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Table of Contents 1. ARL Membership Meeting Celebrates 70 Years and
Looks to the Future
1. ARL Membership Meeting Celebrates 70 Years
and Looks to the Future
A. Highlights of the Membership Meeting
One hundred and twelve member institutions were represented at ARL's
141st Membership Meeting, held in Washington, D.C., on October 16-17. More
than 40 former ARL directors and guests joined the celebration as the Association
marked its 70th anniversary. Digital preservation strategies and
the open sharing of knowledge were the major themes of the meeting.
The first session began, after a full day of committee meetings, with
a special program to commemorate ARL's 70th anniversary. ARL President
Paula Kaufman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) welcomed the
Association's newest member, the University of Louisville, represented
by Hannelore Rader. Four new ARL directors were introduced:
Wendy Lougee (Minnesota), Randy Olsen (Brigham Young), Deborah Carver (Oregon),
and Peter Young (National Agricultural Library). Merrily Taylor (Brown)
was recognized for her 20 years of continuous service as an ARL director,
and members saluted retiring director, Don Bosseau (Miami).
ARL Executive Director Duane Webster introduced the former ARL directors
and announced that the most senior of those at the meeting was Robert Blackburn
(Toronto) who attended his first ARL Membership Meeting in 1948.
William Crowe (Kansas) delivered a celebratory address, "The End of History?
Reflections on a Decade," highlighting the trends that
The next morning, after a breakfast briefing by the Center for Research
Libraries, Nancy Gwinn (Smithsonian Institution), chair of the ARL Preservation
Committee, convened a program on "Emerging Digital Preservation Strategies."
Dale Flecker (Harvard) spoke of his university's e-journal archiving study,
and Kevin Guthrie, President of JSTOR, discussed the organizational challenges
of building an electronic archive and the relationship of the e-archive
to JSTOR's print archive. Ms. Gwinn also paid tribute to Jan Merrill-Oldham
(Harvard) for 15 years of service as consultant to the Preservation Committee.
Chuck M. Vest, President of MIT, was the featured speaker for Program
Session III on "Universities in the Digital Age." He described two
new MIT initiatives, OpenCourseWare and DSpace, designed to manage and
share knowledge and promote accessibility (see item 2 below).
At the Federal Relations lunch, Rick Weingarten, Director of the American
Library Association Office for Information Technology Policy, spoke about
a subject of increasing interest and importance to ARL members: digital
rights management and copyright. After a spirited question-and-answer
period, members chose among three concurrent discussion groups:
+ "Future Needs for Cyber Infrastructure: Recommendations of the
NSF Blue Ribbon Panel," led by Dan Atkins (University of Michigan)
+ "ARL Input for the ACRL Task Force on the Future," led by Shirley
Baker (Washington University in St. Louis)
+ "Building an Affordable E-Journal Archive and Preservation System:
LOCKSS," led by Vicky Reich (Stanford University)
Background papers, slides, and summaries of the meeting presentations
appear on the ARL Web site at <http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/141/>.
A special thanks goes to the 15 member libraries that shared letters,
brochures, symposia programs, and newsletter articles on their campus efforts
to educate faculty on scholarly communication issues. These materials
were used in a display, "Create Change On Campus," which was well received
at, and provided resources for, both the ARL Membership Meeting and the
Institutional Repositories workshop held on October 18. We hope these materials
help all members generate ideas for local
B. Highlights of the ARL Business Meeting on
October 17
+ Members voted to accept the dues recommendation of US $19,000 for
2003.
+ The membership elected three new ARL Board members: Rush Miller
(Pittsburgh), Sherrie Schmidt (Arizona), and Paul Willis (South Carolina).
+ President Paula Kaufman announced that the Board elected Sarah Thomas
(Cornell) as Vice President/President Elect.
+ Town Meeting Discussion on the AAU/ARL Global Resources Program
(GRP): Paul Mosher (Pennsylvania), chair of the newly reconstituted
advisory committee of the GRP, announced that the committee will report
to the ARL Board and that it will also work with the Research Collections
Committee. The GRP will focus on developing two projects this year--one
on the Middle East and another on an interdisciplinary topic that will
cut across geographic areas. Mr. Mosher introduced Dan Hazen (Harvard),
who is the ARL Visiting Program Officer (VPO) overseeing the GRP this year.
