C&RL News July/August 2020 318 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free ACRL, ARL, ODLOS, PLA announce Joint Cultural Competencies Task Force ACRL; the Association of Research Libraries; ALA’s Office for Diversity, Literacy and Out- reach Services; and the Public Library As- sociation announce the formation of the Building Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity Framework Task Force. The task force is charged to create a framework for cultural proficiencies in racial equity that can be used in public and academic li- braries. The task force will circulate drafts of the framework for public comment and revise as appropriate before submit- ting a final document to the associations. Requests for comments will be communi- cated widely through each of the four as- sociations’ communication channels. The timeline will include requests for com- ments in spring 2021, with the final docu- ment expected in summer 2021. Complete details, including a list of task force mem- bers, is on ACRL Insider at www.acrl.ala. org/acrlinsider/archives/19861. MSU Library receives donation for renovation, special collections relocation The Michigan State University (MSU) Li- brary has received the largest single do- nation in its history, a gift from research scientist Keelung Hong, in honor of his longtime partner Stephen O. Murray, a sociologist, anthropologist, and indepen- dent scholar, who graduated from MSU’s James Madison College. Dean of Libraries Joseph A. Salem Jr. said the donation will be used to renovate space on Three East in the Main Library and to move Special Collections to that floor. The library renovation will include the addition of a dedicated HVAC system and a fire suppression system. The move to Three East will create more storage capacity for Special Collections, provide Special Collections staff with a dedicated processing space, offer more security for the collections, and give Special Collections staff the opportunity to work together in one location. The recently created Special Collections Reading Room and the Special Collections Seminar Room will remain on the first floor of the Main Library. HAPI, SciELO-México partner for access to Mexican scholarship The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) and SciELO-México are partnering to promote greater accessibility of Mexi- can scholarship via inclusion in the HAPI index. The collaboration pairs one of the most well-established and high-profile online Latin American Studies resources published in the Global North with a na- tional network member of SciELO, one of the most influential and impactful open access organizations in the Global South. Including selected SciELO-México re- cords in HAPI immediately adds value to HAPI as a research resource by increas- ing searchable content while increasing the dissemination of Mexican scholar- ship. The SALALM Award for Institutional Collaborative Initiatives awarded HAPI a $3,000 grant to support the project during the coming fiscal year. AALL recognizes achievements in law librarianship, legal literature The American Association of Law Librar- ies (AALL) recently announced the final winners of its 2020 awards, including the Emerging Leader Award, Minority Leader- ship Development Award, Public Access to Government Information Award, Rob- ert L. Oakley Advocacy Award, New Prod- uct Award, and Volunteer Service Award. AALL also named the 2020 Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award winners. Coeditors Ed Edmonds, professor emeritus of law at Notre Dame Law School; Frank http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/19861 http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/19861 July/August 2020 319 C&RL News New from ACRL—Hidden Architectures of Information Literacy Programs ACRL announces the publication of Hidden Architectures of Information Literacy Pro- grams: Structures, Practices, and Contexts, edited by Carolyn Caffrey Gardner, Elizabeth Galoozis, and Rebecca Halpern. This book collects authors from a variety of diverse institutions, detailing the day-to-day work of running and coordinat- ing information literacy programs and the soft skills necessary for suc- cess in the coordinator role. Creating, running, and coordinating an informa- tion literacy program requires not only the vis- ible labor of scheduling and teaching classes, but also a host of invisible mechanics that makes a program function in its entirety. Hidden Archi- tectures of Information Literacy Programs cap- tures some of the tacit knowledge information literacy coordinators ac- cumulate through trial and error and informal conversations with professional networks, and details practices of information literacy programs that are both innovative and the core functions of our jobs. In 39 chapters organized into five program types—Teaching Team Model, Subject Liaison Model, Combination of Teaching Team and Subject Liaison Models, Solo Librarian Model, and Focused on a For-Credit Course—authors discuss the institutional context into which their work fits, their collaborators, students, marketing, and assessment, as well as the many varied duties they perform. Chapters examine the delicate balancing act of labor distribution, minimal or absent positional authority coupled with making decisions and assignments, gen- erating buy-in for programmatic goals and approaches, and maintaining positive relation- ships throughout the organization. Hidden Architec- tures of Information Literacy Programs attempts to make all information literacy program labor visible, raise its importance, and encourage more scholarship on what might seem like the “boring” parts of pro- gram development. This book is for gradu- ate students learning a bout infor mation literacy programs, ad- ministrators who may never have taught an information literacy ses- sion, instruction librarians looking to step out of the everyday and understand the depth and breadth of their program, and all educators interested in the accomplishments and inner workings of information literacy programming. Hidden Architectures of Information Literacy Programs is available for purchase