ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries March 1 9 9 5 /1 3 7 New s f r o m t h e F ield M ary Ellen Davis ACRL, Choice contribute to ALA G oal 20 00 T he ACRL B oard o f Directors e n th u s ia s tic a lly e n d o r s e d “ALA Goal 2000: A Five-Year Plan to Position the Associa­ tion for the Information Age.” W ith its e n d o r s e m e n t th e B oard p led g ed $100,000 to the Fund for America’s Librar ies— $50,000 from its fu n d balance an d $50,000 from the fund balance o f its publica­ tion Choice. Key recom m endations o f the ALA Goal 2000 initiative call for expanding and enhancing the ALA W ashington Office to increase its ability to follow and influence na­ tional issues an d legislation; establishing an Office o f Inform ation T echnology to support the library field’s needs for information; estab­ lishing a five-year them atic cycle for major ALA initiatives; an d establishing a foundation called the Fund for America’s Libraries to assist w ith the financial im pact o f these initiatives. “We are very excited about the direction ALA Goal 2000 is charting for the library com m u­ nity,” said ACRL President Susan Martin. “In endorsing ALA Goal 2000 an d pledging finan­ cial support, th e ACRL B oard is particularly in­ terested in helping tw o recom m endations b e­ com e a reality: the establishm ent o f th e Office o f Inform ation T echnology an d the expansion o f th e W ashington Office to include staff w ith expertise in higher education an d academ ic li braries. Academic librarians n e e d to b e m ore active at th e national level in influencing deci­ sions ab o u t inform ation an d technology issues as w ell as issues o f higher education.” ACRL V ice-President/President-Elect Patricia Senn Breivik said: “I strongly support ALA Goal 2000 for tw o reasons: first, because it repre­ sents the best thinking o f ACRL m em bership as reflected in planning o f recent years. But even m ore im portantly, b ecau se it is tim e for all li­ brarians to sp eak w ith o n e voice in o rd er to safeguard individual A m ericans’ rights o f ac­ cess an d their em pow erm ent to use informa­ tion they n e e d .” And the d raw in g w inners are . . . ACRL held tw o draw ings at its b o o th at the ALA M idwinter M eeting in Philadelphia. T he first draw ing w as for free co n ­ ference an d preconference registrations for ACRL’s 7th N a tio n a l C o n f e r e n c e in Pittsburgh, March 29–April 1, 1995. M e m b e rs w e re m a i le d th r e e p o s t c a r d s th ro u g h o u t th e y e a r a n d w ere asked to staple them together and bring them to the bo o th in Philadelphia. T he draw ing w as held on February 6 and the six w in ners are: Patricia T. Viele, Marcellus, New York; Patri­ cia M. M urphy, St. C lausville, O hio; Carol B urrough H am m ond, Phoenix, Arizona; Cheryl A. B ow er, T akom a Park, M aryland; Fred J. Gitner, N ew York, N ew York; a n d T heresa K. Trost, Lubbock, Texas. The second draw ing w as for a free airline ticket to anyw here in the continental United States. P eople w ho registered for ACRL’s u p com ing conference thro u g h the official travel agency, Travel Tech, before M idwinter w ere eligible. The w in n er is Sandra River o f Lub­ bock, Texas. ACRL w ants to thank everyone w h o participated. ACRL Board approves M arta Lange/ CQ A w ard At its M idwinter meeting, the ACRL Board of Directors ap p ro v ed a new annual aw ard rec­ ognizing achievem ent in law an d political sci­ en ce librarianship to b e given by the Law and Political Science Section (LPSS). T he aw ard will b e given in h o n o r o f form er LPSS chair Marta Lange, w h o died tragically in a car accident in 1992. Congressional Quarterly, a m ajor publisher w ith a subject focus encom passing law and political science in both p a p e r an d electronic formats, is th e spo n so r of the award. The Marta Lange/CQ Award is to b e given to an academ ic o r law librarian w ho, through research, o th er creative activity, o r service to the profession, m akes distinguished contribu­ tions to bibliography an d inform ation service in law o r political science. The aw ard will co n ­ sist o f a p la q u e a n d $1,000 cash. T he ALA Awards C omm ittee will review th e aw ard for approval at th e 1995 ALA A nnual Conference in Chicago. 