ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries March 1 9 9 2 /2 0 9 ★ ★ ★ News from the Field Ameritech to acquire Dynix A m eritech C orporation continued its foray into the library m arketplace w ith th e re c e n t a nnounce­ m en t th a t it will acquire Dynix. I f negotiations are com pleted, Am eritech, th e C hicago-based p a re n t of th e Bell com panies serving Illinois, Indiana, M ichigan, Ohio, and W isconsin, will acquire 100% o f Dynix M anagem ent, Inc. (D M I), holding com ­ pany for Dynix subsidiaries operating in th e U nited States, C anada, U nited Kingdom, and Ireland. T he sale includes Dynix Scholar, D M I’s Prom ark, Retro- Link Associates, a nd Dynix Marquis. M anagem ent will rem ain in place after th e sale; th e term s and total value o f th e transaction will n ot b e disclosed. "Dynix will b e a key addition to the A m eritech team and will play a m ajor role in o u r efforts to expand in to th is im p o rta n t m a rk e tp la c e ,” said R oger Plum m er, pre sid en t and C E O o f A m eritech Info r­ m ation Systems. University of California and Stanford Libraries agree to share resources T he libraries o f th e nine-cam pus U n iv e r s ity o f C a lifo r n ia (U C) and S ta n fo r d U n iv e r s ity agreed to allow m em bers o f both com m unities access to e ach o th e r ’s c o lle ctio n s, in clu d in g databases. Stanford will gain access to U C ’s database MELVYL © and M E D L IN E ®, a nd U C faculty, academ ic staff, and graduate students will gain on-site access to direct borrow ing from Stanford’s collections. UC will reciprocate for Stanford clientele, and both institutions will provide each o th e r w ith priority interlibrary loans. “T he static UC library b udgets o f re ce n t years, coupled w ith th e effects o f a shrinking U.S. dollar and double-digit inflation in book and journal prices, have intensified th e n e ed for research libraries to cooperate in building collections,” said B everlee F rench, chair o f UC library heads o f public services. A key ele m en t o f the a greem ent is th e coordination of collection developm ent policies a nd activities in th e various libraries. How ever, F re n c h stressed that this does not m ean that th e participating libraries will no longer purchase w hat they n e e d locally on cam puses. U n d e r th e term s o f th e agreem ent, signed in S eptem ber, all visitors m ust first obtain a “Ū C /Stanford Reciprocal Services C ard” from their hom e libraries. Harvard signs preservation agreement with Akzo Chemicals H arvard U niversity L ibrary has signed an agree­ m ent w ith Akzo Chem icals, Inc. for a pilot program to tre a t 5,000 volumes w ith a w hole book deacidi- fìcation process. Akzo is one o f th e licensors o f a vapor deacidification process using diethyl zinc (D E Z ), developed in th e 1970s for th e L ibrary o f Congress. LC has n ot adopted th e D E Z process to preserve its own books although it licensed the process to th e private sector in 1979. Penn Library Association fights periodicals “use” tax T he Pennsylvania L ibrary Association (PLA) successfully led th e fight against a recently enacted “use” tax th at w ould have ad d ed 6% to th e cost of periodicals purchased by libraries. T he tax had been passed as p a rt o f a wide-ranging tax legislation (Act 26 o f 1991) th a t placed a new 6% use tax on many types o f services, ranging from p e st control to m otor vehicle rentals, in a last-m inute rush to c reate new sources o f revenue for th e strap p ed state o f P e n n ­ sylvania. Because th e new tax was not d efined as a sales tax b u t as a “use” tax, th e usual exem ptions did n ot apply. A ccording to a D e p artm en t o f Revenue ruling, any library th a t was n ot a governm ental entity— separately incorporated public libraries, private academ ic libraries, a nd private/parochial school libraries— would b e liable for th e tax. A 6% tax ad d ed onto th e serials budgets o f libraries al­ ready cutting subscriptions d u e to cost was not a w elcom e event. PLA m em bers ed u cated th eir legislators through fax, mail, phone, and office visits. Many legislators indicated that th e tax had n ot b e e n in te n d e d for libraries; however, they w ere c o ncerned about jeo p ­ ardizing revenues by reopening th e e ntire tax bill. E fforts cam e to fruition w hen legislation was passed th a t m oved th e periodicals tax to th e sales tax category, th ere b y exem pting all non-profit institu­ tions. T he bill was signed by G overnor Casey on D e c e m b e r 13. This news item p ro m p te d C & R L N ew s to find o ut th e status o f th e fight against th e m agazine tax in California th at has libraries paying up to 8 */4% tax on th e ir subscriptions. California L ibrary Associa­ tion (CLA) executive d irector M ary Sue F errell 210 /C & RL News said, “CLA strongly supports the repeal of this sales tax and is supporting th e Kopp Bill which calls for th e repeal of a sales tax on subscription magazines.” T he Kopp Bill is supported by STOP— Stop Taxa­ tion o f Publications, a coalition o f magazine p u b ­ lishers and industry vendors— and has at this w rit­ ing passed th e state Senate. Peer counselors help library users C le v e la n d S ta te U n iv e r s ity Library (CSU) c re ­ a ted a p e e r inform ation counseling program to acquaint users with com puter applications in librar­ ies. F o u r student assistants selected to becom e p e e r inform ation counselors will