april17_a.indd C&RL News April 2017 186 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free 2017 ACRL Environmental Scan released Every two years, the ACRL Research Plan- ning and Review Committee releases an environmental scan of higher education, including developments with the potential for continuing impact on academic librar- ies. The 2017 environmental scan provides a broad review of the current higher edu- cation landscape, with special focus on the state of academic and research libraries. The document builds on earlier ACRL reports, in- cluding the Top Trends in Academic Librar- ies. The 2017 environmental scan is freely available on the ACRL website at http://bit. ly/2mKLv6u (PDF). University of Kentucky Libraries sign GPO Preservation Steward agreement The University of Kentucky Libraries signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) to become the second Preservation Steward library in GPO’s Federal Information Pres- ervation Network. Under this agreement, the libraries pledge to permanently preserve print collections of Works Progress/Work Projects Administration (WPA) and Appa- lachian Regional Commission (ARC). The WPA collection contains more than 3,000 documents from the Great Depression re- lief program designed to provide work for Americans. The ARC documents show the Commission’s efforts for economic develop- ment for Appalachia since the 1960s. To help federal depository libraries meet the needs of efficient government document stewardship in the digital era, GPO has established preservation stewards to sup- port continued public access to historic U.S. government documents. GPO welcomes all federal depository libraries that wish to par- ticipate as preservation stewards. The Norlin Library of the University of Colorado-Boulder became the first preservation steward in October 2016. Monthly Innovation in Libraries grants from Library Pipeline Library advocacy organization Library Pipe- line’s Innovation Committee has partnered with the Awesome Foundation to pilot an Innovation in Libraries chapter that will be the organizing hub for an exciting, new grassroots grant opportunity. Each month through October 2017, innovative library- related projects can apply for a $1,000 grant. These grants are funded by librarians, for librarians—a community of 20 trustees will give or direct $50 per month each towards projects they deem worthy of support. Award recipients will be asked to report back publicly on what worked, what didn’t, and what they learned, as well as to make the results of their efforts openly available to others to reuse in communities across the world. For more information and to apply, visit the Awesome Foundation website at www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters /libraries . OCLC introduces Tipasa interlibrary loan management system OCLC recently introduced Tipasa, a cloud- based interlibrary loan management system that automates routine borrowing and lend- ing functions for individual libraries. The new Tipasa system is built on the OCLC WorldShare technology platform and takes advantage of the world’s largest resource sharing network. Tipasa reimagines features and functionality of the Windows-based IL- Liad service, and moves them to the cloud. Because updates and enhancements hap- pen automatically in a cloud-based system, Tipasa requires only limited IT resources. The simple interface is easy to use, making it easy to train staff, volunteers, and student assistants. Libraries have the option to create unmediated processes to move requests to lending libraries and then to the user—any- where, anytime, on any device—without re- quiring manual approval. Library users can April 2017 187 C&RL News ACRL publishes Students Lead the Library, The First-Year Experience Cookbook ACRL announces the publication of Stu- dents Lead the Library: The Importance of Student Contributions to the Academic Library, edited by Sara Arnold-Garza and Carissa Tomlinson, and The First-Year Expe- rience Cookbook, edited by Raymond Pun and Meggan Houlihan. Students Lead the Library features case studies of pro- grams and initiatives that seek student input, assistance, and leadership in the library. Aca- demic librarians are driven by the belief that student scholars are at the heart of the library. Collections, programs, and ser- vices become meaningful when students use and learn from them. Websites and other digi- tal services, buildings, market- ing and communication strategies, and content are designed to meet their needs. The library exists, at least in large part, for the students— and student emplo y- ment, leadership, and input into the library can increase engagement and outreach and improve both the library and the students it employs. In six parts—“Students as Employees,” “Students as Curators,” “Students as Am- bassadors,” the “Library as Client, “Student Groups as Library Leaders,” and “Students as Library Designers”—Students Lead the Library gives practical perspectives and best practices for implementing these kinds of initiatives in ways that can be eas- ily adopted to fit many different needs and circumstances. Through the library, students can develop leadership skills, cultivate high levels of engagement, and offer peer learn- ing opportunities. Through the students, libraries can create participatory design processes, enhancement and transformation of the library’s core functions, and expressed library value for stakeholders. The newest addition to the ACRL Cook- book series, The First-Year Ex- perience Cookbook compiles lessons and techniques for academic librarians to adapt, repurpose, and implement in their libraries. First-year stu- dents face many challenges in adjusting to university life, in- cluding making the most of the university library. Librarians are constantly addressing student misconceptions about librar- ies and locating information, and have been working hard to reach first-year students and create high- impact practices in stu- dent retention. The First-Year Experi- ence Cookbook provides librarians with a series of innovative approaches to teaching and assess- ing information literacy skills during a student’s first year. It features four chapters—“Library Orientation,” “Library Instruction,” “Pro- grams,” and “Assessment”—and more than 60 practical, easy-to-implement recipes. Students Lead the Library: The Impor- tance of Student Contributions to the Academic Library and The First-Year Expe- rience Cookbook 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 April 2017 188 receive customized email and text notifica- tions, and they can access content as