ALCTS Network News v11n04 (March 11, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v11n04 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 11, Number 4 March 11, 1996 In this issue NOMINEES FOR ALCTS DIVISION AND SECTION OFFICES 1996 ALCTS NEWSLETTER DEADLINE MARCH 19 APPLICATIONS SOUGHT FOR ALA MINORITY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM OVGTSL SPRING CONFERENCE SET UTEXAS-AUSTIN INFORMATION NOW ON WWW ************************************************************************** NOMINEES FOR ALCTS DIVISION AND SECTION OFFICES 1996 Ballots for ALA and Division offices will be mailed beginning April 3, 1996, to members whose membership is current as of March 31, 1996. If your membership has expired, you are due for renewal, or you want to join for the first time, contact Shonda Russell in the ALCTS office via e-mail to shonda.russell@ala.org. Mailing continues through the month of April until May 3. Election results will be available June 20. Following is the final ballot for ALCTS Division and Section offices for the 1996 elections: ALCTS Vice-President/President-Elect Janet Swan Hill, University of Colorado at Boulder Edward W. Swanson, Minnesota Historical Society Director-at-Large (for a three-year term; one to be elected) Alice J. Allen, University of Oregon COUNCIL OF REGIONAL GROUPS Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Dorothy H. Hope, University of Florida Libraries Elizabeth Parang, Pepperdine University ACQUISITIONS SECTION Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Marsha S. Clark, New York Academy of Medicine Sally W. Somers, Tulane University Member-at-Large (three-year term; one to be elected) Floyd M. Zula, California State University, Fullerton Karen A. Schmidt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION SECTION Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Dorothy McGarry, University of California, Los Angeles William A. Garrison, University of Colorado at Boulder Member-at-Large (three-year term; one to be elected) Margaret A. Rhody, University of Pennsylvania Mark R. Watson, University of Oregon Cynthia M. Whitacre, OCLC Laurel Jizba, Michigan State University COLLECTION MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT SECTION Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Patricia L. Bril, California State University, Fullerton Bill Robnett, Vanderbilt University Member-at-Large (three-year term; one to be elected) Craig A. Wilson, University of Delaware Kathy E. Tezla, Emory University Judith Paquette, University of California, Irvine Secretary (three-year term; one to be elected) Bonnie Strohl, University of Scranton Joan Grant, New York University PRESERVATION AND REFORMATTING SECTION Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Regina A. Sinclair, University of Iowa Mark S. Roosa, Huntington Library Member-at-Large (three-year term; one to be elected) Robin L. Dale, Columbia University James W. Mason, Kansas State University SERIALS SECTION Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Donna A. Alsbury, Florida Center for Library Automation Cynthia K. Hepfer, State University of New York at Buffalo Member-at-Large (three-year term; one to be elected) Joyce G. McDonough, Columbia University Eugene H. Dickerson, Villanova University ************************************************************************* ALCTS NEWSLETTER DEADLINE MARCH 19 Submission deadline for the next _ALCTS Newsletter_ is Tuesday, March 19. This issue will be the last one to appear before the Annual Conference in July. (Projected mail date is May 28.) Dale Swensen, editor, invites all discussion groups who meet at the ALA Annual Conference to submit a brief description of their meeting agendas and speakers. Since there are some forty discussion groups in ALCTS, descriptions should be limited to about 100 words. (If you send them electronically to karen.l.whittlesey@ala.org we can also publish them in _AN2_). Committees planning conference programs or preconferences are also invited to submit brief articles, bearing in mind that descriptions of these will also appear in the preliminary conference program, which should be out before the _ALCTS Newsletter_. Again, keep articles brief -- no more than 200 words for a preconference and 150 for a program. Swensen will receive articles via e-mail to dale_swensen@byu.edu. ************************************************************************* APPLICATIONS SOUGHT FOR ALA MINORITY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM ALA is accepting applications for the 1996-97 ALA Minority Fellowship Program. Applications must be postmarked by April 15, 1996. Beginning this year, three fellows will be selected to participate in the program. The program, entering its seventh year, is designed to provide an opportunity for under-represented ethnic librarians to gain an understanding of the Association's structure and operations, to promote upward mobility and wider representation of under-represented ethnic librarians, and to increase awareness of association activities among librarians of diverse backgrounds. Selected fellows spend up to 75 percent of their time working in a specific unit at the Association headquarters in Chicago, 20 percent of their time on an independent special project, and up to 10 percent in overall Association activities and association management workshops. To qualify, an applicant must hold a master's degree from an ALA- accredited library science program or from a program that meets ALA/American Association of School Librarians (AASL) curriculum guidelines within a unit accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, have a minimum of three years and a maximum of five years professional experience in a library or information science environment, and be a member of the American Library Association at the start of the fellowship. Applicants must be American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian or Pacific Islander, African American or Latino/a. The 1996-97 stipend will be $31,000 plus insurance benefits and relocation assistance to Chicago. For more information about the program or to request application materials, contact the ALA Office for Literacy and Outreach Services, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611, 800-545-2433, ext. 4294 or 4295. ************************************************************************* OVGTSL SPRING CONFERENCE SET The Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (OVGTSL), serving Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, will hold its 1996 Annual Spring Meeting and Conference in Toledo, Ohio, on May 16-17 at the Clarion Hotel Westgate. The topic is "Technical Services Librarians--Leaders for Change." Hosted by the University of Toledo, with assistance from Bowling Green State University and Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, this conference features keynoters David M. Seaman from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, and Linda Dobb, Dean of Libraries and Learning Resources at Bowling Green State University. For registration information contact Karen Aufdemberge, Carlson Library Serials Department, University of Toledo, at fac3716@uoft01.utoledo.edu. Questions, other than registration, may be sent to Rajinder Garcha at fac3236@uof501.utoledo.edu. ************************************************************************* UTEXAS-AUSTIN INFORMATION NOW ON WWW Information about the conservator and preservation administrator programs at the University of Texas at Austin's Graduate School of Library and Information Science is now available via the World Wide Web. The URL is http://volvo.gslis.utexas.edu/~pcs/pcshome.html. Course sequences, short descriptions of courses, procedures for applying to the programs, and other information is available at this site. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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. 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