Issues In Science and Technology Librarianship 012 (JANUARY 1995) URL = ftp://ftp.lib.ncsu.edu/pub/stacks/sts/sts-012 ------------->> ---------- ---- -- ##### ####### ##### - # # # - # # # S - ##### # ##### T ELECTRONIC - # # # S COMMUNICATIONS -- # # # ---- ##### # ##### --------- ----------------------->> ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LIBRARIANSHIP & ALA MIDWINTER 1995 ELECTRONIC UPDATE JANUARY 1995 NUMBER 12 _____________________________________________________________________ ALA ACRL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SECTION _____________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS: FROM THE EDITOR: LINES: 60-70 1995 MIDWINTER STS MEETING SCHEDULE: LINES: 71-161 STS DISCUSSION GROUP MEETINGS: PROVIDED BY BILLIE REINHART LINES: 162-213 SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING LIBRARY DIRECTORS DINNER: PROVIDED BY JEANNE BOYLE LINES: 214-246 STS RESEARCH FORUM ABSTRACTS: 1994 LINES: 247-357 1993 LINES: 358-486 PROVIDED BY KATHY WHITLEY REPORT OF THE AAU TASK FORCE ON A NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR MANAGING SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY JEANNE BOYLE LINES: 487-677 VIII NATIONAL SEMINAR OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES OF BRAZIL BY VERA CRISTINA NEUMANN, UNICAMP, CAMPINAS, BRAZIL LINES: 678-785 JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING LINES: 786-835 FIRSTSEARCH UPGRADE PROVIDES ONLINE ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS LINES: 836-901 NII AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT LINES: 902-1004 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM THE EDITOR: Please note that this is a combined issue of ISTL and the ALA Midwinter 1995 Update. During 1994, there were only three issues of ISTL. The last issue of ISTL that went out was number 11, September 1994. Harry LLull University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico _____________________________________________________________________________ 1995 Midwinter Meeting Philadelphia, PA Schedule ACRL Science & Technology Section February 3-7, 1995 Day/Time Friday 2/3 7:30-10: 00 STS Council I (8:00-10) 9:00-10:00 Executive Board Meets Wyndham-Conf.Ctr.Hall Saturday 2/4 8:30-12:30 Comparison of Sci/Tech Libraries Committee Sheraton Society Hill-Hamilton 9:30-11:00 Discussion Group Leaders Meeting (Not listed in ALA Program) Holiday Inn City Center-824 9:30-11:00 Publisher/Vendor Relations Committee PCC-108B 11:30-12:30 Continuing Education Committee Holiday Inn City Center-Thomas Eakins 11:30-1:30 Oberly Award Committee (11:30-12:30)* PCC-301 11:30-1:00 Publications Committee (11:30-12:30) Wyndham-Parlor C 2:00-4:00 SCIENCE DATABASES DISCUSSION GROUP DoubleTree-Aria B "Preprint Databases and The WWW" 4:30-6:00 Legislation Committee I (4:30-5:30) Holiday Inn Independence Mall-Jefferson 6:00 Dinner with College Science Librarians DG Meet at ALA Registration Area Victoria Mitchell mitchell@reed.edu Sunday 2/5 8:30-12:30 1995 Chicago Program Planning Committee Marriott-Table 37 8:30-11:00 GENERAL DISCUSSION GROUP Sheraton Society Hill-Shippen "Integrating Internet Resources into Sci-Tech Libraries" 11:30-12:30 Planning Committee Doubletree-Chamber Bd. Rm. 11:30-12:30 Membership Committee Doubletree-Rhapsody 8:00-10:00 HEADS OF SCI/TECH LIBRARIES DISCUSSION GROUP Four Seasons-South BR "Sci-Tech Virtual Library is Alive and Well and Living in Norther New Mexico" Monday 2/6 8:30-11:00 Legislation Committee II Embassy Suites-Tower Conf. Rm. 8:30-12:30 1996 NYC Program Planning Committee Holiday Inn City Center-804 8:30-11:00 Forum on Emerging Issues and Research Committee* Sheraton Society Hill-Bromley 9:30-11:30 Subject & Bib Access to Science Materials Cmmtt. (9:30-12:30) Sheraton Society Hill-Claypoole 2:00-4:00 STS Council II Sheraton Society Hill-Ballroom B * Closed Meeting Hotel abbreviations: DT--Doubletree EMB--Embassy Suites FS--Four Seasons HICC--Holiday Inn City Center HIN--Holiday Inn Independence Mall MAR--Marriott PCC--Pennsylvania Convention Center SHER--Sheraton Society Hill WYN--Wyndham Franklin Time in parenthesis is time for listing in official ALA program, if different from actual time. ___________________________________________________________________________ STS DISCUSSION GROUP MEETINGS AT ALA MIDWINTER February 1995 Philadelphia Provided by Billie Reinhart PREPRINT DATABASES AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB. Science Databases Discussion Group Saturday February 4, 2-4 P. M. Doubletree - Aria B. Please join the group for a great afternoon of discussion led by Richard Luce, Research Library Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Contact Ann Eagan aeagan@ccit.arizona.edu or Dawn Talbot dtalbot@ucsd.edu. DINNER WITH COLLEGE SCIENCE LIBRARIANS. College Science Librarians Discussion Group. Saturday February 4, 6 P. M. Meet in the ALA Registration area. Science librarians in academic liberal arts colleges are invited to join the members of the Discussion Group for College Science Librarians for dinner Sat urday evening. For further information contact Victoria Mitchell mitchell@reed.edu. INTEGRATING INTERNET RESOURCES INTO SCI-TECH LIBRARIES General Discussion Group Sunday