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Charlayne Hunter-Gault to speak at ALA President's Program 3. Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award recipient named 4. LAMA preconference to focus on Merchandise Mart tour 5. Margaret Mann Citation recipient named 6. National Library Week 1996 celebrates "Libraries Change Lives" 7. Esther J. Piercy Award recipient named 8. Record-breaking 700 attend PLA Chicago Cluster Workshops 9. Reducing technostress topic of LAMA preconference 10. SIX ARCHITECTS WIN AWARDS FOR LIBRARY BUILDING EXCELLENCE 1. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Poet Laureate Rita Dove to open 114th ALA Annual Conference Rita Dove, Poet Laureate of the United States, will be the keynote speaker at the Opening General Session of the 114th American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference on Saturday, June 24, in Chicago. The conference theme is "Libraries: An American Value." Sheldon Hackney, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), will also speak during the session to be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m., in Hall C-1 of the McCormick Place, North Building. There will an ALA Membership Meeting preceding the Opening Session. Dove, consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995, received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for her poetry book, "Thomas and Beulah." She also wrote "Selected Poems (Pantheon/Vintage, 1993), the novel "Through the Ivory Gate" (Pantheon, 1992) and the verse drama "The Darker Face of the Earth" (Story Line Press, 1993). This spring the Library of Congress will issue a book with her laureate lectures under the title "The Poet's World." Dove's new poetry collection, "Mother Love," will be available from W.W. Norton & Co., this month. Among Dove's many honors are grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Mellon fellowship at the National Humanities Center, the 1993 NAACP Great American Artist Award, a 1994 Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement, the 1994 Renaissance Forum Award for leadership in the literary arts from the Folger Shakespeare Library and several honorary doctorates. In 1993, Dove was the first poet to give an official reading at the White House in more than a decade. She is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia. As a scholar, an author, a teacher and a university administrator, Sheldon Hackney has compiled a distinguished record of achievement and leadership during a career that has spanned more than three decades. Before becoming chairman of the NEH in August of 1993, Hackney served for 12 years as the president of the University of Pennsylvania, president of Tulane University for five years and provost at Princeton University for three years. An award-winning author on the history of the south, Hackney wrote "Populism to Progressivism in Alabama (1969), which won the American Historical Association's 1970 Albert J. Beveridge prize for best book on American history and the Southern Historical Association's 1970 Charles Sydnor Award. His published articles have appeared in numerous newspapers, journals and magazines. The Chicago Public Library will host a reception for ALA members immediately following the session at 7:30 p.m., at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St. The reception is sponsored by World Book. 2. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Charlayne Hunter-Gault to speak at ALA President's Program PBS commentator Charlayne Hunter-Gault will join a panel of library experts in addressing "The Changing Scene in Washington" and its impact on libraries at the President's Program on Sunday, June 25, from 2 to 4 p.m., during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago. It will be held in Room E450 in the East Building of McCormick Place. The program, hosted by ALA President Arthur Curley, will include remarks by ALA Executive Director Elizabeth Martinez on ALA Goal 2000 and Patricia Glass Schuman, chair of the ALA Legislation Committee on the association's new five-year legislative agenda. Carol Henderson, executive director of the ALA Washington Office, will give an update on legislation affecting libraries and will introduce J. Andrew Magpantay, who will lead the new ALA Office for Information Technology Policy. Hunter-Gault is the Emmy and Peabody award-winning national correspondent for PBS's "The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour." She also anchors "Rights and Wrongs: Human Rights Television," a weekly half-hour newsmagazine on public television which incorporates news, investigative reports, interviews, features and cultural segments into a 'global views' magazine that examines human rights issues worldwide. In 1978, Hunter-Gault joined the MacNeil/Lehrer Reports as the first woman anchor. Throughout her distinguished career at MacNeil/Lehrer, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including two awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for excellence in local programming and the American Women in Radio and Television Award for her work on the NewsHour. In 1986, Hunter-Gault was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists and received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her work on the NewsHour's "Apartheid People" series on contemporary life in South Africa. "In My Place," her personal memoir covering her early days leading up to her historic role in the Civil Rights movement, was published in 1992 by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. 3. