ALCTS Network News v4n03 (August 17, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v4n03 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 4, Number 3 August 17, 1992 In this issue WORST SERIAL TITLE CHANGE OF THE YEAR AWARDS, 1992 CONFERENCE MEETING REPORTS ************************************************************************** WORST SERIAL TITLE CHANGE OF THE YEAR AWARDS, 1992 With thanks from the Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Committee to all of the people who submitted silly, unnecessary title changes for this year's awards, we offer the following list of "winners": * To Prentice Hall for changing "Lawyer's Weekly Report" to "Lawyer's Tax Weekly" in August 1991 and then to "Tax Adviser's Letter" in February 1992, the Frequent Offenders Award. WARNING: the next time it'll be Alcatraz. * In recognition that ALA is about to begin the "Marilyn Miller Reign," we award the "It should be Miller Time" Award to Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich for changing "Millers Comprehensive GAAP Guide" to"HBJ Miller Comprehensive GAAP Guide". * To "Progress in Experimental Personality Research" which changed to "Progress in Experimental Personality & Psychopathology Research," we give the Schizophrenia Award (and hope it doesn't split next). * For the title changes from "Engineering Issues" to "Issues in Engineering," to "Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering," and, finally, "Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice," we give the Golden Gate Bridge Award to the American Society of Civil Engineers with the suggestion that they exercise some quality control and build a permanent title. * The Mixed Metamorphosis Award goes to "American Journal of Anatomy" for changing a distinctive title which had survived for 91 years to "Developmental Dynamics," a vague, "lost in the fog" kind of title. * The Prima Donna Award goes to the Kiplinger Washington Agency for taking a widely known title like "Changing Times" and changing it to "Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine." We wonder if new "Yuppie" subscriptions can possibly make up for the loss in recognition and revenue at the newsstands. * From the country that has THE Library Association comes a title change worthy of a Hands Across the Sea Award. To Times Newspapers Ltd. for changing its twenty year old title "The Times Higher Education Supplement" to simply "The Higher," we give the Pinnacle Award, for ultimate silliness. * The Phoenix from the Ashes or the Politically Correct Award is given to "The Bureaucrat" for its change to "Public Manager," but remember, old bureaucrats never die--they are just reborn with new titles. * To IEEE for numerous silly, unnecessary, title changes, resulting in repeated nominations over many years, and in recognition of this year's nominee, the change from "IEEE LCS" to "IEEE LTS", we grant the first Lifetime Achievement Award. What an honor! * Special recognition is given to the publishers of "In Health" who promised that the most recent title change to "Health" was the last we would see. Alice Stanglin of Richland College Library was so moved that she submitted "A Periodical Clerk's Lament" or "Magazine Hades (I would say Hell but I'm too much of a lady)." Woe unto me and woe unto you our "Health" is gone and our "In Health" too! For "Health" has been bought by "In Health" you see (Remember, it's the former "Hippocrates!") But the "Health" that we had is really no more and our "In Health" too is out of the door! 'Cause a new "Health" is here to replace the old but it's really "In Health" if the story be told! If by now You're thinking your "health" is not normal the attached letters prove that and make it all formal! * The annual Snake in the Grass Award is traditionally given to a library or library organization. This year it goes to the Maine State Library, the Maine Library Association, and the Maine Educational Media Association for their joint responsibility for a sequence of title changes which they characterized as "a serial librarian's nightmare." Beginning in 1991, "Downeast Libraries" changed three times to "Downeast Libraries & Mediacy", "Maine-ly Libraries", and, finally, "The Maine Entry". * A special award this year, "The Worst Publisher of the Year Award," goes to Tolley's Publishing for apparently working through the list of titles they issue and adding Tolley's to each of them, as in "Tolley's Journal of Child Law," "Tolley's Journal of Media Law and Practice," and so on, and so on. * The award for the Worst Serial Title Change of the Year goes to Rohrich Press of Akron, Ohio, for changing the "Blue Book of Sr. College, University and Junior & Community College Athletics" to "Blue Book of College Athletics for Senior, Junior & Community Colleges," its third title change in four years. All of the changes have simply stir-fried the same seven or eight words (senior, junior, college, community, blue book, and athletics) into new and different "winning" combinations. ************************************************************************* CONFERENCE MEETING REPORTS [Editor's note: AN2 welcomes reports from Discussion Groups and ALCTS Committees. Reports will be edited for space and format. The "style sheet" for AN2 includes centered headlines in all caps, paragraphs indented 5 spaces, no spaces between paragraphs, and 75 character lines. In order to enable easy online reading, we have kept most articles to just a screen or two in length.] ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services DG: Organizational meeting (Sunday, 6/28/92; 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.) Report by Judith Hopkins, University at Buffalo Over 100 people attended the organizational meeting of this proposed new group which was convened by Janet G. Padway (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) and Julie Nilson (Indiana University). They saw the group as providing an opportunity for people in all areas of technical services to talk about what they are doing that is creative and innovative but wanted to know what those present thought such a forum might discuss and how discussion topics should be chosen. Numerous possible discussion topics were mentioned by the group, e.g., Impact of reorganization on technical services Workflow Rethinking jobs to remedy repetitive motion injury Changing roles/relationships between professionals and paraprofessionals Redesign of physical environment Self-managing teams Breaking down barriers between public services and technical services Establishment of a consultative relationship with public service colleagues Shifting roles/functions within technical services Is there a future for original catalogers? Contract cataloging? Creative uses for original catalogers? Can we utilize student assistants when so much work requires extensive training? Working at home Coping with personnel problems resulting from reorganization How to attract new people to technical services Relationship of library administrators to technical services Nontraditional funding sources for technical sources Continuing education for technical services professionals and paraprofessionals Creative responses to systems limitations Where does collection development lie in your library? Where are decisions regarding technical services made? Pros and cons of using vendor supplied cataloging How to handle preservation projects; what kind of involvement do acquisitions, cataloging, and collection development staff have? As there seemed to be plenty of topics to be discussed the Discussion Group submitted a statement of purpose to be submitted to the ALCTS Board of Directors, which was accepted. Watch for future meetings of ALCTS' newest discussion group. ALCTS Serials Section Committee to Study Serials Cataloging. Summary of Minutes Submitted by Elizabeth N. Steinhagen Committee to Study Serials Cataloging, Member During the American Library Association 1992 annual meeting in San Francisco, the Committee met twice, on Sunday, June 28, and Monday, June 29. The announcements included details about committee members and interns rotating on and off, and the news that Dorothy Glasby, of the Library of Congress is planning to resign as LC Liaison to the Committee. Reports by committee members and liaisons included one on the Format Integration preconference, with some detail on how format integration, to be implemented late 1993, or early 1994, might affect serials cataloging. The report on the Multiple Versions Task Force recommendation, as accepted by CC:DA, was presented by the committee's CC:DA Liaison. It basically recommends that the cataloging of multiple versions of a serial title be treated as an exception to AACR2R. The committee then heard a brief MARBI report and the traditional LC report, which included some CONSER and NSDP news. Among the highlights of the session was the presentation of the "Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Awards." Incoming chair of that committee, Rosanna O'Neil, announced the winners in the various categories to a very receptive audience. Other committee business included making a recommendation on the Canadian government publication *You name it*, regarding title changes, and on the idea of organizing new regional serials cataloging institutes. With comments and good ideas also coming from the audience, the recommendation on both topics was to forward them to the Executive Committee where appointments for a respective task force could be made. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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; Liz Bishoff, President; Karen Muller, Executive Director. Editor: Karen Muller (u34261@uicvm); Editorial Advisory Board: Liz Bishoff, Jennifer Younger, Arnold Hirshon. Editorial Assistance: Marie Rochelle. 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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