ALA Meetings & Announcements (4 messages) Birdie MacLennan 18 Jun 1993 14:07 UTC

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1. ALCTS Serials Section Program:  Electronic Journals ....
2. LITA/ALCTS Vendor/User IG & LITA/ALCTS Serials Automations IG
   co-sponsor program: Electronic Document Delivery ...
3. ALCTS Research Libraries DG
4. ALCTS Role of the Professional ... in Technical Services DG
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Date:         Thu, 17 Jun 1993 13:59:09 CDT
From:         "Mary M. Case" <MCASE@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU>
Subject:      ALA Electronic Journals Program

                  ALCTS SERIALS SECTION PROGRAM
            ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: MEETING THE CHALLENGE

                       Sunday, June 27, 1993
                            2-4 p.m.
             New Orleans Convention Center - Room 38

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: MEETING THE CHALLENGE will address the issues
presented by electronic journals throughout the scholarly
communication chain.  Speakers representing publishers and editors,
librarians, contributors and end-users will discuss the creation,
production, distribution, organization, maintenance and use of
electronic journals from their unique perspectives, highlighting
successes and issues yet to be resolved.  A final speaker will
speculate on the continuing evolution of the electronic journal and
the changes which we will need to make to position ourselves to
continue to meet the challenges.

                            SPEAKERS

Marcia Tuttle, Head, Serials Dept., University of North Carolina,
     Chapel Hill, and editor of "Newsletter on Serials Pricing
     Issues"

Gail McMillan, Serials Team Leader, Virginia Polytechnic

James O'Donnell, Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania,
     and editor of the "Bryn Mawr Classical Review"

John Ulmschneider, Assistant Director for Library Systems, North
     Carolina State University

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Date:         Thu, 17 Jun 1993 14:34:07 -0500
From:         Anita Cook <anita@OHIOLINK.OHIOLINK.EDU>
Subject:      LITA Program at ALA, New Orleans

This has been cross-listed on several listservers.  Sorry about the
duplication!

                       ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DELIVERY
               IMPACT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LIBRARY SERVICES

                           Sunday, June 27, 1993
                           9:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.

                      New Orleans Convention Center

                                  Room 38

                             Co-Sponsored by:

                      LITA Vendor/User Interest Group
               LITA/ALCTS Serials Automation Interest Group

                                 Speakers:

Barbara Richards                        Fran McClure
Associate University Librarian          Chief of Technical Services
Carnegie Mellon University              Montgomery County (MD) Public
                                                Library

Gene Rollins                            Julie Gammon
Chief of Technical Services             Head of Acquisitions
Houston Public Library                  University of Akron

The speakers, representing both public and academic libraries,
will address the impact on library services when electronic full
text becomes a common delivery mechanism.  They will relate their
experiences in implementing and maintaining electronic full text
delivery systems, and will consider specifically the impact on
public services, such as circulation and ILL, as well as
implications for collection development and management.

************************Notice to Vendors************************

Vendors attending this program will receive a special surprise!

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Date:         Thu, 17 Jun 1993 16:05:00 EDT
From:         "Rita.Echt" <20676RLE@MSU.BITNET>
Subject:      ALA Discussion Group

         ALCTS Serials Section Research Libraries
                    Discussion Group

         Saturday June 26, 1993  8:30-11:00
         New Orleans Convention Center Rm. 62

Access and ownership: discussions by Mary Samson, CISTI
         John Cox, Blackwell and Malcolm Smith, British Library
Implications for collections and the information chain for libraries,
vendors, and publishers. This is a continuation of a very meaningful dialog
begun at our midwinter meeting. Hope to see and hear from you there.

         Rita Echt, Chair

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Date:         Thu, 17 Jun 1993 16:53:14 U
From:         Nancy Gibbs <nancy_gibbs@LIBRARY.LIB.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      ALA meeting

Apologies for sending this so late and please excuse the cross posting to
Acqnet.

Due to the sudden death of the vice-Chair of the discussion group (Dennis
Grumling)  there will be no personal mailing to notify participants of the
upcoming meeting. Please share this message with all members of tech service
departments attending ALA in New Orleans. Thanks.

Meeting announcement:

ALCTS  Role of the Professional in Academic Research Technical
Services Departments Discussion Group

Sunday, June 27, 1993
2-4 PM
Hyatt Regency
Ballroom G

'THINGS ARE CHANGING IN TECH SERVICES"

Presentations by discussion starters:
"The Professional as Facilitator"
by
Marilyn Norsted,
Virginia Polytecic Institute

and

"THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING DEPARTMENT: DOWNSIZING & COOPERATION"

by Gail Defendorf
Kansas State University Libraries

Discussion Moderator and Chair of the Discussion Group
Nancy Gibbs
North Carolina State University Libraries
nancy_gibbs@ncsu.edu

The meeting will also include an election for vice chair/chair elect.