ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ A p ril 2000 / 317 C o l l e g e & R e s e a r c h L i b r a r i e s n e w s The time to lead ACRL seeks nominees for office Would you like to seek office in an ACRL section? W ould you like to nom inate anyone else for o n e o f th ese positions? If the answ er is yes, here is what you n eed to do. ACRL section officers Candidates for vice-chair/chair elect o f ACRL sections are selected by the Nominating Com mittee o f each section. If you would like to nom inate som eone or b e nom inated for vice chair o f an ACRL section, contact the chair of the Nominating Committee for the appropri ate section prior to the ALA Annual Confer e n c e in Chicago. Other section officers, including secretary and member-at-large, may also b e under con sideration for this term o f office, w hich will begin in the summer o f 2001. Section nominating committee chairs Asian, African, and Middle E astern Yu-Lan Chou, East Asian Library/University o f California, 208 Durant Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; ycho@library.berkeIey.edu African-American Studies Librarians Mary G. Wrighten, 2350 Monroe Street, Apt. 2 0 7 , T o le d o , OH 4 3 6 2 4 - 1 0 5 8 ; m w ıith @ bgenet.bgsu.edu A nthropology and Sociology J . Christina Smith, Mugar Memorial Library, B oston University, 771 Com monwealth Av enue, Boston, MA 021248-3720; jchri@bu.edu Arts Judy Harvey Sahak, D enison Library, Scripps College 1030 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02148-3720; jharveysahak@rocky.clarem ont. edu College Libraries W illis A. B ridegam , R obert Frost Library, A m h erst C o lle g e , A m h e rst, MA 0 1 0 0 2 ; webridegam @ am herst. edu Com m unity and Ju n io r College Libraries Cary Sowell, 1018 Hermitage Drive, Austin, TX 78753; cary@austin.cc.tx.us Distance Learning Nancy J. Burich, Edwards Campus, 12600 Ouivira Road, O verland, Park, KS 66213; nburich@ukans.edu Education and Behavioral Sciences Ellen Gilbert, Alexander Library, Rutgers Uni versity, New Bm nsw ick, NJ 08901; gilbert@ rci.rutgers.edu English and Am erican Literature Margaret K. Powell, Y ale University Library, P.O. B o x 208240, New Haven, CT 06520- 8240; margaretpowell@yale.edu Instruction Randy B urke Hensley, Hamilton Library, Uni versity o f Hawaii, 2550 The Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822; rhensley@hawaii.edu Law and Political Science Lisa Stimatz, Penn State Harrisburg Heindel Library, 77 W. Harrisburg Pike, Middleton, CT 17057-4898; lzs3@psu.edu Rare Books and M anuscripts T o b e announced. Contact the current Vice chair Mark Dimunation, chief, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library o f Con gress, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Wash ington, D.C. 20504-4747; mdm@loc.gov (continued on p a g e 322) mailto:ycho@library.berkeIey.edu mailto:jchri@bu.edu mailto:cary@austin.cc.tx.us mailto:nburich@ukans.edu mailto:margaretpowell@yale.edu mailto:rhensley@hawaii.edu mailto:lzs3@psu.edu mailto:mdm@loc.gov 322 / C&RL News ■ A pril 2000 words, title, author, year o f publication, or record number to search. A multifield search supports advance searching, including bool ean operators, numeric operators, compari son operators and the ability to search more than one field at a time. Searching can be enhanced by using partial words, begins with, or browse search options. Search results yield bibliographic records and ordering informa tion for journal articles, books, reports, and literature reviews. B ecause the database has not been up dated since 1998, researchers will have to search other reference tools for current vio lent literature. VioLit can b e a starting point fo r lo catin g ju v en ile v io le n c e literatu re. —Nancy Allen, USFat Sarasota-Manatee/New College, nallen@sar.usf.edu Biz/ed. http://bized.ac.uk/. This well-organized site, created by a non profit consortium working at the Institute for L e a r n in g and R esearch T e ch n o lo g y at th e U n iv e rs ity o f B r is to l, is d e signed for busi n e s s an d e c o nomics students and their teach ers. The Internet Catalogue, the first major link on the site, is a Yahoo-style directory o f more than 1,500 Internet resources selected and described by subject experts. Top-level headings cover accounting, busi ness, econom ics, financial econom ics, higher education, human resources, m acroeconom ics, management, marketing, mathematical economics, organizational management, pro duction, the tourist industry, trade, and com merce. Business students, business profes sionals, and the public at large will b e able to m ake good use o f this directory. The Virtual Worlds link on the site includes two resources: a Virtual Factory and a Virtual Economy. The factory is based on a bona fide business, Cameron Balloons Ltd. There are four main sections in the factory: the Fac tory Floor (which includes worksheets, pho tos, relevant business theories, and an ex planation o f each main business function), Cameron Balloons (background on the com pany, its history, and product range), a Cost Breakdown o f balloon com ponents, and a Glossary o f ballooning jargon. The Virtual Econom y is based on com puter models that are similar to those used to keep the British econom y on track. It in cludes case studies, a section on the economic variables in the model, a library o f resource materials, and the interactive model itself. Users o f the site may change the values o f the variables and run the model repeatedly. The site also includes major links to Learn ing Materials, Com pany Facts, and Data. These pages include many online worksheets, datasets, PowerPoint presentations, and other instructional resources. Some will b e most useful to students in the UK. Despite the breadth o f Biz/ed, navigation is quite easy. The site includes a persistent navigation bar, a good site map, a search func tion, and several readily ac ce ssib le help screens that explain the site section by sec tion. Biz/ed will be useful both as a quality information resource and as an interactive teach in g to o l.— Tom Nichol, College o f St. B enedict & St. J o h n ’s University, tnichol@ csbsju.edu ■ ( “The time to le a d ” continued from p ag e 317) Science and Technology Billie Jo y Reinhart, University Library RT100C, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115; b.reinhart@csuohio.edu Slavic and East European G razyna Slanda, Library-Slavic D ivision, Harvard C olleg e, C am bridge, MA 02138; slanda@fas.harvard.edu University Libraries Don Frank, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30324; don.frank@library.gatech.edu W estern European Specialists Jam es Campbell, University o f Virginia Li brary, Alderman Libraiy, Charlottesville, VA 22903; campbell@virginia.edu W om en’s Studies T o b e announced. Contact current Vice-chair T heresa T obin , M assachusetts Institute o f Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cam bridge, MA 02139-4307; tat@mit.edu ■ mailto:nallen@sar.usf.edu http://bized.ac.uk/ mailto:b.reinhart@csuohio.edu mailto:slanda@fas.harvard.edu mailto:don.frank@library.gatech.edu mailto:campbell@virginia.edu mailto:tat@mit.edu