ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries July/August 1 9 9 2 /4 3 7 C rism ond's resignation continues to cause stir Linda Crismond, former ex­ e c u tiv e d ire c to r o f ALA, broke her silence about her “resignation” (see June 1992 C&RL News) in a May 29 let­ te r a d d r e s s e d to “staff, friends, and colleagues.” In the letter, Crismond summa­ rized the accom plishments made at ALA under her ten­ ure and gave her version of how she came to leave ALA so abruptly, despite the board’s decision in January to extend her contract through Sep­ tember and to give her a salary increase. The letter stated, “I was informed during the Executive Board meeting on April 30, 1992, that the Board had informally taken a ‘vote of no confidence,’ and that they would like my resignation within the next forty-eight hours. … When I asked the Executive Board . . . as to their reasons, I received the response, ‘our at­ torney has advised us that we are not at liberty to give you that information.’ I was told that I should contact an attorney.” Crismond also said that “a board letter of May 8, 1992, to me de­ manded that I resign, effective May 12, or I would be terminated, commanded me to take a leave of absence from noon on May 8 until Monday, May 11, and instructed me to collect my personal effects over that w eekend.” ALA’s Executive Board then responded to this letter in a statement to the press in which they claimed that there were several inaccura­ cies contained in Crismond’s letter and that she had been given “specific and repeated warn­ ings of performance problems—in writing— which led to the request for her resignation . . . The Executive Board and Ms. Crismond were un­ able to negotiate an amicable transition period … Ms. Crismond’s contract has been fully honored and the Executive Board has acted in good faith.” S ullivan n a m e d ALA execu tive director Peggy Sullivan, director of libraries at North­ ern Illinois University (NIU) and a past-presi­ dent of the ALA, has been named the execu­ tive director of ALA effective August 17, 1992. Her contract is for two years, ending August 24, 1992. During this interim period, the ALA N e w s f r o m th e F ield Executive Board will imple­ ment a search process for a successor. ALA President Marilyn Miller said of Sullivan, “Her skills in interpersonal rela­ tions and her broad under­ standing of the association and the profession—both as they are today and could be tom orrow —coupled with her incisive wit and com­ mon sense make her an ad­ mirable choice for the po­ sition.” At NIU Sullivan directs the main campus and five branch libraries as well as serving as a ten­ ured professor in the Department of Library and Information Stud­ ies. From 1981-90 she served as dean of the College of Professional Studies at NIU, oversee­ ing tw o sch o o ls and four departments. Pre­ viously she was assis­ tant commissioner for executive services for the Chicago Public Li­ brary, dean of students Peggy Sullivan and associate professor for the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago, and direc­ tor of the School Library Certification Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Sullivan said she is looking forward to her work at ALA. “To use an expression I took from Dag Hammarskjöld years ago, and which I‘ve used frequently at commencements: ‘For all that has been thanks. To all that will be— yes.’” B erea C ollege com pletes $ 8 .2 m illion e xp an sio n Berea College, Kentucky, united its library and computer services with an $8.2 million renova­ tion and expansion of Hutchins Library. The renovation and addition provide 96,000 square feet over three floors, expanded stack space, and improved study spaces. The library and computer center are installing a fiber-optic net­ work that will provide for electronic mail, file sharing, and access to the library catalog and external databases. This summer the library 4 3 8 / C&RL N ew s r F e B in hopes to complete the automation of its acqui­ sitions, circulation, and public catalog using Dynix and to bring all of the student dormito­ ries online. Enter y o u r w in n in g p ublicity ideas T he c o m p etitio n for the 1993 John Cotton D an a Library Public Relations Awards given b y th e H.W. Wilson Company and ALA’s Li­ Intricate title page fo brary Administration first book, The H ous and Management Asso­ published in a stable ciation is now open. The awards are given for a library’s total an­ nual coordinated public relations program. Completed entries must be received by the H.W. Wilson Company by February 1, 1993- To obtain an information packet and entry forms write: John Cotton Dana Library Public Re­ lations Awards