[Editor], 'LITA News', LITA Newsletter v15n01 URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/lita/lita-v15n01-[editor]-lita V15N1.LITANEWS LITANEWS -------------- LITA News LITA Candidates Announced THE LITA NOMINATING Committee has announced the slate of candidates for the 1994 LITA Elections. Dennis Reynolds and Bruce Miller will run for Vice President/President-elect. Candidates for three LITA Director-at-Large positions (1994-97) are Roberta Wallis, Pam Andre Elizabeth Lane Lawley, Patrick Flannery, John Popko and Barbra Higginbotham. Candidates Sought for 1995 LITA Elections INTERESTED IN RUNNING for a position on the LITA Board (1995-98)? Thinking about the glory and challenge of the LITA Presidency? (Vice President 1995-96, President 1996-97, Past President 1997-98.) The LITA Nominating Committee would like to hear from you! Two Director-at-Large positions will come up for election in 1995, along with the Vice President/President-elect. If you're interested in running for a position, send a letter to the LITA 1994/95 Nominating Committee, LITA Office, ALA, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. The Committee will meet for the first time during the 1994 ALA Midwinter Meeting and hopes to complete its slate by the end of the 1994 ALA Annual Conference; letters that reach LITA before the Midwinter Meeting will be most useful. LITA/Gaylord Award Nominations Invited A SECOND REMINDER that nominations are invited for the 1994 LITA/Gaylord Award for Achievement in Library and Information Technology. This $1,000 cash award, provided by Gaylord Bros., Inc., recognizes distinguished leadership, notable development or applications of technology, superior accomplishment in research or education or original contributions to the literature of library and information technology. The award may be given to an individual or to a small group of individuals working in collaboration. Organized institutions or parts of organized institutions as such are ineligible for the award. Please submit nominations by December 15, 1993 to Dan Iddings, Chair, 1994 LITA/Gaylord Award Committee, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080; (412) 622-6502; fax (412) 622-6278; Internet: iddings @clp2.clpgh.org. LITA/Library Hi Tech Award Nominations Invited NOMINATIONS ARE STILL OPEN for the 1994 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication for Continuing Education in Library and Information Technology. This $1,000 cash award, provided by Pierian Press, will be awarded to an individual or institution for a single seminal work or a body of work, taking place within (or continuing into) the five years preceding the award, that shows outstanding achievement in communicating to educate practitioners within the library field in library and information technology. The work or body of work for which the award is made may include one or more print publications (articles or books), course plans or actual courses, non-print publications such as visual media, hypermedia, etc., or any other work that can be used by those who hear about the award. Please submit nominations by December 15, 1993 to Lynne D. Lysiak, Chair, LITA/Library Hi Tech Award, Appalachian State University, Belk Library, Boone, NC 28608; (704) 262-2798; fax (704) 262-3001; Internet: lysiakld@conrad. appstate.edu; BITNET: lysiakld@appstate.bitnet. LITA/OCLC Minority Scholarship Applications Sought LITA IS SEEKING APPLICANTS for the 1994 LITA/OCLC Minority Scholarship in Library and Information Technology. OCLC, Inc., of Dublin, Ohio, funds the scholarship to encourage minority students to pursue a career in library automation. The $2,500 award will be made to a student entering or currently enrolled in an ALA-accredited master's degree program. The student's program must emphasize library automation. Criteria for the scholarship include academic excellence, leadership, evidence of commitment to a career in library automation and information technology, and prior activity and experience in these areas. In addition, an applicant must be a U.S. or Canadian citizen and a member of a principal minority group-- Native American or Alaskan, Asian or Pacific Islander, African-American or Hispanic. The LITA Office must receive completed applications no later than April 1, 1994. For application instructions and forms contact the LITA Office, LITA/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2729; (800) 545-2433, ext. 4270; fax (312) 280-3257. LITA/CLSI Scholarship Applications Sought LITA IS SEEKING APPLICANTS for the 1994 LITA/CLSI Scholarship in Library and Information Technology. CLSI, Inc., of Newton, Massachusetts, sponsors the scholarship to encourage students to pursue a career in library automation. The $2,500 award will be made to a student entering or currently enrolled in an ALA-accredited master's degree program. The student's program must emphasize library automation. Criteria for the scholarship include academic excellence, leadership, evidence of commitment to a career in library automation and information technology, and prior activity and experience in these areas. The LITA Office must receive completed applications no later than April 1, 1994. For application instructions and forms contact the LITA Office, LITA/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2729; (800) 545-2433, ext. 4270; fax (312) 280-3257. LITA Newsletter: The Electronic Version LITA NEWSLETTER HAS A NEW FACE, or rather a second face. Starting with the experimental Summer 1993 (v. 14 no. 4) issue, the Newsletter is being distributed in electronic form to parallel the printed version. The contents of the electronic Newsletter are identical to those of the printed copy, except that the electronic version contains no graphics and is plain ASCII text, without any formatting. Why bother reading the electronic LITA Newsletter? First and foremost, because it comes out early. The electronic text can be distributed as soon as it leaves the hands of the Editor, bypassing the printing and mailing cycle, which can take a month or more, depending on the vagaries of the U.S. postal service. For issues like this one, which contains the ALA Midwinter Meeting schedule, timeliness is a particular virtue. But the electronic version serves other uses as well: cut and paste sections into electronic documents of your