ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ February 2002 / 91 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l d Stephanie Orphan Mary Jane Petrowski named ACRL senior associate executive director ACRL is pleased to announce that, effec­ tive January 17, Mary Ja n e Petrowski is ACRL senior as­ sociate executive director. Her pri­ m ary r e s p o n s i­ bilities are in the areas o f member­ ship promotion, retention, and re­ cruitment; ACRL s e c t io n s and c h a p t e r s ; and s e r v in g as th e number two staff Mary Jane Petrowski person at ACRL. Petrowski com es to ACRL with experience in special, research, and liberal arts co l­ lege libraries. She has b een actively in­ volved in ACRL since 1990. Petrowski, who has served as head o f information literacy at Colgate University since D ecem ber 1993, previously held the positions o f assistant undergraduate librar­ ian at the University o f Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (1 9 8 9 -9 3 ); reference librarian at the U. S. Air Force Europe Command Library at Ramstein Air B ase, Germany (1 9 8 6 -8 8 ); and library director, U. S. Army Field Station, Sinop, Turkey (1 9 7 8 -8 5 ). From 1998 to 1999, she served as lead fac­ ulty for the ACRL Institute for Information Literacy Immersion Program; she has been a continuing faculty member since 1999. Petrowski has also chaired the ACRL In­ struction Section (1 9 9 8 -9 9 ) and the ACRL Nominations 2001 Committee (1 9 9 9 -0 0 ). She has served on the ACRL Information Literacy Standards Committee (2 0 0 0 -0 1 ) and the Institute for Information Literacy Advisory Board (2 0 0 0 -0 1 ). Petrowski received her MLS from the University o f North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also holds a certificate o f advanced study in library and information science from the University o f Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. She earned a B.A. in English from Duke University. N orthern Lig h t d isc o n tin u e s fre e pu b lic a cce ss to Web se arch In an effort to reduce costs and focus on the needs o f its enterprise (subscription) customers, Northern Light Technology is no longer providing free Web search ca­ p a b ilitie s to th e g e n e r a l p u b lic . The company continues to make its fee-based special collection o f approximately 70 mil­ lion pages o f full-text content from more than 7,100 sources available to both enter­ prise customers and the public. Enterprise customers will also retain the ability to search the Web using Northern Light, and the com pany will continue to update its index o f Web pages for those customers. Northern Light attributes the shift in business strategy to booming demand from its enterprise and marketing partners for its search, classification, taxonomy, and content solutions, while the business model for free, advertising-supported public Web search was slow to develop for the com ­ pany. U n iv e rsity o f G eo rg ia lib ra ry p a rtn e rs w ith Fo o t S o ld ie r Pro ject fo r C iv il R ig h ts S tu d ie s The Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia (UGA) and the Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights Studies have joined together to chronicle G eorgia’s rich history in the Civil Rights Movement. The new venture, focusing on “unsung foot soldiers,” will establish UGA as one of the premier institutions in the nation for the study of civil rights. The foundation for the project is the award-winning documentary by social work professor Maureen Daniels, “Foot soldier for equal justice: Horace T. Ward and the desegregation of the University of Geor­ gia,” which yielded photos, interview tran­ scripts, and other materials that will be do­ nated to the collection. 92 / C&RL News ■ February 2002 Sirsi and DRA com plete m erger Sirsi Corporation and Data Research Asso­ ciates (DRA) have successfully integrated their operations. The company, which will now be known as Sirsi, has integrated its prod­ uct development, customer service, and sales and marketing operations to capitalize on the com bined resources resulting from the merger. The management team includes ex­ ecutives from both organizations. Following the August 2001 acquisition, Sirsi conducted a three-month evaluation of all Sirsi and DRA products to arrive at a technology strategy that focuses on standardizing inte­ grated library system development on the Unicorn Library Management System. No ad­ ditional development will be done on Taos as a separate product after the release of Ver­ sion 1.2, scheduled for this month, however, the company will incorporate some of Taos concepts into future products. Unicorn will provide current users of DRA Classic, Inlex, MultiLIS, Web 2, and Taos in its current form with the functionality they anticipated from a fully developed Taos solution. ACRL offers D irectory o f Test Collections and new CLIP Notes Directory o f Test Collections in Academ ic, Pro fession al, a n d R esearch