ALCTS Network News v10n17 (December 7, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v10n17 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 10, Number 17 December 7, 1995 In this issue ALCTS PUBLISHES NEW VENDOR DIRECTORY COMMITTEE VOLUNTEER DEADLINE APPROACHES AROUND ALA CUTBACKS AFFECT NEH PRESERVATION AND ACCESS FUNDING RECYCLED PERMANENT PAPERS LISTED INTERESTED IN WEEDING? ************************************************************************** ALCTS PUBLISHES NEW VENDOR DIRECTORY _Book and Serial Vendors for Asia and the Pacific_ is a new ALCTS publication produced by the Foreign Book Dealers Directories Series Subcommittee, a committee of the Acquisitions Section's Publications Committee. Edited by Thelma Diercks, the directory includes information gathered from Association of Research Libraries member libraries. Respondents included large research libraries with active overseas acquisitions programs. The publication is designed for acquisitions librarians who are contemplating placing orders with vendors from Asia or the Pacific. The publication is available on the ALA Gopher. To retrieve a copy, point your gopher client to gopher.uic.edu/The Library/ALA/ALA Divisions/ ALCTS/The Book and Serial Vendors for Asia and the Pacific (it is divided into seven parts). A hard copy of _Book and Serial Vendors for Asia and the Pacific_ (ISBN 0-8389-7811-8) is $10 and is available from the ALA Order Department, 155 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60606. Telephone: 800-545-2433, press 7. FAX: 312-836-9958. ************************************************************************* COMMITTEE VOLUNTEER DEADLINE APPROACHES December 15 is the deadline for submitting your Committee Volunteer Form for the 1996-97 term. We welcome members who are willing to volunteer their time and energy to further the work of ALCTS. As you know, ALCTS leadership is committed to expanding the number of members involved and use the volunteer form to fill as many positions as possible. If you need a volunteer form, you can phone Shonda at 800/545-2433, extension 5037; e-mail shonda.russell@ala.org; or you can retrieve it from the gopher by pointing the gopher client to gopher.uic.edu port 70 and follow the path The Library/ALA/ALA's Divisions/ALCTS/ALCTS Manual/Forms. ************************************************************************* AROUND ALA "A Nation Connected" summit planned "A Nation Connected: Defining the Public Interest in the Information Superhighway" is the title of a summit meeting called by ALA to examine how the revolution in information technology will affect the public. Chaired by ALA President Betty Turock, the summit will be held Tuesday, February 20, 1996, at the Annenberg Center at Rancho Mirage, California, with nationally known experts representing the arts, humanities, education, government, health care, telecommunications, libraries, and other fields. The summit is designed to serve as a model for a series of "mini-summits" to be held throughout the country. The proceedings will be videotaped and highlights made available. A "white paper" with the panelists' presentations and reaction statements by library leaders will be published and distributed widely to policymakers, the media and others. The summit proceedings will serve as the focus of discussion at the President's Program during the ALA Annual Conference in New York City, July 4-10, 1996. The conference theme, selected by Turock, is "Equity on the Information Super-Highway: Problems and Possibilities." For more information, contact: Barb Macikas via e-mail at barb.macikas@ala.org. Midwinter Legislative briefing to be broadcast The latest word on federal funding, telecommunications policy and other highlights from the Legislative Briefing at ALA's Midwinter Meeting in San Antonio will be broadcast on Monday, January 22, from 11 a.m. to noon (EST) via the Ameritech Library Network. The broadcast will include a live question-and-answer session with Carol Henderson, associate executive director for the ALA Washington Office, and Patricia Glass Schuman, chair of the ALA Legislation Committee. The broadcast is available free to anyone with satellite access. To receive coordinates, call 800-388-0253. The program can be taped for later viewing. ALA to survey electronic services in academic libraries ALA will conduct a spring 1996 survey of electronic services offered by college and university libraries. The final survey results will be published by ALA in fall 1996. The project is a joint effort of the ALA Office for Research and Statistics (ORS) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) with financial support from Ameritech Library Services. A sample of institutions stratified by Carnegie Classification categories will be involved in the survey. The survey is designed to provide timely and reliable data regarding the extent to which specific electronic services are offered by libraries in the various sectors of the higher education community. Topics to be covered are: electronic public catalogs; electronic reference databases; electronic journals; electronic reserves; Internet services; computer hardware and software; technology for the disabled; electronic document delivery services; digitization; cooperative practices; instruction, and future plans. Mary Jo Lynch, director of ALA ORS, is principal investigator for the project. Advisory committee members are: Jennifer Cargill, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Thomas Kirk, Earlham College, Richmond, Ind.; Deborah Leather, Towson (Md.) State University; Richard Madaus, College Center for Library Automation, Tallahassee, Fla., and Ronald Naylor, University of Miami. For additional information, contact Mary Jo Lynch via e-mail at mary.jo.lynch@ala.org. ************************************************************************ CUTBACKS AFFECT NEH PRESERVATION AND ACCESS FUNDING In October, the NEH was expecting an appropriation of $110 million for fiscal-year 1996, reflecting a 36 percent cut in the total NEH budget. Funding for the Division of Preservation and Access was cut by 23 percent, from $22 million to $17 million. National programs for grants were cut almost 45 percent, while the percentage of the NEH programmatic budget for State Humanities Councils was increased from 22 to 33 percent. The administrative budget of NEH was reduced 27 percent, resulting in a loss of 90 positions. NEH is restructuring into three divisions: The Division of Preservation and Access will remain with added responsibilities for reference materials and research tools. The other two are the Division of Public Programs and Enterprise, and the Division of Research and Education. The Office of Challenge Grants will remain in operation, and there will be a new Office of Federal/State Partnership to work with State Humanities Councils. ************************************************************************* RECYCLED PERMANENT PAPERS LISTED Of 423 papers on a newly developed list of North American papers that qualify as permanent by U.S. standards, 234 contain recycled fiber. Eight percent of the papers are 100 percent recycled, and many contain 20 percent postconsumer waste. The listing, compiled by Abbey Publications, confirms conclusions from 1994 that recycled paper also can be long-lived. The report, which contains an updated introduction and new sections on recycled paper and paper permanence, is available for $19.50 from Abbey Publications, 7105 Geneva Dr., Austin, TX 78723. ISBN 0-9622071-3-6, 1995, 52pp. ************************************************************************* INTERESTED IN WEEDING? Two French librarians now writing a book on weeding would like to get in touch with colleagues interested in the same subject, or having experienced weeding in any kind of library. Contact Odile Walrave, Chef de service de l'Imprime/Head of the Printed Media Department, at the Bibliotheque publique d'information, CNAC G. Pompidou, via e-mail to walrave@bpi.fr. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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]." Back issues of AN2 are available through the listserver. 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