ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ Novem ber 2002 / 703 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l d Stephanie Orphan Su sa n M artin is n ew A C R L v is itin g p ro g ra m o ffic e r ACRL is pleased to announce that it has con­ tracted with Susan K. Martin to be the division’s part-time program officer for scholarly communica­ tions. In her new role, Martin will work on the creation of tools to assist librarians in all types of academic libraries as they deal with the changing structures of scholarly communication. She will serve as an advocate for Susan K. Martin academic libraries, and will work with other li­ brary and scholarly organizations to address the issues raised by these changes and their im­ pacts on libraries. Within ACRL, she will pro­ vide staff support for the Scholarly Communi- catio n s Com m ittee and the Sch o larly Communications Discussion Group. “Sue brings an incredible skill set and knowl­ edge base to this position with her knowledge of scholarly communications issues, her depth of experience working in academic librarianship and higher education, and her experience in ACRL,” said Mary Ellen Davis, ACRL execu­ tive director. “We look to her leadership to broaden ACRL’s scholarly communications pro­ gram and are delighted to have her join the ACRL team.” In addition to her experience as a director o f two research libraries (Georgetown and Johns Hopkins), Martin was executive direc­ tor of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and earlier held posi­ tions in the libraries at the University of Cali­ fornia-Berkeley and Harvard University. In 1995 she was president of ACRL, a year which culminated in the adoption of a five-year stra­ tegic plan. Martin retired from Georgetown Univer­ sity last year, after 11 years as the university librarian, and is president of SKM Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in library management, development, and technologies. She received a bachelor of arts in romance languages from Tufts University, a master’s in library and information science from Simmons, and a Ph.D. in library and information science from the University of Calìfomia-Berkeley. In dian a Univ. o p ens new fa c ility Indiana University-Bloomington (IUB) unveiled the Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility, its new shelving facility and book preservation laboratory, with a dedication and naming cer­ emony in October. The facility features the state-of-the-art E. Lingle Craig Preservation Laboratory, which provides space and equip­ ment to conserve and protect library collec­ tions. The laboratory includes items never be­ fore available to IUB book preservationists, including a leaf caster and an automatic box- making machine, the first of its kind in use by an academic research library. The facility will also be used to hold less- used books from IU’s main library and many of its 18 other libraries that are full or beyond capacity; the number of overflow volumes is estimated at 2.7 million. Materials requested by researchers will be delivered daily, with in­ formation such as articles and tables of con­ tents transmitted by fax and e-mail. Ruth Lilly is the daughter of Joshiah K. Lilly, whose col­ lection of rare books and manuscripts helped 704 / C&RL News ■ November 2002 to form the Lilly Library, named in his honor. E. Lingle Craig was a librarian at IUB for 35 years w hose bequest to the IU Libraries made the preservation laboratory possible. J S T O R re le a s e s la n g u a g e a n d lite r a t u r e co lle ctio n JSTOR has released its sixth journal collection, Language and Literature, a compendium o f 47 titles spanning the literary cultures of many na­ tions, including China, Germany, Africa, and the United States. The collection adds 1.4 million new pages to JSTOR’s electronic archive of important scholarly journals. Developed in conjunction with the Modem Language Association through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Lan­ guage and Literature Collection covers such areas as linguistics, comparative literature, and literary history. In addition to English, the collection fea­ tures articles in Arabic, Russian, Italian, and other languages. L ib r a r y c o m m u n it y e n d o r s e s D ig ita l M e d ia C o n s u m e r s ' R ig h t s A c t ALA, the Association o f Research Libraries, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the Medical Library Association have endorsed the Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act o f 2002 (DMCRA), introduced by congressmen Rick Boucher and John Doolittle. The DMCRA resolves key concerns regarding hardware and software that permit significant noninfringing uses and allows researchers to engage in the scientific research of technological protection measures. U n iv. o f N e v a d a u n v e ils N e v a d a V o te s! Through a joint project with public radio station KUNR, the University of Nevada-Reno Libraries has developed the Nevada Votes! Web site, a com­ prehensive information source for Nevada candi­ date and election information. Nevada Votes! fea­ tures candidate biographies, personal statements and photos, voting records o f incumbent candi­ dates, campaign finance reports, PAC contribu­ tions, voting district maps, election law, and links to pertinent newspaper articles. Current ballot ini­ tiatives and referendums are also reproduced. The site also includes “Stories