Libraries, edited by Paul G. Fehrmann and Nancy Patricia O’Brien, is a tool to aid researchers and practitioners in identifying, locating, and examining tests that might be useful for their work. The directory includes the results of a sys­ tematic survey of collections and provides a list of institutions, with contact information, that will allow access to their test collections. ’ ­ Information includes the size, availability, contents, and focus of the collections. Directory o f Test Col­ lections in A cadem ic, P rofession al, a n d Re­ search Libraries (ISBN 0-8389-8167-4) sells for $28; $25 for ACRL mem­ bers. ACRL has also introduced a new publica­ tion in its popular College Library Informa­ tion Packets (CLIPS), designed to provide practical ideas for managing libraries’ pro­ grams and services. T ravel, S a b b a t ic a l, a n d Study L e a v e P olicies in C ollege Libraries, CLIP Note #30 (ISBN 0-8389-8164-X), compiled by Carolyn Gaskell and Allen S. Morrill, is designed to help keep librarians up-to-date with library policies and practices and to keep them current with new trends and technological changes. The volume includes examples of writ­ ten polices at college libraries, covering travel and reimbursement policies, grants of sabbaticals, and leaves of absence or study leave policies. The cost is $23; $21 for ACRL members. Publications may be ordered from ALA, P.O. Box 932501, Atlanta, GA; 31193-2501. Phone: (866) 746-7252 (866-Shop ALA); fax: (770) 442-9742. An order form is also avail­ able online at http://www.ala.org/acrl/ pubsform.html. Texas A&M University Libraries and ARL receive NSF grant A collaborative proposal from the Association of Research Li­ braries (ARL) and the Texas A&M University Libraries for assessing service quality in digital libraries has been approved for funding by the National Science Foun­ dation (NSF). The project, “De­ veloping a National Science Digi­ tal Library (NSDL) LibQUAL+ Protocol” is an outgrowth of the LIBQUAL+ project, which was undertaken by ARL and Texas A&M to measure library service quality across institutions. http://www.ala.org/acrl/ C&RL N ew s ■ Feb ruary 2002 / 93 Under the grant, ARL and Texas A&M will receive funding for a three-year period to adapt the LibQual+ instrument for use in the Science, Math, Engineering and Technology Education Digital Library community. The goals of the project are to define the dimen­ sions o f digital library service quality from the users’ perspectives, develop a tool for mea­ suring user perceptions and expectations of digital library service quality across NSDL digi­ tal library contexts, and identify digital library best practices that permit generalizations across operations and development platforms. More information about LibQUAL+ can be found on the Web at http://www.arl.org/libqual. Th aw C o n servatio n C en ter open s at M organ Lib rary The Thaw Conservation Center, a world-class laboratory for the conservation o f works on paper and a place for conservation studies, is scheduled to open this month at New York’s Morgan Library. The Thaw Center occupies the entire 5,6000-square-foot fourth floor of the historic Morgan House and more than doubles the size of the previous conserva­ tion facilities. The facility, designed by New York-based Samuel Anderson Architect, in­ cludes designated areas for wet and dry con­ servation work, matting and framing, ad­ vanced seminars, graduate internships and postgraduate fellowships. The center was funded through a $10 mil­ lion gift to the Morgan Library from the Eu­ gene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust to support conservation activities at the insti­ tution. Margaret Holben Ellis, professor of conservation at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, has been appointed director o f the Shaw Conservation Center. UC lib rarie s expan d in te rlib ra ry loan service Through a partnership between the California Digital Library and Fretwell-Downing, Inc., a standards-based digital library company, the University of California libraries are expanding their interlibrary-loan service. The system ex­ pansion, which is expected to be concluded by mid-2002, will allow researchers and stu­ dents to easily request materials from any other campus, check the status o f the request for print materials and, receive items via online desktop delivery. The new software also in­ cludes complete integration of all ILL work flow processing. 