ALCTS Network News v2n03 (July 25, 1991)
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                                                      ISSN: 1056-6694

                           ALCTS NETWORK NEWS

                    An electronic publication of the
         Association for Library Collections & Technical Services

                           Volume 2, Number 3
                              July 25, 1991

    In this issue

        RATHER RECEIVES MELVIL DEWEY MEDAL
        ALCTS TASK FORCE ON ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE SEEKS INPUT
        ALCTS REORGANIZATION: ALMS and CMDS
        FRASE RECEIVED ALA HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIP
        VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR 1992 ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
            PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM
        SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, AND OTHER CONTINUING
            EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES

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                    RATHER RECEIVES MELVIL DEWEY MEDAL

Lucia J. Rather, retired director for cataloging and collection services
at the Library of Congress, is the 1991 recipient of the American Library
Association (ALA) Melvil Dewey Medal.  The medal, donated by Forest Press,
Inc., is given to an individual or group for recent creative professional
achievement in library management, training, cataloging and
classification, and the tools and techniques of librarianship.  "The jury
is pleased to award the Dewey Medal to such a worthy recipient as Lucia J.
Rather in recognition of her continuing national leadership of a high
order in cataloging and in library management and training," said
Charlotta C. Hensley, chair of the Melvil Dewey Medal Committee.  Rather
has held a number of positions at the Library of Congress including
bibliographer, library information systems specialist, and group head,
assistant and acting chief for the MARC Development Office. She also
worked at the Brooklyn Public Library. Rather retired on February 1, 1991.
She has both a bachelor's and a master's degree from the University of
North Carolina.

The medal waslpresented on Wednesday, July 3, 1991, at the Inaugural
Banquet during the ALA Annual Conference in Atlanta.
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      ALCTS TASK FORCE ON ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE SEEKS INPUT
                      by Charlotta Hensley

At Midwinter 1991, the ALCTS Board agreed to appoint a Task Force on
Organizational Structure.  Members are Bill Gosling, Carolyn Mueller, Mark
Roosa, and Beth Shapiro.  The charge is the following:

"To review the current division and section organizational structure of
ALCTS, consulting widely within the division, and to recommend a new
organizational model that will be appropriate to meet the needs of
librarians in library collections and technical services during the late
1990's and after the year 2000; to report regularly to ALCTS Organization
and Bylaws Committee; and to complete its work by 1993 Annual Conference."

We are requesting that ALCTS members provide us with ideas about areas
that the association is not now covering but that will be important in the
future; areas that will continue to be important; and areas that will
diminish or disappear.  Please provide your comments to: Charlotta C.
Hensley, Chair ALCTS/TFOS, 1385 Edinboro Drive, Boulder, CO 80303 (or
email: HENSLEY_C@CUBLDR.Colorado.EDU) as soon as possible and no later
than December 1, 1991.  We look forward to hearing from you.
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              ALCTS REORGANIZATION: ALMS and CMDS

With the bylaws for the Acquisition of Library Materials Section (ALMS)
and the Collection Management and Development Section (CMDS) approved by
the membership of the Resources Section, the officers of the former
Resources Section, the reorganization task forces for each section, and
the new section executive committees reviewed plans for the new section.
A public meeting of librarians interested in the proposed structure and
the Resources Section reorganization was well-attended and produced
thoughtful comments and suggestions.  Attendees were urged to volunteer
for the new committees, with particular encouragement to representation by
bibliographers/selectors in smaller colleges and universities, and in
public libraries. Specific charges to these committee and appointments
will appear in the forthcoming ALCTS Roster.

Collection Management and Development Section

The Executive Committee and the Nominating Committee of the new Collection
Management and Development Section were activated at the Atlanta Annual
Conference. Included in the Executive Committee were interim chair Cecily
Johns, incoming chair Carolyn Bucknall, vice-chair/chair-elect David
Farrell, and recently elected members-at-large, Eugene Wiemers, Margaret
Johnson, and Bonita Bryant.  Three additional one-year appointments to the
Committee, Edward Shreeves and Bart Harloe as members-at-large, and
Kathryn Carpenter as secretary, filled remaining Executive Committee
vacancies. The Nominating Committee, which also began work at Atlanta, is
composed of Gayle Garlock (chair), Bonnie MacEwan, and Julie Pringle.

The Executive Committee reviewed proposals for CMDS committees and
discussion groups, made revisions, and worked with the ALMS and division
leadership to establish a new structure.  Standing Committees which are to
be appointed as soon as possible are: Policy and Planning, Continuing
Education, Publications and Publicity, National Shelflist Count, Education
for Collection Development, Collection Development Practice in a Changing
Environment, Administration of Collection Development Programs, and
Collection Development and Electronic Media.

Three discussion groups continue under the aegis of CMDS: Chief Collection
Development Officers of Large Research Libraries, Collection Development
Librarians of Academic Libraries, and Collection Management/Selection for
Public Libraries.

Acquisition of Library Materials Section

The Executive Committee of the new Acquisition of Library Materials
Section also began its work at the Atlanta Annual Conference. The
Executive Committee reviewed reports from the Reorganization Task Force
and the Review Task Force and worked with the ALMS and division leadership
to establish a new structure. There will be two types of Standing
Committees, those pertaining to administrative support and those related
to issues of concern to the section. The administrative support committees
are Nominating, Policy and Planning, and Publications; the issues
committees are Acquisitions Organization and Management Committee,
Technology for Acquisitons, and Education.

