ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 170 / C&RL News ■ March 2000 C hatham C o lle g e o utsources lib ra ry services Chatham College has awarded an 18-month contract to Library Systems & Services (LSSI) to manage its library. LSSI is work ing with the women’s college to implement a new organizational structure that will bring librarians and information technol ogy professionals together in a newly cre ated Information Services Department. Bob Smith, former director of the Medina (Ohio) County Library, is LSSI’s interim director at Chatham. “Our strategy is to create a library envi ronment that is more responsive to the needs of the faculty and students by pro viding resources that best reflect their needs,” said Esther L. Barazzone, president of Chatham. “We are committed to making the Jennie King Mellon Library both the academic and technology epicenter of Chatham College.” HighW ire Press develops archiving plan Stanford University Libraries’ (SUL) HighWire Press has devised a comprehensive plan for preserving and assuring access to the more than 170 scholarly journals it hosts on the Web. “Preserving and protecting information is one of the core functions of libraries,” said Michael A. Keller, Stanford university librar ian and publisher of HighWire Press. “We are just as concerned with the preservation of online journals as we are with preserving rare books and manuscripts. The techniques are different, but the goal is the same: to make sure the information remains available and accessible, now and in the future. Once a publisher instructs HighWire to enable ac cess to a given article or piece, the commu nity should be confident it will be at least as freely available in a decade or a generation as it is today.” For this reason, migration of formats, standards, and media is a fundamen- ACRL c o n f e re n c e s e n h a n c e y o u r e f fe c t iv e n e s s Let ACRL help you keep up with the changing nature of academic librarianship. Stay on the cutting edge by attending these informative educational opportunities. • Leading on Your Campus: ACRL Leadership Institute. Discover how to analyze the changing climate of academic libraries, articulate a vision, and make your library a top-campus priority. Houston, April 11, 2000 • Beyond Words—Visual Informa tion in Special Collections, the Rare Books and M anuscripts Section preconference. Explore the numerous forms of visual information found in col lections and the challenges and opportu nities offered by these electronic tools and formats. Chicago, July 5-7, 2000 • Legislative Advocacy: Key Roles for Today’s Academic Librarians. Discover how to become a strong advocate for aca demic libraries and higher education is sues on campus and beyond. Chicago, July 7, 2000 • Library Instruction on the Web (In struction Section preconference). Im merse yourself in the issues and techniques surrounding the delivery of instruction via the Web. Chicago, July 7, 2000 • Shining a Flashlight on the Library, Technology, and the C u rricu lu m : (ACRL/TLT Flashlight Institute). Design a study of information resources to take back to your institution. Chicago, July 7, 2000 • U n d e rs ta n d in g th e Licensing Landscape. Explore licensing core issues and find out how to keep up with the changing nature of licensing. Chicago, July 7, 2000 • ACRL/Harvard Leadership Insti tute. Increase your capacity to lead and to manage and discover how to make your voice heard on campus. Cambridge, Mas sachusetts, July 30-August 4, 2000 Registration details for these programs can be located on the Web at http:// www.ala.org/acrl/conflip.html. Save money with early bird registration for many of these programs. Deadline: March 17. Contact Margot Sutton (msutton@ala.org; 800-545-2433, ext. 2522) if you have ques tions. http://www.ala.org/acrl/conflip.html mailto:msutton@ala.org