February 5, 8:30 - 11:00 A. M. Sheraton Society Hill - Shippen Room. Oya Reiger, Public Services Librarian, Mann Library Cornell and Tim Cole, Sys tems Librarian, for Digital Projects, University of Illinois, will lead the discussion on various issues related to the World Wide Web, gopher servers, and other internet services, with the focus on sci/tech information and academ ic libraries. Setting up and implementing internet clients and servers, staff training, user instruction are among the topics to be addressed. The floor will open for discussion. Bring questions, comments, and ideas for a morning of freewheeliing discussion. THE SCI-TECH VIRTUAL LIBRARY IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO Heads of Sci-Tech Libraries Discussion Group Sunday, February 5, 8-10 P. M. Four Seasons - South Ball Room. Richard Luce, Research Library Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, will begin the presentation and discussion with a success story in the world of electronic publishing, the physics preprint databases at Los Alamos, and then explore what the project means for the "library without walls" there and at other sci-tech libraries. Library managers are finding themselves faced with a number of questions with immediate implications: How will libraries remain in the loop as more scientific research moves into the realm of virtual publish- ing? How will the commercial and society publishers react to a fait accompli like the high energy physics one? Will the model spread to other disciplines? When? The session will focus on the MANAGEMENT and PLANNING aspects of the "library without walls", rather than technical implementation. _____________________________________________________________________________ Directors of science and engineering libraries are cordially invited to a Dutch treat dinner during the coming ALA Midwinter meeting. The dinner is scheduled as follows: Dock Street Brewery & Restaurant 18th and Cherry (2 Logan Square) Philadelphia, PA 215-496-0413 Sunday, February 5, 1995 6:00 p.m. Dock Street is conveniently located near the Four Seasons Hotel, where the ACRL/STS Directors of Science Libraries Discussion Group will meet at 8 p.m. the same evening. Entrees are among the more reasonable in downtown Philadelphia and cost between $9- 14.95/person (there is an 18% gratuity if our group numbers more than 6). Specialities include freshly brewed beer, homemade breads, and desserts. If you plan to attend, please RSVP by January 27 to: Jeanne Boyle Library of Science and Medicine Rutgers University Boyle@Zodiac.Rutgers.edu 908-445-3850 I hope you will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to chat informally with your fellow directors! See you in Philly; have a safe trip. __________________________________________________________________________ 1994 STS RESEARCH FORUM ABSTRACTS Provided by Kathy Whitley QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ON USER NEEDS AS A BASIS FOR SYSTEM DESIGN FOR A NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE OF K-12 MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE CURRICULUM MATERIALS John Monk, Nancy OHanlon, and Len Simutis, Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, The Ohio State University, 1929 Kenny Rd., Columbus, OH 43210 The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC) was established at The Ohio State University in October, 1992 with funding from the U. S. Department of Education. The Eisenhower Clearinghouse is creating and maintaining a comprehensive, multi-media collection of K-12 curriculum materials and programs which will be distributed through a national system using both traditional formats and advanced computing and telecommunications technologies. The materials that ENC collects will come from a variety of sources, but the primary source is Federal government agencies. ENC is mandated to collect Federally-produced K-12 math and science curriculum materials and to collect information on Federal programs available to K-12 teachers. Other sources of material for the ENC catalog include publishers, professional organizations, non-profit organizations, state and local government agencies, science and technology museums and other informal educational organizations, teachers, the Eisenhower Regional Consortia, and existing databases, clearinghouses, and networks. ENC staff have attempted to understand and support user needs through a qualitative process, involving focus groups with K-12 teachers and an interface prototype to elicit data on catalog and interface design features. While Markey and others have identified problems with focus group methodology when used to evaluate user interactions with existing systems, focus groups are an appropriate technique for collecting data in the formative stages of system development. The second portion of this report will describe unusual aspects of the ENC catalog, the focus group methodology employed by ENC, the tasks presented to participants, the nature of the interface prototype employed in this study, and what was learned as a result of these efforts. CROSS-DISCIPLINARY NORMALIZATION OF SCIENCE PUBLISHING PRODUCTIVITY APPLIED TO LIBRARY MATERIALS BUDGET ALLOCATION FORMULAS Ian Young, University College