ALANEWS (April 21, 1994) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/alanews/alanews-940421 Note: conversion from a BITNET transmission format not suitable for mail delivery was locally attempted. This type of conversion may sometimes require "choices" to be made by the conversion program, based on the (lack of) support for various file formats on the target operating system. The "choices" made by LISTSERV may not be the ones you expected, since it does not know anything about the system you are using. However, you would not have been able to use the file at all if it had not been converted. If you have trouble using the file as you received it, please contact the person who sent it and arrange for an alternate delivery method. *------------------------------ Cut here -------------------------------* NEWS RELEASES April 21, 1994 This batch contains: 1. ALA Endowment Trustee post open 2. ACRL K.G. Saur Award recipient named 3. ALA Trustee Citation recipients named 4. ALTA Literacy Award recipient named 5. ALTA/GALE Outstanding Trustee Conference Grant recipients named 6. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Catalogue Award winners named 7. Miami Beach programs focus on NEH Library Humanities Projects 8. Martinus Nijhoff International West European Specialists Study Grant awarded 9. Jean Weihs to present first John Comaromi Lectureship 1. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 ALA Endowment Trustee post open Nominations are being accepted for an American Library Association (ALA) Endowment Trustee position. The trustee, who will serve a three-year term beginning in September, will be elected by the ALA Executive Board during the ALA Annual Conference, June 23-30, in Miami Beach. The deadline is June 17. Candidates must be ALA members, have knowledge of investment opportunities available to endowment funds and of the averages used to judge performance of the fund, have experience in management or oversight of fund investments on more than a personal basis, be able to contribute to preparation of semiannual reports on the performance of the endowment, be able to attend endowment trustee meetings (usually in April and September) and ALA general meetings (usually in January and June) and report to the ALA Council and Executive Board on the status of the endowment fund, have knowledge of and commitment to ALA's mission, priorities and goals and be able to work with the investing bank in developing strategies to achieve ALA goals and objectives. Nominations, accompanied by a letter from the nominee signifying consent to serve, should be sent to: Peggy Sullivan, ALA Executive Director, ALA Headquarters, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. For more information, call 800-545-2433, ext. 3203 or 3205. - END - 2. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 ACRL K.G. Saur Award recipient named Ross Atkinson, assistant university librarian for collection development at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., is the 1994 recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) K.G. Saur Award for Best C&RL Article. The award, $500 and a plaque donated by K.G. Saur publishing company, recognizes the author of the most outstanding article published in College and Research Libraries during the preceding volume year. Atkinson received the award for an article titled "Networks, Hypertext, and Academic Information Services: Some Longer-Range Implications" (May 1993). The article focuses on the future implications of computer networks and explores their effects on scholarly communication, higher education and the relationship between readers and writers. "The Atkinson article is well-written, extremely relevant and exceptionally well-informed," said James Williams, chair of the K.G.Saur Award Committee. "It has wide appeal and is likely to have a lasting impact, especially in its philosophical implications. It is thoughtful and deals with some of our most important issues." Atkinson will receive the award during the ACRL Membership Meeting, Saturday, June 25, during the ALA Annual Conference in Miami Beach. - END - 3. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 ALA Trustee Citation recipients named Gloria Twine Chisum of Philadelphia, Pa., and Herbert A. Davis of Towson, Md., are the 1994 recipients of the American Library Association (ALA) Trustee Citations. The citations, given by the American Library Trustee Association (ALTA), a division of the ALA, recognize public library trustees for distinguished service to library development on the local, state, regional or national level. Chisum serves on the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation Board of Directors and is co-chair of the Foundation's major Capital Campaign, to be announced later this year. She is the immediate past president of the Board of Trustees. Davis, a trustee of the Baltimore County Library Foundation, has served as president and treasurer of the Baltimore County Public Library. He has also served as president, vice president and secretary of ALTA, president of the Friends of Towson Library and as a member of the Maryland State Advisory Council on Libraries. Virginia G. Young, chair of the ALTA Jury on Trustee Citations, said as president of the Free Library Board of Trustees, Chisum spearheaded the completion of the library's Five-Year Plan. The plan was the culmination of a $150,000 two-year planning process that included community and staff meetings and task forces as well as a professionally-developed user survey. Chisum played a key role in securing a $235,000 grant from the William Penn Foundation to establish a homework help and afternoon activity program for latchkey children. She also assisted in the creation of ten Preschool Library Centers through a $115,000 grant from Bell Atlantic. She was also instrumental in preventing major library budget