ALCTS Network News v14n22 (December 15, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v14n22 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 14, Number 22 December 15, 1997 In this issue INTNER TO EMPHASIZE SERVICE MATERIALS AS ALCTS PRESIDENT DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS AT MIDWINTER V ALCTS PUBLISHES NEXT BOOK AND SERIALS VENDORS DIRECTORY ALCTS WEB SITE GROWING FAXON TO HOLD COLLOQUIUM ON SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION ************ INTNER TO EMPHASIZE SERVICE MATERIALS AS ALCTS PRESIDENT Sheila S. Intner, a professor at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston, will focus on collecting, organizing and preserving materials for service during her term as president of ALCTS. Currently ALCTS vice president/president-elect, Inter will assume the presidency at the end of the 1998 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., to be held June 25-July 2. "I want to emphasize the service value of the work of ALCTS members and our contributions to meeting the informational, educational and recreational needs of the people who use America's libraries," Intner said. She was awarded the 1988 Online Audiovisual Catalogers Annual Prize for promoting standard cataloging for nonbook materials in Online systems; the 1992 Brubaker Award for best article in Catholic Library World; three Fulbright Scholarships to Israel and Germany in 1992 and 1993; and a grant by the Hollowell fund to study the impact of Library of Congress classification on collection development for women's studies. She is the 1997 recipient of the Margaret Mann Citation. Intner has a doctorate degree in library science from Columbia University in New York and a master's degree in library science from Queens College, City University of New York. She has been a cataloger, music librarian and coordinator of automated systems. ************ DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS AT MIDWINTER V 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. ACQUISITIONS LIBRARIANS/VENDORS OF LIBRARY MATERIALS Sunday, January 11, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Hilton Riverside - Gr. Salon 12 Topic: "Outsourced Cataloging and Processing: Evaluating Current Practices and Anticipating Future Trends" Presenters: John Schalow, Univ. of Maryland; Marsha Aucoin, LSU; Armanda Barone, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Marylou Colver, Blackwell's; Judy McQueen, Yankee Book Peddler; John Knapp, Academic Book Center; and Robin Buser, OCLC Outsourcing of cataloging and book processing continues to be a much debated topic. Libraries have been using outsourced cataloging for the past few years, and many are moving into the direction of shelf-ready processing. Representatives from three major academic libraries will discuss their experience with OCLC's PromptCat and its various options, such as bibliographic notification, spine labels, addition of local data, etc. Each of these libraries uses a different ILS (Carl, Notis, and Innovative Interfaces) and each library acquires its books from different book vendors. Representative from three book vendors will discuss implementation of PromptCat from the vendor's perspective, and the OCLC representative will discuss interfacing with both the libraries' and the book vendors' technical services, as well as with the ILS vendors. The thrust of the discussion will be on the evaluation process of the outsourced services, i.e. how do all parties assess whether outsourcing works or not, and what the future may bring. See how your library may benefit from implementing similar outsourced services! Please plan on joining us at ALA Midwinter in New Orleans! --Doina G. Farkas, dfarkas@library.unt.edu Chip Nilges, Chip_Nilges@oclc.org NEWSPAPER USERS Saturday, January 10, 2:00-4:00pm, Hilton Riverside - Rosedown Topic: Genealogy and Newspapers: Instant Access: Internet and Inprint use of newspapers for genealogical research. Speaker: Tom Kemp, Head of the Special Collections Department at USF Tampa Campus Library, Chair of the ALA Genealogy & Local History Discussion Group (RUSA), author of Virtual Roots (Scholarly Resources, 1997), editor of the Genealogy Annual (Scholarly Resources, 1996- ), Vice-President of the Association of Professional Genealogists, and Past-President of the American Society of Indexers. See: www.lib.usf.edu:80/spccoll/dept/tkemp/tkemp.html or www.everton.com/oe3-17/vrad.htm --Andrea Vanek, avanek@library.berkeley.edu AUTOMATED ACQUISITIONS/IN-PROCESS Monday, January 12, 9:30-11 a.m., NOCC-101 Topic: Exploring How Internet Access has Changed the Acquisitions Workplace The Automated Acquisitions/In-Process Discussion Group will sponsor a 1?-hour discussion at the 1998 Midwinter Meeting to explore how internet access has changed the Acquisitions workplace. What web resources are staff members going out onto the web to use, and why are those resources being chosen? What information and links should be on an Acquisitions homepage? What are you doing that should (and shouldn't) be up on a website? Susi Seiler, Head of Acquisitions at the University of Miami, will address how her website was developed, and lead a discussion on what web-based applications are being used by support staff, the need for continual website maintenance, and plans for future expansion. While our discussion will focus primarily on web-based acquisition support tools being utilized by staff, we will also explore the needs of vendors, publishers, bibliographers, and library patrons. Please bring what you have done, or have been thinking about to this meeting, and let's share our ideas and explore our options for creating links and documents to maximize staff potential. --Jeff Calcagno, Jeff.Calcagno@Blackwell.com COPY CATALOGING Sunday, January 11, 2-4 p.m., NOCC-87 Topic: New Roles for Copy Catalogers Presenters: Magda el-Sherbini, Head of Cataloging, Ohio State University; Arnold Hirshon, Vice Provost for Information Resources, Lehigh University; Gene Kinnaly, Cataloger, Computer Files Team, Library of Congress Copy cataloging jobs have changed significantly in recent years. Copy catalogers have taken on higher-level cataloging responsibilities in many libraries, and have seen jobs evolve into other areas when libraries obtain cataloging from vendors. Panelists will discuss the changes that have taken place in traditional copy cataloging positions and training to prepare staff for new responsibilities. --Lori Robare, lrobare@oregon.uoregon.edu ACQUISITIONS ADMINISTRATORS Sunday, January 11, 10:30-12:30, Hilton Riverside, Gr. Salon 12 Note that this group meets immediately after the Acquisitions Librarians/Vendors of Library Materials Discussion Group, which starts at 8:30 in the same room, so come for both! Topic: Your Boss is not Your Mother, and Other Ways of Alleviating Conflict in the Workplace. This will be a discussion of a topic raised in a 1997 Charleston Conference session, "Managing Conflict in the Workplace." This title is inspired by the book "Your Boss is not Your Mother: Creating Autonomy, Respect and Success at Work" by Brian DesRoches. It discusses how family systems theory can be applied to relationships at work, how this relates to the "team" environment many of us are expected to work in, and how to break free from role-playing that bogs you down and keeps you from working effectively with your coworkers. If your acquisitions department, technical services team, etc. does not always function as one big happy family or if your staff meetings seem like dysfunctional Thanksgiving dinners, come to our discussion group to hear how to break the cycle. --Eleanor Cook, cookei@appstate.edu PARS REFORMATTING Sunday, January 11, 11:30- 1:30, NOCC - 60 Topic: Film at Eleven - Scan at Sunrise? The Evolving Partnership of Microfilming and Scanning. Representatives of two companies offering digital imaging services - Preservation Resources, Inc., Bethlehem, PA, and Image Graphics, Inc., Shelton, CT - discuss the use of digital technologies as they apply to the reformatting of library and archives resource materials. "Film-to-scan" and "scan-to-film" approaches will be addressed, as well as some of the text and image quality issues involved in each approach. --walter_cybulski@occshost.nlm.nih.gov COMPUTER FILES Saturday, January 10, 11:30-1:00, NOOC - 90 The Computer Files Discussion Group will meet only on Saturday, January 10th. We are keeping the same format of our previous Saturday discussions, which has been an open, roundtable style with one moderator. We hope our participants will bring many concerns or concrete problems they've encountered lately with electronic resources of any kind. We cover all aspects of tech services in our discussions, from acquisition to preservation. We have expanded the meeting a half hour to accommodate any business needs. -- Beth Allerton, bethall@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu ************ ALCTS PUBLISHES NEXT BOOK AND SERIALS VENDORS DIRECTORY Book and Serial Vendors for Africa and the Middle East is the second in the Foreign Book and Serial Vendors Directories series. The series is published by the ALCTS Acquisitions Section's Foreign Book Dealers Directories Series Subcommittee. Edited by Karl E. Debus, the directory includes information gathered from Association of Research Libraries member libraries. Respondents included large research libraries with active overseas acquisitions programs. The publication is designed for acquisitions librarians who are contemplating placing orders with vendors from Africa or the Middle East. The publication is under construction on the ALCTS Web site at www.ala.org/alcts/publications/africa/index.html. A paper copy of the Book and Serial Vendors for Africa and the Middle East (ISBN 0-8389-7903-3) is $15 and is available from: ALA Order Department, 155 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60606. Telephone: 800-545-2433, press 7. Fax: 312-836-9958. Volume 1, Book and Serial Vendors for Asia and the Pacific (ISBN 0-8389-7811-8) is also available in both forms. The cost is the same for the paper copy, and the web address is www.ala.org/alcts/publications/asia/index.html. ************ ALCTS WEB SITE GROWING >From time to time we add a URL to an item noted in AN2 referring you to the ALCTS web site at http://www.ala.org/alcts/. In the past few weeks, Shonda Russell, ALCTS Communications Assistant, has been adding to this site. Please check it out -- and tell us what else you'd like to see to help you benefit from your ALCTS membership. ************ FAXON TO HOLD COLLOQUIUM ON SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION Faxon will hold its second colloquium for research library decision-makers, scholarly publishing executives, chief academic officers, and scholars at the Hotel Intercontinental in New Orleans, just before ALA's Midwinter Meeting. Stanley Chodorow, Provost, University of Pennsylvania, will give the keynote address at a dinner on Wednesday, January 7. On Thursday, January 8, Robert Siegel, co-host of National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," will moderate a series of four roundtable sessions in which attendees can participate in a dialogue on scholarly communication issues: Electronic Publishing and the Scholarly Communication Process; Emerging Intellectual Property Models; Evolution of Licensing Models for Electronic Information; and Funding Issues and Scholarly Communication Registration form is available at: www.faxon.com/html/fi_frm.html. For further information, contact Adrian W. Alexander, The Faxon Institute, at alexander@faxon.com. ************ 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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