ALCTS Network News v14n21 (December 12, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v14n21 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 14, Number 21 December 12, 1997 In this issue REGISTRATION OPEN FOR ALCTS MARCH INSTITUTES MIDWINTER MEMBERSHIP RECEPTION HONORS ALCTS AND CRG TWO NAMED AS ALA PRESIDENT CANDIDATES DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS AT MIDWINTER IV MEETING TIME CHANGE FOR ALA OUTSOURCING TASK FORCE ************ REGISTRATION OPEN FOR ALCTS MARCH INSTITUTES ALCTS is holding two institutes in March. Meeting the Challenge of Children's Materials: Acquiring, Cataloging, and Preserving for Today's Youth will be held on March 11 in conjunction with the Public Library Association's national conference in Kansas City, MO. The Fundamentals of Acquisitions will be broadcast March 13 as a teleconferenced institute. See AN2 v14_no19 (November 24, 1997) and AN2 v14_no20 (Dec. 5, 1997). Brochures and registration forms are on the Web at www.ala.org/alcts/events or you may call Yvonne A. McLean to register (800-545-2433 ext. 5032) and Karen L. Whittlesey for information (ext. 5035). ************ MIDWINTER MEMBERSHIP RECEPTION HONORS ALCTS AND CRG The yearly reception for ALCTS members will be held on Friday, January 9, 5:30-7:00 in the Hilton-Grand Salon 3,6. To celebrate the 75th birthday of the Council of Regional Groups and the 40th anniversary of ALCTS, this reception will feature a special cake. All are invited to join in these light refreshments before heading out for dinner in New Orleans! ************ TWO NAMED AS ALA PRESIDENT CANDIDATES Two candidates will seek election as president of ALA for the 1999-2000 term. The candidates, nominated by the ALA Nominating Committee, are Martin Gomez, executive director of Brooklyn Public Library, and Sarah Long, director of the North Suburban Library Systems (NSLS), an organization of 680 academic, public, school and special libraries north of Chicago. ALA members will vote on the spring 1998 ballot. The candidate elected will serve as ALA-president-elect in 1998-99 before becoming president the following year. MARTIN GOMEZ Appointed to his position in September of 1995, Gomez heads the fifth largest library system in the United States, which has an annual operating budget of $65 million and provides services to 2.5 million area residents. Among his initiatives at Brooklyn Public Library, Gomez has spearheaded the installation of Brooklyn's first Multilingual Center - a gateway to library service for the borough's immigrants; the establishment of the library's first foundation board to raise private monies for library programs; and the creation of an online wide-area network that will provide free public access to the Internet in Brooklyn's public libraries. Gomez is a board member for the Metropolitan New York Library Council, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, and the Regents Advisory Council on Libraries. He is on the ALA Executive Board and is active in numerous other committees. He served as chair of the 1997 Third National Institute for Hispanic Library Education at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N. J. In 1996, he received the Eileen C. Dugan Public Service Award presented by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. Prior to his current post, Gomez served five years as director of the Oakland (CA) Public Library. He also has been director of the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center and president of REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library Services to the Spanish-Speaking. Gomez holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles and a master's degree in library science from the University of Arizona at Tucson. SARAH LONG Since accepting her position at NSLS in 1989, Long and her staff have pioneered Internet access in libraries; established NorthStarNet, a community information network for the north suburban area; and entered into innovative partnerships with the Ravinia Music Festival, the Chicago Wolves hockey team and the Chicago Tribune. Long is exploring ways to develop and implement innovative organizational structures and models of lifelong learning at NSLS and its member libraries. Long has worked with the NSLS Board to help establish the North Suburban Library Foundation, an independent foundation that presents the Literary Circle. This annual series of author events features world-class authors such as Toni Morrison, Tom Wolfe and Isabel Allende. The foundation also has sponsored grants to member libraries and has created a project to develop youth librarians in technology. Long is currently chair of the ALA Awards Committee and chair of the National Conference Planning Committee of the Public Library Association (PLA), a division of ALA. She served as PLA's president in 1989-90. Prior to her current position, Long was director of the Multnomah County Library in Portland, OR. Before that, she directed the Dauphin County Library System in Harrisburg, PA. and the Fairfield County District Library in Lancaster, OH. She was a consultant at the State Library of Ohio and an academic librarian in England. The