ALCTS Network News v3n16 (April 9, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v3n16 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 3, Number 16 April 9, 1992 In this issue GRACE COMPLETES SALE OF BAKER & TAYLOR, INC. FULBRIGHT FOREIGN SCHOLAR PROGRAM AWARDS NEW PUBLICATIONS SPRING BRINGS CONFERENCES & SEMINARS! ************************************************************************** GRACE COMPLETES SALE OF BAKER & TAYLOR, INC. W.R. Grace & Co. has completed the sale of its Baker & Taylor Books, Baker & Taylor Video and SoftKat divisions to a new company formed by The Carlyle Group, a private merchant bank based in Washington, D.C., together with members of Baker & Taylor management, who will continue with the divested units. Gerald G. Garbacz, formerly a Grace executive vice president and head of Grace Specialty Businesses, will serve as Baker & Taylor's president and chief executive officer and president of Baker & Taylor Books. The management team of the new company will also include Jacqueline L. Cochran, president of SoftKat and James B. Warburton, president of Baker & Taylor Video. Terms of the transaction, which was effective March 23, were not disclosed. The divested business, now called Baker & Taylor, Inc., comprises one of the leading education and entertainment information services companies in the world. It is also a leading supplier of value-added services to this market which includes more than 100,000 academic, public and school libraries and book, video and software stores. In 1991, revenues totaled $780 million. In announcing the transaction, Gerald G. Garbacz, said, "As an independent enterprise, we are well-positioned to pursue the strategies and commit the resources that will ensure Baker & Taylor's continuing industry leadership. Information and entertainment services offer attractive growth opportunities as we continue to supply value-added services to our customer base. In addition, we are pursuing aggressive expansion in selected niche markets." Baker & Taylor is comprised of three member companies: Baker & Taylor Books, the world's leading supplier of books and value-added services to libraries and bookstores, distributes some 40 million books annually to more than 100,000 customers from a network of five distribution centers; Baker & Taylor Video, a preeminent distributor of prerecorded video tapes and audio CDs and cassettes, supplies these entertainment and education products and merchandising services to more than 20,000 customers including video rental stores, mass merchandisers, supermarket, libraries and specialty stores from 12 distribution locations; and SoftKat, a leading distributor of educational, home/office productivity and entertainment software, sells product and value-added services to more than 6,000 computer software retailers, mass merchandisers, educational supply dealers, bookstores and the government through a single distribution center in Chatsworth, California. ************************************************************************* FULBRIGHT FOREIGN SCHOLAR PROGRAM AWARDS Two competitive awards for librarians/archivists are available under the 1993-94 Fulbright Program with the United Kingdom. British Library, London: Eccles Centre for American Studies The librarian/archivist will work with the director of the Centre and the bibliographic editor in the identification and promotion of one aspect of the British Library's North American Collection. The Eccles Center identifies, promotes, and augments North American materials and acts as a focus for scholars working on North American materials in the British Library. Candidates should have specialist knowledge in history, literature, economy, politics, or social structure of the United States. Preference will be given to candidates specializing in either the 19th or 20th centuries. Fulbright Scholar Program competitive award A competitive award is available for librarians/archivists to broaden their professional perspective and enhance cross-cultural skills and insights at a degree-awarding institution or major research library in the united Kingdom. The purpose of the award is to promote the exchange of ideas between library staff in the US and UK. Application deadline is August 1, 1992. For more information about requirements and application and selection criteria, contact Dr. Karen Adams (202-686-6245) or Ms. Thitaya Rivera (202-686-2329) or write to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 3007 Tilden Street, NW, Suite 5M, Box N-UKL, Washington, DC. ************************************************************************* NEW PUBLICATIONS FROM ... ACRL The latest edition of ACRL University Library Statistics provides data from over 100 libraries in the United States and Canada. The general categories of library data included in this biennial report are collections, personnel, expenditures, and interlibrary loans; institutional data elements include degrees offered, enrollment size, and faculty size. Together the libraries reporting this year expended $410,011,197 and they employed 10,477 people last year. They held 87,313,088 volumes and during the 1990-91 academic year they lent 939,507 and borrowed 628,514 items. The data was compiled at the Library Research Center, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Purchasers of the book may request a free copy of the data in machine-readable form. ($69.95/$39.95 ACRL members, 80 p. ISBN 0-8389-7587-9, 1992). The Evolving Educational Mission of the Library identifies strategic issues which challenge the development of instructional programs in academic libraries and suggests roles for librarians in the educational processes of their parent institutions. Academic librarians, library school educators, and higher education faculty and administrators will want this book. During the past decade, the technological, social and educational changes affecting academic libraries and their constituent institutions have been varied and profound. This book provides a series of essays articulating ideas on information literacy in library user education, the information explosion impact on