ALCTS Network News v13n16 (June 5, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v13n16 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 13, Number 16 June 5, 1997 In this issue METADATA TASK FORCE REPORT ON WEB DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS, PART III TECHNICAL SERVICES PUBLICATIONS FROM ALA EDITIONS ************ METADATA TASK FORCE REPORT ON WEB The ALCTS Task Force on Meta Access Final Report is available at its web site. Search http://www.lib.virginia.edu/alcts/ and look under About the Taskforce for the final report, minutes, and other information. And, while there, take a look at the sections with other news and information about cataloging and access projects now underway. The recommendations focus on what the library community can contribute to the "big picture" of providing bibliographic access to digital resources. There are many players, including ALA and other professional associations, libraries, library organizations in the library world, but also those in the computing science and private industry arenas such as IETF, W3C, IBM, Microsoft, and Apple. The Task Force has identified problems that are important to the library community and proposed actions by which the library community can influence, participate in and respond to solving the problems. Jennifer Younger, chair ALCTS Task Force on Meta Access ************ DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS, PART III We will continue to accept discussion group topics for incluson in a preocnference issue of AN2 if sent electronically by June 16 to kwhittlesey@ala.org. They may be edited for length. CCS Research Saturday, June 28, 11:30-12:30, MCC - 270,272 Topic: Outsourcing in Academic Libraries Speaker: Dana Caudle, Auburn Univ. Libraries, will present results of a survey of approximately 200 academic libraries covering whether or not libraries outsource their their cataloging, the reasons they choose or do not choose to outsource, the type of materials they choose to outsource, the success or lack of success in outsourcing, correlations between size of collection and staff vs. whether the library chooses to outsource. Topic: Scout Report Signpost: Design and Development for Access to Cataloged Internet Resources Speaker: Aimee Glassel of the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison will discuss work of the Internet Scout Project which has resulted in an archive of select, interdisciplinary Internet resources, the Scout Report Signpost. Resources in the archive have been cataloged by established and developing standards such as AACR2 and the schema associated with the Dublin Core and organized by Library of Congress classification and subject headings. A new Vice Chair/Chair-Elect will be elected at the meeting. PARS Micropublishing Saturday, June 28, 1997, 2-4, Crowne Plaza Parc Fifty Five - Michaelangelo Topic: Digital Versions of Micropublications: New edition, new resources or new access? Following on the Midwinter discussion of web resources in support of microform collections, this meeting will begin with a presentation on the web site http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/ developed to support the Emma Goldman Papers, an ongoing documentary edition process with a variety of products, including the 69 reel microfilm set published by Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1995, and a forthcoming book, the Emma Goldman Papers (Univ. of California Press, 1998?). Sally Thomas has been a main force in the creation of this web resource and will provide some overview; other participants who have dealt with resources in both microform and web versions are welcome to add their own experience to the discussion. Visitors are always welcomed. A new chair will be elected, to serve for 1997/98 during the Midwinter (New Orleans) and Annual (Washington, D.C.) conferences; nominations from the floor are accepted, including self nomination. For further information, or to get yourself on the list of speakers (or candidates), contact Ann Swartzell (aswartze@library.berkeley.edu) Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research LibrariesSaturday, June 28, 8:30 - 11:30, MCC - 135 1. Introduction and announcements 2. Budget survey: A report on a comparison of our respective 1996/97 materials budgets. 3. Nominating committee report 4. Update/question and answer session on reports from the ARL, CRL, and LC (distributed in advance through COLLDV-L listserv). 5. RLG collection development meeting: A report on a pre-conference meeting at RLG and recent work in cooperative collection development. 6. 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? 7. Use criteria for selection (Bob Sewell). What sort of use studies are libraries doing related to journals, books, and electronic resources? 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? 8. Fund raising for collection development (Nancy Gwinn). What specific kinds of activities are Collection Development Officers engaged in to establish collection development endowments and raise funds for the purchase of special collections? 9. Electronic collections and wired faculty (Bonnie MacEwan). How can research libraries help scholars and faculty use electronic resources for teaching and research? How are electronic resources relevant to faculty? What role do these resources play for faculty in planning for their own research and their planning for their students' research, individual learning, and classroom activities? 10. Selecting for digitization (Mark Sandler). What materials from our collections should we digitize? Published literature? Special collections? Text, images, sound or moving image materials? New genres of communication? Can we apply anything we have learned from our experience in selecting materials for reformatting for preservation microfilming? Or is digitization something entirely different? 