ALCTS Network News v5n31 (May 28, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v5n31 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 5, Number 31 May 28, 1993 In this issue HUDSON TO SPEAK AT "BOOK PUBLISHING 101" PRECONFERENCE CCS LIST OF RESEARCH TOPICS AVAILABLE MORE DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS FOR NEW ORLEANS TWO NEW FILES ADDED TO RLG'S CITADEL SERVICE ************************************************************************** HUDSON TO SPEAK AT "BOOK PUBLISHING 101" PRECONFERENCE The AAP/ALCTS Joint Committee is pleased to announce that Cheryl Hudson, Publisher and Editorial Director of Just Us Books, will be a speaker at the "Book Publishing 101: From Writer to Reader," preconference to the 1993 ALA Annual Conference on Friday, June 25, 1993. This preconference offers a full day devoted to the ins and outs of book publishing. Just Us Books is a publisher of children's books and learning materials that focus on the African American experience. Hudson will be on the panel on the editorial process withg Martin Greenwald, Publisher, Facts on File, and Brian DiFiore, Publisher, Hyperion Press. Other topics to be addressed include: how books are designed and manufactured; how prices are established; how authors and agents work with their publishers; the role of publicity; how books are marketed and sold; and the future of book publishing. Other speakers include: Dimity Berkner, Columbia University Press; Elizabeth Geiser, Director of the Denver (CO) Publishing Institute; Anne Rivers Siddons, author; Peter Katz, Vice President & Director of Marketing, Standard & Poor's; Nora Rawlinson, Editor-in-chief, Publishers Weekly; and Jonathan Weiss, Vice President Sales, Oxford University Press. For more complete information on this and other ALCTS Preconferences, see AN2, Volume 5, Number 13 March 9, 1993, or contact Nelly Mendez, ALCTS, 50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611, 800-545-2433, ext. 5034, E-mail: U32461@UICVM.uic.edu. The registration fee for the preconference is $120 for ALCTS members; $155 for ALA personal members, and $195 for non-ALA members. ************************************************************************* CCS LIST OF RESEARCH TOPICS AVAILABLE The ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section (CCS) Policy and Research Committee has made available a compilation of research topics in cataloging and classification. Topics have been suggested by authors of research and other literature published from 1987 to 1991 and are supplemented by suggestions from the Committee. The list is available from the Committee or from the ALCTS fileserver: >From the ALCTS fileserver: Do one of the following: 1) send a network command: tell listserv at uicvm.uic.edu send CCS RESEARCH tell listserv at uicvm.bitnet send CCS RESEARCH or 2) send a note to either LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC.EDU with the text: SEND CCS RESEARCH >From the Committee: On diskette, send a DOS-formatted diskette (any size or density) and a SASE (indicating either WordPerfect 5.0 or ASCII) to: Charles Simpson Main Library SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3300 On paper, send 8 blank sheets of photocopy paper and a SASE to the above address. -- Charles Simpson, Chair, CCS Policy and Research Committee ************************************************************************* MORE DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS FOR NEW ORLEANS Electronic Publishing Discussion Group Views from a commercial scientific-technical-medical (STM) journal publisher and a noted library educator will be presented at the Electronic Publishing Discussion Group's meeting at the American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans. EPDG, which is part of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), is scheduled to meet 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Sunday, June 27, in the Room 13 of the New Orleans Convention Center. Bob Badger, manager of electronic media for Springer-Verlag Inc. of New York, and Dr. S. Michael Malinconico, a professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama, will present their ideas on "Electronic Publishing: The Implications for Libraries and Librarians." Their talks follow up the discussion of electronic publishing and proprietary obstacles set forth by Ann Okerson at EPDG's Midwinter Conference meeting in Denver. Badger's work on the Red Sage Project, a collaborative effort involving Springer, Bell Labs, and the University of California, San Francisco, was featured in a March issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Malinconico has written on the impact technology is having on the preparation of current and future librarians in such publications as the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (JELIS). The Badger-Malinconico talks are conceived as the first in a series of viewpoints to be presented over the next two or three ALA conferences. Tentative plans are being made for additional talks from a variety of stakeholders, including representatives from the university press, faculty, vendor and library communities. The