An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services
ISSN: 1056-6694
ALCTS NETWORK NEWS
An electronic publication of the
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
Volume 16, Number 8
September 17, 1998
In this issue
ROUND-UP OF CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES
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ROUND-UP OF CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES
Cataloging Internet Resources for Your Local Catalog
Cataloging Internet Resources for Your Local Catalog, a workshop
co-sponsored by the ACTSS Cataloging Interest Group of the California
Library Association and the North American Serials Interest Group
(NASIG), will be given twice: Wednesday, September 16 at University of
California, Davis and Friday, September 18 at Occidental College, Los
Angeles. This full-day workshop will provide the experienced cataloger
with the information necessary to catalog Internet resources.
Discussions of local implementation issues, special considerations for
copy cataloging, and the bibliographic nature of these resources will
provide a context for understanding the current cataloging environment.
In-depth examination of relevant MARC tagging and AACR2 rules;
hands-on exercises will provide experience in applying current cataloging
standards to actual Internet resources.
The speakers are Steve Shadle, Serials Cataloger at the University of
Washington, and Greta deGroat, Electronic Media Cataloger at Stanford
University.
The registration fee is $20 for ACTSS or NASIG members, $30 for
non-members, including lunch and coffee. Registration is limited 40
participants per site on first-come, first served basis.
For more information and a registration form contact: Pat French,
University of California, Davis, psfrench@ucdavis.edu.
-- Pat French, psfrench@ucdavis.edu.
Hurricane Preparedness: Making Sure Your Institution Survives the "Big
One"
Hurricanes have already hit the Eastern Coast. Do you know what to do
to prepare? A one-day SOLINET institute, Hurricane Preparedness:
Making Sure Your Institution Survives the "Big One," is scheduled for
Thursday, October 22 at Tampa Library Consortium, Tampa, Florida. Dr.
Michael Trinkley, Director of Chicora Foundation, will help you learn about
steps that can be taken before a storm hits that can increase an
institution's chances for minimizing damage; and steps that can be taken
to minimize loss after the storm. This workshop focuses on the nature of
hurricanes, general issues in developing a disaster plan, making your
institution storm-proof, activities before, during, and after the storm, and
sources of assistance.
Cost is $95 for SOLINET members ($85 early bird, $120 late); $135
Non-SOLINET & FEDLINK ($125 early bird, $160 late). Any institution in
Florida qualifies for the member rate.
-- Andrew Jones, andrew_jones@solinet.net
The Challenge to Change: Creating Diversity in Our Libraries
The Challenge to Change: Creating Diversity in Our Libraries is a two-day
conference to be held October 1-2, 1998, at the Days Inn Penn State,
State College, Pennsylvania. For up-to-date conference information,
consult http:// www.libraries.psu.edu/divers/conf/ or contact LaDawn
Dutrow at (814) 865-1755.
-- Sandra Rios Balderrama, sbalderr@ala.org
Integrating Learning with Work: Staff Training, Education and
Development
Integrating Learning with Work: Staff Training, Education and
Development, is a new regional institute from the Library Administration
and Management Association (LAMA). The institute will be available for
presentation beginning October 15, 1998.
In this full day workshop, Dr. Julie Beth Todaro will provide a vision for
the library as a learning organization and offer practical instruction in how
to achieve this goal in your own institution. Through a combination of
lecture, discussion, self-analysis and small group work, attendees will
focus on creating the ideal learning environment; defining terminology and
incorporating learning language into the organization's mission, goals, and
documents; examining models and best practices of work environments
with ongoing training, education and development programs; identifying
competencies and individual learning and teaching styles; balancing
cutting edge resources for staff and public use; and creating an outline
and first steps toward individualized plans of action that can be
implemented immediately. Participants will receive a substantive
handbook that will recap information presented throughout the day;
provide examples, forms and checklists; list print and electronic
resources; and allow workshop information to be personalized for later
use.
For more information about the institute or to schedule a presentation,
contact: Elizabeth Dreazen, LAMA Deputy Executive Director,
edreazen@ala.org.
