ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ February 2000 / 89 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l d Mary Ellen Davis O C LC in v ite s lib ra rie s to b u ild C o o p e ra tiv e O nline R esource C a ta lo g OCLC is inviting libraries to participate in and contribute to the developm ent o f the OCLC C o o p e r a t iv e O n lin e R e s o u r c e C a ta lo g (CORC), an international effort to organize and facilitate access to electronic information resources on the W eb. CORC is a collabora tive effort to create a high-quality, library- selected database o f W eb resource descrip tions m odeled after the creation o f World Cat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog). During this development phase, participating libraries use the system to create records and provide feed back to OCLC to en hance the design o f the service. CORC was launched in January 1999 with 50 libraries from around the world using new, automated tools developed by OCLC to cre ate a database. Today, more than 170 librar ies are contributing to CORC and OCLC is now encouraging more libraries— o f all types and sizes— to contribute. OCLC plans to re lease CORC as a new service later in 2000. “It [CORC] has the potential to make the library the portal o f ch o ice for access to both electronic and print materials. CORC is the first step in building the foundation for cata loging in the future,” said Shirley Hyatt, m an ager, OCLC Product Marketing, and one o f a group o f team leaders in the OCLC CORC effort. V ir g in ia lib ra rie s c o lla b o ra te on e x h ib it a n d p e rfo rm a n ce T h e libraries o f Old D om inion University (ODU) in Norfolk and Hampton University in Hampton, held a joint exhibit and cham ber music concert to raise awareness o f the rich music composition heritage in Virginia. The exhibit, “From Exposition to Development: The Legacy o f Composers at Hampton University,” featured photos, writings, and scores from a number o f com posers associated with Hamp ton— including R. Nathaniel Dett and Clarence Cameron White— and looks at the diversities, influences, and careers o f 20th-century Hamp ton University student and faculty composers. The exhibit, available online at http://libstaff. lib.odu.edu/hampton, was made possible by a grant from the Norfolk Foundation. For de tails about O D U ’s music collections and e x hibits, visit http://www.lib.odu.edu/aboutlib/ spccol/music/contact/info.html. NCSU la u n ch e s fe llo w s p ro g ra m North Carolina State University (NCSU) librar ies launched its NCSU Libraries Fellows Pro­ gram. The program seeks to attract library school graduates, targeting highly qualified librarians with potential for science/engineer ing or information technology librarianship and those from diverse backgrounds. As fund- A selection o f photos, w ritin g s, and scores fro m th e jo in t e x h ib it o f the libraries of Old Dominion University and Hampton University. North Carolina State University Libraries' first Fellows. Pictured are (front) Timothy Mori and Rachel Kuhn; (back) Bradley Warren, Sebastian Hierl, and Tripp Reade. http://libstaff http://www.lib.odu.edu/aboutlib/ 90 / C&RL News ■ Fe b ru a ry 2000 Celebrate A fric a n A m erican H istory M onth and National W om en's History M onth w ith m aterials like th ese fro m th e N a tio n a l W o m en's H isto ry Project. For a free catalog of m ulticultural materials call (707) 838-6000, e-mail nwhp@ aol.com , or visi their Web site at http://w w w .nw hp.org/. ing perm its, NCSU will recruit fellow s each year with a goal o f m aintaining a co m p le ment o f four fellow s on an o n g o in g basis. T o advance the careers o f th ese new p ro fessio n als, fellow s are jointly ap p oin ted to a h om e departm ent to cultivate ex p ertise in the day- to-day p ractice o f librarianship, and to o n e o f the libraries’ innovative projects. A ccordin g to W endy L. bcott, assistant di­ rector for organizational design and learn­ A m o n g its preparations fo r Y 2 K , the Reference D epartm ent at the University o f North Carolina at G r e e n s b o r o (U N C -G ) h e ld a " M ille n i- y u m " Appreciation Party in honor of the UNC-G graduate lib rary stu d en ts w h o w o rk at th e In fo rm a tio n Service Desk. in g , “T h e n u m b e r o f g r a d u a te s fro m m aster’s program s in library and in fo rm a tion scie n ce has d ecreased by alm ost a third sin ce the 1 9 7 0 s .” Scott n oted that th ere is new com p etition for librarians from the pri vate sector, as inform ation tech n o lo g y co m p an ies d isco v er that MLS grad uates have an im portant skill set, and can o ffer m u ch h ig h er salaries for sim ilar w ork. NCSU is h o p efu l that th ese new fello w p o sitio n s will address this recruiting ch a llen g e. U n iv e r s it y o f L o u is v ille c re a te s e n d o w e d c h a ir T h e University o f Louisville (UL) has c re ­ ated the first en d o w ed chair in libraries in Kentucky. Named the Evelyn Sch n eid er En­ d o w ed Chair for Copyright and Intellectual Freedom , the position will