ALCTS Network News v12n15 (December 9, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v12n15.txt ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 12, Number 15 December 9, 1996 In this issue ALCTS TO HOLD NEW INSTITUTE ON TECHNICAL SERVICES WORKSTATIONS IN APRIL NEW MEMBERS ROUND TABLE POSTS D.C. WEB SITE NEW ARL PUBLICATION ACTIONS OF THE ALA EXECUTIVE BOARD CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS FOR THE 1997 FEATHER RIVER INSTITUTE ************ ALCTS TO HOLD NEW INSTITUTE ON TECHNICAL SERVICES WORKSTATIONS IN APRIL "Seizing the High Ground: (Re)Creating Technical Services with Smart Machines and Networked Librarians" is the title of an ALCTS institute to be held as a preconference to ACRL's 8th national conference. The institute is planned for Friday, April 11, 1997. The ACRL conference, whose theme is "Choosing Our Futures," will be held from April 11 to April 14. In order to present new stages in the evolution of the technical services workstation (TSW), this institute has been completely updated from previous presentations in the successful series of ALCTS TSW institutes. Continued discussion in outsourcing of technical services operations is feeding interest from the field as the TSW represents more than just a defensive reaction: it is an opportunity to shape the future of technical services by accelerating its evolution into the electronic, networked future. Technical services practitioners, managers of technical services departments, and library directors must understand this technology to manage their human and machine resources wisely. The alternative is stagnation and obsolescence. Given the economic pressures facing academic institutes in particular, this technology represents an investment they dare not fail to evaluate in its entirety at this crucial juncture. The TSW, suitably outfitted with electronic tools and in conjunction with the Internet and Z39.50, promises to revolutionize the future of technical services operations. This revolution will not happen without planning and training and a thorough understanding of the evolving technology and its implications. This institute will help put these issues within an overall perspective and place them squarely within the context of the challenges facing academic librarians. The experts assembled for this preconference, a potent mix of theorists, developers, and practitioners, will address these issues and others, among them the issue of training our staffs to meet the opportunities and challenges offered by this new technology, and the issue of the future vision of technical services: what is in the virtual pot at the end of the rainbow? Faculty includes Howard Harris, Vice-President, RMG Consultants, Inc.; Bruce Chr. Johnson, Senior Library Information Systems Analyst, Distribution Service, Library of Congress; Michael Kaplan, Head, Database Management & Coordinator for OCLC/RLIN Operations for the Harvard College Library, and Chair, Program for Cooperative Cataloging Standing Committee on Automation; Diane Vizine-Goetz, Consulting Research Scientist, Office of Research, OCLC; and David Williamson, Senior Descriptive Cataloger, Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division, Library of Congress. The topics they will cover are: Virtual Training for the "Smart" Librarian: Redefining Technical Services (Harris); Electrifying Documentation: Putting the Byte on the Technical Services Reference Shelf (Johnson); The Desktop as a Complement to the Mainframe: Automating Technical Services at the Library of Congress (Williamson); Where in the Web are We Going? (Vizine-Goetz); and On Beyond Windows: Integrating TSWs and Cyberspace (Kaplan). A brochure and registration form are available on the ALCTS gopher at gopher://gopher.ala.org or http://www.ala.org/ALCTS.html. You may also e-mail or call LaTisha Reynolds at lreynolds@ala.org or 800-545-2433 ext. 5035. Registration materials for the ACRL national conference are available on ACRL's homepage at http://www.ala/acrl. ************ NEW MEMBERS ROUND TABLE POSTS D.C. WEB SITE Are you a library science student or a new member of the American Library Association? Will you be attending the 1997 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Washington, D. C.? Is this your first trip to our nation's capital? Would you like information to reacquaint yourself with the District? ALA's New Members Round Table has posted a new Web site offering helpful information about where to stay, eat and visit while attending the association's Midwinter Meeting, to be held February 14-20 in Washington D.C., along with information about activities of the round table. The address is http://128.118.90.101/ala-nmrt/washdc.htm. The New Members Round Table offers those with less than ten years of experience in ALA the opportunity to become involved in the profession by serving on committees and acquiring leadership skills. For more information, contact Joan Arlene Reyes, Access Services Librarian, The Pennsylvania State University Libraries, E506 Pattee Library, University Park, PA 16802. Telephone: 814-8651858. Fax: (814) 8637293 E-mail: JXR@psulias.psu.edu. ************ ACTIONS OF THE ALA EXECUTIVE BOARD During the 1996 ALA Executive Board Fall Meetings held in Chicago on November 3-4, 1996, the Executive Board took the following actions: VOTED, To approve the Executive Board Minutes from the 1996 Annual Conference. CONFIRMED, The Board vote taken electronically to approve the American Library Association sign-on to the Davey v. City of Omaha Amicus Curiae brief filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the Omaha library workers. CONFIRMED, The Board vote taken electronically to re-appoint Patricia Schuman to the position of Endowment Trustee, to serve a three-year term beginning immediately upon election and ending at the Annual Conference in 1999. CONFIRMED, The Board vote taken electronically to approve the 1997 Midwinter and Annual Conference Schedules as revised. VOTED, To endorse and implement a proposal for the formation of an expanded liaison program for the Executive Board. Liaison assignments are as follows: ALA Committees will be handled by Nancy Kranich and Charles Beard; ALA Divisions will be handled by James Neal and Evie Wilson-Lingbloom; Round Tables will be handled by Robert Newlen and Patricia Smith; and External Organizations including Chapters and Affiliates will be handled by Charles Brown and Martin Gomez. As a special assignment, Charles Beard will also act as liaison to the Publishing Committee. VOTED, To request that staff develop a multi-tiered, multi-year diversity program proposal at the following