jan14_a.indd C&RL News January 2014 6 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free WSU Propaganda Poster Digital Collection A new digital collection at Washington State University (WSU) Libraries shows how pro- paganda posters—or “weapons on the wall”—helped governments influence citi- zens’ public and private behavior and deci- sions during World Wars I and II. Posters in the WSU Libraries collection date back to the 1910s. They became part of the Wash- ington State College’s War Library, a collection of rare books, pamphlets, posters, and other items established in 1937–38. The poster collection con- tinued to grow through dona- tions from various sources, including several benefactors. In 2009, nearly 300 posters from several collections were combined and cataloged by Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections Manu- scripts Librarian Cheryl Gun- selman and WSU student Amy Sabourin. University Archivist Mark O’English and another WSU student, Morgan Clendenning, inaugurated use of the libraries’ new oversized scanner this year by digitizing the collection and adding about 220 additional posters, primarily from World War II France. The Propaganda Poster Digital Col- lection, roughly 520 images of posters made between 1914 and 1945, is avail- a b l e a t h t t p : / / c o n t e n t . w s u l i b s . w s u . e d u / c d m / l a n d i n g p a g e / c o l l e c t i o n /propaganda. ACRL President Trevor Dawes to host Midwinter forum on financial literacy Join ACRL at the 2014 ALA Midwinter Meet- ing in Philadelphia for the forum “Financial Literacy: Why Students Need Librarians to Get Involved.” Hosted by ACRL President Trevor Dawes, associate university librarian at Washington University-St. Louis, the forum will take place from 10:30–11:30 a.m. on Sat- urday, January 25, 2014, in room 120A of the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Featured speaker Adi Redzic, co-founder and executive director of iOme Challenge (www.io- mechallenge.org), will make a case for why young people need librarians and other li- brary professionals to get in- volved in facilitating greater financial literacy in our com- munities. More information about the Financial Literacy Initiative can be found at the ACRL website at www. ala.org/acrl/acrl-president - t r e v o r - d a w e s - 2 0 1 3 - 1 4 -presidential-initiative. Ransom Center launches online digital image collection The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at the Uni- versity of Texas-Austin, has launched a new platform of freely available digitized images of collection materials on its website. The new site contains more than 8,000 items and will continue to grow as newly digitized im- ages are added on a regular basis. Presently the collection includes photographs by Lewis Carroll, manuscripts by Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Harry Houdini’s scrapbooks, works by artist Frank Reaugh, and items from the Ransom Center’s extensive circus collection, which includes materials related to showmen such as P. T. Barnum, Ringling Bros. and Bar- num & Bailey. Collections are being added on an ongoing basis, and planned digitization projects include Do With Less So They’ll Have Enough: Created by the U.S. Office of War Information in 1943, the government-issued poster encour- ages American citizens to conserve their personal resources so that troops overseas will have enough. January 2014 7 C&RL News Rollins College supports school library collection Earlier this year, Rollins College, on behalf of the Olin Library staff and faculty, presented Fern Creek Elementary School with a check for $3,000 to purchase non- fiction books for its school library. The money for the dona- tion came when the Olin Library was presented the 2013 ACRL Excellence in A c a d e m i c L i - braries Award in the college category. “The award is very generous and the staff considered all kinds of ways to spend the money,” said Jonathan Miller, director of the Olin Library. “In the end, we thought about Rollins’ ongoing relationship with Fern Creek and how college libraries like ours depend on the next genera- tion of readers. We d e c i d e d that the money would have far greater impact at Fern Creek than it would at Rollins.” More infor- m a t i o n a b o u t t h e AC R L E x - c e l l e n c e i n A c a d e m i c L i - brar ies Award i s a v a i l a b l e a t w w w. a l a . o r g / a c r l / a w a r d s / a c h i e v e m e n t a w a r d s /excellenceacademic. the photographs of 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and photographs and ephemera from the Fred Fehl dance collec- tion. This project was made possible with funding from the Booth Heritage Foundation. More information is available at http://hrc. contentdm.oclc.org. William Jewell College unveils bookless library William Jewell College recently launched the Pryor Learning Commons, a 26,000-square-foot building which replaces books with resources to gather, learn, and create 24 hours a day. “Most current discussions in and about higher education focus on methods of teach- ing and/or technology,” said David Sallee, president of William Jewell College. “How- ever, the Pryor Learning Commons provides a cutting-edge atmosphere in which the focus is interactive learning—students and faculty together are totally engaged in a collaborative learning process.” The commons houses two high-tech classrooms, called innovation studios; digital recording and editing suites; writable surfaces on tables and walls; wireless collaboration stations, where students can engage in group projects; a café; live Twitter feed; and more. UMass Amherst Libraries join HathiTrust The University of Massachussets (UMass) Amherst Libraries has become one of the newest partners of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries col- laborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. As HathiTrust members, UMass Amherst stu- dents, faculty, and staff will have access to more than 3.5 million public domain books. Students and their teacher at Fern Creek Elementary School show their appreciation for the Rollins College do- nation. C&RL News January 2014 8 New ACRL publication—Studying Students: A Second Look ACRL announces the publication of Study- ing Students: A Second Look, edited by Nan- cy Fried Foster. The book revisits the ground-breaking ethnographic work done by the