ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries J anuary 1 9 9 3 / 5 N e w co o p e ra tiv e research lib r a r y o rg a n iz a tio n fo rm e d Libraries from 13 regional universities and a research lib ra ry h a v e f o rm e d th e G reater Midwest Research Library Consortium. The ob­ jectives of the consortium are to seek funding and mount projects or studies of interest to two or more members that can serve as prototypes for the membership and to insti­ tute programs that can more easily be done cooperatively. The predecessor to the consortium was the Association of Big- Eight University Libraries. The group expanded and now includes the libraries at the universi­ ties of Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska-Lincoln, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming; Colorado State, Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, and Southern Illinois uni­ versities; and Linda Hall Library in Kansas City. Kent Hendrickson, dean of libraries at the Uni­ versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, will chair the con­ sortium this year. In te rn a tio n a l resource lib ra ry p la n n e d b y Pikes P e a k The Learning Resources Center at Pikes Peak Community College is working with the Com­ mittee for International Education to develop an International Resources Library (IRL) within the college. In addition to serving as a deposi­ tory for relevant periodicals, academic oppor­ tunities, travel, scholarships, exchanges, intern­ ships, and material supportive of international education, the IRL will: develop a databank di­ rectory o f in tern atio n al p eo p le w ho have knowledge in international or multicultural is­ sues; develop a translation service open to the general public and the college which will use the Micro Tac Software Language Assistance Programs; and purchase computer software in other languages, (e.g., WordPerfect in Span­ ish, French, German, and Russian). CW IS com ing to H a rv a rd Harvard University’s Library and its Office for Information Technology are jointly making pub­ lic a Campus-Wide Information System (CWIS) w hose acronym is VINE (Veritas Information N ew s from the f i e l d NEtwork) at the beginning of its second semester. VINE will make avail­ able online such things as academic and events calen­ dars, notices of job open­ ings at Harvard, the person­ nel manual for exempt staff, sports schedules, and prices o f e q u ip m e n t s o ld by Harvard’s Technology Prod­ uct Center. A ccording to Amy Lozano, VINE project manager, VINE will be avail­ able in the library on some of the HOLLIS terminals. Plans are underway to add to VINE an office phone list for faculty and staff as well as dining services menus. M o re M id w in te r N otes— STS ACRL’s Science and Technology Section (STS) will hold the following discussions at the 1993 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver: • “The conservation and preservation of scientific library materials.” Karen Motylewski of the Northeast Document Conservation Cen­ ter will address this issue during the General Discussion Group, Sunday, January 24, 2-4 p.m. • “The impact of the Internet on science libraries” during the Heads of Science Libraries Discussion Group on Sunday, January 24, 8-10 p.m. • “Science databases on the Internet” dur­ ing the Science Databases Discussion Group on Saturday, January 23, 2-4 p.m. W h a t needs fix in g a t ALA? Share your opinions on how to make ALA work better with ALA’s Self-Study Committee at a hearing it is holding Monday, January 25, from 2-4 p.m. This special committee, appointed by ALA Council, is charged with developing a plan for a com prehensive organizational review, conducting the review, and preparing a final report with recommendations to Council by Annual Conference 1995. Committee chair F. William Summers indi­ cated that a management firm has been iden­ tified to do the self-study and that he hoped to have the firm under contract in time to attend the ALA Midwinter Meeting. ACRL’s executive director Althea Jenkins serves on this committee along with: Mary E. 6 / C&RL News Arney, Carolyn L. Cain, Arthur Curley, J. Den­ nis Day, Mary Ghikas, Gerald Hodges, Regina Minudri, Paul Mosher, Susan Stroyan, and Karen Whitney. M a n k a to S tate dedicates n e w lib ra ry Mankato State University in Minnesota cel­ ebrated its 125th anniversary in November with the dedication of its new $11.3 million addi­ tion to and remodel­ ing of Memorial Li­ brary. The facility has 80,184 n ew sq u are feet and renovated an a d d itio n a l 107,282 square feet. D ean of libraries Thomas