ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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B row n Library at (401) 863-2725; fax: (401) 863- 
3477; o r e-mail: K aren_D em aria@ brow n.edu.

Penn Library launches digital im aging 
project
T h e U niversity o f P en n sy lv an ia Library has 
form ed the C enter for Electronic T ext a n d  Im ­
age (CETI) to increase th e accessibility o f origi­
nal resources u n iq u e to Penn. Paul H. Mosher, 
vice-provost an d  director of libraries, said, “CETI 
is an electronic research collection created to 
su p p o rt scholarship b o th  at P enn an d  am ong 
th e academ ic com m unity at large.” Exam ples 
o f w h at is currently available in CETI are p h o ­
tographs o f Indian tem ple art, early editions o f 
S hakesp eare plays, w o m e n ’s diaries (m ainly 
from  the 19th century), an d  fragm ents from  the 
Cairo G enizah d o cu m en tin g  six centuries o f

Jew ish culture. Visit th e CETI W eb site at http: 
//w w w . library.u p e n n .e d u /e te x t/.

N ew  Je rse y residents benefit from 
reciprocal agreem ent
U n d er a recip ro cal a g re e m e n t b e tw e e n  the 
W ayne P ublic Library an d  W illiam Paterson 
College (WPC), b o th  located in W ayne, New 
Jersey, W ayne residents over th e age o f 18 may 
n o w  bo rro w  b oo k s an d  o th er circulating m ate­
rials from WPC’s Sarah Byrd Askew Library. The 
n ew  agreem ent will provide W ayne residents 
w ith access to  th e m ore than 300,000 books, 
13,000 audiovisual items, 1,300 periodical titles, 
an d  a 36-station electronic reference center. 
WPC students, faculty, an d  staff are n o w  eli­
gible to  obtain library cards from  th e W ayne 
Public Library.

N oted a u th o r Co rnel W est to 
k e y n o te  N a s h v ille  co n fe ren ce
C o r n e l W e s t 
n o t e d  a u t h o r , 
philosopher, and 
p rofessor o f reli­
g io n  a n d  A fro- 
American studies 

at H arvard University, will keynote ACRL’s 
8th National Conference in Nashville, “C hoos­
ing O ur Futures,” April 11– 14, 1997. West 
will sp eak  on race m atters im m ediately fol­
low ing the o p en in g  Exhib­
its R e c e p tio n  o n  F riday, 
April 11, at 7:00 p.m.

For W est, p h ilo s o p h y  
isn’t a n  abstract discipline, 
it’s a “p o lem ical w e a p o n  
that attem pts to transform  
linguistic, social, cultural, 
a n d  p o litical tra d itio n  to 
increase th e sco p e o f indi­
v id u a l d e v e lo p m e n t a n d  
d e m o c ra tic  a c tio n s .” H is 
w ork— influenced by  tradi­ C o r n e l W est digitizing collections, an d  li­

brary buildings for the fu­
ture will b e offered on April 11, 1997. Regis­
tration materials will b e  m ailed to all ACRL 
m em bers this fall. T o request registration m a­
terials e-mail D arlena Davis at ddavis@ala.org 
o r p h o n e  (800) 545-2433 ext. 2519. ■

tions as diverse as th e B ap­
tist Church, American transcendentalism  and 
literaαire, th e Black Panthers, an d  E uropean 
philosophy— seeks to revive th e b est o f lib­
eralism, populism , an d  dem ocratic socialism.

In his ad d ress. W est will co n fro n t th e

“m onum ental eclipse o f h o p e, the u n p rec
ed e n te d  collapse o f m eaning, an d  the incred
ible disregard for hum an (especially black)
life.” For West, the L.A. riots w ere not a solely
econom ic or moral problem . “They are the
co n seq u en ce o f a lethal linkage of econom ic
decline, cultural decay, an d  political lethargy
in American life.”

W est is th e  au th o r o f nine b o o k s includ
ing the tw o-volum e B eyond Eurocentrism a n

M ulticulturalism , B reakin
Bread, a n d  th e  1993 Ne
York Times bestseller, Rac
Matters.

ACRL expects 2,500 aca
dem ic librarians to  attend
th e  th re e -d a y  c o n fe re n c e
w h ic h  w ill fe a tu re  m o re
than 200 exhibits an d  13
program  sessions. Full- and
half-day preconferences on
topics such as fundraising,

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