ALCTS Network News v16n17 (December 9, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v16n17.txt ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 16, Number 17 December 9, 1998 In this issue STAFF CHANGE ANNOUNCED TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION GROUP MEETINGS, 1999 MIDWINTER MEETING NISO STANDARD ON EXHIBITING LIBRARY/ARCHIVAL MATERIAL OUT FOR REVIEW OLOS ANNOUNCES FIRST "SIDEWALK CAFE" DISCUSSION FOR LIBRARY LITERACY PROFESSIONALS ALCTS MEDIA RESOURCES COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES TOUR AROUND ALA ************ STAFF CHANGE ANNOUNCED Loretta Reed, Administrative Secretary for ALCTS and the Library Administration & Management Association (LAMA) has resigned effective December 11 to pursue other career opportunities. Loretta joined the American Library Association in 1994, coming from the banking industry. Although she had no previous association experience, she quickly became an expert in LAMA/ALCTS administrative procedure. Loretta's efficiency and dedication to customer service will be greatly missed by staff and members alike. ************ TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION GROUP MEETINGS, 1999 MIDWINTER MEETING CCS Heads of Cataloging Departments Discussion Group Monday, February 1, 1999, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Three brief presentations will serve as the starting point for our discussion. Jianrong (Jian) Wang, Regina McBride, and Lyn Condron will present some thoughts on heading a cataloging department in times of change. Topics include: resolving issues of quality and production as the work increases but staff numbers decline; implementing a new system; and trying to match up staff training needs and evaluate workflow at the start of a new position--and thereafter. -- Kathy Winzer (kwinzer@stanford.edu) ALCTS Newspaper Users Discussion Group Saturday, January 30, 1999, 2-4 p.m. Topic: "The Pennsylvania Story, or, Life After a Newspaper Project" led by Sue Kellerman, Pennsylvania State University. -- Robert Dowd (rcdowd@unix2.nysed.gov) ALCTS Role of the Professional in Academic Technical Services Discussion Group Sunday, January 31, 1999, 2-4 p.m. Topic: Are library schools adequately fulfilling the needs of libraries in the education of technical service professionals? * Are library schools keeping pace with the technical service needs of the workplace? * What do employers look for in technical service job applicants at both the entry level and at the next higher level? * How can libraries work with library school educators to help develop the curricula necessary to assure excellence in technical services in the future? * How do practicing librarians keep administrators informed and cognizant of the continued need for strong technical services backgrounds in the librarians responsible for those areas? This session will feature three presentations on these and related questions, followed by a discussion hour. -- Mary Grenci (mgrenci@darkwing.uoregon.edu) Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group Sunday, January 31, 1999, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Topics: Cross-training, cross staffing, what works?; Creative responses to automation systems' limitations; Electronic journals organization and access; Workload changes and job reclassification as a result of automation; Outsourcing and creative responses to it. -- Janet Lee-Smeltzer (leesmelj@UH.EDU) SS Journal Costs in Libraries Discussion Group Saturday, January 30, 1999, 2-4 p.m. Topic: "Electronic Journal Pricing: What's the Big Deal?" Our discussion will offer three perspectives on the pricing of electronic journals -- that of an electronic journal publisher, a subscription agent and gateway provider, and a library consortium. Jeff Pudewell, Highwire, will address how the publisher arrives at pricing, e-pricing vs. print pricing, and how a publisher markets their journals with vendors and libraries. Jan Peterson, Information Quest, will speak from the point of view of subscription agents and gateway providers. She will talk about business systems and changes that a vendor needs to make to keep up to speed with e-journal publishing. Adrian Alexander will speak from the library perspective and talk about library and consortial arrangements with e-journal publishers. -- Alison C. Roth (roth@blackper.com) Out-of-Print Discussion Group Sunday, January 31, 1999, 2-4 p.m. Topic: The emerging digital reprint on-demand publishing services and how they may effect the out-of-print market. -- Ned O. Kraft (nkraft@sil.si.edu) SS Research Libraries Discussion Group Saturday, January 30, 1999, 9:30-11 a.m. Topic: The Changing Role of Serials Acquisitions Librarians in the Electronic Environment. -- Lisa A. Macklin (lisa.macklin@library.gatech.edu) PARS Small to Mid-Sized Preservation Program Discussion Group Sunday, January 31,1999, 2-4 p.m. Topic: Stack maintenance preservation issues. Co-chairs Patricia Palmer and Yvonne Carignan will lead the discussion. Patricia Palmer will share her experiences supervising stack maintenance as part of her preservation program at Virginia Commonwealth University; Yvonne Carignan, will describe her experience at the University of getting library-wide support for shelving guidelines and training for stacks personnel. We are interested in including a variety of perspectives on stack maintenance and the related preservation issues. -- Yvonne A. Carignan (yc38@umail.umd.edu) and Patricia E. Palmer (pepalmer@vcu.edu) ************ NISO STANDARD ON EXHIBITING LIBRARY/ARCHIVAL MATERIAL OUT FOR REVIEW The proposed national standard describing "Environmental Conditions for Exhibiting Library and Archival Materials" is now being circulated for review. The text of the proposed standard, designated NISO Z39.79-199x is on the NISO website at: www.niso.org. Go to the section on NISO Standards and then click on Draft Standards Out