own; route individual articles to non-LITA colleagues by e-mail; store the whole issue on your hard disk so you can find information you need without rifling your deskful of papers. But please, please, don't print out the whole issue for yourself or your friends! Our intent is to reduce the paper glut that we're all facing, not to add to it. The printed LITA Newsletter will continue in its familiar, aesthetically pleasing form under Walt Crawford's capable editorship. It's got pictures (sometimes). You can keep reading it in bed and it will continue to be safely archived in libraries around the country. How does the electronic LITA Newsletter work? It is distributed and archived by means of a listserv at Dartmouth College called LITANEWS. Just before each issue becomes available, the manager announces on PACS-L that a new issue is about to be distributed to LITANEWS. A few days later (to give new readers a chance to subscribe), all the articles are posted to the LITANEWS listserv. At the same time, for those who don't want to receive all the articles by e-mail, the table of contents is posted to PACS-L, with instructions for retrieving individual articles from the LITANEWS archive. Earlier issues will be archived as long as the disk space is available. To summarize the details, there are two ways to receive the electronic LITA Newsletter: *1. By subscribing to the listserv LITANEWS. Every time a new issue of the LITA Newsletter is published, the Table of Contents and each of the articles will be posted to this listserv. If you subscribe to LITANEWS, the articles will be delivered to you automatically by electronic mail. To subscribe to LITANEWS, send electronic mail to listserv@dartmouth.edu (or to listserv@dartcms1 for bitnet users), with the following message in the body of the mail message (not the subject line): SUBSCRIBE LITANEWS [YourFirstName] [YourLastName] LITANEWS is a one-way distribution mechanism: it is used only for distributing the newsletter, not for discussion. Subscribers cannot post messages to LITANEWS. *2. By watching for the announcement of a new issue on PACS-L and then explicitly requesting each article from the LITANEWS listserv archive, either by e-mail or by anonymous ftp. Every time a new issue of the LITA Newsletter is published, an announcement will be posted to PACS-L, including the Table of Contents of the new issue and instructions for retrieving the text by e-mail or anonymous ftp from the LITANEWS listserv archive. Back issues of the Newsletter will be archived and available for retrieval by the same mechanisms. The first issue had a few quirks, but still drew the following testimonial from one of our faithful readers: I LOVE the LITA Newsletter online! I'll continue to treasure and use Walt's wonderfully formatted work on the paper version, but my life has noticeably improved with this morning's receipt of the email text. There were at least a half a dozen action items for me in the Newsletter (as always) and this time I was able to cut, paste, and forward everything electronically. I made notes in my personal to-do list, I grabbed some email addresses, I sent several fyi's to my staff, and I developed several action items for some of our project teams. It was so easy, so fast, and very timely! Thank you!--Bruce Miller, University of California, San Diego. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the electronic version of the Newsletter, please send e-mail to kathy.klemperer@dartmouth.edu.--Kathy Klemperer LITA Co-sponsors CFP'94 CFP'94, THE FOURTH CONFERENCE on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, will be held March 23-26, 1994 in Chicago, Illinois, hosted by the John Marshall Law School. LITA co-sponsors CFP'94. George B. Trubow, professor of law and director of the Center for Informatics Law at John Marshall, is general chair of the conference (Internet: 7trubow@jmls.edu). The advance of computer and telecommunications technologies holds great promise for individuals and society. At the same time these technologies present challenges to the idea of a free and open society. Personal privacy and corporate security are at risk from invasion by high-tech surveillance and monitoring; new forms of illegal activity may threaten the traditional barriers between citizen and state and present new tests of constitutional protections; geographic boundaries of state and nation may be recast by information exchange that knows no boundaries in global data networks. The Fourth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy will assemble experts, advocates and interest groups from diverse perspectives and disciplines to consider freedom and privacy in today's "information society." A series of tutorials will be offered on March 23, 1994, with the conference program beginning Thursday, March 24, and running through Saturday, March 26, 1994. The Palmer House Hilton (17 E. Monroe, Chicago, IL 60603; (312) 726-7500; 1-800-HILTONS; fax (312) 263-2556) will be conference headquarters; it is a block from the John Marshall Law School. Room reservations made directly with the hotel and mentioning John Marshall or "CFP'94" will receive the special conference rate of $99 plus tax. Registration fees for the tutorials and conference are as follows: if paid by 1/31/94, $145 tutorial, $315 conference; by 3/15/94, $175 tutorial, $370 conference; late registration will cost $210 for the tutorial, $420 for the conference. Communications regarding CFP'94 should be sent to CFP'94, The John Marshall Law School, 315 S. Plymouth Ct., Chicago, IL 60604-3907; (312) 987-1419; fax (312) 427-8307; Internet: cfp94@jmls.edu. Registration inquiries should go to RoseMarie Knight at that address; (312) 987-1420; Internet: 6rknight@jmls.edu. Full-time college students (including graduate students) are invited to enter a student paper competition. Papers must not exceed 3,000 words and should address the impact of computer and telecommunications technologies on freedom and privacy in society. Winners will receive a scholarship to attend the conference and present their papers. All papers should be submitted by December 15, 1993, either as straight text via e-mail (Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu) or as 6 printed copies to: Prof. Eugene Spafford, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2004; (317) 494-7825.