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
