ALCTS Network News v1n01 (May 13, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v1n01 ISSN: Pending ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 1, Number 1 May 13, 1991 In this issue WELCOME, Ruth Carter, ALCTS President ALCTS IN ATLANTA: ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMS RLG BOARD SETS ORGANIZATION'S COURSE FOR THE 1990S ************************************************************************** Welcome to the ALCTS NETWORK NEWS (AN2). It is distributed via a new list server, ALCTS@uicvm, maintained by the University of Illinois at Chicago. ALCTS officers and staff are delighted that we can improve services to members via this electronic newsletter. It is our goal to distribute news and information via this rapid method as well as through the ALCTS NEWSLETTER. We hope you will be pleased with AN2! Now, enjoy this first issue, and let us hear from you! Ruth C. Carter ALCTS President ************************************************************************* ALCTS IN ATLANTA: ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMS Compiled by Marie Rochelle, ALCTS Administrative Secretary The previous issue of the ALCTS NEWSLETTER (Volume 2, Number 3) listed the overall meeting schedule for ALCTS committees, programs, and discussion groups, based on the information available from the ALCTS office. This installment of annual program notes features topics and speakers and other special notices about the activities planned for the 1991 Annual Conference in Atlanta. Although we are able to include location information, please remember to check your conference schedule upon arrival in Atlanta for last minute changes. ALCTS Membership Meeting and Presidents Program Monday, July 1, 7:30-9:00 a.m.; Georgia World Congress Center, 160W Dr. Winton Solberg, Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be keynote speaker at the ALCTS Membership Meeting and Awards Breakfast, 7:30-9:00 a.m., Monday, July 1. At this breakfast, the Hugh Atkinson Memorial Award (cosponsored by ALCTS, LAMA, ACRL, and LITA) will be presented. Dr. Solberg, who is writing a history of the University of Illinois, will present a unique view of Hugh Atkinson's contributions to the profession. Awards sponsored by ALCTS will also be presented: Best of LRTS, Esther J. Piercy Award, Margaret Mann Citation, Blackwell North America Scholarship Award, Bowker Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award, and the Worst Serial Title Change Awards. ALCTS President's Program: Collection Management in the Online Environment: A Sampler Monday, July 1, 9:00-11:00 a.m.; Georgia World Congress Center, Auditorium Directly following the ALCTS Membership meeting, Ruth Carter, President, ALCTS, will present a program on collection management. It will be a broad overview of the issues in the context of online integrated catalogs and regional catalogs and bibliographic utilities. Speakers and their topics include Jim Neal: An Overview of the Issues; Wes Boomgaarden: Preservation Decision-Making Enhancements; Gay Dannelly: Access, Ownership, and Related Paradoxes; Carol Chamberlain: Managing Finances; and Brian Schottlaender: New Roles for the Catalog: Empowering the Selector. Library of Congress and National Libraries Reporting Session Saturday, June 29, 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Georgia World Congress Ctr.,267W Hear Henriette Avram, Duane Arenales, and Sarah Thomas report the latest from the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the National Agricultural Library! Practical Practica: Graduate Library School Students in the Catalog Department Saturday, June 29, 9:00-11:00 a.m.; Georgia World Congress Center, 215E ALCTS CCS Committee on Education, Training & Recruitment for Cataloging Cataloging practica amplify library school students' cataloging education, provide "on the job" training, and supply a method for recruitment of new catalogers. Speakers drawn from cataloging education and cataloging practice, and a panel of student reactors, will compare practicum designs and evaluation methods. They will also discuss the complex interactions between student, professor, and librarian and characterize the benefits derived by all during the practicum. Managing Photocopying Services in a Digital Age Saturday, June 29, 2:00-4:00 p.m.; Radisson Hotel, Grand Ballroom Center ALCTS RLMS Copying Committee An exploration of models for managing photocopy services in a large academic library, a smaller academic library, and a large public library. The program will also explore the future of photocopy services in a digital age. Serial Links that Bind: Serials and International Cooperation Saturday, June 29, 2:00-4:00 p.m.; Marriott Marquis, Stockholm Room ALCTS Serials Section A panel will discuss the ways international cooperation has aided serials access by the application of standards to the acquisition and cataloging of serials, and the reporting of serials holding. Agencies such as NISO and ISO, NSDP and ISDS, and IFLA will present recent developments in providing access to serials. Open Hearing on Machine-Readable AACR2 Saturday, June 29, 8:00-10:00 p.m.; Radisson, Grand Ballroom Center ALCTS CCS Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access CC:DA is sponsoring a hearing designed to give users an opportunity to present their ideas on the value and use of AACR2 in machine-readable form. The hearing is scheduled at the request of the Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR and ALA Publishing Services as a means of gaining ideas