ALCTS Network News v3n19 (May 11, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v3n19 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 3, Number 19 May 11, 1992 In this issue 75,000 CALL FOR LIBRARIES 1992 ALCTS AWARD WINNERS OTHER ALA AWARDS OF NOTE ************************************************************************** 75,000 CALL FOR LIBRARIES It may not be competition for H. Ross Perot or Jerry Brown but the 800 number sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and Friends of Libraries USA attracted some 75,000 callers from every state and Guam. The Call for America's Libraries Campaign rallyed a show of public support in the face of a library funding crisis worse than during the Great Depression. The four-week campaign was launched on March 16 and ran through National Library Week, April 5-11. "The tragedy is that libraries are being forced to make cuts at a time when people are most in need of them," said ALA President Patricia Glass Schuman. "One woman who called was almost in tears because she said they are dropping her bookmobile service. The school library has been cut. The nearest public library is 20 miles away. She and her children depend on the bookmobile." One caller said he would rather give up his food stamps than his library. Another, who described himself as retired on a limited income, said he considered libraries "as essential to my intellectual health as public health services are to my physical health." Schuman noted that libraries across the country are reporting increased use as people turn to them for information and entertainment during a recessionary economy. "When business is good, stores hire people and stock up," Schuman added. "Libraries are having to lay off staff and cut their book budgets. We must make the policy makers aware that many people--children and adults--depend on these services. Cutting libraries is a stupid way to save money." She noted that public libraries receive less than 1 percent of all tax dollars and are used by 66 percent of the adult population. To keep the momentum going, Schuman has begun a petition drive with the goal of adding 25,000 names to the 75,000 gathered during the Radio Rally. To obtain a petition, call the ALA Public Information Office at 800-545-2433, extension 5043. ************************************************************************* 1992 ALCTS AWARD WINNERS The following are the winners of the 1992 ALCTS awards. This year, there was no winner of the Esther J. Piercy Award. The awards will be presented at the ALCTS Membership Meeting and President's Program on Monday, June 29, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., during the 1992 ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco. Margaret Mann Citation Elaine Svenonius, professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the 1992 recipient of the Margaret Mann Citation. The citation is given to a cataloger or classifier for achievement in the areas of cataloging or classification. "Dr. Svenonius' national and international contributions to cataloging education and research are outstanding and they bring together historical and cutting edge perspectives" said Olivia M.A. Madison, Margaret Mann Citation Committee chair. Svenonius received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Barnard College in New York, two master's degrees--in philosophy and library science both from the University of Chicago--and a doctoral degree in library science from the University of Chicago. Best of LRTS Award Karen A. Schmidt, head of acquisitions and binding and associate professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the 1992 recipient of the ALCTS Best of LRTS Award. The award is for the author or authors of the best paper published each year in the division's official journal, Library Resources & Technical Services. The winning publication is "The Education of the Acquisitions Librarian: A Survey of ARL Acquisitions Librarians" in Library Resources and Technical Services 35 (January 1991), pp. 7-22. "The committee selected Karen Schmidt's article from among a number of excellent papers," said Jasper Schad, Best of LRTS Award Committee chair. "Schmidt's report on her survey of ARL acquisitions librarians was designed to discover where they actually learn acquisitions work and where they would like to learn it. Her conclusions raise important and long-neglected questions about the nature of library education for acquisitions and the professional nature of acquisition work not emphasized in library schools." Blackwell North America Scholarship Award Richard M. Dougherty, Carol A. Hughes and Cal Gough are joint recipients of the 1992 Blackwell North America Scholarship Award. The award is given to a library school of the winner's choice in the name of the author or authors of an outstanding monograph, published article or original paper on acquisitions, collection development or areas of resources development in libraries. There are two awards this year and the sponsor, Blackwell North America, has generously doubled the amount of the award to $2,000. Dougherty and Hughes received the award for "Library Cooperation: A Historical Perspective and a Vision for the Future," in "Advances in Library Resource Sharing," v. 1, pp. 1-21, published by Meckler in 1990. Gough won for "Key Issues in the Collecting of Gay/Lesbian Library Materials," in "Gay and Lesbian Library Service," edited by Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt, published by McFarland in 1990. Dougherty, professor of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is