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College & Research Libraries News

CALENDAR

February

23-24—Automation: The Seventh Texas Conference on Library Automation, sponsored by the University of Houston Libraries, will be held at the Stouffer Greenway Plaza Hotel in Houston and will feature keynote addresses by Susan K. Martin, Director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and Rebecca Lenzini, President of CARL Systems. Other speakers will include John Corbin, Jennifer Cargill, Carolyn Frost, Carol Hawks, Judy Myers, and Raymond Vondran. Registration fee: $95 before January 13, $120 after. Contact: Dana Rooks, University of Houston Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2091; (713) 749-4241.

26-28—Information access: “Teaching & Technology: The Impact of Unlimited Information Access on Classroom Teaching,” a forum sponsored by Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, will explore the issues involved in teaching and learning when there is unlimited access to information. The keynote address will be given by Martin Dillon, director of the OCLC Office of Research. Other participants include Wilbert McKeachie (National Center for Research to Improve Post-Secondary Teaching and Learning, University of Michigan), William Bryan Martin (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching), Daniel C. Dennett (Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University), and Patricia Swanson (John Crerar Library, University of Chicago). Attendance is by invitation; written inquiries may be directed to Evan Ira Farber, Lilly Library, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374.

1—Audiovisual preservation: The National Archives and Records Administration presents its Fourth Annual Preservation Conference on “Current Trends in the Preservation of Audiovisual Collections,” at the National Archives Building Theater, Washington, D.C., from 9;30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. The conference will feature four sessions on video, sound recording, motion picture, and still picture holdings. Speakers will include Alan Lewis, a consultant; Gerry Gibson, of the Library of Congress; Sam Kula, of the National Archives of Canada; and Connie McCabe, of the National Archives. Registration fee: $40 (includes a reception). Contact: Conference Coordinator, Archival Research and Evaluation Staff, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC 20408; (202) 523- 1546.

10-11—Recruiting: The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College will host the “Simmons College Symposium on Recruiting, Educating, and Training Cataloging Librarians: Solving the Problems,” at Simmons College, Boston. The keynote speaker will be Robert M. Hayes, dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Session leaders include James Matarazzo, professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College; Jane Robbins, director, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Henriette D. Avram, assistant librarian for processing services, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The registration fee, $45, will cover a book of papers to be presented at the symposium. Contact: Sheila Intner, Simmons College Symposium Coordinator, GSLIS, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115; (617) 738-2223 or (413) 528- 2698.

10- 13—Serials: The 12th annual conference of the United Kingdom Serials Group will be held at the University of Birmingham. Topics will include serial communications; journal prices— statistical sources; standards for journal covers; and staff management. There will be a session of workshops and product reviews, including CD- ROM, journal marketing, and disasters in automation. Contact: Anne Hillier, UK Serials Group Administrator, 4 Ashcroft Close, Oxford, OX2 9SE, England; 0865 863449.

11- 15—Texas: “Libraries, Up, Up, & Away,” the 1989 Texas Library Association’s Annual Conference will be held in Houston. Contact: TLA, 3355 Bee Cave Road, Suite 603, Austin, TX 78746; (512) 328-1518.

4-7—Film preservation: “Fast Rewind—The Archaeology of Moving Images,” an international conference organized by the Rochester Institute of Technology, will be held at the Rochester Stouffer Plaza, Rochester, New York. Speakers Morgan Wesson, assistanLcurator of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, and Marion Balyszak, former director of the Cayuga Museum of History and Art, will discuss new findings on Theodore Case, an Auburn, N. Y., chemist who is little known for his invention that created sound on film; noted New York film historian Fred S. Spira will discuss early technical devices; other topics will include moving image advertising, historical research on broadcast archives, and film preservation. Contact: Karen Miller, Communications Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, One Lomb Memorial Drive, P.O. Box 9887, Rochester, NY 14623; (716) 475-2879.

15-18—Jerusalem: “The Value of Research Data for Government and Business” is the theme of the joint meeting of the International Association of Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) and the International Federation of Data Organizations (IFDO) to be held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The conference is open to data archivists, data librarians, academic and government researchers, traditional archivists, teachers and advanced students in the social sciences, data producers from national statistical agencies, and others. Lectures, presentations, and workshops will be on such topics as cross national surveys, quantitative historical research, the impact of new technologies on the usage of data, statistical mapping, textual databanks, and indexing data archive holdings. Contact: Nancy Hafuta, Social Sciences Data Archive, The Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. For information on partial travel grants contact: Tom Brown, 1418 Corcoran St. N.W., Washington, DC 20009.

23-June 15—Hebraica: A twelve-session intensive course on Hebraica and Judaica cataloging will be given by Bella Hass Weinberg, assistant professor of Library and Information Science at St. Johns University, at the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, New York City. The course will focus on Hebraica and Judaica cataloging for research and academic libraries with an emphasis on Library of Congress systems. Topics to be covered include Romanization, formation of headings for Hebrew and Yiddish authors, cataloging of liturgical works, Judaica subject headings and classification schemes, and multi-script authority files. Three graduate credits will be given for the course. Tuition: $300. Contact: Pamela Brumberg, Assistant to the Dean, Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, 1048 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028; (212) 535-6700, x26.

20-21—Classification: The International Conference on Library Classification and Its Functions will be held on the University of Alberta campus in Edmonton. The conference will examine the three functions of classification: the bibliothecal, or storage, function; the bibliographic, or classified catalog, function; and the cognitive function. Registration fee: $110 (includes lunches and reception); $30 special fee for students. Deadline: June 5. Contact: Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G4; (403) 432-3037.