1 3 8 /C&RL News Celebrate W om en's History Month “W o m en ’s History: Prom ises to K eep” is the them e selected by th e N ational W o m en ’s H is­ to ry P roject fo r N atio n al W o m e n ’s H istory M onth, M arch 1995. T he th em e h o n o rs tw o w o m en in each o f eight fields selected to ex­ emplify w o m e n ’s g roundbreaking accom plish­ m ents w hich increased th e m any options n o w o p e n to w om en. Nellie Bly, K atharine G raham, Carol M oseley B raun, Ruth B ader G insburg, Willa Cather, an d Toni M orrison are am ong the w o m e n re p re se n te d o n th e com m em orative poster. A booklet o f their biographies is also available. 1995 also m arks th e 75th an n iv ersary o f w o m en w inning th e right to vote an d the N a­ tional W om en’s History Project has d e v elo p e d “W om en Win the Vote,” a 16-page gazette filled w ith history an d analysis o f the w o m e n ’s suf­ frage m ovem ent, 75 biographies o f leading suf­ fragettes, a timeline, a n d a resource list. T he com m em orative poster (see photo) is also avail­ able. Each p o ster costs $6 (plus $3.50 s/h ) and th e “Prom ises to K eep” bio g rap h ies b o o k let costs $2.50 (plus $3.50 s/h). To order these items o r request a catalog call (707) 838-6000 o r write the N ational W om en’s History Project at 7738 Bell Rd., Dept. P, W indsor, CA 95492. T h is p o s te r is p a r t o f th e N a tio n a l W o m e n ’s H isto ry P ro je c t’s c o m m e m o ra tio n o f th e 7 5 th a n n iv e r s a r y o f w o m e n w in n in g th e v ote. OhioLINK m arks fifth y e a r T h e O hio Library a n d Inform ation N etw ork (OhioLINK) reports th at after five years it is o n e o f the largest state catalog a n d circulation netw orks in the country. OhioLINK has a user popu lation o f 500,000 students, faculty, an d staff at 41 universities a n d colleges; a central un io n catalog o f m ore th an five million titles; an d 26 research databases online an d m ostly linked to th e u n io n catalog holdings. OhioLINK has a fully o p e ra tio n a l o n lin e b o rro w in g service w h ich allows users to request items online from an y w h ere in the system w hile searching the central catalog. Regardless o f location, items are delivered to th e u ser w ithin 48 hours. O n line loan requests tripled in 1994. OhioLINK b eg an in 1989 as a co n cep t o n paper. By 1991 it secu red state funding, p u rch ased com puter equipm ent, an d selected vendors to supply the n etw o rk com m unications, core operating sys tem (INNOPAC), an d several databases. The system w ent online in 1992 w ith a central union catalog of six university libraries an d grew to 30 fully activated m em bers in 1994. Users m ade m ore than tw o million searches o f the central catalog and research databases in 1994. U niversity of Michigan reinvents lib ra ry education T he School of Inform ation an d Library Studies (SILS) at the University o f M ichigan has em ­ b a rk e d o n the Kellogg Coalition o n Reinvent­ ing Inform ation Science, T echnology, an d Li­ b ra ry E ducation (CRISTAL-ED), a five-year project to reinvent such education to m eet the changing needs o f inform ation professionals. D eterm ined to radically alter its instructional program , SILS plans to facilitate the d ev elo p m en t o f an international, multidisciplinary co n sortium o f schools to define new areas o f p ro fessio n al specializations an d serve so ciety ’s n eed s for inform ation access an d use. To g e n ­ d e r a w ide range o f opinions a n d exchange i d e a s , SILS b e g a n a m o d e r a t e d li s t s e r v (CRISTAL-ED) that will initially focus o n the vision o f the new inform ation an d library stud­ ie s e d u c a tio n , a n d th e n ta r g e t p la n n in g , prototyping, an d im plem enting n ew core cur­ ricula. To subscribe to the listserv, sen d the m essage “subscribe cristal-ed” to majordomo@ sils.um ich.edu. Inform ation about the list is also available on the CRISTAL-ED hom e page: h ttp :/ / s i l s . u m i c h . e d u / p u b l i c a t i o n s / c r i s t a l e d / K elloggH om ePage.htm l. T he project has the assistance o f the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. March 1 9 9 5 /1 3 9 Getty pilot project explores use of digital im ages T h e G etty Art H istory Inform ation Program (AHIP) a n d MUSE Educational Media hav e se lected six m useum s an d seven universities to participate in a pilot project to test th e distri bution o f art im ages an d information. Partici pating institutions will resolve issues o f intel lectual property rights, netw ork security, an d inform ation