ALCTS Network News v12n25 (February 5, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v12n25.txt ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 12, Number 25 February 5, 1997 In this issue ALCTS PLAYS ROLE IN NATIONAL TASK FORCE ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE IFLANET METADATA RESOURCES PAGE REVISED WORKSHOPS AND PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST ************ ALCTS PLAYS ROLE IN NATIONAL TASK FORCE ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE On December 1, 1994, the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), the National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property (NIC), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) sponsored an all-day colloquium titled "National Summit on Emergency Response: Safeguarding Our Cultural Heritage." This kicked off a unique partnership of cultural agencies, associations, and governmental agencies--the National Task Force on Emergency Response. The purpose of the Task Force is to discuss the urgent needs created by natural disasters and other emergencies for museums, libraries, archives, and historic sites, and to begin to define ways to work together to mitigate the impact of natural disasters on irreplaceable cultural resources by preparedness and prompt, effective response. The Task Force has two goals: to safeguard America's cultural heritage from the damaging effects of natural disasters and other emergencies; and to use its expertise to help the general public recover from disasters. In recent weeks, the NIC, working on behalf of the Task Force, mailed "Flood/Hurricane Information Packets" to archives, state libraries, museums, and historic sites in the stricken areas of the Pacific Northwest. ALCTS has coordinated the availability of the library mailing list for that mailing and similar ones earlier in 1996 to the southeast. FEMA has been placing task force articles on salvaging of specific materials, most recently books, on its web site: http://www.fema.gov/fema/Fldbks.htm. Finally, FEMA has also prepared a series of Video News Releases for distribution to news directors. These are intended for broadcast use during Presidentially declared disasters, but may be used other times as well, at the television station's discretion. The first of these shows how to salvage family photographs damaged by flooding. Several ALCTS members are participating in the work of the Task Force. Tom Clareson, currently chair of the Preservation and Reformatting Section, represents the cooperative Preservation Program Group, and Karen Muller, ALCTS Executive Director, represents ALA. For a single copy of the "Flood/Hurricane Information Packets" or to learn more about the Task Force, e-mail Karen Muller at kmuller@ala.org. ************ IFLANET METADATA RESOURCES PAGE REVISED The IFLANET Metadata Resources page has been significantly revised. URL: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/metadata.htm Contents: General Indices Dublin Core and Warwick Framework Encoded Archival Description Government Information Locators (GILS) Handles (CNRI) IAFA/Whois++ MARC MCF PICS RDM / SOIF TEI Independent Headers URI Documents (URIs/URLs, URNs, URCs) X3L8, Data Representation. Selected Background Documents Substantive revisions are continuing to: "Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects" URL: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/diglib.htm "Digital Libraries: Electronic Journal and Text Archives" URL: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/etext.htm Suggestions and additions are welcome. Contact Terry Kuny, IFLANET Administration, International Federation of Library Associations, by e-mail: ifla@nlc-bnc.ca or http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/ ************ WORKSHOPS AND PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST CORRECTION TO DC GROUP WORKSHOP The contact person for the District of Columbia Library Association Technical Services Interest Group workshop on March 3 is Joanne Adetayo at 202-727-1031 (Martin Luther King Public Library, Washington, D.C.). See information on the workshop in AN2 v12_no24 (January 30, 1997). NIC WORKSHOPS ON FUNDRAISING The National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property (NIC) announces three "Capitalize on Collections Care" workshops scheduled for this winter and spring. They are: February 25, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburgh, PA; March 14, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; and April 18, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. As federal funds for cultural organizations are increasingly threatened in the current political climate, institutions must expand their fundraising to new horizons: the private sector and state and local governments. Through presentations and practical exercise, "Capitalize on Collections Care: A Fund-Raising Workshop" will show how organizations can use their collections care programs to target these sources and enhance efforts to raise money. This one-day workshop will demonstrate how institutions can incorporate preservation and conservation creatively into fund-raising activities. Collections care can be an effective tool for raising money and invigorating a fund-raising program, benefiting both the collections care program and the whole institution. For more information contact Clare Hansen at NIC, 202-625-1495. SCANNING OF VISUAL COLLECTIONS _Digital Image Collections: Issues and Practice_, by Michael Ester, focuses on what sets the digitization of visual collections apart from other scanning projects. Through his experiences at both the Getty Art History Information Program and Luna Imaging Inc., the author provides library and archives administrators and others who oversee digitization projects with ways of thinking about this activity for the long-term benefit of preservation and scholarship. The report provides basic suggestions about planning digitization projects, practical guidelines for working with images, and some thoughts about the future systems and infrastructure needed to provide collections of images over the long-term. The paper assumes a broad definition of visual collections and resources. The concepts can be applied, with some small shifts in terminology, to historical photographic collections, art historical material, maps, text and image publications, architectural drawings, and so forth. _Digital Image Collections: Issues and Practice_ is available from the Commission on Preservation and Access, 1400 16th St. NW, Suite 740, Washington, DC 20036-2217. Prepayment of $15.00 by check (U.S. funds) is required. ************ 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. 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