ALCTS Network News v10n15 (November 27, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v10n15 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 10, Number 15 November 27, 1995 In this issue SERIALS SECTION SEEKS INPUT ON FUTURE DIRECTION AROUND ALA NEWS FROM IFLA LC PUBLISHES NEW CLASS SCHEDULE R LC PRESERVATION WORKSHOP OPEN TO PUBLIC PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT ************************************************************************* SERIALS SECTION SEEKS INPUT ON FUTURE DIRECTION Pamela Bluh, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of the Serials Section, has appointed an ad hoc advisory committee to help her identify the issues which are of greatest concern or interest to serialists for the immediate future. The task group would also be very interested in hearing from members of the section with ideas and concerns. We are interested in: - identifying the critical issues with which the Serials Section should be grappling - finding ways to be responsive to the members of the section by providing programming, publications, workshops, or other mechanisms, to satisfy their needs - reaching out to other groups, particularly within ALCTS, thereby minimizing redundancy and capitalizing on common interests - ascertaining whether the section would benefit from some form of long-range planning which would provide focus and continuity One objective of this process is the development of a proposal for a Section program for the Annual Conference, 1997, in San Francisco. Another bi-product of the discussion could be the development of an outreach program which would be attractive to both current and potential members. We would like to have some feedback from members of the Section: As a section, what do we do well? What do we do poorly? What should we be doing that we are not doing now? What does the Serials Section, and by extension ALCTS, offer that is unique and can't be found elsewhere? You may send your comments to Pamela Bluh at pbluh@umabnet.ab.umd.edu or to a member of the ad hoc task group: Gene Dickerson dickerson@ucis.vill.edu Jean Farrington jfarring@pobox.upenn.edu Beverly Geer-Butler bgeer@tucc.7.tucc.trinity.edu Cindy Hepfer hslcindy@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Joan Lamborn jlamborn@bentley.univnorthco.edu Tim McAdam temcadam@uci.edu Miriam Palm cn.mwp@forsythe.edu Please share your thoughts on these topics, as well as on others which concern you. --Submitted by Pamela Bluh ************************************************************************** AROUND ALA Martin Leaving Fund for America's Libraries Patricia Martin is leaving her position at The Fund for America's Libraries to create her own consulting firm, the Martin Resource Group, Inc. Her last day with ALA is December 8, 1995. Pat joined the ALA staff in June 1993 as director of the Development Office. She has provided the development expertise that enabled ALA to launch The Fund for America's Libraries, and has served as its vice- president for development and sponsorship. Pat has provided development inspiration and leadership to ALA and to libraries throughout the country. Liebow Named Assistant Director of OIF Deborah Liebow has been appointed Assistant Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom and will begin her assignment on November 27. Before joining ALA, Deborah was program manager for a refugee resettlement program at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, where she assisted in resettling over 16,000 refugees from the former Soviet Union in the Chicago area. She also worked for the Anti-Defamation League, where she particpated in the development of curricula for Holocaust education in the Illinois school system and conducted teacher training throughout the state. Deborah has a law degree from the Chicago Kent College of Law/Illinois Institute of Technology. She has presented oral arguments to the Illinois Appellate Court and Supreme Court of Illinois while representing indigent defendants at the Office of the Illinois State Appellate Defender. ************************************************************************* NEWS FROM IFLA IFLA AFFRIMS COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS ARTICLE 19 The 1995 IFLA General Conference in Istanbul affirmed its commitment to Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as stated by the 55th IFLA General Conference in 1989. During the IFLA General Conference, Council expressed its deep concern about increasing infringements on free expression and the free flow of information in many parts of the world, and the mounting cases of physical abuse and even murders that are being recorded. Attacks are often directed against writers, journalists, publishers and editors, and those responsible may be governments, groups or parties representing extreme political or religious views. The IFLA General Conference firmly condemned all violent and other restrictions on freedom of expression, access to information and free debate. These are fundamental rights that enable people and societies to protect and enhance democracy and culture. The IFLA General Conference recognized that restrictions on freedom of expression and access to information limit the ability of libraries and librarians to serve the needs and interests of their users and therefore, calls upon all governments to ensure the right to freedom of expression and the free