ALCTS Network News v15n30 (June 23, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v15n30.txt ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 15, Number 30 June 23, 1998 In this issue OUTSOURCING--OPEN FORUM SUNDAY, MORE DISCUSSION MONDAY DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE--LAST LISTING ALA WEBSITE ADVISORY TASK FORCE TO MEET AT WASHINGTON CONFERENCE SISAC MEETINGS IN WASHINGTON EVERYBOOK TO BE PREVIEWED AT NISO BOOTH MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MARIO CASALINI ON MONDAY ************ OUTSOURCING--OPEN FORUM SUNDAY, MORE DISCUSSION MONDAY Is broad-based outsourcing incompatible with the library as a "public good?" Do you see outsourcing as one of many viable management tools in a changing economy? Does outsourcing have an impact on intellectual freedom? Do you have opinions on these or other outsourcing questions? The ALA Outsourcing Task Force, formed by ALA President Barbara Ford in 1997, will hold an open forum on Sunday, June 28 in Room 6 of the Washington Convention Center. At 1:30 members of the public who would like to offer testimony relative to outsourcing will be permitted to contribute their thoughts. Each speaker will be limited to 3 minutes. Following this portion of the meeting, there will be a focused discussion of the task force's work. All are invited. Then on Monday, June 29, there will be a vital discussion of "Outsourcing" during Membership Meeting II, noon to 1:00, in the Washington Convention Center, Hall C. The Outsourcing Task Force will report on their work, and ALA members are invited to contribute opinions, information, and ask questions during this session. ************ DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE--LAST LISTING This is the final listing of discussion group topics at the Annual Conference. For additional listings not previously announced in AN2, and for locations, please consult your ALA Official Program Book. For changes, see Cognotes, the daily conference newspaper. We also maintain a complete Web listing of topics submitted to us at http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/annualdg.html. LITA/ALCTS SERIALS AUTOMATION INTEREST GROUP Sunday, June 28, 1998 9:30-11am Topic: Digital Collections: Implications of and Perspectives of Librarians, Publishers, and Vendors. Please join us for a lively discussion on significant issues challenging librarians, publishers, and vendors in their efforts to integrate electronic journals and digital collections into traditional print-based resources and services. As we are all striving to learn how to work with these multiple formats and mediums, we hope our meeting will provide an excellent forum for dialogue, questions, and even some answers. Panel Members include Amira Aaron, Director of Academic Services, Faxon Co.; Julie Bobay, Head of School of Library and Information Science Library, Indiana University Libraries; and Marie Hansen, Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins University Press For more information contact co-chairs, Mahnaz Moshfegh, moshfeg@indiana.edu or Taemin Park, park@indiana.edu. PRESERVATION EDUCATION AND OUTREACH Sunday, June 28 11:30-1:30 Julie Arnott and Steve Smith will be speaking on current and future trends of training as exemplified by two regional programs (i.e., SOLINET and AMIGOS). Julie and Steve will provide a brief sketch of the history of their respective programs, and then discuss current training approaches as well as other relevant issues such as grant funding and the needs of users of the services (as expressed through formal feedback mechanisms, surveys, and informal discussion with individuals). We will also select a new chair from among us. Volunteers will be greatly appreciated. Look forward to seeing everyone there. For more information, contact Peter Verheyen, chair, verheyen@gaylord.com PARS DISCUSSION GROUP Sunday, June 28 4:30-6:30 p.m. Topic: Selection for Preservation in the Digital Age In his article "Selection for Preservation: A Materialistic Approach" (Library Resources & Technical Services, October/December 1986, p. 342), Ross Atkinson foresaw the technological advances of the intervening decade: "If another method of reformatting becomes broadly available that is more inexpensive or efficient or will result in a more durable or accessible product, that new method should certainly be adopted, and what I have to say in this paper with respect to microfilming will be valid for such a new method as well." Debates about the terms "inexpensive," "efficient" and "more durable" in respect to digitizing aside, we would like to revisit the discussion of selection for preservation in light of the various reformatting options available to us today. We are particularly interested in a discussion of the disposition of the