ALCTS Network News v2n11 (October 11, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v2n11 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 2, Number 11 October 11, 1991 In this issue ALCTS PRESIDENT-ELECT BISHOFF ANNOUNCES THEME COUNCIL OF REGIONAL GROUPS PUBLISHES SPEAKERS BUREAU LIST McKERN NAMED 1991-92 LIBRARY/BOOK FELLOW VOSPER FELLOWS MORE GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE ADDENDUM TO ARTICLE IN LAST ISSUE ************************************************************************* OCTOBER 13-19 IS NATIONAL STANDARDS WEEK ************************************************************************* ALCTS PRESIDENT-ELECT BISHOFF ANNOUNCES THEME Each year, the division vice-presidents meet in Chicago for orientation to ALA leadership roles. As part of the programs, each vice-president /president-elect announces his or her theme. Here is what ALCTS vice-president Liz Bishoff said at this year's meeting, held September 20-21, 1991: Libraries are beginning to empower people; we are enfranchising our end users through increasingly direct, non-mediated information retrieval. This trend will continue and expand. My theme for ALCTS is to challenge my colleagues to identify the role of collections and technical services in this rapidly emerging electronic world and to make certain that librarians and library staff in these areas are prepared to meet these challenges. To achieve that: * ALCTS must face head-on the issue of where the technical and collection services librarians of the future are going to come from. We've already faced shortages of catalogers for last decade--and the future looks pretty dim. This must change if we expect to empower people. * ALCTS must investigate the role of technical and collections services in the electronic library. How will we acquire organize, preserve, replicate electronic information? What training is needed? Who will fill these roles? Will the organization of bibliographic information be the creator of the item--or the cataloger? Will preservation decisions be made by the database member or list server--or the preservation librarian? * It will be important for us to all work together. We need to strengthen working relationships between public services, technical services and automation specialists in our libraries, and we need to do the same in ALA. No organization can afford to replicate services. * ALCTS needs to continue to actively market its program. We must maintain and expand our membership. * To accomplish these as well as our long range goals, ALCTS needs to remain financially viable by continuing to provide programs and institutes that meet membership needs; to strengthen membership recruitment, and to manage our finances carefully. ************************************************************************* COUNCIL OF REGIONAL GROUPS PUBLISHES SPEAKERS BUREAU LIST The Council of Regional Groups (CRG) has just published the first edition of a Speakers' Bureau List. This list is a source of information on speakers who are willing to speak and share their experience and expertise at meetings, programs, or workshops relating to technical service activities. The list includes names, addresses, and topics, and it includes a geographical index and an index by topic. The speakers in this list have indicated that they will not charge a fee above expenses for their service. This list is being distributed to the officers of all CRG groups as part of the information packets now being mailed. Copies of this list are also available on request from the ALCTS Office, u34261@uicvm. ************************************************************************* McKERN NAMED 1991-92 LIBRARY/BOOK FELLOW RLMS Chair Debra McKern is among the twelve individuals who have been selected to represent the American Library Association and U.S. librarianship as Library Fellows. The joint program of the ALA and the United States Information Agency (USIA) places U.S. library and publishing professionals in institutions overseas for up to one year. Debra McKern, preservation officer at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and current chair of the ALCTS Reproduction of Library Materials Section, will survey the collection and assist in drawing up a plan and budget for a preservation and conservation program for the National Library of Egypt in Cairo. Her six-month assignment is from October 1991 to April 1992. The following individuals have also been selected: Gloria Fulton, associate librarian at Humboldt State University, Arcata, Calif., will consult on a library automation project at the Belgrade Public Library in Yugoslavia; Stanley A. Elman, retired librarian from the Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co. in Burbank, Calif., will assess current and future uses of automated applications at the National Library of Poland; Marjorie Rosenthal, assistant professor at the Palmer School of Library and Information Studies in Brookville, N.Y., will teach at Hebrew University's Graduate School of Library and Archive Studies in Jerusalem, Israel; Deborah V. H. Abraham, supervisor ofthe Reference Department at the Public Library of Brookline (Mass.), will assist in automating the Indian Institute of Management's technical services operations, including serials, acquisitions, cataloging and bibliographic control; Barbara Rush, director of the U.F.S.D. 10 Library-Media Center in Commack, N.Y., will teach courses on the elementary school libraries and conduct advanced storytelling workshops at Kay Teachers' College in Beer-Sheva and for the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture in various locations throughout Israel; Sue Sherif, public services librarian at the Fairbanks (Alaska) North Star Borough Public Library, will present courses on library services for children and young adults at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik; James Moldovan, librarian at the Library of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, will teach courses in library automation, computerization and cataloging and will assist in the reorganization and modernization of the cataloging department at the Central University Library in Bucharest, Romania; Maria-Solange Macias, programs librarian for the Miami-Dade (Fla.) Public Library System, will conduct in-service training for the library administration staff at the Banco del Libro in La Paz, Bolivia; Ann Montgomery Smith, director of libraries and curator of special collections at Wentworth Institute in Boston, Mass., will teach seminars on library methods and techniques at the Colegio