ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 86/C& RLNews Technologists and librarians Conference w orking together Circuit By L averna M. Saunders The 1992 CAUSE Conference W hile attending the recent CAUSE con­ ference in Dallas called “G rasping the M om entum o f the Information Age,” I experi­ en ced several surprises. The first, an hour-long pow er outage, h ap p en ed w hile I w as present­ ing a preconference on the virtual library. Since m y partner an d I had com pleted the com puter- assisted portion o f our w orkshop, w e contin­ u e d “in the dark” w ith oral presentations by several guest speakers and th en m oved on to small group discussions u n d er dim em ergency lighting. This event brought ou t w ith irony the fragility o f the virtual library. Across th e hall, how ever, G eorge Brett, Jo an Lippincott, and Peggy Seiden hot-w ired their com puters into the lighting system and continued w ith their w o rk sh o p . T he creativity an d technical skill n e e d e d to d o this also reflected o n w here w e are in the evolution of electronic information transfer. The second surprise w as a com m ent m ade by o n e of our w orkshop participants, m ost of w h o m w ere administrators in com puting cen­ ters at colleges and universities. D uring a dis­ cussion o f the roles o f technologists an d librar­ ians in creating the virtual library, the participant com m ented that it is hard to talk an d w ork w ith librarians. We p u rsued this issue by ex­ ploring ways that the com puter center an d the library can collaborate to provide access to netw orked information. A few o f these strate­ gies included having group meetings, getting to k n o w each o ther better, defining specific projects to w ork on together, reading the sam e literature, and identifying the right questions to ask in joint discussions. The gro u p agreed that w e need to redefine the roles on both sides, with com puting center staff becom ing m ore user oriented and library staff becom ing m ore tech­ nologically informed. Linking services At o n e institution, th e structure for w orking through these concerns w as total quality m an­ agem ent, though they d id n ’t call it that. Recog­ nizing that the library an d com puting services share the sam e users, th e staff o f the tw o orga­ nizations cooperated in determ ining w hat their users e x p e c t a n d identifying h o w an d w h o w o u ld m eet those needs. At another institution, a reorganization w hich formally linked the library and com puter cen­ ter forced a dialog. In other places the n eed to reallocate resources created a dem and to look for w ays to w ork together rather than com ­ pete. A nother surprise cam e in the Coalition for N etw orked Inform ation (CNI) reporting session w h en a technologist asked that CNI develop a thesaurus o f library jargon so he could u n d er­ stand w hat librarians w ere talking about. H e w an ted to w ork w ith th e librarians at his uni­ versity but felt that he lacked the right language. This c o n cern a n d related o n e s w ere voiced again in the current issues session “Com puting an d Library Organizations: Im pact of Integrat­ ing T echnologies,” w hich w as conducted by Anne W oodsw orth o f the Palm er School. D eveloping partnerships The them e o f developing partnerships betw een libraries an d com puter centers also cam e out in several o th er presentations. Carole Barone, a keynote sp eak er w h o is associate vice ch an ­ cellor for inform ation technology at the Uni­ versity of California-Davis, titled h e r talk “New Interpretations of O ld Rules . . . o r If the O cean Is o n the Right You Are H eaded N orth.” Be­ cause the rate o f technological change is up- Lavem a M. 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February 1 9 9 3 / 8 7 setting the equilibrium o f organizations, B arone gave n ew rules to challenge technologists to change their perspective a b o u t m anagem ent and organization behavior. She said that w e need to address basic relationships an d rep ro ­ gram our thought patterns. We d o n ’t know w hat is best for o u r clients an d n e e d to ap p ro ach each w ith a fresh perspective, no t just deliver a set slate o f services. O ne o f h e r reco m m en d a­ tions to com puting adm inistrators w as to align w ith the library o n key joint projects an d take advantage o f the library’s traditionally strong su p p o rt in th e cam pus com m unity. The D artm outh C am pus Inform ation System (DCIS) w as p ro m o ted by R obert B rentrup, w h o spoke ab o u t a cam pus inform ation culture, and by A pple C om puter, w hich sp o n so red several hands-on dem onstrations. A bout 20-30 confer­ ees sat at M acintosh stations an d accessed DCIS through the Internet. T he m ain features avail­ able w ere the library catalog, dictionaries, e n ­ cyclopedias, an d w eath er maps. D artm outh has tried to provide “a p o rt for every pillow ” for s tu d e n t u s e a n d h a s b e g u n u p g ra d in g to eth ern et links for th e m ore than 6,000 Macin­ tosh com puters in use. T he cam pus philoso­ phy follow ed the “library m odel” in w hich com ­ puting is considered a public utility, centrally funded, provided free, w ith services reaching everyone. CAUSE is the professional association for m anaging an d using inform ation technology in higher education. It is associated w ith adm inis­ trative com puting, w hereas EDUCOM focuses o n academ ic com puting. Its annual conferences offer a n excellent v en u e for librarians to hear ab o u t the applications o f inform ation technol­ ogy o n cam pus. This y ear’s conference will be D ecem ber 7-10 in San Diego. If you have ideas for a program proposal, contact the CAUSE of­ fice at 4840 Pearl East Circle, Suite 302E, Boul­ d e r, CO 80301. L ibrarians a re w e lc o m e at CAUSE, a n d the conference provides a relaxed setting for getting n ew ideas. ■ Letters Challenging organizational structures To the Editor: T he “M odel Statem ent for the Screening an d A ppointm ent o f Academic Librarians Using a Search Comm ittee" (N ovem ber 1992) is w ell do n e w ith o n e exception. It takes as a given that this b o d y sho u ld act in a “consultative” manner. I think it’s time that these efforts should be a partnership w ith th e director o r a p p ro p ri­ ate adm inistrator. This partnership w o u ld re­ quire consensus of all parties or, perhaps even more radically, a simple unanimous vote of the search committee. I believe it’s time to challenge the top dow n organizational structures of our li­ braries (and colleges and universities) that offer the guise of democratic participation. Organizations should elect their leaders in the same w ay w e elect our government leaders.— Terry Link, public policy librarian, Michigan State University, East Lansing Offensive cover features Colorado To the Editor: This letter is in resp o n se to th e cover of the D ecem ber C&RL News. [University o f Colorado at Denver, Auraria Campus] I found it highly offensive. As a longtim e su p p o rter o f hum an rights back to the sixties, I have alw ays prided m yself in w orking for those w h o have b een discrim inated against. I also o p p o se all discrimi­ nation b u t unfortunately, you d o not. In ch o o s­ ing to h o n o r a state w hich denies a group of citizens its hu m an rights, you are contributing to a clim ate o f hatred an d bigotry. I am very tired o f p eo p le preaching h o w liberal ALA is w h e n I see so m any blatant exam ples of its sexist, racist, an d hom o p h o b ic nature. N one of w hich som eone like yourself w ith y o u r ed u ca­ tion is im m une to. 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