ALCTS Network News v15n07 (March 5, 1998)
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ISSN: 1056-6694

ALCTS NETWORK NEWS

An electronic publication of the
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services

Volume 15, Number 7
March 5, 1998

In this issue

CATALOGING, PRESERVATION TOPICS OF ALCTS PRECONFERENCES
SURVEY TO ASSESS SERIALS CATALOGING TRAINING NEEDS ON CONSER HOMEPAGE
ALA SEEKS MEMBER INPUT ON STRATEGIC PLANNING DOCUMENT
LC LOADS MACHINE-DERIVED NAME AUTHORITY RECORDS INTO NAF

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CATALOGING, PRESERVATION TOPICS OF ALCTS PRECONFERENCES

Cataloging and preservation are the topics of three ALCTS
preconferences at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. All
preconferences will be held on June 26. Fees for each preconference
are $135 for ALCTS personal members, $185 for ALA personal members,
and $235 for non-members. A brochure and complete registration
information are on the ALCTS webpage at
www.ala.org/alcts/events/preconferences98 or contact Yvonne McLean at
ymclean@ala.org or call her at 800-545-2433 ext. 5032.

WHAT IN THE WORLD...CATALOGING ON AN INTERNATIONAL SCALE
Presented by CCS Cataloging Committee: Description and Access

The program will provide an overview of cataloging and systems
standards development in the international context, and an update on
recent activities. The program will demonstrate how the various
international efforts contribute to the ideal of universal
bibliographic control and shared cataloging on the international
level.

Catalogers, administrators, library and information science educators
and students, vendors, and OPAC system designers should find this
presentation of particular interest.

Faculty for the preconference include: Joan Aliprand, Research
Libraries Group; John Byrum, Library of Congress; Daniel Kinney,
State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook; Olivia Madison, Iowa State
Univ.; Ralph W. Manning, National Library of Canada; Sally McCallum,
Library of Congress; Monika Muennich, Univ. of Heidelberg; Barbara
Tillett, Library of Congress; Ingrid Parent, National Library of
Canada; and Glenn Patton, OCLC.

This preconference is cosponsored by the ALA International Relations
Round Table, ACRL Western European Specialists Section/Germanists
Discussion Group, CCS Committee on Cataloging Asian and African
Materials, ALCTS/LITA/RUSA MARBI, and LITA/ALCTS CCS Authority
Control in the Online Environment Interest Group.


JUMP START: THEORY AND PRACTICE FOR CATALOGING ELECTRONIC SERIALS
Presented by the Serials Section

The preconference will enable attendees to learn both the
philosophical and practical issues involved in providing access to
electronic serials through library catalogs. After presentations on
philosophy, policy, and issues germane to the cataloging of
electronic serials, participants will divide into groups for hands-on
training and practice in cataloging e-serials.

The audience is technical services librarians, including
already-experienced catalogers and serials/acquisitions librarians
with basic serials cataloging knowledge who want to reach an improved
understanding of the challenges of cataloging e-serials. Note that
familiarity with rules and conventions for cataloging print serials
will be assumed.

Faculty for the preconference include: Pamela Simpson (Pennsylvania
State Univ.), speaking on issues in cataloging philosophy and policy
for electronic journals; Regina Reynolds (NSDP, Library of Congress)
discussing levels of cataloging for electronic serials, metadata,
existing standards such as the ISSN, and emerging standards such as
the URN, URC and DOI; Jean Hirons (CONSER, Library of Congress),
addressing the issues relating to seriality, as covered in the paper
she co-authored for the International Conference on the Principles
and Future Development of AACR.

This preconference is supported in part by generous contributions
from Elsevier Science Inc., Information Access Company, and Swets
Subscription Service.


TRANSFORMATION OF RECORDED SOUND PRESERVATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Presented by the PARS Photographic and Recording Media Committee

Librarians or archivists involved with audio collections who are
concerned about the shifting trend towards digital technologies will
find this program especially pertinent to their work. Participants
should expect to leave the preconference with a better understanding
of the scope of the transformation occurring in sound recording and
communications technologies, and of the many factors to be considered
as library and archival programs contemplate the shift towards
increasing use of digital technologies. 

