C&RL News May 2018 218 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free Revised Standards for Libraries in Higher Education The ACRL Board of Directors has approved a revision of the association’s Standards for Libraries in Higher Education (SLHE). SLHE, adopted in 2004 and previously revised in 2011, is designed to guide academic librar- ies in advancing and sustaining their role as partners in educating students, achieving their institutions’ missions, and positioning librar- ies as leaders in assess- ment and continuous improvement on their campuses. The stan- dards are a framework for library planning and assessment, particularly in regard to providing guiding principles, per- formance indicators, outcomes, and metrics for libraries to use in a variety of circumstances as they work with faculty and students in a higher education setting, achieving and measuring institutional learning outcomes. The revised version of SLHE will become part of ACRL’s Planning, Assessing, and Communicating Library Impact: Putting the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education into Action RoadShow workshop beginning in May 2018. Additional opportunities to learn more about the revised SLHE are forthcom- ing. The revised standards are freely available on the ACRL website at www.ala.org/acrl /standards/standardslibraries. William and Mary Libraries, Williamsburg Regional Library expand access In celebration of National Library Week 2018, the College of William & Mary (WM) Libraries and the Williamsburg Regional Li- brary (WRL) announced a partnership that will significantly benefit local residents and the WM community by expanding access to library resources. A key element of the partnership is its recip- rocal borrowing privi- leges agreement, which provides unprecedented access to the collections at both library systems. Individuals can now re- ceive borrowing privileg- es at WM Libraries at no cost, and, likewise, WM students, faculty, and staff can receive library privileges at WRL with their WM identification, including those who do not live in Williamsburg, James City County, or York County. WM Librar- ies and WRL will also be working together on a variety of projects to include community programming and ILL service expansion. For more informa- tion, visit WM Libraries at https://libraries. wm.edu/ or WRL at www.wrl.org/. OhioLINK partners for textbook savings Ohio’s efforts to make higher education more affordable for all students include strategies to reduce the cost of textbooks, and a new price agreement with four ma- jor textbook publishers has the potential to save students $39.7 million each year. The agreement was announced by OhioLINK, a consortium of 120 academic libraries distrib- uted among 91 Ohio colleges and univer- sities, and part of the Ohio Department of Higher Education’s OH-TECH consortium. http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/standardslibraries http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/standardslibraries https://libraries.wm.edu/ https://libraries.wm.edu/ http://www.wrl.org/ May 2018 219 C&RL News ACRL releases Framing Information Literacy six-volume set ACRL announces the publication of the six- volume Framing Information Literacy: Teaching Grounded in Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice, book number 73 in ACRL’s Publications in Librarianship series. Edited by Mary K. Oberlies and Janna Mattson, these books are collections of lesson plans grounded in learning theory, each volume devoted to one of the six frames of the ACRL Framework for Informa- tion Literacy for Higher Education. Many librarians strug- gle with the best methods, activities, and practices for teaching information literacy. Developing learn- ing outcomes and activi- ties, overcoming student and faculty apathy toward information literacy in- struction, and meeting instructional and institu- tional goals can be diffi- cult if you’re feeling over- whelmed with instruc- tional jargon or uncertain in your teaching due to no formal training. Framing Information Literacy contains 52 chapters over six volumes that provide approachable explanations of the Framework frames; various learning theory, pedagogy, and instructional strategies; and how they are used to inform the development of information literacy lesson plans and learning activities. Chapters are grouped by broad disciplinary focus: social sciences, arts and humanities, sci- ence and engineering, and multidisciplinary. Every chapter starts with a discussion about how the author(s) created the lesson, any partnerships they nurtured, and an explana- tion of the frame and methodology and how it relates to the development of the lesson, and provides information about technology needs, pre-instruction work, learning outcomes, essential and optional learning activities, how the lesson can be modified to accommodate different classroom setups and time frames, and assessment. The six volumes of Framing Information Literacy aim to address the teaching anxiety and insecurity librar- ians often experience by offering narratives with the lesson plans that provide insight into the work involved in developing a polished lesson plan; begin filling the teaching and learn- ing knowledge gap for librarians in the context of information literacy, capturing the knowl- edge and practice of 58 teacher librarians and five teaching faculty from 41 institutions for others to incorporate and build upon; and explore how teacher librarians use the ACRL Framework in conjunction with educational theory and pedagogy to help readers form their own approaches to teaching informa- tion literacy. Each volume contains the table of contents and index for the entire set, as well as an over- arching introduction and conclusion, for easy cross-referencing across volumes. Explore your favorite frame or collect them all. Framing Information Literacy: Teach- ing Grounded in Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice is available for purchase in print and as ebooks through the ALA Online Store, indi- vidually and as a set; in print through Amazon. com; and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the United States or (770) 442-8633 for international customers. http://Amazon.com http://Amazon.com C&RL News May 2018 220 OhioLINK concentrated on publishers with demonstrated cost savings across its 91 higher education institutions, with priority given to high enrollment in lower division courses and a title catalog widely assigned in Ohio. This first round of wholesale price agree- ments includes four of the “big five” global academic