b e filled by the en d o f this year. T h e position w as funded by a $1 m illion gift from Evelyn Schneider (now d eceased ), w ho served as UL’s first library director for 46 years. This gift was m atched by the Re­ , search Challenge Trust Fund, provided by t the Kentucky Council on Postsecondaiy Edu­ cation. T h e position will address through research, copyright and intellectual freedom issues related to libraries, universities, and the community. U n iv e r s it y o f V ir g in ia in v it e d t o jo in D ig it a l L ib r a r y F e d e r a tio n T h e University o f Virginia Library (U V a), was invited to join the Digital Library Fed eration (DLF), a consortium o f select research insti tutions with a com m on goal to create, m ain tain, expand, and preserve a distributed co l lectio n o f digital m aterials a c c e s s ib le to scholars and the w ider public. Form ed in 1995, DLF operates under the um brella o f the Council on Library and In- form ation R esources (CLIR), an organiza tion that partners with libraries, archives, and other inform ation providers to advo cate collaborative ap p ro ach es to preserv ing the n atio n ’s intellectual heritage. D eanna Marcum, president o f CLIR, said that the UVa w as selected b eca u se o f its strength as a developer and supplier o f digi tal information. UVa has an extensive digital collection w h ose rate o f growth is doubling every two years. “We b eliev e that the d irection in w hich mailto:nwhp@aol.com http://www.nwhp.org/ C&RL News ■ February 2000 / 91 the DLF appears to be m ov­ ing is a good match for the history o f our digital pro­ g ra m s a n d o u r c u r r e n t g o a ls,” said University Li­ brarian Karin W ittenberg. “We are prepared to be ac­ tive in such areas as stan­ dards and best practices de­ velopment, digital collection d e v e lo p m e n t, and in r e ­ search and developm ent o f digital architectures.” UVa’s digital efforts have also been recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which awarded the library a $200,000 Chal­ lenge Grant for its Electronic C e le b r a t e N a tio (NLW), April 9-15Text Center. With this grant, theme, "Read, Le m atched four-to-one by pri­ L ib r a r y " is f e a t vate fundraising over a four- b o o k m a rk s , pins year period, the library will indoor/outdoor N create a $1 million endow ­ above) is availabl Order these produm ent to ex p an d the site. 545-2433, press 7, O nce the endowment is fully or visit online at ht funded, it will provide tens o f thousands o f dollars every year for the Etext Center’s primary goals: to build and maintain an Internet-accessible collection o f texts and images in the humanities, and to nurture a user community adept at the creation o f these ma­ terials. L ib ra ry o f C o n g r e s s a w a rd s s e c u rity t a g b id to ID S y s te m s ID Systems™ has been selected by the Library o f Congress (LC) to supply Electromagnetic security book tags to protect its collection. ID System’s security tags were rigorously tested by LC to ensure they met all criteria: ease o f application, accelerated age testing, preserva­ tion com p liant ad h esives and compatibility with e x ­ isting 3M™ and Knogo™ systems. n e tLib ra ry to o ffe r O xfo rd U n ive rsity Press b o o ks netLibrary has an a g re e ­ ment with Oxford Univer­ sity Press to offer digitally over the Internet a se le c­ tio n o f th e p u b l i s h e r ’s b o o k s. U nder the a g re e ­ ment, netLibrary will use its proprietary technologies to create and m anage eB o o k versions o f Oxford Univer­ l L ib r a r y W e e k sity Press academ ic and ref­ 000. This year's eren ce titles. The eB o o k s , Connect @ the will be made available di­e d on p o ste rs, and p e n c ils. A n rectly to libraries and their banner (pictured patrons over the Internet. or the first time. netLibrary’s com prehensive from A LA at (800) digital library is accessible x (312) 836-9958, 24 hours a day, seven days ://alastore.ala.org. a w e e k via the In ternet. Among the m ore than 100 publishers who have signed agreem ents with netLibrary are Harvard B u sin ess Press, ABC-CLIO, Cam­ bridge University Press, Columbia University Press, H oughton-M ifflin, the M cGraw-Hill Com panies, and the MIT Press. JST O R co m p le te s p h ase I p ro d u ctio n W ith the re lea se o f th ree new titles and 165,518 pages, JSTO R has com pleted the digi­ tal conversion o f all journal titles in its Phase I database— a total o f 117 titles and more than 4.6 million pages. Completed a month ahead o f schedule, the database includes 17 m ore titles than w ere first prom ised to participa ing institutions. With the com p le­ tion o f Phase I, w hich covers 15 academic disciplines in the arts, hu­ manities and social sciences, JSTOR has now em barked on the produc­ tion o f its next collection o f jour­ nals, the G eneral Sciences co lle c­ tion. O n e hund red and six te e n colleges and universities in 25 na­ tions now have access to the JSTOR database, up from 32 at the begin ­ ning o f 1999. n a , 2 arn u r , LW e f cts fa tp http://alastore.ala.org