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EBSCO ALA Conference Sponsorship winners named 4. FCC fails to support schools and libraries 5. First Step Award: ALCTS SS-Wiley-Professional Development Grant winner named 6. Donald Foos named LAMA Small Libraries Publications Series editor 7. The H.W. Wilson Library Periodical Award recipient named 8. LAMA Certificate of Special Thanks winner named 9. LAMA to offer preconference on managing information technology 10. Bessie Boehm Moore Award recipient named 11. NEW CATALOGER TRAINING OUTLINE AVAILABLE 1. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Best of LRTS Award recipient named Martha M. Yee, cataloging supervisor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Film and Television Archive, is the 1995 recipient of the Best of LRTS Award presented by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). The award, a citation, is given to the author of the best paper published each year in Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS), the official ALCTS journal. Yee received the award for her article titled "Manifestations and Near-Equivalents: Theory, with Special Attention to Moving-Image Materials." Library Resources & Technical Services 38(3): 227-255. "Martha Yee's article makes a valuable contribution to cataloging and bibliographic control by examining issues surrounding the differences between a work and its various physical manifestations," said Tschera Connell, chair of the Best of LRTS Committee. "She presents both theoretical and practical considerations and proposes several innovative solutions to contemporary problems. Yee's data are very rich and she has organized them interestingly and clearly." Yee was assistant head, Catalog-Bindery Division, at the UCLA Biomedical Library before assuming her current position. She has a master's degree in library science and a doctorate in cataloging both from UCLA. The award will be presented on Monday, June 26, at 8:30 a.m., immediately preceding the ALCTS President's Program during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago. ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association. 2. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Blackwell North America Scholarship Award recipients named Patricia Buck Dominguez and Luke Swindler are the 1995 recipients of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Blackwell North America Scholarship Award. The award, a citation to the winners and $2,000 to the library school of the winners' choice donated by Blackwell North America, is given to the authors of an outstanding monograph, published article or original paper on acquisitions, collection development or areas of resources development in libraries. Dominguez is humanities bibliographer, Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Swindler is social sciences bibliographer, Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They have designated the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library School to receive the $2,000 scholarship. They received the award for "Cooperative Collection Development at the Research Triangle Libraries: a Model for the Nation," in College and Research Libraries, November 1993, pp. 470-496. "At a time when collection cooperation and coordination among university libraries is sorely needed, the article by Dominguez and Swindler is a significant and welcome addition to library literature," said Frederick C. Lynden, chair of the Blackwell North America Scholarship Award Committee. "It is a thorough and instructive exposition of a model system of collection cooperation among university libraries." Dominguez has a bachelor's degree in French, a master's degree and a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Swindler has worked as a bibliographer/reference librarian at the Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, and assistant librarian, Social Sciences Graduate Reference Room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The award will be presented on Monday, June 26, at 8:30 a.m., immediately preceding the ALCTS President's Program, during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago. ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association. 3. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 EBSCO ALA Conference Sponsorship winners named Nine librarians are the 1995 recipients of the American Library Association (ALA) EBSCO ALA Conference Sponsorship Awards. The awards, up to $1,000 in reimbursed actual expense donated by EBSCO Subscription Services, allow librarians to attend ALA's Midwinter Meetings or Annual Conferences each year. The winners are: Connie Foster, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green; Louise S. Gerhard, Wilkes County Regional Library, North Wilkesboro, N.C.; Mary Brennan Hand, Radford (Va.) University; Sandra K. Hope, Wake County Public Library, Wake Forest, N.C.; Beverly E. Johnson, Montgomery, Ala.; Tim Klassen, University of Oregon, Eugene; Julia Schneider, Colegio Americano De Quito, Ecuador; Tommy L. Waters, Baa Library, Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Island, and Desiree Webber, Pioneer Library System, Moore, Okla. All the recipients will attend the ALA Annual Conference, June 22-29, in Chicago. 4. