ALCTS Network News v4n04 (August 18, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v4n04 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 4, Number 4 August 18, 1992 In this issue NEH CONFERENCE ON TRAINING IN COLLECTIONS CONSERVATION NEW LISTSERV ON COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST ALCTS HELP EXCHANGE ************************************************************************** NEH CONFERENCE ON TRAINING IN COLLECTIONS CONSERVATION Reported by Barclay Ogden, Conservation Dept., UC Berkeley Library Forty-two preservation administrators and conservators representing 22 libraries throughout the country met at UC Berkeley April 28- May 2 to design training programs for conservation technicians responsible for care and repair of circulating collections materials. Participating libraries were selected on the basis of geographic distribution and on their commitment to collections conservation, including a commitment to serve as a regional training site. Funding for the conference was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation and Access. The conference had three goals: to develop model plans for training technicians in collection conservation; to develop management and funding plans for regional implementation of collection conservation training; and to provide opportunities for professional development for collection conservators. Staff from the ARL Office of Management Services coached the conference staff and helped facilitate the conference. Toward the first goal, outlines for plans for training technicians in collection conservation were completed, including training objectives, audiences for the training, curricula and supporting documentation, and teaching resources. Treatment documentation to support training will be completed by the end of December 1992 and submitted to the Association for Research Libraries, Office of Management Services for publication. Toward the second goal, management and funding plans for implementation of regional training were explored and roughly sketched out, including estimates of training costs, funding needs, and institutional interests;, participants from within each region met together to design a regional plan. Toward the third goal, tasks and discussions were organized to provide formal and informal professional development opportunities. Conservators worked together, engaging in a group discussion on the scope of the collection conservation field; spent a day exploring teaching techniques in collections conservation, reviewed documentation developed by many of the participating institutions to support collections conservation programs, and brainstormed on the future needs of collections conservation. Very importantly, with the successful development and implementation of this conference model to address a particular preservation need shared by many research libraries, the preservation field has at its disposal a proven way to address other shared preservation problems and to build consensus toward their resolution. Further information on the progress of regional training opportunities may be obtained from Erich Kesse, Preservation Officer, University of Florida, Gainesville; email: erikess@nervm.bitnet; phone 904/392-6962. ************************************************************************* NEW LISTSERV ON COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT COLLDV-L is a moderated discussion list directed primarily to library collection development officers, bibliographers, and selectors plus others involved with library collection development, including interested publishers and vendors. Representative topics appropriate for the List include access/ownership issues, approval plans, collection assessment, budgeting, cooperation, collection formats, organization, planning, policies, pricing, publisher/vendor relations, resource sharing, selection, storage, etc. To subscribe, send the following command to LISTSERV@USCVM via mail or interactive message: SUBSCRIBE COLLDV-L your _full_name. For example: SUBSCRIBE COLLDV-L Joe Shmoe. -- Submitted by the List owner: Lynn Sipe ************************************************************************* PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST Standards brochure A free 8-page brochure lisitng all of the currently available technical standards covering information sciences developed by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is now available. To request a copy, contact the NISO Office at: NISO, P.O. Box 1056, Bethesda, MD 20827; telephone: 301-975-2814; fax: 301-869-8071; Internet: NISO@ENH.NIST.GOV. Current Cites Current Cites (ISSN: 1060-2356) is a monthly publication of the Library Technology Watch Program--The Library, University of California at Berkeley. Over 30 journals in librarianship and computer technology are scanned for selected articles on optical disk technologies, computer networks and networking, information transfer, expert systems and artificial intelligence, electronic publishing, and hypermedia and multimedia. Brief annotations accompany most of the citations. To Subscribe: Current Cites is sent automatically to all subscribers to PACS-L@UHUPVM1.BITNET and PACS-P@UHUPVM1.BITNET each month. Subscriptions to the electronic format and paper format are also available by sending your name and mailing address to David Robison, 208 Main Library, Berkeley, CA 94720 or drobison@library.berkeley.edu. Please specify electronic (preferred) or paper. Current Cites is available electronically through the Melvyl catalog and via anonymous ftp. For more information, contact: David Robison, Editor, (208 Main Library, Berkeley, CA 94720, drobison@library.berkeley.edu) or Program Coordinator, Roy Tennant (The Library 130 Doe, Berkeley, CA 94720, rtennant@library.berkeley.edu). Headings for Tomorrow Headings for Tomorrow: Public Access Display of Subject Headings, edited by Martha Yee, for the ALCTS CCS Subject Analysis Committee, has been published by ALA Books. It is intended to aid librarians interacting with systems designers in making decisions about the design of displays of more than one subject heading. $15.00; ISBN 0-8389-3414-5. Available from ALA Order Department, 50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; 800-545-2433. 1993 Faxon Planning Report The Faxon Company has published The Faxon Planning Report 1993, a comprehensive review of serials budget trends and library and publisher attitudes and opinions. Free to Faxon customers, it is available for $40 from The Faxon Press, P.O. Box 9102, Boston, MA 02132; 617-329-3350. The Library Copyright Guide The Library Copyright Guide, by Ruth H. Dukelow provides a review of copyright law as it applies to school, college, and public libraries. It is available from the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1025 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 820, Washington, D.C. 20005; 202-347-7834. The price is $39.95. New SPEC Kits SPEC Kit 181 on Performance Appraisal of Collection Development Librarians and SPEC Kit 182 on Academic Status for Librarians in ARL Libraries have been published by ARL. Both were compiled by Jack Siggins. To order contact the Publications Department, Office of Management Services, 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036; 202-232-8656. The cost of each is $33.00. ************************************************************************* ALCTS HELP EXCHANGE AN2 is a little different from the other listservs we all monitor, in that there really are not many reader contributions (though there could be) nor is there much interaction among the AN2 readers. Interestingly, the provision of a forum for communication among ALCTS members was a suggestion one person made as part of the discussion about the ALCTS Organizational Structure Task Force report (see AN2, v4, no. 2) taking place on another list. So, let's give it a try by initiating the ALCTS HELP EXCHANGE. We will accept questions about technical services issues, seeking answers to them "from the field." The answers will be digested and published in a subsequent issue. Here is our first question: Can anyone provide me with information concerning sources of acid-free self-adhesive (i.e., "crack-n-peel") stock for library bookplates? Ideally, we'd use good buffered stock and PVA, but I'm wondering if there already is a neutral or buffered self-adhesive stock suitable for offset printing of bookplates. Specific manufacturers numbers and cost information would be wonderful, but if anyone knows of references in the professional literature, I would be grateful for that as well. Please respond to me directly, since I am not a frequent participant on this list. Thanks very much in advance. Scott Denlinger, Talbot Research Library, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 7701 Burholme Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19111; 215-728-2710 e-mail: denlinger@shrsys.hslc.org (Internet only) ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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. News items should be sent to the editor at Bitnet address u34261@uicvm. To subscribe, issue the network command "tell listserv@uicvm sub alcts [your account] [your name]." Back issues of AN2 are available through the listserver. To find out what's available, send the following command to LISTSERV@UICVM: send alcts filelist The ALCTS FILELIST contains the list of files with the EXACT filename and filetype. To get a particular file, issue this command to the LISTSERV@UICVM: send filename filetype. 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