advise library patrons on the use o f the latest electronic information sources. T he p e e r counselors will work u n d e r the guidance o f reference librarians after an extensive training program in library and com puter skills. Among the goals of the program are providing posi­ tive role models form inority students, increasinguse o f the library for research purposes, and increasing retention rates for minority students at CSU. F u n d ­ ing for th e program is provided by the CSU Office of Minority Affairs and H um an Relations. IFLA designates Pitt for multicultural populations depository T he International F ederation of Library Asso­ ciations a nd Institutions (IFLA) Section on Library Services to M ulticultural Populations designated th e U n iv e r s ity o f P it t s b u r g h ’s School o f Library and Inform ation Science as the depository for its archives .T hese official records o f the section will be m ade available on an unrestricted basis to any researcher. According to E. J. Josey, who was in­ strum ental in bringing the collection to Pitt, this “will provide a central location for librarians to identify and locate information resources on ser­ vices, programs, and research related to multicultural librarianship from around the w orld.” Gay studies center established T he C ity U n iv e r s ity o f N e w Y ork ’s (CUNY) G raduate School and University C e n te r established a c en ter devoted to academ ic research on the gay and lesbian experience, as re p o rte d in News fr o m C. U.N. YLibraries. Martin D uberm an, distinguished professor of history, and author o f Cures: A Gay M an’s Odyssey, directs the center, which opened in O ctober 1991. Maryland library school safe A fter a seven m onth review o f th e status and program s o f th e College o f L ibrary and Inform ation Science undertaken as p art o f a general review of program s on th e College Park cam pus, the U n iv e r ­ s ity o f M a r y la n d concluded it should retain the college as a separate, autonom ous entity. T he u ni­ versity will also retain the college’s Ph.D . degree. T he college had b een identified for review in the wake o f severe b udget cuts at the university. OCLC cleans up subject headings . . . In response to a user survey on database quality issues, O C L C began in N ovem ber a four-m onth project to correct and update subject headings in its Online Union Catalog (OLUC). A system of com ­ p u te r program s is reviewing all of th e Library of Congress topical and geographic subject headings in the 25 million record OLUC. Over 750,000 occurrences of headings have been changed; OCLC predicts the total will reach 1.8 million. T he six types of corrections being m ade are: style, coding, typo­ graphical, inversions, abbreviations, and manual. L inda Gabel, senior quality control librarian in O C L C ’s M arketing Division and product m anager for the project said, “T he Online Union Catalog has b een c reated by hum ans, not machines. It is very easy to make mistakes w hen typing bibliographic inform ation.” Using the subject heading “Politics and governm ent,” Gabel indicated th at 266 of the 277,396 records w ere incorrect variations and would not be retrieved by a subject search using the correct form o f the heading. . . . and launches pilot project to add subject headings to fiction records B o w lin g G r e e n S ta te U n iv e r s ity L ib r a r y , S o u th e r n M e t h o d is t U n iv e r s ity , and the U n i­ v e r s ity o f S o u th C a r o lin a are am ong th e eight libraries participating in a pilot project sponsored by the Library o f Congress and OC L C to add subject headings to bibliographic records for works o f fiction. T he addition of subject headings should improve th e readers advisory services librarians are able to provide. The libraries are testingthe feasibil­ ity of guidelines developed by a subcom mittee of the ALA’s Association for Library Collections and T ech­ nical Services (ALCTS). U nder these guidelines, individual works o f fiction are described in term s of form or genre, characters, settings, and topics. USC and Taiwan’s Central Library establish book exchange T he U n iv e r s ity o f S o u th e r n C a lifo r n ia (U S C ) and the N a tio n a l C e n tr a l L ib ra ry (NCL) ofTaipei, Taiwan, established an exchange agreem ent. USC will regularly subm it lists o f titles on American culture, history, law, economics, politics, and soci- 212 / C& RL News ety to th e N C L from w hich any n u m b e r may be selected. In return, NCL will continue to send compa­ rable materials in Chinese. USC has already received over 5,000 volumes from N C L including books on Chinese art, culture, literature, and history. USC’s East Asian Library contains about 55,000 volumes in Chi­ nese, Japanese, and Korean languages. “Say ‘Yes’ to Your Right to Know” T hat will be th e m essage w hen ALA launches the “Call for A m erica’s L ibraries” cam paign on F re e ­ dom of Inform ation Day, Monday, M arch 16,1992. T he goal is to stim ulate public in te rest in and support for all types o f libraries and to g en erate nam es (and num bers) o f library supporters th at can b e u sed to im press key C ongressional leaders com e ALA Legislative D ay on April 8. T he “Call for A m erica’s L ibraries” cam paign will consist o f a m onth-long series o f radio “rallies” with ALA pre sid en t Patricia Glass Schum an and som e 65 ALA leaders train ed as m edia spokespeople appearing on netw ork