sept09a2.indd C&RL News September 2009 434 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free UWM opens “green” learning commons Concrete circulation desk countertops were recently installed in the Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) Golda Meir Library. The eye-catching countertops, cre- ated through environmentally friendly prac- tices, are just one of many “green” features in the new area, scheduled to open the last week in August. The new learning commons will provide open spaces and group study areas on the fi rst fl oor of the library’s west wing. The proj- ect, made possible through a $1.75 million donation from the Daniel M. Soref Charitable Trust, is the fi rst major renovation of the library in 20 years. “In addition to its contemporary design and technology-enriched environment, the renovation project has incorporated many ‘green’ or sustainable design principles,” says Ewa Barczyk, director of the UWM Libraries. “The result is a well-designed space that uses energy, water, materials, and land more ef- fi ciently than older buildings.” Key features of the new learning com- mons include a 32,500-square-foot public space with an open, fl exible design, and seating for more than 400 users (up from the current 132 seats); more than 200 computers, including laptops; a main desk that integrates circulation, interlibrary loan, and information technology support services; an upgraded and expanded café; and additional class- rooms to meet the growing need for student instruction in information literacy. Updates and photos of construction, along with additional information on green features, are available at www.uwm.edu/Libraries /renovation/. New ACRL frequent learner program ACRL announces the launch of a new e- Learning Frequent Learner Program to help academic and research librarians maximize their professional development dollars dur- ing these challenging economic times. Start- ing September 1, individuals or groups that register for three ACRL e-Learning courses or Webcasts will receive complimentary reg- istration to one additional course or Web- cast of equal or lesser value to the lowest cost-paid e-Learning opportunity. Complete details and a full schedule of ACRL e-Learn- ing opportunities are available on the ACRL Web site at www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs /acrl/events/elearning/index.cfm. Enrollment in the Frequent Learner Pro- gram is automatic for all individuals and groups registering for ACRL e-Learning courses and Webcasts starting September 1. No ad- ditional signup is required. Complimentary e- Learning must be redeemed within 18 months of the fi rst course or Webcast. Frequent Learner Program rewards are only redeemable for ACRL e-Learning opportunities and have no cash value. ACRL e-Learning courses and Web- casts attended prior to September 1, 2009, are not eligible for the Frequent Learner Program. Contact Jon Stahler at jstahler@ala.org or (312) 280-2511 with questions about the Fre- quent Learner Program and ACRL e-Learning opportunities Duke University TV ad archive now online The Duke University Special Collections Library has made more than 1,500 historic TV commercials from the Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing His- tory available on iTunes U in a collection called “AdViews.” The collection is freely available and viewable at library.duke.edu /digitalcollections/adviews. The fi rst 1,500 digitized television com- mercials, mostly from the 1950s and 1960s, are part of the Hartman Center’s D’Arcy Ma- sius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency archive. It includes 12,000 commer- cials total, some produced as recently as the late 1980s. Duke plans to make the remaining commercials available by the end of 2009. The commercials pitch everything from shampoo and toys to dog food and coffee. New York agency DMB&B produced the ads for iconic American companies such as General Foods, Texaco, and Kraft. “I was looking at some of the commercials that are now being digitized at Duke, and they almost provide a history of U.S. culture,” said George Grody, a former Procter and Gamble marketing executive, now a visit- ing professor at Duke. “You can see how September 2009 435 C&RL News ACRL Instruction Section issues diversity materials The ACRL Instruction Section (IS) Instruction for Diverse Populations (IDP) Committee recently released the latest versions of the “Multilingual Glossary” and “Library Instruction for Diverse Populations Bibliography.” These two publications are intended to promote the equal access to instructional services, materials and technologies. The “Multilingual Glossary” supports both English as a Second Language library users and the librarians who assist them. The glossary contains terminology and defi nitions for 85 commonly used library terms. The terminology is provided in six different languages: English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, and Spanish. Defi nitions are provided in English. Recognizing that college and university students are more diverse than ever, and that this trend is one that will continue, the IDP Committee developed and con- tinues to update the “Library Instruction for Diverse Populations Bibliography.” This annotated bibliography begins with a sec- tion of general resources on instruction for diverse populations and then addresses instructional issues and techniques for the following student groups: African American; Asian American; fi rst-generation college; gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender; Hispanic and Latino; international; Native American; nontraditional; students with disabilities, and transfer students. Both publications can be accessed from the publications section of the IS Web site at www.ala.org/acrl/is. The committee wishes to thank past mem- bers/contributors to these publications and the members who participated in the most recent revisions: Jennifer Knievel, Miriam Laskin, An- drew Lee, Colleen Major, Lesley Moyo, Maud Mundava, Alexandra Rivera, Paula Smith, Dana Wright, and Vivien Zazzau. the roles of women have changed over the years, the role of the family has changed; African-Americans in advertising in the late ’60s, where they weren’t so present in the early ’60s.” An interactive quiz about the ads is avail- able at dn.duke.edu/adviewsquiz. ACRL joins amicus brief fi ling in Salinger case ALA, ACRL, the Association of Research Li- braries, the Organization for Transformative Works, and the Right to Write Fund have fi led an amicus curiae brief asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to reverse the Federal District Court judge’s rul- ing in Salinger v. Colting. In July, the District Court ruled in favor of author J.D. Salinger, who claimed that Fredrik Colting, the author of 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, infringed his copyright on Catcher in the Rye. The District Court’s preliminary injunc- tion prohibits the publication and distribu- tion of the book, which the groups believe implicates free speech rights of authors, publishers, and the public protected by the First Amendment. In their “friend of the court” fi ling, the groups also assert that the judge applied too narrow an interpretation of the “fair use” doctrine, which permits new, transformative works into the marketplace. A copy of the amicus brief can be found online at cyberlaw.stanford.edu/system/fi les / S a l i n g e r % 2 0 A m i c u s % 2 0 B r i e f % 2 0 %28fi led%29.pdf. UCLA joins Dance Heritage Coalition The Dance Heritage Coalition (DHC), a co- alition of major American libraries, archives, and museums with signifi cant collections in dance, has formally accepted the UCLA Library into its membership. Genie Guerard, head of the Manuscripts Division in the De- partment of Special Collections of UCLA’s Charles E. Young Research Library, will rep- resent UCLA on the DHC board of directors. “The dance fi eld has had a major im- pact from the innovation and ingenuity of choreographers and dance companies from the western United States,” said David R. Humphrey, director of the Museum of Per- formance and Design in San Francisco. “The UCLA Library has been a key contributor to the documentation and preservation of C&RL News September 2009 436 dance in the West, and this addition helps to geographically balance representation in the work of the Dance Heritage Coalition.” The UCLA Library collection is especially rich in materials from early modern dance and “classic” modern dance, including the papers and oral history of Ruth St. Denis, the Margerie Lyon collection on Ted Shawn, Ag- nes de Mille, and many more. In 2006, UCLA obtained what is believed to be the largest private collection of materials by and about Isadora Duncan, including manuscripts in her own hand, letters from her daughter Irma, and more than 300 art works by 13 artists. Visit DHC at www.danceheritage.org/ to learn more about the coalition. The UCLA Library Department of Special Collections is online at www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries /special.cfm. ProQuest plans new platform ProQuest recently announced the planned development of a new platform for its da- tabase products. Scheduled to launch in 2010, the company hopes the new platform will transform its platforms into one unifi ed search experience, providing access to a broad range of resources, content, and ser- vices. ProQuest, CSA Illumina, and selected Chadwyck-Healey products will be avail- able on the new platform at launch, and all ProQuest products will migrate to the new platform over time. The new platform is being built from the ground up, based on extensive student obser- vations, surveys of more than 6,000 end us- ers, focus groups, and individual interviews, along with ongoing interactions with users, librarians, and faculty. Its core will be a single platform for all content, with a single content store, single search engine, and unifi ed user experience. ProQuest worked with librarians and end users to get feedback on storyboards, mock- ups, and prototypes. The company believes the new platform will facilitate and simplify access to the broad range of ProQuest re- sources, content, and services. Users will be able to quickly and easily narrow in on the answers they need by searching across all content and a broad range of comple- mentary sources, including leading journals, periodicals, news content, rare and archival information, dissertations, research reports, New ACRL publications Two new titles, Teaching Literary Research: Challenges in a Changing Environment and The Library Instruction Cookbook, are now available from ACRL. Number 60 in the ACRL Publications in Li- brarianship (PIL) monographic series, Teaching Literary Research is a collection of essays by librarians and English faculty that explore the relationship between information literacy and literary research. Essays focus on the signifi cance of information literacy to research in literary studies, providing an