feb12a.indd C&RL News February 2012 66 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free New Special Collections building opens at UGA The University of Georgia (UGA) has com- pleted a new state-of-the-art special collec- tions facility, the Richard B. Russell Build- ing, to house the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, and the Wal- ter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Collection. The university broke ground for the $46 million, 115,000-square-foot struc- ture in January 2010. UGA raised one-third of the cost from private sources, along with $7 million in gifts for program endowments. “We are exhilarated to reach completion of this outstanding new facility designed for the purpose of growing, caring for, and sharing the University’s most distinguished collections,” said P. Toby Graham, deputy university librarian and director of the Har- grett Library. “After many years of planning and fundraising, we are eager to welcome students, researchers, and the general public to engage with our collections in the Russell Building’s research rooms, exhibition halls, classrooms, and through public events.” Each special collection library has its own galleries to display permanent and rotating exhibits. Additionally, there are classrooms to allow the integration of primary source materials into instruction and meeting spaces for screenings, colloquia, and other public programs. The building includes digitization facilities for paper-based materials, moving images, and audio, as well as an oral history studio. A highlight of the building visitors will not see is a 30,000-square-foot Harvard-model high-density storage facility constructed largely below grade. As this storage model is generally used for off-site shelving facili- ties, UGA’s special col- lections vault is unique in its incorporation of high-density into an actual library. Items are retrieved using a mo- torized order picker to reach the 30-foot high shelves. MSU joins Center for Research Libraries The Mississippi State University Libraries has expanded access to critical research mate- rials in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by more than 4.5 million publications, archives, and col- lections and 1 million digital resources by enrolling in the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) consortium. CRL’s collections include the largest collection of circulating newspa- pers in North America; more than 38,000 international journals; more than 800,000 non-U.S./non-Canadian doctoral disserta- tions; and major collections from Africa, Lat- in America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Southeast Asia. The holdings that support in-depth research in areas such as human rights, history of science, cultural studies, international diplomacy, and more. CRL is online at www.crl.edu/. New Project MUSE Web interface goes live Project MUSE's new interface, featuring book and journal content integrated on a single platform, is now live at http://muse. The new Richard B. Russell Building at the University of Georgia. Photograph by Paul Efland, UGA. February 2012 67 C&RL News Winter e-Learning from ACRL Looking to expand your professional devel- opment after the ALA Midwinter Meeting? ACRL is offering a wide variety of online learning opportunities in winter 2012 to meet the demands of your schedule and budget. Full details and registration informa- tion are available on the ACRL Web site at www.ala.org/acrl/onlinelearning/elearning. Registration for all online seminars and Webcasts qualifi es for the ACRL Frequent Learner Program. Register for three ACRL e- Learning events and receive one free registra- tion. Visit www.ala.org/acrl/onlinelearning /elearning/freqlearner for more information on the Frequent Learner Program. ACRL online seminars are asynchronous, multiweek courses delivered through Moo- dle. Online seminars scheduled for winter 2012 include: • Developing a Comprehensive Critical Thinking Curriculum: From Goal-Setting to Assessment (February 6–March 2, 2012): Learn to do more than just pay lip service to critical thinking by planning, develop- ing, implementing, and assessing a library instructional unit that fosters higher-order thinking. • Deciding with Data (February 13– March 9, 2012): Learn about the lifecycle of library data from setting up its collection to making decisions using this information. • Fundamentals of Management: Prac- tical Approaches for Successful Managers (March 5–23, 2012): This course provides a practical approach to becoming a success- ful library manager, including strategies for planning, organizing, staffi ng, and evaluating library departments and programs. • Humanities on the Map: Discovering Spatial Humanities (March 12–30, 2012): Through a variety of readings, resource assignments, and project evaluations, this course will provide an overview/awareness of discussions on the role of the librarian in and useful resources for assisting students and faculty in the Spatial Humanities ACRL also offers a variety of timely live Webcasts addressing hot topics in academic librarianship. Webcasts last from an hour and a half to two hours and take place in an interactive online classroom. Group discounts are available for all ACRL e- Learning Webcasts. Winter 2012 Webcasts include: • Say What You Mean: Professional Communication Skills for Librarians (Jan- uary 31, 2012): Learn how to use different communication styles to interact effectively with people across several library settings. • From Idea to Publication Part One: Understanding the Research Question (February 7, 2012): Learn to formulate and defi ne good research questions, select appropriate research methodologies, and design the research study. • From Idea to Publication Part Two: Analysis and Writing (March 7, 2012): Learn to express research in publishable form in the second part of this three-part series. • The Library’s Role in Ensuring the Success of International Efforts on Campus (March 13, 2012): This Webcast will explore who are international students and what makes them unique learners?; best practices for outreach, orientation, and information literacy instruction to all international stu- dents and specifi cally to graduate students; and how can the library get international students themselves involved as partners in services, resources, and peer mentors? • Shifting Sands: How Small Changes in Policy, Culture and Technology are De- termining the Future of Libraries (March 27, 2012): Discover how changes in national and international policy, the growth of the free culture movement, and the rapid evolu- tion of technology are having big impacts on libraries, and what you can do to help turn the tide. Complete details and registration infor- mation for all winter 2012 e-Learning op- portunities are available online at www.ala. org/acrl/onlinelearning/elearning. Contact Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.org or (312) 280-2522 for more information. C&RL News February 2012 68 Curriculum Materials Collections and Centers: Legacies from the Past, Visions of the Future ACRL announces the release of Curriculum Materials Collections and Centers: Lega- cies from the Past, Visions of the Future. Edited by Rita Kohrman, education resources librarian at Grand Valley State University, the book provides practical applications for cur- riculum material center (CMC) operations that focus on the fundamental