Library Juice 2:16 - Library Juice is now a book and a blog

Library Juice 2:16 - April 21, 1999 April 22 is Earth Day May is Labor History Month Contents: 1. Labor Studies Bibliography for Public Libraries 2. IFLA Social Responsibilities Discussion Group Composite Paper 3. The British _Index on Censorship_ #2, 1999 focusses on libraries 4. Ann Symons "Libraries: An American Value," and a minority view 5. Free Access to New Library World Journal 6. lib-web-cats - 4,000 online catalogs 7. Guide to Best Practice: Dublin Core -- CIMI 8. The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners [.pdf] 9. Portfolio Project - frequently requested digitized rarities 10. Anniversary Issue #10 of the Electronic Green Journal 11. EnviroLinks - European and International Environmental Orgs. 12. Environmental Reference: Sources Off the Beaten Path 13. Amazon.co.uk Commercial sponsorship of British Library OPAC 14. AltaVista has really done it 15. ***Nancy Kranich for ALA President*** 16. Sanford Berman has been removed from his job 17. HCL's rosy press release 18. Professor Robert Hauptman's angry letter of Feb. 26 19. Congress on Professional Education - 3rd online conference 4/23 20. Poem - The Reference Librarian 21. Free Wobbly Books Quote for the week: "The life of the man from Hennepin County has the resonance of the heroes in Raymond Carver's short stories, or the individuals who people Sherwood Anderson's America. There is such a close integration of style and sincerity in Sandy's life and his work that he is a modern day eccentric who, without the slightest hesitation, refuses to be anyone but himself. Who is the persona? The quickest way to discover the answer is to turn to his writings, and particularly this collection. If anything characterizes his work it is high ideals....The difficulty is that high ideals rarely make for high drama. Sandy may well be the exception. He takes on the outside world with such vigor that his sense of outrage, often tempered with satire and wit, gives anyone with a sense of the ridiculous (and the sublime) pause. -Bill Katz, in his foreward to Sandy Berman, _Worth Noting: Editorials, Letters, Essays, an Interview, and Bibliography_, Jeffferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1988. __________________________________________________________________________ 1. Labor Studies Bibliography for Public Libraries For anyone who may be interested, I have done a Labor Studies bibliography for public libraries. It includes reference and general works, with special sections devoted to childrens & YA titles, videos and websites as well. You can access at our library's homepage: http://www.englewoodlibrary.org/newsspecial.html As I point out in the bib, May is Labor History Month and a good time to beef up labor collections. Hope you like it. Ann Sparanese (Sent to SRRTAC-L> __________________________________________________________________________ 2. IFLA Social Responsibilities Discussion Group Composite Paper Sender: owner-srrtac-l[at]ala.org For anyone who would like to see the IFLA Social Responsibilities Discussion Group composite paper with recommendations for IFLA, please see the URL below (IFLANET). The broad topic is the growing gap between the information and information poor both within countries and between countries. http://www.ifla.org/VII/dg/srdg/srdg7.htm Al Kagan Africana Unit, Room 328 University of Illinois Library 1408 W. Gregory Drive Urbana, IL 61801, USA tel. 217-333-6519 fax. 217-333-2214 e-mail. akagan[at]uiuc.edu __________________________________________________________________________ 3. The British _Index on Censorship_, #2, 1999 focusses on libraries Select articles and a full toc, as well as publication info can be found at: http://www.oneworld.org/index_oc/299/contents.html __________________________________________________________________________ 4. Ann Symons "Libraries: An American Value," and a minority view ALA President Ann Symons' basic statement "Libraries: An American Value" can be found on the web at: http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/lib_val.html ALA's Alternatives In Print Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table submitted an alternative draft during the public process of composing the statement. It can be found in Library Juice 1:41, at: http://libr.org/Juice/issues/vol1/LJ_41.html This alternative draft, as well as a fuller, collegial critique by Sandy Berman, Carol Reid, and Charles Willett can be also be found in the latest issue of _COUNTERPOISE_, Vol.2, No.4, October, 1998. For further information see the webpage for _COUNTERPOISE_ at http://www.liblib.com __________________________________________________________________________ 5. Free Access to New Library World Journal Subject: Free access to New Library World Journal To: COMLIB-L[at]LSV.UKY.EDU Dear List Members I thought I would