ALCTS Network News v3n18 (April 30, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v3n18 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 3, Number 18 April 30, 1992 In this issue STANDARDS NEWS FROM NISO NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION OF LIBRARY ASSISTANTS SUMMER AND FALL CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, ETC. PRACTICAL PRESERVATION TIPS ISI ACQUIRED BY THE THOMSON CORPORATION ************************************************************************** STANDARDS NEWS FROM NISO National Standard for Information Interchange Revised ANSI/NISO Z39.2-199X, the national standard format for information interchange, has been revised and is now available for comment from the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). This proposed, revised standard is priced at $30. It can be ordered from: NISO, P.O. Box 1056, Bethesda, MD 20827. All interested persons are invited to participate in the review of this revised standard. The review period will end June 22,1992. This standard gives the requirements for a generalized interchange format that will accommodate many types of data and can be used for the interchange of records in any media. The standard was originally issued in 1971, and revised in 1979 and 1985. In this most current revision restrictions on character positions 07-09 are removed in the record leader and the scope of the standard is extended beyond bibliographic data. Circulation Transaction Standard Issued ANSI/NISO Z39.70-199X, Standard Format for Circulation Transactions, is now available for comment from the NISO. This proposed new standard is priced at $30. It can be ordered from: NISO, P.O. Box 1056, Bethesda, MD 20827. All interested persons are invited to participate in the review of this draft standard. The review period will end August 17, 1992. The purpose of the standard is to facilitate the exchange of data between bibliographic circulation systems. The proposed standard consists of a structured order chart, a data dictionary, and transaction definitions. Revised National Character Set Standard Issued NSI/NISO Z39.47-199X, the national standard for the Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use (or "ANSEL"), has been revised and is now available for comment from the NISO. This proposed revised standard is priced at $30. It can be ordered from: NISO, P.O. Box 1056, Bethesda, MD 20827. All interested persons are invited to participate in the review of this revised standard. The review period will end July 20, 1992. This standard specifies 63 graphic characters contained in a 94-byte set that can be invoked in a 7-bit or 8-bit environment. It is intended for use with the 128 graphic and control characters of ASCII and is fully compatible with that standard. ANSEL is intended to handle recorded information in over 35 languages written in the Latin alphabet and romanized forms of over 50 languages. Country Codes Expert Group to be Formed The National Information Standards Organization is organizing an Experts Group to review proposed changes to the international standard for country codes, ISO 3166. This Experts Group will also provide information on the use of country codes in the U.S. to the U.S. representative to the ISO Working Group which manages the international country code standard. All users of the international country code standard are invited to appoint a representative to this Experts Group. There is no charge for participation. It is anticipated that the group will meet once a year with most of its work done through the mail. If you wish to be included in the Country Codes Experts Group contact the NISO office: P. O. Box 1056, Bethesda, MD 20827, Telephone: 301-975-2814, Fax: 301-869-8071. NISO is accredited by the American National Standards Institute to develop voluntary technical standards used by publishers, information services and libraries and is designated by ANSI as the official U.S. Technical Advisory Group on ISO 3166. Fifty NlSO-developed standards are now in print and ten standards are scheduled for publication in 1992-93. ************************************************************************* NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION OF LIBRARY ASSISTANTS The 6th annual conference of library assistances, "NJALA Meets the Challenge," will be presented by the New Jersey Association of Library Assistants and Seton Hall University on Monday and Tuesday, June 8-9, 1992, at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ. The keynote speaker will be Charles W. Robinson, Director, Baltimore County Library, and other announced speakers include Patricia Brisson, a children's author, Louise Minervino, New Jersey State Librarian, John Bailey Lloyd, an author, and Sylvia Cooke-Martin, Deputy Chief of Staff and Training Development, LC. For more information contact Dolores Payne, 908-349-6200, ext 25. The deadline is May 22, 1992. ************************************************************************* SUMMER AND FALL CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, ETC. Public Library Planning and Design Public Library Planning and Design, a comprehensive course intended for librarians and architects, is being offered by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design on July 16-17, 1992. This course will examine concepts and methods for planning and designing the community public library, and topics to be covered include: space programming standards for both small and large libraries, building design and technology, site planning, project budgets, evaluation of existing buildings, post-occupancy evaluation, and review of the new Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Tuition and materials are $480. For a catalogue, contact the Office of Development and External Relations, GSD, Harvard University, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. 