C&RL News October 2014 482 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free Yale restores Sterling Memorial Library nave The entrance nave in Yale University’s Ster- ling Memorial Library (SML) reopened to the public on August 25, marking the comple- tion of a major restoration project that has returned the nave to its original architectural splendor and brought about improvements that will better serve the needs of library users in the 21st century. The restoration, which took 18 months, was made possible by a gift from Richard Gilder ’54 and Lois Chiles, in honor of President Emeritus Rich- ard C. Levin ’74 and Jane A. Levin ’75. A major component of the project was a complete restoration of the nave’s stained glass windows, which are among the ap- proximately 3,300 windows that artist G. Owen Bonawit designed for placement throughout the library. The three service desks in the nave—cir- culation, information, and library privileges —were combined into a single service desk in the north aisle. The built-in card cata- logues, which were at one time a prominent feature of the original nave, have been re- duced, while some have been preserved in place. The resulting open space now holds computer workstations and seating areas for conversation and study. NCSU Libraries offering grants to help faculty develop free or low-cost open textbook alternatives In the latest of several initiatives designed to help students reduce the expense of textbooks as part of their university educations and make it easier for faculty to explore and cre- ate new resources for their teaching, the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries is inviting NCSU faculty to ap- ply for grants to adopt, adapt, or create free or low-cost open alternatives to to- day’s expensive textbooks. Ranging between $500 and $2,000, the competitive Alt-Textbook grants will be awarded to help faculty pursue innovative uses of technology and information resources that can replace pricey traditional textbooks. Larger grants may be available for larger-scale or especially high-impact projects. The Alt-Textbook initiative builds on a suc- cessful partnership with the university’s Phys- ics Department that resulted in a free physics e-textbook that is now used by 1,300 NCSU students each year. Other NCSU Libraries initiatives to reduce costs for students include providing at least one copy of every required course book on reserve each semester, supply- ing online reserves to electronically dissemi- nate materials within the bounds of copyright law, and Library Course Tools, an innovative use of the libraries’ website to present custom, course-related library content for every course at the university. Alt-Textbook is supported by a grant from the NCSU University Foundation. Syracuse University Libraries, Emerald Group Publishing partner for Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities The Syracuse University Libraries have bro- kered an agreement with Emerald Group Publishing to secure an extensive collection of ebooks and ejournals for use by participants Detail of restored stained glass window in the Yale University Sterling Memorial Library nave. October 2014 483 C&RL News What would you put in the ACRL 75th Anniversary time capsule? It’s 2040. ACRL mem- bers are gathered to open the ACRL 75th Anniversary time cap- sule. You are watching a live feed of the event on your iPhone 16. The fi rst item is pulled from the time capsule. It is a . . . The Oxford Eng- lish Dictionar y de- fi nes a time capsule as “a container used to store for poster- ity a selection of ob- jects thought to be representative of life at a particular time.” What would you put in our time capsule? This is your invita- tion to suggest items to be placed in the ACRL 75th Anniver- sar y time capsule. The best items to put into a time capsule are things that will remind you of a spe- cifi c time. Items can also recall a particular event. The business of predicting the future is a tricky one. But it’s almost as diffi cult to imagine what life was like in the past. Anything that captures the spirit of the present is a candidate. W h a t i s u n i q u e about ACRL? We need a mix of items from the sublime to the trivial related to ACRL. To have your item con- sidered for inclusion, send a description of the item, a photo, and dimensions to ACRL 75th Anniversary Cel- ebration Task Force Chair Pamela Snelson ( p a m e l a . s n e l s o n @ fandm.edu). If accepted, you will need to provide the item to the ACRL office no later than March 1, 2015. It goes without saying that your item will not be returned. The ACRL 75th An- niversar y time cap- sule and contents will be exhibited at the ACRL 2015 Confer- ence to be held March 25–28, 2015, in Port- land, Oregon. A dedi- cation ceremony will take place at the 2015 ALA Annual Confer- ence in San Francisco. ACRL will register the time capsule with the International Time Capsule Society, based at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. Time capsule and recreated contents on dis- play at Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. C&RL News October 2014 484 ACRL 2015 scholarship applications available ACRL is offering approximately 175 scholarships worth more than $110,000 for the ACRL 2015 Conference, “Creating Sustainable Community,” to be held March 25 – 28, 2015, in Portland, Oregon. ACRL typically funds about 100 conference scholarships and this year initiated a new Kick Start the Future campaign in honor of the association’s 75th anniversary that seeks to raise the $50,000 needed to fund the 75 additional scholarships. While donations to the campaign are rolling in, the association