ALCTS Network News v13n20 (June 13, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v13n20 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 13, Number 20 June 13, 1997 In this issue SUMMARY OF ALCTS PROGRAMMING AT CONFERENCE DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS, PART VI SYMONS ELECTED ALA PRESIDNET FOR 1998-99; 27 COUNCILORS-AT-LARGE ELECTED ************ SUMMARY OF ALCTS PROGRAMMING AT CONFERENCE [Planning Chairs: If you do not see your program here, please send electronic copy to kwhittlesey@ala.org for inclusion in AN2 next week.] ALCTS PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM: ELLEN GOODMAN ON LIBRARIANS IN SOCIETY: CAN WE CHANGE OUR WAYS BUT KEEP OUR IDEALS? The current popular press has been linking changes in library collecting policies and cataloging methods with fundamental changes in the societal roles of libraries and librarians. Are these merely opinions of a few disgruntled professional writers, or are they signals that we are alienating our constituents on a broad scale? Are the ideals that librarians deem as important shared with the communities that we serve and is the profession remaining true its own expectations? Is it possible that our profession and our organizations are changing in unintended ways? What should librarians expect from their futures and what is expected of us? Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman will discuss how technology and social change have led us in new directions, and consider our future role in American society. Goodman is a Pulitzer prize-winner whose social commentary appears in hundreds of newspapers across the country. James Neal, Director, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, and Toni Carbo, Dean of the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, comprise the panel that will respond. Carol Pitts Diedrichs, Head of Acquisitions, Ohio State University, will serve as moderator. This program has been generously supported by Baker & Taylor and Yankee Book Peddler. Monday, June 30, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Sheraton Palace, Gold Ballroom. The program follows the ALCTS membership meeting and awards ceremony. UNION LISTING AND INTERLIBRARY LOAN CONNECTION The ALCTS Serials Section Union Lists of Serials Committee is holding a program at the Annual Conference, cosponsored by RUSA MOPSS Interlibrary Loan Committee. Be sure to attend "Union Listing and the Interlibrary Loan Connection" on Saturday, June 28, 9:30-11am, at the Hotel Nikko, Grey Pearl Room I. This program promotes the use of union list information by interlibrary loan personnel and provides librarians with information about the benefits of union listing. Accurate union list entries are invaluable for collection development and resource-sharing among libraries of all types. With constantly shrinking budgets, administrators need to be informed about the importance of union listing. Speakers will discuss union listing practices at the University of Notre Dame, as well as presenting the results of the OCLC Interlibrary Loan Fulfillment Study. The speakers are Collette Mak, OCLC Resource Sharing Consultant, Kathie Ryan-Zeugner, and Mary W. Lehman, University of Notre Dame. Michelle Sitko will moderate. The committee chairs are Laurie S. Linsley and Franca C. Rosen. WE ARE NOT ALONE: INTERNATIONAL PRESERVATION MICROFILMING INITIATIVES IN THE 90's Attention Preservation and Collection Development Professionals! If you are going to be in San Francisco for the ALA Annual Conference, plan on attending the ALCTS program, "We Are Not Alone: International Preservation Microfilming Initiatives in the 90's" and learn about preservation microfilming activities abroad. This program, sponsored by the Preservation & Reformatting Section's (PARS) Reformatting Committee, is scheduled for Saturday, June 28, 9:30 -12:30, in the Moscone Convention Center, Room 132. Dan Hazen, Librarian for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal at Harvard College Library, will cover activities in Latin America, as well as efforts based outside of the region but focused on Latin American resources. James Nye, Bibliographer for Southern Asia at the University of Chicago, will highlight what he has learned about filming in developing countries during the past ten years and ten preservation projects focused on India and Pakistan. Hans Rutimann, International Program Officer of the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA), will provide an overview of the Commission's international program and offer examples of microfilming projects in Western Europe. He will discuss international efforts to create registers of