of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada One variable occasionally discussed in the literature on the allocation of library acquisitions budgets among departments is the amount of research carried out. It is assumed that there is a direct positive correlation between the extent to which departments are carrying out and publishing research and their need for access to the literature. Unfortunately, few libraries have actually attempted to quantify this variable and incorporate it in their materials budget allocation formula, due in part to the difficulty of standardizing research output among disciplines. Within the sciences, however, accurate measures of publishing productivity are available from such databases as the Institute for Scientific Information's Science Citation Index. This database was used to measure the average number of papers published per faculty member in five disciplines using data from a sample of five Canadian research universities. The following normalization factors were calculated - biology: 3.98, chemistry: 9.00, geology: 2.47, mathematics and computer science: 1.40, physics: 5.93. These factors were used to normalize the number of publications per science department in the author's institution, a small undergraduate university, and the outputs were incorporated in an allocation formula containing three variables: cost of the literature, student enrolment and research productivity. The proportional dollar allocations per faculty thus derived are compared to two published surveys of science library allocations: Emerson Hilker's (1988) study of research libraries, and Ricker and Witmer's (1990) study of liberal arts college libraries. Further research will apply this simple allocation formula to other institutions of varying sizes. ARL SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY LIBRARIES: REPORT OF A SURVEY Julie M. Hurd, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL The ACRL Science and Technology Section's Committee on Comparison of Science/Technology Libraries has recently completed a survey of 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 are 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; the committee proposes a presentation during the STS Research Forum to report its findings. We expect to be able to characterize 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 libraries and to identify the relative occurences of free-standing science libraries, divisional libraries, branch libraries, and consolidated collections. Data on size of collections, subject emphases, user populations, and information services provided will be summarized. Applications of information technologies including uses 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 and for staff salaries. 1993 STS RESEARCH FORUM ABSTRACTS USE OF SCI/TECH PERIODICALS: COMPARISON OF USE DATA COLLECTED AT THE UNIVERSITY CENTERS AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Kate S. Herzog, Director, Science & Engineering Library, University at Buffalo, 223a Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260 As prices for STM periodicals continue to increase at rates which exceed collections budget growth rates, many librarians are considering gathering periodical use data to help determine the cost-effectiveness of their periodical subscriptions. In conjunction with a research grant from the CLR, the libraries of the four university centers of the State University of New York (Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, and Stony Brook) undertook a study of all bound and unbound periodical use in most of their branches. Use data were collected for a year (Sept. 1991 - Aug. 1992) and are being analyzed this winter. At the Forum for Science & Technology Research, I would discuss some of the preliminary findings which have emerged from this research including: a brief review of the methodologies which were employed; an examination of the extent to which use patterns for titles which are duplicated at two or more campuses are similar; an analysis of heavily used, mid-use and low use current titles (patterns by discipline and publisher); and a comparison of STM journal use patterns with those for journals in the social sciences and humanities. I would also discuss plans for cooperation between the four institutions, especially those which have utilized data from the use study. UNCOVER2 IN A SCIENCE LIBRARY Marilyn Christianson and Nikie Cotter, Science and Technology Library, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203 In university science libraries, access to current journal literature is considered of prime importance to faculty members and other researchers. With prices rising and journal subscription cuts inevitable, more and more libraries are turning to document delivery services to fulfill the needs of clientele. At the University of North Texas, Carl's UnCover2 document delivery service has been chosen as a first line of defense in filling the gap between needs of patrons and availability of articles. In the UNT Science and Technology library, librarians are concerned that, although a good general resource, UnCover2 may not serve the very specific needs of science researchers or be able to provide