radio program s and on talk shows in state capitals a nd m ajor m edia m arkets across the nation. A CRL p re sid en t A nne B eaubien will be participating in th e rallies. An 800 telephone n u m b er— (800) 530-8888— will allow th e public to “Say Yes to Your R ight to Know!” a nd to register support for libraries and librarians. T he n u m b e r will be in operation from M arch 16 through N ational Library W eek, April 5 - 11, and is m ade possible by T elephone Express based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, th rough the efforts o f B ernard Margolis, d irecto r o f th e Pikes Peak L ibrary District. T h ere will also b e an 800 T D D n u m b e r for th e h earing im paired to register th e ir support. T hat n u m b er is (800) 552-9097. In announcing th e “Call for A m erica’s L ibraries" cam paign at th e ALA M idw inter M eeting, ALA p re sid en t Schum an u rged all librarians— school, public, academ ic, special— to take p a rt by schedul­ ing interviews on local radio stations and encourag­ ing th e ir libraiy users, boards, and F rien d s to call th e 800 num ber. “This is an opportunity to tell our story— to talk about th e value o f libraries and librarians and im ­ p o rtan t Right to Know issues facing every co m m u ­ nity,” Schum an said. She c ited library b u dget cuts, censorship, illit­ eracy, a nd less access to public inform ation as th reats to th e public’s Right to Know. C harles Beard, o f th e Ingram Library at W est G eorgia College, a nd Kim berly Tayler, o f th e Colo­ rado State Library, are co-chairs o f th e cam paign. F rien d s o f L ibraries USA is lending its support. Gaylord Inform ation Systems will underw rite a cam paign tip sheet with inform ation on how to organize a “Call for Am erica’s L ibraries” cam paign th at will be m ailed to som e 30,000 libraries. Acquisitions • T he John H ay L ibrary o f B r o w n U n iv e r s ity has acquired th e G eorge B ernard Shaw collection o f Sidney P. Albert, professor em eritus o f philoso­ phy at California State University, Los Angeles. This extensive collection includes books, m anu­ scripts, photographs, a nd e p h e m e ra relating to Shaw. T he m anuscript m aterial includes autograph and typed letters from Shaw, autograph postcards and stereocards, notes, and signed photographs. M any related letters are p re sen t, including those o f th e a te r people involved with Shaw, Shaw’s secre­ taries, a nd his biographers. T he m anuscript m ate­ rials p re sen t a b road p icture o f Shaw a nd his influ­ e nce on literature and th e th ea ter. T he collection includes over 2,000 books by and about Shaw, including a substantial group o f his p re-1900 p u b ­ lications. It also is strong in ephem eral material, including many small press printings such as the so- called “unpublished, rough proofs,” theatrical p ro ­ grams, and an extensive ru n o f Fabian tracts and publications. O ver 200 periodicals, at least 80 con­ taining articles by Shaw, and the rem ainder contain­ ing m aterial about Shaw, round o ut th e collection. Also acquired recently, in sup p o rt o f th e Shaw Collection, was an im portant collection o f business correspondence b etw een G. B. Shaw a nd th e p u b ­ lishing h ouse o f D o d d M ead, his A m erican agent. This includes 15 letters from Shaw relating to his A m erican editions, original contracts w ith th e p u b ­ lisher, an assortm ent o f sketches and photographs by Shaw, and over 100 files covering contracts and re p rin t rights. This D o d d M ead archive offers an­ o th e r p icture o f Shaw as th e “sharp businessm an” who laboriously scrutinized contracts a nd scrupu­ lously exercised all his rights to th e le tte r o f th e law. • I n d ia n a U n iv e r s ity ’s Lilly L ibrary received a collection o f rare and historical ch ild ren ’s m ateri­ als from R uth E. Adom eit, a book collector and a uthor o f a book on th u m b bibles. T h e collection o f over 300 item s includes a large n u m b e r o f shape books (books w hich are in th e shape o f som e ob­ ject), pop-up and m echanical objects, “peep-show s,” b oard games, educational games, and m iniature books to b e ad d ed to th e collection o f 200 H ungar­ ian m iniature books previously donated by Adomeit. • T he Special Collections D epartm ent, U n i­ v e r s ity o f V ir g in ia L ib r a r y , sent in its rep o rt of selected acquisitions. Included in the m ore than 30- page listing o f rare books and m anuscripts are: Evening Exercise f o r the Closet f o r E very Day in the Year b y jay William; num erous publications o f Henry Fielding including Rape upon Rape; o r the Justice Caught in his O w n Trap; and a 1934 untitled, unpublished screenplay w ritten for Param ount Pic­ tures by John Dos Passos, and eventually produced as The Devil Is a W om an starring M arlene Dietrich. networking system designed around a revolutionary feature.Your needs. The SilverPlatter Academic Reference databases and hardware needed, as well as Center is one of the world's most advanced installation and support, to create a network information networking systems for one that meets your needs. simple reason. And, with the SilverPlatter Usage Statistics It provides a research and information Package, you can be in complete control. 