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Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
a division of the American Library Association
   

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A Special Annual Awaits: Unique Events Shouldn't Be Missed

Wide Range of Pre-conferences Offered

Two-day workshops from ALCTS/PCC basic cataloging series:

Thursday and Friday, June 21-22

  • Fundamentals of Library of Congress Classification: An ALCTS/PCC Workshop
  • Comprehensive Series Training: An ALCTS/PCC Workshop

One-day and combined half-day pre-conferences are offered:

All day, Friday, June 22

  • ALCTS Technical Services Management: Generational and Workflow Issues

Morning Session, Friday, June 22

  • Managing the Multigenerational Workplace: Practical Techniques

Afternoon Sessions, Friday, June 22

  • Workflow Analysis, Redesign, and Implementation: Integrating the Complexities of Electronic Resources in the Digital Age
  • What They Don't Teach in Library School: Competencies, Education, and Employer Expectations for a Career in Cataloging, hosted by Catholic University

Register online now. Learn more @ the ALCTS web site.    

 

Your ALCTS Experience: Open House

Friday, June 22, 7-9 pm - location TBA
Enthusiastic, active ALCTS members will help you consider Your ALCTS Experience, whether beginning a new one, jump starting a lapsed one, or enhancing an existing one. Everyone is welcome to this fun, informal affair, including:

  • first-timers at an ALA Annual, who might be looking for guidance
  • newer, not-yet-active ALCTS or ALA members looking for opportunities
  • long-time, die-hard ALCTS members looking for inspiration and energy.

Members representing ALCTS’ sections, discussion and interest groups, publishing, leadership, program events, and continuing education will be available to discuss their experiences and give practical advice on how to develop your own involvement. Special feature: Expert advice on how tech services specialists can get the most out of Annual 2007.

 

Join in an Evening of Fun on the ALCTS 50th Celebration Dinner Cruise

Aboard the luxury river cruise ship, Odyssey III, we’ll cruise the Potomac River, enjoy great food and company, and see the sights of Washington like never before. More about the dinner cruise and online registration.    

 

Interactive Futures: 50th Anniversary Conference – Register Now

Everyone interested in charting the future course of library collections and technical services should attend "Interactive Futures: A National Conference on the Transformation of Library Collections & Technical Services."

Register now through the ALCTS Anniversary web site (www.ala.org/alcts50) by clicking “Registration Info.” Special hotel rates at the Hotel Washington are detailed on the site. Hurry, this is a limited-time offer.

 

50th Anniversary Conference Seeks Poster Session Proposals

ALCTS seeks proposals for poster sessions that focus on a change or innovation that has transformed (or a trend that will transform) any area of library collections or technical services work, or the philosophy or practice of our profession.

This unique opportunity to address the future is a chance for beginning career librarians and veteran librarians, library support staff, and students to present their ideas in a stimulating setting: the ALCTS National Conference.

Submit your proposal by Monday, April 2. The ALCTS conference committee will review submissions for appropriateness of theme, quality of content, and quality of presentation. All applicants will be notified by May 1. Get more information on the conference and access the application submission form on the anniversary web site. Direct questions to Bob Nardini, bnardini@couttsinfo.com; (603) 340-4378.

 

ALCTS President’s Program to Feature Peter Morville

Peter Morville, author of Ambient Findability and President of Semantic Studios, will speak at the 2007ALCTS President’s Program: Ambient Findability: Librarians, Libraries and the Internet of Things: A Talk by Peter Morville. Supported by a generous donation from Elsevier, the program will be Monday, June 25, at 10:30 am and is the final event in the ALCTS 50th Anniversary Celebration. Learn more about Morville and the program.

 

ANO: Keeps You Current with News on Annual Conference

All the Annual Conference and 50th Anniversary news and activities will be available in the ALCTS Newsletter Online ( ANO) in April and June and on the ALCTS web site (www.ala.org/alcts) and the 50th Anniversary web site (www.ala.org/alcts50).

