ALCTS Network News v6n11 (September 28, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v6n11 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 6, Number 11 September 28, 1993 In this issue ALCTS INSTITUTE REGISTRATION CLOSED RLG'S EUREKA NOW AVAILABLE ETHNIC MATERIALS INFORMATION EXCHANGE RT COMPILING RESOURCE GUIDE NEH AWARDS FUNDS TO CONTINUE RLG CHINESE RARE BOOK PROJECT ************************************************************************** ALCTS INSTITUTE REGISTRATION CLOSED Registration is now closed for the ALCTS institute "The Electronic Library: Administrative Issues for Organization & Access." Due to the large number of registrants, there is a possibility that a repeat institute will be held in the spring. ************************************************************************* RLG'S EUREKA NOW AVAILABLE Eureka, the new patron-oriented search system from the Research Libraries Group, is available to interested institutions. The system provides access to the resources of the RLIN bibliographic files and CitaDel article-citation and document-delivery service. Users require no formal training or special documentation to be able to perform even the most complex Eureka searches from the start. Readily available online help assists users step by step. With Eureka, users can: -browse and search authors, titles, and subjects -select from a variety of display formats -search with Boolean operators and, orm not -get online help at any time -perform the same search simultaneously in RLIN files for books, serials, visual materials, archival materials, sound recordings, musical scores, maps, and computer files -limit searches and sort search results in several ways -view location and local call number information to facilitate interlibrary loan -download results in a variety of display and bibliographic formats (e.g., Pro-Cite, EndNote, and Notebook/Bibliography) -send search results to an e-mail account -order CitaDel documents with a simple command -automatically send comments and suggestions about Eureka to the system's designers. Eureka is available by annual subscription or may be purchased singly or by the block (block sizes range from 1000 to 250,000+). Eureka has been designed for easy integration into existing local online library and campuswide information networks. It is accessible from any terminal or personal computer with VT100 terminal emulation; telecommunication options include the Internet, SprintNet, and direct dial. For more information about Eureka and annual subscriptions, contact the RLIN Information Center, 1-800-537-7546; e-mail bl.ric@rlg.bitnet or bl.ric@rlg.stanford.edu (Internet); fax 415-964-0943. The first five sites, which previewed Eureka from January through August 1993 and participated substantially in its evaluation, were Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Emory University, Rutgers University, and University of Pennsylvania. The following sites, which also contributed to the evaluation, previewed Eureka May through August 1993: Brandeis University, British Library, National Gallery of Art, New York Public Library, New York University, Rice University, San Jose State University, State University of New York at Binghamton, University of Minnesota, and University of Texas. ************************************************************************* ETHNIC MATERIALS INFORMATION EXCHANGE RT COMPILING RESOURCE GUIDE The Collection Development Committee of the Ethnic Materials Information Exchange Round Table is continuing its work of compiling a resource guide of selected academic, public, school, and special library policies and guidelines with a focus on multi-ethnic and multi-language collection development. The purposes of this guide are to: 1. Provide a useful tool for librarians who are developing or revising collection development policy statements to include the information needs of culturally diverse communities served by their libraries; 2. Serve as a collection development teaching aid for library and information science educators and their students. 3. To assist library administrators in planning and setting collection development policies which reflect their institution's ethnic and linguistic awareness and sensitivity. Since March 1991 the Committee has been collecting written policies and guidelines for multi-ethnic and/or multi-language collection development, whether they are part of a general materials selection policy or a separate document. This follow-up is intended to give those institutions which indicated that they were in the process of developing policies or guidelines or did not respond to our initial request of March 30, 1991, to make a contribution to this project. If you wish to participate, send two copies of your policies/guidelines and the name and telephone number of the contact person for your institution to the EMIERT Collection Committee Chair, Araxie Churukian, Special Collections Dept., Rivera Library, University of California, Riverside, CA 92517, by December 1, 1993. If your document is of a general nature, highlight those portions which specifically apply to the selection of multi-ethnic and/or multi- language materials. Call Churukian with your questions at (909) 787-3233, or send copies by Fax: (909) 787-3285, or Bitnet: araxie@ucrvms, Internet: araxie@uc rac1.ucr.edu. -- Araxie Churukian, University of California, Riverside ************************************************************************* NEH AWARDS FUNDS TO CONTINUE RLG CHINESE RARE BOOK PROJECT The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Research Libraries Group (RLG) $404,536 to support the fourth phase of its cooperative project to establish an international union catalog of Chinese rare books on RLIN. This brings to $683,000 the total contributions NEH has made over the past five years to this RLG project. "The project ... is the most important bibliographic endeavour in the field of Chinese studies of the past two decades," wrote one of the anonymous NEH reviewers of the RLG proposal. "Although there are many collections of Chinese rare books in North American libraries, none on its own is really adequate for developing a sound primary-source base for in-depth research on most topics before the 19th century. Together, however, they constitute a comprehensive body of material. The value of the project is in unifying the disparate collections." The NEH funds will enable six North American libraries that participated in phase three of this project to continue cataloging their rare Chinese materials (three other North American libraries from phase three completed their cataloging), and will allow four North American libraries that were unable to participate in phase three to contribute cataloging records of their rare Chinese holdings. The grant will also support the continued participation of Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, both located in Beijing, and the Liaoning Provincial Library in Shenyang. Other China-based libraries may contribute records of their rare materials to the project if funds permit. "Apart from the obvious benefits to traditional research of having thousands of Chinese rare books and manuscripts properly cataloged and available online for the first time, this project is serving as a catalyst for new lines of inquiry," commented Soren Edgren, director of the project's central editorial office, which is located at Princeton University. "The attention to details of cataloging, authentication, and classification has stimulated the international interest of bibliographers, art historians, and other specialists who suddenly have automated access to publishing information and elements of physical description lacking in most other catalogs." Staff assigned to the project by the participating libraries will attend training sessions before phase four commences in the fall of 1993. All catalog records generated by the thirteen libraries will be submitted to the project's central editorial office, where they will be coordinated, emended, and entered into RLIN according to guidelines and standards established in the project's earlier phases. By the end of phase four (1995), it is estimated that: -thirteen North American libraries with Chinese rare book holdings, including the two largest in Canada and four of the six largest in the U.S., will have contributed records of these holdings to RLIN, which represents about 60% of their total Chinese rare book collections -the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, and Liaoning Provincial Library (three of the six largest rare book collections in China) will have contributed records for approximately 15% of their rare book holdings. A significant by-product will be the publication of the project's cataloging guidelines, a document that standardizes the descriptive cataloging of Chinese rare books and will be of particular interest to libraries following North American library practices. In the three previous phases of the project, records representing the Chinese rare book holdings of the National Central Library (Taipei) were loaded into the RLIN database; five rare book specialists from Beijing created RLIN records for the Chinese rare book holdings at Columbia's C.V. Starr East Asian Library and Princeton's Gest Oriental Library and drafted cataloging guidelines; and an editorial office was established to centralize the identification and online cataloging of participants' holdings and to prepare project cataloging guidelines for external review by the American Library Association's Cataloging Committee on Description and Access. The North American institutions participating in phase four are Columbia University, New York Public Library, Princeton University, University of British Columbia, University of California at Berkeley, University of Chicago (all also participated in phase three); Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto (new participants as of phase four). All are members of the Research Libraries Group. For more information, contact Karen Smith-Yoshimura, RLG director of library and bibliographic services, at 415-691-2270, e-mail bl.kss@rlg.bitnet or bl.kss@rlg.stanford.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. 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