Mr. Hazen gave a brief history of the GRP and described a conceptual plan
that would contain thematic models that could be scaled up. (See
items 12 and 13 below.)
+ Portal Applications Working Group: Sarah Michalak (Utah), Chair,
reported that the working group is updating the earlier survey of ARL member
activity regarding portals and will include information on learning management
systems and the portal principles of open access. She also announced that
six participants in the Scholars Portal Project have installed their systems
and five have been trained.
+ Preservation Committee: Nancy Gwinn (Smithsonian), Chair, reported
that the committee is interested in addressing preservation issues related
to AV collections in ARL libraries and would like to have a VPO survey
what has been done in this area. She announced that CLIR has invited ARL
to join its survey of actions being taken to preserve recorded sound and
that the Library of Congress is doing excellent work in the preservation
of moving images.
+ Report of the Chesapeake Information Research Library Alliance (CIRLA):
Jack Siggins (George Washington) serves as President of CIRLA, a consortium
of institutional academic libraries in the Maryland, Delaware, and D.C.
area. He reported on a recent meeting with key ARL staff members to discuss
the trend in scholarly journal publishing in which ownership is consolidated
in a small number of corporations, resulting in an impact on pricing and
access policies. Mr. Siggins urged the ARL membership to heighten
awareness of the problem in their institutions and find strategies to address
it, including efforts to develop institutional repositories.
+ ARL Executive Director's Report: Duane Webster updated the membership
on some of the new directions in which the Association is moving, stressing
the dynamic nature of the ARL agenda. In particular, he mentioned new strategies
for managing copyright and intellectual property, including open access,
institutional repositories, dealing with mergers in the publishing industry,
and working with university presses. Mr. Webster encouraged members
to serve on ARL committees and said sign-up information would be sent out
soon.
+ At the conclusion of the Business Meeting, Ms. Kaufman thanked the
ARL members, Board, and staff presented the gavel to Fred Heath (Texas
A&M), who began his term as ARL president who congratulated Ms. Kaufman
on her leadership as ARL President over the last year.
+ Mr. Heath acknowledged the contributions of two Board members
whose terms are ending with this meeting: Shirley Baker (Washington
University in St. Louis) and Paul Mosher (Pennsylvania).
+ Mr. Heath announced that the next Membership Meeting will be held
May 14-16, 2003, in Lexington, Kentucky. The host libraries are the
University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville. The program
theme will center on "Libraries as Place" and the communities they foster.
Mary Molinaro (Kentucky) encouraged ARL directors to plan to spend
some leisure time in Kentucky following the meeting. Mr. Heath adjoined
the Business Meeting.
The ARL Board met twice, on October 15 and 17, and took the following
actions:
+ Voted to merge the Access to Information Resources Committee and the
Research Collections Committee into a Collections and Access Issues Committee.
+ Accepted the "Recommendations for the ARL Agenda" submitted by the
Collections & Access Issues Task Force
+ Approved the Diversity Committee's recommendation that ARL urge the
American Library Association to ensure that the members of ALA accreditation
committees better reflect a diversity of race, age, gender, and ethnicity.
+ Established the ARL staff merit pool for 2003 of at least 3%
and no more than 3.7%.
For a list of materials distributed at the Membership Meeting, see the
Appendix to this E-News.
2. New ARL Committees Established; All ARL Committee
Appointments Underway in November
Beginning in 2003, there will be changes in the ARL standing committee
structure. First, a standing committee on Intellectual Property and
Copyright is being formed, taking the place of the Copyright Issues Working
Group. The Board made this decision last February on the recommendation
of the ad hoc group that was formed to review ARL's long-term strategy
for addressing such issues. In addition, a new standing committee
on Collections & Access Issues is being formed by merging and updating
the agendas of two previous distinct committees: Research Collections and
Access to Information Resources. The Board made this decision in
October based on the findings of the Collections & Access Issues Task
Force about the value of blending ARL consideration of these issues, and
after discussions with the chairs of the two standing committees.
In November, ARL directors who are not now serving on a standing committee,
directors with committee terms that expire at the end of this year, and
directors on the two committees being merged will receive an e-mail asking
them to indicate their preferences in serving on an ARL committee.
