I didn't receive a single response, either to the list or to me
personally, to this post I made a few weeks ago about vendor evaluation.
I'll take that to mean that either no one knows if there's an updated
bibliography, or there isn't one.

New, related question: how do you tell how your vendors are doing?  What
standards do you set, what expectations do you have, how do you
communicate them, and how do you measure them?  All ideas, comments, and
suggested reading materials are welcome.  I'd be glad to summarize for the
list.

Thanks,

Kim Maxwell
_______________________________________
Kim Maxwell
Serials Acquisitions Librarian
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Libraries, Room 14E-210
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
phone: 1-617-253-7028
fax:   1-617-253-2464
email: kmaxwell@mit.edu

>Date:         Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:55:24 -0400
>From: Kim Maxwell <kmaxwell@MIT.EDU>
>To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
>Subject: [SERIALST] Vendor Evaluation: is there an updated bibliography?
>
>I have the following article, and am wondering if anyone knows of an
>updated version:
>
>Chafa, Zary M., et. al. "Vendor Evaluation: A Selected Annotated
>Bibliography, 1955-1987." Library Acquisitions, Practice & Theory, v.12
>(1988) p. 17-28.
>
>Abstract:
>This annotated bibliography, aimed at acquisitions and collection
>development librarians, gathers and organizes the scattered materials on
>performance evaluation of library material vendors (i.e., jobbers,
>wholesalers, serial agents, and publishers). The authors, the Vendor Study
>Group of the Association for Higher Education of North Texas, cite the most
>significant items found on vendor performance written between 1955 and the
>first half of 1987. Excluded are citations concerned with approval plans
>and those with marginal relevancy to the subject. The bibliography is
>organized into two categories: (1) Methodologies and Studies and (2)
>Supporting Materials.
>
>I checked Library Literature and didn't find anything more recent
>there.  Is anyone working on such a bibliography, or do you know of a
>similar resource?
>
>Thanks for checking,
>
>Kim Maxwell
>
>_______________________________________
>Kim Maxwell
>Serials Acquisitions Librarian
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>MIT Libraries, Room 14E-210
>77 Massachusetts Ave.
>Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
>phone: 1-617-253-7028
>fax:   1-617-253-2464
>email: kmaxwell@mit.edu