ALCTS Network News v12n14 (December 5, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v12n14.txt ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 12, Number 14 December 5, 1996 In this issue COGNOTES ACCEPTING MIDWINTER STORIES, DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE THIS WEEK ON HEARING CDA CHALLENGE AROUND ALA LC OFFERS WORKSHOP ON PROPOSING SUBJECT HEADINGS AT MIDWINTER ARL ANNOUNCES E-JOURNAL DISCUSSION LIST ALA OFFERS FAX ON DEMAND ************ COGNOTES ACCEPTING MIDWINTER STORIES, DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS It's time to begin thinking about news or feature stories you'd like to submit for publication in the Midwinter Meeting Cognotes. The conference newspaper will be published daily from Saturday, February 15 through Tuesday, February 18. Pier London, member of the ALA Conference Services staff and Cognotes editor, prefers to receive materials that are already written and feature information on interesting events, speakers, or special guests. Photo submissions are also welcome. If possible, submit your material electronically with a contact person's name and phone number for additional information. Pier's address is plondon@ala.org. She would also like hard copies of all information submitted. ALCTS office staff is glad to discuss any proposals or suggestions for stories and to offer assistance if you would like it. Contact Karen L. Whittlesey, deputy executive director (kwhittlesey@ala.org) or Yvonne McLean, ALCTS program assistant (ymclean@ala.org). Pier will also accept discussion group listings. Her deadline is Friday, January 24, 1997. If you submit your discussion group topics electronically to AN2, we will send them to Pier and to Dale Swensen, ALCTS Newsletter editor. Keep these announcements clear and unformatted, and include meeting room locations if you have them. AN2 will publish them until the week before Midwinter Meeting (week of February 3). ************ SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE THIS WEEK ON HEARING CDA CHALLENGE The legal challenge to the Communications Decency Act, led by ALA, is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court is likely to decide on Friday whether to accept the case for review. If it does, arguments are likely to begin in late winter or early spring. This case would be the first to consider how freedom of speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment will apply to the Internet. The suit was filed by the Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition, which includes ALA (the lead plaintiff), the Freedom to Read Foundation, online providers, publishers, parents, and other groups. In late September, the U.S. Justice Department filed documents asking the Supreme Court to review the case because of the significant constitutional questions involved. On October 31, the coalition filed a brief stating that the need to protect free speech on the Internet is vitally important and that plaintiffs would not oppose a full review by the High Court. "The Supreme Court will assess not only the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act, but will also set the standards by which all future regulations of cyberspace communications will be judged," said Judith F. Krug, director of ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom and executive director of the Freedom to Read Foundation. "The Supreme Court's ruling will have a major impact on future legislative and administrative actions as well." Under the Communications Decency Act, passed in February as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, any person who knowingly sends or displays materials over the Internet to minors that could be interpreted as "indecent" or "patently offensive by contemporary community standards" could be imprisoned for up to two years and fined up to $250,000. The coalition's challenge was consolidated with a separate lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and 20 other plaintiffs. The cases were argued together before a three-judge federal panel in Philadelphia and the legal teams continue to work together as co-plaintiffs in the Supreme Court phase. In its ruling in June, the federal panel agreed with key arguments of the plaintiffs that the Internet is a unique new communications medium that deserves free speech protection, at least as broad as that enjoyed by the print medium in our democracy; and that individual families, and not the government, should decide what is appropriate for their children on the Internet. The full text of the Supreme Court brief, the Philadelphia ruling and other information on the case can be found at http://www.ala.org/oif.html under Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition. Other plaintiffs include America Online, Inc.; American Booksellers Association, Inc.; American