ALA Announcements (digest):
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1. ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services
Discussion Group (Midwinter)
2. Computer Files Discussion Group (Midwinter)
3. New Book Release: After the Electronic Revolution ...
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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 16:49:00 EST
From: "Rita.Echt" <20676RLE@MSU.BITNET>
From: "Laurel.Jizba" <20676LJ@MSU.BITNET>
Subject: ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group
ALA Denver Midwinter Meeting Announcement:
The ALCTS CREATIVE IDEAS IN TECHNICAL SERVICES DISCUSSION GROUP
Invites You to Participate in a Facilitated
Round Table Discussion on One of These Three Topics:
1. Changing roles and relationships between
paraprofessionals and professionals
2. Working at home
3. Pros and cons of vendor supplied cataloging services/contract
cataloging/affect on original catalogers/copy catalogers/
acquisitions staff.
Sunday, January 24, 1993
4:30-5:30 PM
Colorado Convention Center
Room C 109
Denver, ALA Midwinter
Reports of the round table discussions will be made available through
several mechanisms: ALCTS publications, listservs, etc.
Laurel Jizba
Program Chair, '93 Midwinter Meeting
Michigan State University Libraries 20676LJ@MSU.BITNET
20676LJ@MSU.EDU
Julie Nilson, Discussion Group Co-Chair
Indiana University Libraries NILSON@IUBACS
NILSON@UCS.INDIANA.EDU
Janet Padway, Discussion Group Co-Chair
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee JGP@GML.LIB.UWM.EDU
JGPADWAY@CSD4.CSD.UWM.EDU
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 08:31:53 EST
From: Colleen Thorburn <COLTHOR@NERVM.BITNET>
Subject: Computer Files Discussion group
X-To: autocat@uvmvm.BITNET
Computer Files Discussion Group
Denver, Colorado
Sunday, January 24, 1993, 9:30-12:30
Westin Tabor Center-Tabor Room
Agenda
Welcome and introductions by co-chairs, Willy Cromwell and Colleen Thorburn
Update on activities at LC, OCLC, RLIN, and WLN with Sherry Kelley, Glenn
Patton, Willy Cromwell and Jo Calk
Update on the OCLC Internet Project with Martin Dillon
Update on Computer File activities in MARBI with John Attig
Report on USMARC proposal concerning online information resources with Rebecca
Guenther
Discussion on the development of the 007 field for Computer Files with Phyllis
Bruns
Discussion on the Leader/06 for interactive media with Ann Fox
Discussion on establishing liason activity with OLAC with Karen Driessen
Panel Discussion on "SERIAL COMPUTER FILES"
Michele Crump, Acquisitions Librarian, University of Florida
Kristin Lindlan, Head, Serials Cataloging, University of Washington
Charles Litchfield, Chief, Library Automation, Virginia Tech
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 09:31:56 -0400
From: "Arnold Hirshon, Univ. Librarian,
Wright State Univ" <AHIRSHON@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU>
Subject: NEW BOOK: After the Electronic Revolution,
Will You Be the First to Go?
The following announcement is being listed on multiple listservs...
ALCTS Announces Publication of
AFTER THE ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION, WILL YOU BE
THE FIRST TO GO?
ALCTS announces the publication of AFTER THE ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION,
WILL YOU BE THE FIRST TO GO?, the proceedings of the 1992 Association for
Library Collections & Technical Services President's Program held on 29
June 1992 at the American Library Association Annual Conference in San
Francisco, CA. The editor of the publication and 1991-1992 President of
ALCTS is Arnold Hirshon, University Librarian at Wright State University in
Dayton Ohio.
The idea for the program was inspired by the pioneering work of those
who have spoken and written about paradigm shifts, such as Thomas Kuhn and
Joel Barker. Kuhn spoke about paradigm shifts in the scientific community,
and Barker applied those observations to the world of management. Barker
instructs us that when a paradigm shifts, our past success will guarantee
nothing -- "When the paradigm shift occurs, everyone goes back to zero."
The electronic revolution currently occurring in libraries is such a
paradigm shift.
In his introductory chapters, on "The Convergence of Publishing and
Bibliographic Access," Hirshon provides the general perspective for the
proceedings and sets forth a general premise that the information access is
moving from an indirect two-stage process of searching-then-retrieving
information to a direct process where the search of the index and the
delivery of information is done virtually at the same time.
The keynote speaker, Theodor Holm Nelson, coined both the term and the
concept of hypertext over 25 years ago. Today he is actively engaged in
Project Xanadu, a developmental project that seeks to create a world-wide
electronic publishing network. In Nelson's presentation "You the Guardians
of Literature Still," he addresses the changes in electronic communication
and observes that the system of literature of which librarians have been
the guardians is undergoing a paradigm shift. Nelson asserts that we are
moving from a system of providing whole documents to one where the user
purchases only separate pieces, with the quoted material bought from the
publisher at the moment of request and with automatic royalty payment to
the author.
Peter S. Graham (Associate University Librarian for Technical and
Networked Services at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) writes
about "Intellectual Preservation in the Electronic Environment."
Addressing the technical services perspective of libraries, Graham speaks
particularly to the preservation of electronic information, and explores
the implications to the profession when electronic texts remove the
confidence that we have had in the past in the fixity of text in the print
world.
Thomas Duncan (Faculty Assistant for the Museum Informatics Project
and Associate Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of
California at Berkeley) writes on the "Implementation of Electronic
Information Systems in Universities and the Implications for Change in
Scholarly Research." Writing from the perspective of an informed user,
Duncan notes that university faculty must develop a new structure for using
electronic information, and this will have a serious impact on future
research, teaching, and public service in universities.
Susan K. Martin (University Librarian, Georgetown University) in
"Librarians on a Tightrope: Getting from Here to There and Loosening Up in
the Process," provides a public services administrator's perspective.
Explicating the Council for Library Resources funded "Strategic Visions
Statement," Martin notes that if librarianship is to assume responsibility
for molding the information environment, we must take steps to reinforce
and emphasize our leadership role, which is now minimal or nonexistent.
These proceedings challenge all librarians to be electronic
revolutionaries. The 1992 ALCTS President's Program was the first of two
President's Programs to address the effects of electronic publishing on
libraries. The second program will occur at the 1993 ALA Annual
Conference. This 1992 program included a distinguished panel of
individuals whose role was not to provide answers, but rather to raise
questions about where information access is going both outside of
librarianship and within it. It is up the reader to decide whether after
the electronic revolution, will you be the first to go?
AFTER THE ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION, WILL YOU BE THE FIRST TO GO?" (ISBN
0-8389-7650-6) is $18.00 pbk., ALA member price $16.20. To place an
order, please contact the ALA Order Department, 50 East Huron St., Chicago,
IL 60611; telephone 800-545-2433, press 7.
This publication will be for sale at the ALA Store at Midwinter.
