ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News m January 1998 / 5 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l d Mary Ellen Davis G o rd o n a p p o in te d A L A e x e c u tiv e William R. Gordon, director of the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System in Hyattsville, Maryland, will become ALA’s next executive director on March 1, 1998. “We are d eligh ted to an n o u n ce Bill Gordon’s appointment as executive director of ALA,” said ALA President Barbara J. Ford. “He brings strong credentials, a solid track record, and a wealth of library experience to the position.” Gordon, who has been with the Prince George’s County system since 1977, has also served as director of the Arrowhead (Minne­ sota) Library System, the Pocatello (Idaho) Public Library and the Southeastern Idaho Public Library Agency, and as assistant di­ rector of the Renton (Washington) Public Li­ brary. He holds an MLS from the University of Denver and a B A. in sociology from Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas. Gordon is attending ALA’s January 1998 Midwinter Meeting in New Orleans as ALA executive director-designate. P re s e n te rs s o u g h t f o r A C R L ’s 9th N a tio n a l C o n fe re n c e ACRL seeks presenters for its 9th National Conference to be held April 8 -11, 1999 in Detroit. The con feren ce them e, “Racing Toward Tomorrow,” acknowledges that academic libraries are on the fast track toward change. To keep pace with this change and to stay on course, ACRL seeks the best ideas of our profession and of related professions on how to create and channel change. Presenters are sought for research papers, panel sessions, poster sessions, and round table discussions. A complete description of the conference theme, dead­ lines, and a program proposal form are included as an in­ sert to this issue, and the entire call for par­ ticipation is available on the Web at: http:// www.ala.org/acrl.html, select “National Con­ ference.” Proposals should be sent with the com­ pleted program proposal form to the appro­ priate committee chairs who are listed in the Call for Participation. The deadline for pa­ per and panel proposals is June 15, 1998. Questions? Check out the Web page at http://www.ala.org/acrl.html, or contact Maiy Ellen Davis at (800) 545-2433 ext. 2511 or medavis@ala.org. T e x a s D ig it a l L ib ra ry A llia n c e fo rm e d Five Texas members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have established the Texas Digital Library Alliance (TDLAlliance), sponsored by ARL and the Texas State Li­ brary and Archives Commission. The TDLAlliance will provide a forum for digital library leadership initiatives in Texas aimed at enhancing coordinated, effective, and user-friendly digital information services for Texas citizens. The group hopes to encourage represen­ tatives o f digital library programs support- Students at the University o f Louisville gained access to a new library service—a cafe in the Ekstrom Library Lobby. Librarians worked w ith Chartwell Food Services to create the cafe, which offers specialty coffees, biscotti, scones, juice, etc. The cafe is quite popular and the cafe tables are often filled w ith faculty, staff, and students engaged in conversation. http://www.ala.org/acrl.html http://www.ala.org/acrl.html mailto:medavis@ala.org 6 This poster is one o f many materials available from the National W omen’s History M onth Project. Request a catalog from nwhp@aol.com. ing K-12, higher education, public libraries, and lifelong learning communities to address common issues in a collaborative fashion. Technology-based academic programs in Texas were mandated by the 75th Texas State Legislature, which established the TexShare Library Resource Sharing Program within the Texas State Library. TexShare services has grown from the 53 libraries in the Texas Council o f State University Librarians to more than l6 0 libraries, including community col­ leges and health science centers. N e w m a t e r ia ls re ad y fo r W o m en ’s H is t o r y M o n th “Living the Legacy o f Women’s Rights” is the theme for National Women’s History Month this March, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the women’s rights movement, A one-hour program kit to celebrate the anniversary in­ clude a 30-minute video, “Equality: A His­ tory of the W om en’s Movement in America,” a 15-minute speech, and a full-color National Women’s History Month poster. A hand-out copymaster, discussion ideas, bal­ loons, bookmarks, stickers, a sample proclamation, and resource list com­ plete the kit, which is available for $50 plus $7 postage and