Committee appointments are for three years. The ARL Executive Committee
will use the results of this inquiry to make committee appointments for
2003-2005, making every effort to give each director their first choice.
The current committee list and a roster of members current as of this
fall is available on the ARL Web site <http://www.arl.org/arl/cmte.html>.
3. MIT President Calls on Libraries to Promote
the Open Sharing of Knowledge
Addressing the ARL Membership Meeting, Chuck M. Vest, President of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), described steps underway at
MIT to accelerate the movement toward the open sharing of knowledge. Dr.
Vest spoke of two new MIT initiatives, involving faculty and librarians,
to share knowledge: OpenCourseWare and DSpace. He urged ARL
members to take on a major role within their institutions to use educational
technology for promoting open access and shared resources. "Today's stewardship
of accessible knowledge is inherently interdisciplinary and necessarily
connects the full range of activities from archiving to publishing.
University research librarians," Vest concluded, "are central to managing
this complex range of activities and can play a major role in accelerating
efforts toward the open sharing of knowledge." A summary of Dr. Vest's
remarks is available at <http://www.arl.org/arl/meetings/141/vest_summary.html>.
4. Institutional Repositories Workshops Attract
Wide Interest
The ARL/SPARC/CNI workshop on institutional repositories held on October
18 in Washington, D.C., attracted over 250 participants. The goal
of the workshop was to help academic and research library and information
technology 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 included Paul Ginsparg,
Professor of Physics and Computer Science, Cornell
SPARC's position paper, "The Case for Institutional Repositories," and
the new "Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide" set the
stage for the workshop. To follow up, SPARC has created an online
discussion list where individuals interested in institutional repositories
can ask questions, share best practices and debate relevant issues.
To sign up, go to <https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-IR/>.
A parallel workshop, held at the CERN Library in Geneva, Switzerland
on October 17-19, covered related ground for the European community. SPARC
cosponsored this "Second Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative:Gaining
Independence with E-Prints Archives and OAI." Other sponsors
included the European Science Foundation, the Joint Information Systems
5. Library Recruitment Symposium Attracts 60 HR
Participants
ARL's Office of Leadership and Management Services (OLMS) second Human
Resources Management Symposium focused on recruitment in academic libraries.
The symposium, held in Washington, D.C., October 14-15, was attended by
over 60 professionals including HR managers, staff development officers,
associate directors and directors, and library school students, faculty,
and placement officers. The program agenda and PowerPoint presentations
are now available at <http://www.arl.org/training/institutes/agendas/hragenda.html>.
For more information please contact DeEtta Jones, ARL Director of Organizational
Learning Services, at <deetta@arl.org>.
6. ARL Task Force on Special Collections Hosted
by Yale University Library
Yale University Library hosted the October 24th meeting of the ARL Task
Force on Special Collections chaired by Joe Hewitt (University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill). The task force, formed to advance an ARL
agenda on special collections, is composed of both directors and special
collections librarians from ARL libraries. The meeting at Yale focused
on developing further task force projects: a principles statement
articulating the role and importance of Special Collections; a white paper
and conference on improving access to "hidden" and other special collections;
a statement of need for extending the training and
It is expected that the task force will present recommendations to the
ARL Board of Directors early in 2003. For more information about
ARL's special collections activities, including the task force charge,
membership roster, and minutes of meetings, see <http://www.arl.org/collect/spcoll/>.
7. Medical Library Association Partners with ARL
to Offer Leadership and Career Development Program
The ARL Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP) prepares librarians
from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups to be more competitive in
the promotion process. The program has consistently attracted applicants
from special libraries, including medical librarians.
The Medical Library Association is committed to recruitment of new professionals
representing diverse backgrounds and developing diverse professionals for
new leadership roles. ARL shares MLA's commitment to diversity, and
has a strong, nationally recognized program to prepare librarians of color
for advancement within the profession.
To increase the number of participants able to be accepted into each
LCDP class, and to provide the opportunity for more involvement in this
strategic activity, ARL and MLA will enter into a formal partnership whereby
MLA will provide direct involvement of MLA staff and member leaders and
a nominal contribution to the program's annual operating budget.
MLA staff and representatives will work with ARL staff and the Leadership
Committee to recruit potential LCDP applicants and mentors
Application materials for the June 2003-June 2004 LCDP class will be
available mid-January 2003 at <http://www.arl.org/diversity/>.
