[PUBLIB] Monthly Report (fwd)

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Sender: "Karen G. Schneider" <kgs at bluehighways.com>
Subject: Monthly Report

Note reference to Hennen's report!

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>Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:35:53 -0600
>From: "William Gordon" <WGORDON at ala.org>
>To: ALA Council List <alacoun at ala1.ala.org>

>Subject: Monthly Report
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>		1)	Since I, along with several thousand other
>people, will be in Philadelphia on Friday at ALA's Midwinter
>Conference, I am sending my monthly report to Council today .
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>		2)	I am pleased to announce that Elizabeth
>Dreazen has been appointed to the position of Director, Office of ALA
>Governance, effective March 1, 1999.  This is the position, although
>with a different title, that was occupied by Emily Melton before her
>resignation last November.  Ms. Dreazen is currently the Deputy
>Executive Director of LAMA, and has been on the ALA staff for seven
>years.  The Secretariats of the Council and the Executive Board report
>to the Director of the Office of ALA Governance.
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>		3)	NCLIS has published a brochure as an outcome
>of their hearing on children and the internet.  It is a publication of
>NCLIS, not ALA.  The brochure will be available at Midwinter.  It is
>called  "Kids and the Internet:  The Promise and the Perils;  Practice
>Guidelines for Librarians and Library Trustees."
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>		4)	The Margaret A. Edwards Trust has awarded ALA
>a $20,000 grant to support a two-day pre-conference on intellectual
>freedom for librarians working with young adults.  The pre-conference
>will be held  in connection with the annual conference in New Orleans.
> The pre-conference, "Teens in the 21st Century:  Access for the
>Future," will be held Thursday, June 24 and Friday, June 25. 
>Registration is by application only.
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>		5)	Paula Goedert of Jenner and Block sent a
>letter, dated January 12, to A. Joe Mitchell, President of Var Tec
>Telecom regarding their use of ALA's name in their Dime Line
>advertising.  Var Tec Telecom was advised to cease use of ALA's name
>immediately.  Paula has heard from Var Tec Telecom's attorney advising
>her that they will comply with the request immediately, and that a
>letter of apology will follow.
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>		6)	ALA has received a check for $50,000 from the
>Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation to continue the "Roads to Learning"
>program through the current fiscal year.  The Foundation has committed
>$450,000to the program which is a learning disabilities initiative,
>managed by Audrey Gorman.
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>		7)	ACRL was voted a member of the Council of
>Higher Education Management Association (CHEMA) at the November 21-23,
>1998 meeting in San Antonio.  CHEMA is an informal assembly of 32
>management oriented higher education associations in the U.S. and
>Canada.  Its purpose is to maximize member organization's resources
>and to create benefits for the colleges and universities they
>represent by sharing information, comparing experiences, and working
>collectively on projects of shared interest.
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>		8)	Responding to requests from several segments
>of the higher education community for information literacy competency
>standards, the ACRL Board of Directors approved the establishment of a
>working group to develop a framework for implementing this project. 
>The working group includes representatives from the following
>organizations:  ACRL, ALISE, AAHE, CHEA, Educause, and TLTR.  It is
>anticipated that Information Literacy Competency Standards for
>postsecondary education will be announced by mid-winter 2001.
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>		9)	The American Association for Higher Education
>(AAHE) has asked ACRL to organize a forum for college and university
>provosts at its national conference in Washington, DC in March, 1999,
>to address topics relating to information resources, services, and
>technology in the new millennium.  ACRL past Board member Jill Fatzer
>is coordinating the forum's development.
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>		10)	We may be getting a VW bug by the time of the
>summer conference to raffle off as a fundraiser.  This would be part
>of VW's education effort to "infect kids with the BUG of poetry." 
>They are interested in partnering with ALA for this nation-wide
>campaign.  We are just in the talking stages.
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>		11)	We are also in the talking stages with SIRSI
>concerning their interest in establishing an annual award of $10,000
>to a library of any type that makes creative or groundbreaking use of
>technology to deliver exceptional services to the community.
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>		12)	Letters have been mailed to potential
>participants for Ann Symons' initiative for a "filtering" meeting to
>be held on March 12th  in Chicago.  The subject of the meeting is
>filtering technology, its current state and future potential.  This is
>an invitational meeting.
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>		13)	Ann O'Neill, Accreditation Office, has
>prepared some interesting information about the "L" word.
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>	There are 56 ALA accredited programs.  Forty-four are in a
>school or college with "Library" in the name.  Thirty-six offer a
>degree with "Library" in the name.  Seven offer an MA or MS;  of these
>seven, four refer to MA or MS in library and information
>studies/science in either their catalog or website.  One offers a
>masters in information science.
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>Twelve programs are in a school or college without "Library" in the
>name.  Four are in departments with "Library" in the name and the
>degree has "Library" in the name.
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>Six programs are not divided into departments and the degree does not
>have "Library" in the name, e.g., School of Information Studies,
>Master of Information Studies or Master of Science.
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>Two programs are not divided into departments, but the degree does
>have "Library" in the name, e.g., School of Information Studies,
>Master of Library and Information Studies.
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>		14)	ALA has the largest contract for computer
>connections ever entered into by the Philadelphia Convention Center. 
>Who said libraries aren't connected!!!
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>		15)	5000 people have preregistered for the
>Midwinter conference.  According to Eugenia Porter, Membership
>Services, this is a record for a winter conference.
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>		16)	Press Officer Joyce Kelly has indicated that
>media interest in the Midwinter meeting is good.  The "Philadelphia
>Inquirer" has indicated that they will cover the event.  C-Span will
>tape the Newbery-Caldecott press conference for later airing.  The
>Today Show has indicated it will interview the winning authors and the
>ALA president the day following the announcement of the winners.
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>		17)	Three new publications produced by PIO will 
>be available at Midwinter.  They are the 1997-98 annual report, an
>intellectual freedom brochure which is the second in a series of
>brochures on the key action areas, and a new advocacy recruitment
>brochure.
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>		18)	American Libraries editor Leonard Kniffel
>reports that "Go Ahead, Name Them:  America's Best Public Libraries,"
>by Thomas J. Hennen, Jr., in the January issue, has generated an
>unusual amount of interest.  We are aware of at least a dozen local
>newspapers that have done stories, in some cases front page stories,
>on the fact that their public library has been named one of the best
>in the country.  The media love rankings, but we have been careful to
>point out that the article is based on an independent survey, not an
>ALA rating system.
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>		19)	You may want to watch for the new Freedom of
>Information Day (March 16) poster/tip sheet which will be included in
>the March issue of American Libraries.
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