ACQNET v4n006 (January 26, 1994) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acqnet-v4n006 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 4, No. 6, January 26, 1994 ======================================= (1) FROM: Christian SUBJECT: Editorial Board seeks new ACQNET editor (62 lines) (2) FROM: Nancy Boggess SUBJECT: ALA meeting: ALCTS Pre-Order/Pre-Catalog Search Discussion Group (17 lines) (3) FROM: Ron Ray SUBJECT: ALA meeting: ALCTS Acquisitions Administrators Discussion Group (26 lines) (1)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Christian Subject: Editorial Board looking for new ACQNET editor Date: 25 January, 1994 Yes, the time has come. Those of you who helped me start ACQNET in December 1990 will remember that I agreed to do this for a period not to exceed two years. OK, so it's now over three years. I tried to end this last year, admittedly not very forcefully , but the Editorial Board told me to cut the baloney and they were too busy to have to work on replacing me. But now it's for real. I am thankful to have had the opportunity to manage ACQNET as I had never done anything like this before. I learned to feel comfortable with e-mail and networks and listservs. I also learned that editing is challenging and extremely rewarding. I will never again take another editor for granted. I also got a faint flavor of what journalists must feel when they are developing an important story. It is exhilarating, but also a little bit scary. It is so easy to make an item more newsworthy that it really is. Best of all ACQNET eliminated the distance between many of you and me. What you said made me want to find you at ALA or Charleston, and get to know you. I feel I have made great friendships this way. Still, I must close this chapter of my life and go on. There are many professional challenges still ahead for me and I have learned that I must pace myself and let go sometimes in order to make room for those other challenges. Similarly ACQNET must benefit from a fresh approach from time to time if it is to remain vibrant. Last year I feared a few times that it was entering a staid middle age, and it's really too young for that. So the Editorial Board is looking for a new editor. It is not going to be a complicated, or lengthy process. There will be no search committee, no major interviews or position papers. The deal is this: If you are interested, either e-mail one of the Editorial Board members (their names and addresses will appear below), or seek one of them out at ALA if you are going. They hope to have it all finished soon after ALA. I'll train the new editor, help him or her set transfer the subscriber files from here to a listserv of his or her choice and, some time before Summer, I'll stop editing. I won't stop writing, though. The members of the ACQNET Editorial Board, with their addresses, are: -- Joe Barker, Head, Acquisitions Department, University of California - Berkeley Library (jbarker@library.berkeley.edu) -- Rosann Bazirjian, Head, Bibliographic Services Department, Syracuse University Library (rvbazirj@hawk.syr.edu) -- Carol Chamberlain, Associate Dean for Technical Services and System Development, Northeastern University Library (cchamber@nuhub.bitnet) -- Eleanor Cook, Serials Librarian, Appalachian State University Library (cookei@appstate.bitnet) -- Marylou Hale, Orders Supervisor, University of Nevada - Las Vegas Library (mhale@nevada.edu) -- Meta Nissley, Head, Acquisitions and Collection Development, California State University - Chico Library (meta_nissley@msmailgw.csuchico.edu) (2)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Nancy Boggess (Vanderbilt Univ.) Subject: ALA meeting announcement Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 10:49:36 -0500 The Mid-Winter meeting of the ALCTS Pre-Order/Pre-Catalog Search Discussion Group will be held on Monday, Feb. 7 from 2:00-4:00 at the Hyatt Regency Los Angeles, Manhattan A room. The topic will be TEAM MANAGEMENT IN TECHNICAL SERVICES. Peg Earheart from Resource Services Maintenance Team at Vanderbilt University Library in Nashville TN will be the speaker. There will be ample time for discussion after her presentation. The last 10-15 minutes of the meeting will be devoted to ideas for future topics for our meetings. Please come and join us. We tend to be a very vocal group and have very lively discussions! Nancy Boggess-Korekach -- Chair Mary S. Konkel -- Co-Chair/Chair-elect (3)------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Ron Ray (University of the Pacific) Subject: ALA meeting announcement Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 12:47:33 -0800 (PST) Acquisitions Administrators Discussion Group, ALA Midwinter in LA, Sunday, February 6, 1994, 10:30 - 12 n, LACC-507. The topic, "Cracks in the Acquisitions System," is an extension of the discussion prompted by the _Lingua Franca_ article on the Edwin Mellen Press. To what extent do our acquisitions processes leave loopholes that are exploitable by pseudo- or substandard publishers? Where, between acquisitions and collection development, does the responsibility lie to identify and close these loopholes? What role do vendors play in all this? The meeting is planned as an open exploration of these and related issues, but two speakers will help us kick off the discussion: Marion Reid (CSU-San Marcos) with an overview of the Gille affair, and Bob Nardini (Yankee Book Peddler) reviewing an approval vendor's measures to screen out publisher chaff. Note: The Acquisitions Librarians/Vendors of Library Materials Discussion Group immediately precedes this meeting, 8:30-10:30 am in the same room. Ron Ray, Chair rray@uop.edu Nancy Slight-Gibney, Vice-chair/Chair Elect nsg@oregon.uoregon.edu ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 4, No. 6 ****** END OF FILE ******