ALCTS Network News v3n11 (March 9, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v3n11 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 3, Number 11 March 9, 1992 In this issue WORK TO BEGIN ON DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION EDITION 21 AUTHORITY CONTROL WORKSHOP NEW COUNCIL OF REGIONAL GROUPS AFFILIATE BRITISH LIBRARY JOINS RLG RECENT PUBLICATIONS ************************************************************************** WORK TO BEGIN ON DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION EDITION 21 The Dewey Classification Editorial Policy Committee has begun work on the 21st edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification. It is scheduled for publication in 1996. Three areas of the classification are under consideration for major revision: 350-354 Public Administration, 370 Education, and 570-590 Life Sciences. Other areas that will receive special attention include 290 Comparative Religion and religions other than Christianity, Class 296 Judaism, and Class 297 Islam and religions originating in it. The Committee approved the following updates for inclusion in the next issue of "DC&," the DDC's annual update, which will be published in March 1992: a full development for the Persian Gulf War; relocation of Cyprus from --5645 to --5693 in the area table; development of Greece to reflect administrative changes, and relocation of the Aegean Islands and Crete from --499 to numbers in the --495 span of the area table. Shorter numbers for holidays at 394.26 will be provided in the March 1993 "DC&." ************************************************************************* AUTHORITY CONTROL WORKSHOP The Northern California Technical Processes Group (NCTPG) and the California Library Association's Technical Services Chapter will present a program on "Authority Control: What, Why, Who, and How," on Friday, March 27,1992, beginning at 8:30 am. at Dominican College of San Rafael, 50 Acacia Avenue, San Rafael, California. Speakers include Brian Schottlaender, Assistant Univiversity Librarian, Technical Services, UCLA; Marguerite Horn, Serials Librarian, UC Davis; Rose Saenz, Manager, Library Services, AutoGraphics; George McBride, Automation Coordinator, San Francisco Public Library; and Daniel Pitti, Authorities Librarian, UC Berkeley. For more information contact Suzanne Sweeney, J. Hugh Jackson Library, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5016, SSWEENEY@GSB-PESO.STANFORD.EDU. Both sponsoring associations are members of the ALCTS Council of Regional Groups (CRG). ************************************************************************* NEW COUNCIL OF REGIONAL GROUPS AFFILIATE The ALCTS Board of Directors has accepted the South Carolina Library Association's Technical Services Section as an affiliate of the Council Regional Groups. The Council of Regional Groups (CRG) serves as a means for informal exchange between the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services and regional groups having a focus of activity within the field of library technical services. There are presently over forty regional groups affiliated with ALCTS. Representatives of these groups meet semiannually at conferences of the American Library Association to consider common problems and programs, such as series of regional institutes. For information about the Council of Regional Groups, contact ALCTS Office, 1-800-545-2433 , ext. 5035; E-mail: U34261@UICVM. ************************************************************************* BRITISH LIBRARY JOINS RLG The Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG) is pleased to announce that the British Library has become an RLG general member. In announcing this news, J. Michael Smethurst, the British Library's director general of London Services, said: "We have worked closely with RLG for a number of years, and the time is now right for a closer relationship. We want to develop new ties with the major research libraries and the scholarly community in the United States; because RLG works with both the library-bibliographic world and the scholarly world, it is a good organization for us to be associated with." "The British Library's decision to join," said RLG president James Michalko, "gives us the wonderful opportunity to make real the rhetoric about the internationalization of scholarship. We look forward to working with the British Library staff, and perhaps with some of their European colleagues, to really make global connections among the various communities of scholars that will serve all our interests." Richard De Gennaro, librarian of Harvard University, which also recently became a general member of RLG, welcomed the BL announcement: "This is genuinely exciting news for the North American library community. It signals a new era of cooperation among the major libraries of the U.S. and Western Europe." Two areas of expected collaboration within the RLG framework are collection preservation and the enormous challenge of online access to the world's historic collections, of which those at the British Library and Harvard University are two prime examples. Smethurst commented, "We hope to contribute to the development of improved access to collections, to bibliographic work, and to networking in general. Very often American concepts and