ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries November 1996/637 fromNews the Field M a r y Ellen D a v is Stanford P ress, Libraries publish bo o ks in Internet Stanford University Press and Stanford University Libraries will collaborate to publish scholarly books about Latin America on the Internet. The project’s goals are: to pro­ vide inexpensive access to important scholarly work; to present the material within a carefully integrated and technologically sophisticated know ledge environment; and to evaluate the econom­ ics o f networked publication for scholarly books. Stanford University Libraries became a center for electronic publishing through its Highwire Press division which produced one of the first full-text World Wide Web versions o f a science journal. The collaborative project is funded by a half-million dollar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Em ory U n iversity building n e w lib ra ry Construction o f a new $23 million Center for Library and Information Resources at Emory University is now under way. The 65,000- square-foot structure will link two existing li­ brary buildings to form a complex o f libraries and information technology. Designed by Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, the building features an open and flexible interior space that will be adaptable to the changing needs o f the collections and their users. The project is expected to take 24 months to com­ plete and also includes the renovation o f the first three levels of the Robert W. Woodruff Li­ brary. For details, visit the World Wide Web site at http://clair.library.emory.edu. P riv a te co lleg e s join O h io LIN K Seven Ohio private colleges are joining the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) bringing its to­ tal to 50 institutions. Cedar­ ville College, College o f Mount St. Joseph, College of Wooster, Denison Univer­ sity, Kenyon College, Ohio Wesleyan University, and Xavier University will partici­ pate in the consortium o f li­ braries from Ohio universi­ ties, colleges, community colleges, and the state library o f Ohio. Oberlin College and Ohio Northern University were the first private insti­ tutions to participate in the consortium that his­ torically had consisted of publicly funded insti­ tutions. OhioLINK offers equal access to its combined catalog to all members of the con­ sortium. Patrons can request items from the cen­ tral catalog electronically. The request is sent to the institution that owns the item. If the item is available it is pulled from the shelves and sent by a statewide courier service to the patron’s location within 48– 72 hours in most cases. Recent agreements between OhioLINK and electronic information companies have ex­ panded OhioLINK’s services to include access to 53 research databases referencing 30 million journal articles and full text o f hundreds of jour­ nals; U.S. and Ohio legislative information; the full text o f nearly 166,000 poems and 2,200 plays; Encyclopaedia Britannica and Colum­ bia Encyclopedia, The Oxford English and A m erica n H eritage dictionaries, and The OhioLINK Thesaurus o f the English Language. http://clair.library.emory.edu 638/C&RL News Call for sci/tech abstracts ACRL’s Science and Technology Section’s Fo­ rum for Science and Technology Library Re­ search is seeking abstracts of preliminary origi­ nal research results or ALA committee findings for presentation at the 1997 ALA Annual Con­ ference in San Francisco. The forum provides an opportunity to receive feedback and con­ structive criticism in a supportive environment before submitting research for publication. Pro­ posals should be limited to one page and con­ tain an abstract of not more than 250 words, as well as the researcher’s name, institution, phone, fax, and e-mail address. Deadline for submis­ sion: January 31, 1997. Papers will be selected at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. Send submis­ sions to: Dana Boden, C. Y. Thompson Library, University o f Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0717; e-mail: danab@unllib.unl.edu; phone: (402) 472-4412; fax: (402) 472-7005. D irectory o f Curriculum M a teria ls C enters p ub lished b y ACRL The fourth edition of Directory o f Curriculum Materials Centers, edited by Beth Anderson, is now available from ACRL. This directory, prepared by ACRL’s Education and Be­ havioral Sciences Section, includes 278 institutions and lists location, contact infor­ mation, budgets, physical space, collection size, staff, hours o f operation, and other descriptive informa­ tion for the curriculum ma­ terials center or collection. Copies o f the 175-page book (ISBN 0-8389-7862-2) are $26.50 ($22.50 ACRL members) from ALA Order Fulfillment, 155 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60606; phone: (800) 545-2433, press 7; fax: (312) 836-9958. Find tidbits of info on U .S. p residents on M ich ig an ’s W eb p a g e Want to know which U. S. president swam nude in the Potomac River every day, weather per­ mitting? Or which one seldom went to bed be­ fore 2:00 a.m. and destroyed all of his personal papers before his death? Click on the Univer­ sity o f Michigan’s (UM) Internet Public Library (IPL) to get the answers. Designed to make presidential Web-based research easier, IPL in­ troduced “POTUS: President’s o f the United States” at http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/. This directory of the 42 U.S. presidents brings to­ gether presidential Internet sites, including bi­ ographies, speeches, writings, and, where pos­ sible, audio and video clips. Election results, odd facts, presidential term highlights, first la­ dies, and cabinet members and other impor­ tant members of the president’s life are included. IPL is a project based at UM’s School of Infor­ mation, partially supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By the way, according to POTUS, it was President John Quincy Adams who swam nude in the Potomac and President Chester Alan Arthur who destroyed his personal papers and enjoyed late night hours. H a rry R anso m Cen ter lau n ch es cap