ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■  February 7998 / 73

N e w s  f r o m  t h e  F i e l d M ary Ellen K. Davis

Texas Tech dedicates new  library
Pulitzer Prize-w inning b io g rap h er David 
McCullough’s address highlighted Texas Tech 
University’s dedication o f its new $8.8 mil­
lion Southwest Collection/Special Collections 
Library this fall. McCullough said, “Your col­
lection o f Southwest history will becom e very 
important. It’s going to bring students, schol­
ars, and people who do the kind o f work 
that I do to your campus. They are going to 
discover what’s happening here, and discover 
the pleasures and the stimulation o f being in 
this community and in this state— and it’s 
going to be good for everybody.”

The new building, designed by Komatsu/ 
Rangel, Inc. o f Forth Worth, provides almost
78,000 square feet o f climate-controlled floor 
space and is home to the Southwest Collec­
tion, the Vietnam Archive, the Rare Books 
Collection, the University Archives, and the 
Hoblitzelle Conservation lab.

The fast-growing Vietnam Archives, estab­
lished in 1989, include donations o f books 
and papers from national figures including 
the late CIA director William Colby, state de­
partment official Douglas Pike, and the Na­
tional Vietnam Veterans Coalition.

Texas Tech joins ARL
Texas Tech University has been admitted to 
m embership in the Association o f Research 
Libraries (ARL) bringing to 121 the number 
o f institutions that are members.

Dean o f Libraries E. Dale Cluff said, “Mem­
bership in ARL is indicative not only o f a uni­
versity administration’s commitment to its li­
brary system but also its commitment to re­
search and to advancing the body o f knowl­
edge. Texas Tech has shown that commit­
ment and ARL membership is another mile­
stone that denotes success in our ongoing 
quest for academ ic ex ce llen ce.” ARL mem­
bership had been a goal o f G u ff’s since com ­
ing to the university in 1982.

Membership in ARL is extended to a uni­
versity after it meets stringent standards that 
factor in doctoral degrees, expenditures for 
library services and materials, staffing, the

number o f books and journals, and the quali­
ties o f collections.

Texas Tech was invited to join ARL after a 
unanimous vote o f the ARL Board and mem­
bership-at-large at the May annual meeting. 
Texas Tech is the first new library added to 
ARL in the past five years.

AAMES opens Web site
ACRL’s Asian, African, and Middle Eastern 
Section (AAMES) opened its hom epage at 
http://www. niu.edu/depts/library/aames.html. 
The site, designed by Robert Ridinger o f 
Northern University, includes inform ation 
about the history o f the section and upcom ­
ing programs. AAMES members who can sup­
ply m issing inform ation for the program 
tim e lin e  s h o u ld  c o n t a c t  R id in g e r  at 
c60rbr1@ corn.cso.niu.edu. The site may also 
be reached from ACRL’s homepage at http:// 
www.ala.org/acrl.html.

Candidates for ALA President 
announced
Martin G om ez, execu tiv e d irector o f the 
Brooklyn Public Library, and Sarah Long, di­
rector o f the North Suburban Library System

T e x a s  T e c h  U n i v e r s i t y ' s  n e w  S o u t h w e s t  
Collection/Special Collections Library houses the 
Southwest Collection, Rare Books Collection, the 
Vietnam Archive, and the University Archives.

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(an organization o f 680 academ ic, public, 
school, and special libraries north o f Chicago) 
have been nominated by ALA’s nominating 
com m ittee to run for president o f ALA for 
the 1 9 9 9-2000 term.

ALA members will vote on the spring 1998 
ballot. The candidate elected will serve as 
ALA-president-elect in 1 9 9 8 -9 9  becom in g 
president the following year.

The March C&RL News will feature state­
ments from both candidates.

Living the Future II in Arizona
The University o f Arizona Library is sponsor­
ing the “Living the Future II: Organizational 
Changes for Success” conference to be held 
April 2 1 -2 4 , 1998, in Tucson, Arizona. This is 
a follow-up to the 1996 “Living the Future: 
Organizational Change and Process Improve­
m ent” conference.

Meg W heatley and Ernest B. Ingles will 
give the keynote address. Wheatley is known 
for her book L ead ersh ip  a n d  the New S cien ce: 
L earn in g  a b o u t  O rg a n iza tio n s f r o m  a n  Or­
derly Universe, which is credited for chang­
ing the thinking about organizational struc­
ture.

Ingles has achieved prom inence for his 
strategic planning initiatives; the planning and 
building o f a Canadian university’s first re­
mote storage and document supply facility; 
and his aw ard-w inning, co st-co n ta in m en t 
initiatives.

Papers and poster sessions will focus on 
partnerships, information literacy, new services 
and their impact on organizations, human re­
source issues, and organizational changes.

Registration and accommodation informa­
tion may be found on the Web at http:// 
www.library.arizona.edu/conference/ltf2.htm.

