ACQNET v3n019 (February 25, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acq-v3n019 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 3, No. 19, February 25, 1993 ========================================= (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (9 lines) (2) FROM: Dottie Marcinko SUBJECT: ACQNET files (12 lines) (3) FROM: Michael Weber SUBJECT: Books on Italian-American culture (9 lines) (4) FROM: Joe Barker SUBJECT: Acquisitions profession (37 lines) (5) FROM: Melissa Nasea SUBJECT: Technical services staff in public services (15 lines) (6) FROM: Leonore Cohen SUBJECT: Ambassador Book Service (7 lines) (7) FROM: Wanda Dole SUBJECT: Meeting announcement (42 lines) (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: February 25, 1993 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Lowena C. Latiff Student Univ. of Kentucky College of Library & Info. Science E-mail: LCLATI00@UKCC.UKY.EDU (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 22 Feb 93 16:21:11 CST From: Dottie Marcinko (Auburn University) Subject: ACQNET files I will volunteer that I used the ACQNET1 directory recently, having gotten it through Barb Nelson here (the subscriber I have cribbed from), and I used it to pare down the number of people I sent announcements of a discussion group meeting to. Why mail them a copy if they were on either NOTISACQ or ACQNET when it was posted there? Saved about $40! I will also use it to get unknown e-mail addresses, so yes, it is useful. (3)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 17:06:33 EST From: Michael Weber (Alvernia College) I am trying to find information on acquiring materials concerning Italian-American culture and ethnicity. I am interested in book lists, book reviews, professional contacts and related information. I am working on developing a collection for the Italian-American Research Center here at Alvernia College. (4)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 17:49:21 PST From: Joe Barker (Univ. of California - Berkeley) Subject: Acquisitions profession Janet Flowers raises a good point in a fine way My time is spent a little like Janet's. Two strategic planning task forces, both of which I chair; meetings to consolidate the units being added to my department (documents, newspapers, microforms); space planning meetings for our new building; two committees on planning for electronic journals, one of which I chair; coordinating serials check-in decentralization. All of that is on top of running a huge monographs/serials acquisition department and all of the personnel, budget, automation, etc. that we all know it entails. A full time job by itself. I routinely work 10 to 12 hours per day, seven days a week. I never have a vacation, and am surrendering excess annual leave accumulations. However, I refuse to work nights, and on weekends I reserve the right to go out for a lunch break with my wife. Everyone I know in our profession is working like this! I'm not saying my plight is worse than yours. The problem is that I LOVE ALL OF THAT STUFF, and it feels good to be pretty good at all of it. It also feels to good to be included in all of the "movin' and shakin' goin' on, goin' on, goin' on." I wonder if we, acquisitions folks, always "more smart than powerful" as the Goddess Acquisina put it, aren't suckers being taken advantage of because we see a chance to feel a little power/influence along with our smarts. Our smarts are getting put to use, finally. Am I complaining? Not at all. I could say "no," but I enjoy what I'm overworking at.... most of it. (5)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 16:17:48 EST From: Melissa Nasea (East Carolina University) Subject: Technical services staff in public service areas Gail Defendorf asked about using technical services staff in public services areas. At the East Carolina University Health Sciences Library all of the librarians have had reference duties for many years. The reference librarians have around 16 hours of reference desk duties each week and the rest of us (in acquisitions, audio-visuals, cataloging, circulation, and serials) have around 8 hours. All of us also do "reference on call" to back up the person on reference. Although it can be annoying on occasion to have to stop what I am doing and go sit reference, I think it is beneficial to the library and the staff. (6)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 11:39:32 +0200 From: Leonore Cohen (Weizmann Inst. of Sci.) Subject: Ambassador Book Service Has anyone worked with the vendor Ambassador Book Service? Please let me know the pluses and minuses. (7)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 22 Feb 1993 12:41:43 -0500 (EST) From: Wanda V. Dole (SUNY - Stony Brook) Subject: Program Announcement The Collection Management and Development Section and the Preservation of Library Materials Section of ALA/ALCTS are sponsoring a two day regional institute on preservation strategies for collection management. This institute will provide an overview of major issues in planning, developing, implementing and funding preservation activities for libraries where there is no formal preservation program in place. It is designed to equip those involved in collection management with the needed skills and perspectives to set preservation priorities, work with available resources and establish plans that are appropriate to the collections within their institutions. Papers, panel discussions, issue sessions and small break-out sessions will be among the variety of instructional techniques employed. Break-out sessions will provide practical advice and handouts on preservation issues for specific material formats and on planning and implementing preservation activities. Speakers include Sophia Jordan (Notre Dame), Dwight Burlingame (Indiana University), Marta O'Niell (Indiana Commission on Public Records), Rebecca Stuhr-Rommerin (University of Iowa), Lorraine Olley (Indiana University), Martha Hanson (Syracuse University), Jennifer Hehman (IUPUI), Miriam Kahn (MBK Consulting), Carla Montori (University of Michigan), Kathryn De Graff (DePaul University), Dina Schoomaker (Oberlin College) and Don Etherington (ICI). The institute will be held May 3-4, 1993 at the University of Notre Dame, Center for Continuing Education, Notre Dame, Indiana. Hotel accommodations are reserved at the Morris Inn and the Jamison Inn adjacent to the conference center. Registration fees are $135 for ALCTS members; $170 for ALA members; $205 for non-ALA members. Fees include instructional materials, refreshment breaks, and one lunch. Contact Yvonne McLean (800-545-2433, ext. 5043; U58294@UICVM) for complete program information and the University of Notre Dame Center for Continuing Education (219-631-6691) for registration information. ******* END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 3, No. 19 ****** END OF FILE *******