ALCTS Network News v17n05 (March 10, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v17n05.txt ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 17, Number 5 March 10, 1999 In this issue HAMA AWARD ANNOUNCED IFLA NEWS ZIMBABWE BOOK FAIR FREE PASS PROGRAM PCC NEWS NIT 99: THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ESARBICA XV BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ************ HAMA AWARD ANNOUNCED It is with great pleasure that I announce Susan K. Nutter, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries at North Carolina State University, as this year's recipient of the Hugh Atkinson Memorial Award. The award recognizes a leader who has "contributed significantly to improvements in the area of library automation, library management, and/or library development or research", as defined in the Atkinson Award criteria. Susan is recognized for her accomplishments in several of these areas. Having demonstrated a clear vision for the future of how technology would impact libraries, she has implemented numerous innovative accomplishments over more than a decade at NCSU. An action oriented leader, she has employed technological solutions to a variety of operations to advance library services to users. Susan has created an environment of risk taking and innovation at NCSU with the resulting accomplishment of a long list of dramatic changes, usually only one or two of which is accomplished at an institution. She has shared these cutting edge changes with the profession broadly, including through her leadership roles in library and information science organizations of which she is a dynamic member, and more broadly through such organizations as the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Susan has brought her energy, expertise, and vision to bear in several of the areas noted above. It is a great pleasure to recognize her accomplishments which embody so significantly the values for which the Hugh Atkinson Memorial Award was designed to recognize. William A. Gosling, Chair 1999 Hugh Atkinson Memorial Award Committee (wgosling@umich.edu) ************ IFLA NEWS Preservation Management: Between Policy and Practice The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, IFLA-PAC and the ECPA are jointly organizing the 3-day conference, which will focus on organizational, financial and managerial aspects of preservation. The central theme will be the interaction between theory and practice. Organized by European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) Core Program on Preservation and Conservation, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA-PAC) Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, national library of the Netherlands) The Hague, 19-21 April 1999. The conference fee is ECU 150. For more information and registration details, see the conference website at http://www.konbib.nl/pmc or contact the local organizer, Ms Barbara de Goederen (barbara.degoederen@konbib.nl) --Anne Muller (ECPA@bureau.knaw.nl) IFLA UBCIM Programme The IFLA UBCIM Programme organized during the past ten years a series of worldwide seminars and workshops (http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-3/workshop.htm) in cooperation with the Division of Bibliographic Control but also with the Permanent UNIMARC Committee especially when UNIMARC consultancies, workshop and training sessions were offered. In 1998 several successful meetings were held: The IFLA/UBCIM Regional Seminar on Bibliographic Control, Kuala Lumpur, sponsored mostly by ALP, aimed at providing current information on bibliographic control and promoting cooperation in the region, as well as disseminating information on IFLA relevant activities. A few copies of the proceedings are available, free of charge, from UBCIM on request - http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-3/malay.htm. A similar seminar took place in Mexico, International Seminar on Universal Bibliographic Control, also with ALP support, where the position of bibliographic control in Latin America and the Caribbean was thoroughly examined and proposals to strengthen bibliographic control in the region formulated. The IFLA UDT Programme was also represented at both events. - http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-3/mex.htm (English version) - http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-3/mex-s.htm (Spanish version) Under the auspices of IFLA a seminar on the Function of Bibliographic Control in the Global Information Infrastructure was organized and hosted by the National Library of Lithuania. It emphasized in its Plan of Action the necessity for IFLA to be involved in discussions and initiatives related to metadata. A few recommendations were directed to the IFLA UBCIM Programme including the revision of UNIMARC Authorities and the need for a UNIMARC for holdings. - http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-3/viln.htm Two workshops on UNIMARC were held: - UNIMARC Applications in International Projects (Frankfurt): http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-3/june4.htm. The papers were published in ICBC 27(4): http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/admin/icbc.htm. - Permanent UNIMARC Committee and Division of Bibliographic Control (Amsterdam): http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla64/64cp.htm#161. The papers are available on the IFLANET and will be published in ICBC 28(2). Further information is available at: iflaubcim@dbf.ddb.de ************ ZIMBABWE BOOK FAIR FREE PASS PROGRAM ALA and the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) will be joining to help support a delegation of 10 ALA librarians to the 1999 Zimbabwe Book Fair in Harare July 31 * August 7, 1999. The Free Pass program will provide free registration and three days lodging and breakfast at the expense of ZIBF. ALA will be contributing $200 toward the cost of airfare for each librarian. ZIBF offers the largest gathering of African publishers, writers, librarians, and book-sellers in the world. The Fair is a week-long festival of books, readings, workshops and events including, the opening Indaba conference on "Women's Voices- Gender, Books and Development." In addition to ZIBF activities, ALA will be coordinating opportunities for the delegates to interact with colleagues from Africa, and visits to a variety of libraries in Zimbabwe. ALA and ZIBF encourages applications from school, special, public, and academic librarians. For information and applications for the ZIBF99 Free Pass Program contact the ALA International Relations Office at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 3201, email intl@ala.org or visit the ZIBF website at www.mediazw.com/zibf. The application deadline is April 15. --Micheal Dowling (mdowling@ala.org) ************ PCC NEWS The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) announces its latest additions to its web site and invites you to visit the PCC homepage and those of its component programs. These are dynamic web sites that attempt to provide the latest information on PCC documentation, core-record standards, organizational changes, and other related announcements. 