immediate past-president of the American Library Association. Hughes is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan. Gough is a reference librarian, electronic reference coordinator and the science book selector at the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library's Central Library in Atlanta, Ga. The award will be divided between the library schools designated by the winners. Dougherty and Hughes have chosen the University of Michigan, School of Information and Library Studies, and Gough has chosen Clark Atlanta University, College of Library and Information Studies. Serials Section First Step Award (Wiley Professional Development Grant) Kathy Wodrich Schmidt, serials coordinator at the Indiana University Ruth Lilly Medical Library in Indianapolis, is the first recipient of the Serials Section First Step Award (Wiley Professional Development Grant). The award of $1,500, donated by John Wiley & Co., provides librarians new to the serials field an opportunity to attend the ALA Annual Conference. Schmidt has worked as a cataloger at the Indiana University Library in Indianapolis and as reference and public service librarian at the Indiana Universities Library Libraries in Bloomington. She has a bachelor's degree in History and French from Butler University in Indianapolis, Ind., and a master's in library science from Indiana University in Bloomington. Serials Section Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award Linda K. Bartley, coordinator of the Cooperative Online Serials (CONSER) Program at the Library of Congress, is the 1992 recipient of the Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award. The $1,500 award and citation, sponsored by the R.R. Bowker Company/Reed Reference Publishing, is for contributions to serials librarianship in the areas of professional association, participation, library education, serials literature, research, or development of tools leading to better understanding. Bartley has worked as head of the National Serials Data Program at the Library of Congress, director of the Library Development Program and technical supervisor at Boston Theological Institute and catalog librarian at Boston University. Editor of the "CONSER Editing Guide" and the "CONSER Newsletter", Bartley is one of three senior administrators of the Serial Record Division at the Library of Congress and is a member of the team to develop a request for proposal for a serials check-in system. ************************************************************************* OTHER ALA AWARDS OF NOTE Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award Miriam Drake, Dean and Director of Libraries and Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., is the recipient of the 1992 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. This interdivisional award of ACRL, ALCTS, LAMA, and LITA honors the life and accomplishment of Hugh C. Atkinson and recognizes outstanding accomplishments of an academic librarian who has worked in the areas of library automation or library management and has made contributions (including risk taking) toward the improvement of library services or to library development or research. Drake was presented the award for her leadership in forging a merger of libraries and computing, her commitment to the dynamics of people interacting with information, and her ability to change the environment to enable accessibility and delivery of that information. The award will be presented at the LITA President's Program, Monday, June 29, 1992 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco. Melvil Dewey Medal Michael Gorman, Dean of Library Services, Henry Madden Library at California State University in Fresno, is the 1992 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA) Melvil Dewey Medal. The medal, donated by Forest Press, Inc., is given to an individual or group for recent creative professional achievement in library management, training, cataloging and classification, and the tools and techniques of librarianship. Gorman has held a number of positions at the University of Illinois, Urbana Library--director of Technical Services, director of General Services and acting university librarian. He worked as head of Cataloguing at the British National Bibliography, as a member of the British Library Planning Secretariat and as head of the Office of Bibliographic Standards in the British Library. He has taught at library schools in his native Britain and in the United States--most recently at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Library and Information Science (summer sessions). Gorman is the first editor of the "Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, second edition" (1978) and of the revision of that work (1988). He is the author of "The Concise AACR2" (1989), editor of and contributor to "Technical Services Today and Tomorrow" (1990), editor of "Convergence" (proceedings of the 2nd National Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Conference), published in 1991 and "Crossroads" (proceedings of the 1st LITA National Conference) published in 1983. He is also the author of more than 80 articles in professional and scholarly journals. Gorman has contributed chapters to a number of books and is the author or editor of other books and monographs. He has given numerous presentations at international, national and state conferences. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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. 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