Speakers will review current practices for acquiring, preserving and
enhancing access to sound collections, and assessing the advantages
and disadvantages offered by the analog and digital technologies.
Strategies will be discussed for coping with the increasing
replacement of analog by digital products and practices. The
presentations will focus on the changing nature of recording and
communications technologies and how these changes will likely impact
the key activities of acquisition, preservation, and access.
Presenters will speak about the advantages and disadvantages of
analog vs. digital technologies, strategies for coping with the
change from analog to digital, evolving acquisition, access and
preservation policies, and the latest technologies and standards.

Faculty for the preconference include: Gerry Gibson, Audio and Moving
Image Preservation Specialist, Preservation, Research and Testing
Div., Library of Congress; Charles Hardy, Oral historian and
Associate Professor of History, West Chester Univ.; Alan Lewis,
Audio-Visual Expert, NARA, Special Media Archives Division; William
Storm, Dave Wickstrom, and Jim Wheeler, consultants; Moderator:
Richard Peek, Head, Preservation Dept., Univ. of Rochester Libraries.

The preconference is cosponsored by the Society of American
Archivists (SAA) and the National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA), with additional support from the Research Libraries Group
(RLG).

Note: This preconference only will be held at the National Archives
Building Theater at 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

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SURVEY TO ASSESS SERIALS CATALOGING TRAINING NEEDS ON CONSER HOMEPAGE

The CONSER Program, in conjunction with the ALCTS Serials Section
Education Committee and the North American Serials Interest Group, is
interested in identifying training needs for serials cataloging. 
Specifically, the groups are interested in determining the kinds of
training needed and the preferred format of the training.  The
results of the survey will be used in the development of various
types of training programs and packages for professional and
paraprofessional serials catalogers. We also anticipate the need for
continuing education for experienced serials catalogers as the
publications and the rules with which we describe them change.

The survey is available on the CONSER homepage 
(http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser; click on What's new).  It can be
completed and submitted online or you can print it out and mail or
fax it in to theaddress given on the form.  The survey should be
completed by AULs for Technical Services, Heads of Cataloging, or
equivalent staff

Please complete and submit by March 20th.    Thank you for your
participation!

--Jean Hirons
CONSER Coordinator 
Library of Congress
jhir@loc.gov
(202) 707-5947

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ALA SEEKS MEMBER INPUT ON STRATEGIC PLANNING DOCUMENT

Most everyone knows about ALA's strategic planning document "New
Visions: Beyond ALA Goal 2000" widely distributed before, during, and
following Midwinter. The document is now on the ALA web site at
http://www.ala.org/alagoal2000/beyond2000.html. It can be accessed
from the ALA home page by finding the ALA Goal 2000 and Beyond
listing under "Library Advocacy & Support."

All members are encouraged to read the document if they have not done
so. There are some modest but important revisions to the version
distributed at Midwinter. This is a working document in constant
revision; it is distributed not only for information but also
comment.

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LC LOADS MACHINE-DERIVED NAME AUTHORITY RECORDS INTO NAF

As a result of a joint research project between the Library of
Congress and OCLC, LC has begun loading machine-derived name
authority records into the Name Authority File (NAF). The first of
the machine-derived name authority records are distributed in this
issue of MDS-Names (volume 20, issue 51). Approximately 66,000
records for personal names, corporate bodies, and uniform titles will
be loaded, 1,000 to 3,000 per day until all the records have been
added to the NAF. As the records are loaded they will be distributed.

The project is beginning with music records because, according to
established guidelines, music catalogers do not create authority
records for all uniform titles used in bibliographic records. For
authority control of these uniform titles, the bibliographic file in
conjunction with the authority file has served as the authoritative
source for all the music uniform titles. As a result of the research
project, several thousand bibliographic records which have not been
examined by Library of Congress catalogers will be added to the LC
music file. In order for the music catalogers to continue to have
workable access to authoritative headings, the headings currently in
the LC Music File not covered by authority records will have
machine-derived authority records created for them.

Questions regarding the machine-generated music uniform title records
can be directed to: Deta S. Davis, Special Materials Cataloging
Division, Library of Congress, email:ddav@loc.gov.

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