ALCTS Network News v3n25 (June 9, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v3n25 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 3, Number 25 June 9, 1992 In this issue CANADIAN CMDI SCHEDULED PETER GRAHAM TO SPEAK AT ALCTS PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS FOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON EXHIBIT TECHNIQUES AAUP SURVEY ON A CENTRALIZED ELECTRONIC RESOURCE LAPT RESEARCH AWARD ************************************************************************** CANADIAN CMDI SCHEDULED ALCTS and the Canadian Library Association will present a regional institute entitled "Good Management for Hard Times: Collection Management for the 1990's" in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 22-25, 1992. Registration will be accepted until October 9, 1992 and will be limited to 120 persons. The institute, planned and presented jointly by the ALCTS Collection Management and Development Section and the Canadian Library Association, is the first jointly sponsored program by these two organizations. The program is directed toward practicing librarians in public and academic libraries who deal with collection management issues. The objectives are to provide an overview of major issues and to provide up-to-date and practical training in the planning and management of library collections. Emphasis will be placed on the Canadian context in terms of resource sharing, Canadiana selection, and censorship. Speakers will include Basil Stuart-Stubbs, University of British Columbia; Gayle Garlock, University of Toronto; Les Fowlie, Toronto Public Library; Holly Melanson, Dalhousie University (Halifax, N.S.); Sam Demas, Cornell University; and Judith McAnanama, Hamilton (Ont.) Public Library. Registration fees are $225 US for American Library Association members, $260 CDN for Canadian Library Association members, $265 US for Americans who are not ALA members, and $315 CDN for Canadians who are not CLA members. For further information, contact Yvonne McLean at ALA, telephone 800-545-2433, ext. 5032, or Terry Tomchyshyn at CLA, telephone 613-232-9625. ************************************************************************* PETER GRAHAM TO SPEAK AT ALCTS PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM The previously announced topic for this years ALCTS President's Program is "After the Electronic Revolution, Will You Be the First to Go?" Peter Graham (Associate Vice President for Information Services, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) will speak at the Program and will address the topic of "Technical Services Perspective: Transition Issues and Strategies." Graham will particularly address the shifts that will be taking place in technical services, particularly in research libraries. Graham agreed to speak in place of Joe Hewitt, AUL for Technical Services at the University of North Carolina. Joe entered the hospital on June 8 for triple bypass heart surgery. We wish Joe, who is a good friend of technical services librarians throughout the United States, a speedy recovery. For Joe's many friends who want to send their well wishes, Joe will be at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill NC 27717. ************************************************************************* DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS FOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE (Editor's note: All short announcements of ALCTS discussion group topics will be published in AN2 as they become available. Please send the announcement of your group's topic, with date and time of meeting, to u34261@uicvm.) ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group Organizational Meeting Sunday, June 28, 1992; 4:30 - 5:30; MOSC - Room 270, 272 At ALA Midwinter, informal discussions emerged regarding creative and alternative solutions to challenges within technical services caused by budgetary constraints, reduced or inadequate staffing levels, and unavailable special skills in the local workforce. This led to the realization that we each respond to these forces in ways that are not usually shared broadly. We expect that this group will offer a forum for librarians with interests and responsibilities in all areas of technical services--acquisitions, cataloging, preservation--to engage in discussing and sharing solutions to some of these challenges. We anticipate an overwhelming response to this opportunity to meet the many other creative librarians who work on the cutting edge of reality. Please accept this invitation and join us. -- Co-conveners: Janet G. Padway Internet: jgpadway@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Julieann V. Nilson Bitnet: nilson@iubacs PLMS Preservation Administrators' Discussion Group (PADG) AGENDA for Meeting of June 26, 1992 Moscone Center, Room 124; 9:30am-12:30pm; 2:00-4:45pm A. Announcements B. Agenda review C. Electronic Preservation: preservation of electronic formats and electronic formats for preservation. (Discussion leader: Carla Montori) D. Automated preservation needs assessment instruments. (Discussion leader: Barclay Ogden) E. Stacks maintenance and preservation (Discussion leader: Wes Boomgaarden) F. Collections Conservation Conference (Berkeley, April 1992) (Report by Barclay Odgen) G. Problems with holdings information for filmed serials (Discussion leader: Barclay Odgen) H. Review of the DG forum and selection of new DG Chair and secretary. (Discussion leader: Wes Boomgaarden) Submitted by Wes Boomgaarden, The Ohio State University Libraries Chair, ALA/ALCTS/PLMS/Preservation Administrators' Discussion Group boomgaarden.1@osu.edu ************************************************************************* WORKSHOP ON EXHIBIT TECHNIQUES The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin and the AMIGOS Preservation Service will co-sponsor a workshop, "Exhibit Techniques for Library and Archival Materials," on August 28-29, 1992 in Austin, Texas. The intensive, two day workshop, led by the nationally recognized staff of the Ransom Center Conservation Lab, will enable participants to use preservationally-sound techniques to mount exhibits. Instruction will focus on books, photographs and flat paper materials; painting and objects will be addressed briefly. Topics covered will include an introduction titled 'Why Exhibit Materials?', the care and handling of exhibit materials, the exhibit environment, physical preparation procedures and installation of the exhibit. The session will culminate in a final exercise of mounting a simulated exhibit using the techniques and housing constructed over the course of the workshop. Please contact the AMIGOS Preservation Service for more information or registration forms. They may be reached at 1-800-843-8482. ************************************************************************* AAUP SURVEY ON A CENTRALIZED ELECTRONIC RESOURCE The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) is considering putting up a centralized electronic resource--a full-text searchable catalog of titles with CIP and descriptive information included. It would be telnet-accessible, and would probably use a WAIS (Wide Area Informa- tion Server) engine for search and retrieval. This free online catalog could be included in university CWIS active-resource systems, or could be accessed by students, librarians, scholars, and citizens with telnet capabilities. The AAUP is composed of nearly every university press in the country, which represents a collective list in print of over 100,000 titles, each of whose descriptions would be searchable, making it a database of considerable significance. There would be up to 100,000 titles and descriptive text (catalog copy, tables of content, introductions, abstracts...) available for electronic searching. However, the designers need to know what our needs really are and what our expectations would be. They have designed a short, electronic survey. To obtain the survey form and more information about the catalog, contact Michael Jensen, jensen@unlinfo.unl.edu. Please put "AAUP Online" in the description line. Or reply to the University of Nebraska Press, 327 NH, Box 880520, Lincoln, NE 68588-0520). ************************************************************************* LAPT RESEARCH AWARD Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory (LAPT) is pleased to announce the recipient of the 1992 Research Award, Anna H. Perrault. Ms. Perrault is Head, Interlibrary Services and Head, Reference Collection Development, at the Louisiana State University Libraries in Baton Rouge, LA. Her publication with Beth Paskoff, "A Tool for Comparative Collection Analysis: Conducting a Shelf-list Sample to Construct a Collection Profile, received the ALCTS Best of LRTS Award in 1991. Her proposal, "A Study of the Effects of the Diversion of Funds from Monographs to Serials on the Monograph Collections of Research Libraries," has been funded as the first Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory Research Award. Her research will investigate the "shrinking non-serial resources base for United States academic libraries," "shifts in monographic collecting patterns and trends in the acquisition of foreign language imprints," and "the decline in monograph acquisitions as distributed across subject disciplines or among language groups." The Call for Proposals for the 1993 Research Award will be released shortly. Questions concerning this award should be addressed to Carol Pitts Hawks, Editor-in-Chief, LAPT, 5380K Coachman Road, Columbus, OH 43220; (614) 292-6314; FAX: (614) 292-7859. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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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