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1. Membership Meeting,
October 16-17, Marks the 70th Anniversary of ARL
1. Membership Meeting, October 16-17, Marks the 70th Anniversary of ARL The 141st ARL Membership Meeting will be held October 16-17 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. Committee meetings will be held on Wednesday, October 16 . ARL President Paula Kaufman, University of Illinois, will open the Membership Meeting at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday with a program celebrating ARL's 70th anniversary. The Business meeting is Thursday at 3:15 p.m.. The Business Meeting Notice describes actions to be taken at the meeting and was e-mailed separately to ARL Directors on September 16. The Membership Meeting adjourns following the Business Meeting at 5 p.m. Full meeting information, including an updated schedule, appears on the ARL web site <http://www.arl.org/arl/meetings/141/index.html>. To arrange for hotel accommodations, call the Mayflower Hotel at 202-347-3000 and ask for the special negotiated ARL rate of $209 single/double. The hotel has extended the deadline for honoring reservations at the ARL rate: the new deadline is September 20. The ARL Membership Meeting is preceded
and followed by other ARL-sponsored meetings, each with separate registrations
and fees. The OLMS Human Resources Symposium on recruitment is Monday and
Tuesday, October 14-15 (see item 3 below). The ARL/SPARC/CNI Workshop on
Institutional Repositories is Friday,
2. ARL/SPARC/CNI Workshop on Institutional Repositories-Registration Re-Opened The ARL/SPARC/CNI workshop on institutional repositories is Friday, October 18, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. Due to the considerable interest in this event, the workshop registration reached capacity just over a week ago. Registration was closed and a wait list started growing. Although we may be a bit crowded, ARL's Mary Jane Brooks and the hotel came up with a way to further increase the number of people participating in this meeting. As a result, registration is re-opened with an absolute new cap of 300 people. People on the wait list have been alerted to register. If you are aware of others with an interest, encourage them to register on the Web at once. For more information about the program and to register, see<http://www.arl.org/ir2002.html>. 3. Academic Library Recruitment Symposium Planned ARL's Office of Leadership and Management
Services (OLMS) is planning a second Human Resources Management Symposium,
with a special focus on recruitment issues and innovations in academic
libraries. The organizing framework for this symposium will be the
recently published ACRL Personnel Administrators & Staff Development
Officers Discussion Group white paper, "Recruitment, Retention & Restructuring:
Human Resources in Academic Libraries." The symposium will feature
special guest presenters who will share current data on
4. ARL Task Force Invites Input on the Special Collections Agenda Judith Panitch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) announces that the ARL Task Force on Special Collections invites input as it moves forward with its ambitious agenda. The task force, chaired by Joe Hewitt (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and composed of both directors and special collections librarians from ARL libraries, will submit recommendations to ARL in spring 2003. Among the many proposals currently being developed by the Task Force are the following: + Principles Statement on Special Collections + White Paper and Conference on Access Issues + Statement on Training and Recruitment + Conference on 19th- and 20th-Century Materials Collection of Special Collections Data As the Task Force proceeds with its work, opinions from the library and scholarly community and the efforts of volunteers are welcome. Input and/or expressions of interest in participation may be directed to any of the following: Joe Hewitt, <Joe_Hewitt@unc.edu>; Barbara Jones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign <jones5@uiuc.edu>; and Alice Schreyer, University of Chicago <schreyer@uchicago.edu>. For more information about ARLs special collections activities, including the Task Force charge, membership roster, and minutes of meetings, see <http://www.arl.org/collect/spcoll/index.html>. 5. ARL Seeks Candidates for Program Officer for Training and Diversity ARL invites applications and nominations for the position of Program Officer for Training and Diversity. The Program Officer will provide leadership by designing and delivering educational and developmental programs on diversity, leadership, and management skills and by managing the day-to-day operations of the ARL Diversity Program. This person will help to prepare diverse professionals for leadership positions in research libraries, and will help the library and higher education communities develop tools that foster workplace environments that promote inclusivity. Requirements: 1) a master's degree and a minimum of three years experience in minority recruitment and retention and/or diversity education; 2) program management experience; 3) ability to communicate and work effectively with senior leadership; 4) facilitation or consulting experience; 5) proven public speaking, writing, and interpersonal skills. Preferred: experience in higher education and academic libraries in particular. Applications will be reviewed beginning November 1, 2002. A complete position description is available at <http://www.arl.org/diversity/dpo.html>. For more information on the Program Officer for Training and Diversity position or the ARL Diversity program, please contact DeEtta Jones, Director, Organizational Learning Services, at <deetta@arl.org>. 