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N e w s  f r o m  t h e  F i e l d  Stephanie Orphan 

Maryland’s Center for Intellectual 
Property launches blog portal 
The Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at 
the University of Maryland University Col­
lege has launched a new blog portal address­
ing the cultural, political, and legal context 
of copyright issues: ©ollectanea. The blog 
will serve as an online discussion platform 
for current and future CIP scholars, which 
currently include Georgia Harper, a leading 
copyright scholar and CIP 2006–2008 Intel­
lectual Property Virtual Scholar. The CIP 
blog furthers the center’s mission to provide 
timely copyright resources for educators. Al­
though the blog will address the needs of 
the education and library communities, all 
are welcome to engage in the discussion 
and contribute. To share your thoughts on 
copyright issues, visit the ©ollectanea blog 
at chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/. 

Princeton joins Google Book Project 
Princeton University Library has signed on 
as the 12th institution in the Google Books 
Library Project. Through the partnership, 
approximately 1 million books in Prince­
ton’s collection will be available online in 
a searchable format. With an eye towards 
opening its resources to an international au­
dience, the library will work with Google 
over the next six years to digitize books that 
are in the public domain and no longer un­
der copyright. One of the goals of Google’s 
library project is to make it easier for schol­
ars and the public to find books they would 
not be able to fi nd elsewhere. 

ARL publishes “Know Your Copy 
Rights” 
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) 
has published “Know Your Copy Rights— 
What You Can Do,” a brochure that gives 
faculty and teaching assistants in higher 
education an easy­to­scan explanation of 
when and how they can legally use intel­
lectual property in their teaching, often 
without requesting permission or paying 
fees. The brochure was developed by ARL 
and attorney Peggy Hoon, a well­regarded 
copyright specialist. Hoon is based at North 

Carolina State University and serves as ARL 
visiting scholar for campus copyright and 
intellectual property. Panels of leading uni­
versity counsels and copyright educators in 
research libraries also provided advice on 
the project. Topics covered in the brochure 
include fair use, the advantages of linking to 
(instead of copying) works, and special pro­
visions for displaying or performing works 
in classes. ARL will be rolling out a broader 
“Know Your Copy Rights” campaign in the 
coming months, aimed at helping librarians 
implement strategic copyright education 
programs on campus. 

Ordering information for the “Know Your 
Copy Rights” brochure is available at www. 
knowyourcopyrights.org/. 

ACRL offering new online course on 
teaching portfolios 
ACRL is offering a new online course April 9 
to 28—“Teaching Portfolios for Librarians.” 
Participants in the three­week course will 
learn the concept and structure of teaching 
portfolios, articulate their teaching philoso­
phy, identify supporting materials to include 
in their portfolio, and more. The course will 
provide the opportunity to learn from one 
another through online peer interaction 
and review. Instructors are Judith Arnold, 
Wayne State University; Joan Ruell, Hollins 
University; and Beth Woodard, University 
of Illinois at Urbana­Champaign. “Teaching 
Portfolios for Librarians” is being delivered 
through WebCT; participants will be able 
to work through weekly materials as their 
schedule allows, as well as attend live chat 
sessions. Registration fees range from $135 
for ACRL members to $195 for nonmem­
bers. For more information and to register, 
go to www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlproftools 
/portfolios.htm. 

Columbia University Archives joins the 
libraries 
Effective July 1, 2006, the Columbia Univer­
sity Archives joined the Columbia Libraries 
as part of the Rare Book and Manuscript 
Library. The merger will benefit both re­
positories, allowing them to share and con­

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solidate staff expertise and plan strategically 
to better serve the university and scholarly 
communities. The combined collections of 
the two repositories comprises some 45,000 
linear feet of archival and manuscript col­
lections. The University Archives (formerly 
known as the University Archives and Co­
lumbiana Library), established in 1988, ap­
praises, collects, describes, preserves, and 
provides access to records that document 
the evolution of all aspects of the university. 
The collections include offi cial university 
records, alumni memorabilia, publications, 
photographs, and the records of student or­
ganizations, which will become part of the 
libraries holdings and will benefit from ac­
cess to library staff expertise in conserva­
tion, management, and development. 

