ACQNET v8n006 (February 11, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/acqnet/acqnet-v8n006.txt ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 8, No. 6, February 11, 1998 ========================================= (1) FROM: R. Tiessen SUBJECT: Periodicals as a percentage of budget (6 lines) (2) FROM: B. Hall SUBJECT: Eastern European vendors (12 lines) (3) FROM: J. Wertzberger SUBJECT: RE: Chemistry materials budget (64 lines) (4) FROM: M. Boyange SUBJECT: Prior experience of acquisitions librarians (7 lines) (5) FROM: C. Lockett SUBJECT: Foreign theses and dissertations (4 lines) (6) FROM: S. Weingarten SUBJECT: Acquisitions ethics (3 lines) (7) FROM: F. Grieme SUBJECT: Vendor performance evaluations (15 lines) (1)--------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 13:51:14 -0500 From: Rob Tiessen (Bluffton College ) Subject: Periodicals as a percentage of budget I am proposing a budget where approximately 45% of our acquisitions would be spent on periodicals and 55% on books. I am hoping that over time we would eventually get to 50-50. The administrator that I report to claims that a more standard division would be 30% periodicals and 70% books. Can anyone tell me what they do or point me towards a recommended division between periodicals and books? Robert J. Tiessen Acting Library Director/Systems Librarian tiessenr@bluffton.edu Bluffton College (2)----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 12:27:41 -0800 From: Barbara Hall (Univ of Southern California) Subject: Eastern European Vendors The ALCTS/AS Publications Committee--Subcommittee on Foreign Book Dealers Directories is currently compiling a directory on Book and Serial Vendors for Eastern Europe. We have a number of vendor names cited by libraries for which we have no current addresses. Can anyone provide addresses for the following? TROYKA SVOBODA FISER PROEX MARKON JENCIKOVA Please send information to: bhall@calvin.usc.edu Thanks. Barbara Hall Head, Acquisitions Department Doheny Library (MC 0182) University of Southern California Los Angeles CA 90089-0182 Telephone: (213) 740-7355 FAX (213)740-0959 (3)----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 16:18:25 -0500 From: Janelle Wertzberger (Gettysburg College) Subject: Chemistry materials budget - survey results In December, 1997, I posted some questions about chemistry materials budgets for small colleges. Following are the results I can share (some institutions asked not to be named, or not to have their responses reported except in aggregate format). Feel free to send further questions to me directly. I undertook this project after one of the chemistry faculty members at Gettysburg College asked how our chemistry journal/book budget compares to that of other schools like ours. To begin to answer that question, I posted the following questions to several listservs (Oberlin Group list, ACQNET, and STS-L): "I am collecting data about small college (1500-3000 students) library expenditures on chemistry materials. If you can help, I'd really appreciate it. I'm happy to share the compiled results with those who are interested. Thanks in advance. Janelle Wertzberger" 1) How many chemistry periodical titles do you subscribe to? (break down electronic versus print if applicable) 2) What is your budget for chemistry-related serials? (break down electronic versus print if possible) 3) What is your budget for chemistry-related monographs? 4) What is your total serials budget? 5) How many chemistry faculty members and chemistry majors does your library support? 6) What is the total enrollment at your institution?" Conclusions: 1. This was an informal survey. It is not representative but yields some interesting anecdotal information. 2. I received 16 responses (including Gettysburg College). Institutions ranged in size from about 1000 to 4800 students. 3. Chemistry monograph budgets ranged from approximately $1700 to $9700. 4. Number of chemistry periodical subscriptions ranged from 12 to 84 print titles and 0 to 12 electronic titles. 5. Total library serials budgets ranged from approximately $59,000 to $880,000. (One institution could not report this number.) 6. Chemistry serials budgets ranged from approximately $650 to $97,000. (One institution could not report this number.) 7. Percentage of the libraries' total serials budgets spent on chemistry journals ranged from around 6% to around 20% (see distribution below). 8. Amount of money spent on chemistry journals per chemistry major ranged from to $15 - $5394 (see distribution below). 