ALCTS Network News v9n19 (June 16, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v9n19 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 9, Number 19 June 16, 1995 In this issue ALA OSSC PROPOSES REVISED ALA STRUCTURE; HEARING PLANNED ALCTS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES ORIENTATION SET FOR NEW OFFICERS, CHAIRS, AND MEMBERS CMDS OFFERS CONFERENCE PROGRAMS PRESERVATION AND REFORMATTING PROGRAMS AT CONFERENCE LC REPORTS FOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON GOPHER COMPUTER EQUIPMENT TO BE AVAILABLE IN ALA OFFICES DISCUSSION GROUP MEETINGS -- PART I ************************************************************************** ALA OSSC PROPOSES REVISED ALA STRUCTURE; HEARING PLANNED The ALA Organizational Self-Study Committee (OSSC) has issued its final report proposing a significant restructuring of the American Library Association. The paper version of the report has been distributed to members of the ALA Council and division Boards of Directors. It is also available on the ALA Gopher. A hearing is planned for Annual Conference on Monday, June 26, 1995, from 4:30-5:30 in MCC-E267 (not E262; both rooms are listed in the conference program book). To access the report on the gopher, point your gopher client to GOPHER. UIC.EDU port 70, choose "The Library" and then follow this gopher tree: American Library Association/V. ALA's Council and Executive Board/About ALA's Council Self-Study Documents. The name of the specific document is "Revised Draft Document on ALA Structure." ************************************************************************* ALCTS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES This is a reminder that the ALCTS Leadership Development Committee is sponsoring two workshops in Chicago for all members to improve their leadership skills. Contact Miriam Palm if you'd like to attend either "Chairing Effective Meetings" or "Brigadoon Syndrome: Sustaining Momentum After Conference" by e-mail to miriam.palm@forsythe.stanford.edu or phone (415) 725-1151. See _AN2_ v.9_no12 for more details on these workshops. ************************************************************************* ORIENTATION SET FOR NEW OFFICERS, CHAIRS, AND MEMBERS Newly elected and appointed officers, chairs and committee members are urged to attend the ALCTS orientation session on Sunday, June 25, 9:30- 11:00 a.m. in the Appenzell Suite of the Suissotel. No need to RSVP -- just come! ************************************************************************* CMDS OFFERS CONFERENCE PROGRAMS The Collection Management and Development Section is holding these programs in Chicago: "New Ways of Knowing, New Ways of Doing: Rethinking Collection Management in the Electronic Age." The new electronic media have had a major impact on how collection development is organized and on the roles that collection development librarians take. Speakers will present three separate examples: collection development as part of an entirely new electronically influenced library structure; electronic collection development in a state-wide university consortium; and collection development for a state-wide consortium of academic and public libraries. Saturday, June 24. 2-4 p.m. -- MCC - N227A "When Specialists Collide: The Challenge of Interdisciplinary Scholarship for Collection Development." Scholarship is increasingly crossing the boundaries of established disciplines at the same time that electronic information formats are altering traditional modes of scholarly communication. In the face of these concurrent changes, how well do the practices and organization of collection development activities serve the selector? Cross-disciplinary collection development specialists will discuss how they meet the challenges of selecting, budgeting, managing collections, and organizing collection development in the new environment. Sunday, June 25. 9-11 a.m. -- HYT - Toronto "Cooperation Works! Successful Models of Cooperative Collection Development." For more than 10 years, cooperative collection development has been a dream of collection administrators, selectors, and others committed to sharing library resources. This program brings together speakers from public, multitype, and academic library environments to present three models for cooperative action. Their experiences vary in degree of institutional involvement, library size, financial resources, and level of automation. Their success demonstrate that cooperative collection development does work! Sunday, June 25. 2-4 p.m. -- MCC - E352 "Educating Collection Developers: In the Classroom or on the Job?" Can collection development be taught in library school? Or do most effective selectors hone their innate talents on the job? These questions have important implications for the graduate curriculum and for the library's responsibility to educate and train beginning selectors. Practitioners and educators will examine these questions in an effort to come closer to a consensus on appropriate expectations for the role of graduate education in collection development. Monday, June 26. 2-4 p.m. -- MCC - E267 ************************************************************************** PRESERVATION AND REFORMATTING PROGRAMS AT CONFERENCE The ALCTS Preservation and Reformatting Section is holding these programs at the Annual Conference: "Why me? Integrating Preservation into Your Library's Operations." Learn techniques for integrating preservation awareness and activities library wide. Speakers from technical processing/cataloging, selection/acquisitions, and circulation/access services will present general and specific ideas that have proven successful in their institutions. Issues for discussion in breakout sessions include bibliographic control, gifts and OP selection and processing, student training, stacks maintenance, identification for repair or reformatting. Saturday, June 25. 