Wiley celebrates 200 years of 
publishing 
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. has 
reached its bicentennial, a milestone 
reached by only a small number of compa­
nies. Decades after Charles Wiley opened a 
print shop in lower Manhattan in 1807, he 
and son John were publishing such authors 
as James Fenimore Cooper, Washington 
Irving, and Edgar Allen Poe. The company 
also developed critical scientifi c, techni­
cal, and engineering knowledge during the 
second Industrial Revolution. Today, Wiley 
serves a global community of customers, 
authors, and society publishing partners. 
Wiley launched its bicentennial celebration 
at the end of January with the worldwide 
distribution of a video about the company. 
On May 1, Wiley’s leadership will enter its 

new fiscal year by ringing the closing bell 
at the New York Stock Exchange, where its 
shares are traded. Also in May, the compa­
ny will publish an illustrated history book, 
Knowledge for generations: Wiley and the 
global publishing industry, 1807–2007, by 
Timothy C. Jacobson, George David Smith, 
and Robert E. Wright. For more informa­
tion about Wiley and its bicentennial, visit 
the company’s 200th anniversary Web site: 
www.wiley.com/go/bicentennial. 

Updated Texas A&M science fi ction 
database provides access to 75,000+ 
items 
Texas A&M University Library loaded an 
updated version of its Science Fiction and 
Fantasy Research Database December 31, 
2006. The database provides author, title, 
and subject access to more than 75,000 
individual items related to the fi elds of 
science fiction and fantasy, drawn from 
books, journals, newspapers, fanzines, the 
Internet, and, occasionally, unpublished 
manuscripts. The database is based heav­
ily upon the Science Fiction and Fantasy 
Research Collection in the Cushing Memo­
rial Library and Archives and collections in 
the Sterling C. Evans Library at Texas A&M, 
with the substantial assistance of the Inter­
library Loan department of the University 
Libraries. Material acquired for indexing 
from other sources is archived in “Science 
Fiction: Collected Papers,” the research fi le 
of compiler and science fiction curator Hal 
W. Hall. The database is available online at 
library.tamu.edu/cushing/SFFRD/default. 
asp. 

ACRL seeks presentations for 2008 professional development programs 

ACRL invites proposal submissions for half­
day or full­day professional development 
programs to be held prior to the 2008 ALA 
Midwinter Meeting or the 2008 ALA Annual 
Conference. Submissions will be accepted 
through April 2, 2007. 

Professional development programs 
should allow participants to develop skills 
related to a specific topic and should focus 
on interactive learning using a variety of 
presentation styles. Programs that offer 

practical tips and cutting­edge techniques 
are especially encouraged. Proposals should 
explicitly outline activities that will be 
incorporated during the session to enable 
attendees to achieve the session’s learn­
ing outcomes, and programs can either be 
half­day or full­day sessions. The complete 
Call for Proposals and the online submis­
sion form are available at www.ala.org/acrl 
/events (click “2008 Call for Professional 
Development Proposals”). 

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Rutgers releases Women Artists 
Archives National Directory 
Rutgers University Libraries has developed 
and released the Women Artists Archives Na­
tional Directory (WAAND), an online direc­
tory to archival materials on women visual 
artists and artists’ organizations in the U.S. 
WAAND made its public debut in February, 
in conjunction with the 2007 annual meet­
ing of the College Art Association. Initial 
funding for the project was from the Getty. 
WAAND unites online information on archi­
val repositories into a single union catalog. 
Partnering with more than 80 institutions 
that include the Smithsonian Institution’s 
Archives of American Art, the National Mu­
seum of Women in the Arts, the Library of 
Congress, and the National Association of 
Woman Artists, WAAND currently directs 
users to information on approximately 800 
discrete collections indexed to more than 
5,000 individual artists’ names. Outreach 
to identify and enlist the support of addi­
tional archival institutions will follow the 
initial release. WAAND is 
available online at waand. 
rutgers.edu. 

Emerald selects 
Manuscript Central for 
peer review 
Emerald, publisher of aca­
demic and professional liter­
ature in management, library 
services, and engineering, 
has selected ScholarOne’s 
Manuscript Central as its 
online peer review system. 
Manuscript Central offers a 
number of features to ad­
dress scholarly publishers’ 
needs, enabling users to sub­
mit, review, annotate, and 
format technical manuscripts 
in innovative ways. Schol­
arOne, which was recently 
acquired by Thomson Sci­
entific, provides workfl ow 
management systems for 
scholarly journals, books, 
and conferences. The Manu­
script Central user base in­
cludes 2.6 million registered 
users worldwide. 

CrossRef DOIs surpass 25 million mark 
CrossRef, the citation linking service, has 
announced that there are now more than 
25 million content items registered in the 
CrossRef system, which began in early 2000. 
Although the majority of these Digital Ob­
ject Identifiers (DOIs) are assigned to online 
journal articles, there are more than 2 mil­
lion DOI strings assigned to conference pro­
ceedings, components, and books. CrossRef 
has also been supporting assignment of 
DOIs to technical reports, working papers, 
dissertations, standards, and data elements. 
The 25 millionth DOI, 10.1093/fh/6.1.106, 
was registered by Oxford Journals, Oxford 
University Press, for the journal French His­
tory. CrossRef hit the 10 million DOI mark 
in January 2004, after roughly four years in 
operation. Since then, the rate of growth in 
DOI creation across the scholarly publishing 
community has accelerated considerably, 
with the next 10 million DOIs being created 
and registered in just over two years. Of the 
five million DOIs created and assigned dur­

