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

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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

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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
  ************************************************************

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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