ALCTS Network News v3n09 (February 21, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v3n09 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 3, Number 9 February 21, 1992 In this issue INTERFACES AND LINKS DEVELOPED ALCTS TO PRESENT INSTITUTE ON DISASTER PREPAREDNESS CALL FOR AMERICA'S LIBRARIES CAMPAIGN ELECTRONIC DEWEY FIELD TEST BEGINS IN NOVEMBER NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR "WORST SERIAL TITLE CHANGE OF THE YEAR" AWARD ************************************************************************** INTERFACES AND LINKS DEVELOPED RLG and RLA Extend Use for RLIN Database for Retrocon The Research Libraries Group (RLG) and Retro Link Associates (RLA) have announced a cooperative agreement enabling RLA to use the RLIN database for retrospective conversion services for libraries. According to RLA president Tom Macdonald, "This agreement marks the first time that the rich and exceptional RLIN database will be available from a retrospective conversion service vendor. Adding RLIN to the other databases available from RLA is a significant benefit to research and academic libraries." RLA now offers libraries records from RLIN in addition to its own 6.5-million-record database, the Princeton Theological Database, and a database of over 14 foreign languages. Customers can also have RLA create original entries, authority control, smart barcodes, and AACR2 upgrades as part of projects to turn their older cataloging into machine-readable form. Blackwell North America and CARL Systems Announce a Series of Interfaces CARL Systems, Inc. and Blackwell North America have announced a series of systems interfaces which will use the Internet communications network to make Blackwell services accessible through the CARL System and Network. These include: 1) access to Blackwell's NTO (New Titles Online) database, 2) electronic ordering of materials, 3) electronic distribution of LC MARC cataloging, and 4) an interface with CARL System Authority Control Module providing Blackwell's retrospective processing, updating of new records, and a notification service enabling coordination with the most current practice of the Library of Congress. H.W. Wilson Extends Access to Wilson Indexes The H.W. Wilson Company has made arrangements with the SIRSI Corporation to make the WILSONTAPE Database Licensing Services available to SIRSI customers and with Unisys to make the same service available to Unisys PALS customers. WILSONTAPE provides 24-hour electronic access to the Wilson indexes via locally-loaded machine-readable monthly tapes for each database. They will be available using the same Unisys or SIRSI software used by individual libraries for the public access catalog or other locally-loaded databases. Similar agreements are already in place with other library automation system vendors and discussions are underway to extend the service to other vendors. Contact Becky Clarke at the H.W. Wilson Company for more information, 800-367-6770, x 2758. The H.W. Wilson Company has also announced a link between its periodical indexing and full-text products from University Microfilms International. The two companies have agreed that a link in the form of UMI's article reference numbers will be embedded in the records of selected periodical databases available on WILSONTAPE, thus enabling users to locate article citations and read abstracts and then automatically display the complete text. UMI/Data Courier and RLG Link Up UMI/Data Courier and the Research Libraries Group (RLG) have announced an agreement to offer fixed-cost access to several of UMI/Data Courier's most popular databases. By spring of 1992, searchers on RLIN will be able to access ABI/INFORM, Newspaper Abstracts, Periodical Abstracts, and Dissertation Abstracts for a fixed annual fee. "We are most excited about the fixed annual fee option we will be able to offer RLIN users," commented Rick Noble, UMI Vice President of Serials Marketing. "Our database licensing program arose from strong customer demand for unlimited mainframe access to our files for a fixed annual fee. However, two of the most common barriers facing prospective licensees have been the retrieval software and disk space required to mount locally. Now, with RLIN's fixed-price offer, customers can enjoy unlimited access without having to store the data locally." As part of the agreement, RLG and UMI will offer users access to full-text article delivery of UMI's Article Clearinghouse collection of 12,500 titles. Delivery options include first-class mail, express courier, FAX, and Ariel, RLG's new proprietary document-delivery system (see AN2, Vol. 2, no. 17, November 22, 1991). ************************************************************************* ALCTS TO PRESENT INSTITUTE ON DISASTER PREPAREDNESS The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) will present an institute entitled "Disaster Preparedness for Libraries" on May 1, 1992, at the Holiday Inn in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The institute is designed for those who are responsible for planning and/or implementing a disaster preparedness and collection salvage plan in their library, and for those who are responsible for protecting collections against damage. Archivists and records managers will also find this institute useful. Conference participants will learn the components of a comprehensive emergency plan and the