ALCTS Network News v4n07 (October 26, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v4n07 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 4, Number 7 October 26, 1992 In this issue UPCOMING CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FREE 30-DAY TRIALS FOR RLG's CITADEL SERVICE EXPLANATION AND RESPONSE ************************************************************************** UPCOMING CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES LAMA presents "A Leadership Survival Kit" The Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) will hold a leadership institute at the Penn State Great Valley Library, November 16, 1992. The institute will provide librarians with an opportunity to expand their perspectives on leadership through greater awareness of issues that impact their effectiveness. Included are leadership and decision making styles, approaches to confront and manage conflict, and ways to stimulat creativity. The presenter, Abigail Hubbard, is a consultant to managers and a lecturer in the Department of Management, College of Business Administration, at the University of Houston. Hubbard also holds a Ph.D. in higher education administration and management. For more information about registration, contact Elizabeth Dreazen, Deputy Executive Director, LAMA, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60611, telephone, 800-545-2433, ext. 5030. 12th Annual Charleston Conference The 1992 Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition Conference at the College of Charleston is set to begin Thursday, November 5 and will run through Saturday, November 7. This yearly conference provides a chance for librarians, publishers and vendors to investigate areas of common concern and develop fresh ideas. Once again a stellar group of speakers will present papers, led by keynote speaker Miriam Drake of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Topics of discussion will include Budget Management, Trends in Scholarly Publishing, the Future of Collection Development, Electronic Publishing, and Copyrights. A full slate of optional attractions will be offered as well. The deadline for registration was October 21, 1992. For more information about registration, call 803-792-5822 or fax 803-792-1454. Preservation Microfilming Workshop The Arizona Department of Library, Archives and Public Records and the AMIGOS Preservation Service will co-sponsor a workshop on preservation microfilming December 9-11, 1992, in Phoenix. The session will be presented by staff of the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), a nationally-recognized provider of education in preservation microfilming techniques and standards. The session is designed to train personnel in libraries, archives, and other institutions to plan, implement, and manage microfilming projects. Participants in the December 9-11 session will learn skills including developing specifications and writing vendor contracts. Hands-on experience in camera operation and the inspection of completed film will be included. An overview of national microfilm specifications and standards will be given. Course instructors are Mark C. Robinson, Director of Reprographic Services at NEDCC, and Andrew Raymond, Archives and Records Management Consultant. To request registration materials or additional information, please contact Tom Clareson, AMIGOS Preservation Manager, at 800/843-8482, or Michael McColgin, Preservation Officer, Arizona Department of Library, Archives and Public Records at 602/542-4159. Advanced Library Management Skills Institute The Library Management Skills Institute II (formally called the Advanced Management Skills Institute) will be presented in Boston, November 8-13, by the Office of Management Services. Shelley Phipps, Assistant University Librarian at the University of Arizona, and Maureen Sullivan will serve as the instructors for this Institute. The cost of the workshop per participant is $660, for ARL member libraries, $710 for nonmembers, plus travel and accommodations. The Institute will be held at the Inn at Harvard, where rooms will cost $105 per night single or double occupancy. Contact: Association of Research Libraries, Office of Management Services, 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036. ************************************************************************* FREE 30-DAY TRIALS FOR RLG's CITADEL SERVICE Free 30-day trials of CitaDel's citation files are now available to interested institutions. The files include: ABI/INFORM, Periodical Abstracts, Newspaper Abstracts, Dissertation Abstracts, Ei Page One, PAIS '80+, History of Technology Bibliography, Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, Index to Hispanic Legislation (World Law Index, pt. 1), and Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. CitaDel is the article-citation and document-delivery service from the Research Libraries Group (RLG). Through CitaDel, libraries, universities, and other institutions can make citation databases available to their users over a library or campuswide network without having to load and maintain large files locally. To subscribe to CitaDel files, institutions simply pay a fixed annual fee for the file (or files) of their choice, and their users receive unlimited searching free of charge. Institutions may try one CitaDel file or several for 30 days without charge. There is no obligation to purchase a subscription after a 30-day trial. (Limit per institution: One free 30-day trial per file; however, several CitaDel files may be tried concurrently.) For more information about CitaDel and free 30-day trials, please contact: The RLIN Information Center, 1200 Villa Street, Mountain View, CA 94041-1100 USA; e-mail: BL.RIC@RLG.BITNET or BL.RIC@RLG.STANFORD.EDU (Internet); phone:1-800-537-RLIN (US & Canada); FAX: 415-964-0943 ************************************************************************* EXPLANATION AND RESPONSE On the morning of October 21, many of you received a strange message from the ALCTS mailing list. It happened like this: After well over an hour of doing cleanup to the ALCTS AN2 mailing list using commands of "add alcts ..." and "delete alcts ..." when I stopped to thank Alex Bloss for proofreading the issue of AN2 which went out on the 21st, I typed "note alcts" instead of "note alex." If you've heard Alex answer the phone (during his tenure as ALCTS Deputy Executive Director), "ALCTS, this is Alex" and you know that I type phonetically, it makes sense. But it's still embarrassing. However, awaiting me was the following, which I hope you'll enjoy as much as I did. (It is reprinted with Mike's permission.) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 11:59 +0800 From: "Michael J. Costin, HKU Library" Subject: LYGIA To: U19466@UICVM.BITNET 21 October 1992 Dear Karen, You have brightened my morning, and in fact given a laugh and a lift to many of us here. Someone has already stuck a paper sign on my office, with just the word "FUSSY" ! I am confident your message was intended for the one person who helped you by proofreading, not for the list of subscribers, but these things happen. This was tame and harmless, of course. I once saw a passionate outpouring about how good it was last night...and on and on... which was accidentally sent to a list ! The Director in Delhi _is_ LYGIA MARIA BALLANTYNE. She is a fine woman who first worked for the LC Office in Rio de Janeiro, in her native Brazil. She later moved to the States, became a U.S. citizen, added a library degree from Catholic University to her Brazilian library degree from Sao Paolo, married Bob Ballantyne, and, in 1990, was posted to the Delhi Office as Director. She is the first LyGia in my acquaintance, and I would also have raised the question if I were proofreading that text. Best wishes, and thanks for the fun, Fussy Mike University of Hong Kong Libraries ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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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