ALCTS Network News v5n23 (May 3, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v5n23 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 5, Number 23 May 3, 1993 In this issue LETTER TO THE LJ EDITOR BOWKER/ULRICH'S SERIALS LIBRARIANSHIP AWARD RECIPIENT NAMED MARGARET MANN CITATION RECIPIENT NAMED PITT TO HOST 1993 PRESERVATION INTENSIVE INSTITUTE LAPT RESEARCH AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED ************************************************************************** LETTER TO THE LJ EDITOR 1993 April 29 John N. Berry, III Editor-in-Chief Library Journal 249 W. 17th Street New York, NY 10011 Dear John: I have just received the April 15, 1993, issue of LIBRARY JOURNAL with the article, "The Art of Projecting: The Cost of Keeping Periodicals." As the President of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association, I request that LJ correct two statements in the editorial preface to the article. The first correction relates to the statement that Lee Ketcham and Kathleen Born are members of the ALCTS Library Materials Price Index Committee. Ketcham and Born are not currently members of the Committee. Three members of the Committee, Adrian Alexander, Kathryn Hammell Carpenter, and Mark Sandler, have prepared the official Committee report which will be published in the May, 1993 issue of AMERICAN LIBRARIES. The second correction relates to the edition numbering. Alexander, Carpenter and Sandler's work continues the 32-year history of the Index. While the LJ article continues a long history of providing material pricing information, the current LJ article does not contain the identical information provided in the ALCTS Index, and the current LJ article cannot be represented as the 33rd Edition. Thank you for your consideration of these issues. I trust that there will be a notice revising the information in a forthcoming issue of LJ. Sincerely, Liz Bishoff, President, ALA ALCTS cc: Marilyn Miller, ALA President Peggy Sullivan, ALA Executive Director ALCTS Board of Directors Adrian Alexander Kathryn Carpenter Mark Sandler John Haar, LMPI Chair ************************************************************************* BOWKER/ULRICH'S SERIALS LIBRARIANSHIP AWARD RECIPIENT NAMED Ann L. Okerson, director of the Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing of the Association of Research Libraries, is the 1993 recipient of the ALCTS Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award. The award, $1,500 and a citation donated by the R.R. Bowker Company, recognizes a contribution to serials librarianship in the areas of professional association, participation, library education, serials literature, research or development of tools leading to a better understanding. "Ann Okerson has been instrumental in identifying interesting/significant initiatives in scholarly electronic communication and publishing and in articulating ways of evolving viable solutions that are based in partnership and cooperation," said Rex Bross, chair of the Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award Committee. "She is a leader and crusader working with librarians, publishers, learned societies and other interested groups in exploring the potential of networked electronic serials." Okerson has worked as manager, library services at Jerry Alper, Inc. (Antiquarian Booksellers) in New York and head of the serials division, senior librarian and chair of Collections Development at the Simon Fraser University Library in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. She serves as chair of the ACRL Discussion Group on Journal Costs in Academic Libraries and chair of the ALCTS Serials Section Research Libraries Discussion Group. Okerson has served as president and Annual Conference chair of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) and as a member of the Canadian Library Association (CLA). She served as editor of the ARL Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists, compiled by Michael Strangelove and Diane Kovacs, first edition, July 1991; second edition, April 1992. The directory was chosen by CHOICE as an outstanding publication of 1992. She attended San Francisco State University and Pacific Union College and received a bachelor's degree in English and German. Okerson has a master's degree in library science from the University of California, Berkeley. The award will be presented at the ALCTS President's Program on Sunday, June 27, 9 a.m to 12:30 p.m., during the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. ************************************************************************* MARGARET MANN CITATION RECIPIENT NAMED Janet Swan Hill, associate director for technical services, University Libraries at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is the 1993 recipient of the ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section's Margaret Mann Citation. The award is given to a cataloger or classifier for achievement in the areas of cataloging or classification. "Janet has formed a unique career which combines technical expertise with a spirit of innovation," said Verna Urbanski, chair of the Margaret Mann Citation Committee. "She has spoken bravely, led boldly and earned the respect of colleagues across the nation. "She single-handedly spotlighted the issue of the growing lack of catalogers in the profession and worked to form the Committee on Education, Recruitment and Training for Catalogers." Hill has worked as assistant director for technical services, University Libraries at the University of Colorado, Boulder; head of the catalog department at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., head of the cataloging unit and cataloger, Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress. She has co-edited four books, published more than 20 articles and participated in numerous panels. Hill has been recognized as an innovative thinker in the area of cataloging rule interpretation and the management issues facing the technical services area of the library. Hill has been active in the American Library Association (ALA) serving as a representative to the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Code. She received the Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Service Award (1992), the Ralph E. Ellsworth Award for Excellence in Librarianship (1991) and the Library of Congress Meritorious Service Award (1975). Hill has a bachelor's degree (magna cum laude) in geology from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and a master's degree in library science from Denver University. The award will be presented during the ALA Annual Conference, June 24-July 1, in New Orleans. ************************************************************************* PITT TO HOST 1993 PRESERVATION INTENSIVE INSTITUTE The University of Pittsburgh, Department of University Relations will host a conference, Preservation Intensive Institute, August 1-6, 1993. The workshops and instructors are: Science Serving Preservation, Dr. Jan Lyall, Acting Director of Preservation, National Library of Australia; The Preservation of Electronic Formats, Dr. Michael Spring, Department of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh; and Bookbinding and the Arts and Crafts Movement, Dr. Marianne Tidcombe, author and distinguished bookbinding historian. Participating Institutions and Coordinators: University of Pittsburgh --Sally Buchanan; University of California, Los Angeles--Michele Cloonan; University of Texas, Austin--Carolyn Harris; University of North Carolina --Jan Paris; University of Wisconsin, Madison--Andrea Rolich. Registration is $300; ten scholarships of $750 each are available; five are reserved for minority candidates. For additional information contact Andrew Hart or Kirsten Jensen, 650 LIS Building, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; internet: ashs8@lis.pitt.edu; telephone: (412) 624-9447. FAX: (412) 648-7001. ************************************************************************* LAPT RESEARCH AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory (LAPT) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 1993 Research Award: Samuel Demas, Anne S. Caputo, and William J. Kara. Demas is Head, Collection Development and Preservation at Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library in Ithaca, NY. Caputo is Manager, Academic Programs at Dialog Information Services. Kara is Acquisitions Librarian at Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library. Their proposal, "Viability of the Vendor Model of Information Delivery Through a Library Gateway," has been funded as the 1993 Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory Research Award. The study "aims to determine the viability of the 'vendor model' of information delivery through a library gateway. By offering a campus community unrestricted access to an unprecedented scope of electronic information, libraries and vendors will learn for the first time: which files are used, how much they are used, by whom they are used (e.g. faculty, staff, students), and at what times of the day and night. This data is essential for database vendors trying to structure fixed fee pricing schedules, and for libraries in selecting files, choosing access mechanisms, and planning information delivery systems." The call for proposals for the 1994 Research Award will be released shortly. Questions concerning this award should be addressed to Carol Pitts Hawks, Editor-in-Chief, Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory, 2129 Sandston Road, Columbus, OH 43220; (614) 292-6314; FAX: (614) 292-2015; Internet: hawks.1@osu.edu ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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: Alex Bloss, Nelly Mendez. ALCTS NETWORK NEWS is available free of charge and is available only in electronic form. 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