For more information about the Leadership and Career Development Program
or the ARL Diversity Program, please contact DeEtta Jones, ARL Director
of Organizational Learning Services, at <deetta@arl.org>.
8. MLA, AAUP, and ARL Discuss Future of Scholarly
Publishing
Representatives of ARL met with members of the Executive Council of
the Modern Language Association (MLA) and representatives of the Association
of American University Presses (AAUP) in New York on October 25 to discuss
the future of scholarly publishing in the humanities. Members of MLA's
Executive Council noted that they had become aware of problems in
9. "Safeguarding Our Patrons' Privacy" Teleconference
Scheduled for December 11th
The Shared Legal Capability (made up of the leading library associations--ARL,
ALA, AALL, MLA, and SLA) is sponsoring a satellite teleconference entitled:
"Safeguarding Our Patrons' Privacy: What Every Librarian Needs to Know
about the USA PATRIOT Act & Related Anti-Terrorism Measures."
The event is scheduled for noon-3:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, December 11.
The teleconference is designed to provide participants with: an understanding
of this new and changing
The outline of the program, the Site Coordinator's Manual, and satellite
information for the December 11 teleconference, are now available on the
teleconference Web page <http://www.arl.org/patriot/>.
There is still time to register. Registration information can be
found at <http://www.arl.org/patriot/index.html#regdet>.
For more information, contact Mary Case <marycase@arl.org>
or Mary Jane Brooks <maryjane@arl.org>.
On October 18, Wolters Kluwer announced that it had accepted a bid for
Kluwer Academic Publishing from two private equity firms, Candover Partners
and Ciniven for 600 million euros. Kluwer Academic publishes approximately
675 journals and about 1,200 new books annually. Sales in 2001 totaled
approximately 150 million euros. This transaction in and of itself does
not raise antitrust concerns. However, an article in Forbes suggests
that the equity firms want to "buy the unit and merge it with other academic
publishing assets currently on the market." This could mean the purchase
of BertelsmannSpringer or Blackwell Publishing, at which point ARL would
raise concerns with the Department of Justice. Reports about the sale can
be found at:
Press release on the Kluwer Academic site: <http://www.wkap.nl/prod/a/newsaboutkluwer#kluwer_2>
Press release linked from the front page of the Wolters Kluwer site:
<http://www.wolters-kluwer.com/frameset>
Forbes.com story on the sale: <http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2002/10/18/rtr757680.html>
Story on the Information Today site: <http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb021104-1.htm>
The October 30 issue of Forbes includes an article about Reed Elsevier.
The article touts the company as "one of the world's biggest in online
revenues" and "a media stock that is doing well." Forbes attributes these
accomplishments to Reed's reliance on "the dry data" needed by professionals
rather than on advertising, and on the drive of the CEO, Crispin Davis,
who took over the company in 1999. The article poses the possibility that
the Internet and the increasing availability of free information could
ruin the business. "Davis is dismissive, citing Reed Elsevier's economies
of scale, barriers to entry and its attentiveness to customers' needs."
Jim Neal and SPARC are mentioned in the article. The full piece can be
found on the Web at:
11. CARL Workshop on Open Access Publishing Scheduled
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) announced a workshop,
"Research Innovation and Scholarship: The Role of Open Access Publishing,"
scheduled for November 21-22 in Ottawa, Ontario. This event will
focus on e-prints, institutional repositories, and the OAI. For more information,
visit <http://www.carl-abrc.ca/>.
12. Library and Archives of Canada Created
Formally established in 1953, the National Library of Canada is continuing
to evolve as part of the Library and Archives of Canada, a new agency that
combines the National Archives of Canada and the National Library of Canada.
Announced on October 2, 2002, by Minister of Canadian Heritage Sheila Copps,
this new agency will bring together in one institution all forms of information
that are Canadian or about Canada; strengthen the visibility, relevance,
and accessibility of the collections and services of both the National
Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada using modern technology
and the traditional skills of librarians and archivists; and provide leadership
and support for archives and libraries across the country.
A statement issued jointly by National Librarian Roch Carrier and National
Archivist Ian Wilson concludes with the following: "...our priorities
will be to continue the high level of service to our clients and to work
with our partners in government to find solutions to our accommodation
requirements, in particular, the pressing housing needs of the National
Library of Canada collections at risk."