Call for contributors
MC J o u r n a l: The J o u r n a l  o f  A c a d e m ic
M ed ia L ib r a h a n s h ip  is seeking co n ­
tributors for its spring 1998 issue, 
w hich will have a special section on 
bibliographies, m ediagraphies, and 
W eb resource lists. Ideas include a 
bibliography on new technologies or 
in s tru c tio n  te c h n iq u e s ; a m e d ia - 
graphy on a “hot to p ic”; or a W eb 
list o f av producer sites or cataloging 
issues. Compilations and research ar­
ticles are due by March 16 and should 

be submitted via e-mail to Lori Widzinski, 
editor at w idz@acsu.buffalo.edu. Details may 
b e  fo u n d  at h ttp :/ / w in g s .b u ffa lo .e d u /  
publications/ mcjml.

M arquette Univ. receives $10 
m illion gift for new  library
Marquette University received a $10 million 
gift to construct a new library from an anony­
mous alumnus and his family. The gift will 
be structured as a challenge grant requiring 
the university to seek additional donations 
to match the $10 million.

The library will be named in honor o f the 
R ev . J o h n  P. R a y n o r w h o  s e r v e d  as 
Marquette’s president for 25 years and who 
died in November at the age o f 74. Days b e ­
fore his death, Raynor met with the donor 
and was told about the planned gift.

“[Raynor] believed, with his whole heart, 
that Marquette’s particular approach to the 
work o f educating young men and w om en 
in the Jesu it tradition was a powerful force 
for good in the world. I am glad to be able to 
play a role in achieving a goal that pleased 
him very much: the creation o f a new library 
to serve new generations o f Marquette stu­
dents,” said the anonymous donor.

M arquette’s current library was built in 
1953 and expanded in 1971. The university 
recently com pleted a planning study to as­
sess future library needs and the Board o f 
Trustees endorsed the new construction o p ­
tion and voted unanimously to name the new 
library in Raynor’s honor.

“University libraries are more and more 
becom ing not just repositories o f materials 
but extensively utilized learning centers,” said 
Nicholas C. Burckel, Marquette’s director of 
libraries. “I see the new library serving as 
the intellectual com m ons for the campus. As

 

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student learning becom es more collaborative 
and less solitary, as faculty cross disciplinary 
boundaries in technology, our library will 
becom e even more central to Marquette’s 
teaching and research mission.”

Date set for “ Learning to Teach” 
preconference
The ACRL Instruction Section's preconference 
“Learning to T each ” will be held on Friday, 
Ju n e 26, 1998, at the ALA Annual Confer­
ence in Washington, DC. Details about the 
preconference were given in the January is­
sue o f C&RL News and may be found on the 
W eb at http://w w w -leland.stanford.edu/ 
-mesora/ACRLIS/precon.html.

ACRL publishes promotion and 
tenure book
ACRL has published Criteriα  f o r  P rom otion  
a n d  Tenure in A c a d e m ic  Libraries, CLIP Note 
#26. Compiled by Virginia Vesper and Glo­
ria K e lle y , th e 
CLIP N o te  e x ­
plores how fac­
ulty status affects 
lib r a r ia n s ’ p r o ­
motion and ten­
ure opportunities 
and the criteria at 
v ariou s in stitu ­
tions for defining 
librarians’ status.
The publication 
inclu d es tenure 
and p ro m o tio n  
documents illus­
trating practices at both public and private 
institutions with examples covering unions, 
evaluation, and weighting o f criteria. CLIP 
Note #26 (ISBN 0-8389-7928-9) is available 
for $28.50 (ACRL members $24.00) from ALA 
Order Fulfillment, 155 East W acker Drive, 
C hicago, IL 6 0 6 l l ;  p h on e: 8 0 0 -5 4 5 -2 4 3 3  
(press 7); fax: 312-836-9958.

Build your leadership skills
Enhance your personal leadership skills by 
attending ACRL’s first leadership institute, 
“Building Your Leadership Toolkit.” The in­
stitute will be held at the Tremont Hotel in 
Boston, April 30-M ay 1, 1998.

B ob W edgeworth, university librarian, 
University o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

and Cliff Lynch, executive director of the Coa­
lition for Networked Information, will give 
keynote addresses.

Advance register by April 8, 1998. Regis­
tration forms and additional information are 
available on the Web at: http://www.ala.org/ 
acrl.html.

Presenters sought for ACRL’s 9th 
National Conference
ACRL seeks presenters for its 9tlı National 
Conference, “Racing Toward Tom orrow ,” to 
be held April 8 -1 1 , 1999, in Detroit.

A com plete description o f the conference 
theme, deadlines, and a program proposal 
form are included as an insert to the January 
issue o f C&RL News and the entire call for 
participation is available on the Web at: http:// 
www.ala.org/ acrl/prendex.html.

JSTOR establishes journal 
conversion facility at Princeton
JSTOR, the nonprofit organization dedicated 
to helping the scholarly com m unity take 
advantage o f advances in information tech­
nologies, plans to work with Princeton Uni­
versity Library to establish a production fa­
cility  for c o n v e rtin g  p a p e r jo u rn a ls  to 
electro n ic form. This facility, w hich will 
supplement a similar operation at the Uni­
versity o f Michigan, will double JSTO R ’s ca­
pacity to gather journal runs, to organize them 
for scanning, and to load them onto JSTO R ’s 
growing database of the complete runs of 
core scholarly journals. JSTOR is currently 
adding material at the rate o f approximately
100,000 pages a month.

