ACQNET v2n060 (June 2, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acq-v2n060 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 60, June 2, 1992 ==================================== (1) FROM: Carol Hawks SUBJECT: _LAPT_ research award (40 lines) (2) FROM: Hannah King SUBJECT: Serial vendors evaluation (6 lines) (3) FROM: Karen Schmidt SUBJECT: Room available at ALA (8 lines) (4) FROM: Margaret Sylvia SUBJECT: Electronic ordering (37 lines) (5) FROM: Steve Murden SUBJECT: Music scores vendors (11 lines) (6) FROM: Ann Palomo SUBJECT: African vendors (9 lines) (7) FROM: Peter Stevens SUBJECT: Canadian government documents (11 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 May 92 09:27 EDT From: Carol P. Hawks Subject: Research award RESEARCH AWARD LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS: PRACTICE & THEORY _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_ (LAPT) is pleased to announce the recipient of the 1992 Research Award, Anna H. Perrault. Ms. Perrault is Head, Interlibrary Services and Head, Reference Collection Develop- ment, at the Louisiana State University Libraries in Baton Rouge, LA. Her publication with Beth Paskoff, "A Tool for Comparative Collection Analysis: Conducting a Shelf-list Sample to Construct a Collection Profile, received the American Library Association, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services' Best of LRTS Award in 1991. Her proposal, "A Study of the Effects of the Diversion of Funds from Monographs to Serials on the Monograph Collections of Research Libraries," has been funded as the first _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_ Research Award. Her research will investigate the "shrinking non-serial resources base for United States academic libraries," "shifts in monographic collecting patterns and trends in the acquisition of foreign language imprints," and "the decline in monograph acquisitions as distributed across subject disciplines or among language groups." The rationale and objectives follow: "The research is intended to provide information for discussion within the academic library community of the issues of the decline in the monographic research base and the shifts in collecting patterns by subject and by language in the collective resources base of academic research libraries. The research will also provide management data for use by academic library managers." The Call for Proposals for the 1993 Research Award will be released shortly. Questions concerning this award should be addressed to: Carol Pitts Hawks, Editor-in-Chief, _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_, 5380K Coachman Road, Columbus, OH 43220 (614) 292-6314 FAX: (614) 292-7859 (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 May 1992 07:49 EDT From: Hannah King Subject: Serial vendors evaluation If anyone would be interested in the outcome of our subscription vendor evaluation, please contact me. (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 1 Jun 1992 13:18:25 CDT From: Karen Schmidt Subject: Room available at ALA Thanks to room rearranging, I have an extra room available for the ALA-San Francisco conference at the Villa Florence. Cost is $99.00 per night. Before I let the room go, does anyone on ACQNET need this room? Please contact me directly, KSCHMIDT@UIUCVMD.BITNET, or 217-333-1054. (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 May 92 20:52 CST From: Margaret Sylvia Subject: Electronic ordering Regarding the question on electronic ordering, at St. Mary's University Academic Library, we have been using this on our Dynix acquisitions system for over three years now. We have not had any real problems except for when we ourselves have accidentally sent an order off twice without realizing it. This is quite easy to do if you skip a step in the process and don't clear your old p.o.'s. On Dynix, we only interface with Baker & Taylor so far although I understand that they are working with some other vendors but we haven't tried them out yet. I'm not absolutely sure electronic ordering is available between Dynix and anybody else. Anyway, on our system it works this way: You type your order records into the system in the same way you would if you were planning a paper order. Then, you select a menu choice which enables you to build an electronic purchase order. This is downloaded from Dynix onto the hard disk of our PC and given a file name. Then we dial B&T, send them the file, and wait a half an hour. After that time, a confirmation file is available from B&T which we can upload into Dynix and each order then shows whether it is being shipped, backordered, canceled, etc. After doing this, we clear the PO from Dynix and are ready to build another if we want to do so. We don't clear it any earlier in case the order didn't get through to B&T for some reason and we need to send it again. As I mentioned earlier the only problem we have encountered is if we forget to clear the PO and then build another. When the next PO is sent, both POs are sent and there is no indica- tion from Dynix that this is happening. Thus you can wind up with a lot of duplicates if you aren't careful. Anyway, our general perception of electronic ordering is that it saves a lot of mailing time. When we send off a paper order, it sits in our mailbox for a day, in the university mailbox for a day, in the post office for another day, and who knows how long before it is finally opened at the vendor's office. I'm guessing we cut a week or so off the turnaround time for receiving the books with electronic ordering. (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 May 1992 12:24 EDT From: Steve Murden Subject: Music scores vendors Virginia Commonwealth University uses European American, Blackwell's, and Harrassowitz, as previously mentioned in Thelma Diercks' posting. In addition, we also use: James Vester Music 917 Eighth Ave., South Nashville, TN 37203 phone (615) 254-9362 According to our resident expert in music ordering, they are good suppliers and invoicers, and good for _some_ hard-to-find materials. Theodore Presser Music Presser Place Bryn Mawr, PA phone (215) 525-3636 They are good for middle European materials. Brodt Music P.O. Box 9345 Charlotte, NC 28299 phone 1-800-438-4129 (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 29 May 92 08:15:00 EST From: Ann Palomo Subject: African vendors In response to Brian McLaughlin's inquiry concerning vendors in Africa, he might want to check with this Massachusetts firm: AFRICAN IMPRINT, 410 WEST FALMOUTH HIGHWAY, PO BOX 350, WEST FALMOUTH, MA 02574 PHONE: 508-540-5378 (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1992 08:22:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Stevens Subject: Canadian government publications The Canadian equivalent of GPO is the Canadian Government Publishing Center (Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0S9, Canada), though it does not cover the equivalent range of publications. Their agent in the US is International Specialized Book Services (ISBS, 5602 NE Hassalo St, Portland, OR 97213-3640, phone 1-800-547-7734). Anything that ISBS cannot obtain from the Canadian Government Publishing Center is often available from Academic Book Center which bears the same address as ISBS. ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 60 ****** END OF FILE *******