1. 1999 PCC calendar: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/calendar.html 2. Most frequently asked questions about joining BIBCO: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibcofaq.html 3. Data gathering survey models developed by the Standing Committee on Standards: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/modelsab.html Model A: Information to be reported when communicating the efficacy of core level cataloging in original cataloging operations. (http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/modela.html) Model B: Information to be reported when communicating the impact of core level cataloging on copy cataloging operations. (http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/modelb.html) 4. Cross Reference Task Group members and charge: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/xreftg.html 5. The PCC Participants Meeting Summary Report from ALA Midwinter, January 31, 1999 is now posted to the PCC homepage: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc. PCC Participants Meeting at ALA Annual in New Orleans will be held on Sunday, June 27, 7-9 p. m. The meeting is open to all members and to anyone who'd like to learn more about the Program for Cooperative Cataloging. --Carolyn Sturtevant (cast@loc.gov) ************ NIT 99: THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY NIT 99, to be held in Taipei, Taiwan from August 18-20, 1999, will cover the full-range of NIT related topics, but will place heavier emphasis on digital libraries, since these will likely be among the most important and influential institutions of the 21st Century. Large-scale, sustainable digital libraries are becoming a reality rather than a dream with the pioneering effort of many digital library initiatives at various national and international levels. New information technology related topics: development of global and national information infrastructure; development of national information policies; next generation internet and gii/nii; the role and functions of libraries in the electronic culture; the use of internet and world wide web; electronic publishing and publishing on the web; library networks and integrated library/information systems; database creation, structure and searching; consortia of electronic resources; networks - national, local area, and global; end-users and intermediary aspects; web-based education and distance learning; use of new information technologies in preservation/conservation. Digital Libraries Topics: virtual library and global information access; development and projects; technologies - scalability, sustainability, interoperability; metadata problems and issues; indexing and retrieval; user experience and user support; requirement for digital libraries; economics of digital libraries; collaborative digital libraries research - national and international; competing paradigms; integration vs fragmentation; team building and team workers; copyright and other legal issues, privacy, security; development and challenges; social impact; multi-lingual problems and issues; digital image data handling and organization; availability of information sources and national values, such as library holdings, museum collections, press, archives. Potential presenters from outside Taiwan should send proposed topic together with an abstract of no more than 500 words to Dr. Ching-chih Chen before March 30, 1999 via email or fax as indicated in the following. Paper proposals from Taiwan should be sent to the Library Association of China at 20 Chung-shan South Road, Taipei before March 30, l999. Notification of acceptance will be made by April 15, 1999, and the final paper will be due no later than May 31, 1999. Conference registration fee will be waived for paper presenters. Other international participants will have to pay for a nominal registration fee of US$100. Those who are unable to pay for full registration, contact Dr. Chen for possible reduction or waiver. The organizers can be best contacted via emails or faxes at: Dr. Ching-chih Chen cchen@simmons.edu or Dr. Margaret C. Fung lac@msg.ncl.edu.tw Sponsored by: US National Commission on Libraries & Information Science (NCLIS) National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC), National Science Council (NSC), Taipei, Taiwan Library Association of China, Taipei, Taiwan ************ ESARBICA XV BIENNIAL CONFERENCE The Eastern and Southern African Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA) will be holding its XV Biennial Conference in Zanzibar between 28th and 30th July 1999. The theme of the conference will be "Archives and the Protection of Peoples Rights." Some of the topics to be covered include: judicial records and the protection of peoples rights; archives, land and property rights; archives and genealogies; archives and good governance; archives and records of restricted organizations; acquisition and management of archives related to peoples rights; access to records: conditions and constraints; rational impact of extended closure of archival materials; user profiles and user educational programs; access and rights of privacy; freedom of information legislation. The main conference will be proceeded by a two-day workshop for junior archivists on the theme: "Archival services and the concept of the user". For more information contact: E-mail:ndy@zamnet.zm --Nathan Mnjama (mnjamanm@noka.ub.bw) ************ 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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