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Library Association calls for libraries to be "Citizen Kiosk" test sites 3. ALA and NCLIS to host National Pre-White House Conference for Older Adults 4. ACRL announces speakers for 7th national conference 5. ACRL to sponsor National Institute for Library Personnel teleconference 6. ASCLA publishes "The ADA Library Kit" 7. 1994 fall ALA Graphics catalog available 8. 1995 National Library Week materials available 9. Nominations accepted for John Sessions Memorial Award 1. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes October 26, 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 ALA sets "Goal 2000" The Executive Board of the American Library Association (ALA) enthusiastically approved "ALA Goal 2000: a Five Year Plan to Position the Association for the Information Age" submitted by new executive director Elizabeth Martinez at its fall meeting on October 26. The goal, said Martinez, is to have the association as closely identified with the public's right to a free and open information society -- intellectual participation -- as it is with intellectual freedom. Key recommendations call for expansion of the ALA Washington Office to increase its ability to follow and influence national issues and legislation; establishment of an Office of Information Technology to complement the Washington Office's efforts and support the library field's needs for information, and the creation of an independent charitable foundation called the Fund for America's Libraries. "We are unanimous in our enthusiasm for the bold vision you have presented," said ALA President Arthur Curley in accepting Martinez's report. The ALA Goal 2000 plan also calls for a five-year thematic cycle for major ALA initiatives and activities that would provide a framework for activities of the association's divisions and units and maximize use of ALA resources. Martinez proposed a dues increase and establishment of the Fund for America's Libraries to support implementation of ALA Goal 2000. The dues increase, the first in ten years, would be devoted to expansion to the Washington Office and establishment of an Office for Information Technology. According to Martinez, the foundation would work in tandem with ALA to raise money for its priority areas of concern. She said establishment of an independent foundation would appeal to those sources who are unwilling to fund associations because of their perceived professional self-interest. The plan cites the following key indicators of success by the year 2000: 1. ALA will be accepted by the public as a voice and the source of support for participation of people of all ages and circumstances in a free and open information society. 2. ALA will be an active formal participant in various national arenas discussing and deciding aspects of the information society affecting libraries and their publics. 3. ALA will be identified and will already be in collaboration with other organizations and groups working for broader public participation in the development of information society issues. 4. ALA will have a vision statement defining its position and role within the emerging information environment. 5. ALA will have an expanded Washington Office with increased ability to shape important national information issues. 6. ALA will have completed a five-year thematic cycle that has framed the advancement of these issues and coordinated the support of all areas of the association in preparation for the 21st century. 7. ALA will have provided training and support to library professionals and members of the public in order to create an awareness of the variety of social and technical issues related to the information society. 8. ALA will have reviewed and adjusted its internal operations as a means to assisting all divisions and units in carrying out the new focus. 9. ALA will have redefined library information education and provided five years of training for professionals to update their skills for the new information age. Martinez said her approach in putting together the plan was to build on work that had already been done. "We have a lot of experience and expertise, reports and studies to draw on," Martinez explained. "These are not new ideas or my ideas. I've brought them together in one document." Martinez also reported on a staff reorganization effective October 17. She said the reorganization is intended to emphasize service to ALA members and ALA's role in public policy and programs. "I want us to be flexible, adaptable and to cause us to rethink the status quo," Martinez told the board. "I want to emphasize teamwork and accountability, promote creative solutions to issues and a sense of urgency and purpose." The revised chart of organization has two new departments -- Member Programs and Services and Public Policy and Programs. Member Programs and Services includes all divisions, conference services, membership development, chapter relations, round tables and awards programs. An associate executive director for Member Programs and Services is scheduled to be appointed before the ALA Midwinter Meeting begins in February. Public Policy & Programs includes eight ALA Offices -- including the proposed Office of Information Technology, the Library Information Center, Public Programs and Development. It will be headed by Peggy Barber, formerly associate executive director for communications. ALA Graphics, which publishes National Library Week posters, celebrity "Read" posters and other library promotional items, formerly administered by ALA Communications, will now be part of Publishing Services, headed by Don Chatham. The reorganization merges the finance and accounting units under the new position of associate executive director for finance, filled by Gregory Calloway, formerly director of planning and budget. Emily Melton, formerly Executive Board secretariat, is now special assistant to the executive director. Judy Hambrick, formerly administrative assistant to the executive director, is now senior administrative assistant to the executive director. A fifth unit called Staff Support Services consists of human resources, information processing, telecommunication, procurement, reproduction/distribution and building maintenance. It is headed by Ernest Martin, formerly associate executive director for Administrative Services. The five associate executive directors, the executive director of the ALA Washington Office and director of ALA's International Relations report to the ALA executive director. - END - 2. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes October 26, 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Library Association calls for libraries to be "Citizen Kiosk" test sites (Chicago) -- The American Library Association (ALA) proposes that public libraries be designated as trial sites for new electronic information kiosks to be developed by the U.S. Postal Service. The "Citizen Kiosk" Pilot Program, announced this week by the U.S. Postal Service, would provide basic information about postal and governmental services such as stamps by mail, zip codes, commemorative stamps, job bank information, applications for local, state and federal services. "It's a great concept but a wasteful one if they don't take advantage of what's already there," said Arthur Curley, president of the 55,000 member American Library Association during. The executive board is meeting this week in Chicago. "Public libraries collect, organize and distribute information at more than 16,000 sites. We have more outlets than McDonald's. And we have staff who are professionally trained to assist the public with their information needs." Curley noted that 773 million people turn to public libraries each year for the information they need. Some 1,400 libraries across the country already serve as government depositories for a wide range of documents. Many offer a wide range of electronic information services, including government information through the Internet, to the public. "Libraries are where people are used to getting the information they need. We're optimistic that the Clinton Administration and Postal Service will recognize it makes good sense to build on the system that's already there." Curley said the ALA supports the Administration's goal of connecting every library to the National Information Infrastructure by the year 2000 and has proposed preferential telecommunication rates, federal legislation and other strategies to help achieve this goal. "Our nation's libraries are the foundation of our nation's information infrastructure. They make information affordable, available and accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds. In the Information Age, that means providing information online as well as in print. As librarians, we are concerned that public's right to know be guaranteed through their public libraries." - END - 3. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes November 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 ALA and NCLIS to host National Pre-White House Conference for Older Adults "Toward the White House Conference on Aging: Priorities and Policies for Library and Information Services for Older Adults" is the title of a National Pre-White House Conference on Library and Information Services for Older Adults that will be convened by the American Library Association (ALA) and the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS). The preconference will be held on Friday, February 3, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel in Philadelphia in conjunction with the ALA Midwinter Meeting. "We believe that libraries and librarians can play an important role in addressing the needs of older adults," said Elizabeth Martinez, ALA executive director. "Their interests and concerns should be represented by delegates to the National White House Conference in May 1995." Participants in the day-long event will develop recommendations on major topics on the White House Conference agenda. Speakers, presentations, hearings and testimony by older adults, librarians, trustees, government officials and focus groups will concentrate on eight major areas. Topics will include libraries as they relate to: - older adults and disabilities; - older adults and cultural diversity; - the interdependence of generations; - older adults and federal legislative policy; - older adults and research, education and training; - older adults and special constituencies; - older adults and technology, and - older adults and lifelong learning, arts and humanities. Speakers who have been invited to participate include U.S. Rep. Major Owens (D-N.Y); Maggie Kuhn, founder of the Grey Panthers, Philadelphia; Hugh Downs, host of 20/20 on the ABC Television Network, New York; U.S. Senator David Pryor, (D-Ark.) and chair of the White House Conference, and Robert Blancato, executive director of the White House Conference on Aging. Allan M. Kleiman, chief of services to the aging at the Brooklyn (N.Y.) Public Library is chair of the preconference. Bessie Boehm Moore, NCLIS vice- president emeritus, and Betty J. Turock, ALA vice-president/president-elect and chair and director of the School of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University, are honorary co-chairs. The preconference is jointly sponsored by the Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD) and the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA). Registration is $35 and includes background materials, lunch and an evening reception. The deadline is January 15, 1995. For registration information, contact: Margaret Monsour, RASD, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 800-545- 2433, ext. 4397, or 312-280-4397. RASD and ASCLA are divisions of the American Library Association. - END - For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes November 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 ACRL announces speakers for 7th national conference Four nationally known speakers will address the 7th national conference of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) scheduled for March 29-April 1, 1995, in Pittsburgh. National Public Radio's (NPR) John McChesney, cultural