octt16_a.indd C&RL News October 2016 426 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free Robert Gates’ papers arrive at William & Mary William & Mary library staff recently gath- ered on the loading dock of the university’s Swem Library to welcome the arrival of a truck carrying long-awaited cargo—the per- sonal papers of William & Mary Chancellor and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates. T h r e e y e a r s a g o , G a t e s a n - nounced that he would be donating his personal pa- pers to his under- graduate alma ma- ter upon comple- tion of his mem- oirs. Gates and his wife, Rebecca, also committed from their estate a gift of $50,000 to catalog and digitize the papers. Gates’ personal papers encompass his time at the CIA, his service at the National Security Council (including as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Ad- viser) under four presidents, his Texas A&M University presidency, his term as Secretary of Defense, and his current role as William & Mary’s chancellor. The papers do not include classified materials from the CIA or Department of Defense, but they do include Gates’ handwritten notes through the years, photographs, and various materials he accu- mulated over the course of a long career in public service. Over the next several months the papers will be processed and cataloged and will become accessible to researchers in early 2017. Chicago Collections teams with NPR Chicago Collections, a consortium of more than 20 libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies across the Chicago re- gion, has teamed up with National Public Radio affiliate WBEZ to produce new con- tent for Curious City, a weekly program and podcast aimed at answering questions posed by members of the community “about Chicago, the region, and its people.” With questions covering topics ranging from his- tory to politics to language to d e m o g r a p h i c s to architecture, and more, Curi- ous City employs crowdsourcing and real-time voting to iden- tify questions its researchers will investigate, both i n d e p e n d e n t l y and in partner- ship with librar- ies, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. The first Curious City story developed in partnership with Chicago Collections launched in August 2016, and addressed the question of whether any buildings in Chicago had ever been designed to allow for the rou- tine docking of “airships,” e.g., dirigibles. The story, including research by Northwestern University librarian Jason Nargis, is available at http://bit.ly/2buSFaH. Curious City is avail- able online at http://curiouscity.wbez.org/. New RDM workshop presenters announced The ACRL Research and Scholarly Environ- ment Committee recently announced the selection of Kristin Briney, Christina Chan- Park, Laura Palumbo, and Sarah Wright as the newest presenters for the one-day li- censed workshop, Building Your Research University Archivist Kim Sims looks over boxes of papers from Robert M. Gates. Photo by Stephen Salpukas. October 2016 427 C&RL News New ACRL books highlight critical library pedagogy, international academic libraries ACRL announces the publication of the Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook and Bridging Worlds: Emerging Models and Practices of U.S. Academic Libraries Around the Globe. Edited by Nicole Pagowsky and Kelly McElroy, the Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook two-volume set provides a col- lection of ideas, best practices, and lesson p l a n s t h a t c o n t r i b u t e to the rich- ness of what it means to do this type o f wo rk i n libraries. C r i t i c a l p e d a g o g y incorporates inclusive and r e f l e c t i v e teaching for aims of social justice. It pro- vides mechanisms for students to evaluate their social, political, and economic standing, and to question societal norms and how these norms perpetuate societal injustices. In two volumes, the Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook works to make critical pedagogy more accessible for library educa- tors, examining both theory and practice to help the busy practitioner explore various aspects of teaching for social justice. Volume One, Essays and Workbook Ac- tivities, provides short essays refl ecting on personal practice, describing projects, and exploring major ideas to provide inspiration for the exploration of critical pedagogy. Volume Two, Lesson Plans, provides plans covering everything from small activities to multisession projects. Edited by Raymond Pun, Scott Collard, and Justin Parrott, Bridging Worlds provides insight into international academic libraries and provides best practices and practical leadership strategies. Over the past decade, a growing num- ber of American colleges and universities have made international engagement a key facet of their missions, emphasizing global awareness, interconnectedness, and student and community diversity. Universities are establishing c a m p u s e s , b r a n c h e s , a n d e n - hanced pro- g r a m s o u t - side of the United States, and many are p a r t n e r i n g with foreign institutions in the Middle East and East Asia to intro- duce and in- tegrate Western higher education into these regions. These collaborations seek to take advantage of the blending of cultural, social, political, and economic communities, and to chart new territories in research, teaching, and learning. Bridging Worlds presents examples of libraries working to play their part in campus development and international en- gagement. This book provides practical best practices, lessons learned, and perspectives gained, from collection building to fi nances to designing spaces, and touches on some of the cultural, political, and social factors at play as