de Bibliotecologos del Peru in Lima; Anthony M. Angiletta, chief of the General Reference Department at Stanford (Calif.) University, will teach courses at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany; and Jitka Hurych, head of the Science and Engineering Department at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, will present seminars on the use of American reference resources, evaluate American studies collections and advise on the improvement of collections and reference services at the All-Union Library of Foreign Literature in Moscow, USSR. Hurych attended IFLA in Moscow, serving as interpreter for the ALA delegation. ************************************************************************* VOSPER FELLOWS The IFLA Executive Board seeks applicants for the Robert Vosper IFLA Fellows Programme. This program is open to librarians with exceptional professional knowledge who can contribute to international efforts and have the potential to be an influential and effective leader in international settings. Four Fellows will be accepted and each will receive $10,000 for their work. The Fellows selected will execute projects in one of IFLA's Core Programmes (PAC, UAP, UBCIM, and UDT). The work is part time, on secondment from the parent institution, for a period of one year. Candidates sponsored by national institutions with international involvement will have an additional advantage. Deadline for applications for the 1992 class is February 1, 1992. Full details on the Program are available from IFLA Headquarters, POB 95312, 2509 CH The Hague, Netherlands. In 1991, the Executive Board awarded the Robert Vosper IFLA Fellows Grant to the following three recipients: 1) Michele Cloonan (USA-UCLA) who will develop a curriculum for preservation administration in library schools; 2) Barbara Stefaniak (Poland) who will study the availability of Western literature in Polish libraries; and 3) Titia van der Werf (Netherlands) who would review developments in personalized information technology (PIT) and its use in libraries in order to examine the implications and potentials of this technology for individual access to library services. The Grant from the Council on Library Resources for the Robert Vosper IFLA Fellows Programme was to fund 4 Fellows in 1989, 1990, and 1991. One recipient for the 1989 Fellowship had defaulted, only 2 Fellowships were awarded in 1990, and 3 were awarded in 1991. CLR has indicated that if suitable proposals were not submitted in a given year,the Grant could be awarded in later years. Thus, 4 Fellowships could be awarded in 1992. Jay Lambrecht (USA-University of Illinois-Chicago) received a Vosper Fellowship in 1990 to work on issues related to minimal level cataloging. ************************************************************************* MORE GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE Baber Grant Application materials are available for the 1992 American Library Association (ALA) Carroll Preston Baber Grant. The grant, which will be an amount of up to $7,500, is awarded for the winning proposal for innovative research that could lead to an improvement in library service to a particular group of people. For six years, the grant has been funded annually by Eric Baber who established the grant in the memory of his father, who was library director at Kansas State Teachers College (now Emporia State University) for 27 years and an active ALA member. During the first six years, Baber grants have been awarded to researchers in public, school and academic libraries, the Department of Instruction Technology in a university and two schools of library and information science. Projects have had potential to improve service to children, elementary and secondary school students, college students and owners of small businesses. More information and the application materials are available from the ALA Office for Research and Statistics, u08774@uicvm. Applications will be judged by the Baber Jury, chaired by Sue Searing of the Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Final applications are due by March 2, 1992. Applicants who wish a preliminary review by the Jury may send draft proposals to the chair by December 1, 1991. The grant recipient will be announced at the 1992 ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco. CLR Cooperative Research Program Grant The Council on Library Resources has announced that November 1, 1991, is the deadline for fall cycle submissions for a Cooperative Research Program grant. These grants are intended to encourage joint research by librarians and faculty members. The Cooperative Research Program supports studies that range widely over many aspects of library operations and services. Examples of recently funded cooperative research grants include "Preliminary Music Thesaurus" and "End User Searching of MEDLINE." Grants have been awarded to librarian-faculty teams in all geographical regions of the U.S. and Canada. Recipients have included librarians from a wide variety of libraries (including archives, college, state, and academic and research libraries) and faculty members from schools of library and information science as well as other disciplines. Grant applications must be submitted jointly by librarians and members of faculties in library and information science or, when appropriate, other pertinent disciplines. Grants are awarded twice each year, in the spring and fall. The deadlines for submission of proposals are April 1 and November 1. Inquiries and proposals should be addressed to: Cooperative Research. Council on Library Resources, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 313, Washington, D.C. 20036 (Tel. 202-483-7474). ************************************************************************* ADDENDUM TO ARTICLE IN LAST ISSUE In Vol. 2, no. 10, AN2 reported the availability of a report on CARE AND HANDLING OF RECORDED SOUND MATERIALS. It is available on request from Trish Cece at the Commission on Preservation and Access, e-mail: sitts@gwuvm or voice: 20 2-483-7474. The e-mail and phone numbers were omitted from the original notice. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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; Arnold Hirshon, President; Karen Muller, Executive Director. Editor: Karen Muller (u34261@uicvm); Editorial Assistant: Andrea Wiley. 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 Bitnet address u34261@uicvm. To subscribe, issue the network command "tell listserv@uicvm sub alcts [your account] [your name]." 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