the quick delivery needed by scientists who rush to submit grant proposals in the short periods between semesters and who do not have time to wait weeks, or even days, for certain documents. In order to assess the value of UnCover2 to a science library, the University of North Texas is providing 'free' articles for a limited time for faculty members of six science departments. A survey was formulated to gather UnCover2 users' responses related to its ease of use, topics searched, equity of pricing, etc. By using this survey, we hope, as a neutral party, to determine whether users are quickly and easily obtaining the materials they need and if the price is within reason. From a vantage point outside the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, we are charting the elapsed time between order and delivery and keeping statistics on non-deliverable items. ACCESS TO THREE ELECTRONIC JOURNALS PROJECT Dongming Zhang, Electronic Resources Cataloging librarian/System analyst/Programmer, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 Several university libraries have begun experimenting with access to electronic journals. Systems have been set up under Gopher, WAIS, and local bulletin boards. At Mann Library, we are experimenting with providing access through the library's gateway and mounting the electronic journals in a BRS/Search database. Mann Library serves the students and researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Science and the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. The library's Collection Development Division has selected three journals for this experiment: New Horizons in Adult Education, Biotech Brief, and Psycholoquy. Since the role of Technical Services is to acquire and provide access to material, we have called upon the skills of acquisitions and cataloging staff to examine some of the issues related to providing access: . How do libraries make their internal adjustments, both on technical level and from a personnel perspective, to meet the need of this material; . How will libraries provide and disseminate this information to researchers given the variety of non-standard formats; . How will information professionals provide effective and efficient access to researchers and how can they determine the most suitable user interface, database search engine, and utilities. The goals of the project are to: . Test and load three Mann-selected e-journals under BRS Search database system; . Develop an automated text processing system to reformat these e-journals into a standardized structure; . Create a suitable user interface for presenting and interacting with the e-journals over the network; . Identify the organizational requirements needed to support the continued acquisition, processing and cataloging of these e- journals. In stage I, each of the issues of New Horizons in Adult Education was downloaded into the library's UNIX machine, the file structure analyzed, and an automated UNIX processing software created which reformats the text into BRS format. In addition, two database interfaces ware tested. In the next stage of the project, a standard markup code suitable for e-journal processing will be created and tested and the remaining journals parsed. The collection of electronic journals will then be mounted under the library's gateway. We felt that there were several advantages in using BRS/Search. It not only has a scalable, powerful search engine which supports both boolean and fielded searching but it also provides important continuity within our Gateway environment (i.e. other bibliographic resources, such as BIOSIS and ERIC are loaded under BRS). We expect to have all 3 journals available through the Gateway by Spring 1993 and to have gained some valuable experience in processing and providing access to electronic journals. ____________________________________________________________________________ Report of the AAU Task Force on a National Strategy for Managing Scientific and Technological Information: Notes from the June 1994 Meeting of the Directors/Heads of Science Libraries Discussion Group, with an Update from ARL Provided by Jeanne Boyle, Rutgers University Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information and fourteen science library administrators met to review and discuss the Report of the AAU Task Force on a National Strategy for Managing Scientific and Technological Information. Mr. Peters provided staff support for the work of the Task Force and was able to share background information, review major recommendations, and outline future actions. A succinct handout summarized the overall report and recommendations of the three task forces that were part of the Association of American Universities (AAU) Research Libraries Project. The AAU has been concerned with research library problems for several years. The concern stems from the "White Book": Scholarly Communication and Research Libraries. The AAU asked the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) for issues which could benefit from the attention of university presidents. The three issues offered were foreign materials, science and technology information, and intellectual property. The various task forces included university