Document delivery from the library catalogue

[Beverly Stafford]

Hello:

 This is a good comment; also, just recently, hasn't there been a lawsuit
by Barnes and Noble against amazon.com, protesting that amazon.com is not
a "bookstore" since they have no retail outlet. Since so many bookstores
are on the web, with forms for ordering books online, this might not be a
good direction.....also creates unfair advantage to large chains also over
the independent bookstores local to an area. 

-Beverly Stafford
Reference Librarian
Lewis and Clark College Library

On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Anna Belle Leiserson wrote:

> In re. OPAC links to Amazon.com, I think it admirable to find new
> ways to use the medium and raise money for a library. However, I
> wonder about the ethics involved.  I do not have a clear answer, by
> the way.  Instead, I think it would be a good idea to pause and
> consider this aspect.
> 
> One of the "Principles & Standards of Acquisitions Practice" is:
> "grants all competing vendors equal consideration insofar as the
> established policies of his or her library permit, and regards each
> transaction on its own merits."  Of course, this is for the library
> purchasing, but it struck me as related in an area where we aren't
> likely to have many guidelines.
> 
> Anna Belle Leiserson                 
> Collection Development Librarian
> Vanderbilt Law Library
> leiserson at library.vanderbilt.edu
> AcqWeb Editor:                                  
> http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/acqs.html
> 
> > Date:          Mon, 18 Aug 1997 15:19:58 -0700
> > From:          stover at ix.netcom.com (Mark Stover)
> > Subject:       Re: Document delivery from the library catalogue
> > To:            Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> > Reply-to:      stover at ix.netcom.com
> 
> > To build on Tony Barry's interesting ideas about Web-enabled online library
> > catalogs, I wanted to share our experience in adding value to the Web-based
> > catalog.
> > 
> > We developed links from each book's ISBN number in our library catalog to
> > the Amazon bookstore.  Since we are members of Amazon's Associates program,
> > each time someone travels through our catalog to Amazon and purchases an
> > Amazon book, we get a small kickback (up to 15% of the book's price).  It
> > doesn't happen very often, but it's cool when it does happen.
> > 
> > Check it out at http://www.pgi.edu/libcat.htm
> > 
> > 
> > Mark Stover
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > Mark Stover, Director of Library and Information Services
> > Phillips Graduate Institute, 5445 Balboa Blvd., Encino, CA 91316
> > Phone: 818/386-5641 / Fax:  818/386-5699 / email:  mstover at pgi.edu
> > 
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