NEWS

ALCTS 2007 Award Recipients Announced

Press releases announcing the ALCTS 2007 Award recipients are now posted on the ALCTS web site. You'll also find the recipients in the February 28 and March 7 ALDirect. The awards will be presented on    

2007 Elections and Vote on Bylaws Change

Ballots for the 2007 Election have been sent out. Please remember to vote.

On this year’s ballot is an important Bylaws change:

The proposed amendment to Article X, Section 1, removes the names and objects of the sections from ALCTS bylaws. It is intended to facilitate the process for changing these names and objects as well as eliminating the requirement for a division-wide vote to ratify such changes, which in the current wording of the Bylaws would have to occur. This change moves more of the control for establishing section names and object statements to the sections. This change also supports objectives in Goal Area 5 (ALCTS is a viable, vibrant membership organization) of the new ALCTS Strategic Plan.

This change is important for continued growth of the five ALCTS sections and does not affect CRG.

Learn about the ALCTS Presidential candidates in the February issue of ANO.    

LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control Holds Public Meetings

Advances in search-engine technology, the popularity of the Internet, and the influx of electronic information resources have greatly changed the way libraries do their work. To address those changes, the Library of Congress has convened a Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control to examine the future of bibliographic description.

Chaired by Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the group is composed of information professionals representing the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, the Special Libraries Association, Google, Microsoft Corporation, and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging. At-large members are from the Coalition for Networked Information and OCLC.

Public meetings will be held on May 9th at ALA Headquarters in Chicago and on July 9 in the Washington, DC area. Papers and presentations from the March 8th meeting are now available on the group's web site with other information including a background paper, information about bibliographic description in the 21st century, submitting testimony, and meeting agenda can be found on the working group's web page (www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/).

ALCTS has several members on the group representing a variety of organizations: Diane Dates Casey, Janet Swan Hill, Brian Schottlaender, Olivia Madison, Bob Wolven and Diane Boehr.

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New ALCTS Discussion Lists Up and Running

ALCTS offers two news discussion lists:

To subscribe to either of these lists you’ll need to register at http://lists.ala.org/wws. A login and password are required to access the lists. The password will be sent to you.    

ALA Digital Policy Group Seeks Input

In January of 2007, the Task Force on Digitization Policy of ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy introduced the draft "Principles for Digitized Content." The goal of the Principles is to succinctly voice the primary policy areas that can guide libraries as they make decisions regarding digitization. The task force is soliciting comments from a broad spectrum of the ALA membership, its divisions, round tables and committees through a blog. Everyone is invited to read the principles on a new blog, "Digital Principles" ( http://blogs.ala.org/digitizationprinciples.php). Each principle can be commented on individually until May 1, 2007.

Learn more about the task force and its work on the OITP web site. Claire Stewart, Northwestern University Library, is the ALCTS representative to the task force.

ALA Editions Seeks Experts

Freelance bibliographic fact-checkers are needed for Editions' Guide to Reference project, which is an online database to succeed ALA’s classic Guide to Reference Books.With the required working knowledge of MARC21and Dublin Core standards, fact-checkers will support the work of reference-librarian editors who build records for Guide to Reference by importing MARC records. For some print and most Internet resources, editors create the bibliographic entries from scratch. Factcheckers will answer queries from copyeditors and edit incomplete entries. Please send resumes to Eugenia Chun, echun@ala.org.

PUBS    

CMDS Series Debut: Sudden Selectors Guide to Business Resources

Authors Robin Bergart and Vivian Lewis have given this new series a strong start with their advice to novice selectors of business resources. The series is designed to help library workers become acquainted with the tools, resources, people, and organizations that can help them develop collections in new or unfamiliar subject areas.

The guides are intended to quickly furnish tools for successful selection in a particular subject area rather than provide a generalized introduction to collection development. Each guide will be developed and vetted by CMDS under the supervision of Series Editor, Doug Litts (Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.)

The Guide to Business Resources is available as a (6" x 9") paperback or a (.pdf) digital download through the ALA Online Store.