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rom owner-lm_net@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Fri Jan 17 04:04:11 1997
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 04:02:41 -0500
From: Pat Wallace <DENWALL@AOL.COM>
Subject: Do we need a union?
Wallace, Chair, Hawaii Working Group
denwall@aol.com
Would someone please tell me that this is all a bad dream?
>"Our objective is to provide fully
>cataloged books and materials that support the university's
>curriculum and that minimize physical handling by library staff."
Oh, absolutely. We wouldn't want those librarians to have to
physically handle those books!
>"This project represents the cutting edge of library technical
>services outsourcing and collection management," said Daniel
>Halloran, president of Academic Book Center..... We are excited
>to share in Carolyn Gray's vision of the 21st century library. We
>see this project as a model for other libraries exploring the
>outsourcing of technical services."
Just think, librarians will no longer have to do their own PR. They
will have their very own handlers. Problem is, just who is this
PR aimed at? Certainly not the patrons. They could care less
that they getting books via "visionary" contractual arrangements.
The PR is aimed at all of us, folks, the potential clients of some
future outsourcing company. [PW}
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997
From: ELEANOR COOK <COOKEI@conrad.appstate.edu>
To: acqnet-l@listserv.appstate.edu
Subject: ACQflash: Outsourcing in Florida
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997
From: Marifay Makssour (OCLC) <makssoum@oclc.org>
Subject: Automated Collection & Technical Services to Florida
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
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OCLC, ACADEMIC BOOK CENTER, SOLINET TO PROVIDE AUTOMATED COLLECTION
AND TECHNICAL SERVICES TO NEW FLORIDA UNIVERSITY
DUBLIN, Ohio, Jan. 14, 1997--OCLC, Academic Book Center and the
Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) will provide automated
collection and technical services to the library at the Florida Gulf
Coast University, Florida's 10th and newest state university, which
is scheduled to open in August 1997.
Under the unique two-year agreement, OCLC and Academic Book Center
will provide a fully cataloged, shelf-ready, opening-day collection,
as well as ongoing collection development, acquisitions, cataloging,
authority control, physical processing and fund accounting. SOLINET
will provide training and support.
"Our library has embarked on a bold, new approach where the
collection and technical services operation is completely outsourced
from day one," said Carolyn Gray, Dean of Library Services at
Florida Gulf Coast University. "Our objective is to provide fully
cataloged books and materials that support the university's
curriculum and that minimize physical handling by library staff.
"By outsourcing our book purchasing to Academic Book Center and our
technical processing functions to OCLC, we can accomplish this goal
and focus our limited resources on direct delivery of high quality,
customized library services to students and faculty," Dr. Gray said.
OCLC will use several of its services to meet the needs of the new
Florida Gulf Coast University Library, including:
OCLC PromptCat, an automated cataloging service that can deliver
shelf-ready materials and MARC records to a library. Records arrive
at the library at the same time as the materials sent by the book
vendor, with a holding symbol already set in WorldCat, the OCLC
Online Union Catalog.
OCLC RetroCon, a customized service that converts catalog cards to
machine-readable form. OCLC RetroCon staff will travel to Florida
to complete physical processing of approximately 55,000 items
converted during the project.
OCLC TechPro, a contract cataloging service where OCLC catalogers
provide off-site, short- and long-term cataloging and physical
processing tailored to the needs of the institution. TechPro staff
onsite at the Academic facility in Portland, Oregon, as well as
TechPro staff at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio, will process Florida Gulf
Coast University Library materials.
OCLC Authority Control, an automated service that corrects or
modernizes name, series and subject headings in a library's
computerized bibliographic records.
OCLC will also provide customized collection analysis, helping
Academic Book Center to develop and refine a retrospective purchase
plan and ongoing approval plan based on initial statistical analyses
of selected peer libraries and subsequent analysis of the FGCU
collection over time.
"OCLC's work with the Florida Gulf Coast University Library
represents the latest example of OCLC's ability to provide a
complete set of technical service functions to member libraries,"
said Phyllis B. Spies, vice president, OCLC Sales and International.
"OCLC's policy is to work with the book vendor of the library's
choice in providing these integrated services, which can be tailored
to the library's budget and needs," Ms. Spies said.
Academic Book Center will select, order and acquire most of the
library's publications based on a collection profile developed by
Academic Book Center, OCLC and the Florida Gulf Coast University
Library and provide physical processing for the materials. Academic
Book Center will also provide financial, tracking, accounting and
billing services related to the selection and delivery of materials.
"Academic Book Center is providing FGCU with an
extensive opening-day collection, an ongoing approval plan,
standing-order services and firm-order fulfillment. Working
in close collaboration with OCLC, Academic will deliver
approximately 35,000 fully processed shelf-ready books
within five months of the startup date. We are excited to share in
Carolyn Gray's vision of the 21st century library. We see this
project as a model for other libraries exploring the outsourcing of
technical services."
SOLINET will provide profiling, training and support services.
"SOLINET is pleased to work with the Florida Gulf Coast University
Library on a smooth start-up of this project," said Kate Nevins,
executive director, SOLINET. "Thinking through how the pieces fit
together will ensure effective implementation."
Florida Gulf Coast University, the 10th member of the State
University System of Florida, will open Aug. 25 on a 760-acre campus
in south Lee County and offer degrees in the colleges of Arts and
Sciences, Business, Health Professions and Professional Studies.
Academic Book Center, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, provides
bookselling services to university and public libraries in nearly 30
countries. Their services include firm orders, approval plans and
standing orders.
Founded in 1973, SOLINET is a tax-exempt, nonprofit, multitype
library membership organization of more than 500 member libraries
and information centers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
and Virginia.
OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit computer library
service and research organization whose computer network and
services link more than 23,000 libraries in 63 countries and
territories.
[http://www.oclc.org/] (TS/ND)
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Forward to all from Patricia Wallace, Hawaii Working Group.
denwall@aol.com
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997
From: "JOHN A. SABLE" <JOHNSA@queens.lib.ny.us>
Reference Librarian--Business, Science & Technology
Queens Borough Public Library
To: Multiple recipients of list <publib@nysernet.org>
Subject: Hawaii librarians
Hello,
I have been reading all the comments on the situation in
Hawaii.
In my opinion, librarians need a national labor union for
librarians. ALA ( the American Library Association) is not a
labor union. It is a professional association for libraries
which include trustees, directors, admininstration, and
librarians. Librarians need to organize in their own
national labor movement.
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Opinions expressed are mine alone and not opinions of my employer.
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JOHN A. SABLE/ JOHNSA@QUEENS.LIB.NY.US
"Life's a banquet"--Auntie Mame (:^)
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