ACQNET v2n028 (February 26, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acq-v2n028 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 28, February 26, 1992 ========================================= (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (13 lines) (2) FROM: Barbara Winters SUBJECT: Potential serial orders (16 lines) (3) FROM: Richard Jasper SUBJECT: Potential serial orders (28 lines) (4) FROM: Keith Stetson SUBJECT: Potential serial orders (19 lines) (5) FROM: Daniel Jones SUBJECT: Potential serial orders, serials cancellations (25 lines) (6) FROM: Helen Mack SUBJECT: Unwanted books (12 lines) (7) FROM: Nancy Stanley SUBJECT: Office privacy, screen saving software (13 lines) (8) FROM: Katina Strauch SUBJECT: Bob Mastejulia (14 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: February 26, 1992 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Sue Neumeister Head, Bibliographic Control SUNY - Buffalo Library E-mail: ULCSUSAN@UBVM.BITNET Kent Abbott Catalog Librarian Stanford University Grad. Sch. of Business Library E-mail: SABBOTT@GSB-PESO.STANFORD.EDU (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 07:49 EST From: Barbara Winters Subject: Potential Serials Purchases I write in response to Eleanor Cook's query about "potential serials orders." And I won't joke or be sarcastic (although I might mention the word "retentive" if I'm not careful). I will just tell Eleanor to relax....and to remember that she has to become comfortable with the fact that her "collection" goes beyond the walls of her library. If a new title truly is worthy, a researcher will find citations, determine that you don't own the title, and gain access to the articles s/he needs. And, Eleanor, if you ever again find yourself with an embarrassment of riches, you will be able to reconstruct a list of the meaning- ful titles you missed during the lean years by looking at ILL logs, or in some other similar fashion. So, stop keeping things around that make you feel guilty. There's enough legitimate "guilt" in this business caused by increased and conflicting demands, limited resources, and so forth. (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 92 09:15:47 EST From: Richard Jasper Subject: Potential serial orders Like Eleanor Cook, I have been directly involved with serials acquisitions for only a few years, having been involved earlier primarily with monographs. I look forward to hearing what others have to say on this topic. We maintain a display of unsolicited sample issues that would be appropriate for our collection in the current periodicals area. These are weeded periodi- cally. Sample issues requested by faculty can easily be obtained from the publisher or your vendor(s). Flyers are thrown out, on the assumption that every flyer that appears in the library will also appear in numerous faculty offices, and will be attached to a serial request form if one is ever submit- ted. We also maintain a publishers catalog collection, separated by books and journals, which is routinely weeded. Flyers for books are routed to the appropriate librarian subject specialist, or discarded. (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 09:14 CST From: Daniel Jones Subject: Potential serial orders, serial cancellations Eleanor Cook's comments about her $22,000 of desirable serial orders agree with statements I have heard other's make recently. In one instance I heard of a library not ordering any new journals for five years and the backlog of orders has become a whole new problem to deal with. At the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio we never stopped ordering new journals even though, since 1986, we have canceled approximately 600 subscriptions. We believe that we need to have the important new journals that are being produced and we allocate a small amount of money each year for new titles. When the time comes to cancel journals we cancel whatever is necessary to meet our allocation for existing subscriptions and to allow us to purchase the new titles that we need. I think that if you do not buy new titles you are digging your own grave. What you end up with is a static and dwindling collection. Your users begin to expect less and less of you and look elsewhere for the new material. You are also sending a message to journal publishers and editors that you are absolute- ly committed to their titles and that they are safe from any new competition. It sounds like a losing proposition for the library: canceling journals and not ordering new ones. Why not cancel more (we all are quite good at it by now, right?) and add at the same time; at least then you can point to the new titles to show that some benefit has been gained from the cancellations. (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 92 09:53:46 EST From: Helen Mack Subject: Wanted: recipients of unneeded books We have a large number of high quality gift books that we wish to dispose of. Rather than shipping them to USBE or using precious staff time to compile a list for the ALA exchange program, we'd like to find a really needy library or two to simply accept what we send on an ongoing basis. We would only ask to be reimbursed for shipping. We do have old exchange lists which could serve as a sampling of what we are offering. Does anyone on ACQNET work at or know of any such libraries? (I'm trying to save myself the effort of plowing through the list of consortia in the _American Library Directory_!) (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 12:30 EST From: NANCY STANLEY Subject: Privacy of data In response to Nancy Gibbs comments on office privacy she discussed the inability to maintain the privacy of screen data. Loaded on every work station in our libraries is a program which I believe is called "Burnout," a shareware program. The intent of the program is to act as a screen saver, but as a side benefit, one can hit CTRL/SHIFT and, if it is working as it should, the screen will go blank. The screen data are recovered by simply touching a key. Although it may not help in every circumstance, it does provide a mechanism to instantly blank the screen. If you walk away from your work station, it will go blank automatically at the time set up in the software, e.g. 3 or 4 minutes. (8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 92 14:27 EDT From: Katina Strauch Subject: Bob Mastejulia Yo Christian! Just got a call today from Bob Mastejulia who asked that I send out the following message on ACQNET, please, and thanks: Bob Mastejulia is no longer with Baker & Taylor. He would like any of us out here who know of jobs, leads, ideas, etc., to let him know. His phone number in Chicago is (312) 404-0537. He's looking for something to do! Thanks. Katina (P.S. I'm getting ready to try to call your father. Is he in town?) [Gee, Katina! You'd better be careful. My Mom may be 83, but she's VERY sharp! C.] ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 28 ****** END OF FILE *******