administrators, librarians, and faculty members. The initial steering committee for the project was chaired by Hannah Gray, President of the University of Chicago, who was succeeded as chair by Miles Brand, resident of the University of Oregon. The president's chair for the science and technology task force was Charles Vest, President of MIT, while the working chair was Richard West, Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance at California State University. So, presidents and librarians came together, but there is a tender middle ground of provosts, deans, and senior faculty who were not involved. The thinking of the various task forces now needs to be reviewed by these individuals so that change can occur. The overall vision in the task force report can be summarized as: 1) electronic networking holds great promise, 2) institutions need to prepare, and 3) technologies are getting good enough to use, but an economic structure is still way out ahead. The analytical portion of the report is a list of functions of the scientific/technological communication process. A point was made to describe cost savings rather than cost transfer. Cost transfer is usually what is discussed when we talk about technology, but the presidents are interested in cost savings. The report also considers desired attributes of performance, another topic which often ends up being secondary to costs. A list of the roles and responsibilities of the various players in the scholarly communication process is included. Lastly, the classical, modernized, and emergent models of STI are described. The first conclusion is that no single model is expected to dominate in the next 20 years. While the presidents have accepted this conclusion, they are still chewing on it. It means that new roles and changes in institutions are required. Institutional roles and behaviors will be more influential in controlling how quickly we move from the classical to the emergent model rather than the technology itself. It is the view of many that collection development will benefit most form coming library cost changes. Their notion is that the materials budget will increase, particularly during the mixed model period. On the contrary, savings will actually be more in access, storage, and circulation. Cost savings will not be in acquisitions but more in the reengineering of surrounding activities, which are 60-70% of the library budget. Intellectual property rights form a barrier to rapid movement to the emergent model. It seems logical to get into document delivery and build bridges, but intellectual property rights will rise dramatically to make the end cost the same. The presidents will have to develop alternative publishing avenues. These will have to be new rather than replacement, and they will have to be better that the present system. Electronic publishing is better in performance and has no carrying costs. Another barrier is the role of prestige in publishing and its relation to the natural monopoly in scientific publishing. Actions and next steps include: 1. networks need to be built and kept current 2. presidential support is necessary for the national information initiative 3. exploit the modernized model, use document delivery in the short term 4. encourage experimentation with the emergent model 5. explore institutional interest in the proposals 6. establish a network representative of STI 7. encourage electronic information and dissemination 8. create a cost-based market place 9. assess and publicize usage, acceptance, and economics of projects underway Ann Okerson (ARL) is the lead person for implementation for all of this. The discussion which followed included the following: Publishers and society publishers are missing links in the report, but it is more important to keep the AAU presidents focused on the immediate recommendations than to branch out. Links to these groups are a later stage. Tenure and intellectual property considerations were considered, but the presidents wanted no strong recommendations in these areas. The recommendation is to educate faculty about these areas. Science in the emergent model will be more collaborative than now. The current reward system will not be possible. How will the Nobel prize be awarded in 2525? Many thanks to Paul Peters for sharing his expertise, and to the 14 librarians who shared the heat and thirst of a late evening meeting room at a distant hotel. Update from the Association of Research Libraries The Report of the AAU Task Force on a National Strategy for Managing Scientific and Technological Information is available electronically via the ARL Gopher server (arl.cni.org) under a directory titled Scholarly Communication. It is also available on the World Wide Web (http://arl.cni.org). A printed copy of all three AAU task force reports (STI, intellectual property, and foreign acquisitions) in one cover is available from ARL Publications for $16 (arlhq.cni.org). A four-page summary of all three AAU task force reports was published in December 1994 and mailed to presidents of universities and colleges with a letter by Indiana Univesity President Myles Brand encouraging their participation in follow-up discussions. The four-page report is HEIRAlliance Executive