currently needs an additional $14,000 to meet its goal. Infor- mation on donating to the campaign is available on the ACRL 75th Anniversary website at http://acrl.ala. org/acrl75/?page_id=244. The deadline to apply for all ACRL 2015 scholar- ships is Friday, November 7, 2014. More information, including scholarship catego- ries, is available on the conference website at http://conference.acrl.org/scholarships- pages-162.php. in the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veter- ans with Disabilities (EBV) program. Through the partnership, Emerald content worth more than $100,000 is available to EBV students at Syracuse University and seven partner institu- tions: Florida State University, UCLA, Texas A&M, Cornell University, University of Con- necticut, Purdue University, and Louisiana State University. The EVP program offers cutting-edge, expe- riential training in entrepreneurship and small business management to post-9/11 veterans with disabilities resulting from their U.S. mili- tary service. Supported by Syracuse University librarians, EBV participants will have access to research and scholarly content in several Em- erald collections. HBCU Library Alliance to hold Sixth Biennial Membership Meeting The Historically Black Colleges and Uni- versities (HBCU) Library Alliance will hold its sixth biennial Membership Meeting Oc- tober 26–28, 2014, at the Hilton Garden Inn and the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library in Atlanta. The HBCU Library Alli- ance is the consortium of the libraries of White House-designated HBCU institutions and exists to serve and strengthen member libraries through leadership development, staff training, and collection preservation. The meeting theme is “Transforming Librar- ies for the 21st Century and Beyond: Sustaining the HBCU Library Alliance.” Sessions will ad- dress scholarly communications, assessment, marketing, and promotion, as well as celebrate the 125th year of the 1890s Land Grant Insti- tutions. The keynote speaker is Lorraine J. Haricombe, dean of the University of Kansas (KU). KU is a founding member of the Coali- tion of Open Access Policy Institutions, and Haricombe serves as the University provost’s designate for open access implementation. For more information about the HBCU Library Alliance, please visit www.hbculibraries.org. EBSCO eBooks to indicate Choice Outstanding Academic Titles An agreement between Choice magazine, a pub- lication of ACRL, and EBSCO Information Servic- es will highlight EBSCO eBooks that have been named Choice Outstanding Academic Titles. This agreement will allow librarians to easily identify and acquire the titles that have been designat- ed as excellent in presentation and scholarship, bringing exceptional support to the research of their students and faculty and increasing the val- ue of their overall library collection. October 2014 485 C&RL News Tech Bits . . . Brought to you by the ACRL ULS Technol- ogy in University Libraries Committee Postach.io is a free blogging platform that uses your Evernote or Dropbox accounts to effort- lessly post content to the web from anywhere and on all of your devices. Simply tag your Evernote/Dropbox content as “publish” to add it to your blog. 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EBSCO eBooks offers more than 600,000 ebooks and audiobooks and EBSCO proactively acquires new content in critical areas, based on the dynamic needs of libraries. Visit www. ebscohost.com/ebooks for more information. Google Docs add-on for ProQuest Flow launches ProQuest Flow, a cloud-based research management solution, has released an add-on to interoperate with Google Docs. The new add-on expands the collaborative writing capabilities of Google Docs by integrating the docu- ment management tools of Flow dur- ing the authoring phase of research. As a result, researchers can find, share, and annotate documents in the cloud, then author as a team in a common virtual work- space, supported by automated citations and bibliographies. The free add-on is available in the Google Add-on Store. Launched in 2013, ProQuest Flow enables students and researchers to read, annotate, organize, and cite their research, as well as collaborate with friends and colleagues by sharing collections. The Google Docs add- on integrates Flow’s document management tools during writing sessions. Collaborators’ document collections are accessible via a right-navigation pane within the Google Doc, making them visible while team members author papers, eliminating the need to toggle between screens, tools, and notepads. The add-on’s selection of 3,000 output styles also simplifies the creation of bibliographies and citations. More information on ProQuest Flow is available at http://flow.proquest.com/. Springer adds CrossMark service for journal content Springer recently added CrossMark, an identi- fication service from CrossRef, for forthcoming journal articles. All Springer journal articles, will contain a CrossMark window on SpringerLink on the article HTML page that provides biblio- graphic metadata of that article and a statement about updates of the content. Springer content updates shown through the CrossRef service will include errata and retractions. CrossMark is a multipublisher initiative providing a standard way for readers to locate the authoritative version of an article or other published content . The system is an optional service of CrossRef, a not-for-profit association of scholarly publishers that facilitates reference linking and other sustainable cross-publisher services for the scholarly community. To learn more about CrossMark, visit www.crossref. org/crossmark/.