Issues In Science and Technology Librarianship 010 (MAY 1994) URL = ftp://ftp.lib.ncsu.edu/pub/stacks/sts/sts-010 ------------->> ---------- ---- -- ##### ####### ##### - # # # - # # # S - ##### # ##### T ELECTRONIC - # # # S COMMUNICATIONS -- # # # ---- ##### # ##### --------- ----------------------->> ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LIBRARIANSHIP MAY 1994 NUMBER 10 _____________________________________________________________________ ALA ACRL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SECTION _____________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS: STS RECEPTION IN MIAMI: CALL FOR VOLUNTEER ESCORTS LINES: 46-88 STS COMMITTEE ON COMPARISON OF SCI/TECH LIBRARIES: PRELIMINARY REPORT OF A SURVEY OF ARL LIBRARIES LINES: 89-137 ACRL PRECONFERENCES IN MIAMI: NAVIGATING THE INTERNET AND ACTIVE LEARNING IN LIBRARY INSTRUCTION LINES: 138-157 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MATERIALS PRESERVATION SURVEY LINES: 158-236 A REPORT ON THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK DEPOSITORY LIBRARY TRAINING CONFERENCE, MARCH 21-25, 1994, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA BY SUSAN MAGEE, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO LINES: 237-291 BOOK REVIEWS: INTRODUCING THE INTERNET--A TRAINER'S WORKSHOP BY LEE DAVID JAFFE ALL ABOUT INTERNET FTP--LEARNING AND TEACHING TO TRANSFER FILES ON THE INTERNET BY DAVID F.W. ROBINSON BY HARRY LLULL, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO LINES: 292-380 ___________________________________________________________________________ STS RECEPTION IN MIAMI: CALL FOR VOLUNTEER ESCORTS The annual STS Reception will be held on Monday, June 27 at ALA at the Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Miami. Hours for the reception will be 6-8 pm. The Gardens are a 45 minute bus ride from the Convention Center. STS Local Arrangements has hired 2 buses to run back and forth between the Convention Center and Fairchild Gardens during the reception. We need about 20 volunteers to serve as escorts on the busses. Would you be available to help? The first bus will leave around 4:00-4:15 so that those wishing to tour the Gardens before the reception will be able to do so. The last bus will leave Fairchild Gardens at 8:15 pm, arriving at the Convention Center at 9:00 pm. All times are subject to change, but you will be notified of your exact pickup time and point before ALA. Please send me a message ASAP (phillips@utklib.lib.utk.edu) or call me at (615) 974-4702 if you can be an escort. Please tell me the following: Name Address E-mail Address Phone Number Preferred time to escort: One-Way or Round-Trip? Preferred pickup point (Convention Center or Fairchild Gardens) Miami Hotel (if known) Thanks in advance for your help. STS has thrived on the willingness of its members to participate. The 1994 Reception at Fairchild Tropical Gardens promises to be memorable! Linda Phillips The University of Tennessee, Knoxville 1994 STS Program Planning Committee phillips@utklib.lib.utk.edu (615) 974-4702 ______________________________________________________________________________ STS COMMITTEE ON COMPARISON OF SCI/TECH LIBRARIES: PRELIMINARY REPORT OF A SURVEY OF ARL LIBRARIES The ALA ACRL STS Committee on Comparison of Sci/Tech Libraries is pleased to invite all who will be attending the Miami meeting to a preliminary report of analysis of the committee's recent survey of ARL libraries. The report will focus on returns from ARL academic libraries for which 149 questionnaires were completed by 70 libraries. To learn more about this project, plan to attend the STS Forum on Science & Technology Library Research. Check the conference program for details on time and location. The committee recently completed a survey of the members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). This is the fourth survey conducted by the committee which has been charged with collecting, analyzing and distributing comparative information on North American science and technology libraries. Questionnaires were distributed to the survey population during autumn 1993 requesting information on library organizational structure and size, clientele, collections and services. Data from this survey is expected to provide an overview of science information services in a group of the largest research libraries whose collections comprise a major resource for scientists and other users of scientific information. An analysis of surveys returned is in process and preliminary findings will be described during the Miami meeting. Data provided by respondents support description of types of science collections and information services as they presently exist in ARL Libraries. The survey is expected to provide details on the organization of science and technology in terms of the relative occurrences of free-standing science libraries, divisional libraries, branch libraries, and consolidated collections. Data on size of collections, subject emphasis, user populations, and information services provided will be summarized. Applications of information technologies including the use of online databases, CD-ROM products, and networks will be described. The report will include an overview of expenditures in this group for print and electronic resources for staff salaries. