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N e w s  f r o m  t h e  F i e l d  Stephanie Orphan 

Cornell partners with Microsoft to 
provide global access 
Cornell University Library has entered into a 
long­term partnership with Microsoft to digi­
tize a significant number of its books and put 
the volumes online using Live Book Search 
service. The initiative will focus on works 
already in the public domain and allow stu­
dents, researchers, and scholars to use Live 
Book Search to locate and read books from 
the library’s collections regardless of loca­
tion. Cornell and Microsoft are teaming with 
Kirtas Technologies to digitize the materials. 
Kirtas is a recognized pioneer of solutions 
that enable high­quality, nondestructive 
bound document digitization at up to 2,400 
pages per hour. The library is playing a key 
role in book selection and in setting qual­
ity standards for the digitized materials. The 
project supports the library’s long­standing 
commitment to make its collections broadly 
available and Cornell President David Skor­
ton’s goal to increase the impact of the uni­
versity beyond campus boundaries. 

ACRL offering new book on social 
science info lit skills 
ACRL has published Teaching Information 
Literacy Skills to Social Science Students and 
Practitioners: Casebook of Applications, com­
piled by Doug Cook and Natasha Cooper. 
The volume is based on the “Information 
Literacy Competency Standards for Higher 
Education” and presents cases on learning 
situations and how they can be analyzed and 
addressed. Also included are descriptions of 
instruction sessions for each case, notes, and 
teaching resources. Contributors cover top­
ics such as data literacy, visual literacy, and 
developmental research skills training. Or­
dering information is on the ACRL Web site 
at www.ala.org/publications. 

Miami University Libraries to house 
Center for Writing Excellence 
Two alumni of Miami University (Oxford, 
Ohio) have donated $10.5 million toward 
the creation of a new writing center to be 
located in the newly renovated King Li­
brary. The center will be named the Roger 

and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excel­
lence, named for the 1957 Miami graduates 
who donated the funds for its development. 
The center is intended to benefit all Miami 
students, regardless of major, and will offer 
individual assistance with writing and work 
with faculty to evaluate writing assignments. 
The aim of housing the writing center in the 
library is to create an opportunity for collab­
oration between librarians and writing cen­
ter staff to assist students through all stages 
of the writing process. The Roger and Joyce 
Howe Center for Writing Excellence is set to 
open in 2007. 

New editors at the helm of Library 
Trends 
W. Boyd Rayward and John Unsworth are 
the new editors of Library Trends, a quar­
terly thematic journal that focuses on current 
trends in all areas of library practice. Their 
editorship was effective August 16. The jour­
nal is sponsored by the University of Illinois 
Graduate School of Library and Information 
Science (GSLIS) and published by the Johns 
Hopkins University Press. The new editors 
succeed F. W. Lancaster, who held the posi­
tion for 20 years and set the standards of 
academic quality and professional relevance 
for the journal. 

Rayward is a professor in GSLIS and a 
former editor of Library Quarterly. Unsworth, 
GSLIS dean and professor, was a found­
ing coeditor of the e­journal Postmodern 
Culture. The editors may be contacted at 
lis­pubs@uiuc.edu. 

Academic OneFile added to Virtual 
Library of Virginia 
The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) is now 
offering Academic OneFile to its users. Cre­
ated by Thomson Gale, Academic OneFile is 
a collection of more than 8,000 journals with 
full manual indexing, a robust backfi le, and 
coverage of a variety of academic disciplines. 
The majority of the content is peer­reviewed 
and available full­text with no restrictions. 
Content is provided in HTML and PDF. VIVA 
is the consortium of the nonprofi t academic 
libraries within the Commonwealth of Vir­

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ginia. Members include all of the 39 
state­assisted colleges and universi­
ties (the 6 doctoral universities, 9 4­
year institutions, and 24 community 
and two­year branch colleges), as 
well as 32 of the independent (pri­
vate, nonprofit) institutions and the 
Library of Virginia. 

