ALCTS Network News v16n08 (September 17, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v16n08.txt ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 16, Number 8 September 17, 1998 In this issue ROUND-UP OF CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES ************ ROUND-UP OF CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES Cataloging Internet Resources for Your Local Catalog Cataloging Internet Resources for Your Local Catalog, a workshop co-sponsored by the ACTSS Cataloging Interest Group of the California Library Association and the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG), will be given twice: Wednesday, September 16 at University of California, Davis and Friday, September 18 at Occidental College, Los Angeles. This full-day workshop will provide the experienced cataloger with the information necessary to catalog Internet resources. Discussions of local implementation issues, special considerations for copy cataloging, and the bibliographic nature of these resources will provide a context for understanding the current cataloging environment. In-depth examination of relevant MARC tagging and AACR2 rules; hands-on exercises will provide experience in applying current cataloging standards to actual Internet resources. The speakers are Steve Shadle, Serials Cataloger at the University of Washington, and Greta deGroat, Electronic Media Cataloger at Stanford University. The registration fee is $20 for ACTSS or NASIG members, $30 for non-members, including lunch and coffee. Registration is limited 40 participants per site on first-come, first served basis. For more information and a registration form contact: Pat French, University of California, Davis, psfrench@ucdavis.edu. -- Pat French, psfrench@ucdavis.edu. Hurricane Preparedness: Making Sure Your Institution Survives the "Big One" Hurricanes have already hit the Eastern Coast. Do you know what to do to prepare? A one-day SOLINET institute, Hurricane Preparedness: Making Sure Your Institution Survives the "Big One," is scheduled for Thursday, October 22 at Tampa Library Consortium, Tampa, Florida. Dr. Michael Trinkley, Director of Chicora Foundation, will help you learn about steps that can be taken before a storm hits that can increase an institution's chances for minimizing damage; and steps that can be taken to minimize loss after the storm. This workshop focuses on the nature of hurricanes, general issues in developing a disaster plan, making your institution storm-proof, activities before, during, and after the storm, and sources of assistance. Cost is $95 for SOLINET members ($85 early bird, $120 late); $135 Non-SOLINET & FEDLINK ($125 early bird, $160 late). Any institution in Florida qualifies for the member rate. -- Andrew Jones, andrew_jones@solinet.net The Challenge to Change: Creating Diversity in Our Libraries The Challenge to Change: Creating Diversity in Our Libraries is a two-day conference to be held October 1-2, 1998, at the Days Inn Penn State, State College, Pennsylvania. For up-to-date conference information, consult http:// www.libraries.psu.edu/divers/conf/ or contact LaDawn Dutrow at (814) 865-1755. -- Sandra Rios Balderrama, sbalderr@ala.org Integrating Learning with Work: Staff Training, Education and Development Integrating Learning with Work: Staff Training, Education and Development, is a new regional institute from the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA). The institute will be available for presentation beginning October 15, 1998. In this full day workshop, Dr. Julie Beth Todaro will provide a vision for the library as a learning organization and offer practical instruction in how to achieve this goal in your own institution. Through a combination of lecture, discussion, self-analysis and small group work, attendees will focus on creating the ideal learning environment; defining terminology and incorporating learning language into the organization's mission, goals, and documents; examining models and best practices of work environments with ongoing training, education and development programs; identifying competencies and individual learning and teaching styles; balancing cutting edge resources for staff and public use; and creating an outline and first steps toward individualized plans of action that can be implemented immediately. Participants will receive a substantive handbook that will recap information presented throughout the day; provide examples, forms and checklists; list print and electronic resources; and allow workshop information to be personalized for later use. For more information about the institute or to schedule a presentation, contact: Elizabeth Dreazen, LAMA Deputy Executive Director, edreazen@ala.org. -- ALA Press release To Merge or Not to Merge ALCTS Regional Group, the Potomac Technical Processing Librarians, announced their 74th Annual Meeting. The program topic is "To Merge or Not to Merge Libraries and Computer Centers. " It will be held at the George W. Johnson Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va., on