draw your attention to a useful resource. Each week, you can have free online full text access to current and past journal volumes in MCB University Press's ‘Journal of the Week’ campaign. A different journal will be featured every week. The 'Journal of the Week' for 19/04-26/04/99 is New Library World. New Library World provides an international appraisal of current library trends and emerging patterns for the future encompassing subjects like: developments in the educational environment; the impact of electronic publishing; new information technology; the service of future libraries; the role of the library in its sale of knowledge; and the modern library - news and views on what's to come. To access this journal and others FREE for a week go to the ‘Journal of the Week’ homepage at http://www.mcb.co.uk/jotw/ -- Chris Keenan on behalf of:- Claire Jones +44 (0) 1274 785132 Internet Brand Executive cjones[at]mcb.co.uk MCB University Press http://www.mcb.co.uk __________________________________________________________________________ 6. lib-web-cats - 4,000 online catalogs http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/breeding/libwebcats.html This database includes links to and information on more than 4,000 online catalogs and library Web pages world-wide. In addition to being able to search by Institution name or Library Type and/or geographical location, the Advanced Query Form allows searching or limiting by any combination of the above as well as by Library name, type of Automation System, previous system, and several types of affiliations. You can also chose to display the Full Record for each entry (which can include such details as address of library, date automated system was installed, number of volumes in the collection, and OCLC symbol). - cl Subjects: libraries >From LIIWeek - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/ __________________________________________________________________________ 7. Guide to Best Practice: Dublin Core -- CIMI http://www.cimi.org/documents/meta_peerreview_announce.html The Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) has released a beta version of its "Guide to Best Practice: Dublin Core." The content of the guide is based on the recommendations of a group of eighteen organizations that participated in a testbed project to assess the useability, ease of learning, and adequacy of the Dublin Core (DC) metadata element set when applied to the description of museum and cultural heritage resources. The guide defines each DC metadata element and "presents a brief discussion of tricks, traps, and issues associated with each element along with a range of sample values." The Guide to Best Practice is based on DC 1.0 as it was documented in RFC 2413 (reviewed in the September 11, 1998 Scout Report). CIMI is a membership organization that "encourages an open standards-based approach to the management and delivery of digital museum information." [AG] >From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ __________________________________________________________________________ 8. The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners [.pdf] http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1999/ The 1999 Pulitzer Prize winners in American journalism, letters, drama, and music were announced on April 12 by the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University. The Associated Press, _New York Times_, and _Wall Street Journal_ each collected two Prizes, the most prestigious award for American journalism, and Duke Ellington was recognized, in the centennial year of his birth, with a Special Award for his "indelible contribution to art and culture." The official Pulitzer site lists the winners and offers one-sentence summaries of the work of the winners and finalists in the fourteen journalism sub-categories. The letters, drama, and music categories also mention finalists. Official press releases from the Prize Board are available in .pdf format. [MD] >From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ __________________________________________________________________________ 9. Portfolio Project - frequently requested digitized rarities http://libserv3.princeton.edu/rbsc2/portfolio/portfolio.html A collection of several hundred of the most frequently requested items for reproduction from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections of Princeton University Library. Includes photographs of Lewis Carroll, Woodrow Wilson, Sylvia Beach, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald; images of European and American graphic arts and graphic Americana; and assorted other photos. Also included are reproduction ordering information and forms; fee schedules; and publication and copyright permission statements. - dl Subjects: photographs | graphic arts >From LIIWeek - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/ __________________________________________________________________________ 10. Anniversary Issue # 10 of the Electronic Green Journal Forwarded to SRRTAC-L by Fred Stoss ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:22:00 -0700 From: Maria Jankowska <majanko[at]uidaho.edu> April 12, 1999 Dear Colleges, Our Anniversary Issue # 10 of the Electronic Green Journal is on the Web at http://www.lib.uidaho.edu:70/docs/egj10/index.html To make this issue unique we are using Svetlana Voronkova's graphical works. Svetlana is a scientific painter from St. Petersburg and she gave us permission to advertise her beautiful graphics. This time we published three papers, one column, nine reviews and Fred's editorial. Kudos for this anniversary issue should go to Fred Stoss, Irwin Weintraub, Bill Johnson, Flora Shrode, Terry Abraham, and Nancy Young for reviewing and proofreading the articles. Acknowledgment is due to Bill Kerr, our Web Master, for his hard work on this issue. It is time to change a graphical design for the EGJ. I hope that Czet can help us in doing this but if you have any fresh suggestions about design or content (such as an idea for a new column), please do not hesitate contacting me. For the next issue I need a volunteer to write an editorial. Have a Nice Earth Day, MARIA ANNA JANKOWSKA majanko[at]uidaho.edu General Editor, Electronic Green Journal http://www.lib.uidaho.edu:70/docs/egj.html University of Idaho Library, Rayburn Street, Moscow, ID 83844-2350 voice: (208) 885-6631 fax: (208) 885-6817 ******************************************* __________________________________________________________________________ 11. EnviroLinks - European and International Environmental Orgs. http://www.e-m-a-i-l.nu/envirolinks/ An extensive collection of links and bookmarks to environmental organisations and information on the web. Several categories: EU-Europe, Rest of Europe, EU (organisation), International Organisations (UN, OESO, etc), and Links by Subject Submitted by: http://www.e-m-a-i-l.nu -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ André Viergever M.Sc. Director of E*M*A*I*L =Environment Management And Information Liaison = PO Box 3010; 2301 DA Leiden, the Netherlands Tel: ++31.71.5230652 Fax: ++31.71.5230683 viergever[at]e-m-a-i-l.nu www.e-m-a-i-l.nu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > EUROSTAT TEPI Project http://e-m-a-i-l.nu/tepi/< > EnviroLinks: http://e-m-a-i-l.nu/envirolinks/ < ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From ResPool - http://members.tripod.com/~rtiess/respool.htm __________________________________________________________________________ 12. Environmental Reference: Sources Off the Beaten Path The following are selected reviews from the review article, "Environmental Reference 101: Sources Off the Beaten Path," by Fred Stoss, _Counterpoise_, 2/3, July, 1998 _Conservation directory_. Washington, DC: National Wildlife Federation. A directory of national, state and local organizations and agencies; college and university programs; publications; international environmental and natural resources agencies; databases; sources of audio-visual materials; national parks; etc. One of the most comprehensive enhanced directories for issues related to the environment and natural resources. _Conservation and environmentalism: an encyclopedia_, ed. by Robert Paehlke. New York, NY: Garland Publishing. This single-volume encyclopedia provides an international perspective on current concerns about the environment and its natural resources. Articles encompass a full spectrum of issues and discuss scientific background and policy aspects of many critical issues. Written for non-technical audiences, it covers broad topics related to environmental quality, resource allocation, and contemporary thoughts on issues such as toxic chemical hazards, global change, and biological diversity. Porteous, Andrew, _Dictionary of environmental science and technology_. Bristol, PA: Open University Press. This dictionary provides students (high school and above), community leaders, environmental activists, and other general readers with a working knowledge of scientific and technical concepts and terminology. Maunder, W. John. _Dictionary of global climate change_. London, England: UCL Press Limited, University College. This dictionary was published in 1992 as the first dictionary solely devoted to the topic of global climate change. This work provides clear, non-technical explanations of the scientific and technical concepts and phenomena associated with climate change, including global warming. Descriptions of organizations and research programs are most useful in examining the global, national and sub-national efforts to study the phenomenon generally referred to as climate change. Written specifically for the non-specialist; researchers, students, educators and policy