-
Procedures |
Book Info |
Publishers |
- MTSU Library Book Request Order Form Use this form to order books for the MTSU Library collection.
- Guide to Bibliographic Searching on OCLC or Quick Reference
- Evaluating Internet Resources
- Acquisitions Principles
- Guide to FirstSearch or Quick Guide to using Firstsearch
- Principles for Acquiring and licensing information in digital formats
- Publisher's CatalogsU.S. and international
- U.S. Publishers
- Acqweb Acqweb has links to over 500 publishers with web pages. These pages have information about new releases, current stock, and forthcoming publications.
- SPANnet Small Publishers
- Poetry Presses
- AAUP Online catalog and Bookstore Information about University presses
- Scholarly Societies Project Lists resources of scholarly societies and associations. The societies are arranged by subject area.
- Acqweb's Directory of Associations
- Literatur-Service Leipzig Access to publishers data banks. (In German)
- Music Resources on the Internet Music selector, Anna Seaberg has listed the sites that she uses as music selector for the King County Library System. Includes verifying sound recordings, books, scores and many many other useful links to music and library resources
- Book Web American
Booksellers Association Web site.
Book Reviews
- Rettig on Reference Reviews of reference books.
- BooklistBooks reviews, lists of best books and bibliographies.
- Amazon Books "Earth's Biggest Bookstore" offers a searchable database of over a million titles. Lists the books reviewed in the New York Times and on National Public Radio.
- Bookwire Links to all kinds of book reviews including the Boston Book Review and the Publisher's Weekly bestsellar list. Probably the best all-around site for all kinds of information about books, authors, and literary events.
- Atlantic Monthly Book Reviews
- Children's Literature Web Guide
- Children's Book Awards, Best Books Lists, Subject Bibliographies Book Awards, lists of best books for children and young adults from Publisher's Weekly and ALA etc., and bibliographies of children's books on various subjects.
- CD-ROM
reviews
Book Stores
For information about out-of-print books and booksellers, see the following list. - Advanced Book Exchange
- Antiquarian Booksellers Association Links to over 140 book dealers in rare, or out-of-print books.
- Interloc
- BibliofindSearchable database of out-of-print books, with links to book dealers. Prices seem to be cheaper than Interloc.
- ABE Advanced Book Exchange Another Book Search site.
- RSB Rare and Secondhand Books Internet's first database which iterconects worldwide dealers and customers of antiquarian books.
- OBS BookFinder Service OBS connects you to the professionals that will make the best efforts to identify, locate, and order from publishers worldwide any current copyright in-print book in over 269 languages.
- Books Out-of-printTo
search Books out-of-print, get the User ID and password from Ginny or
Phil.
- Virtual Bookshop Virtual Booksellers organization that specializes in rare, first editions, antiquarian, collectible and fine books.
- Bookfinders
International
The following is a list of bookstores with in-print books.
- Amazon BooksAmazon has over a million titles that are searchable by author, subject, title, and keyword. Use the personal notification service.
- alt.bookstore
An alternative to Amazon books. 2 million titles>
- Barnes and Noble
Searchable database of books.
- Blackwell's
"Blackwell's On-Line Bookshop is a new and unparalleled bookbuying
experience. It offers the same traditional virtues that have established
Blackwell's as the world's finest academic bookseller since our first
terrestrial bookshop opened in Oxford more than 100 years ago."
- Book Web Site of the American
Booksellers Association. Find bookstores in a specific geographic area or
on specific subject.
- Powell's Books Famous Oregon
bookstore with over a million used,
new and out of print books in stock every day!
- Border's
- Book Stacks UnlimitedYour local bookstore wherever you live with over 400.000 titles.
- Tattered coverOver half a
million titles in stock at this Denver landmark.
- Order
Government Documents
- UMI's Books on Demand
Program
The following sites specialize in international books.
- Spanish Books
- New Books from Italy
- Books from Scotland
- Medcom
Limited Books from China.
Acquisitions Departments
All kinds of interesting and pertinent information can be found at other Acquisitions department web sites. - Top 200 Technical Services Benefits of Home Page Development by Barbara Stewart, University of Massachusetts.
