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ARL Board of Directors Met July 22-23
1. ARL Board of Directors Met July 22-23 The ARL Board of Directors met on July 22-23. The main item of business was proposing ARL dues for 2003. The Board recommends dues of $19,000. This is a $450 increase (2.4%) over current dues and will provide the association with funds to to pay for unavoidable increases in operational costs, make a $20,000 contribution to the reserve fund (reduced from last year's level), and to provide for a merit pool for staff salaries of at least 3% but no more than 3.7%. The 2003 Dues Proposal will be mailed to member representatives in early September. Membership vote on the proposal will be held at the ARL Business Meeting on October 17. Other Board actions included agreeing to
establish a new advisory committee for the ARL/AAU Global Resources Program
and to establish a 2002 Nominating Committee to develop a slate for the
ARL Board
The Board also held discussions with Bernie Reilly, President of the Center for Research Libraries, on the outcomes of the Center's strategic planning and how ARL and the Center could best work together. Dr. Robert Martin, Director, Institute for Museum and Library Services, met with the Board to discuss IMLS programs including a major initiative from the White House to provide funding for recruitment and education of librarians. 2. MIT President to Address ARL Membership Meeting, October 16-17, 2002 The ARL Membership Meeting will be held October 16-17 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. Committee meetings will be held on Wednesday, October 16 . ARL President Paula Kaufman, University of Illinois, will open the Membership Meeting at 4:30 pm Wednesday with a program celebrating ARL's 70th anniversary. A reception will follow. On Thursday morning, the Preservation Committee is organizing a program on digital preservation strategies. This will be followed by remarks from MIT's President Chuck Vest on Universities in the Digital Age and on the strategies he has used to "disturb the educational universe." The Federal Relations lunch will feature a program on Digital Rights Management (see item 10, below). The afternoon will begin with a series of concurrent discussion sessions on a range of topics. The ARL Business Meeting will take from 3:15 pm until 5 pm after which the Membership Meeting adjourns. Business to be conducted includes a membership vote on dues for 2003 and election of new Board members. A town meeting discussion on the ARL/AAU Global Resources Program is also planned for the Business Meeting along with updates on the ARL New Measures Initiative and the ARL/ACRL Task Force on Recruitment. More information on the meeting and registration information will be sent to directors in a separate email. 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 20, below). The ARL-SPARC-CNI Workshop on Institutional Repositories is Friday, October 18 (see item 4, below). 3. ARL Building Mailing List for Former ARL Directors The ARL staff has started a mailing list
of former ARL directors so that we may invite those directors to the October
Membership Meeting October 16-17, especially the Wednesday afternoon plenary
celebrating the ARL's anniversary but also the program sessions on Thursday.
If you have contact information for a former ARL
4. ARL/SPARC/CNI Sponsor Workshop on Institutional Repositories "Institutional Repositories: A Workshop
on Creating an Infrastructure for Faculty-Library Partnerships" will be
offered in Washington, DC, on Friday, October 18, following the ARL Membership
Meeting. This event will help academic and research library and IT directors
and their senior staffs begin planning for the implementation of repositories
designed to house faculty works, such as articles, data sets, images, video,
and courseware. Speakers will be from institutions that are planning and
implementing institutional repositories. The workshop will focus on the
cultural and management dimensions of establishing an institutional repository
rather than on technical matters. Space is limited so we encourage you
to register soon. More information, including a
5. Portal Applications Working Group Established The ARL Portal Applications Working Group
was established by the ARL Board in May 2002 with a charge to foster the
definition and development of portals for research libraries and the communities
they serve, and to ensure ARL's presence in discussions of similar initiatives
advocating the integration of information technology and content for the
benefit of the academic and research communities. The working group will
also monitor how libraries are applying portal technology and seek to identify
common issues or barriers to successful implementations. Sarah Michalak
has agreed to chair the new working group. The work of the working group
is expected to merge into a new standing committee in 2003. (The Collections
and Access Issues Task Force is tasked to make a recommendation for how
ARL's committees should be organized to address issues such as
6. ARL Hosts Program on Portal Applications at ALA On Friday, June 14, prior to the ALA Annual Conference in Atlanta, ARL hosted "Portal Implementations in Research Libraries: An Overview." The program featured presentations by librarians from four ARL member institutions about the current state of their portal implementations, each with a different software product. Speakers included Karen Calhoun, Cornell University (Endeavor); Theresa Lyman, Boston College (Ex Libris); Sarah Michalak, University of Utah (Fretwell-Downing); and Beth Nicol and Catherine Jannik, AuburnUniversity (Open Source Software). Their presentations may be found at: <http://www.arl.org/access/scholarsportal/index.html> 7. Survey of Portal Functionality in ARL Libraries Published In February 2002, ARL surveyed its member
libraries to identify the state of current or planned research library
applications of portals that have certain characteristics or functions.
