ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries December 1995/751 Hews from the F ield M a ry Ellen Davis Irvine V alley gets new building On October 31 Irvine Valley College (IVC) broke ground for its new 35,000-square- foot, two-story Learning Re­ source Center (LRC). The $5 million in construction costs are funded through state bond measures and Saddle­ back Community C ollege District reserves. The LRC will be the tech­ nology hub o f the campus, featuring a fiber optic net­ work to link computer and video information with other parts o f the college. It will also in­ clude an automated catalog, a multimedia cen­ ter for student and faculty use, offices, and space for about 80,000 books and 600 periodical titles, tripling the amount in IVC’s current library. Future expansion plans could include a three-way partnership to provide library ser­ vices to the community as the Irvine City Coun­ cil is interested in withdrawing from the Or­ ange County Public Library System and is seeking alternative ways to provide library ser­ vice to the community, according to IVC direc­ tor Dave Everett. IVC has had one meeting with the city o f Irvine and the Irvine Unified School District to explore possibilities. Everett said that there were “lots o f interesting synergies” but that they were “a long way from a formal agreement.” LSU Book Bαzααr earns $58,000 The Friends o f the Louisiana State University (LSU) Library raised more than $58,000 at its annual Book Bazaar, mak­ ing this year’s effort the “big­ gest ever,” according to Jen­ nifer Cargill, dean o f libraries. The annual event took place at the Agricultural Center’s mini-barn over a three-day period in September, when the fundraising group offered used books for sale— books that the public had been drop­ ping into purple bins at a lo­ cal cleaners since las spring. The sale proceed w ill be d on a ted to $600,000 library en d ow ment supported by th Friends, along with an ad ditional $8,000 earned b the group during its text book room sales. President Clinton dedicates n ew UConn research center President Bill Clinton dedi t s a ­ e ­ y ­ ­ cated the new Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the Storrs campus of the University o f Connecticut on October 15. The dedication was a kickoff for a year o f events designed to investigate and analyze the status o f human rights in today’s world, a particular interest o f President Clinton’s. The late U.S. Senator Thomas J. Dodd served as Executive Trial Counsel to the Chief Pros­ ecutor o f the Nuremburg International Tribu­ nal and was an outspoken opponent o f com­ munism and totalitarianism. The 55,000-square-foot research and archi­ val facility holds Dodd’s papers as well as UConn’s archival collections on Connecticut politics, labor, business, immigration, and en­ terprise, as well as a record o f the university’s The new Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. 752/C&RL News own history and many o f the university’s spe cial collections. The $9.9 million facility includes an audito rium, lobby, lounge, gallery, conference room, reference and pubic reading rooms, and offices, and provides a technologically advanced, cli mate-controlled environment for storing an preserving the collections. ACRL 7th National Conference proceedings n ow available Continuity and Transformation: The Promise o Confluence: Proceedings o f the Seventh Nationa Conference o f the ACRL, edited by Richard AmRhein, is now available. Discover how academic librarians are cop ing with the challenges o f building a new in formation infrastructure. This compilation o presentations at the ACRL 7th National Confer ence in Pittsburgh describes how librarians across the country are incorporating new an established technologies to enhance the teach ing, learning, and research processes in thei institutions. Included are 54 refereed contrib uted papers and 31 abstracts o f panel sessions organized into four theme tracks covered a the conference: Technology and the Service- Centered Library; Knowledge Workers and Their Organizations; Multiculturalism and In ternationalism; and Society, Economics, and Politics. The $49.95 publication (ISBN 0-8389 7786-3) is available to ACRL members for $44.95. Send your order to: ALA Order Fulfill ment, 155 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60606 1719; or call (800) 545-2433 (press 7); or fax: (312) 835-9958. Libraries sought for traveling exhibit ALA is accepting applications from libraries to host the traveling exhibition “The Frontier i American Culture.” The deadline is January 15 1996. ALA Handbook corrections Nancy Sosnick was incorrectly listed as chair o f the ACRL Slavic and East European Section’s Continuing Education Committee. The chair is Julie Swann; Sosnick is a mem­ ber o f the committee. Also, Carolyn Sheehy was inadvertently omitted from the list o f members o f the AC Standards and Accreditation Committee. RL ­ ­ ­ d f l ­ ­ f ­ d ­ r ­ t ­ - ­ - n , D e v e lo p e d in c o o p e ra tio n w ith the Newberry Library in Chicago, the project is funded by a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The project includes educational and interpretative materials and examines how new stories and images o f the frontier and the setting o f the West have played an integral role in shaping American identity and values. Forty-five U.S. public and academic librar­ ies will be selected by ALA to host the traveling exhibition scheduled to tour between Septem­ ber 1996 and August 1998, with a six-week stop at each site. Applicants must agree to appoint an exhibi­ tion coordinator, develop public programs re­ lated to the exhibition, seek community sup­ port, and provide reports to ALA. To obtain an application form contact: ALA Public Programs, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; voice: (800) 545-2433, ext 5053/5056; fax: (312) 280-3224; e-mail: public.programs® ala.org. OhioLINK online borrow ing system increases book requests ten times Book loan requests among Ohio’s colleges and universities have increased tenfold since the O h io Library and In form ation N etw o rk (OhioLIINK) made patron-initiated online bor­ rowing available in January 1994. “H alf o f the loans are delivered to the borrower’s library within 48 hours and 90 per- December 1995/753 Instruction Section w a n ts id e a s lo r n e w p lan With the ACRL Strategic Plan in place, th Instruction Section (IS) wants to develop new strategic plan and is seeking ideas. I wants you to answer the questions below. Ideas and suggestions received will be use to inform an open discussion forum to b held