ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ January 2002 / 5 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l d Maureen Gleason Stephanie Orphan named Web product development specialist for ACRL and editor-in-chief o f C&RL News ACRL is pleased to announce that Stephanie Orphan is the division’s new W eb product development specialist and editor-in-chief of C&RL News. Orphan com es from the Museum o f Broadcast Communications in Chicago, where she held the position o f archives di­ rector for the past two years. Prior to that she was assistant director for information services in the University o f Chicago’s Career & Place­ ment Services. As a librarian, Orphan had the opportu­ nity to work on a number o f Web-develop­ ment projects. She played an integral part in bringing the University o f Chicago’s Alumni Contact Database to the Web and has devel­ oped and coordinated multimedia projects for the Internet and CD-ROM. She also brings to the table significant editorial and writing ex­ perience. Orphan worked in the editorial department o f Encyclopaedia Britannica dur­ ing the initial stages o f its Britannica Online product. She went on to provide editorial, writing, and research services to a mid-sized financial services firm, which she continued to do while working toward a degree in li­ brary and information science. Orphan received her MS in Library and Infor­ mation Science from the University o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a member o f the first cohort o f the LEEP online education program. She also holds an MA in liter­ ary studies from the Uni­ versity of Wisconsin-Mil­ waukee. O CLC o ffe rs to p urch ase n e tLib rary OCLC has offered $10 mil­ The Harry Potter lion to purchase the assets Bowling Green Public Library. The party was sponsored by Western Kentucky University Libraries to promote its Southern Kentucky Festival of Books. o f netLibrary, a leading p r o v id e r o f e B o o k s , eTextbooks, and Internet-based content/col­ lection management services, along with a loan to keep netLibrary going through its bankruptcy proceedings. The $2.4 million loan was approved on Decem ber 3 by bankruptcy judge Donald Cordova, who also allowed the sale to go forward and opened the door to any competitive bids. The next hearing will be on January 11, 2002. According to Ja y Jordan, president and CEO o f OCLC, “this potential alliance with netLibrary would advance our strategic di­ rective to deliver technologies and services that support, extend, and enhance the OCLC membership cooperative. eBooks com ple­ ment[s] our growing e-journal collection and provide[s] exciting new synergies for our cata­ loging, resource sharing, reference, and digi­ tal preservation services.” The OCLC Board o f Trustees has expressed strong support for this move, stressing that 14 o f OCLC’s 16 re­ gional network affiliates have arrangements for libraries in their regions to purchase netLibrary resources. A cadem ic Health Sciences Libraries and O hioLIN K jo in LibQual+ survey The Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) and OhioLINK, a consor­ Premiere Party was held at the Depot Branch of 6 / C&RL News ■ January 2002 tium o f 78 Ohio academic libraries, will join the Association o f Research Libraries (ARL) in the second phase of the LibQual+ project, a survey to be conducted in spring 2002. LibQUAL+ is a large-scale, user-based library service effectiveness tool developed by Texas A&M University in conjunction with ARL. In spring 2002 thousands of higher education stu­ dents and faculty across the United States will receive an e-mail invitation to participate in a Web survey. The survey asks college library patrons to evaluate four dimensions o f their campus library’s service: effect o f service, the library as a “place,” personal control, and ac­ cess to information. For each survey item pa­ trons are asked to identify their “minimum ser­ vice level,” “desired service level,” and “per­ ception of the library’s service performance” on a scale of one to nine. Information on the LibQUAL project is avail­ able at http://www.arl.org/libqual/. U niversity o f A rizo n a to hold conference on o rga n izatio n al ch ange The University o f Arizona Library (UA), ACRL, and the Association o f Research Libraries (ARL) are cosponsoring the conference “Living the Future 4, Collaboratively Speaking,” to be held April 24-27, 2002, in Tucson, Arizona. This in­ ternational conference focuses on how librar­ ies can be effective, creative, and user focused. The first day will be devoted to develop­ ments