Surprise!!  SERIALST comes to you live at midnite from NASIG in Chicago,
using state of the art telnet facilities...  We love it!!!  Sorry that
we lied about not transmitting e-mail over the weekend.  We may be back
for more!!!   -- ed. and co.
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ALA Announcements:  ALCTS Committee to Study Serials Standards
                    ALCTS DG
                    OCLC Union List Users Groups
                    ALCTS E-Publishing DG
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Date:         Tue, 16 Jun 1992 18:23:00 CDT
From:         Ruth Christ 319-335-5895 <CADRTHTS@UIAMVS.BITNET>
Subject:      ALCTS Comm. to Study Serials Standards

     ALCTS/SS Committee to Study Serials Standards
         ALA Annual Conference - San Francisco

                Business meeting

                Saturday, June 27
                 11:30-12:30
            Sir Francis Drake - Cyprus

                Monday, June 29
                 11:30-12:30
            Hyatt Regency - Board Room

  We would like to encourage participation in the Preconference
entitled "EDI and the Library" on June 25.  Contact: Yvonne
McLean, ALCTS Office, 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5035.

  Also note on your schedule the ALCTS/SS program entitled
"Serials Processing: Today and in the Year 2000", Monday, June 29,
2-4 pm, Moscone, Rm. 133.

                               Ruth Christ, Chair
                               Committee to Study Serials Standards
                               Bitnet: CADRTHTS@UIAMVS
                               Internet: ruth-christ@uiowa.edu
                               319-335-5895

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Date:         Wed, 17 Jun 1992 15:04:36 PDT
From:         Barbara C. Greever <BGREEVER@IDUI1>
Subject:      ALCTS Discussion Group Meeting at ALA

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

Sunday, June 28, 1992, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
San Francisco Marriott, Room 5B

Agenda:

1. Election of new vice chair/chair elect

2. Discussion topic:  TRYING TO DO MORE WITH LESS:  CHANGING
   ROLES IN TECHNICAL SERVICES IN AN ERA OF SHRINKING BUDGETS

   a. Presentations by Discussion Starters:

      SILENT NO LONGER
      Lynn N. Baird
      Head, Serials/Acquisitions Department
      University of Idaho Library

      THE PRINCIPLE OF MISTAKEN NOBILITY
      Janet Swan Hill
      Associate Director, Technical Services
      University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries

   b. Discussion, moderated by Barbara C. Greever

Chair:
Barbara C. Greever
Principal Catalog Librarian
University of Idaho Library
Moscow, ID  83843
voice: (208) 885-6260
fax:   (208) 885-6817
Bitnet: bgreever@idui1

Vice Chair/Chair Elect:
Nancy J. Gibbs
Assistant Head of Acquisitions
North Carolina State University
The Libraries
Box 7111
Raleigh, NC  27695-7111
voice: (919) 515-7021
fax:   (919) 515-7292
Internet: Nancy_Gibbs@library.lib.NCSU.edu

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Date:         Fri, 19 Jun 1992 09:41:00 EDT
From:         BOWEN@SNYCORVA.BITNET
Subject:      OCLC Union List Users Group Meeting

For the meeting at ALA of the OCLC Union List of Serials Users Group
(OULUG), I would appreciate any discussion and/or projections that
Serial's librarians would like to share regarding the future of Union Lists.
Of particular interest would be comments on any cost/benefit analyses that
have been done of the labor intensive effort necessary for maintenance of
current holdings data on the OCLC Union List.

Join us for an OCLC report and group discussion at the
OCLC Union List Users Group meeting
Monday June 29
Mosconi Center Room 122
6-8 pm

Johanna Bowen, Serials librarian
SUNY College at Cortland
bowen@snycorva

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Date:         Fri, 19 Jun 1992 13:03:00 EST
From:         BWINTERS@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU
Subject:      ALA/ALCTS Electronic Publishing Discussion Group

This information is being cross-posted to the following:  AN2, CWIS-L, ILL-L,
LIBPLN-L, LIBREF-L, PACS-L, SERIALST.

TOPIC:    PROPRIETARY OBSTACLES

          Richard Rowe coined this term at the Faxon Users' Group meeting in
          San Antonio.

          Rowe uses the term "to cover several inter-related issues swirling
          around the basic concept of information as property and as having
          increased perceived value."  Some of the interrelated issues are
          privatization of knowledge, control of copyright in the electronic
          environment, and the importance librarians continue to place on
          large collections.

          Librarians need to better identify and take a stand on these.  Many
          obstacles may have already been "resolved" without any discussion
          in the profession.

FORMAT:             Audience discussion

DISCUSSION LEADER:  Ann L. Okerson
                    Director, Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing

WHERE:              Hyatt Regency San Francisco, Pacific H-K

WHEN:               Sunday, June 27, 1992, 11:30-12:30