ALCTS Network News v13n08 (April 22, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v13n08.txt ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 13, Number 8 April 22, 1997 In this issue ALCTS 40th ANNIVERSARY GALA EVENT AT ANSEL ADAMS CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY ALA BALLOTS IN THE MAIL ***ATTENTION COMMITTEE AND DISCUSSION GROUP CHAIRS*** ALCTS SETS FALL INSTITUTE ON ELECTRONIC SERIALS AROUND ALA ************ ALCTS 40th ANNIVERSARY GALA EVENT AT ANSEL ADAMS CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY ALCTS celebrates its ruby anniversary this summer in great style. A reception is planned for the Ansel Adams Center for Photography on Friday evening, June 27 from 6:00 to 8:00. An exhibit marking the 30th anniversary of the Summer of Love will open at the Center on June 25; other exhibits planned to coincide with the reception will be on the Panther Movement and Free Speech. One of the Center's five galleries is devoted exclusively to the work of Adams. All galleries will be open for the reception, which includes hors d'oeuvres and an open wine and soda bar. The cost is $40 per person; LaToya Cummings, the new ALCTS budget assistant (see below) will accept your registration and payment at 800-545-2433 ext. 5035 or email to alcts@ala.org. Sign up early as space is limited. The Center evolved from the Friends of Photography, an organization formed in 1967 by Ansel Adams, Brett Weston, and several of their contemporaries to bring photography into acceptance as a fine art. The Center is located at 250 Fourth Street, across the street from the Yerba Buena Gardens Arts complex and a block away from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. ************ ALA BALLOTS IN THE MAIL Ballots for ALA and its divisions are in the mail. If you don't receive yours, call Eugenia Porter, Director of ALA Membership Services at 800-545-2433 ext. 4288, *after* May 15. Do not call before May 15. Calls to the ALCTS office will be referred to Membership since the ALCTS office is not responsible for the process once the ballots have been printed. ************ ***ATTENTION COMMITTEE AND DISCUSSION GROUP CHAIRS*** If you have not scheduled a meeting for the Annual Conference and you intend to do so, let Yvonne McLean know by Friday the date and time you want to meet, how many people you expect to attend, and the other details she needs in order to have your meeting scheduled. Requests for audiovisual equipment are due to ALA Conference Services no later than May 1. Because ALA provides this equipment at no cost to us, as long as we meet the deadline, your help in meeting this deadline enables us to extend our program budget. We will not be able to honor requests which come in after May 1. You can reach Yvonne at ymclean@ala.org or 800-545-2433 ext. 5032. A reminder to discussion group chairs: We are glad to publish your discussion group topics in AN2 if you send unformatted text electronically. We will send a copy to Pier London for publication in Cognotes, the ALA conference newspaper, and to Dale Swensen for inclusion in the ALCTS newsletter. The email address is kwhittlesey@ala.org. ************ ALCTS SETS FALL INSTITUTE ON ELECTRONIC SERIALS The ALCTS Serials Section is sponsoring a day-and-a-half institute on electronic serials on September 26-27. The event will be held at the Sheraton City Centre, Washington, D.C. This institute is a basic course in electronic serials from acquisition to access and includes an introductory plenary session, a panel discussion, and focused breakout sessions intended to help participants come to grips with this rapidly changing format. It is designed for librarians from all types and sizes of libraries with an interest in electronic serials and a desire to learn how to balance the practical concerns of implementation with the blue-sky on the horizon. Specialized small group discussions will focus on acquisitions/collection development, training/access, and cataloging/standards. Watch for an electronic or print brochure soon. A brochure and registration information will also be available shortly on the ALCTS homepage (www.ala.org/alcts.html) and gopher (gopher.ala.org) or by calling Yvonne A. McLean at 800-545-2433 ext. 5032 or email ymclean@ala.org. ************ AROUND ALA FINALISTS CHOSEN IN ALA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SEARCH Three finalists have been chosen in the search for a new ALA executive director. The finalists were announced Friday by Camila Alire, chair of the 21-member Executive Director Search Committee. "The Search Committee is delighted with the caliber of candidates we have attracted for the position," said Alire. "We are convinced that any one of the final candidates would make an outstanding executive director who could lead ALA into the 21st century and build on the vision of ALA Goal 2000." The three finalists are: Christopher (Chris) A. Damon, executive director, Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Skokie, Ill.; Elaine K. Didier, director, Residential & Research University Programs, Academic Outreach, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Keith Michael Fiels, director, Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, Boston. The finalists will participate in interviews with ALA staff and the Executive Director Search Committee from April 29 through May 1 at ALA Headquarters in Chicago. The ALA Executive Board, which is responsible for hiring the executive director, has indicated it will announce the name of the person selected as soon as a contract has been negotiated and signed. The executive director-designate is expected to attend the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco but will not begin officially at ALA Headquarters in Chicago until August 15. AASL, YALSA NAME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Julie A. Walker has been appointed executive director of AASL and YALSA, effective June 1, 1997. Currently Walker is Director, Library & Media Services, Round Rock Independent School District (TX). The Round Rock Independent School District includes 31 campuses and 26,000 students, served by 34 professional librarians. In addition to building-level services, there is a District Media Center including a centralized media collection, graphic arts lab and professional library. Walker has been the Director of Library & Media Services since 1992. Prior to becoming director, Ms. Walker was a School Library Media Specialist with the Round Rock Independent School District, 1988-1992, serving the McNeil High School and Old Town Elementary School. She was also a lecturer at the University of Texas Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Austin (TX). Previous positions include school library media specialist , Hays Consolidated Independent School District, Buda, TX (1985-1988); district librarian, Schulenburg Independent School District, TX (1982-1985) and high school teacher, Schulenburg Independent School District, TX (1976-1981). Walker has given many presentations and her article -- *Managing Change in the School Library -- Paddling Through White Water* -- was published in MultiMedia Schools, March/April, 1996. She has been active in AASL/ALA, Beta Phi Mu, and the Texas Library Association, where she is currently on the Leadership Development Committee, which is responsible for Tall Texans, the association's leadership development institute. Walker has a BA in education from Southeastern Oklahoma State University and an MLIS from University of Texas, Austin. FUND FOR AMERICA'S LIBRARIES NAMES HANSEN On May 5, 1997, Walter H. Hansen will become the Executive Director of the Fund for America's Libraries. Hansen is currently Director of Development at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Previously, he served the late Cardinal Bernardin for ten years as the Director of Resource Development for the Big Shoulders Fund of the Archdiocese of Chicago. At Big Shoulders he managed a newly-created, innovative ongoing major gifts program raising over $62 million for the 125 inner-city schools of the Archdiocese of Chicago. LATOYA CUMMINGS IS NEW ALCTS BUDGET ASSISTANT LaToya Cummings is the new budget assistant for ALCTS and LAMA as of April 15. She is responsible for processing all ALCTS and LAMA preconference and institute registrations, as well as both divisions' purchase orders and requests for reimbursements. Her phone is 800-545-2433 ext. 5035 and her email is lcummings@ala.org. Cummings has completed three years of accounting at Southern Illinois University and plans to complete her last year at the University of Illinois-Chicago. ************ 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. 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