ALCTS Network News v15n27 (June 11, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v15n27.txt ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 15, Number 27 June 11, 1998 In this issue SEND IN THAT COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT ACCEPTANCE FORM WE NEED YOU TO VOLUNTEER AT THE ALCTS BOOTH CMDS PLANS PROGRAM ON ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITIONS WORKSTATION TOPIC OF ALCTS CONFERENCE PROGRAM DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE ************ SEND IN THAT COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT ACCEPTANCE FORM If you have been newly appointed to serve on an ALCTS committee, and haven't yet sent your acceptance form to the ALCTS office, you need to do so as soon as possible. We cannot consider you on the committee -- and your name will not appear in the Handbook of Organization, the official committee roster -- unless our records are complete. And that means we have your official acceptance on file by July 1. Do it now before Annual Conference! If you haven't been on an ALCTS committee before, we encourage you to attend the Orientation for New Section and Committee Chairs and Members on Sunday, June 28 between 9:30 and 11. Special orientations for program planning and institute/preconference planning chairs will follow from 11:00 to 12:30. The orientations follow a round table presentation at 8:30 by section chairs on topics and concerns of interest to them over the coming years. New committee chairs and members (and not so new ones) are invited to all these events, which are sponsored by the ALCTS Leadership Development Committee, Bill Garrison, chair. ************ WE NEED YOU TO VOLUNTEER AT THE ALCTS BOOTH The ALCTS Membership Committee has several time slots still available for those ALCTS members who will be in Washington, D.C. for the Annual Conference and would like to spend an hour or two at the ALCTS booth, greeting visitors and answering questions about ALCTS. The committee would like to have at least two people staffing the booth during all hours of operation. It's a good opportunity to meet new people and spread the word about the benefits of ALCTS membership. It's fun too! The booth will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 27, through Monday, June 29; and from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 30. To volunteer or to find out which time slots are available, send your name, address, and the dates and times you'll be available to Ellen Kovacic, ekovacic@cn.huc.edu or William Garrison, garrisow@spot.colorado.edu ************ CMDS PLANS PROGRAM ON ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY The ALCTS CMDS Collection Development and Electronic Media Committee presents Playing the Game While Writing the Rules: The Impact of Electronic Technology on Collection Development Planning. The program will be held from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 27. Check your conference program book for location. The program will outline areas where new technology has changed and impacted collection development planning: electronic resource sharing, licensing, outsourcing, the electronic infrastructure, impact of full-text access on collection decisions, budgetary impact and related topics. In addressing these areas the speakers will show how collection development officers in consortia and large- and medium-sized libraries as well as bibliographers are finding solutions to these problems. Presenters and their topics are: Gay Dannelly, Associate Director for Collection Development, Ohio State University, "Collection Development Impact of New Technology within a Consortium"; Charles Hamaker, Head of Technical Services, UNC-Charlotte, "Outsourcing and Serials Decisions Impact of the New Technology"; and John Rutledge, Bibliographer West European Resources, UNC-Chapel Hill, "The Impact of New Technology on the Bibliographer's Decision-Making." The moderator will be Peggy Johnson, Deputy Assistant Director, University of Minnesota Libraries. For more information contact Bonnie Jean Cox, bjcox@pop.uky.edu. ************ ACQUISITIONS WORKSTATION TOPIC OF ALCTS CONFERENCE PROGRAM The ALCTS AS Education Committee presents The Acquisitions Workstation: Resources and Innovations on Monday, June 29, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Check your conference program book for location. L'Enfant Plaza - Grand Ballroom C The acquisitions workstation has opened up a whole new world of opportunities for us, with so much information now available at our fingertips. This program will provide an awareness of the electronic resources/tools available for acquisitions use. Practical uses of these resources will be discussed with a focus on monographic, serial and collection development applications. Speakers are: David Nuzzo, Head of Acquisitions at SUNY Buffalo; Eleanor Cook, Serials Specialist and Assistant Coordinator of Materials Processing at Appalachian State University; and Linda Brown, Coordinator of Collection Development at Bowling Green State University. ************ DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE [Until about a week before the Annual Conference in Washington, AN2 will publish summaries of your discussion group topics and presenters. We will also maintain a full listing on our web site, http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/annualdg.html Send announcements electronically only to kwhittlesey@ala.org. We will publish them in groups, 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 those below.] CCS COPY CATALOGING Sunday, June 