FW: SLA drops organizational memberships

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From: Shin, Juanna (jishin@sandia.gov)
Date: Wed Nov 03 2004 - 12:45:47 PST


Subject: FW: SLA drops organizational memberships
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 13:45:47 -0700
Message-ID: <B4106C82DFD51449B94258FB2FA93439136B5A@ES23SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov>
From: "Shin, Juanna" <jishin@sandia.gov>

This should be of concern to the SLA membership.

________________________________

From: owner-sla-st@welles.library.northwestern.edu
[mailto:owner-sla-st@welles.library.northwestern.edu] On Behalf Of
darra.combs@srs.gov
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 9:54 AM
To: SLA-ST@welles.library.nwu.edu
Subject: SLA drops organizational memberships

Sci-Tech members, FYI.

Darra Combs
darra.combs@srs.gov
Chair, Sci-Tech Division SLA

Subject: RE: SLA drops Organizational memberships
From: Foster Zhang <fjzhang@stanford.edu> <mailto:fjzhang@stanford.edu>

Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 12:13:08 -0800
To: Technical Standards Committee <sla-techstandards@lists.sla.org>
<mailto:sla-techstandards@lists.sla.org>

Dear Daniel,

We, the members of the Technical Standards Committee, were shocked by
the
news that the SLA board had decided to drop its NISO membership. We
strongly urge the board to reconsider and restore SLA's organizational
membership to NISO.

The standards related to library and information technologies touch the
work
of information professionals every day. One of the great benefits as a
member of SLA is being able to understand the changes, directions, and
development of information standards from standards communities. As an
institutional member of NISO, SLA members are able to express their
concerns, ideas, and suggestions regarding technical standards through
the
Technical Standards Committee. We have been one of the strongest
voices on
the NISO system and regularly comment or vote on things effecting what
our
members do on a daily basis. Frequently SLA was the only voice
representing
special librarians when the standards were developed and reviewed. We
were
also one of the very few voices that voted NO or sent strong comments to
the
standard drafts which would have had deep impacts on the detailed
working
processes in small or specialized libraries.

The following is a list of activities of this committee, representing
the
involvement of SLA in NISO's standards activities during the last three
years:

Comments and voting activities:
. ISO 21047 draft standard on Textual Work Code (ISTC)
. Z39.86 File Specifications for the Digital Talking
Book
. Z39.83 Circulation Interchange Part 1: Protocol (NCIP)
. Z39.83 Circulation Interchange Part 2: Protocol
Implementation Profile
Question /Answer Transaction Protocol (QATP)
. Z39.89 The U.S. National Z39.50 Profile for Library
Applications
. ISO 3297 International Standard Serial Numbering
(ISSN)
. ISO 2108 International Standard Book Numbering (ISBN)
. Z39.47 Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set
for Bibliographic
Use(ANSEL)
. Z39.29 Bibliographic References Standard
. ANSI/NISO Z39.19-1993. Guidelines for the
Construction, Format and
Management of Monolingual Thesauri (Reaffirmation)
. Licensing of ISO coding standards Networked Reference
Protocol
. NISO's RFP Writer's Guide to Standards for Library
Systems
. ANSI/NISO Z39.71 - 1999 Holdings Statements for
Bibliographic Items
. NISO Z39.20 - 1999 Criteria for Price Indexes for
Print Library Materials
. Z39.88-200x The OpenURL Framework for
Context-Sensitive Services
. ISO 3279 International Standard Serial Numbering,
. NISO Z39.7-200X: Information Services and Use:
Metrics and statistics for
libraries and information providers-- Data Dictionary
. ISO standard International Standard Book Number, DIS
2108

Without NISO membership, SLA would not be able to participate these
activities; SLA members would lose one of the most important benefits
for
joining SLA. As one of the members indicated in the recent email, "if
they
don't think being part of NISO, which negotiates thesaurus, search, ISO,
Z39
standards plus more, maybe we shouldn't belong to SLA. Geez, who can
carry
our water to these fora? Not the ALA certainly."

Through NISO, SLA is also involved in the ISO TC46 Experts Group which
include the following subgroups:
- ISO/TC 46/WG 2 - Coding of country names and related entities
- ISO/TC 46/SC 4 - Computer applications in information and
documentation
- ISO/TC 46/SC 8 - Statistics and performance evaluation
- ISO/TC 46/SC 9 - Presentation, Identification, and Description of
Documents
- ISO/TC 46/SC 10 - Physical keeping of documents
- ISO/TC 46/SC 11 - Archives/records management

Each year we also introduce new standards at our popular "Standards
Updates
and Special Librarians" in the annual SLA conferences, which have
received
more and more attention.

If SLA faces financial difficulties and needs to reduce the benefits it
has
promised and offered to its members, it is necessary to ask the opinions
of
the entire membership, and explain all the options.

We strongly urge you pass our requests to the Board, and hope the Board
take
back the decision of dropping SLA's NISO membership.

Technical Standards Committee
Foster Zhang, Chair
Karen Buxton
Krista Harney
Donna Goda
J. David Martin
Jill Sherman
Marcia Lei Zeng

Past Chair of Technical Standards Committee
Margie Hlava

-----Original Message-----
From: Trefethen, Daniel B [mailto:daniel.b.trefethen@boeing.com
<mailto:daniel.b.trefethen@boeing.com> ]
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Subject: SLA drops Organizational memberships

Members of the SLA Technical Standards Committee:

As your Board liaison, I am sorry to inform you that due to budget cuts,
SLA's FY 2005 budget does not include funding for membership in such
organizations as NISO and CNI. The only paid membership we will be
retaining is in IFLA. The current memberships will expire at the end of
this year.

The FY 2005 budget was a particularly challenging one, and many items
(and positions) remained unfunded. We have expectations for a better
budget year in FY 2006, and may be able to reconsider some of our
memberships at that time.

Your mission remains unchanged in monitoring, reviewing and commenting
upon standards that affect special libraries and information centers,
and serving to assist SLA members in understanding the changing world of
technical standards that affect library and information services. For
instance, your work in assembling the upcoming Toronto session on
Unicode is an excellent example of fulfilling your mission.

If you have any questions about this budget action, please let me know.

Dan Trefethen
Boeing - Future Combat Systems
P.O. Box 3707, M/C 84-74
Seattle, WA 98124-2207
phone: 253-657-1103
fax: 253-773-7721
daniel.b.trefethen@boeing.com <mailto:daniel.b.trefethen@boeing.com>


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