November 1999 E-news for ARL Directors: Part One

CONTENTS

1. ARL Committee Interest Sought
2. ARL/OSC Brochure on Scholarly Communication Available
3. Keystone Principles Published
4. Library Materials Budget Survey
5. NRC Chair of Intellectual Property Committee Comments
6. Cooperative Collection Development Conference Held
7. AAU/ARL Global Resources Project News
8. ARL Recruitment Initiative Names Advisory Committee
9. New Measures Initiative Moves Forward
10. Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Update
11. ARL Statistics and Measurement Program Update
12. Quick SPEC Survey on Hiring Requirements
13. ARL Plans for ALA Conference in San Antonio
14. Database Editorial Published in New York Times
15. EDUCAUSE Board Officers and New Members Selected
16. Sustaining Innovation Publication Available to Members
17. NINCH Announces Copyright Town Meetings Series for 2000
18. Leading Ideas Changes Format
19. ARL Publications
20. Transitions
21. Other Transitions
22. Recent ARL Web pages

1. ARL Committee Interest Sought
The ARL Executive Committee is preparing to make ARL committee
appointments for calendar year 2000. An inquiry was sent in November to
directors who are not currently on a committee or whose term is due to
expire in 1999. If you want to participate on an ARL committee, please
notify Duane Webster or Lee Anne George by December 15.
2. ARL/OSC Brochure on Scholarly Communication Available
As noted last month, the ARL Office of Scholarly Communication is
making available a new brochure called Create Change. This brochure
describes the factors contributing to the ongoing revolution in scholarly
communication and is intended for use with faculty and researchers within
the academy. It outlines the key issues in scholarly communication and
encourages faculty to take an active role in creating their future
offerings. The text of the Create Change brochure is now available on the
Web at http://www.arl.org/scomm/change.html in both HTML and Microsoft Word
versions. Please feel free to download and customize the text for local
use. Print copies of the slightly revised brochure will be available
shortly. ARL members will receive a sample copy with a press release and
information on ordering. The first 50 copies will be free to ARL and
SPARC members. For more information contact Mary Case.
3. Keystone Principles Published
In September 1999, 80 academic library leaders came together at
the ARL/OCLC Strategic Issues Forum for Academic Library Directors in
Keystone, Colorado. These discussions created The Keystone Principles, a
statement articulating the traditional values of academic libraries and
how these values may be reflected in the new roles undertaken by libraries
in the digital environment. The Principles were endorsed by participants
at the Forum and subsequently by the South East Research Libraries Group.
To encourage further discussion and endorsements, the Principles are
published on the ARL website
and will also appear in the December issue of ARL Bimonthly Report.
4. Library Materials Budget Survey
The Library Materials Budget Survey for FY2000 was sent recently
to all ARL survey coordinators. The Library Materials Budget Survey--a
survey which has been conducted for the past decade by the
ALCTS/CMDS/Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research
Libraries Discussion Group (CCDOs)--was distributed to all ARL members for
the first time last year. Summary analysis of the CCDOs' Surveys for
FY1996, FY1997, FY1998, and FY1999 are now available at
http://www.arl.org/scomm/lmbs.html. Analysis of last year's full
membership results continues and will be posted, along with the historical
data from the CCDOs' group, shortly. For more information contact Mary
Case.
5. NRC Chair of Intellectual Property Committee Comments
The National Research Council released on November 3 a report
titled "Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age."
Professor Randall Davis of MIT, who heads the Council's committee on
property rights in the digital age, presented the report, which took two
years to prepare. He summed up the digital dilemma by talking about "how
digital information can be distributed without losing control of
it--sharing it but not surrendering it."

The report addresses the concerns of authors, publishers, the
general public, the education community, representatives of the technology
industry, and policy makers. Davis noted that "digital information raises
the stakes around the long-standing issue of copying for private use and
fair use." And he addressed the trend toward licensing and asks, "With an
online journal, what do you own when the subscription expires?"

In discussing the report, Davis also highlighted the report's
question "of whether the notion of a 'copy' remains an appropriate
foundation for copyright law in the digital age." Copying, he notes, is
directly related to the way computers function for that is how data is
accessed; and thus, control of copying would provide powers that, he
suggests, go beyond those intended by copyright law. In suggesting the
need to develop an alternative framework for understanding copyright,
Davis says that the question would not be whether a copy had been made,
but whether a use of a work was consistent with the goal of copyright law
and whether it was substantially destructive of an author's incentive to
publish.

The printed report will be released by the National Academy Press
around the end of the year. You can find materials from the briefing and a
summary of the report at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
web site, http://www.cstb.org/, or at  http://www.nas.edu/.

