ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL N ew s ■ A p r il 2000 / 269 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l d Mar y El l e n Dav i s Innovative Interfaces and netLibrary establish alliance Innovative Interfaces and netLibrary an nounced an alliance to integrate the use of eBooks with Innovative’s automated library systems (INNOPAC and Millennium). Under the agreement, Innovative will develop ad ditional features to enable its software to automatically notify interested libraries o f the availability of specific netLibrary eBooks, and to enable libraries to purchase eBooks elec tronically. Full MARC records for netLibrary eBooks may also be loaded into the library catalog with access to the eBook. Preview access (such as the ability to view the table o f contents, the first few chapters, etc.) may also be provided. Regents College team s w ith Johns Hopkins to create virtual library Regents College and the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University have joined forces to create the Regents College Virtual Library (RCVL). At the heart o f the new library services available to Regents students are electronic reference materials, reference librarian ser vices via e-mail or toll-free phone, online bibliographic databases, Web-based general and discipline-specific reading rooms. Spe cial services, such as home delivery o f print- based materials and personalized research services, are available on a per-use fee ba sis. Because Regent students so value the flex ibility o f their degree programs, making li brary services available at any time, from virtually any place, “is one o f the most im portant and exciting benefits that w e have been able to offer our students,” said C. Wayne Williams, president o f Regents Col lege. “RCVL will operate as an auxiliary enter prise, providing Johns Hopkins with valu able experience in delivering electronic col lections and services to students participat ing in the innovative, distance-learning degree programs at Regents College,” said James G. Neal, dean o f university libraries and Sheridan director at Johns Hopkins Univer sity. “This collaboration will serve as a model for quality academic support service through technology while preserving personal touch and professional oversight.” Regents College (www.regents.edu) is a degree-granting institution designed for adults who choose to complete their college de grees in a self-paced, portable manner. A pri vate institution, Regents has pioneered in dis tance learning, since its founding in 1971. U niversity at Albany campaign tops $3 m illion goal Thanks to the generosity o f more than 3,000 donors and to a $500,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation, the University at Al bany, SUNY, has raised $3.8 million in pri vate funds to help equip its libraries as state- of-the-art interchanges on the information superhighway. Launched in April 1998, the campaign for the libraries sought to raise $3 million by the end of 1999 and thereby earn a $500,000 Kresge challenge grant. At the end o f 1999, donors had given $3,302,291, which with the Kresge grant raised the final total to $3,802,291. The library project was the result o f a pri vate-public partnership. New York State pro- Kappa Waugh http://www.regents.edu 27 0 / C&RL N ews ■ A p ril 2000 RBMS attends antiquarian book fair Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) members in Southern California staffed a booth at the 33rd California International Antiquarian Book Fair, Feb ruary 11-13. Over the space o f three days, collectors and librarians came to the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel to admire, and often to purchase, the rare books, manuscripts, maps, prints, and other valuable and un usual materials displayed by 182 members o f the An tiquarian Booksellers Asso ciation o f America (ABAA). Thanks to the generos ity of ABAA and its South ern California chapter, RBMS members were given the opportunity to meet many of the bib liophiles who were in attendance and to introduce them to RBMS, ACRL, and the world of special collections librarianship and scholarship in the history o f the book. ABAA’s gift o f space at its fairs is part of an ongoing partnership between RBMS and ABAA. The two groups are committed to explor ing other joint ventures with the goal o f height ening public awareness and disseminating infor mation about the anti quarian book world and book collecting. RBMS plans to sponsor more booths at ABAA’s na tional book fairs, and booth organizers will be recruiting members to represent the section in these venues. RBMS received an ACRL Initiative Fund Award to support ex penses relating to the booth.— Laura Stalker, H u n tin g to n Library, e-m a il: lstalker@huntington.org Ready to greet visitors to the 33rd California International Antiquarian Book Fair are (I to r) M ichael Thompson, ABAA; Hugh Tolford, bookfair organizer; Bill Brown, ACRL Board; and Eric Holzenberg, chair, RBMS. vided $26.6 million to construct and equip a new library housing science collections, spe cial collections and archives, and the university’s Center for Excellence in Teach ing and Learning. The campaign sought $3.5 million in private support to fully update and coordinate the new building with the Uni versity at Albany’s other two libraries. Expand your know ledge base with ACRL preconferences Keep up with the rapid changes in academic librarianship by attending an ACRL precon ference at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago on July 7. Choose from workshops on licensing, advocacy, instruction, technol ogy, and rare books. Details may be found at http://www.ala.org/acrl/confhp.html. Navy Department Library celebrates 200th birthday The Navy Department Library took the occa sion o f its 200th anniversary in March 2000 to review its history. Established just three weeks before the Library o f Congress, the library traces its roots to a March 31, 1800, letter from President John Adams to Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert directing him to establish a library that would contain “… the best writing… on the theory and practice of naval architecture, navigation, gunnery … ” From unique signal books, including Tho mas Truxtun’s personal copy o f Instructions, Signals and Explanations … (1797), to scrap books, like the 1936 “FDR Trip Aboard the USS Indianapolis, the library’s holdings pro vide an eclectic array o f historical material documenting the country’s naval heritage. Located in the Washington Navy Yard in Wash ington, D.C., the library is open to the public (http://navylibrary.nhc.navy.mil). ■ A news item in the ficatinolariCJanuary issue gave the figure o f 116 institutions participat ing in JSTOR. This figure included only those institutions outside o f the U.S. As of March 2, total institutions participat ing in JSTOR are 543 U.S. and 125 inter national (overseas) for a total o f 668. The editors regret the error. mailto:lstalker@huntington.org http://www.ala.org/acrl/confhp http://navylibrary.nhc.navy.mil C&RL N e w s • A p r il 2 0 0 0 / 271