original volume (guillotine/scan from bound volume, retain/withdraw, repair/phase box) and the cost v. benefits of these various options. We will also have a report about our Midwinter discussion of a web publishing presence for preservation literature and the election of a new discussion group leader. Whitney Pape, Whitney_Pape@qmgate.cc.oberlin.edu BINDING AUTOMATION Saturday, June 27 4: -5: p.m. This is a new discussion group where interested individuals can discuss the automated binding systems and what changes and improvements we as users (both libraries and binders) feel need to be made. Hank Racette, owner and developer of LARS, has agreed to attend the Binding Automation Discussion Group. Therefore, this meeting will provide a good opportunity for us to communicate the improvements we, as users, would like to see made to the LARS system. The meeting will be limited in time, so people are encouraged to send me their lists of questions or issues. I will then compile a list of most often made requests/suggestions and use these to facilitate discussion. One of the unfortunate facts of life is that often the people who are directly using the automated binding systems are not the people at our ALA meetings. Sending me lists will give the front line folks a chance to contribute meaningfully to the development of binding systems. Brian Baird, chair, bbaird@ukans.edu LIBRARY BINDING, updated Sunday, June 28 2:-4: p.m. Peter Jermann will lead a discussion on observations he has made over the years about adhesive bindings. Sally Grauer and other members of the standard committee will discuss the new NISO/LBI binding standards. Brian Baird, chair, bbaird@ukans.edu Joint meeting: JOURNAL COSTS IN LIBRARIES and RESEARCH LIBRARIES Saturday, June 27 2-4 pm Topic: E-commerce: Now That We Know How To Get There, Where Are We Going? Discussion Starters: Herb Kim, General Manager and Head of Marketing & Sales, Blackwell's Online Bookshop; Bob Boissy, Manager of Standards and Interface Services, The Faxon Company, Inc.; and Cindy Miller, Director of Product Strategy, Endeavor Information Systems, Inc. Our discussion will offer three perspectives on e-commerce--that of an online bookstore, a subscription agent, and a library management system producer. We should have a lively discussion while trying to determine where the missing link (the library) fits on the e-commerce highway. Herb Kim will discuss the incredibly rapid pace and development his company has witnessed in online bookselling over the past few years, the direction online bookselling is currently heading in, and his company's experience. Bob Boissy will review how subscription agents have embraced multiple tactics in the emerging world of E-commerce, all somewhat at variance with the popular web-based models for book buying. He will contrast how agents tend to use batch EDI for transactions mediated by commercial library systems, yet use a variety of Internet-based services for the non-academic library community. Cindy Miller will focus on using UN/EDIFACT within the Acquisitions and Serials modules of an integrated library system. She will describe some of the productivity increases library customers are experiencing as well as touch on some of the other uses her company is exploring for EDIFACT--receipt of despatch information for electronic journals and billing for access to electronic resources. Elections for the 1998-99 vice-chairs (one for each discussion group) will be held at the end of the meeting. Please notify the respective incoming chairs (see below) if interested in participating as a vice-chair. SS Journal Costs in Libraries Discussion Group Outgoing Chair: Scott Wicks (sbw2@cornell.edu) Incoming Chair: Alison Roth (ROTH@BLACKPER.COM) SS Research Libraries Discussion Group Outgoing Chair: Anne McKee (MCKEE@BLACKPER.COM) Incoming Chair: Lisa Macklin (lisa.macklin@ibid.library.gatech.edu) Also of interest to ALCTS librarians: PLA CATALOGING NEEDS OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES (COMMITTEE) Monday, June 29 2:-4: p.m. Discussions will include the Committee's Program at 1999 ALA Annual Conference: Cooperative Cataloging Goes Public; a program proposal for the PLA National Conference 2000; and the ALA Task Force on Outsourcing. Margaret Shen, chair, margaret.shen@cpl.org ONLINE CATALOG INTEREST GROUP (LITA) Sunday, June 28 11:30 to 12:30 pm. Topic: Standards for online catalog display and search structure Open to all individuals interested in the next generation online catalog. Expect a lively discussion of these questions: Is it possible to develop a standard display? Should it resemble a catalog card? If there is a standard, how will vendors distinguish their products from each other? Who can develop and maintain a standard? For more information, contact Ellen