ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


May 1997 /  309

News 
from  the 

F ield

P a m  S p ieg el

1 9 9 8  A CRL c a n d id a te s  
a n n o u n ce d
The 1997 Nominations Com­
mittee has chosen the can­
d id ates w h o  w ill v ie  fo r 
ACRL’s top leadership posi­
tion, vice-p resid en t/ p resi
dent-elect. They are Jill B. 
Fatzer, dean o f library ser­
vices at th e U niversity o f 
New O r le a n s , and  Larry 
Hardesty, co lle g e  librarian 
and professor at Austin Col­
lege. B oth candidates have 
ACRL Board experience, are 
leaders in the profession, and have numerous 
publications to their credit. The candidates will 
appear o n  the ACRL ballot for the ALA 1998 
election and one will assume office at the close 
o f the 1998 ALA Annual C onference in W ash­
ington, D.C.

Se n io r c la s s  p le d g e s $ 6 0 ,0 0 0  to 
F u rm a n  U n iv e rsity  L ib ra ry
This year’s senior class gift project at Furman 
University is to pledge $60,000 for the library’s 
electronic resources. “W e want to stress that 
this will cut down on people traveling to re­
search at other libraries,” said LeAnne Legg who, 
along with senior class president Kevin Pow­
ell, is in charge o f the project. The organizers 
hope to raise the $60,000 over a five-year pe­
riod through annual, increasing donations. Pow­
ell and Legg hope that in the first year after 
graduation each senior will donate $20 and then 
have a $10 increase for each year. New library 
director Janis Bandelin said that this class’ gift 
“could help us reduce or eliminate any fees for 
accessing documents. [Also] more journals and 
journal articles will becom e available in digital 
form and …  will help provide future students 
with more full-text access.”

A CRL P re sid e n t’s P ro g ra m  to fo cus on 
the le a rn in g  lib r a r y  o f the future
“Imagining the Learning Library” is the topic o f 
ACRL’s President’s Program at the ALA Annual 
Conference in San Francisco, Monday, Ju n e  30, 
1:3 0 -5 :0 0  p.m. ACRL president Bill Miller of­
fers a program featuring Barry Braverman and 
Peggy Van Pelt o f the Walt Disney Imagineering 
Team  taking attendees on a visionary journey 
o f what the ideal learning library o f the future

will lo o k  like. T hey’ll also 
exp lore how  our physical 
environm ents will interact 
with the way that w e will 
sh ap e services to support 
learning and research in the 
com ing century. Also co n ­
tributing to this program will 
b e  Craig H artm an (S k id
more, Owings, and Merrill) 
and  B e tsy  B a k e r (N o rth ­
w e ste rn  U n iv ersity), w h o 
will share their perceptions 
o f how  they envision the 
con cep t o f the learning li­

brary o f the future from the perspective o f an 
architect and a public services librarian.

Following the program will be a Show case 
o f Ideas exhibited in a poster-style format fea­
turing innovative ways academ ic librarians are 
communicating the teaching mission o f the li­
brary and creating learning environm ents in 
their institutions.

The program is sponsored  jointly by six 
ACRL sections: Community and Ju nio r College 
Libraries; College Libraries; Asian, African, and 
Middle Eastern; Education and Behavioral Sci­
ences; Extended Campus Library Services; and 
Instruction.

Stu d ent e m p lo y e e s  h o n o re d  a t SIU
During National Student Employee W eek (April 
6– 12) the library at Southern Illinois University

ACRL Board th an ks you for 
a great conference

The ACRL 8th National C onference in 
N ashville w as a g reat s u cce s s . W e are 
pleased that the program was so enthusias­
tically received and that there was such a 
good feeling o f camaraderie among the par­
ticipants. A special thank you goes to the 
conference planning committee, ACRL staff, 
the many presenters, exhibitors, sponsors, 
and volunteers who made valuable contri­
butions to the 1997 National Conference, 
“Choosing Our Futures.” In the end, it is 
always the contributions o f those w ho take 
an active role as leaders that bring the co n ­
ference to life.— Bill Miller, ACRL president



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at Carbondale (SIU) held a 
num ber o f activities to 
honor its student assis­
tants. The activities in­
cluded posters displayed 
throughout the library; 

buttons given to all li­
brary em ployees to w ear 

for the w eek; a display hon­
oring student assistants featuring students who 
had worked in the library for four or more se­
mesters; a reception for all library affairs fac­
ulty, staff, and student assistants with each stu­
dent recognized with a b o o k  plate in a new 
bo o k  related to his or her major area o f study; 
and additional activities in individual library de­
partments.

