ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries June 1994 /335 Martinez takes top post at ALA Elizabeth Martine2, city librar­ ian o f the Los A ngeles Public Library, has a cce p te d the ap ­ pointm ent as execu tiv e direc­ tor o f the A m erican Library A ssociatio n effectiv e August 15, 1994. T h e ap p o in tm en t r e s u l t e d fr o m a n a t i o n a l s e a r c h co n d u c te d by a 20- m e m b e r s e a r c h co m m itte e , w ith the final d e cis io n m ade by the 12 voting m em b ers o f A L A ’s E x e c u t i v e B o a r d . Hardy Franklin, presiden t o f ALA and d irector o f the District o f Colu m bia P u blic Library, co m ­ m e n t e d : “E l i z a b e t h Martinez’s ex p e rien ce in a d m i n i s t r a t i o n a n d m anagem ent, especially through crises su ch as the Los A ngeles P ublic L ib r a r y h a s e n c o u n ­ tered, will b e valuable as sh e assum es the p o ­ sition o f ch ie f execu tiv e o ffic e r o f o u r 5 6 ,0 0 0 - m e m b e r a s s o c i a t io n . Elizabeth M artinez She is seek in g the ch al­ le n g e o f m oving an institution in new , p ro­ gressive directions. W e be lie v e w e hav e that ch allen g e to o ffer to h e r.” Martinez has b e e n in her cu rrent po sition fo r a lm o st fo u r y ears. B e fo r e that sh e w as co unty librarian o f the O ran ge County P ublic Library ( 1 9 7 9 - 1 9 9 0 ) ; and serv ed as c h ie f o f p u blic serv ices and regional adm inistrator o f the Los A ngeles County Library. A native o f California, Martinez holds a B.A. d egree in Latin Am erican studies from the University o f Cali­ fornia, Los A ngeles, and an MLS from the U ni­ versity o f So uthern California. UnCover Reveal unveiled A table o f co n ten ts alert serv ice, U nC over Re­ veal, has b e e n released b y the U nC over C om ­ pany. A nyon e w h o has cre a te d an U nC over p rofile that inclu des their e-m ail address and fax n u m ber m ay se le ct a list o f jou rnal titles in w hich th ey are interested. W h e n the n e x t is­ su e o f any o f th o se titles is en tered into the U nC over d atab ase, th e table o f co n ten ts is au­ t o m a t i c a l l y e - m a i l e d to them . T h e e-m ail tab le o f contents alert service is free. Articles ordered by reply e ­ m ail w ill b e d eliv ered by fax for a serv ice ch arg e o f $ 8 .5 0 U .S. p lu s co p y rig h t fe e , a n d a fa x s u rc h a rg e o u t s i d e o f t h e U .S . o r Canada. T h e U nC over da­ ta b a s e m ay b e a c c e s s e d th r o u g h th e I n te r n e t by t e l n e t t i n g t o d a t a b a s e . c a r l.o r g o r by d ia l-u p at ( 3 0 3 ) 7 5 6 - 3 6 0 0 ; first-tim e u sers are pro m p ted to cre a te a p rofile w h en they log on. Bradley Univ. digitizes images More than 1 5 ,0 0 0 im ages pertaining to the h is­ tory o f cen tral Illinois are b e in g digitized and co p ie d o n to p h oto CDs im proving the a cce s s to and preserving the im age c o lle c tio n at B rad ­ ley U niversity's C ullom -D avis Library, Peoria, Illinois. T h e Historic Im age D atabase w ill b e in d exed and load ed into a recen tly acq uired K odak PCD J u k e b o x 100. T h e m ultidisc player will allow for e x p a n sio n o f the co lle ctio n up to 6 0 ,0 0 0 im ages and provide random a c c e s s to any im age thou gh co m p u ter w orkstations on cam p u s and eventu ally thro ughout the reg ion o n H e artlan d F re e n e t. P h o to g r a p h ic qu ality e le ctro n ic prints will b e available w ithin two b u siness days to library patrons. Vatican Library to digitize and automate T h e V a tic a n Library, th e P o n tifica l C ath o lic U niversity o f Rio d e Ja n e iro , Brazil, and IBM hav e initiated a p ro ject to e xp an d a cce s s to the library’s co llectio n through the cost-effective use o f tech n o log y . T h e pilot p ro ject has four main co m p o n en ts: to cre a te a digital im age database co n tain in g a sam p le o f full-printed volum es, m anuscripts, and artw orks; to d eterm