Enabling legislation is now being written for consideration by Parliament
and is expected to take effect by June 2003. For more
13. Discussion Document Available on the AAU/ARL
Global Resources Program
Shifts in staffing and financial support for the AAU/ARL Global Resources
Program (GRP) have prompted a review of the program's principles and priorities.
To encourage and inform this review, a discussion paper was prepared proposing
program goals, priorities, operating principles, budget requirements, and
desired outcomes. In October, the paper was discussed by the ARL
Board and the Research Collections Committee and was also released to the
full membership at the ARL Business Meeting. Additional feedback
is welcomed and may be sent to GRP Program Director, Dan Hazen <dchazen@fas.harvard.edu>.
"The AAU/ARL Global Resources Program--Phase II: Discussion Document
on Goals, Priorities, Operating Principle, Budget Requirements, and Desired
Outcomes." is available as a PDF file on the ARL Web site
14. "Global Challenges & U.S. Higher Education"
Conference Planned at Duke University in January
A research conference on "Global Challenges & U.S. Higher Education"
will be held at Duke University on January 23-25, 2003. The conference,
which is funded by the Ford Foundation, the U. S. Department of Education,
and Duke, can accommodate 350 participants. It was stimulated by
the pending reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) during 2003-2004.
The purpose of the conference is not to make specific legislative recommendations,
but to evaluate current needs for foreign language and international and
foreign area studies and to assess the ability of the U. S. educational
system to meet those needs.
The conference is organized around discussion of 15 commissioned papers
that address specific dimensions of national needs, e.g., government employment
needs, professional school needs, the state of internationalizing education
at the undergraduate level. Deborah Jakubs, Duke University and former
Director of the AAU/ARL Global Resources Program, is presenting a paper
on "Library and Information Resources for International Education," focused
on "challenges and obstacles to gaining access to foreign information and
research for students and scholars, as well as new strategies of international
partnerships for access to information production and publication from
around the world." For more information, and to register, see
15. German Resources Project Update
The German Resources Project operates as part of the AAU/ARL Global
Resources Program. Xipolis, a collection of German reference resources,
is one of the activities of the project. At the beginning of the
month, Xipolis informed ARL that the nine titles published by the Spektrum
Akademischer Verlag will no longer be available via Xipolis, but nine titles
from other publishers remain. New subscriptions to Xipolis
are being accepted from members of the German Resources Project.
The next
The German Project also supported access to the GBVdirekt/NA document
delivery service by offering a centralized payment option through ARL for
GRP members. This service addressed the problems that individual
North American libraries experience with currency exchange rates and bank
transfer fees when having to pay bills from overseas libraries. This system
was working until late in 2001 when GBV was required to use a third-party
vendor to process invoices. The University of Goettingen offered
to help but, unfortunately, the arrangement proved to be too complex and
labor intensive. ARL advised participants to stop ordering via GBVdirekt/NA
at the end of January 2002. The GBV accounts held by ARL are
now being closed. Reimbursement for unused funds from the deposit accounts
will be made within six weeks. Libraries are being advised to try
the SUBITO Document Delivery service, although that service does not yet
offer a comprehensive payment plan. SUBITO plans to offer credit card and
deposit account options at some point in the future. Information on the
SUBITO service may be found at <http://www.subito-doc.com/>.
16. Online Lyceum: Upcoming 2002-2003 Courses
+ Accessible Web Design, December 2-20, 2002
+ Library Conflict Management, December 2-20, 2002
+ Library Fund Development, January 20-February 7,
2003
+ Licensing Review and Negotiation, February 3-March
7, 2003
+ Goal Setting, February 10-21, 2003
+ Measuring Library Service Quality, February 24-April
4, 2003
For more information contact Karen Wetzel at <karen@arl.org>
and registration information is available at
We are very pleased to announce the launch of the newly redesigned LibQUAL+
Web site at <http://www.libqual.org/>.
This new site gives LibQUAL+ an updated online look and puts in place a
sophisticated framework for new and more convenient offerings as the project
continues to grow.
