C&RL News September 2020 370 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free Apply for ACRL 2021 scholarships by October 9 ACRL is pleased to offer scholarships to at- tend the ACRL 2021 Conference to be held April 14–17, 2021, in Seattle. Scholarship applications are due Friday, October 9. The ACRL Conference Scholarship program pro- vides opportunities for the academic and research library community to expand their professional horizons, update their skills and knowledge, and learn more about cur- rent issues and developments in academic and research libraries by participating in the premiere ACRL professional development experience. Scholarships are available to early and mid-career librarians, library professional and support staff, library school students and recent graduates, and ALA Spectrum Schol- ars. All scholarships include complimentary conference registration, and most include a stipend to cover expenses for attending. To apply, visit the scholarships section of the ACRL 2021 website at https://conference.acrl. org/scholarships/. The ACRL Conference Scholarship Fund makes it possible to award scholarships to academic and research librarians and library staff to attend the ACRL Conference, and donations help support these opportuni- ties. Consider investing in the future leaders of the profession by donating to the fund. Learn more at https://conference.acrl.org /campaign/. SDSU acquires “game-changing” music collection A “game-changing” music collection, as part of a planned gift from donors Bram and Sandra Dijkstra, will be received by the San Diego State University (SDSU) Li- brary. The collection of nearly 50,000 vinyl albums and other recordings form The John Coltrane Memorial Black Music Archive and includes rare recordings released by jazz record label Blue Note Records, artists such as Charles Mingus and Sun Ra, and “every album Coltrane recorded.” The archive will provide new opportunities for teaching, learning, scholarship, and community engagement around music and diverse cultural communities in the United States, as well as the impact of jazz on global music, culture, and politics. The archive documents the American experience as reflected in recorded sound, as well as Jamaican culture and society, and Indonesian, Latin American, African, Haitian, French, and various other national cultures and societies influenced by African, or African American, music. The portion of the collec- tion dedicated to Jamaican music is especially notable, with more than 3,000 vinyl LPs, hundreds of 45s and 12-inch singles, and at least 3,500 CDs. Donor Bram Dijkstra has described his experience growing up in Europe and hearing “a sense of freedom and endless possibili- ties in jazz” that contributed to his decision to emigrate to the United States, where he would begin an academic career that included almost four decades as a literature professor at the University of California-San Diego. More information on The John Coltrane Memorial Black Music Archive is available at https://library.sdsu.edu/scua/new-notable /john-coltrane-memorial-black-music -archive-sdsu. CLIR, Stanford Libraries announce Digital Library of the Middle East The Council on Library and Information Re- sources (CLIR) and Stanford Libraries recent- ly announced the release of a public, open https://conference.acrl.org/scholarships/ https://conference.acrl.org/scholarships/ https://conference.acrl.org/campaign/ https://conference.acrl.org/campaign/ https://library.sdsu.edu/scua/new-notable /john-coltrane-memorial-black-music -archive-sdsu https://library.sdsu.edu/scua/new-notable /john-coltrane-memorial-black-music -archive-sdsu https://library.sdsu.edu/scua/new-notable /john-coltrane-memorial-black-music -archive-sdsu September 2020 371 C&RL News New ACRL books focus on employing students, job searching ACRL announces the publication of Sharing Spaces and Students: Employing Students in Collaborative Partnerships by Holly A. Jackson and Get the Job: Academic Library Hiring for the New Librarian by Meggan Press. Academic libraries continue to evolve from the traditional focus on collections to an increased emphasis on community space and the inclusion of makerspaces, academic success centers, learning commons, and other areas within the physical library space. These partnerships often involve sharing stu- dent employ- ees in multi- department positions, and these posi- tions require unique plan- ning, goal set- ting, training, and assess- ment. S h a r i n g Spaces and S t u d e n t s : Employing Students in Collaborative Partnerships helps partners within the li- brary bridge the gap between expectations and outcomes, and hire and train students to deliver high-quality work on behalf of all involved parties. Case studies through- out the book examine partnerships with academic departments, writing centers, career centers, cultural centers, tutoring services, technology services, and informa- tion technology (IT) departments, as well as first-year experience and peer-learning departments. Get the Job: Academic Library Hiring for the New Librarian is a concise, practi- cal guide to the job search for librarians interested in a career in academic libraries. It opens with concrete suggestions for how to direct your education toward full-time employment and get the most out of stu- dent experiences. The majority of the book is dedicated to the job hunt itself, covering the various steps of the academic hiring process, breaking each step into manage- able pieces, and providing lots of tips and insights from the perspective of the search c o m m i t - tee. Special emphasis is placed o n t h e p r e s e n - t a t i o n , o n e o f the most s t re s s f u l and novel p a r t s o f t h e i n - t e r v i e w p r o c e s s for a new librarian. Along the way, you’ll get glimpses into the “whys” of academia and how they manifest in the hiring processes. Finally, there is guidance for after a job offer, providing tips on negotiation and concluding with practical advice for the first year of a new job. Sharing Spaces and Students: Employ- ing Students in Collaborative Partnerships and Get the Job: Academic Library Hiring for the New Librarian are available for pur- chase in print and as an ebook through the ALA Online Store; in print through Amazon. com; and by telephone order at (866) 746- 7252 in the United States or (770) 442-8633 for international customers. C&RL News September 2020 372 Choice releases “Supporting Scholarly Research” white paper Choice recently announced the publication of the sixth in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library commu- nity. Despite the fact that the paper, “Supporting Scholarly Research: Current and New Opportunities for