ALCTS Network News v16n21 (January 7, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v16n21.txt ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 16, Number 21 January 7, 1999 In this issue MIDWINTER DISCUSSION GROUPS CCAHA TO CONDUCT TOURS PCC SACO WORKSHOPS AT 1999 ALA MIDWINTER JOHN PHILLIP IMMROTH MEMORIAL AWARD ************ MIDWINTER DISCUSSION GROUPS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group Sunday, January 31, 1999, 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Topics include: Workload changes and job reclassification as a result of automation, cross-training and cross-staffing, outsourcing and creative responses to it electronic journals, collection, cataloging and union listing, and creative responses to automation systems limitations. Volunteers are wanted to act as facilitators and recorders. If you are interested in volunteering please contact Richard Baumgarten (baumgarten@jcl.lib.ks.us) or Janet Lee-Smeltzer (leesmelj@uh.edu). Provide your name, e-mail address, two favorite topics (see above), and indicate whether you prefer to be a facilitator or recorder. -- Richard Baumgarten (baumgarten@jcl.lib.ks.us) CMDS Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries Saturday, January 30, 1999, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. The topic will be "Collecting At the Margins: Social Protest and Counterculture Materials." The presenters are Julie Herrada, Assistant Curator, Labadie Collection, University of Michigan and Mark Yoffe, Curator, International Counterculture Archive, George Washington University. -- Chris Filstrup (chris_filstrup@library.lib.ncsu.edu) CCS Research Discussion Group Saturday, January 30, 1999,11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Diane Vinzine-Goetz and Jean Godby will present overviews of "Dewey Research at OCLC." The specific projects to be covered include: End-User Dewey (Diane Vizine-Goetz), a project to recast the captions in the DDC Summaries and selected narrower DDC categories into popular language to support browsing by end users. OCLC researchers are working with an expert in cataloging and classification to produce expressive and current Dewey captions. Diane will describe this research project and demonstrate a prototype Dewey/Internet resource browser that is being used to test the suitability of revised captions. Subject Headings For Everyone (Diane Vizine-Goetz), a research project to generate a companion volume to Subject Headings for Children (SHC). SHC is a simple-to-use list of Library of Congress juvenile subject headings supplemented with suggested Dewey numbers. Whereas, SHC involved computer processing of WorldCat records combined with in-depth human review to produce juvenile heading/DDC number pairings, in the Subject headings for Everyone (SHE) project, OCLC researchers are exploring the feasibility of identifying candidate LC subject headings/Dewey number pairings by applying automated techniques borrowed from corpus linguistics processing. The goal of the SHE project is to produce a list of popular Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) with Dewey numbers suitable for use by general users with minimal human intervention. For a more detailed description of the project, see: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/new/n233/rsch_subj_headings_everyone.htm Dewey In CORC (Diane Vizine-Goetz), a research project exploring the cooperative creation and sharing of metadata by libraries. Diane will describe and demonstrate tools for supporting subject description of electronic resources. These tools include an enhanced Dewey database that has been supplemented with terminology from other subject access schemes, such as LCSH and LC children's headings. For more information about CORC see: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/projects/corc/index.htm. For more information about the enhanced DDC database see: http://www.oclc.org/~vizine/isko/vizine-goetz_isko5.htm Importing Natural Language Vocabulary Into The Dewey (Jean Godby), a project that investigates the potential for automatically importing novel and emergent vocabulary to the DDC directly from machine-readable full text. Such text documents the linguistic response to cultural change and is rapidly growing in volume and importance, as more full-text databases become available, as more electronic journals are published, and as the World Wide Web emerges as a new mass medium. This work complements the efforts to make the DDC more accessible and raises many issues concerning the relationship between end-user language and controlled vocabulary. For a more detailed description of the project, see: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/new/n233/sigcr_98.htm --Patricia Luthin (patricil@wsulaw.edu) ************ CCAHA TO CONDUCT TOURS The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), a non-profit regional conservation laboratory serving cultural, educational, and research institutions, as well as private individuals and organizations throughout the United States, will be conducting tours of its facilities during the ALA Midwinter Meeting. The tours will be held on Friday, January 29, 1999, from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. You will be able to tour our state-of-the-art Conservation Lab and talk with conservators and technicians about current projects in the laboratory. You may ask questions about treatment procedures, disaster recovery of damaged books and art on paper, housing and framing, and workshop opportunities. You will also be able to view treatment projects such as a 1550 Cramer Bible, 16th - 18th century medical books, a 1490 illuminated scroll, a 1693 William Penn Indian Deed, historic panoramic photographs, and special housing of prints for exhibition. Please RSVP to the Preservation Services Office (ccaha@hslc.org) by Wednesday, January 27, 1999. -- Virgilia Rawnsley (ccaha@SHRSYS.HSLC.ORG) ************ PCC SACO WORKSHOPS AT 1999 ALA MIDWINTER The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) will present two workshops Friday, January 29, 1999, in support of SACO, the Subject Authority Cooperative Program of the PCC. BASIC SACO Workshop A, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. How to Propose Subject Headings for LCSH Conducted by Lynn El-Hoshy, Senior Cataloging Policy Specialist, Library of Congress, on Friday, January 29, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (check-in and materials available 20 minutes earlier) in the Philadelphia Convention Center, Room 105 B with a maximum registration of fifty. The instructor will cover how to prepare subject heading proposals using SACO forms, including performing authority research, constructing a subject heading, and fitting it into the hierarchy of the subject authority file, based on appropriate instruction sheets from the Subject Cataloging Manual. This basic workshop is a repeat of a sessions offered in 1995, 1997, and 1998 ALA meetings, and serves as a good foundation for the more advanced workshop listed below. ADVANCED SACO Workshop B, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Proposing Art Subject Headings: Subjects vs. Names File Conducted by Milicent Wewerka, Sr. Cataloging Policy Specialist, LC, and Robert Hiatt, Sr. Cataloging Policy Specialist, LC, on Friday, January 29, 1999, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. (check-in and materials available 20 minutes earlier) at the Philadelphia Convention Center, Room 105 B with a maximum registration of fifty. The instructors will discuss headings for individual works of art, artists groups and schools of art, distinctions between headings for fine arts vs. decorative arts, and geographical and chronological subdivision usage based on appropriate instruction sheets from cataloging documentation. Discussion will also include into which of the two files (Name or Subject Authority File) headings are placed based on the recently revised Library of Congress Rule Interpretations and SCM H 405. Participants will benefit from prior attendance at a basic workshop (e.g., SACO workshops offered previously in 1995, 1997 and 1998, or from prior SACO experience). The workshops are open at no charge on a first-come-first-served basis to all catalogers interested in proposing new headings and changes to LCSH. Training materials will be provided free of charge at the workshop. PCC programs will comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. At the end of these workshops, participants will be better able to formulate new subject headings and propose changes to existing LCSH headings. In 1998, SACO participants contributed approximately 20% of the subject headings added to LCSH. Register via the SACO workshop registration form on the PCC homepage: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/sacoreg99.html or register via email to Cornelia Goode, Cooperative Cataloging Team (CGOO@LOC.GOV), specify the preferred workshop, your name, institutional address, phone, fax, and e-mail. -- John D. 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