C&RL News July/August 2015 358 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free Jacques, Free Man of Color passport, 95-28-L, Williams Research Center, The Historic New Orleans Collection. Free people of color had to carry such documentation as evidence of their free status. Digital project offers access to the history of Free People of Color in Louisiana The award-winning 2013 movie 12 Years a Slave, which told the story of Solomon Northrup—a free man of color from New York who was sold into slavery in Louisi- ana—brought unprecedented attention to the history of free people of color in the United States. It is somewhat ironic that Northrup ended up in Louisiana, as it had one of the largest and most significant populations of free people of color. Free people of col- or were individuals of African descent who lived in colonial and antebellum America and were born free or had escaped the bonds of enslavement before slavery was abolished in 1865. By 1810, free people of color com- posed 29 percent of New Orleans’s popula- tion, a demographic u n m a t c h e d b y a n y other U.S. city or territory. Baton Rouge, St. Landry Parish, and the Cane River area near Natchitoches, Louisiana, also had significant numbers of free people of color. Inhabiting the space between slavery and freedom made their ambiguous and incongruent status one of the most talked about “problems” of the first half of the 19th century, yet their history has understandably been largely overshad- owed by the harsh story of slavery in America. Those interested in exploring the history of this group can now do so in a recently released, free online resource, “Free People of Color in Louisiana: Revealing an Un- known Past.” The collaborative digital project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities brings together and provides access to more than 30,000 pages of family and personal papers, business records, and public documents from the Louisiana State University Libraries’ Special Collections, the Louisiana State Mu- seum Historical Center, the Historic New Or- leans Collection, Tulane University’s Louisiana Research Collection, and New Orleans Pub- lic Library. The col- lection is freely avail- able at www.lib.lsu.edu /special/fpoc/. DePaul University Library joins FDLP as digital-only depository The DePaul University Library has joined the Federal Depository Li- brary Program (FDLP) as one of the first digital-only deposito- ries, a designation that will allow the library to design and deliver government infor- mation services focused on digital content published by the federal government. Tak- ing advantage of the digital-only designation available to FDLP libraries since Fall 2014, DePaul will be able to more easily provide seamless access to government informa- tion sources critical to academic programs housed on its two campuses in Chicago, as well as its suburban locations and online programs. An official launch for the digital depository program is scheduled for later this year. More information on the designa- July/August 2015 359 C&RL News Wendi Arant Kaspar appointed C&RL editor ACRL announces the appointment of Wendi Arant Kaspar to the post of edi- tor for College & Research Libraries (C&RL). Kaspar will serve a three-year term beginning July 1, 2016. “Wendi br ings a wealth of edito- r i a l a n d s c h o l a r l y c o m m u n i c a t i o n experience to the C&RL editorship,” said ACRL President Karen A. Williams of the University of Arizona. “Having previously served as coeditor of two respected LIS journals, she will contin- ue to lead ACRL’s f lagship journal into the future, following in the tradition of innovation and exper imentation exemplified by outgoing editor Scott Walter and his predecessors. I’m look- ing forward to watching the ongoing evolution of the journal under Wendi’s leadership.” Kaspar will ser ve as editor desig- nate from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016, when she will assume full editor ial responsibility. In the position of editor, Kaspar will also serve as chair of the C&RL Editorial Board. She succeeds Scott Walter, univer sity librar ian at DePaul University in Chicago, as C&RL editor. Walter will work closely with Kaspar over the next year to ensure a smooth transition. “I’ve have watched C&RL’s evolu- tion with interest, par ticularly as it provides a leadership model for open access and considers the opportunities that technology and new media bring to scholarly publishing,” Kaspar said. “I am ex- cited at the prospect of being a part of this effort, contributing to the innovative voice of ACRL, and framing quality scholarship and best practices in academic librarianship.” “Kaspar’s experience and energy will be a great asset in sustaining the momen- tum and reputation that C&RL has built as the premier open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal for academic and research librarianship,” added Priscilla Finley, chair of the ACRL Publications Coordinating Committee. Kaspar currently serves as policy sci- ences librarian at the Texas A&M University Policy Sciences and Economics Library, where her duties include working as liaison librarian and subject selector to the Depart- ments of Economics and Political Science, as well as the Bush School of Government in- cluding International Affairs and Homeland Security. Her extensive publishing experi- ence includes serving as coeditor-in-chief of the Journal of Academic Librarianship (2012–14) and coeditor-in-chief of Library Leadership & Management (2010–12). Published since 1939, C&RL is the open access, online-only scholarly research jour- nal of ACRL. C&RL is freely available online at http://crl.acrl.org. tion of the DePaul University Library as a digital-only depository is available at http:// bit.ly/1BrzuQL. Harry Ransom Center awards research fellowships The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities re- search library and museum at the Univer- sity of Texas (UT)-Austin, has awarded 70 research fellowships for 2015–2016. The fellowships support research projects in the humanities that require substantial on-site use of the Ransom Center’s collections of manuscripts, rare books, fi lm, photography, art, and performing arts materials. The fellowships range from one to three months in duration and provide $3,000 of support per month. Travel stipends and dis- sertation fellowships are also awarded. The stipends are funded by individual donors C&RL News July/August 2015 360 Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts ACRL announces the publication of Teach- ing Information Literacy Threshold Con- cepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians. Edited