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Julie M. Hurd, Ph.D. * * Science Librarian * * University of Illinois at Chicago * * Bitnet: U42695@UICVM * * Internet: Julie.M.Hurd@UIC.edu * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ___________________________________________________________________________ ACRL PRECONFERENCES IN MIAMI: NAVIGATING THE INTERNET AND ACTIVE LEARNING IN LIBRARY INSTRUCTION The Association of College and Research Libraries is offering two preconferences on Friday, June 24, 1994 in Miami Beach prior to the ALA Annual Conference. Navigating the Internet: Tools, Services and Issues is co-sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information. Integrating Active Learning into Library Instruction: Practical Information for Immediate Use is sponsored by the ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Section. ACRL/ALCTS are co-sponsoring Bibliographic Control of Conference Proceedings. FOR FURTHER PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Send a message to LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC.EDU with the following command: send preconf doc . _______________________________________________________________________________ SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MATERIALS PRESERVATION SURVEY: PLEASE RESPOND TO JNEWBY@LIBRARY.WEBER.EDU OR ALP@PSULIAS.PSU.EDU Help promote the preservation of science and technology materials. If you work in a sci/tech library, or in a general library with significant sci/tech holdings, please take a few minutes to fill out this brief questionnaire. We are gathering data on the status of preservation efforts for use in planning a joint conference program sponsored by ACRL STS (Science and Technology Section) and ALCTS PLMS (Preservation of Library Materials Section) and CMDS (Collection Management and Development Section) to be held at the ALA Annual meeting in Chicago, 1995. The theme of the program will be on organizing cooperative discipline based projects to preserve the record of science and technology. We hope to raise to national attention the need to preserve the records of the disciplines of science and technology. Your help is appreciated. We realize that multiple responses from a single institution are inevitable given our informal survey methodology. We plan to compile results so that multiple responses will be taken into consideration. ********************************************************************** 1. Please describe your institution's current or planned preservation project(s) of science and technology materials. 2. Please rank what is most important to preserve (1 most important - 8 least important) ____Local documents ____Journals ____Conference proceedings ____Reports ____Theses ____Books ____Non-print materials - please list types ____Other (Please describe) Please describe the rationale for your rankings (ie., institutional priorities, lack of preservation in this area, etc.) 3. Are there any sci-tech fields that should receive immediate preservation attention? 4. Please list any science and technology preservation projects that you are aware of being conducted outside your institution. 5. Are you or your institution interested in participating in a cooperative preservation initiative? Is so, please be sure to include your name and address with the return of this survey. 6. Are you interested in presenting a poster session at the conference program on your library's preservation project? Name: Library: Address: Email: Phone: Fax: Thank you for your interest and time in completing the survey! Jill Newby and Amy Paster, Co-Chairs, STS Chicago Conference Program Planning Committee Please send (forward) or fax to: Jill Newby, Weber State University, e-mail: jnewby@library.weber.edu fax: (801) 626-6057, or Amy Paster, Penn State University, e-mail: alp@psulias.psu.edu fax: (814)863-7293 _____________________________________________________________________________ A REPORT ON THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK DEPOSITORY LIBRARY TRAINING CONFERENCE, MARCH 21-25, 1994, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA BY Susan Magee, Library Instruction Coordinator, Centennial Library, University of New Mexico This year's Patent and Trademark Depository Library Conference was approached a bit differently than in the past. The focus of the meeting was training on new products such as the full-text patents both on CD-Rom and online through the Automated Patent System (APS). Representatives from three new PTDL sites (at Casper, Wyoming; Orono, Maine, and San Francisco Public) joined those from the other 75 member libraries and representatives from several potential PTDL sites and international organizations in an intense weeklong swirl of workshops and hands on sessions. Training session ranged from half-day sessions on FTS 200 Mail (the PTDL non-internet email system) to full-day sessions on patent classification schemes. Materials for each of the sessions were concise and well done. Especially interesting was the full day session on Trademarks during which we worked with attorneys from the trademark division reviewing old applications. We learned the basics of scanning applications to see that they are completely filled in and to identify some of the most frequent problems they encounter. The exercise was informative but explicitly for our own use. We were cautioned not to try to help patrons fill out the forms (because of the legal ramifications.) For experienced online searchers the APS sessions were a little elementary, geared as they were for the regular novice searchers they are generally given to. On the other hand, looking at the sessions as an experience in a "training the trainer" workshop since we will eventually be offering the system to the public - complete with training - the sessions and supporting materials were excellent. It was obvious that all the training staff were quite knowledgeable about the system they were teaching and that they enjoyed dealing with the public. Questions as to when, how, and at what cost, APS will be offered through the PTD Libraries are still being debated. Our `hosts', Martha Crockett Sneed, Amanda Putnum, M. Neil Massong, and others on the PTDLP staff along with library fellows Brian Carpenter and Marie Moisdon worked tirelessly to make sure everyone got to the right place at the right time. Since the participants were divided into groups for various levels of training sessions throughout the week which met in several different locations, this was no mean feat. To establish a base for everyone to meet and exchange ideas and handouts from their libraries, the PTDL staff