ital cam p aig n The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Cen­ ter (HRHRC) at the University of Texas at Aus­ tin (UTA) launched the public phase o f a $12.5 million capital campaign to fund a major capi­ tal improvement project as well as establish en­ dowments. Renovation plans call for the cre­ ation of a large main reading room and reference area, exhibition galler­ ies, seminar rooms, and an audito­ rium. Thomas F. Staley, director o f HRHRC, said that more than $6.8 mil­ lion has been raised through pledges and contributions from individuals and foundations. UTA has pledged $900,000 in in-kind construction costs. Established in 1957, the HRHRC is known for its collections of late 19th- century and early-20th century Brit­ ish, American, and French literary ma­ terials, as well as its collections of photography, music, film, and theater arts. This is the first specific fundraising campaign in its history. U niv. of T e x a s a n d A M IG O S to m a n a g e T e x S h a re The University of Texas at Austin (UTA) Gen­ eral Libraries and the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council have been awarded a $493,600 con­ tract by the Texas Higher Education Coordinat­ ing Board for management and program over­ sight o f the TexShare project from September 1996 to August 1997. In 1994 the Texas Legis­ lature committed one million dollars to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to mailto:danab@unllib.unl.edu http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/ November 1996/639 implement the TexShare library resource shar­ ing program. TexShare is a cooperative pro­ gram designed to improve library services to students, faculty, and staff of the Texas Council o f State University Librarians (TCSUL) libraries. Fifty-two libraries are members o f TCSUL and all are located on campuses of Texas public universities and health science centers. The TexShare Library Card Program, TexShare Web site, electronic transmission of interlibrary loans, and access to the Federal Register for all TexShare libraries are some of the initiatives of the program. The AMIGOS/UTA partnership will maintain current TexShare programs, add a Z39.50 gateway, and support the TexShare courier service. T o p ics/facilitators n eed ed for ro u n d ta b le d iscu ssio n s in N a sh v ille Volunteers are sought to suggest a topic and/ or facilitate an informal small-group discussion at ACRL’s 8th National Con­ ference in Nashville, April 11– 14, 1997. The popular roundtable sessions give conference attendees the opportunity to network, share information, and solve common problems. Leaders are esp ecially needed to facilitate discus­ sions about the commis­ sioned papers and the fu­ ture scenarios. Submit your topic idea(s) or volunteer no later than January 6, 1997, to Betty Tsai, Systems Librarian, Bucks County Commu­ nity College, Newton, PA 18940; e-mail: tsaib@bucks.edu; fax: (215) 968-8010. Conference registration materials have been sent to ACRL members and other academic li­ brarians. A copy o f the form is also mounted on the ACRL Conference homepage at http:// www.ala.org/acrl.html. To request a brochure contact Darlena Davis at (800) 545-2433 ext. 2519 or e-mail: ddavis@ala.org. CIC a n d OCLC creatin g v irtu a l lib r a r y The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and OCLC are creating a Virtual Electronic Library (VEL) that will provide seamless, desk­ top access to information to the 500,000 stu­ dents and 35,000 faculty associated with the CIC’s 12 major teaching and research universi­ ties. The CIC Virtual Electronic Library uses the OCLC PRISM service, the Internet, and OCLC WebZ software to integrate electronic library resources and end-user services by offering a single interface to search local, group, and ex­ ternal resources and to allow patron-initiated interlibrary loan or document-delivery requests. CIC libraries participating in the project in­ clude the Universities o f Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and at Chicago, Iowa, Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin-Madison, and Indiana University, Michigan State, Northwest­ ern, Ohio State, Pennsylvania State, and Purdue. When fully implemented, the VEL will pro­ vide access to 60 million books, 550,000 seri­ als, and numerous databases and digital sys­ tems owned or licensed collectively by the universities. Users will be able to search across the online public access catalogs (OPACs) of all the CIC libraries. Document delivery is pro­ vided through a variety o f options including traditional interlibrary loan, commercial docu­ ment delivery, and full text online. “The electronic library that OCLC and the CIC are building gives libraries the ability to share collections and to truly focus on access,” said K. Wayne Smith, OCLC president and CEO. Funding for this project was provided in part through a U.S. Department o f Educa­ tion HEA II-A grant. U niv. of Pittsburgh s a v e s w ith A m e rite ch /R o w eC o m S ub scribe Am eritech Library Services and RoweCom have signed a joint marketing agree­ ment for Subscribe97, RoweCom’s Internet- based library subscription service. The Univer­ sity of Pittsburgh Library will be the first to use the new NOTIS/Subscribe interface. Under the agreement, Ameritech and RoweCom devel­ oped software and a systems interface that en­ ables NOTIS users to link to Subscribe97. “Subscribe is a breakthrough service which reduced the university’s serials costs over the past year,” said Rush Miller, director o f the university library system at the University of Pittsburgh. “We are excited about working with Ameritech and RoweCom to refine the links between NOTIS and Subscribe97.” Subscribe is the automated subscription ser­ vice that allows libraries to order, pay for, and claim their journals over the Internet. It recently won the 1996 award for Best Business-to-Busi­ ness Application for Electronic Commerce Us­ ing the Internet at the 1996 Internet and Elec­ tronic Commerce Conference. ■ mailto:tsaib@bucks.edu http://www.ala.org/acrl.html mailto:ddavis@ala.org