LEADS FROM LAMA, vol. 16, no. 5
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LEADS FROM LAMA, vol. 16, no. 5
(ISSN: 1076-1926) January 8, 2002
An electronic publication of the
LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
In this issue …
+ MIDWINTER REMINDERS
+ LAMA DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS
+ ALA MEMBERSHIP MEETING QUORUM HEARING
+ STATUS OF LIBRARIANS TASK FORCE
+ NCIP SESSION AT MIDWINTER
+ LA&M NEWS DEADLINE
+ PIO SEEKS INFORMATION ON SEPT 11 AFTERMATH
+ NYU CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENT WORKSHOPS
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MIDWINTER REMINDERS
Midwinter fast approaches, and LAMA has several activities of interest to members:
*Evening of Jazz-Check at the Conference Registration desk for tickets to this almostly completely sold-out event, which benefits the LAMA Endowment.
*LAMA Discussion Groups-Topics are listed below.
You will find a complete schedule of LAMA meetings and events attached to this newsletter.
SECURITY REMINDER: You will need to show a photo ID to pick up your conference registration packet. You will need to display your badge at all meetings, meeting hotels, and exhibit halls.
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LAMA DISCUSSION GROUP TOPICS
*Cultural Diversity
I think that a recent article may provide a basis for an interesting discussion at Mid-Winter:
Winston, Mark D. “The Importance of Leadership Diversity: The Relationship between Diversity and Organization Success in the Academic Environment,” College & Research Libraries. 62 (November 2001).
We meet on Saturday, 1/19/02, at 2:00 in the St Charles Room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, N.O. Encourage your friends to come, too. Please feel free to suggest other discussion topics. Happy holidays and see you soon!
–Laura Bayard
Library Faculty Affirmative Action Officer
*MAES
“Assessing Library Service Quality: Report from the ARL LibQUAL+ Project” will be held Sunday, 20 January 2002, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in Room 353 of the Morial Convention Center. LibQUAL+TM is a research and development project that is defining and measuring library service quality across institutions and creating useful quality-assessment tools for libraries. LibQUAL+ TM is currently in its second year of a three year grant awarded by the Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) to continue to develop the LibQUAL+ TM instrument and service in collaboration with Texas A&M. The project goals are to establish an ongoing library service quality assessment program at ARL; develop web-based tools for assessing library service quality; develop mechanisms and protocols for evaluating libraries; and identify best practices in providing library service. Presenters: Colleen Cook, Executive Associate Dean, Texas A&M University Libraries; Bruce Thompson, Professor and Distinguished Research Scholar, Department of
Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University; and Martha Kyrillidou, Senior Program Officer for Statistics and Measurement, ARL.
All Midwinter Meeting attendees are welcome to participate in this
informative session.
–Marlene Slough
Co-chair, LAMA MAES Using Measurement Data for Library Planning,
Evaluation, and Communication Committee
* Library Storage Discussion Group
The Library Storage Discussion Group will meet on Sunday, January 20, from 4:30 ? 5:30. The location is the Marriott New Orleans, Mardi Gras Ballroom B.
Agenda
1. Discussion of the “Naming Controversy:” Should “Storage” Be the Name of Our Group?–The consensus from the email solicitation for suggestions of name changes produced only 1 non?”storage” vote.
2. Presentation by Sayeed Choudury, Project Director of the Comprehensive Access to Print Materials (CAPM) Project and Director of the Digital Knowledge Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins–Sayeed will update us on the progress of the robotic retrieval and scanning project now underway at Hopkins.
3. Roundtable update from attendees on projects planned or underway at their facilities or developments from vendors.
4. Suggestions?
See you in New Orleans!
Tom Schneiter, Chair (Term: July 2001? July 2002)
Chris Brennan, Co?Chair Elect (Term: July 2001 ? July 2002; Chair July
2002?July 2003)
*Women Administrators
Sunday, January 20, 9:30 -11:00 a.m., Convention Center Room 345.
“Job satisfaction: what do they want? Satisfactions and dissatisfactions,
Expectations and needs of the library staff”
If you would like more information, please contact me. See you in New Orleans!
–Beth Avery
*BES Safety and Security of Libraries
The Safety and Security of Libraries Discussion Group will be held on Saturday, January 19th from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Morial Convention Center, Rm. 295. Please join us to
discuss these important and very timely topics!
1. The aftermath of September 11, 2001–Learning from each other: What did we do and how are we doing?
2. Balancing Security with the Right to Information Access–How are requests from external investigatory agencies handled? How are requests to delete items from the collection handled?
3. Security??who is really responsible? How can libraries create a culture of security?
(Attendees may want to read in advance “Creating a Culture of Security in the University of Maryland Libraries” by Lowry and Goetsch, portal: Libraries and the Academy, Bol 1, No.4 (2001), pp. 455?464. The article is also accessible at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v001/1.4lowry02.pdf)
4. Security Building Audits–Who? What? and How?
5. Other (Solicited from attendees)
–Cindy Cost
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ALA MEMBERSHIP MEETING QUORUM HEARING
Only two official ALA membership meetings have been held since 1994, when the quorum was raised from 200 members to one percent (currently 560) of all personal members. After the last Annual Conference, ALA President John Berry appointed the Special Presidential Task Force on the Membership Meeting Quorum (SPTFMMQ or QTF, for short) to consider the current quorum and possible alternatives.