Peischl said, “T h e n e w fac ility brings the keys of the collection together— creating an informa­ tion kiosk, with every­ thing from online searching to CD-ROMs to governm ent docum ents to photocopying— making access to infor­ mation resources easier and more readily avail­ able to our customers.” The expansion also used compact shelving to increase shelving by 12%; quadrupled reader s p a c e s fro m 800 to 3,500 (the majority are pinwheel carrels); and enhanced computer ac­ cess by strengthening the computer infrastructure. O n h a n d to c e l­ ebrate was ACRL presi­ dent Jacquelyn McCoy w ho was a featured speaker during the three-day celebration, which also included a meeting of the Minnesota Coun­ cil of Academic Librarians. O hioLIN K connects 6 lib raries OhioLINK—the Ohio Library and Information Network—is now providing electronic access to the combined catalogs of 6 university librar­ ies through participating library OPACs and from the Internet address cat.ohiolink.edu. “This is the beginning of big growth for OhioLINK: we have succeeded in establishing one of the largest shared library systems in the country,” The n e w ly exp an d ed Mankato State University M emorial Library. ACRL p resident Jacquelyn McCoy joins th e celeb ration at Mankato State w ith Sandra Ready and M ignon Adams. said Tom Sanville, OhioLINK executive direc­ tor. “By 1995, OhioLINK will be providing elec­ tronic access to a combined catalog of 18 uni­ versity and state libraries and a statewide circulation system of more than 17 million vol­ umes.” Currently online are: Bowling Green State University, Case Western Reserve Univer­ sity, Central State University, University of Cin­ cinnati, Miami University, and Wright State Uni­ versity. OhioLINK is a consortium of 15 state university li­ braries, two private university libraries, and the State Library o f O h io , th a t has lin k ed to g e th er to create a single elec­ tronic catalog and a statewide library cir­ culation system. In the future OhioLINK will ex p an d to in­ clude Ohio technical and community colleges and will include services such as user-initiated c h e c k o u t from th e OhioLINK w o rk s ta ­ tions. A w a rd encourages student use of p rim ary materials The University of North Dakota’s (UND) Chest­ er Fritz Libraiy has es­ t a b l i s h e d an a n n u a l c o m p e titio n fo r th e m ost o u tstan d in g re ­ search paper submitted by a UND student us­ ing th e p rim a ry r e ­ source material housed in the library’s archives and special collections. The award, given in the form of a scholar­ ship, is named after Webster Merrifield, UND’s first librarian of record. The goal of the compe­ tition is to foster research on North Dakota and increase awareness of the primary-source ma­ terial housed at the library. ACRL offers n e w BI title ACRL has published Learning to Teach: Work­ shops on Instruction, a practical guide for bib­ liographic instruction practitioners and program coordinators. This 86-page training manual of- cat.ohiolink.edu J a n u a ry 1 9 9 3 / 7 fers nine w orkshops covering the basics of classroom techniques, new technologies, and instruction in a multicultural environment. The publication is a project of the Learning to Teach Task Force of ACRL’s Bibliographic Instruction Section. For $24.99 ($21.99 to ACRL members) the b ook may be ordered from ALA Publishing Services, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611; phone: (800) 545-2433; fax: (312) 944-2641. ISBN: 0-8389-7627-1. C orrection: G u id e lin e s fo r e x te n d e d c am p u s lib r a r y services There is one correction to the final “Guidelines for extended campus library services” that was published on pages 353-55 in the April 1990 issue o f C&RL News. A phrase of the first sen­ tence o f the second paragraph under Introduc­ tion w as deleted. The sentence should read: These revised guidelines are designed to outline direction, support a process, stress overall coordination and to support the edu­ cational objectives of the extended campus program. Ethnic Studies R e v ie w s a v a ila b le fro m Choice Ethnic Studies Reviews, a new series of bibli­ ographies that identifies books covering a num­ ber of ethnic groups, has b een launched by ACRL’s Choice magazine. The series is designed to facilitate collection developm ent in several multicultural areas, to provide current bibliog­ raphies on particular ethnic groups, and to fa­ cilitate research and reference. Each bibliography addresses a particular American ethnic group and is compiled from reviews published in Choice during the prior three