Recognizing that there are many definitions and views of library portals,
the ARL survey sought responses from libraries that offered portals that
include (1) search engine tools that offer the user the capability to search
across multiple sources and integrate the results of those searches, and
(2) at least one kind of supporting service for the user (such as requesting
retrieval or delivery of non-digital material, online reference help, etc.).
Seventy-seven libraries responded; the analysis identified 16 libraries
as currently offering a portal although the definitions of a "portal" vary
widely within the community. The results of the survey are reported in
an article published in the June 2002 ARL Bimonthly Report, "Portal Functionality
Provided by ARL Libraries: Results of an ARL Survey," by Karen A. Wetzel,
ARL Program Officer for Distance Learning, and Mary E. Jackson, ARL Senior
Program Officer for Access Services.
8. ARL Supplementary Statistics Report 16% of Acquisitions Goes to Electronic Resources The average percentage of the library materials
budget that is spent on electronic materials was 16.25% in 2000-01, nearly
five times as much as in 1992-93. Almost $132 million was reported spent
on electronic resources in 2000-01, by 106 universities. The vast
majority of these expenditures increases have gone towards the purchase
of electronic serials and subscription services. Whereas only $11 million
was reported spent in this area when it was first included on the survey
in 1994-95, 106 libraries reported electronic serials expenditures totaling
more than $117 million today. The ARL Supplementary Statistics 2000-01
publication is available from the ARL Publication Distribution center;
a copy of the publication was mailed to every member library. For
more information regarding the ARL Supplementary Statistics, see:
9. The Shared Legal Capability Plans December Teleconference on the 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 tentatively scheduled for 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 policies for responses to government requests
for information and other issues. Panelists so far include:
10. Digital Rights Management Systems Emerge as Critical Concern for Libraries Several recent developments in Digital
Rights Management systems (DRM's) have increased attention on the impact
of DRM's on the access and use of electronic resources. Several DRM related
bills have been introduced in Congress and are under active consideration
while the FCC has been asked to take on a role in preventing
11. Special Collections Task Force Seeks Data and Plans Meeting Joe Hewitt (UNC-Chapel Hill), Chair of
the ARL Task Force on Special Collections, e-mailed all member representatives
on August 5 inviting expressions of interest about library participation
in a pilot project that would lead to the regular collection of statistics
regarding the operations of special collections. The Task Force believes
that
the regular tracking of special collections operations will allow assessment
of progress on key issues such as
12. Survey on New Approaches to Collections Management & Access Services The ARL Collections & Access Issues
Task Force is running an online survey on how research libraries' collection
management and access services are responding to changes in research, teaching,
and learning, including the growing reliance by students and other members
of research institutions to use the Web to find information.
13. Harvard's Dan Hazen Named Head AAU/ARL Global Resources Program Dan Hazen, Librarian for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal at the Harvard College Library, has accepted a one-year assignment as an ARL Visiting Program Officer with primary responsibility for working with ARL leaders to shape new strategies for the AAU/ARL Global Resources Program (GRP). The GRP has now reached a crossroads. The grant funding that created and sustained it for nearly six years has come to an end. Duke University's Deborah Jakubs, who has directed GRP for the past six years, has returned to her full-time assignment at Duke. The transition year costs are supported by contributions from nine libraries. Dan will manage a transition year to define the Program's future and more generally inform ARL's efforts concerning international resources. His part-time, one-year appointment began July 1, 2002. During his term as Visiting Program Office, Dan may be contacted via e-mail at <dchazen@fas.harvard.edu>. 14. Japan Project's GIF Document Delivery Initiative Welcomes 20th Participant Duke University became the 20th library to join the AAU/ARL/NCC Japan Journal Access Project, Global ILL Framework (GIF). GIF Participants have access to nearly 60 Japanese university and special libraries to obtain photocopies. North American participants use OCLC to send and receive requests, IFM for financial transactions, and Ariel to receive and deliver the copies. Libraries needing materials from Japanese libraries are encouraged to join GIF. Additional information may be found at: <http://www.arl.org/collect/grp/japan/GIF.html>. Please direct questions to Mary Jackson <mary@arl.org>. 15. German Resources Project Offers Access to Xipolis As of August 1st, six German Resources
Project participants gained access to Xipolis, a collection of well known,
discipline-specific references resources. Access to these resources
is available to German Resources Project participants. The next registration
deadline is February 1, 2002. Registration detains may be found at:
16. ARL Joins CRL to Co-sponsor Conference on Cooperative Collection Development, August 15 Deadline ARL and the Center for Research Libraries
invite participation in the second Conference on Cooperative Collection
Development, to be held November 8-10, 2002 near Atlanta, Georgia.