Society of Newspaper Editors; Apple Computer, Inc.; Association of American Publishers, Inc.; Association of Publishers, Editors and Writers; Commercial Internet Exchange; Compuserve Incorporated; Families Against Internet Censorship; Magazine Publishers of America, Inc. and the Society of Professional Journalists, Ltd. ************ AROUND ALA MARY JO LYNCH HONORED At the first annual Library Research Seminar held at Florida State University recently, ALA's Mary Jo Lynch was honored by having the entire conference dedicated to her. Lynch is the director of the Library and Research Center and the Office of Research and Statistics at ALA headquarters in Chicago. The plaque given to her bears the following inscription: "For two decades you have served as the national conscience of library and information research through your leadership of the Office of Research and Statistics, American Library Association. The Library Research Seminar Planning Committee hereby recognizes your exceptional contributions by dedicting this first national library research conference in your honor." The plaque is signed by Arthur Young, Chair of the Library Research Seminar, and Jane Robbins, Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Florida State University. ALA MEMBERSHIP GROWS IN 1996 ALA membership was the highest ever at the close of the 1995-96 fiscal year. Total membership reached 56,688 on August 31, an increase of more than 200 members over the 1994-95 fiscal year. Gerald Hodges, director of ALA membership, noted the membership increase came despite an increase in dues. He attributed both the membership increase and an 89 percent retention rate to the success of ALA Goal 2000 and ALA's leadership in challenging the legality of the Communications Decency Act. The 1995-96 year-end total includes 55,310 division memberships. The largest division is the Association of College & Research Librarians (ACRL) with 10,592 members. The Public Library Association (PLA) experienced membership growth of 17 percent in FY 1996 for a total membership of 8,538. The Association of School Librarians (AASL) is ALA's third-largest division with 7,234 members. Round table memberships total 11,596. The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IRFT) is the largest with 1,923 members. The Exhibits Round Table (ERT) nearly doubled its membership as a result of a new ALA Corporate Member benefit program. Association membership represents all 50 states, the District of Columbia, all U.S. territories and 92 nations. New York has the most ALA members, followed by California and Illinois. ************ LC OFFERS WORKSHOP ON PROPOSING SUBJECT HEADINGS AT MIDWINTER The Library of Congress will hold a workshop on "How to Propose Subject Headings for LCSH" on Friday, February 14, 9:30-12:30. The instructor is Lynn El-Hoshy, senior cataloging policy specialist, LC. The location is the Library of Congress, Madison Building, West Dining Room, LM624, Gold corridor. The workshop is open on a first-come first-served basis to all catalogers interested in proposing new headings and changes to LCSH. RSVP by January 15, 1997, to Carolyn Sturtevant, Cooperative Cataloging Team, sturteva@mail.loc.gov. Reservations will be acknowledged by e-mail. The Library of Congress encourages all libraries to contribute proposals to LCSH, the Library of Congress Subject Headings. In 1995 participants in SACO, the Subject Authority Cooperative Program of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), contributed 20% of the subject headings added to LCSH. The instructor will demonstrate how to construct a subject heading and fit it into the hierarchy of the subject authority file, based on appropriate memos from the Subject Cataloging Manual. Training materials will be provided free of charge at the workshop. At the end of this course, participants will be better able to formulate new subject headings and propose changes to existing LCSH headings. Visit the PCC World Wide Web site for in-depth information on the PCC and SACO, and for basic instructions on creating subject proposals: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/pcc.html ************ ARL ANNOUNCES E-JOURNAL DISCUSSION LIST ARL-EJOURNAL is a discussion list concerned with all aspects of the management of electronic journals by libraries and information centers. It was conceived during a roundtable discussion led by Sharon Cline McKay at the LITA/LAMA Conference in Pittsburgh, PA in October, 1996, where issues were identified and those attending agreed that there was a need for further discussion. The address of the forum is: ARL-EJOURNAL@CNI.ORG The major issues discussed during the session are listed below. These and other related topics are appropriate for discussion on ARL-EJOURNAL. Archiving Pricing Licensing Indexing File formats Use of