ALCTS Network News v12n20 (January 8, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v12n20.txt ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 12, Number 20 January 8, 1997 In this issue NOMINEES FOR ALCTS DIVISION AND SECTION OFFICES 1997 CREATIVE IDEAS IN TECHNICAL SERVICES DG LOOKING FOR ASSISTANTS ATTENTION DISCUSSION GROUP CHAIRS ALCTS NEWSLETTER DEADLINE FEBRUARY 25 NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS? TIME TO UPDATE YOUR ALA RECORDS LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS: PRACTICE & THEORY SEEKS AWARD NOMINEES ************ NOMINEES FOR ALCTS DIVISION AND SECTION OFFICES 1997 Ballots for ALA and Division offices will be mailed beginning April 4, 1997, to members whose membership is current as of March 31, 1997. If your membership has expired, you are due for renewal, or you want to join for the first time, contact Shonda Russell in the ALCTS office at srussell@ala.org. Following is the ballot for ALCTS Division and Section offices for the 1997 elections: ALCTS Vice-President/President-Elect Sheila Intner, Simmons College Olivia Madison, Iowa State University Director-at-Large (three-year term; one to be elected) John Riemer, University of Georgia Julia Blixrud, CAPCON Library Network CRG Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Marilyn Moody, University at Buffalo, SUNY Helen Reed, University of Northern Colorado Secretary (two-year term) Cynthia Clark, University of California, Irvine Elizabeth Parang, Pepperdine University AS Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Judith Niles, University of Louisville Marsha Clark, New York Academy of Medicine CCS Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Paul Weiss, University of New Mexico Willy Cromwell, Stanford University Member-at-Large (three-year term; two to be elected) Michael Kaplan, Harvard College Josephine Crawford, University of Wisconsin-Madison Sherman Clarke, New York University Sherry Kelley, Smithsonian Institution CMDS Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Bonnie Cox, University of Kentucky Lynn Sipe, University of Southern California PARS Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Jeanne Drewes, Michigan State University Barbara Berger, Cornell University Member-at-Large (three-year term; one to be elected) Sophia K. (Sonja) Jordan, Notre Dame University Richard Peek, University of Rochester SS Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Ruth Haas, Harvard University Karen Darling, University of Oregon Secretary (three-year term) John Radencich, Florida International University Mitch Turitz, San Francisco State University Member-at-Large (three-year term; one to be elected ) Michael Randall, University of California, Los Angeles Mechael Gago, Indiana University ************ CREATIVE IDEAS IN TECHNICAL SERVICES DG LOOKING FOR ASSISTANTS [from Margaret Mering and Judy Johnson] As co-chairs of the ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group, we would like to solicit facilitators and recorders to assist with the round table discussions for the discussion group's meeting at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Washington, D.C. The discussion group will meet on Sunday, Feb. 16 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. If you have not attended a meeting of this discussion group before, the meetings consist of 13 round table discussions on 4 different topics. Facilitators at each table assist in the free flow of discussion by asking persons at that table to introduce themselves, keep track of the meeting time, keep the discussion moving, and make sure participants complete the evaluation form. Recorders participate in the discussion and also take notes of the discussion to turn into the two co-chairs. The co-chairs will use those reports for an article (in which facilitators and recorders will receive acknowledgment) in a professional journal. The co-chairs will develop a list of questions for each topic that facilitators will use in helping the discussion to keep moving. Experience has shown, though, that very few tables make it through all the questions in the time provided! The topics for the Washington meetings are: The Effect of Electronic Materials on Technical Services Flexible Staffing Through Use of Telecommuting The Future of Professional Catalogers The Relationship of Library Administrators to Technical Services If you would like to serve as a facilitator or a recorder, please specify your choice and respond to: Margaret Mering Judy Johnson mvm@unllib.unl.edu or judyj@unllib.unl.edu (402) 472-2517 (402) 472-3938 ************ ATTENTION DISCUSSION GROUP CHAIRS We will gladly publish your discussion group topic in an upcoming issue of AN2 until the last issue before the Midwinter Meeting, the week of February 3. This is a good venue for publicizing your meeting. In addition, when you submit your topic electronically to AN2, we will forward it to Pier London for publication in Cognotes, the daily on-site conference newspaper, and to Yvonne McLean for inclusion in a discussion group flyer distributed at the conference. Pier's deadline is Friday, January 24. 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. ************ ALCTS NEWSLETTER DEADLINE FEBRUARY 25 Submission deadline for the next ALCTS Newsletter is February 25, which is only a week after the Midwinter Meeting. Articles may be sent to Dale Swensen, Newsletter editor, at dale_swensen@byu.edu. ************ NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS? TIME TO UPDATE YOUR ALA RECORDS You may no longer be using the same e-mail address you had when you first started communicating on-line. Your address may not even be the same as it was four months ago. If your address has changed and you have not sent the change to ALCTS, or if you don't remember if you have, please do so now. Send an e-mail message to Shonda Russell in the ALCTS office at srussell@ala.org and we will update our records and send the new information to ALA Member Services for you. ************ LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS: PRACTICE & THEORY SEEKS AWARD NOMINEES The Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory (LAPT) Research Award provides an annual prize of $1,000 for research in the broad areas of acquisitions, serials, publishing, and collection management. The award will be given for one proposal and administered in two parts: $500 when the proposal is selected to fund the research effort and $500 when the completed manuscript is submitted to Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory. The award will be granted to the individual, not the institution, and may be used to cover expenses incurred in conducting the research outlined in the winning proposal, including travel, postage, staff support, supplies, and other items. The winning proposal will identify a critical issue in acquisitions, serials, publishing, or collection management, and outline a rigorous approach to testing or solving the issue raised. Proposals will be judged on their significance, clarity and originality. The proposal should be a brief, concise description of the project (no more than 500 words). A budget proposal and a one-page vita of the author must be attached. Awards will not be limited to experienced researchers; however, researchers should present their proposal clearly addressing the following issues: 1. What are the aims and objectives of the research proposal? 2. What methodology and data analysis procedures will be employed? 3. What related research has been undertaken and/or published? Include specific citations. 4. Is the research replication of a previous study? The deadline for submitting proposals is February 15, 1997. Proposals will be reviewed by a panel consisting of the editor-in-chief, the assistant editors, and three members of the editorial board. The winning proposal will be announced at the ALA Annual Conference in 1997 and in the fourth issue of LAPT for the year. Research for the winning proposal must be completed within one year of the date when the award is announced. Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory reserves the right of first refusal of the completed manuscript. Proposals and questions concerning this year's award should be addressed to Carol Pitts Diedrichs, Editor-in-Chief, Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory, at diedrichs.1@osu.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. 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