ALCTS Network News v8n12 (December 12, 1994) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v8n12 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 8, Number 12 December 12, 1994 In this issue ALCTS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE FORMED ACQUISITIONS SECTION APPROVES COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH AND STATISTICS LAST CALL FOR DISCUSSION GROUP AGENDAS AND TOPICS GUIDE TO ALA GOPHER AND ALA LISTSERVS AVAILABLE CRG AFFILIATE SPONSORS DISASTER PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM KRESH NAMED LC DIRECTOR OF PRESERVATION UK SERIALS GROUP TO CONVENE IN APRIL NEDCC SETS UP CUNHA FUND ************************************************************************** ALCTS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE FORMED ALCTS President Bob Holley has announced the creation of the ALCTS Leadership Development Committee. This committee, a recommendation of the ALCTS Task Force on Implementing the Report of the Task Force on Nominations Procedures and Leadership Development, will meet for the first time at the Midwinter Meeting. The members of the committee are Miriam Palm, chair, Alex Bloss, Joe Branin, Carol Chamberlain, Nancy Elkington, Marcella Grendler, and Carol Hawks. The charge to the committee as passed by the ALCTS Board of Directors at the 1994 Annual Conference is: -- Developing orientation and leadership training programs that will address the general leadership skills and understanding of the division members required to assure effective division participation -- Developing and implementing the annual orientation program for newly elected officers and newly appointed officers -- Planning an annual leadership event ************************************************************************* ACQUISITIONS SECTION APPROVES COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH AND STATISTICS The Acquisitions Section Executive Committee approved the formation of a new committee this Fall. Its charge is: To identify needed research in acquisitions; to explore, develop and promote a research agenda that focuses on the research needs of the section; to develop programs and activities to encourage the development of research and statistics skills among acquisitions librarians; to coordinate the activities of the section in the field of research and statistics; and to maintain liaison with appropriate units of the section, division and association regarding research and statistics activities. The Acquisitions Section Executive Committee would like to hear from members of the section who might be interested in serving on this committee. If you are interested in participating in the section's effort to promote research and statistics in acquisitions, send an e-mail message to Christian Boissonnas, Chair, Acquisitions Section, cmb3@cornell.edu. An initial committee will be formed from the responses to this announcement. The names of people who were not selected will become part of the pool of volunteers who will be called upon to fill vacancies starting after the 1995 Annual Conference. ************************************************************************* LAST CALL FOR DISCUSSION GROUP AGENDAS AND TOPICS Discussion Group chairs should start now to publicize their meetings at the upcoming ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia. Submit your discussion topic and agenda to the ALCTS Office for inclusion in a publicity flyer that will be distributed in one of the ALCTS bins in the Conference Center (telephone 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5032; fax 312-280-3257; or e-mail yvonne.mclean@ala.org). The deadline is December 30, 1994. The editors of _Cognotes_ will once again print Midwinter Meeting discussion group topics. Submit these on diskette to Pier London, ALA Conference Services, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. Deadline is January 13, 1995. And, if that isn't enough, you may submit your discussion group information via e-mail to _Library Journal_. The e-mail address for LJ is libjourn@class.org. Be sure to include American Libraries (u56747@uicvm.uic.edu) and the ALCTS Office (u34261@uicvm.uic.edu) so that ALA publications also carry your ALA meeting information!! ************************************************************************* GUIDE TO ALA GOPHER AND ALA LISTSERVS AVAILABLE An informational guide, _What's Up with the ALA Gopher and ALA Listservs_, designed to assist American Library Association members and others is available from the ALA Headquarters Library and Information Center. ALA hosts its own Gopher and more than 20 Internet public listservs and electronic journals enabling the association to disseminate information electronically and to facilitate discussion of professional issues on the Internet. The electronic journals and listservs cover a wide range of interests as diverse as the ALA Washington Office Newsline, with the latest legislative news affecting libraries; ALAWORLD, a listserv for discussion of international relations and libraries; and ALAOIF, a listserv for intellectual freedom issues. The guide is available in print and electronic forms. To obtain the print version, send a stamped self-addressed envelope to: ALA Headquarters Library and Information Center, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. To receive electronically, either download the information from the ALA Gopher, located under the second menu item "About ALA", or send an e-mail message to Charles.Harmon@ala.org requesting the information via e-mail. To locate the ALA Gopher, point your gopher client to gopher.uic.edu port 70, select the menu option "The Library" in the first screen of the UIC gopher and then choose "American Library Association" under the "The Library" menu. ************************************************************************* CRG AFFILIATE SPONSORS DISASTER PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM CAPTAIN, which is the interest group for collection development, technical services, and preservation of the Nevada Library Association and a CRG affiliate, sponsored a program on Disaster Preparedness for Libraries at the joint convention of the Nevada Library Association and the Mountain Plains Library Association at Incline Village, Nevada, on October 27, 1994. The speaker for this program was Randy Silverman, Associate Preservation Librarian at the University of Utah and founder of the Utah Preservation Consortium. The program was cosponsored by the Preservation Committee of the Mountain Plains Library Association. --Kathy Rankin University of Nevada, Las Vegas ************************************************************************* KRESH NAMED LC DIRECTOR OF PRESERVATION Diane Nester Kresh has been named Library of Congress's Director of Preservation and National Preservation Program Officer by Winston Tabb, Associate Librarian for Collections Services. She had been serving as Acting Director of Preservation since February. In her position, Kresh is responsible for library-wide activities relating to preservation, conservation, restoration, protection and maintenance of LC's collections. She also represents LC on the ARL Preservation Committee and the Commission on Preservation and Access's Preservation Managers' Council. Kresh began her LC career in 1972 as a reading room assistant. She held a variety of positions in the Collections Management Division and in 1992 was appointed Preservation Resources Officer. In the latter position she initiated an extensive preservation planning effort, played a critical role in the development of LC's preservation emergency preparedness plan, and identified and implemented new ways of handling preservation problems. ************************************************************************* UK SERIALS GROUP TO CONVENE IN APRIL The 18th annual conference and exhibition sponsored by the United Kingdom Serials Group will meet April 3-5, 1995, at Exeter University. The three-day program features sessions on the changing economic environment, looking at the economics of scholarly publishing, document delivery and the allocation of budgets in both academic and special libraries, the serials life cycle covering the links between academics and publishers, usage of serials, deselection and relegation. Additionally, there will be workshops offered in electrocopying, procurement and tendering, recruitment, bibliographic control of serials, licensing CD-ROMs, service level agreements and serials in the special library. For further information e-mail Jill Tolson at uksg@bham.ac.uk, or write her at 114 Woodstock Rd., Witney OX8 6DY UK ************************************************************************* NEDCC SETS UP CUNHA FUND Members of the Cunha family have asked for a fund to be established in memory of George M. Cunha to support training of beginning book and paper conservators at Northeast Document Conservation Center. George was founding director and Director Emeritus of the Center, which will miss him greatly. Checks should be made to NEDCC and addressed to NEDCC, 100 Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810-1494. --Karen Motylewski for Ann Russell Northeast Document Conservation Center nedcc@world.std.com Use KM in subject field ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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. 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