ALCTS Network News v15n15 (April 17, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v15n15.txt ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 15, Number 15 April 17, 1998 In this issue ATTENTION DISCUSSION GROUP CHAIRS RESEARCH DISCUSSION GROUP SEEKS PRESENTERS GUIDE TO MANAGING APPROVAL PLANS PUBLISHED PCC IS NOW MEMBER OF CC:DA CALL FOR MEMBERS OF NACO-AV FUNNEL JSTOR ESTABLISHES MIRROR SITE IN UNITED KINGDOM ************ ATTENTION DISCUSSION GROUP CHAIRS Until about a week before the Annual Conference in Washington, AN2 will publish summaries of your discussion group topics and presenters. We will also forward your announcement to Cognotes, the on-site conference newspaper, and to Yvonne McLean for a flyer of all discussion group topics received. Send announcements electronically only to kwhittlesey@ala.org. We will publish them in groups of four of five, so you may not see yours right away. We will edit for length and consistency if necessary. Do not use any special formatting such as centering, all caps, etc. Your announcement should look like this: Name of discussion group Day, date, time of meeting Topic: The title of the presentation(s) or a general statement about what you will accomplish at this meeting. Presenters: Name and affiliation of presenters. You may include their specific topics as well. Chair: Name and email address of chair or co-chairs, or person to contact for more information. Email only --no phone or fax numbers, please. ************ RESEARCH DISCUSSION GROUP SEEKS PRESENTERS The CCS Research Discussion Group has scheduled its meeting for Saturday, June 27, 11:30-12:30 and is looking for presenters. The purpose of the meeting is to expose those individuals interested in cataloging and classification research to ideas, methods, and trends in cat/class research and to share the ideas and experiences of those conducting cat/class research. Anyone interested in presenting recent research or scholarly activity relating to cataloging and/or classification is welcome to submit their name and a description of their topic. Each presentation can be from 15-30 minutes long. Submit ideas to Lisa Romero by email (L-ROMERO@UIUC.EDU) or phone (217-333-6348). ************ GUIDE TO MANAGING APPROVAL PLANS PUBLISHED As acquisitions and collection management tools, approval plans provide an excellent framework for implementing library collection development policies. But to be truly successful, the approval plan process requires careful management, regular evaluation, and refinement. The Guide to Managing Approval Plans, number 11 in the Acquisitions Guidelines series, describes the different types of approval plans, explains how and when they may be used, and clearly outlines the key factors that make them work. Developed by the Publications Committee of the Acquisition of Library Materials Section of ALCTS, and edited by Susan Flood, the Guide is the best source available for all types of libraries. All essential information on managing approval plans is included, such as: Key elements in vendor selection How to construct the approval plan profile Specialized approval plans Acquisitions processing and financial management The Guide also includes a glossary and select bibliography, and its appendices are sample profiles used in specific approval plans. The cost is $18.00 pbk ($16.20 for ALA members). ISBN 0-8389-3481-1. To order call ALA at 800-545-2433 Press 7. ************ PCC IS NOW MEMBER OF CC:DA The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) has joined other library organizations in the United States as a non-voting member of the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA). CC:DA is a committee of the Cataloging and Classification Section. It formulates the official ALA policy on descriptive cataloging. One of its members serves as the ALA representative to the Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR (JSC). The PCC is an international program aimed at expanding timely access to materials in library collections. It supports the creation and dissemination of bibliographic and authority records through its component programs, Bibliographic Record Cooperative Program (BIBCO), Cooperative Online Serials Program (CONSER), Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) and Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO). Within the PCC, the Standing Committee on Standards is responsible for developing, promoting, and evaluating conformance of mutually acceptable quality standards in support of bibliographic records in a cost-effective manner. PCC representation on CC:DA will strengthen both organizations as they strive to coordinate, together with the Library of Congress, cataloging policy developments nationally and internationally. Brian Schottlaender, Chair of the PCC and the ALA representative to JSC, notes that "PCC's joining the CC:DA is fortuitous at this point in the Program's evolution, and in the evolution of the Anglo-American cataloguing rules. The PCC has already proved to be a critical voice in initiatives to reshape the rules for the future, including the Toronto conference. If these initiatives are to be sustained, it is essential that the PCC work in concert with other appropriate standards-setting bodies. Formal representation on CC:DA is one way in which the PCC looks forward to further developing its already active role within the cataloging community." Joan Schuitema, head of cataloging at Loyola University, chairs the PCC's Standing Committee on Standards. Schuitema will serve as the first PCC representative to CC:DA, effective immediately, for a term continuing through 1999. ************ CALL FOR MEMBERS OF NACO-AV FUNNEL Just 18 months after its inception, the NACO-AV Funnel Project is looking for new members. This is a wonderful opportunity for libraries to become involved (or more involved) with the Program for Cooperative Cataloging. The NACO-AV project currently consists of audiovisual catalogers from six libraries (Brown University, University of Akron, University of Georgia, University of California-Riverside, UCLA Film and Television Archive, Johnson County Library, and Rush University) who regularly contribute authority headings to the Anglo-American Authority File (also known as the LCNAF). This diverse group of libraries has been contributing authority headings since October 1996 when the project began. A funnel project is a group of libraries that have joined together to contribute authority records to the national authority file. Often these libraries are working in the same subject area, such as the NACO Music Project, but they may also be regionally based, like the North Dakota Funnel, or format-based, such as NACO-AV. In a funnel project, one institution serves as coordinator (in this case it's Brown University); LC deals solely with this coordinator who is then responsible for disseminating information to all the funnel participants. It is a mini-NACO project in that it recruits, trains, and reviews just as the Cooperative Cataloging Division at the Library of Congress does for single institution participants. If you are an OLAC member and would like more information on becoming a NACO-AV participant contact the NACO-AV Coordinator no later than April 30, 1998: Ann Caldwell, (401) 863-2521 (voice); (401) 863-1272 (fax); E_Caldwell@Brown.edu ************ JSTOR ESTABLISHES MIRROR SITE IN UNITED KINGDOM JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the academic community take advantage of advances in information technologies, is establishing a mirror site of its database in the United Kingdom. Through a cooperative relationship with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the JSTOR database will now be available to universities in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The JSTOR-JISC relationship brings to the U.K. a new resource for preserving and archiving the complete back files of important scholarly journals and making them more widely available to the academic community. As a result of the collaboration with the JISC, the JSTOR database will now be housed at the University of Manchester. The United Kingdom was chosen for the first international JSTOR mirror site because of the JISC's unique role serving the U.K. higher education community, and because of its advanced network infrastructure linking higher education institutions. JSTOR is developing a fully searchable electronic database available over the Internet that will contain the complete back-runs of at least 100 major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines. The database now includes more than two million pages from 47 research journals in 11 fields, going back to 1884. JSTOR is accessible with standard browsers via the Web (http://www.jstor.org/). Users can retrieve articles by searching the full-text for a word, phrase, author name, title, or keyword. Unlike most full-text, electronic resources, JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve a high-resolution, scanned image of each journal page as it was originally designed, printed, and illustrated. ************ 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. 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