ACRL and Bowker launch new 
RCL Web site 
Choice magazine, a publishing unit 
of ACRL, and R. R. Bowker, publisher 
of Books in Print, have launched the 
online edition of the new Resources 
for College Libraries. RCLweb, a da­
tabase of hand­selected core titles 
for academic libraries, will be the 
successor to ALA’s classic refer­
ence work, Books for College Librar­
ies, 3rd Edition (BCL3), which was 
last published in its third edition in 
1988. More than 350 experts with 
advanced knowledge in their subject 

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This shortcut to searching your catalog would 

be difficult to do without. It has been around for 
a few years but continues to impress new users. 
Using a bookmarklet (a small line of code added 
to your browser), you can quickly search your 
library catalog from any Web page that includes 
an ISBN in the URL. Fortunately, this is the format 
used by most popular online booksellers like 
Amazon or Barnes & Noble, as well as a number 
of other sites. In addition to quickly linking to title 
information, libraries who make this tool available 
to its users may be able to connect with those 
readers who prefer to search at online bookstores. 
A simple utility and nice time saver for your Web 
surfi ng toolbox. —Tom Reinsfelder, Pennsylvania 
State University­Mont Alto 

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weblog.infoworld.com/udell/LibraryLookup

areas put together the core list. Students, with which the library does business. More 
faculty, and library staff will all fi nd RCLweb information on the SUSHI initiative can be 
very user­friendly and easy to navigate. This found at www.niso.org/committees/SUSHI 
new Web format consists of a core list of /SUSHI_comm.html. 
62,000+ books and electronic resources in 
58 subject areas, including interdisciplinary UW-Madison joins Google book 
topics (a new feature). Users will be able to digitization project 
create, edit, and save lists, which can then The University of Wisconsin­Madison (UWM) 
be e­mailed or downloaded and printed. and Google have announced an agreement 
The print edition of RCL will be available as to include hundreds of thousands of pub­
of November 28, 2006. For additional infor­ lic and historical books and documents 
mation visit www.rclinfo.net/. from more than 7.2 million holdings at the 

UWM Libraries and the Wisconsin Historical 
EBSCO releases SUSHI 1.0 server Society Library in Google Books. The uni­
EBSCO has announced the release of its versity is the eighth library to join Google’s 
updated SUSHI server, now in production book digitization effort, which will make the 
within EBSCOhost Electronic Journal Service books searchable on Google Book Search. 
(EJS). EBSCO was a partner in development The combined documents of UWM and the 
of the NISO SUSHI (Standardized Usage historical society comprise one of the largest 
Statistics Harvesting Initiative) standard, re­ collections of documents and historical ma­
leased in September as a draft standard for terials in the United States. The Wisconsin 
trial use. EBSCO’s SUSHI server facilitates project will initially focus on library collec­
automated data retrieval from EJS in com­ tions that are free of copyright restrictions. 
pliance with the standard. SUSHI builds In addition to other documents, the UWM 
on the work of Project COUNTER by al­ digitizing process will target other high­use 
lowing completely automated request and collections, such as history of medicine, pat­
delivery of COUNTER­compliant usage re­ ents and discoveries, history of engineer­
ports. With SUSHI, usage reports are auto­ ing, early publications of scientifi c societies, 
matically retrieved on a monthly schedule American and Wisconsin history, and genea­
for all of the COUNTER­compliant vendors logical materials. 

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http:www.rclinfo.net
www.niso.org/committees/SUSHI


Investigating
the
impact
of
digital
rights
management
systems
on
libraries:


Synopsis
of
the
research
of
the
2005
Lazerow
Fellowship
recipient



Ed note: Each year ACRL awards the 
Samuel Lazerow Fellowship for Research 
in Collections and Technical Services in Ac­
ademic and Research Libraries. Recipients 
are awarded $1,000 cash and a citation 
donated by Thomson Scientific. Below is a 
synopsis of the research project conducted 
by Kristin Eschenfelder, the 2005 Lazerow 
Fellowship winner. 

Information on all ACRL awards is 
available on the ACRL Web site (www.acrl. 
org, c lick “Awards”). 

Technological protection measures 
The Library TPM pilot project investigated 
how publishers and vendors are making 
use of technological protection measures 
(“TPMn” also known as DRM) to control ac­
cess to and use of licensed full­text scholarly 
materials or data sets. The study also ex­
plored librarian perceptions of the impact 
of access and use restrictions on learning, 
scholarship, and library management. 

Study results include the following: 
1. Identification of a small number of 

licensed resources containing “hard” access 
and use restrictions from a review of 75 
licensed scholarly resources from the fi elds 
of history/art history, health sciences, and 
engineering. 

2. Identification and description of 
four more common, “soft” access, and use 
descriptions. 

3. Initial identification of themes regard­
ing the impact of access and use restric­
tions on learning, scholarship, and library 
management. 