6. MLA Invites AAUP and ARL to Discuss Future of Scholarly Publishing The Modern Language Association (MLA) has invited representatives of ARL and the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) to meet with the Executive Council of the MLA on October 25 to discuss the future of scholarly publishing in the humanities. The President of MLA, Stephen Greenblatt, sent a letter to all MLA members in May encouraging them to think about the implications for tenure requirements in an era of shrinking publishing opportunities for young scholars. ARL members were sent a copy of the letter in late June, along with the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Scholarly Publishing upon which Greenblatt's letter was based. Subsequent to the report, a subgroup of the MLA Executive Council was asked to develop some specific proposals for action which can be found in the Fall 2002 MLA Newsletter (p. 17). The Executive Council has invited representatives of AAUP and ARL to meet with them to discuss these proposals. We are pleased by this extraordinary opportunity to meet with faculty and press colleagues on these important issues. For more information, contact Duane Webster <duane@arl.org> or Mary Case <marycase@arl.org>. 7. U.K. Report Raises Concerns with the STM Journals Market The U.K. Office of Fair Trading (OFT) just released a statement on "The Market for Scientific, Technical and Medical Journals." The statement results from an informal inquiry into the STM market recommended by the U.K. Competition Commission in its 2001 report about the Reed Elsevier/Harcourt merger. The statement acknowledges that there are reasons to be concerned with this market, but ultimately concludes that government intervention is not needed at this time. Among the factors the OFT statement cites as problematic are: + Price increases above inflation + The disparity in prices between commercial and non-commercial STM journals + The profitability of commercial STM publishing + The development of terms for electronic access and concerns about "bundling" The OFT states several times that it is not persuaded by publishers' arguments regarding pricing practices. Ironically, Reed Elsevier cites for the OFT the example of two editorial boards resigning from its journals as an indication of the ability of academics to exert power over the publishers. The statement also cites SPARC, the Public Library of Science, and the impact of technology that allows academics to bypass publishers altogether, as factors with the potential to be "a powerful restraint on exploiting positional advantage in the STM journals market." In the end, the OFT declined to pursue this issue further at this time. It did, however, leave the door open to future action and the consideration that such action might be best conducted internationally. The OFT statement can be found at: <http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/publications/leaflet+ordering.htm>; go to the "Media" category on this page. The statement is OFT 396. 8. The Shared Legal Capability Plans December Teleconference on the USA PATRIOT Act The Shared Legal Capability (made up of the leading library associations - ARL, ALA, AALL, MLA, and SLA) is sponsoring a satellite teleconference on privacy and security issues in libraries as a result of the USA PATRIOT Act, Homeland Security legislation, and related initiatives. The event is scheduled for noon-3 pm EST on Wednesday, December 11. The teleconference is designed to provide participants with: an understanding of this new and changing environment; tools for policy development and response planning; and resources for keeping up with changes. The program will review the relevant law,
legislation, and other initiatives, such as the Attorney General's Guidelines,
discuss the implications of these for libraries, review possible scenarios,
and offer tips for developing
9. ARL Libraries Describe New Approaches to Collections Management and Access Services In July and August, the ARL Task Force on Collections & Access Issues invited all ARL member libraries to contribute examples to a Web-based survey of new programs or activities that they had introduced in response to changes in research, teaching, and learning as well as opportunities presented by cooperation in a networked environment. Sixty libraries responded with over 150 examples describing a wide range of activities. The task force is reviewing the rich results of their survey and will discuss their findings at their meeting October 16 during the ARL Membership Meeting. In the meantime, the examples are publicly available in a file arranged chronologically by date submitted. To review the examples, click on the "Browse" feature on the survey page <http://db.arl.org/CAsurvey/> . A sorted version of the examples will be made available later this fall. For more information, contact Jaia Barrett <jaia@arl.org>. 10. Management Skills Institute on the Role of the Manager Scheduled at Arizona State An OLMS-sponsored "Library Management Skills Institute II: The Manager", hosted by Arizona State University Library, is scheduled for February 25-28, 2003. Participants will spend four days engaging with facilitators and each other to discover how they can move their library organizations into a desired future. Specific learning activities include: + Creating, sustaining,
and working toward a vision
A sample Institute agenda can be found at: <http://www.arl.org/training/institutes/agendas/lmsi2A.html>. The registration fee for this event is
$700 ARL Member/$750 Non-Member.