in e the feasibility o f using n etw orks and o th e r e le c ­ tronic m edia (e .g ., CD -ROM ) to distribute the im ages; to co nv ert the library’s p re -1 9 8 5 c a ta ­ log o f nearly tw o m illion card s into an e le c ­ tronic d atab ase; and to ex p lo re the related is­ s u e s o f u s a b ility , p r o te c tio n o f d is trib u te d im ages, and co st and perm issions m anagem ent. “T h e ex cite m e n t o f this p ro ject lies in the pos- Hews fro m the Field M ary Ellen Davis 3 3 6 /C&RL News The Vatican Library announ ced plans to digitize its collections and autom ate its services. sibility of having a volume only available at the Vatican Library made accessible electroni­ cally on scholars’ workstations in a university or classroom thousands of miles away,” said the Prefect of the Vatican Library. The Vatican Library, founded in the mid- 1400s by Pope Nicholas V, is a repository for many rare materials. The collection includes a lavish manuscript of Ptolmey’s Geography, an illustrated copy of Dante’s Divine Comedy, and the four oldest surviving manuscripts of Virgil’s poems. The library houses over 150,000 manu­ scripts and over one million printed books, in­ cluding 8,000 books published during the first 50 years of the printing press. It also holds col­ lections of drawings, prints, and coins. ACRL and CNI identify use of netw orks in teaching ACRL is cosponsoring, with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Working Group on Teaching and Learning, a project that calls for the identification of examples of network use to support undergraduate teaching and learning. The example programs will be de­ scribed at an invited conference at Estrella Mountain Community College Center in Phoe­ nix, Arizona, July 31-August 1, 1994. Barbara A. MacAdam, who chairs the Bibliographic In­ struction Section’s Emerging Technologies in Instruction Committee, is coordinating ACRL's contribution to the project. SUNY applies educational technology T h e S tate U niv ersity o f New Y o r k ’s (SUNY) Office of Education Technology is sup­ porting three projects: a data­ base-sharing project, a full-text delivery project using Ariel, and a study of ownership/access is­ sues for high-cost-journals as part o f its mission to promote library technology and electronic infor­ m ation sharing both within SUNY and with other national and international databases. 1) Nine SUNY campuses will ex­ amine online databases over SUNYNet to evaluate the use of new software products and ex­ amine the computing, network­ ing, service, financial, and policy issues associated with this form of resource sharing. P roject co n ­ tact-. Cerise Oberman, chair of ouncil of Library Directors. 2) A f five SUNY campuses will acquire ent Ariel software to evaluate high­ ment delivery over the Internet. ill include in-depth analysis of the ic, technical, and policy consider­ ed in the implementation and pos­ ion to more campuses. P roject c o n ­ ra D. Farah, SUNY College at Four University Center libraries ate on a detailed economic analy­ ices facing libraries of subscribing journals, relying on electronic ac­ e combination of print and elec­ ct contact: Meredith Butler, SUNY r ideas at ACRL’s 7th onference time to share your ideas with your ia a paper, panel program, or poster CRL’s 7th National Conference, ril 1, 1995, in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl­ ugh intents to submit were re­ May 1, 1994, we would be happy our paper or panel program pro­ y 1, 1994, even if you missed the ine. ted p ap ers: Submit by July 1, 1994, proposal form (found in the Janu­ RL News insert), a 200-word ab­ your completed paper to Marion or of Library Services, California sity-San Marcos, San Marcos, CA If you have questions contact Reid -mail: marion_reid@csusm.edu. the SUNY C consortium o and implem speed docu Evaluation w programmat ations involv sible expans tact: Barba Geneseo. 