april05a.indd N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l d Stephanie Orphan Tutorial available from Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), which provides support for institutions to initiate and sus­ tain their electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) programs, is offering a tutorial for graduate students and their faculty advisors. Available for free download as a PDF docu­ ment, the tutorial consists of fi ve lessons designed by Ohio State University (OSU) specifically for NDLTD to help students and faculty understand how to create ETDs using Adobe Acrobat. Adobe Systems supported OSU’s development of the modular training tutorial, which incorporates Acrobat’s acces­ sibility features. The tutorial is available on­ line at etd.vt.edu/etdtutorials/. Science.gov offers alert service Science.gov, the Web portal for federal sci­ ence information, has launched a free alert service that delivers information about cur­ rent science developments weekly. Individ­ uals can set up an account on the Science. gov homepage allowing them to defi ne search terms and topic areas for their alert. Up to 25 relevant results from selected in­ formation sources will be sent to the sub­ scriber’s e­mail account each Monday. More than 1,700 government information resourc­ es and 30 databases on a wide variety of scientific topics are available through the service. Blackwell’s new Online Open service uses “author pays” model to provide online access Blackwell Publishing has announced a new service, Online Open, which offers authors the opportunity to make their articles free­ ly available on the Internet in perpertuity upon payment of a publication fee. Online Open will be on trial through the end of 2006. During this period, authors of accept­ ed articles will have the option to pay a fee of $2,500 to ensure that their article is made freely accessible via the Blackwell Synergy online journal platform. The Online Open articles will also appear in the print edition of journals with an indicator pointing to the free access online. The subscription prices for journals par­ ticipating in the Online Open trial will be adjusted according to the number of author­ pays articles that each journal expects to publish in the following year. Blackwell’s expects that most of the initial journals in the trial will be in biology or medicine, subjects for which there is likely to be funding for the author­pays model. The New NCLIS describes national commission’s plans The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) has released a report, The New NCLIS, to inform the Ameri­ can people that the commission is investi­ gating a number of areas in which recom­ mendations to the President and Congress, as required by law, are needed, according to Commission Chairman Beth Fitzsimmons. The report puts forth the three goals of the commission: to appraise library and infor­ mation services provided to the American people, to strenghten the relevance of li­ braries and information science in the lives of the American people, and to promote research and development for extending and improving library and information ser­ vices for the American people. The report also serves as a general information docu­ ment about the commission’s needs. A copy is available online at www.nclis.gov/about /SpecialReporttNewNCLIS.pdf. COUNTER Vendor Auditing Standards and Procedures available COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Net­ worked Electronic Resources) has devel­ oped a set of auditing standards and proce­ 278C&RL News April 2005 www.nclis.gov/about http:Science.gov http:Science.gov dures and published them on the COUNTER Web site (www.projectcounter.org). The standards were created to facilitate the au­ diting process for COUNTER compliant ven­ dors and to meet the needs of customers for credible usage statistics without placing an undue administrative or financial burden on vendors. An independent audit of all COUN­ TER compliant vendors will be required within 18 months of their achieving compli­ ance and with any release of a COUNTER code of practice. COUNTER is a multiagen­ cy initiative whose objective is to develop a set of internationally accepted, extendible codes of practice that will allow the usage of online information products and services to be measured more consistently. Union and Siena Colleges join ConnectNY Union College and Siena College have joined ConnectNY, a consortium of inde­ pendent college and university libraries, as charter members. Both colleges have activated their ConnectNY union catalogs, powered by Innovative Interfaces INN­ Reach software. The founding members of ConnectNY are Rochester Institute of Tech­ nology, St. Lawrence University, Colgate University, Vassar College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The ConnectNY Coun­ cil has also recently approved the applica­ tions of the United States Military Academy Library at West Point and the Bard College Library. ConnectNY allows library patrons to initiate online, direct­borrowing requests from their respective member library, with requested items delivered within 48 hours. The consortial arrangement substantially increased the number of titles available to member library users and reduces the unit cost of resource sharing among participat­ ing institutions. NYPL images available through digital gallery The New York Public Library (NYPL) has created the NYPL Digital Gallery, a free, online gallery of 275,000 images from the library’s collections. The library expects that in the coming months, the quantity of mate­ rials will grow to exceed 500,000. The initial items in the digital gallery were selected by curators from all divisions of the NYPL’s four research branches. The searchable database includes prints, illuminated manuscripts, photographs, maps, postcards, cigarette cards, menus, posters, and other visual ma­ terials. Representative collections include, Revolutionary War scenes, Civil War pho­ tos, Manhattan pre­war apartments, animal illustrations, Japanese prints, and menus, among others. The NYPL Digital Gallery can be accessed at digitalgallery.nypl.org “Steady! Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930–1931”. Gelatin silver print by Lewis Wickes Hine. From a series of photographic documents of social conditions, 1905–1939. Photography Collec­ tion, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Divi­ sion of Art, Prints, and Photographs, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, The New York Public Library. Used with permission. OCLC off ers Worldcat Collection Analysis service OCLC is offering a new service, Worldcat Collection Analysis, which makes it possible for library staff responsible for collection management to analyze the age and subject content of their collections, compare their collections with those of peer libraries, and compare, as a group, the level of overlap or uniqueness of their collections. The service is now available to any library with its holdings in WorldCat and which subscribes to WorldCat through the OCLC April 2005 279 C&RL News http:digitalgallery.nypl.org http:www.projectcounter.org The 6th ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute: Reframe it! In the February 2005 C&RL News article “Reframing our viewpoint: The 6th ACRL/ Harvard Leadership Institute” by Linda Mas- selink and Kelly Jacobsma, mention was made of the song “Reframe It.” I was asked to share the words of the song with the C&RL News readership and have done so on the following page. The writing of the song was inspired from a hope expressed by Professor Joan Gallos that perhaps one of the musical people in our group might be able to do something creative with the reframing material from one of the Harvard Leadership sessions. She had no sooner said that than the chorus popped into my head. Having been challenged during the sessions to stretch ourselves, I asked the class for volunteers to learn the song to sing to the rest of the group. Not only did several people volunteer, but they were able to help refine the song by working out kinks in the wording, melody, and arrangement. This group, that became The Agents of Change (not the “Change Agents” as previously reported), were Sandy Barstow, Mar y Linn Bergstrom, Jeanne Brown, Charles Forest, Billie Pe- terson-Lugo, Linda Masselink, Jenny Men- delsohn, Beth Tice, and Julia Wentz. Mary Linn Bergstrom also wrote an additional verse to honor our instructors and hosts, which also appears here. The song is available for online listen- ing at ppewebsvr.harvard.edu/ppewww /spotlight/reframe_it.wma.—Kitti Canepi, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, kcanepi@lib.siu.edu FirstSearch Service. Libraries that would like to use the service but do not currently have holdings in WorldCat can load their records into WorldCat at no charge. OCLC can set up a collection analysis project for a library within 24 to 72 hours, depending on the scope of the job. Once the project is set up, collection analysis can be completed online through WorldCat. Birds of North America available online The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a nonprofi t membership institution devoted to the study of birds, has launched the Birds of North America Online (BNA Online), the Web ver­ sion of its 18­volume spring series covering more than 700 species. BNA Online is an interactive research tool that is searchable with linked citations, digital images, and full sound and video. A single site license for an institution gives multiple users simultaneous access to the electronic edition of BNA. Amigos partners with Digital Network Amigos Library Services and the Digital Net­ work (TDN) have agreed to form a partner­ ship to explore the application of datacast­ ing technology to benefit libraries and their patrons. Datacasting enables the movement of large digital files and associated digital support files to multiple locations simulta­ neously, allowing libraries to bring robust digital content from other libraries or insti­ tutions to their patrons and move their own content to other locations. Areas of interest to both Amigos and TDN include archiving and preservation of all types of digital con­ tent, ranging from scanned artwork and ar­ tifacts to digital images and video. Amigos Library Services is dedicated to supporting resource sharing and information technol­ ogy for libraries. Its membership consists of more than 700 libraries and cultural insti­ tutions primarily located in the southwest­ ern United States. TDN is a Dallas­based distributed application network company, launched with funding from Dallas televi­ sions station KERA, North Texas Public Broadcasting, and Pacific Mountain Net­ work to explore datacasting technology. Historic cookbooks online through Michigan State Full­text reproductions of 76 historic Ameri­ can cookbooks are available online through Michigan State University’s (MSU) Web site, “Feeding America: The Historic America Cookbook Project.” MSU libraries partnered with the MSU Museum to create the two­year, grant­funded digitization project. “Feeding 280C&RL News April 2005 Reframe It (Kitti Canepi, © 2004) CHORUS Reframe it, reframe it! How else are you gonna change it? Reframe it, reframe it! Try the Four Frame Leadership way; Reframe it, reframe it! How else are you gonna change it? Reframe it, reframe it! Try the Four Frame Leadership way! When you’re in a complex conundrum, And you aren’t sure just what you should do; Try to think of all the frames you have done, ‘Cause the one you left out may be the one you should use; CHORUS A struct’ral view is kinda like a fact’ry; You analyze and line up all your data; A people view sees us all in the fam’ly; You facilitate, communicate; you are an educator! CHORUS Political sees critters in the foliage; Negotiate terrain and build your pow’r base; Symbolic views says [spoken] “all the world’s a stage;” Use ceremony, ritual, and “baby, keep the faith!” CHORUS [spoken] Everybody now: Reframe it, reframe it! How else are you gonna change it? Reframe it, reframe it! Try the Four Frame Leadership way; Reframe it, reframe it! How else are you gonna change it? Reframe it, reframe it! Try the Four Frame Leadership, Try the Four Frame Leadership, Try the Four Frame Leadership way! Additional verse written by Mary Linn Bergstrom: We’ve become a group of framers in the know, Sara helped us make ourselves at home, Ideas filled our heads from Lisa, Jim and Joe, Maureen, those massive readings, And oh, that swing with Joan! America” includes some of the most signifi ­ cant works in American culinary history, in­ cluding a 1798 printing of Amelia Simmons’ American Cookery, the first published cook­ book by an American author. The site fea­ tures an essay and background material by Jan Longone, a nationally known, culinary historian; biographical sketches of the cook­ book authors; a glossary of historic culinary terms; and multidimensional images of cook­ ing tools and artifacts from the collection of the MSU Museum. The text of each cook­ book has been transcribed and made search­ able. Texts can be viewed in JPG or HTML format and downloaded as PDFs. “Feeding America,” which was profiled in the Febru­ ary 2005, issue of Gourmet, can be accessed at digital.libmsu.edu/projects/cookbooks. Two CQ Press titles added to NC Live CQ Press has announced that two of its fl ag­ ship journals, CQ Researcher and CQ Weekly, have been added to NC Live, a statewide initia­ tive that offers the 8­million plus residents of North Carolina free access to complete articles from more than 10,000 newspapers, journals, magazines, and journals. CQ Researcher pub­ lishes 44 single­subject reports each year, pro­ viding explanations of controversial issues and the pro and con arguments framing public de­ bate, CQ Weekly provides information on U.S. government, commerce, and politics. CQ Press offered NC Live the opportunity to use one­ time funds to secure a prepaid subscription plus perpetual rights to current and archival content. SOLINET played a fundamental role in the purchase of both products. April 2005 281 C&RL News