ALCTS Network News v3n04 (January 21, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v3n04 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 3, Number 4 January 21, 1992 In this issue LATE MIDWINTER MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS REMINDER TO ALL ALCTS COMMITTEE AND DISCUSSION GROUP CHAIRS RLG PUBLISHES REPORT ON "PREFERRED FUTURES FOR LIBRARIES" ************************************************************************** LATE MIDWINTER MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS [Editor's Note: The following announcements of discussion group meetings at the upcoming ALA Midwinter Meeting are published basically as submitted by the convenor.] Retrospective Conversion Interest Group The meeting of the LITA/ALCTS Retrospective Conversion Interest Group will be: 1/26/92 (Sunday) from 2:00pm-4:00pm in La Mansion - Iberian W. during the ALA midwinter meeting in San Antonio. We will discuss the upcoming LITA national conference as well as the upcoming annual (June 1992) ALA meeting in San Francisco. The topic for the annual meeting in San Francisco will be "How to apply for funding for recon." The upcoming LITA National Conference's topic will be: "Retrospective Conversion Basics--What you need to do when you plan for a recon project for your library." There will also be an informal discussion of retrospective conversion (questions & answers) during the Midwinter meeting. Please come with any questions you have. For more information contact: Daphne Hsueh Ohio State University (614) 292-3502 (voice); (614) 292-7859 (fax); DAPHNE@OHSTMUSA.BITNET; or Mitch Turitz, Serials Librarian, San Francisco State U. (415) 338-7883 (voice); Fax: (415) 338-6199 (fax); TURITZ@SFSUVM.SFSU.EDU. Joint PLMS/RLMS Reporting Session The Joint PLMS/RLMS Reporting Session will be held on Saturday, January 25, 1992, from 8:00 to 10:00 pm in the Marriott Riverwalk Salon B. Representatives from NEH, CPA, LC, ARL, NEDCC, OCLC, RLG, SOLINET, AMIGOS and MAPS will be on hand to provide progress reports on national and regional efforts and new initiatives of interest to the library community. For more information, contact Karen Mokrzycki at kmacq@ucscm.ucsc.edu or call 408-459-2021. ALCTS Electronic Publishing Discussion Group The organizational meeting of the ALCTS Electronic Publishing Discussion Group will be held at the Sheraton Gunter Hotel, Alamo Room on Sunday, January 26, 1992, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in San Antonio. This meeting immediately follows the meeting of the LITA/ALCTS Serials Automation Interest Group, which is scheduled from 9:30-11:00 in the same location. This discussion group will provide a forum for discussion of collecting, acquiring, cataloging, storing, distributing and archiving information in electronic format. The agenda for the organization meeting will include discussion about the need for and the purpose of the group, how it would differ from other ALCTS discussion groups, the process for petitioning ALCTS to formally recognize the group and possible topics for future meetings. Barbara A. Winters Phone: 513-873-2380 AUL for Collection Services Fax: 513-873-4106 Wright State University Library Bitnet: BWINTERS@WSU Dayton, OH 45435 Internet: BWINTERS@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU Strategic Vision Discussion Group As you may be aware, there has been an ongoing discussion intended to focus the attention of the profession on a strategic vision for the future of the librarian or of librarianship (rather than the future of libraries --a well-discussed topic). CLR provided a grant last year to allow a group of people who had been participants in the early discussion, plus others who represented different types of libraries and environments, to meet in December to draft a vision statement that could then be circulated throughout the profession in an attempt to generate widespread discussion and debate, hopefully leading to some consensus. Out of this meeting has come not only a draft vision statement, but an attempt to focus on professional/personal values that we might share or want to stimulate in young librarians, and an offer by Anne Woodsworth at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science to use her school as a pilot curriculum for implementing the vision statement. Before ALA in June, there was an open meeting attended by about 85 people to discuss these issues. The next meeting of the Strategic Visions Discussion Group will be held on Friday, January 24, at the San Antonio Convention Center, Centro C, at 4:30 pm. This meeting is open, and all who are interested in discussing the strategic direction of librarians and librarianship for the future are urged to come and participate in the conversation. Strategic Visions Discussion Group January 24, 1992 Agenda Introduction.................................................Don Bosseau Summary of Strategic Visions Steering Committee meeting.......Sue Martin Draft Vision statement.......................................Pat Molholt Values/qualities of librarianship................Speaker to be announced Use of the Vision and Values concepts in the creation of a library school curriculum............................................Anne Woodsworth From: Sue Martin ************************************************************************* REMINDER TO ALL ALCTS COMMITTEE AND DISCUSSION GROUP CHAIRS Please remember to prepare a report of your meetings at Midwinter. Paper forms for these reports will be available at the ALCTS tables in the ALA Offices in the San Antonio Convention Center. The ALCTS staff also have templates on both IBM and Macintosh disks so you can prepare your report on the personal computers that will again be available (bring your own software and disks). If you submit a paper report, please turn it in by noon Tuesday to give us enough time to make copies for Arnold Hirshon, ALCTS President, or your section chair as appropriate. Copies will also be sent to ALCTS Newsletter Editor Ann Swartzell for abstracting for the post-Midwiniwnter report. You may also submit your report electronically. There is a blank form available on ALCTSERV, whose contents may be searched by sending a command to LISTSERV@UICVM "tell listserv@uicvm get alcts filelist." (The form for committee reports is REPORT FORM_C, and the form for discussion groups is REPORT FORM_D.) Send the completed report to ALCTS at u34261@uicvm and the appropriate officer (see Roster for e-mail addresses). If you wish to have a report of your meeting published in AN2, submit an abstract along with the full report (if more than 30-35 lines). The abstract will be published, along with instructions on obtaining a copy of the full report. We reserve the right to edit either for accuracy of facts, such as spelling of names, fullness of committee names, and actions of the ALCTS Board of Directors. ************************************************************************* RLG PUBLISHES REPORT ON "PREFERRED FUTURES FOR LIBRARIES" PREFERRED FUTURES FOR LIBRARIES, a publication issued this December by the Research Libraries Group (RLG), reports on the outcome of a series of workshops held on six university campuses earlier this year. The workshops, which were underwritten by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, explored with small groups of library directors and chief academic officers from some 40 campuses their vision for the future shape of libraries and information resources at their institutions. The result: there is reasonable consensus on the vision--one of universal access to multiple information sources from a single workstation --but little agreement on how to get there, or even on whose job it is to lead the way. The report was authored by Richard M. Dougherty and his colleague Carol Hughes at the Michigan School of Information and Library Studies. Both Dougherty and RLG president James Michalko, who participated in all six workshops, believe that the report's chief value is as a stepping-off point. "We now need to focus not on the shared vision," Michalko says, "but on identifying the most obvious next steps--half a dozen of the most productive things that need to get done, and can be done right now." PREFERRED FUTURES points out that collaboration in the information arena has been most successful in the past on a library-to-library level. The report concludes with a clear call to action for both CAOs and librarians to expand discussions to a broader campus community that includes faculty, information technology directors, computing center administrators, publishers, and other information providers to achieve the future vision they share. Copies of the report are available free from: Distribution Services Center, The Research Libraries Group, Inc., 1200 Villa Street, Mountain, View, CA 94041-1100, U.S.A. (e-mail address: BL.DSC@RLG.STANFORD.EDU or BL.DSC@RLG.BITNET) ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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. 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]." Back issues of AN2 are available through the listserver. To find out what's available, send the following command to LISTSERV@UICVM: send alcts filelist The ALCTS FILELIST contains the list of files with the EXACT filename and filetype. To get a particular file, issue this command to the LISTSERV@UICVM: send filename filetype. 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