As LibQUAL+ enters its fourth year, and its last year under the financial
support of the U.S. Department of Education's FIPSE grant, a number of
new libraries and consortia are joining the project, enriching the mix
of participants and more fully reflecting the wide range of North American
library systems. Consortia representing public, military, and college
libraries such as NY3Rs, MERLN, Oberlin Libraries Group, and the Network
of Alabama Academic Libraries will join institutions that have participated
in earlier surveys. Registration for the LibQUAL+ spring 2003 survey
officially opened on October 28, 2002. Institutions that wish to
register for the spring 2003 implementation online, can do so by visiting
<http://www.libqual.org/register>.
Norms tables for the spring 2002 LibQUAL+ survey are now available online
at <http://www.coe.tamu.edu/~bthompson/libq2002.htm>.
These norms were developed for both perceived and gap service scores (e.g.,
perceived performance minus minimally acceptable performance) based on
data collected during the 2002 survey. The tables allow librarians to interpret
LibQUAL+ scores with respect to typical profiles at other institutions.
OhioLINK LibQUAL+ participants gathered to discuss their LibQUAL+ survey
results on August 29 in Columbus, Ohio. Of the 164 libraries participating
in LibQUAL+ in spring 2002, 64 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.
In September, the "Library Assessment and Benchmarking Institute" (LAB
2002) was presented in partnership with ARL, SLA, and FEDLINK in Monterey,
California. The five-day event provided librarians with practical
strategies for measuring and communicating the value of information. Presentations
on the LibQUAL+7 project comprised the first two-days of the event.
Librarians attending the institute represented a wide variety of libraries
including: military, corporate, and academic.
For more information on the LibQUAL+ program, please contact Consuella
Askew Waller <consuella@arl.org>.
18. ARL Statistics and Measurement Program Update
+ ARL Annual Salary Survey 2002-03. All data have
been received and verified. Preliminary tables were distributed to
the directors of ARL libraries and to the survey coordinators on October
24. The final publication is in production.
+ University and Library Total Expenditures 1999-2000 data collection
was completed by pulling data directly from the IPEDS Finance data file
for those libraries that did not submit data on the Web site. Updated
charts graphing the percent of expenditures spent on libraries by universities
are available at <http://www.arl.org/stats/eg/>.
+ Data collection is underway for:
* ARL Statistics 2001-02
(51 submitted)
* ARL Supplementary Statistics
2002-02 (44 submitted)
* ARL Academic Law Library
Statistics 2001-02 (30 submitted)
* ARL Academic Health Sciences
Library Statistics 2001-02 (21 submitted)
* ARL Preservation Statistics
2001-02 (4 submitted)
* University and Library
Total Expenditures 2000-01 (31 submitted)
For additional information regarding the annual data collection activities,
please contact Martha Kyrillidou <martha@arl.org>.
Thirty-nine ARL member institutions are exploring the feasibility of
collecting and reporting the data elements tested in earlier phases of
this project as outlined in the manual available at <http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/emetrics/phase3/ARL_Emetrics_Data_Collection_Manual.pdf>.
The data collection cycle is currently underway and expected to be complete
by early December. Gordon Fretwell, long-time consultant for the
ARL Statistics and Measurement program and a recent retiree from the U.
of Massachusetts library, will be compiling and analyzing the results in
December. A project participants meeting will be held in conjunction
with ALA Midwinter on January 25, 2003.
The PowerPoint presentation on "Measures for Electronic
Use: The ARL E-Metrics Project," delivered by Julia Blixrud, at the "Statistics
in Practice" IFLA pre-conference in Loughborough, U.K., on August 13-25,
2002, is now available at
The PowerPoint presentation on "Project COUNTER--A Progress Report,"
by Peter Shepherd, delivered at the ARL Statistics and Measurement Committee
Meeting, October 16, 2002, is also available at <http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/emetrics/COUNTER_1002_files/v3_document.htm>.
Project COUNTER, an international effort sponsored by ARL as part of the
E-Metrics project, aims at developing a uniform code of practice for reporting
publisher and vendor statistics to libraries.
20. CNI Fall Task Force Meeting Scheduled for
San Antonio, December 5-6
The Coalition for Networked Information's Fall 2002 Task Force Meeting
will be held December 5-6 (Thursday and Friday) in San Antonio, Texas.
These Task Force Meetings are designed to explore new technologies, content,
and applications; to further collaboration; to analyze technology
policy issues; and to catalyze the development and deployment of new projects.