4. Development of appropriate method­
ologies to identify and investigate TPM. 

Hard versus soft TPM 
Study results distinguish between “hard” and 
“soft” TPM restrictions. Hard TPM include 
configurations of software or hardware that 
disallow or strictly limit uses. such as print­
ing, saving, copy/pasting, or e­mailing—even 
through use of the browser or computer op­
erating system functions. Soft TPM include 

configurations of hardware or software that 
make these uses more diffi cult—but not 
impossible—to achieve. 

The study found that soft TPM are 
prevalent and may prove a barrier to some 
users. We observed the following forms of 
soft TPM: 

• TPM by obfuscation: In these cases, 
badly designed interfaces act as a barrier to 
use by concealing otherwise possible use 
functionalities. 

• TPM by omission: Here, use functional­
ities (save, e­mail) are not embedded in the 
resource interface; rather, they are only pos­
sible with the use of browser and computer 
operating system functions. 

• TPM by polyglot: The hybrid format 
nature of many e­resources complicates 
some use functions, such as saving and 
e­mailing because of the large number of 
different files associated with a particular 
target document. 

• TPM by frustration: Many e­books 
break up content into small chunks mak­
ing printing and saving frustrating, but not 
impossible. 

We did not find examples of hard TPM 
in our sample, but interviews pointed 
to examples of TPM­protected resources 
not implemented at the study case site, 
and several instances where vendors had 
implemented, but then withdrawn, TPM 
requirements. 

Interviews with librarians suggested that 
effects of access and use restrictions would 
vary by user group due to differences in 
information behaviors across groups, but 
some effects could be widespread because 
they interfere with common student work 
patterns and pedagogical practices. In 
terms of library management, librarians 
feared that TPM plug­in requirements and 
restrictions would complicate public com­
puter terminal management and support 
for remote users.—Kristin Eschenfelder, 
School of Library and Information Stud­
ies, University of Wisconsin­Madison, 
eschenfelder@wisc.edu 

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Current Issues available on WilsonWeb 
H. W. Wilson has announced that Current 
Issues: Reference Shelf Plus, a new full­text 
database, is now available on WilsonWeb. 
Current Issues presents selected articles 
from key publications on social, scientifi c, 
health, political, and global issues, chosen 
to make up a well­rounded overview. Or­
ganized by topic and presented in and info­
graphic display, the database also allows us­
ers to launch searches for new information 
on each topic through WilsonWeb or the 
Internet and links to biographical profi les of 
prominent figures for each topic from Cur­
rent Biography. Issues covered are selected 
to support the curriculum in social studies, 
current events, and sociology for school, 
college, and general research. 

Univ. of Illinois developing informatics 
initiative 
The University of Illinois has announced the 
Illinois Informatics Initiative, an organiza­
tion under development at the Urbana cam­
pus. Also known as I3, the initiative will be 
a voluntary federation of units and individu­

als that will coordinate interdisciplinary in­
formatics­related research, teaching, service, 
and economic development activities across 
campus. Informatics is broadly defi ned as 
the study of the structure and behavior of 
natural and artificial systems that store, pro­
cess, and communicate information and the 
development of technologies to implement 
artificial systems. I3 is a key component of 
Chancellor Richard Herman’s Strategic Plan 
for the Urbana Campus, which includes 
establishing a campuswide undergradu­
ate minor in informatics; creating graduate 
programs in informatics that would include 
students from the humanities, social scienc­
es, and the arts; and incorporating informat­
ics into academic curricula across campus. 

Ingenta expands presence in China 
Ingenta has announced plans to improve 
and expand upon its presence in China. 
The company, which provides technology 
and services to the publishing and informa­
tion industries, has upgraded its server lo­
cated in China and moved it onto a network 
that will ensure improved performance and 

security. Ingenta is also recruiting a Chi­
nese customer service representative and 
translating key support documents into 
simple Chinese, amending them where 
necessary, to provide specialized advice 
appropriate to the different requirements 
of the Chinese market. Longer term, the 
company plans to introduce a Chinese in­
terface to IngentaConnect. 

Ken Marks, former dean of 
libraries at the University of 
Nevada­Las Vegas, presented 
the Strategic Marketing for 
Academic and Research Librar­
ies Train the Trainer workshop 
to librarians in Singapore and 
Hong Kong in June 2006. The 
workshops, which were sponsored by Springer,  originated as part of ACRL’s Academic and Research 
Library @your library campaign. The workshops were held in conjunction with seminars conducted 
by Springer personnel to introduce their new eBook product. 

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