by Patricia Bravender, Hazel McClure, and Gayle Schaub, Teaching Information Literacy Thresh- old Concepts is an essential re- source for instruction librarians interested in promoting critical thinking and engaged learning. Teaching Information Lit- eracy Threshold Concepts pro- vides instr uction librar ians detailed, ready-to-use, and eas- ily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and be transformed by information literacy threshold concepts. The included les- sons are categorized according to the six information literacy frames identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. This volume offers concrete and specifi c ways of teaching the threshold concepts that are central to the Framework and is suitable for all types of academic and high school libraries, as well as a pedagogical tool for library and information schools. Teaching Information Lit- eracy Threshold Concepts: Les- son Plans for Librarians is available for purchase in print through the ALA Online Store, Amazon.com, or by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the United States or (770) 442-8633 for international customers. and organizations, including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation, the Ameri- can Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, UT-Austin’s Office of Graduate Studies, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, and program in British Studies. A list of recipients is available at www.hrc.utexas.edu/research /fellowships/recipients/2015/. ProQuest to digitize Harper’s Bazaar archive ProQuest is creating the fi rst digital archive of Harper’s Bazaar, spanning 1867 through the current issue. Research outcomes in ar- eas as wide-ranging as fashion, design, art, women’s studies, gender studies, marketing, and business will be improved through on- line access and searching of both text and images from the magazine’s entire run. Available later in 2015 on the ProQuest platform, the Harper’s Bazaar Archive will be cross-searchable along with the Vogue and Women’s Wear Daily archives. Launched in 1867, Harper’s Bazaar was America’s fi rst fashion magazine, home to such style icons as Diana Vreeland, Carmel Snow, and Alexey Brodovitch. Its pages chronicle the evolution of American style and art, featuring pho- tographers such as Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Man Ray, and Patrick Demarchelier, along with artists such as Andy Warhol. The archive will capture every edition cover-to- cover, from the fi rst issue to the present, and preserve the material in its original context in fully searchable, high-resolution images. EBSCO launches Arabic e-book collection EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) re- cently announced the release of the eB- ook Arabic Collection, available via EBSCO eBooks. This Arabic-language collection of e-books is produced specifi cally for librar- ies in Arab League countries and for Arab scholars around the world. The eBook Arabic Collection features more than 1,000 customized, multidisciplinary Arabic titles providing education content in several key academic disciplines. The collection in- cludes content from noteworthy publishers including Dar El-Yazouri, United Nations July/August 2015 361 C&RL News Tech Bits . . . Brought to you by the ACRL ULS Technol- ogy in University Libraries Committee Mindomo is an online mind mapping site. With a free login, you can start with a variety of graphi- cal themes and templates. The templates include a basic mind map, a concept map with many branches, or variations of a tree organization. Mindmodo has an intuitive interface and the free version includes options such as including web links, comments, and icons. You can also upload maps created in other mapping programs. Maps can be shared or kept private. In addition to the free version, Mindomo offers premium accounts, offering options to embed images or attach fi les, the ability to create a larger number of maps, and support for multiple users. Mindomo is a good option for brainstorming with concept maps or presenting information as a mind map. — Britt Fagerheim Utah State University . . . Mindomo www.mindomo.com Publications, Madbouly Library, K- Tab, and others, as well as award- winning authors, including Abbas Mahmoud El Akkad, Fatima Naaot, Mohamed Awad Aidi, and Ibrahim Abdel Qader Mezni. Cornell University ILR School, Catherwood Library celebrate DigitalCommons@ILR’s 10 millionth download The Cornell University ILR School and the Martin P. Catherwood Library recently celebrated the 10 millionth download from the DigitalCommons @ILR project. Founded in 1945 as the New York State School of In- dustrial and Labor Relations, the ILR School today is advancing the world of work through teaching, re- search, and outreach. Launched just over a decade ago, DigitalCommons @ILR provides free online access to more than 21,000 resources for ex- ecutives, managers, workers, and researchers. It serves as a repository not only of scholarship produced by faculty and researchers, but also historic and born-digital materials relevant to the ILR com- munity and workplace researchers and practi- tioners internationally. Covering all aspects of work and the workplace, DigitalCommons@ILR documents are freely available online with no access re- strictions. Researchers from every state in the union and around the world download items on everything from general workplace subjects such as creativity or teamwork to specialized questions such as the transition from disabil- ity to retirement benefi ts. DigitalCommons @ILR is available at http://digitalcommons.ilr. cornell.edu/. Framework for Information Literacy Advisory Board The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education has introduced a new way of thinking and practicing to the academic library community. To support the implemen- tation of the framework, the ACRL Board of Directors has approved the creation of a new ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Advisory Board. These member leaders will work with ACRL Visiting Program Offi cer for Information Literacy Sharon Mader to offer a range of expertise and perspectives that can positively and strategically shape the growth and development of the framework. More in- formation on the advisory board, including the group’s charge and a list of members, is avail- able at http://acrl.ala.org/framework/?page _id=66. Correction The name of the Loyola Marymount Uni- versity William H. Hannon Library was inadvertently misspelled in the article “What’s a nice Jewish book group doing in a Catholic university?” in the June issue. The editors sincerely regret the error.