ALCTS Network News v12n01 (July 15, 1996)
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ISSN: 1056-6694

ALCTS NETWORK NEWS

An electronic publication of the
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services

Volume 12, Number 1
July 15, 1996

In this issue

KEY ACTIONS OF THE ALCTS BOARD AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE
MARTINEZ ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION AS ALA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
ALCTS TO SPONSOR INSTITUTE ON LIBRARY BINDING

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KEY ACTIONS OF THE ALCTS BOARD AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The following are the key actions taken by the ALCTS Board of
Directors at their three meetings at Annual Conference in New York
City last week:

APPROVED a change to the size of committees which currently have an
even number of members due to the recent consolidation of RLMS and
PLMS. Effective with the current appointment year, an additional
member-at-large is to be appointed.

NOMINATED the following ALCTS members for IFLA standing committees:
John Byrum, IFLA Section on Bibliography; Glenn Patton, Section on
Cataloguing; Lois Mai Chan, Section on Classification and Indexing;
Sophia Jordan, Section on Conservation; Karen Darling, Section on
Serials Publication; and Dora Biblarz, Section on Acquisition and
Collection Management.

INSTRUCTED office staff to include temporarily a statement concerning
individual publication in the letter of agreement to speakers and to
report at the Midwinter Meeting on ALA-wide efforts to standardize
speaker agreements. 

APPROVED publication of the _Guide for Training Collection Management
and Development Librarians_ as no. 8 in the CMDS Guide series.

APPROVED publication of the _Guide to Performance Evaluation of
Serials Vendors_ in the Guide series.

APPROVED publication of three serials-related syllabi previously
published in the _ALCTS Newsletter_ on the ALA gopher in the ALCTS
Education & Training Syllabi section.

APPROVED the issuance of a corrected edition of _Book and Serials
Vendors for Asia and the Pacific_.

TRANSFERRED 50% of the unexpended New Initiatives fund to the
Endowment with the remainder to become part of the ALCTS operating
reserve; and transferred the entire amount in the spending portion of
the Endowment to the principal.

APPROVED a name change for the LITA/ALCTS Microcomputer Support for
Technical Services Discussion/Interest Group to the LITA/ALCTS
Technical Services Workstation Discussion/Interest Group.

REAFFIRMED that the ALCTS vice-president appoint section
representatives to division committees (in consultation with the
section vice-chairs or CRG vice-chair) for two-year terms on a
staggered basis in keeping with ALCTS appointment policies.

ADVISED the ALCTS councilor to oppose the proposed ALA Sunset Policy.

INSTRUCTED the ALCTS councilor to support a Council motion
reaffirming the relationship between ALA and its divisions regarding
the operating agreement; further instructed the ALCTS councilor to
oppose a proposed ALA sunset review policy.

RECOMMENDED to the ALA Executive Board that Henriette Avram, in
recognition of her long and distinguished service to ALA and to the
international library community generally and to ALCTS and LITA
specifically, and in recognition of her status as the principal
author of the MARC standard, be nominated for honorary membership in
ALA. (This action was taken in support of a similar action by the
LITA Board of Directors.)

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MARTINEZ ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION AS ALA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Elizabeth Martinez has announced she will resign as executive
director of ALA effective January 15, 1997. Martinez, who was
appointed in August 1994, said she wishes to pursue interests outside
the profession.

"Elizabeth Martinez has provided a strong vision for the future of
our association and profession," said ALA President Mary R.
Somerville. "ALA Goal 2000 will live long after her tenure. We
greatly appreciate Elizabeth's contributions and respect her decision
to pursue other interests."

Somerville said the Executive Board will begin immediately to discuss
strategies for recruitment of a new executive director.

"I feel very good about what has been accomplished during the last
two years," Martinez said. "The association is moving forward, but
change is difficult. It is time for me personally to move on."

Martinez cited ALA Goal 2000, a five-year plan to position the
association and profession for the 21st century, as her major
accomplishment. As part of that initiative, the association
strengthened its Washington Office with additional staff and a move
to larger, better equipped facilities. An Office for Information
Technology Policy was established, and an independent charitable
foundation, the Fund for America's Libraries, was created.

"Personally, I've had the opportunity to develop friendships with
people I would never have met otherwise," Martinez added. "I greatly
appreciate the support I have received from the Executive Board,
staff and members."

She said she is exercising an option in her three-year contract which
permits her to resign with six-months' notice. She submitted her
resignation after the ALA Executive Board meeting on July 10.

Martinez previously served four years as head of the Los Angeles
Public Library. She plans to return to the West Coast.

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ALCTS TO SPONSOR INSTITUTE ON LIBRARY BINDING

The Preservation and Reformatting Section of ALCTS will sponsor a
regional institute titled "New Directions in Library Binding" to be
held in Boston, Mass., November 14-16. The registration deadline is
October 30.

This institute is designed to train library staff in the
administrative and operational functions of a library binding
program. Supervisors of serials, technical services, binding, and
preservation units will find the curriculum most useful.

Through a detailed understanding of changes in the processes used by
library binders, participants will learn to administer, evaluate, and
improve their operations to provide an effective,
preservation-conscious binding program.  The institute will: assess
binding methods available under the Library Binding Institute
Standard for Library Bindings (8th ed.); provide information on
issues being considered in the development of the new LBI/NISO
library binding standard; offer hands-on instruction in choosing
binding methods; outline criteria for establishing library
specifications for particular binding tasks; describe simple repair
techniques that can buttress your library binding program, and
outline options for volumes that cannot or should not be bound; and
offer recommendations for reorienting and enhancing your library
binding program.

The faculty includes: Mark Berkey, Stafford Automation; Mary P.
Bogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wesley Boomgaarden,
Ohio State University; Robert DeCandido, New York Public Library;
Carol Eyler, Mercer University; Lisa Fox, Preservation Consultant;
Fritz James, Library Binding Services; Jan Merrill-Oldham, Harvard
University; and Paul Parisi, Acme Book-Binding Company.

Registration fees are $145 for ALCTS members, $190 for ALA members,
and $235 for non-members. For registration information contact
LaTisha Reynolds at 800/545-2433, ext. 5035 or e-mail
lreynolds@ala.org. An electronic brochure with registration form is
also available on the ALA home page: http://www/ala/org. (Follow the
path The Organization/ALA Divisions/ALCTS/ALCTS Gopher/ALCTS
institutes.)

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