6. Cooperative Collection Development Conference Held
Representatives from more than 125 academic and research libraries
and library consortia met at the Aberdeen Woods Conference Center outside
Atlanta on November 12-14, 1999, to consider current initiatives in
cooperative collection development and the key elements of successful
cooperative endeavors. The conference, "Creating New Strategies for
Cooperative Collection Development," was hosted by the Center for Research
Libraries (CRL) and cosponsored by ARL, CLIR, the International Consortium
of Library Consortia (ICOLC), and RLG. For a fuller report on the
conference, see <http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/>.
7. AAU/ARL Global Resources Program News
Dartmouth has joined the Latin Americanist Research Resources
Project. They are the 43rd member.

The British Library is exploring points of potential collaboration
with the AAU/ARL Global Resources Program. The first connection is likely
to link the British Library's eminent Oriental and India Office
Collections with the Global Resources Program project on the Digital South
Asia Library.

8. ARL Recruitment Initiative Names Advisory Committee
An advisory committee will help advance the ARL's Initiative to
Recruit a Diverse Workforce. The Committee is comprised of:

+ Nancy Baker, Washington State University
+ Stella Bentley, Auburn University
+ Meredith Butler, SUNY at Albany
+ Nancy Eaton, Pennsylvania State University
+ Emma Perry, Southern University
+ William Welburn, University of Iowa
+ Dawn Kight and Vicki Coleman, ARL Visiting Program Officers,
   will contribute as staff to the initiative.

To date, over 50 percent of ARL member institutions have made a
commitment to join this initiative. For more information about the
Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce or other diversity efforts,
please contact DeEtta Jones, Director of Diversity Initiatives, at
deetta@arl.org.

9. New Measures Initiative Moves Forward
The ARL New Measures agenda which is supported by the Statistics
and Leadership Committeess is moving forward on the various projects:

(a) Discussion is underway on how best to support an investigation
into outcomes activities at the university level to use as a basis to
determine measures for library contributions. Financial support is being
solicited from committee members to support this investigation.

(b) A study of the utility of service effectiveness measures using
the SERVQUAL instrument is being spearheaded by Texas A&M. Fred Heath has
issued an invitation to several institutions to participate in this
project. This project will support a maximum of 10 participating
institutions, each contributing $2,000. The largest portion of the costs
for this project are being supported by Texas A&M; foundation support will
also be sought. A meeting of the participating institutions will be held
in San Antonio in conjunction with ALA mid-winter.

(c) An invitational meeting to address the feasibility of
conducting a year long study on usage measures for electronic resources
will be held on Feb 27-29 in Scottsdale, Arizona. An initial planning
meeting will take place on Dec 13 in conjunction with the CNI meeting in
Phoenix, Arizona. Rush Miller (Pittsburgh) and Sherrie Schmidt (Arizona
State) are co-chairs of the Planning Work Group.

Directors and interested staff are invited to attend a discussion
meeting in relation to the various initiatives proposed under the New
Measures agenda to be held in San Antonio (see note 13 below).

As work progresses, reports will be made for the various projects.
Members interested in any of these activities should contact Julia Blixrud
jblix@arl.org.

10. Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Update
CNI is hosting an invitational meeting on "Defining Archivability
for the Electronic Journal" on December 6, 1999, in Washington. The
participants will be asked to react to and discuss a "straw man proposal"
they were sent prior to the meeting that presents a set of potential
criteria for digital archiving of e-journals. Results of the meeting will
be discussed in a project briefing at the CNI Fall Task Force meeting in
December and will be disseminated via CNI-announce and on the CNI website
at http://www.cni.org.

The CNI Fall Task Force meeting will be held in Phoenix, AZ, on
December 13-14, 1999. The opening plenary panel, "CNI's First Decade:
Looking Forward and Looking Back," will feature: Clifford Lynch, Richard
West, chair of CNI's Steering Committee; Peter Graham, Syracuse
University; Daniel Greenstein, CLIR; William Graves, eduprise.com; Karen
Hunter, Elsevier; and Susan Perry, Mt. Holyoke College. The closing
plenary session will feature Professor Alice Agogino, University of
California-Berkeley, who is a leader in teaching and learning networked
projects in the field of engineering. A broad range of project briefings
will be available. Program information is on the CNI website at
http://www.cni.org.

Clifford Lynch was a member of the National Research Council
Committee on Intellectual Property in the Emerging Information
Infrastructure that recently released its report "The Digital Dilemma."
(see item 4 above) Several members of the committee will discuss the
report at the upcoming CNI meeting in Phoenix.