For a complete listing of OLMS professional
development opportunities, please visit our 2002-2003 calendar at <http://www.arl.org/olms/olms_cal.html>
or contact DeEtta Jones, Director, Organizational Learning Services at
11. Workshop on Web Development with XML Scheduled at Arizona Responding to numerous requests, ARL is offering again its popular course, "Web Development with XML." The workshop will be held on January 20-24, 2003, at the Integrated Learning Center of the University of Arizona. Taught by seasoned SGML and XML developers from the University of Virginia and Brown University, this five-day workshop will explore XML with specific consideration of how it is used and might be used in the creation of digital content for libraries. Registration information is available at <http://db.arl.org/xml/>. 12. New Courses >From the ARL/OLMS Online Lyceum Offered The Online Lyceum is proud to offer its newest course, "Library Conflict Management". This topic has been specifically requested by past Lyceum participants, and has been created in recognition that having a sense of how one responds to conflict can make it easier to manage in the library. The course will teach participants an understanding of conflict dynamics so that they may select and apply conflict management tools to constructively respond to workplace differences and disputes. In addition, "Accessible Web Design", first
offered in spring 2001, is undergoing a major revision based on collected
feedback from participants course evaluations. This three-week course is
now being offered with a renewed focus on Web accessibility standards and
incorporates a higher level of facilitator feedback through new activities
and assignments. The newly redesigned course directly addresses the
fact that Web sites that do not
Upcoming 2002 Online Lyceum courses: + Assessment for Advancing Diversity in Libraries, September 23-October 11, 2002 + Measuring Library Service Quality, October 7-November 15, 2002 + Coaching for Performance, October 16-November 8, 2002 + Licensing Review and Negotiation, October 21-November 22, 2002 + Power Dynamics and Influencing Skills, November 11-22, 2002 + Accessible Web Design, December 2-20, 2002 + Library Conflict Management, December 2-20, 2002 For more information contact Karen Wetzel at <karen@arl.org> and registration information is available at <http://www.arl.org/arl/workshops.html>. OhioLINK LibQUAL+ participants gathered to discuss their LibQUAL+ survey results on August 29 in Columbus, Ohio. Sixty-four out of the 164 libraries participating in LibQUAL+ in spring 2002 were OhioLINK members. Participants in the Columbus meeting had the opportunity to discuss their institutional results with Colleen Cook, Executive Associate Dean, Texas A&M University Libraries, and Bruce Thompson, Professor and Distinguished Research Scholar, Department of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University, and hear the results of the latest round of analysis within specific cohorts of institutions with similar institutional missions. Jeff Gatten, OhioLINK LibQUAL+ coordinator, also presented further analysis of the OhioLINK context. The online registration for participation in the spring 2003 will open in October. For more information on the LibQUAL+ program, please contact Consuella Askew Waller <consuella@arl.org>. 14. ARL Statistics and Measurement Program Status Report All of the annual survey forms were mailed to the directors of ARL libraries. Currently we are collecting data from the following surveys:
+ ARL Annual Salary Survey 2002-03
Updated charts of the data collected through the University and Total Expenditures surveys are now available at <http://www.arl.org/stats/eg/>. We would like to issue preliminary Salary Survey tables as soon as possible. If you have not returned the Salary Survey to us, please do as soon as possible. Data for all the other surveys are available
to institutions as soon as they have been submitted to ARL through the
Web interface for submitting the data. If you cannot access the files
or have questions, contact Martha Kyrillidou
15. ARL Statistics 2000-2001 Published; Total Library Expenditures Tops $3 Billion. The ARL Statistics 2000-2001 is now available
in print and was mailed to all member libraries. While ARL libraries
are a relatively small subset of the research libraries in North America,
they account for a large portion of
For more information about ARL Statistics
2000-2001, please visit <http://www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/index.html>.
To order print copies: ARL Statistics 2000-2001, Martha Kyrillidou and
Mark Young, comps. and eds. ARL,
16. CNI Announces Fall Task Force Meeting and the First Winner of Paul Evan Peters Fellowship CNI's fall 2002 Task Force Meeting will be held December 5-6 (Thursday and Friday) in San Antonio, Texas. Registration packets have been sent to all task force representatives. The meeting and hotel registration deadline is October 21. Project briefing proposals will be accepted through October 7. For more information, please see the meeting home page at <http://www.cni.org/tfms/2002b.fall/index.html>. CNI has announced the selection of Christopher
A. (Cal) Lee as the first recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship
for graduate study in the information sciences or librarianship.