Academic Libraries,” was researched and written during the un- certainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, this report can provide libraries with practi- cal information and ideas for current and future strate- gies for supporting evolving research workf lows and researcher needs. Researched and written by Ngoc-Yen Tran, research impact librarian at San Jose State University, and Emily K. Chan, associate dean for research and scholarship at San Jose State University, the researchers surveyed academic librarians and interviewed academic library administrators in the United States and Canada. The goal of the mixed-meth- od study was to investigate how academic libraries are looking to deepen their support for research activi- ties within the identification of funding opportunities, research data management and data services, new ven- ues for publishing and dis- semination, and collection of research metrics and impacts. Funding for this research was provided by a generous contribution from ProQuest. “Supporting Scholarly Research: Current & New Opportunities for Academic Libraries” is published under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license and is available at www.choice360.org/librarianship/whitepaper. platform for the Digital Library of the Mid- dle East (DLME), which aims to become one of the world’s largest online archives of Middle Eastern and North African arti- facts. DLME aggregates, through an ongo- ing program, digital records of published materials, documents, maps, artifacts, au- diovisual recordings, and more from the Middle East and North Africa region. An international collaborative effort un- der development for four years, DLME cur- rently brings together 127,443 digital records of materials held in museums, libraries, and archives worldwide. It also provides an array of applications, tools, and descriptions that enrich the content and facilitate browsing, search, and interpretation. The resource is intended to serve as a resource for teachers, students, and researchers, as well as for the general public. DLME is available at https:// dlmenetwork.org/library. Getty Publications joins Project MUSE Getty Publications, affiliated with J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Research Institute, and Getty Conservation Institute, has joined Project MUSE with the goal of pro- viding academic libraries with broader and easier access to a selection of its highly re- garded art and art history publications. A selection of Getty’s e-books will become available in MUSE’s main collection start- ing in January 2021, marking the first time works from Getty Publications have been available through an online collection. Getty’s open access publications are also becoming available on the MUSE platform and accessible through MUSE’s new Getty Publications landing page. Several open access titles are available now, and oth- ers will be added through the remainder of 2020. http://www.choice360.org/librarianship/whitepaper https://dlmenetwork.org/library https://dlmenetwork.org/library September 2020 373 C&RL News Tech Bits . . . Brought to you by the ACRL ULS Technology in University Libraries Committee Do you need a cost-effective way to video conference using a system al- ready in place at your campus? Then consider Google Meet, included with G Suite and G Suite for Education accounts. Google Meet is compatible with both Windows and Mac com- puters and has apps available for iOS and Android mobile devices. Google Meet allows users to host and join video meetings with up to 250 partic- ipants and can provide live streaming for up to 100,000 viewers within the same domain. Chat, messaging, file, and screen sharing along with cap- tioning are included as is integration with both Office and Google product suites. Upgraded versions with a higher level of security are available for use by educational institutions. —David MacCourt University of Massachusetts-Amherst . . . Google Meet https:// apps.google.com/meet ProQuest adds audio descriptions to video collections ProQuest has added audio descriptions to its most-watched video titles in the Academic Video Online and ProQuest One Academic platforms, making educational streaming video more accessible. Audio description adds narration to a video, describing its on-screen images for the benefit of those with visual impairments. ProQuest has al- ready added audio descriptions to its most popular titles and will continue to add more upon request by a library at no charge. Au- dio-described video is the latest feature to improve accessibility of content within Aca- demic Video Online. Searchable, scrolling transcripts are also available for most of the database’s nearly 70,000 titles. GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO partners with Books at JSTOR GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO is ex- tending its Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) services to include Books at JSTOR. This arrangement offers libraries more op- tions to acquire and manage their DDA program via their preferred workflow solu- tion. JSTOR’s e-book program offers nearly 90,000 DRM-free, unlimited-access titles that are easy to discover and use alongside jour- nals on its platform. The program’s DDA purchase trigger and tiered savings ensure an outstanding value for library participants. Libraries will have the option to use an approval plan, all profiled content, or all available JSTOR content to feed their DDA program. JSTOR DDA will be part of GOBI’s Multi-Vendor DDA service, which currently offers DDA through ProQuest Ebook Central and EBSCO eBooks. The MIT Press launches Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 The MIT Press has launched Rapid Reviews: COVID-19, an open access, rapid-review overlay journal that will accelerate peer review of COVID-19-related research and deliver real-time, verified scientific informa- tion that policymakers and health leaders can use. Using artificial intelligence tools, a global team led by Editor-in-Chief Stefano M. Bertozzi of the University of California- Berkeley will identify promising scholarship in preprint repositories, commission expert peer reviews, and publish the results on an open access platform in a completely trans- parent process. The journal will strive for disciplinary and geographic breadth, sourc- ing manuscripts from all regions and across a wide variety of fields, including medicine; public health; the physical, biological, and chemical sciences; the social sciences; and the humanities. To learn more, visit http://rapidreviewscovid19. mitpress.mit.edu. https://apps.google.com/meet http://rapidreviewscovid19.mitpress.mit.edu http://rapidreviewscovid19.mitpress.mit.edu