The purpose of this second Aberdeen Woods Conference is to provide a forum
for a select group of library and other academic professionals to explore
the new dynamics and economics of cooperative collection development. Limited
resources for acquisitions and the myriad challenges posed by e-journals,
databases, and other digital materials for scholarly research are eliciting
innovative new approaches to building collections in both electronic and
hard copy. To optimize opportunities for focused discussion, registration
is limited to 135 participants. Prospective participants should send a
brief message noting their current position, experience in interlibrary
cooperation, and reason for wishing to attend to James Green, CFO and Vice
President of the Center at <green@crl.edu>
by August 15 to
17. August 15th Deadline for Indicating Interest in Participating in Latest ILL Study Research and academic libraries are encouraged
to participate in the latest ILL study, Assessing ILL/DD Services. To date,
41 libraries have signaled their interest in participating, including several
who did not participate in either of the earlier ILL studies. This
project will be undertaken as part of ARL's New Measures Initiative. The
deadline for indicating interest is August 15th. Participants will share
equally in the cost of the study. Details may be found at: <http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/ill-dd.html>.
Please contact Mary Jackson
18. Awards Made in Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce The ARL Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce connects new professionals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups to careers in ARL libraries. This year, four stipend recipients were chosen from a competitive pool to receive the award. We are pleased to welcome the 2002 stipend recipients to the ARL community. + Michelle Baildon
+ Loren Ito-Hardenbergh
+ Verna Riley-Broome
+ Carlette Washington-Hoagland
Complete information about the ARL Initiative
to Recruit a Diverse Workforce can be found at
19. NLM, AAHSL, and ARL Announce New Leadership Development Program ARL/OLMS is working with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) to launch a new, jointly sponsored leadership program. The NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program is focused on preparing emerging leaders in academic health sciences libraries. Fellows will have the opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills in a variety of earning settings, including exposure to leadership in a new environment. They will be paired with mentors who are academic health sciences library directors. The Program design takes advantage of flexible scheduling and an online learning community to allow fellows to maintain their professional and personal lives. The NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program
is currently accepting applications for the September 6, 2002, deadline,
from potential fellows and mentors for the initial 2002-2003 experience.
Candidates for fellows should have a minimum of five years of department
head level or equivalent experience in an academic health sciences
Complete Program information, including
Program design, schedule, and application criteria, is available online
at: <http://www.arl.org/olms/fellows/>.
For more information about the program, please contact DeEtta Jones,
20. Upcoming ARL/OLMS Symposium Focuses on Recruitment Issues The Human Resources Management Symposium,
to be held on October 14-15 in Washington, DC, will have a special focus
on recruitment issues and innovations in academic libraries. The symposium
will feature special guest presenters who will share current data on significant
demographic changes in academic libraries and how those trends are affecting
candidate pools and recruitment processes. There will also be time for
information sharing among human resource professionals, exchanging strategies
for enhancing search processes,
21. Online Lyceum: Upcoming Courses + Library Fund Development, August 19-30
+ Training Skills, September 9-27
+ Assessment for Advancing Diversity, September
23 - October 11
A full listing of Online Lyceum courses
and the dates they are offered is available from
The spring 2002 LibQUAL+ survey results were distributed to participants during a survey wrap-up meeting held at ALA Annual in June. Participants received their individual data results in print form in addition to having online access to their results. Results from the spring 2002 LibQUAL+ survey are also available for purchase as four individual notebooks, or as a complete set. The Aggregate Survey Results notebook covers all 164 participating libraries. The Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) and OhioLINK Libraries Survey Results notebooks include results for the two consortia's member libraries, and the ARL Survey Results notebook provides information on the 69 participating ARL member libraries. Information about purchasing the notebooks is available online at: <http://www.arl.org/libqual/pubs/sp2002results.html>. The cost per notebook is $150 plus shipping and handling; a set of the four notebooks is available at a discounted price of $500 plus shipping and handling. For more information, contact Amy Hoseth at <amyh@arl.org>. Upcoming LibQUAL+ events include: + "Library Assessment and Benchmarking Institute (LAB) 2002," an ARL/SLA/FLICC collaborative event will take place September 13-17, 2002 in Monterey, California. The five-day event is designed to provide attendees with practical strategies for measuring and communication the value of information. + "New Ways of Listening to Library Users: Tools for Measuring Library Service Quality." This two-day workshop is scheduled for 27-28 September 2002 in Washington, D.C. The event will provide participants an opportunity to discuss user-focused approaches to measuring library service quality with experts in the field. To register please visit: <http://www.arl.org/libqual/events/listen/index2.html>. For more information about these events, contact Consuella Askew Waller at <consuella@arl.org>. 23. ARL E-Metrics Project Attracts 35 Participants 35 ARL member libraries expressed interest