publishers: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson, and Macmillan Learning. These agreements will reduce the wholesale price of e-textbooks to participating colleges and retailers by up to 80 percent and courseware by up to 55 percent, with the potential for nearly $40 million in direct annual savings to Ohio’s college students. ACRL selects consultants for research environment and scholarly communication system project ACRL has selected the team of Rebecca R. Ken- nison (principal, K|N Consultants Ltd.) and Nancy L. Maron (founder, BlueSky to BluePrint, LLC) to design, develop, and deliver a new re- port on effective and promising practices within the research environment and scholarly com- munication system and identify areas where fur- ther research is needed. The researchers will be particularly looking to include the perspectives RCL call for reviewers Resources for College Libraries (RCL) and RCL: Career Resources, the Choice/ACRL bibliogra- phy of essential titles for teaching and research at four-year and two-year academic institutions, seeks experienced subject librarians and fac- ulty to serve as peer reviewers. Reviewers are tasked with assessing the subject collection comprehensively, providing recommendations for editorial improvement, and feedback on how well the core selections support the college cur- riculum. We are currently seeking peer reviewers for the following RCL and RCL: Career Resources subjects: RCL—History and Interdisciplinary Studies African American Studies :: African History, Languages, and Literatures :: American Studies :: Ancient History :: Asian American Studies :: Asian History, Languages, and Literatures :: Criminal Justice :: Environmental Studies :: European History :: Film Studies :: Gender Studies :: GLBT Studies :: Latin American History :: Latino Studies :: Medieval Studies :: Middle Eastern History, Languages, and Literatures :: Native American Studies :: Renais- sance Studies :: United States and Canadian History :: Urban Studies :: Victorian Studies :: World History RCL Career Resources Allied Health :: Building and Construction Trades :: Business :: Communication :: Computer and Information Technology :: Criminal Justice and Law :: Educa- tion :: Engineer- ing and Technol- o g y : : G r a p h i c and Apparel Arts :: Human Services :: Sciences This is a one- time professional service opportu- nity to contribute to a Choice/ACRL publi- cation. To volunteer as a reviewer, contact Anne Doherty (adoherty@ala-choice.org) with your CV and a brief description of your qualifications, particularly developing or evaluating core collections, and/or teaching in the subject area. Preference will be given to those who apply by June 1, 2018. Learn more about RCL at www.choice360. org/products/rcl. mailto:adoherty%40ala-choice.org?subject= http://www.choice360.org/products/rcl http://www.choice360.org/products/rcl May 2018 221 C&RL News the Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources program, ad- ministered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The fellow- ships are intended to help graduate students in the humanities and related social science fields pursue research wherever relevant sources are available; gain skill and creativ- ity in using primary source materials in li- braries, archives, museums, and related re- positories; and provide suggestions to CLIR about how such source materials can be made more accessible and useful. Complete details, including a list of recipients, is avail- able on the CLIR website at www.clir.org /fellowships/mellon/. of historically underrepresented communities to expand the profession’s understanding of these environments and systems. The team was selected after an open and competitive request for proposals to investigate and write an action-oriented report that provides an update on progress since the publication of ACRL’s 2007 white paper “Establishing a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication: A Call for Community Engagement.” This new report will provide an overview of trends, identify effective and promising practices, and delineate important questions where deeper inquiry is needed to accelerate the transition to more open, inclusive, and equitable systems of scholarship. The project will be informed by inter- views, a review of the scholarly literature, advances in practice, and focus groups with diverse voices across the profession. The team will work closely with ACRL’s Research and Scholarly Environment Committee, as well as targeted participants in the interviews and focus groups and the broader com- munity via open public forums to share progress and solicit feedback. Open Dissertations Project launches Open Dissertations, a project from EBSCO In- formation Services (EBSCO) and BiblioLabs, has gone live. More than 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) are now avail- able for public search and discovery, with more than 1 million expected by June 2018. EBSCO Open Dissertations is committed to providing open and free access to ETD metadata and content. In addition to the fully open website, EBSCO will include ETD metadata in EBSCO Discovery Service to facilitate access and im- prove content discovery for researchers. With more and more universities now hosting and distributing their own ETDs on the open web, EBSCO and BiblioLabs have created a service that freely aggregates and exposes this content. To learn more about the Open Dissertations project, visit www.opendissertations.org. CLIR names 2018 Mellon dissertation fellows Fifteen graduate students have been se- lected to receive awards this year under Tech Bits . . . Brought to you by the ACRL ULS Technology in University Libraries Committee Slack is a productivity tool, with free and paid package options, that organizes conversations around certain topics. You can elect to join the “channels” you want, and invite people into new ones. Slack is an instant messaging platform that blasts an entire team and, in its optimal form, sends a quick mes- sage with a quick answer. It even integrates with other applications. Accessible by an app or the web, it is easy to get started and man- age. Slack claims it is a tool “where work happens.” In an organization centered around email though, some users might find it a burden to com- municate via multiple tools. While Slack probably will not supplant the email empire, it may help reduce the clutter. —Jennifer Nichols University of Arizona Libraries . . . Slack http://slack.com http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/ http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/ http://www.opendissertations.org http://slack.com