ACQNET v8n024 (July 25, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/acqnet/acqnet-v8n024.txt ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 8, No. 24, July 25, 1998 ======================================== (1) FROM: W. Zhihong SUBJECT: Managing Electronic Journals (42 lines) (2) FROM: M. Dahl SUBJECT: Book Vendors (32 lines) (3) FROM: K. Strauch SUBJECT: RE: Credit Card Survey (126 lines) (4) FROM: J. Moore SUBJECT: RFPs for Automated Systems (20 lines) (5) FROM: D. Webber SUBJECT: Difficulty Finding Older Journals (22 lines) (6) FROM: D. Fulton SUBJECT: Archiving URL's (25 lines) (7) FROM: N. Myers SUBJECT: ArtsAmerica, Inc. (12 lines) (1)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 03:58:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Wang Zhihong (Nanyang Tech. Univ.) Subject: Managing Electronic Journals Dear colleagues, I am a postgraduate student doing research on managing electronic journals in libraries. I would like to seek your opinions or your experience of handling electronic journals. Please provide comments on the following issues: 1. How does your library manage electronic journals with regard to acquisition, cataloguing, serials control, service and archiving? 2. What adjustments have you made in procedures, policies, budgeting, staffing, etc. to integrate electronic journals into the library collection? 3. What problems have you experienced in handling electronic journals in the library? 4. What impact do you expect or have you experienced of electronic journals on the library work? 5. What are the important issues you think should be addressed with regard to managing electronic journals effectively? Your input in this research would be very much appreciated. Please send your reply to me directly. My email address is: p143668708@ntu.edu.sg Thank you very much. Yours sincerely, Wang Zhihong (Ms.) Division of Information Studies School of Applied Science Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 15:41:41 -0700 From: Mark Dahl (Central Oregon CC) Subject: Book Vendors [Ed. note: This was re-posted from the Innopac List with the author's permission] Our library has a collection development project that requires us to order a large volume of books in a short period of time. We are planning on using a vendor who can do slip type ordering based on a profile and can also do firm orders. We would like to receive the books pre-processed (with strips and barcodes) with a file of MARC bibliographic records, item records, and invoice information. We plan on setting up the III extended approval plan interface to achieve this. We are considering Blackwell, Bookhouse, Baker & Taylor, Yankee Book Peddler, & Academic as the book vendor. If the vendor doesn't provide the catalog records, we might use OCLC PromptCat for the copy cataloging. I'd appreciate it if anyone who has this type of book ordering and cataloging setup could send their opinions on particular vendors. Any other general suggestions in this area would also be welcome. Mark Dahl Systems & Technical Services Librarian Central Oregon Community College 2600 NW College Way Bend, OR 97701 (541)-383-7783 mdahl@cocc.edu (3)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:13:46 -0600 From: Katina Strauch (College of Charleston) Subject: Credit Card Survey Responses Thanks to ALL of you who returned the credit card survey which I gave out last week. Janet Flowers has done a very excellent summary of her results already. Here's what I learned: 1) Have you personally ever made a purchase by credit card from Amazon.com or any other online bookstore? Has your library ever made a credit card purchase from Amazon.com or any other online bookstore? I received 68 responses from all over the place (public, academic, special libraries from US, New Zealand, Australia, UK) in less than 24 hours. And have just gotten four or five more today. Thank you. Eleanor and ACQNET for providing this wonderful way for us to communicate! Of those 68 responses, 48 people said they were using an institutional credit card to make LIBRARY purchases from online bookstores, 7 said that they make purchases on their own credit card and get reimbursed by the library. 30 people are making INDIVIDUAL purchases by credit card from Amazon.com, etc. 19 are not making purchases. 16 people said they were not using the credit card for library purchases. A handful of libraries which do not have institutional credit cards wished to use the data that we gathered from this survey as ammunition to get credit cards for their libraries. Mentioned overwhelmingly as the online bookstore of choice was Amazon.com, but others made mention of Powell's Books, and Barnes & Noble. Also mentioned were traditional vendors like Baker & Taylor, the Book House, Yankee Book Peddler, and Blackwell's. 2) Does your institution/library allow you to use credit cards for materials purchases -- books, journals, videos (in print and electronic form)? See above. Also there was lots of unevenness as to whom the credit card was issued which did cause some frustration. In some cases, the credit card was the library's, the institution's, the director's. In some cases, the credit card was issued to a specific librarian in the Collection Development, Acquisitions, or Serials Department. Most libraries were using the credit cards for book