ALCTS Network News v7n15 (June 16, 1994)
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                                                      ISSN: 1056-6694

                           ALCTS NETWORK NEWS

                    An electronic publication of the
         Association for Library Collections & Technical Services

                           Volume 7, Number 15
                              June 16, 1994

    In this issue
        OCEAN OF OPPORTUNITY FOR ALCTS MEMBER
           PARTICIPATION IN MIAMI BEACH
        AS POLICY AND PLANNING SEEKS INPUT ON GOALS
        NEW ALCTS FACE AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE
        ACCESSING THE ALA GOPHER
        STUDENT ASSISTANTS HAVE OWN DISCUSSION LIST
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   OCEAN OF OPPORTUNITY FOR ALCTS MEMBER PARTICIPATION IN MIAMI BEACH

     Change out of your bikini, wipe the sand out from between your toes,
and dive into the world of ALCTS! There is a range of opportunities for
you as an ALCTS member to participate at Annual Conference. Don't let them
pass you by!

Breakfast with the Leaders
     If you have not already done so, call the Office to reserve a seat
for the ALCTS Breakfast with Leaders. This is a chance for ALCTS members
who are not on an ALCTS committee to find out how to become involved in
the Association -- what avenues to participation there are, what stumbling
blocks need to be removed. It is also a time for ALCTS leaders to hear
your needs, interests, and concerns.
     The first breakfast with ALCTS Leaders, held at Annual Conference in
San Francisco in 1992, was a terrific success, with all members who took
part in it urging that there be another such event. So, don't miss it.
The breakfast is on Saturday, June 25, 1994, from 7:30 to 8:45 in the
Miami Beach Convention Center-A202. Call the ALCTS Office at 800-545-2433
ext. 5035. Leave your name, address, phone, and particular technical
services interest (serials, acquisitions, collection development,
cataloging, preservation, reproduction of library materials, or general
technical services.

Membership Booth
    Joe Raker can still use some warm, enthusiastic ALCTS members to pass
on the good word about ALCTS, greet members and potential members, and
generally be friendly to those who come to the ALCTS Membership Booth in
the Convention Center. He would especially welcome people who could staff
the booth on Monday. Call Joe at 617-536-5400 ext. 402 or e-mail him at
jraker@bpl.org. Even an hour of your time would be helpful -- and fun.

Discussion Groups
    So far we have published discussion group topics in three recent
issues of _AN2_ (nos 11,12,and 14). There are still more to come before
the last issue before Annual Conference. You are welcome to attend and
participate in these discussions -- they are open to all. You can pick up
a listing with brief descriptions of the topics from the ALCTS literature
bins #35, 36, and 37. Listings are complete as of June 10. The daily
conference newspaper, _Cognotes_, also runs disucssion group topics.

Programs
    ALCTS is offering more than 30 hours of programming at Annual
Conference. Whatever your field of interest in technical services, you
will find a program waiting for you. The Membership Booth will have a list
of programs by both topic and date, or you may pick one up from the
literature bins (#35, 36, and 37).

Volunteer Forms
     The ALCTS Office at ALA in the Miami Beach Convention Center will
have volunteer forms available for members who would like to be
considered for a committee appointment next year (beginning after the
Annual Conference in Chicago in 1995). Appointments are considered and
made by section vice-chairs and the ALCTS vice-president between annual
conferences. If you don't know what committee would interest you, either
check out the list of them in the _ALA Handbook of Organization_ (you
can peek at one at the ALCTS Office in the Miami Beach Convention Center)
or, even better, sign up for the ALCTS Breakfast with the Leaders!

There are lots of ways you can have an ALCTS-filled Annual Conference!
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           AS POLICY AND PLANNING SEEKS INPUT ON GOALS

     The Policy and Planning Committee of the ALCTS Acquisitions Section
has drafted goals and objectives for the section.  The committee invites
comments from ALL MEMBERS of ALCTS on the content of the draft in advance
of the Annual Conference in Miami Beach.  Final review before submission
to the Acquisitions Section Executive Committee for its approval will take
place at the Sunday, June 26, session of the Policy and Planning
Committee, 9:30a-11a, Hyatt--Merrick I.  Comments may be brought
to that session or communicated to the chairperson:
Judith Niles, Director, Office of Collection Management, Ekstrom Library
G41, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292; Phone: 502-852-6768;
Fax: 502-852-7935; E-Mail: jfnile01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu.


                              ALCTS

                    ACQUISITIONS SECTION (AS)

To contribute to library service and librarianship through
encouragement, promotion of, and responsibility for those
activities of ALCTS relating to the acquisition of all formats of
information resources through purchase, lease, and other access
methods, in all types of institutions.  (Section charge, ALA
Handbook of Organization 1993/94, p. H31.)


GOALS AND OBJECTIVES FROM POLICY AND PLANNING COMMITTEE
Draft incorporating changes suggested at Midwinter, 1994,
meetings.

Acquisitions as a Profession

Goal:     To provide leadership in the development and promotion
          of the role of the acquisitions professional.