Strategy Report #5, What Presidents Need To Know About the AAU Action Agenda for University Libraries. The e- text is available on the CAUSE Gopher (cause- gopher.colorado.edu); printed copiesare $5 from CAUSE (303- 030-0310). Specific to follow-up on scientific information, a working group has developed a design for a demonstration project in the area of Japanese STI. The Center for Research Libraries has agreed to operate a demonstration to illustrate network access to core Japanese journals in the field of computer aided manufacturing. The East Asian Resources Web Server at the Ohio State University Library will post the tables of contents from journals and the Center for Research Libraries will facilitate document delivery of articles. As of January, the project is conceptual only. A project description, and a call for library participation in the project, will come in the spring of 1995. And, finally, a new AAU-ARL Research Libraries Steering Committee was formed, consisting of five university presidents and five directors of ARL libraries. At the committee's initial meeting in October 1994, there was encouragement for one or two additional science projects to test the ideas from the project. It is not certain how these projects might develop. One possibility stems from a meeting held last September at Columbia University about the role(s) of university servers in e-publishing, with collaboration among campus organizations and societies identified as a high priority. For more information, contact Ann Okerson, Director of ARL's Office of Academic and Scientific Publishing (ann@cni.org). The ARL Newsletter and the ARL Gopher are both used to report on further developments with the AAU-ARL action agenda for university libraries. ____________________________________________________________________________ VIII NATIONAL SEMINAR OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES OF BRAZIL: GENERAL REPORT BY Vera Cristina Neumann, Librarian, Central Library, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil It happened in Brazil between the 7th and 11th of November. The 8th National Seminar of University Libraries was held on UNICAMP's campus (State University of Campinas), located 100 km (38.5 miles)from Sao Paulo city. The event (SNBU) is considered today to be the most important in the information science field in Brazil. Every 2 years this seminar takes place on a different Brazilian university campus. Its principle objective is to share information about services, techniques and new technologies regarding information science in the university environment. The 8th Seminar was organized and coordinated by the Central Library of UNICAMP and gathered approximately 600 professionals, representing the 26 Brazilian states. The motto for the Seminar was "Integrating and Sharing". The main focus of the seminar was to discuss the impact of the acceleletated pace of the use of computers and telecomminication technologies within academic libraries. Discussions included how the new technologies have been implemented, their practical applications for sharing resources, and their assistance in meeting the growing information demands in academic and research institutions. The Seminar had speakers and panelists who are some of the best known Brazilian specialists as well as some international professionals. The events were categorized as follows: courses, meetings, technical visits, speeches and round tables, and poster sessions. 1. Courses: There were 10 courses of 8 hours each offered. There was an average of 25 students per course: 1. Management for quality 2. Data base administration 3. Administration and organization of Library Services 4. Artificial intelligence 5. Preservation of bibliographic materials 6. Electronic access and delivery of information using Ariel Software 7. Strategic planning 8. Introduction to Micro-isis 9. Marketing libraries 10. Project development 2. Meetings: In conujunction with the Seminar, the following sub-groups met: 1. Forum of librarians from physical education, sports and leisure 2. Librarians meeting from the area of engineering 3. Meeting of national periodicals collection cataloging 4. Meeting of Consulting Commission of the BIBLIODATA/CALCO 3. Tecnical Visits: Organized in groups of 20, librarians attending the Seminar could observe the physical installations and services offered by the Central Library of the UNICAMP, emphasizing special collections. Covering twelve thousand square meters, the Central Library of UNICAMP is one of most modern library structures in Brazil. 