years. The titles cross all disciplines and represent a selected view of the best scholarly titles published on a multicultural topic. The first titles to be published are: African a n d A m erican Studies (listing more than 700 titles) and Native A m erican Studies (more than 275 titles). They are available for $22 and $15 respectively, plus $2 postage and handling from Choice, 100 Riverview Center, Middletown, CT 06457. Forthcoming titles are Latino Studies (with more than 500 titles) for $20 and A sian A m erican Studies (.mote than 300 titles) for $15. Choice a n d B o o k lis t on S ilv e rP la tte r's C D -R O M Book reviews from Choice and Booklist maga­ zines, published by ALA, will soon be avail­ able o n CD-ROM from SilverPlatter Informa­ tion. SilverPlatter’s CD-ROM application will contain the full databases for both publications; the files will be searchable by personal name, title, keywords, and publication. Separate CD- ROMs for Choice and Booklist are due out this month. The Choice database contains more than 26,000 concise, evaluative reviews of English- language scholarly books published from 1987- 1992. Each review is approximately 175 to 200 w ords in length. More than 6,500 new reviews are added to the database each year covering more than 44 academic subject areas. The Booklist database contains more than 18,000 review s p u b lis h ed from S eptem ber 1990-1992. The more than 7,000 titles reviewed annually include general interest fiction and nonfiction for adults as well as children’s and young adult books, and audiovisual materials. Reference Books Bulletin, published in Booklist, offers in-depth critical reviews of print and elec­ tronic reference tools. IFLA p re c o n fe re n c e on CE o ffe re d The Second World Conference on Continuing Education for the Library and Information Sci­ ence Professions, sponsored by the Interna­ tional Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Continuing Professional Edu­ cation Round Table (CPERT), will be held in Barcelona, Spain, August 19-21, 1993, as an IFLA preconference. Presentations will feature speakers from 20 countries w ho will explain their continuing education programs. For reg­ istration inform ation, w rite o r fax Blanche Woolls, chair, Second W orld Conference, SLIS, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; fax: (412) 648-7001. Choice p ub lish es O u ts ta n d in g A c a d e m ic B ooks list The 29th annual list of Outstanding A cadem ic Books will be published in the January 1993 issue o f Choice magazine. The 1993 list honors 610 titles selected—representing over 200 pu b ­ lishers—from the more than 6,500 reviews pub­ lished in the magazine during the past calen­ dar year. It is published as a service to collection developm ent librarians and faculty w ho look for the best books in an area to add to their libraries’ collections. Reprints of the O utstand­ ing A cadem ic Books list are available for $3 each, p repaid, from Choice, 100 Riverview Center, Middletown, CT 06457. ■ Education Research Ju st Became Easier W ith the New E D -IN F O C D T h e ED-INFO CD is a comprehensive national Data Facts statistical data base containing information on all a) Data are obtained from administrative records public elementary and secondary schools and school maintained by State Education Agencies (SEAs). districts in the United States. b) Public school file contains data on over 84,000 schools. Census finance data is also included. Compiled from data obtained from Nation c) Public education agency (districts) universe file Center for Education Statistics. (Department contains 17,000 records. o f Education), the ED-INFO CD contains three d) State file contains fall membership by grade; full­ categories o f information: time equivalent teachers and other staff by major 1. General descriptive information (includes name, employment categories. Includes revenues by address, phone number, and type of locale.) source; current expenditures by major function; 2. Basic statistics (includes numbers of students and and p er pupil expenditures. staff, and associated data.) 3. Fiscal data (includes revenues and current expen­ ditures.) The data base contains three levels of information: 1. Schools 2. School Districts/Agencies 3. State (non-fiscal, fiscal) The three data files w ithin ED-INFO can be used separately or in conjunction with one another to determine: 1. Size o f school and pupil-teacher ratio 2. Size of school district 3. State expenditure for education and per pupil expenditure 4. Racial/ethnic composition 5. Students by grade level and num ber of graduates