anthropologist Jennifer James, Columbia University urban planning professor Saskia Sassen and University of California, Berkeley, ethnic studies professor Ronald Takaki will each address one of the conference's four themes. McChesney will review "Technology and the Service-Centered Library." James will address "Knowledge Workers and their Organizations." Takaki will discuss the theme "Multiculturalism and Internationalism." Sassen will examine "Society, Economics, and Politics." McChesney has worked for NPR since 1979 serving as national editor responsible for domestic news and senior foreign editor. He has traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. McChesney became involved in technology reporting as a result of his coverage of Japan. For the past several years, he has been reporting from Silicon Valley on various aspects of the information revolution. McChesney's recent work has concentrated on the emerging information superhighway. His reports, broadcast on the All Things Considered and Morning Edition programs, have won numerous awards including the Dartmouth Champion Award for business and economic reporting and the Sidney Hilman Award for his series on manufacturing technology. James, who is also a lecturer, writer and commentator, works with individuals and organizations in transition. She has also produced a series of business videotapes with strategies for handling problems in the work place and the home. James has a weekly column in the Seattle (Wash.) Times and other northwest area newspapers. She is the director of the Community Service Committee, a group that helps individuals contribute to their community, and founder of the Committee for Children, a group devoted to the prevention of the physical and sexual abuse of children. A faculty member of the University of Washington Medical School Psychiatry Department for 12 years, James is the author of seven books and 48 journal articles. She has a master's degree in anthropology and psychology and a doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of Washington. Takaki has served as chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UCLA, Berkeley, and advisor of the ethnic studies doctoral program, the first of its kind in the country. He was instrumental in establishing the university's American cultures requirement for graduation and helped to found its centers for African-American, Asian American, Chicano and Native American Studies. He is the author of several books including "A Pro-Slavery Crusade," a study of the Southern ideological defense of slavery; "Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans," nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and "A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America," a retelling of our nation's past through the eyes of people whose stories have often been ignored in standard accounts of American history. Sassen's work focuses on international, regional, urban economic and regulatory processes. She has written three books including "The Mobility of Labor and Capital" which is in its fourth printing and has been translated into several languages. She has been a member of several research groups including the Japan- based project on Economic Restructuring in the U.S. and Japan sponsored by the United Nations Centre on Regional Development. Sassen has a doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and performed post-doctoral work at the Universite de Poitres and Harvard University. Approximately 2,500 academic librarians are expected to participate in ACRL's conference that will feature more than 100 contributed papers, panel sessions and poster sessions, and more than 200 exhibits. Special library and local tours are also planned. The renowned Carnegie Museum will be the site of the all-conference reception. Registration materials will be mailed to ACRL members in mid-November. For more information or to be added to the mailing list, call 800 545-2433, ext. 2521, or 312-280-2521. ACRL is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 5. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes November 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 ACRL to cosponsor National Institute for Library Personnel teleconferences The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), will cosponsor a series of National Institute for Library Personnel (NILP) teleconferences beginning in February 1995. The teleconferences are cosponsored by the Learning Resources Center and the Library Technical Assistant (LTA) program both located at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill. They are designed to offer specialized training to library paraprofessional staff with little or no training in library and information services. "This teleconference project is an opportunity for library personnel on Indian reservations, in rural areas and in states where there are no library schools or programs, " said Bernard Franklin, teleconference co-director and dean of the Learning Resources Center at the College of DuPage. "These individuals will receive additional education that will help them do their jobs more effectively as part of library teams in all kinds of libraries-- public, school, academic and special." The telecasts will serve as a core program for developing skills in working as a member of a library team with professional librarians. They are designed to reach, recruit and train minority personnel in libraries; to provide specialized training in children, young adult and science reference services; to address the needs of specialized populations including minorities, elderly and rural areas, and to suggest how libraries can be utilized to address the National Education Goals. Those goals include readiness, high school completion, student achievement, citizenship, science and mathematics, adult literacy and lifelong learning. The 10 live, interactive satellite teleconferences are expected to train 30,000 library assistants at 300 viewer sites in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. They will be broadcast in pairs on five days the first Tuesday of each month from February through June 1995. Internet access will be available for students to ask questions of course presenters. There will also be fax and telephone access during the teleconferences. The teleconference will be offered for college and continuing education credit through the LTA and the Academic Alternatives area at the College of DuPage. It is endorsed by the ACRL Community and Junior College Section. For information on the teleconferences, call 800-3LINKUP. - END - 6. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes November 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 ASCLA publishes "The ADA Library Kit" "The ADA Library Kit: Sample ADA-related Documents to Help You Implement the Law" is the latest publication of the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA). The issue includes information for libraries working to implement provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It includes sample materials used by several public and academic libraries in the process of complying with ADA such as surveys, public notices, policies and procedures, transition plans, access brochures, job description considerations and suggestion forms. "The ADA Library Kit" (ISBN 0-8389-7765-0) is $19.99 for ASCLA members (plus $4 for shipping and handling) and $22.99 for nonmembers (plus $6 for shipping and handling). To order (prepayment should accompany orders $30 or less), contact: Dearborn Financial Publishing, 155 N. Wacker, Chicago, IL 60606-1719. Telephone: 800-545-2433, press 7. Fax: 312-836-9958. ASCLA is a division of the American Library Association. - END - 7. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes November 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 1994 fall ALA Graphics catalog available The American Library Association (ALA) Graphics Department has released the 1994 fall catalog featuring new celebrity "READ" posters, national reading program materials, electronic clip art and other library and reading promotional materials designed to be used in libraries, classrooms and bookstores. The latest celebrities to join the "READ" poster series are NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal, award-winning actress Geena Davis, jazz musician Branford Marsalis and actor Matt Dillon. Also included are all-new posters and other promotional items for National Library Week, April 9-15, 1995, with the message "Libraries Change Lives." Materials include a campaign tip sheet; bookmarks, with or without dates; "Libraries Change Lives" note pads; shimmering rainbow pens, and neon- bright posters featuring testimonials from well known library users. Edward Gorey, known for his work for the PBS "Mystery" series, has illustrated materials for the 1995 National Reading Program, "Solve Mysteries-READ!," designed to draw children into the world of intrigue and reading. Other promotional products include the 1994-94 Library of Congress Reading Theme materials, "Shape Your Future - Read;" camera-ready Internet handouts; book nightshirts; the 1995 Caldecott Calendar, and holiday cards and gift items. For a free catalog, send a postcard to: ALA Graphics, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 5046. To place an order with a credit card or organizational purchase order ($30 minimum on billed organizational orders), call 800-545-2433, press 7. - END - 8. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes November 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 1995 National Library Week materials available An all-new line of promotional materials to celebrate National Library Week, April 9-15, 1995, are available from the American Library Association (ALA) Graphics Department. Colorful posters, bookmarks, banners, tip sheets, pens and note pads carry the inspirational message, "Libraries Change Lives." "Achieve," "Dream" and "Soar" headline three neon-bright posters (20" x 28") featuring testimonials from well known library users. The posters are three for $12. Matching bookmarks, with or without dates, are packaged 200 for $7. The tip sheet, including program ideas, clip art, sample media materials and ad mats, is $3. Also available are shimmering rainbow pens, 12 for $12, especially designed for library giveaways. "Libraries Change Lives" note pads (5" x 7") are three for $5.50 and a poster/banner (36" x 12"), announcing the dates for National Library Week is $4. To order the 1995 National Library Week materials with a credit card or organizational purchase order ($30 minimum on billed organizational orders), call 800-545-2433, press 7. For a free catalog of materials, send a postcard to: ALA Graphics, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 800-545- 2433, EXT. 5046. - END - 9. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes November 1994 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Nominations accepted for John Sessions Memorial Award Nominations are being accepted for the 1995 John Sessions Memorial Award given by the Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD). The deadline is December 15, 1994. The award, a plaque donated by the AFL-CIO, is given to a library or library system in recognition of work with the labor community. The 1994 award recipient was the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs at Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University in Detroit. The Archives is one of the leading institutions in the world documenting the North American labor movement, the lives of North American workers and urban affairs with a particular focus on metropolitan Detroit. The Texas Labor Archives at the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries was the 1993 recipient. The Archives was recognized for a project celebrating 25 years of collection development with a birthday party, exhibition and other activities that resulted in increased public awareness. The 1995 award will be presented at the RASD Award Reception during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, June 22-29, in Chicago. RASD is a division of the American Library Association. - end -