technology are on the frontiers of such efforts, and we would like to join RLG there in a shared exploration of new ways of tackling problems." With the British Library an active RLG member, London will become RLG's European hub for telecommunications with its information system, RLIN. This will reduce costs to European institutions that enter data into RLIN. RLG will welcome the chief executive of the British Library, Dr. Brian Lang, to RLG's annual meeting in California on June 25, where he will give the keynote address. ************************************************************************* RECENT PUBLICATIONS ARL 1991 Salary Survey The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announced the publication of the 1991 ARL Annual Salary Survey, a compilation based on data gathered from 119 American and Canadian research libraries, with tables showing average, median, and beginning salaries; salaries by position and experience, sex, and race; and salaries in different geographic regions and sizes of libraries. Additional tables cover law, medical, Canadian and non-university research libraries. Gordon Fretwell, consultant to the Committee on ARL Statistics and compiler of the survey, highlights in his introduction some of the recent trends and gives particular attention to the salaries of minority librarians in ARL libraries. The 1991 average salary for all ARL university librarians, not including those in law and medical libraries is $41,038 ($43,484 for men and $39,645 for women). For minority librarians, the average salary is $38,537 overall and the median Beginning Professional Salary is $24,000. Comparing figures to changes in the Consumer Price Index, Fretwell notes that "The FY1992 median salary showed a strong increase, almost 23 percent, in purchasing power when compared to 1982." The 92-page survey is available by pre-paid order to ARL member institutions for $20.00 and to individuals and non-members for $60.00. Faxon Releases 1992 Guide to CD-ROM The Faxon Company has announced the release of its annual Guide to CD-ROM, designed to provide information professionals with an easy to use international directory of CD-ROM products and publications available from Faxon. Two New SPEC Kits SPEC Kit #178, Insuring Library Collections and Buildings: Safety and security of library collections are issues of on-going concern for library administrators. SPEC Kit #178 contains information on insurance coverage, collection valuation and losses and claims, and was compiled by Marcia J. Myers, Associate Director of Libraries for Administrative Services, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and was prepared as part of the OMS Collaborative Research/Writing Program. SPEC Kit#177, Salary Setting Policies in ARL Libraries: Salaries and setting policies are issues which bear on recruitment, retention and rewarding of qualified library professinals. Kit #177 was compiled by the Compensation Committee of Librarians' Council at Arizona State University, Tempe and was prepared as part of the OMS Collaborative Research/Writing Program. To order either SPEC Kit, contact Publications Department, Office of Management Services, 1527 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036; Fax(202)462-7849. Here is the order information for these titles: 1) Insuring Library Collections and Building: $33.00 pbk. ($22.00 ARL members) 140p. 0160-3582 October 1991; 2) Salary Setting Policies in ARL Libraries: $33.00 pbk. ($22.00 ARL members) 123p. 0160-3582 September 1991 Origins, Content, and Future of AACR2 Revised The second number in the ALCTS Papers on Library Technical Services and Collections will appear in March 1992. Richard Smiraglia has edited the papers presented at the 1989 series of institutes on AACR2 Revised and solicited additional papers for this new publication, "Origins, Content, and Future of AACR2 Revised." It is priced at $20 ($18 for ALA members), its ISBN is 0-8389-3405-6, and it may be ordered from the ALA Order Dept., 50 E. Huron, Chicago, IL 60611. EBSCO Serials Directory EBSCO Publishing has announced the sixth edition of the serials reference book, The Serials Directory: An International Reference Book. The Directory lists information on more than 140,000 serials--periodicals, monographic series, annual and irregular series and newspapers--from around the world. The Serials Directory is priced at $329 for U.S.; $359 for Canada and Mexico; and $379 for Air Mail to all other countries. This price includes shipping and cumulative updates. It is also available in a a CD-ROM version. Boston Spa Books on CD-ROM "Boston Spa Books on CD-ROM" will be initiated with an issue scheduled for the spring of 1992. The CD-ROM will contain records of the 500,000 books which have been received by the British Library Document Supply Centre since 1980. It will enable users of the Centre's automated request service to order materials for loan. The price is 425 pounds sterling for overseas customers. For more information contact, Mike Curston, CD-ROM Development, The British Library Document Supply Centre, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ, UK; fax 0937 546333. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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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