ALCTS Network News v3n27 (June 15, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v3n27 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 3, Number 27 June 15, 1992 In this issue PROGRAMS ON SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SLS TO CLOSE DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS FOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE NCLIS TO SPONSOR FORUM ON NREN ************************************************************************** PROGRAMS ON SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION The following select list of programs and conferences on Scholarly Communications has been prepared by the ALCTS Scholarly Communications Committee chaired by Frederick C. Lynden, Brown University. The NASIG Conference is being held with the Society for Scholarly Publishing. ALA programs on the topic are listed following the independent conferences. "Scholarly Communications and Networking Technology," North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Annual Conference, June 18-21, University of Illinois at Chicago. "Scholarly Communication and the Future of Special Collections", ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Preconference, June 23-26, at the University of California Santa Cruz. "Full Text Electronic Access to Periodicals: Strategies for Implementation," ASIS 55th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh Hilton, Pittsburgh, PA, October 26-29, 1992. "Conference to Promote the Establishment of a Consortium of Universities and Learned Societies to Sponsor Computer Network Publication of Refereed Journals," University of Manitoba, Winnepeg, Canada, Fall 1993. The following will be held in San Francisco during the American Library Association Annual Conference: "Hard Facts, Hard Wired, Hard Times: Document Delivery/Resource Sharing in an Age of Electronic Technology and Diminishing Budgets," Saturday, June 27, 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. ALCTS Electronic Publishing Discussion Group. Saturday, June 27, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM. "Alternatives to Collection Ownership: College Library Implications and Applications," ACRL College Libraries Section, Sunday, June 28, 9:30AM to 12:30 PM. "The Virtual Library," PLA Technology in Public Libraries Committee and LITA Technology and Access Committee, Sunday, June 28, 2-5:30 PM. "NREN for All of Us: What the National Research and Education Network Can Mean to Local Library Service," Monday, June 29, 8:30-11AM. "After the Electronic Revolution, Will You be the First to Go: Your Right to Know," ALCTS President's Program and Membership Meeting, Monday June 29, 9:00 AM 12:30 PM. "Serials Processing: Today and in the Year 2000," ALCTS Serials Section, Monday, June 29, 2-4 PM. "Alternatives to Collection Ownership: Costs and Budgeting Issues," LAMA Library Organization and Management Section, 9-11 AM, Tuesday, June 30. ************************************************************************* COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SLS TO CLOSE The School of Library Service (SLS), Columbia University, which will cease operation at the end of this month, announced that it has withdrawn its proposal to move the School to The City University of New York. Citing the persistence of the recession as a major factor, Dean Robert Wedgeworth said that after a careful assessment, the projected fund-raising effort necessary to support the proposal over the next several years did not appear to be feasible. Previously, the School had been successful in negotiating arrangements to move its unique Conservation Education Programs to the University of Texas, Austin. Separate discussions are in progress between Columbia and the New York Public Library to move the SLS Library where it can continue to be accessible to students and scholars in the field. Although the School of Library Service, the oldest U.S. program offering graduate education for librarians, archivists and information specialists, has been a leading program in its field throughout its history, the Columbia University Trustees decided to phase out the program at its June 1990 meeting. ************************************************************************* 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 CCS Copy Cataloging Discussion Group Sunday June 28, 2:00-4:00 San Francisco Hilton, Yosemite B Part I Discussion topic: OCLC PRISM Amey L. Park, Head of the Bibliographic Control Department at Kent State University Libraries will present results of her research on "A Comparison of New OCLC Searches to "Old" Derived Searches". Linda J. Robinson, Manager, Cataloging Services Section at OCLC, will discuss "Research on PRISM validation". Presentations will be followed by questions/answers and open discussion. Part II: Sarah Thomas, the new Director for Cataloging at the Library Congres will discuss "Copy Cataloging at the Library of Congress: a New Era". An election for the position of Vice Chair/Chair Elect will be held. Chair: Beth Picknally Camden; E-mail: bp2f@virginia.bitnet; Internet: bp2f@virginia.edu Vice Chair/Chair Elect: Sherry Kelley; E-mail: skel@seq1.loc.gov. LITA/ALCTS RETROSPECTIVE CONVERSION INTEREST GROUP. Sunday, June 28, 1992, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Moscone Center, Room 132 "Funding for Your Recon Project: Estimates, Vendor/In-House Decisions, Timing, Hidden Costs and Grantsmanship" Three speakers who have successfully secured funding and overseen substantial retrospective conversion projects in recent years will present their views on the elusive art of estimating the costs of recon projects and the fine art of selling the projects to administrators and funding agencies. A twenty minute presentation by each will be followed by a ten minute question/answer period. Randy Call (Coordinator of Cataloging, Detroit Public Library): "What's your "Edge" in the Funding War?"; Marjorie Bloss (Director of Technical Services, CRL): "Funding for Recon: How to Get Money for Something that Neither Tastes Good nor is Sexy"; and Alice J. Allen (Assistant University Librarian for Technical Services, University of Oregon): "An Overnight Success". For more information contact: Mitch Turitz (LITA Co-Chair) San Francisco State University Library email: turitz@sfsu.edu or Daphne Hsueh (ALCTS Co-Chair) Ohio State University email: DAPHNE@OHSTMVSA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.edu ************************************************************************* NCLIS TO SPONSOR FORUM ON NREN The U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) will conduct an open forum July 20-21, 1992 on library and information services' roles in the National Research and Education Network (NREN). The forum will be held in the auditorium of the Department of Labor building at 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington. D.C. NREN is part of the High Performance Computing Act of 1991, PL-102-194, signed into law December 9, 1991. The forum will help clarify the issues and concerns of the national library and information services community, both as providers of information to be carried on NREN and as representatives of large groups of network users and potential users. The Commission invites comments and suggestions of representatives of libraries, information services, and other industries, associations, agencies and institutions to be given at this open forum. The forum's findings will be made available to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) prior to the December, 1992, OSTP report to Congress on the NREN. Those wishing to present oral and/or written statements to the July NCLIS forum should specifically address one or more of the areas to be covered in the report to Congress: 1) effective mechanisms for providing operating funds for the maintenance and use of the Network, including user fees, industry support and continued Federal investment; 2) the future operation and evolution of the Network; 3) how commercial information service providers could be charged for access to the Network, and how Network users could be charged for such commercial information services; 4) the technological feasibility of allowing commericial information service providers to use the Network and other federally funded research networks; 5) how to protect the copyrights of material distributed over the Network; and 6) appropriate policies to ensure the security of resources available on the Network and to protect the privacy of users of networks. The forum may be organized in panels according to the six issues quoted above and/or the types of organizations making statements at the forum. Parties interested in presenting oral or written statements should notify Kim Miller at the NCLIS office by June 30. A detailed forum schedule will then be developed and distributed. Written statements must be received by August 31, 1992. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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. 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