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>From ppicerno@choctaw.astate.edu Fri Sep 29 18:00:01 2000
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:05:28 -0500
From: Peter Picerno <ppicerno@choctaw.astate.edu>
Subject: Re: New award proposal (Steve Corrsin)

That's a great idea, and while we're moving into the cyber age, perhaps
there might be an award for the "Most Outrageous Site License" or "Most
Prohibitive Pricing" since these are two items which often come up in the
list.

Peter  Picerno
Dr. Peter V. Picerno
Collection Development Librarian
Dean B. Ellis Library
P O Box 2040 - 108 Cooley Drive
Arkansas State University
State University, AR 72467
(870) 972-3078
(870) 972-3199 FAX
ppicerno@choctaw.astate.edu

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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:51:07 -0400
From: Steve Corrsin <ag5153@WAYNE.EDU>
Subject: new award proposal

Dear colleagues,

this idea arises from conversation with Wayne State's Principal Cataloger,
Richard Moritz (who pays special attention, these days, to electronic
journals): in keeping with the spirit which underlies the brisk competition
for the "Worst Serial Title Change of the Year" awards, perhaps it's time
for us all to move forward into the electronic age. I'd like to propose
that someone institute the "Most Difficult-to-use New Electronic Journal /
Package/ Aggregator Service of the Year" awards. Probably that could be
phrased more concisely but I'm sure everyone knows what I mean.

Well, do others think this is a good idea?

sincerely
Steve Corrsin
Stephen D. Corrsin
Assistant Director of Technical Services and Head of Acquisitions
Wayne State University Libraries, Technical Services and Systems
7th Floor Science and Engineering Library
5048 Gullen Mall
Detroit MI 48202
tel (313) 577-4005
fax (313) 577-3615
email ag5153@wayne.edu

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>From p005386b@PB.SEFLIN.ORG Fri Sep 29 18:00:01 2000
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:02:30 -0400
From: Dani Lichtenberg <p005386b@PB.SEFLIN.ORG>
Subject: Re: New award proposal (Steve Corrsin)

Too bad you're limiting it to journals and/or aggregators.  I'm thinking
of my #1 nomination for a CD-ROM database of trade information published
by Stat-USA, called National Trade Data Bank.  It went to a new format
about a year ago and it is impossible to use.  I think I mean impossible
literally.

For easiest to use (and why not reward good programming where reward is
due) I may nominate Ethnic NewsWatch, by SoftLine Information.

This is an intriguing proposal, Steve!

Dani Lichtenberg
Serials Supervisor
Palm Beach County Library System
p005386b@pb.seflin.org

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>From tdelillo@FALCON.TAMUCC.EDU Fri Sep 29 18:00:01 2000
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:29:06 -0500
From: tracey delillo <tdelillo@FALCON.TAMUCC.EDU>
Subject: Re: New award proposal (Steve Corrsin)

Steve,

I think this is a great idea.  I might also suggest a related award called
something like "most misleading aggregator"; this could encompass the
growing trend of allowing the user to get all the way to the final "click
here for full-text" step before informing them in big red block letters
that their institution doesn't have access to that journal/publisher/year.
it could also be called the "aggregator causing the most embarrassment to
reference librarians and the most aggravation to patrons" award.

Tracey DeLillo
Serials Librarian
Bell Library
Texas A&M, Corpus Christi

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>From COOKEI@APPSTATE.EDU Fri Sep 29 18:00:01 2000
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:55:15 -0400
From: ELEANOR COOK <COOKEI@APPSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: New award proposal (Steve Corrsin)

Instead of creating a new award, why not ask the Committee for the
Worst Serial Title Change to develop a new category for these pesky entities.
Most of them are serials and if they're not, they act crazy enough to
be.

My 2 cents on a Friday afternoon...

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