for consideration during the development of a machine-readable AACR2. Sunday, June 30, 8:00-11:00 a.m.; Georgia World Congress Center, 309E Union Lists of Serials Committee. Chair: Gene Dickerson (Villanova). Session will begin with a one hour business meeting and then move to a discussion format with two topics. Topic 1: The Merge of the Serials Holdings Statement Standard (Z39.44) with the Non-Serial Holdings Statement Standard (Z39.57). Speaker: Stephen Davis (Columbia University) who is under contract to NISO to investigate an editorial merge of the two standards. Topic 2: Data Exchange for Union Listing Data Between Systems. Speakers: Rich Greene (OCLC), Joe Santosuosso (Faxon), and others. Dewey Discovered: The New Abridged Edition Sunday, June 30, 9:00-11:00 a.m.; Georgia World Congress Center, 217E ALCTS CCS Cataloging of Children's Materials Committee This program will address the new abridged Dewey and the changes that have been made. Discover how this edition rates, what its relationship to the full Dewey is, and how to implement the changes in the workplace. Beyond Price: Serials Trends in the 90s Sunday, June 30, 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Omni Hotel, Rutherford Hall AAP/ALCTS Joint Committee, ALCTS Serials Acquisitions Committee, Publisher/Vendor-Library Relations Committee Pricing has been such a hot topic during the past years that it has overshadowed other questions related to serials. Which marketing practices work? Which don't? How are claims being handled? What is handled with serials automation? And, yes, how do libraries budget for serials? Speakers will share and react to the results of the AAP/ALCTS 1990 national survey of publishers, librarians, and vendors, looking at trends in the serials marketplace. Sunday, June 30, 9:00-11:00 a.m.; Georgia World Congress Center, 261W LITA/ALCTS Serials Automation Interest Group. Chair: Rita Echt. Topic: Running Dual Systems II. Speakers: Caroline Early (National Agricultural Library) and others. Continuation of the discussion begun at the 1991 Midwinter meeting of maintaining serials check-in and/or holdings information in multiple systems. Issues related to both the current environment and future development of maintenance and access to holdings and check-in information will be the focus of discussion. Sunday, June 30, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Westin Peachtree, Park Room ALCTS Computer Files Discussion Group. Chair: Patricia Vanderberg Topic: Remote access data files, acquisition-catalog issues as well as reports from LC and utilities representatives. Sunday, June 30, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Marriott Marquis, Stockholm Room CCS Cataloging and Classification Research Discussion Group. Chair: Elaine Svenonius Topics: What are the current research needs in cataloging and classification? What is a research question? How can a workable research design be developed to address a research question? What is the best methodology for a particular question? What sources of research funding are available? What journals might be the most appropriate to publish a paper on a particular topic? Collection Development Librarians and Library Development Programs: Partnership for Profit Sunday, June 30, 2:00-4:00 p.m.; Georgia World Congress Center, 166W ALCTS RS Collection Management and Development Committee; LAMA FRFDS; Friends of Libraries U.S.A. This program for library directors, development officers, and collection development librarians presents models of successful library development programs. Topics include issues and trends in library development, essential components of a development program, how to create and sustain a library presence within a highly competitive environment, and relations with donors and other external units. Knowing the Score: Preserving Collections of Music Sunday, June 30, 2:00-5:30 p.m.; Westin Peachtree, Park Room ALCTS PLMS; PLA; ACRL RBMS; Music Library Association An examination of the problems and challenges of preserving music in both print and non-print formats. Librarians and library administrators will learn about the wide range of material found in music libraries, their inherent preservation problems, and how strategies are devised to address these problems. An exhibit of preservation solutions is planned and informational resource handouts will be provided. Sunday, June 30, 2:00-4:00 p.m.; Georgia World Congress Center, 157W ALA Committee on Professional Ethics will present a skit on library-vendor relationships, particularly ethical ambiguities and possible conflicts of interest. The "Not-Quite-Ready-For-Saturday-Night-Live Players" will condense a number of ethical issues confronting librarians and present them in dramatic fashion to stimulate discussion. Open Meeting on the Restructuring of the Resources Section Sunday, June 30, 2:00-5:30 p.m.; Marriott Marquis, McKenzie Room As part of the Resources Section Executive Committee Meeting, an open meeting will be held to present and discuss the proposed structures of the new Collection Management and Development Section and the Resources Section (or Acquisition of Library Materials Section, if the name change is approved). Sunday, June 30, 4:30-5:30 p.m.; Marriott Marquis, Cabinet Room RLMS Discussion Group. Chair: Julie Arnott. Topics: Archival photocopies and copyflow, including the cost factors of each and possibly touching on color copying. Monday, July 1, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Georgia World Congress Center, 163W SS