C&RL News May 2019 254 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free 2019 ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Travel Scholarships ACRL recently announced recipients of the latest round of Value of Academic Libraries Travel Scholarships in 2019. These scholar- ships of up to $2,000 each support librarians presenting on their work demonstrating the impact of academic libraries in the broader landscape of higher education. The selection committee chose three proposals in this competitive round of ap- plications. They are: Janet Clarke (Stony Brook University) and Raymond Pun (Alder Graduate School of Edu- cation) for a presentation titled “The Impact of APA Librarians on Student Success, Faculty Productivity, and Building Community” at Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education National Conference. Heather Howard (Purdue University) for a presentation titled “Student Information Use and Decision-Making in Innovation Competitions” at the European Academy of Management Annual Conference. Jennifer Wilhelm (Texas A&M University) for a presentation titled “Invest in Your Li- brary: Why Your Institution’s Librarians Are a Valuable Asset in a Collaboration Portfolio” at the National Association of Student Person- nel Administrators Student Financial Wellness Conference. These travel scholarships take up a rec- ommendation from the 2017 ACRL report “Academic Library Impact: Improving Practice and Essential Areas to Research” (prepared by OCLC Research and available for down- load or purchase) that academic librarians effectively communicate their contributions to institutional stakeholders and the higher education community. Johns Hopkins University Press partners with Altmetric Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) has partnered with data science company and alternative metrics provider Altmetric to pro- vide their users and staff with valuable pub- lication attention insights. JHUP plans to in- tegrate the Altmetric Badges for their books and journals hosted on Project MUSE and the JHUP website. These colorful Altmetric visualizations offer valuable insight and im- mediate feedback to readers and authors on how publications are being received and shared on online sources such as social me- dia, mainstream news, and Wikipedia. To find out more about Altmetric Explorer for Publishers and Altmetric Badges for books and journals please visit Altmetric.com. LYRASIS and Duraspace announce merger LYRASIS and DuraSpace have announced that by July 1, 2019, they will officially merge to create one organization, empow- ered to help drive scalable change, new technologies, and services. This merger will create a new model for collaboration, inno- vation, and development in the landscape of academic, research, and public librar- ies, galleries, archives, and museums. The merged organization will leverage its exper- tise, reach, and capacity to create and build new programs, services, and technologies that enable durable, persistent access to data and services. The LYRASIS and DuraSpace communities will continue to benefit from the existing programs and services that they receive from each organization. The newly merged organization will be an on-ramp to a worldwide collaborative community of more than 4,000 institutions and nine open source, community-supported technology programs across six continents. In addition, it will build capacity in the schol- arly ecosystem through open technologies, services, funding opportunities, expertise, training, and support. NISO publishes updated Transfer Code of Practice The National Information Standards Organi- http://Altmetric.com May 2019 255 C&RL News New Project Outcome for Academic Libraries Toolkit launches ACRL is pleased to announce the launch of Project Outcome for Academic Libraries. Based on a model developed by the Public Library Association (PLA), this free toolkit is designed to help academic libraries un- derstand and share the impact of essential library programs and services by providing simple surveys and an easy-to-use process for measuring and analyzing outcomes. The standardized surveys allow libraries to aggregate their outcome data and analyze trends over time by ser- vice topic and program type. Training and resources are provided to participating libraries so they can use data-dr iven r e s u l t s t o advocate for their library. The sur- v e y s w e r e developed by ACRL’s Project Outcome for Academic Libraries Task Force, whose mem- bers come from a range of academic library types, from community colleges to research institutions. “This background allowed the task force to reshape the PLA Project Outcome mea- sures into a survey toolkit that will work for any sized academic library, public or private,” says Project Outcome for Academic Libraries Task Force Chair Eric Ackermann of Radford University. Project Outcome for Academic Libraries “… fills a gap in the academic li- brary assessment arsenal by providing a much-needed toolkit to libraries without staff experienced in survey design or assess- ment, nor the funding to acquire it, yet are required (or desire) to assess and improve their programs. It also can complement the work of libraries that already have assessment processes in place.” “ACRL is delighted to provide this impor- tant tool to academic librarians so that they may make i n f o r m e d , data-driven decisions to develop the p r o g r a m s and services needed by their com- m u n i t i e s ,” ACRL Execu- tive Director Mary Ellen K. Davis add- ed. “Project O u t c o m e builds on ACRL’s Value of Academic Libraries initiative and provides a tool for comparing outcomes nationwide. We appreciate the op- portunity to expand PLA’s Project Outcome to serve academic libraries and look forward to our continued collaborations with them.” Project Outcome for Academic Libraries is free for academic and research librarians, as well as library school students, in the United States and internationally. Visit http://acrl. projectoutcome.org to register. Email acrl@ projectoutcome.org with questions. http://acrl.projectoutcome.org http://acrl.projectoutcome.org mailto:acrl%40projectoutcome.org?subject= mailto:acrl%40projectoutcome.org?subject= C&RL News May 2019 256 cently introduced Music Index with Full Text to meet the increasing demand for mu- sic-related resources. Music Index with Full Text is a tool for music scholars with more than 170 full-text journals, from 1970 to the present, covering every aspect of classical and popular music. Music Index with Full Text includes cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for