handling. The National W om en’s History Project, (NWHP) has many wonderful materi­ als such as the Alice Walker poster shown. This poster is part o f a 12- poster set “Women of Hope: African Americans Who Made a Difference” that is available for $45 (item #6211). Request a kit or a full catalog from the National Women’s History Project, 7738 Bell Road, Dept. P, Windsor, CA 95492-8518; phone (707) 838-6000; or e-mail: nwhp@aol.com. A C R L d e v e lo p in g N a tio n a l In fo rm a tio n L ite ra c y In stitu te ACRL is developing a National Infor­ mation Literacy Institute (NILI). The de­ velopment of such an institute recog­ n izes th e critica l im p o rtan ce o f information literacy in the curriculum at every level of education. The Institute is dedicated to train­ ing and educating instruction librar­ ians; to programming for library ad­ ministrators on topics of information literacy; and to the development o f forums to bring together various higher education organizations to discuss information literacy as part of the educational enterprise. NILTs overriding principle will be to de­ liver a curriculum that will marry theory and practice. The Institute’s curriculum will ini­ tially offer an intensive training program tar­ geted at equipping new librarians or other information professionals new to teaching with knowledge of current practice and the theory behind information literacy. The Institute’s curriculum will be the by-product o f collaboration among practicing instruction librarians, library school faculty, library di­ rectors, and appropriate faculty drawn from other disciplines such as computer science, psychology, and education. An Invitational Planning Day that brings together higher education administrators, li­ brary directors, information science school faculty, and public school and academic li­ brarians, and state agency librarians will be held at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting in New Or- mailto:nwhp@aol.com mailto:nwhp@aol.com CSRL N e w sm Ja nuary 1 9 9 8 /7 ACRL offers practical leadership institute ACRL is offering its first Leadership Institute, “Build your leadership toolkit.” Cosponsored by the ACRL New England Chapter, the one- and-a-half-day institute will be held begin­ ning at 2:30 p.m. on April 30-M ay 1, 1998, at The Tremont Hotel in Boston. This hands-on institute will help you develop your personal leadership toolkit. At this institute you will: hone your nego­ tiation/persuasion skills; learn how to get things done at meetings; get techniques for motivating and managing your team; find out how to make effective presentations; and learn strategies for implementing and managing change. Now more than ever librarians must take a leadership role both on and off campus. “In today’s information society, we li­ brarians do have a knowledge base and a set o f skills and abilities that are very much needed, not only within our libraries and profession, but also beyond library and ACRL ‘walls’ to the betterment of our cam­ puses, our communities, and our states,” said Patricia Senn Breivik, past president of ACRL. Attend this institute and take home practical strategies for effective leadership. P le n a r y s e s s io n s Robert Wedgeworth, university librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham paign will address the many areas in which librarians will need to lead, now and in the future. Cliff Lynch, executive director, Coalition for Networked Information, will address the leadership roles librarians will take both on and off campus as technology contin­ ues to evolves. T o o lk it s e s s io n s (Most will be offered twice.) • “How to get what you want: Refining y ou r p ersu asion / n eg otiation s k ills ”—— Michael Butler, executive director and CEO, OHIONET •“Meetings: How to get things done”— Elaine Didier, director, Residential & Research University Programs, University of Michigan • “Im p le m e n tin g and m a n a g in g change”— Thomas Michaiek, executive di­ rector, Harvard Business School Library •“Building and leading your team/mo tivating your staff’— Margo Crist, director o f libraries, University o f Massachusetts •“Spreading the word: Tips for effec­ tive presentations"— Linda Wallace, direc­ tor, American Library Association’s Public Information Office C lo s in g P le n a r y s e s s io n “Leading outside the library”— A panel of presenters, including Michael Butler, Cliff Lynch, and Elaine Didier, will look at how librarians can be most effective as leaders outside the library community. F a c ilit ie s T he institu te will tak e p la ce at T he Tremont Hotel in Boston (275 Tremont