ALCTS Network News v11n14 (May 10, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v11n14 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 11, Number 14 May 10, 1996 In this issue ELECTIONS UNDERWAY SUMMARY OF THE MIDWINTER SS COMMITTEE TO STUDY SERIALS CATALOGING MEETING "NEW YORK BY NEW YORKERS" ON WILSON WEB DEVELOPMENTS ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS RULEMAKING LIBRARIANS' SALARIES CONTINUE TO RISE SECOND US WORKSHOP ON GREY LITERATURE PLANNED FOR NOVEMBER ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY TO HOLD WORKSHOP ***** ELECTIONS UNDERWAY All ballots for the 1996 Spring election have been mailed. The mailing was completed during the week of April 22. Ballots destined for the U.S., Canada, Mexico, APO addresses, and U.S. Territories are being sent by first class mail. Ballots destined for other countries are being sent by airmail. If you do not receive your ballot by May 24 contact Eugenia Porter at eporter@ala.org. And included in your ballot is a computer printout with your directory listing. Please take a moment to check this entry, verifying (or adding) your e-mail address and checking your phone number. Now that staff have desktop access to the membership database this is the information we use to contact you, or to put fellow members in touch with you. It is extremely important that you help us keep the central file up to date and accurate. ***** SUMMARY OF THE MIDWINTER SS COMMITTEE TO STUDY SERIALS CATALOGING MEETING At the January 22, 1996, meeting, the Committee heard reports from liaisons from CC:DA and LC/NSDP, and reports of the sessions of MARBI held during the Midwinter Conference. Following discussion with members of the audience, the Committee selected topics for a presentation at the 1996 ALA Annual Meeting (format integration, and cataloging computer-file serials) and identified two promising program subjects for possible Committee co-sponsorship at the 1997 Annual Meeting: restructuring of serials cataloging, and collection management and cataloging of electronic serials. Two members of the Committee, J. Altimus and M. Mering, facilitated a discussion on the topic, "What elements of AACR2 no longer work for serials cataloging?" Discrepancies between cataloging requirements and the use of serial records for a variety of library functions, aspects of successive entry cataloging, and AACR2's emphasis on description of serials vs. the need for identification of serials emerged as serious difficulties for serials catalogers. In a shared environment, and also for purposes of linking with indexing and abstracting services, the "hook" is essential; and while the ISSN is best, participants observed that it is not always reliable. M. Horn proposed that ISSN be repeatable, beyond subfield y, as a means of overcoming inaccurate ISSN data elsewhere. The full text of the minutes is available through the ALA Gopher (gopher.ala.org) or through the ALA web page, http://www.ala.org. Submitted by Carolynne Myall. ***** "NEW YORK BY NEW YORKERS" ON WILSON WEB "New York by New Yorkers" is a list of annotations for bookstores, restaurants, cityscapes, shopping, and other places, prepared for the ALA Annual Conference. It is available on Wilson Web, at http://www.hwwilson.com/newyork.html. Links to other web sites about New York are also provided. A more complete list of such links is available on ALA's conference page, http://www.alanyc.org, which is also linked to "New York by New Yorkers." ***** DEVELOPMENTS ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS RULEMAKING Recent efforts of the ALA Washington Office and OITP have focused on proceedings at the FCC and the proposed rulemaking on universal service. The proceedings are the beginning of a process in which the FCC and the Federal State Joint Board will determine how to implement the universal service policies articulated in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It is in these proceedings that the Snowe-Rockefeller-Kerrey-Exon provision, which establishes a policy for discounted rates for libraries and schools, will be implemented. The potential savings to libraries could be in the millions of dollars. ALA filed formal comments at the FCC on April 10, and at an April 12 hearing of the Federal State Joint Board chaired by FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, ALA President Betty Turock testified on how discounted telecommunications rates for schools and libraries should be implemented. The response was characterized as innovative, and many Congressional staff have since asked for individual discussions. ***** LIBRARIANS' SALARIES CONTINUE TO RISE The _ARL Annual Salary Survey 1995-96_ is now available. Survey results show the median salary for academic librarians as $41,901 in 1995-96 and the median beginning professional salary as $27,000. It is noted that out of the 101 currently filled directorships in ARL university libraries, 60 are held by men (59%) and 41 are held by women (41%); of the 842 minority staff in U. S. ARL university libraries (11.32% of all professional staff), 226 are men ad 616 are women. The ARL Annual Salary Survey also includes separate sections for professional staff in Canadian libraries; Law libraries; and Medical libraries. Tables display average, median, and beginning professional salaries. Average salaries are also displayed by position, experience, sex, race, geographic region, and size of library. The 85 page pbk. is $65 ($35 ARL members). ISSN 0361-5669, 1995 For more information on this and other ARL products and services can be found on the ARL Gopher and World Wide Web site . ***** SECOND US WORKSHOP ON GREY LITERATURE PLANNED FOR NOVEMBER The second U.S. workshop on grey literature will be held November 18 in Washington, D.C. The goal of GreyWorks'96 is threefold: (1) To synthesize the (meta)information generated in this field and present it in a state-of-the-art review; (2) To reverse the premise that "information transfer is a prerequisite to knowledge transfer," and use the knowledge that has already been generated in this field in order to explore new parameters for grey literature; and (3) to encounter firsthand, examples of resources, methods, and policies that successfully exploit grey literature. Further information is available on the internet at http://www.konbib.nl/infolev/greynet/home.html or via the gopher to gopher://gopher.konbib.nl/11/greynet/ http://www.oss.net/oss ***** ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY TO HOLD WORKSHOP "Preserving Photographs in a Digital World" will be held August 17-22, 1996, at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York. The week-long program of lectures and workshops combines traditional preservation techniques with the theory and practice of digital imaging. Photographic collection managers will gain an understanding of how to care for their collections, and make them accessible, in the tradition as well as digital world. The program will benefit anyone responsible for or involved in assembling or managing photographic collections, including curators, archivists, librarians and conservators who work for libraries, galleries, historical societies or private and governmental archives. The topics include: how to develop a preservation plan for a photo collection; recognizing various forms of deterioration in negatives, prints and transparencies; how to store and display photo collections; understanding the role of digital imaging in today's collection management process; and the basics of digital imaging and how various image capture, storage, display and output strategies compare. The fee for this five-day program is $1,050. For more information or to register: phone 800/724-2536, ext. 311; fax: 716/475-7000; or mail: Rochester Institute of Technology, TPD Registration, 66 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5604. ***** 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. 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