ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ M ay 2001 / 485 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l d Mary Ellen Davis ACRL offers library-faculty collaboration workshop in SF First offered at ACRL’s National Conference in Denver, the popular workshop “Creating Successful Librarian-Faculty Collaborations: The State of the Art” will be expanded to a four-hour preconference at the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco. The session will be held Friday, June 15, 2001, from 8:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. At this session, attendees will gain the cutting-edge knowledge and tools to turn their institutions into a nexus o f librarian-fac- ulty collaboration. Attendees will develop personal collaboration skills, assess the “Col­ laborative I.Q .” o f their institutions, learn about best practices at other schools, and apply these practices to their own institutions. Workshop presenters are Dane Ward, coor­ dinator of library instruction at Central Michi­ gan University, and Dick Raspa, professor of interdisciplinary studies at Wayne State Uni­ versity, and other members o f the team that created the bestselling ACRL publication The C ollaborative Im perative: L ibrarian s a n d F a c ­ ulty W orking T ogether in th e In fo r m a tio n Universe. Registration is limited to 60. To register visit http://www.ala.org/acrl/confhp.html and select “Creating Successful Librarian/Faculty Collabo­ rations.” Nomadic computing at NCSU Students and faculty at North Carolina State Uni­ versity (NCSU) can now bring their laptops into the library building and gain access to the Internet and campus network. D o n ’t have a laptop? Then NCSU will lend you one of 100 laptops that can be used to connect to the network, including some wireless connections. Sorbonne and National Library of South Africa choose Innovative Interfaces The Bibliotèque de la Sorbonne in Paris France, and the National Library of South Africa have independently selected Millen­ nium from Innovative Interfaces, for their new automation systems. The Sorbonne, based on the original li­ brary of the University of Paris from France’s Ancien Regime, was founded in 1770. The National Library of South Africa was formed in 1999 following the merger of the two former South African national libraries. Ithaca College selects Endeavor's Voyager Ithaca College has chosen Endeavor Infor­ mation Systems’ Voyager integrated library management system for the college’s 300,000- volume library. The launch of the new sys­ tem, planned for September 2001, will be simultaneous with a major renovation of three floors of the library. ScienceDirect offers subject collections ScienceDirect, a division o f Elsevier Science, Staff and current and past members of the editorial board of C&RL News celebrate the 35th anniversary of C&RL News w ith a cake during the ACRL 10th National Conference in Denver, March 15-18. Pictured (I to r): Janis Jordan, Carolyn Sheehy, Elise Parker, Nicole Wheatley, Maija Lutz (chair), Ann-Christe Young, Mary Ellen Davis (editor), and Pam Snelson. http://www.ala.org/acrl/confhp.html 486 / C&RL News ■ M ay 2001 ACRL N a tio n a l C o n fe re n c e C h a ir W . Lee H isle c o n g r a tu la te s w in n e r s o f t h e G ra n d P rize D r a w in g a t t h e ACRL N a tio n a l C o n fe re n c e in D e nve r, M a rc h 1 5 -1 8 . L e ft: T e rri F re e d m a n , B ryn M a w r C o lle g e , w o n a r o u n d - t r ip a ir lin e t ic k e t t o a n y w h e r e in t h e c o n t in e n t a l U n ite d S tates. R ig h t: J u d ith E. Jeney, R a m a p o C o lle g e , w o n h e r c h o ic e o f f r e e r e g is tr a tio n o r a f r e e h o te l ro o m f o r ACRL'ś 1 1 th N a tio n a l C o n fe re n c e , w h ic h w i ll ta k e p la c e in C h a r lo tte , N o r th C a ro lin a , A p r il 1 0 -1 3 , 20 03 . is n o w o ffe rin g S c ie n c e D ire ct S u b ject C ol­ lec tio n s, e n a b lin g lib ra rie s to s u b s c rib e at a p re fe re n tia l ra te to p a c k a g e s o f jo u rn a l titles c lu s te re d a r o u n d sp ecific su b je c t discip lin es. L ibrarians c a n c h o o s e fro m 21 su b je c t c o l­ l e c t i o n s , w h i c h a r e l i s t e d o n t h e S c ie n c e D ir e c t h o m e p a g e a t h t t p : / / w w w . s c ie n c e d ire c t.c o m n e tLib ra ry e-books o ffe re d th ro u g h B la ck w e ll's and EBSCO netL ib rary ’s 34,000 e -b o o k s a re n o w a c c e s­ sible th ro u g h b o th B lack w ell’s B o o k Services C ollectio n M a n a g e r a n d EBSCO P u b lis h in g ’s EBSCOÅosí. B la c k w e ll’s C o lle c tio n M a n a g e r c a n b e u s e d t o e n t e r f ir m o r d e r s f o r n etL ib rary e B o o k s in B la c k w e ll’s sy stem a n d to re v ie w th e statu s o f o rd ers. A d ire c t lin k to netL ibrary h as b e e n m a d e a v ailab le o n th e r e ­ sult p a g e w ith in EBSCObasZ. This l i n k a l l o w s u s e r s t o a c c e s s netL ibrary a n d s e a rc h th e ir lib ra ry ’s co llectio n s o f eB o o k s. A C R L sta tistics—quick, easy, convenient! N o w y o u c a n g e t ACRL’s 1999 A c a ­ d e m ic L ibraries T ren d s a n d Statis­ tics o n lin e , w h ic h w ill a llo w s e a rc h a n d d isp la y o f d a ta a c c o rd in g to y o u r n e e d s . C reate y o u r o w n p e e r g ro u p c o m p a riso n s. T h e e le c tro n ic v e rs io n in c lu d e s d a ta fro m 1,367 a c a d e m i c li b r a r i e s in all C arnegie classifications. T h e 1-7 19Â99śsástós Library c o re se t o f d a ta co n sists o f s t a t i s t i c s ”®’ fo u r m ajo r categ o ries: c o l­ lectio n s (m o n o g ra p h ic vol- Kgśggs^,.. u m e s , s e r ia ls a n d m ic r o ­ fo rm s, e tc .), e x p e n d itu r e s g (lib rary m aterials, e le c tro n ic serials, c o m p u te r h a rd w a re a n d so ftw are, salaries a n d w a g e s, etc.), li­ b ra ry o p e ra tio n s (h o u rs o f o p e ra tio n , staff, ILL, re fe re n ce , etc.), a n d lo cal ch aracteristics o r attrib u te s (e n ro llm e n t, in stitu tio n al b u d ­ g et, etc.). Also in c lu d e d in th e tre n d s se c tio n is d a ta o n faculty status for librarians. T o p u r­ ch ase, g o to h ttp ://a c rl.te lu s y s .n e t/e p u b s /. ÛJ "O T5 ÛJ Û ĕ cJ IQzr sciencedirect.com http://acrl.telusys.net/epubs/