3 ALA Meeting Announcements, 128 lines: - 1. Correction re. ALA meeting: Digital Access: Building an Access Infrastructure (was: Meeting (ALA) - One record approach) - 2. Managing Acquisitions in a Changing Environment: From Coping to Comfort - 3. Microforms in the Digital Age (1)---------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 10:12:10 -0400 From: "Jean L. Hirons" <jhir@LOC.GOV> Subject: Corrected details Comments: To: CONSER List <CONSRLST@loc.gov>, Serialst listserv <serialst@uvmvm.uvm.edu>, Intercat listserv <intercat@oclc.org> My sincere apologies! In giving you the details of the meeting at ALA that I am speaking at I forgot the date, which I believe was in my first message. Anyway, here again are the COMPLETE details: Sunday, July 7: 9:30-12:30 Digital Preservation: Builiding an Access Infrastructure Waldorf Astoria, Hilton Room And thanks to so many for the thoughtful comments that have been shared so far. There's a lot to think about and discuss! Jean Hirons (2)----------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 16:43:11 -0700 From: Nancy Slight-Gibney <nsg@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> Subject: Program announcement for ALA This announcement has been cross-posted to several lists, my apologies for the duplication. MANAGING ACQUISITIONS IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT: FROM COPING TO COMFORT ALA, New York, Monday, July 8, 1996, 9:30am - 12:30pm The focus of this program is on how managers of acquisitions units cope with maintaining existing services and adding new services in a volatile environment of crises and seemingly irresistible external forces while helping their staffs remain motivated, feeling valued, effective and secure. This program will help managers and acquisitions professionals explore how they can maintain control of their changing environment and progress through coping to a renewed sense of comfort. Key-note address: Dr. Kim Buch, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; an organizational psychologist, teacher, consultant and change management facilitator. Followed by short presentations by library managers and staff outlining the positive and negative aspects of the changes that occurred in their acquisition departments: Christian Boissonnas, Cornell University Doug Duchin, Baruch College Randy Call, Detroit Public Library Peter Kingsley, New York University Wrap up: David Goble, from North Carolina State University, will extract the common management and human themes from the earlier presentations and weave them into a set of practical tips and strategies for managing and responding in a constructive way to the changing acquisitions environment. Sponsored by LAMA, Systems and Services Section, Acquisitions Systems Committee. Co-Sponsored by ALCTS, Acquisitions Section, Acquisitions Organization and and Management Committee; and ACRL, Personnel Administrators and Staff Development Officers Discussion Group; and with generous suppor from Academic Book Center, Inc. Posted by: ************************************************************ Nancy Slight-Gibney Head, Acquisition Department/Anthropology Subject Specialist University of Oregon Library System nsg@oregon.uoregon.edu ************************************************************ (3)----------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:23:05 -0400 From: John R Brunswick <johnb@UDEL.EDU> Subject: Microforms in the Digital Age Comments: To: ill-l@usc.edu, govdoc-l@psuvm.psu.edu, arie-l@idbsu.idbsu.edu, serialst@uvmvm.uvm.edu This has been posted to several lists. Please excuse any duplication. Microforms in the Digital Age As more and more information becomes digitized, those of us who deal with microforms need to consider what will become of this old, reliable format. Will microforms have a place in the digital library of the future or will they go the way of the typewriter, useful only in that rare instance where a computer won't quite do? This is the question we will take up when the ALCTS/PARS Micropublishing Discussion Group meets in New York at the ALA Annual Conference. The meeting will take place on Monday, July 8, 1996 from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. in room 505 of the Manhattan Crowne Plaza hotel. Linda A. Cranston, Serials Librarian at Longwood College, will speak on the incorporation of the Minolta Microdax 3000 into public services and interlibrary loan at her institution. The Microdax 3000 is a digital microform reader/printer that is capable of sending an image via Ariel, fax, or E-mail, as well as producing a paper copy. Ms. Cranston will be discussing the benefits, and the problems, associated with providing this new type of service. The Micropublishing Discussion Group will also be electing a new Chair for 1996-1997. Nominations are welcome in advance and from the floor at the meeting. Please contact John Brunswick, Chair, for further information. John Brunswick Chair, ALCTS/PARS Micropublishing Discussion Group University of Delaware Library Newark, DE 19717-5267 E-Mail - johnb@strauss.udel.edu Telephone - (302) 831-6951 Fax - (302) 831-2481