ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ January 2003 / 5 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l d Stephanie Orphan MIT launches DSpace The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has officially launched DSpace, a groundbreaking digital repository system, which will capture, store, distribute, and preserve the intellectual output of MIT’s faculty and research staff. DSpace, jointly designed by MIT and Hewlett-Packard Co., will transform how MIT distributes and archives the results o f its research and serves as a model for other universities and institutions with similar needs. The DSpace repository will initially address what was becoming a growing institutional need: how to collect, preserve, index, and distribute content that originates in complex digital formats. In addition, DSpace is designed with a flexible storage and retrieval architecture adaptable to a multitude of data formats and distinct research disciplines. MIT hopes to extend the scope of DSpace by offering and encouraging its adoption at other research-intensive institutions. Through the availability o f open-source DSpace software, even small colleges will have the capability to am repositories with existing resources. In n o v a tiv e o ffe rs electro nic ordering fo r EBSCO books Libraries using the Innovative INNOPAC or Mil­ lennium systems can now send BISAC purchase orders for books directly to EBSCO Book Ser­ vices through a new electronic ordering feature. The feature automatically sends the purchase or­ ders to EBSCO via e-mail, where they are pro­ cessed daily. EBSCO offers next-day delivery to most locations, as well as discounts to customers who purchase bulk orders of more than 50 copies o f the same title. Nunez C om m u n ity C ollege p articip atin g in d ig ital library Nunez Community College in Chalmette, Louisi­ ana, is the only community college library selected to participate in a pilot project to create a digital library sponsored by LOUIS: the Louisiana Li­ brary Network. The LOUIS academic library group will use Sirsi’s Hyperion Digital Media Archive System to store, organize, and access nonbook holdings. The libraries will create thumbnail clips o f documents, photographs, and audiovideo ar­ chival materials and make them available online with a goal o f encouraging students and other researchers to explore the unique material avail­ able in archives across the state. Nunez Commu­ nity College will b e contributing selected pages from its Frank Fernandez Collection and clips from Irvan Perez’s Spanish decim as fro m St. B ern a rd P ar­ ish to the digital library project. UNC-Chapel Hill u nd e rg rad u ate lib rary reo p ens Following 18 months o f extensive renovations, the University o f North Carolina (UNC)- Chapel Hill’s R. B. House Undergraduate Li­ brary has reopened. The 66,000-square-foot facility now includes wired and wireless access to the campus network throughout the build­ ing and features more than 100 public com ­ puter w orkstations, tw o collab oratories, a media lab for sound and video editing, two classrooms, two film viewing rooms, and a stu­ dent lounge wired for laptop use. The renova­ tion, w hich was co m p leted o n tim e and on budget, is considered by university administra­ tors to be a model for all future campus projects. JSTOR rep o rts u nauth orized use th ro u g h open proxies Nonprofit journal aggregator JST O R has re­ ported that unauthorized users illegally down­ load ed m ore than 5 1 ,0 0 0 articles from 11 JST O R journals through u nprotected proxy servers located within the domains o f partici­ 6 / C&RL News ■ January 2003 Academic and research library campaign to launch during ACRL National Conference A cad em ic co m m unity is fo cu s of n e w @ y o u r lib ra ry cam paign ALA's Campaign for America’s Libraries, will launch the academic and research library compo­ nent of its national @ your library initiative dur­ ing ACRL’s 11th National Conference in Char­ lotte, N.C., April 1 0 -1 3 , 2003. Developed in collaboration with ACRL, the campaign has several key external goals. These include promoting an understanding of the value of academic and research libraries and librarians in the 21st century; promoting awareness of the unique role o f It's not just academic @your libraryacademic libraries and their contributions to society; increasing vis­ ibility and support for academic and research li­ braries and librarians; helping librarians better market their services on-site and online; posi­ tioning academic and research librarianship as a desirable career opportunity; and fostering a greater connection with other types of libraries. The campaign also will position academic and research libraries and librarians more prominently in ALA’s national public awareness efforts. As part o f the planning process, approxi­ mately 40 academic and research librarians were invited to participate in a strategic plan­ ning and marketing retreat hosted by 3M Li­ brary Systems this fell. Participants discussed key issues concerning library marketing and publicity efforts on campus, including how to identify key users or “customers,” how to develop appropriate messages, what vehicles o f com m unication should b e used to pro­ mote academic and research libraries, and how to prepare long-term marketing plans. 3M is a founding partner o f T h e Cam paign for America’s Libraries. @ you r library a t the ACRL N ational Conference Attendees also had the opportunity to critique a marketing manual developed by 3M that will be used during a full-day preconference on Thurs­ day, April 10, during ACRL’s National Confer­ ence. The preconferenœ is entitled “Strategic Mar­ keting for Academic and Research Libraries: Train the Trainer.” Registration for die preconference is available on the ACRL W eb site at http?