at the UA Library since the last confer­ ence, held in 2000. On the second day, other creative organizational initiatives will be shared by invitees from a wide range o f libraries, in­ cluding Emory University, University of Ne­ vada-Las Vegas, Brown University, George Washington University, University o f Connecti­ cut, and the University of Virginia. On April 27, participants will tour the UA Library, focusing on the special challenges in serving customers in a digital world, espe­ cially on staffing new spaces to support learn­ ing technologies, partnering with campus units, developing consortia, recruiting, and training for skills to serve the new generation o f customers. On April 24, the following preconference workshops will be offered: Library Project Plan­ ning, Advanced Facilitation Skills, Conducting User Surveys in Academic Libraries, and Con­ structive Dialogue. For more information about the conference, including registration and hotel accommoda­ tions, visit the Web site at http://www.library. arizona.edu/conference/. G ift to su p p ort n ew science lib rary at Princeton Peter B. Lewis, a member o f the Princeton class o f 1955 and a trustee o f the university, is mak­ ing a gift of $60 million to support the con­ struction and the programs o f a new science library at Princeton that will be designed by the internationally acclaimed architect Frank Gehry. Gehry is the designer of the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, and his current work includes several academic buildings. “This is a very significant project for Princeton in two respects,” said President Shirley M. Tilghman. “It allows us to create library space for the sciences that is designed to meet the needs of the 21st century, and it allows us to bring to our campus the work of one o f the most original and distinctive archi­ tects o f our time.” The new science library is expected to serve researchers working on projects that cross scien­ tific fields, provide services and facilities that take into account the revolutionary changes in scholarly publishing over recent years, and meet the needs of students far better than the current patchwork of small dis­ cipline-specific libraries, where seating tends to be tight and tucked away in corners. IM LS issues tw o D igital Lib rary Forum reports The Institute of Museum and Li­ brary Services (IMLS) has issued two reports based on discussions http://www.arl.org/libqual/ http://www.library C&RL News ■ January 2002 / 7 at the IMLS Digital Library Forum held in spring 2001. T he “Report o f the IMLS Digi­ tal Library Forum on the National S cien ce Digital Library Program ,” produced jointly with representatives o f the National Sci­ en c e F o u n d atio n ’s (N SF) S cie n c e , Math, E n g in eerin g and T e c h n o lo g y E d u cation digital library p ro je c t, recom m en d s that funding be provided for previously com ­ pleted IMLS-funded digitization projects. T h ese p rojects take steps to map metadata elem ents to the NSDL set, upgrade systems to support the O p en A rchives Metadata Harvesting P rotocol, and upgrade ob jects and m etadata in order to m eet appropriate standards. T he full report may b e view ed at http://www.imls.gov/pubs/natscidiglibrary. htm. T h e sec o n d rep ort “A Fram ew ork o f G u idance for Building G ood Digital C ol­ le ctio n s,” identifies c o re principles and re ­ lated information resources for the creation o f high-quality digital collectio n s, o b jects, m etadata, and projects. It is intend ed as a resou rce for grant applicants as w ell as for IMLS and other funding agencies. It is avail­ a b l e a t h ttp :/ / w w w .im ls .g o v / p u b s / forum fram ew ork.htm . IMLS invites com m ents on both reports from the professional community interested in the creation, m anagem ent, and p reser­ vation of digital information resources. U niversity o f P ittsb u rgh Chinese docum en t d e liv e ry service continues The East Asian Library at the University o f Pittsburgh announces the continuation o f its successful Chinese docum ent delivery ser­ vice into its fourth year. Originally funded by the National Leadership Grant (awarded by the Institute o f Library and Museum Ser­ vices), the center has served scholars and library patrons across the country by deliv­ ering full-text journal publications directly from collections and libraries in China dur­ ing the past three years. The gateway service has won immensely positive responses from its users and proven to b e a valuable service critical to the research o f many scholars o f Chinese