======================================= (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (8 lines) (2) FROM: Pamela Rose SUBJECT: The Challenge, publishing, Pergamon (20 lines) (3) FROM: Pamela Rose SUBJECT: Continuations budgets (31 lines) (4) FROM: Richard Jasper SUBJECT: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research publications (15 lines) (5) FROM: Richard Jasper SUBJECT: Music scores vendors (13 lines) (6) FROM: Doina Farkas SUBJECT: ALA meeting announcement (19 lines) (7) FROM: Carol Hawks SUBJECT: _LAPT_ contents, Vol. 16, No. 1 (55 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: January 16, 1992 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Andy Stancliffe Acting Head, Acquisitions Department University of California - Los Angeles E-mail: ECZ5AJS@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 10:57 EST From: Pamela Rose Subject: The Challenge, publishing, Pergamon In reply to Joyce Ogburn's thoughts on acquisitions librarians becoming more knowledgeable about publishing, I heartily concur. Two years ago I was in Oxford, England on a study leave, and scheduled a visit to Pergamon Press with the specific intention of learning more about their marketing and pricing policies. While they did answer my specific questions about how they view libraries in their marketing strategy, the focus of their presentation seemed to be to convince me that we were getting a terrific deal despite the forthcom- ing price increases; the main "argument" was that, compared to the German dollar, we were much better off. I had to ask three or four times the actual percentage increase based on our previous year's payment. On later reflection, I chalked it up to the "salesman" mentality. I found the day to be very interesting, but unsatisfying. How can we really know the realities of publishing? Perhaps working in that area for a few years is the only way. There are many librarians working in the publishing field, perhaps we can call on their unique perspective to assist. (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 10:57 EST From: Pamela Rose Subject: Continuations budgets In reply to Linda Gould's question about separate continuations budgets: at the Health Sciences Library, SUNY Buffalo, we do have a separate allocation for continuations, broken down into old and new CO categories. However, our definition of a "Continuation Order" relates to the way in which we process the item on receipt, that is, if the item is cataloged (assigned a call number), and it is received on a continuing basis, it is handled by Acquisitions (not Serials) and is funded from the CO budget. Hence, we include monographic sets, a few odd monographic subscription items, monographic series, computer files, fiche, and some annuals. In cooperation with the University Library here at SUNY - Buffalo, we have been contributing pricing data at the end of each year from a 10% sample of our CO list to assess inflation rates (this was pre-NOTIS, but has continued as our NOTIS data are not yet sufficient). The same thing was done for serial subscriptions. So we do have separate figures for CO's. The rate for 1990 was 10.6%, the figure for 1991 has not yet been computed. I don't have the published average rate for 1990 at hand, so am not sure which rate it approxi- mates. In managing the budget (for all categories), we use a spreadsheet prediction scheme. We use last year's expenditure, add inflation, and try to adjust the dollar amount based on expected/recent cancellations/orders and total dollars available. Each month I post total year-to-date expenditures, divide by the number of months into the fiscal year, then multiply by 12 to arrive at a predicted expenditure for the year given the present rate. We can then adjust during the year as the prediction flucturates between over/under expenditure. This scheme has been very successful. (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 92 15:39:52 EST From: Richard Jasper Subject: ICPSR Is anyone out there ordering and cataloging tapes and codebooks from the Inter- University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) in Ann Arbor? At Emory, the General Libraries took over this function from the Political Science Department last summer. We're having a dickens of a time coming up with an efficient way to handle these items; we're finding that everything about them that can be complicated is complicated. I'd be interested in hearing what other people are doing with these. The questions these materials have raised are numerous and I won't go into them here--unless I hear enough back from other people to warrant some more collec- tive discussion. (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 92 11:21:55 EST From: Richard Jasper Subject: Music scores Like several other programs here, the Music Department at Emory is going through a period of rapid programmatic expansion and, naturally, we're seeing the results in the Library. Lately we have received a fairly large number of requests for musical scores, mainly American but also some European, for the period of the 1940s through the 1960s. Any ideas out there on who would be good sources for these materials? We have a few ideas but would benefit from hearing from libraries more experienced in this area. (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 92 08:18:44 EST From: Doina Farkas Subject: Acquisitions Librarians/Vendors of Library Materials Discussion Group meeting Group: ALCTS Acq. Librarians/Vendors of Library Materials Discussion Group Topic: Great Expectations: Acquisitions and the Electronic Horizon Speakers: Tom Michalak, President and CEO of Faxon Research Services,Inc. Dick Goodram, Associate Univ. Librarian for CM & Information Technology, San Diego State Univ. Amy Miller, President, Yankee Book Peddler International Date and Place: Tuesday, January 28,1992, 8:30 -10:30am, San Antonio Convention Center, Fiesta C More information: Doina G. Farkas, Univ.of Florida, BITNET: Doifark@NERVM Stephen Pugh, Yankee Book Peddler, (408)459-0895 Please note this meeting precedes the meeting of the ALCTS/ALMS Acquisitions Administrators Discussion Group and will be held in the same room. (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 92 17:31 EST From: Carol P. Hawks Subject: _LAPT_ contents for V. 16, no. 1 _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_ Contents Volume 16, Number 1 Pre-publication Information Hawks, Carol Pitts. Promoting research. Alexander, Adrian. Periodical Prices, 1989-1991. Shafa, Zary. Regional Study of Vendor Performance for In-Print Monographs. Joswick, Kathleen. A Comparison of OCLC and ILLINET Online as Tools for Pre-Order Citation Verification. Erickson, Rodney. Choice for Cooperative Collection Development. MacEwan, Bonnie. The Reality of Collection Evaluation: Facts, Myths, and Practices. Niles, Judith. ARL Collection Evaluation Institute. ******** ALA Midwinter Conference 1991 Winters, Barbara. Highlights of the ALCTS Automated Acquisitions/In-Process Control Systems in Libraries Discussion Group, January 14, 1991. Anderson, Barbara. Authority Control: Whose Pain Is It? Webster, Judy. Authority Control for Acquisitions. Bennett, Lee L. Authority Control in the Acquisitions Process: What Do Catalogers Want, and Do We Care?: The NOTIS Environment/Loyola Perspective. Fahy, Terry W. Authority Control in the Acquisitions Process: What Do Catalogers Want, and Do We Care? Brugger, Judith M. Automated Acquisitions and the Quality Database: A Response. The Review Section Bryant, Bonita Collection Management (Wortman); Collection Development for Libraries (Gorman); Collection Management (Shoemaker). Campbell, James Bestandsaufbau an wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken. ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 6 ****** END OF FILE *******