Contest, The H.W. Wilson Com­ pany, 950 University Avenue, Bronx, NY 10452- 9978. Ed. note: For more information about the award see theJuly/August 1991 issue of C&RL News. AIDS in fo rm a tio n online BIOSIS, sponsor of the Life Science Network, has added AIDSLINE and AIDS Abstracts to the Network. AIDSLINE, produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), contains more than 45,000 records from 1980 to the present. Cita­ tions are drawn from MEDLINE, CANCERLIT, and HEALTH databases covering biomedical, social, clinical, and research aspects of AIDS as well as health policy issues. AIDS Abstracts, from the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Dis­ eases, contains approximately 14,000 citations from 1983 to the present. BIOSIS has also added the complete set of American Type Culture Col­ lection (ATCC) Catalogues to the Network. A free six-minute video demonstrating Life Sci­ ence Network is available in the U.S. from BIOSIS; call l-(800) 523-4806. P o p u la r p ap e rs needed Papers on topics related to popular culture and libraries are sought for the April 7-10, 1993, meeting of the Popular Culture Association. Ab­ stracts of not more than 250 words should be sent by September 1, 1992, to: A llen Ellis, W. Frank Steely Library, N o rth ern K entucky University, Highland Heights, KY 41099-6101; phone: (606) 572-5527; fax: (606) 572-5390. M illio n th - m ilestone celebrations Vanderbilt University, the University of Kan­ sas, and the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign are all cel­rank Lloyd Wright’s ebrating millionth-vol­eautiful, hand- 1896-97. ume milestones. Van­ derbilt added its two- millionth volume—a rare first edition of the official Journal o f the Proceedings o f the Con­ gress o f September 1774. Kansas added as its three-millionth volume a revised edition of the Kretschmer atlas, Die Historischen Karten Zur Entdeckung Amerikas [Historical Maps on the Discovery o f America] (1991). The University of Illinois added the eighth print of Frank Lloyd Wright’s first book— The House Beautiful—as its eight-millionth volume. Wright designed and hand-printed 90 copies of the book in a stable during the winter months of 1896-97 with the help of his friend William Herman Winslow and Chauncey Williams, the v en tu re’s financial sponsor. LSU opens C enter fo r O r a l H isto ry Louisiana State University opened the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, nam ed in honor of a popular history professor and pio­ neer oral historian. Housed in LSU’s Hill Li­ brary, the first major project will be a series of tape-recorded interviews on the history of LSU. Williams Center director Pamela Dean said that the center will work closely with the staff of the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Col­ lections (LLMVC), the manuscript repository also located in Hill Library. “All of our tapes, tran­ scripts, photographs, and other material will be deposited in LLMVC and available to re­ searchers,” said Dean. N L W c e leb ratio n ideas These ideas for contests and prizes may give you an idea for next year’s National Library July/August 1 9 9 2 / 4 3 9 U niversity of A rk a n sa s a t Little Rock institutes student lib ra ry fee F iscal 1991-1992 m arks th e first y ear the Ottenheimer Library at tire University o Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) will receive su mental budget support from a student fee which became operating procedure this past July. In slightly more than 20 years, UALR has grow n from less than 5,000 undergraduate students to over 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students. These graduate programs in clude doctoral work which the North Central Ac­ crediting Association sanctioned this year. That kind o f grow th can have several ef­ fects o n the university’s library. Budgets do not increase very rapidly an d grants cannot su p p lem en t all n ew program s. In fact, with state su p p o rt evolving from a legislature that only m eets every tw o years, the biennial fi­ nancial preparations always lag behind the de mands placed upon the library and its staff. In the spring o f 1987 the University o f Ar kansas Board of Trustees passed a list o f fees w hich the Little Rock campus h o p ed to insti tute the following fall. This list included ex panded fees o f many kinds: for laboratory use, for music instruction, for the use of physical education facilities, and for foreign language instruction, to m ention a few. Also instituted at approxim ately the same time w as a user fee charged to library patrons w ho w ere not connected to the university. These fees w ere designed to generate general revenues at a more rapid pace