microform masters and the perspective, especially in developing countries, of microfilming in light of digital technology's promise. Abby Smith, Assistant to the Associate Librarian of Congress, will discuss the preservation microfilming scene in Eastern Europe, as well as the Library of Congress' six overseas filming operations. URI'S, METADATA, AND THE DUBLIN CORE Decisions are being made that will influence the functioning of networked bibliographic access for decades. It is crucial for the library community to be knowledgeable and active in the development of the standards and specifications. The program's objectives are to give participants an understanding of Uniform Resource Identifiers, Metadata, the Dublin Core, and the implications for bibliographic access; and to give the library community an understanding of the importance of participating in their development. Speakers are Clifford Lynch, Director of Library Automation, University of California, Office of the President, on Where do we stand on Uniform Resource Identifiers?; Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Office of Research, on the Metadata Workshop series, metadata and the Dublin Core/Warwick Framework, and the pilot projects that have evolved from the workshops; Rebecca Guenther, Senior MARC Standards Specialist, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress, on Metadata, MARC and the Dublin Core; and Michael Mealling, Software Engineer, Network Solutions, and Internet Engineering Task Force member, on Uniform Resource Names and Uniform Resource Characteristics: Representation, Operation, and Status. Sponsored by ALCTS Catalog Form and Function Committee, and cosponsored by RUSA/MOPSS Catalog Use Committee and LITA Committee on Technical Standards for Library Automation. The program is scheduled for Sunday, June 29, 9:30-12:30pm, at the Sheraton Palace Hotel, Gold Ballroom. EMBRACING THE TECHNOLGICAL FUTURE: TECHNICAL SERVICES PROFESSIONALS AND THE EMERGING ENVIRONMENT: FRIEND OR FOE, OPPORTUNITY OR THREAT? Mounting economic pressures and outsourcing threats have created a crisis mentality in technical services recently. Technical services professionals have in turn developed technologies and tools to retake the initiative. But developing new technologies must go along with effective training--the true crisis. How do we turn technophobes into technofiles and instill confidence in our abilities? This program aims to address issues of lifelong training so technical services professionals can effectively face, develop, and control their own future. CCS presents Embracing the Technological Future: Technical Services Professionals and the Emerging Environment--Friend or Foe, Opportunity or Threat? The speakers for this program are Michael Kaplan, Harvard University; John Byrum, Library of Congress; Sheila Intner, Simmons College Graduate Library School of Library & Information Science; Penny Mattern, OCLC; Peter Burnett, University of Oxford; and Diane Baden, NELINET. The program, sponsored by CCS Committee on Education, Training, and Recruitment of Catalogers, will be held on Saturday, June 28, 9:30-12:30, at the San Francisco Marriot, Yerba Buena 8. ************ DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS, PART VI We will continue to accept discussion group topics for inclusion in a preconference issue of AN2 if sent electronically by June 16 to kwhittlesey@ala.org. Your submission may be edited for length. Catalog Management Saturday, June 28, 2-4, Parc Fifty-Five - Raphael Room Topic: "The E-Cataloger's Stone: exploiting bibliographic data in electronic resources for building bibliographic records" AACR2 provides elaborate instructions for *transcribing* bibliographic information, but what if the electronic object you're cataloging has all or part of what you need in electronic form already? Wouldn't it be efficient to move this information from the object to a workform easily and automatically? Or if the header of electronic object needs data from an existing bibliographic record, wouldn't it be ideal to move the data from the record to the object without rekeying? Join us for presentations on solutions libraries are already adopting, and a lively discussion of the practical and theoretical issues of setting up a cataloging workflow for electronic resources. Speakers: Roger Brisson (Pennsylvania State Univ., co-editor of Journal of Internet Cataloging), David Williamson (Library of Congress), and Jackie Shieh (Univ. of Virginia). Election of vice-chair/chair-elect to follow session. Nominations will be accepted from the floor or may be submitted in advance. For more information contact the chair: Eric Childress, OCLC