cuts through appeals to the city's leadership. Davis has contributed three decades of service to the Baltimore County Public Library during which the library grew from three to 26 branches, Young said. A realtor and land-use planner, he was instrumental in negotiating a 25-year lease for a 22,000 square foot library to be constructed. In his current position, Davis has initiated a program of Foundation ownership of library branch copying machines generating an income of more than $500,000 annually. Chisum chaired the Governor's Conference on Libraries and Information Services in 1990. She is currently chairing the Revision of the Library Code Committee to examine and prepare a policy statement on public libraries and equal access for all citizens. Chisum received the Pennsylvania Library Association's Trustee of the Year Award in 1993. Davis is a well-known speaker throughout the State of Maryland and across the country. The award will be presented on Saturday, June 25, at the Opening General Session during the ALA Annual Conference in Miami Beach. - END - 4. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 ALTA Literacy Award recipient named Phyllis Kline, trustee at the Marie Fleche Library in Berlin, N.J., is the 1994 recipient of the American Library Trustee Association (ALTA) Literacy Award. The award, a citation, is given to a library trustee or an individual who, in a volunteer capacity, had made a significant contribution to addressing the illiteracy problem in the United States. Kline retired from Rohm & Haas Company in 1986 after 43 years as a research chemist. She then enrolled in the Basic Literacy Tutor Training course through Literacy Volunteers of America (LVA)/Camden County at Camden County Library in Voorhees, N.J. Kline currently serves as president of the LVA/Camden County Board of Directors, as a member of the LVA/NJ Board of Directors and as a member of LVA/NJ's Field Services and Fund Development Committee. She has served as secretary and South Jersey Regional Coordinator for LVA. Her former employer twice named Kline as an outstanding volunteer among its employees and retirees. The company also made two donations, totalling $1250, to LVA/Camden County. Kline also received the weekly Spirit of Philadelphia Award from WCAU-TV. The award will be presented on Sunday, June 26, at 11:30 a.m., at the Specialized Outreach Service Committee Luncheon during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Miami Beach. ALTA is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 5. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 ALTA/GALE Outstanding Trustee Conference Grant recipients named Marina Gagic and Kenneth R. Perez are the 1994 recipients of the American Library Trustee Association (ALTA)/GALE Outstanding Trustee Conference Grants. The grants, $750 each donated by Gale Research, Inc., are given to public library trustees who have demonstrated qualitative interests and efforts to supportive service to the local public library to attend the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference. Gagic has served as president of the Marksville, Avoyelles Parish (La.) Library Board of Control since 1991. She was born in Bosnia, Yugoslavia three years before the start of World War II. She also serves as president of the Avoyelles Arts and Humanities Council. Gagic is a member of the Louisiana Library Association. Perez is a trustee at the Guam Public Library. He has been a private school teacher for the past six years and an Upward Bound Program teacher for two years. Perez is a member of the Young Men's League of Guam and the Latte Jaycees (Guam). The awards will be presented on Saturday, June 25, at the Opening Session for Trustees during the ALA Annual Conference in Miami Beach. ALTA is a division of the American Library Association. - 30 - 6. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Catalogue Award winners named The 1994 Katharine Keyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Catalogue Awards have been announced by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS). The awards recognize the three best catalogs published by American and Canadian institutions in conjunction with exhibitions of books and/or manuscripts. First place winners in the three divisions--expensive, moderate and inexpensive -- and institutions submitting the catalogues are: "Reconstructing a Medieval Library: Fragments from Lambach," submitted by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (division one); "Human Documents: Tom Phillips's Art of the Page," submitted by the Department of Special Collections, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania (division two), and "Picturing Britain: Time and Place in Image and Text, 1700-1850," submitted by Special Collections, University of Chicago Library (division three). An honorable mention was awarded in division three to "About Faces: Historic and Contemporary Issues in Type Design," submitted by the Printing and Graphic Arts Department of Houghton Library, Harvard University. Elaine Smyth, chair of the Leab American Book Prices Awards Committee, noted that 65 catalogs were submitted this year by Canadian and U.S. institutions. "Choosing among the many fine entries was difficult for the committee members, but the hours spent reading the catalogues in preparation for the judging were quite enjoyable," Smyth said. "The catalogues reflect the excellence of current exhibition work being done using special collections materials." The awards will be presented on Sunday, June 26, at the RBMS program on during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Miami Beach. ACRL is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 7. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Miami Beach programs focus on NEH Library Humanities Projects Two programs focusing on library projects supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will be sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs department during the ALA Annual Conference in Miami Beach. Joseph Parisi, editor of Poetry magazine, will lead a demonstration program of "Poets in Person" featuring the work of United States Poet Laureate Rita Dove on Saturday, June 25, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The NEH has supported two "Poets in Person" projects, coordinated by the Modern Poetry Association and ALA, that have enabled 50 libraries across the U.S. to present the series since 1991. The Rita Dove audiocassette tape from the series is available until June 3, for $10 prepaid. Send checks (no purchase orders) payable to ALA, to: Marsha Morgan, ALA Public Programs, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. A free list of Rita Dove poems being discussed at the program is also available. "Big Sky Radio: Literature of the Last Best Place," will be featured at a program on Sunday, June 26, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., cosponsored by ALA Public Programs, Flathead County Library in Kalispell, Mont., NEH and the Public Library Association (PLA) Humanities Programming Discussion Group. Big Sky Radio is a call-in show offered in western Montana that gives readers and radio listeners the opportunity to read great Montana literature and talk about it over the air. The program reaches people in remote locations such as homesteads, cattle ranches and logging camps as well as those in towns and cities. Librarians and scholars who created the format will be on hand to describe its success and to answer questions. The PLA Humanities Programming Discussion Group will also focus on new and innovative humanities programs taking place in selected libraries across the U.S. on Monday, June 27, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Recent projects have included reading and discussion programs in the work place, public policy discussion and a public library scholar-in- residence for literature programs. For more information, contact ALA Public Programs, 800-545-2433, ext. 5054 or 5053. PLA is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 8. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Martinus Nijhoff International West European Specialists Study Grant awarded Stephen Lehmann, humanities bibliographer at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the 1994 recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Martinus Nijhoff West European Specialists Study Grant. The grant, funded by Martinus Nijhoff International, is given to support research pertaining to West European studies, librarianship, or the book trade. The focus is on acquisitions, organization or use of library materials. The grant covers air travel to and from Europe, transportation in Europe and lodging and board in selected sites for a period not to exceed 14 consecutive days. Lehmann plans to research and publish an article on the outstanding features of journal publishing in German academic librarianship. He will interview leading figures in German library journals to explore issues relating to editorial and financial policies, the relationship of the journals to the institutional structures of German librarianship, recruitment of authors and other relevant issues. He has been active in ACRL's Western European Specialists Section (WESS), serving as chair of the Newsletter Subcommittee, among other activities. Lehmann has also been editor of College & Research Libraries and the Multicultural Review. The award will be presented on Sunday, June 26, at the ACRL Western European Specialists Section (WESS) Membership Meeting during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Miami Beach. ACRL is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 9. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes April 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Jean Weihs to present first John Comaromi Lectureship Jean Weihs, principal in the Technical Services Group in Toronto, Canada, will present the first John Comaromi Lectureship at a program on Saturday, June 25, 2 to 4 p.m., during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Miami Beach. The program is sponsored by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the ALA. Weihs will be a panelist at a program titled "Sources of Cataloging When You'd Rather Not Do It Yourself" presented by the ALCTS Cataloging of Children's Materials Section. She has worked as a cataloging consultant, library and information science professor and librarian for 30 years. Weihs has been honored by governments, university faculty and library associations (including ALA) for her outstanding work in cataloging and research librarianship. Upon notification of her honor, Weihs said, "Some years ago, I invited John to Toronto to give a workshop on Dewey Decimal Classification. He did a wonderful job, the epitome of 'lectureship.' So, it is indeed an honor to have his name attached to my contribution to the Miami Beach conference." The Comaromi Lectureship supports an ALCTS conference speaker in the area of bibliographic access. It was established by Myung Comaromi, widow of John Comaromi, editor of the Dewey Decimal Classification from 1980 until his death last November. Comaromi was also chief of the Decimal Classification Section at the Library of Congress. He conducted more than 45 workshops and wrote numerous articles explaining and clarifying the Dewey Decimal Classification. The Dewey Decimal Classification, published every seven years by Forest Press, was established by Melvil Dewey to ensure that the classification system he created in 1876 would be continued and updated.It is used by thousands of school and public libraries in the United States as well as libraries in Europe. For more information, contact the ALCTS Office, 800-545-2433, ext. 5035. - END -