// www.ala.org/acrl/charlotte/registration/ registration.html. At­ tendance is on a first- come, first-served basis. New Web pages dedicated to the aca­ demic and research li­ brary campaign will also be unveiled during the National Conference. The pages will be part of The Campaign for America’s Libraries Web site at www.ala.org/@yourlibrary and will include a free, downloadable version of the 3M Marketing Manual, as well as a new toolkit o f materials, including programming and publicity ideas, art­ work, customizable ads, sample press materials, librarian profiles, case studies of successful aca­ demic marketing efforts, and tips on story collec­ tion, how to conduct media relations, and more. There will also be a half-day workshop in Ju n e during the ALA Annual Conference in Toronto called “Survival in Academe: Market­ ing @ your library,” which will be open to all academic and research librarians. That session will include an overview of the academic and research library campaign, how academic and research librarians can b ecom e advocates, and what tools and resources are available through ALA and ACRL to help promote aca­ demic and research libraries and librarians on their campuses. pati n g JSTOR sites last fall. The company has taken preemptive action by suspending access to JST O R through specific IP addresses that have be en identified as being set up without proper access restrictions. These “op en” proxies provide unrestricted access to any resource licensing using IP au­ thentication. W hile migration to more robust authentication methods would eliminate the problem presented by open proxies, widespread adoption o f these methods is not expected to occur for at least another year. Librarians and content providers are encouraged to alert oth­ ers to the problems o f unrestricted proxies and http://www.ala.org/acrl/charlotte/registration/ http://www.ala.oig/@yourlibtary C&RL News ■ January 2003 / 7 to discourage members of the campus commu­ nity from installing such servers. JTO R plans to hold an information session immediately following its ALA participants meeting at the Midwinter Meeting, on Sunday, January 26, to further address the issue o f open proxies. O hioLink celebrates ten years OHIOLink, one o f the country’s leading aca­ demic library consortia, is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Since 1992, more than 26 million items were delivered to Ohio’s college students, faculty, and researchers. Items delivered in­ clude traditional books, electronic books, vid­ eotapes, online research and newspaper articles, and onlin e literature, am ong others. Users downloaded the 6-millionth scholarly research journal article from the Electronic Journal Cen­ ter (EJC), a service that went live four-and-a- half years ago. In addition to EJC, the OhioLINK program has added more than 90 core online research databases, linking many o f those databases di­ rectly to the related full-text article, and in­ troduced the Digital Media Center, a co llec­ tion o f nonprint media databases. OhioLINK is a consortium o f academic libraries from 82 Ohio universities, colleges, community colleges, and the State Library o f Ohio. U. of M innesota holds biennial train in g fo r lib rarians from underrepresented groups T he University o f Minnesota (UM) Libraries hosted the third biennial “Training Institute for Early Career Librarians from Groups Underrepresented in the Profession” in fall 2002. Twenty-four librarians in their first three years o f professional library employment attended the intense, week- long training that combined sessions in leadership development and professional goal setting, workshops on professional skills, and the opportunity to build col­ legial relationships with librarians from across the United States who share simi­ lar professional and personal experiences. Participants from both public and aca­ dem ic libraries attended the training. Among the academic institutions repre­ sented w ere Columbia University, Uni­ versity o f Cincinnati, Yale University, and Ja ck so n State University. The training was funded through a gift from the H. W. W ilson Foundation, UM endowm ent funds, and $500 from each home institution. E lse v ie r launches Library Connect Elsevier Science has launched Library Connect, a broad initiative to inform librarians across all dis­ ciplines regarding electronic publishing and the digital library. The program offers an array of in­ formation and opportunities, including a quar­ terly newsletter, workshops, seminars, and part­ nership initiatives. In the future, Library Connect plans to offer awards and scholarships as well. The newsletter, L ibrary C onnect, will address in­ dustry and technical developments, through ar­ ticles by guest writers plus writers from within the ranks of Elsevier Science. The first issue will be available at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. G allup o ffers w e e k ly briefing service The Gallup Organization, a leader in the mea­ surement and analysis of public attitudes, opin­ ions, and behavior, has launched the G allu p P oll Tuesday B riefing, a subscription-based news service that provides a weekly summary and analysis o f the latest proprietary Gallup Poll findings. This marks the first time Gallup is directly offering its polling data and analysis to the general public for use as a news source. The briefing delivers original content articles focusing on topics relating to governm ent, healthcare, religion, education, and finance. Subscribers can also access the Gallup Archives, which contain more than six decades o f Gallup Poll’s public opinion surveys, poll results, and analysis. ■ Twenty-four early career librarians participated in the University of Minnesota's biennial training for librarians from underrepresented groups.