Last chance to take ACQNET/AcqWeb Survey Eleanor Cook 09 Jan 2007 16:46 UTC
On December 13th, I posted a message about a survey we are conducting. If you missed this message, lost it in the holiday shuffle, or just never got around to it, you still have a chance to respond. We will close the survey on TUES. JANUARY 16. Please take a few minutes to answer the survey for us. It's at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=616062828256 Thanks so much for your time. Eleanor Cook Chief Editor, ACQNET-L -----------Original message: 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 AcqWeb - PLEASE READ THIS Greetings Subscribers of ACQNET! It's been a very long time since I have addressed you all this way as Chief Editor, but we 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 -- 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