ACQNET v2n089 (September 20, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acq-v2n089 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 89, September 20, 1992 ========================================== (1) FROM: Christian Boissonnas SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (28 lines) (2) FROM: Tom Oertel SUBJECT: Legal Research Systems, Transmedia Productions (15 lines) (3) FROM: Hannah King SUBJECT: Subscription agents evaluation (13 lines) (4) FROM: David Marshall SUBJECT: Co-publishing (15 lines) (5) FROM: Ann Okerson SUBJECT: Co-publishing (28 lines) (6) FROM: Peter Stevens SUBJECT: _Hester Street_ video (12 lines) (7) FROM: Kris Murphy SUBJECT: Thai and Filipino vendors (6 lines) (8) FROM: Brenda Hurst SUBJECT: Bidding (10 lines) (1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: September 20, 1992 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Michael Keith Winecoff Head of Monographs Rec., Paying & Computing Serv. University of North Carolina - Charlotte Library E-mail: ALI00MKW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU Carol Reimer Head of Monograph Searching/Ordering University of North Carolina - Charlotte Library E-mail: ALI00CJR@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU J. Lance Wilkinson Systems Design Specialist - Lead Pennsylvania State University Library E-mail: BBOARD@PSULIAS.BITNET Shiela Keil Osheroff Assistant Head, Acquisitions Division Oregon State University Library E-mail: OSHEROFS@CCMAIL.ORST.EDU Joanna Tousley-Escalante Head Librarian Technical Services Austin Community College E-mail: JOANNA@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU (2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:12 MDT From: Tom Oertel (University of Utah) Subject: Addresses/Info Doe anyone have addresses & price information on the following publishers' publications? : Legal Research Systems - publishers of _Miller's Standard Insurance Policies Annotated_ by Susan Miller, 1986- ---and--- TransMedia Productions, Shreveport, LA -- publishers of _Objection!_ (computer file) by Ashley S. Lipson, 1991. (No listing in Shreveport phone book). (3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 10:36 EDT From: Hannah King (SUNY Health Center, Syracuse) Subject: Subscription agents evaluation I am planning a presentation on subscription vendor evaluation at the Medical Library Association/Upstate New York Ontario Chapter's annual meeting. I'd like to include a review of what others are doing or have done in vendor evaluations -- problems, methodologies, outcomes, and so on. Could those of you who have initiated a subscription vendor evaluation project in the past few years e-mail or snail mail me comments, summaries, or informal observations? Confidentiality will be protected by assuring that institutions, librarians, and vendors will be kept anonymous unless respondents explicitly state they are willing to be recognized for their contributions. Thanks in advance. (4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 15:44 EDT From: David Marshall (Georgetown University) Subject: Co-publishing Many of the various and sound reasons explaining how co-published titles get purchased abroad and why librarians do not overly concern themselves with selling rights of co-published titles have been stated and do not need further elaboration. However, there is another aspect of this question which has not yet been addressed for our publishing friends. U.S. imprints are often reported not-in-stock or out-of-print in the U.S. by the time scholarly reviews appear. Why don't publishers, or the VP's Competitive Council for that matter, take on our old nemesis the Thor Decision? That might change the balance of co-published titles purchase abroad. (5) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 9:34:44 EDT From: Ann Okerson (ARL) Subject: Co-publishing (fwd) Forwarded message: Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 08:37 CDT To: ann@CNI.ORG From: Chris Africa (University of Iowa) Subject: Co-publishing The phenomenon of copublished books came to my attention fairly soon after I started reviewing books received on approval for funding to my subject lines at the Univ. of Iowa Libraries. Our vendors told us that they couldn't (or wouldn't--I've always wondered) keep track of who copublished what and they sent us the first edition to come out. We changed Macmillan and Polity to form rather than book status with BH Blackwell in fairly short order. Macmillan titles are fairly easy to keep tabs on because St. Martin's copublishes quite a lot of their titles. Polity is harder; their titles tend to show up from various university presses. Even though following up on possible copublished titles is somewhat time consuming, I tend to think that it is worth it. I just put in orders for 7 titles from St. Martins, which would have come from Macmillan before we revised our approval profile. The average price per volume from St. Martin's was $49.24, a total of $344.70 compared to an average of $94 per book, at the current exchange rate, or $658.12 at Macmillan prices. The differences between Polity prices and the US publishers tend to be quite significant, perhaps because the US publishers are usually university presses. (6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 08:40:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Stevens (University of Washington) Subject: _HESTER STREET_ video If I were trying to acquire a copy of this video, I would avoid going direct to the distributor, just as I try to avoid going direct to publishers for books. I'd phone Baker and Taylor's video number at 1-800-435-5111 and see if they have any copies in stock; their latest video inventory on microfiche lists the _HESTER STREET_ video--and at a discount. If the video is not in Baker and Taylor's video microfiche, I might then try Academic Book Center. Only if these two sources are unavailing do I start trying to track down the distributor. (7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 08:40:10 CST From: KRIS MURPHY (Southern Methodist Univ.) Subject: Need for Vendors I would be interested in finding a possible vendor(s) for materials from Thailand and the Philippines. Any suggestions? I appreciate your input. (8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 08:25 EST From: Brenda Hurst (CISTI) Subject: Bidding I am looking for some information about the problems encountered putting library acquisitions through the bidding process on a yearly basis through a centralized, non-library buying operation. I would guess there have been some good articles on the subject in the past and wondered if anyone had a reference handy. As you might imagine we are not in favour of the idea. ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 89 ****** END OF FILE *******