ALCTS Network News v8n08 (October 27, 1994) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v8n08 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 8, Number 8 October 27, 1994 In this issue ALA EXECUTIVE BOARD CHOOSES NEW 1996 SITE MAJOR ALA AND ALCTS ANNUAL CONFERENCE MEETINGS IN CHICAGO REORGANIZATION AT HEADQUARTERS ADVICE ON OVERSEAS BOOK DONATIONS ARL STATISTICS, 1992-93, ON THE INTERNET ************************************************************************** ALA EXECUTIVE BOARD CHOOSES NEW 1996 SITE The ALA Executive Board, in their meeting in Chicago on October 26, 1994, voted to change the site of the 1996 ALA Annual Conference. The conference originally scheduled for Orlando has now been moved to New York. The dates are July 4-10, 1996. The move was prompted by concern that Orlando could have the same problems as Miami Beach. ************************************************************************* MAJOR ALA AND ALCTS ANNUAL CONFERENCE MEETINGS IN CHICAGO Following are the major meetings and programs scheduled by ALA and ALCTS for the Annual Conference in Chicago next year as of today. ALA COPES -- 6/23 - 9:30-12 COPES -- 6/24 - 8-10 a.m. COPES -- 6/26 - 8:30-11:30 a.m. COPES -- 6/27 - 12-1 COPES Planning & Budget Assembly -- 6/23 - 2-4 Council I -- 6/25 - 11:15-12:30 Council II -- 6/27 - 9-12 Council III -- 6/28 - 9-12 Membership I -- 6/24 - 4:15-5:15 Membership II -- 6/26 - 11:30-1 Opening General Session -- 6/24 - 5:30-7 President's Program -- 6/25 - 2-4 ALCTS -- Division Awards Presentation & Membership Meeting -- 6/26 -- 8-9 a.m. Board of Directors -- 6/24 - 2-4 Board of Directors -- 6/26 - 2-5:30 Board of Directors -- 6/27 - 2-5:30 Budget & Finance Comm. -- 6/25 - 2-5:30 Budget & Finance Comm. -- 6/27 - 8-9 a.m. Budget & Finance Comm. -- 6/23 - 2-5:30 President's Program: There's Gold in Them Thar Stacks -- 6/26 - 9-11:30 Membership Reception -- 6/23 - 5:30-7:30 ALCTS -- Sections AS Preconference: Business of Acquisitions -- 6/22 - 1-5:30 and 6/23 - 8-5:30 AS Executive Comm. -- 6/25 - 2-5:30 AS Executive Comm. -- 6/27 - 8:30-12:30 CCS Preconference: AACR 2000 -- 6/22 - 8-5 CCS Preconference: Interactive Multimedia Catalioging -- 6/23 - 8-5:30 CCS Program: Rare Book Cataloging for the General Cataloger -- 6/26 - 2-4 CCS Program: Crisis in Subject Cataloging and Retrieval -- 6/25 - 2-5:30 CCS Executive Comm. -- 6/23 - 8-10 p.m. CCS Executive Comm. -- 6/26 - 8-9 a.m. CCS Executive Comm. -- 6/27 - 9:30-12:30 CMDS Program: New Information Media, New Organizations? -- 6/24 - 2-4 CMDS Program: When Specialists Collide -- 6/25 - 9-11 CMDS Program: Successful Models of Cooperative Collection Development -- 6/25 - 2-4 CMDS Program: Collection Development Education -- 6/26 - 2-4 CMDS Executive Comm. -- 6/25 - 9:30-12:30 CMDS Executive Comm. -- 6/27 - 8:30-12:30 PARS Program: Preservation for Access & Technical Services -- 6/24 - 2-4 PARS Program: Selection for Presetion in the Digital Universe -- 6/26 - 2-4 PARS Program: Preservation Film Festival -- 6/25 - 7-10 p.m. PARS Program: Expanding Role of Book Repair in Collection-wide Conservation -- 6/24 - 2-4 PARS Executive Comm. -- 6/25 - 8-10 p.m. PARS Executive Comm. -- 6/27 - 8:30-12:30 SS Program: Evaluating Serials Vendors Performance -- 6/25 - 9-11 SS Executive Comm. -- 6/25 - 4:30-5:30 SS Executive Comm. -- 6/27 - 9:30-12:30 ************************************************************************* REORGANIZATION AT HEADQUARTERS ALA Executive Director Elizabeth Martinez has announced a staff reorganization at headquarters. The plan, she says, "reflects a macro view of functions with a focus toward public policy development, contemporizing priorities, and responding to professional concerns. The reorganization addresses my need for ALA to be flexible and adaptable, as well as to facilitate rethinking of the status quo. I want to emphasize teamwork and accountability, promote creative solutions to issues, and a sense of urgency and purpose." The working model of the organization chart cannot be represented in this medium. The five main areas at Headquarters are now the following: * Executive Office, which includes Finance and Accounting (headed by Gregory Calloway), the Washington Office (headed by Carol