I am forwarding the enclosed message about the preconferences to be offered
by ALCTS in Chicago chiefly to share information about the first mentioned,
"Treasures in the Stacks: Preserving Publishers Bindings, 1830-1910"
presented by the ALCTS Preservation and Reformatting Section, Program,
Planning, and Publications Committee, will be held on Friday, July 7, 2000,
from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Donald Farren
4009 Bradley Lane
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
<dfarren@concentric.net>
voice 301.951.9479
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From: "Julie Reese" <jreese@ala.org>
To: <dfarren@concentric.net>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 8:59 AM
Subject: ALCTS preconferences (corrected version)
ALCTS to offer preconferences in Chicago
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a
division of the American Library Association (ALA), will offer three
preconferences at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. The registration
deadline is June 7.
"Treasures in the Stacks: Preserving Publishers Bindings, 1830-1910"
presented by the ALCTS Preservation and Reformatting Section, Program,
Planning, and Publications Committee, will be held on Friday, July 7, 2000,
from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The program is designed for librarians working in preservation, collection
management and special collections. Speakers will address what makes a book
unique and why it should be preserved, along with selection criteria,
current research on bindings and treatment options.
Registration fees for the preconference are $135 for ALCTS members, $185 for
ALA members and $235 for nonmembers.
"Small Scale Research Methods for On the Job Problem Solving" presented by
the ALCTS Research and Statistics Committee, will be held on Friday, July 7,
2000, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The program is designed for reference and technical service librarians,
library managers, and anyone interested in publishing or doing systematic
study. Participants will learn how to formulate productive research
questions, define the audience, select the right methodology, correctly
gather data and apply correct measurement instruments, and analyze the
results for the best conclusions.
Registration fees for the preconference are $135 for ALCTS members, $185 for
ALA members and $235 for nonmembers.
"Metadata: Libraries and the Web-Retooling AACR and MARC21 for Cataloging in
the Twenty-first Century" is presented by the ALCTS Serials Section
Committee to Study Serials Cataloging and the CCS Task Force on Metadata
Preconference, Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access. This
two-day preconference will be held on Thursday, July 6, from 7:45 a.m. to
5:30 p.m., and Friday, July 7, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
This session is designed for librarians in public, academic, and special
libraries, who are responsible for providing users with access to electronic
resources available over the Web and through ongoing publications. Emphasis
of this preconference is on presenting the pros and cons, standards, and
especially the practicalities, of dealing with metadata for Web resources
and a vision for the future, including DDI, Dublin Core, EAD, ISSN, MARC 21,
RDF, TEI, XML, W3C and the new thoughts, rules, guidelines on seriality and
AACR2.
Registration fees for the preconference are $235 for ALCTS members, $285 for
ALA members and $335 for nonmembers.
To register by mail, send a completed registration form with payment to: ALA
Advance Registration, Dept. #77-6565, Chicago, IL, 60678-6565 or fax the
form to 312-944-7841. An online form is available at
https://cs.ala.org/ScriptContent/Index.cfm. For additional information on
ALCTS preconferences, see the ALCTS Web site at
http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/preconf2000.html . For more information,
call Charles Wilt, deputy executive director, at 312-280-5030, or send
e-mail to cwilt@ala.org.