ALCTS Network News v3n03 (January 15, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v3n03 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 3, Number 3 January 15, 1992 In this issue TECHNICAL SERVICES DIRECTORS OF LARGE RESEARCH LIBRARIES DISCUSSION GROUP HEARING ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF ALCTS ANNOUNCED ALCTS AUTOMATED ACQUISITIONS/IN PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS DISCUSSION GROUP ALCTS CCS COPY CATALOGING DISCUSSION GROUP RASD CODES REFERENCE COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION COMMITTEE LRTS CONTENTS COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SERVICE GOES TO CUNY ANOTHER CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING CONSERVATION CONFERENCE VETERANS GROUP PUBLISHES "REMOVING BARRIERS" ************************************************************************** [EDITOR'S NOTE: The first five items in this issue are notices of meetings taking place at the upcoming ALA Midwinter Meeting. They are in the form and format in which they were submitted by the persons convening the various groups.] ************************************************************************* TECHNICAL SERVICES DIRECTORS OF LARGE RESEARCH LIBRARIES DISCUSSION GROUP JANUARY 24, 1992 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. SAN ANTONIO CONVENTION CENTER -- FIESTA ROOMS A & B Introductions and welcome to new members Alexandria Project - Paul Kantor Electronic Publications - Sarah Thomas Implications of resource-sharing on acquisitions, cataloging Digitized Imaging Applications - Bill Gosling What are we doing, is it being cataloged, where are we going? Linking Processing Systems - Jerry Lowell, Carol Mandel Impact of budget cuts on technical services - Group discussion Assuming budget cuts and position losses, how is this impacting the operations and what are you doing differently? OCLC Update - Kate Nevins, OCLC LUNCH NOON (OR 12:30) TO 2 P.M. NATIONAL LIBRARY REPORTING SESSION, Moderator Ruth Carter, ALCTS past- president Library of Congress - Winston Tabb National Agricultural Library - Sarah Thomas National Library of Medicine - Duane Arenales BREAK 3:30 - 3:45 ARL Committee on Access to Information - Nancy Eaton NCCP - Winston Tabb Cataloging modification - Winston Tabb ADJOURN 5:30 P.M. ************************************************************************* HEARING ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF ALCTS ANNOUNCED In response to its charge "to review the current division and section organizational structure of ALCTS, consulting widely within the division...", as well as to a request from the Executive Committee to "fast-track" our work, the Task Force on Organizational Structure has scheduled a time for member discussion at Midwinter. Our hearing will be on Saturday, January 25th, 8-10 p.m. in the San Antonio Convention Center Fiesta Room A. On behalf of the other members of the Task Force, I am inviting you to attend and comment about the following questions: 1. Should ALCTS members join type-of-library associations/divisions? 2. Should ALCTS continue as it is, with no changes? Why? 3. Should ALCTS continue, but with structural modifications? If yes, what changes should be made and why? 4. Is there concern about a. Programming: too much? too little? timeliness? b. Membership involvement for: new members? expert members? c. Process versus rewarding activity? d. Entrenched bureaucracy? e. Overlapping activities? f. Anything else? 5. What areas concerning collections and technical services will be important in future? We will welcome your participation with us in San Antonio. - Charlotta C. Hensley, Chair ************************************************************************* ALCTS AUTOMATED ACQUISITIONS/IN PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS DISCUSSION GROUP Topic: Interfacing Library Acquisitions Systems with University Accounting Systems When: Monday, Jan. 27, 1992 Time: 9:30-11:00 am Where: San Antonio Convention Center, Fiesta B Discussion Leaders: Rosann Bazirjian, Syracuse University Library System: NOTIS Will Jarvis, Washington State University Libraries System: WLN and Geac Joe Barker, University of California-Berkeley System: Innopac Discussion leaders will describe automated acquisitions systems that communicate with accounting systems and explore future needs for such systems. Julie Gammon, Vice Chair Steve Marine, Chair ************************************************************************* ALCTS CCS COPY CATALOGING DISCUSSION GROUP Sunday January 26, 2:00-4:00 San Antonio Convention Center, Centro B CREATIVE STAFFING IN COPY CATALOGING Presentations and discussion of innovative approaches to staffing in copy cataloging. Discussion panel: Holly Ewan Nordheden - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Graduate Students as Copy Catalogers" Beverley Geer-Butler - Ohio State University "Prospective Cataloging of Microfilm Masters" Linda DeBeau-Melting - University of Minnesota "The SWAT team at the University of Minnesota" Presentations will be followed by questions/answers and open discussion. We will have an update on Library of Congress copy cataloging, and also an opportunity for announcements from the floor, including job openings and research in-progress. The business part of the meeting will include planning for annual meeting: ideas for future discussion topics and discussion of the election (Vice Chair/Chair Elect) to be held at the annual meeting. Chair: Beth Picknally Camden Head, Copy Cataloging Alderman Library University of Virginia (804) 924-3288, Bitnet: bp2f@virginia Vice Chair/Chair Elect: Sherry Kelley CSCP Library of Congress (202) 707-2251 ************************************************************************* RASD CODES REFERENCE COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION COMMITTEE The RASD CODES Reference Collection Development and Evaluation Committee invites you to "The Serials Killers", an open forum at ALA Midwinter, Sunday, January 26, 11:30-12:30, Marriott Riverwalk, Salon B. A panel of committee members will give brief presentations and will lead a discussion on canceling reference periodical and serial titles in public and academic libraries due to budgetary constraints. The forum will focus on the practical aspects of selecting titles for cancellation. The Reference Collection Development and Evaluation Committee is also surveying