ALCTS Network News v2n12 (October 15, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v2n12 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 2, Number 12 October 15, 1991 In this issue HEARING SCHEDULED ON ALA CODE OF ETHICS MORE WAYS TO USE THE CATALOG RLG ANNOUNCES PUBLICATION ON PRESERVATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS UPCOMING CONFERENCES "MARC CATALOGING FOR MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS" PUBLICATION AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVEN'T CATALOGED AN2 YET ... ************************************************************************** HEARING SCHEDULED ON ALA CODE OF ETHICS The ALA Committee on Professional Ethics will conduct an open hearing on the possible revision of the ALA Code of Ethics on Sunday, January 26 from 8-10 p.m. during the 1992 ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Antonio. The Code of Ethics, last revised in 1981, has come under critical scrutiny in the library press in recent years. The hearing will examine the question of whether revisions of the current code are needed and, if so, what the nature of the revisions should be. All persons who wish to testify, whether on their own or on behalf of an ALA unit, are invited to contact the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom for a guaranteed time slot at the hearing. Open debate will be conducted, as time permits, following the testimony of those who have signed up in advance. Written testimony from those unable to attend will be considered equally by the committee if submitted. If you wish to present or submit testimony on behalf of an ALCTS group, be sure to review the content of your testimony with the group AND the ALCTS Board of Directors. Contact ALCTS President Arnold Hirshon at ahirshon@desire.wright.edu for more information. ************************************************************************* MORE WAYS TO USE THE CATALOG Information Access Company Signs Agreement with the UC Libraries The Information Access Company has announced the availability of three databases on the online University of California Union Catalog, MELVYL. According to Dennis Smith, Director of Library Affairs for the UC Office of the President, "Students can now access the databases on their own, using already familiar search terminology. There is no cost to the library patron for using the Information Access Company databases. All costs are covered in our lease arrangement." The database tapes will be updated monthly and will be accessed over the UC network to UC campus libraries. H.W. Wilson Signs Agreement with OCLC The H.W. Wilson Company has announced the availability of seventeen of its databases on OCLC's EPIC and FirstSearch online reference services. The databases, available online since 1984 through the WILSONLINE Information System and on CD-ROM since 1987 through WILSONDISC, are being made available in their entirety on the OCLC systems as part of Wilson's ongoing commitment to libraries. The EPIC service is a full-featured online reference system that provides subject access as well as keyword and Boolean searching to a broad range of databases. FirstSearch, with its easy-to-use interface,is the first OCLC online product designed for patrons. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, Business Periodicals Index, and Humanities Index will be available through these services by the end of 1991. The fourteen remaining databases will be made available during the course of 1992. ************************************************************************* RLG ANNOUNCES PUBLICATION ON PRESERVATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS The Research Libraries Group (RLG) has just published PHOTOGRAPH PRESERVATION AND THE RESEARCH LIBRARY, a 56-page monograph exploring the many challenges that photograph collections pose to research libraries and other repositories. Photographs exist in research collections in the millions, and the effort to preserve them is a monumental task. The publication features papers by six experts on photo collections and preservation. They are Bernard F. Reilly, Jr., of the Library of Congress; James M. Reilly, of the Image Permanence Institute and University of Rochester; Debbie Hess Norris, of University of Delaware and the Winterthur Museum; Steven T. Puglia, of the National Archives; Paula De Stefano, of New York University; and Julia Van Haaften, of The New York Public Library. The publication is free but there is a charge of $5.00 per copy for postage and handling (payment must accompany your order). Please mail orders to Distribution Services Center, Research Libraries Group, 1200 Villa Street, Mountain View, CA 94041-1100. Make checks payable to RLG and specify the name of the publication on your order. For more information, contact Jennifer Porro, Corporate Communications, RLG, e-mail BL.JMP@RLG.BITNET or BL.JMP@RLG.STANFORD.EDU. ************************************************************************* UPCOMING CONFERENCES Charleston Conference Registration Materials Avaialble The preliminary conference agenda for the 1991 Charles Conference on Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition is now available from conference organizer Katina Strauch (strauchk@citadel). This year's conference will be held November 7-9, 1991. OCLC Seminars Added to 1992 Computers in Libraries Conference COMPUTERS IN LIBRARIES 1992, which will be held March 4-7, 1992 at the Washington Sheraton, Washington, D.C., will include seminars on OCLC along with the more traditional programs on aspects of library technology. David Brunell, Executive Director of the Bibliographical Center for Research, Denver, will serve as the OCLC Conference Program Chair and will work with OCLC management to involve in-house OCLC specialists in his programming. Alan Meckler, publisher of OCLC MICRO and other library technology journals, reports that "We will be offering about 18 seminars on OCLC subjects over three-days along with an additional 50 seminars on various aspects of library technology." For further information, contact Nancy Nelson, Vice-President, Information and Technology. UT at Austin GSLIS to Hold Workshop on Archival Cataloging The University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Library and Information Science will hold a seminar, "APPM and Archival Cataloging," on December 5-6, 1991 at the Joe C. Thompson Conference Center at UT. The workshop will be presented by Steven L. Hensen, assistant director of special collections at Duke University, and will be a practical application of his "Archives, Personal Papers and Manuscripts," 2d ed. For more information contact David Terry at 512-471-8806. ************************************************************************* "MARC CATALOGING FOR MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS" PUBLICATION AVAILABLE MARC CATALOGING FOR MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS, a special issue of "Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship," has been guest edited by Hope Mayo, of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. The special issue examines the pros and cons of using the MARC format for cataloging medieval manuscripts. She reviews the present state of medieval manuscript cataloging in traditional forms and examines the advantages and disadvantages of using the MARC format to organize and communicate the kinds of information needed by students of medieval manuscripts. Other authors include Thomas L. Amos, of St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn.; Sara Shatford Layne, of UCLA, and Alexandra Mason, of the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Single copies of this issue of "Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship" (vol.6, no.1) are available for $12.50 from ALA Subscriptions, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 1545. ************************************************************************* IF YOU HAVEN'T CATALOGED AN2 YET ... ... we can now provide you with the OCLC record number. This information was obtained from the AUTOCAT bulletin board, posted on Fri, 11 October 1991 12:37:41 EDT by Judith Shelton