C&RL News January 2015 6 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free Rendering of the Emory-Georgia Teach Library Service Center. Photo cour- tesy of KSS. Emory, Georgia Tech to open joint Library Service Center Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) will break ground soon on a new joint Library Service Center (LSC). The LSC is a collaborative project that will house a shared collection of materials, provide delivery services, and free up space on the main campuses at both universities. The majority of collections currently in the Georgia Tech Library will move to the LSC, providing space for the Library Renewal Project, a multi-year plan to reimagine Geor- gia Tech’s library spaces and services for the 21st century. For Emory, the LSC will provide a single off-site location for consolidating materials already housed at other locations, and free up much needed space from its main campus library. Site preparation for the LSC, located at Emory’s Briarcliff Road property, is under- way, with building construction completion expected in fall 2015. The LSC will house high-density shelving designed to ensure the long-term preservation of and access to library collections. The ultimate goal of the LSC partnership is to create a seamless collection with all Emory and Georgia Tech resources (eventu- ally including electronic resources, where possible) available to students, faculty, and staff in both institutions. NCSU Libraries explore data mining historical content The North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries has signed a pioneering license that enables its researchers to data mine the extensive archival collections that the Gale publishing firm holds for texts and other materials impor- tant to historians and humanists. While data min- ing is widespread in the social and natural sciences, publishers have traditionally not offered blanket rights to mine his- torical archives. The agreement with Gale marks the first such li- cense ever signed between an academic research library and a major commercial publisher of historic archival collections. With research-friendly, electronic access to the material in Gale’s databases—includ- ing the ability to mine archival data on NCSU servers—NCSU scholars can further their use of data mining strategies to take the next groundbreaking steps forward in the digital humanities. Caribbean history and economics of agriculture materials to be made available online The University of Florida (UF) and the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) are collaborating on an initiative to make January 2015 7 C&RL News Friends in academic libraries Across the country, academic librarians and development offi cers are fi nding that having an effective and active Friends group can be an important resource both for fundraising and community engagement. The two most important words in that last sentence may well be “effective” and “active.” While from time to time, conversations pop up about moribund groups or groups that just aren’t worth the investment of time and energy, other academic librarians are making great headway with their Friends’ help to bring in more revenue, increase library program- ming, and as a bridge between the library and the community it serves. There is currently a movement afoot to help academic librarians make the most of their Friends groups and to start a group if one doesn’t currently exist. Led by Kettering University Library Director Charles Hanson, a group of academic librarians has begun working with ALA division United for Librar- ies to develop resources to help academic Friends groups be successful, create a 50 state contact list to get the word out about the resources that are currently available, and encourage an ongoing dialogue between academic librarians about how to work ef- fectively with their Friends. This special task force has met several times by conference call and many activities are already underway. For example, Hanson was able to convince ACRL to include a ques- tion about whether academic librarians have a Friends group in the 2013 ACRL Academic Library Trends and Statistics Survey. The re- sults? Nearly 28% of academic libraries have a Friends group and the task force is hoping that this number will increase over time. In addition, the task force held a discus- sion group at the 2014 ALA Annual Confer- ence in Las Vegas so academic librarians could talk about how to improve their work with Friends, how Friends can raise money for the library, and how to work successfully with the college or university development office—working collaboratively and not competitively. Public libraries have been relying on Friends for additional support for years and in today’s economy and the increasingly un- friendly economic environment that libraries of all types are often facing, they fi nd that Friends can be an indispensable for advocacy, engagement, and library promotion. United for Libraries is working with the Academic Friends Task Force to develop even more resources for academic Friends groups. Our goal is that every academic library has a dedicated group of academic library sup- porters to ensure that the library is seen by all as central to the academic achievement of its students. Members of the task force include Charles D. Hanson, coordinator, Kettering University; John W. Berry; Alice Calabrese-Berry; Rodrigue Gauvin, Acadian Enterprises LLC; Carrie Gard- ner; Sam Huang, University of Florida; Denise Hooks, Mideastern Michigan Library Coopera- tive; Kathy Irwin, Central Michigan University; Michael LaCroix, Creighton University; and Jill Stodt, Mott Community College. —Sally Gardner Reed, executive director, United for Libraries C&RL News January 2015 8 Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers ACRL announces the publication of Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers by Kevin L. Smith. Copyright and other types of laws regulating intellectual property create an increasing concern for contemporary scholarship. The digital envi- ronment has