mechanisms for developing and implementing the plan, and will identify the methods and resources necessary for managing a disaster recovery effort. The registration fee is $125 for ALCTS members, $160 for ALA personal members, and $195 for non-ALA members. For a copy of the full text of the brochure and a registration form, issue the command to the LISTSERV@UICVM: send disaster prep. Or, contact Yvonne McLean at u58294@uicvm or Alex Bloss at u47209@uicvm.uic.edu. ************************************************************************* CALL FOR AMERICA'S LIBRARIES CAMPAIGN "Say 'Yes" to Your Right to Know." That will be the message when ALA launches the "Call for America's Libraries" campaign on Freedom of Information Day, Monday, March 16, 1992. The goal is to stimulate public interest in and support for all types of libraries and to generate names (and numbers) of library supporters that can be used to impress key Congressional leaders on ALA Legislative Day on April 8. The "Call for America's Libraries" campaign will consist of a month-long series of radio "rallies" with ALA President Patricia Glass Schuman and some 65 ALA leaders trained as media spokespeople appearing on network radio programs and on talk shows in state capitals and major media markets across the nation. Members of the public can call 800-530-8888 to Say "Yes to Your Right to Know!" and to register their support for libraries and librarians. The number will be in operation through National Library Week, April 5-11. There will be an 800 TDD number for the hearing impaired to register their support. That number is 800-552-9097. In announcing the "Call for America's Libraries Campaign" at the ALA Midwinter Meeting, ALA President Schuman urged all librarians--school, public, academic, special--to take part by scheduling interviews on local stations and encouraging their library users, boards and Friends to call the 800 number. She cited library budget cuts, censorship, illiteracy and less access to public information as threats to the public's Right to Know. "Librarians are the only profession dedicated to ensuring the American public's right to know information we need to remember our past, to understand our present and prepare for the future," Schuman said. Gaylord Information Systems will underwrite a campaign tip sheet with information on how to organize a "Call for America's Libraries" campaign that will be mailed to some 30,000 libraries. Copies will also be available from the ALA Public Information Office. The campaign continues the historic Rally for America's Libraries introduced at the 1991 ALA Annual Conference. ************************************************************************* ELECTRONIC DEWEY FIELD TEST BEGAN IN NOVEMBER Catalogers at eight libraries recently began testing an OCLC prototype CD-ROM version of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). The eight libraries are: National Library of Australia, Carnegie Mellon University Library, Columbus (Ohio) Metropolitan Library, Columbus (Ohio) City Schools, University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, Library of Congress (Decimal Classification Division), Stockton-San Joaquin County (Calif.) Public Library, and the New York State Library. The compact disc version of DDC contains the full schedules, tables, index and manual from DDC 20, as well as related Library of Congress (LC) Subject Headings and sample bibliographic records. It also includes updates and corrections from the first two numbers of DC& (Volume 5), the annual updating service for DDC. Features of the CD-ROM version of DDC include: online searching and windowing techniques; indexing of every word; a personal "notepad" for recording library decisions on the use of DDC numbers; the most frequently used LC subject headings for each DDC number; and annual updates that include changes and corrections published in DC&. ************************************************************************* NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR "WORST SERIAL TITLE CHANGE OF THE YEAR" AWARD Fed up with serials that keep changing their titles unnecessarily? Retaliate and nominate them for the "Worst Serial Title Change of the Year" awards, sponsored by the Serials Section of ALCTS. The awards, presented at ALA's Annual Conference in San Francisco this June, "honor" serials whose titles have changed since January 1991. Award criteria are: a frivolous title change for no apparent reason and producing no advantage; the unnecessary change of an old, respected title; repeated changes, the latest being no better than the earlier ones; and the "Snake in the Grass Award" for library publications. Please supply complete citations for the change, including: title, number and/or date of last with the old title; title, number and/or date of first issue with the new title; and the publisher's name and address. Photocopies of relevant pages or cataloging printouts are useful as verification. Nominations should be to: Phoebe Timberlake, chair, Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Committee, 5734 Chatham Drive, New Orleans, LA 70122. The deadline is May 1, 1992. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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; Assistant Editor: Alex Bloss; 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. 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