11. ARL Statistics and Measurement Program Update
Annual Salary Survey 1999-2000: Preliminary tables for the ARL
Annual Salary Survey were posted to the ARL Directors and the ARL Salary
Survey Coordinators electronic mailing lists. Final tables will also be
posted later in the week and the publication salary files will be
accessible to member libraries through ftp till the final printed
publication is distributed to members later in January.

ARL Statistics 1998-99: We have received 85 completed ARL
Statistics surveys from coordinators. We would like to have every survey
back by December 20. Please let Martha Kyrillidou  know
if you anticipate delaying submission of the ARL Statistics beyond that date.

Responses from the other surveys so far:

+ 45 1998-99 academic law libraries

+ 45 1998-99 academic medical libraries

+ 71 1998-99 supplementary statistics surveys

+ 36 1998-99 preservation statistics surveys

The 1997-98 ARL Supplementary Statistics report and the 1997-98
ARL Preservation Statistics publication are also currently being prepared
for a later distribution.

12. Quick SPEC Survey on Hiring Requirements
All university library members of ARL have responded to the New
York University-sponsored Quick SPEC survey on hiring requirements. In
answer to the question of whether institutions have a strict M.L.S.
requirement, 67% of the institutions responded yes and 33% responded no.

Fifty-one percent of ARL libraries have faculty status and 39% award
tenure to librarians. More detailed information will be available through
a forthcoming ARL Bimonthly Report article and possibly a SPEC Kit on this
topic.

13. ARL Plans for ALA Conference in San Antonio
+ ARL Update on New Measures: The ARL Statistics and Measurement
Committee will host a discussion meeting to bring interested parties
up-to-date in relation to the various initiatives proposed under the New
Measures agenda. The meeting will be held at the Menger Hotel in Ballroom
B on Friday, January 14, from 1 to 5 p.m.

+ ARL Survey Coordinator meetings: Additional meetings for the
ARL survey coordinators to review current developments and issues with the
existing annual surveys will be held at the following locations: ARL
Survey Coordinators and SPEC Liaison Meeting at the Menger Hotel in
Ballroom B on Friday, January 14, from 5 to 7 p.m.

+ ARL New Survey Coordinators Workshops on the ARL Annual Salary
Survey and the ARL Statistics Surveys at the Holiday Inn, Riverwalk in
Tango 1 & 2 on Saturday, January 15, from 5 to 6 p.m.

+ The Midwinter 2000 ARL Directors Forum on Managing ILL/DD
Operations is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon on Friday, January 14,
at the Gunter Hotel, Alamo Room. This Forum will highlight the draft NISO
circulation interchange protocol and its potential to facilitate the
emerging way of using circulation systems to increase access and share
resources. The Forum will feature presentations on the draft standard and
how it will be implemented by vendors and used by libraries.

+ A SPARC/ACRL Publisher-Librarian Forum entitled "Scientific
Communication: Restructuring the Market" is planned for Monday, January
17, 2000 9:30-11:30 a.m.

14. Database Editorial Published in New York Times
A supportive editorial regarding the different approaches to
database legislation was published in the New York Times on November 15.
The editorial concludes that the Coble bill "leans too much in the
direction of protecting the proprietary interests of database owners at
the expense of keeping facts in the public domain." The editorial also
notes that the Bliley bill "offers a better approach." As you know,
neither database bill made it to the floor of Congress for a vote this
term. We will be watching this closely in the next session.
15. EDUCAUSE Board Officers and New Members Selected
New board members were announced and the board officers for the
coming year were selected at EDUCAUSE '99. The new officers are:

-- Chair: Ronald Bleed, Vice Chancellor, Information Technologies,
Maricopa Community College District

-- Vice Chair: Polley Ann McClure, Vice President, Information
Technologies, Cornell University

-- Secretary: Amelia A. Tynan, CIO and Vice Provost, University of
Rochester

-- Treasurer: Laurence R. Alvarez, Professor of Mathematics &
Chair of Math & Computer Science, University of the South

The new board members are:

-- Elected: Joel L. Hartman, Vice Provost, Information
Technologies and Resources, University of Central Florida

-- Elected: Joanne Hugi, Director, Computing Center, University of
Oregon

-- Appointed: Joel W. Meyerson, Director of the Forum for the
Future of Higher Education, Yale University

All new positions are effective January 1, 2000. Retiring board
members include Jill B. Arnold, Patricia Battin, and Susan J. Foster. The
complete list of current board members is available at

http://www.educause.edu/about.html.