Online Computer Library, Inc. (800) 848-5878, or eric_childress@oclc.org. PARS joint meeting of discussion groups: Preservation Education and Outreach with Preservation Issues in Small to Mid-Sized Lbraries Sunday, June 29, 2- 4, Parc Fifty-Five - Raphael Room This is a one-time-only joint meeting of these two discussion groups since the subject is of wide interest. Topic: To follow up on the subject of Web pages for preservation departments, which has been discussed for the past three ALA meetings, the PARS Preservation Education and Outreach Discussion Group will organize a presentation by representatives from SOLINET dealing with a look at the Internet as a virtual resource for preservation information. This presentation will provide a valuable look at the increasingly important resources that can be found on the Internet, such as institutional Web sites, full-text publications, form discussion groups and newsletters, and sources for supplies and services. The session will include handouts and demonstrations of current resources, and time will be made for discussion, questions, and hopefully, answers. If time allows, further discussion will center on various means of making preservation information available to institutions, such as small historical societies, and school libraries, which do not have Internet access. The meeting will conclude with election of a new Preservation Education and Outreach Discussion Group Chair, Peter Verheyen having volunteered for this position, but the call will go out for nominations from the floor for the Chair, as well as a Co-Chair. --Margit J. Smith mjps@acusd.edu ************ SYMONS ELECTED ALA PRESIDNET FOR 1998-99; 27 COUNCILORS-AT-LARGE ELECTED Ann K. Symons, a school librarian from Juneau, Alaska, has been elected president of ALA for the 1998-99 term. Symons defeated Kenneth E. Dowlin, former city librarian for the San Francisco Public Library, in the election. "I want to thank all ALA members for this great honor. As ALA president, I will focus on our successful legislative, technology and advocacy efforts, and our commitments to intellectual freedom and diversity," Symons said. "I look forward to working with our nation's leaders -- and librarians across the country -- to make every child a reader. Please join me in planning an exciting 1998-99 program that focuses the nation's attention on what librarians and libraries do every day of the year--bring together people and information." A librarian at the Juneau-Douglas High School, Symons has worked for the Juneau School District since 1972. She also has been an academic librarian and adjunct library school faculty. Symons served as ALA treasurer from 1992-1996. She has been a member of the ALA Executive Board since 1989 and of ALA Council since 1985. She served as chair of the Finance and Audit Committee and as a member of the Committee on Program Evaluation and Support Services (COPES) and the Endowment Trustees. She is the 1996-97 chair of ALA's Intellectual Freedom Committee. Symons received the 1996 AASL/SIRS Intellectual Freedom Award. Her other honors include the 1994 Freedom to Read Foundation Roll of Honor Award, 1994 Outstanding Customer Service to Youth in Libraries Award and the 1991 AASL/Alaska President's Leadership Award. She is co-author of "Protecting the Right to Read: A How-To-Do-It Manual for School and Public Librarians" (Neal-Schuman, 1995) and has published numerous articles in School Library Journal, American Libraries, VOYA, The Bottom Line and other publications. She is a noted speaker on intellectual freedom, youth services and school library issues. Symons received her master's degree in library science from the University of Oregon in Eugene, and bachelor's degree from the University of California in Davis. She holds a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Librarianship from the University of Denver. Twenty-seven members of the ALA Council-at-Large were elected; 25 for 1997-2001 and two for 1997-98. They are: Judy Arteaga, Lisa Biblo, Rose Timmons Dawson, GraceAnne DeCandido, Carol L. Diehl, Maurice J. "Mitch" Freedman, June M. Garcia, Debra Gilchrist, Ruth I. Gordon, Peter S. Graham, Andrea Morris Gruhl, Nann Blaine Hilyard, Sue Kamm, Erlene Bishop Killeen, Marlene K. Lee, S. Michael Malinconico, Bernard A. Margolis, Stephen L. Matthews, Virginia McKee, Vivian B. Melton, Patricia G. Oyler, Drucilla "Drucie" Raines, Karen G. Schneider, Marvin H. Scilken and Lucille C. Thomas. Jenifer Stone Abramson and Susana Hinojosa were elected for the 1997-98 term. ************ 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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