arranged a generous hospitality room near the hotel meeting rooms. This along with several social events provided avenues of networking amongst the participants. ______________________________________________________________________ BOOK REVIEWS: INTRODUCING THE INTERNET--A TRAINER'S WORKSHOP BY LEE DAVID JAFFE ALL ABOUT INTERNET FTP--LEARNING AND TEACHING TO TRANSFER FILES ON THE INTERNET BY DAVID. F. W. ROBISON BY Harry LLull, Centennial Library, University of New Mexico Library Solutions Press with Anne G. Lipow as series coordinator has begun publishing supplements to the highly successful Crossing The Internet Threshold. The series is called the Internet Workshop Series. The first two to come out are: Introducing the Internet by Lee David Jaffe, number 1 of the series, and All About Internet FTP, number 2 of the series. Each one comes out in two forms, with and without diskettes. The books alone are $30 each. With the diskettes, they are $45 each. The "Plus" versions include 3.5" diskettes with PowerPoint presentation of slides with Macintosh and Windows Viewer files for displaying them. Jaffe's Introducing the Internet is truly a trainer's guide for doing a presentation. It covers all of the basics very clearly and is well organized. It is presented strictly as an example of a presentation and encourages users to do presentations in their own style with which they will be comfortable. In fact, the book includes a second presentation by Stephanie Lipow using Jaffe's outline and slides as a base from which to start. In both books, the authors' encourage those who buy the books to use the slides and/or modify according to individual needs as long acknowledgment is made of where the original information came from and retains the original copyright statement that appears on the first slide. Besides the outline, slides and handouts that can be used for a basic workshop on the internet, I found the section titled "Instructions for Trainers" to be extremely useful. For those who have never done a workshop or presentation or feel uncomfortable doing one, they should fine this very detailed section a real comfort. Although we all know the internet changes daily, this trainer's guide covers the very basics which I think we as librarians will continue teaching for a long time. Jaffe's book will be as helpful to the knowledgeable internet user who just has not had the time to develop a polished look to their presentation as it will be to the person who is very new to the internet and has to give their first presentation. To the newer user, Jaffe's book should truly be viewed as a supplement to the parent publication, Crossing the Internet Threshold. Robinson's All About Internet FTP is a little bit different. Yes it can and should be used for developing a workshop but it also has a great deal of technical information for those who have been on the internet but maybe have not used FTP at all or frequently. Robinson's book can stand more on its own, supplement or not. The reason for this is clearly stated in Anne's foreword to the book: "Just as some people buy for others gifts that really they themselves would like to have, so I chose FTP as a topic to be dealt with early in this series so that I could learn FTP better myself." I read Robinson's book thoroughly once and intend to go back and reread it many times because of the amount of technical information included. The writing is excellent. As in Jaffe's book, handouts and slides are included. It also has examples to use as practice. I found the explanations of the inter-relatedness of Archie, Gopher, Veronica, WAIS, World-Wide Web, and Uniform Resource Locator to FTP to be very helpful. Even though with Mosaic it appears that FTP is becoming more transparent, I do believe Robinson's book is a must for those who want to use FTP now and who want to have a better understanding of what is going on when you do use FTP. In Jaffe's acknowlegements he says the following: "I also want to thank Anne Lipow, who taught me how to teach and then encouraged me to write." I believe this is the basic worth of these two publications. Whether we like it or not, librarians are teachers and we better improve our skills in that area. Although I applaud the cooperative spirit that has developed between academic librarians and computer center staff to put on workshops, I also do not believe there is a clear dividing line between what "librarians" should teach versus what "computer center" staff should teach. As librarians, we have to know something about the technical aspects such as TCP/IP, listservers, remote login, IP address, FTP, and URL. We can not and should not leave that totally to someone else to teach. These two books may be purchased from Library Solutions Press Sales Office, 1100 Industrial Road, Suite 9, San Carlos, CA 94070. Fax orders may be sent to 415-594-0411. For phone inquiries call 510-841-2636. Initially, one might consider the price high considering the number of books out on the internet. What you are paying for here in these publications are very professionally produced materials that anyone can use in a workshop as soon as they receive it. The material has been synthesized and presented in a clear and concise manner. I admit that I am very partial to the Library Solutions Press publications. I personally have found them to be very useful and serve the needs of a wide range of experienced to inexperienced internet users. ***************************************************************** Issues In Science and Technology Librarianship is a publication of the Science and Technology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. The Editor: Harry LLull This publication is produced at the Centennial Science and Engineering Library, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and sent out in electronic form only over the internet. Opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Section or Division. 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