in participating in the 2002 pilot ARL E-Metrics Project. The participants
will test the collection of the measures proposed from the 2001 pilot project
where 12 member libraries experimented and concluded that the new data
elements can be collected and are of value to libraries. The 2002
pilot seeks to augment the process by expanding the number of participants
and further refining the proposed data elements. Also, as part of
the E-Metrics activities, ARL is sponsoring Project
24. ARL Preservation Statistics Report Trends Highlights from the 1999-2000 and the 2001-01 ARL Preservation Statistics reports show that the fluctuation of preservation expenditures and staffing that ARL libraries have experienced over the past decade have continued. Expenditures for 113 ARL libraries were $92,276,777 in 2000-01, reflecting a 7.5% increase from 1999-2000, and a slow, irregular increase by about $20 million over the last ten years. Total preservation staff increased to just over 1,800 FTEs, the second time it has been over 1,800 since the survey was revised in 1996-97. After a rapid increase in 1998-99, microfilming activity dropped just as sharply stopping just short of a record low. For more information, see: <http://www.arl.org/stats/pres/>. 25. ARL Statistics and Measurement Program Status Report (a) Open Surveys: currently we are collecting
data from the following surveys:
(b) The following publications are now
available in print:
(c) The following publication is
still in production:
If you cannot access the files or have questions, contact Martha Kyrillidou <martha@arl.org>. 26. SPARC Releases Position Paper on Institutional Repositories SPARC has released a major white paper,
"The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper"
Institutional repositories (digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of university communities) answer two challenges currently facing academic institutions. First, institutional repositories reform scholarly communication by stimulating innovation in a disaggregated publishing structure. Second, they serve as tangible indicators of an institution's quality, thus increasing its visibility, prestige, and public value. SPARC's white paper describes institutional
repositories' role as catalyst for change and explores their impact on
major stakeholders in the scholarly communication process. Stakeholders
include individual scholars and researchers, academic institutions and
librarians, scholarly and scientific society publishers, commercial
27. Caucus Scheduled for U.S. Delegates to the IFLA Conference in Glasgow, Scotland The U.S. Association members of the International
Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) invite all U.S.
delegates of the 68th IFLA Conference in Glasgow to the U.S. Caucus which
will be held on Saturday, August 17, from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm in the
Argyll Suite of the Moat House Hotel (adjacent to the
If you are a voting member of IFLA, your membership certificate will have been mailed directly to you by IFLA headquarters sometime in April. Plan to attend and vote at the Council meetings. Please bring your signed IFLA membership certificate to the IFLA Voting Booth located in the Convention Center to obtain your voting materials. If you cannot attend the Council meetings, your vote may be cast by another IFLA association or institutional member in attendance. You may give your proxy to a member of the same category (association or institution) who is attending the Council meetings to vote on your behalf. A member can hold only one proxy. Or, you may mail your signed membership certificate and your proxy ballot to Duane Webster at ARL headquarters. The U.S. Association members of IFLA are: American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association, Art Libraries Society of North America, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Association of Research Libraries, Medical Library Association, and the Special Libraries Association. 28. AAAS Report Urges Authors to Leverage their Copyright The American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS) issued a report in mid-July on intellectual property
rights in the information age. The report, "Seizing the Moment: Scientists'
Authorship Rights in the Digital Age," examines the impact of the current
legal structures on the promise of electronic publishing to
29. Knight Collaborative Roundtable Addresses Question: Who Owns Teaching? A Knight Collaborative Roundtable on Teaching
was held at Princeton University in June 2001 to consider the question
"Who Owns Teaching?" Faculty from a wide range of academic disciplines
and institutions gathered to talk about the "commodification" of teaching
and "how the forces of commercial competition and public accountability
are drivers of educational quality." A summary of the discussions,
recently published in "Policy Perspectives" (August 2002, Vol. 10, Number
4), raises a number of themes that librarians are also addressing.
