ALCTS Network News v17n12 (April 8, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v17n12.txt ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 17, Number 12 April 8, 1999 In this issue: ESTHER J. PIERCY AWARD RECIPIENT ANNOUNCED SECOND ONLINE CONFERENCE ON ISSUES IN LIBRARY EDUCATION SET CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES ************ ESTHER J. PIERCY AWARD RECIPIENT ANNOUNCED Stephen Chapman, Preservation Librarian for Digital Initiatives, Harvard University Library Preservation Center, is the recipient of the 1999 Esther J. Piercy Award presented by ALCTS. The award, a citation and $1,500 donated by Yankee Book Peddler, Inc., is given to a librarian with less than 10 years experience for contribution and leadership in the field of library collections and technical Services. Sally Tseng, Chair of the Piercy Award Jury said, "The Award is given to Steve to recognize his significant contributions to the areas of librarianship included in digitization and preservation, selection, and long-term collections care and use of these resources. His comprehension of the larger mission of libraries makes his work in the digital arena extremely valuable. Steve Chapman is known internationally in the digital library community for this new and cutting edge technology. We are very impressed by his knowledge of preservation and his technical expertise. We are also very impressed by his energetic leadership in librarianship in regional, national, and international consortia and with institutions dealing with digitization projects. Steve is a valuable resource to the entire digital library community. His achievements and contributions to the library profession are exceptional and significant. His work in the development of guidelines, standards, and workflows for digital projects has been particularly praiseworthy. We are further impressed by his willingness to share his growing expertise with colleagues around the world, offering thoughtful support and guidance as well as detailed technical advice. The Award jurors feel Steve possesses the traits that the Piercy award is intended to recognize: someone in the early years of his or her career who through energy, knowledge, and talent has managed to make a real, measurable, and important contribution to the profession." Chapman holds a M.A. in English from Boston University; and M.L.S. from the School of Information Science and Policy, the University at Albany, State University of New York. The Esther J. Piercy Award will be presented on June 28, at 9:30 at the ALCTS Membership Meeting and President's Program during the ALA Annual Conference, June 24-30, in New Orleans, La. --Shonda Russell (srussell@ala.org) ************ SECOND ONLINE CONFERENCE ON ISSUES IN LIBRARY EDUCATION SET The Steering Committee for the Congress on Professional Education invites your participation in the second online conference to discuss issues relevant to the Congress. The conference is scheduled for Monday, April 12, 1999, 5-6:30 p.m. CDT. Dr. Fred Roper of the University of South Carolina will lead the Discussion on Issues in library and Information Studies Education. Here are some instructions that will help you participate in the online LIS_Education conference: (1) We recommend that you use a JavaScript-enabled browser such as Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher. (2) Sign up in advance by pointing your web browser to http://webboard.ala.org:8080/~1/new You will be asked to fill out a form with name, password, email address, etc. If you set up a WebBoard username and password for the first CoPE live conference, you need not do so again. However, if you do not remember your username or password, simply register anew with a new username and password. We cannot give out password information over the phone or by email, simply because we do not know users' passwords. If you would like to change your password, click PROFILES in the black Menubar, then click Change your personal profile at the top of the Message Window. (3) At the scheduled conference time, point your web browser to http://webboard.ala.org:8080/ To log on, you will be asked to enter the user name and password you established in step (2). There will only be one active conference. On Monday, April 12, it will be called LIS_Education. Click on the name of the conference to enter. The conference will be moderated, which means that any message you post will first be viewed by a moderator, who will either post the message as is, edit it and then post it, or delete it without editing or posting it. There are three major parts to the WebBoard screen: the Menubar (across the top), the Conference List (left) and the Message Window (right). -- Use the Menubar to access the functions of the conference. -- The Conference List contains a list of all active conferences (in this case, only one) and all messages posted to those lists. If you see a + sign in a square next to a message, it means there are more messages pertaining to that message. Click on the + sign to see all relevant messages. When you click on a message in the Conference List, it will appear with the rest of the messages in its "thread" in the Message Window (right side of your screen). -- In the Message Window you may read and reply to messages, post new messages, email the person who posted the message, etc. (buttons for doing so are found in the light blue bars at the top of each message in the Message Window. WebBoard should refresh the Conference List (showing new messages) every 10 seconds. If there has been no activity for some time, click on the REFRESH button in the black menu bar just to make sure. Please do not click REFRESH more frequently than every 10 seconds, though, as it will degrade performance for everyone. Online help is available by clicking on the HELP button in the black Menubar. Please note that live chat will be disabled for this conference in order to avoid confusion and keep the discussion focused. At the end of the conference, you must close down your browser to fully exit WebBoard. This is especially important if you are participating from a public terminal, since failure to shut down the browser will leave it connected to the conference under your username. Please note that this live conference will discuss ONLY Library