ALCTS Network News v13n14 (May 30, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v13n14 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 13, Number 14 May 30, 1997 In this issue ALERT TO ALL SECTION AND COMMITTEE CHAIRS ALCTS PRECONFERENCES AND UPCOMING INSTITUTES PVLR TO HOLD FORUM ON CONSORTIA DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS, PART II VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO STAFF ALCTS BOOTH AT ALA WORST SERIAL TITLE CHANGE AWARD DEADLINE EXTENDED NEW TECHNICAL SERVICES BOOKS FROM ALA EDITIONS FUND FOR AMERICA'S LIBRARIES NAMES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CNI APPOINTS LYNCH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ************ ALERT TO ALL SECTION AND COMMITTEE CHAIRS This important message from Barbara Winters, chair of the ALCTS Program Committee, pertains to you if your section or committee has a proposal for an institute, preconference, or 1998 or 1999 conference program: PRECONFERENCES/INSTITUTES: The ALCTS Program Committee will receive status reports on 1998 preconferences and institutes on Saturday, June 28, 11:30-1:30, in the Potrero Room of the Grand Hyatt, San Francisco. I will write to program committee chairs to set up schedules for doing this. We will also be happy to meet with any program planners who have ideas for 1999 preconferences and institutes and who might want to get some early planning information from us. Please let me know the names of 1999 program planners who want to meet with the Program Committee, and I will be sure to include them in the sign-up routine (which we complete via e-mail and prior to conference). 1998 CONFERENCE PROGRAMS: We will evaluate 1998 conference program proposals at our Tuesday morning meeting, 9:30-12:30, Moscone Convention Center Room 272. Again, program planners in the past have asked to sign up for timeslots via e-mail prior to conference. Please send me a list of the following so that we will have enough information to provide early sign-up: --Section/committee name --Program name (if there is one) --Name of chair of the program planning subcommittee Program planners will need to drop 15 copies of program proposals by the ALCTS conference office no later than noon Monday, June 30. We will leave open timeslots at the end of the Tuesday meeting for late program proposals and for "leftovers" from the Saturday preconference and institute reviews. Please let me know if you have questions or if there is anything the Program Committee can do to facilitate program planning for you. --Barbara Winters Chair, Program Committee bwinters@library.wright.edu ************ ALCTS PRECONFERENCES AND UPCOMING INSTITUTES Information on any of these preconferences and institutes is available from the ALCTS office at alcts@ala.org or Karen Whittlesey at kwhittlesey@ala.org. Registrations and brochures will be mounted on the Web as they are available or you may request one from the office. The web site is at www.ala.org/alcts.html. PRECONFERENCES It is not too late to register for the ALCTS preconferences, with the sole exception of Business of Acquisitions, which is filled. Brochures and registration forms for Scanning for Beginners, Making Statistics Work for Your Library, and Demystifying Subject Cataloging of Electronic Resources are on the web at www.ala.org/alcts.html. You may also register or request information from the ALCTS office at alcts@ala.org. INSTITUTES The Serials Section is presenting A Capital Idea: Electronic Serials from Acquisition to Access on September 26-27, 1997, at the Sheraton City Centre, Washington, DC. This one and a half-day institute serves as a basic course on electronic serials 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. Planning is now underway for "Cataloging Now," a series of ALCTS regional institutes in 1997-98 focusing on the concept and philosophy of the core record, the ways in which it supports the PCC goals of timely and cost-effective access, and the fundamental change that it represents and that is underway in cataloging. The PCC Standing Committee on Training, chaired by Joan Swanekamp of Yale, is developing the institute in conjunction with ALCTS. ALCTS will offer a day-long institute on the unique acquisitions, cataloging, and preservation issues which children's materials present in Kansas City on March 11, 1998. By means of presentations, discussion, and practice opportunities, practitioners in the field will highlight those issues in both print and non-print formats. In addition, a publisher will give an address on the business of children's materials: where children's publishing has been, where it is now, and where it's going. On March 13, 1998, the Acquisitions Section will present the first ALCTS institute via satellite. This distance learning topic will be the Fundamentals of Acquisitions, broadcast from Columbia, South Carolina, to downlink sites in the Eastern and Central time zones. A committee is planning now for a joint ALCTS/LITA national institute on metadata to be held in April or May of 1998, probably in Chicago. The institute is a result of a recommendation from the ALCTS Task Force on Meta Access to provide education on issues of creating access in the digital environment. ************ PVLR TO HOLD FORUM ON CONSORTIA The Publisher/Vendor Library Relations Committee will hold an open forum titled Consortial Arrangements: The Real Deal on Monday, June 30, from 9:30 to 11:00 am in the Hotel Nikko, Grey Pearl 1. Consortial arrangements