in print and as an ebook through the ALA Online Store, in print through Amazon.com, and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the United States or (770) 442-8633 for inter- national customers. C&RL News July/August 2020 320 CHOICE launches Patron Driven podcast CH O I C E h a s l a u n c h e d a new podcast called “Patron Driven.” The series features a multi-episode nar rative for mat that combines in- terviews and storytelling to spotlight the breakthrough programs, hard-won advo- cacy, community connec- tions—and the personalities behind them—that are being achieved in academic libraries. The first series of “Patron Driven” is called “The Heart of the Campus” and tells the story of the destruction and subsequent rebuilding of the Lonestar College- Kingwood campus library in Kingwood, Texas, during and after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Learn more about “Patron Driven” on the Choice 360 website at www.choice360.org/librarianship/patron-driven -main. G. Houdek, emeritus professor of law at Southern Illinois University School of Law; and HeinOnline have won for Business and Legal Aspects of Sports Entertainment. Additionally, Ellyssa Kroski, director of in- formation technology and marketing at The New York Law Institute, has won the award as author and editor for Law Librarianship in the Age of AI. For information about the AALL Awards Program, including a list of recipients, visit bit.ly/AALL-awards, and for more informa- tion about the Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award, visit bit.ly/AALL-andrews. Jisc, LYRASIS introduce Institutional Repository Usage Statistics in United States Jisc, a not-for-profit supplier of technology for research and education in the United Kingdom, and LYRASIS, a global nonprofit membership association providing tech- nology and content solutions for libraries, museums, and archives, are joining forces to introduce Institutional Repository Us- age Statistics (IRUS) in the United States. IRUS-US is the first service to bring together standards-based usage statistics of partici- pating repositories in the United States. The service will enable repositories to provide and gather comparable usage data, while also giving them the opportunity to bench- mark usage at an international level. The United States is the fourth country to join the growing online repository community, alongside Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. EBSCO partners with CASA, Google Scholar EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced a partnership with Campus Ac- tivated Subscriber Access (CASA) through Google Scholar. Those who start their re- search in Google Scholar can now access EBSCO content with a seamless user experi- ence while conducting research off-campus. CASA enables those doing research to access their institution’s scholarly content remotely by providing seamless linking and authen- tication. Through partnering with Google Scholar, users will be able to authenticate to the EBSCO articles and journals to which they have access. Users can now access this information while working off-campus, making it easier to conduct studies anytime, anywhere. Links to EBSCO content will also be available in Google Scholar, enhancing the user experience. 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Try MeisterTask for tracking project-based tasks like LIS assignments or virtual scavenger hunts. Once verified as an educator, librarians receive an administrator account and instructions on how to add students as members. After test- ing it out free for six months, educa- tion pricing plans are available. — Michelle Donlin East Stroudsburg University . . . Meister Software Suite: MindMeister and MeisterTask https://www.meisterlabs.com /meister-for-educators/ -Activated-Subscriber-Access-CASA-for \-EBSCO. ProQuest adds FILM PLATFORM streaming documentaries Through a partnership with FILM PLATFORM, ProQuest is adding more than 500 influential and thought-provoking new documentaries to its streaming video collection. Available documentaries cover subjects including bio- ethics, health policy, women’s studies, music, sociology, human rights, and more. All cur- rent subscribers to the Academic Video On- line or ProQuest One Academic databases will automatically get access to this new content. More information is available at www.pro- quest.com/blog/pqblog/2020/Streaming-Video -Resources-for-Distance-Learning.html. Project MUSE to freeze Journal Collection prices for 2021 Project MUSE has announced it will keep pricing for all Project MUSE Journal Collec- tions flat for the 2021 calendar year subscrip- tion term due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There will be no increase in the annual cost for any current customer to renew for the same journal collection for 2021. “Positioned as we are within our home at the Johns Hopkins University Press, Project MUSE has a keen insight on the shared challenges our community faces,” said Project MUSE Director Wendy Queen. “We want to ensure our core humanities and social science resources remain available to all who count on them.” More information is available at https://about. muse.jhu.edu/resources/news/#PriceFreeze. Project Outcome for Academic Libraries releases annual report Project Outcome for Academic Libraries, a free online toolkit designed to help academic libraries assess and communicate the impact of essential library programs and services, was launched by ACRL in spring 2019. A report on its development and first year of use in the field was released in June 2020. The annual report outlines the work of ACRL and its mem- bers to develop and promote the toolkit, based on the work of the Public Library Association. It brings together aggregate data to show how academic libraries have applied Project Out- come data to make improvements and engage in advocacy. Project Outcome for Academic Libraries is free for academic and research librarians, as well as library school students, in the United States and internationally. Visit http://acrl. projectoutcome.org to register. 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