from Nevada History,” written by state archivist Guy Rocha, and articles Mark your calendar! ACRL to offer two workshops in Philadelphia ACRL will offer two workshops in Philadel­ phia prior to the ALA Midwinter Meeting on Friday, January 24, 2003: C r e a t in g a C o n tin u o u s A s s e s s m e n t E n v ir o n m e n t in A c a d e m ic L ib ra r ie s During this full-day session, work through the “Standards for College Libraries” (2000 edition) using the instrument “Standards and Assessment for Academic Libraries: A Work­ book.” Learn about the new concepts of the standards, discover how the individual sec­ tions o f the standards are part o f overall institution and library planning, and find out how to incorporate performance indicators and outcomes assessment measures to assess the impact o f librarians and libraries on stu­ dent learning. The w orkbook provides practical infor­ mation throughout with checklists, forms, examples, and library assessment tools and techniques. Speakers: Bob Fernekes, infor­ mation services librarian, Georgia Southern University; Bill Nelson, professor and library director, Augusta State University B e h a v io rs th a t B u rd e n th e W orkp lace Learn how to identify and change behaviors that can undermine the success of your library (and your personal career goals), as measured by the financial and organizational support the li­ brary receives within your institution or greater community. Written exercises and small discus­ sion will help you see the actions of yourself and your colleagues, your library’s strategic plan, and the culture of your library with fresh eyes. These behaviors and policies can feel like the right things to the library staff but drive cus­ tomers crazy and are not necessary for accurate, efficient, and effective service. Speaker: Pat Wagner, Pattern Research ALA Midwinter registration is now open. Watch www. ala. org/events/midwinter2003/ registration.html. Questions? Contact (800) 545-2433, ext. 2523; acrl@ala.org. mailto:acrl@ala.org C&RL News ■ N ovem ber 2002 / 705 You don't need to know German to participate in ARL's German Resources Project One of the persistent myths about the Associa­ tion of Research Libraries (ARL) German Re­ sources Project is that you must be a Geiman- language bibliographer to be interested. In fact the project includes a broad range of digital, document-delivery, and cataloging activities that embrace the full range of the subject spectrum and involve staff from all parts o f the library, many of whom know no German. The German Resources Project belongs to a group of Global Resources Programs that ARL launched in the 1990s. The German Demon­ stration Project began in 1992, and changed to its present form in 1998 with financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Since then it has had four main subcommittees: docu­ ment delivery, bibliographic control, digital li­ braries, and collection development. The document delivery group has worked with colleagues at the University of Göttingen to organize document delivery to North Ameri­ can libraries through GBVdirekt, The group is currently trying to establish a reciprocal arrange­ ment for document delivery from participating North American libraries, and is investigating from the N evada Historical Society Quartetly on the state’s political history and elections. Develop­ ment of the site was underwritten by a $15,000 grant from the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust. Nevada Votes! is available online at http:// nevadavotes.unr.edu. C o lu m b ia Univ. Press and A m e rica n H isto rica l A sso c, launch co lle ctio n Columbia University Press and the American His­ torical Association (AHA) have launched Gutenberg ‹ e › , a collection of award-winning digital monographs in specialized fields of research. The digital format enables the incorporation of innovative source materials while making it pos­ sible for the works to be widely available, offering a cost-effective model for peer-reviewed publica­ tion. Each year, a panel of historians chosen by the AHA selects the award winners, whose authors then begin a collaborative process with the elec­ tronic publishing staff at Columbia University Press to enhance the works for publication. The the feasibility of “returnables” (physical volumes that must be sent both ways across the Atlan­ tic). The bibliographic control group has com­ pleted the translation of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2), which are having a large impact in Germany as international com­ patibility grows more crucial. The digital library group has a clearing house for joint U.S.-Ger- man projects. Four joint projects were funded through the first round o f the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)-National Sci­ ence Foundation (NSF) joint initiative. A sec­ ond DFG-NSF funding cycle is now underway. The collection development group has estab­ lished a partners’ forum ‚which matches subject specialists in a wide range of subjects from Af­ rica to Volkswirtschaft (economics). It has also facilitated some specific collections projects. More information about the German Re­ sou rces P roject is available at http:// grp.lib.msu.edu. Membership continues to be free. Queries should be sent to Tom Sea- dle (seadle@msu.edu) or Tom Kilton (t- kilton@uiuc.edu), the current chair.