ACQNET v2n104 (November 22, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acq-v2n104 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 104, November 22, 1992 ========================================== (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (13 lines) (2) FROM: Lynne Branch Brown SUBJECT: Italian publishing and booksellers (11 lines) (3) FROM: John P. Mulvaney SUBJECT: "Adding value" and acquisitions (32 lines) (4) FROM: Jeffry Larson SUBJECT: _Les Livres Disponibles_ (12 lines) (5) FROM: Edward A. Warro SUBJECT: BNA Scholarship Award (95 lines) (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: November 22, 1992 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Jean-Bernard Condat Elizabeth H. Smith Consultant in Library Sciences Assoc. Dir. for Technical Services CCCF (Lyon, France) East Carolina University Library E-mail: JBCONDAT@ATTMAIL.COM E-mail: LBSMITH@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU David How Morse Associate Director for Collection Resources University of Southern California Medical Library E-mail: DMORSE@PHAD.HSC.USC.EDU (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:03 EST From: Lynne Branche Brown (PALINET) Subject: Italian Booksellers We currently have a slips service with Casalini, primarily for Italian language and literature, though a few other subjects are included. Our Italian faculty has in the past received slips from Licosa as well, and feels they need slips from both companies. For those of you who have more experience than I with Italian publishing and bookselling, are the publishers covered by these two firms significantly different that we need them both? Who are others using? Thanks! (3)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 13:53:44 EST From: John P. Mulvaney (Mary Washington College) Subject: Adding value. Christian: I have several comments after reading your remarks in ACQNET this morning. First of all, I think Miriam Drake was correct in her remarks at the Charleston Conference that we need to convince administrators that we (librarians) add value, and not just to the information which we buy. First of all, what is value. Ronald Powell addresses this issue in part in an article in the latest _Library and Information Science Research_ issue, in an article entitled, "Impact Assessment of University Libraries: A Consideration of Issues and Research Methodologies." He points out that we need to learn, and then, obviously demonstrate to faculty and administrators, "how students' use of libraries affects their academic performance." This does not, however, go far enough because it does not address financial issues. The question which needs to be answered is how much money does the library save students and faculty? How much would it cost them, were there no library present, in both time and money, to obtain the information (books, articles, etc.) that they need for their classes, teaching, research, etc. Here is an area ripe for research and methodological development. Second, we can't really talk about the value that we as acquisitions (or reference, or catalogue, etc.) librarians add for two interconnected reasons: 1) we as a profession have never defined what is professional or non-professional work, thus we can't define what an "acquisitions librarian" does. Remember, to paraphrase Tip O'Neill, "All librarianship is local." 2) What we do do, (no pun intended) as librarians, is manage. It seems to me that the essence of librarianship now is management. Librarians manage the personnel, the materials, the services, etc. to ensure that they fulfill their missions and ensure that value is added. (4)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 19 Nov 1992 09:04:07 U From: Jeffry Larson (Yale University) Subject: _Livres Disponibles_ 93 A UTILITARIAN NOTICE FOR ACQNET: The 1993 edition of _Les Livres Disponibles_ no longer carries the directory of publishers found in previous editions. Users are referred to "the annual edition by Editions du Cercle de la librairie of 'Les Editeurs et diffuseurs de langue francaise,' also available on Minitel 36 17 Electre or on CD-ROM ELECTRE BIBLIO" (Auteurs, p. XIII). People who don't have these latter sources readily to hand might want to keep the appropriate volume of the 1992 edition, instead of discarding or sending it to the stacks. (5)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 14:22 CST From: Edward A. Warro (Loyola University of Chicago) Subject: Blackwell Scholarship Nominations! BLACKWELL NORTH AMERICA SCHOLARSHIP AWARD Presented by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services The Blackwell North America Scholarship Award Committee is soliciting nominations for the 1993 Blackwell North America which will be presented by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. Purpose: To honor the author or authors of the outstanding 1992 monograph, article or original paper in the field of acquisitions, collection development, and related areas of resources development in libraries. Scholarship: Blackwell North America will donate a $2,000 scholarship to the U.S. or Canadian library school of the winning author's choice. The Scholarship will be given to a student concentrating in the acquisitions of collection development areas. Criteria: Publications from both 1991 and 1992 are eligible. No reprints of earlier publications are accepted. Evaluation criteria include: intellectual content (original, thought provoking), practical value, theoretical value, scholarship, presentation and style. Procedure: Please send nomination form below AND A COPY OF THE ARTICLE OR CHAPTER to: Edward A. Warro Loyola University of Chicago Cudahy Library 6525 N. Sheridan Road Chicago, IL 60626 (312) 508-2641 ZEWARRO@luccpua.it.luc.edu BY DECEMBER 1, 1992. Please include a statement giving the full bibliographic citation of the article, book, or paper you are nominating, plus your reasons for the nomination. If possible, a copy of the article, chapter, etc. should be included. The last five years' recipients are: 1988 - Joe A. Hewitt and John S. Shipman for "Cooperative Collection Development Among Research Libraries in the Age of Networking" (_Advances in Library Automation and Networking_, v.1, 1987). 1989 - Frederick C. Lynden for "Prices of Foreign Library Materials: A Report" (_College & Research Libraries_ 49:217-31, May 1988). 1990 - Joe A. Hewitt for "On the Nature of Acquisitions" (_Library Resources & Technical Services_, 33:105-22, April 1989). 1991 - Gary D. Bird for "An Economic 'Commons' Tragedy for Research Libraries: Scholarly Journal Publishing and Pricing Trends" (_College & Research Libraries_, 51:184-95, May 1990). 1992 - Richard M. Dougherty and Carol Hughes for their article "Library Cooperation: A Historical Perspective and a Vision for the Future." in _Advances in Library Resource Sharing_, v.1, edited by Jennifer Cargill and Diane J. Graves, p.1 1-21. Meckler, 1990. and Cal Gough for "Key Issues in the Collecting of Gay/Lesbian Library Materials." in _Gay and Lesbian Library Service_, edited by Gough, Cal and Ellen Greenblatt, p.3-10. McFarland, 1990. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ALCTS AWARD NOMINATION FORM I NOMINATE ________________________________________________________ for the 1993 Blackwell North America Scholarship Award Name ______________________________________________________________ Library ___________________________________________________________ Address ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Reason ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ INCLUDE A COPY OF THE ARTICLE OR CHAPTER IF POSSIBLE. Deadline for all award nominations is DECEMBER 1, 1992. ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 2, No. 104 ****** END OF FILE *******