M e d ie v a l Fem in ist In d e x  n o w  on the 
W e b
The Medieval Feminist Index (MFI): Scholar­
ship on W om en, Gender, and Sexuality is now 
available on the W eb. Coordinated by Marga­
ret Schaus, reference librarian at Haverford Col­
lege, the index covers journal articles, book 
reviews, and essays in collections. There are 
currently 700 records for publications from 1995 
and 1996 with 100-plus records being added 
per month. T he idea is to provide timely cov­
erage o f a wide range o f publications indexed 
on a regular basis along with a thorough de­
scription o f each item. In addition to the usual 
author, title, subjects, and source, MFI includes 
century, geographic area, descriptions o f illus­
trations and tables, and primary sources used. 
MFI is a collaboration betw een the libraries at 
Haverford and the University o f Iowa, with 
participation from interested scholars 
and librarians at other colleges and uni­
v e r s i t ie s . T h e  a d d r e s s  is http:// 
www.haverford.edu/library/reference/ 
mschaus/mfi/ m fi. html.

EB SCO doc in te g ra te s w ith  
EB SC O ho st
EBSCO Publishing announces the in­
tegration o f the EBSCOdoc document-
delivery service with EBSCOhost, en­
a b lin g  cu sto m e rs  w ith  E B S C O d o c 
accounts to order full-text documents 
w h ile  c o n d u c tin g  re s e a r c h  w ith in  
EBSCOhost. Customers can request the 
delivery o f articles chosen from more T h e  J u l ia n  R e s id e n c e  in  C h a p e l H ill, 1 9 5 6 . G e o rg e  

M a tsu m o to , a r c h ite c t, K e n n e th  S co tt, a s s o c ia te . F r o m  th e  
p a p e rs  a n d  d ra w in g s  o f  G e o rg e  M atsu m o to  a t NCSU.

than 31,000 periodical titles and co n ­
ference proceedings found in the mul­

tiple databases o f EBSCOhost. A request auto­
matically generates an order, com plete with the 
customer’s EBSCOdoc account preferences and 
a r tic le  in fo r m a tio n . “T h e  a c c e s s ib ility  o f 
E BSC O doc’s document-delivery service from 
w ith in  E B S C O h o s t c o m p le m e n ts  E B SC O  
Publishing’s offering o f full-text databases and 
ensures com plete coverage o f scientific, tech­
nical, and medical literature,” said Kimberly 
Voltero, product manager.

N CSU  la u n c h e s arch ite ctu ral reco rd s 
in itiative
The North Carolina State University (NCSU) Li­
braries’ Special C ollections D epartm ent has 
em barked on a new initiative to develop an 
archive o f North Carolina architectural records. 
The department will solicit and accept collec­
tions o f manuscripts, drawings, photos, and 
other related materials that document the his­
tory o f the architectural profession and the 
state’s built environment. The first major ac­
quisition under the initiative are the papers and 
drawings o f G eorge Matsumoto, a founding 
m em ber o f the faculty o f the NCSU School o f 
Design. The libraries also acquired the Guy E. 
Crampton and William Henley Deitrick Draw­
ing Collection, which includes m ore than 2,500 
working drawings representing nearly 50 se­
lected North Carolina projects. To publicize the 
new  initiative and new  acquisitions, the librar­
ies mounted a major exhibit o f the Matsumoto 
Collection which will run through Ju n e  27.

W LN  to d o  a u to m a te d  collection 
a n a ly s is  fo r 3 4  u n iv e rsity  lib ra rie s
WLN has reached an agreem ent with the Board

Joseph 

W. 

