ALCTS Network News v14n25 (January 5, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v14n25 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 14, Number 25 January 5, 1998 In this issue MIDWINTER MEMBERSHIP RECEPTION HONORS ALCTS AND CRG DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS VIII CHECK OUT THE ALCTS WEB SITE!! ALA OUTSOURCING TASK FORCE AGENDA FOR MIDWINTER ALA TO HOLD OPEN FORUM ON PRINCIPLES FOR LICENSING ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS AMERICAN LIBRARIES GOES ONLINE PCC PARTICIPANTS' MEETING AT MIDWINTER OPEN TO ALL CATALOGING GUIDE NOW AVAILABLE IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT ************ ***** 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. Come celebrate the 75th birthday of the Council of Regional Groups and the 40th anniversary of ALCTS. All are invited to enjoy some anniversary cake before heading out for dinner in New Orleans! ************ DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS VIII LITA/ALCTS Authority Control in the Online Environment Interest Group Sunday, January 11, 2-5:30, NOCC-41 Topic: How Authority Vendor Services are used in three local library systems This is a "how to" or "how we do it" presentation. The purpose is to provide information about how authority control vendor services are used in the client-server library system environment. It is not the purpose of this program to compare vendor services or online systems. Questions from the audience will be welcome. Speakers: Ann Kebabian on using Marcive in an Innovative System; Susan Bailey on using LTI in a Sirsi system; and Everett Allgood on using WLN in a GEAC Advance system. Other items: Update of the Blackwell Authority Control transition -- Maureen Finn, Director of Conversion and Contract Cataloging Services, OCLC Form Headings for Fiction and Authority Control: The British Library Experiences -- Andrew MacEwan, The British Library Library of Congress Update -- Ann Della Porta Questions from the Audience ACIG Business Meeting: Program Discussion, Strategic Plan Discussion -- Mary Charles Lasater, lasater@library.vanderbilt.edu CATALOGING NEEDS OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES Monday, Jan. 12, 1998, 2-4 p.m. HIL-Grand Salon 22 Topics: 1. Liaisons to CCS/CC:DA; LITA Authority Control in the Online Environment; CCS/Cataloging of Children's Material; LITA Online Catalog Interest Group; Dewey Decimal Classification will give their reports. 2. The chair will report on the Committee's program at the 1999 ALA Annual Conference. 3. Attendants at the ALA Outsourcing Task Force meetings will give reports and lead the discussion. 4. A new ListServe has been established for this Committee; interested persons will be invited to sign up and participate in the discussions. --Margaret Shen, catmgr1@library.cpl.org ************ CHECK OUT THE ALCTS WEB SITE!! If you haven't checked in lately, please do visit the ALCTS Web site at http://www.ala.org/alcts/ There is now a wealth of information about the division, its committees and activities available for use. We are making small adjustments to some of the pages as we see them on the site and navigate among them, and most of these changes should be complete early next week (those that are not will be corrected after the Midwinter Meeting--along with all the new material we need to get posted following that meeting). We on the ALCTS staff are pleased with the development of this site and hope you will find it useful. Happy New Year! For all the ALCTS staff-- -- Karen Muller, Executive Director, ALCTS kmuller@ala.org ************ ALA OUTSOURCING TASK FORCE AGENDA FOR MIDWINTER The newly appointed ALA Outsourcing Task Force will meet at the Midwinter Meeting on Saturday, January 10, 9:30-12:30 in the Marriott Hotel-St. Charles Suite. There will be another meeting on Monday, January 12, 1:30- 4:30 in the Marriott Hotel-Room 2022. The agendas for the two meetings are the following: Saturday, January 10 An Information & Data Gathering Session 1. Introduction of Task Force Members 2. Review of Task Force Charge *To advise the Association on issues relating to outsourcing, subcontracting and privatization of library services. *To gather data and examine the literature on these issues and to evaluate the impact on library services and operations. *To examine past ALA positions and how these issues relate to the ALA Code of Ethics and other Association policies. *To provide an opportunity for general membership discussion at Annual Conference, 1998. *To provide Council with a comprehensive report with recommendations at Midwinter, 1999. 3.General Issues for Discussion *Use of common definitions for terms outsourcing, contracting out and privatization. *What other past ALA policy discussions are relevant to this discussion? *What are the ethical principles that drive the discussion on outsourcing? *What do librarians uniquely do that cannot be outsourced? *How do we establish public good vs. private interests? 