standards, defining th e term s an conditions for the educational use of m useum im ages a n d inform ation o n cam pus netw orks. This M useum Educational Site Licensing Projec runs from January 1, 1995, through Ju n e 30 1997, an d m akes digitized im ages an d descrip tive texts representing at least 3,000 w orks o art ( a m inim um of 500 from each participatin m useum ) available o n the cam pus netw orks o participating universities w ithout site license o royalty fees during th e 1995– 96 academ ic year Information o n an d images o f 3,000 m ore w ork ­ ­ ­ ­ d t , ­ f g f r . s will b e ad d ed during 1996–97. Participating uni­ versities are: A m erican University; Colum bia University; Cornell University; University o f Il­ linois at Urbana-Champaign; University o f Mary­ land at College Park; University o f Michigan at Ann Arbor, D earborn, an d Flint; a n d th e Uni­ versity o f Virginia, Charlottesville. French cave paintings online Im ages from the recent Com be d ’Arc (Arde'che) prehistoric cave painting discovery are already o n th e Internet at th e W orld W ide W eb a d ­ dress: h ttp ://w w w .c u ltu re .fr/g v p d a .h tm . This lin k o n th e F re n c h M in istry o f C u ltu r e ’s h o m ep ag e leads to text an d four images. As Jack Kessler reports in his new sletter FYIFrance, there are tw o rem arkable things ab o u t this re­ source. First, it is a significant event in art his­ tory, a n d second, “thanks to netw orking’s w o n ­ ders it has b e e n only a m onth since the cave paintings w ere fo u n d a n d suddenly everyone SA A 's P re s e rv a tio n M a n a g e m e n t T rain in g P ro g ram is a huge su ccess D ecem ber 1994 m arked th e close o f a truly p athbreaking educational initiative, the Soci­ ety o f American Archivists’ (SAA) Preserva­ tion M anagem ent Training Program. In 1991 the SAA received a grant w orth about $650,000 from the National E ndow m ent for the H um ani­ ties’ Division o f Preservation an d Access to la u n c h th e SAA P reserv atio n M anagem ent Training Program. It w as a three-year n atio n ­ w ide program that trained 44 archival adm in­ istrators in establishing an d m aintaining com ­ prehensive archival preservation m anagem ent p ro g r a m s . T h e p ro g r a m w a s c o n d u c te d th ro u g h fo u r regional series, N ortheastern, M idwestern, W estern, a n d Southeastern. Each series m et in d ependently for three o n e-w eek institutes sp read across a one-year period. Its audience w as m id-career archival adm inistra­ tors targeted to integrate preservation adm in­ istration into their m anagem ent perspectives. P a rtic ip a n ts w e re s e le c te d c o m p e titiv e ly w ithin their region according to the strength o f their application. T he program ’s pioneering aspects will p ro ­ foundly effect th e future o f preservation e d u ­ cation an d training in libraries and archives. Its underlying philosophy addressed m oving archival preservation aw ay from ad hoc deci­ sions b ased o n restoring docum ents in an ad­ v an ced stage o f deterioration to w ell-planned m anagem ent strategies aim ed at preventing deterioration across a repository’s entire hold­ ings. T he curriculum advocated integrating pres­ ervation adm inistration into all facets o f the m an ag em en t o f archives, n o t necessarily o p ­ erating as a separate functional elem en t in th e sam e w ay as reference o r collection d e­ v elopm ent. T he pro g ram ’s assignm ents w ere also exceptional b ecau se they w ere designed to build elem ents of a functioning, tailor-made archival preservation program for the student’s em ploying institution prior to graduation. A nother u n iq u e characteristic w as the p ro ­ gram faculty’s w ork w ith a professional e d u ­ cator/training ex p ert to develop m o d ern in­ structional m ethods b ased on interactive adult learning strategies that have b e e n successfully ap p lied by educators an d trainers elsew here. T he SAA Preservation M anagem ent Training Program leaves us w ith a legacy o f being the n atio n ’s m ost am bitious preservation ed u ca­ tion program u n d ertak en to d a te .