july14_a.indd C&RL News July/August 2014 362 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free UNT Portal to Texas History named DPLA Service Hub The Portal to Texas History, administered by the University of North Texas Libraries to provide access to more than 385,000 digi- tized books, photographs, maps, newspa- pers, letters, and other historic materials, has been named a Service Hub by the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Created in 2002 by the UNT Libraries’ Digital Projects Unit, the portal provides online access to items from more than 250 partners—archives, historical societies, small and large libraries, museums, and private collections from all areas of Texas. With more than 4.1 million pages of ma- terials, the portal includes many primary source historical materials, such as diaries and personal accounts of events and daily life. DPLA Service Hubs are state or regional digital libraries that aggregate information about digital objects from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage insti- tutions within their given state or region. Each Service Hub offers its state or regional partners a full menu of standardized digital services, including digitization, metadata, data aggregation, and storage services, as well as locally hosted community outreach programs, bringing users in contact with digital content of local relevance. The Portal to Texas History is available at http://texashistory.unt.edu/. Austin American Statesman archive added to ProQuest Historical Newspapers For the first time, researchers will have on- line access to the digital archive of the Aus- tin American Statesman as ProQuest adds the acclaimed daily to its Historical Newspa- pers collection. As the leading newspaper in the state capital of Austin and central Texas, the his- torical Austin American Statesman provides researchers with a unique, regional perspec- tive on the political, economic, cultural, and social landscape of Texas and the American Southwest from the late 19th through the 20th centuries. The Austin American Statesman archive includes searchable, full-text coverage from the origin of the paper in 1871 as the Demo- cratic Statesman, which was a semi-official organ of the state executive committee of the Democratic Party. It provides in-depth and acclaimed reporting on Texas’ recon- struction period, the development of Austin as a primary railroad hub of the American southwest, the founding and development of the University of Texas, the Austin Dam collapse, and the evolution of Austin as the state capital. Rachel Hendrick named Choice operations manager Rachel Hendrick has been named opera- tions manager of Choice. Hendrick brings an academic background in librarianship and more than ten years of magazine publishing experience to the operations manager posi- tion at Choice. She began her career at Life Magazine, first as a photo researcher working with Time Inc.’s picture collection and later in editorial production. Since then, she has worked at various national and international publishing houses, including Reader’s Di- gest and Conde Nast. Most recently, she was project manager of the final production of Sotheby’s digital iPad catalog. In addition to her professional knowledge of publishing, she offers an expertise in li- brarianship. In 2007, Hendrick was awarded an MLS with a concentration in rare books from Long Island University. She also holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Pratt Institute with a concentration in art history. Hendrick joined Choice in May 2014. July/August 2014 363 C&RL News New ACRL titles focus on embedded librarianship, librarian stereotypes ACRL announces the publication of The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Presentations and Perceptions of Infor- mation Work, edited by Nicole Pagowsky and Miriam Rigby, and The Embedded Librarian’s Cookbook, edited by Kaijsa Calkins and Cassandra Kvenild. The Embedded Librarian’s Cook- book of- fers step- b y - s t e p g u i d e - l i n e s fo r i m p l e - m e n t i n g tested ap- proaches t o e m - b e d d e d l i b r a r i - a n s h i p . F o l l o w - i n g t h e p o p u l a r format of ACRL’s 2009 release The Li- brary Instruction Cookbook, the book features 55 “recipes” sorted into catego- ries related to working with a variety of instructional situations, audiences, and levels of engagement. The Embedded Librarian’s Cookbook provides librar- ians with a smorgasbord of approaches to embedding instruction and assessing these activities. This volume builds on Calkins and Kvenild’s 2011 ACRL publication Embed- ded Librarianship: Moving Beyond One- shot Instruction and is essential for all instruction and liaison librarians working with any variety of embedded librarian- ship, as well as library and information science program professional collections. The Embedded Librarian’s Cookbook is available for purchase in print through the ALA Online Store and Amazon.com; and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the United States or (770) 442-8633 for international customers. The Librarian Stereotype serves as a response to passionate discussions re- garding the ways in which librarians are perceived. Through 12 chapters, covering topics such as racial and ethnic identity, professional personas, pop culture, and a variety of specific stereotypes of librar- ians, the book reignites an examination of librarian presentation within the field and in the public eye, employing theories and methodologies from throughout the social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project is to launch productive discourse and inspire action in order to further the positive impact of the information professions. Through deconstructing the perceived truths of our profession and employing a critical eye, as illustrated by the chapter au- thors, librarians can work towards improved status, increased diversity, and greater ac- ceptance of each other. The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstruct- ing Presentations and Perceptions of In- formation Work is available for purchase in print and a variety of e-book formats through the ALA Online Store and Amazon.com; and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the United States or (770) 442-8633 for interna- tional customers. C&RL News July/August 2014 364 Applications/nominations invited for C&RL editor GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program accepting letters of inquiry The GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program is seeking applications to help facilitate the support of music preservation and research projects. With funding provided