ALCTS Network News v12n05 (August 12, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v12n05 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 12, Number 5 August 12, 1996 In this issue PRESERVATION, DEWEY SUBJECTS OF TWO ALCTS INSTITUTES IN CALIFORNIA COMMITTEE ON CATALOGING: DESCRIPTION AND ACCESS SUMMARY OF ACTIONS PLA NATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM PROPOSAL FORMS AVAILABLE NEW PUBLICATION AVAILABLE FROM ALCTS LC PUBLISHES EIGHTH EDITION OF FREE-FLOATING SUBDIVISIONS GUIDELINES AVAILABLE FOR LC/AMERITECH NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY COMPETITION ************ PRESERVATION, DEWEY SUBJECTS OF TWO ALCTS INSTITUTES IN CALIFORNIA Registrations are being accepted until October 28 for two ALCTS institutes to be held as preconferences to the California Library Association (CLA) annual conference in Sacramento on November 15. The Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS) is presenting Practical Preservation in the Lean 90's, and the Cataloging and Classification Section's Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) is offering Dewey 21: Dewey for the 21st Century. Both institutes are cosponsored by CLA. PRACTICAL PRESERVATION Many public, academic, research, and special libraries do not have a preservation officer and must depend on non-experts (librarian or non-librarian) to make the decisions which affect maintenance of the library's collections. This institute gives the non-expert the tools needed to perform basic preservation functions, including decisions on physical treatment (replacement, reformatting, repair, and rebinding) and implementation of security measures (disaster preparedness, fire protection, inventory control, and environmental control). Small group meetings offer a more intense look at two of these functions: disaster preparedness and decision-making for commercial binding. DEWEY 21 Many important changes have been incorporated into the 21st edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC21). Speakers who have actively participated in its development will highlight these changes and offer registrants the opportunity to complete training exercises using the new edition. Each group will be led by a DDC editor or representative to the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee. Demonstrations of the electronic Dewey and a presentation of Dewey for Windows bring the DDC into the 21st century. A preliminary program outline and registration form are available through the ALCTS Gopher menu on the ALCTS home page: http://www.ala/alcts.html or contact LaTisha Reynolds in the ALCTS Office for information and registration (lreynolds@ala.org or 800-545-2433 ext. 5035). Conference-rate housing is available through the CLA Housing Bureau until October 18. You may request a housing form from LaTisha. ************ COMMITTEE ON CATALOGING: DESCRIPTION AND ACCESS SUMMARY OF ACTIONS The following is a summary of the actions undertaken by CCS CC:DA at the Annual Conference in New York. 1. Received verbal reports from two Task Forces (Task Force to Review ANSI/NISO Z39.56-1991 (Turitz) and the Task Force to Review ISBD (CF) (Howarth)) that completed their work electronically and formally discharged the Task Forces. ? 2. Received a report from Laurel Jizba, who is compiling comments on the Guidelines for Bibliographic Description on Interactive Multimedia, and from Mitch Turitz, who is compiling comments on the Guidelines for the Bibliographic Description of Reproductions. 3. Accepted and endorsed the final Report from the Task Force on Rules for Music Moving Image Materials (Kinney), which "concluded that no revision or addition to the rules will be satisfactory unless the theoretical issues that are causing the conflicting interpretations are first examined and explained." The Task Force was discharged. 4. Received an interim report from the Task Force on Works Intended for Performance (Yee) and endorsed their recommendations for new rules for entry of works of mixed responsibility. 5. Received interim reports from the Task Force on Cataloging Conference Proceedings (Watson), Task Force on the TEI (Sadowski), and the Task Force on Document Distribution (Fiegen/Turitz). 6. Reviewed a proposal for a Rule Revision to modify the definition of "label" as used in Chapter 6, 7, 8 and 9. After some discussion the proposal was referred back to the ALCTS AV Committee for clarification. 7. Approved the appointment of a Task Force to Review the IFLA Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records; Carol Hixson will Chair. 8. Approved the appointment of a Task Force to examine the Dublin Core Standard for Metadata and comment on its suitability/utility as a source of cataloging data. The task force will work closely with the TEI Task Force. 9. Invited Chairs of other ALA Groups with areas/topics of mutual interest for an open discussion: Program for Cooperative Cataloging Task Group to Review AACR2 (Tillett) ALCTS Task Force to Define Bibliographic Access in the Electronic Environment (Younger) ALCTS/PARS Intellectual Access Committee (Wolven) MARBI (Gerhart/McCallum) The discussion concluded that a fundamental reanalysis of the rules was important; that rules are needed for "mixed versions"; that CC:DA needs to give some thought to the role of metadata; and that a joint meeting with MARBI next summer would benefit both CC:DA and MARBI. 