October 23, 1998. The speaker is ALCTS Past President Janet Swan Hill. For more information, including a registration form, visit our website At http://www.lib.virginia.edu/ptpl/. -- Kathy Miraglia, MIRAGLIA@cua.edu Disaster Preparedness and Recovery SOLINET will present a one-day seminar Disaster Preparedness and Recovery, to be held on Tuesday, November 10 from 9 am to 4 pm at Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Ky. Libraries and archives are vulnerable to a variety of disasters ranging from fires and flooding to roof leaks and mold outbreaks. Through lecture, group exercises and demonstrations, this one-day workshop will provide the training necessary to plan, organize and execute a disaster plan and salvage operation. Julie Arnott, Manager of Preservation Field Services at SOLINET, is the instructor for this workshop. Cost is $95 for SOLINET members ($85 early bird, $120 late); $135 Non-SOLINET & FEDLINK ($125 early bird, $160 late). Any institution in Kentucky qualifies for the member rate. -- Andrew Jones, andrew_jones@solinet.net Have You Got the Blues? The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) announces two day-long architectural records workshops, "Have You Got the Blues? Architectural Records: Their Identification, Management, Storage, and Treatment." The workshops are partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The workshops will be co-sponsored by the site institutions. Workshop #1 takes place Thursday, September 24, 1998, at the University of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Austin, Tex., and is presented in cooperation with AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, Inc. The registration deadline is September 11, 1998. Workshop #2 takes place Friday, November 6, 1998, at the Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, La., and is presented in cooperation with the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET). The registration deadline is October 23, 1998. The workshops are intended for architectural historians and architects, as well as library, archives, and museum professionals who have architectural records, drawings or other oversize paper-based materials in their care or collections. The speakers will address the problems of caring for the diverse materials of an architectural records collection. The workshops will help participants identify different original media and reproductive processes; consider options for management and organization of architectural records; recognize storage problems and options; and discuss basic collections care methods and remedial treatments that can be safely accomplished in-house. The speakers are Lois Olcott Price, Conservator of Library Collections, Winterthur Library, and Joan Irving, Conservator, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA). The workshop agenda will also include a presentation by a speaker from the host site, who will address management issues related to their unique collections. The fee is $80.00 for members of CCAHA, AMIGOS or SOLINET and $90.00 for non-members. Enrollment will be limited to 30 participants. The registration fee includes supplementary materials and lunch. The workshops will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information and a registration form contact: Susan W. DuBois, Preservation Services Representative, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), ccaha@hslc.org, or visit http://www.ccaha.org. -- Conservation Center, ccaha@shrsys.hslc.org SSP Seminar on Selling/Acquiring Electronic Information: A Dialog about Best Practices On Thursday, September 17, the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is hosting a workshop in Washington, DC for publishers, librarians, and vendors to discuss all sides of the acquisition process. A distinguished panel will address all topics related to the acquisition of databases and e-journals, from presale technology issues related to access, through licensing, to post sale evaluation efforts based on usage statistics. We invite you to share your experiences as we explore what works in this rapidly changing environment. The panelists and their topics are: Electronic publishing dynamics - Judy Luther (Informed Strategies); Decision to acquire the product - Nancy Gibbs (North Carolina State University) and Claire Wyckoff (Columbia University Press); Technology issues - Connie Kelley (University of Virginia) and Ron Akie (Silverplatter); Negotiating the license - Sarah Sully (JSTOR), Marietta Plank (University of Maryland), and Susan Hillson (Publishing Consultant); and Implementation and renewal - Jay Trolley (Institute for Scientific Information) and Jim Mullins (Villanova University). The seminar will run from 9:30-4:30 at the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) at 1575 I St. NW. It is priced attractively at $70 until Sept. 9th, afterwards $90. You may register with SSP in Wheat Ridge, Colo. by phone (303) 422-3914 or fax (303) 422-8894. --Judy Luther, jluther@earthlink.net Principles and Techniques of Fund Raising "Principles and Techniques of Fund Raising" will be offered October 29-31 in Indianapolis at a National Institute hosted by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), the American Library Trustee Association (ALTA) and the Reference & User Services Association (RUSA), divisions of the American Library Association (ALA). The registration deadline is October 15. Cosponsored by the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) and The Fund for America's Libraries, the one-and-a-half day workshop will be presented by Dr. Dwight Burlingame and Dr. Tim Seiler of The Fund Raising School, Indiana University Center on Philanthropy. Topics to be discussed include an overview of philanthropic fund raising; the key principles of fund raising; and effective strategies for direct solicitation. Participants also will receive a custom designed study guide. The workshop is based on a three-day program developed in 1995 by the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy - the Fund Raising School for the Library Leadership Fundraising Training Project, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and The Carnegie Corporation of New York. The cost to attend is $295 for members of the hosting organizations; $345 for ALA members and $395 for non-members. Institute events included in the registration fee are the Opening General Session featuring Ann K. Symons, ALA president, William R. Gordon, ALA executive director, and a keynote address by Jim Fleck, nationally known speaker and library board trustee; a lunch featuring Anne Kappler, partner at Jenner & Block and attorney for the Freedom to Read Foundation, who will address intellectual freedom issues and current legislative initiatives; an evening reception at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art; and a breakfast featuring a presentation by Paul O. Zelinsky, the 1998 Caldecott Medal winner for "Rapunzel." To register, use the online form at: http://www.ala.org/events/institute98.html or contact Sheila Henson at 800-545-2433, ext. 4398. -- ALA Press release Fundamentals of Book Repair SOLINET will also present a 2-day workshop, Fundamentals of Book Repair, which is designed for staff members who actually perform book repair in libraries, and is useful also to those who supervise repair units. The workshop will teach participants how to perform simple, economical, and preservation quality repairs on materials in general, circulating and reference collections. The following procedures will be taught in small group modules through demonstrations and practice: * Tightening hinges when text blocks are pulled away from the cover * Replacing torn endsheets * Replacing torn or damaged spines * Mending paper * Tipping and hinging pages into bound volumes The session is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, October 6-7 from 8:30 am to 5 p.m. at University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. The workshop will NOT cover techniques for the repair of materials that are special, rare, or archival. Instructors are Sharla Richards and Christine Wiseman, SOLINET Preservation Field Service Officers. Cost is $155 SOLINET members ($145 early bird, $180 late registration); $215 non-members ($205 early bird, $240 late registration). Any institution in Kentucky qualifies for the SOLINET member rate. Included with the registration fee is an extensive book repair kit containing a variety of tools and supplies. -- Andrew Jones, andrew_jones@solinet.net Electronic Licensing The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) will hold a workshop on licensing electronic information resources on November 5-6, 1998 in Kansas City, Mo. The Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium host the workshop. This two-day workshop will review the legal foundation of license agreements; engage participants in a review of license terms and conditions; highlight the importance of and present strategies for developing an institutional process for license review, negotiation, and administration; and provide participants with an opportunity to assess and practice negotiation skills. Workshop leaders are Trisha Davis, Head, Continuation Acquisitions Division, Ohio State University Libraries; Karen Hersey, Intellectual Property Counsel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Mary Case, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication, ARL. It will be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 220 W. 43rd. St., Kansas City, Mo. Attendance is limited to 60 participants. Registration fee is $300 for ARL member libraries, $400 for nonmember libraries, and includes resource materials, breakfast, lunch, and breaks. Prepayment required. For additional information, contact ARL headquarters at (202) 296-2296 or visit the workshop website at http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/workshop.html -- Adrian W. Alexander, AlexanderA@lhl.lib.mo.us ************ 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. 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