The new section has approved four discussion groups at this time:
Acquisitions Librarians/Vendors of Library Materials, Gifts and Exchange,
Acquisitons Administration, and Acquisitions Topics for Public Libraries.
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           FRASE RECEIVED ALA HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIP

The American Library Association (ALA) Council has awarded an Honorary
Life Membership to Robert W. Frase, the first executive director of the
American National Standards Committee Z39.  Frase was director of the
Library Statistics Project for the ALA (1973-75) and vice president,
economist and director of the Washington Office of the Association of
American Publishers and predecessor organizations (1950-72).  He served as
an economist and administrator for several government agencies (1938-43)
including the War Production Board, the War Relocation Authority, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, and the U.S.  Department of Labor.  Frase was
assistant director and economist for the National Commission on New
Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (1975-1978), special assistant to
the secretary of commerce ( 1945-50), chief of the Mission to Byelorussia,
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (1946), and staff
member for the Committee on Public Administration, Social Science Research
Council.

He played a key role in developing the Library of Congress'
Cataloging-in-Publication (CIP) project and the promulgation of the
International Standards Book Number (ISBN). In recent years, he played key
roles in getting the United States to agree to the Nairobi Protocol to the
Florence Agreement and in establishing a national policy on permanent
paper. The permanent, durable paper resolution was signed into law by the
President in 1990.  A Guggenheim Fellow (1948-50), Frase received his
bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and a master's degree
from Harvard University.  Frase is the author and coauthor of several
books and numerous journals and encyclopedia articles in U.S. and foreign
publications. He was a consultant and expert to UNESCO on publishing
statistics and the Florence Agreement, and served as a member of U.S.
governmental delegations to international conferences on statistics,
copyright and the Florence Agreement.  He received the award on Saturday,
June 29, 1991, during the ALA Annual Conference in Atlanta.
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  VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR 1992 ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM

American Library Association (ALA) President Patricia Glass Schuman is
seeking volunteers to be discussion leaders and recorders during the 1992
ALA Annual Conference President's Program, "Your Right to Know:
Librarians Make it Happen!" The deadline is November 1, 1991. The program
will be a day-long "conference within a conference" bringing together
approximately 2,000 ALA members to hear theme speakers, and to participate
in discussion groups.  The major outcomes of the program will be:  to
heighten the understanding of the role of librarians as information
navigators" in our society; to develop strategies for publicizing the
crucial role which librarians play in promoting the public's "right to
know," and to produce a publication which can serve as an effective tool
in promoting the 1990's as the "Decade of the Librarian."  The volunteers
will spark discussions within groups of eight to 10 randomly-assigned
registrants, and will record the ideas, opinions, and action plans of the
participants. Discussion leaders and reporters must be ALA members, and be
willing to attend, at their own expense, a training session and
orientation during the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Antonio on Sunday,
January 26, 1992, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.  To volunteer or to recommend
someone, submit name, address and telephone number to Joseph A. Boisse,
The Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.
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  SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, AND OTHER CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES

Serials Management Institute to be Given by ALCTS

ALCTS will present an institute in Chicago entitled: "Serials Management:
Shaping a Changing Environment."  It will be held on October 25-26, 1991.
Faculty will include representatives from the publishing, scholarly,
vendor, and library communities. Through presentations, group discussions,
and facilitated sessions, participants will gain an understanding of the
components and dynamics of the serials industry, share experiences, and
develop strategies for managing the present serials environment. Brochures
will be mailed shortly to ALCTS members.  For further information, call
Alex Bloss or Yvonne McLean at 800-545-2433.

Dewey Decimal Institutes in Birmingham, AL and Phoenix, AZ

The CCS Cataloging of Children's Materials Committee and Forest Press OCLC
will present two more one-day workshops on the Abridged 12th Edition and
the 20th Edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification.  One institute will
be hel d at the Birmingham Public Library on September 13, 1991.  The
other will be held in Phoenix on October 30 as part of the Arizona State
Library Association/Mountain Plains Library Association annual conference.
Faculty will include representatives from the Library of Congress and
local educators.  For further information, call Alex Bloss or Yvonne
McLean at 800-545-2433.

Conference on Future of the Book to be Held in Madison, WI

"Whither the Book?  A Conference to Examine the Book Historically and
Discuss Its Future Within the Context of Current Changes in Electronic
Communications" will be held on Thursday, September 26, 1991, in the
Auditorium, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 816 State Street (on
the Library Mall), Madison, Wisconsin.  This conference is organized by
the Silver Buckle Press of the University of Wisconsin-Madison General
Library System, with generous support from the Brittingham Fund.  On the
program:  Terry Belanger,"The Future of the Book (If Any)"; Gary Frost,
"The Un-Electrified Book: Persistence of a Cultural Tool"; Nicholas
Pickwoad, "History of Bookbindings and the Evidence of Readership;
1500-1800"; Patricia Ann Carlson, "Square Books & Round Books: Cognitive
Implications of Hypermedia"; and Robert Darnton, "Forbidden Best Sellers
of Prerevolutionary France."  The Conference will include demonstrations
of state-of-the-art computer-based technology, book exhibitions and tours.
It is free and open to all.  For more information, write to: Book
Conference, Silver Buckle Press, College Library, 600 N. Park St.,
Madison, WI 53706 or phone Barbara Tetenbaum (conference organizer)
(608)263-4929 or email:  joebeets@wiscmacc.bitnet.
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