University of Roches- ter’s River Campus Libraries and serves as a follow-up to the 2007 ACRL release Studying Students. Studying Students: A Second Look presents the results of further ethno- graphic projects at the Uni- versity of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries. Topics range from how college students “learn the ropes” to their use of technology and how they study and write their research papers. The volume also discusses what profes- sors expect of their students along with the similarities and differences among faculty, student, and librarian research practices. Filled with ideas for apply- ing the findings, the book provides additional insight into the place and role of libraries in the academy. Studying Students: A Second Look 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 United States or (770) 442-8633 for international customers. The campus community will be able to search HathiTrust’s catalog and download titles in the public domain. Users can then create their own private libraries of these electronic titles. “UMass Amherst looks forward to mem- bership in the HathiTrust as a means of facilitating access to a diverse array of digi- tized materials that will benefit the faculty, students, and staff,” stated Jay Schafer, direc- tor of libraries. Launched in 2008, HathiTrust has a grow- ing membership currently comprising more than 80 partners. Over the last four years, the partners have contributed more than 10 mil- lion volumes to the digital library, digitized from their library collections through a num- ber of means, including Google and Internet Archive digitization and in-house initiatives. More than 3 million of the contributed vol- umes are in the public domain and freely available on the web. More information on HathiTrust is avail- able at www.hathitrust.org/. John Cotton Dana Award accepting entries ALA is now accepting submissions for the John Cotton Dana Award (JCD). The award, which is managed by the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA), hon- ors outstanding library public relations. Eight $10,000 awards are granted each year by the H. W. Wilson Foundation, and the annual Awards Ceremony is sponsored by ALA and EBSCO Information Services. The award is named after John Cotton Dana, the father of the modern library, credited with helping transition libraries from reading rooms to community centers. JCD submissions include strategic library communication campaigns from all sizes and types of libraries. Submissions include rebranding efforts, promoting unique archives, awareness campaigns, and community partnerships. Entries may be submitted by any library, Friends group, consulting agency or service provider, excluding libraries represented by JCD committee members. Entry documents are available at https://johncottondana.non- January 2014 9 C&RL News Tech Bits . . . Brought to you by the ACRL ULS Technol- ogy in University Libraries Committee Paperpile is a reference management web app and Chrome browser extension that works with Google Drive to streamline your research pro- cess. Sign in with your Google account, and cre- ate bibliographies and insert citations instantly in Google Drive. Because it’s cloud-based, you can access it on any device, and there are no desk- top applications to download/update. Upload articles or search for new research in Google Scholar, PubMed, ArXiv, Twitter, etc. from inside the web app. Organize your research with labels, stars, and filters. Libraries can be migrated from Mendeley or Zotero. Paperpile has a free 30-day trial; a $2.99 a month personal-use plan, and a $9.99 a month business-use plan. Paperpile is a great way for you and your students to organize articles and sources. —Jaki King Washington State University-Vancouver . . . Paperpile www.paperpile.com profitcms.org/awards. Entries must be received by February 14, 2014. ProQuest’s adds counternarcotics content to DNSA ProQuest’s and the National Security Archive—an award-winning research institute, library, and publisher of de- classified documentation based at George Washington University—are enabling researchers to explore nearly a half-century of counternarcotics co- operation between the United States and Mexico. Digital National Security Archive: Mexico-United States Coun- ternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013 encom- passes newly declassified records from the Nixon administration through the first term of the Obama presidency, tracing the often-contentious relations between the hemisphere’s largest con- sumer of illegal drugs and a principal producer and transit point for those substances, a topic with implications for U.S. ties to the rest of Latin Amer- ica. More information is available on the ProQuest website. United for Libraries releases Academic Library Friends toolkit United for Libraries, a division of ALA, has made available a free toolkit to those look- ing to start a friends of the library group at a college, community college, or university. “Academic Library Friends: A Tookit for Get- ting Started–You Can Do This!” was written by Charles D. Hanson, director of Kettering Li- brary Services at Kettering University, and past president of the Friends of Michigan Libraries. The toolkit provides information on the value of a friends group, how to get started, devel- oping a mission, marketing, and more. The resource is freely available at www.ala.org/ united/friends. ALA Committee on Accreditation call for comment on draft standards The ALA Committee on Accreditation (COA) is issuing a call for comment through Octo- ber 3, 2014, on the proposed revision to the 2008 Standards for Accreditation of Master’s Programs in Library and Information Stud- ies. Comments may be provided in a num- ber of ways, including e-mail (accred@ala. org); the committee’s Standards Review blog (www.oa.ala.org/accreditation/), which in- cludes a link to the draft and to the review process documentation leading up to the draft, in-person sessions at the ALISE 2014 Annual Conference and the 2014 ALA Mid- winter Meeting, and through a virtual town hall meeting on February 20. The draft is the result of a five-year review effort, detailed at the Standards Review site at www.oa.ala.org/accreditation/?page_id=179. COA, to review commentary at its fall 2014 meeting with the intent for accredited pro- grams to begin implementation in 2016.