Crosby, chair, ecrosby@statelib.lib.in.us ************ ALA WEBSITE ADVISORY TASK FORCE TO MEET AT WASHINGTON CONFERENCE The ALA Website Advisory Task Force will hold its first formal meeting in Washington, DC, on Monday, June 29, from 7-10 p.m. at the Renaissance Washington, Room 3. Non-members are welcome to observe the meeting. However, we would like to use the meeting as a time for task force members to meet one another and candidly exchange their views so we would ask that comments be shared directly with the chairs following the meeting. We do welcome your input and would be quite grateful if you would share all of your thoughts with us. Additionally, we welcome thoughts from persons or groups involved in designing and/or setting standards, but who are unable to attend the meeting. Again, please feel free to send your ideas to the chairs. Members who are interested in following the progress of the Task Force are welcome to subscribe to the (read-only) ALAWEB@ALA.ORG list. The task force's charge and a list of its members are available on the ALA website at http://www.ala.org/watf/ The task force will run through Annual Conference 1999. --Kate Wakefield, co-chair, vraptor@matrix-magi.com Amy Tracy Wells, co-chair, awel@cs.wisc.edu ************ SISAC MEETINGS IN WASHINGTON SISAC (Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee) invites all ALA attendees to its general meeting, Sunday, June 28, 4:30-6:30 pm. Topics include Checking in E-journals - More than Dispatch Data?; Handling Renewals from an Automated Perspective; What Linking Numbers to Use Prior to Establishing an Electronic Interface; Standards Issues Raised at Serials Conferences - What More is Needed?; and Current Standards Activities and the DOI - Updates ************ EVERYBOOK TO BE PREVIEWED AT NISO BOOTH One of the first digital books, The EveryBook, featured in the July issue of Wired, will be demonstrated during the ALA Annual Conference on Sunday, June 28 from 11:00am-4:00pm at the NISO-LTR Booth, Booth # 731 on Level 1 in the ALA Exhibit Area at the D.C. Convention Center. "We see the EveryBook as an example of an emerging technology that will impact publishers, information providers, and libraries that are NISO's constituency," said NISO chair Joel H Baron, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine. "We invited EveryBook to show their product at the NISO booth so the ALA audience can see first-hand what's ahead on the horizon. The EveryBook--or a variation of it--will certainly be a part of our information future." The EveryBook emulates the traditional paper-book and is designed to offer the complete book-like experience. Content is downloaded directly from the Web and displayed in Adobe's PDF file format, rendering the identical layout and fonts as the paper-product. For details on the EveryBook visit their website at www.everybk.com The EveryBook was featured in the July 1998 issue of Wired, the July 1998 Fortune, and the June issue of Mobile Computing. It is expected that the EveryBook and other digital book-like products will be commercially available later this year. For more information, contact Pat Harris, Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization at pharris@niso.org or visit the NISO web site at www.niso.org ************ MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MARIO CASALINI ON MONDAY A memorial service will be held for Mario Casalini, founder of Casalini Libri and long a friend to ALA, during ALA's Annual Conference in Washington, DC. It will be held Monday, June 29, at 1:00 p.m. in Room LJ 119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress. All are welcome. Casalini died on May 20, 1998, after a valiant struggle with cancer. Casalini was the owner and director of Casalini Libri, the premier jobber of Italian books and journals, and the source of most bibliographic information on Italian publications (see www.casalini.it). A strong and long-time supporter of the ALA, Mario rarely missed a Midwinter Meeting or Annual Conference, and was renowned for his grace and stamina in the exhibit booth. He was instrumental in the creation of the "International Aisle" in the exhibit hall, which made finding and contacting vendors of foreign language materials easy for librarians. Casalini was also very supportive of inter-library cooperative efforts in and around Florence, having helped to develop and sustain a system of cooperative cataloging and communications to serve libraries ranging from the State Archives in Florence to the Villa I Tatti, Harvard University's Renaissance Studies center near Fiesole. ************ 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. ALCTS NETWORK NEWS is available free of charge and is available only in electronic form. 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