ANSI Representative's File, 1966-1985
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Brief Description: Files of the ALA representatives to the American National Standards Institute Committee Z39 on Standards for Library Work, Documentation, and Publishing Practices (Bella Shachtman 1966-70; Stephen Salmon 1970-72; Alice Sheftel 1972; Fred Blum 1972-77; Susan Vita 1977-85), contains correspondence, minutes, reports, newsletter, drafts and published copies of standards, and files for sixty subcommittees, includes abstracts and indexes, bibliographic controls, descriptive practices, forms, languages formats, procedures, statistics, and other technical services.
Held at:
The American Library Association Archives
19 Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61802
Phone: 217 333 0798
Fax: 217 244 2868
Email: ala-archives [at] library.illinois.edu
Record Series Number: 31/2/96
Created by: Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS)
Volume: 2.3 Cubic Feet
Acquired: 07/27/1986.
More information is available at https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/3102096a.pdf
Arrangement: Arrangend alphabetically by subject title and chronologically by date thereunder
Biographical Note for Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) :

The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) is responsible for the following activities: acquisition, identification, cataloging, classification, and preservation of library materials; the development and coordination of the country's library resources; and those areas of selection and evaluation involved in the acquisition of library materials and pertinent to the development of library resources. ALCTS has specific responsibility for:

1. Continuous study and review of the activities assigned to the division.

2. Conduct of activities and projects within its area of responsibility.

3. Synthesis of activities of all unites within the ALA that have a bearing on the type of activity represented.

4. Representation and interpretation of its type of activity in contacts outside the profession.

5. Stimulation of the development of librarians engaged in its type of activity, and stimulation of participation by members in appropriate type-of-library divisions.

6. Planning and development of programs of study and research for the type of activity fot the total profession (1).

The name change from Resources and Technical Services Division (RTSD) to ALCTS became effective on June 30, 1989 (2). The RTSD was established on January 1, 1957. It combined the former Division of Cataloging and Classification (established in 1900, and until 1940 the Cataloging Section), the Board of Acquisitions of Library Materials (created by Council in 1951), and the Serials Round Table (created by Council in 1929) (3).

Division was dissolved on September 1, 2020, and merged into a new division, Core.

Subject Index
American National Standards Institute
Indexing
Standards
Technical Services
Languages of Materials
English [eng]