ALCTS Network News v3n17 (April 15, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v3n17 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 3, Number 17 April 15, 1992 In this issue CHICAGO'S FLOOD BRINGS REMINDER SARAH THOMAS NAMED TO LC POST NEW RLG SERVICE DEBUTS AT RUTGERS AND BYU MARC FORMAT AND THE PERSONAL COMPUTER PROGRAM POSTPONED ************************************************************************** CHICAGO'S FLOOD BRINGS REMINDER: DISASTER PREPAREDNESS INSTITUTE STILL HAS SOME VACANCIES It is too early to tell what the effect of the Chicago River flood will be on the city's libraries, museums and archives. It is not too late, however, to register for the ALCTS Disaster Preparedness for Libraries institute so that you can learn how to plan for the next disaster. This institute will be presented on May 1, 1992 at the Holiday Inn in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It will be a one-day workshop for librarians responsible for planning and/or implementing a disaster preparedness and collections salvage plan. Speakers include Connie Brooks, Chief, Preservation Dept., Stanford University; Sally Buchanan, Associate Professor, School of Library & Information Science, University of Pittsburgh; and Lisa Fox, Program Development Officer for Preservation, SOLINET. You may register telephonically by calling ALCTS at 800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or 5032. The registration fee, which includes lunch, breaks, and instructional materials, is $125 for ALCTS members. ************************************************************************* SARAH THOMAS NAMED TO LC POST Sarah Thomas, formerly associate director for technical services at the National Agricultural Library (NAL) in Beltsville, MD, has been named the director for cataloging at the Library of Congress, effective March 9, 1992. At the Library of Congress, Ms. Thomas will direct the work of the largest group of professional catalogers at any library in the world, more than 400 catalogers. The Library of Congress cataloged 235,000 book and serial titles in 1991 alone. Cataloging is undergoing a major reorganization. Ms. Thomas joins the Library of Congress as they begin to focus on cataloging productivity and expansion of their cooperative cataloging projects. Eager for new challenges, Ms. Thomas states: "I like the intellectual stimulation of establishing new programs, of building consensus and of networking with a wide spectrum of colleagues and constituents ... [and look forward to working with the] talented LC staff to come up with creative solutions to adapting cataloging to meet the requirements of the '90s and beyond." ************************************************************************* NEW RLG SERVICE DEBUTS AT RUTGERS AND BYU CitaDel, the new citation and document-delivery service from the Research Libraries Group (RLG), is being previewed this spring at Rutgers and Brigham Young universities. From April 6 through May 22, the two RLG-member institutions will provide their campus communities with unlimited online access to five CitaDel files: ABI/INFORM, Periodical Abstracts, Newspaper Abstracts, Ei Page One, and Current Bibliography in the History of Technology. RLG's CitaDel service provides libraries and campus information networks with online access to some of the most popular commercial and most interesting scholarly citation databases available today. Institutions need only a connection to RLIN (RLG's information network) to be able to subscribe to CitaDel. All loading, maintaining, and updating of CitaDel files is done centrally at RLG, which has optimized the service for multiuser access and quick response. One easy-to-learn, easy-to-use interface is used for searching all CitaDel files. CitaDel has two types of files: Premium and Special. CitaDel Premium files are commercial citation databases that, for a fixed annual fee, can be searched without limit. Premium files being previewed are ABI/INFORM, Periodical Abstracts, Newspaper Abstracts (all from UMI/Data Courier), and Ei Page One (from Engineering Information Inc.). CitaDel Special files are scholarly citation databases, which are currently charged by the search. ONE SPECIAL FILE IS BEING PREVIEWED--CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY IN THE HISTORY of Technology. Coming in fall 1992 are Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, and Hispanic-American Periodicals Index. Rutgers will make CitaDel available to students, faculty, and staff through INFO, its campuswide information network. BYU, as part of the Utah College Library Council, an 11-member consortium of Utah private and public college and university libraries, will be previewing CitaDel with an eye towards eventual use by the entire consortium. For information about the CitaDel service and pricing, please contact the RLIN Information Center, E-mail BL.RIC@RLG.BITNET or BL.RIC@RLG.STANFORD.EDU, phone 800/537-RLIN (US/Canada), FAX 415/964-0943. ************************************************************************* MARC FORMAT AND THE PERSONAL COMPUTER PROGRAM POSTPONED The program entitled "The MARC Format and the Personal Computer-- Friends at Last" that is listed in the preliminary San Francisco Conference Program has been postponed until a later conference. The program, originally scheduled for Monday, 9-11 a.m., was in preparation by the ALCTS/LITA/RASD Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee (MARBI). ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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, Beatrice Calvin. 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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