4. Speeches and Round Tables: Topics covered included: 1. University libraies and networks 2. Interactions between university and high school libraries 3. scientific production: the thesis question 4. exchange of services: multiple effect on users 5. using the new technologies to facilitate better services 6. integrating the library into the university 5. Poster Sessions: There were 23 poster sessions on display. The topics were very diversified on the theme "Integrating and Sharing.": 1. Program "Disque Braille" 2. A visual communication as a quality factor in the university library 3. Periodic analyses of existing reference services in university libraries and research institutions in Brazil in the areas of humanities and social sciences 4. Policy of development and use of human resources in university libraries The following Brazilian research centers collaborated on sponsoring this Seminar: USP - Universidade de Sao Paulo UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informacao em Ciencia e Tecnologia BIREME - Centro Latino Americano e do Caribe de Informacao em Ciencias da Saude CNPq- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico MEC/SESu - Ministerio da Educacao e Cultura/ Secretaria de Ensino Superior CAPES - Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior FAPESP - Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa no Estado de Sao Paulo FINEP - Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos The proceedings for this event (in portuguese) can be requested by mailing to: Prof. Leila Mercadante Biblioteca Central - UNICAMP Caixa Postal 6136 13081-970 - Campinas - SP - Brazil _______________________________________________________________________________ Journal of Electronic Publishing The University of Michigan Press announces the creation of the Journal of Electronic Publishing . This is a World Wide Web resource designed to bring into one place the literature on electronic publishing. The literature on the subject is already quite rich, but it is informal and chaotic. Individual contributions are hard to track down and fugitive. Debate is carried out in many separate non-intersecting conversations across the net. The purpose of the JEP is to provide a single source, a stable source and a central venue where the important contributions can all be found. And in this fast moving area it is important that papers be made available with the speed that only electronic publication can make possible. The Journal will be an evolving entity. It will develop over time, changing with the needs of readers, the capability of the technology, and the vision of the editors. We are excited about the prospects for a networked journal and already have many ideas for taking it beyond its initial stage. The first stage in developing the JEP has been to collect and either load files or provide pointers to recent important and valuable papers. This archiving phase continues and we welcome documents and information to strengthen this archive function.. However we are now ready to move beyond that. We seek new papers and documents to include. We do not seek any exclusivity and welcome papers that will also be published elsewhere. We are working on plans to enhance the resource to permit discussions centered around the ideas put forward by contributors. We also plan to institute methods for guiding readers to the most significant papers as the volume of material becomes too large for omnivorous reading. We intend to do this using a combination of open peer commentary and formal peer reviewing. As an interactive medium we want to employ that characteristic in the evaluation process and we want to benefit from it as we develop the Journal. Join us in contributing, in participating in the discussion, and in suggesting new ideas for the Journal. The URL of the Journal is: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep Please send comments, ideas and papers to Colin Day (colinday@umich.edu) or Lorrie LeJeune (lorrie@umich.edu). The University of Michigan Press PO Box 1104 839 Greene Street Ann Arbor MI 48109 _____________________________________________________________________________ FIRSTSEARCH UPGRADE PROVIDES ONLINE ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS DUBLIN, Ohio, Nov. 23, 1994--The FirstSearch service now offers immediate online access to the full text of nearly 1 million serial articles. The full-text articles are linked to article citations in six FirstSearch databases and are accessible using the FirstSearch document delivery system. Users can view the text on a computer screen, send it to their Internet e-mail address, or do both. Users also can send the document to a local printer. Full Text Online is the sixth FirstSearch document delivery option. Other article delivery methods include fax; interlibrary loan; overnight and ordinary mail; and FastDoc, a full-image service that provides automated delivery of articles from scanned collections within an hour. The full text is being supplied by UMI and is available for articles found in 1,400 journal titles. It is part of a system software upgrade, the sixth major upgrade in the three years since FirstSearch was introduced in October 1991. "While we have included several important enhancements in this new release, we are most excited about the addition of ASCII full text," said Rick Noble, OCLC vice president of reference services. "FirstSearch provides very comprehensive bibliographic coverage, and users want access to full text to go with it. "The ASCII UMI titles that we have just made available are a wonderful complement to the document delivery and FastDoc options that were already in place," he said. "ASCII provides our users with a low cost alternative to traditional services while offering immediate delivery to their screens, printers, or e-mail accounts. "Our next priority is to add to this collection of ASCII by continuing to work with UMI