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Acquisitions manual: Guidelines for librarians, bookdealers, and publishers
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books survive,” 1985). Strangely, this reference is not noted in the large bibliography following the chapter on electronic books, journals, and libraries. One wonders why, since this book is supposed to be a “Guide to the Literature,” there are no annotations, no detailed subject breakdowns, and no index of authors or subjects. This work really provides no guidance to the literature. One would be better off looking at an electronic index, or perhaps using printed indexes, than using this book since it contains no evaluative information. Gabriel’s book is not recommended for purchase by libraries since it does not do what it has set out to do, that is, provide a tour of the literature on the topic of electronic publishing. In any case, the essays are a redeeming feature of the book. They are uniformly informative and provide good historical background to the developments in this field. Nevertheless, the book is not worth purchasing for the essays alone. Not only are some very short, but portions of two articles have been published elsewhere. Frederick C. Lynden Assistant University Librarian for Technical Services Brown University Library Providence, Rhode Island 02912
Acquisitions Manual: Guidelines for Librarians, Bookdealers, and Publishers. William D. Ilgen and Deborah Jakubs. Madison, WI; SALALM Secretariat, University of Wisconsin Library, 1988. 95 pp. $18.00. ISBN O-917617-18-5. With the demise of the Latin American Cooperative Acquisitions Project (LACAP), Latin American bibliographers have come to depend more heavily than before on bookdealers in Latin America to satisfy their needs for literature of that region. Consequently, many established bookdealers grew stronger while new ones appeared on the scene. However, Latin American bibliographers began experiencing a lack of communication between themselves and the dealers regarding correct bibliographic information about materials the latter offered for sale. This problem was discussed in a Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) workshop in 1974 and the idea of compiling a manual, such as the present one, was broached. The idea finally came to fruition in 1988. The manual is in three language versions: English, Spanish, and Portuguese, each taking up about 31 pages. In Part I, which deals with lists, catalogues, and order forms, the authors recommend norms for bibliographic description of items offered for sale. They include all the elements of standard cataloging practice and, in addition, deal with such other matters as sets and series, subscriptions and standing orders, classified lists, and so forth. Part II deals with selection and acquisition practices of libraries, bibliographic searching, ordering, claiming, cancelling, returns, invoicing, payments, and so forth. There is a four-page analytical index at the end. The manual meets a long-standing demand and will be useful not only to Latin American bibliographers but others as well. The title is recommended for all types of libraries buying regularly from Latin America and other Third World countries. The manual is available from
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SALALM Secretariat, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 for $18.00 plus $2.00 postage and handling. In Latin America the price is $10.00, plus $2.00 for postage and handling. Prepayment in U.S. currency is required with checks made payable to SALALM, Inc.
Manhar Thakore Coordinator of Collection Development Milner Library Illinois State University Normal, Illinois 61761
Towards the Year 2001: Cooperative Collection Development and Resource Sharing in the Southwest. Proceedings of a Workshop Sponsored by the New Mexico State University Library, November 7, 1988. Edited by Bart Harloe, Las Cruces, NM: New Mexico State University Library, 1988? iv, 49 pp. Available from Patsy Hernandez, Collection Management Department, New Mexico State University Library, Box 30006, Dept. 3475, Las Cruces, NM 88003-0006. Audiotape and print $14.50. Print only $8.50. Tape only $8.50.
Cooperative collection development is now widely acknowledged as an essential next step in librarianship, so it is encouraging to hear of a group getting together to begin serious talk about specific projects, in this case librarians from academic and special libraries in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. The keynote address by Paul Mosher, “Collaborative Collection Development in an Era of Financial Limitations,” offered a quick argument in favor of cooperation, defined collaboration as the specific goal within a broader context of cooperation, and then emphasized the human attitudes necessary for successful collaboration. “Collaborative collection development requires communities of librarians,” he asserted (my emphasis), and then cited research that showed selectors’ attitudes being changed by their participation in cooperative collection development. Putting cooperation into operation seems to create the community Mosher calls for. Four librarians described cooperative activities in their states, suggesting that these give hope for even more elaborate cooperation. Jeanne Sohn provided a quick history of cooperation among New Mexico academic libraries and then described the State Commission on Higher Education’s newly mandated program of cooperative activities, urging New Mexico’s librarians to commit themselves to it. Dora Biblarz from Arizona State University described activities in Arizona, emphasizing that a key element in their continued effectiveness is each library’s own collection development policies and needs. Sara Heitshu of the University of Arizona argued for the centrally important role in cooperation of good bibliographic control, as exemplified in SOLAR Arizona’s union list of serials, and then offered the Linked Systems Project as an important model for further cooperation in the state. Mary Keckley from the University of Texas at El Paso described an experimental ILL project among six Mexican and 17 Texas libraries and mentioned new reciprocal borrowing arrangements among several academic libraries in Texas and New Mexico. The workshop group as a whole engaged in a wide-ranging question and answer discussion
