ALCTS Network News v12n26 (February 7, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v12n26.txt ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 12, Number 26 February 7, 1997 In this issue INTERNET ACCESS FOR MEMBERS AT WASHINGTON CONVENTION CENTER DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS AT MIDWINTER ALCTS/AAP JOINT COMMITTEE DESIGNING NEW LIBRARY MARKETING SURVEY IF YOU'RE GOING TO THE EXHIBITS PCC CELEBRATES ONE MILLION RECORDS IN NATIONAL AUTHORITY FILE AT MIDWINTER OCLC TO HOLD SYMPOSIUM AT MIDWINTER AROUND ALA ************ INTERNET ACCESS FOR MEMBERS AT WASHINGTON CONVENTION CENTER There will be two distinct areas set aside for Internet access at the Washington Convention Center for those attending the Midwinter Meeting: The Internet Cafe will be located in the atrium lobby of the Washington Convention Center, and will be open 24 hours per day. It will have 15 PCs arranged in three groups of five tables. It is meant as a casual, drop-in place, and will be located near the concession stands. The Internet Room will be located in the Exhibit Hall near booths 617 and 618. It will have 17 PCs, 15 stand-up stations and two stations intended for wheelchair access. The Internet Room will be open during Exhibit Hall hours, Saturday 9 - 5, Sunday 9 - 5, and Monday 9 - 4. There are also two Internet-ready meeting rooms available if your group would like to do demonstrations, etc. Contact Conference Services for room availability (800-545-2433 ext. 3225). Both "open" locations will be self-serve, first-come first-serve. Software for all machines is still being discussed, but all machines will have at least a web browser (probably Netscape) capable of http, ftp, gopher, and telnet access. There will also probably be a TN3270 client on each machine. ************ DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS AT MIDWINTER CATALOGING NORMS DISCUSSION GROUP in conjunction with the PCC Saturday, February 15, 9:30-11 a.m., Washington Renaissance, Auditorium Topic: Cataloging Values - Theory, Practice, Extended Implications. Presenters: Willy Cromwell-Kessler, Stanford University Libraries; Sherry Kelly, Smithsonian Institution Libraries; Margaret Shen, Cleveland Public Libraries; Robert Wolven, Columbia University Libraries. Andrea Demsey, Co-Chair andrea_demsey@occshost.nlm.nih.gov CHIEF COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS OF LARGE RESEARCH LIBRARIES Saturday, February 15, Renaissance Washington, Congressional Hall A 8:30-11:30 Joint meeting with the Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries Discussion Group Welcome and announcements (Bonnie Cox); Reports: Center for Research Libraries (Don Simpson), Association of Research Libraries (Deborah Jakubs); and Library of Congress (Bill Schenck). 11:30-12:30 1. Introduction and Announcements 2. Budget Survey (Bob Sewell): A report on a comparison of our respective 1996/97 materials budgets. 3. Outsourcing & collection development (David Farrell): Technical processing departments are implementing new "outsourced" services from vendors and utilities. What are these services? Who provides them? What are their strengths and weaknesses? What is their impact on collection development? 4. California Principles (Brian Schottlaender): Continued discussion on the "Principles for Acquiring and Licensing Information in Digital Formats" (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Info/principles.html). Can or should these principles be used nationally? What are the core, required principles? 5. Model licensing agreements (Anne Okerson) 6. Getting State Support (Gay Dannelly): Who among us has been successful at persuading state legislatures to put money into research libraries? What methods were used to achieve this end? Where did the leadership for such an effort originate? Did such action entail the inclusion of non-research library constituencies (e.g., K-12) in the plan? What has been the role, if any, of the state library in this process? What advice can those who have been successful provide the rest of us? 7. LC proof slips and non-mainstream U.S. materials (Ross Atkinson): LC has decided to continue its CDS Alert Service ("LC proof slips")--however, in the discussion that was generated by that decision, it did become clear that many fewer research libraries now use such slips for selection than was the case in the past. One main use of the LC slips has traditionally been as a means of locating non-mainstream domestic publications. Is the lower use of the LC slips an indication that other, preferable sources are available to locate such publications (and, if so, what are these sources?), or is this an indication that very few of us are still regularly buying non-mainstream domestic publications? 8. Collection management issues (Louis Pitschmann): What are is the long- and short-term potential for digital information to radically change how collection development/management is carried out? What is the justification for retaining/discarding collections after they are digitized? How can we more efficiently manage existing collections experiencing increasingly less use? 9. Faculty and copyright (David Farrell): Scholars routinely sign away copyright permission to publishers; several academic institutions are examining this practice and its impact on serials pricing and collections budgets. What are universities and scholarly organizations doing about it? What are the prospects for improving services and relieving budgets if universities (or other non-profit agencies) exerted more control over copyrights? 8. Use criteria for selection (Bob Sewell): What sort of use studies are libraries doing related to journals, books, electrons? How do we use this data? If we use data for allocations/selection decisions are we being driven by short-term "market forces" or are we making decision consisted with the values of academia? 9. Subsidized access to canceled journals (Richard Ring) Heike Kordish (NYPL), Chair; Gay Dannelly (Ohio State), Secretary, Chair-elect LITA/ALCTS CCS AUTHORITY CONTROL IN AN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT INTEREST GROUP Sunday, February 15, 2-4:30, Washington Convention Center, Rm. 13-14. Topics: Automated Authority Generation: Where Are We Now?; Survey of International Authority Control Initiatives; Library of Congress NACO/SACO update. Presenters: Gary Strawn, Northwestern University; Robert Bremer, OCLC; David Williamson, Library of Congress; Michael Kaplan; Harvard University; Karen Calhoun, Cornell University; Ann Della Porta, Library of Congress. Reports will include recent work in automated heading maintenance, the OCLC authority macro, automated authority searching generation, and practical applications of these developments among members of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging. These will be followed by a report on the continuing globalization of authority control in a cooperative