for electronic resources are now in vogue, but most libraries are learning as they go. Come hear what publishers, vendors, librarians, and consortial administrators with experience in the negotiating trenches have to tell us about Defining consortia, Consortial licensing agreements, consortial pricing models, Intra-Consortial service issues, and other issues regarding these arrangements. Cynthia Shelton Susan Davis PVLR Forum Co-Chair PVLR Forum Co-Chair cshelton@library.ucla.edu unlsdb@acsu.buffalo.edu ************ DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS, PART II A reminder that we are glad to include notice of discussion group topics which we receive electronically by June 16 at kwhittlesey@ala.org. We will also forward them to Pier London for inclusion in Cognotes, the on-site conference daily newspaper, if you send them by June 5. Out-of-Print Sunday, June 29, 2-4 pm, MCC-202 Topic: Something Old, Something New: The Evolution of the Out-of-Print Book Business. Panel: Joel McKee Chapman, Owner, Acorn Books, San Francisco; Jacob Chernofsky, Editor & Publisher, AB Bookman's Weekly; Sam McDonald, Special Orders, Amazon Books. Let the experts tell you how to find the books you want and what new developments are taking place to aid us in our quest! Find out what the future of the out-of-print book market holds! CCS Research, change The ALCTS CCS Research Discussion Group is erroneously listed in the Annual Conference meeting schedule. The group will meet Saturday, June 28 from 11:30-12:30; however, the correct location is Moscone Convention Center-270, 272. ************ VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO STAFF ALCTS BOOTH AT ALA Carol and I are asking for your help with staffing the NEW ALCTS booth during the San Francisco Conference. This year the division membership booths will have a different look and location. There will be a division booth area for the 11 ALA divisions, each having equal space. The booth area is in the South Lobby, Moscone Center, next to the ALA store, at the entrance to the exhibits. A great location!! We need one to two people per shift. Times needed are: Fri June 27,10-5 (10-12,12-2,2-5) Sat June 28, 8-5 (8-10;10-12;12-2;2-4,4-5) Sun June 29, 8-5 (8-10;10-12;12-2;2-4,4-5) Mon June 30, 8-5 (8-10;10-12;12-2;2-4,4-5) Tues July 1, 8-3 (8-10;10-12;12-2;2-3) So grab a friend or meet a new one as you volunteer, sign up for a time slot, and help ALCTS. Please call, fax, or email Carol or me with your desired time. And thanks in advance for your help. --Nancy Gibbs 919-515-7021 (phone) 919-515-7292 (fax) nancy_gibbs@ncsu.edu Carol Castagnozzi 510-885-3631 (phone) 510-885-2049 (fax) ccastagn@csuhayward.edu ************ WORST SERIAL TITLE CHANGE AWARD DEADLINE EXTENDED The deadline to submit nominations for the Worst Serial Title Change Award has been extended to May 31, 1997. These are the criteria for the award: 1. A frivolous title change for no apparent reason, and producing no advantage; 2. The unnecessary change of an old, respected title; 3. Repeated changes, the latest being no better than any earlier ones; 4. "Snake in the Grass", or "Et tu, Brute?" category for library publications; 5. The change must have occurred during 1996 to be considered. Submit complete citations for the change, including title, number and/or date of last issue of the old title; number and/or date for the new title, and the offending publisher's name and address. Because of the limited time left till San Francisco conference, send your submission with LCCN or OCLC number via e-mail to selina-lin@uiowa.edu. And don't forget to include your own suggestion for award name--the more creative, and poignant the better. As an incentive, you'll receive a VIRTUAL BOUQUET from me if your entry is chosen for one of the prestigious awards. -- Selina Lin, Chair ************ NEW TECHNICAL SERVICES BOOKS FROM ALA EDITIONS Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Public, Academic, and Special Libraries. Karen A. Wilson & Marylou Colver, editors. Many technical services managers are turning to outsourcing as an effective solution to work overload. But the true impact of such options cannot be measured until some important issues are considered. When and how should outsourcing be used? What are the in-house implications? What determines its quality and cost-effectiveness? Because these and other questions can only be answered through experience, Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations provides a valuable resource to technical service managers everywhere. This book is the first to present and evaluate the experiences of outsourcing programs in academic, public, and special libraries of the U.S. and Canada. In offering a comprehensive overview of the options, outcomes, and assessments of outsourcing, the authors contribute many beneficial lessons in managing contractual services with vendors and in integrating such services into library settings. Among the outsourced activities explored are authority control, book selection, collection replacement, computer support, database maintenance, document delivery, foreign-language cataloging, HTML editing, item record creation, and both original and copy cataloging. An outgrowth of discussions in an ALCTS committee, Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations puts essential information in the hands of decision-makers. It's a practical guide to effective outsourcing designed for those hoping to avoid costly mistakes. Cost is $38 (pbk.), $34.20 to ALA members. ISBN 0-8389-0703-2. Planning and Implementing Technical Services Workstations. Michael Kaplan, editor. The job of the library cataloger has grown increasingly complex. Catalogers must draw from a vast pool of dynamic information as they handle traditional and new forms of media. Technical Services Workstations, or TSWs, are becoming the most popular method for streamlining this process because they provide catalogers the network data, application programs and standard hardware required to catalog all types of media quickly and with dependable accuracy. This clear, authoritative resource helps librarians and catalogers ensure that TSWs are the boons to productivity they were meant to be. It examines all the vital issues to consider in developing a strategy and then implementing effective TSWs. Experts in cataloging from various libraries, including the Library of Congress, guide readers through the most current information on equipment and software and provide information applicable to everyone involved in the process, from administrators to support staff. Editor Michael Kaplan of the Harvard College Library is a leading authority and a key presenter of the frequently held ALCTS institutes on technical services workstations. Planning and Implementing Technical Services Workstations provides the practical tools for successfully implementing TSWs for cataloging and authority control. The cost is $30 (pbk.), $27 to ALA members. ISBN 0-8389-0698-2 Maxwell's Handbook for AACR2R: Explaining and Illustrating the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules and 1993 Amendments. Robert L. Maxwell with Margaret Maxwell. "Maxwell should be part of every student-cataloger's bookshelf and all professional collections." That was Library Journal's advice in 1989 when the predecessor of today's Maxwell's Handbook was revised. Following in the Maxwell tradition, this revision of the standard guide is by far the most comprehensive and precise handbook for using and understanding contemporary cataloging practice. Incorporating the 1993 amendments to AACR2R and the increasing use of MARC formatting in cataloging, Maxwell's Handbook follows the easy-to-use, practical format of earlier versions. It's 456 pages are packed with hundreds of examples to clarify cataloging rules to students and practitioners in all types of libraries. In addition to providing examples in MARC, it addresses rule interpretations of the major Anglo-American national libraries. The authors have also provided a new chapter on manuscripts to correspond with AACR2R. Robert Maxwell, M.L.S., Ph.D., is Cataloger at Brigham Young University and an educator and author on cataloging topics. Margaret Maxwell, formerly a professor in the University of Arizona graduate library program, wrote the first and revised editions of the Handbook for AACR2, 1988 Revision (ALA). Cost is $60 (pbk.), $44 to ALA members. ISBN 0-8389-0704-0. To order any of these books, call ALA Editions at 800-545-2433, then press 7 for books. ************ FUND FOR AMERICA'S LIBRARIES NAMES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Walter Hansen has been named executive director of the Fund for America's Libraries, an independent, charitable foundation established to support the work of the American Library Association. "When the offer to become director of the Fund for America's Libraries was presented to me, I saw it as an extension of my concern that no one be excluded from the information that will improve the quality of their life and help them compete in our increasingly complex workplace," Hansen said. "Schools and libraries both play a critical role in providing opportunity to the citizens who will frame our future." A native Chicagoan, Hansen was the director of the Big Shoulders Fund of the Archdiocese of Chicago from 1987 to 1996, a program initiated by the late Joseph Cardinal Brendan. Hansen managed a newly created, major gifts program and raised more than $62 million for the 125 inner-city schools of the archdiocese. He also established a $25 million endowment fund. Hansen was vice president for development at St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago from 1976 to 1986. He previously had been an elementary school teacher, principal and a high school teacher. Hansen holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy and classical languages and a master's degree in education from Loyola University in Chicago. ************ CNI APPOINTS LYNCH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has named Clifford A. Lynch the Coalition's new Executive Director beginning in July 1997. Lynch, who is currently the Director of Library Automation at the University of California Office of the President, succeeds Paul Evan Peters, CNI's founder and Executive Director, who died suddenly in November 1996. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, has been at the University of California since 1979 where he oversees university-wide library automation and internetworking activities. Internationally known for his development of Melvyl, an information system which serves all of the campuses of the University of California, Lynch has played a key role in the development of information standards. Especially noteworthy is his work on Z39.50, which addresses the need for interoperability among information retrieval systems. ************ 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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