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books survive,” 1985). Strangely, this reference is not noted in the large bibliography following the chapter on electronic books, journals, and libraries. One wonders why, since this book is supposed to be a “Guide to the Literature,” there are no annotations, no detailed subject breakdowns, and no index of authors or subjects. This work really provides no guidance to the literature. One would be better off looking at an electronic index, or perhaps using printed indexes, than using this book since it contains no evaluative information. Gabriel’s book is not recommended for purchase by libraries since it does not do what it has set out to do, that is, provide a tour of the literature on the topic of electronic publishing. In any case, the essays are a redeeming feature of the book. They are uniformly informative and provide good historical background to the developments in this field. Nevertheless, the book is not worth purchasing for the essays alone. Not only are some very short, but portions of two articles have been published elsewhere. Frederick C. Lynden Assistant University Librarian for Technical Services Brown University Library Providence, Rhode Island 02912
Acquisitions Manual: Guidelines for Librarians, Bookdealers, and Publishers. William D. Ilgen and Deborah Jakubs. Madison, WI; SALALM Secretariat, University of Wisconsin Library, 1988. 95 pp. $18.00. ISBN O-917617-18-5. With the demise of the Latin American Cooperative Acquisitions Project (LACAP), Latin American bibliographers have come to depend more heavily than before on bookdealers in Latin America to satisfy their needs for literature of that region. Consequently, many established bookdealers grew stronger while new ones appeared on the scene. However, Latin American bibliographers began experiencing a lack of communication between themselves and the dealers regarding correct bibliographic information about materials the latter offered for sale. This problem was discussed in a Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) workshop in 1974 and the idea of compiling a manual, such as the present one, was broached. The idea finally came to fruition in 1988. The manual is in three language versions: English, Spanish, and Portuguese, each taking up about 31 pages. In Part I, which deals with lists, catalogues, and order forms, the authors recommend norms for bibliographic description of items offered for sale. They include all the elements of standard cataloging practice and, in addition, deal with such other matters as sets and series, subscriptions and standing orders, classified lists, and so forth. Part II deals with selection and acquisition practices of libraries, bibliographic searching, ordering, claiming, cancelling, returns, invoicing, payments, and so forth. There is a four-page analytical index at the end. The manual meets a long-standing demand and will be useful not only to Latin American bibliographers but others as well. The title is recommended for all types of libraries buying regularly from Latin America and other Third World countries. The manual is available from
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SALALM Secretariat, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 for $18.00 plus $2.00 postage and handling. In Latin America the price is $10.00, plus $2.00 for postage and handling. Prepayment in U.S. currency is required with checks made payable to SALALM, Inc.
Manhar Thakore Coordinator of Collection Development Milner Library Illinois State University Normal, Illinois 61761
Towards the Year 2001: Cooperative Collection Development and Resource Sharing in the Southwest. Proceedings of a Workshop Sponsored by the New Mexico State University Library, November 7, 1988. Edited by Bart Harloe, Las Cruces, NM: New Mexico State University Library, 1988? iv, 49 pp. Available from Patsy Hernandez, Collection Management Department, New Mexico State University Library, Box 30006, Dept. 3475, Las Cruces, NM 88003-0006. Audiotape and print $14.50. Print only $8.50. Tape only $8.50.
Cooperative collection development is now widely acknowledged as an essential next step in librarianship, so it is encouraging to hear of a group getting together to begin serious talk about specific projects, in this case librarians from academic and special libraries in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. The keynote address by Paul Mosher, “Collaborative Collection Development in an Era of Financial Limitations,” offered a quick argument in favor of cooperation, defined collaboration as the specific goal within a broader context of cooperation, and then emphasized the human attitudes necessary for successful collaboration. “Collaborative collection development requires communities of librarians,” he asserted (my emphasis), and then cited research that showed selectors’ attitudes being changed by their participation in cooperative collection development. Putting cooperation into operation seems to create the community Mosher calls for. Four librarians described cooperative activities in their states, suggesting that these give hope for even more elaborate cooperation. Jeanne Sohn provided a quick history of cooperation among New Mexico academic libraries and then described the State Commission on Higher Education’s newly mandated program of cooperative activities, urging New Mexico’s librarians to commit themselves to it. Dora Biblarz from Arizona State University described activities in Arizona, emphasizing that a key element in their continued effectiveness is each library’s own collection development policies and needs. Sara Heitshu of the University of Arizona argued for the centrally important role in cooperation of good bibliographic control, as exemplified in SOLAR Arizona’s union list of serials, and then offered the Linked Systems Project as an important model for further cooperation in the state. Mary Keckley from the University of Texas at El Paso described an experimental ILL project among six Mexican and 17 Texas libraries and mentioned new reciprocal borrowing arrangements among several academic libraries in Texas and New Mexico. The workshop group as a whole engaged in a wide-ranging question and answer discussion