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 FCC fails to support schools and libraries A coalition of national education and library associations, including the American Library Association (ALA), has sharply criticized the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for rejecting a proposal to connect schools and libraries to the National Information Infrastructure (NII). The criticism came in response from the group after the FCC's April 7, ruling on price cap regulation. The coalition had suggested the FCC redirect funds from a "Consumer Productivity Dividend" to invest in school and library connections to the Internet. The dividend is based on an annual adjustment in a complex formula that, under price cap regulation, specifies the rates local telephone companies charge long distance carriers to complete their phone calls. The coalition had estimated its proposal would generate some $300 million a year to assist schools and libraries in acquiring new technology without raising prices or taxes. Coalition leaders say the decision means the FCC strayed from its original stated intent to encourage proposals that would modify the existing price cap rules in ways that would speed "development of a ubiquitous, national information infrastructure." "The need for connectivity couldn't be clearer," said ALA President Arthur Curley. "A recent study by the administration's own Department of Education showed that while 35 percent of public schools have access to the Internet, only three percent of all classrooms in public schools are connected to the Internet. A similar study by the U.S. Commission on Libraries and Information Science found that only 21 percent of public libraries are connected and only 13 percent of small rural libraries are connected. Budget constraints, lack of equipment and lack of funding are the barriers." Gordon Ambach, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers, said, "Our proposal was an innovative approach to meeting the nation's goal of connecting classrooms and libraries to the National Information Infrastructure by the year 2000. It would have furthered the chances of meeting the national education goals and would have made available $300 million a year without raising taxes or prices. It is difficult for us to understand why the FCC didn't take this opportunity to advance services to children." "The FCC must be aware of the rescissions that our schools and libraries are facing on the Hill," said Tom Shannon, executive director of the National School Boards Association. "Funding was difficult before; it's now a national crisis. We have to look to creative proposals like ours to help private industry wire our classrooms and libraries." Coalition members said they will not let the FCC's decision go unchallenged. "The FCC let a golden opportunity to help kids slip through their fingers," said Tom Dyer, executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. "We are going to continue to promote proposals before the FCC and other appropriate policymakers. The National Education Association is also a coalition member. Endorsements for the proposal were sent to the FCC from 35 other education and library associations, nationally-known educators and members of Congress. 5. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 First Step Award: ALCTS SS-Wiley Professional Development Grant winner named Gloria Guzi, serials librarian/supervisor at the Cleveland (Ohio) Public Library, is the 1995 recipient of the First Step Award-Wiley Professional Development Grant presented by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Serials Section (SS). The grant, $1,500 donated by John Wiley & Sons, provides librarians new to the serials field an opportunity to broaden their perspectives and to encourage professional development in American Library Association (ALA) conferences and participation in serials section activities. "The committee felt Gloria Guzi deserved the grant because of her scholarship, planning skills in serials projects and her wide range of duties related to serials in a large public research library setting," said Eleanor Cook, chair of the First Step Award Committee. "She also demonstrated interest and dedication in ALA activities by volunteering to work for ALA and ALCTS during the 1991 Annual Conference in Atlanta as a student representative of her library science program." Guzi has worked as a cataloger for the Cleveland Public library and visiting technical services librarian at The College of Wooster. She has a bachelor's degree in English from Youngstown (Ohio) State University, a bachelor's degree in German and a master's degree in English from the University of Akron, Ohio, and a master's degree in German translation and a master's degree in library science from Kent State University. The award will be presented on Monday, June 26, at 8:30 a.m., immediately preceding the ALCTS President's Program during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association. 6. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Donald Foos named LAMA Small Libraries Publications Series editor Donald Foos, acquisitions agent for Oryx Press in Phoenix, Ariz., is the new editor of the Library Administration and Management Association's (LAMA) Small Libraries Publication Series. He will serve until the 1997 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. The appointment was approved by the LAMA Board of Directors during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia. Foos is responsible for contacting potential authors for subjects identified by the advisory committee, working with authors to develop outlines and to complete manuscripts, identifying and working with manuscript readers, and submitting final manuscripts. He was director and professor of the Library and Information Science Programs, Graduate School, and director of the Center for Library and Information Science Education and Research at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Foos was recently named an alternate delegate for the White House Conference on Aging, May 2-5, in Washington, D.C. LAMA is a division of the American Library Association. 7. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 The H.W. Wilson Library Periodical Award recipient named North Carolina Libraries, the official publication of the North Carolina Library Association, is the 1995 recipient of The H.W. Wilson Library Periodical Award presented by the American Library Association (ALA). The award, $1,000 and a certificate donated by The H.W. Wilson Company, is given to a library, library group or association for a periodical making a contribution to librarianship. "Using thematic issues, which present a balanced treatment of the subject, North Carolina Libraries strives for individual articles that are of interest to the state's librarians and library supporters in North Carolina," said Nancy J. Gibbs, chair of The H.W. Wilson Library Periodical Award Jury. "A variety of articles are included in each issue. Continuing columns provide an identity to the reader. Book reviews, reports of the business and meetings of the association's membership are of interest to all librarians throughout the state." North Carolina Libraries received The H.W. Wilson Periodical Award in 1992. Frances Bryant Bradburn is the editor of the quarterly publication. The award will be presented during the ALA Annual Conference, June 22-29, in Chicago. 8. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 LAMA Certificate of Special Thanks winner named Janice T. Koyama, assistant university librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the 1995 recipient of the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) Certificate of Special Thanks. The certificate honors an individual for a specific, significant, single contribution to the goals of LAMA. Koyama is being recognized for her "tireless efforts" to establish the Council of LAMA Affiliates (COLA), a network of state and regional groups with an interest in library management. "Working with the LAMA State and Regional Task Force, she planned and organized the Council, promoted it with gracious and sustained enthusiasm and assured that it was off to a smooth start," said William G. Jones, chair of the LAMA Recognition of Achievement Committee. The award will be presented on Sunday, June 26, at 2 p.m., at the LAMA President's Program during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago. A reception will follow the program at 4 p.m. LAMA is a division of the American Library Association. 9. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 LAMA to offer preconference on managing information technology "From Library Automation to Information Strategies: Managing Information Technology in an Era of Constant Change" will be held on Friday, June 23, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., sponsored by the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA). The program is a preconference to the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago. The deadline for registration is June 2. The preconference, to be conducted by RMG Consultants, Inc., is designed to provide participants with information on the shift in the library and information marketplace that requires that they consider alternatives to traditional automation planning and buying methods. Participants will learn how to develop an "information strategy" which allows for flexible response during a period characterized by constant change. They will be asked to complete work in advance of the preconference. Presenters will include: Charles Lowry, university librarian, Carnegie Mellon University; Rob McGee, Howard Harris, and Patrick McClintock, RMG Consultants, Inc. Registration fees are $125 for LAMA members, $165 for ALA members and $205 for nonmembers. For more information or to register, contact: LAMA/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 5032. E-mail: yvonne.mclean@ala.org. LAMA is a division of the American Library Association. 10. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Bessie Boehm Moore Award recipient named The Pekin (Ill.) Public Library is the 1995 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA) Bessie Boehm Moore Award. The award, $1,000 and a citation, is presented to a public library that has developed an outstanding and creative program for public library services to the aging. The Pekin Public Library received the award for the expansion of its traditional offering of large- print books and homebound delivery services to include an information-based intergenerational program. "The project represents a thoughtful and deliberate effort to develop the library and its collection as the foundation for both library-based and community-provided intergenerational programs," said Nicky Stanke, chair of the Bessie Boehm Moore Award Jury. The project was the subject of a story in Illinois Libraries, Vol. 75, Fall, 1993, #5, pp. 323-327. Paula Weiss is director, of the Pekin Public Library. Joan Wood, public services coordinator, directed the project. The award will be presented during the ALA Annual Conference, June 22-29, in Chicago. 11. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 New cataloger training outline available "Training Catalogers in the Electronic Era: Essential Elements of a Training Program for Entry- Level Professional Catalogers," the latest publication from the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), is now available on the American Library Association (ALA) Gopher. Developed by the ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section's Committee on Education, Training and Recruitment, the outline was designed to assist managers in the training of entry-level catalogers. To retrieve a copy of the publication, either download from the ALA Gopher, located under the menu item "ALA's Divisions," or send an e-mail message to Rob.Carlson@ala.org requesting the information via e-mail. To locate the ALA Gopher, point your gopher client to gopher.uic.edu port 70, select the menu option "The Library" in the first screen of the UIC gopher then choose "American Library Association" under "The Library" menu. For more information, contact Rick Block, chair of the ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section's Committee on Education, Training and Recruitment, at rblock@library.tufts.edu, or Karen Muller, ALCTS executive director, at karen.muller@ala.org. ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.