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The Burgess-Carpenter collection is used most often by undergraduates and many o f its volumes form the basis upon which the National Endowment for the Humanities cited Columbia as a national model for the establishment and preservation o f a core liberal arts education. • Indiana University (IU ), as part o f the C omm ittee on Institutional Cooperation (C IC ), will participate in a $1.8 million, C IC Coordinated Preservation Microfilming Project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (N EH ) to preserve 19,666 brittle books and serials pertaining to the literature and history o f the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. (C IC is a con­ sortium o f Big Ten universities and the University o f Chicago.) IU Libraries will receive $66,420 from the N E H for the preservation microfilming o f a Latin American 900-p iece pamphlet collection that reflects much o f the conventional thought and wisdom o f those who lived and published in E cu a­ dor and other Latin American countries from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. • Niagara University Library director Leslie R. Morris was awarded a grant by the Canadian government to interview key interlibrary loan policy makers in Halifax, Toronto, London, Windsor, Edmonton, and Vancouver about their attitudes and opinions on the current state and future pros­ pects o f Canadian-United States interlibrary loan. • Oberlin College science librarian Alison Ricker and associate professor o f mathematics Je f ­ frey W itm er received a $1,258 grant from the Council on Library Resources to update their 1988 survey o f college libraries that asked for documen­ tation o f the support they provide for research and education in the sciences. • Penn State has received $50,000 from alum­ nus Donald M. Haag to establish an endowment to support the acquisition and preservation o f maps, music, prints, photographs, and other rare archive materials. • T h e R esearch L ibraries C rou p , Inc. (R L G ) received $75 0 ,0 0 0 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to help fund new R L G efforts to improve access to information that sup­ ports research and learning. T he grant monies will b e used by R L G over the next three years. This is the sixth grant the Hewlett Foundation has awarded R L G over thepastl2years,brin gin gthe foundation’s total contribution to R L G to $3.3 million. • T he University o f Kentucky (UK) received $1 million for its library campaign from Humana, Inc., bringing the total amount given to the cam ­ paign to $13.3 million so far. T h e goal o f the campaign is to build a new Commonwealth library building at UK in Lexington and establish endow­ ments to support the library and its services state­ wide. • T h e University o f Manitoba Libraries re ­ ceived a significant donation for its School o f Music from the Eckhardt-Gram atte Foundation. T he do­ nation will be used for acquisitions, including peri­ odical subscriptions, collected works by major com ­ posers, performance music parts, and books and recordings. T he Music Library was dedicated the Eckhardt-Gram atte Music Library on January 21, 1992, after W innipeg composer, violinist, and pia­ nist Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gram atte. • T he University of Montana has received two grants. First, a $20,400 matching grant from the Japan World Exposition Commemorative Fund (1970) to purchase both English and Japanese lan­ guage reference books related to Japan. Second, a Tittle II-D grant o f $97,500 from the U.S. Depart­ ment o f Education to network C D -R O M worksta­ tions. R eference librarians will be able to address questions without having to stop and load databases for patrons using the C D -R O M s. ■ ■ Advertiser index A M IG O S ..................................................... 199 B a lle n ........................................................... 208 B a te lle .......................................................... 165 Blackwell T e c h ........................................... 179 Cambridge S c ie n tific ................................. 160 C a rls o n ........................................................153 Corporate Jobs O u tlo o k ............................163 Data R esearch........................................... 196 D yn ix.............................................................188 E B S C O ................................................. cover 3 F axon........................................................... 156 G a y lo rd ........................................................170 Haworth P re s s ........................................... 177 Heckman B in d e ry ................................ cover 4 Institute for Scientific Info........................... 201 Liberty F u n d ................................................ 219 M a rc iv e ........................................................211 Mohawk M id la n d ........................................ 191 P A IS............................................................. 202 Research Publications...................... 192,193 Fred B. R o th m a n ........................................ 168 Silver Platter................................................ 213 Sociological A b stra cts............................... 183 Softline.........................................................204 V C H ............................................................. 216 H.W. W ils o n ......................................... cover 2 W innebago.................................................. 185 W L N ............................................................. 180