purchases only, though there was some use of credit cards for travel, videos, computer software, etc. 3) If you use a credit card for such purchases, how long have you been using it and what sort of credit limit do you have? Do you use it for small purchases or do you make more significant use of the credit card? Most people have just begun use of their credit cards within the past 6-9 months. However, a group of libraries have been using credit cards for 2-4 years. Several states (VA and MD) have mandated credit card use. The majority of people who are using credit cards are using them for small orders only -- for rush orders, orders for out of print materials from small publishers or organizations, or for prepaid orders. Libraries also use credit cards with foreign suppliers for speed of delivery and for foreign exchange simplicity. The credit limits were varied -- from $500 per year to $10,000 per month. 4) If you use a credit card for such purchases, do you prepay all orders or do you pay by credit card once material is received? Most people are prepaying. This does cause problems in some cases in terms of library bookkeeping. In many cases, this seems to have moved the paperwork away from the purchasing or accounting departments and onto the acquisitions/collection development librarian's desk. 5) Are vendors and publishers amenable to credit card purchases? Vendors and publishers on the whole were amenable to credit card purchases, librarians reported. There were some comments about the type of credit cards. Some libraries reported moving, for example, from American Express to Visa or Mastercard. 6) Do you assign purchase order numbers to each order? What sort of impact does this have on your work flow? Have you written procedures for this? This was probably divided half and half regarding assigning of purchase order numbers -- some do and some don't. Most libraries have not written procedures yet, but are planning to do so. 7) Any other comments you care to make. There is a lot of interest in this topic. We are planning a session at the Charleston Conference (November 5-7) to continue the discussion. In the meantime, if any of you want to respond to the survey and haven't, send your responses in to me. I am still doing a more detailed tally of the responses. Thanks to all of you for answers! To be continued! Katina Strauch Head, Collection Development College of Charleston Libraries 66 George St. Charleston, SC 29424 843-953-8020, 8008, 8009 (phone) 843-953-8019 (fax) strauchk@cofc.edu (4)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 03:45:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Jonet Moore (North Shore PL, NZ) Subject: RFPs for Automated Systems I have just been asked to write a detailed RFP for both the Acquisitions and Serials modules of our desired automated library system by the end of July. It is, of course, easy to consider all the little bugs that most annoy you in the current system, but also possible with short notice to overlook possibilities not currently available. If anyone has recently gone through this process and would be willing to share their end document or even some advice or helpful hints I would be very grateful. Sincerely Jonet Moore Acquisitions Librarian North Shore Public Libraries, NZ (5)------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 12:35:32 -0400 (EDT) From: David Webber (Glaxo/Wellcome) Subject: Difficulty with older journals [Ed. note: I have also suggested this be posted to SERIALST] We are finding a problem with getting copies of older journals particularly 19th century titles, for our history of science holdings. Are there any old journals out there? Long lists of particular titles/volumes needed, but as illustration: * Nature, volume 3 1871, to volume 25, 1882. (or single volumes or numbers) * British Medical Journal vols 1& 2, 1881. Why are these lovely things so despised?? I'd love to hear from someone on this issue. Dr. David E. Webber dw30539@glaxowellcome.co.uk (6)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:12:41 -0400 (EDT) From: David H. Fulton (Syracuse U. College of Law) Subject: Archiving URL's Hello, I am gathering URL's to support curriculum and research at a university law library. Some of these will be part of pathfinders and research guides. Others may appear in the online version of a "recent acquisitions bulletin" on our web site. They may also reside in a YAHOO!-like directory or a database with annotated records, hot links and a link checker. I am trying to design a system for archiving and managing these URL's. Can anyone on the list help with some advice or recommendations? Thanks. -- David Fulton Electronic Services Librarian H. Douglas Barclay Law Library Syracuse University College of Law Syracuse, NY 13244-1030 dhfulton@law.syr.edu Vox: 315.443.5424 Fax: 315.443.9567 (7)------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:09:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Nancy Myers (Univ. of SD) Subject: ArtsAmerica, Inc. Does anyone know if ArtsAmerica, Inc. (9 Benedict Place, Greenwich, CT 06830 - 203-869-4693) has gone out of business? Or, moved to a new address? Thanks in advance. Nancy Myers Acquisitions Librarian/Professor University of South Dakota ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 8. No. 24 ****** END OF FILE ******