ALCTS Network News v11n06 (March 20, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v11n06 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 11, Number 6 March 20, 1996 In this issue ALCTS STAFF HAVE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESSES ANNUAL CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY PROGRAM IS MAGAZINE INSERT OMLY SAC "FORM" SUBCOMMITTEE DOCUMENTS ONLINE COPY CATALOGING DISCUSSION GROUP TOPIC MANAGING ACQUISITIONS IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT ALA PRESIDENT TUROCK CONVENES TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT NEW E-JOURNAL ON CHINESE LIBRARIANSHIP CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************** ALCTS STAFF HAVE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESSES First thing on the morning of March 21, ALA will cut over to its own server for its e-mail. This means that mail for the ALCTS Office should now be sent to alcts@ala.org and subscriptions to _AN2_ should go to listproc@al a.org. Here is a quick reference to who's who in ALCTS; note that you will no use the "u-boat"@uicvm or the name.name@ala.org addresses for staff. President David Farrell 1285 Brighton Avenue Albany, CA 94706-1446 Phone: 510/642-3773 Fax: 510/643-8179 E-mail: dfarrell@library.berkeley.edu President-Elect Carol Chamberlain Northeastern University Libraries 320 Snell Library 360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 Phone: 617/373-4960 Fax: 617/373-5409 E-mail: cchamber@neu.edu Past-President Robert P. Holley Wayne State University 106 Kresge Library Detroit, MI 48202 Phone: 313/577-4021 Fax: 313/577-5525 E-mail: rholley@cms.cc.wayne.edu LRTS Editor Richard Smiraglia Palmer School of Library and Information Science Long Island University Brookville, NY 11548 Phone: 516/299-2174 Fax: 516/626-2665 E-mail: smiraglia@vax86.liunet.edu ALCTS Newsletter Editor Dale Swensen 6380 Harold B. Lee Library Brigham Young Univesity Provo, UT 84602-6890 Phone: 801/378-4407 Fax: 801/378-3221 E-mail: dale_swensen@byu.edu ALCTS Staff Directory Address ALA/ALCTS 50 E. Huron St. Chicago, IL 60611 E-mail: alcts@ala.org Toll free: 800/545-2433 Fax: 312/280-3257 Karen Muller Executive Director, ext. 5031, kmuller@ala.org Karen Whittlesey Deputy Executive Director, ext. 5034, kwhittlesey@ala.org Shonda M. Russell Communications Assistant, ext. 5037, srussell@ala.org Yvonne A. McLean Program Assistant, ext. 5032, ymclean@ala.org Beatrice Calvin Program Assistant Budget & Publications, ext. 5036, bcalvin@ala.org Loretta Reed Administrative Secretary, ext. 5038, lreed@ala.org LaTisha A. Reynolds Budget Assistant, ext. 5035, lreynolds@ala.org ************************************************************************* ANNUAL CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY PROGRAM IS MAGAZINE INSERT OMLY The Preliminary Program for this year's Annual Conference in New York has been printed as an insert in _American Libraries_, the ALA magazine, instead of as a separately mailed brochure. The magazine will be mailed on April 1. (Program planners: If you have any changes to your preliminary program form, submit them to ALA Conference Services by the March 23 deadline for the final program. If you have no changes, you do not need to submit another form.) Again, you will *not* receive a separate mailing of the Preliminary Program. ************************************************************************* SAC "FORM" SUBCOMMITTEE DOCUMENTS ONLINE A number of documents related to the Subject Analaysis Committee work on "form" are now available online. Both current work of the subcommittee on Implementation of Form and answers to questions appearing on electronic lists are accessible via URL http://www.pitt.edu/~agtaylor/ala/alac.htm ************************************************************************* COPY CATALOGING DISCUSSION GROUP TOPIC The ALCTS CCS Copy Cataloging Discussion Group will feature the following presentations at this summer's ALA annual conference in New York. The program will take place on Sunday, July 7, 1996, from 2 to 4 p.m. This year's theme for the discussion group meeting is: New Innovations in Cataloging: The Impact of Technology on Copy Cataloging, Part IV. ALA annual conference attendees are invited to attend the continuation of our successful midwinter discussion of how technological innovations and changes, coupled with increased demands for productivity and decreasing funds, have dramatically changed copy cataloging operations. Presentations will be given by Sue Neumeister (SUNY Buffalo) on Training of Copy Catalogers in Acquisitions; Beacher Wiggins and David Williamson Library of Congress), a demonstration of New LC Software Applications to Enhance Cataloging Activities; and Deborah Fritz (The MARC of Quality) on Record Reviews: Quality Control of Marc Records. A discussion session will follow the presentations. For further information, contact Vicki Toy Smith, Chair, ALCTS CCS Copy Cataloging Discussion Group (e-mail: vicki@unr.edu; phone (702) 784-4692) or Karen Davis, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (e-mail: kjdavis@hawk.syr.edu; phone (315) 443-9777). ************************************************************************* MANAGING ACQUISITIONS IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT ALCTS Acquisitions Section Acquisitions Organization and Management Committee is cosponsoring a LAMA Systems and Services Section Acquistions Systems Committee program at Annual Conference in New York. The focus of this program is on how managers of