-- ALA Press release
To Merge or Not to Merge
ALCTS Regional Group, the Potomac Technical Processing Librarians,
announced their 74th Annual Meeting. The program topic is "To Merge or
Not to Merge Libraries and Computer Centers. " It will be held at the
George W. Johnson Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va., on
October 23, 1998. The speaker is ALCTS Past President Janet Swan Hill.
For more information, including a registration form, visit our website
At http://www.lib.virginia.edu/ptpl/.
-- Kathy Miraglia, MIRAGLIA@cua.edu
Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
SOLINET will present a one-day seminar Disaster Preparedness and
Recovery, to be held on Tuesday, November 10 from 9 am to 4 pm at
Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Ky. Libraries and archives are
vulnerable to a variety of disasters ranging from fires and flooding to roof
leaks and mold outbreaks. Through lecture, group exercises and
demonstrations, this one-day workshop will provide the training
necessary to plan, organize and execute a disaster plan and salvage
operation. Julie Arnott, Manager of Preservation Field Services at
SOLINET, is the instructor for this workshop.
Cost is $95 for SOLINET members ($85 early bird, $120 late); $135
Non-SOLINET & FEDLINK ($125 early bird, $160 late). Any institution in
Kentucky qualifies for the member rate.
-- Andrew Jones, andrew_jones@solinet.net
Have You Got the Blues?
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA)
announces two day-long architectural records workshops, "Have You
Got the Blues? Architectural Records: Their Identification, Management,
Storage, and Treatment." The workshops are partially funded by the
National Endowment for the Humanities. The workshops will be
co-sponsored by the site institutions.
Workshop #1 takes place Thursday, September 24, 1998, at the
University of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, Austin, Tex., and is presented in cooperation with AMIGOS
Bibliographic Council, Inc. The registration deadline is September 11,
1998.
Workshop #2 takes place Friday, November 6, 1998, at the Historic New
Orleans Collection, New Orleans, La., and is presented in cooperation
with the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET). The registration
deadline is October 23, 1998.
The workshops are intended for architectural historians and architects,
as well as library, archives, and museum professionals who have
architectural records, drawings or other oversize paper-based materials
in their care or collections. The speakers will address the problems of
caring for the diverse materials of an architectural records collection.
The workshops will help participants identify different original media and
reproductive processes; consider options for management and
organization of architectural records; recognize storage problems and
options; and discuss basic collections care methods and remedial
treatments that can be safely accomplished in-house.
The speakers are Lois Olcott Price, Conservator of Library Collections,
Winterthur Library, and Joan Irving, Conservator, Conservation Center for
Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA). The workshop agenda will also
include a presentation by a speaker from the host site, who will address
management issues related to their unique collections.
The fee is $80.00 for members of CCAHA, AMIGOS or SOLINET and
$90.00 for non-members. Enrollment will be limited to 30 participants. The
registration fee includes supplementary materials and lunch. The
workshops will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For more information and a registration form contact: Susan W. DuBois,
Preservation Services Representative, Conservation Center for Art and
Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), ccaha@hslc.org, or visit
http://www.ccaha.org.
-- Conservation Center, ccaha@shrsys.hslc.org
SSP Seminar on Selling/Acquiring Electronic Information: A Dialog about
Best Practices
On Thursday, September 17, the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is
hosting a workshop in Washington, DC for publishers, librarians, and
vendors to discuss all sides of the acquisition process. A distinguished
panel will address all topics related to the acquisition of databases and
e-journals, from presale technology issues related to access, through
licensing, to post sale evaluation efforts based on usage statistics. We
invite you to share your experiences as we explore what works in this
rapidly changing environment.
The panelists and their topics are: Electronic publishing dynamics - Judy
Luther (Informed Strategies); Decision to acquire the product - Nancy
Gibbs (North Carolina State University) and Claire Wyckoff (Columbia
University Press); Technology issues - Connie Kelley (University of
Virginia) and Ron Akie (Silverplatter); Negotiating the license - Sarah Sully
(JSTOR), Marietta Plank (University of Maryland), and Susan Hillson
(Publishing Consultant); and Implementation and renewal - Jay Trolley
(Institute for Scientific Information) and Jim Mullins (Villanova University).
The seminar will run from 9:30-4:30 at the American Society of
Association Executives (ASAE) at 1575 I St. NW. It is priced attractively
at $70 until Sept. 9th, afterwards $90. You may register with SSP in
Wheat Ridge, Colo. by phone (303) 422-3914 or fax (303) 422-8894.