reference departments to determine which periodical and serial titles (including duplicates) have already been canceled due to fiscal constraints. If you are interested in participating in this survey, please bring your list to the forum or send it to: Linda Lester Linda Lester lll8g@virginia.edu Alderman Library University of Virginia FAX (804) 924-4337 Charlottesville, VA 22903 ************************************************************************* LRTS CONTENTS Volume 36, Number 1 (January 1992) is in the mail. Its contents include: The Acquisitions Librarian as Change Agent in the Transition to the Electronic Library, by Ross Atkinson. The History of Linking Devices, by Barbara B. Tillett. USMARC to UNIMARC/Authorities: A Qualitative Evaluation of USMARC Data Elements, by Marc Truitt. The Integrated Library System of the 1990s: The OhioLINK Experience, by Carol Pitts Hawks. Staff Time and Costs for Cataloging, by Dilys E. Morris. Automated Workstations for Professional Catalogers: A Survey of 100 Non-ARL Academic Libraries, by Betsy N. Hine. pH: Only a Piece of the Preservation Puzzle: A Comparison of the Preservation Studies at Brigham Young, Yale, and Syracuse Universities, by Matthew Nickerson. Plus a letter to the editor and nine book reviews. ************************************************************************* COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SERVICE GOES TO CUNY On 6 December 1991 the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York (CUNY) and the School of Library Service (SLS), Columbia University signed a letter of agreement proposing the relocation of the SLS from Columbia University to CUNY effective 1 July 1992. The agreement is contingent upon a major fund-raising effort to ease the entry of the SLS into the CUNY budget over the next several years; the development of space to house the SLS programs; and the approvals of the relevant bodies within CUNY and the state higher education authorities. In presenting the letter of agreement to the Trustees and administration of Columbia University, SLS requested approval to move all of its assests to CUNY including, but not limited to, endowments and gift funds, equipment, SLS Library, furniture and historical artifacts. Under the agreement the New York Public Library would house the SLS Library. Earlier agreements to relocate the SLS Rare Books Program to the University of Virginia and the SLS Conservation Education Programs to the University of Texas at Austin complete plans to phase out the operation of the School of Library Service at Columbia University. As part of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University, the faculty and programs of the SLS will initiate the development of a new professional school devoted to education and research on libraries and information management. It will be located on 42nd Street adjacent to the New York Public Library. ************************************************************************* ANOTHER CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING Ken Koppel, president of Ziff Communications Co. today announced the newly formed Information Access Group. The new group will manage and develop the significant resources of Information Access Company, Predicasts Inc. and Informat Ltd. (United Kingdon). The Information Access Group also will coordinate the efforts of each of these organizations, enabling each unit to focus its efforts on specific market and business opportunities. As a result of the most recent consolidation of marketing responsibilities of all Information Access Company Online databases into the Predicasts Inc., marketing programs (except CompuServ), IAC will concentrate efforts on distribution methods (technologies) in public, academic (high school and universities) and special libraries. Predicasts Inc. and Informat Ltd. (United Kingdom) will continue servicing online applications in corporate and government markets. Both companies are developing plans to address business opportunities in Europe and locally stored information systems for corporations. ************************************************************************* CONSERVATION CONFERENCE The Restoration 92 Conference on "Craftmanship in Restoration and Conservation" will be held 20-22 October 1992 in the RAI Congress and Exhibition Centre, Amsterdam. This international conference on the preservation of our cultural heritage is sponsored by the Foundation International Conference and Exhibition on Restoration and Conservation Techniques, The Netherlands; Canadian Conservation Institute, Canada; International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property, Italy; Smithsonian Institution, Conservation Analytical Laboratory, USA; and Commission of the European Community, Belgium. For more inforamtion contact the Conference Secretariat Restoration 92, c/o RAI Organisatie Bureau Amsterdam bv Europopaplein 12, 1078 GZ AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands; Fax +31 (0)20 646 44 69. ************************************************************************* VETERANS GROUP PUBLISHES "REMOVING BARRIERS" The Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association (EPVA) announces the publication of an important new brochure, "The ADA: Removing Barriers in Places of Public Accommodation." EPVA developed this guide to make accessibility information available to businesses on actions they must take to improve their facilities and services under the Americans With Disabilities ACT (ADA). The brochure highlights federal ADA rules which go in to effect on January 26, 1992. The ADA requires that existing businesses open to the public provide such items as ramps, wider doorways, lowered shelves and display racks and accessible checkout aisles, if such accommodations are inexpensive and easily achievable. All businesses are required to remove barriers to the disabled under this law, with the exception of religious organizations and private clubs. Free copies of "Removing Barriers" are available by writing to EPVA at 75-20 Astoria Blvd., Jackson Heights, NY 11370-1177 or by calling 800-444-0120. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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 Advisory Board: Arnold Hirshon, Ruth Carter, Liz Bishoff; Editorial Assistance: Alex Bloss, 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. 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