4.Informational Presentations 10:00 Outsourcing for Disaster Recovery Carmel Bush, Assistant Dean, Technical Services, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 10:20 Federal Libraries Jewel Armstrong Player, President Federal Librarians Round Table (FLRT), Anne A. Heanue, Associate Director, ALA Washington Office 10:40 Services of Independent Librarians ILERT Representative (Independent Librarians Exchange Round Table) 11:00 Book Vendor Services Michael Wilder, Manager of Customized Library Services, Brodart, George Coe, Vice President of Book Division & Library Automation Division, Brodart 11:20 Outsourcing Experiences of Hawaii Library System Hawaii Working Group Representatives 11:40 Historical Overview Sheila S. Intner, Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Services, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts 5. Determination of Methods of Obtaining Input for ALA Members Suggestions received *Open Forums - Midwinter, Annual Conference *Scheduled Forum at Midwinter, Sunday, January 11, 3-5pm, Royal Sonesta, Evangeline Ballroom *Use of ALA Internet Forum *Outsourcing Task Force Listserv *Use of American Libraries *Use of Other Listservs *Other Suggestions 6.General Discussion of Issues Monday, January 12 1. Informational Presentations * 1:30 Services Provided to Libraries of Multi-type Library Systems Jan Ison, Director, Lincoln Trail Libraries System, Champaign, Il 1:50 Use of OCLC Services Caroline A. Killens, Acquisitions Librarian, University of Georgia, Athens 2:10 To be Scheduled 2. Identification of Additional Information Needed 3. Format for Open Forum at Annual Conference 4. Other Methods for Obtaining ALA Membership Input 5. Assignments - Timeline for Work to June Meeting Note: Still to be scheduled - ALA Professional Ethics Committees * Gary Christmas, County Librarian, Riverside County, Riverside, CA, was unable to be present at Midwinter, but has offered to present to the Task Force at the Annual Conference. ************ ALA TO HOLD OPEN FORUM ON PRINCIPLES FOR LICENSING ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS At San Francisco's 1997 Annual Conference, the ALA Council approved and endorsed for broad trial in the field a 'Final Draft' of Principles for Licensing Electronic Information. The Principles, jointly developed by ALA and four other major national library associations are intended to afford guidance in this critical - but sometimes confusing and complicated - area of law and library practice. Please join Ohio State University's Trisha L. Davis, ALA's representative to the Principles Working Group and a national expert in this field, for an in-depth review and discussion of the July 15, 1997 Final Draft Principles as developed and adopted by the American Library Association, the American Association of Law Libraries, the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, the Association of Research libraries, the Medical Library Association, and the Special Libraries Association. Copies of the Principles will be available and audience questions and comments will be actively sought. A copy of the Principles is also available at www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/principles.html. This special forum session is sponsored by the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property of ALA's Committee on Legislation. It will be held in the Doubletree Hotel's Crescent Ballroom, Salon A. Seating is limited to 100. Trisha also will provide a brief overview of the Principles and their origins on Saturday morning at 9:30 as part of the Committee on Legislation's Legislative Update to be held in the Convention Center, Rooms 103 & 104. For additional questions, contact Adam Eisgrau, ALA Washington Office, 800 941-8478 or ame@alawash.org. ************ AMERICAN LIBRARIES GOES ONLINE American Libraries, the independent news-and-features magazine and official journal of ALA, launched its own Web site, ALOnline, on December 22, 1997. American Libraries Editor Leonard Kniffel said the site will "make more information available to more readers faster." The ALOnline "Datebook" section will feature a continuously updated calendar of upcoming conferences, exhibits, continuing education courses, book fairs, institutes and other events of interest to all types of libraries. Other ALOnline highlights will include: *Current and recent installments of the popular "Internet Librarian" column by Karen Schneider. *The table of contents for current and recent issues of the magazine. *Complete indexes for 1996 and 1997. *The 1998 editorial calendar. *How to submit an article for publication. *How to place product or classified advertisements. "American Libraries is in its 91st year," Kniffel observed. "The establishment of this Web site represents a new milestone. We hope that it will make it easier for readers around the world to use the magazine to stay informed." The ALOnline site can be reached directly at www.ala.org/alonline/, or through the ALA Web site at www.ala.org. For more information, contact American Libraries at americanlibraries@ala.org. ************ PCC PARTICIPANTS' MEETING AT MIDWINTER OPEN TO ALL All PCC participants and librarians interested in the Program for Cooperative Cataloging are welcome to attend the PCC Participants' Meeting at ALA Midwinter in New Orleans. The meeting will be held on Sunday, Jan. 11, 1998, 7:00-9:00 pm, at the Marriott-LaGalerie 1/2. The discussion will focus on the strategic plan and the action plan that will guide the program for the next five years. Participants will also learn more about the Cataloging Now! Workshops. Other topics to be included are updates on the component parts of the PCC (NACO, SACO, BIBCO, CONSER) as well as a report on developments in seriality. ************ CATALOGING GUIDE NOW AVAILABLE IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical Guide, 2d ed., edited by Nancy B. Olson, is now available electronically at www.purl.org/oclc/cataloging-internet. 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