native Georgian received a bachelor's degree in education from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta and a master's degree in librarianship from Atlanta's Emory University. ************ DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS AT MIDWINTER IV Until about a week before the Midwinter Meeting in New Orleans, AN2 will publish summaries of your discussion group topics and presenters. Send announcements, using the format below, to kwhittlesey@ala.org. We will edit for length and consistency if necessary. As always, check location of the discussion group meeting in your program book and Cognotes. Pier London, editor of Cognotes, will include your topics if she receives them electronically before December 17. When you send your summary to AN2 we will forward it to Cognotes for you up to that date. GIFTS AND EXCHANGE Saturday, January 10, 9:30-11:00, HIL-Norwich Topic: Web Tools for Exchange or Sale of Unselected and Duplicate Gifts The discussion group is meeting on What do you do with the unselected titles and duplicates that accumulate as a result of gifts to the library? Many of the more valuable items given to the library would serve well in other libraries or they are too high priced for the local book sale? When you live in a weak book market and have little exposure how can you extend your library's reach to ensure that your donor's good-will offerings are well used and that the library receives maximum value? How do you know that you are asking a fair price for your better titles when you offer them for sale? Learn about the tools available on the web for finding solutions to these tasks. --Howard Bybee, howard_bybee@byu.edu HEADS OF TECHNICAL SERVICES OF MEDIUM-SIZED ACADEMIC LIBRARIES Saturday, January 10, 9:30-12:30, NOCC 36 Topic: Change and More Change: Are Our Staffs Following Our Lead? Presenters: Stanley Wilder, Asst. Dean, Technical and Financial Services at Louisiana State University, Christian Boissonnas, Director, Central Technical Services at Cornell University, and Mary Elizabeth Clack, Serial Records Team Leader/Staff Development Officer at Harvard University. Technological and organizational changes are a way a life for most academic libraries these days. How do we manage during seemingly constant change in the technical services environment? How do we help staff navigate changes that impact their jobs? Presenters will discuss these issues from the perspectives of technical services managers and a staff development officer. The second half of the meeting will provide attendees with an opportunity to extend discussion of this topic in small groups. --Cynthia Clark, cclark@uci.edu SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Sunday, January 11, 9:30-11 a.m.; SHER-Pontchatrain B Topic: User acceptance of online books Speakers: Eileen McIlvaine and Bob Scott will discuss the findings of Columbia University Libraries' Online Book Evaluation Project. The project repackaged a variety of books (reference titles, textbooks, monographs, anthologies) from several publishers and made them available in electronic form to users in order to study use and analyze costs. Discussion will focus on the project findings about how users use online books and the implications for electronic publishing and digital libraries. --Diane Harvey, dh164@umail.umd.edu MAGERT MAP CATALOGING Sunday, January 11, 8-9 a.m.; EMB-Lafitte 4 Topic: Cataloging of cartographic CD-ROMS and diskettes. Bring your questions, opinions, and answers regarding whether it's an atlas or maps, what to do with the 006 field, what sort of notes go on these records, how the new subject guidelines for electronic resources are applied to electronic maps and other issues of interest to electronic maps catalogers. --Kay Johnson, johnsonk@utk.edu PRE-ORDER/PRE-CATALOG SEARCHING Monday, January 12, 9:30-11 a.m.; WST-Salon Topic: Catalogers--Do You Know Who Your Customers Are?: Understanding & Meeting the Needs of Library Customers in Technical Services Technical Services managers, as always, are faced with issues of accountability and determining the value of services they provide. How do we determine who our customers are? Are there measures available for us to use? Are advances in technology changing the scope of those customers we serve as well as their needs? We have reexamined workflow as a result of technology, but have we asked about user needs from cataloging records? Is there a gap between our customers' needs and the services we provide? Join the ALCTS Pre-Order/Pre-Cataloging Search Discussion Group as we explore these issues. --Robin Crumrin, rcrumrin@library.iupui.edu ************ MEETING TIME CHANGE FOR ALA OUTSOURCING TASK FORCE The time of the second meeting of the ALA Outsourcing Task Force has been changed. The meeting, which will be held on Monday, Jan. 12, was changed to 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. For more information on the task force see AN2 v14_no18, Nov. 21 and AN2 v14_no20, December 5, or visit the Web site at www.ala.org/alcts/now/release.html ************ 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. 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