needs of students, faculty, and current teachers. Capturing the evolution of the education collections and services integral to teacher preparation, initial chapters fo- cus on the foundations of place CMCs within theoretical and historical contexts—their original goals, purposes, and services. Suc- ceeding chapters discuss how curriculum centers are evolving to meet current and future changes in teacher preparation. Among the notable contributors are Nancy O’Brien, Penny Beile and JoAnn Carr, all recipients of the ACRL/EBSS Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award. Carr is also editor of the ACRL publica- tion A Guide to the Manage- ment of Curriculum Materials Centers for the 21st Century. Additional chapters are written by other distinguished practitio- ners and leaders in the fi elds of education and curriculum cen- ters librarianship. This volume is essential reading for education liaison librarians, curriculum materials center collections and librarians, library schools and general professional collections. Curriculum Materials Collections and Centers: Legacies from the Past, Visions of the Future is available for purchase in print, as an e-book, and as a print/ e-book bundle through the ALA Online Store; in print and for Kindle through Amazon.com; and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the U.S. or (770) 442- 8633 for international customers. jhu.edu. More than 12,000 scholarly book titles from nearly 70 distinguished university presses and related publishers can now be located and browsed along with the content from MUSE's more than 500 journals. High- lights of the new interface include faceted searching; enhanced browsing by subject area, title, publisher, across books, and jour- nals or fi ltered by content type; and a search box on each page of the site. Two video tutorials for searching and browsing within the new interface are avail- able. View Search Books and Journals on Project MUSE at http://youtu.be/Bhldo-sLktk and Browse Books and Journals on Project MUSE at http://youtu.be/qrR9wM-R2dM. SpringerLink mobile app for iPhone Springer has launched a new SpringerLink mobile app for iPhone and iPod Touch. The free app includes a number of features like personalized notifi cations, save and share abilities, advanced search, document details with abstracts, and full-text views available to institutional subscribers. In addition, the app provides users with a multi-functional home screen, allowing for keyword and ad- vanced searches. Included in the advanced search is a save search feature that allows the user to save any advanced search so that it may be quickly executed from the home screen. The user can be notifi ed from the app’s home screen when any new chapters or articles are published that meet the criteria of his or her saved search, allowing a user to specify his or her areas of interest and quickly check for new, relevant publications. Free content in the form of article ab- stracts, more than 127,000 open access re- search articles, plus book and journal covers and other document details are included in the app. Full-text is available to all users with institutional subscriptions. Users may instantly view materials while connected to a subscriber-based network. The app is available for download from the iTunes App Store. February 2012 69 C&RL News Vogue digital archive Vogue recently launched the Vogue Ar- chive (voguearchive.com), powered glob- ally by WGSN. The archive, digitized in full color, includes all pages of every issue of American Vogue from 1892 to the present, including covers and advertisements. The ultimate style authority, Vogue offers an unparalleled record of fashion and social and cultural ideas across the span of its 120-year history. The archive provides an extraordinarily wide-ranging, in-depth, and high-caliber resource for design professionals, students, educators, researchers, and fashion enthu- siasts. The archive will be updated monthly with the latest issue of Vogue, and access is available with an annual online subscrip- tion through WGSN. Access for academic institutions and libraries is also available through ProQuest. For more information, visit voguearchive.com. Cambridge University Press preserves with Portico Portico recently announced that Cambridge University Press will preserve its Cambridge Books Online (http://ebooks.cambridge. org/) content with the community-support- ed digital preservation service. Through this agreement, Cambridge extends its relation- ship with Portico, which began in 2006 with the publisher’s commitment to deposit its entire list of e-journals in the Portico archive. The addition of titles from Cambridge Books Online brings the total number of e-books committed to the Portico archive to more than 123,000. More information is available at www.portico.org. ProQuest to digitize NAACP archives ProQuest and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) are teaming to digitize the association’s ar- chives, bringing one of the most famous records of the civil rights movement to the online world. The collection—nearly 2 million pages of internal memos, legal briefings and di- rect action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the coun- try—charts NAACP’s work and delivers a firsthand view into crucial issues: lynching, school desegregation, and discrimination in the military, the criminal justice system, em- ployment, and housing, among others. Cur- rently preserved on microfilm, it holds the distinction of being the most heavily used collection in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. With a timeline that runs from 1909 to 1972, users can examine the realities of segregation in the early 20th century, chart victories such as the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, then explore the late 1960s and 1970s as the Black Power Movement, urban riots, and the Vietnam War provided challenges for NAACP. Legal files in the collection chart the organization’s spectacular legal successes from the 1910s through the 1954 landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision and into the early 1970s. The archive will be available as part of the ProQuest History Vault. The original archival arrangement schemes will be preserved and PDFs of the original documents will replicate the user experience of browsing through archive boxes. 2012 CLIR Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grants The Council on Library and Information Re- sources (CLIR) is now accepting proposals for the 2012 cycle of the Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant pro- gram. In 2012, the program expects to award about $4 million in grants that range from $75,000 to $500,000. Applicants may request terms as short as 12 months or as long as 36 months, or any period in between. All projects must begin between January 1 and March 1, 2013, and be completed by Febru- ary 29, 2016. The application process has two phases. The initial proposal round is open, and any- one interested in applying for a grant must submit an initial proposal by March 16, 2012. The final proposal round is by invitation only. Only those applicants whose initial proposals have been approved by the Hidden Collec- tions Review Panel will be allowed to submit a full final proposal. Information about the program and links to the online application and guidelines are available at www.clir.org/hiddencollections /index.html.