and other database producers." Other enhancements in the upgrade include: o Redesigned Document Ordering Screens. Document ordering information is displayed on two new screens. The first screen lists available document delivery methods and the price range of each method. If an article is available online, "View/Email" is the first option. The second screen lists each document supplier and its price. o More Library Holdings Options. Rather than displaying library holdings information automatically as part of a citation, FirstSearch now provides holdings on demand. Users can request a list of holding libraries with the LIBraries action. In addition, librarians can customize holdings displays to a group they belong to or turn the capability off. o Addition of the OR operator. The Boolean operator OR is now available in addition to AND and NOT. Searchers can use OR twice in a search statement to broaden a search concept or include synonyms. The FirstSearch service is designed for library patrons, with an end-user interface that allows patrons to move easily through the online search process in just a few simple steps, without training or online searching experience. ____________________________________________________________________________ NII AWARDS TO CELEBRATE BEST USES OF INFORMATION HIGHWAY More than 60 Industry, Government & Community Organizations Sponsor National Information Infrastructure Awards ----------------------------------------- Instructions for Getting an Official Entry Kit + Other Information ----------------------------------------- The NII Awards will recognize uses of the "information highway" that powerfully demonstrate its capabilities and utility: real examples and success stories that illustrate the NII's potential to provide new benefits and encourage communication, collaboration and access to information beyond traditional boundaries. If you are using the "information highway" - the combination of private and public networks, including those of corporations, communities, the government and the Internet - to achieve real benefits for your organization or your community, we hope you will enter the NII Awards. When you enter the NII Awards, you'll serve as an example of how people can improve their lives, businesses and communities by using the information highway. Whether or not you are selected for an Award, we will acknowledge your achievements by including your entry in a national database. You only need to provide a structured description of your use of the "information highway". There is no entry fee. Following are instructions to help you: 1. Get copies of NII Awards electronic documents, including an Entry Kit 2. Get a hard-copy Entry Kit 3. Ask questions about the Awards Please note: the Entry Deadline is February 17, 1995 ******************************************************** 1. TO GET COPIES OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS ******************************************************** VIA EMAIL --------------- Send email to info-request@niiawards.org and include get XXX on a single line to get the document(s) of your choice: - Entry Kit - include get entry_kit - Current Questions and Answers - include get q_a - Letter from Vice President Gore (text of ltr) - include get vp_ltr - NII Awards News (including the Press Release) - include get news - Quotes from sponsors and supporters - include get quotes - Template for Required Entry Information - include get template - Up-to-date list of Sponsors of the NII Awards - include get sponsors - Official Rules - include get rules - Fact Sheet ( a fact sheet on the NII Awards) - include get fact_sheet - Blurbs (short messages about the NII Awards for broad distribution) - include get blurbs ******************************************** 2. TO GET A HARD COPY ENTRY KIT ******************************************** To receive a good, old-fashioned hard-copy Official Entry Kit, please call 313-453-9137. It will be brought to you via the US Postal Service. ******************************************** 3. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS (or comments) ******************************************** Step #1) Read the Q_A document. Please request a current copy of the Questions & Answers document by sending a message to info-request@niiawards.org and include "get q_a" in the body of your message. The Q&A document is being updated regularly so please read it before asking a specific question. Step #2) after you've read the q_a document, send a message to questions@niiawards.org. We'll get back to you as quickly as possible. Thank you. We hope you will share your accomplishments with us and with others throughout the world by entering in the NII Awards. We wish you the best of luck with your entry. Also, please suggest people and organizations that should enter the Awards. We will contact them. ** Entry Deadline = February 17, 1995 ** ***************************************************************** 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. Articles and requests for subscriptions may be sent to the editor at ACRLSTS@HAL.UNM.EDU. ***************************************************************** END OF FILE *****************************************************************