information organization and access in the curriculum, user demography creating new educational constituencies, and impact of changes in academic libraries on information science curricula. These topics were first identified during the ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Section's Think Tank in 1989 where librarians and library school educators met to discuss the issues. While these essays were not explicitly prepared for the Think Tank, they represent an articulation of ideas that had their genesis in Think Tank deliberations. ($29.95/$19.95 ACRL members, 202 p. ISBN 0-8389-7584-4, 1992). For additional information please contact: Mary Taylor, Program Officer, ACRL, 312-280-2515. To order please contact: Order Department, ALA Publishing Services, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611, 800-545-2433, Fax: 312-944-2641. Learned Information Cataloging Heresy: Challenging the Standard Bibliographic Product, Bella Hass Weinberg, Editor, is a collection of eighteen invited and contributed papers from the Congress for Librarians, held on February 18, 1991. Available from: Learned Information, Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ 08055, for $35; ISBN 0-938734-X. Indeks-Verlag Three titles in the Advances in Knowledge Organization Series have been published. Volumes 1 and 2, entitled Tools for Knowledge Organization and the Human Interface, are the proceedings of the 1st International International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO) hed in Darmstadt, Augst 14-17, 1990. (Each volume DM 56.-, together DM106.-; ISBN 3-88672-020-9 (v.1); 3-88672-021-7 (v.2)) Volume 3, entitled Documentary Languages and Databases, includes the papers from the Rome Conference, December 3-4, 1990, organized by the Istituto di Studi sulia Ricerca e Documentazione Scientifica. (DM 56.-; ISBN 3-88672-022-6) LC Update No. 4 (December 1991) to the USMARC Format for Bibliographic Data is now available from the Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service. Prepared by the Library's Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Update No.4 contains changes to the USMARC bibliographic format resulting from proposals considered by the ALA ALCTS/LITA/RASD Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee (MARBI) at its January and June 1991 meetings, as well as one item from 1990. Four appendices are completely reissued including Appendix H (Keyword Index), which is being issued for the first time. Subscribers who purchased either the base text and the first two updates (November 1988 and August 1989) or the cumulated set (Base text and Updates 1 and 2) and who also acquired Update No. 3 (October 1990) need Update No. 4 to keep their copies current with the USMARC specifications for bibliographic records. Update No. 4 sells for $24 (North America) or $25 (international). New subscribers to the USMARC Format for Bibliographic Data may purchase the cumulated set (base text and Updates 1 and 2) for $100 and Update No. 3 for $25 (North America) or $30 (international). The publications are available from: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, Customer Services Section, Washington, DC 20541-5017. ************************************************************************* SPRING BRINGS CONFERENCES & SEMINARS! INFORMA, May 10-12, Hilton Head, SC The third annual INFORMA conference will explore Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) and the library's role in developing and manging them. Although there is no enrollment fee, space is limited. For information, contact James Corey, FCLJIM@NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU or Peggy Federhart, PFEDERHA@BLDVM4.IBM.COM. AMIGOS Archival Holdings Maintenance, May 15, Phoenix The Arizona Department of Library, Archives, and Public Records and the AMIGOS Preservation Service will co-sponsor "Archival Holdings Maintenance," a full-day seminar, featureing Karen Garlick. For infomation, contact David Hoober, State Archivist at 602-542-4159. North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) The Seventh Annual NASIG Conference will be held June 18-21, 1992, at the University of Illinois, Chicago. This conference features a shared program with the SSP, Society for Scholarly Publishing, and gives librarians the opportunity both to meet and to network informally with the publishing community, a significant partner in the "serials information chain." The theme of the conference is: If we build it: Scholarly Communications and Networking Technologies. Programs and full details will be mailed to all NASIG members by the end of March. For further information or to register, please contact: James Mouw, Chair, Local Arrangements, mouw@midway.uchicago.edu OR: Elaine Rast, Registrar, C60ekrl@NIU.bitnet Third Feather River Institute, May 28-21, 1992 Since AN2 first published the announcement of the Third Feather River Institute (see AN2, v. 3, no. 7, February 13, 1992), the organizers have identified additional speakers and their topics. These include: Karen Schmidt, Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before?: A History of Acquisitions; Joe Barker, Acquisitions Principles and the Future Acquisitions; Joyce Ogburn, The Tenets of Acquisitions?; Ann L. O'Neil, How the Richard Abel Company Changed the Way We Work; Dora Biblarz, A Brief History of Richard Abel & Co.; Bill Fisher, A History of Library-Vendor Relations; Mary Devlin, Ethics: A Vendor's Perspective; Roger Presley, The Ethics Between Librarians and Vendors; Wanda Dole,The Impact of Reduced Funding on Organization for Collection Development; and Mary Bushing, Acquisition Ethics: The Evolution of Models for Hard Times. Registration is $100. For further information, contact Thomas Leonhardt, University of the Pacific Library, (209) 946-2434, tleonhardt@MADVAX.UOP.EDU, or Adrian Alexander, The Faxon Company, (817) 795-2468, Alexander@FAXON.COM ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ALCTS NETWORK NEWS (ISSN 1056-6694) is published irregularly by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association. 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