ALCTS Network News v5n01 (January 5, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v5n01 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 5, Number 1 January 5, 1993 In this issue COLORADO LIBRARY ASSOCIATION TO SELL BUTTONS LARAN COMMUNICATIONS OFFERS ONLINE SUBSCRIPTIONS NATIONAL INDEXING STANDARD: PROGRESS REPORT RESULTS OF THE CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION PROGRAM SURVEY TO BE DISCUSSED AT ALA MIDWINTER WORKSTATION PUBLICATION AVAILABLE FROM LC LC & NYPL PRESERVING UNITED STATES TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES ************************************************************************** COLORADO LIBRARY ASSOCIATION TO SELL BUTTONS During the 1993 Midwinter Meeting, the Colorado Library Association will be selling two buttons protesting Amendment 2 of Article II to the Colorado Constitution. The Amendment, which was passed by 53% of the Colorado electorate, provides for "No protected status based on homosexual, lesiban, or bisexual orientation" and voids ordinances in Denver, Boulder, and Aspen that included sexual orientation in the list of groups protected from discrimination. The buttons will be available at the Colorado Library Assocation booth in the conference registration area. There are no plans for any advance sales. Their cost is $1.00, the price at which the CLA purchases them from Equality Colorado; CLA makes no profit. The text of the two buttons reads: Liberty and Justice for All No exceptions Un-do 2 Un Conscionable Constitutional Colorado Un-do 2 -- Information provided by Nancy Bolt (NBOLT@CSN.ORG) ************************************************************************* LARAN COMMUNICATIONS OFFERS ONLINE SUBSCRIPTIONS Laran Communications has announced an increase in both the amount of their discounts and the number of titles available through their on-line magazine subscription service. Laran's philosophy as an on-line vendor of magazine subscriptions has been to pass their savings in advertising, marketing and sales expense on to the consumer in the form of dramatically lower prices. Although customers order through their on-line catalog, the magazines are delivered through the mail in the usual fashion. Laran's current catalog contains over 2,500 price listings, most with discounts which range up to 50% off regular subscription rates plus over 140 listings with special student/educator discounts. Laran Communications is currently in the process of making the price list file, magazine.zip, freely available on hundreds of BBSs across the country. Additionally, the file is downloadable from Laran's own freely accessible system by dialing 708-690-9860 (8/N/1 - ANSI). For more information, contact: Larry Spiegel, President, Laran Communications, Inc., 26W482 Blair, Winfield, IL 60190; (708) 690-2141; Internet: laran@delphi.com or 70253.1007@compuserve.com ************************************************************************* NATIONAL INDEXING STANDARD: PROGRESS REPORT Can indexes that are displayed for searching by visual inspection share standards with "nondisplayed" indexes that are searched by means of electronic comparison and matching? This question dominated the recent deliberations of the third meeting of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) committee on standards for indexes. The committee decided that for the time being, the standard will refer to "displayed" and "nondisplayed" indexes. Since many electronic indexes are displayed for browsing and searching, this distinction is not based on index medium (e.g., print versus electronic) but is a result of the type of search interface provided to the user. The committee also decided to move most of the standard's large and expanding glossary to an appendix, keeping only the most essential definitions as a format part of the standard and to attempt to align the definitions in the indexing standard with those in the recently released NISO standard (Z39.19-199x). The NISO committee on indexes is directed by James D. Anderson of Rutgers University. Committee members include Barbara Anderson, DIALOG information Services; Catherine Grissom, U.S. Department of Energy; Nancy Mulvany, Bayside Indexing Service; Barbara Preschel, Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS); Deborah Swain, IBM; and Hans Wellisch, emeritus professor, University of Maryland. The indexing committee will next meet in May 1993. Persons who would like to receive copies of the next draft of the indexing standard should contact James Anderson at the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, 4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901, (908) 932-7501; Internet: janderson@zodiac.rutgers,edu. For more information on NISO's programs and activities contact the NISO office, 301-975-2814, or write: NISO, P.O. Box 1056, Bethesda, MD 20827; Internet: NISO@ENH.NIST.GOV ************************************************************************* RESULTS OF THE CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION PROGRAM SURVEY TO BE DISCUSSED AT ALA MIDWINTER Librarian satisfaction with the Cataloging in Publication (CIP) program is generally high, and the more titles included in the program the better. MARC tape recipients want CIP data in advance of a book's publication, and the more in advance the better. Publishers can live with a ten working day turn around time to obtain the CIP data, but the faster the better. These were some of the findings from a survey of uses of CIP data by publishers, libraries, and MARC tape subscribers done by the Library of Congress, confirming the CIP program's central role in the bibliographic control of monographs published in the United States. The survey was designed to assess the program after its first 20 years and to identify possible future directions for CIP. Separate surveys were sent to MARC tape subscribers, libraries of all types, and publishers in late 1991. This major study of the CIP program was funded by the Council on Library Resources, and the surveys were designed by SKP Associates of New York and Myers Consulting Services of Adelphi, Maryland. SKP will report on the results of the survey at the American Library Association Midwinter Conference in Denver at the CIP Advisory Group Meeting which will be held on Sunday, January 24, from 4-6 p.m. Consult your conference program for the location of the meeting. --From: William L. Starck (wsta@seq1.loc.gov) ************************************************************************* WORKSTATION PUBLICATION AVAILABLE FROM LC Winston Tabb, Associate Librarian for Collections, Library of Congress announces the availability of _Ergonomics and VDT Use_, a laminated broadside prepared by the Collection Services VDT Ergonomics Committee. The broadside is being made available to libraries in the United States, free of charge, with a limitation of 50 copies per library. The broadside summarizes recommendations for workstation configuration found in VDT literature. Specifically, it covers the adjustment of chairs, placement of the keyboard and monitor, viewing specifications, and the importance of ergonomic pauses. It is an educational document and does not substitute for training in good ergonomic practices. It was originally issued to Collections Services staff in 1991 and is now being reissued with minor modifications. Requests and queries should be addressed to July Mansfield, by mail at Arts and Sciences Cataloging Division, Collections Services, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540-4310, on Internet at MANSFIEL@MAIL.LOC.GOV, or via fax at (202) 707-6269. ************************************************************************* LC & NYPL PRESERVING UNITED STATES TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES The Library of Congress (LC), with assistance from the New York Public Library (NYPL), announces a major cooperative preservation microfilming project to preserve United States telephone directories. The primary objective is to preserve a complete set of U.S. telephone directories and to make them widely available to users. These directories are a valuable source of historical information. They are endangered because the paper on which they were printed is deteriorating, and they are suffering further damage through continued use. Telephone directories from the collections of LC and NYPL are being filmed by state and within each state alphabetically by city. The Library will film all directories from large metropolitan and other areas for each year. Although the combined LC/NYPL collections are not comprehensive, they are extensive. Current plans call for microfilming the LC and NYPL collections and for obtaining loans or donations of missing directories from state libraries and other organizations to fill gaps. A descriptive project plan and a list of LC/NYPL holdings of directories from some states are available upon request. The directories are being prepared by staff of the Library's Preservation Microfilming Office and filmed by the LC Photoduplication Service on 35mm roll archival microfilm, up to the year for which the directories are available in the commercial collection "Phonefiche" that is produced by University Microfilms International (UMI). For those cities and towns not covered by "Phonefiche," the Library will produce film through 1987. Please send information and refer any questions or comments to the project: Tamara Swora, Preservation Microfilming Officer, Library of Congress, COLL/PMO, LM G-05 Washington, D.C. 20540. Tel: 202-707-5918; Fax: 202-707-3434. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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: Rick Edwards, Alex Bloss. 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