St.), located in the heart of Boston’s the­ ater district and in the hub of Boston’s most appealing attractions and neighborhoods. A block of rooms has been reserved for ACRL institute attendees at the special con­ ference rate of $169. Please make hotel reservations directly with The Tremont and be sure to specify that you are with the ACRL Institute. Phone (800) 331-9998 or (617) 426-1400 to reserve your space today. The dead­ line for hotel reservations is April 8, 1998. R e s e rv e y o u r s p a c e t o d a y Register in advance by April 8, 1998. Reg­ istration forms are available on the Web at: http://www.ala.org/acrl.html. Regis­ tration fees are $175 for ACRL/ACRL New England chapter members; $225 for ALA members; $275 for nonmembers. There is a $50 late fee for those regis­ tering after April 8, 1998. Space is limited to the first 150 registrants. Q u e s tio n s Contact Mary Ellen Davis at ACRL at (800) 5 4 5 - 2 4 3 3 e x t. 2 511 o r e -m a il: medavis@ala.org. Watch ACRL’s Web page for institute updates: http://www.ala.org/ acrl.html. http://www.ala.org/acrl.html mailto:medavis@ala.org http://www.ala.org/ 8 leans. This planning meeting will provide the NILI advisory group with valuable informa­ tion from those who will be working with future graduates of a NILI so that programs can be designed to best meet existing needs. ACRL plans to offer the first NILI in the summer of 1999. Keep up with the latest on NILI by checking out its Web page: http:// www. ala. org/acrl/ nili. html. Institute planning is being spearheaded by Cerise Oberman, dean of Library & Infor­ mation Services at the Plattsburgh State Uni­ versity of New York. Members of the plan­ ning group include: Louis Albert, senior vice president, American Association for Higher Education; Lori Arp, head of central refer­ ence, University o f Colorado at Boulder; Esther Grassian, electronic services coordi­ nator, UCLA; Thomas Kirk, college librarian, Earlham College; Loanne Snavely, head, Arts L ibrary, Penn S tate U n iv ersity ; M itch Stepanovich, architecture librarian, Univer­ sity of Texas at Arlington; Julie Todaro, head, LRC, Austin Community College; Betsy Wil­ son, associate director of libraries for Public Services, University of Washington. U niv. o f S o u th e rn M ain e re n a m e s lib ra ry f o r d o n o rs A ceremony renaming the University of South­ ern Maine’s Portland Campus Library the “Albert Brenner Glickman Family Library” was held in October. The ceremony recognized the gift of more than $1 million by Albert B. and Judith L. Glickman of Cape Elizabeth, Maine for renovation of library space and ex­ pansion of holdings. The donation will help complete the top three floors of the seven- story building, providing an estimated 26,500 additional square feet of floor space. The re­ mainder of the gift will b e used to acq u ire books and periodicals. Glickman, a Portland native, is the founder and sole proprietor of A lbert B. G lickm an and Associates, a real estate d ev elo p m en t firm. He is a trustee of th e U n iv e rs ity o f Maine System and the UCLA Foundation. Cornell establishes d igita l institute A new Cornell Institute for Digital Collec­ tions (CIDC), funded by $2 million in pri­ vate grants, will make images of cultural and scientific collections accessible via the Web. The new institute will also develop tools to help educators use these images and will conduct research on how to best manage the new technology. “These are spectacular collections that can be used anywhere, while the originals are preserved for future generations,” said Tho­ mas Hickerson, director of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections o f Cornell Maine Governor Angus King sat at a library co m p u te r and changed th e name o f th e University o f Southern Maine’s library to the “A lb ert Brenner Glickman Family Library.” C&RL News m January 1998 / 9 University Library, who will also direct the new institute. The institute will work as a partnership involving faculty, tech­ nologists, librarians, archivists, and curators from across the campus. One of the primary goals of the CIDC will be to make its ma­ terials available for classroom use, both at the K-12 and college lev­ els. A ccord ing to H ickerso n, “Education is our mission, and that can include the general pub­ lic as well as classroom instruc­ tion. “The Ezra Cornell papers, one of the prototype digital col­ lections already available, were used by a 4th-grade class at Ca­ yuga Heights for a project on New York state history. Learning to Teach will be offered in D.C. Are you drowning in a sea of bibliographic