ALCTS Network News v15n05 (February 20, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v15n05.txt ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 15, Number 5 February 20, 1998 In this issue SPRING INSTITUTES REGISTRATION OPEN; CHILDREN'S MATERIALS INSTITUTE CANCELED BRADFORD EDEN APPOINTED ALCTS PAPERS SERIES EDITOR PCC STATISTICS NOW ON WEB LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY REPORTS EVALUATES Z39.50 CLIENTS OCLC'S MARC CODING GUIDELINES POSTED NETSL CONFERENCE FEATURES CHANGING TS ENVIRONMENT WORKSHOPS OF INTEREST TO ALCTS MEMBERS HAPPY PRESIDENTS' DAY: GEO. WASHINGTON PAPERS DIGITIZED ************ SPRING INSTITUTES REGISTRATION OPEN; CHILDREN'S MATERIALS INSTITUTE CANCELED Registration continues for the ALCTS Spring institutes on acquisitions, electronic serials, and metadata. The Fundamentals of Acquisitions, a teleconference institute, will be broadcast March 13; Through the Arch: Electronic Serials from Acquisition to Access will be held April 24-25, in St. Louis; and Managing Metadata for the Digital Library: Crosswalks or Chaos? is planned for May 4-5 in Washington, DC. For information and registration consult the ALCTS webpage at http://www.ala.org/alcts/events or call Yvonne A. McLean at 800-545-2433 ext. 5032. Due to the low number of registrants, ALCTS has canceled the institute on children's materials scheduled for March 11 in Kansas City. ************ BRADFORD EDEN APPOINTED ALCTS PAPERS SERIES EDITOR Brad Eden, coordinator of technical services, automated library services, for the North Harris Montgomery Community College District in Houston, Texas, is the new editor for the ALCTS Papers on Library Collections and Technical Services Series. He will serve as editor for five years. As an active member in ALA, Eden has served on the ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) as LITA representative, as well as on the CC:DA Task Force and Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information (MARBI)/CC:DA Task Force on Metadata. He is the current chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries/Library and Information Technology Association Technology in the Arts committee. Eden has master's and doctoral degrees in medieval musicology, and has served as multimedia and book reviewer for Telecommunications Electronic Reviews, Electronic Resources Reviews, The Serials Librarian, MCJournal, and Library Resources and Technical Services. He has extensive Internet experience and works as a columnist and associate editor in a number of electronic library journals. He has also had several papers published and expects to have several articles published this year in the Encyclopedia of Medieval Folklore. Originally begun as a means of publishing papers from ALCTS' institutes and conference programs, the series will continue to be theme-oriented, but each volume will now have a broader scope, which will be determined by Eden. He succeeds Edward Swanson, who served two consecutive terms as editor and developed the first eight numbers in the series. ************ PCC STATISTICS NOW ON WEB Statistical information regarding the various components of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging are now available on the web. These statistics may be accessed from the PCC home page at http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc under the "What's New" category or directly at http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/stats. There are totals pages for BIBCO, CONSER, and NACO name and series authorities. Also available are the BIBCO and CONSER statistics for individual participating libraries. All displays present the month-by-month figures in columns across the page with totals on the right side of the page, so the viewer may have to scroll across to ascertain totals. For printing purposes, set your fixed font to Courier 8 point or something equally small. Larger fonts will work but may require adjusting your printer settings to print landscape. Direct questions or corrections to David Williamson at dawi@loc.gov. ************ LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY REPORTS EVALUATES Z39.50 CLIENTS Library Technology Reports subscribers recently received a whole issue devoted to Z39.50. The main report, by Stuart Soffer, is a comparative study of eight Z39.50 clients. The study outlines criteria for evaluating client software and describes the eight products in detail. Particular attention is given to ease of installation/configuration, clarity of displays and ease of use. In the same issue is a short essay by Joan Frye Williams which is intended to help readers understand how Z39.50 fits into the overall information retrieval landscape. It provides an overview of the Z39.50 standard and its implementation, highlighting concepts and issues of greatest interest to those considering the purchase of Z39.50-based software. Complementing the overview and located in an appendix is a list of sources of additional information which includes both background and implementation reports Individual copies of this issue of Library Technology Reports (Volume 33 Number 5, September/October 1997) are available to non-subscribers for $50. Contact the editor of Library Technology Reports at hwhite@ala.org. ************ OCLC'S MARC CODING GUIDELINES POSTED OCLC has compiled guidelines for creating records for electronic resources with a particular focus on MARC coding both to reflect the changed definition of Leader/06 code 'm' and to insure that processing and retrieval works correctly in OCLC's system. The guidelines have been posted to several listserves and will also be available on OCLC's web site (http://www.oclc.org). OCLC is issuing these guidelines to assist cataloging users in creating records for electronic resources in OCLC's WorldCat, the OCLC Online Union Catalog. Although these guidelines may be implemented immediately, final guidelines and instructions will be issued when OCLC announces the MARC changes necessary to support full implementation. These guidelines pertain to MARC tagging only, not to cataloging policy and practices. ************ NETSL CONFERENCE FEATURES CHANGING TS ENVIRONMENT The New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) will hold their Spring Conference, on Friday, April 17, 1998, at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. This year's theme is Technical Services in a Changing Environment: Opportunities for Innovation. As our libraries initiate organizational changes to keep pace with a rapidly and dramatically changing environment, technical services staff are rethinking their roles. The conference will explore the challenges and opportunities provided by this transformation process. Herbert S. White, Distinguished Professor and Dean Emeritus, Indiana University, SLIS, will speak in the morning. Breakout sessions will follow. The afternoon will include a presentation by Christina Bellinger, University of New Hampshire, on conflict management; and by Mary Elizabeth Clack, Harvard University, on the learning organization. For more information contact Cynthia Spell, NETSL vice-president/president-elect at spell@library.umass.edu. ************ WORKSHOPS OF INTEREST TO ALCTS MEMBERS NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER The Information Ecosystem: Managing the Life Cycle of Information for Preservation and Access, March 10-13, 1998, at Archives II, College Park, MD Sponsored by the National Park Service Museum Management Program and National Register of Historic Places, the National Archives and Records Administration The intent of this workshop is to teach managers how to create, manage, adapt, and reuse information, particularly electronic information, in a project setting. Contact Gay Tracy at tracy@nedcc.org. The registration deadline is February 27. NORTH CAROLINA SERIALS The Seamless Interface: Weaving Serials Partnerships, March 5-6, 1998, The William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center, Chapel Hill, NC The purpose of this conference is to explore the need for serialists to communicate effectively with service providers, peer serials librarians, administrators, library public, consortia, systems analysts, etc., and forge mutually beneficial partnerships. Speakers will discuss methods and procedures that serialists can utilize to effectively partner for "winning" situations for all concerned. Contact Cheryl Reddish or Wanda Rascoe at 919-560-6485. ************ HAPPY PRESIDENTS' DAY: GEO. WASHINGTON PAPERS DIGITIZED In time for George Washington's Birthday, the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and the Manuscript Division announce the online publication of the George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress on the American Memory Collections homepage: (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.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. 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. 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