New Orleans EPDG meeting will also see the election of a vice-chair/chair-elect of the group. To submit nominations or for more information about the meeting, please contact: -- Richard Jasper, Chair, ALCTS Electronic Publishing Discussion Group; PH: (404) 727-0122; FAX: (404) 727-0053; EMAIL: LIBRPJ@EMUVM1.BITNET. RLMS Discussion Group The Reproduction of Library Materials Section (RLMS) Discussion Group will devote its hour-long session during the ALA Annual Conference to an open discussion of the work of a newly-appointed task force that has been asked to formulate guidelines for contract queuing and cataloging. The task force was appointed after the mid-winter ALA meeting upon recommendation of the RLMS Bibliographic Control of Microforms Committee (Bob Harriman, chair). Sandy Nyberg (snyberg@mail.solinet.net) is chairing the task force and will direct discussion at the meeting. The Discussion Group meets Sunday afternoon, June 27, 4:30-5:30, in the Convention Center (NOCC-8). The task force invites all those interested in their work to attend. If you have questions, feel free to contact Laurie Abbott at RLG (bl.lxa@rlg.stanford.edu). -- Laurie Abbott LITA/ALCTS Authority Control in the Online Environment The LITA/ALCTS Authority Control in the Online Environment (ACIG) will meet at the annual ALA meeting in New Orleans on Sunday, June 27, 1993 at the New Orleans Convention Center, Rooms 39 & 40, from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m., with a business meeting following from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. The session will feature a presentation by Sarah Thomas, Director for Cataloging at the Library of Congress. Thomas will discuss the importance of authority control at the Library of Congress as well as other current issues in authority control, such as the emerging national authority file. She will also update those present on issues currently under discussion at the Library of Congress. Other speakers will include Jennifer Younger (Ohio State University) and Bill Garrison (University of Colorado, Boulder). Younger will give an update on the CIC project on extended cooperative authority work. Garrison will respond to some of the comments covered by Thomas in her talk. At the conclusion of Garrison's remarks, Karen Calhoun (OCLC) will speak briefly on potential future directions in automated authority control. All those interested in authority control are welcome to attend this meeting. A question and answer session will follow these presentations. Those interested are urged to bring their questions and concerns about authority control and to voice them at this meeting. This meeting will be a unique opportunity for those interested in authority control to give the Library of Congress input on its plans for cooperative authority files. Anyone doing research in the area of authority control is urged to contact the chair of ACIG, Joan Schuitema (schuitem@nuacvm). A vendor survey and updates on the utilities' authority-related projects will be distributed to those in attendance. ************************************************************************* TWO NEW FILES ADDED TO RLG'S CITADEL SERVICE Two new files--Hispanic American Periodicals Index and Isis History of Science Bibliography--have been added to CitaDel, the article-citation and document-delivery service from the Research Libraries Group (RLG). Hispanic American Periodicals Index, an ongoing project of UCLA's Latin American Center, contains over 165,000 citations to articles from more than 400 scholarly social science and humanities journals published in Latin America or treating Latin American and U.S. Hispanic topics. The journals are selected and indexed by an international panel of librarians and scholars. The index is updated annually; coverage at present is 1970 to 1991. Isis History of Science Bibliography, compiled by the History of Science Society, currently contains 60,000 citations to books and articles about the history of science and the influence of science on culture. It indexes more than 600 journals and is updated annually; coverage is 1976 to the present. The index is available online only through RLG's CitaDel service. The Isis index has been combined with CitaDel's History of Technology file to form a new CitaDel file called History of Science and Technology. Currently, access to Hispanic American Periodicals Index and the other CitaDel files is available by annual subscription. For a fixed annual fee, institutions can provide faculty, students, and staff with unlimited access to the CitaDel file(s) of their choice. The History of Technology file has been available by annual subscription and on a per-search basis; the new History of Science and Technology file, which replaces the History of Technology file, will continue on these terms with no change in fees. For more information, please call the RLIN Information Center at 1-800-537-7546; email bl.ric@rlg.bitnet or bl.ric@rlg.stanford.edu (Internet). ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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, Yvonne McLean. 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