C&RL News March 2018 110 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free Construction begins on new Cornell Fine Arts Library Rand Hall, located on the Ithaca campus of Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, is being transformed over the next 18 months to house the Mui Ho Fine Arts Library (FAL). The FAL will be a state-of-the-art facility with massed stacks of books as its c e n t e r p i e c e , digital resourc- es, and volumi- nous reading and study space. The library will accommo- date 125,000 volumes, in a c o n f i g u r a t i o n forming an in- verted ziggurat of books two stories high with stacks acces- sible by stairs and walkways. Features will include reading carrels with built-in monitors and lockable book storage, public computing stations and a seminar room, and, in the future, a large touchscreen so users can call up digi- tal materials. Mui Ho , an architect and educator retired from the University of California-Berkeley, committed $6 million to the library in 2013. The $21.6 million project received its final approval from the Cornell University Board of Trustees on December 7, 2017, and contrac- tors from Welliver began interior demolition work in Rand Hall on December 19, 2017. Wolfgang Tschapeller is the design architect, and New York City-based STV is the archi- tectural firm of record, with a team led by Harris Feinn. Construction is expected to be completed in June 2019, and the library will open for the subsequent fall semester. Immersion ‘18 registration now open The ACRL Immersion Program is all new for 2018. Immersion ‘18 will take place July 29-August 3, 2018, at the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Immersion ‘18 is an intensive, five-day program de- signed for those who contribute to the edu- cational role of libraries in higher education. The curriculum is built upon four c o r n e r s t o n e s : critical reflective practice, design thinking, leader- ship, and infor- mation literacy. The curriculum will include a range of activi- ties, from key- notes that lay a foundation to group work with o p p o r t u n i t i e s for discussion, hands-on activities, peer-to-peer feedback, and a capstone experience. Registration is now open, and May 4, 2018, is the deadline to register. A limited number of scholarships are available for the program. Full details are on the ACRL website at www.ala.org/acrl /conferences/immersion. CLIR invites applications for 2018 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections Awards The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting appli- cations for 2018 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards. The na- tional competition, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supports digitizing collections of rare and unique content in collecting institutions. Grants of between $50,000 and $250,000 for a single-institution Rendering of the design for the interior of the Cornell Fine Arts Library. http://www.ala.org/acrl /conferences/immersion http://www.ala.org/acrl /conferences/immersion March 2018 111 C&RL News Applying Library Values to Emerging Technology: Decision-Making in the Age of Open Access, Maker Spaces, and the Ever-Changing Library ACRL announces the publication of Apply- ing Library Values to Emerging Technology: Decision-Making in the Age of Open Access, Maker Spaces, and the Ever-Changing Library, edited by Peter D. Fernandez and Kelly Tilton. Applying Library Values to Emerging Technol- ogy is book number 72 in ACRL’s Publications in Librarianship series. This thorough and practical book uses the ALA’s Core Values of Librarianship as the primary reference point, and captures actionable, real-world applica- tions for applying library values to new technologies. Every year, emerging technologies are more deeply integrated into libraries and the lives of the users they serve. These technologies are not simply neutral tools— the y come embedded with their own sets of assumptions and values. As users and creators of technologies, as well as institutions that are part of the fabric of their com- munities, libraries must uphold the values of the profession—values that are often in tension with one another, and with the values embedded in the technology that is available—while effectively meeting the evolving needs of their users. Applying Library Values to Emerging Technology offers a wide range of perspec- tives on how to interpret and apply these values. Authors include academic librarians, public librarians, and professors, and contrib- utors from the Library Freedom Project, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Free Ebook Foundation, Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Tor Project, the Center for Information Policy Research, and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education. Divided into two sections—”Contemplating Library Values” and “Applying Library Val- ues”—this collection serves as a starting point for librarians encountering similar issues, even if the specific technology or set of values may differ. The technology that libraries use will inevitably help define the library, its patrons, and, through them, the world. Many of the is- sues raised here do not have easy answers. Val- ues are meant to endure the test of time but must interact appropriately with the immediate chal- lenge, the larger society, and the reality of the technological options available. Libraries must actively engage with the implications of their values, informed by their particular context. Ap- plying Library Values to Emerging Technol- ogy will help all librar- ians develop a more nuanced understanding of both the technology and the profession’s values, and help ensure that our values are realized in our decisions. Applying Library Values to Emerging Technology: Decision-Making in the Age of Open Access, Maker Spaces, and the Ever- Changing Library is available for purchase in print and as an ebook through the ALA Online Store; in print through Amazon.com; and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the United States or (770) 442-8633 for international customers C&RL News March 2018 112 Value of Academic Libraries Travel Scholarship recipients ACRL is pleased to announce the first recipi- ents of its Value of Academic