acquisitions units cope with maintaining existing services and adding new services in a volatile environment that continues to change faster than the humans involved can respond with comfort. The keynote address will be given by Kim Buch, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, an organizational psychologist, teacher, consultant and change management facilitator. This will be followed by four short presentations by library staff outlining the positive and negative aspects of the changes that occurred in their acquisitions departments, and what was done by the organization to help staff adjust to the changes. David Goble, from North Carolina State University Library, will wrap-up by extracting the common management and human themes from the earlier presentations and weave them into a set of practical tips and strategies for managing and responding in a constructive way to the changing acquisitions environment. The program is Monday, July 8, 1996, 9:30am - 12:30pm. It is underwritten in part by Academic Book Center, Inc. ************************************************************************* ALA PRESIDENT TUROCK CONVENES TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT The following article on the technology summit sponsored by the American Library Association was reported in _ALAWON_, the electronic newsletter of ALA's Washington Office, on March 17, 1996. ALA President Betty Turock's Technology Summit -- A Nation Connected: Defining the Public's Interest in the Information Superhighway -- was held February 20 at the Annenberg Center at Eisenhower at Rancho Mirage, California. Assisting with the summit was one of many key activities of the ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) during its first year. Moderated by Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School professor best known for his work on PBS's _Ethics in America_ series, 20 expert panelists from a wide variety of backgrounds, including vice-president of AT&T Bell Laboratories and Noble Prize winner, Arno Penzias, Deputy Secretary of Commerce David Barrum, and Congressman Major Owens, the only librarian serving in Congress. President and CEO of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF, Gwendolyn Calvert Baker, writer and HotWired founding executive editor, Howard Rhinegold, EDventure Holdings president Esther Dyson, and others also spent the day discussing such issues as whether the development of the information superhighway is changing our concept of democracy, whether those who are not connected are being socially and economically disadvantaged, and what role libraries have in assisting Internet users in navigating the net's overwhelming resources. Also in attendance at the summit were thirty library observers who will be submitting written comments and responses to the summit discussion. Out of that is expected to come a set of proceedings that ALA will publicize and disseminate to the profession for use in continuing discussion of and planning for the profession's role in promoting the public's interest in the development of the information superhighway. A full report on the summit will be appearing in the April issue of _American Libraries_. For further information contact Andrew Magpantay, ALA Office of Information Technology Policy, at 202-628-8421; email: jam@alawash.org. ************************************************************************* NEW E-JOURNAL ON CHINESE LIBRARIANSHIP CALL FOR PAPERS _Chinese Librarianship: an International Electronic Journal_ (CLIEJ) focuses on the practical aspects of Chinese librarianship. It publishes articles written by Chinese librarians, information scientists and library school faculty and students, as well as by librarians and information professionals of other nationalities on issues related to serving patrons with Chinese materials. It also reports any major developments of Chinese librarianship throughout the world. CLIEJ will publish biannually to start, but may change frequency if quantity and quality of submitted article warrant. In principle, articles will be published as soon as possible in order to facilitate information exchange in a timely manner. Articles are sought for the inaugural issue, due for publication on June 1, 1996. CLIEJ is published through the following channels: CLIEJ Web Page [http://www.lib.siu.edu/swen/iclc/clej.htm]; ICLC Listserv [mwcala@siucvmb.siu.edu]; ICLC FTP Site [ftp://lib44.c-lib.siu.edu/pub/iclc/clej]; Direct E-Mail Delivery to Subscribers. For guidelines and subscription information contact the editor at shwen@siu.edu and for details about the journal visit the web pages at http://www.lib.siu.edu/swen/iclc/clej.htm ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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 (kwhittlesey@ala.org). 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 listproc@ala.org sub an2 [your name]." Back issues of AN2 are available through the listserver. To find out what's available, send the following command to listproc@ala.org: send alcts filelist. Send questions about membership in ALCTS to the ALCTS Office, alcts@ala.org. All materials in the newsletter subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or redistributed for the noncommercial purpose of scientific or education advancement. For other reprinting or redistribution or translations, address requests to the ALA Office of Rights and Permissions, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. *************************************************************************