February 15 is the dRefine ACtL contesdraen enilaed Deadline for submit­
ting entries to the “Define ACRL” contest.

The ACRL Board o f Directors is seek­
ing a good, pithy slogan that will, in no 
more than a sound bite, describe the mis­
sion o f ACRL. The winner will receive 
com p lim entary registration to ACRL's 
National Conference, April 8 -1 1 , 1999, in 
Detroit, as well as three nights lodging in 
a conference hotel. Entries will be judged 
by the ACRL Board of Directors.

Submissions should be sent to ACRL 
Slogans, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 
606 11 or by e-mail to: acrl@ala.org.

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Digital copyright legislation pending

An open letter to the library community
Dear library supporter:

As the presidents o f four o f the nation’s 
m ajor library associations, w e write to ask 
for your assistance in garnering support 
for tw o p ieces o f  federal legislation o f 
critical im portance to the library com m u ­
nity, indeed to libraries in every co m m u ­
nity.

T h e se  bills are Sen. Jo h n  A shcroft’s 
(R-M issouri) D igital C o p y rig h t C la ri­

fic a t io n  a n d  T echnology A ct (S. 1 1 4 6 ) 
and  th e D ig ita l E r a  C o p y rig h t E n ­
h a n ce m e n t Act, jointly introduced by 
R e p re s e n ta tiv e s  Rick B o u c h e r  (D -V ir­
ginia) and Tom  C am pbell (R-C alifornia) 
(H.R. 30 4 8 ).

In our view , th ese prop osals present 
the b est ap p ro ach  to updating the Copy­
right Act to m eet the ch allen g es o f the 
digital environm ent w hile, at the sam e 
time, preserving the critical b a la n ce  b e ­
tw een copyright ow ners and users in the 
electron ic age. B oth bills include provi­
sions w hich are essential to libraries if 
w e are to effectiv ely s e rv e  our patrons, 
scholars, researchers, and students in the 
netw orked  environm ent.

We se e k  your im m ediate help in as­
sisting Sen. Ashcroft and Reps. B o u ch e r 
and C am pbell to persuade other m em ­
bers o f the Sen ate and H ouse to c o sp o n ­
sor S. 1146 and H.R. 3048, respectively.

Why this effort is important 
to all libraries
Each year, m illions o f researchers, stu­
dents, and m em bers o f  the public b e n ­
efit from  access to library co llectio n s—  
a c c e s s  that is s u p p o rte d  by fair u se, 
p reserv a tio n  program s, interlibrary loan, 
and m ore.

We must ensure that the Copyright Act 
contin u es to serve the public w h o  rely 
upon th ese co llectio n s and services. T he 
Ashcroft and Boucher-C am pbell bills seek 
to update the Copyright Act by ex ten d ­
ing the b alan ce that w e currently en joy

so that ow ners, creators, and users alike 
may ben efit fully from  the opportunities 
o f the digital environm ent. T h ese bills ap­
propriately extend the b alan ce by clari­
fying or u p d atin g s e le c te d  p riv ileg es 
granted to libraries, researchers, ed u ca ­
tional institutions, and others under cur­
rent law.

Action is needed now
Accordingly, w e are asking the m em bers 
o f  our association s— and all oth er library 
supporters— to :

• study the attached m aterial detail­
ing the con ten ts o f  S .1146 and H .R .3048;

• write to your H ouse and Senate del­
eg atio n s req u estin g  co -sp o n so rsh ip  o f 
th ese bills; and

• call and visit the m em bers o f  your 
C ongressional d elegation and ask them  
to co sp o n so r S. 1146 or H.R. 3048, as ap ­
propriate.

Sen. Ashcroft, and Reps. B o u ch e r and 
Cam pbell, w ould ap p reciate our help in 
achieving passage o f this potentially land­
mark legislation. T h e m ost critical first 
step in this p rocess is to en g age m em ­
bers o f C ongress and se e k  their en d o rse­
m ent o f th ese bills.

Let Congress know  n o w  the im por­
tan ce o f updating the Copyright Act for 
your institution, your users, and o f e n ­
suring that libraries will b e  able to e ffe c ­
tively serve the nation in the inform ation 
age.

T h an k  you. O ur a sso cia tio n s stand 
ready to assist you in any way that w e 
can. P lease do not hesitate to call upon 
us and to let us know  o f your efforts.

— J u d i t h  A. M e a d o w s , p r e s id e n t , 
Am erican A ssociation o f Law Libraries;

— B a r b a r a  J .  F ord, president, 
Am erican Library A ssociation;

—J a m e s  G. N eal, president, 
A ssociation o f R esearch  Libraries;

—J u d it h  J .  F ield , president,
Sp ecial Libraries A ssociation



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