more than 600 periodicals, performance reviews, sound recordings, and videos. The collection covers every genre from jazz, folk, rock, blues, country, opera, and classical music to choral and band music, gospel, and electronic and ex- perimental music. Additionally, the resource includes journals devoted to specific musi- cal instruments including the organ, guitar, concertina, viola, and tuba. Designed to meet the needs of interna- tional students as well, Music Index with Full Text has a broad global perspective with content representing more than 20 lan- guages and full-text journals from more than 30 countries, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Turkey, zation (NISO) has published an updated ver- sion of the Transfer Code of Practice, NISO RP-24-2019, Transfer. This NISO Recommend- ed Practice provides voluntary guidelines for publishers to follow when transferring jour- nal titles between parties to ensure that the journal content remains easily accessible by librarians and readers. The goals of the Trans- fer initiative are to promote a set of standards that apply under transferring conditions, and to encourage the industry to embrace these as a baseline level of quality and performance. The recommended practice document con- sists of several agreed overarching principles, specific roles and responsibilities for transfer- ring and receiving publishers in various areas of work, and an extensive glossary of terms. The updated NISO Transfer Code of Practice is available for download at www.niso.org /publications/rp-24-2019-transfer. For more information about the Transfer initiative, see www.niso.org/standards-committees/transfer. EBSCO releases Music Index with Full Text EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) re- ACRL and Gale launch Libraries Transform Toolkit ACRL and Gale, a Cengage company, have collaborated to create the ACRL Libraries Transform Toolkit. This free new toolkit pro- vides academic and research libraries with easy-to-use tools and resources to develop effective marketing and outreach strategies to promote their services and impact to students, faculty, and administrators. The toolkit extends ALA’s Libraries Transform Campaign, designed to increase public awareness of the value, impact, and services provided by libraries and library professionals. Key resources in the ACRL Libraries Trans- form Toolkit include: • Marketing Instructional Materials: Foundational guidance on how to create a marketing strategy, define message position- ing by target audience, and plan campaigns. • “Because” Statement Templates: De- signed to help libraries develop messaging statements to promote their services and resources or issues of importance. Example statements are provided as well as ALA’s formula where libraries can create their own. • Community Engagement Framework: Provides a framework and tactics to develop, support, and sustain effective community outreach and communication strategies. • Methods for Communicating and Measuring Impact: Provides insight and best practices on analyzing, measuring, and communicating library outreach strategy results. To access the toolkit, visit the ACRL Libraries Transform Toolkit webpage at https://acrl.libguides.com/transform. http://www.niso.org/publications/rp-24-2019-transfer http://www.niso.org/publications/rp-24-2019-transfer http://www.niso.org/standards-committees/transfer https://acrl.libguides.com/transform May 2019 257 C&RL News Tech Bits . . . Brought to you by the ACRL ULS Technology in University Libraries Committee jQuery Droppable and Draggable widgets are useful tools to increase the interactivity of online content. The Droppable widget enables creation of a set of elements that work in conjunction with those constructed by the Dragga- ble widget. Both are freely available at the jQuery site. Even though each can be leveraged individually, I recommend bundling them. For example, you can create a citation game where a com- ponent in a particular citation format can be dragged until it’s dropped to the corresponding descriptive element. The use of the technology will liven up what could be an otherwise boring user experience, while also making it more appealing and interactive. —Minhao Jiang Wayne State University . . . jQuery Droppable and Draggable Widgets https://jqueryui.com/ the United Kingdom, and the United States. Learn more at www.ebsco.com/products /research-databases/music-index-full-text. Resources for College Libraries call for reviewers Resources for College Libraries (RCL), the Choice/ACRL bibliography of es- sential titles for undergraduate teaching and research, invites experienced subject liaisons and faculty to serve as peer re- viewers. We are currently seeking peer reviewers for a variety of RCL Social Sciences and Science and Technology subjects including Agriculture, Anthro- pology, Astronomy, Biology, Business Administration, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Education, Environ- mental Sciences, General Science, Ge- ography, Geology, Health Sciences and Medicine Journalism and Communication, Law, Mathematics, Physics, Political Sci- ence, Psychology, Sociology, Sports and Recreation, Technology, and Engineering. Reviewers are tasked with assessing the subject collection comprehensively, providing recommendations for editorial improvement and constructive feedback on how well the core title selections support the college curriculum. RCL referee work can help strengthen collection develop- ment practice, inform local projects, and build subject expertise. To apply, submit a current CV and a brief description of your qualifications, particularly developing or evaluating core collections and/or teaching in the subject area to RCL Project Editor Anne Doherty at adoherty@ala-choice.org. Preference will be given to those who apply by June 1, 2019. Learn more about RCL at www. choice360.org/products/rcl. Draft ACRL Impactful Scholarship and Metrics Framework feedback The ACRL Impactful Scholarship and Met- rics Task Force was formed in 2017 with the goal of creating a new ACRL frame- work designed to address gaps between current scholarly evaluation practices and impactful scholarly activities within academic librarianship, including ways to evaluate and measure the impact of a wide range of research outputs. ACRL is now seeking public comment on a draft framework by Monday, June 3, 2019. Add your comments publicly to the draft framework online or share your comments privately with the task force via feedback form. 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