--Judy Luther, jluther@earthlink.net
Principles and Techniques of Fund Raising
"Principles and Techniques of Fund Raising" will be offered October
29-31 in Indianapolis at a National Institute hosted by the Association for
Library Service to Children (ALSC), the American Library Trustee
Association (ALTA) and the Reference & User Services Association
(RUSA), divisions of the American Library Association (ALA). The
registration deadline is October 15.
Cosponsored by the Library Administration and Management Association
(LAMA) and The Fund for America's Libraries, the one-and-a-half day
workshop will be presented by Dr. Dwight Burlingame and Dr. Tim Seiler
of The Fund Raising School, Indiana University Center on Philanthropy.
Topics to be discussed include an overview of philanthropic fund raising;
the key principles of fund raising; and effective strategies for direct
solicitation. Participants also will receive a custom designed study guide.
The workshop is based on a three-day program developed in 1995 by the
Indiana University Center on Philanthropy - the Fund Raising School for
the Library Leadership Fundraising Training Project, funded by the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation and The Carnegie Corporation of New York.
The cost to attend is $295 for members of the hosting organizations; $345
for ALA members and $395 for non-members. Institute events included in
the registration fee are the Opening General Session featuring Ann K.
Symons, ALA president, William R. Gordon, ALA executive director, and a
keynote address by Jim Fleck, nationally known speaker and library board
trustee; a lunch featuring Anne Kappler, partner at Jenner & Block and
attorney for the Freedom to Read Foundation, who will address
intellectual freedom issues and current legislative initiatives; an evening
reception at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art;
and a breakfast featuring a presentation by Paul O. Zelinsky, the 1998
Caldecott Medal winner for "Rapunzel."
To register, use the online form at:
http://www.ala.org/events/institute98.html or contact Sheila Henson at
800-545-2433, ext. 4398.
-- ALA Press release
Fundamentals of Book Repair
SOLINET will also present a 2-day workshop, Fundamentals of Book
Repair, which is designed for staff members who actually perform book
repair in libraries, and is useful also to those who supervise repair units.
The workshop will teach participants how to perform simple, economical,
and preservation quality repairs on materials in general, circulating and
reference collections. The following procedures will be taught in small
group modules through demonstrations and practice:
* Tightening hinges when text blocks are pulled away from the
cover
* Replacing torn endsheets
* Replacing torn or damaged spines
* Mending paper
* Tipping and hinging pages into bound volumes
The session is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, October 6-7 from
8:30 am to 5 p.m. at University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.
The workshop will NOT cover techniques for the repair of materials that
are special, rare, or archival. Instructors are Sharla Richards and
Christine Wiseman, SOLINET Preservation Field Service Officers.
Cost is $155 SOLINET members ($145 early bird, $180 late registration);
$215 non-members ($205 early bird, $240 late registration). Any
institution in Kentucky qualifies for the SOLINET member rate. Included
with the registration fee is an extensive book repair kit containing a
variety of tools and supplies.
-- Andrew Jones, andrew_jones@solinet.net
Electronic Licensing
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) will hold a workshop on
licensing electronic information resources on November 5-6, 1998 in
Kansas City, Mo. The Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium host the
workshop.
This two-day workshop will review the legal foundation of license
agreements; engage participants in a review of license terms and
conditions; highlight the importance of and present strategies for
developing an institutional process for license review, negotiation, and
administration; and provide participants with an opportunity to assess and
practice negotiation skills.
Workshop leaders are Trisha Davis, Head, Continuation Acquisitions
Division, Ohio State University Libraries; Karen Hersey, Intellectual
Property Counsel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Mary
Case, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication, ARL. It will be held at
the Embassy Suites Hotel, 220 W. 43rd. St., Kansas City, Mo. Attendance
is limited to 60 participants. Registration fee is $300 for ARL member
libraries, $400 for nonmember libraries, and includes resource materials,
breakfast, lunch, and breaks. Prepayment required.
For additional information, contact ARL headquarters at (202) 296-2296
or visit the workshop website at
http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/workshop.html
-- Adrian W. Alexander, AlexanderA@lhl.lib.mo.us
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