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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:38:01 -0400
From:         "Lynne Altstatt" <altstatt@A1.RELAY.UPENN.EDU>
Subject:      NUGM
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Posted: Wed, 30 Sep 92 00:00:01 -0400
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 17:38:01 -0400
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                         M E M O R A N D U M
         U N I V E R S I T Y  O F  P E N N S Y L V A N I A
                          VAN PELT LIBRARY
                            ACQUISITIONS

DATE: September 30, 1992
TO:   Members, Acquisitions Special Interest Group
FROM: Lynne Altstatt, Chair
RE:   Acquisitions SIG meeting at NUGM

      I just wanted to remind every one that at NUGM the SIG
meeting is on Friday at 8:00am.  If anyone has any topics for the
agenda please send them to me by October 2nd.  Ben Burroughs will
be our NOTIS representative at this meeting and he will be
discussing the attached memorandum.
      I appreciated the response to my plea for "hot topics."   I
know how hard it is participate when your job responsibilities are
demanding; however, this time I am requesting nominations for the
SIG Board.
     Please send your agenda items and/or suggestions for SIG board
members to me in one of the following ways:

INTERNET:  altstatt@a1.relay.upenn.edu

FAX:   (215) 898-0559

TELEPHONE:  (215) 898-5932

     I appreciate your participation.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _



                     ACQUISITIONS DEPARTMENT
                       3420 WALNUT STREET
                    PHILADELPHIA, PA   19104

                                     September 21, 1992


Fax number 708 866 0178

Stuart Miller
NOTIS Systems, Inc.
1007 Church Street
Evanston, IL  60201-3622

Dear Stuart,

In response to your request concerning having a NOTIS
representative speak at the Acquisitions SIG meeting at NUGM I
put a message on both Acqnet and NotisL to solicit topics for the
representative.  While there were a few requests concerning
NOFA and other individual system problems there was a groundswell
of opinion that the acquisitions system needs a complete
overhaul.  It started when I received a number of the enhancement
ballots with messages from acquisitions librarians expressing
their opinions that tinkering with the current system is not
sufficient.  The basic NOTIS system design is over fifteen years
old and many requests from the users are just not feasible given
that design.  Many acquisitions librarians feel that when the
Acquisitions module was developed that a great deal of attention
was spent on how the acquisition process fit into the online
catalog and not enough attention was spent on the internal needs
of an acquisitions operation.  There is wide concern about how
NOTIS does not support integration and flexibility between
holdings recorded in LSER, O/P/R records, MHLD records, and item
records, or links between bibliographic records.  Thinking about
the time that could be saved in data entry if NOTIS had any word
processing capabilities is enough to bring any  acquisitions
administrator to their knees.  At NUGM let's talk about how to
change the acquisitions module to take advantage of current
technology and better serve both the patron's and staff member's
needs.

                              Lynne Altstatt
                              Chair, Acquisitions SIG

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