10. Discussed a number of outstanding issues and agreed to ALA responses on: 3JSC/ALA/22/CCC follow-up 3JSC/ALA/26/LA response/LC response 3JSC/Aus/6/rev/Aus follow-up/LC response/LC follow- up 3JSC/LC/24 3JSC/LC/28 3JSC/LC/29 11. Received and welcomed the report from the JSC representative about the upcoming conference of cataloging experts tentatively scheduled for summer 1997 --Joan Swanekamp, Chair, CC:DA ************ PLA NATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM PROPOSAL FORMS AVAILABLE Program proposal forms for the Public Library Association's Seventh National Conference are now available. Institutes may be considered as preconferences to the national conference. To receive a packet of information and a program proposal form, call the PLA office, 800-545-2433, ext. 5PLA. The deadline for receipt of program proposals is October 31, 1996. The conference, "Public Libraries: Vital, Valuable, Virtual," will be held March 10-14, 1998 in Kansas City, Missouri. The 1996 PLA National Conference in Portland set records both for attendance and for the number of programs held. More than 100 program slots are available for the 1998 conference. ALCTS staff and the ALCTS Program Committee are available to offer guidance and advice on program and preconference proposals and must be contacted before a proposal is submitted to PLA. Contact Karen Whittlesey at kwhittlesey@ala.org. ************ NEW PUBLICATION AVAILABLE FROM ALCTS _Unraveling the Mysteries of Serials_, a handbook providing detailed information on serials, is now available free of charge. Developed by the ALCTS SS Education Committee, the handbook offers guidance on topics such as differences between serials and supplements; how to use union lists; the use of subscription agent or serial vendors; how to locate articles within serials; and more. The guide also includes a bibliography of other serials resources. It is available on the ALA gopher (gopher.ala.org) and on the ALCTS home page (www.ala.org/alcts.html) or send a self-addressed stamped envelope (32 cents postage) to ALCTS, Serials Handbook, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ************ LC PUBLISHES EIGHTH EDITION OF FREE-FLOATING SUBDIVISIONS This latest edition of the publication is up to date through December 1995 and should be used as an index to the _Subject Cataloging Manual: Subject Headings_ (SCM: SH) by those who wish to assign and retrieve free-floating subdivisions. The index is a consolidated alphabetical listing of all free-floating subdivisions that appear in H 1095 - H 1200 in the current edition of _SCM: SH_ as well as newly approved subdivisions not yet published in the manual. The free-floating subdivisions appear in 35 separate lists in the _SCM: SH_. For each subdivision, the index provides a listing, identified by category, of the free-floating lists in the manual where it appears. The cost is $25 (North America) and $30 elsewhere. ISSN: 1052-1445. 178 pages. Order from Library of Congress, Customer Services Section, Cataloging Distribution Service, P. O. Box 75720, Washington, DC 20013-5720; phone 800/255-3666 or 202/707-6100; fax 202/707-1334; TDD 202/707-0012; email cdsinfo@mail.loc.gov. ************ GUIDELINES AVAILABLE FOR LC/AMERITECH NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY COMPETITION Made possible by a $2 million grant from Ameritech to the Library's National Digital Library (NDL) Program, the competition will allow all libraries, archives, historical societies and other repositories in the United States (except federal libraries) that hold primary source materials in American history and culture to apply for awards to digitize their collections. These electronic collections will become part of the American Memory collections of the NDL Program. The goal of the NDL Program is to make freely available millions of items on the Internet by the year 2000. The Library's home page at http://www.loc.gov/ will offer access to the collections digitized by the competition's winners as well as continue to offer collections of the Library of Congress. For the first year of the competition, preference will be given to collections that illuminate the period 1850-1920, as this is already a focus of many of the Library's electronic collections. Applicants are advised to view these American Memory collections at http://www.loc.gov to determine ways in which their holdings complement or augment what is currently available. Guidelines for the competition are available on the Web at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/ or http://www.ameritech.com/. Applications will be available from the same web sites no later than August 19. To request guidelines and applications in printed form, contact Barbara Paulson, Library of Congress, 202/707-1087; fax 202/707-3566; e-mail bpau@loc.gov or Crystal Ashton, Ameritech Library Services, 801/223-5330; fax 801/223-5202 or e-mail cra@amlibs.com. ************ 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; Carol Chamberlain, 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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