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From: Eleanor Cook [mailto:cookei@appstate.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 6:48 PM
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:32:54 -0500
From: Eleanor Cook (Chief Editor, ACQNET-L) <cookei@appstate.edu>
Subject: If you care about ACQNET and/or AcqWeb - PLEASE READ THIS

Greetings Subscribers of SERIALIST!

Your colleagues over at ACQNET-L need your attention concerning a survey
that the
ACQNET Editorial Board and I think is rather important.  So PLEASE take
the time to read this, if you will.

I know there are many surveys out there right now - but this one is
different -
it's fast and easy and it's important for our future - see:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=616062828256

Many of you know AcqWeb - ACQNET's sister web site - http://www.acqweb.org
This is where the ACQNET archives are located, along with our editorial
policy
and subscriber instructions.  But AcqWeb has been far more than that in
its history.  Before Yahoo and Google and similar search engines, AcqWeb
was one of the best avenues for Acquisitions folks to find publisher web
sites and other useful resources related to the day-to-day activities of
acquiring library materials.  AcqWeb was created in 1994 and was faithfully
maintained for many years by Anna Belle Leiserson, at Vanderbilt
University. Since 2004 AcqWeb has lived at Appalachian State U.and has
maintained by Paul Orkiszewski.  Unfortunately, Paul has not been able to
keep
AcqWeb up-to-date and maintenance has been hit or miss. Indeed, not much
has been updated since the transfer occurred.  So we want to review the
usefulness of AcqWeb and determine what next to do with it.

A second interesting development has to do with ACQNET the list.  Some
of you may have heard that other independent discussion lists have made
moves recently or are about to do so.  The LidAdmin list, which was
moderated for years by Pamela Bluh, has moved to
ALA's LAMA Division - SEE:
http://blogs.ala.org/lamaleads.php?blog=20&page=1&paged=5

AUTOCAT, the list for cataloging topics, is in the process of looking
for a new home as I write.  While ACQNET's home at Appalachian State is
secure as far as I know, we think it's time to look at the current
technologies available and determine if there might be better ways to manage

the information we want to provide for acquisitions work.

So we have developed a very short, hopefully uncomplicated SURVEY that
we would like you to complete.  We have been talking about doing this
survey for almost 2 years and I, like Paul (and probably like you too!)
have not had to time to devote to thinking about this and then doing
something about it. So finally, here it is, and we REALLY want to hear from
you!

The survey is available at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=616062828256

We know that some of you might be just as happy if nothing changes with
ACQNET the list and that's OK, tell us that if you want to.
But we know we have to do something with AcqWeb, and soon.

This message is being posted to ACQNET-L, CollDev-L, SERIALST, and thanks to
Pamela Bluh,
to appropriate discussion lists within AALL.

Please take the survey - and we thank you!

Sincerely,
Eleanor Cook
Chief Editor, ACQNET-L

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Eleanor I. Cook
Serials Coordinator & Professor
Belk Library, ASU Box 32026
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608-2026
828-262-2786
828-262-2773 (fax)
cookei@appstate.edu