ALCTS Network News v10n02 (July 17, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v10n02 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 10, Number 2 July 17, 1995 In this issue COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP/APPOINTMENT INFORMATION DUE NOW ALCTS POLICY AND PROCEDURES MANUAL ON GOPHER ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE DRAWS RECORD CROWD CALL FOR PAPERS: MEETING OF OVGTSL EUROPEAN SERIALS CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION SET SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GREY LITERATURE PLANNED ************************************************************************** COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP/APPOINTMENT INFORMATION DUE NOW As reported in _AN2_, v.10, no. 1, the ALCTS Board of Directors approved the following policy for ALCTS: "that the ALCTS office will prepare the division roster using data available as of August 1 of each year, with no extensions for late reports of information; that the ALA Handbook of Organization be used as the authoritative source for committee membership across the division; and that each committee chair be provided with a printout, from the ALA Membership database, of his/her committee to use as the committee roster." The ALCTS office staff are now preparing the committee membership information for the ALA Handbook of Information, with a due date of July 17. We can make a limited number of additions and corrections to this information until August 4. Thus, the date of August 1 set by the Board of Directors is the absolute deadline for our receipt of information from you. So, please look for that appointment acceptance form you haven't yet sent, send in that new e-mail address, report the new chair of your discussion group, etc. We would like to be flexible, but in order to provide the documentation of committee membership to all, we must be firm in our deadline. ************************************************************************* ALCTS POLICY AND PROCEDURES MANUAL ON GOPHER The ALCTS segment of the ALA Gopher has been rebuilt to make finding items easier. The latest addition is the _ALCTS Policy and Procedures Manual_ 1995 edition. The complete manual, minus forms, now joins other documents within the ALCTS menu. This is the menu as it now looks: ALCTS Education & Training Syllabi & Policies ALCTS Ethics Statements ALCTS Historical Information ALCTS Manual ALCTS Bylaws ACLTS Council of Regional Groups ALCTS Awards ALA Collection Development Committees: A Guide ALCTS Institutes ALCTS Network News, 1994 (vol. 7-) 1994-95 ALA Handbook ALCTS [The ALCTS section of the _Handbook_] The institute and preconference planning guide is under revision and it, and ALCTS forms, will be posted when available. 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, and then choose "American Library Association" under the "The Library" menu. ALCTS is under Item XIII, "ALA's Divisions." ************************************************************************* AROUND ALA Paul Graller, who has been Director of Conference Services, will be joining Hall-Erickson, a trade show management company located in Clarendon Hills, on July 17. Paul started working at ALA 5 years ago as a Hall-Erickson employee and in June, 1992, joined the ALA staff full time. At Hall-Erickson, Graller will focus on the logistics of the two shows of the Society of Plastics Industries. Their main show will be over 900,000 net square feet of exhibits. Jennifer D'Oliveria has accepted a six-month appointment as manager of graphics to assist in the development of a strategic plan for ALA's graphics business. D'Oliveria was most recently employed as manager of merchandise operations of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. She began working at ALA on July 6. ************************************************************************* ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE DRAWS RECORD CROWD A record crowd of almost 25,000 librarians, trustees, exhibitors and guests attended the 114th ALA Annual Conference in Chicago from June 24-28. Attendance in all areas was up. The paid registration of 13,178 was up by more than 100 over the previous record of 13,063 at the 1992 Annual Conference held in San Francisco. There were 13,063 paid registrants at the 1993 Annual Conference in new Orlenas and 8,025 paid registrants at the 1994 Annual Conference in Miami Beach. This year's total attendance of 24,541 also included 5,856 exhibitors and guests. Some 5,507 free exhibit passes were issued compared to 3,441 in Miami Beach. The 1995 Annual Conference offered some 2,000 programs, meetings, and exhibits with featured speakers U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, PBS commentator Charlayne Hunter-Gault and other well known authors and experts celebrating the theme "Libraries: An American Value." The ALA Midwinter Meeting is scheduled January 19-25 in San Antonio and the 1996 Annual Conference, July 6-10 in New York. ************************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS: MEETING OF OVGTSL Technical Services Librarians: Leaders for Change is the theme of the 1996 annual meeting of the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians. OVTGSL serves Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. The meeting will be in Toledo on May 16-17, 1996. The OVTGSL Program Planning Committee invites proposals for papers and Workshops related to current issues in technical services, including acquisitions, cataloging, database maintenance, serials, and systems. Possible topics could include (but are not limited to) the following: *Modifying workflow to accommodate change *Serving our customers *Increasing productivity and efficiency *Making the most of automated systems *Internet/WWW implementation and usage for technical services *Staff motivation and morale *Out-sourcing *Emerging roles for technical services librarians OVTGSL invites all interested persons to submit proposals and suggested topics/ speakers. Proposals will be reviewed competitively and should include name, address, e-mail address, and phone number of the proposer, presentation title, 200-word abstract, format (e.g. oral presentation, hands-on workshop, panel discussion), duration (30 minutes or 1 hour). Proposals should be submitted no later than September 30, 1995, to Barbara Shaffer, Serials Librarians, Carlson Library, The University of Toledo, Toledo OH 43606. Her e-mail is fac0107@uoft01.utoledo.edu. ************************************************************************* EUROPEAN SERIALS CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION SET The European Federation of Serials Groups has announced that the Third European Serials Conference and Exhibition will be held at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, September 25-27, 1996. The program will be aimed at librarians, publishers, subscription agents and information managers and will be held in English with simultaneous translation into French and Spanish and will address many of the problems and opportunities facing the European serials community today. There will also be an exhibition of many of the latest products and services currently available and a reception in the Long Room of Trinity's library, home to the Book of Kells. For further information contact: Jill Tolson, UK Serials Group Administrator, 114 Woodstock Road, Witney OX8 6DY UK. Tel: +44 1993 703466; Fax: +44 1993 778879; E-mail: uksg@bham.ac.uk. ************************************************************************* SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GREY LITERATURE PLANNED Catholic University of America located in Washington D.C. will be the site of the Second International Conference on Grey Literature November 2-3, 1995, titled "Grey Exploitations in the 21st Century". Sponsored by Catholic University of America, the European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation, the International Federation for Information and Documentation, and the International Translation Centre, the conference includes representation from other international organizations such as the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, the International Federation for Information and Documentation, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, and the National Air Intelligence Center. Grey Literature is that body of material encompassing works outside the publishing mainstream (e.g., reports, dissertations, government documents, proceedings, datafiles). It can be produced by associations, ministries, laboratories, libraries, universities, businesses and governmental agencies. The Second International Conference on Grey Literature is concentrating on three primary topics: new forms of grey literature in networked environments; marketing and promotional activities aligned to grey literature; and, management of grey literature in regional and global contexts. The inaugural address will be given by Donald B. Simpson, president of the Center for Research Libraries (Chicago), and Judy C. McDermott, chief of the Overseas Operations Division at the Library of Congress, will be the keynote speaker. Patrick Ellis, president of the Catholic University of America will welcome conference participants. Plenary and satellite sessions will include papers from Brazil, Botswana, Chile, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. For more information contact Grey Literature Network Service, Koninginneweg 201, NL-1075 CR Amsterdam, Netherlands. Telephone or fax (31)-0(20)671 1818, or e-mail: GreyNet@inter.nl.net. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ALCTS NETWORK NEWS (ISSN 1056-6694) is published irregularly by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association. Editorial offices: ALCTS, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; David Farrell, President; Karen Muller, Executive Director. Editor: Karen Whittlesey (u34261@uicvm); Editorial Assistance: Karen Muller, Shonda Russell. ALCTS NETWORK NEWS is available free of charge and is available only in electronic form. 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