Molitor.

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o f Regents at the University 
System o f Georgia (U SG) to 
p rovide d etailed  c o lle ctio n  
analysis and other database 
services to 34 state academ ic 
l ib r a r ie s  in G e o r g ia . T h e  
project is being directed by 
the Regents Academ ic Com­
m ittee o n  Libraries o f USG 
and  is b e in g  p erfo rm ed  in 
conjun ction with the highly 
successful GALILEO (Georgia 
Library Learning O nline) ini­

O n e  o f  th e  b u ild in g s a t th e  n e w  B r u to n  H e ig h ts S c h o o l E d u c a tio n  
C e n te r  in  C o lo n ia l W illia m s b u rg , V irg in ia.tiative, w hich provides a wide 

v a rie ty  o f  in fo rm a tio n  r e ­
sources to the citizens o f Georgia. Results from 
the assessm ent will b e  used in creating co o p ­
erative co lle ctio n  d ev elopm en t p o licies and 
procedures for the academ ic libraries within 
the University System. The multipart project is 
scheduled for com pletion by the end o f this 
spring.

S p a c e s a v e r  S y s te m s  r e n a m e d
Spacesaver Systems, Inc., Southern California’s 
largest provider o f com m ercial storage and fil­
ing systems, has b een renamed McMurray-Stern, 
the Storage Solutions Group. “Our nam e change 
is in direct response to the expanded needs o f 
our clients,” said William McMurray, on e o f the 
co m p a n y ’s found ers. “W e have greatly e x ­
panded our scope o f services beyond that which 
the Spacesaver nam e conveys.” McMurray-Stern 
serves customers in architectural, educational, 
entertainment, financial, library, medical, mu­
nicipal, and other industries.

C o lo n ia l W illia m s b u rg  b u ild s n e w  
c a m p u s
Colonial Williamsburg has op ened  a new  edu­
catio n  and re sea rch  co m p le x  that provides
170,00 0  square feet for libraries, laboratories, 
classroom s, a recording studio, collection stor­
age facilities, office space, and an auditorium. 
The Bruton Heights School Educational Center 
takes its nam e— and tw o refu rbished  build­
ings— from a high school built for African Ameri­
can students in 1936. The $37.2 million com ­
plex includes the two renovated buildings and 
tw o new buildings, and was a gift from four 
p rin c ip a l d o n o r s — W a lte r H. A n n e n b e rg , 
G eorge and Abby O ’Neill, the DeWitt W allace 
Fund for Colonial Williamsburg, and Ambassa­
dor Laurence William Lane Jr. and Je a n  Lane. 
The Jo h n  D. Rockefeller Jr. Library assem bles

for the first time in on e centralized location 
Colonial W illiam sburg’s extensive holdings o f 
rare books, manuscripts, drawings, photos, and 
other resources for the study o f early Chesa­
peake history, material culture, and English and 
American decorative arts. It serves interpreters 
and scholars primarily but is op en  to anyone 
with a serious interest in early Virginia history.

N e w  SIRSI s y s te m s  in sta lle d
Sirsi Corporation announces the license o f its 
UNICORN library system  to the follow ing in­
stitutions: Selkirk College in Castlegar, British 
C o lu m b ia; C u esta C o lle g e  at th e  San Luis 
O bispo Community College District in Califor­
nia; the New England College o f Optom etry in 
B o s to n ; M a la s p in a  U n iv e r s ity -C o lle g e  in 
Nanaimo, British Columbia; and the W EBnet 
Consortium in Massachusetts consisting o f the 
Horn Library at B abson College in B abson Park, 
th e  B a k e r  L ib rary  at B e n t le y  C o lle g e  in 
Waltham, the Annenberg Library and Commu­
nications Center at Pine Manor College in Chest­
nut Hill, and the R egis C o lle g e  Library in 
W eston.

