ACQNET v4n044 (August 31, 1994) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/serials/stacks/acqnet/acqnet-v4n044 ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 4, No. 44, August 31, 1994 ======================================= (1) FROM: John Weller SUBJECT: _Global Books in Print_ vs. _BTLINK_ (25 lines) (2) FROM: Margaret Axtmann SUBJECT: Fundamentals of Acquisitions Institutes (36 lines) (3) FROM: Sandy Paul SUBJECT: ALA report: "Selecting Products in Electronic Formats" (45 lines) (4) FROM: Christie Degener SUBJECT: ALA report: ALCTS preconference, "The New Collection Management: Internet and Other Networked Resources for the 'Wired' Collection Manager" (39 lines) (1)---------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Weller (Univ. College of the Cariboo) Subject: _Global Books in Print_ vs. _BTLINK_ Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 06:23:01 -0400 I know there has been some discussion in the past on BIP searching, so my apologies if this is covering ground already discussed ad nauseum. Currently we are using both Global Books in Print (recent upgrade from BIP) and Baker & Taylor's BTLINK in our pre-order searching and verification process. While it is still too early to draw definitive conclusions, initial indications are that our 'hit' rate is lower on GBIP than on BT. This is of concern to us in that we're paying over $2000 (US) for GBIP, and with supposedly world-wide English language coverage we expected more from the BIP people. I would be very interested to hear comments from people who have/are using the above products in terms of coverage, accuracy and timeliness. Maybe the problem is in the mix of titles which we're ordering, but so far I am not very impressed with GBIP. Thanks! [Ed. note: There has INDEED been a number of messages concerning _BIP_ in particular. Has ANYONE succeeded in networking _BIP_? I am constantly getting inqueries about this. Let's hear from places with success stories to tell!] (2)------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Margaret M. Axtmann (Univ. of MN Law Library) Subject: Fundamentals of Acquisitions Institutes Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 16:35:13 -0400 The Acquisitions Section of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) has developed a one-day institute called "Fundamentals of Acquisitions." The institute is targeted to librarians and paraprofessionals new to the acquisitions field, and it will focus on basic acquisitions of monographs and serials. The institute will be offered as a pilot project in conjunction with two regional library association meetings this fall. The first program will be a preconference to the Southeastern Library Association conference, to be held Oct. 25-26, 1994 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Two weeks later the program will be offered as a preconference to the California Library Association meeting on Nov. 11, 1994 in Anaheim, California. Participants will receive a broad overview of the operations involved in acquiring materials after the selection decision has been made. Topics to be covered include goals and methods of acquisitions services, operational management, publishers and suppliers, budgeting and financial management, ethics, and future trends in acquisitions. A variety of training methods will be used, and extensive handouts will be provided. Faculty for the SELA institute in Charlotte are Carol Pitts Hawks (Head, Acquisition Department, Ohio State University Libraries, and Editor-in-Chief, _Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory_) and Trisha Davis (Head, Continuation Acquisition Division, Ohio State University Libraries). At the CLA institute in Anaheim the faculty will be Meta Nissley (Head, Acquisitions and Collection Management, California State University, Chico) and Joyce Ogburn (Chief Acquisitions Librarian, Yale University Library). Fees for ALCTS and SELA or CLA members $95; American Library Association members $140; non-members $185. Call Yvonne McLean at 800-545-2433 ext. 5032 or e-mail to yvonne.mclean@ala.org for information and registration. (3)---------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sandra Paul (SKP Associates) <0004164812@mcimail.com> Subject: ALA report: Selecting Products in Electronic Formats Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 07:11 -0500 (EST) Selecting Products in Electronic Formats: A Dialogue on the Critical Information Librarians Require, Sunday, June 26, 1994, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Miami CO-SPONSORED by: Association of American Publishers/ALCTS Joint Committee; ALCTS ALMS Technology for Acquisition; RASD CODES Adult Library Materials Committee The CO-CHAIRS were Sandy Paul, President, SKP Associates, N.Y., NY, and Katina Strauch, Head, Collection Development, College of Charleston Library, Charleston, SC Librarian panelists were: Pat Ensor, Acting Assistant Director for Public Services, University of Houston Libraries, Houston, TX; Pam Berger, Library Media Specialist, Byram Hills High School, Armonk, NY; and Phyllis Young, Collection Development Coordinator, County of Los Angeles Public Library, Downey, CA. Publishing panelists were: Sonja Gustafson, Research Services Manager, Microsoft, Redmond, WA; Sherry Sullivan, Library Rela tions Representative, H. W. Wilson Company, Bronx, NY. The reviewer on the panelist was Carolyn Markuson Reviewer for _Booklist_. Despite a poorly attended ALA Conference, several hundred in- dividuals did come and stay through a true dialogue. Each of the speakers presented her (as it turned out, all were females) synopsis of how non-print media is selected for acquisition by a library or publication by a publisher. The floor was then open to the attendees, whose questions ranged from how to get published, to the technical issues involved in networking commercial software. Thank goodness the program was taped, so that the full extent of the questions and answers are available from ALA. Ratings and comments from the evaluation forms indicated that the audience was very pleased with both the format ("I liked it! Much more interesting than just a talking head; has good dynamics;" "Great -- like an informal conversation with colleagues -- extemporaneous -- to the point -- practical.") and the overall program ("I've been to a preconference & another program at this conference where I expected and did not get the kind of information I got here;" "Very timely; well done!" "Very informative." "Very useful. Good representation of panelists from diverse backgrounds. Good that other viewpoints were included.") (4)---------------------------------------------------------------- From: Christie Degener (UNC-CH Health Sciences Lib.) Subject: ALA Preconference : "The New Collection Management: Internet and Other Networked Resources for the 'Wired' Collection Manager" Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 08:52:24 -0400 "The New Collection Management: Internet & Other Networked Resources for the 'Wired' Collection Manager." This preconference was sponsored by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Collection Management and Development Section and took place during the afternoon of June 24, 1994. Four speakers presented different approaches to the challenging task of "collecting" Internet resources. Samuel Demas (Cornell University) spoke about the librarian's need to mainstream selection of Internet resources and to provide qualitative selection as is done for print materials. To accomplish this, staff at Cornell have created a taxonomy of Internet resources, established appropriate selection criteria, and assigned selector responsibility (among other things) after careful study of a large representative sample of these resources. Leslie Bjorncrantz (Northwestern University) described how the role of the collection manager has changed and characterized her own evolving relationship with the Internet as getting to know a "volatile group of friends" who are sometimes intellectual, eccentric, foolish, or subject to mood swings. Since we will be living in a hybrid environment of print and electronic resources for some time, she advised learning about the Internet "one piece at a time" in order to gain necessary expertise while still keeping in touch with print sources. Elizabeth Miller (Library of Congress) presented a demonstration of LC Marvel and explained how it came into existence. LC Marvel (which stands for Library of Congress Machine-Assisted Realization of the Virtual Electronic Library) is a gopher-based tool that became publicly available over the Internet on July 9, 1993; it provides access to information about the Library as well as other electronic resources. Roy Tennant (University of CA-Berkeley) spoke about the challenges for collection managers needing training about the Internet; everyone with Internet access can be a "publisher," "collecting" information may just mean pointing to it, and selectors are now much more involved in access decisions. He outlined strategies for determining specific training needs and suggested training content for six areas of Internet usage. A brief question and answer period concluded this lively and informative session. ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 4, No. 44 ****** END OF FILE ******