16. Sustaining Innovation Publication Available to Members
At the Keystone ARL/OCLC Strategic Issues Forum in September, Dr.
Paul C. Light, Vice President, Brookings Institution, was a keynote
speaker. His book Sustaining Innovation is an investigation of how
nonprofit organizations can sustain innovation over time as opposed to
single innovations every once in a blue moon.

Jossey-Bass extended a special offer to the Keystone participants
to purchase additional copies of the book, which we gave participants at
the event. Now Jossey-Bass has extended this offer to ARL directors who
were unable to attend the Keystone event (Order ten or more copies to
receive a 20% discount or order between one and nine copies and receive a
10% discount.)

To order copies of Sustaining Innovation call Jossey-Bass Customer
Service at 1-800-956-7739 and mention Priority Code S9923 to receive the
discounts on multiple copies as noted below. This generous offer will be
in place until December 31, 1999.

17. NINCH Announces Copyright Town Meetings Series for 2000
NINCH announces a series of six Town Meetings on copyright related
issues for the year 2000, funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Entitled "Copyright and the Cultural Community," the six meetings will be
hosted by:

+ Chicago Historical Society (Jan. 11);

+ Syracuse University (Feb. 4);

+ College Art Association Conference, New York (Feb. 26);

+ Triangle Research Library Network, North Carolina (March 7);

+ Visual Resources Association Conference, San Francisco (April 5);

+ American Association of Museums Conference, Baltimore (May 18).

For full details and reports on all of the meetings monitor the
NINCH website at http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/2000.html.

18. Leading Ideas Changes Format
The December 1999 issue of Leading Ideas is now available through
the ARL website and will be distributed shortly in print. This issue
highlights "Core Information Competencies Redefined: A Study of the
Information Education of Engineers," by Poping Lin, librarian at M.I.T.
and former Leadership and Career Development Program participant.

The Leading Ideas publication series is switching from print and
electronic formats to an electronic only series. The change will take
effect beginning in January 2000. ARL will continue to offer the series
six times annually, and encourages contributions by librarians in the
field. All future issues of Leading Ideas will be accessible online at
www.arl.org/diversity/leading/index.html.

For more information about the Leading Ideas publication series,
contact DeEtta Jones, ARL Director of Diversity Initiatives, at
deetta@arl.org.

19. ARL Publications
+ SPEC Kit 251 - Electronic Reference Service
Reference service through electronic mail and web forms continues
to grow in popularity. This SPEC Kit characterizes the phenomenon in ARL
libraries, providing models and suggestions for the future. Lori Goetsch,
with Laura Sowers and Cynthia Todd. October 1999. 67 pp.
20. Transitions
Center for Research Libraries: Beverly P. Lynch, Professor, UCLA
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, will become Interim
President of CRL on January 1.

Connecticut: Director of Library Services Brinley Franklin is now
responsible for all library operations at the University.

Dartmouth: Margaret Otto will resign as Librarian of the College
in October 2000.

21. Other Transitions
American Library Association, Washington Office:

La Gina Frink--previously a law librarian at Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, P.L.C., a
telecommunications law firm--was appointed legislative information
specialist for the Office of Government Relations.

Carrie Russell, former
copyright librarian at the University of Arizona, was appointed copyright
specialist for the Office for Information Technology Policy.

Saundra Shirley was appointed telecommunications specialist for the Office for
Information Technology Policy. Shirley previously worked with the
Pennsylvania Senate Policy Development and Research Office with a focus on
information and technology.

OCLC:

In November, William J. Crowe, Spencer Librarian at the
University of Kansas, was elected chair of the OCLC Board of Trustees.

22. Recent ARL Web pages
+ SPARC Membership Meeting Summary
http://www.arl.org/sparc/summary.html

+ ARL Announces New Board Members for 1999-2000
http://www.arl.org/arl/board99.html

+ SPARC E-News http://www.arl.org/sparc/enews/1199.html

+ From Data to Action: Strategies to Redesign ILL/DD Services
http://www.arl.org/access/performance/illddwork.shtml

+ Electronic Genesis: E-Journals in the Sciences
http://www.arl.org/sparc/academe99.html

+ ARL Career Resources - New Design with Improved Search Engine
http://db.arl.org/careers/index.html

+ Higher Education and Library Associations voice support for HR
1858 and Library Associations voice opposition to HR354
http://www.arl.org/info/letters/abercrombie.html

12/6/99 p.m.
 

Duane Webster, Executive Director
Association of Research Libraries
v (202) 296-2296 f (202) 872-0884
duane@arl.org