For example, the faculty Roundtable addressed: the impact of a pay-per-view
approach on interactions between
30. ARL Publications Issued in June and July + ARL Bimonthly Report 222 (June 2002). This issues focuses on designing collaborative spaces for librarians, faculty, and IT and ibrary portal services. This issue is also available at <http://www.arl.org/newsltr/222/index.html>. + Results from the Spring 2002 LibQUAL+ Survey. These reports are now available for purchase as four individual notebooks or as a complete set. Information about purchasing the notebooks is available online at <http://www.arl.org/libqual/pubs/sp2002results.html>. + ARL Preservation Statistics 1999-2000.
Mark Young, Martha Kyrillidou, and Julia Blixrud, comps. and eds.
+ ARL Preservation Statistics 2000-01. Mark Young, Martha Kyrillidou, and Julia Blixrud, comps. and eds. 63 pp. ISSN1050-7442. The ARL Preservation Statistics data tables and text for prior years are available electronically at<http://www.arl.org/stats/pres>. + ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2000-01. Mark Young and Martha Kyrillidou, comps. and eds. 36 pp. ISSN 1538-8999. + ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2000-01. Mark Young and Martha Kyrillidou, comps. and eds. 38 pp. ISSN 1538-900. The ARL academic law library statistics and ARL academic health sciences library statistics data tables for prior years are available electronically at <http://www.arl.org/stats/lawmed/>. + ARL Supplementary Statistics 2000-01. Mark Young, Martha Kyrillidou, and Julia Blixrud comps. and eds. 40 pp. ISSN 1533-9335. ARL Supplementary Statistics publications from prior years are available at <http://www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/#sup>. + ARL Annual Salary Survey 2001-02. Martha
Kyrillidou and Mark Young, comps. and eds. 110 pp. * ISSN 0361-5669. The
2001-02 data show that ARL librarians' salaries are holding steady after
several years of struggling to keep up with inflation. The combined median
salary for U.S. and Canadian ARL universities was $50,724, an increase
of 3.4% over the last year. This increase outperformed inflation in both
the United States and Canada, as a year of economic slowdown saw the two
nations' Consumer Price Indexes rise at rates of 2.7% and 2.6%, respectively.
ARL Annual Salary Survey data tables from prior years are available at
+ Proceedings of the 4th Northumbria International
Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services:
"Meaningful Measures for Emerging Realities." Joan Stein, Martha Kyrillidou,
and Denise Davis, eds. 364 pp. ISBN 0-918006-83-X. The 37 seminar papers
from the parallel sessions are arranged under the following headings: Standards/Strategies
and Policies; User-Centered Measures; and Assessing the Emerging Environment.
Editions of the proceedings for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Northumbria conferences
are
+ Brigham Young: Randy J. Olsen was named University Librarian effective September 1. He has been Deputy University Librarian since 1992 and will replace Sterling Albrecht who announced his retirement earlier this year. + Waterloo: Murray Shepherd announced his plan to retire in the summer of the 2003 when he will have served as director of the library for three decades. Digital Library Federation: David Seaman was named director effective July 25. Since 1992, he was director of the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia Library. H. W. Wilson Foundation: William E. Stanton was elected President of the H. W. Wilson Foundation. He served on the Board of the Foundation since 1999. He succeeds William V. Joyce, who passed away on June 1, 2002. + University of Arizona: Carla Stoffle received the 2002 Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award at the ALA Annual Conference in June. The $1000 award and citation recognizes and honors a librarian who invests time and talent to make a positive change in the profession of librarianship. + The Canadian Association of Research
Libraries (CARL) has recognized former Universite Laval librarian Michel
Fournier with CARL's national award for Distinguished Service to Research
Librarianship. The award is presented annually to an individual at a CARL
member institution who has made a substantial local, national and/or international
contribution to academic research librarianship. Fournier received
this year's award for the
+ The Canadian National Site Licensing Project won the 2002 Innovation Achievement Award of the Canadian Association of College and University Libraries (CACUL). The award is sponsored by the SIRSI Corporation and recognizes academic libraries that, through innovation in ongoing programs/services or in a special event/project, have contributed to the advancement of academic librarianship and library development. + University of Texas: Harold Billings was named the 2002 winner of the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. The award recognizes an academic librarian who has made significant contributions in the area of library automation or management and has made notable improvements in library science or research. The citation notes Harold's commitment to innovation in automation, resource sharing, and creative management. + Kerri Allen has joined SPARC as Communications
Manager. She brings to her new position a decade of marketing experience
with higher education and library publishing firms and was most recently
the Manager, Marketing Communications, at OCLC in Ohio. She may be
reached by e-mail at <Kerri@arl.org>.
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