The meeting will feature an opening plenary session--led by CNI Executive
Director Cliff Lynch--reviewing the 2002-2003 Program Plan, with time for
questions and discussion. The new CNI Program Plan will be distributed
at the meeting. The closing session will feature a talk on "Prospects
for Reading in a Digital Age" by Cathy Marshall, one of the world's leading
authorities on hypertext. Marshall will examine "work practice" and "technology-in-action"
approaches to reading, annotating, and collaborating on digital materials.
The Task Force Meeting will include more than 30 project briefings.
A complete schedule will be available online November 15. For more information,
please see the meeting home page at
21. ARL Publications Issued in September and
October
+ ARL Activities Report 2002. Compiled and edited by Judith
Matz. 63 pp. This supplement to the ARL Program Plan summarizes
the activities of each ARL program for the current year. Also available
on the Web at <http://www.arl.org/arl/activities/2002/>.
+ ARL Bimonthly Report 223 (August 2002). The highlights
of this issue are articles on institutional repositories and the Agriculture
Network Information Center (AgNIC) Initiative. Also available on
the Web at <http://www.arl.org/newsltr/223/>.
+ Celebrating Seventy Years of the Association of Research Libraries,
1932-2002. Compiled by Lee Anne George and Julia Blixrud. 40
pp. ISBN 0-918006-95-3. $20.00. Commemorating ARL's seventieth
anniversary, this publication features a sweeping overview of the major
issues addressed by the Association's programs in its first seventy years.
Also included are a reprint of the entertaining speech by David Stam of
Syracuse University, "Plus ga Change: Sixty Years of the Association
of
22. BioOne President Heather Joseph Wins ALPSP
Award
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
has awarded Heather Joseph, President and COO of BioOne, the 2002 ALPSP
Award for Service to Not-for-Profit Publishing. Joseph's "commitment and
enthusiasm have been outstanding and inspiring," said Sally Morris, President
of ALPSP. "BioOne's success is largely due to the drive of Heather Joseph."
The award stated that BioOne has provided the platform for small not-for-profit
publishers to collaborate with libraries and the scientific community at
large, "providing, cost-effective online access to scholarly information."
+ Catherine Quinlan, University Librarian at the University of British
Columbia, received the 2002 Outstanding Alumni Award from the School of
Library and Information Studies, Dalhousie University.
Appendix: Materials Distributed at the
141st ARL Membership Meeting
+ ALA Washington Office. Digital Rights Issues. <http://www.ala.org/washoff/digrights.html>.
+ ARL. The AAU/ARL Global Resources Program--Phase II: Discussion
Document on Goals, Priorities, Operating Principles, Budget Requirements,
and Desired Outcomes. (See item 12 of E-News.)
+ ARL. Federal Relations Legislative Report 2002.
+ ARL. 141st ARL Membership Meeting Attendance List.
+ Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL). "Recruitment
Guide for Library Directors" Flyer.
+ Atkins, Dan, et al. "Revolutionizing Science and Engineering
through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of the National Science Foundation
Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure." (Excerpts from
draft report to NSF.)
+ CARL. "Research Innovation and Scholarship: the Role of Open
Access Publishing," Conference sponsored by CARL ABRC in Ottawa, November
21-22, 2002. <http://www.carl-abrc.ca/>.
+ CIRLA. "Consolidation of Information Resources by Corporations:
A Statement by the Chesapeake Information Research Library Alliance (CIRLA)
to Members of ARL, October 17, 2002."
+ COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources)
Flyer.
+ First Announcement and Call for Papers for ETD 2003: "Next Steps--Electronic
Theses and Dissertations Worldwide."
+ Hisle, W. Lee. "Top Issues Facing Academic Libraries: A Report
of the Focus on the Future Task Force."
+ NEH. Division of Preservation and Access Funding Information.
+ NEH. "We the People: An Initiative from the National Endowment
for the Humanities."
+ Rosenthal, David S.H., and Vicky Reich. "Permanent Web Publishing."
+ SPARC. SPARC Consulting Group Flyer. <http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=k0>.
+ Winter, Frank. "ARL Information Policies Committee, October
15, 2002, Meeting, Canadian Update."
Members may request a copy of items not on the Web by contacting Charmaine
McClarty <charmaine@arl.org>.
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