ALCTS Network News v17n23 (June 23, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v17n23.txt ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 17, Number 23 June 23, 1999 In this issue: ALCTS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE SPONSORS ORIENTATION COLLECTIONS, ACCESS AND PRESERVATION IN OUR DIGITAL FUTURE PCC PARTICIPANTS' MEETING AGENDA AGGREGATOR DATABASE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT DIGISTIZATION SEMINAR ANNOUNCED BY ECPA IMLS ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR FIRST NATIONAL AWARD FOR LIBRARY SERVICE ************ ALCTS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE SPONSORS ORIENTATION Be sure to join ALCTS President-Elect Peggy Johnson, Program Chair Marilyn McSweeney, Budget and Finance Chair Olivia Madison, and Executive Director Karen Muller on Sunday morning at 9:30 to learn how to be an effective ALCTS leader. The orientation will last just 90-minutes and will be sure to save you hours of frustration as you pursue whatever your ALCTS activities may be: programs, publications, or just plain running a better meeting. The session will be held in the Ernest Morial Convention Center, Room 272, 9:30-11 a.m. Sunday, June 27. -- Bill Garrison (garrisonw@spot.colorado.edu) ************ COLLECTIONS, ACCESS AND PRESERVATION IN OUR DIGITAL FUTURE 1999 ALCTS President's Program: Collections, Access and Preservation in our Digital Future The 1999 ALCTS Presidents Program, Collections, Access and Preservation in our Digital Future, will feature Pat Schroeder, former Congresswoman and current Executive Director of the Association of American Publishers; Bill Hannay, Partner in the Intellectual Property Group of Schiff Hardin & Waite, Chicago; Kate Nevins, Executive Director, Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET). Ann J. Wolpert, Director of Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Head and Chairman of the Board of MIT Press, will moderate. The program will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Monday, June 28. Pat Schroeder will address the issues of electronic resources and publishing; William Hannay will talk on the legal implications of the digital future; and Catherine Nevins will speak to the issues of networking in the digital future. The program will deal with such issues as the following: libraries purchasing and lending electronic resources; the book as a metaphor for the electronic book; legal implications of electronic access including copyright, fair use, licensing; libraries working together to lease or contract electronic resources, etc. The ALCTS Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony will precede the program, beginning at 9:30 a.m.. ************ PCC PARTICIPANTS' MEETING AGENDA Program for Cooperative Cataloging participants and all interested in cooperative cataloging activities are welcome to attend the general meeting to be held Sunday, June 27, 7 p.m. in the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Marborough. The agenda includes the activities of the Standing Committees, highlights of CONSER, BIBCO, NACO, and SACO, an introduction to international cooperative programs, and a focus on automation. We'll hear about a Task Force on Journals in Aggregator Databases, the value of automated cataloging tools, and a discussion about CORC and the PCC. -- Carolyn Ruth Sturtevant (cast@loc.gov) ************ AGGREGATOR DATABASE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT The PCC Standing Committee on Automation's Task Force on Journals in Aggregator Databases has recently completed a demonstration project with EBSCO to produce a set of MARC records to represent the full-text journals in EBSCO's Academic Search Elite. The records, which are derived from CONSER records for the corresponding print journals, are available for download at no charge from EBSCO. The task force encourages libraries that subscribe to the EBSCO product to test the loading of these records into their catalogs. A recent survey of librarians in PCC libraries suggests that a large majority want records in their catalogs to represent the full-text journals available in aggregators like EBSCO's Academic Search Elite, Bell and Howell's ProQuest Direct, and Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. The same survey indicates that three-quarters of libraries are interested in acquiring record sets. The task force continues to work with other interested vendors to encourage the development of record sets for their aggregations. For further information about downloading the EBSCO record set, please contact Oliver Pesch at opesch@epnet.com. Your comments and inquiries about the task force's work are welcome. They may be directed to any member of the task force. SCA Task Force on Journals in Aggregator Databases: John Riemer, Chair, SCA Task Force on Journals in Aggregator Database (U. Ga.), jriemer@arches.uga.edu; Jeanne Baker (U. Md.), jb8@umail.umd.edu; Matthew Beacom (Yale), matthew.beacom@yale.edu; Karen Calhoun, Chair, PCC Standing Committee on Automation (Cornell), ksc10@cornell.edu; Eric Celeste (MIT), efc@mit.edu; Ruth Haas (Harvard), rshaas@fas.harvard.edu; Jean Hirons (LC liaison), jhir@loc.gov; and Oliver Pesch (EBSCO liaison), opesch@epnet.com Karen Calhoun (ksc10@CORNELL.EDU) ************ DIGISTIZATION SEMINAR ANNOUNCED BY ECPA "Digistisation of European Cultural Heritage: Products-Principles-Techniques," a symposium organized by the Institute for Information Science (formerly Computer and Humanities) of Utrecht University and the Utrecht University Library, will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 21-23 October 1999. During the last decade, successful digitisation projects from various European countries have provided access to a wealth of historical and cultural sources in electronic form. These projects show a number of different approaches, some of which represent well-known standard solutions, while others may be innovative or obscure. To explore this variety is one aim of this symposium. Nevertheless, the assumption is that these projects have a number of underlying principles in common, which together define a 'European' approach to digitization that differs from the 'Anglo-Saxon' approach practiced in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Methodological themes are investigated in a series of plenary papers to be read by Jorgen van den Berg, Andrea Bozzi, Pedro Gonzalez, Anne R. Kenney, Frank Klaproth, Adolf Knoll, Dominique Maillet, Michael Pidd, Bas Savenije, and Abby Smith. A number of projects will be discussed separately in small-group sessions with opportunities for discussion and hands-on experience. Among these projects are the ESAC Folksong Corpus, Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum, World of Peter Stuyvesant, Illuminated Manuscripts of the Dutch Royal Library, and the Norwegian Digital Radio Archive. Many other projects will be informally demonstrated. The symposium will be held at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The participation fee is DFL 750 or 340 Euro; coffee, tea, three lunches, reception, and the Conference Dinner are included in the fee. Accommodation can be reserved through the Congress Bureau of Utrecht University. The programme, registration form and further information can be found at http://candl.let.uu.nl under the heading "events." -- Anne Muller (ECPA@bureau.knaw.nl) ***** IMLS ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR FIRST NATIONAL AWARD FOR LIBRARY SERVICE The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is pleased to announce that the nomination guidelines for the first annual IMLS National Award for Library Service are now available. The postmark deadline for the 2000 competition is November 20, 1999. The guidelines can be obtained online at the IMLS web site at http://www.imls.gov/. The award will celebrate outstanding American libraries that make significant and exceptional contributions to their communities. IMLS is seeking nominations of libraries that demonstrate extraordinary and innovative approaches to public service, reaching beyond the expected levels of community outreach and core programs generally associated with library services. The principal criterion for selection will be evidenced by the library's systematic and ongoing commitment to public service through exemplary and innovative programs and community partnerships. The Director of IMLS will make the award with the advice of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS). Any individual may submit a nomination and nominations of libraries of all sizes and types are encouraged. -- Maxwell, Eileen (EMaxwell@imls.gov) ************ 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: 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. 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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