ACQNET v3n059 (June 17, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acq-v3n059 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 3, No. 59, June 17, 1993 ===================================== (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Who's new on ACQNET today (14 lines) (2) FROM: Peter Stevens SUBJECT: Multiple approval plans (18 lines) (3) FROM: Henry DuBois SUBJECT: Multiple approval plans (21 lines) (4) FROM: Peter Stevens SUBJECT: Australian and New Zealand vendors (7 lines) (5) FROM: Shirley Reuter SUBJECT: Video vendors (30 lines) (6) FROM: Mary Care SUBJECT: ALA meeting: Electronic journals: meeting the challenge (32 lines) (7) FROM: Nancy Gibbs SUBJECT: ALA meeting: Role of the Professional in Academic Research Technical Services Discussion Group (32 lines) (1)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: June 17, 1993 From: Christian Subject: Who's new on ACQNET today Tina Jensen Faulconer Acquisitions Assistant Mary Washington College Library E-mail: TFAULCON@S850.MWC.EDU Sharon A. Sullivan Head, Acquisitions Division University of California - Los Angeles Biomedical Library E-mail: ECZ5SAS@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (2)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 08:13:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Stevens (University of Washington) Subject: Approval plan vendors We use the following vendors for approval programs: Blackwell North America (US-Canadian imprints, undergraduate titles); Majors Scientific Books (health sciences titles); Worldwide Books (art exhibition catalogs); BH Blackwell (British, French, Spanish, Italian imprints); and Harrassowitz (German imprints, European music scores). We also have in planning or under consideration: Blackwell North America (branch campus libraries titles) and Munksgaard (Scandinavian imprints). It would be great to be able to obtain all these titles from one vendor and have to deal with only one kind of bibliographic forms, approval tape/diskette/ftp load and procedures--but no one vendor can provide all this coverage. Political issues prevent us from profitably combining our US-Canadian and health sciences approval programs but otherwise we have consolidated programs with as few vendors as possible. (3)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 17 Jun 93 08:40:28 PST From: Henry J. DuBois (Cal. St. U.-Long Beach Subject: Multiple approval vendors In response to Paul Pival's inquiry regarding the use of multiple approval plans, at CSU Long Beach we have used three approval vendors for several years. We use Midwest for university presses, Academic Book Center for STM, the arts, and business, and Blackwell for social sciences, language and literature. Why three? Because years ago a state auditor was concerned that so much money was being paid out to a single approval vendor (Blackwell) and began musing about the need to put the program out to bid, which of course horrified the library and the campus. Dividing up the pie helps keep approval spending low profile. It also, as one of our vendors points out with great frequency, lessens the discount which any one can offer us. After initial adjustments we haven't had much problem with coordination among the three plans. I should note that in recent years, with the California economy foundering, we've done relatively little purchasing of any books, approval or firm order. (4)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 08:29:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Stevens (University of Washington) Subject: Australian/New Zealand vendors For trade and governmental publications from both Australia and NZ, we have happily used South Pacific Books, PO Box 3533, Auckland, NZ for years. (5)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 15:02:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Shirley Reuter (Bowdoin College) Subject: Screenplay and film script vendors Here are four vendors of screenplays and film scripts, whose names were suggested in response to my Acqnet query: Larry Edmunds Cinema and Theatre Bookshop, Inc. 6644 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90028 Move, Inc. 8033 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90046 1-213-871-0707 Music Theatre International 545 8th Ave. New York NY 1-212-868-6668 Tams Witmark Music Library 560 Lexington Ave., #12 New York NY 1-212-688-2525 Samuel French and Dramatist Play Service were also suggested but I specifically wanted vendors for screenplays and film scripts -- not play scripts. My thanks to all who wrote me. (6)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 11:53:10 CDT From: Mary M. Case (Northwestern Univ.) Subject: Serials Section Program on Electronic Journals ALCTS SERIALS SECTION PROGRAM ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: MEETING THE CHALLENGE Sunday, June 27, 1993 2-4 p.m. New Orleans Convention Center - Room 38 ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: MEETING THE CHALLENGE will address the issues presented by electronic journals throughout the scholarly communication chain. Speakers representing publishers and editors, librarians, contributors and end-users will discuss the creation, production, distribution, organization, maintenance and use of electronic journals from their unique perspectives, highlighting successes and issues yet to be resolved. A final speaker will speculate on the continuing evolution of the electronic journal and the changes which we will need to make to position ourselves to continue to meet the challenges. SPEAKERS Marcia Tuttle, Head, Serials Dept., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and editor of _Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues_ Gail McMillan, Serials Team Leader, Virginia Polytechnic James O'Donnell, Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania, and editor of the _Bryn Mawr Classical Review_ John Ulmschneider, Assistant Director for Library Systems, North Carolina State University (7)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 17 Jun 1993 16:53:14 U From: Nancy Gibbs (North Carolina S. U.) Subject: ALA meeting Due to the sudden death of the Vice-Chair of the discussion group (Dennis Grumling) there will be no personal mailing to notify participants of the upcoming meeting. Please share this message with all members of tech service departments attending ALA in New Orleans. Thanks. Meeting announcement: ALCTS Role of the Profession in Academic Research Technical Services Departments Discussion Group Sunday, June 27, 1993, 2-4 PM, Hyatt Regency, Ballroom G 'THINGS ARE CHANGING IN TECH SERVICES" Presentations by discussion starters: -- "The Professional as Facilitator" by Marilyn Norsted, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and "The Incredible Shrinking Department: Downsizing & Cooperation" by Gail Defendorf, Kansas State University Libraries Discussion Moderator and Chair of the Discussion Group: Nancy Gibbs, North Carolina State University Libraries, nancy_gibbs@ncsu.edu The meeting will also include an election for vice chair/chair elect. ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 3, No. 59 ****** END OF FILE ******