instruction? Do you need swimming les­ sons? If so, the Learning to Teach Work­ shops on Instruction Preconference offered by the Association of College & Research Libraries Instruction Section is for you! Based on the ACRL publication L earn ­ ing to Teach, the preconference will give you both theoretical and practical tips for teaching. You are encouraged to adapt the workshops to your own environment and train your colleagues in these important fundamentals. These workshops are rel­ evant for both librarians new to instruc­ tion and for experienced instruction librar­ ians who wish to review key concepts— especially in the content of an ever-chang­ ing information world. The Preconference will be held in Wash­ ington, DC at an ALA conference site. W o rk sh o p s Participants will be able to attend four of the following six workshops: •“T h e O n e -S h o t L e ctu re ”— E sther Grassian, UCLA • “Selecting a Teaching Technique”— Trudi Jacobson, SUNY Albany • “Presentation Skills and Classroom Management”— Mary Pagliero Popp, Indi­ ana University • “Developing Effective Library Assign­ ments”— Cristina Woo, UC Irvine • “Instruction in a Multicultural/Multi­ racial Environment— Karen Downing, Uni­ versity of Michigan • “Evaluation”— Lynn Westbrook, Texas Woman’s University R e g is t r a tio n The registration fee is: $105 for members; $155 for ALA members; $ 95 for full-time library school students; and $220 for non- ALA, non-ACRL members. The cost in­ cludes the all-day conference, workshop support materials, and refreshments dur­ ing the morning and afternoon. Lunch can be purchased near the Pre­ conference site. To obtain a registration form and to keep up with the latest preconference in­ formation, visit the Learning to Teach 1998 Preconference Web site at: http://www- leIand.standford.edu/~mesora/ACRLIS/ precon.html. Questions? Contact Doris Jui, Univer­ sity of Miami at (305)-284-3937; e-mail: djui@urniami.ir.miami.edu. Nobel Prize winner Tom Cech and the University o f Colorado Science Library staff celebrate 90 years o f C h e m ica l A b s tra c ts at UC-Boulder. Chemical Abstracts Service recently recognized the Science Library as a CAS Signature Library—one o f a select fe w research libraries in the w o rld to subscribe to C h e m ic a l A b s tra c ts since its inception in 1907. Pictured (from I to r) are Mady Kassanoff, David Fägerstrom, Pam Wilson, Tom Cech, Gregory Robl, Barb Greenman, and Daria O. Carle. http://www- mailto:djui@urniami.ir.miami.edu 10 / C&RL News m January 1998 Some of the collections may already be viewed on the Web at http://rmc-www. library.cornell.edu/Division-Info/rmc-coll/ rmc-digital.html. Licensing agreements may limit the availability of some resources to certain academic users. The CIDC will also study intellectual prop­ erty issues that arise out of digital imaging and Internet distribution of copyrighted ma­ terials and proprietary collections. “We want to set up a way that educational use can be maintained while benefiting from commercial use,” Hickerson explained. “These [university and museum] collections are es­ sentially the cultural heritage o f not just North America but of the world. I don’t want to see people selling exclusive rights to these collections to commercial vendors, but at the same time, I think the institutions have a right to receive some reimbursement for the effort w e’ve put into preservation.” ■ Enter the “D efine A C R L ” contest The ACRL Board wants a good, pithy slo­ gan that will, in no more than a catchy soundbite, describe the mission of ACRL. Nike has “Just do it.” Now the Board wants you to do it for ACRL. The Board’s initial brainstorming session generated ideas such as: “Academic libraries: where information becomes knowledge”; and “Helping people transfer information to knowledge”; and “Building great minds together.” The Board knows you can be more creative. Enter your ideas early and often. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 1998. The winner will receive a compli­ mentary registration to ACRL’s 9th National Conference, April 8– 11, 1999, in Detroit, as well as three nights lodging in a con­ ference hotel. Groups may enter but must designate a single winner. Entries will be judged by the ACRL Board of Directors. Send your entries to ACRL Slogans, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611 or e-mail to acrl@ala.org. Questions? Contact any ACRL Board member. Their names and ad­ dresses are listed in the masthead of each issue o f C&RL News and on the ACRL homepage at http://www.ala.org/acrl/ acrlbord.html. http://rmc-www mailto:acrl@ala.org http://www.ala.org/acrl/