ACQNET v2n008 (January 21, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acq-v2n008 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 8, January 21, 1992 ======================================= (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (8 lines) (2) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: ACQNET to suspend operations during ALA (8 lines) (3) FROM: Ann O'Neill SUBJECT: The Challenge, acquisitions profession (20 lines) (4) FROM: Lenore Wilkas SUBJECT: _International Subscription Agents_, 6th. ed. (22 lines) (5) FROM: Peter Stevens SUBJECT: Music score vendors (7 lines) (6) FROM: Michael Cramer SUBJECT: Gifts of books to overseas libraries (9 lines) (7) FROM: Michael Cramer SUBJECT: Donor release forms (10 lines) (8) FROM: Carol Chamberlain SUBJECT: ICPSR guidebooks and tapes (17 lines) (9) FROM: Wanda Dole SUBJECT: Retention of purchase orders (8 lines) (10) FROM: Kay Granskog SUBJECT: ALA meeting announcement: ALCTS Preorder/Precataloging Discussion Group (12 lines) (11) FROM: Margaret Sylvia SUBJECT: CD-ROM LAN open house at ALA (18 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: January 21, 1992 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Anita W. Farber Assistant Head Librarian, Acquisitions and Serials University of Texas at Austin Library E-mail: LLAWF@UTXDP.BITNET (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: January 21, 1992 From: Christian Subject: ACQNET to suspend operations Unless I receive lots of postings tomorrow this will be the last ACQNET to go before ALA. We will resume operations next week. Expect the first issue on Thursday January 30 or Friday January 31. I look forward to seeing many of you in a few days. (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ann O'Neill Subject: Some thoughts Date: Sun, 19 Jan 92 14:03 I agree with both Joyce Ogburn's and Richard Jasper's comments about time for reflection. Some time for thought will help all of us come up with better ideas and solutions, for both practical and research areas. The idea of replication is very good also. Although people often think that research has to be "new", anything that adds to our knowledge base is good, and replication helps to confirm (or not) the ideas and "unproven assumptions" of our field. Especially for acquisitions. Also, I've been reading in the sociology of professions literature of late, and keep coming across the notion of controlling an area of knowledge for a profession to gain respect and authority. I think this is something we should look at, not only for acquisitions (what is our base of knowledge) but for librarianship in general. This literature says that a profession will gain respect and authority when society "accepts" their expertise over a field of knowledge that the "ordinary" person can't fully understand. Is this one of the image problems of our profession? (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 14:06:01 -0500 From: "Lenore Wilkas" Subject: 6th edition, _INTERNATIONAL SUBSCRIPTION AGENTS_ Over 700 agent questionnaires for the 6th ed. of _International Subscription Agents_, to be published by the ALA, are about to be distributed. This volume, which will be larger in format and scope, will include agents that provide libraries with subscriptions, monographic series standing orders, back issues, and serial subscriptions in microform or other formats. Any vendors wishing to be included by filling out a questionnaire should submit their name and address directly to me. Any librarians who use vendors that may be unknown or little-known in the library community should feel free to make these known to me directly. Information concerning agents for or in Third World countries would be welcomed. Thanks for your help and for the many queries concerning the publication of this new edition. The queries to ALA really generated this new edition. Lenore R. Wilkas, Editor, _INTERNATIONAL SUBSCRIPTION AGENTS_, and Serials Acquisitions Librarian, Univ. of Pennsylvania Libraries, 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6278. Phone: 215-898-2815 Fax: 215-898-0559 (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1992 10:57:38 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Stevens Subject: Music scores vendor We have been using Eble Music as a source for music scores for the past year and have been very happy with their service. Their address is P. O. Box 2570, Iowa City, IA 52240 (telephone 319-338-0313). (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 11:48:01 EST From: Michael D. Cramer Subject: Gifts of books overseas I'd like to find the phone number + address for a program which routed donated books/journals/etc. to universities overseas. I think the group is located in Washington, DC. I was positive I'd filed the information in my files after reading about it but now can't locate anything. A faculty member saw a similar announcement, didn't save the information and gave me a call. (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 11:48:01 EST From: Michael D. Cramer Subject: Donor release forms I'd like to receive copies from colleagues of any release forms donors sign when providing gift materials to the library. My address follows. Thanks so much. Michael D. Cramer, Head, Acquisitions Dept., University Libraries, VPI, P.O.Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001. Fax: 703-231-3694. Phone: 703-231-6736. (8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1992 20:30 EST From: CAROL CHAMBERLAIN Subject: ICPSR guidebooks and tapes In response to Richard Jasper's question about ICPSR, Penn State's Acquisitions Dept orders and receives ICPSR guidebooks and tapes. The academic computing center handles the membership, and the tapes and one copy of the guidebooks are housed there. We order online through ICPSR's ordering service, receive and catalog the tapes and the documentation. One copy of the guidebook is located in the library. When responsibility for this process was turned over to the library a few years ago, one initial problem was that ICPSR only wanted to deal with one address, one institutional representative, to which all correspondence and mailings (including the tapes) were sent. I'm not certain this is still a requirement but we had an arrangement with the librarian who served as the representative and it worked well for us. The ICPSR process is considered an "exceptional" acquisitions process that we assign to one staff person to do. (9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1992 11:26 EST From: "Wanda V. Dole" Subject: Retention of purchase orders Our acting head of acquisitions is cleaning out old files and wants to know how long to keep old purchase orders. NY state requires us to keep VOUCHERS for 7 years... but there appears to be no rule for the order slips themselves. We have them back to 1977 and would like to clean house. (10) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 10:44 EST From: Kay Granskog <20676KAG@MSU.BITNET> Subject: ALA announcement The ALCTS Preorder/Precat Discussion Group will discuss the topic: Unpublished Secrets: research for problem solving in Technical Services. Discussion Leaders are Sheila Mangum, Head, Acquisitions at University of North Florida and Keitha Ramsey, Manager, Automated Cataloging at University of Houston. They will present studies they have performed on Harrassowitz slips and terminology. We meet on Monday, January 27 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm in the San Antonio Convention Center, Patio B. (11) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 12:21 CST From: Margare Sylvia Subject: CD-ROM Lan open house during ALA We have just brought up our new CD-ROM LAN and we would like to show it off during ALA. Please join us for an open house on Sunday January 26 at St. Mary's University Academic Library. We are running a Novell network with a DEC Infoserver. Currently we have ABI/Inform and Periodical Abstracts from UMI, ERIC and PsycLIT from Silverplatter, Marcive's Government Documents, and the National Trade Databank and Foreign Trade Index from GPO. We will be holding the open house from 2-5 p.m. Please contact me for further information and directions to the campus. (There are no parking restrictions on Sunday.) Margaret Sylvia, St. Mary's University Academic Library, One Camino Santa Maria San Antonio, TX 78228-8608 (512)436-3442 ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 8 ****** END OF FILE *******