ALCTS Network News v12n21 (January 22, 1997)
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ISSN: 1056-6694

ALCTS NETWORK NEWS

An electronic publication of the
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services

Volume 12, Number 21
January 22, 1997

In this issue

ALCTS/AAP JOINT COMMITTEE DESIGNING NEW LIBRARY MARKETING SURVEY
DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS FOR MIDWINTER
MIDWINTER MEETING CHANGES
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ESTABLISHES "STATE LIBRARIES" HOME PAGE
ALA SPONSORS DIVERSITY PROGRAM AT MIDWINTER

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ALCTS/AAP JOINT COMMITTEE DESIGNING NEW LIBRARY MARKETING SURVEY

ALCTS and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) will again
join forces to conduct a comprehensive survey of the library market.
All interested publishers, librarians, and vendors attending the ALA
Midwinter Meeting are invited and encouraged to come to both meetings
of the ALCTS/AAP Joint Committee and help design a new survey.

Carried out about every 10 years, the ALCTS/AAP Library Marketing
Survey provides librarians, publishers, and vendors with a better
understanding of the market as a whole and clearer insight into each
others' needs. The survey was first conducted in 1975 and again in
1986. The new survey will reflect changes in the past decade and the
effect of new technologies on the way we do business.

The ALCTS/AAP Joint Committee will meet on Sunday, February 16 at
2:00 p.m. at the Washington Convention Center, Rm. 22. The Committee
will be joined by the Cataloging in Publication (CIP) Advisory Board.
(A demonstration of CIP's electronic projects and discussion of CIP
compliance procedures are planned.) A second Joint Committee meeting,
to initiate planning for the marketing survey, will be held on Monday,
February 17 at 2:00 p.m. at the Westin City Center (formerly the
Washington Vista Hotel) in the Monticello West Room.

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DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS FOR MIDWINTER

Following are discussion group meetings not previously announced in
AN2. We will continue to publicize your discussion group topics until
the final pre-conference issue of AN2, the week of February 3.


ACQUISITIONS LIBRARIANS/VENDORS OF LIBRARY MATERIALS
Sunday, February 16, 8:30-10:30 a.m., Washington Vista-BR C

Topic: Virtual Acquisitions: Blessing or Burden - Acquiring library
materials in electronic formats. Part I: The Issues.

Libraries, vendors and publishers are facing major changes and
additional responsibilities and challenges with the advent of
electronic publishing. Representatives from a vendor and a publisher
will kick off the meeting by identifying a number of issues faced by
those organizations when dealing with the provision of materials in
electronic formats. Then we will form small discussion groups to
identify the many issues being faced by acquisitions/serials
librarians and their staff when dealing with these materials in
addition to their regular workloads. We'll also be thinking about how
vendors, publishers and libraries can all be of help to each other. At
the end of the meeting, we'll come together to compile our lists of
issues. (Stay tuned to ALA Annual, when we'll try to come up with
some solutions as well...)

AUTOMATED ACQUISITIONS/IN-PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS
Monday, February 17, 9:30-11:00 a.m., Grand Hyatt Independence-Room D

Topic: Automation Developments for Acquisitions: New Directions and
Shared Concerns

Technical services work and staff are affected by system changes and
automation developments, whether in their own integrated library
system or in materials vendors' systems. In this moderated panel,
representatives of ILS and materials vendors will discuss trends and
opportunities at the verge of the new millennium. This session will
provide insight into possible changes and developments, as well as a
chance for the audience to suggest their ideas for the future.

Discussion Leaders: Marilyn Geller - Internet Product Specialist,
Readmore Automation; Shelley Neville - Library Systems Analyst,
Ameritech Library Services; and Bob Schatz - Director of Sales,
Academic Book Center

CATALOG MANAGEMENT
Saturday, February 15, 2-4 p.m., Crowne Plaza Franklin Park-Rooms A &
B

Topic: The Program for Cooperative Cataloging's Core Cataloging
Program and its Implications for Catalog Management
Presenters are Joan Schuitema, Northwestern University; Kate
Harcourt, Columbia University; and Christian Boissannas, Cornell
University. This session is being planned by Sheila Intner, Simmons
College, and Joan Swanekamp, Columbia University.

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT LIBRARIANS OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
Saturday, February 15, 2-4 p.m., Grand Hyatt-Independence D & E

Topic: Collection Assessment in the Library without Walls

As electronic resources become a larger part of our collections, the
questions of how we assess our collections in the age of the virtual
library becomes increasingly important. We wonder not only what our
collection really is, but how traditional assessment measures can be
applied to it.