so that the institution could m eet its expanded programmatic needs by m eans other than the normal budget process. In 1989 and 1990 the library director put forward to central administration the idea o W eek (NLW) celebration. The University of South Alabama Biomedical Library held draw­ ings during this year’s NLW. Prizes aw arded included copicards for $5.00 w orth o f photo­ copying and free com puter searches (value up to $20.00). The N ortheastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM) celebrated NLW w ith “T h e S e c o n d A n n u a l G re a t NEOUCOM Read A loud” an d “T he Faculty Match G am e” in w hich NEOUCOM students and faculty had the chance to match faculty members with their favorite books. A u b u rn d edic a te s lib r a r y a d d itio n O n N ovember 8, 1991, the 207,000-square-foot addition to the Auburn University Libraries was dedicated. The addition doubled the library’s size increasing the building’s capacity to 2.5 million volumes with seating for 2,500. State and university bonds as well as private sup­ mailto:BATAYLOR@UALR.Edu 4 4 0 / C&RL N ew s port made the $20.5 mil­ lion expansion and reno­ vation project possible. Dealing w ith 16th- century info explosion Although we feel like we are overwhelmed with in­ formation, European intel­ lectuals in the lóth century felt the same way. Ago- stino Ramelli’s 16th-cen­ tury book of machines in­ cluded the book w heel (see illustration) which re­ solved scholars’ needs to refer to many texts almost simultaneously in an age of information explosion. Those using the machine can see and turn through a large number of books stationed on lecterns, p o ­ Illustration showi sitioned like the seats on book w heel used many books at ona ferris w heel, w ith o u t moving from one spot. Ramelli’s book will be on exhibit September 19, 1992, through Janu­ ary 9, 1993, as part of the New York Public Library’s exhibition New Worlds, A ncient Texts: The Cultural Impact o f a n Encounter. IN F O R M A 1 9 9 2 e x a m in e s CWIS Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) were the topic of the 1992 INFORMA meeting held in May on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. CWIS integrate and organize information re­ sources in a form easily accessible to individual ng a by sc e tim ACRL discontinues telephone jobline ACRL has discontinued its telephone jobline service effective immediately. Use of the jobline by both job-seekers and employers had steadily declined over the years. The jobline had pro­ vided a prerecorded announcement of aca­ demic and research library job openings. Job-seekers are encouraged to read the m onthly classified ads section in C&RL News. Employers should contact Ted Bales at l-(800) 545-2433, ext. 2513 to post a job opening in C&RL News. u sers. W orking CWIS w e re o n d is p la y at INFORMA’s Academy of W o rk d e m o n s tr a tio n area. Rensselaer Poly­ technic Institute’s Info- Trax offers a grant direc­ tory, job listings, exam sch ed u les, and course evaluations. Montreal's McGill University’s CWI interfaces with online cata­ logs, e-mail, conferencing, and classified ads. Five n e w A n n en b erg /C P B v id e o courses a v a ila b le The Pacific Century, Th World o f Abnorm al Psy chology, Destinos: A n In 16th-century troduction to Spanish, holars to peruse L itera ry Visions, an d e. Earth Revealed are the tles of five new videocassette courses avail ble from the Annenberg/Corporation for Pub c Broadcasting (CPB) project. Used in combi ation with study guides and textbooks under e direction of a college professor, these video n d audio program s are com plete college ourses for credit. Contact l-(800)-LEARNER for formation on purchasing the series. More than ,700 academic institutions have already ac uired Project video and course materials. ib ra ry e n v iro n m e n ta l com m ittee in s a w a r d s he University of Arizona’s Library Staff Asso iation has an award-winning environmental rogram. Spearheaded by the Library Staff As ociation (LSA) the Environmental Committee haired by Peter Catalanotta-Reeves won one f the university’s first annual recycling awards nd w on honorable mention in the first annual ity of Tucson Environmental Awards. They ere commended for ongoing projects such as ducing waste; recycling newsprint, white pa ers, and aluminum cans; and education in the orkplace regarding environmental concerns. art of the positive reinforcem ent methods sed by the committee to encourage waste duction is the awarding of chocolate kisses staff members w ho remember to bring their wn cups and plates to LSA parties.■ S e ­ ­ ti ­ a ­ li ­ n th a c in 2 ­ q L w T ­ c p ­ s c o a C w re ­ p w P u re to O