The 2006 New York Times Librarian Awards, announced in 
December, for the first time included 3 academic librarians 
among the 25 recognized. The award winners were celebrated 
at a ceremony and reception at which each was given $2,500 
and a commemorative plaque from the Times. Pictured here 
are, from left to right, Pamela Snelson, ACRL president and 
college librarian at Franklin & Marshall College, and the three 
academic library award winners: Myrna J. McCallister, dean of 
the library, Indiana State University Library; Jennifer Duvernay, 
coordinator of instruction, outreach and marketing, Arizona State 
University Libraries; and Paul Owen Jenkins, director of library 
services, Archbishop Alter Library, College of Mount St. Joseph. 
Photo © 2006 Paul M. Gaykowski—All rights reserved. 

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ing the past year, a large number are 
associated with archival journal arti­ I can’t live without . . . 
cles. The Royal Society, for instance, 
recently registered its complete jour­ WorldCat has always been the database I 
nal back­file. In so doing, it joins check to make sure I’m not missing a resource 
several CrossRef member publishers that may be out there for a reader. Previously, 
who have recently completed, or are I have used the FirstSearch platform and more 
in the midst of, vast retro­digitization recently the search abilities through Yahoo! and 
initiatives, including Elsevier, Spring­ Google. Now it is available to everyone directly 
er, Sage, Kluwer, Wiley, Blackwell, at www.worldcatlibraries.org/. 
the American Association for the Ad­ I use it for research and also for that absolutely 
vancement of Science, and JSTOR, vital need to know where is the closest library 
among others. with this book, video, journal, etc.? I absolutely 

can’t live without it.—D. Yvonne Jones, Rollins 
Academic libraries among 2007 College 
WebFeat award winners for . . . WorldCat 
innovation in federated search 

www.worldcatlibraries.org/systems 
Bowdoin College, Dartmouth Col­
lege, and Northumbria University received 
top honors in the academic library category 
of the 2007 WebFeat President’s Awards for 
Innovation, which recognize innovation in 
design and function in WebFeat clients’ state­
of­the­art information systems. Seven libraries 
in all were chosen from among 30 nominees 
for bold innovation in the design of their 
federated search interfaces and functional­
ity, as well as for the quality of integration 
of WebFeat with the libraries’ existing Web 
pages. Bowdoin College Library’s Cast­a­Net 
powered by WebFeat can be found at library. 
bowdoin.edu/; Dartmouth College Library’s 
Search 360 is online at library.dartmouth. 
edu/; and Northumbria University Library’s 
NORA is at northumbria.ac.uk/sd/central/ 
library/. 

Washington Offi  ce offers how-to guide 
for podcasting 
In December, the ALA Washington Offi ce 
debuted the District Dispatch Podcast, a 
regularly updated audio program contain­
ing news and commentary about recent 
library­related legislation. Since initiat­
ing the series they have had requests for 
information on how to create a podcast. 
They’ve responded by creating “A step­by­
step guide to creating a podcast,” which 
was posted to the District Dispatch blog on 
February 14. The direct URL to this post is 
blogs.ala.org/districtdispatch.php?title=ala 
_washington_of fice_tips_for_creating 
_&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1. To listen to 

District Dispatch podcasts, go to blogs.ala. 
org/districtdispatch.php?cat=191. 

Cambridge Information Group acquires 
ProQuest Information and Learning 
Cambridge Information Group (CIG) has 
completed its acquisition of ProQuest Infor­
mation and Learning from ProQuest Com­
pany. CIG will combine its Bethesda­based 
CSA subsidiary with ProQuest Information 
and Learning in Ann Arbor to create a new, 
privately held company, ProQuest­CSA. The 
new company will serve a combined cus­
tomer base of more than 30,000 institutional 
customers and their users. The company will 
continue to operate from both locations. In 
addition to ProQuest­CSA, CIG’s operating 
companies include R.R. Bowker, RefWorks, 
and Sotheby’s Institute of Art. 

Academic freedom center established 
at NYU library 
A new center for the study of academic free­
dom has been established at New York Uni­
versity’s Division of Libraries. The Frederic 
Ewen Academic Center will sponsor schol­
arly research and public programs to raise 
awareness of threats to intellectual freedom. 
Funded by a major gift from Herbert Kurz, 
chairman of the board of the Presiden­
tial Life Insurance Company, the center is 
housed at NYU’s Tamiment Library, an ar­
chive devoted to research on labor history 
and the history of other progressive political 
movements. 

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