makers will find this a useful document. _Eco-data: using your PC to obtain free environmental information_, ed. by Roland W. Schumann III. Rockville, MD: Government Institutes, Inc. http://www.govinst.com While intended for the environmental professional, this reference book serves as an outstanding resource for public, academic and non-profit libraries. Eco-Data serves as an inventory of 100 free electronic bulletin-board systems (BBS) that provide free data resources. BBSs described are from both the poublic and provate sectors and are related primarily to the issues of environmental health and safety. The book's first section is an introductory primer on the Internet, and the next two chapters are inventories of BBSs operated by private and public sources. _Encyclopedia of environmental studies_. New York, NY: Facts on File. http://www.factsonfile.com A comprehensive source book of more than 3,000 environmental entries related to ecology, environmental geography, natural history, environmental law and policy, and environmental management. Stein, Edith C. _The Environmental sourcebook: A comprehensive up-to-date guide to the environmental movement_. New York, NY: Lyons and Burford. An issues-by-issues description of environmental concerns of the 1990's. Each issues provides a background and review of the concerns (e.g., population, climate and atmosphere, water, hazardous substances and waste) and inventories of relevant books and periodicals, organizations and grantmaking sources. _Environmental studies review_, comp. by Judith A. Douville. Chicago, IL: Americal Library Association. http://www.ala.org A review of nearly 900 works related to the environment. All entries were published in volumes 28 through 32 (September 1990 through July/August 1995) of _Choice_ magazine, a bibliographic-oriented publication produced to assist librarians in academic settings. Public libraries can also benefit from the resources reveiwed in this compendium of reviews. _The Environmentalist's guide to the poublic library_, New York, NY: Libraries for the Future, 1997. http://www.lff.org A 32-page guidebook to resources, programs and ideas to help create stronger links between public libraries and the individuals and communities they serve. Examines the critical role played by public libraries as a resource for information on a wide variety of environmental and natrual resources issues. _Great events from history: ecology and environment series_, ed. by Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press This is a five-volume treatise on the history of ecology and the environment from 1902 (the Reclamation Act) to 1995 (removal of the bald eagle from the Endangered Species List). The time span for each volume is as follows: Vol.1: 1902-1944; Vol.2: 1945-1066; Vol.3: 1966-1973/74; Vol.4: 1973-1985; and Vol.5: 1985-1994. Each event listed in this chronological compendium is provided a summary essay, principal personages mentioned, a brief bibliography, and a list of cross-referenced essays. _The National report card on environmental knowledge, attitudes and behaviors: the sixth annual survey of adult Americans. Washington, DC: National Environmental Education and Training Foundation. http://www.neetf.org This report provides an analytical review of the results of 1,500 U.S. adults surveyed with regard to their knowledge and beliefs about environmental issues and facts. The 1997 edition of the report gives the U.S public a failing grade with regard to its knowledge of environmetal issues. The 1998 report does not present a much prettier picture. The survey was conducted by Roper Starch Worldwide. _Reading about the Environment_. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited. http://www.lu.com/ This book is designed to help librarians and other readers to locate information currently available about the environment. This annotated bibliography describes nearly 800 books, popular magazine articles, and other materials found in many public libraries. _Vital signs_. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute. The subtitle of this book is "Environmental Trends that Are Shaping Our Future." This annual summary describes the trends related to the major environmental issues facing the world: Food, Agriculture, Energy, the Atmosphere, Economics, Transportation, Social Issues, and Military Trends. Special features on specific key issues within these categories are also provided. Harker, Donald and Elizabeth Natter. _Where we live: a citizen's guide to conducting a community environmental inventory_. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1995. This resource is one of the most user-friendly, yet complete handbooks on this topic ever assembled. Totalling over 300 pages, the _Guide_ is full of useful charts, diagrams, illustrations an dtables, along with plenty of very readable text. It also contains a number of forms that readers can fill in to help them organize thei information they gather during the inventory. _World resources_. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. A biennial (every-other-year) comprehensive review of the critical issues and challenges facing the world's environmental leaders. Provides surveys of current conditions and historical trends in major areas of concern and resource areas: Economic Indicators, Population, Forest and Land, Food and Agriculture, Biodiversisty, Energy and Materials, Water and Fisheries, and Atmosphere and Climate. Extensive data tables area provided. Data also available in diskette formats. _World's who is who and does what in environment and conservation_, ed. by Nicholas Polunin. New York: St. Martin's Press. This biographical reference work, published in 1997, provides descriptions of more than 3,000 notable men and women working in fields related to environmental science, ecology, natural resources conservation, and wildlife biology. Contact information (mailing addresses, phone, fax, etc.) are provided where made available. __________________________________________________________________________ 13. Amazon.co.uk Commercial sponsorship of British Library OPAC This bad news is from American Libraries, April, 1999, p. 26 (the fun world map page): British Library's web opac is being sponsored by Amazon.co.uk, the British Amazon.com. They have a banner ad right there, it says "Buy books from Amazon.co.uk" You can witness it yourself at http://opac97.bl.uk __________________________________________________________________________ 14. AltaVista has really done it A Search For the Highest Bidder http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/19110.html Luckily, some of us are working on alternatives to greedy bastards like Alta Vista. Chuck0 FreeSearch.org Yes, it's true. AltaVista has started to sell top rankings in its search results. Chuck has made a graphic you can use on your web pages, a "Boycott AltaVista" graphic. You can download it from: http://www.infoshop.org/img3/paidsearches.gif (If you would like to help Chuck Munson work on FreeSearch.org - which isn't necessary yet but is likely to be necessary by the time it's up and running - you can contact him at chuck[at]tao.ca) __________________________________________________________________________ 15. Nancy Kranich for ALA President Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 21:04:36 -0500 (EST) From: NANCY KRANICH <kranich[at]elmer4.bobst.nyu.edu> Subject: ALA Election Sender: owner-ala[at]lists.nyu.edu To: ala[at]lists.nyu.edu Reply-to: ala[at]lists.nyu.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk Reminder: Ballots for the ALA Election are due at headquarters by April 29th. Please vote and urge your colleagues to do the same. Elections are an important part of ALA participation. Watch for results May 5th. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:01:36 -0700 From: MELISSAR[at]sfpl.lib.ca.us To: PLGNET-L[at]listproc.sjsu.edu CC: MELISSAR[at]sfpl.lib.ca.us Subject: Re: ALA Elections Reply-To: MELISSAR[at]sfpl.lib.ca.us Sender: owner-PLGNet-L[at]listproc.sjsu.edu For ALA President : Definitely Vote for Nancy Kranich. I am campaigning for her and urge all PLG and SRRT folks to vote for Nancy. Not only is she as a good as it gets for such an office, but (if you think that's not saying much) she is a progressive. I also really like her, she is smart, and, as far as I can tell, she has done lots of really good legislative work on behalf of ALA for things I am in favor of. See her article for EXTRA! The newsletter of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (January I think) about the ill effects of fewer and fewer multinational publishers on academic publishing and knowledge sharing. How many other ALA officers know what EXTRA! is, much less write for it ? Jim Schmidt has a long reputation for doing Intellectual Freedom work, but he is behind the joint San Jose City/State University library that no one else is happy about, and he brought Ken Dowlin to teach at SJSU. I have not looked at my ballot yet for other positions. Melissa Riley (For identification purposes only: Librarian at San Francisco Public Library) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:00:22 -0400 To: MELISSAR[at]sfpl.lib.ca.us, plgnet-l[at]listproc.sjsu.edu From: Mark Rosenzweig <iskra[at]earthlink.net> Subject: Kranich -- a mixed bag Reply-To: iskra[at]earthlink.net Sender: owner-PLGNet-L[at]listproc.sjsu.edu PLGers & SRRTers, I don't want to rain on anybody's parade, but I have to note that Nancy Kranich,candidate for ALA president, is no friend of SRRT (on the contrary -- she has voted against most SRRT originated resolutions, she's on the Executive Board which seemingly unanimously wanted to reign SRRT in for speaking to the outside world in its own name). If