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February 28, 2000

Topics and Collections: An Alternative Metaphor for Using the Web (Susan L. Gerhart, Free Pint) analyzes "The Web Topic Collector." It dances on the edge of an issue that fascinates us -- the intersection of collection development and Web sites.

February 23, 2000

The Gale Group has recently begun a series of online Reference Reviews. A couple of years ago they picked up Rettig on Reference from H.W. Wilson, but to our dismay, it ceased in September. Now, however, they have three new offerings, which look promising:
1. Lawrence Looks at Books, monthly reviews of public and academic reference resources, by John R. M. Lawrence
2. Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, monthly reviews of online and CD-ROM products, by Péter Jacsó
3. Reference for Students, monthly reviews, by Blanche Woolls and David Loertscher

AcqWeb Site: Library Science : Collection Development : Book Reviews : Reference

February 22, 2000

LibraryHQ.com : Resources for the Wired Librarian is a web-based portal site for librarians by librarians. It includes a searchable database of web sites which are cataloged in MARC format, plus news and classified sections.

AcqWeb Site: Library Science : General Sites

February 21, 2000

Using Publishers' Web Sites for Reference Collection Development by Melissa Holmberg (Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Winter 2000) not only analyzes how publishers' sites can be used for reference collection development, but also reviews eight publisher Web sites.

February 18, 2000

In case you haven't heard this interesting twist, netLibrary will acquire peanutpress.com.

February 14, 2000

The ALCTS Publisher/Vendor-Library Relations Committee serves as an intermediary between libraries and either publishers or vendors. Thanks to Doug Litts of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the current chair, who recently sent an ACQFlash reminding us of this branch of ALA and summarizing their function.

Do library associations elsewhere in the world have committees with a similar purpose? Do you know of other Web sites like this? Please email us if you do. They are such an important resource, and, like Doug, we would like to highlight them for those who are new to the profession in particular.

AcqWeb Site: Library Science : Acquisitions Sites

February 10, 2000

SearchEdu.com is a new Web search engine which is limited to university and education-related sites. In other words, it focuses on ".edu" Web pages. It should be a particularly handy tool when you want to bypass all the commercial clutter of the Web. Currently it indexes and ranks over 20 million pages.

AcqWeb Site: Search Guide :
Specialized Search Engines

February 7, 2000

The Good Book Guide is an online book community based on the British monthly book review magazine of the same name. The latter has been in print for over 20 years. They are independent, using a network of reviews and contributors, including authors. The Web site includes books of the week, authors' choices, information on signing up for a weekly email newsletter, and a discussion board.

AcqWeb Site: Library Science :
Collection Development : Book Reviews

February 3, 2000

Publishing and the World Wide Web is a survey report from BookZone. Their Web site includes highlights of the survey, which appears to have focused on commercial publishers in the United States. Some of their findings: almost 79% of publishers surveyed have Web sites, 36% have had them for three or more years, and 56% paid under $1000 to develop their sites.

ACQNET's Welcome Message has just been updated. It's our 10th year on the Net! What started as a group of 25 librarians in December, 1990, is now a forum for acquisitions librarians and others interested in acquisitions with over 1750 subscribers. This message explains the nitty-gritty of the list: subscribing, unsubscribing, archives, searching, editorial policy, and so on.

AcqWeb Site: ACQNET

January 27, 2000

Hungry Mind Review has changed its URL, and in a few months will also change its name to Ruminator Review. That's because (in an interesting twist), last year Hungry Mind Bookstore sold the name and domain hungrymind.com to the online university, Hungry Minds. The switch will be complete April 1.

AcqWeb Site: Library Science :
Collection Development : Book Reviews

January 17, 2000

Vocabula Review is a newsletter "about books and ebooks, publishing and epublishing, words and writing." It's particularly strong on electronic books and their potential impact on publishers, authors and readers.

AcqWeb Site: Journals

January 14, 2000

Two new verification sites:

Antiquarian Books in Scandinavia is a another of those wonderful electronic book agents, searching the catalogs of multiple sites. In this case the scope is members of the Danish, Swedish and Finnish Associations of Antiquarian Booksellers.

zona247.com, is a new Argentinean bookstore, which according to PW Daily, is marketing to all of Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic communities.

AcqWeb Site: Verification : Antiquarian and In Print

January 13, 2000

The AOL-Time Warner Merger: what does it mean for us? PW Daily (an email spin-off of Publishers Weekly) has done a telling diagram, mapping interrelations in the publishing industry. By the way, to subscribe to PW Daily, fill out their form at http://lists.cahners1.com/pwdaily/

In case you haven't heard, Microsoft and Barnesandnoble.com are partnering to form a store for ebooks. It will be on the Barnesandnoble.com site in mid-2000.

Just in from Colldv-l: the current issue (v.8:no.4) of NewsBriefNews, from GreyNet - Grey Literature Network Service, is quite relevant to collection development.

By the way, if you don't subscribe to Colldv-l, see Library-Oriented Lists & Electronic Serials for basic subscription information.

AcqWeb Site: Journals

January 5, 2000

It's Time to Turn the Last Page, a recent Newsweek article by Steven Levy, predicts that the 1900's will be seen as the "Last Century of the Book."

January 3, 2000

Greetings in the new year (and faux millenium). It's an auspicious start for the AcqWeblog, as we've found not one, but two, of our own kind -- new library-related weblogs.

Liblog by Scott Bauer of Redwood City Public Library focuses on "current web sites and stories that deal with the interface between technology and libraries."

LISNews.com: Library and Information Science News and Views by Blake Carver and Steve Galbraith is a somewhat tongue in cheek look at the "latest news in the world of Library and Information Science." Their "Must Read" page includes links to such items as a U.S. News & World Report story on Library schools today are turning out webmasters

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Until next time, wishing you all a pleasant cyber-day,