11. Building area studies collections, individually and collectively (Bill Schenck). Few of us can really monitor the vernacular language collections being built at our institutions--specifically the "JACKPHY" collections (Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian, Hebrew and Yiddish). How do we go about evaluating these collections? For academic libraries, area studies collecting in general has lately shifted from a geographic mode to a programmatic, or topical mode. How do we cope with in this very interdisciplinary environment? What are area studies collection development consortia doing to solve problems that these materials present? What role do we as collection development librarians play in these area study consortia? What has worked well for them? What has not? 12. Budgeting for information resources in times of change (Linda Gould). How do we resolve the tensions between centralized budgeting for the myriad types of electronic information, along with the need to allow selectors to continue making informed individual decisions about more traditional works, or more specialized electronic resources? What are we doing currently to deal with the continuing problem of rising costs of serials (especially STM) and the need to build monograph collections? What are the implications for the future of the scholarly monograph? 13. Gifts and Exchange Programs (Barbara Halporn). How do gifts and the processing of gifts impact our collecting activities? What are the important issues in donor relations, and how are we addressing them? How vigorously are research libraries maintaining exchange programs, particularly outside the former Soviet Union? Note: In past years this meeting had been followed by a Joint Meeting of the Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group and the Collection Development Librarians of Academic Discussion Group. This is not scheduled this year. The reports from ARL, CRL and LC, which were included in that meeting, are included as part of agenda item 4 above. Heike Kordish (NYPL), Chair Gay Dannelly (Ohio State), Secretary, Chair-elect Acquisitions Administrators Sunday, June 29, 10:30-12:30 Crown Plaza Parc 55 - Barcelona I Topic: Implementation of Teams in Tech Services: Perspectives from the trenches Speakers: Nancy Stanley, Acquisitions Librarian at Penn State and Eleanor Cook, Serials Coordinator at Appalachian State will share their team implementation experiences. This will be very much a question, answer, and discussion session. ************ TECHNICAL SERVICES PUBLICATIONS FROM ALA EDITIONS Cataloging Correctly for Kids: An Introduction to the Tools, Third Edition Sharon Zuiderveld, editor When it comes to locating information on children's materials, library cataloging is put to the test. Providing children with easy access while maintaining detailed records is certainly a unique challenge. The latest edition of Cataloging Correctly for Kids helps simplify the process. This completely updated and expanded one-stop guide to cataloging library materials for children provides step-by-step instruction based on the Guidelines for Standardized Cataloging of Children's Materials. These guidelines were first developed in 1982 and revised in 1996. In addition to laying the groundwork for accurate, accessible cataloging for children, the guidelines have been the springboard for further development and refinement of this type of cataloging. With greater use of MARC formats, a tremendous expansion in the types of materials available to children, and the increasing use of online catalogs, Cataloging Correctly for Kids has grown to include new sections on: How children search and retrieve information, authority control, cataloging Internet sources, and curriculum-enhanced MARC. This latest edition also features updates on automating the catalog, filing in the card catalog and other key topics designed to help libraries better serve their young, enthusiastic patrons. The cost of $20; $18 for ALA members. ISBN 0-8389-3476-5. The Bibliographic Record and Information Technology, Third Edition Ronald Hagler When patrons use a library catalog, they seek information without regard to the library's cataloging technology. It is crucial then that bibliographic records provide complete, detailed information on each item no matter what process or media format is in place. Picking up where the last edition left off, The Bibliographic Record and Information Technology is the most comprehensive text on creating clear and complete bibliographic records. This brand new edition includes vital information on computerized cataloging formats, authority controls and the most current practices in creating, formatting, and maintaining bibliographic records. Storing and communicating information on library holdings and accessible materials is the most general purpose of the bibliographic record. In every sense, it is the real "gateway" to library information. But creating an uncomplicated record that can be used and manipulated by both library staff and patrons alike is a continual challenge. No one book links the process of creating and formatting the bibliographic record with interactive information technology as thoroughly as The Bibliographic Record and Information Technology. This edition is completely updated to reflect new trends in technology and, more specifically, reflects the quantum leap away from manual cataloging to the kind of machine assisted cataloging that transforms bibliographic records into the information "gateways" they are meant to be. Cost is $45; $40.50 for ALA members. ISBN 0-8389-0707-5. To order either of these books, call ALA Editions at 800-545-2433, then press 7 for books. ************ 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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