at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Sa Antonio on Saturday, January 20, from 4:3 to 5:30 p.m., and in formulating a new strate gic plan for the section. All comments (print e-mail, and Midwinter discussion forum) will be summarized and there will be additiona opportunities to comment before a new stra tegic plan is finalized. As you answer the questions below, con sider ways that IS can enhance its leadershi role, more fully develop its outreach to th entire membership, increase the presence o instructional courses and/or curricula within library education, facilitate continuing educa tion opportunities, and generally improve communication among its members and othe practicing librarians and information profes sionals. Plan to attend the open discussion forum during the ’96 Midwinter Meeting to furthe participate in the development o f the Instruc tion Section’s strategic plan. IS planning questionnaire A. The following is the current miss statement o f the ACRL Instruction Sec tion; what changes w ould you recom mend? The mission o f the Bibliographic Instruc tion Section o f the Association o f College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is to foster the pro fession o f academic and research librarian ship and to enhance the ability o f academic and research bibliographic instruction librar ians and their libraries to effectively serve the library and information needs o f current and potential users. e a S d e n 0 ­ , l ­ ­ p e f ­ r ­ r ­ ion ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ B. What should be the prim ary goals o f the section for the next several (2– 5) years? C. W hat kinds o f changes ( i f an y ) w ould you suggest for the organization role and structure o f elected officers and committees? For example, IS elects three members-at-large; how can these members- at-large help you? Which o f the current eleven IS standing committees should be retained? Which committees could be merged as a new refigured committee? What new functions should existing committees assume? What new committees need to be established and to serve what function? D. H ow can the current and develop­ in g com m u n ication m edia w ith in IS (newsletter, monographs, gopher, Web, etc.) be improved or redirected? Resources Documents that might help you in thinking about the questions include: 1) “ACRL Charts New Direction,” C&RL News 56 (September 1995): 571-72. 2) BIS H andbook: A n O rg a n iz a tio n a l M anual & Directory, 1994– 1995, Revised. Chi­ cago: ACRL, Bibliographic Instruction Section, 1994. ERIC Document #ED376839. 3) Patricia Breivik, “Becoming Beyond- Library-Walls Librarians,” C&RL News % (July/ August 1995): 468–69. If these items are not readily accessible to you, copies can be sent to you by contacting on Hufford. Return this questionnaire Completed questionnaires should also be sent (by e-mail if possible) to: Jon Hufford, Coor­ dinator, User Instruction, Reference Depart­ ment, Texas Tech University Libraiy, Lubbock, TX 79409; fax: (806) 742-0737; e-mail: lijrh@ttacs. ttu.edu. J cent within 72 hours,” said OhioLINK execu tive director Tom Sanville. “OhioLINK use ha grown so much that w e now routinely proces as many loans in a w eek as w e used to do i a quarter. Even this w eekly volume will likely double . . . as w e witness the full impact o ­ s s n f all o f our new members being part o f the system.” OhioLINK allows patrons access to resources from its 41 member libraries, for which they place requests directly from their workstations. Approximately 50 percent o f the requests made 754/C&RL News in the past year were for materials for which only one or two copies are available in the state. The OhioLINK Gopher and Central Catalog are available via the Internet telnet address cat.ohiolink.edu. RLG initiates n ew record service with Casalini Libri The Research Libraries Group (R LG ) has launched a new service for its users— direct access to and local use o f major book vendor records— with the addition o f over 18,000 in- process records, created by the Italian book dealers Casalini Libri from 1994 through July 1995, to the RLIN (Research Libraries Informa­ tion Network) Books file. The Casalini records may be exported from RLIN to the local system to create order records or local cataloging. “W e are very pleased about this new ven­ ture,” said Michele Casalini. “It has been one o f our primary concerns over the years to offer a bibliographic information service as complete as possible to libraries abroad. We are delighted that this information can now be o f assistance for acquisitions and cataloging, thereby saving library staff a great deal o f time.” ALA gets ow n Internet server ALA is installing its own Internet server. Please be sure to use the @ala.org addresses to reach ALA and ACRL staff, instead o f the numbers previously issued. Generally, ALA Internet ad­ dresses take the form o f firstname.lastname@ ala.org. For a list o f ACRL staff e-mail addresses, see page 797 o f this issue in the Annual Report, or you can refer to the “Meet the ACRL Staff“ article on page 648 o f the October issue o f C&RL News. Ohio University celebrates tw o million volumes Ohio University (O U ) Libraries celebrated its growth to two million volumes with the addi­ tion o f John C. Baker: A n Oral History to its collections. Ohio University was founded in 1804, and Baker was its 14th president, serving from 1945 to 1961. The book, Baker’s autobi­ ography, was published by Ohio University Press and was formally presented to the librar­ ies in October at a ceremony to celebrate Baker’s 100th birthday and the 50th anniver­ sary o f the Ohio University Foundation, an or­ ganization created by Baker. Got Books Here: A Poem Got books here; lotsa books: books by the score, by the peck or bushel: books. Getcher books here! red hot economics, business and sports books; Pete Giddings with die weather in A.V. Current events, ancient history, latest mysteries, Stephen King— anything. You want it, we got it: books on tape, on CD-ROM; music and art ala carte. Books here, getcher books! Got magazines too; newspapers— ain’t no finer bird cage liner— right here, got ’em right here: getcher books. Sick ’n’ tired of the information superhighway? Getcher books at the information parking lot! Rent by the semester! No charge— just bring ’em back on time: getcher books! Want science? We got science. We got reference. Poly sci? Bali Hai? Catcher in the Rye? Values of pi? We got ’em: rock bottom books. They’re what we got: you really ought to try 'em— books. We got books here. — Brian Kunde. Stanford University Libraries ( Reprinted with permission o f the author)