The Heads of Collection Development of Academic Libraries Discussion
Group will have a panel of three librarians address aspects of this
topic as an preface to an audience discussion. Ross Atkinson,
Associate University Librarian, Cornell University Library, will take
a look at the conceptual framework of the virtual library. Tony
Ferguson, Associate University Librarian, Columbia University
Library, will discuss how the conspectus definitions are being
expanded to include electronic resources. Tim Jewell, ARL Visiting
Program Officer for Electronic Resources, and Head, Electronic
Information Program, University of Washington Libraries, will talk
about ARL's efforts to study and measure its member libraries'
investments in electronic resources.

CREATIVE IDEAS IN TECHNICAL SERVICES
Sunday, February 16, 4:30-5:30, Marriott Metro Center-Salon C & D

Topics: Effect of Electronic Materials on Technical Services;
Flexible Staffing Through Use of Telecommuting; Future of
Professional Catalogers; and Relationship of Library Administrators
to Technical Services

HEADS OF CATALOGING DEPARTMENTS
Monday, February 17, 9:30-11, Capital Hilton-Ohio

Topic: Creating the CyberCataloger: education and training

A panel of speakers: David Moxley, a recent library school graduate,
currently librarian for the Medical Informatics Group, University of
Missouri-Columbia; Katherine Kent, student in the Library and
Information Services Program, University of Denver; Ingrid Hsieh-yee,
School of Library and Information Science, Catholic University of
America; and Jackie Shieh, Original Cataloger for Electronic
Resources, University of Virginia, will address the topic from their
respective perspectives. Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Director of the
Library and Information Services Department, University of Denver,
will moderate the discussion.

JOURNAL COSTS IN LIBRARIES
Saturday, February 15, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, Marriott Metro Center-Salon D

Topic: Throwing Out the Bath water, But Keeping the Baby: Managing
Serials in an Age of Precarious Pricing and Burdened Budgets

The task of managing the acquisition of serials has been a challenge,
at best, in recent years. Four innovatively-minded individuals will
offer unique perspectives and creative approaches towards meeting the
challenges of precarious pricing and burdened budgets including their
strategies for cancellation decisions and for selecting services to
replace current ones. Following their brief presentations, we will
share what promises to be an energetic discussion in which we wrestle
with traditional values, innovative solutions, and empty pockets.

Discussion Leaders: Charles Hamaker, Assistant Dean, Louisiana State
University Libraries; Richard Meyer, Director of the Library, Trinity
University; Paul Sonberg, Serials Specialist, Blackwell's Periodicals;
John Tagler, Director, Corporate Communications, Elsevier Science.

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MIDWINTER MEETING CHANGES

The Midwinter Meeting meeting room schedule published in AN2 reflects
the information the ALCTS office has as of date of publication. We are
glad to publish changes as they are brought to our attention, but be
sure to check your ALA program book and Cognotes, the daily
conference newspaper, on-site to confirm day, time, and location of a
meeting you are interested in.

The Washington Vista Hotel is now the Westin City Center. The COmfort
Inn Downtown is now the Red Roof Inn.

The Foreign Book Dealers Directories subcommittee meeting has been
changed. It is now meeting 11:30-1:00 on Saturday, February 15,
11:30-1:00, in the Renaissance Washington, Board Room B.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ESTABLISHES "STATE LIBRARIES" HOME PAGE

A new home page from the Library of Congress provides links to state
libraries, library agencies and commissions in all 50 states. The
State Libraries page is accessible from the Library's main home page,
at http://www.loc.gov/. The new page is a cooperative initiative of
the LC and ALA in an effort to strengthen LC's ties to the library
community as well as its largest association, ALA.

The Library of Congress also received cooperation from the Chief
Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA) in designing the page and
determining appropriate sites for links.

The information from state libraries supplements other state
information offered by the Library of Congress home pages of the
Newspaper and Current Periodicals Reading Room
(http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/ncp/ncp.html/) and the Center for the
Book http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/).

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ALA SPONSORS DIVERSITY PROGRAM AT MIDWINTER

The ALA Chapter Relations Committee invites you to attend Stop
Talking and Start Doing! Recruitment and Retention of People of Color
at the State and Local Levels. The program will be held Monday,
February 17, 10:30-12:30, Grand Hyatt, Independence B & C.

Featured speakers are Florence Simkins Brown, Director, North Miami
Beach Public Library; Elizabeth Aversa, Dean, Catholic University
SLIS; and George Grant, Director, Rollins College Library. Table talk
discussions will highlight recruitment of young people to the
profession, communication issues, mentoring, and ALA Chapter success
stories.

This program builds upon prior Stop Talking events which participants
have called "the very best thing anyone is doing about diversity. 
I'll never miss it."

The Chapter Relations Committee is chaired by Margo Crist, University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. The Stop Talking Subcommittee is chaired
by Florence Simkins Brown.

-- Gerald Hodges
Director, Chapter Relations Office


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