ALCTS Network News v9n06 (April 10, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v9n06 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 9, Number 6 April 10, 1995 In this issue RECENT POSTINGS TO ALCTS LISTERV AROUND ALA/ALCTS MAGPANTAY NAMED OITP DIRECTOR ************************************************************************** RECENT POSTINGS TO ALCTS LISTERV Actions of the Midwinter Meeting of CCS's Committe on Cataloging: Description and Access have been posted to the ALCTS listserv, as have the minutes of SS's Committee to Study Serials Cataloging (_AN2_ v9_no5). To view the list of files on the ALCTS filelist, send the following command to listserv@uicvm.uic.edu send alcts filelist To retrieve a particular file, send the command send filename filetype For example, to retrieve the CSSC minutes, type "send serials report" and to retrieve the CCDA actions, type "send ccdamw actions" (without quotation marks). Back issues of _AN2_, institute brochures, various reports and documents are available similarly. ************************************************************************* AROUND ALA/ALCTS AUDIO-VISUAL AND COMPUTER EQUIPMENT FOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Audio-visual and computer equipment required to support meetings held during the 1995 Annual Conference in Chicago must be ordered by April 30, 1995. This equipment is provided from ALA General Funds, not division funds. ALCTS does not provide this support for meetings -- so be sure you really do need the equipment and order it on time by calling either Michelle Visel in ALA Conference Services (800-545-2433 x3225) or Yvonne McLean in the ALCTS Office (x5032 or yvonne.mclean@ala.org) DATES TO REMEMBER: May 1 -- Technical Services Workstation Institute (cosponsored by MINITEX) in Minneapolis, MN (contact alcts.office@uicvm.uic.edu) May 5 -- Third Annual Conference mailing with final schedule and events with room assignments indicated May 9 -- ALCTS Newsletter copy due to Dale Swensen for vol.6, no.4 May 20 -- If you have not received ALA/ALCTS ballot, contact ALA Membership Services (800-545-2433 x4288) June 2 -- Last day ballots accepted for counting June 8 -- Election results available 2:00 p.m. CDT July 11 -- ALCTS Newsletter copy due for vol.6, no.5 July 27-29 -- New England Collection Management and Development Institute in Wellesley, MA. Sept 5 -- ALCTS Newsletter copy due for vol. 6, no. 7 MEMBERSHIP PROMOTION ACTIVITES: The ALCTS Membership Committee is organizing an ALCTS booth in the exhibits at the Annual Conference in Chicago. ALCTS members who are attending are urged to volunteer an hour or two to staff the booth. It's fun and provides an opportunity to see friends and to meet new people -- and to let potential members know something about ALCTS. Exhibit hours are Sat., June 24, 9-4; Sun., June 25 and Mon. 6/26, 9-5; and Tues., June 27, 9-3. Contact Dorothy Hope at dothope@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu. ************************************************************************* NEW WWW SITES CREATED FOR PRESERVATION EDUCATORS A Home Page for the ALCTS listserv for preservation educators, PRESED-L, has been created. The URL is: http://www.well.com/www/bronxbob/presedl.html The list was created by ALCTS to promote dialogue for the Preservation Course and Workshop Instructors' Discussion Group of Preservation and Reformatting Section. It is open to anyone wishing to discuss the topic of preservation education. The PRESED-L Home Page, which is maintained by Robert DeCandido, a current co-chair of PARS, briefly describes the list, how to join and where to post messages. It also links to a list of Course Descriptions and Syllabi collected by the Discussion Group. Another new World Wide Web site for Preservation Educators is PRESED-X The Preservation Educators' Exchange http://www.well.com/www/bronxbob/presed-x/presed-x.html It contains documents, information and resources educators wish to share among themselves and among others who are interested in the teaching of library and archive preservation. It is meant to be a complement to ALCTS PRESED-L. PRESED-X has four parts: *Syllabi of graduate courses in library and archive preservation; *Course descriptions of workshops and other continuing education classes; *Announcements of upcoming institutes, conferences and workshops; *Miscellaneous items of interest. All preservation educators are encouraged to contribute documents and information. This can be done in either of two ways: 1. Send a text-only (ascii) file via e-mail to bronxbob@well.com or on disk to Robert DeCandido, The New York Public Library, 5th Ave. & 42nd St., N.Y., NY 10018. It will be coded with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and mounted on the Web. 2. Those who already have a web page or gopher document can be linked to the Exchange by its Uniform Resource Locator (URL). All contributions will be acknowledged and, where possible, mailto links will be created so that readers can contact the appropriate person. ************************************************************************* MAGPANTAY NAMED OITP DIRECTOR J. Andrew Magpantay, special assistant for innovative projects and planning at the Library and Center for Knowledge Management (University of California-San Francisco), has been named director of ALA's new Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP). He begins on June 15. Establishment of the OITP is part of the ALA Goal 200 proposal, a five- year plan to position the association for the information age (see _AN2_, v. 8, no.17). The plan, proposed by ALA Executive Director Elizabeth Martinez, calls for strengthening ALA's role as an advocate for the public interest in a free and open information society. The new office is designed to complement the Washington Office's efforts and serve as a public policy advocate for libraries in the area of information technology. Magpantay will be reponsible for representing the information technology interests of libraries, librarians and library users in the public policy arena, with special attention to National Information Infrastructure development. He will report to the executive director of the ALA Washington Office. In his current position at the University of California, Magpantay, has been involved in development of specialized software and content for the campus World Wide Web server. He is a member of the Red Sage Project, a collaborative effort initiated by UCAL-SF, AT&T, Bell Laboratories and Springer-Verlag to investigate the systems and economic models required to bring electronic journals directly to the medical profession's desktop. Magpantay also works on the university's Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) project. Magpantay has served as computer systems manager at the Swem Library, College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA); visiting librarian at the Perkins Library, Duke University (Durham, NC); and applications programmer for online library information systems at the University of California-Los Angeles. Magpantay was also a reviewer for the Telecommunications Information Infrastructure Assistance Program at the US Department of Commerce, and staff researcher for the California Public Utilities Commission Task Force on Telecommunications Network Infrastructure, San Francisco. He is the author of "The Information Superhighway Metaphor and the Politics of Public Good," _Educom Review_, Nov./Dec. 1994, and "The Baby Bells and Electronic Information Services," _Library and Information Technology Newsletter_, Fall 1992. Magpantay has a BA in English from UCLA, the MLIS from UCLA, and a MBA from the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California- Berkeley. He is a member of ACRL, LAMA, and LITA. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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: Shonda Russell 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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