ALCTS Network News v3n13 (March 19, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v3n13 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 3, Number 13 March 19, 1992 In this issue VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO PROMOTE ALCTS MEMBERSHIP ALCTS PRECONFERENCES NEW ADDRESS FOR THE LIBRARY BINDING INSTITUTE RLG AWARDED NEH GRANT FOR PRESERVATION MICROFILMING PROJECT ORAL HISTORY OF MARC PRESENTED TO LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ************************************************************************** VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO PROMOTE ALCTS MEMBERSHIP The ALCTS Membership Committee is organizing an ALCTS booth in the exhibits at the ACRL National Conference. That Conference is scheduled for 12-14 April 1992 in Salt Lake City, Utah. ALCTS members who are attending are urged to volunteer an hour or two to staff the booth. It's fun and provides an opportunity to see friends and to meet new people. Please volunteer. Exhibit hours are: Sunday, 12 April 10:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Monday, 13 April 9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, 14 April 9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Send your name, address, and hours you are available and willing to be in the booth to: Barry Baker, Chair, ALCTS Membership Committee: bbaker@uga; or to the ALCTS office, u34261@uicvm. ************************************************************************* ALCTS PRECONFERENCES ALCTS is sponsoring four preconferences at the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco. They are: THURSDAY, JUNE 25 "EDI and the Library: a Preconference on Electronic Data Interchange Standards for the Acquisition of Library Materials" is sponsored by the ALCTS Serials Section. It is cosponsored by the Book Industry Study Group's Book Industry Systems Advisory Committee (BISAC) and Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee (SISAC), the Data Interchange Standards Association, and the National Information Standards Organization. EDI formats are being developed to connect libraries electronically with publishers and vendors for such library functions as ordering, invoicing and claiming. Participants in "EDI and the Library" will learn how EDI standards are being developed and implemented, meet with public, corporate and academic librarians who are using it as well as vendors who are developing and providing it, and come away with a better understanding of how important the interdependency of libraries, automation vendors, and materials vendors really is. Featured speakers will include Kenneth Dowlin, San Francisco Public Library; Tina Feick, Blackwell's Periodicals Division; Joyce McDonough, Columbia University; Sandra K. Paul, SKP Associates; Jim Rush, PALINET; Fritz Schwartz, Faxon Company; Bill Sozansky, University of Minnesota; and other representatives from automation and materials vendors and user libraries. Registration fees are $105 for ALCTS, BISG, DISA, and NISO members; $140 for ALA personal members; and $175 for non-ALA members. A special $10 discount will be given to people who also register for ALCTS' preconference on Implementing MARC Format Integration on Friday, June 26. FRIDAY, JUNE 26 "Implementing USMARC Format Integration" will be presented by ALA's MARBI (Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee), an interdivisional committee of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), and Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD). Integration of the various components of the MARC System will be implemented by the end of 1993. By then, libraries will need to change their automated catalogs and cataloging processes. By attending presentations, tutorials, and breakout sessions with vendors, participants will learn about the implementation plans of the Library of Congress, the bibliographic utilities, and vendors; hear how the changes will affect library procedures and operations; understand the cost implications; and discuss techniques for implementation management. Featured speakers will include Kathleen Bales and Ed Glazier, Research Libraries Group; Jo Calk, Western Library Network; Priscilla Caplan, Harvard University; Karen Coyle, University of California; Glenn Patton and Richard Greene, OCLC, Inc.; Ann Highsmith, Texas A&M University; Derry Juneja, Riverside (Calif.) City and County Public Library; Sally McCallum, Library of Congress; and Paul Weiss, National Library of Medicine. Registration fees are $105 for ALCTS, LITA, and RASD members; $140 for ALA personal members; and $175 for non-ALA members. A special $10 discount will be given to people who also register for ALCTS' preconference on Electronic Data Interchange and the Library on Thursday, June 25. FRIDAY, JUNE 26 "Starting Asian Language Collections in Public and Academic Libraries" is sponsored by the Collection Management and Development Section of ALCTS. This preconference will cover the issues facing a public or academic library starting to collect materials in languages of East and Southeast Asia. Topics covered will include how to acquire the necessary expertise, issues regarding selection and acquisition, technical services processing, storage, and public service issues. Featured speakers will include Joanne Anderson, San Diego (Calif.) Public Library; James Cheng, University of California, Los Angeles; Maureen Donovan, Ohio State University; Albert Fishlow, University of California, Berkeley; Susan Gegenhuber, Pasadena (Calif.) Public Library; Mark Knoblauch, Chicago (Ill.) Public Library; Shirley Leung, University of California, Irvine; Karl Lo, University of California, San Diego; Sheryl Nichin, Chicago Public Library; Diane Perushek, University of Tennessee; Suzanne Rostami, San Jose Public Library; Gary Strong, California State Librarian; and Marion Taylor, University of California, Santa Cruz. Registration fees are $90 for ALCTS members; $115 for ALA personal members; and $140 