9. Number of chemistry faculty ranged from around 4 to around 21. 10. Number of chemistry majors ranged from 9 to around 250. 7, continued: Percentage of total serials budget spent on chemistry journals (each * represents one institution): 5 6 * 7 8 ** 9 * 10 11 *** 12 * 13 14 15 * 16 * 17 ** 18 19 20 ** 8, continued: Dollars spent on chemistry journals per chemistry major (each * represents one institution): 0-500 **** 501-1000 * 1001-1500 1501-2000 ***** 2001-2500 * 2501-3000 * 3001-3500 * 3501-4000 4001-4500 4501-5000 5001-5500 ** I discovered many limitations of the survey. These include (but may not be limited to): 1. Libraries record spending differently. Some count all periodicals together; others subdivide. "Periodicals" may include any combination of journals, serials, continuations, standing orders, annuals, and reference periodicals (such as Chemical Abstracts). Terminology and meaning vary. 2. Although all schools who responded are small colleges with enrollments between about 1000 and 4800, not all colleges offer the same type of chemistry program. Some include biochemistry or chemical engineering. Some have graduate programs. 3. Print vs. electronic format is also an issue. Often the budgets for each are separated. For example, one library reported that they cancelled their paper subscription to Chemical Abstracts. Access to STN replaced the traditional Chem Abs and is paid from a different budget line. 4. Some colleges reported a single number of chemistry faculty; others reported faculty and lab instructors; others distinguished between full-time and part-time faculty; others reported FTE faculty. 5. Only 16 college libraries (including Musselman Library at Gettysburg College) responded to the survey. 6. Some respondents were science or acquisitions librarians; others were chemistry faculty. Answers may be uneven because of this. Janelle Wertzberger Reference/Instruction Librarian Musselman Library Gettysburg College Gettysburg, PA 17325 (717) 337-7010 (4)----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 23:35:52 +0200 (IST) From: Margalit Boyango (Haifa University ) Subject: Prior experience of acquisitions librarians I am a student at Haifa University-Library and Information Studies, and am trying to ascertain how important or necessary is it for the acquisition librarian to have had prior job experience in other services or departments in the library. I would greatly appreciate any personal or professional advice on this matter. Thank you. Margalit Boyango (5)------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 15:29:13 -0600 (CST) From: Carol R Lockett (Univ of Texas at Austin) Subject: Foreign theses and dissertations Has anyone had experience ordering theses and dissertations outside the US? Can you recommend a vendor? Specifically, one of our bibliographers has requested a dissertation from the University of Amsterdam. Thank you, Carol R. Lockett Acquisitions General Libraries University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX (6)----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 19:09:13 -0500 (EST) From: Susan Weingarten Subject: Acquisitions ethics I am currently a grad student enrolled in an acquisitions course. I am looking for articles concerning the ethics of dealing with vendors. Any leads? Thanks, Susan Weingarten (7)------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 14:10:58 -0600 From: Fariha Grieme (Univ of Minnesota) Subject: Vendor performance evaluations We are a NOTIS library and have limited number of statistical reports available to us that we could use for evaluating vendors performance. We are in the process of taking some steps in measuring performance of our serial vendors. We are thinking of collecting data in the following areas: Orders Claims Customer Service/Communications Invoices/credit memos (including electronic invoice tape loads) Management Reports I would appreciate any information anyone on this listserv could give me on how you have measured the performance of your vendors, what tools you have used to collect data, and if you have figures and ratings that you have come up with for any of the above services. Thank you for your help! Fariha Grieme Serials Acquisitions Coordinator Materials Acquisition & Control Team (MAC) University of Minnesota Libraries 160 Wilson Library 309-19th Ave South Minneapolis, MN 55455 Tel.: 612-625-9803 Fax: 612-625-3428 ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol.8, No.7 ****** END OF FILE ******