ALA News Releases (August 8, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/alareleases/alareleases-95088 NEWS RELEASES August 8, 1995 This batch contains: 1. Three seek election as ALA president 2. ALA Nominating Committee announces treasurer candidates 3. John Cotton Dana Awards competition opens 4. LAMA announces fund raising, financial development listserv 5. Nine Library Fellows announced 6. Pamela Sieving receives RASD My Favorite Martian Award 1. 1. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes August 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Three seek election as ALA president Three candidates will seek election as president of the American Library Association (ALA) for the 1998-99 term. Two candidates were nominated by the ALA Nominating Committee. They are Ching-chih Chen, professor and associate dean for the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, Boston, Mass., and Barbara J. Ford, director of University Library Services at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. Charles Beard, director of libraries for West Georgia College in Carrollton, will be a petition candidate. ALA members will vote on the spring 1996 ballot.The candidate elected will serve as ALA president-elect for 1997-98 and as president the following year. Ching-chih Chen Ching-chih Chen has worked as a public and academic librarian, educator, speaker and consultant in library and information science for more than 35 years. She is the author/editor of 26 books and more than 100 journal articles and reports on library issues and concerns, including a baseline document on citizens' information needs for the first White House Conference on Library and Information Services. An ALA member since 1976, Chen served three terms as a member of the ALA Council as Councilor-at-large (1981-93). She served as chair of the Legislative Committee (1984-85) and as a member of the Planning and Budget Assembly (1990-92). Chen also served as director-at-large (1990-93) on the executive board of the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of ALA. She is active in other associations, including the American Society for Information Science (ASIS), the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Sponsored by the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Chen organized a series of international conferences on new information technology for global internetworking. She also directed over 60 continuing education institutes, including a series on science reference for school/public librarians under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Education. Chen has received numerous awards, including the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award (1994), the Emerson Greenaway Distinguished Service Award from the New England Library Association (1994) the LITA/Gaylord Award for Achievement in Library Information Technology (1990) and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Michigan School of Library Science (1980). She is a fellow of AAAS. Chen received her bachelor's degree from National Taiwan University, a master's degree in library science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a doctorate in information science from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Barbara Ford Barbara Ford has worked in academic and special librarianship in Illinois, Texas and Virginia since 1973. She has been professionally active at the local, state, national and international levels. Ford served two terms as a member of the ALA Council as Councilor-at-large (1985-89) and Illinois Chapter Councilor (1980-84). Ford was president of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of ALA, (1990-91) and a member of the ACRL executive board (1989-92). Ford also served as chair of the Office for Library Personnel Resources (OLPR) Advisory Committee (1994-95) and the Council Resolutions Committee (1980-82) and has been active in other ALA committees and roundtables, including the Membership and Conference Program committees, Library Education and Recruitment assemblies, Status of Women in Librarianship Committee, Planning and Budget Assembly, Government Documents Round Table and Reference and Adult Services Division. Ford has served as a section officer in the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (1985-89). She has also been active in the Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). She served on the executive board of the Illinois Library Association (1978-84) and was also active in the Texas and Virginia library associations. Ford currently serves on the steering committee for the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) and chairs the VIVA user services committee. She serves on the Commission on Information Technology of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. Ford is the author of numerous articles and speaks frequently on library issues. She holds a bachelor's degree in history from Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, a master's degree in international relations from Tufts University, Medford, Mass., and a master's degree in library science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Charles Beard Charles Beard has worked as a public, special and academic librarian and as a school library media educator for more than 30 years. He has been professionally active at the local, state and national levels. He serves on the executive boards of ALA (1992-) and the Georgia Library Association (1973-) and has been a member of the ALA Council since 1990. Beard was 1994-95 co-chair of ALA's "Americans Can't Wait. . . Library Advocacy Now!" campaign and served as co-chair for two other ALA advocacy campaigns. Beard is past chair of the Public Relations Section (1994-95) and a past member of the executive board (1993-95) of the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA), a division of ALA. He is a past chair of the ALA Council Orientation Committee (1992-93) and a former member of the ALA Chapter Relations Committee (1992-93) and the ALA Legislation Committee (1992-93). He also served on the Public Library Association's Advocates Committee (1991-93) and the Legislative Committee of the Academic and College Research Library Association (1986-91). Beard has been a member of the White House Conference on Libraries and Information Services Task Force (WHCLIST) since 1980, serving as co-chair (1991-92) and as a member of the WHCLIST Steering Committee (1990-, l983-85). He also serves on the Georgia State Board for the Certification of Librarians and the University System of Georgia's Statewide Library Initiative Steering Committee. He was co-chair of the Georgia's Second Governor's Conference on Libraries and Information Services (1990-91) and was a delegate to both White House Conferences. Beard is a past president of the Georgia Library Association (1981-83) and the Southeastern Library Association (1986-88). He received the Nix-Jones Award for Distinguished Service to Georgia Librarianship in 1991. Beard has written numerous articles and is a frequent speaker on library issues. He received his bachelor's degree in history from the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa and a master's degree in library science from Florida State University, Tallahassee. 2. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes August 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 ALA Nominating Committee announces treasurer candidates Two candidates have been nominated by the American Library Association (ALA) Nominating Committee for ALA treasurer for the spring 1996 ballot. They are Wanda Brown Cason, head of cataloging at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem. N.C., and Bruce E. Daniels, director of the Onondaga County Public Library, Syracuse, N.Y. ALA members will vote for the candidates on the spring 1996 ballot. The candidate elected will serve as ALA treasurer for 1996 - 2000. Wanda Brown Cason has been treasurer for the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) since 1992 and has served as chair of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Heads of Cataloging Discussion Group (1994-95). Cason is also a member of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Since 1991, Cason has been treasurer of the North Carolina Library Association (NCLA) and has served as a member of a number of NCLA sections and roundtables. They include the College and University Section, the Roundtable for Ethnic and Minority Concerns, the Roundtable on the Status of Women in Librarianship and the Library Administration and Management Section. She has served as secretary/treasurer of the NCLA College and University Section (1988-92), vice-president of the Winston-Salem State University Friends of the Library Group (1990-95) and coordinator of the North Carolina SOLINET Users Group (1992-93). She is a member of the Southeastern Library Association and the Forsyth County Library Association. Cason previously held positions as assistant head of cataloging, cataloger and library technician at Wake Forest University. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from Winston-Salem State University and a master's degree in library science from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Bruce Daniels has been a member of the ALA Executive Board since 1992 and also serves on the ALA Council (1980-83, 90- ). He served as a member of the Executive Board Directions and Program Review Subcommittee (1989-91), Committee on Program, Evaluation and Support (COPES) (1991-95) and as chair of the ALA Planning Committee (1989-91). He served as president of the Young Adult Services Division (now the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) (1978-79) and as a member of the Board of Directors (1974-83), and a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) (1986-87, 1990-91). Daniels has also served on several ALA and Public Library Association (PLA) committees. Daniels is a member of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), the White House Conference on Library and Information Services Taskforce (WCHLIST) and Librarians Unlimited. He has been active in the New York, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania library associations. The author of a number of publications, Daniels received a WCHLIST Taskforce Citation in 1984, a H.W. Wilson Staff Development Grant in 1982 and was listed in Who's Who in Library and Information Services, 1982. Daniels was previously director of the Rhode Island Department of State Library Services, Providence, and held several positions at The Free Library of Philadelphia, including assistant coordinator of the District Services Office, head of two branches and youth adult librarian. Daniels holds a bachelor's degree from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, and a master's degree in library science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 3. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes August 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 John Cotton Dana Awards competition opens Competition is now open for the 1996 John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award contest sponsored by The H.W. Wilson Company and the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA). The deadline for entries is February 12, 1996. Presented annually since 1946, the awards honor a library public relations program that supports a specific project, goal or activity, or a sustained, ongoing program. Examples might be the promotion of a new building, a fund-raising campaign, moving a library, or a year-long public awareness campaign. Entries are accepted from all types and sizes of libraries including state and armed forces libraries, library associations and library consortia. They can be for the 1995 calendar year, the 1994-95 school year, or any special project completed during 1995. Completed entries must be received by The H.W. Wilson Company with judging by a committee of the LAMA Public Relations Section to take place in February/March 1996. The awards will be presented during the 1996 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in New York. To obtain an information packet and entry forms, contact: John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award Contest, The H.W. Wilson Company, 950 University Avenue, Bronx, N.Y. 10452-9978. LAMA is a division of the American Library Association. 4. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes August 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 LAMA announces fund raising, financial development listserv A moderated listserv devoted to fund raising and financial development in libraries has been established by the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) Fundraising and Financial Development Section (FRFDS). The list, FRFDS-L, will focus on issues pertaining to fund raising and resource development for libraries. Some topics to be covered include foundations, trust and endowment development and administration, annual giving and direct mail fund raising programs, capital campaign planning and implementation, grantsmanship and other areas of fund raising activity. The list will serve as a clearinghouse for the exchange of fund-raising ideas, information and techniques. To subscribe to FRFDS-L, send an e-mail message to: listserv@uicvm.uic.edu (listserv@uicvm.bitnet). Leave the subject line blank, or type "subscribe" if your e-mail software requires a subject. Put as the only line in the body of the message: subscribe FRFDS-L . For more information, contact Charles Kratz, FRFDS chair, at 717-941-4008, or the LAMA Office at 800-545-2433, ext. 5031. LAMA is a division of the American Library Association. 5. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes August 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Nine Library Fellows announced Nine individuals have been selected to represent the American Library Association (ALA) and U.S. librarianship as Library Fellows. The joint program of the ALA and the United States Information Agency (USIA) places U.S. library specialists in institutions overseas for up to one year. The 1995-96 appointments: Malikah Dada Lumumba, library media specialist at Franko Magnet Middle School, Mount Vernon, N.Y., will introduce the concepts of multimedia centers to secondary schools and conduct related workshops for educators in Harare, Zimbabwe. She will convert a selected school library to serve as a model multimedia center, formulate standards for equipment, staff and facilities, and work with staff to design a handbook on establishing and organizing school media centers. Her assignment is for six months, January - June 1996. Kathleen E. Bethel, African-American studies librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., will organize and conduct workshops on how to develop reference and outreach services for students and academics. Her assignment is for six months (February - July 1996) at the University of Durban-Westville in South Africa. She will develop a library skills course for incoming students and provide direction on collection development principles and practices. Bruce H. Tabb, rare book cataloger and subject specialist/Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon in Eugene, will catalog and inventory the collection of about 20,000 books and journals at the American Studies Institute, Leipzig, Germany. The cataloging project will use LC CD-MARC Bibliographic. Student assistants will work under the guidance of Tabb who will provide training in LC classification, searching bibliographic records and the development of an automated catalog. Tabb will be in Leipzig from September 1995 - February 1996. Edward J. Valauskas, principal of Internet Mechanics based in Chicago, will prepare the automated catalog of the library at the United Nations Office of Geneva, Switzerland, for public access via the Internet. During the six-month assignment (November 1995 - April 1996), Valauskas will supervise data preparation for monographs and serials, evaluate and recommend Internet options for data dissemination in discussion with the UN International Computer Center and other Geneva providers. He will also set up training procedures for Internet use of the OPAC and prepare training and documentation to assist long-distance users. Bonita C. Corliss, adult services librarian at the Seattle (Wash.) Public Library, will consult on improving public services, specifically reference service, reference collection development and user needs assessment, at the American Library in Paris. Her six-month assignment will begin September 1995 and end in February 1996. Corliss will conduct workshops in reference services to staff, develop and implement user surveys, improve outreach activities and public documentation on computer searching and library use, analyze reference collection, train in searching OPAC and CD-ROM indexes and conduct advanced workshops on LAN and the Internet. Marian Karpisek, retired supervisor for Library Media Services at the Salt Lake City (Utah) School District, will assist in the development of secondary school libraries in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. During the six-month assignment (January - June 1996), Karpisek will provide training for school librarians on how to integrate the library into the school curriculum. She will also help to plan and conduct a program for primary school teachers on integrating information skills into the curriculum. Jean A. Poland, head of the Swain Hall Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, will assist with the inventory and assessment of library resources and services at the Universities Central Library of the Department of Higher Education in Rangoon, Burma. Poland will also advise on automation systems and online databases to meet the user needs of the academic community. She will provide information on the acquisition of library software and access to online systems, conduct workshops on library automation and consult with library studies teaching staff on the addition of a library automation component to the curriculum. She will serve four months, February - May 1996. Tricia Vierra, head of the collection development department at the American University Library, Washington, D.C., will have a joint assignment at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta (September 1995 - January 1996), and the University of Notre Dame, Freemantle, Australia (March - June 1996). Vierra will evaluate American studies resources at both institutions and develop collection development policies for an American studies collection and make recommendations for acquisitions. During the nine-month assignment, Vierra will also advise on how to analyze and identify organizational needs for automation, conduct feasibility studies and specify requirements for library technology. Judith Lin Hunt, director of the University of Richmond Libraries, Virginia, will consult with the Universiti Brunei Darussalam in Bandar Seri Begawan for six months, November 1995 - April 1996. Hunt will advise on policies and procedures for academic library management, develop strategies to improve practices and user services, and conduct staff development workshops on library management. Since 1987, under the authority of the Fulbright-Hays Act, the Library Fellows Program has sent more than 100 librarians to work in indigenous institutions around the world. Positions available for 1996-97 will be announced in late December 1995. When these positions are announced, interested candidates (U.S. citizenship required) should submit a resume and cover letter briefly stating foreign language skills, subject expertise and desired position. (No application forms are available.) For more information, contact: Robert P. Doyle, director, Library Fellows Program, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 3200, or 312-280-3200. 6. For Immediate Release From: Pamela Goodes August 1995 Linda Wallace 312-280-5043, 5042 Pamela Sieving receives RASD My Favorite Martian Award Pamela C. Sieving, director of Library Services at the John W. Henderson Library in the Kellogg Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is the 1995 recipient of the My Favorite Martian Award presented by the Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD) Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS). The award, now in its second year, is given to a member of MARS for distinguished service to the RASD MARS group. "Sieving received this honor for her work in all levels of the organization and in special recognition for her work with the Section Handbook," said Bernard Pasqualini, chair of the RASD MARS My Favorite Martian Award Committee. Sieving has been a member of the American Library Association (ALA) and MARS since 1981. She is the author of several articles and writes reviews for major library journals. An accomplished linguist, Sieving is fluent in German and speaks eight other languages including Russian and Japanese. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Valparaiso (Ind.) University, a master's degree in English language and literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master's degree in library science from Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven. Sieving received a certificate of appreciation during the ALA Annual Conference, June 22-29, in Chicago. RASD is a division of the American Library Association.