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- University of Washington Libraries
- List of Acquisitions Department Web Pages This site has links to many other Acquisitions departments.
- ACQWEB
- Technical Services on the Internet University of Maryland Web site
- Technical Services on the Web
- All Music Guide A complete Online Database of Recorded Music. Albums are rated. Direct links to Internet music stores.
- CDNOW The Internet Music StoreLargest music retailer on the Web. Selection dwarfs non-cyber stores. Includes almost every album in print in US and over 6000 imports.
- Uncover
- Duplicate Exchange
- NASIG
- Serials in Cyberspace
- Vendor Home Pages
- Blackwell North America
- Baker & Taylor
- Ingram Book CompanyContains among other information, book related publicity, including television, radio reviews.
- Ebsco
- Harrassowitz
- Yankee Book Peddler Search GOBI from this site.
- Readmore
- Foreign Monograph Book Vendors A list of vendors and their respective countries.
- Vendor Performance Vendor performance and discounts from University of Washington libraries
- Library Utilities and Systems Vendors
- TLA Home Page
- ALA
- Library companies on the Web Includes vendors, library systems, etc.
- Libraries
on the WebLinks to libraries in the United States. Includes AMIGOS and SOLINET
- LC Search Search the Library of Congress
- Yankee Book Peddler Search GOBI from this site. Gobi is a database of 1.4 million titles both U.S. and U.K. You will need a password and user name.
- Resources about book collecting
- Resources for Librarians from Carnegie Library.
- Search OCLC symbols
- Citing Electronic Resources
- Internet Library for Librarians
- Technical Processing Online Tools
- ACQNET
- Association of Research Libraries
- LITA Newsletter
- British Library Web site for the British National Library.
- Library of Congress Online catalog
- European National Libraries
- Copyright and Fair Use Searchable site from Stanford University.
- Ariadne A magazine for librarians on the use of the Internet.
- Library Reference CenterIndex to Library Journal articles from Ebsco.
- Academe This WeekChronicle of Higher Education.
- THESISThe Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service, The UK's weekly higher education paper. Includes a book-finding service.
- University Press price comparisonsPrice comparisons for university press books from 1993 to 1995 from Yankee Book Peddler.
- LIST Library and Information Science Toolbox
- Project Diane is a video/multimedia teleconference consortium that supports cooperative electronic alliances in education, community service, and economic development. For more info email Gayla Cassidy at the State Library and Archives, gcassidy@mail.state.tn.us
- Quotations about Libraries and Librarians
- RE-Design Technical Services Report from Stanford.
- Internet Library for Librarians
- Choosing out FuturesPapers from the April, 1997 ACRL Conference.
- LibraryLand Collection Management Resources.
- Getting your book published
- Book BuzzPublic Relations for authors and publishers; book industry news.
- Bulletin Board for Libraries from the University at Exeter.
Fun
- Beanie Babies
- Lipstick Librarian
- Library Cats Map Find out where the library cats live in the U.S.
- Poems about libraries
- Reviews in Rhyme
- Baker and Taylor(cats) Song
- The Marginal Librarian
- Center for the Easily Amused
- First Lines A literacy test, of sorts.
- Anti-telemarketing site
- Book-A-Maze
Return to Collection Management
MTSU Home Page
MTSU Library
Comments and suggestions to vvesper@ulibnet.mtsu.edu
http://www.mtsu.edu/~vvesper/acq.html
(updated 5/13/96) - LC Search Search the Library of Congress
Vendors | Helpful sites | Fun | ACQNET | MTSU Library
Locate Book info for ordering/purchase
Books in Print has current information about available book titles, as well as information about publishers, including addresses and phone numbers.Books in Print
Quicker and easier source to use for current and out-of-print titles is
Amazon books.
Amazon
Amazon.co.uk
--or
Internet Bookshop--for British
titles
Amazon.de--or
Verzeichnis
lieferbarer B|cher (VLB)--for German titles
Alapage.com--for French titles
Compare prices of books(international) on the Internet at
Acese.com
Acquisitions Procedures