institutions work to support these complex organizations. Both titles are available for purchase through the ALA Online Store, Amazon.com, and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the United States or (770) 442-8633 for international customers. C&RL News October 2016 428 ACRL teams with OCLC Research for research agenda ACRL has selected a team from OCLC Re- search to design, develop, and deliver a new ACRL “Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning and Success.” The team was selected after an open and competitive request for proposals to investigate and write a research agenda that provides an update on progress since the publication of ACRL’s 2010 Value of Aca- demic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report and examines important questions where more research is needed in areas critical to the higher education sector. The focus of the research agenda will be on institutional priorities for improved stu- dent learning and success (e.g., retention, persistence, degree completion). The agenda clearly will identify actions academic libraries can take now based on both existing scholarship and practice- based reports, and it will include 10 to 15 future-focused key inquiry questions that the literature and interview data suggest are essential for academic librarians to explore. In addition, the project will include an interactive visualization dashboard to help librarians understand and make use of existing literature for studies most relevant to their research interests. It will also contain a visualization component that highlights the major themes in the report, enables data entry based on local projects, and produces a graphic that can be shared with campus stakeholders. The team’s work began in early August 2016 and includes a presentation at the upcoming Library As- sessment Conference as well as an online open forum in mid-November to share progress with the broader community and solicit feedback. Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work. They join the team of Abigail Goben and Megan Sapp Nelson as partners in shaping the curriculum and pre- senting the workshop. Briney is data services librarian, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Chan-Park is science librarian, Baylor Univer- sity; Palumbo is Chemistry and Physics librar- ian/science data specialist, Rutgers Univer- sity; and Wright is life sciences librarian for research, Cornell University. Claremont Colleges Library joins HathiTrust The Claremont Colleges Library has become the newest member of HathiTrust, a partner- ship of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. “We are excited to bring the rich benefi ts of HathiTrust membership to our faculty and students,” said Kevin Mulroy, A. J. McFadden Dean of the Claremont Colleges Library. “The Claremont Colleges Library looks forward to joining our new partners in ensuring the pres- ervation and availability of a wealth of digital content from research institutions.” The Claremont Colleges Library is at the heart of The Claremont Colleges, a distin- guished consortium of fi ve undergraduate liberal arts colleges and two graduate schools located 37 miles east of Los Angeles. For more information, visit http://libraries.claremont. edu/. More information on HathiTrust is avail- able at www.hathitrust.org. IFLA Satellite Conference convenes at DePaul ACRL and DePaul University, along with the IFLA Information Literacy Section, co-hosted a satellite conference of the IFLA World Li- brary and Information Congress in Chicago on August 11–12, 2016, on “Information and Artifactual Literacies: Engaging Minds in Li- braries and Museums.” Among the 100 par- ticipants in the program were information literacy librarians, special collections librar- ians, archivists, museum educators, K–12 teachers, and faculty development and as- sessment specialists from campus teaching centers. October 2016 429 C&RL News Featuring a keynote presentation by Emily Graslie, chief curiosity correspon- dent for Chicago’s Field Museum, and host of the popular educational YouTube chan- nel The Brain Scoop (www.youtube.com /user/thebrainscoop), conference ses- sions addressed topics such as student engagement with primary source col- lections, design of student learning out- comes and assessment of student learn- ing in special collections, connections with visual literacy education, museum education, and more. A plenary work- shop on “the future of primary source literacy” was facilitated by members of the ACRL/RBMS-SAA Joint Task Force on the Development of Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy. The confer- ence program is available at https:// iflainfolit2016satellite.org/, and presenta- tions will be made available later this year through DePaul’s institutional repository, Via, at http://via.library.depaul.edu/. University of South Florida Libraries form Digital Scholarship Services Unit The University of South Florida (USF) Libraries, under the leadership of Dean of Libraries Todd Chavez, recently concluded a yearlong collab- orative strategic planning exercise with, among other things, the formation of Digital Scholar- ship Services (DSS). An existing digitization group had largely been charged with scanning, creating, and posting digital collections—pri- marily items from Special Collections. Another group within the Academic Resources unit focused on scholarly com- munication: an institutional repository for faculty publications, the publication of open access journals and textbooks, and the hosting of online conference proceed- ings. Both groups have focused on pro- viding research materials in an open ac- cess format for researchers worldwide. 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