2002 ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute Academic libraries exist in a constantly changing environment with many new chal­ lenges and many available opportunities. New demands on academic libraries call for fundamental shifts in leadership know-how. In response to these challenges, ACRL and the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education are collaborating to offer the ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute in Cambridge, Massa­ chusetts, August 4-9, 2002. L e a r n a m o n g t h e l e a d e r s a n d tre n d se tte rs in acad em ic lib ra ry ad m in ­ istra tio n . The institute is designed for di­ rectors o f libraries and individuals in posi­ tions such as associate university librarian, assistant dean, vice president o f informa­ tion resources, university librarian, and col­ lege librarian, or individuals involved in de­ cision-making that affects the entire library operation or other important relationships on campus. In cre a se y o u r ca p a city to lead and m anage. Find out if your organization is well- positioned to meet current and future chal­ lenges while Harvard Institutes for Higher Education faculty address issues such as: • leadership; • organizational strategy; • transform ational learning; and • planning. D o n ’t m i s s t h i s e x c i t i n g e d u c a ­ t i o n a l o p p o r t u n i t y ! T h e 2 002 ACRL/ Harvard Leadership Institute will b e held in Cambridge, M assachusetts, August 4- 9, 2002. Registration materials and details are online at www.gse.harvard.edu/~ppe/. (U nd er program s, “H igher E d u catio n ,” then scroll down to ACRL Leadership In ­ stitute.) Questions? Contact acrl@ala.org. http://www.arl.org/libqual http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~ppe/ mailto:acrl@ala.org 94 / C&RL News ■ Feb ruary 2002 Using new open URL technology, the ex­ tended services can include materials found in commercially produced article databases licensed by the California Digital Library, en­ abling UC scholars, students, and staff to ini­ tiate requests directly from commercial data­ base search result screens. Ovid adds K lu w e r‘s jo u rn als Ovid Technologies has made more than 700 Kluwer journals available through its search software. The Kluwer Collection provides di­ rect bibliographic and PDF access to titles in a broad range of subject areas, including engi­ neering, medicine, psychology and social sci­ ence, agriculture, chemistry and pharmaceuti­ cals, religion and philosophy, and linguistics, among others. The journals are linked from both Ovid and SilverPlatter databases and can be purchased on an individual title basis or in subject-specific packages. Tarlton Law Lib rary introduces m illio n th book A rare English dictionary was recently introduced at the University of Texas at Austin as the mil­ lionth volume at the Tarlton Law Library of the Jamail Center o f Legal Research. John Rastell’s The E xpositions o f (the) Termys o f (the) L α w o E n g lan d is a unique volume of one of the first English dictionaries ever published. The acqui­ sition of this volume was made possible through a donation from Joseph D. Jamail. f The library also formally introduced the mil- lio n -an d -first volu m e into its co lle c tio n V ocabularius Utriusque Juris, a Roman law dic­ tionary, the oldest book in Tarlton’s rare book collection. 2000 ACRL statistics at your fin g ertips ACRL’s 2 0 0 0 A c a d e m ic L ibrary Trends a n d Statistics is now online. This database o f information from 1,678 academ ic libraries in all Carnegie clas­ s if ic a t i o n s a llo w s users to search and display data accord­ ing to their needs. The core set o f data consists o f four ma­ jor categories: col- ; l e c t i o n s ( m o n o - : g r a p h ic v o lu m e s , ; serials and m icro- i forms, etc.), e xp e n ­ ditures (library materials, electronic serials, com puter hardware and softw are, salaries and w ages, e tc.), library operations (hours of operation, staff, ILL, reference, etc.), and local characteristics or attributes (e n ro ll­ ment, institutional budget, etc.). Also in­ cluded is data on institutions’ activities in pro­ viding library services for distance learning. To purchase, go to http://acrl.telusys.net/ trendstat/2000/‚ ■ Swets Blackwell Study Grant sponsors WESS Martinus Nijhoff Swets Blackwell, which acquired Martinus Nijhoff International in August 2001 ‚ has an­ nounced that it will sponsor the Martinus Nijhoff International West European Special­ ist Study Grant for the year 2002. The “Nijhoff,” as it has com e to be called, was founded in 1985 and provides for up to 4,500 Euros in support o f research per­ tain in g to W estern E u ro p e a n stu d ies, librarianship, or the book trade. The welcome announcement from Swets Blackwell means that ACRL will b e able to acce p t applications for the 2002 award through May 1. The selection o f the suc­ cessful application will be made by a jury that will meet at the ALA Annual Confer­ ence in Atlanta this summer. Travel sup­ ported by this grant should take place dur­ ing the fall o f 2002. For more information on the Nijhoff ap­ p lica tio n p ro c e s s , p le a s e visit http:// www.ala.org/acrl/nijhoff.html. For an im­ pressive list of published research that has been made possible by the Nijhoff grant s in c e 1 9 8 5 , v is it http://w w w .l ib r a r y . upenn.edu/~lehmann/nijhoff.html. http://acrl.telusys.net/ http://www.ala.org/acrl/nijhoff.html http://www.library