— Tyler O. Walters, Iowa State University http://www.culture.fr/gvpda.htm 1 40/C&RL News in th e online w orld can read ab o u t an d even ent services. Ernie Ingles, UA chief librarian and director o f libraries, said, “By contracting for ISM’s n ew MARCADVANTAGE service, w e are able to predict costs over the next five years, an d focus all o ther available resources o n the teaching an d resource n eed s o f o u r clients.” ACRL publishes Library Services for Non-affiliated Patrons Library Services f o r N on-affiliated Patrons, the latest in ACRL’s CLIP (College Library Inform a­ tion Packet) Note series, provides sam ple poli­ cies an d p rocedures docum ents collected n a ­ tio n w id e from academ ic institutions dealing w ith service to th e non-affiliated library user. A review o f th e literature indicates that as m any as 50% o f all re fe re n c e q u e s tio n s at la rg e a c a ­ dem ic libraries com e from n o n - a f f il ia t e d p a tr o n s . Having policies in place to deal w ith these users will m ake it easier to offer con­ sistent quality service. Ac­ cording to th e CLIP Note survey results, the non-af filiated patron is generally w elcom e in academ ic li­ b r a r ie s a lt h o u g h so m e limitations o n service do exist an d priority is given to th e library’s prim ary cli­ entele. This CLIP Note is a practical collection o f ex­ a m p le s to a ss ist p o lic y m akers in their selection o f ap propriate options for their institution. Library Services f o r N on-affiliated Patrons (ISBN 0-8389-7781-2) w as com piled b y Eugene S. Mitchell u n d e r the auspices o f the ACRL College Libraries Sections’ CLIP Notes Commit­ tee. It sells for $32.95 ($27.95 to ACRL m em ­ b ers) an d is available from ALA O rder Fulfill­ m ent, 520 N. D earborn, Chicago, IL 6O6 IO. For faster service, orders may b e p h o n e d in to (800) 545-2433 o r faxed to (312) 836-9958. ACRL in N ashville: Save these dates It’s n ot to o early to m ark th e dates for ACRL’s 8th N ational C onference to b e held in N ash­ ville, T ennessee. Mark y o u r calendars n o w for April 11-14, 1997, an d plan to attend ACRL’s next conference. T he 1997 conference increases the frequency o f ACRL conferences from every three years to every tw o years. see them . . . . T he caves w ere found in D ecem ­ ber, the French Minister o f Culture an n o u n ced th e discovery January 17, the im ages an d text ap p eared online o n January 24. The h om epage w as assem bled by Michel Bottin, an d it was an n ounced by Bruno Mannoni, b o th of the Min­ istry.” For m ore inform ation about library and n e tw o rk in g e v e n ts in F ra n c e c o n ta c t J a c k K essler at kessler@ well.sf.ca.us. Art on Film moves to Columbia T he Program for Art on Film, the international clearinghouse for inform ation ab o u t m oving im age m edia on the visual arts, has m oved to Columbia University. F ounded in 1984 as a joint v e n tu r e b e tw e e n th e J. Paul Getty Trust an d the M etropolitan M useum of Art, the program ’s princi­ p al activity is th e adm inis­ tration of the Art on Screen D atabase, a un iq u e com ­ pu ter index to m ore than 23,000 productions on fine arts, architecture, p h o to g ­ rap h y , a n d re la te d s u b ­ jects. The program will be adm inistered by th e Uni­ versity Libraries an d will w o r k c lo s e ly w ith th e S chool o f th e Arts, th e G raduate School o f Arts a n d Sciences, a n d o th e r C olu m b ia en tities w h ile continuing to serve its in­ ternational constituency o f m edia profession­ als, m useum s, an d o th er cultural institutions. T he Program for Art o n Film’s n ew address is 2875 Broadw ay, 2nd fl., New York, NY 10025; phone: (212) 854-9570; fax: (212) 854-9577. Univ. of Alberta outsources cataloging T h e U niversity o f A lberta (UA) Library has form ed a partnership w ith Inform ation Systems M an ag em en t C o rp o ratio n (ISM) to h av e its materials fully p rocessed and sh ip p ed as shelf- ready products to the university. ISM expects to process m ore than 30,000 items a year for UA, w hich expects to realize savings alm ost equal to a 15% reduction (ab o u t $2.6 million) in its staffing budget. T he library claims this p artnership will help avoid across-the-board bu d g et cutting an d layoffs an d will enable it to reassign staff to help m aintain high-quality cli­ mailto:kessler@well.sf.ca.us March 1 9 9 5 /1 4 1 1 4 2 /C&RL News (Doesn’t it seem like you don’t have time for anything else?) If your library is like most, the answer is probably yes. In which case you’re a perfect candidate for 3M Materials Flow Management. “Materials flow” means the actual movement of your library’s “hard assets.” Its books and periodicals. 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