anyone cares, for me Nancy is a lesser evil candidate even though her opponent is one of the biggest schmucks in libraryland. I know Nancy from NYU and I can tell you that she was part of management through some terrible labor struggles and for all her insinuations to the contrary she was an adversary of the union. Let's vote for Nancy, but let's not delude ourselves. She will not be a SRRT-friendly president. Mark Rosenzweig anarcho-curmudgeon >Katia asked if Nancy Kranich was on the Project Censored >board one year. >I believe so--She is good friends with the really nice guy who is in >charge of it. Pproject Censored is a big favorite of mine. >(And I think she is also friendly with Michael >Parenti--now there's a credential!) > >Melissa - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:12:36 -0400 To: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l[at]ala.org> From: Charles Willett <willett[at]gnv.fdt.net> Subject: Nancy Kranich for ALA President Reply-To: srrtac-l[at]ala.org Sender: owner-srrtac-l[at]ala.org Just to hop on the "Vote for Nancy Kranich bandwagon," she was on the Planning Committee that organized the progressive, very large, 3-day, Media and Democracy Congress II held at her institution (NYU) and the Cooper Union in October 1997. She is one of the 24 judges of the Project Censored Awards (since 1998; others include Ben Bagdikian, Susan Faludi, Judith Krug, Michael Parenti, Herbert Schiller, and Howard Zinn). And Rory Litwin has been successful in persuading her to be one of the panelists on AIP's "The Alternative Press and Intellectual Freedom" program in New Orleans. --Charles __________________________________________________________________________ 16. Sanford Berman has been removed from his job Sanford Berman was told Monday morning in a meeting with Hennepin County Library directory Charles Brown that he is being reassigned to a "special publishing project" (which he couldn't be less interested in), that Elizabeth Feinberg will become head of cataloging, and that his office will be moved out of the department. At the same time, Feinberg and her managerial colleage Sharon Charles delivered the news to the catalogers. Chris Dodge (whom I have to thank for this report) and the other catalogers asked them how they thought this decision might affect staff morale systemwide, which has been damaged by management's treatment of Mr. Berman for many weeks. Chris called the decision "blatantly vindictive and designed to break up cataloging." To support Sanford Berman in this mess you can write to the following individuals: Jack Cole, Chair Hennepin County Library Board 1536 Winnetka N. Golden Valley MN 55427 Sandy Vargas Acting Hennepin County Administrator Government Center Minneapolis, MN 55487 __________________________________________________________________________ 17. HCL's rosy press release The following is the rosy press release from HCL spinning their attempt to neutralize Sandy Berman: Subject: HCL press release, 4/19 April 19, 1999 TO: All Staff FROM: Charles M. Brown I am pleased to announce that Hennepin County Library will be developing a Cataloging Practices Manual to be used by staff and made available to other libraries. Sanford Berman, HCL head cataloger, will dedicate his time to this project. Elizabeth Feinberg will assume supervisory and management responsibility for the cataloging unit, effective immediately. The project gives us the capacity to market HCL innovative cataloging methods and processes to libraries interested in enhancing their catalogs, just as we currently market our cataloging output. Please join me in congratulating Sandy on this new opportunity to expand his considerable influence and leadership in the development of user sensitive cataloging. The following news release, announcing the project, will be distributed to media today: Hennepin County Library (HCL) today announced plans to produce a Cataloging Practices Manual documenting the innovative cataloging processes that have made HCL a leader in the modernization of library subject headings. The Manual will be made available to other library systems in a variety of electronic and print formats. Sanford Berman, head of HCL cataloging and a nationally recognized expert in the elimination of biases, prejudices, and cultural insensitivity in library cataloging, will write the new Manual and ready it for distribution. In making the announcement, Library Director Charles Brown cited information requests from other libraries and results of a survey of HCL staff involved in cataloging as the impetus for developing the publication. As a preliminary step in re-engineering HCLs cataloging process, we interviewed staff about opportunities for improvement. Several staff members expressed a need for clear documentation of the cataloging processes unique to HCL. We also have requests for documentation from