28 2:00-4:00 Topic: Core Records as Copy Copy cataloging workflows are significantly affected by level and source of available copy: full, minimal, LC, member. Where do core records fit in? Join us for a discussion of policies and practices for handling core records as copy. Beacher Wiggins, LC Director for Cataloging, will provide background on the core record concept. Kate Harcourt, Columbia University, and Iris Wolley, Cornell University, will discuss how their libraries implemented core level for cataloging and how core records are used in copy cataloging. Cynthia Whitacre from OCLC and Ed Glazier from RLG will be on hand to answer questions related to core records in WorldCat and RLIN. An election for vice-chair/chair-elect will take place at the meeting. Nominations may be sent to Lori Robare at the address below. Nominations will also be taken from the floor. Lori Robare, chair, lrobare@oregon.uoregon.edu Bao-Chu Chang, vice-chair/chair-elect, bao-chu-chang@ncsu.edu ROLE OF THE PROFESSIONAL IN ACADEMIC TECHNICAL SERVICES Sunday June 28 2: -4: p.m. Topic: Is Technical Services Being De-Professionalized? Presentations: "What is the Nature of Duties of a Professional?"-- Virginia Gillham, University Librarian, Wilfrid Laurier University "Is Technical Services Being De-Professionalized? An Opinion from the X-Files: The Truth is Out There."-- Marsha J. Hamilton, Head, Monograph Acquisition Division, Ohio State University Libraries "Fact or fiction? Professionalism lives in Technical Services"-- Marilyn P. Lewis, Director of Library Technical Services, Bryan Wildenthal Library, Sul Ross State University There will be a brief business meeting preceding the presentations and discussion. Business will include the election of a new vice-chair/chair-elect for the upcoming year. For further information contact Mary Grenci at mgrenci@darkwing.uoregon.edu. LITA/ALCTS RETROSPECTIVE CONVERSION Sunday, June 28 9:30-11:am Topic: Retrospective Conversion of Non-Print Materials. Please join us for an informal discussion of the retrospective conversion of non-print materials. We will be discussing what the questions are facing libraries preparing for, or performing non-book retrospective conversion. Possible questions for discussion: What is a good source from which to obtain records? What is the quality of records? What will we accept? What will we not accept? Which type of conversion is most effective? Online? Batch loading? What other alternatives are there and how do we prepare? These are the questions many libraries are pondering concerning the conversion of their non-print materials. Please attend our meeting to hear ideas from those who have struggled with all of this and survived, and please, bring your questions and suggestions to help all who might attend. An election for 2 Vice-Chair/Chair-Elects (one for LITA and one for ALCTS) will take place at the end of the meeting. Nominations may be sent to Karen Davis or Kathy Allen at the email addresses listed below. Nominations will also be taken from the floor. Nominees must be able to attend ALA conferences over the next two years. Suggested topics for future discussion group meetings would be welcome. Karen Davis, ALCTS co-chair, kjdavis@gsu.edu Kathy Allen, LITA co-chair, kallen@talx.com TECHNICAL SERVICES IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES Saturday, June 27 8:30- 11: a.m. Topic: The Results of Second Generation Systems If you are thinking about and/or preparing for a second generation local library system, you already know it will cause changes. It will do some things you current system cannot. It will also perform some (all?) the functions of your current system better, faster, or just differently. You know this will affect operations, workflow and staffing in Technical Services, but not necessarily how or how much. Come hear a panel of veterans of this transition share their experiences. We also invite you to share yours: discussion among attendees and panelists accompanies the presentations. Presenters: Ross W. McLachlan, Technical Services Administrator, Phoenix Public Library; Joanne R. Gilmore, Director of Technical Services, Columbus (OH) Metropolitan Library; Douglas Koschik, Head of Technical Services/Coordinator of Automation, Baldwin-Bloomfield Township (MI) Public Libraries For further information, contact J. Randolph Call, chair, rcall@detroit.lib.mi.us PARS REFORMATTING Sunday, June 28 11:30 a.m.-1: p.m. Topic: Make Straight for the Archives, Full Scan Ahead: Recent developments in digital input quality and the long term preservation of digital records. Presenter: Louis H. Sharpe II of Picture Elements, Inc., Boulder, Colo., and Thom Shepard of WGBH, Boston, will give presentations and answer questions. Sharpe will discuss his work on electronic grayscale de-skewing (correction of "skew" in scanned images) and "ribbon" or "flow-mode" scanning, in which an entire 100 ft. roll of 35mm microfilm can be scanned as an undifferentiated grayscale image. Shepard's presentation will center on his work as Project Coordinator for the Universal Preservation Format (UPF) initiative, sponsored by the WGBH Educational Foundation and funded in part by the National Archives' National Historical Publications and Records Commission. The UPF initiative proposes the use of a "self-described," platform-independent format, designed specifically for digital technologies, that is capable of storing compound content (the media itself and the information about it) for access today and into the indefinite future. 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