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award recipient named Peter Gellatly, editor-in-chief of Haworth Press Library and Information Science Division in Seattle, Wash., is the 1995 recipient of the Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award presented by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Serials Section (SS). The award, $1,500 and a citation donated by Bowker/Ulrich's, is presented for distinguished contributions to serials librarianship such as leadership in serials-related activities through participation in professional associations and/or library education programs, contributions to the body of serials literature, research in the area of serials, or development of tools or methods to enhance access to or management of serials. Gellatly is being recognized for "his decades of substantial achievement and distinguished service as an author, for his editorial work and efforts in the discipline of serials librarianship." "The launching and continuous stewardship of the first refereed, scholarly journal devoted to serials work is a momentous achievement over the long term," said Andrew Shroyer, chair of the Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award Committee. "The committee agreed that Peter Gellatly is one of those persons who could have been the honoree many times since the award was conceived." Gellatly has worked as head bibliographer and head of the Serials Division at the University of Washington Libraries and has held positions at the Library of Parliament in Ottawa, Ontario, and at Algonquin College in Ottawa. In the course of his career as a librarian, Gellatly delivered papers on serials topics at professional meetings and served on a range of American Library Association (ALA) committees. He has edited several volumes of Technical Services Quarterly, Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian and Library and Archival Security as well as several monographic supplements to The Serials Librarian and Haworth's monographic Series on Library and Information Science. Gellatly coauthored, with Bill Katz, "Guide to Serial Subscription Agencies." Gellatly has a bachelor's degree from the University of British Columbia and a master's degree in library science from the University of Washington. 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. 4. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 LAMA preconference to focus on Merchandise Mart tour "Touring the Mart" will be held on Friday, June 23, from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., sponsored by the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) Buildings and Equipment Section (BES). The program is a preconference to the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago. The deadline for registration is June 2. The preconference is designed for those involved in a capital improvement program, who are responsible for purchasing library furniture, or who are interested in the world of furniture and interiors. Participants will have an opportunity to tour the Merchandise Mart in Chicago which contains the world's most comprehensive collection of design showrooms. It is normally restricted to design professionals and their clients. Speakers will discuss the fundamentals of selecting furniture. Small groups will visit several furniture and finishes showrooms to examine products applicable to libraries not normally exhibited at ALA. Participants will receive passes for unlimited access to the Mart throughout the week of Annual Conference. Presenters will include: David L. Michaels, principal, Michaels Associates Design Consultants; Richard Driscoll, technical manager, The Business and Institutional Furniture Association (BIFMA), and Jean Klauber, principal, Tours at the Mart. Registration fees are $115 for LAMA members, $155 for ALA members and $195 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. 5. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Margaret Mann Citation recipient named Arnold S. Wajenberg, principal cataloger at the University of Illinois Library- Urbana, is the 1995 recipient of the Margaret Mann Citation presented by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Cataloging and Classification Section (CCS). The citation recognizes outstanding professional achievement in cataloging or classification through publication of significant professional literature, participation in professional cataloging associations, or valuable contributions to practice in individual libraries within the last five years. "Arnold Wajenberg is an outstanding leader whose contributions span all areas of bibliographic access and control, descriptive cataloging, subject analysis and classification," said Susan H. Vita, chair of the Margaret Mann Citation Committee. "His immense knowledge of the theory and practice of cataloging and his apt method of presentation and good humor have made him an inspiration and role model for hundreds of students and colleagues." Wajenberg has served as assistant catalog librarian/principal cataloger, department head and cataloger/section head/assistant department head at the University of Illinois at Urbana Library. He has a master's degree in library science from the University of Chicago. 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. 6. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 National Library Week 1996 celebrates "Libraries Change Lives" "Libraries Change Lives" will be the theme for National Library Week, April 14-20, 1996 Bob Reagan, chair of the American Library Association's (ALA) National Library Week Committee, said committee members made the decision to keep the theme for a fourth year after reviewing more than 35 themes submitted at the committee's invitation. "We agree with Roger Sween, who wrote: 'Find a theme for National Library Week and stick with it,'" Reagan explained. "We feel the 'Libraries Change Lives' theme captures the essence of why libraries are so important to the fabric of our country -- and why they should be supported." Reagan, who is director of public relations for the Los Angeles Public Library, noted that many libraries have made good use of the "Libraries Change Lives" theme in annual reports, fundraising campaigns and other public awareness efforts. In his letter urging that the "Libraries Change Lives" theme be continued, Sween said, "Themes make a promise essential to the mission of the group and significant to the public. Constant novelty of National Library Week slogans gains nothing; instead we lose our investment, we confuse." Sween is library cooperative specialist for the Minnesota Department of Education. He will receive a 1996 National Library Week kit and a "Libraries Change Lives" t-shirt for his winning suggestion. The committee also selected four themes as "runners up:"  "Libraries: Every Time, Everywhere, Every Person!" submitted by Mary Jane Jones, Smoky Row Elementary School, Carmel, Ind.  "Make a Lifetime Friend: Introduce Yourself to a Library," submitted by Elizabeth P. Cook, Kernersville, N.C.  "Your Library: Media Megamall Along the Information Superhighway," submitted Judy Bogle, Southeast High School, Lincoln, Neb.  "Libraries Speak...Listen," submitted by Judy E. Wagner, Carroll County Public Library, Westminster, Md. They will also receive a 1996 National Library Week kit for their suggestions. Colorful new posters with the "Libraries Change Lives" message and a tagline, "Call. Visit. Log on." will be available in the fall ALA Graphics Catalog. National Library Week, held each April, celebrates the contributions of America's libraries and librarians. It was first observed in 1958 with the theme, "Wake up and read." For more information, contact: ALA Public Information Office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 5044/41. 7. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Esther J. Piercy Award recipient named October Reyn Ivins, head of Acquisitions and Serials Services at Louisiana State University Libraries, is the 1995 recipient of the Esther J. Piercy Award presented by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). The award, $1,500 and a citation donated by Yankee Book Peddler, Inc., is given to a librarian with fewer than 10 years experience for contributions and leadership in the field of library collections and technical services. "Ivins is being recognized for her leadership role in the area of serial pricing and her contributions to the field of publisher/vendor/library relations," said Wanda V. Dole, chair of the Esther J. Piercy Award Committee. "She has shown a willingness to tackle some of the thorniest problems in the business end of serials. Ivins has also directly questioned accepted practices in the serials industry." Ivins has worked as acting head of the Acquisitions Department and head of the Serials Services Department at Louisiana State University Libraries; library intern for the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences Library, Research Triangle Park, N.C., and serials acquisitions supervisor and binding assistant at the Wilson/Davis Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of numerous publications and articles including the quarterly column, "Serial Prices," in Serial Review 1988-92. Ivins has a bachelor's degree in history and English, and a master's degree in library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 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. 8. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Record-breaking 700 attend PLA Chicago Cluster Workshops More than 700 librarians, trustees and other library supporters, the highest registration figure ever, attended the Chicago Cluster Workshops, hosted by the Public Library Association (PLA). The workshops were held March 23-26, at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago. The biannual continuing education event included sessions on such topics as: "An Appetite for Romance: How to Understand, Buy, Display and Promote Romance Fiction;" "Kids, Libraries and Technology: Making the Connection;" "It Could Never Happen Here: Preventing Violence in Your Library;" "Special Delivery: Shaping and Sharing Your Library's Message," and "Library Lighting and Wiring Technology for the Future." Keynote speakers included John Dunning, author and antiquarian book dealer, and Nora Roberts, romance writer. The Chicago Cluster Workshops are held when PLA is not hosting a national conference. The next series will be held in 1997. For more information, contact: PLA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 5PLA. PLA is a division of the American Library Association. 9. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes May 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Reducing technostress topic of LAMA preconference "Reducing Technostress: Building Healthy, Productive Library Environments" 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) Buildings and Equipment Section (BES). The program is a preconference to the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago. The deadline for registration is June 2. The preconference will feature a panel of design and industry experts who will present ergonomic solutions to the challenges of technostress through improved lighting, furnishings, equipment and noise control. Topics to be discussed include techniques for coping with existing work situations through task analysis, work flow design, scheduling, stress control and exercise. Presenters will include: Steven M. Foote, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Perry Dean Rogers & Partners; David Malman, Architectural Lighting Design; Robert Boardman, Sales Engineer, Worden Company; Jerry Krug, ASID Interior Design; Jona Bostwick, Stress Control and Ergonomics Consultant; Lynn Barnhouse, AIA, Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd.; Linda Demers, facility planning consultant, and Geoffrey Freeman, AIA, principal, Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson and Abbott. 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 Six architects win awards for library building excellence Six winners have been named in the 17th Library Buildings Award Program sponsored by the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Selected by a jury of three librarians and three architects who have extensive experience with library buildings, the biennial awards honor distinguished accomplishment in library architecture by an American architect without regard to location or library type. Award categories are new buildings, additions, library interiors design and refurnishing, renovation, restoration and conversion to library use. The 1995 winners include three new buildings, a major renovation and two adaptive retrofittings of nonlibrary structures. The winners are: Davis, Brody & Associates of New York for creating the William and Anita Newman Library and Technology Center, Baruch College, New York, from an 1894 industrial building. The jurors said the new library provides well-integrated technology with more traditional library function. "The rehab is sophisticated, yet clean and crisp, with every level of detail solid from the functional work stations to the screening of noise from the atrium." Lake Shore Facility, Cleveland (Ohio) Public Library, designed by Richard Fleishman Architects, Inc., of Cleveland, for retrofitting a girl's high school into a public library facility for seven major library services: technical services, the library for the blind and physically handicapped, a training facility, a community auditorium, administration and a branch library. "The resulting design fits these diverse functions together well, using extraordinary use of color and a clear design. Separate entrances focus the community, library and service activities." The landmark Betram Goodhue building was renovated by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates of Los Angeles for the Los Angeles Public Library. It is the culmination of a 10- year, $214 million project including extensive rehabilitation and select restoration, repair of both arson and earthquake damage, addition of a new wing and the creation of a public park to the west. The new wing has an eight story atrium called the "Grand Canyon of books" by former City Librarian Elizabeth Martinez. The community served by the new 2,200 square foot Amanda Park (Wash.) Timberland Library, includes members of the Quinault Indian Nation. Designed by Clint Pherson Architects of Seattle, the vernacular "plank house" of the Quinault people served as the initial design reference. "The building fits into its site with minimal disruption to the surrounding rain forest. It has a rustic appearance along with modern technological services and links to the local system." Housing the largest reference collection in the King County Library System the Bellevue (Wash.) Regional Library, designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership of Seattle, is the centerpiece in the master plan to link the commercial downtown with the residential district. "Although the architecture is intended to express an image of civic importance and monumentality, we noted that there is still a sense of visual accessibility." The Irvine Science Library at the University of California, designed by James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Associates and IBI Group/L Paul Sajfen of Irvine, Calif., serves as a connective element between two user communities -- the central campus and the medical school. It has a circular floor plan derived from the campus plan which provides for a central courtyard from which one enters the building as well as daylight to all reader and staff spaces. "The reader spaces are scattered through the building offering a choice of location and ambiance from the bustling 24-hour study room to seclusion on the upper levels. The awards will be presented to the architects and librarians of the six winning libraries on Saturday, June 24, at 2 p.m., during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. Photo panels displaying the award-winning libraries will be on display in the conference professional exhibits. The award committee included: Alfred H. Koetter, chair, FAIA, Koetter Kim & Associates and Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, Conn.; Merrill L. Elam, AIA, Scogin Elam & Bray Architects, Atlanta, Ga.; Janice Feye-Stukas, Minnesota State Library, St. Paul, Minn.; David Kaser, consultant, Bloomington, Ind.; Edward Kodet, Jr., FAIA, Kodet Architectural Group, Ltd., Minneapolis, Minn.; and William Sannwald, San Diego (Calif.) Public Library. Entry forms for the 1997 Library Buildings Awards Program will be available from LAMA or AIA after August 1, 1996. The deadline for entry is October 1, 1996. LAMA is a division of the American Library Association.