News from the Field C&RL News April 2016 170 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free Auburn students assist in digitization project On Saturday, March 5, 25 Auburn Univer- sity (AU) students prepared 478 boxes of U.S. Hearings to be shipped to the Univer- sity of Florida for digitizing. The students were participating in an annual event that provides Auburn students the opportunity to volunteer both on campus and in the community. The students worked with AU Libraries staff to box over a third of the materi- als to be shipped to Florida. Once the hearings are digitized, they will be available on- line to researchers anywhere in the world. “ We a r e e x - tremely grateful to the student volunteers of The BIG Event for helping us with this proj- ect,” said Bonnie MacEwan, dean of Auburn University Libraries. “The students have helped make it pos- sible for us to share these documents with the world. We are pleased to work with our colleagues at the University of Florida to contribute to a project to make this important information openly available to scholars and delighted to have Auburn students contribute to an effort that will benefit them and their fellow students worldwide.” Organized by AU’s Student Government Association, The BIG Event gives Auburn students a chance to give back to the com- munity through a day of community service projects. In 2016, students volunteered for The BIG Event and worked in groups of varying sizes to lend a hand at area charitable organizations, schools, churches, and even individual homes. Mentors needed for Spectrum Scholars Are you interested in directly contributing to the development of the next generation of academic librarians and ensuring a diverse workforce? Then consider mentoring an ALA Spectrum Scholar through the ACRL Dr. E. J. Josey Spectrum Scholar Mentor Program. The program links participating library school students and new librarians who are of American Indian/ Alaska Native, Asian, Black/ African American, Hispanic/Latino or Native Hawaiian/ Other Pacific Islander descent, with established academic li- brarians who provide mentoring and professional guidance. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. Complete details, including program details and application information, are available on ACRL Insider at www.acrl.ala. org/acrlinsider/archives/11497. Claremont Colleges Library joins Greater Western Library Alliance The Claremont Colleges Library has been granted membership into the Greater Western Library Al- liance (GWLA), a consortium of 36 research li- braries located in the central and western United States. GWLA is a dynamic, project-oriented con- sortium, nationally recognized as a leader in the transformation of scholarly communication, and a facilitator in the application of new information technologies in libraries serving higher education. The Claremont Colleges Library serves a distin- guished consortium of five undergraduate and two graduate institutions located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. Auburn students participating in The BIG Event. April 2016 171 C&RL News 2014 Academic Library Trends and Statistics ACRL announces the publication of 2014 Academic Library Trends and Statistics, the latest in a series of annual publications that describe the collections, staffi ng, expen- ditures, and service activities of academic libraries in all Carnegie classifi cations. The three-volume set includes Associate of Arts institutions, Master’s Colleges and Universi- ties/Baccalaureate Colleges, and Research/ Doctoral-granting Institutions. The individual volumes for Associates Colleges, Masters/ Baccalaureate, and Doctoral-Granting institu- tions are also available for purchase. The 2014 data show that library expen- ditures for collection materials averaged $6,471,262 for doctoral degree-granting institutions, $776,119 for comprehensive degree-granting institutions, $509,643 for baccalaureate schools, and $143,254 for associate-degree granting institutions. The percentage of the collection materials bud- get spent on ongoing resources purchases (including subscription expenditures) aver- aged 70% of the total materials budget. On average, doctoral degree granting institutions spent 74.6% of their materials budgets on ongoing purchases in 2013, comprehensive schools spent an average of 76.5%, baccalau- reate schools spent an average 71.5%, and associate degree granting institutions spent an average of 55.6%. The 2014 data show that expenditures for salaries and wages accounted for 57.3% of the total library expenditures on average. Salaries and wages constituted 77.9% of total library expenditures for associate-degree granting institutions, 52.7% for baccalaure- ate, 54.7% for comprehensive schools, and 44% for doctoral/research institutions. Of the libraries surveyed, 34.3% of doc- toral degree-granting institutions, 33.8% of comprehensive degree-granting institutions, 20.6% of baccalaureate schools, and 16.9% of associate-degree granting institutions re- quire professional development for tenure track consideration or other advancement. Less than half of academic libraries have measures or methods in place to assess the impact of professional development, but a small percentage of libraries require staff to report how their professional develop- ment activities support student learning or research outcomes at their institutions, with 10.46% of baccalaureate schools using this method. In the past three years, funding for profes- sional development has increased for more doctoral/research institutions (30.8%) than comprehensive schools (19.9%), baccalau- reate schools (19.3%), or associate-degree granting institutions (11.4%). Of the libraries surveyed, most budgeted between .01 and 1.99% for professional development includ- ing 49% of doctoral/research schools, 42.6% of comprehensive schools, 38% of baccalau- reate schools, and 23.4% of associate degree granting institutions. The 2014 survey includes data from 1,449 academic libraries in six major cat- egories: • Collections (including titles held, vol- umes, and electronic books) • Expenditures (library materials, salaries and wages, etc.) • Personnel and Public Services (staff and services) • Ph.D.s Granted, Faculty, Student En- rollment • Professional development The survey also provides analysis of selected variables and summary data (high, low, mean, and median) for all elements. The 2014 data can be used for self-studies, bud- geting, strategic planning, annual reports, grant applications, and benchmarking. 