Dear Friends, I agree with Professor Laxman Rao's email. In our institute (IUCAA, Pune), we were purchasing books against GOC. However, in 1998, we discontinued this practice and have since started purchasing books as well as journal subscription based on the bank exchange rate. Initially, no local bookseller agreed to this requirement. In fact a few booksellers even wrote to our Director! For some time there was not a single bookseller supplying books to IUCAA from Pune. However we stuck to our decision, and observed that in the following year the same booksellers who had earlier refused to do business based on the bank exchange rate came forward and agreed to our terms. regards, Mrs Nirupama Bawdekar S/T Officer C,Library On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Mailing List Manager wrote:
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:14:11 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Prof. N. Laxman Rao."
Dear Friends I have read the discussion, and I would like to make some comments and after wards I shall give my opinion 1. Do we find some relationship between us and publisher or not? 2. Our main concern is to purchase books, and many librarians are not having the selection sources / catalogues and they are not aware of the existing technology, infrastructure, books. Many librarians find the information as a sort of awareness 3. If we do not like to hav it or read it, u have an option to delete. once we start reading the mail. we understand and can be deleted. 4. how many professional memebres are sending useful messages. should we remove all of them from the group? important:
Can we make use of the message from different dimension?
Do we have GOC? Is it authorised by th Govt- now Govt is not participating. how far it is authentic? if it is not authentic, why no one is commenting on the aspect of illegality or irrelevance of the GOC rates.Who are the members? what is their authenticity), as i understand the IOLA have denied to associate with the GOC. People say that it is being fixed at the behest of few under the pressure of the select publisher ( subject to correction)
Do you think that we should purchase the documents by paying GOC rates/ In almost all the academic libraries in south stopped purchase of periodicals throught GOC rates. mainly due to the fact that, by paying almost 5-6 %extra- for a budget of 25 lakhs it works out to be1.25 laks extra.
therefore almost all the libraries have stopped purchasing the periodicals by GOC rates and they pay only bank rates. Is it justified to pay extra 5-6% to the publisher / Book seller? Let us insist not to pay extra 5-6% of the value, when we r undergoing the financial limitations.
Now it is high time we pay actual rates in the stabilised economy. ( the GOC was to fix rates in volatile environment). Similarly any thing related to the profession may be permitted by the group. It gives an opportunity to many people to understand and know the issues. let our professional friends examine and write the critical comment on the messages.
thanks laxman rao
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