studies. The East Asian Library welcomes the use of its service. Requests may be sent to the center using the onlin e requ est form at http:// www.library.pitt.edu/gateway/request.htm. Feedback is also appreciated and may be sub­ mitted on the form at http://www.library. pitt.edu/gateway/feedback.htm. N ew t itle s p u b lish e d b y A C R L When C han ge Is Set in Stone: An Analysis o f Seven A ca d em ic L ibraries D esigned by Perry D ean Rogers, Architects, by Michael J. Crosbie and D am on D. Hickey, is an appraisal o f the designs o f seven academic libraries from the perspective o f an architectural critic and an academic librarian. T h e b o o k o p e n s with a d iscu ssion o f nine factors affecting c o n stru c tio n o f a c a ­ dem ic libraries iden­ tified by the academ ic lib r a r ia n , in c lu d in g such item s as the im­ p a c t o f te c h n o lo g y , b u d g e t c o n s tr a in ts , and how the library relates to the parent institution. T h e com m entary then look s at seven individual designs and how su ccess­ ful they have b e e n in m eeting th ese nine factors. This is a lavishly illustrated b ook, with interior and exterior pictures o f the libraries and selec ted floor plans. When C hange is Set in Stone (ISBN 0-8389- 8136-4) sells for $54. A Core Collection in Dance, edited by Mary E. Edsall, is a bibliography of selected print and nonprint materials, including new media, about dance that are recommended for inclu­ sion in libraries that sup­ port undergraduate cur­ ricula and/or a significant dance community. All form s and styles o f d a n c e a re r e p r e ­ sen ted as w ell as all geog rap hic areas. The b o o k is in ten d ed for dance educators and li­ b ra ria n s to u se as a to o l f o r d e v e lo p in g and expan ding existing collectio n s, build­ ing collectio n s from scratch, and evaluat­ ing collectio n s. Included are d ance biographies and au­ tobiographies, historical overview s, and a list o f referen ce works. O ther section s in­ clude prod uction and choreograp hy. http://www.imls.gov/pubs/natscidiglibrary http://www.imls.gov/pubs/ http://www.library.pitt.edu/gateway/request.htm http://www.library 8 / C&RL News ■ Jan u ary 2002 A C ore C ollection in D a n c e (ISBN 0-8389- 8118-6) sells for $26. Both books may b e ordered from ALA, P.O. B ox 932501, Atlanta, GA; 31193-2501. Phone: (866) 746-7252 (866-Shop ALA); fax: (770) 442- 9742. An order form is also available online at http://www .ala.org/acrl/pubsform . html. U n iv e rs ity o f S o u th e rn C a lif o r n ia 's D o h e n y M e m o ria l L ib ra r y re o p e n s The University o f Southern California’s (USC) Doheny Memorial Library has reopened after two years and $17 million in renovations. The library was originally opened in 1932 as USC’s first freestanding library— the gift o f Estelle Doheny in m em ory o f her son Edward L. Doheny Jr., a USC trustee and alumnus. It was designed in the great tradition o f the classical library with grand reading rooms, cavernous stacks, and ornate entranceways. In recent years wear and tear, massive growth in use, stricter building codes, and the imperatives o f the 21st- century information environment had begun to erode D oheny’s vitality as on e o f Southern California’s premier library facilities. In D ecem ber 1999, the building closed for a FEMA-supported seismic retrofit that has en ­ sured the future safety o f the building. The rem odeled library, a recipient o f a Los Ange­ les Conservancy 2001 Preservation award, was officially reintroduced to the public at a cel­ ebration held in O ctober 2001. Speakers at the cerem ony, w hich was vid­ eotaped and Webcast, included USC President Steven B. Sample, Los Angeles Mayor Jam es K. Hahn, USC Chief Information Officer and D ean o f the U niversity Libraries Je rry D. Campbell, and the keynote speaker Director o f the Harvard University Library Sidney Verba. After the cerem ony, attendees w ere invited to view the first installment o f the new D oheny Library exhibition series, “D oheny Memorial Library: Heart o f the University,” housed in the library’s Treasure Room. D oheny Library’s Web site contains scores o f photographs, old and new; voluminous documentation o f the building’s distinguished past and recent reconstruction; and news o f upcom ing events. Still in progress, it may be viewed at http://www.usc.edu/isd/dml. Extended deadline T he deadline to submit nom inations for ACRL’s Hugh A. Atkinson Memorial Award has b e e n exten d ed from D ecem b er 3, 2001, until April 1, 2002. ■ http://www http://www.usc.edu/isd/dml