other libraries interested in adopting some of our techniques. The re-engineering process gives Sandy Berman the opportunity to expand the influence hes had on library cataloging, Brown said. HCL currently makes some of its cataloging output available to other libraries through a licensing agreement with NoveList. The new product will make HCL methods and processes accessible to library systems interested in enhancing their own catalogs. HCL plans to offer consultative services and develop interactive training and technical support products in conjunction with the new Cataloging Practices Manual. HCL estimates the first products will be available in the fourth quarter of 2000. __________________________________________________________________________ 18. Professor Robert Hauptman's angry letter of Feb. 26 February 26, 1999 To Whom It May Concern, I am astonished and dismayed that the professional perspectives, opinions, and considered assessments of Sanford Berman, one of librarianship's foremost activists, are not only not honored but rather disparaged. That his voice, guaranteed its freedom by the Constitution's First Amendment, is controlled and silenced in any venue is illegal and unethical. That this occurs in the context of the very profession that affirms itself through free speech is unconscionable. Despite the fact that Sandy acts as a gadfly in pursuit of justice and despite the very real possibility that his points of view may differ from other personnel assiciated with the Hennepin County Library, there is no warrant for silencing him. He may continue to argue, harrangue, disagree, confer, and discuss in letters, articles, books, interviews, listservs, email messages, films, and any other venue he chooses. Some people may feel that Sandy's communications are unfair, disruptive, disagreeable, or uncooperative. Naturally! This is why freedom of speech is guaranteed. If everyone agreed that the Library of Congress has produced perfect subject headings, that pornography is constructive, that North Korea's political system is perfect, then we would not have to defend freedom of speech. The situations to which I am privy are simply incomprehensible: How could someone counter an individual's corrections to his own perspective in a newsletter article? Why would an administrator object to a person speaking out against error or injustice? Instead ofusing coercive, threatening, and demagogic methods or issuing reprimands against Sanford Berman and justice for which he fights. Any reprimand tendered against Sansford Berman should be rescinded; all censorious activities must be elminated; and a sincere apology ought to be tendered. These foolish and unnecessary altercations place the Hennepin County Library and its administrators in a very poor national light. Sincerely, Robert Hauptman (PhD) Professor Coordinator of Reference Editor, _Journal of Reference Ethics_ __________________________________________________________________________ 19. Congress on Professional Education - 3rd online conference 4/23 Would you like to influence library education? The Congress on Professional Education is happening - you can participate online. The third online conference in relation to the Congress on Professional Education is FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1999 - 4-5:30 pm Central -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Steering Committee for the Congress on Professional Education invites your participation in the third online conference to discuss issues relevant to the Congress. The conference is scheduled for Friday, April 23, 1999, 4-5:30pm CDT. Edward Erazo of Florida Atlantic University and chair of the Issues in the Profession working group will lead the discussion on Professional Concerns. The three broad topics that will be used to start the discussion are: 1) shared values of the profession 2) shared vision of the profession 3) shared concerns of the profession. The discussion is by no means limited to these topics. Here are some instructions that will help you participate in the online conference: (1) We recommend that you use a JavaScript-enabled browser such as Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher. (2) Sign up in advance by pointing your web browser to http://webboard.ala.org:8080/~1/new You will be asked to fill out a form with name, password, email address, etc. If you set up a WebBoard username and password for the first or second CoPE live conference, you need not do so again. However, if you do not remember your username or password, simply register anew with a new username and password. We cannot give out password information over the phone or by email, simply because we do not know users' passwords. If you would like to change your password, click PROFILES in the black Menubar, then click Change your personal profile at the top of the Message