by The Re- cording Academy, the program awards grants each year to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of music and the recorded sound heritage of the Americas for future generations, and research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition. Grant funds have been used to preserve pri- vate collections, as well as materials at the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, and nu- merous colleges and universities. Research projects have studied the links between music and early childhood education, treatments for illnesses and injuries common to musicians, and the impact of music therapy on populations from infants to the elderly. More than $6 million in grants has been awarded to more than 300 recipients. More information on the program and application instructions are available at www.grammyfoundation.org/ grants. Letters of inquiry are due October 1, 2014. Illinois launches new IDNC website The History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Li- brary at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign recently launched a new website for the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections (IDNC). IDNC is a free online archive of digi- tized historic newspapers and trade journals organized in four different collections. Us- ing Veridian Digital Library software, IDNC Applications and nominations are invited for the position of editor of College & Research Libraries (C&RL), the scholarly research journal of ACRL. The association seeks an innovative, experienced candidate to lead its top-tier, open access journal with an eye to the future of scholarly publishing. The editor is appointed for a three-year term, which may be renewed for an ad- ditional three years. Applicants must be a member of ALA and ACRL. Qualifications include: • professional experi- ence in academic libraries; • broad knowledge of current issues facing academic and research libraries; • record of scholarly publishing; • editing experience, preferably in the scholarly publishing environment; • knowledge of, and experience with, current trends and innovations in scholarly communication, including open access and digital publishing; • knowledge of current trends in reader engagement, including social media inte- gration; and • organizational and communication skills, including the ability to meet, and hold others to, publication deadlines. Some funding for editorial assistance and travel to relevant conferences is available, and there is a small honorarium for the editor. Appointment will be made by the ACRL Board of Directors at, or prior to, the 2015 ALA Annual Conference upon the recommendation of the search committee and the ACRL Publications Coordi- nating Committee. The incoming editor will serve as editor-designate for one year before as- suming full responsibility for C&RL in July 2016. Nominations or resumes and letters of application, including the names of three references, should be sent to: C&RL Search Committee, c/o Dawn Mueller, ACRL, 50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611, or by e-mail to dmueller@ala.org. The deadline for receipt of applications is October 31, 2014. July/August 2014 365 C&RL News Tech Bits . . . Brought to you by the ACRL ULS Technol- ogy in University Libraries Committee Pocket is a free app for saving online articles, images, and videos to read or view later, even offline. Add items to Pocket from your favorite apps (including Twitter, YouTube, and Feedly), via e-mail, or directly from your web browser using the convenient book- marklet. Saved items will automatically sync across your devices. Pocket keeps things simple: the app removes extraneous content for a clean, ad-free interface, and the tagging feature makes organizing your Pocket list a breeze. I recommend Pocket for streamlining your online reading and staying up-to-date on your favorite library blogs and newsletters. You may also want to experiment with Pocket in an information literacy session as an easy way for students to gather, tag, and manage news on current issues. —Sara O’Donnell University of Northern Colorado . . . Pocket getpocket.com offers a modern and user-friendly way to access unique research tools and engage with the past. The new website will replace Olive Active Pa- per, which will be retired in Summer 2014. The website includes interactive features allowing users to tag articles, correct OCR text, and share their find- ings on social media. The new web- site is available at http://idnc.library. illinois.edu. Columbia RBML to digitize Wellington Koo Papers Columbia University Libraries/Infor- mation Services’ Rare Book & Manu- script Library (RBML) announced a partnership with the Institute of Mod- ern History, an institute of the Chi- nese Academy of the Social Sciences, to digitize the papers of the politi- cian and diplomat Wellington Koo, in cooperation with the Koo family. Koo (1887–1985) came from an elite Chinese family and had a long and distinguished career in the Chinese Republic’s Foreign Service. A triple graduate of Columbia University (BA, PhD, and LLD), Koo played an impor- tant role as part of the Chinese lega- tion to the Paris Peace Conference and to the fledgling League of Nations. Koo went on to become China’s ambassador to France, and then, during WWII, to the United Kingdom, and finally, after the war, to the United States The Wellington Koo Papers, housed at RBML, contain correspondence, diaries, memoranda, manuscripts, notes, printed material, and photographs of Koo and his contemporaries. The archive comprises nearly 300 document boxes and covers the full sweep of his career, including the constitution of the Chinese embassies in Paris, London, and Washington D.C. Ingram expands content, PDA solutions Ingram Content Group Inc. recently an- nounced it has enhanced the patron-driven acquisition (PDA) tools available for e-books on its OASIS platform for academic libraries. Through an enhanced integration with EB- SCO Information Services, libraries have ac- cess to a greater range of e-book content and collection development options through the OASIS platform. With new functionality, OA- SIS customers also have the option to include EBSCO e-books in Ingram Coutts profiles and can elect to have those e-books added to PDA collections in already established work- flows. The OASIS platform, Ingram’s academ- ic content platform for its library company Coutts Information Services, is an online li- brary interface for bibliographic information and searching, book and e-book acquisi- tion, collection development, and workflow management. More information is available at www.ingramcontent.com.