[Anonymous], 'LITA News', LITA Newsletter v15n02 URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/lita/lita-v15n02-[anonymous]-lita V15N2.LITANEWS LITANEWS ------------------------------------------- LITA News LITA Joins CNI: Call for Volunteers AT THE MIDWINTER 1994 Board meeting, LITA voted to join the Coalition for Networked Information. This means that LITA will have two appointed representatives to the CNI Task Force. The duties of a representative include attending two task force meetings a year, identifying possible areas of LITA-CNI collaboration and reporting back to the LITA Board and membership. If you are interested in being a LITA representative to CNI, please contact Nancy Roderer (LITA Vice President/President-elect) at (203) 785-5352 or roderer@biomed.med.yale.edu. LITA Seeks Proposals for Regional Institutes Effort THE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION Technology Association (LITA) is looking for a few good trainers! LITA is embarking on a program of regional institutes to bring high-quality continuing education programs to librarians and others in all parts of the country. "We believe LITA puts on some of the best programs at ALA Annual Conferences and our own national conferences, and would like to see the benefits of theseprograms extended to those who cannot or do not normally attend ALA or LITA conferences," said Tamara Miller, LITA President. "Our members are the experts in the field of library automation and technology, so it is natural to expect LITA to expand its mission in this way." Several proposals for these day-long institutes are currently under consideration or development. A task force has been formed to review proposals for institutes and guide the early development of the institutes effort. "We are looking for topics for future institutes and will give serious consideration to all proposals received," says Gail Persky, Chair of the Regional Institutes Task Force. "Institutes, as currently envisioned, are day-long sessions on topics of current interest, preferably with one or two presenters only." If you would like to propose an institute, please send a detailed course outline and brief narrative statement about course content, features, and intended audience to Rob Carlson, LITA Deputy Executive Director, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611; Internet: rob.carlson@ala.org. New LITA Publications LITA RECENTLY PUBLISHED Telecommunications, Networking and Internet Glossary by George S. Machovec, as No. 4 in the LITA Monograph Series. Developed to assist librarians, information managers and students to remain current with the constantly increasing amount of new terminology in the high-growth communications field, this glossary provides hundreds of definitions for telecommunications, networking and Internet terms that appear in library automation technology. The book is a handy reference for today's librarian. Telecommunications, Networking and Internet Glossary sells for $18.00 ($16.20 for LITA members). LITA also recently published the print version of The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, Volume 3, 1992, edited by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Leslie B. Pearse, Dana Rooks and Roy Tennant. The Public-Access Computer Systems Review is an electronic library journal, associated with the popular PACS-L list that is distributed to subscribers in more than 57 countries via BITNET, Internet and other computer networks. A review in ONLINE gives the journal a rating of "Excellent." LITA currently has an agreement with the University of Houston to publish the print version of the journal. Volume three has papers on campus-wide information systems and tools, including UC Berkeley's Infocal Campus Information Service, HYTELNET, LIBS Internet Access Software, and nonbibliographic applications of Z39.50; the future of electronic publishing; a paper on The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials; and a bibliography about electronic publishing on networks. It also contains papers on reshaping library services and staffing to support emerging electronic information systems, the Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education and search failures in information retrieval systems. All three volumes include columns by Walt Crawford and Martin Halbert as well as book reviews. Volume three introduces a new columnist, Priscilla Caplan. Volume 3 is $20 ($17 for LITA members). Volumes 1 through 3 are available as a set (order no. 7211-X) for $45. Order either publication from ALA's Customer Services, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. Call 1-800-543-2433 and press 7 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. CST, or fax (312) 944-2641.