for Review. The review period will close January 4, 1999. Any interested party can submit comments on the draft. Comments should be sent to the NISO office at nisohq@niso.org. The environmental conditions proposed in this standard are intended to minimize the deterioration of library and archival materials that are put on public exhibition. Recommendations are given for temperature, relative humidity, light, gaseous and particulate contaminants. Information is also provided on how to support, display, and encase items on exhibit. The draft is now being reviewed by the NISO voting members. This draft standard was developed by a distinguished committee of conservation experts including: Cathy Henderson (University of Texas, Harry Ransom Humanities Center), David Erhardt (Smithsonian Institution), Doris Hamburg (Library of Congress), Gerald Munoff (University of Chicago), Sue Murphy (University of Texas-Austin), Kitty Nicholson (NARA), Elroy Quenroe (Quenroe Associates), Eleanore Stewart (Stanford University Library), Steven Weintraub (Art Preservation Service). -- Pat Harris, Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization (pharris@niso.org) ************ OLOS ANNOUNCES FIRST "SIDEWALK CAFE" DISCUSSION FOR LIBRARY LITERACY PROFESSIONALS Dale Lipschultz, an adult literacy professional, will serve as the first of several expert moderators for the American Library Association's Adult Literacy Library Initiative discussion list, from Monday, December 7, through Friday, December 11, 1998. The topic of the first Sidewalk Cafe is "Library Integration," a discussion of the degree of integration of library literacy programs into the overall library structure. Each month a selected moderator will be invited to share his or her expertise with list subscribers by making an initial statement to guide the discussion, then responding to questions during that week. Announcements of the discussion will be posted each month on the "Literacy in Libraries Across America" home page at http://www.ala.org/literacy. To subscribe to the list, send a message to listproc@ala1.ala.org, write [subscribe] in the subject, and write [subscribe library-lit] [first name and last name] in the message. The first discussion moderator, Dale Lipschultz, is a Senior Program Associate with the Illinois Literacy Resource Development Center (ILRDC). For the past two years, Dale has worked extensively with the 13 library literacy programs in the Literacy In Libraries Across America (LILAA) Initiative, providing technical assistance in the areas of learner assessment, program evaluation, curriculum development, tutor training, staff development and strategic planning. During this same period, Dale worked closely with the American Library Association and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund to develop links between library literacy programs, technical assistance providers, and ALA. Dale's background includes practitioner experience and academic training in children's literacy development, family literacy programming, adult learning, and the emerging field of library literacy For more information, contact Satia Orange (sorange@ala.org) ************ ALCTS MEDIA RESOURCES COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES TOUR The ALCTS Media Resources Committee (formerly the AV Committee) has announced that its annual tour will take place on: Friday, June 25, 1998. Two identical tours, one at 2 p.m., the other at 3:30 p.m. will be offered each with a capacity of 25. This year the tour begins at the Old U.S. Mint, a National Historic Landmark, which is part of the Louisiana State Museum. The Mint is located adjacent to the French Market at 400 Esplanade Ave. and features two major exhibitions: New Orleans Jazz and Carnival in Louisiana. The jazz exhibit is told through vintage photographs, recordings and musical instruments used by Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. The Carnival exhibit features memorabilia of the "krewes" and objects of lesser-known traditions, such as the Courir de Mardi Gras and the Mardi Gras Indians. Registration is in advance and there is a charge of $3.50. Watch for the ALA Annual Conference registration form in your January American Libraries. All conference events*including this tour*are included on that form. -- Ann Caldwell (E_Caldwell@brown.edu) ************ AROUND ALA Bob Bainer, formerly PC Specialist, has been promoted to the position of Database Administrator, Information Technology and Telecommunication Services (ITTS), effective December 1, 1998. Bob's new responsibilities include: administering database access to all users in Microsoft SQL server (the database) for the new iMIS Association Management System and Clarus accounting system; trouble shooting problems related to Microsoft SQL server (the database) for the new iMIS Association Management System and Clarus accounting system; database maintenance, reporting, performance tuning, and database backup/recovery. Daniel Lewis, formerly, Internet Publishing Coordinator (a.k.a., Web Wrangler), has been promoted to the position of System Project Manager effective November 30, 1998. Dan's new responsibilities include: assisting in the installation of new Association Management Software (iMIS) and the Clarus accounting software system, Internet/Intranet implementation, disaster recovery, payroll & HR prospective software, and other ITTS projects. -- Sherri Vanyek, Director, Information Technology & Telecommunication Services (svanyek@ala.org) ************ 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; Sheila Intner, President; Karen Muller, Executive Director and Editor (kmuller@ala.org); Editorial Assistance: Shonda Russell, Beatrice Calvin. ALCTS NETWORK NEWS is available free of charge and is available only in electronic form. Opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the division. 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