3) will collabor sis of the cho to scholarly cess or som tronic. Proje at Albany. Share you National C There’s still colleagues v session at A March 29-Ap vania. Altho quested by to receive y posal by Jul intent deadl C ontribu a completed ary 1994 C& stract, and Reid, Direct State Univer 92096-0001. by mail or e mailto:marion_reid@csusm.edu Ju n e 1 9 9 4 /3 3 7 Networked information The theme for the spring meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) was “Advances in Networked Information Technologies.” Your ACRL representatives (Tom Kirk and Noreen Alldredge) attended many of the sessions. Developments of most interest to ACRL members include: • The $26 million currently available through the Department of Commerce’s Tele­ communications and Information Infrastruc­ ture Assistance Program. Goals of the pro­ gram, which provides matching funds, are to: 1) promote the development of the national information infrastructure for the public sec­ tor; and 2) enhance the delivery of services by nonprofit organizations; • A telecommunications exchange estab­ lished by New York governor Mario Cuomo to strengthen New York’s economic position and enhance the quality of life of the state’s citizens by working towards a network of net­ works (a mesh topography) with a backbone capable of gigabyte transfer and peer-to-peer relationships; • Continuing considerations of intellec­ technologies: CNI report tations on: a client server application at Case Western Reserve University, which is designed to maintain and manage security, copyright, royalty, and permission provisions; an elec­ tronic credit system developed at Carnegie Mellon University, which provides billing ser­ vices; work between the Corporation for Na­ tional Research Initiatives and the Library of Congress Copyright Office on registration of digital work over the network; and research on linking digital libraries o f technical re­ ports. Additional details on these and other rel­ evant presentations are available on the coalition’s Internet server which is accessible by ftp, gopher, and NCSA Mosaic. Via ftp: URL:ftp://ftp.cni.org/CN I/tf. meetings/1994a. spring/agenda. txt. Via Gopher: URL:gopher://gopher.cni.org: 70/0/cniftp/tfmeets/1994a. spring/agenda, txt. ACRL members are encouraged to use the server to review handouts from the sessions and discussion documents as well as photos taken at the meeting with a digital camera.— N oreen Alldredge, C aliforn ia State University, tual property management included presen­ H ay w ard ■ P a n el sessions: Submit by July 1,1994, a com­ pleted proposal form (found in the January 1994 C&RL News insert) and a 200-word abstract to Sarah W atstein, Assistant Director for Academic Ser­ v ice s, V irginia Com m onw ealth U niversity Li­ brary, Richmond, VA 23824-2033. If you have q u es­ tions contact Wat­ stein by mail or e- mail: swatstein@ ruby.vcu.edu. Poster sessions: Submit by No­ vember 1, 1994, a completed proposal form (found in the January 1994 C&RL News insert) to Sandy Ready, Mankato State University, Me­ morial Library, MSU B ox 19, Mankato, MN 56002-8400. If you have questions contact Tom Peischl at (906) 227-2117; e-mail: tpeischl@nmu. edu. You can direct any general questions to Mary Ellen Davis at ACRL headquarters by hone (800) 545-2433, ext. 2511, or e-mail: ary.ellen.davis@ala.org. ittsburgh offers prizes in big prizes! Visit the Pittsburgh Convention Visitor’s Bureau and ACRL booths in the Ex­ bits Hall at the ALA Annual Conference in iami Beach. Several drawings for hotel room ghts, dinners, lunches, tours, and Pittsburgh velties will be held throughout the exhibit urs. Stop by and drop off your business card complete a drawing entry form; you do not ed to be present to win. Be the first to own an ACRL 7th National onference t-shirt! Shirts will be on sale at the CRL booth and the ALA Store. Make your plans now to attend the ACRL h National Conference in Pittsburgh, March -April 1, 1995. ■ p m P W & hi M ni no ho or ne C A 7t 29 ftp://ftp.cni.org/CNI/tf gopher://gopher.cni.org mailto:mary.ellen.davis@ala.org