ALCTS Network News v14n09 (September 5, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v14n09 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 14, Number 9 September 5, 1997 In this issue FIRST MIDWINTER MEETING MAILING DISTRIBUTED ALCTS SEEKS AWARD NOMINATIONS WHO WILL HAVE THE WORST SERIAL TITLE CHANGE OF THE YEAR? ALA ANNOUNCES LIBRARY FELLOWS FOR 1997-1998 ************ FIRST MIDWINTER MEETING MAILING DISTRIBUTED The first of three general mailings for the 1998 Midwinter Meeting was sent on August 29 by ALA Conference Services to ALA and division officers and chairs. Because the Midwinter Meeting is scheduled so early this year (January 9-14), all deadlines involving the scheduling of meetings have been set approximately one month earlier than in previous years. The deadline for submitting Midwinter Meeting Space Request Forms is OCTOBER 3, and meeting room assignments will begin the week of October 6. All ALCTS officers as well as chairs and co-chairs of sections, committees, task forces, and discussion groups should have received the mailing. Chairs who accepted appointments late in the summer, however, may not have been added to the conference mailing list in time to get the first mailing. Questions about missing mailings should be directed to Michelle Visel, ALA Conference Programs Manager, at 800-545-2433, ext. 3225, or e-mail: mvisel @ala.org. Please copy the ALCTS office (kwhittlesey@ala.org) on any e-mail queries. ************ ALCTS SEEKS AWARD NOMINATIONS Nominations are being sought for seven awards to be presented by ALCTS at the Annual Conference in Washington next summer. The deadline for award nominations is December 1. The awards are: Best of LRTS Award, presented to the author(s) of the best paper published yearly in Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS), ALCTS' journal. Blackwell's Scholarship Award, to honor the author(s) of the year's outstanding monograph, article or original paper in the field of acquisitions, collection development and related areas of resources development in libraries. Blackwell's will donate a $2,000 scholarship to the U.S. or Canadian library school of the winning author's choice. The scholarship will be given to a student concentrating in acquisitions or collection development. Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award, administered by the Serials Section and consisting of a citation and a $1,500 donated by R. R. Bowker. The award recognizes distinguished contributions to serials librarianship through participation in professional associations and/or library education programs; contributions to the body of serials literature; research in the area of serials; development of tools or methods to enhance access to or management of serials; and other advances leading to a better understanding of the field of serials. First Step Award -Wiley Professional Development Grant, a citation and $1,500 donated by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and administered by the Serials Section, to provide librarians new to the serials field with the opportunity to broaden their perspectives and to encourage professional development in ALA conferences and participation in Serials Section activities. All ALA members with five or fewer years of professional experience in the serials field who have not previously attended an ALA annual conference are eligible. Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award, a citation and $1,500 donated by Harrassowitz, is presented by the Acquisitions Section for an individual's significant contributions and outstanding leadership in the field of library acquisitions. Recognition is made for individual achievement of a high order in this area. Margaret Mann Citation, a citation and $2,000 to the library school of the winner's choice, donated by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., is administered by the Cataloging and Classification Section. The award is presented to a cataloger or classifier for outstanding professional achievement in the areas of cataloging or classification through publication, participation in professional cataloging associations or valuable contributions to practice in individual libraries. Esther J. Piercy Award, $1,500 and a citation donated by Yankee Book Peddler, to recognize the contribution to those areas of librarianship included in library collections and technical services by a librarian with ten or fewer years of professional experience. The librarian must have shown outstanding promise for continuing contribution and leadership. For more information and nomination forms, contact Shonda Russell, ALCTS Awards, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. E-mail: srussell@ala.org. Telephone: 312-280-5037. Fax: 312-280-3257. ************ WHO WILL HAVE THE WORST SERIAL TITLE CHANGE OF THE YEAR? In addition to the awards listed above, ALCTS offers one more -- a chance to laugh at ourselves. Each year the ALCTS Serials Section Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Award Committee solicits your nominations for its serial title change awards. Award criteria include: 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 of library publications; 5. The title change must have occurred during 1997 to be considered. Supply complete citations for the change, including title, number and/or date of the last issue with old title, number and/or date for the new title, and the offending publisher's name and address. Photocopies of relevant pages or cataloging printouts are useful as verification, including historic title changes of titles changing often over time. Selina Lin, chair of the awards committee, can email you a nomination form or give you more information. Contact her at selina-lin@uiowa.edu. The deadline