Window. (3) At the scheduled conference time, point your web browser to http://webboard.ala.org:8080/ To log on, you will be asked to enter the user name and password you established in step (2). There will only be one active conference. On Friday, April 23, it will be called prof_concerns. Click on the name of the conference to enter. The conference will be moderated, which means that any message you post will first be viewed by a moderator, who will either post the message as is, edit it and then post it, or delete it without editing or posting it. There are three major parts to the WebBoard screen: the Menubar (across the top), the Conference List (left) and the Message Window (right). -- Use the Menubar to access the functions of the conference. -- The Conference List contains a list of all active conferences (in this case, only one) and all messages posted to those lists. If you see a + sign in a square next to a message, it means there are more messages pertaining to that message. Click on the + sign to see all relevant messages. When you click on a message in the Conference List, it will appear with the rest of the messages in its "thread" in the Message Window (right side of your screen). -- In the Message Window you may read and reply to messages, post new messages, email the person who posted the message, etc. (buttons for doing so are found in the light blue bars at the top of each message in the Message Window. WebBoard should refresh the Conference List (showing new messages) every 10 seconds. If there has been no activity for some time, click on the REFRESH button in the black menu bar just to make sure. Please do not click REFRESH more frequently than every 10 seconds, though, as it will degrade performance for everyone. Online help is available by clicking on the HELP button in the black Menubar. Please note that live chat will be disabled for this conference in order to avoid confusion and keep the discussion focused. At the end of the conference, you must close down your browser to fully exit WebBoard. This is especially important if you are participating from a public terminal, since failure to shut down the browser will leave it connected to the conference under your username. Please note that this live conference will discuss ONLY Professional Concerns and will be of limited duration (1.5 hours). Those wishing to participate in other ALA discussion lists should visit http://www.ala.org/membership/lists.html to see a list of available lists and to read instructions on how to subscribe to those lists. Ann L. O'Neill Director, Office for Accreditation American Library Association 50 E. Huron St. Chicago, IL 60611 Phone: 312-280-2435 Fax : 312-280-2433 Email: aoneill[at]ala.org __________________________________________________________________________ 20. Poem - The Reference Librarian Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:06:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Arts and Literature Department <ald[at]omaha.lib.ne.us> To: Don Sakers <dsakers[at]web.aacpl.lib.md.us> Cc: stumpers-l[at]crf.cuis.edu Subj: Re: Poem about Reference Librarians THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN See the Reference Librarian and the joys that appertain to her; Who shall estimate the contents and the area of the brain in her? See the people seeking wisdom from the four winds ever blown to her, For they know there is no knowledge known to mortals but is known to her; See this flower of perfect knowledge, blooming like a lush geranium, All converging rays of wisdom focussed just beneath her cranium: She is stuffed with erudition as you'd stuff a leather cushion, And wisdom is her specialty--it's marketing her mission. How they throng to her, all empty, grovelling in their unsufficience; How they come from her, o'erflooded by the sea of her omniscience! And they know she knows she knows things--while she drips her learned theses The percentage of illiteracy perceptibly decreases. Ah, they know she knows she knows things, and her look is education; And to look at her is culture, and to know her is salvation. from: "The Song of the Library Staff" by Sam Walter Foss in his book, "Songs of the Average Man" 1907 HTH Sherry F. at Omaha Public Library (NE) __________________________________________________________________________ 21. Free Wobbly Books Subject: Free books... From: iww[at]my-dejanews.com Wobblies have put some free books up on the web for your reading pleasure. Solidarity forever--let free-time ring.... Point your browser here: http://parsons.iww.org/~iw/info/books __________________________________________________________________________ L I B R A R Y J U I C E | http://libr.org/Juice/ | | Except where noted, items appearing in Library Juice | are copyright-free, so feel free to share them with | colleagues and friends. 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