flow of information for their citizens and to protect them from violence, intimidation and threat of punishment in pursuit of these rights. In order to develop a strategy to effectively propagate and protect worldwide Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, IFLA has established an ad hoc IFLA Committee on Access to Information and Freedom of Expression, chaired by Tony Evans (UK). The committee will be made up of 30 appointed members from all over the world. Its mandate is to gather the views of IFLA's members, review expert advice and advise the wider IFLA community accordingly. Formal meetings have been scheduled to take place in Beijing, China in 1996 and in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1997. ELECTIONS, APPOINTMENTS Robert Wedgeworth of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) was re-elected as IFLA's President for another 2-year term. His objectives as IFLA President are threefold: to help the IFLA community keep pace with developments in the spheres of new technology and automation and change its role accordingly; to transform IFLA into an international platform for the protection of freedom of expression and access to information on a global level; and, to assist IFLA in improving the prospects of less privileged library communities, setting appropriate machinery in place so that they might help themselves. Executive Board members now include: Robert Stueart (USA); Warren Horton (Australia) Treasurer; Marta Terry (Cuba) 1st Vice President; Ekaterina Genieva (Russia) 2nd Vice President; Sun Beixin (China); and Sally McCallum (USA) Chair of the Professional Board (ex officio). Two new members were also appointed: Christine Deschamps of the Bibliotheque de l'Universite Paris V (Rene Descartes), France and Borge Sorensen, Director of Copenhagen Public Libraries, Denmark. Russell Bowden (UK) and Eeva Maija Tammekann (Finland) ended their terms of service on IFLA's Executive Board. Sally McCallum (USA) replaces Ian Johnson (UK) as chair of IFLA's Professional Board. Professional Board members now include: John Willemse (South Africa), Ed Valauskas (USA,; Sissel Nilsen (Norway), Ross Bourne (UK), Marjorie Bloss (USA), Ralph Manning (Canada), Steffen Ruckl (Germany), and A.P. Gahkar (India). ************************************************************************* LC PUBLISHES NEW CLASS SCHEDULE R _Library of Congress Classification R: Medicine, 1995 Edition_ has just been published by the Library of Congress' Cataloging Distribution Service. It is the first new edition of this schedule in nine years. _Class Schedule R_ includes classification data created through early 1995 and has new class numbers and captions for topics such as Lyme disease, exercise addiction, and DNA fingerprinting. The cost is $34 in North America and $35 outside North America. Orders should be sent to: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, P. O. Box 75640, Washington, DC 20013-5640; phone: 800/255-3666 or fax 202/707-1334. ************************************************************************* LC PRESERVATION WORKSHOP OPEN TO PUBLIC The Library of Congress will mark National Library Week with a Preservation Awareness Workshop on April 16, 1996. This event, co-sponsored by the Library's Center for the Book and the Preservation Directorate, will be free and open to the public. It will take place in the Mumford Room, sixth floor of the Madison Building, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. During this special National Library Week event, the Library of Congress is inviting the public to learn about preserving their family treasures, such as photographs and letters. The staff will demonstrate different types of enclosures and boxes for storing material and provide information on the damage caused by humidity, temperature, light, and atmospheric pollution on paper-based material and on the different types of boxes, folders, and enclosures now available. For more information contact Amparo Torres at 202/707-1026. ************************************************************************* PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT Bay Area Video Coalition (BVAC) in association with Media Alliance, New York, will offer Playback 1996 Video Preservation Round Table hosted by the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art on March 29 and 30, 1996. Experts from the conservation and media arts are meeting to build alliances with one another around the common goal of preserving video collections held in museums, galleries, libraries and other repositories around the world. Topics to be presented include: Installation Art and Obsolete Hardware; Ethical Principles and Dilemmas; Analysis and Evaluation Procedures; Cleaning and Remastering; Establishing Priorities for Preservation; Storage; Current Preservation Practices & Education and Awareness; and Changes in Technology and Practice. The early bird registration deadline is March 1. For more information contact: Bay Area Video Coalition, PLAYBACK 1996, 1111 17th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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. Opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the division. News items should be sent to the editor at the e-mail address above. To subscribe, issue the network command "tell listserv@uicvm sub alcts [your name]." 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