—M ichael Seadle, Michigan State University, seadle@msu.edu first four categories of award-winning works are Africa, colonial Latin American, and South Asia; Europe before 1800; military and foreign rela­ tions; and North America before 1900. The con­ tents of Gutenberg ‹ e › are copyrighted materi­ als licensed to libraries, universities, or other insti­ tutions through an annual subscription. The col­ lection will expand each year to include new award- winning works of scholarship. In g e n ta o ffe rs a d v a n ced d e p o sit Ingenta has introduced an advanced deposit ac­ count functionality on ingenta.com, giving library services greater account control and more organi­ zational tools through which to track patron spend­ ing. The new service allows users to purchase articles on ingenta.com not subscribed to by an institution, using specific funds. Users can also access full-text subscriptions for free. Some fea­ tures of the advanced deposit accounts are single item cost caps, which allow you to designate the maximum amount per single article that your in­ stitution is willing to fund; a number of items cap, mailto:seadle@msu.edu mailto:kilton@uiuc.edu mailto:seadle@msu.edu 706 /C & RL New s ■ Novem ber 2002 Charlotte keynote speakers Three very different keynote speakers will pro­ voke, entertain, and inspire attendees at the ACRL National Conference in Charlotte N.C., April 10-13, 2003- Different from each other, they will all sound changes on the conference theme, “Learning to Make a Difference.” Paul Duguid, coauthor of The S ocial L ife o f In form ation (Harvard Business School Press, 2000), became interested in information when he worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Cor­ poration with “extraordinary” scientists. Yet, when the computer scientists talked about in­ formation, they thought about “bits on a wire”; the social scientists meant people talking. Infor­ mation is of course what libraries deal with. Thursday's opening keynote speaker will share his ideas on the library’s role as a community, and the necessary interrelationship between librar­ ians and their users and between other users. The Social Life of Infomiation Home Page, online at http://www.slofl.com/, contains several chap­ ters of the book, information on the authors, and links to reviews. The former head o f the National Endow­ ment for the Humanities, Bill Ferris, knows the South. Not only is he a native Mississippian, he’s the coeditor of the Encyclopedia o f the South, which limits the number of articles purchased by a patron at any one time; and time period spending limits. ABI/INFORM s u b s c r ib e r s receive e x p a n d e d a cce ss to b a ck file s Subscribers to Proquest Company's ABI/INFORM databases now receive access to the ABI/INFORM Archive, a file containing historical backfile con­ tent for 25 business periodicals, with more titles to be loaded later this year. The archive provides cover- to-cover, full-page images from leading business journals dating back to the beginning of die 20th century, complete with illustrations and advertise­ ments. The backfile content has been integrated into die current subscription so that searching across all years is seamless. M cC ra cken and Y e llo w s to n e s ig n agre em e n t The McCracken Research Library of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and the Yellowstone Na- and newly affiliated widi the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina. He’ll share his views with attendees at Saturday’s lunch. Also a student o f Southern music, he’s promised to bring his guitar with him to demonstrate the South’s role in blues, country music, and rock and roll. Leam more about the Center for the Study of the American South at http://www.unc.edu/depts/csas/. Belle W heelan grew up in a time and in a family in which knowledge is power. Her par­ ents reminded her—and she has never forgot­ ten—that odier African Americans lost their lives because diey could read. Her reverence for read­ ing carried over to her ten years as a college presi­ dent, when she presided over a moment of si­ lence when the card catalog was closed. Formerly the president of Northern Virginia Community College, die second-largest commu­ nity college in the country, Wheelan is now the Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Virginia. On Sunday, she’ll share her look at the past with her view of challenges for die fu­ ture. To learn more about Belle Wheelan, view her online biography at http.//www.education. state.va.us/SecofEdlnfo/WheelanBio.cfm. tional Park Research Library and Archives have entered into a cooperative agreement. Each library has agreed to make its collections more easily avail­ able to one another’s staff and promote the interli­ brary loan of materials between die two. The agree­ ment is expected to encourage scholarship in the Greater Yellowstone area and provides a founda­ tion for future cooperative projects. ■ Volunteers needed at Charlotte conference Help others, support your profession, and have fun in die bargain! A wide variety of tasks and time slots are available for volunteers at ACRL’s National Conference in Charlotte, North Caro­ lina, April 10-13, 2003. Interested? Contact the Charlotte Volun­ teer Committee cochairs Janis Bandelin, janis.bandelin@furman.edu, or Kate Hickey, hickey@elon.edu, for further details. http://www.slofl.com/ http://www.unc.edu/depts/csas/ http://www.education mailto:janis.bandelin@furman.edu mailto:hickey@elon.edu