and Information Science Education and will be of limited duration (1.5 hours). Those wishing to participate in other ALA discussion lists should visit http://www.ala.org/membership/lists.html to see a list of available lists and to read instructions on how to subscribe to those lists. -- Ann O'Neill (aoneill@ala.org) ************ CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES The early bird deadline for the School for Scanning Chicago, with its corresponding registration discount, is April 14, 1999. School for Scanning The early bird deadline for the Chicago presentation of School for Scanning: Issues of Preservation and Access for Paper-Based Collections, with its corresponding registration discount, is April 14, 1999. The program will take place June 2-4, 1999 at the Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street at North Avenue, Chicago, IL. It is presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center and funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is cosponsored by The Getty Information Institute, the Chicago Historical Society, and the National Park Service. For more information or to request a flier, a copy of the flier is posted on NEDCC's web site at www.nedcc.org or contact Ginny Hughes, at ghughes@nedcc.org. Internet Distance Learning course at SUNY Buffalo The School of Information and Library Studies at the University at Buffalo (an accredited library school) will be offering an Internet Distance Learning course during the Summer Session of 1999- Marketing of Information Services, LIS 531. Information on the Distance Learning program, including registration, cost and who is eligible to take these courses is available at http://www.sils.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/distance.html For specific questions regarding this course, contact Dr. John Ellison at ellison@cecomet.net. ABC's of Metadata The Consortium for the Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) and Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) have announced a one day workshop on the ABCs of Metadata to be held in Ottawa, Canada May 3, 1999. This workshop is specially focused on metadata issues facing libraries, archives, museums, digital library projects and other cultural information organizations. The full program announcement and registration information can be found at http://www.cimi.org/cimi_institute. University of Pittsburgh SIS Workshops The University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences is offering 32 professional development workshops in May, June, July, and August ranging in length up to 5 days and covering the topics listed below. For workshop descriptions, dates, costs, and registration detail, see: http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/workshops Sixth International Conference "Crimea 99" "Libraries and Associations in the Transient World: New Technologies and New Forms of Cooperation" is the theme of Crimea 99, which will take place in Sudak (Feodosia, Koktebel, Stary Krym), Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine June 5-13, 1999 (Professional Program: June 7-11). This conference will be held under the aegis of IFLA and its main organizer is the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia. For more information, including the topics for discussion, a description of the satellite events, and the call for papers, please contact the Organizing Committee: CRIMEA99@gpntb.msk.su or consult the conference web site at http://www.gpntb.ru/. Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Midwest Meeting The CALA Midwest Chapter Annual Conference will be held on May 8, 1999, at the Loyola University Chicago Water Tower Campus, 25 E. Pearson, Chicago, IL. The conference keynote speaker will be Prof. Ling Hwey Jeng of University of Kentucky and president-elect of CALA; she will speak on "Culture Awareness and Its Implications on User Services." This program is co-sponsored by Illinois Special Library Association. The CALA Midwest Chapter Culture Event, Book Multimedia Exhibition/Author Lecture Program, will also be held on May 8, with the exhibition in the Instruction Room on 7th Floor of Lewis Library, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the author Lecture program will be at Rubloff Auditorium on the first floor, from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. Book signing will be after the lecture ends, outside the Auditorium. The two contemporary Chinese American writers, Dr. William Marr and Dr. Raymond Ku, will talk about their works and autograph their books. III Feria Internacional del Libro The 3rd International Book Fair of Puerto Rico will take place November 13-21, 1999 at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan. To request more information or to register, contact Jose Carvajal, President, PO Box 9066272, San Juan, PR 00906-6272; e-mail: feriapr@caribe.net. Be Prepared ... Managing a Mold Outbreak The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) announces that its Spring 1999 day-long workshop, "Be Prepared ... Managing a Mold Outbreak," will be held twice this Spring. These workshops are partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. They will be held Tuesday, May 25, 1999 at The Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA, and Wednesday, June 16, 1999 at the Cleveland Public Library, Lake Shore Facility, 17133 Lake Shore Boulevard, Cleveland, OH, where it will be presented in cooperation with the Cleveland Public Library Preservation Department, the Ohio Preservation Council (OPC), and the Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA). For more information contact the Preservation Services Office, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, 264 South 23rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103; E-mail: CCAHA@hslc.org Web Site: http://www.ccaha.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 & Editor; Editorial Assistance: Shonda Russell. 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. News items should be sent to the editor at the e-mail address above. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to listproc@ala.org with the only line of text being "subscribe an2 [your name]" (without quotation marks). 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