Date: 17 Jan 1994 14:40:05 +0600
From: James Mouw <mouw@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: ALA announcement for newsletter

Discussion Group Announcement.

ACRL Journal Costs in Academic Libraries

At ALA Midwinter the ACRL Journal Costs in Academic Libraries Discussion
Group will address the topic "When is a list price really a list price, and
how are they set?"

Time and Location:  Saturday, February 5 - 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
                    Sheraton Grande, room Grande 1

We will have three speakers.  The first, Michele Crump of the University of
Florida will present her compilation of data gathered from 15 research
libraries.  Each library contributed 1992 information giving list price (as
reported on suppler invoice) and actual price paid for approximately 100 STM
titles.  This research is in pursuit of the Aqueduct Action Agenda item 14
"The Aqueduct group will compile and produce a benchmark list of 100 journal
titles for comparison of prices paid to various subscription agents and
directly to the publishers."

The other two speakers, Tina Feick of B.H. Blackwell Periodicals Division
and Ron Akie of The Faxon Company, will address the same topic from a
different angle, talking about how list prices are published and conveyed to
dealers, and specifically about reasons for differences in list prices.
They will also present information on recent pricing trends including the
effect of library's request for early firm pricing information.

For more information contact Jim Mouw

at mouw@midway.uchicago.edu
or 312 702-8767