Objectives:
1.   To identify and respond to changes in the internal
     environment of libraries, including the nature of technical
     services and the place of acquisitions in the organization.
2.   To educate library administrators about the importance of
     the professional aspects of acquisitions work.
3.   To identify and respond to external changes such as funding
     for libraries and changes in the nature and structure of
     information, scholarship and education in our society.
4.   To increase the visibility of acquisitions librarians.

Publishing and Materials Trends

Goal:     To collect, organize and disseminate information on
          worldwide publishing trends for all types of
          information resources for all types of libraries.

Objectives:
1.   To identify, collate, and distribute information on trends
     and proposed changes.
2.   To influence national and international initiatives relating
     to standards and future products.
3.   To provide a forum for discussion and continuing review of
     conditions and proposals for the direction of change.

Technology

Goal:     To identify, study and evaluate procedures, issues and
          trends related to the selection, development, and
          implementation of acquisitions systems and related
          technologies by libraries, publishers and vendors of
          library materials.

Objectives:
1.   To identify and participate in the development of standards.
2.   To provide a forum for discussion and continuing assessment
     of the state of the art and proposals for the direction of
     change.

Communication and Interaction

Goal:     To provide a forum for facilitating communication
          between acquisitions and other library activities; for
          example: collection development, preservation, access
          services.

Objectives:
1.   To develop a means of sharing Acquisitions Section minutes,
     goals and objectives, and other long-range planning with
     other sections in ALCTS.
2.   To offer relevant perspectives from other sections in the
     programs of the Acquisitions Section and to encourage the AS
     perspectives in the programs of other sections.
3.   To establish joint programs and initiatives to facilitate
     communication with other groups in ALA.

Education

Goal:     To address the educational needs of members and other
          practitioners in matters related to acquisitions.

Objectives:
1.   To help train new practitioners in the field of
     acquisitions.
2.   To provide continuing education opportunities for
     practitioners.
3.   To identify other groups within ALA whose work involves
     acquisitions functions and to interact with those groups in
     developing educational programs.
4.   To influence the direction of library education in the area
     of acquisitions.

Research

Goal:     To encourage and support research related to the
          acquisition of library materials.

Objectives:
1.   To identify areas needing research.
2.   To compile and analyze statistics derived from and relating
     to research.
3.   To disseminate research findings promptly.

Ethics

Goal:     To provide a forum for attention to the issues related
          to ethics in acquisitions practice.

Objectives:
1.   To publish and maintain principles and standards for
     acquisitions practice.
2.   To plan and mount a long-term campaign to promulgate
     knowledge and acceptance of ethical standards in the
     professional behavior of acquisitions practitioners.

--Judith Niles, Director
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              NEW ALCTS FACE AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE

     Loretta Reed will be joining Office staff at her first Annual
Conference. Loretta joined the ALCTS and LAMA divisions as
Administrative Secretary this spring.
     She comes from a background in real estate construction and
banking, most recently having worked at the Toronto Dominion Bank for
five years as an administrative assistant in the credit department,
where she quoted rates and completed loan data forms for multimillion
dollar companies!  Says Loretta, "I'm used to pressure -- in any one
day a company could call for quotes on a $2.5 million loan and another
could need loan data forms completed for another million or more."
     Before her bank work, Loretta was responsible for placing business
tenants in shopping malls under construction.
     Board meetings should be a breeze!
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                     ACCESSING THE ALA GOPHER

     There is plenty to find on the new ALA Gopher, including ALCTS
documents of all kinds.
     To access the ALA gopher, users can point their favorite gopher
client to gopher.uic.edu (port 70). Once users access the gopher at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, the ALA gopher be reached by
selecting the "Library" option on the main menu, and the "American
Library Association" option on the submenu. For users with gopher
clients that support bookmarks, these tools can then be set to make
subsequent access to ALA?s gopher nearly instantaneous. For users
without a gopher client, free gopher software can be secured by
anonymous FTP to boombox.micro.umn.edu; the software can be found in
the directory /pub/gopher. This directory contains a number of gopher
clients which operate on several different platforms.
      Clear as mud? Not to worry: Handouts and explanations of the new
ALA gopher will be highlighted in the exhibits area of the Miami Beach
Convention Center during Annual Conference.  Unfortunately, the gopher
will not be demonstrated live due to circumstances beyond the control
of the Headquarters Librarian, but there will be someone available to
answer questions.
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             STUDENT ASSISTANTS HAVE OWN DISCUSSION LIST

     LISA-L is an open, unmoderated discussion list for student
assistants who work in academic or public libraries. Discussion about
any aspects of working in a library as a student assistant or dealing
with employment of student assistants is strongly encouraged.
     Archives of LISA-L mail items are kept in monthly files. To obtain
a list of files in the archives, send the command INDEX LISA-L in the
body of e-mail to listserv@ulkyvm on bitnet or to
listserv@ulkyvm.louisville.edu on the Internet.
     To subscribe send to the command SUB LISA-L firstname lastname to
the listserv address above.
    The owner is Robert Allen, rmalle01@ulkyvm.bitnet or
rmalle01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu.
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