created exciting new opportunities and pos- sibilities for scholars to work and distribute their work. But these new opportunities also create issues that did not arise in the analog world. Owning and Using Schol- arship demystifi es intellec- tual property, and especially copyright law, for academic authors and independent scholars who face these di- lemmas. It also serves as a comprehensive resource for librarians who are asked to assist with these new and chal- lenging decisions. Throughout the book, a clear explanation of the law is coupled with concrete examples drawn from actual issues encountered by scholars. This balance of theoretical back- ground and practical application is designed to appeal to both those who want a quick discussion of potential approaches and those who prefer to know “why.” In addi- tion to applying this ap- proach to copyright issues that arise for research and teaching, the volume also discusses the options and obstacles that confront authors wishing to publish their work in new environ- ment. Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Hand- book for Teachers and Re- searchers 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 book is also available in an open access edition on the ACRL website at http://bit.ly/owning-OA. available print materials published be- tween 1962 and 1988 pertinent to contem- porary and historical agriculture and es- sential to the study of Caribbean history and economics of agriculture. In addition, a comprehensive bibliography of materi- als available for future digitization will be created. The project completion date and availability of the online materials is Au- gust 31, 2015. UVI will digitize the materials and pro- vide metadata that increases discoverability of the materials, and will identify items for ongoing preservation. UF’s role will be to create a bibliography of agricultural publications as a means to prioritize future digitization efforts. Funding for the project comes from Project Ceres, a partnership of the Center for Research Libraries, the United States Agriculture Information Network, and the Agriculture Network Information Center. The partnership was formed to support the ongoing preservation and digitization of collections in the fi eld of agriculture. New IS Tips and Trends The ACRL Instruction Section Instructional Technologies Committee has published their latest Tips and Trends covering On- line Presentation Creation Tools by Brad Sietz and Caroline Sinkinson. Tips and Trends introduce and discuss new, emerg- ing, or even familiar technologies that can January 2015 9 C&RL News Tech Bits . . . Brought to you by the ACRL ULS Technol- ogy in University Libraries Committee Need to do some quick photo editing? How about creating a meme for your library’s social media? Need a graphic fast and don’t know where to start? PicMonkey.com is your answer. It has four settings: Edit, Design, Touch Up, and Collage. Most features are free and can be used without an account. If you decide you really like the site, you can pay $4.99/ month or $33/year to access the Royale fea- tures (indicated by a crown). To get started you can either drag and drop your photo into the browser or open it from a file. With an intuitive interface, PicMonkey can make your photos look snazzy in just a few clicks. — Emily Thompson University of Tennessee-Chattanooga . . . PicMonkey picmonkey.com be applied to the library instruc- tion setting. Learn more about how to use online presentation creation tools to present content, encourage active and engaged classroom learn- ing, and create online learning arti- facts. Online Presentation Creation Tools is freely available at URL. JVL seeks visual literacy standards submissions The Journal of Visual Literacy (JVL) invites manuscripts for an analysis of the 2011 ACRL Vi- sual Literacy Competency Stan- dards for Higher Education ( w w w . a l a . o r g / a c r l / s t a n d a r d s /visualliteracy) for an upcoming special issue of the journal. The journal seeks manuscripts that explore empirical, theoretical, re- search, practical, or applied as- pects of visual literacy for library and information science and ser- vices and visual literacy standards developed by other disciplines. With the proliferation of visual informa- tion, research has indicated that the need to incorporate visual literacy into the cur- riculum of higher education is one of the most pressing tasks. Scholarly research contribution to JVL enhances the imple- mentation of visual literacy standards in the curriculum, research, and learning for a lifelong learning journey. Contact JVL Guest Editor Yan Ma, at yanma@uri.edu for more information. The deadline for manuscript submission is March 20, 2015. LYRASIS selects participants for HBCU Library Alliance Photographic Preservation Project LYRASIS and its partners, the Conserva- tion Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, HBCU Library Alliance, Image Perma- nence Institute, and University of Dela- ware Art Conservation Department, have selected five Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to participate in the third HBCU Preservation Project. The 28-month project, funded with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, addresses the preservation needs of spe- cial photographic and magnetic media collections and enables increased use of this content for instruction and research. All of the HBCUs that participated in the first two Preservation Projects were invited to apply and the following were selected for participation in the project based on the significance of their collections and in- stitutional capacity related to preservation, special collections, and community engage- ment: Atlanta University Center - Robert Woodruff Library (Georgia); Fisk University (Tennessee); Hampton University (Virginia) ; Johnson C. Smith University (North Caro- lina); and Tuskegee University (Alabama) Each of these institutions will receive grants of up to $50,000 to fund preservation and access efforts for photographic and/ or magnetic media special collections.