the SICI (Serial Item and Contribution Identifier) Administering Registration by username/password or IP address Article access Security Privacy Multiple user interfaces Whether to cancel subscriptions for print versions of e-journals Links to ILS systems Hypertext links within articles Links to index & abstract databases Interlibrary lending restrictions Printing/storing e-journals Changing concept of "journal" Peer review/quality/tenure Bypassing the library? General discussions of acquiring, cataloging, checking in and managing of serials should be directed to SERIALST or ACQNET-L. Advertisements and/or vendor announcements should not be distributed on ARL-EJOURNAL. Only subscribers to ARL-EJOURNAL may post messages to the list. All interested parties are invited and encouraged to subscribe and participate. You may join this forum at any time by sending this command as an e-mail note to the Coalition ListProcessor (LISTPROC@CNI.ORG) subscribe arl-ejournal e.g. SUBSCRIBE ARL-EJOURNAL John Doe All questions regarding the substance of, or policies related to, the postings on this forum or regarding difficulties with mail or requests for technical assistance with the ListProcessor should be addressed to the list owner, Dru Mogge (arllmgr@cni.org). For more information, contact Dru Mogge, Association of Research Libraries, dru@cni.org ************ ALA OFFERS FAX ON DEMAND The ALA Communications Department has implemented the ALA Fax on Demand service to help you receive commonly requested items more easily. If you would like one of the following documents, you need merely call the ALA toll-free nujmber (800-545-2433) and press 8. The call will go directly into the ALA Fax on Demand menu. Having the three-digit item number handy will speed up your request even more. GENERAL ALA INFORMATION 001 ALA Fact Sheet 002 Calendar of Upcoming Events 003 Banned Books Week 004 Equity on the Information Superhighway 005 Fund for America's Libraries 009 Kids Can't Wait ALA MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION 100 Personal Member Application 101 Organizational Member Application ALA CONFERENCES 300 Midwinter Meeting Fact Sheet ALA AWARDS 400 ALA Awards, Opportunities & Honors List 401 Newbery/Caldecott Medal Fact Sheets 402 Best Books for Young Adults 1996 403 Notable Books (adult) 1996 404 Quick Picks (reluctant YA Readers) 1996 405 Selected Films and Videos for YAs 406 Coretta Scott King Awards UNIT PUBLICATIONS LISTS 501 AASL/YALSA 502 ALTA 503 ALCTS 504 ALSC 505 ACRL 506 ASCLA 507 LAMA 508 LITA 509 PLA 510 RUSA AMERICAN LIBRARIES 600 Guidelines for Submitting Manuscripts 601 About AL's Classified Ads INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM 700 Library Bill of Rights 701 Access for Children & Young People to Videotapes & Other Nonprint Formats 702 Access to Electronic Information, Services & Networks 703 Access to Library Resources & Services Regardless of Gender or Sexual Orientation 704 Access to Resources & Services in the School Library Media Program 705 Challenged Materials 706 Diversity in Collection Development 707 Economic Barriers to Information Access 708 Evaluating Library Collections 709 Exhibit Spaces and Bulletin Boards 710 Expurgation of Library Materials 711 Free Access to Libraries for Minors 712 Library-Initiated Programs as a Resource 713 Meeting Rooms 714 Restricted Access to Library Materials 715 Statement on Labeling 716 The Universal Right to Free Expression 717 Guidelines for Development and Implementation of Policies... 718 Guidelines for Development of.Policies...Regarding User Behavior and Library Use 719 The Freedom to Read Statement 720 Code of Ethics 721 Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information about Library Users 722 Confidentiality of Library Records 723 Dealing with Concerns about Library Resources DIVISION INFORMATION 810 ALTA Trustee Citation Nomination Form 811 ALTA How to Participate in ALTA 812 ALTA Major Benefactors Honor Award Nomination Form 813 ALTA Literacy Award Nomination Form 814 ALTA/GALE Outstanding Trustee Conference Grant Application Form 820 ALCTS Committee Volunteer Form 860 LAMA Activity Interest Form 880 PLA Fees for Public Libraries: An Issue Statement 881 PLA Proposed Bylaws 882 PLA Awards 883 PLA Demco Creative Merchandising Grant Application Form 884 PLA New Leaders Travel Grant Application Form 885 PLA Excellence in Small and Rural Libraries Service Award Nomination Form 886 PLA Advancement of Literacy Award Nomination Form 887 PLA Leonard Wertheimer Award Nomination Form 888 PLA NTC Career Materials Research Grant Application Form 889 PLA Allie Beth Martin Award Nomination Form ************ ALCTS NETWORK NEWS (ISSN 1056-6694) is published irregularly by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association. 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