Henderson), and International Relations; * Staff Support Services (headed by Ernest Martin), which includes Human Resources, Information Processing, Telecommunications, Procurement, Reprographics and Distribution, and Building Maintenance; * Public Policy and Programs (headed by Peggy Barber), which includes the Office of Accreditation, Office for Research and Statistics, Office for Intellectual Freedom, Office for Library Outreach Services, Office for Library Personnel Resources, Office of Technology (to be established), Library Information Center, Public Information Office, Public Programs, and the Development Office; * Publishing Services (headed by Donald Chatham), which includes ALA Editions, American Libraries, Booklist, Library Technology Reports, Products and Promotions (formerly Graphics), and Marketing; and * Member Programs and Services, which includes Conference Services, Membership Development, the eleven divisions, Chapter Relations, the Round Tables, and the Awards Programs. Recruitment is underway for this department head. ************************************************************************* ADVICE ON OVERSEAS BOOK DONATIONS Despite the many years of involvement of libraries and other institutions in book donation programs, these programs do not necessarily result in the effective provision of needed books. The Fall 1994 _International Leads_, the newsletter of the International Relations Round Table of ALA, is devoted to describing some of the issues involved in donating materials to overseas libraries, directories or sources of information for donation programs, and some of the organizations which do this kind of work An example of the kind of issue discussed is that of materials sent abroad which are unsuitable or unneeded. Another example is that of lack of arrangements for receiving and processing the donations, resulting in unopened shipments sitting on docks or in warehouses. The ALCTS Office has a few copies of _International Leads_, the quarterly publication of IRRT, which will be available on a first come, first served basis. E-mail to alcts.office@ala.org for a copy or contact Robert P. Doyle via e-mail to robert.p.doyle@ala.org or phone 800-545-2433 ext. 3200. ************************************************************************* ARL STATISTICS, 1992-93, ON THE INTERNET The first electronic publication of the ARL statistics on the World Wide Web is now available. Reports on 48 data categories for the 108 university and 11 non-university members of ARL are accompanied with fully documented descriptions of the 1992-93 data files. Also, selected graphs from the 1993 printed ARL statistics and maps based on the 1992 ARL statistics are included in the electronic publication. Future plans for the electronic publication of the ARL statistics include the development of an interface for interactive data analysis that will permit users to define their own comparative ratios, and generate reports for their institutions and their peer groups. The 1992-93 data files are also available through both gopher and ftp at the following places: gopher to arl.cni.org, select Statistics gopher to gopher.virginia.edu, select Library Services, then Social Science Data Center, then ARL Statistics ftp to ftp.lib.virginia.edu, login as anonymous, then cd to pub/socsci/arlstats/1993 For WWW access, use http://arl.cni.org/ or http://www.lib.virginia. edu/arlstats. Printed versions of the annual series of the ARL Statistics are available for $70.00 with the 1992-93 data being the most recent ones. Contact Martha Kyrillidou, Program Officer for Statistics and Measurement, Association of Research Libraries, via e-mail to martha@cni.org for more information. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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; Robert P. Holley, President; Karen Muller, Executive Director. Editor: Karen Whittlesey (u34261@uicvm); Editorial Advisory Board: Jennifer Younger, Robert P. Holley, David Farrell; Editorial Assistance: Karen Muller ALCTS NETWORK NEWS is available free of charge and is available only in electronic form. Opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the division. 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