3 ALA Meeting Announcements: 134 lines: ------------------------------------------------- 1. ALA/AS/Technology for Acquisitions Committee Program: The Webbed Acquisitions Librarian 2. LITA/Vendor User Interest Group Meeting: Forging New Links between Users and Full Text ... 3. ALCTS Scholarly Communications Discussion Group: Scholarly communication and the humanities (1)---------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 09:05:30 -0500 From: Anne McGreer <mcgreera@INDIANA.EDU> Subject: ALA/AS/Technology for Acquisitions Cmte. Program Please post the following message to SERIALST, from the ALA/AS/Technology for Acquisitions Committee. Thank you. Anne McGreer Indiana University ___________________________________________________________________ The Acquisitions Section/Technology for Acquisitions Committee, in cooperation with the Serials Section, will present a program at the ALA Annual Conference in New York City on Saturday, July 6, 1996 from 2:00-4:00 pm entitled "The Webbed Acquisitions Librarian." The program will cover uses of a home page for acquisitions, the development of the AcqWeb home page, the technical and design aspects of creating and loading a home page on a local server, and the future of Web pages. There will be three speakers with time for questions after the presentations. Robin Dixon and Mike Grabenstein are from the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Library; Dixon is Internet Specialist/Reference Librarian and Grabenstein is the UNIX Administrator. Anna Belle Leiserson is Acquisitions Librarian at Vanderbilt Law Library. Dixon and Grabenstein are the creators of the Web site of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Library (URL=http:/www-library.gsfc.nasa.gov). They will address general technical aspects of Web working and home page building, the aesthetics and design of a home page, practical aspects of home page construction and use, in-house versus external access to a home page, the most common problems which can be encountered in home page building, and the future of the Web and home pages. Leiserson, or "Ms. Acquisitions" as she is known on the AcqWeb home page (URL=http:www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/acqs.html), is the editor of AcqWeb. She will discuss the development of AcqWeb, a tool widely used by Library staff. Among Leiserson's topics will be her initial focus and intent in creating AcqWeb; the viability of various acquisitions operations, such as ordering and bibliographic verification, on the Web; review of the uses made of various acquisitions home pages; and the future direction of AcqWeb. General topics which will be discussed by all speakers are: review and evaluation of home pages and the delegation of responsibilities for Web page work. Who currently does this work? Who does the design, the HTML coding and maintenance? Who should be responsible for this work? This program will be of interest to acquisitions and collection development librarians as well as others who want to learn more about creating their own World Wide Web pages and using other home pages. (2)----------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 13:27:23 -0700 From: Jodi Williamschen <jodiw@III.COM> Subject: LITA Vendor/User IG meeting at ALA Cross-posted to several lists ---------------------------------------------------- Want to deliver full-text documents to your patrons? Interested in the options? Curious about the impact? How did we get to this point in information delivery? Make plans to attend the LITA VENDOR/USER INTEREST GROUP meeting at ALA: "Forging New Links between Users and Full Text: Multi-Faceted Solutions" * Monday, July 8 * 8:30-11 a.m. * Javits Convention Center, 1A 6,7 Keynote address by * J.T. Stephens, President and CEO, EBSCO Industries Speakers * Jacqueline Trolley, Director of Corporate Communications, ISI * Clifford Lynch, Director, Division of Library Automation, University of California Plus * Demonstrations of full-text systems by EBSCO and ISI Co-sponsored by the LITA Vendor/User Interest Group and the Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee (SISAC) For more information, please contact Virginia Allen (Lamar University) allen@library.lamar.edu (3)------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 14:39:32 -0700 From: Stella Bentley <bentley@LIBRARY.UCSB.EDU> Subject: ALA, NYC Program Announcement ALCTS Scholarly Communications Discussion Group What is happening with scholarly communication in the humanities? Is the virtual library and digitized information having any impact on humanities research? If a humanities scholar could create the ideal library, what would it be like? Professor Peter Manchester, Department of Comparative Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook, will meet with the ALCTS Scholarly Communications Discussion Group at the ALA Annual Conference to present a humanities scholar's viewpoints on these issues. When: 2:00 pm on Sunday, July 7th Where: Javits Convention Center - 1A, 10. Join us for a lively discussion! Stella Bentley UC Santa Barbara Scholarly Communication DG chair