2014 Academic Library Trends and Statistics is available for purchase through the ALA Online Store, by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the United States or (770) 442-8633 for international customers. C&RL News April 2016 172 “We’re excited to be joining the GWLA network of academic libraries,” said Kevin Mulroy, the A. J. McFadden Dean of the Claremont Colleges Library. “Membership in the consortium will bring immediate and sub- stantial benefi ts to our faculty, students, and staff through increased access to information resources.” During the membership assessment, a three-person GWLA team visited the Clare- mont Colleges Library for an on-site evalua- tion that is similar to a college accreditation visit. The team members were impressed by the library’s collection size and scope, public services, new strategic initiatives, and potential contributions to the alliance. More information on GWLA is available at www.gwla.org. Southern Illinois acquires 3 millionth volume Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbon- dale’s Morris Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of its 3 millionth volume— Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in March 1852, Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold more than 300,000 copies in its fi rst year and humanized the cruelty and suffering of slavery for the general public. It was contro- versial from the start, sparking outrage in the South where it was banned as abolitionist propaganda. It is still occasionally banned to- day, for outdated racial language rather than its antislavery message. For that reason it will be added to the library’s Ralph McCoy Freedom of the Press collection, in honor of our fi rst dean and his devotion to the principles of the First Amendment. The Friends of Morris Library purchased this fi rst edition/fi rst printing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin to highlight the continu- ing growth and breadth of Morris Library’s academic collections and achievements in supporting faculty, student, and community research. C&RL News seeks cover art C&RL News is looking for images from library collections to feature on upcoming covers. If you have items in your collections that you think would make attractive C&RL News covers, we would love to see them. To submit images (or im- age collections), send URLs for web-based images or im- ages directly as attachments to David Free at dfree@ala. org. Please include a brief description of the item and your collection. Images selected to ap- pear as C&RL News covers will require a high-resolution electronic image (300 dpi or higher) to be submitted prior to the publica- tion date. Images must be vertically oriented or it must be possible to crop the image to show a detail in vertical format. Both color and black-and-white im- ages are accepted. Works selected must be in the public domain, from institu- tions that own reproduction rights for the works, or express rights must be obtained from the copyright holder. Complete guidelines for the submission of cover illus- trations are available online at crln.acrl.org/site/misc/author. xhtml. April 2016 173 C&RL News Altmetric data now available in Summon Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, re- cently announced that it has integrated altmetrics into the Summon discov- ery service to significantly enrich the user experience and improve content discovery. This new development, achieved through collaboration be- tween ProQuest and Altmetric, en- ables researchers to explore the online shares, comments, and discussion re- lating to individual research outputs with a single click. Libraries can eas- ily turn on the free Summon-Altmetric integration to display Altmetric badg- es that highlight the broader impacts and popularity of articles included in Summon result sets. This information, tracked by Altmetric, is drawn from sources that include mainstream me- dia, Wikipedia, blogs, social networks, reference managers, post-publication peer-review forums, and other online communities. EBSCO launches Architectural Digest Magazine Archive An extensive, searchable digital archive of the renowned design magazine Architectural Digest is now available from EBSCO Informa- tion Services. The Architectural Digest Maga- zine Archive includes cover-to-cover access to issues of the iconic and influential design magazine from the 1920s to 2011. Each issue in the archive is presented in its entirety, includ- ing the front and back covers and high-quality photo spreads. All articles and advertisements have been indexed with subject terms to allow users to find relevant results quickly, as well as research and analyze trends in topics and advertising materials. With more than 90 years’ worth of issues available, the Architectural Di- gest Magazine Archive is a valuable resource for everyday design enthusiasts, researchers of architecture and interior design and those in- terested in the history of business, advertising, and popular culture. For more information, visit www.ebscohost.com/archives. Tech Bits . . . Brought to you by the ACRL ULS Tech- nology in University Libraries Commit- tee PicCollage is a photo collage app available on IOS or Android. With this app you can add im- ages from your device’s albums, photo stream, camera, import from Facebook or Instagram, or download from the web. Once photos are added, you can manipulate, re-size, and add text or stickers. When complete, you can save your masterpiece to your photo library, email it, or post it to various social media sites. The initial app is free but packets of additional stickers or backgrounds can cost you up to $1.99, and currently there is no desktop version of the app. PicCollage can add flare to your library’s social media sites or make creative images for your website or instructional class guides. —Jaki King Clark College . . . PicCollage www.pic-collage.com Represent ALA on IFLA standing committees Would you like to represent ALA on an In- ternational Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) section standing com- mittee? The biennial appointment process to represent ALA on relevant IFLA standing committees is currently underway for terms running from 2017 through 2021. The ACRL Board of Directors endorses candidates for election to a number of IFLA standing committees, with the ACRL Leader- ship Recruitment and Nominations Committee (LRNC) acting in an advisory capacity to the Board in recommending approval for ap- pointment. Complete details on the application pro- cess are available in ALA Connect at http:// connect.ala.org/node/251171. The deadline for nominations is May 6, 2016. Contact LRNC Chair Erika Linke at linke@cmu.edu with questions.