Mr. Lee is currently in the doctoral
17. David Prosser Appointed SPARC Europe's Director. Dr. David Prosser was appointed as SPARC
Europe's first Director. SPARC Europe, which has 42 members from
ten countries and operates under the auspices of LIBER, will be based in
Oxford, U.K. Dr. Prosser, currently
18. European Academic Digital Publishing Initiative Underway A collective of European universities and
publishers announced the establishment of FIGARO, an academic publishing
project that will create a European network of institutions providing e-publishing
support to the
19. US IFLA 2001 Organizing Committee Announces Fellowships for the Americas Program At the 68th IFLA General Conference held August 18th - 24th in Glasgow, Scotland, the US IFLA 2001 National Organizing Committee announced a new program to support librarians from the Americas to attend the IFLA 2003 conference in Berlin, Germany, and the IFLA 2004 conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The program is funded from the net revenues earned from the IFLA 2001 Conference held last August in Boston and will support at 15 fellowships for the Berlin conference. The number of fellowships for the Buenos Aires conference will be determined in 2003. To be eligible, librarians must: be from the Americas, have been born after 1962, have a minimum of five years of working experience in a library, and not be a regular IFLA conference delegate. The application deadline is January 15, 2003, and can be completed online at <http://cs.ala.org/ifla>. During the Glasgow conference the IFLA Governing Board confirmed its earlier decision to hold the 2004 conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and selected Durban, South Africa, for the site of the 2007 IFLA conference. The complete list of conferences from 2003 - 2007 is:
2003: Berlin
20. IFLA Committee Interest Solicited Nominations for membership on IFLA Standing Committees for the term 2003-2007 are being gathered by ARL for submission to IFLA in January 2003. ARL subscribes to 11 sections and can advance a nomination for each section's standing committee (national libraries, university libraries, acquisition, document delivery, serial publications, preservation, information technology, statistics, and management of library associations). ARL member leaders with expertise in the field covered by the section and have a reasonable expectation of attending meetings of the standing committee without cost to I FLA or to ARL are invited to express interest. Elections for IFLA sections are held biennially. For additional information contact Duane Webster at <duane@arl.org>. 21. Response to Nicholson Baker Published A new book, "Vandals in the Stacks? A Response
to Nicholson Baker's Assault on Libraries", by Richard J. Cox, was recently
published by Greenwood Press. Cox is a professor of Information Sciences
at the University of Pittsburgh and represented the library and archives
community in debates with Baker at several events. Cox presents a point-by-point
critique of Baker's book Double Fold. In addition, according to the Greenwood
Press site, "The present book provides an opportunity to understand how
libraries and archives view their societal mandate, the nature of their
preservation and documentary functions, and the complex choices and decisions
that librarians and archivists face. Libraries and archives are not simple
warehouses for the storage of objects to
22. ARL Publications Issued in August + Measures for Electronic Resources
(E-Metrics): The E-Metrics project was designed to begin addressing
the need for measures of electronic information resources. The results
of the project are now available both as five
Part 1: Project Background and Phase One
Report Rush Miller, Sherrie Schmidt,
Part 2: Phase Two Report Wonsik "Jeff"
Shim, et al. 105 pp. ISBN
Part 3: E-Metrics Instructional Module
Amos Lakos, et al. 125 pp. ISBN
Part 4: Data Collection Manual Wonsik "Jeff"
Shim, et al. 60 pp. ISBN
Part 5: Library and Institutional Outcomes
Bruce T. Fraser, Charles R.
Complete Set 485 pp. ISBN 0-918006-94-5. $100.00 Order all five parts of the E-Metrics documents at a reduced price for the set. Email <pubs@arl.org>. + ARL Statistics 2000-2001. Martha
Kyrillidou and Mark Young, comps. and eds.
+ California, Riverside: Ruth M. Jackson was named University Librarian effective November 4. She will replace Interim University Librarian, VenitaJorgensen, who is also Assistant University Librarian for Public Services. Dr. Jackson is currently Dean of Libraries at Wichita State University. + Texas: Harold Billings announced he will retire from his position of Director of General Libraries effective August 31, 2003. + American Association of Law Libraries: Susan E. Fox was named Executive Director effective October 15. She is currently CEO of the Society of American Archivists. + Association of College and Research Libraries : ACRL has announced that it has contracted with Susan Martin to be the ALA Division's part-time visiting program officer for scholarly communication. Sue was previously university librarian at Georgetown University and is president of SKM Associates, Inc., a consulting firm. + Canadian Library Association: Don Butcher was named as the Association's new Executive Director, effective immediately. He was formerly executive director of Ontario's real estate appraisers association. + National Science Foundation:
Michael Pazzani will be joining NSF as the Division Director of the
Information and Intelligent Systems Division (IIS) within the Computer
and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate on October 1.
Dr. Pazzani is currently a professor of information and computer science
at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and will be on loan to NSF
from his position there.
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