Acquisitions Committee will hold a public forum to share information on topics of mutual concern, and to solicit ideas for future directions the committee may wish to explore. All interested serials acquisitions practitioners are encouraged to attend. Rethinking the Subject Catalog: Time for a Paradigm Shift Monday, July 1, 2:00-4:00 p.m.; Georgia World Congress Center, 201E ALCTS Subject Analysis Committee The program opens the library community to new techniques of subject analysis and access with a view to initiating change in the way librarians perform subject cataloging. The goal is to build access systems that enhance user satisfaction with retrieval in online catalogs. Reaching this goal will require that catalogers regain the techniques of subject analysis and subject indexing that have become almost lost in the era of copy cataloging. Speakers will provide a theoretical framework as well as give practical suggestions for short term solutions. Pricing Issues with the New Media Monday, July 1, 2:00-4:00 p.m.; Georgia World Congress Center, 161W ALCTS Library Materials Price Index Committee This program will explore pricing options and practices in the emerging industry of CD ROM sources. Library/Vendor Data Exchange: The Librarian's Perspective Tuesday, July 2, 9:00-11:00 a.m.; Georgia World Congress Center, 157W ALCTS Commercial Technical Services Committee and ALCTS Technical Services Costs Committee This program will focus on authority control and financial records. Speakers will discuss: what one should look for in a vendor; cost factors; expectations and reality; current and future needs; and internal implementation. ************************************************************************* RLG BOARD SETS ORGANIZATION'S COURSE FOR THE 1990s At the March 7-8 meeting of the Research Libraries Group's Board of Governors, following the most successful fiscal year in the corporation's history, the Board approved a comprehensive proposal to take the organization into a new set of activities and business directions. Management has been charged to plan and carry out a set of changes that will concentrate on activities where corporate leverage is greatest and that will enable the organization to meet an array of emerging research information needs. RLG will continue to advance through the cooperative activity of its members, building on established strengths and applying group leverage in new areas. As envisioned, RLG will become a vehicle for the cooperative development of research information management systems, technology, and associated standards focused on primary materials, nontraditional formats, and information delivery. RLG92 will offer its members and general-service users major expansion of bibliographic access to archival holdings, computer files, and visual materials; new, specialized data resources and management services; and products and services to speed and enhance information delivery. RLG president James Michalko explained: "In its first 15 years, RLG developed activities and services focused on a set of basic research library needs. Alternative sources have emerged for many of the products RLG provided during the 1980s. RLG's efforts in the 1990s should complement rather than replicate services members can obtain through local systems or other established providers." In addressing the Board, Michalko observed that "the time is right for RLG to reformulate its programs, products, and services in direct support of scholarship and research. Our landmark assessments of information needs in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences have demonstrated enormous scope for expanded activity in the organization and management of nontraditional information types. The success of RLG's technical and programmatic support for archival and records repositories suggest that the 1990s will be the right time to establish, definitively, effective management and access tools for a broad family of unique research resources. The recent successful beta test of RLG's Internet-based document-transmission facility and the introduction of its workstation-based interlibrary loan management tool position the organization to capitalize on the widespread need for access and management software-designed to operate on affordable, local platforms, but still capable of communicating with union databases of scholarly information." Michalko also announced at the March meeting that a proposal being prepared by OCLC, the Online Computer Library Center, to the member libraries of RLG might lead to an intersystem link between the two organizations and facilitate service to the higher education and research library communities. In June, the Board will act on the first elements of an organizational transformation that is expected to include streamlined programs administration, new definitions and categories of membership, and a new governance structure. ************************************************************************* ALCTS NETWORK NEWS 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. Editor: Karen Muller (u34261@uicvm); Editorial staff for this issue: Nancy John, Arnold Hirshon, Ruth Carter, Alex Bloss, Yvonne McLean, Ann Swartzell. ISSN: Application pending. ALCTS NETWORK NEWS is available only in electronic form. News items and requests for back issues should be sent to the editor at Bitnet address u34261@uicvm. To subscribe, issue the network command "tell listserv@uicvm sub alcts [your account] [your name]." 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