617/495-4315 FAX: 617/495-5967 Out-of-Print and Antiquarian Book Market Seminar The Out-of-Print and Antiquarian Book Market Seminar will be presented by Book Seminars in cooperation with AB Bookman's Weekly August 9-14, 1992, at the University of Denver. Specialists will share their expertise and experiences with librarians and booksellers in a survey of OP, antiquarian, and rare book markets. Basic procedures problems will be discusses through lectures, demonstrations, discussions, and practical workshops. Keynote speakers are Leona Rostenberg and Madeline B. Stern. Registration is $595.00. For further information, contact Book Seminars, 4024 N.W. 15th Street, Gainesville, FL 32605. Oxford Seminar A conference on the Role and Future of Special Collections in Research Libraries: British and American Perspectives, will be held September 13-17, 1992, at the University of Oxford, England. Cosponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Oklahoma Libraries, the Bodleian Library, and the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, this seminar will examine the British experience with special collections and assess implications for North American libraries faced with the pressures to use available information resources in the light of diminished funding. Fees are $1,200 single; $1.100 twin. For more information, contact ARL: fax - 202-462-7849. Museum Computer Network The Museum Computer Network is holding its 1992 Annual Conference on October 28-31 in conjunction with the fall conference of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) being held on October 25-29. Both conferences will be in Pittsburgh. For more information contact Lynn Cox, MCN Executive Director, 5001 Baum Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-1851; fax: 412-681-5758. Miami University Management Development Program The Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has announced three 1992 Management Development Programs for Library Administrators. The 22nd and 23rd sessions of the Manaagement Development Program (MDP) will be held July 19-24, 1992 and September 13-18, 1992, respectively. The MDP is designed for those who directly manage and supervise the activities of several others and who are looking forward to assuming even greater challenges and responsibilities in their organizations. The Advanced Management Program will be held July 19-24, 1992. It is designed to meet the management development needs of those who hold senior management positions with at least five years of library management experience and/or have completed the MDP or equivalent. For more information contact Lori J. Beier at CMDMAIL@MIAMIU.BITNET or CMDMAIL@MIAMI.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU. NYU Conservation Environment Institute NYU will be presenting five one-day seminars as part of the 1992 Building and Construction Seminar Series at the NYU Real Estate Institute. Topics for the sessions are: Conservation Environments for Museums and Libraries, Establishing a Conservation Environment Monitoring Program, Fundamentals of Conservation Environment Lighting, Security and Fire Protection for Museums and Libraries, and Maintaining and Managing Conservation Environments. For more information contact The Real Estate Institute, New York University, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, 212-790-1649. ************************************************************************* PRACTICAL PRESERVATION TIPS The current issue of "The Abbey Newsletter" (April 1992, v. 16, no. 2) has two notes on the front page providing tested responses to practices which have been discussed on various listservs. The first concerns the growing use of real popcorn to replace puffed Styrofoam as a packing material. Real popcorn, even unbuttered, will contain some residual oil which might damage books if they are not separately wrapped, and it is a food which will be attractive to "critters" already too common in libraries. Booklab in Texas has tested real popcorn and found it to be heavier than Styrofoam, more flammable, and more expensive. The second note is about a home remedy for deteriorating audio tapes. Heating tapes in the oven, as has been suggested in some quarters, will not reliably cause the oxide layer to readhere to the base layer. The Abbey Newsletter recommends consulting the articles in "The Midwestern Archivist, v. XVI, no. 1, 1991; AN2 recommends allocating travel funds for the 1993 institute on preservation of magnetic media to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 21-22, 1993. ************************************************************************* ISI ACQUIRED BY THE THOMSON CORPORATION The Thomson Corporation has acquired a majority interest in the Institute for Scientific Information from the JPT Publishing Group, effective April 3, 1992. The Thomson Publishing/Information Group is one of the largest of its kind, comprised of more than 120 companies located throughout the world. Dr. Eugene Garfield and the present management of ISI will continue to direct the Company's efforts, and the headquarters will remain in Philadelphia. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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, Marie Rochelle, and 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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