ALCTS Network News v14n06 (August 19, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v14n06 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 14, Number 6 August 19, 1997 In this issue CALL FOR FACILITATORS AND SITES FOR ALCTS TELECONFERENCE AUTOCAT NOW AVAILABLE ON WEB REPORT OF METADATA SUMMIT MEETING ON WEB KATIE DENNY JOINS ALCTS/LAMA STAFF LC/AMERITECH NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY COMPETITION GUIDELINES AVAILABLE NEDCC TO OFFER SCANNING CONFERENCE ONLINE NEWSHOUR HIGHLIGHTS LIBRARY FORUM CORRECTION TO ALCTS NEWSLETTER FAX NUMBER ************ CALL FOR FACILITATORS AND SITES FOR ALCTS TELECONFERENCE The 1998 Fundamentals of Acquisitions Institute, sponsored by the Acquisitions Section of ALCTS and the College of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina, will be offered as a six-hour satellite teleconference on March 13, 1998. The teleconference will cover the basics of acquiring books and serials for all types of libraries. The Planning Committee seeks volunteers to serve as discussion facilitators at the viewing sites during the teleconference. The committee also needs information to help in the selection of downlink/viewing sites for the institute. Please refer to the FOA homepage at http://www.libsci.sc.edu (click on FOA Teleconference) or http://www.ala.org/alcts/now/foa.html for further details about the institute, volunteering to be a facilitator, and viewing site and downlink requirements. You may also contact Ann L. O'Neill at the College of Library & Information Science by email to aoneill@sc.edu. ************ AUTOCAT NOW AVAILABLE ON WEB AUTOCAT now has a Web presence. Judith Hopkins, listowner, has established the site at http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/autocat/ Hopkins says, "After months (years, really) of procrastinating despite requests from numerous subscribers, I finally settled down to preparing files, arranging for the archives to be made searchable (at least in part) via the Web, etc., etc. This is still a work in progress. You will see that I have in part cannibalized the AUTOCAT FAQ (which still remains but needs lots more work). Please let me know your ideas on how this new version of AUTOCAT can be improved! What additional files are needed? How could it be better structured?" Judith Hopkins, Listowner of Autocat ulcjh@acsu.buffalo.edu ************ REPORT OF METADATA SUMMIT MEETING ON WEB On July 1, 1997, the Research Libraries Group hosted an invitational "summit" meeting on metadata issues. This meeting was an outgrowth of the work of the ALCTS Task Force on Meta Access. The participants represented a variety of research information projects, standards groups, and related communities. The goal of the Summit was to identify metadata issues that have special relevance for the research community in order to identify, if possible, a common action agenda. Much of the discussion centered on the potential role of the Dublin Core elements as a mechanism for discovery of information resources available via the Internet, but which are not static html-Web pages. A full report on the meeting is available on the RLG Web site: http://www.rlg.org/meta9707.html ************ PERSONNEL NEWS KATIE DENNY JOINS ALCTS/LAMA STAFF Katie Denny has joined ALCTS and LAMA as the new budget assistant. Denny worked for the two divisions for the last five years during summer and winter breaks from Northern Illinois University, where she recently received her BS in child development. She is responsible for budget reconciliations for both divisions as well as registration for all institutes and preconferences. Her phone is 800-545-2433 ext. 5035 and her email is kdenny@ala.org. KNOBLAUCH BECOMES ACTING DIRECTOR, OLPR Mark Knoblauch has been named acting director of ALA's Office for Library Personnel Resources. Knoblach worked for the Chicago Public Library (1970-1996), most recently as coordinator, Collection Management Division and as director, Technical Services Division. He has been an ALA member since 1970, serving on numerous committees and as an at-large member of the ALCTS Acquisitions Section Executive Committee (1990-92). He is also a member of the Illinois Library Association and the Board of the Printers Row Book Fair. In addition to reviewing books for ALA's Booklist, Mark Knoblauch was a restaurant reviewer and columnist for the Chicago Tribune (1976-1991) and has published in several journals. He has a BA from Valparaiso University (IN) and an AMLS from the School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan. ************ LC/AMERITECH NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY COMPETITION GUIDELINES AVAILABLE The Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition Guidelines for 1997-98 are now available. The Guidelines may be used by any nonfederal, tax-exempt, nonprofit (501(c)3) cultural repository in the United States holding primary sources suitable for digitizing and making available on the Internet. To order, view, or download the Guidelines, visit the competition's Web site at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/. With a $2 million gift from Ameritech, the Library of Congress is sponsoring a competition to enable public, research and academic libraries, museums, historical societies, and archival institutions (except federal institutions) to create digital collections of primary resources. These digital collections will complement and enhance the collections made available on the Internet by the National Digital Library Program at the Library of Congress. The National Digital Library is envisioned as a distributed collection of converted library materials and digital originals to which many American institutions will contribute. The Library of Congress's contribution to this World Wide Web-based virtual library is called American Memory. This is the second year of the competition; 10 institutions received awards last April in the first round of the program. For this competition cycle, applications will be limited to collections of textual and graphic materials that illuminate United States history and culture for the period from 1763-1920. Program staff will be available for individual consultations Aug. 29, during the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in Chicago (check program guide for location). A workshop will be held Sept. 8 in Washington, DC, at the Library of Congress. Call (202) 707-1087 to schedule an individual consultation or use the on-line registration form at the competition Web site (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award) to sign up for the Sept. 8 workshop. ************ NEDCC TO OFFER SCANNING CONFERENCE The Northeast Document Conservation Center will present School for Scanning: Issues of Preservation and Access for Paper-Based Collections. The conference will be held November 3-5, 1997, at the New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 5th Ave. (at 103rd St.), NYC. The seminar will include training in the basics of digital technology; file formats; content selection for digitization; legal issues; text and image scanning; quality control and costs; metadata; digital preservation; World Wide Web applications; and CD-ROM publications. No prior knowledge of digital media is required. For more information or to request a flier with a registration form, contact Gay Tracy, Northeast Document Conservation Center, tracy@nedcc.org. ************ ONLINE NEWSHOUR HIGHLIGHTS LIBRARY FORUM "Books vs Bytes: Should computers take up libraries' shelf space?" is the topic of an online forum sponsored by the PBS Online NewsHour with ALA President-elect Ann Symons and Norman Holman, director of the New York Public Library's Branch Libraries. The URL is http://www.pbs.org/newshour. ************ CORRECTION TO ALCTS NEWSLETTER FAX NUMBER The fax number for Dale Swensen, editor of the ALCTS Newsletter, is listed incorrectly in the Who's Who directory of ALCTS officers, editors, and staff (v14_no3). The correct fax is 801/378-3221. ************ 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. 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