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Denali Press Award recipient named 4. LAMA establishes LAMASOURCE, an electronic resource 5. LAMA seeks " Best of Show" award winners 6. LITA sponsors electronic resources preconference 7. RASD to explore minority group electronic resources 8. Reference Service Press Award recipient named 1. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 ALSC Born to Read staff members announced April Judge has been named project manager and Mara Karduck, administrative assistant, for the "Born to Read: How to Nurture a Love for Learning in your New Babies" Project administered by the Association for Library Service to Children. The three-year national demonstration project, funded by The Prudential Foundation, targets expectant mothers and families by providing grants and training to librarians and prenatal clinic staff to develop local partnerships. Judge worked at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library in Charlottesville, Va., before joining the ALSC staff on March 21. She has also worked at the Plainfield (N.J.) Public Library and the Thousand Oaks (Calif.) Public Library. She has been active with the American Library Association (ALA) and ALSC serving on the ALSC Liaison with Mass Media, Research and Development and the 1993 Caldecott Committees. Judge has a master's degree in library science from Simmons College in Boston. Karduck has been an ALA staff member for more than 9 years. Her most recent position was program assistant in the Public Programs department. Karduck joined the ALSC staff on March 7. She has a master's degree in English from DePaul University in Chicago. The appointment of a National Advisory Committee for the Born to Read Project is underway. The committee will be responsible for defining the project's timeline and for developing criteria for demonstration site selections. For more information, contact: April Judge, Born to Read Project, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 1398, 1399. ALSC is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 2. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Community and Campus Wide Information Systems LAMA preconference topic "Community and Campus Wide Information Systems: Opportunities for Improving Service to Library Users" will be held on Friday, June 24, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., as a preconference to the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Miami Beach. The deadline for registration is June 3. Sponsored by the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) Systems and Services Section, the preconference is designed to assist librarians in all types of libraries in managing wide area networks to expand and improve library service. Speakers will discuss the state of community and campus-wide information systems, review the technological underpinnings and technopolital environment, explore the new partnership with computing information services, consider the potential of these new tools to change the structure of the organizations and postulate the future of librarianship in an environment of widely available shared electronic resources. Presenters will include Craig A. Summerhill, systems coordinator and program officer, Coalition for Networked Information; Marilyn Gell Mason, director, Cleveland (Ohio) Public Library; Richard Luce, library director, Los Alamos, National Laboratory; Greg Anderson, associate director for Systems and Planning Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Anne Woodsworth, dean and professor, Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University. Registration is $115 for LAMA members, $160 for ALA personal members and $200 for nonmembers. For more information, contact: LAMA/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 5038. LAMA is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 3. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Denali Press Award recipient named Darlene Clark Hine, John A. Hannah Professor of History at Michigan State University, is the 1994 recipient of the Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD) Denali Press Award. The award, $500 and a plaque donated by The Denali Press, recognizes reference works of outstanding quality and significance that provide information specifically about ethnic and minority groups in the United States. Hine received the award for "Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia," a two volume set that covers in depth the history of black women in this country. It includes biographical entries as well as entries on organizations and historical movements. "'Black Women in America' was chosen because of its outstanding value and contribution to the literature of ethnic and minority studies," said Carolyn M. Gates, chair of the Denali Press Award Committee. "An extensive chronology of black women's history as well as bibliographies throughout the work make it an outstanding addition to reference literature. This scholarly work has been widely recognized as an excellent reference tool." Hine has served as visiting distinguished professor of Women's Studies at the University of Delaware; professor of history, vice provost, associate professor of history, interim director of the Africana Studies and Research Center and assistant professor at Purdue University; visiting distinguished professor of history at Arizona State University, and assistant professor of history and coordinator of Black Studies at South Carolina State College. An extensive writer and lecturer, Hine has served as editor of several books including "Milestones in African American History," 16 volumes, with Clayborne Carson (New York: Chelsea House, 1993) and "Black Women and Slavery in the Americas," with D. Barry Gaspar, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993). Hine is the recipient of a number of honors including the Kent State University Alumni Association Special Achievement Award (1991), the 1990 Gustavus Myers Center Award for Outstanding Book on the subject of human rights in the United States, the CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Book of 1990, the American Association for the History of Nursing Lavinia L. Dock Book Award (1990) and the Association of Black Women Historians Letitia Woods Brown Book Award (1990). She is a member of the Editorial Board for "The Black Freedom Struggle in the United States, An Encyclopedia," Garland Publishing, Inc., and the Editorial Advisory Boards of the "Nursing History Review," the "Journal of Women' History, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project and The Frederick Douglass Papers Project. Hine is chair of the OAH Ad Hoc Committee on Minority History. She has a bachelor's degree from Roosevelt University in Chicago, a master's degree and a doctorate from Kent (Ohio) State University. The award will be presented on Monday, June 27, 4:30 p.m., at the RASD Awards Program during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Miami Beach. RASD is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 4. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 LAMA establishes LAMASOURCE, an electronic resource LAMASOURCE, an electronic resource containing information about the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA), has been established by the LAMA Board of Directors. LAMASOURCE, based on the work of a task force chaired by Malcolm Hill of the MidYork Library System in Utica, N.Y., consists of an electronic archive of information about LAMA and an electronic newsletter, Leads from LAMA. Leads from LAMA, which has been issued in paper form to the LAMA Board of Directors and LAMA committee chairs since 1987, will now be issued only electronically. All LAMA officers and leaders on the current Leads mailing list will receive copies (those on this list without e-mail access will receive print-outs of the electronic file). The subscription list is open to all interested persons. The first issue was distributed in March. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to listserv@uicvm.bitnet or listserv@uicvm.uic.edu. Leave the subject line blank and put as the only line in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE LAMA FirstName LastName. Materials included in LAMASOURCE will be available from the LAMA fileserver. Files to be posted include such items as archived issues of Leads to LAMA, LAMA policies, procedures and forms, key documents as well as reports and minutes from LAMA committees. To receive the information, send the following command to LISTSERV@UICVM: send lama filelist. The LAMA FILELIST contains the list of files with the exact filename and filetype. To get a particular file, issue this command to the LISTSERV@UICVM: send filename filetype. For example, to retrieve the candidates' biographical information form, send a note to LISTSERV@UICVM with the text: SEND LAMA BIO-FORM. Submit articles for inclusion in Leads from LAMA or documents to be considered for posting to LAMASOURCE to: Karen Muller, Executive Director, LAMA, at Karen. muller@ala.org. LAMA is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 5. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 LAMA seeks "Best of Show" award winners Outstanding library public relations materials are being sought for the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) Public Relations Section Swap and Shop "Best of Show" Awards competition. The deadline for entries is May 9. Library promotional materials will be judged by a team of experts. Winning entries will be on display during the Swap and Shop program on Sunday, June 26, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Miami Beach. Entries may be submitted in several categories including academic libraries, annual reports, bookmarks, calendars, Friends of the Library, fund raising, materials lists, National Library Week promotions, newsletters, school libraries, service/policy brochures, small libraries (under 60,000 population), special libraries, special programs, summer reading materials, user orientation and miscellaneous. Only one entry per library, per category will be accepted. Entry forms and detailed information are available from: Carol G. Walters, Chair, Montgomery County Public Library, 215 West Main St., Troy, N.C. 27371. Telephone: 919-572-1311. - END - 6. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 LITA sponsors electronic resources preconference "Wrestling with the Future: Decision-Making Strategies for Electronic Information Technologies," sponsored by the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) in conjunction with the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, will be held on Friday, June 24, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Hotel Eden Rock in Miami Beach. The deadline for early registration is May 20. The day-long session will provide information on available electronic resources and the issues libraries are faced with in selecting and providing those resources to users. Speakers will cover such topics as equipment options and network issues, systems and strategies for acquiring and providing electronic information resources, collection development and preservation challenges, institutional challenges brought on by a changing technology environment and staff and patron instruction in the use of electronic information resources. Speakers include: Thomas Wilson, head of Systems, University of Houston; Craig Summerhill, systems coordinator & program officer, Coalition of Networked Information, Washington, D.C.; Sam Demas, head of Collection Development & Preservation, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; Florence Mason,- over - director, F. Mason & Associates, Dallas, Texas; Marty Schlabach, Gateway coordinator, Cornell University; Paul Bergen, coordinator, Social Science Data Center, University of Virginia, and Elena Carvajal, research analyst, EDS, Dallas, Texas. Registration is $80 for LITA personal members, $105 for ALA members and $145 for nonmembers. A $35 late registration fee will be charged after May 20. To register, by telephone using a credit card (VISA, Mastercard or American Express), call 800-545-2433, ext. 4269. For more information, contact Rob Carlson, LITA Deputy Director, at 800-545-2433, ext. 4268, or 312-280-4268. LITA is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 7. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 RASD to explore minority group electronic resources "Electronic Access to America's Diversity" will be held on Sunday, June 26, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Miami Beach. The program is sponsored by the Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD) Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS). The program will explore the availability of electronic resources created for, about and by America's minority groups. Three speakers will address such topics as the political and economic context surrounding access to electronic resources, the problems of creating and distributing electronic resources and the challenges of providing services associated with these tools. An opportunity will be provided for questions from the audience. For more information, contact: Peggy Morrison, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C. 25799. Telephone: 919-962-0700. E-mail: pmorriso.hsl@mhs.unc.edu. RASD is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 8. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Reference Service Press Award recipient named Sally W. Kalin, head of the Computer-Based Resources & Services Team, Pennsylvania State University in University Park, is the 1994 recipient of the Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD) Reference Service Press Award. The award, $1,000 donated by References Services Press of San Carlos, Calif., is given to the author of the most outstanding article published in RQ, RASD's quarterly newsletter, during the preceding two volume years. Kalin received the award for "Support Services for Remote Users of Online Public Access Catalogs" that appeared in RQ, volume 31, number 2, Winter 1991, pages 197-213. "Sally Kalin's article focuses on the 'invisible users' of online library resources who do not have access to the librarians at the reference desk when connecting to an OPAC from their homes or offices," said Gary M. Klein, chair of the Reference Service Press Award Committee. "This well-written, well-researched article raises concerns and offers suggestions from the user's perspective and touches all types of libraries offering off-site access to electronic resources. The committee was pleased to see this article address the needs of the invisible users of a library since their numbers are rapidly growing as the Internet reaches out around the world." Kalin has been on the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University Libraries since 1978. She currently serves as a member of the library's Computer Based Resources and Services Team. Kalin took a sabbatical in 1989-90 to study remote users of online catalogs. She received a grant from the Council of Library Resources for that project. Her publications include a paper delivered at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS), a report to the Council on Library Resources and articles published in Database and Library Trends journals. Kalin has an extensive record of conference presentations, professional journals and book chapters. She served as editor of the Core Collections column for RSR: Reference Services Review from 1980-89 and has been an active member of several RASD committees since 1980. Kalin has a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University and a master's degree in library science from the University of Pittsburgh. The award will be presented on Monday, June 27, 4:30 p.m., at the RASD Awards Ceremony during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Miami Beach. RASD is a division of the American Library Association. - ENd -