ALCTS Network News v12n12 (November 12, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v12n12.txt ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 12, Number 12 November 12, 1996 In this issue MIDWINTER MEETING AND ANNUAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULERS ALERT COGNOTES TO ACCEPT DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS UNTIL JANUARY 24 CCS RESEARCH DISCUSSION GROUP SEEKS SPEAKERS LIBRARY BINDING IS TOPIC OF PRESERVATION ISSUES DISCUSSION GROUP AROUND ALA NACO LIBRARIES CONTRIBUTE 100,000 NAME AUTHORITY RECORDS IN FY 1996 ********* MIDWINTER MEETING AND ANNUAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULERS ALERT ALA Conference Services has nearly completed the assignment of meeting rooms for the Midwinter Meeting in Washington, D.C. If you have not already requested meeting space for your committee, subcommittee, task force, or discussion group, notify Yvonne McLean in the ALCTS Office no later than Wednesday, November 13 (ymclean@ala.org) and she will complete the form for you and send it to Conference Services. We anticipate that ALA will accept new requests only until Friday. Because available meeting space in Washington is much tighter than in ALA's other conference venues, meeting space requests which were submitted after the October 1 deadline may not be accommodated exactly as requested. Timely submission of space request forms is imperative in order to have the best chance of securing the meeting space you want. For the San Francisco Annual Conference, you should send the Meeting Request Form to Michelle Visel no later than November 22. "All-committee" requests are handled first, then committees meeting in separate rooms. If you have questions, contact Michelle at mvisel@ala.org or Yvonne McLean at ymclean@ala.org. ************ COGNOTES TO ACCEPT DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS UNTIL JANUARY 24 Pier London, editor of Cognotes, the on-site daily newspaper for the ALA Midwinter Meeting, will accept discussion group topic listings until Friday, January 24, 1997. This is a good source of publicity for your discussion group. If you e-mail your topic to AN2 (kwhittlesey@ala.org) we will include it and send a copy to Pier and to Dale Swensen for the ALCTS Newsletter. Whenever possible, include meeting room locations with your discussion group copy. ************ CCS RESEARCH DISCUSSION GROUP SEEKS SPEAKERS The ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section Research Discussion Group will meet Saturday, February 15, 11:30-12:30 at ALA Midwinter. The group would like to have two presentations on recently completed or current research projects; presentations will be approximately 20 minutes, with questions from the audience to follow, and must pertain to cataloging or classification. To express interest in participation, contact the current chair, Marcia Evans, Catalog Librarian, The University of Alabama, University Libraries, Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0266; e-mail: mbevans@ua1vm.ua.edu; phone: 205-348-1489; fax: 205-348-8833. ************ LIBRARY BINDING IS TOPIC OF PRESERVATION ISSUES DISCUSSION GROUP Library binding is the topic for the PARS Preservation Issues in Small- to Mid-sized Libraries Discussion Group, to be held at the Midwinter Meeting from 2:00-4:00 on Sunday, February 16. The chair, Cathy Mook, will report on the ALCTS New Directions in Library Binding Institute, which is being held in Boston in November. She will give a brief overview of the meetings and discussions that took place. The remainder of the meeting will focus on discussing how library binding can be used as a preservation tool at small- to mid-sized libraries. If there are any questions or issues that need to be clarified, call or email Cathy Mook at cathy@lis.pitt.edu or 412-624-9447. ************ AROUND ALA Donna Grant appointed project director Donna Grant has been appointed project director for the 3-year Library Literacy Initiative funded by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. Grant will officially join the project -- and ALA -- on December 2. Currently, Donna Grant is Regional Training Representative for the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), where she coordinates volunteer training programs in a ten-state area. AARP's extensive volunteer training program covers leadership, personal development, skill building, and information and technical assistance. Before joining AARP, she was program director and acting executive director for Literacy Chicago, as well as co-chair of the Area Planning Council for City Colleges Community College District. She worked with Robert Morris College as a counselor, Learning Center Coordinator, and faculty member, and with Youth Guidance, as Drug Prevention Coordinator. Grant also brings communications experience, including three years as assignment editor with WXIA Television (NBC affiliate) in Atlanta. Donna Grant has a BA (Spelman College) and MA (Atlanta University) in sociology, as well as training in special education (Rosary College) and Laubach Literacy training. The Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund has made a sizable grant to the American Library Association ($1.3 million, over 3 years) to coordinate a library adult literacy initiative involving 13 public libraries in 4 states (California, New York, Illinois and North Carolina), to increase visibility for literacy projects in public libraries, and to position ALA to advocate and support literacy programs in libraries. PIO names new press officer Joyce Kelly has been named press officer for ALA. She began her duties in the Public Information Office on November 4. Kelly has been a reporter for the Daily Herald, based in Arlington Heights, IL, and the Indianapolis Star. As a freelance journalist, she wrote articles for the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and United Press International. She has been published in national magazines, including Black Enterprise and Catholic Digest. Kelly received her bachelor's degree in journalism with a public relations emphasis from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. She completed studies for a master's degree in public affairs reporting at Columbia College in Chicago. While a graduate student, she was public relations intern for U.S. Congresswoman Cardiss Collins of Chicago. As press officer, Kelly's responsibilities include preparing news releases, initiating media placements and responding to daily inquiries from reporters. ************ NACO LIBRARIES CONTRIBUTE 100,000 NAME AUTHORITY RECORDS IN FY 1996 The 203 Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) libraries reached a milestone in fiscal year 1996, which ended September 30. More than 100,000 new name authority records were added to the national authority file by the catalogers who participate in the name authority component of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC). Associate Librarian for Library Services Winston Tabb said, "As libraries are faced with decreasing resources, it becomes critical that the Library of Congress lead other libraries, nationally and internationally, to cooperate in building authority files for the mutual benefit of us all. NACO's milestone of 100,000 name authority records produced in a single year proves again the value of our cooperative cataloging programs. On behalf of the Library of Congress, I thank all of the institutions, including the bibliographic utilities, that have supported this important effort." Contributions have increased approximately 10 per cent a year over the past three years. Not only was this year's achievement significant because of the number of records added, but also because for the first time in the twenty-year history of NACO participating libraries collectively added more new headings to the file than catalogers at the Library. The Program for Cooperative Cataloging is an international cooperative effort aimed at expanding access to library collections by providing timely, useful and cost-effective cataloging that meets mutually acceptable standards of libraries around the world. This success is due to the expansion of the program and the willingness of the cooperating libraries to assume greater responsibility for building the national authority file. As participation in this important collaborative effort became easier through simplifications implemented by the Library of Congress, as well as the enhanced use of technology, libraries in North America and Europe have responded enthusiastically with increased contributions. With this accomplishment, the Program for Cooperative Cataloging has realized a fundamental goal: Responsibility for building the national authority file has gradually become a national effort, led by the Library of Congress, of all the participating libraries. An increasing number of institutions is sharing the task of providing authoritative data to libraries in the United States and abroad. In its third decade NACO will continue its efforts to increase the number of public libraries, special libraries, archives and other organizations that contribute quality records to the Program. For more information about NACO and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, visit the PCC home page at http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/pcc.html. ************ 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. 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