ALCTS Network News v12n17 (December 13, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v12n17.txt ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 12, Number 17 December 13, 1996 In this issue ACQUISITIONS SECTION SPONSORS ADVANCED BUSINESS OF ACQUISITIONS PRECONFERENCE ACTIONS OF THE FALL ALCTS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL OF CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS PUBLISHED CORRECTIONS TO MIDWINTER SCHEDULE AROUND ALA ************ ACQUISITIONS SECTION SPONSORS ADVANCED BUSINESS OF ACQUISITIONS PRECONFERENCE Attention acquisitions and serials librarians, technical services heads, library administrators, book and serial vendors and publishers: For those of you who like to make your San Francisco travel plans early, please mark your new 1997 calendars with this ALA ALCTS advanced acquisitions preconference: What: "Rethinking and Transforming Acquisitions Preconference" ALCTS Business of Acquisitions Advanced Institute Where: ALA Annual Meeting, San Francisco When: Thursday, June 26-Friday, June 27, 1997 [1.5 days, ending noon on Friday] Plenary speakers: Michael Keller (Stanford University) Carol Pitts Diedrichs (Ohio State University) Clifford Lynch (University of California) Workshops: Tools for Achieving Consensus EDI: The BISAC/SISAC Perspectives Electronic License Prices: The New Frontier Electronic License Policy: The Eternal Frontier Managing Human Resources in Acquisitions Outsourcing Acquisitions Informal Discussion Groups: Acquisitions Web Sites Acquisitions/Document Delivery Partnership Life-Long Learning for Acquisitions Tables Turned: Acquisitions Provides Outsourcing Services Vendor Evaluations in the Outsourcing Environment Getting Published Costs: ALCTS members: $135 ALA members (who are not also members of ALCTS): $185 ALA/ALCTS non-members: $235 Registration will begin in January 1997. Contact LaTisha Reynolds at the ALCTS Office for further information: (800)545-2433, ext. 5035 or lreynolds@ala.org. Complete program information will be available soon on a website -- we'll announce the web address when the site is ready! -- Co-Chairs Cindy Hepfer Julia Gammon hslcindy@acsu.buffalo.edu jgammon@uakron.edu ************ ACTIONS OF THE FALL ALCTS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The following actions were taken by the ALCTS Executive Committee meeting at their Fall meeting in Chicago: APPROVED the use of New Initiatives funds ($3600) for AS to hold its Fundamentals of Acquisitions institute as a teleconference in 1997 or early in 1998. REFERRED the proposal on post-MLS certification of public library administrators to the ALCTS Education Committee for discussion and input. DISCUSSED the 40th anniversary celebration of ALCTS, and noted the appointment of a 40th anniversary task force to be chaired by Robert McDonald. REVIEWED the Five-Year Financial Plan and requested that various committees follow through on those aspects of the goals and objectives which pertain to them, specifically the Committee on Planning and the Membership Committee, and others. CONSIDERED a recommendation for the ALA representative to the LC COP Advisory Committee. DECIDED to invite ALA Conference Programs Manager Michelle Visel to attend a Board meeting to discuss ways in which ALCTS might be able to work toward streamlining conference that are congruent with Conference Services needs. APPROVED in principle the application of MLA for a liaison relationship to the Publisher/Vendor/Library Relations Committee (PVLR), pending clarification from MLA on its expectations of the liaison relationship. ENDORSED the use of New Initiatives money to support a formal membership survey, as called for in the Five-Year Financial Plan, which would include questions about the availability of travel funds, continuing education needs, electronic access, and the ability to go to conferences, among others. ************ BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL OF CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS PUBLISHED >From a librarian's perspective, conference proceedings are difficult but important publications, particularly in the sciences. This volume, number seven in the series _ALCTS Papers on Library Technical Services and Collections_, includes five papers delivered at a preconference on Bibliographic Control of Conference Proceedings and covers issues of cataloging, reference/interlibrary loan, and collection development. Four appendixes include a history of Library of Congress Rule Interpretations relevant to conference proceedings, a reprint of "Recommendations for Publishers of Conference Proceedings" by the ACRL Science and Technology Section, exercises and examples illustrating problems of conference proceedings from the perspective of public services, and the discussion leaders' guide from the preconference. The preconference was cosponsored by ALCTS and ACRL. The book was edited by Olivia M. A. Madison and Sara Shatford Layne, and published by ACRL. It is 130 pages; ISBN 0-8389-7860-6. The price is $21.00; ALCTS, ACRL members $18.00. Order from: ALA Order Fulfillment, 155 N. Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60606; phone: 8005452433 (press 7); Fax: 312-836-9958. ************ CORRECTIONS TO MIDWINTER SCHEDULE The following changes should be made to the schedule of meetings as published in _AN2_ v12_no16 (December 10, 1996): PARS Preservation Administrators Discussion Group Reception has been folded into the general ALCTS Membership Reception to be held in the Montpelier Room of the Madison Building (LC) from 5:30-7:00 p.m. The date is the same, Friday, February 14. Unfortunately, on the Midwinter schedule as received from ALA Conference Services "coll dev" was expanded into "college development" rather than "collections development." ALCTS does not have any college development committees, only collection development. Please make the necessary changes. AS Tech. for Access Com. Subcom. on Vendor Research & Development should read AS Tech. for Acquisitions Com. Subcomm. on Vendor Research & Development. ************ AROUND ALA GRETA SOUTHARD NAMED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PLA Greta K. Southard has been appointed Executive Director of the Public Library Association, a division of ALA. She has been interim executive director since July 1996. As PLA's Deputy Executive Director from 1994 to July 1996, she coordinated the 1996 PLA National Conference and the 1995 "Chicago Cluster Workshop Series," among other responsibilities and accomplishments. Before joining ALA, Southard was an account executive at Mead Data Central (Chicago), an electronic publisher of legal, business and financial information, from 1988 to 1994. She also had previous positions as librarian at Smith & Schnacke (Dayton, OH), 1986-1988; assistant librarian, Cincinnati Law Library Association (OH), 1984-1986; and, assistant librarian, Akron Law Library Association (OH), 1983-1984. Southard is a graduate of Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), with a BA in History (1982) and an MLS (1983). She is a member of the American Society of Association Executives and the Chicago Society of Association Executives. ALA COUNCIL MEMBER DIES Paul Evan Peters, 48, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and a member of the American Library Association Council, died suddenly on November 18. Before founding the Coalition in March 1990, Paul was systems coordinator at the New York Public Library from 1987 through 1989. He was assistant university librarian for systems at Columbia University, where he also earned a master's degree in sociology in 1986. He served as president of the Library and Information Technology Association in 1991-92. Peters is survived by his wife, Rosemarie Kozdron, parents Austin and Mary Peters and a brother, Philip Peters. FORMER OLOS DIRECTOR DIES Jean Coleman, 68, the first director of the American Library Association's Office for Library Service to the Disadvantaged, died November 9. Coleman served from 1971-1986 as head of the office, now called the Office of Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS). The office was set up to promote library services to minorities, the poor and other underserved communities. Under Coleman's leadership, the division established a Minority Concerns Ad Hoc Subcommittee and began the Literacy Training Project with support from the Lilly Foundation. Coleman also provided leadership for the National Coalition for Literacy established by ALA in 1981. She was honored by the coalition in 1996 as a hero of the literacy movement. Coleman was guest of honor at the 25th anniversary program meeting of the Office of Literacy and Outreach Services held at the ALA Annual Conference in July. The program was dedicated to her. ************ 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. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to listproc@ala.org with the only line of text being "subscribe an2 [your name]" (without quotation marks). Back issues of AN2 are available through the listserver. 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