soon as it becomes available. More information is available at www.oclc.org/en/tipasa.html. Gale releases final installments of Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library Gale, a Cengage company, recently an- nounced the availability of the final modules in the series Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library. Now available are Sciences, History, and Geography, which features histor- ical monographs covering medicine, sciences, geography, and more; as well as Literature, Grammar, Language, Catalogues and Periodi- cals, which features fiction, poetry, grammati- cal and linguistic works, catalogs, and periodi- cals. With Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library, scholars can search full-text material in Arabic, English, and other languag- es, and discover through metadata and scanned Global Perspectives on Information Literacy: Fostering a Dialogue for International Understanding ACRL’s Student Learning and Information Literacy Committee (SLILC) announces the publication of a new white paper, Global Per- spectives on Information Literacy: Fostering a Dialogue for International Understand- ing. The paper includes chapters written by information literacy experts from around the world, including Africa, Canada, Europe, Oceania, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, and seeks to share indi- vidual international perspec- tives that demonstrate how information literacy is viewed, taught, and conceptualized internationally. The white paper is divided into 13 chapters covering several topics from each au- thor’s regional and/or cultural perspective: • Research trends: What kind of IL-related research is being done in your country or region that has impacted your approach to teaching? • Models of information literacy: What standards/frameworks/models/learning theory/ pedagogy or specific paradigms do you most often use for inspiration in your teaching? • Theory and practice=praxis: Describe the connection between information literacy and student learning from your position or perspective. Alternatively, what is your teach- ing philosophy? • Role of librarians: What is the role of librarians in the higher education landscape of your country or region? How were/are you trained to become a teaching librarian? • Future visioning: Think about the future of informa- tion literacy for your region and share your vision for what you think that might look like in the next five-to-ten years. A final reflection explores themes presented by the authors, including an over- arching shift to an increasing conceptual approach to infor- mation literacy; a growing en- thusiasm for the teaching role of librarians; a responsibility to prepare our students to live and work in intercultural settings; a growing focus on the intersection of critical pedagogy and information literacy; and the challenges presented by translating information literacy work into multiple languages. For more information about the white paper and to watch the archived webinar with foreword author, Emma Coonan, please visit the SLILC homepage at http://acrl. libguides.com/slilc/home. April 2017 189 C&RL News images content in Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Ot- toman Turkish, Persian, Syriac, and 17 other languages. With this resource comes a num- ber of technological innovations pioneered by Gale to ensure scholars in Arabic-speaking countries and beyond can research the ex- tensive range of texts, including interfaces in Arabic and European languages, right-to-left- read navigation of Arabic texts, an embedded Arabic keyboard, and newly developed opti- cal character recognition software. For more information on Gale’s Arabic digitization pro- gram visit www.gale.com/eapb. ProQuest integrates text, video search One comprehensive search now delivers results from both the ProQuest platform and Alexander Street’s Academic Video Online, connecting researchers to documentaries, training videos, journal articles, news, dis- sertations, primary sources, ebooks, and more in one place. Searching text and video in one place enables users of all kinds to find the breadth of reliable content they need faster, shifting their time from the hunt for information to analysis and learning. The ProQuest platform is the foundation for hundreds of ProQuest’s most popular resources for researchers and faculty, with an extraordinary range of content types. Interoperability with Alexander Street’s Academic Video Online will enable users to discover all the library’s ProQuest platform content along with more than 50,000 video titles spanning essential subject areas, includ- ing anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and others. Revised Guidelines: Competencies for Special Collections Professionals The ACRL Board of Directors approved a revision of the association’s Guidelines: Competencies for Special Collections Pro- fessionals in March 2017. Developed by the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Task Force to Review Competencies for Spe- cial Collections Professionals, the revision updates the competencies first developed Tech Bits . . . Brought to you by the ACRL ULS Technology in University Libraries Committee Looking for ways to transform a library instruction session into a game show? Check out Kahoot, a game- based audience response platform. Visit https://create.kahoot.it to create your free account and play a few trending games (aka “kahoots”). Got a taste for it? Depending on your learning objective, be it to review, poll, or encourage peer group discus- sions, you may create a quiz, jumble, survey, discussion, or even a blind kahoot to introduce a new informa- tion literacy concept with the help of images or videos. To play your game, students visit https://kahoot.it on their laptops, tablets, or phones, enter your game pin, and select answers using the four colorful buttons on their screens. Most importantly, your stu- dents will have fun learning individu- ally and in teams. —Tatiana Pashkova-Balkenhol Millersville University . . . Kahoot https://kahoot.it in 2008. The competencies are available on the ACRL website at www.ala.org/acrl /standards/comp4specollect. Guidelines for the Screening and Appointment of Academic Librarians draft ACRL is seeking comments on a draft of new Guidelines for the Screening and Appoint- ment of Academic Librarians before complet- ing final revisions and submitting the stan- dards for approval. Please review the draft guidelines on the ACRL website at www. ala.org/acrl/standards, and submit your comments online at https://ufl.qualtrics. com/jfe/form/SV_0IgD007nuZtdK8l.