9:30-12:30. -- MCC - E152 "Expanding the Role of Book Repair in Collection-wide Preservation." Can cost-effective, aesthetically pleasing, durable repairs be made to library books without sacrificing the physical integrity of our collections? Conservators will present an illustrated slide-lecture which investigates the philosophies and techniques that redefine existing parameters of book repair. Saturday, June 25. 2-4 p.m. -- MCC - E352 "Two Thumbs Up: Preservation Film Festival." Spend an evening at the movies and see the stars of preservation stage and screen! Visit disaster scenes and emerge unscathed. See books being manhandled and the librarians who come to the rescue. The Tragedy, the Thrills, the Folly! Films have been selected to appeal to a general audience. They can be used in training staff or volunteers and in sensitizing library boards. Sunday, June 26. 7-10 p.m. -- HYT - Gold Coast "Enhancing Preservation and Access: Selection for Digital Conversion." Digital imaging technology offers great promise for improving management, access, and preservation of endangered research materials. This forum will focus on issues influencing the selection of materials for digital conversion: What are the characteristics of materials which lend themselves to scanning? What anticipated uses of materials are enhanced by scanning as a reformatting option? Monday, June 26. 2-4 p.m. -- MCC - E256 ************************************************************************* LC REPORTS FOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON GOPHER Reports from the Library of Congress are available via the ALA Gopher. To access the Gopher, point your gopher client to gopher.uic.edu port 70. Follow the path: The Library/Library of Congress (LC Marvel)/Libraries and Publishers/Collections Services/Upd for ALA Annual Conference 95. ************************************************************************* COMPUTER EQUIPMENT TO BE AVAILABLE IN ALA OFFICES As in the past, IBM computers with 5.25" and 3.5" disk drives, Wordperfect 5.1 software and printers will be available for staff and member use in the ALA Offices in the McCormick Convention Center, Hall E1. Macintoshes loaded with Word 5.1, Microsoft Works 3.0, Wordperfect 3.1, Aldus PageMaker 5.0 and FileMaker Pro 2.1 will also be available. There will be ALA letterhead and plain paper available, but no diskettes. And as always, typewriters. ************************************************************************* DISCUSSION GROUP MEETINGS -- PART I [NOTE: As with any event at Annual Conference, be sure to check your program book and _Cognotes_ for any changes in time or location.] Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Friday, June 23, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; MCC-E451 A PARS Cooperative Preservation Programs Friday, June 23, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m.; MAR-Great America Starting time will be 10:00 a.m. and we will end at noon (the program will list start time as 9:30 but don't believe it). Three representatives of disaster recovery software companies have agreed to demonstrate their product (briefly) and to be on a panel to answer questions about commercial packages vs. home grown. They will arrive around 9:30 a.m. to set up and have said they would be happy to stay afterwards for additional demonstrations and questions. Please join us. PARS Preservation Administration Friday, June 23, 2-5:30 p.m.; IC-Renaissance CMDS Chief Collections Development Officers of Large Research Libraries Saturday, June 24, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; MCC-E353 B CCS Cataloging Norms Saturday, June 24, 9:30 a.m.-11 a.m.; MCC-E350 Topic: Core Level Record with Margaret Shen, a member of the Task Group and Head of Cataloging at Cleveland Public Library; and Sherry Kelley, UCLA Project Coordinator and Head of Cataloging at UCLA. The presenters will discuss why the Core Record was created, the steps involved for participation in developing the Core Record at the local library, and an analysis of the pilot project UCLA is involved in with OCLC and the Core Record. PARS Library Binders Saturday, June 24, 9:30-11 a.m.; HYT-Skyway 268 SS Research Libraries Saturday, June 24, 9:30-11 a.m.; HYT-Picasso Technical Services Administrators of Medium-Sized Research Libraries Saturday, June 24, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; SWIS-Alpine BR II Topic: The Stanford University Libraries Redesign Report Speakers: Catherine M. Tierney, Acting Assistant University Librarian for Technical Services, Stanford University Libraries, and compiler for the Redesign Team of the Report; assisted by Karen Kalinsky, head of acquisitions and member of the Redesign Team; and representatives from four of the vendors with whom Stanford has had discussions: Dan Halloran, Academic Books; Allan Graham, BNA; Liz Bishoff, OCLC; and Gary Shirk, Yankee Book Peddler. Catherine Tierney will provide an update on the current status and implementation of the Redesign Report and cover the content of the Report, concepts widely applicable to other libraries (vendor-assisted processing of monographs, process changes 1-3), significant issues these raise for all libraries, internal issues, and external issues with vendors and utilities. Following questions from the audience, each vendor will react to Tierney's comments and present their views of the implications of these massive changes for libraries, vendors, library/vendor and vendor/vendor relationships. Their focus will include topics such as changes in pricing models, what a library can reasonably expect to save, how outsourcing demands are changing vendor operations, vendor concerns in meeting the new and increasingly complex needs of libraries, the new nature of cooperation and competition between vendors. Audience questions will follow. Tip: Before the program, read the Stanford Redesign Report on the Web at: http://www-sul.stanford.edu:8000/sul-as-org/redesign/redesign.html. Other related documents will be found on the Web in this area as well. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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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