The Membership Meeting Quorum Hearing will be held at ALA Midwinter Meeting on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2-4 PM, in room 390 at the Morial Convention Center. Please attend if you can. If you cannot, please send your comments to Larry Romans, Chair of the Task Force, at larry.romans@vanderbilt.edu – if possible, before the meeting. Additional background information about the membership meeting quorum is available at http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/quorum/.
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STATUS OF LIBRARIANS TASK FORCE
The Special Task Force on the Status of Librarians, which was appointed last spring by Nancy Kranich during her ALA presidency, has created a website, with the help of the staff of the Office of Human Resource Development and Recruitment, to share its work with members of the profession. You will find the website at the following URL: http://www.ala.org/hrdr/status.html. The website gives the background of the task force, some background materials on status issues, a statement of issues identified by the task force, and some informational materials concerning the tax exempt status of the American Library Association. It also includes a bulletin board where librarians are able to post their opinions and reactions to the issues that have been identified, as well as a draft of recommendations available for comment.
The information concerning ALA’s tax exempt status is particularly important since many of the recommendations for action by this task force and by the closely related Task Force on Better Salaries and Pay Equity, appointed by Vice-President Mitch Freedman, may require that ALA establish a separate organization whose tax status would enable them to undertake activities not permitted under the current tax status.
The task force members hope that you will visit the site often and participate in this important conversation about the status of librarians in our society. We especially hope that you will comment on the draft recommendations for action when they appear.
On Saturday, 19 January 2002, there will be a joint open meeting of our task force and the Mitch Freedman Better Salaries/Pay Equity Task Force at 2pm in the Hilton Grand Salon C?18. This meeting and the website bulletin board will we hope give people a variety of ways to provide input to the final recommendations of the task force. Please tell your friends!
–Tom Wilding
Director, UTA Library
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NCIP SESSION AT MIDWINTER
“Implementing the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP): a Discussion between Librarians and Software Developers”
WHEN: Monday, January 21. 2?4 pm
WHERE: Morial Convention Center Room 281
Please join NCIP Committee members and early implementers to hear how the Protocol will translate into “real world” implementation. At this meeting we will discuss the three key application areas:
*Direct Consortial Borrowing (how a consortium of libraries with agreed upon borrowing policies will be able to implement the Protocol to allow patrons to borrow on site at any library or make remote requests through their OPAC for delivery and pickup.)
*Circulation to Interlibrary Loan Interaction ( the impact on service design when Circulation and Interlibrary Loan systems can communicate to share information about shipping, notification, etc.)
*Self Service Circulation (how the NCIP standard can be used to develop applications that allow users to check out or check in items, possibly also pay fines, without the assistance of staff.)
The purpose of the meeting is to give librarians and developers the opportunity to understand the potential of the Protocol and to suggest ways to begin dialog between vendors and librarians about needed functionality, and thus to inform development schedules. Speakers will be early implementers of the Protocol who can share their insights into its potential for new ways of developing services. There is currently available a Draft Standard For Trial Use (DSFTU) being tested by several vendors. The DSFTU and related documentation are posted at www.niso.org/committees/committee_at.html
–Robert A. Daugherty
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LA&M NEWS DEADLINE
The deadline for news for the Spring issue of LA&M is January 28. News and reports from Midwinter can be left in the LA&M folder at the LAMA desk in the ALA Office until 12:00 noon, January 21. Before or after the conference, please send news items to Bob Moran by email (moranr@iun.edu) or fax (219-980-6558).
–Bob Moran, LA&M Associate Editor
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PIO SEEKS INFORMATION ON SEPT 11 AFTERMATH
The Public Information Office, working with the Public Programs Office, has developed a press release and media outreach plan to communicate how libraries are serving as community and cultural centers in the wake of 911. The release can be found at: http://www.ala.org/news/v7n16/community.html. PIO and PPO also are looking to keep adding examples of all the work various libraries in various settings are doing. We would appreciate it if libraries would get in touch with us with examples of their work in this important arena.
–Larra Clark, Press Officer, Public Information Office, American Library Association
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NYU CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENT WORKSHOPS
The following workshops will be offered February 4?6, 2002, as part of the Building and Construction Seminar Series at the New York University Real Estate Institute. They are a series of separate one?day seminars from 9am to 5:30pm. The topics are selected to be practical and useful in planning and managing collection environments, and are intended for museum, library and archives professionals, such as conservators, curators, archivists, registrars and directors, as well as for architects, engineers and others involved in construction and facilities management for collections? holding institutions.
*Conservation Environments for Museums and Libraries, February 4
This seminar discusses the issues involved in establishing safe “conservation” environments for preservation of museum, library and archive collections.
*Establishing a Conservation Environment Monitoring Program, February 5
This seminar discusses how to establish a monitoring program for conservation environments in museums, libraries, and archives.
*HVAC for Museums, Libraries, and Archives, February 6
This seminar discusses the assessment, improvement, management, and operation of HVAC systems for preservation environments in museums, libraries, and archives.
Lecturer: William P. Lull, President, Garrison/Lull Inc., Adjunct Associate Professor of Building Technology, NYU. Mr. Lull is a noted consultant, lecturer and author in the field of conservation environments for museums, libraries and archives. For registration information contact: The Real Estate Institute, New York University, 11 West 42nd Street, New York NY 10036, 212?998?7200. Online information and registration: http://www.scps.nyu.edu/dyncon/cons/cour_muse.html.
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