Jo in t p ro je ct in O h io  w ill in c re a s e  
a c c e ss
A new  project now  under way will provide 
O h io ’s public colleg e and university students 
and faculty, a growing num ber o f the state’s 
private colleges, and the State Library o f O hio 
with instant electronic access to a range o f valu­
able materials, information, and data that are 
currently hard to find and/or available only in 
n oncircu lating form. A new  partnership b e ­
tw een the O hio Library and Information Net­
w ork (OhioLINK) and the O hio Supercomputer 
Center (O SC) will m ake electronic versions o f 
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tures o f artifacts and paintings, maps, and nu­
meric data from the U.S. government available 
on the Internet. “O hio is today a national leader 
in providing its colleges and universities shared, 
cost-effective access to high-speed computing, 
academ ic library holdings, and other informa­
tion databases,” said O hio Board o f Regents 
chancellor Elaine H. Hairston. “This new project 
will further strengthen O hio’s leadership edge, 
and it exem plifies higher education’s commit­
ment to improving quality through sound re­
source m anagem ent.”

B o o k s a n d  fo o tb all m ix  a t the 
U n iv e rsity  o f Lo u isville
At the University o f Louisville (UL), football 
co a ch  Ron C ooper has established the Ron 
Cooper Library Fund to support the libraries 
and to dispel the perception that athletic pro­
grams d on’t support academ ic programs. Es­
tablished without any strings or conditions, the 
fund will benefit students by helping build a 
better library system and improve library ser­
vices. Last year the coach sent letters to 5,500 
UL supporters announcing the fund and ap­
proximately $4,000 was collected. This year’s 
campaign will target som e special contributors 
and the campaign goal has b een increased to 
$14,000. O ne o f the youngest Division I coaches 
in the country, Cooper was voted one o f the 
Outstanding Y oung Men o f America in 1984 
and was feted this year by the UL Libraries’ 
friends group.

F o o tb a ll c o a c h  R o n  C o o p e r  a n d  u n iv e rs ity  lib r a r ia n  H a n n e lo r e  
R a d e r m i x  fo o tb a ll a n d  b o o k s  a t th e  U n iv e rs ity  o f  L ou isville.

W o m e n ’s Stu d ie s Section 
a n n o u n c e s  W S S L IN K S
T h e W o m en ’s Studies Section 
(W SS) o f ACRL has gon e live 
w ith  W SSLINKS W o m en  and 
Gender Studies W eb site, a se­
ries o f subject pages coordinated 
and authored by mem bers o f the 
WSS C o lle ctio n  D ev elo p m en t 
C om m ittee. WSSLINKS is d e ­
signed to provide a w ell-orga
nized and comprehensive collec­
tio n  o f  p o in te rs to w o m e n ’s 
studies material on the Internet, 
offering access to a wide range 
o f  r e s o u r c e s  in  s u p p o r t o f 
w om en’s studies. It includes sec­
tio n s  d e v o te d  to  g e n e r a l 
w om en’s studies sites, archives, 
art and film, education, health, 
history, lesbian sites, politics, and 
science and technology. Several 

additions to WSSLINKS are in preparation, in­
cluding pages on literature and business. Feed­
back is invited, and contact addresses are in­
cluded on the various W eb pages. WSSLINKS 
can be accessed directly at http://www.library. 
yale.edu/wss/ or throught the WSS hom epage 
at http://www.lib.siu.edu/dcallaha/wsshp.html.

B a k e r  & T a y lo r ’s 1 9 9 7  C a t Contest 
an n o u n ce d
Baker & Taylor is accepting nominations for its 
1997 Cat Contest from library em ployees and 
volunteers. The three categories o f the contest 
are: B aker & Taylor look-alikes, best dressed 
cat, and most playful cat. To enter, cat owners 
must fill out 
an entry form 
a n d  m a il it 
along with a 
photo o f their 
cat to B ak er 
& T ay lo r by 
Ju n e  6, 1997. 
Photos o f the 
12 f in a lis ts  
will appear in T h e  B a k e r & T a y lo r m a s c o ts .
the B aker & Taylor booth at the ALA Annual 
Conference in San Francisco. Conference at­
tendees will have the opportunity to vote for 
their favorite photo and three winners will be 
announced on Ju n e 30 at 1:00 p.m. Winners 
will receive a $100 gift certificate for their fa­
vorite pet store. ■

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