Libraries Travel Scholarships in 2018. These scholarships of up to $2,000 each support librarians present- ing on their work demonstrating the impact of academic libraries in the broader landscape of higher education. The selection commit- tee chose six proposals in this round of applications. They are: Sara Arnold-Garza (Tow- son University) for a pre- sentation titled “Research as Inquiry, or, How to Win Librarian Friends and In- f luence Students” at the American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference. Elisandro Cabada (Uni- versity of Minnesota) for a poster presentation titled “A Survey of Infor- mation Professionals on the Preparedness of STEM Graduates Entering the Workforce” at the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science. Britt Foster and Dave Tyckoson (California State University-Fresno) for a presentation titled “Taking a Deeper Dive: Using Capstone Papers for Richer Information Literacy Assess- ment” at the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior College and University Commission Academic Resource Conference. Kathleen Kasten (Stony Brook University) for a roundtable presentation titled “The In- tellectual Landscape in the Library: Speaker Events as a Tool for Academic Engagement” at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Sarivette Ortiz-Sanchez (Ana G. Mendez University) for a presentation titled “The Role of Academic Libraries in Support of Cultural Diversity and In- clusion in Education” at the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Michelle Reed (Univer- sity of Texas-Arlington) for a presentation titled “Beyond Open Connections: Lever- aging Information Literacy to Increase Impact of Open Education” at the Open Education Global Conference. These travel scholarships take up a recom- mendation from the ACRL report “Academic Library Impact: Improving Practice and Essen- tial Areas to Research” (prepared by OCLC Re- search and released in September 2017) that academic librarians effectively communicate their contributions both up to institutional stakeholders and out to other departments. Future rounds of scholarships are expected to be announced in summer 2018. project, or between $50,000 and $500,000 for a collaborative project, may be sought for projects beginning between January 1 and June 1, 2019. The initial proposal round is open, and proposals are due by April 3, 2018. The final proposal round is by invitation. Only those applicants whose initial proposals have been approved by the program’s review panel will be able to submit a final proposal. Information for ap- plicants, including a link to the online ap- plication form, is available at www.clir.org /hiddencollections/applicant-resources/. Wayne State University Library System joins Greater Western Library Alliance The Wayne State University Library System (WSULS) has been granted admission to the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA). The GWLA membership approved this ac- tion through a ballot proposal conducted in December 2017. WSULS consists of the http://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/applicant-resources/ http://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/applicant-resources/ March 2018 113 C&RL News university’s five libraries: the David Ada- many Undergraduate Library, the Arthur Neef Law Library, the Purdy/Kresge Li- brary, the Vera P. Shiffman Medical Library, and the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, as well as the School of Information Sciences. WSULS also hosts operations for the Detroit Area Library Net- work, a consortium of 19 academic, pub- lic, school, and special libraries. GWLA is a consortium of research libraries headquartered in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Its member institutions are predominantly in the central and western United States. With the addition of WSULS, GWLA comprises 38 member institutions. 2018 Legislative Day Travel Scholarship recipients announced ACRL’s Government Relations Commit- tee is pleased to announce that five ACRL members have been selected to receive travel scholarships to attend National Library Legislative Day (NLLD) in Wash- ington, D.C., May 7-8, 2018, for the first time. The recipients are Mohamed Berray (Florida State University), Sonya M. Dur- ney (University of New England), Annah Hackett (Grand View University), Virginia Moran (Macalester College), and Cara B. Stone (Iowa State University). During NLLD, librarians, library staff, and library supporters from around the country converge on Capitol Hill to meet with their federal representatives to advocate for the support of libraries and library-friendly legislation. More informa- tion on NLDD is available at www.ala.org /advocacy/advleg/nlld. Five librarians selected as 2018 IFLA/ OCLC Fellows OCLC, along with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), has named five librarians selected to partici- pate in the Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for 2018. The program supports library and informa- tion science professionals from countries with developing economies, focusing on a broad range of issues in information technologies, li- brary operations, and global cooperative librar- ianship. With the selection of the five fellows for the class of 2018, the program will have welcomed 90 librarians and information sci- ence professionals from 40 different countries. The 2018 IFLA/OCLC Fellows are Alehegn Adane Kinde (University of Gondar, Ethiopia), Arnold Mwanzu (International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya), Irina Livia Niţu (National Library of Romania), Chantelle Richardson (National Library of Jamaica), and Chandra Pratama Setiawan (Petra Christian University, Indonesia). Read more about the IFLA/OCLC Fellowship Program on the OCLC Next blog at www.oclc.org/blog/main/inspiring -breakthroughs-in-librarianship-worldwide. Tech Bits . . . Brought to you by the ACRL ULS Technology in University Libraries Committee Quizizz is an online platform for mul- tiple-choice quizzes. After setting up a free account, you can select from among publically shared quizzes or create your own. Add images and text to questions, along with up to four response options. 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