levels: $500,000; $1,000,000; and $1,500,000 from existing unrestricted endowment sources. The proposal is to be brought to the Board at the Midwinter 1997 meetings. VOTED, That the American Library Association will not endorse copyright guidelines which do not fully protect the public's fair use rights; and that ALA urge the inclusion of information on interests and needs of library users in the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU) final report and publicize widely the importance of fair use to the American public. VOTED, Upon recommendation of BARC and endorsement by the Finance & Audit Subcommittee, to approve the FY 1997 Divisions Budgetary Ceiling of $13,722,869. VOTED, Upon recommendation of BARC and endorsement by the Finance & Audit Subcommittee, to approve the FY 1997 Round Table Final Budgetary Ceiling of $482,801. VOTED, Upon recommendation of BARC and endorsement by the Finance & Audit Subcommittee, to approve the FY 1997 Grants and Awards (Restricted Fund) Budgetary Ceiling of $3,816,752. VOTED, Upon recommendation of BARC and endorsement by the Finance & Audit Subcommittee, to approve the FY 1997 Long Term Investments Fund (Endowment Fund) Final Budgetary Ceiling of $236,653, as well as transfer 50% of the Future Fund (Board Designated Endowment) net interest income available to the General Fund, which is in accordance with ALA policy. VOTED, Upon recommendation of BARC and endorsement by the Finance & Audit Subcommittee, to approve the FY 1997 Final Total ALA Budgetary Ceiling as follows: General Fund $21,080,406; Division Fund 13,722,869; Round Table Fund 482,801; Plant Fund 317,350; Restricted Fund 3,816,752; Endowment Fund 236,653; __Total__ $39,656,831. VOTED, Upon recommendation of the Finance & Audit Subcommittee, to rescind the previously approved action which created a new sub-fund group within the operating fund to record as a non-operating item the financial effect of FAS 106, "Employers Accounting for Post Retirement Benefits Other Than Pensions." VOTED, To approve the skeleton schedules for the 1998 Midwinter Meeting and Annual Conference. VOTED, To move the site for the 2002 Annual Conference to Atlanta, Georgia, as recommended by the Conference Services office. VOTED, To change the dates of the 2003 Midwinter Meeting to January 23-29, 2003 as recommended by the Conference Services office. __The Executive Board also took the following actions in Executive Session:__ VOTED, To nominate the following individuals to Standing Committee Sections of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): Dora Biblarz for Section on Acquisitions and Exchange; Miriam Tam for Section on Art Libraries; Barbara Immroth for Section on Children's Libraries; James Neal for Section on Document Delivery and Interlending; Maureen Sullivan for Section on Education and Training; Patrick McGlamery for Section on Geography and Map Libraries; Sandra da Conturbia for Section on Government Information and Official Publication; Barbara Mates for Section of Libraries for the Blind; Gary Strong for Section of Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons; Lucille Thomas for Section on Library Services to Multicultural Populations; Susan Tarr for Section of National Libraries; Bernard Margolis for Section of Public Libraries; Henry Snyder for Section on Rare Books & Precious Books & Manuscripts; Ann Symons for Section of School Libraries; Donna McCool for Section of Science & Technology Libraries; Karen Darling for Section on Serial Publications; Peter Young for Section on Statistics; Hannelore Rader for Section of University Libraries & Other General Research Libraries. [NOTE: Nominees for additional Standing Committee Sections and for the IFLA Executive Board will be voted upon by the ALA Executive Board at or before the 1997 Midwinter Meeting.] VOTED, To approve a nomination for ALA Honorary Membership to be forwarded to the ALA Council for consideration at the 1997 Midwinter Meeting. VOTED, To make the following changes to ALA Personnel Policy item number 211: to be titled "Dissemination of COMPENSATION Information" and for the last sentence to read "This information, as well as individual employee COMPENSATION, is available from the ALA Personnel Office to _any ALA member_ on written request to the Executive Director." VOTED, To approve President-Elect Barbara Ford's 1998 Nominating Committee slate. [The names of committee members will be made public once they have accepted appointment.] [Note: Housekeeping votes, such as approval of the agenda, votes to extend, etc., are not recorded here.] ************ NEW ARL PUBLICATION The ARL Office of Management Services (OMS) Systems and Procedures Exchange Center has launched a new publication series, _Transforming Libraries_. This series will focus on how libraries are using technology to transform library services and operations. Each issue will address how institutions and individuals are pioneering in a particular subject and report on that area. _Transforming Libraries_ will take a reportorial approach to its topics, seeking out libraries that are trying new applications of technology and highlighting their experiences. The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) will also develop a web based resource center to accompany each issue. This feature will allow continued learning on each topic, and will include documentation, updates, and links to related sites. The cost is $28, 32pp., ISSN 0160-3582. 1996. For more information contact Laura Rounds at laura@cni.org. ************ CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS FOR THE 1997 FEATHER RIVER INSTITUTE The 1997 Feather River Institute, to be held May 15-18, 1997 at Blairsden in the Northern California Sierra Nevada Mountains, will explore a variety of ideas and concepts of interest to technical services librarians. The Institute is looking for participants to serve as discussion leaders, debaters, facilitators and all-around stimulators of lively discourse on the following topics or any others of interest: Acquisitions packages and consortial agreements; Changing subscriber services; Library leadership; Vendor/publisher/library relationships; Library schools and library literature: change agents for the profession. Attendance at the institute is limited to 65. Send ideas for program content in an abstract of 200 words or less and your proposed participation no later than December 15, 1996 to: Meta Nissley, meta_nissley@macgate.csuchico.edu or Richard Brumley, brumleyr@ccmail.orst.edu. ************ 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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