for non-ALA members. FRIDAY, JUNE 26 "Library Buildings and Preservation: Design and Planning Considerations" is sponsored by the Preservation of Library Materials Section of ALCTS and is cosponsored by the Buildings and Equipment Section of the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA). Preservation is becoming a key concern to library administrators who are designing new buildings or expanding older ones. This preconference will discuss the management of the building design process from a preservation viewpoint, including environmental considerations, architectural design, and design process management. Building consultants and preservation administrators with recent experience in library building planning and design will speak. Featured speakers will include Jane Conrow, Arizona State University; Donald G. Kelsey, University of Minnesota; Theodore Kuzen, University of Virginia; Philip Leighton, Stanford (Calif.) University; William P. Lull of Garrison/Lull (Princeton Junction, N.J.); and Karen Motylewski, Northeast Document Conservation Center (Andover, Mass.). Registration fees are $95 for ALCTS and LAMA members; $130 for ALA personal members; and $165 for non-ALA members. Brochures for these preconferences will be mailed shortly to ALCTS, LAMA, LITA, and RASD members. For more information and registration forms, contact Yvonne McLean or Alex Bloss at ALCTS. Telephone: 800-545-2433; e-mail: U47209@UICVM. ************************************************************************* NEW ADDRESS FOR THE LIBRARY BINDING INSTITUTE As of January, the address for the Library Binding Institute is 7401 Metro Boulevard, Suite 325, Edina, MN 55439; phone: 612-835-4707; fax: 612-835-4780. ************************************************************************* RLG AWARDED NEH GRANT FOR PRESERVATION MICROFILMING PROJECT The Research Libraries Group (RLG) has been awarded $906,224 by the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the third phase of a project to microfilm brittle or deteriorating volumes from key scholarly collections in the United States. Phase three of the Great Collections Microfilming Project will take two years, January 1992 to December 1993, and result in the filming of 11,703 volumes from the collections of five RLG member institutions: Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale universities. Catalog records for microfilm produced during this phase will be entered on RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) as were catalog records from phases one and two. The two earlier phases of the project, which when completed in 1992 will result in the microfilming of more than 61,000 volumes from 16 RLG member institutions, were funded by NEH grants totaling over $3 million. "Preservation of research materials is one of RLG's highest priorities," commented Patricia McClung, RLG associate director of programs and manager of the project. "To date, RLG projects have preserved more than 100,000 volumes on film and cataloged them in RLIN, making this information available online throughout the world. Phase three of the Great Collections Microfilming Project will continue a very successful effort to preserve even more volumes important to humanities research." The collections being filmed comprise: Columbia University: 1,000 volumes on Chinese economic and social history from the C.V. Starr East Asian Library. Cornell University: 1,003 Indonesian and Burmese volumes from the John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia. Princeton University: 2,500 volumes of historical importance to the study of post-Ottoman Turkey from Princeton's Near East collection. Stanford University: 3,200 volumes on the history of sciences and mathematics. Yale University: 4,000 volumes from Yale's distinguished American history collection. ************************************************************************* ORAL HISTORY OF MARC PRESENTED TO LIBRARY OF CONGRESS An Oral History of MARC, a collection of transcripts of interviews with nine pioneers in the development of the MARC communications format, has been presented to the Library of Congress by the MARC XX Committee in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of MARC. In the late 1950's the Library of Congress began analyzing the possibility of automating its operations. A study funded by the Council on Library Resources recommended "that a group be established to design and implement the procedures required to automate the cataloging, searching, indexing, and document retrieval functions." Subsequently, the Library received a grant from the Council on Library Resources to conduct a pilot project to test the feasibility and utility of the distribution of cataloging data in machine readable form to user libraries. The project was called MARC. The oral history project was started several years ago by a group of persons who were interested in preserving the history of MARC. Calling themselves the MARC XX Committee, they joined together to raise funds from private and corporate donations to pay for interviews. James Edward (Jef) Fall, a professional oral historian, interviewed Henriette Avram, Lauerence Buckland, Paul Fasana, Kay D. Guiles, Frederick G. Kilgour, Barbara Evans Markuson, Charles Payne, Lucia Rather, and William J. Welsh--all of whom were early innovators in library automation. The 161-page transcript of the interviews will be housed in the Library of Congress Archives in the Manuscript Division and may be used through the Manuscript Reading Room. John Knowlton, specialist in Library of Congress history and archives, described the collection as "one of the first attempts in oral history made for the Library of Congress." Official records relating to the development of MARC have been collected from around the Library and also are housed in the Archives. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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. 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