environment, and an update on important LC NACO/SACO activity. Chair: Sherry Kelley PRESERVATION AND REFORMATTING Sunday, February 16, 9-11 a.m., JW Marriott, Justice Room Tentative topic title: From the Outhouse to the Penthouse Physical facilities for preservation programs will be the topic for the next Preservation and Reformatting Section Discussion Group at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Washington, D.C. We need your photos and slides to share. If you have any kind of photo of your workspace, please e-mail either Steve Smith (smith@amigos.org) or Ann Olszewski (presvmgr1@library.cpl.org). All types of spaces, from conservation laboratories to microfilming and imaging set-ups will be covered. If you are planning a new facility, or have recently inhabited a new or remodeled facility, or even if your facility is an example of what not to do, we hope to hear from you. Slides can be sent ahead of time to Ann Olszewski, Preservation Office, Cleveland Public Library, 17133 Lake Shore Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44110-4006. ************ 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 attend the planning meeting 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. ************ IF YOU'RE GOING TO THE EXHIBITS "Exhibits only" badges entitle the bearer to entrance to the exhibits only. To attend committee meetings, discussion groups, and ALA events, registrants must have a badge that indicates fully paid registration. All venues will be monitored. Exceptions will not be made. ************ PCC CELEBRATES ONE MILLION RECORDS IN NATIONAL AUTHORITY FILE AT MIDWINTER Join the gala celebration of the 1,000,000th PCC record contributed to NACO and mark the milestone of over 100,000 authority records contributed to the National Authority File by PCC participants in 1996. Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) representatives and staff, both current and prospective, are invited to attend the PCC Participants Discussion Group meeting on Sunday, February 16, 7:00 pm at the Library of Congress, Madison Building, Mumford Room (6th floor). The main topic of the agenda will be the consolidation of PCC and CONSER. The agenda will also include updates on recent cooperative cataloging activities along with special presentations recognizing PCC contributors. The program will also feature a video appearance by the LC Core Players. The Cooperative Cataloging Team will be serving light refreshments in appreciation to all PCC participants for their contributions. This will be an opportunity to meet the LC staff who work with PCC libraries. Librarians wishing to learn more about the Program for Cooperative Cataloging are encouraged to attend. For a complete list of all PCC-related activities at the ALA Midwinter Meeting visit the PCC Homepage at http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/pcc.html. ************ OCLC TO HOLD SYMPOSIUM AT MIDWINTER OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., in sponsoring a symposium on Friday, February 14, 2-5 p.m. Washington Convention Center, Room 31. The topic is Libraries as Leaders: Integrating Systems for Service. Although there is no charge for this symposium, due to limited seating, pre-registration is required; please see the form below. The first 500 registrants will receive admission tickets to the program. If you are interested in the program but cannot attend, printed proceedings will be prepared by OCLC and distributed to member libraries. Additionally, videotapes of the program will be available through the OCLC Interlibrary Loan service. Following ALA Midwinter, the speakers' papers will be available on the OCLC Home Page http://www.oclc.org. The topics to be covered include Libraries as Leaders: The Statewide Perspective, presented by Susan Fayad, ACLIN Project Director, Colorado State Library; Adopting Distributive Cataloging Solutions, John Schalow, Head, Cataloging Department, University of Maryland at College Park; A Digital Library in a Virtual Enterprise, Lizanne Payne, Executive Director, Washington Research Library Consortium; and Order from Chaos: Libraries and Electronic Government Information, Kate Nevins, Executive Director, SOLINET: Southeastern Library Network. There will also be a reactor panel discussion and questions and answers. For information contact Kay Scott at kay_scott@oclc.org. ************ AROUND ALA REYNOLDS MOVES FROM ALCTS TO AASL LaTisha Reynolds, Budget Assistant in ALCTS for the past two years, has joined the American Association of School Libraries (AASL) as administrative assistant. Her duties at ALCTS included receiving and processing institute and preconference registrations, and budget matters. KUBISZ NAMED TO ALA LIBRARY POST On January 27 Carolyn Kubisz became the Associate Director and Librarian of the Library and Research Center at ALA Headquarters. Kubisz has a BA from Bradley Univ. (Peoria) and a Master's in Library and Information Science from Rosary College (Chicago). She has worked at two Chicago area libraries--the Oak Park Public Library and at the Cattleman's Beef Association Library. Carolyn comes with considerable experience in both the traditional and electronic dimensions of librarianship. OLOS DIRECTOR APPOINTED Satia Marshall Orange has been appointed Director, Office for Literacy and Outreach Services. Currently Orange is Director of the Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library, TransAfrica Forum, in Washington DC. At the TransAfrica Forum, she administers the operations, budget, collections, programs and services, including community outreach programs, of the only African American library focusing on Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the U.S. policies related to those regions. Before joining TransAfrica Forum, Orange was Head, Children's Department, Forsyth County Public Library in Winston-Salem (NC). She was also the Founding Director of the Preschool Child Care Center at the Winston Lake Family YMCA in Winston-Salem. Her broad background in services to children also includes extensive experience as Day Care Licensing Specialist/Supervisor for the Wisconsin Division of Community Services in Milwaukee, as well as experience as Media Specialist, Campus Elementary School, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and teaching experience in both Milwaukee and Syracuse (NY). Orange is on the Board of Directors of the Black Caucus of ALA and chaired the general program committee for the First National Conference of African American Librarians, sponsored by BCALA. She has been active in a wide range of other professional and civic organizations. Orange has a Bachelor of Science degree in special education from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and a Master of Science in Library Science from Atlanta University. Her appointment at ALA is effective Monday, February 10, 1997. 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