for submissions is May 15, 1998. ************ ALA ANNOUNCES LIBRARY FELLOWS FOR 1997-1998 ALA has awarded twelve 1997-98 fellowships to twelve American librarians to undertake projects in Bolivia, Cyprus, El Salvador, Estonia, Germany, Japan, Moldova, Russia, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Vietnam, and the West Bank (Palestinian Authority). This will be the eleventh year of the ALA Library Fellows Program administered by ALA and funded by the U.S. Information Agency. The program has sent 147 information ambassadors to more than 90 countries since 1987. The 1997-98 ALA Library Fellows: Sarah Andeen, reference librarian at the Superior Court Law Library in Phoenix, Ariz., will spend eight months at Birzeit University in Ramallah, West Bank (Palestinian Authority). Andeen will help to create a Palestinian Academic Information Network and develop a plan to integrate American online databases and resources into the library's collection. Kenning Arlitsch, technology instruction librarian at the University of Utah's Marriott Library, will be hosted by the Intercollege Library in Nicosia, Cyprus. His six-month fellowship will focus on the development of the Cyprus Library Network. Arlitsch will coordinate the selection and installation of systems software, and provide staff training in his effort to establish an electronically-linked network for the country. Roger Brisson, social sciences cataloger at Pennsylvania State University's Pattee Library, will spend six months at the College of Technology, Economics and Culture in Leipzig, Germany. His two-fold fellowship will combine teaching courses on U.S. virtual library systems and electronic publishing with hands-on assistance in the development of Germany's largest digital initiative. Beau Case, assistant professor and librarian at Ohio State University Libraries, will conduct training courses and seminars in library management at the National Library of Moldova, in Chisinau. During his four-month fellowship Case will assist the library's plans to open a library management training center in 1998. Susan Freiband, associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Puerto Rico, will help to create and organize a collection development policy for the National Library of El Salvador in San Salvador. During her eight-month fellowship Freiband will conduct both introductory and advanced workshops on collection development. Michael Huff, computer services librarian of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library in Virginia, will travel to Can Tho City, Vietnam, for an eight-month fellowship with the Central Library of Can Tho University. Huff will assist in the development of a needs assessment, and the drafting of an automation plan. He will also give workshops on cataloging, automation, and online searching. Kathy Hummel, a librarian with the Santa Ana Public Library in California, was awarded a four-month user-instruction fellowship at the Documents and Information Center in La Paz, Bolivia. Hummel will facilitate access to specialized U.S. databases for Bolivian researchers focusing on education. She will be responsible for training staff to access online data. Helen Ives, associate librarian at the American University in Washington, D.C., will spend four months at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. Ives will assist the university's Center for American Studies to establish a model "American Reference Library" within its Museum of International Peace. Steven Kerchoff, program specialist with the FEDLINK Network of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., will travel to Colombo, Sri Lanka, hosted by the National Library Services Board. During his six-month fellowship Kerchoff will train the library's staff in various aspects of integrated automated library systems. He will also coordinate the creation of a Web-site for the library. Sherry Little, doctoral candidate at the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Women's University, will complete a four-month fellowship with the Estonian Academy of Sciences Library in Tallinn, Estonia. Little will provide library automation training and support to both the Academy and the Consortium of Estonian Libraries Network in the development of an integrated bibliographic system. Kimberli Morris, reference/systems librarian at the California Western School of Law, will undertake an eight-month fellowship with the East African School of Information Science in Kampala, Uganda to develop a legislative research service for the Parliament of Uganda. Morris will teach courses on data collection and development, classification, database searching and the Internet. Michael Neubert, senior reference librarian for the Library of Congress' European Division in Washington, D.C., was awarded an eight-month fellowship to the Municipal Information Library System in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Neubert will help develop a training center designed to introduce librarians in the Ural region to American librarianship, including administration and management, new technologies, financing and fundraising and customer service. Contact: Carol Erickson, Tel: 312-280-3200 E-mail: cerickson@ala.org ************ 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; Janet Swan Hill, 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. Opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the division. News items should be sent to the editor at the e-mail address above. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to listproc@ala.org with the only line of text being "subscribe an2 [your name]" (without quotation marks). Back issues of AN2 are available through the listserver. 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