expanded exploration of teaching research skills to students at a variety of levels, undergraduate through graduate. The concept of “the book” continues to be of utmost importance to the disciplines of language and literary study, but networks, data- bases and digital works all impact the research process of the literary scholar. Teaching Liter- ary Research confronts these challenges and presents effective best practices as experienced from both the classroom faculty and librarian points of view. The Library Instruction Cookbook is a practical collection of “learning recipes,” each including plans for conducting a spe- cifi c type of learning session and indicating how the recipe teaches research skills from ACRL’s “Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.” The book includes interactive recipes from academic librarians from around the world, meeting such learning goals as library orientation, teaching basic library skills, teaching citations and plagiarism, evaluat- ing various types of resources, and teach- ing with technology. The 97 lesson plans contain detailed preparation instructions for pedagogically sound, active learning exercises, and are adaptable to a variety of instructional situations. Both titles are available for purchase from the ALA Online Store (www.alastore.ala.org) and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the United States or (770) 442-8633 for international customers. September 2009 437 C&RL News Correction ebooks, and multimedia. For libraries, the unifi ed platform will offer new administra- tive and reporting tools that provide greater fl exibility in customizing the experience to their institution’s needs. To learn more about the development of the new platform, visit www.proquest.com /go/yourpath. LC on iTunes U In an ongoing effort to make its digital edu- cational, historical, and cultural resources available to Web users across a broad spec- trum of platforms, the Library of Congress (LC) has launched “The Library of Congress on iTunes U.” At its inception, LC’s iTunes U site includes historical videos from moving-image collec- tions such as original Edison fi lms; a series of 1904 fi lms from the Westinghouse Works; and original videos such as author presentations from the National Book Festival, the “Books and Beyond” series, lectures from the Kluge Center, and the “Journeys and Crossings” series of discussions with curators. The site also features audio podcasts, in- cluding series such as “Music and the Brain,” slave narratives from the American Folklife Center, and interviews with noted authors from the National Book Festival. Classroom and educational materials are also available, including 14 courses from the Catalogers’ Learning Workshop. All content is free and downloadable from iTunes and is also available through the LC Web site at www.loc.gov. American Chemical Society launches e-book program The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has launched an e- book program: ACS Symposium Series On- line—a new online collection of more than 1,200 ACS books from the ACS Symposium Series and Advances in Chemistry Books Se- ries. Every book in the series dating from 1950 through 2009 is now online and fully inte- grated on the ACS Web Editions platform. This addition to the platform makes the peer-re- viewed book content discoverable via search, presented alongside journal content with all of the same features, functionality, and related content linking. The new e-books cover a broad range of topics, including agricultural and food chemistry, cellulose and renewable materials, chemical education, organic chem- istry, polymer chemistry, materials, and more. Founded by ACS in 1949, the Advances in Chemistry series was launched to provide the research community with published content beyond the scope of the society’s existing journals at that time. The series remained in publication until 1998, when the ACS Sympo- sium Series, launched in 1974, had evolved to a point where it fulfi lled the same needs as the Advances in Chemistry series and beyond. Additional information on the ACS Books program is available at pubs.acs.org/page /books/index.html. ACRL advises on Google Book Search settlement ACRL, in conjunction with ALA and ARL, sent a letter to William Cavanaugh, Deputy Assis- tant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division request- ing the division to advise the court presid- ing over the Google Book Settlement to su- pervise the implementation of the settlement closely, particularly the pricing of institutional subscriptions and the selection of the Book Rights Registry board members. The letter, which was sent following a meeting between the library associations and DOJ, also recommended that the Antitrust Di- vision actively monitor the parties’ compliance with the settlement’s provisions. In particular, the library groups urged the division to ask the court to review pricing of institutional subscriptions whenever the division concludes that the prices do not meet the economic ob- jectives set forth in the settlement. The full text of the letter is on the ALA Washington Offi ce Web site at www.ala.org /ala/aboutala/offi ces/wo/index.cfm. A note reading “This project was funded in part through an Institute of Museum and Library Services LSTA grant awarded by the State Library of Ohio” was omitted from “Vocera: Enhancing communication across a library system” by Sarah Ann Murphy in the July/August issue of C&RL News. The editors regret the error.