The RBM editor is appointed for a three-year term, which may be renewed for two additional three year terms. Membership in ALA and ACRL is required at the time of appointment. Qualifications include professional experience in academic libraries, a record of scholarly publication, editing experience, an ability to meet publication deadlines, an understanding of the scholarly communication process, and a broad knowledge of the issues confronting academic libraries. Appointment will be made by the ACRL Board of Directors following the 2013 ALA Annual Conference upon the recommendation of the search committee and the ACRL Publications Coordinating Committee. The incoming editor will become editor-designate upon appointment in July 2013 and assume full editorial responsibility in July 2014.

Appointed for a nonrenewable five-year term, the PIL editor works closely with the ACRL content strategist and PIL Editorial Board to acquire and develop appropriate research-based monographic publications. Membership in ALA and ACRL is required at the time of appointment. Qualifications include professional experience in academic libraries, a record of scholarly publication, editing experience, a willingness to proactively seek content and proposals, effective communication skills and experience working with a group, and a broad knowledge of the issues confronting academic libraries. Appointment will be made by the ACRL Board of Directors following the 2013 ALA Annual Conference upon the recommendation of the search committee and of the ACRL Publications Coordinating Committee. The incoming editor will become editor-designate upon appointment in July 2013 and assume full editorial responsibility in July 2014.

Nominations or resumes and letters of application for either editorship, including the names of three references, should be sent to either RBM Search Committee or PIL Search Committee c/o Dawn Mueller, ACRL, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611 or email to dmueller@ala.org.

The deadline for receipt of applications for both positions is June 7, 2013. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.

Finalists will be interviewed by phone following the 2013 ALA Annual Conference.

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Curious, Creative, Passionate.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? For the 826michigan volunteer book club, the Reading Robots, I’m reading The Shadow of the Wind (La sombra del viento) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. For my other book club, composed of fellow University of Michigan School of Information grads, I’m reading Michael Ridley’s Beyond Literacy. I’ve been  listening to Justin Cronin’s The Twelve on CD.

3. Describe ACRL in three words:  Innovative, Supportive, Community.

4. What do you value about ACRL? I appreciate ACRL’s sponsorship of professional development and the many opportunities to network and learn from peers. I also appreciate ACRL’s advocacy for the value of libraries and librarians within the higher education environment.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? I love that my job as a Digital Curator at the Center for the History of Medicine allows me to translate my colleagues’ important research into an educational resource for the University of Michigan’s students and faculty (as well as researchers all over the world.)

6. In your own words: I feel privileged to work on a university campus, especially one as vibrant as the University of Michigan. I once heard Edward Norton say he became an actor because it was an excuse to never stop learning. I feel very much the same about librarianship. I’m grateful that an academic library career allows me to unite my passions for teaching, research, and public service.

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

These lists will be hosted by ALA’s Sympa software, the same software used to host public listservs such as ILI-L and COLLIB-L.

The List Administrator has an appointment as a member of the Communication Committee and, as such, participates in the work of the committee throughout the year.

List administration responsibilities include:

* Maintaining lists with closed memberships for the IS Executive Committee and IS Advisory Council.

* Creating and maintaining additional closed lists for Instruction Section committees and task forces.

* Maintaining membership of Section lists and acting as list owner for settings and other changes.

* Updating the document Tips for the IS Committee List Administrator as needed.

Qualifications:

* Membership in the ACRL Instruction Section.

* Ability to meet deadlines and to communicate effectively through email.

* Commitment to respond quickly to the Section’s needs.

* Experience with mailing list software or list ownership, or demonstrated ability to learn.

* Knowledge of mailing list software settings and etiquette, or demonstrated ability to learn.

Appointment and term:

The IS Committee List Administrator is a volunteer who serves a one-year term, upon selection by the Executive Committee and appointment by the Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. The appointment begins immediately after the ALA Annual Conference in 2013.

Application process:

Please submit a curriculum vitae or resume and cover letter to Kenneth Simon, Chair, IS Communication Committee, at kssimon@pasadena.edu. The letter of interest should outline experience and knowledge applicable to the position. Any samples of relevant work will also be accepted. The application deadline is Friday, May 31, 2013.

Understanding the Implications of Open Education:  MOOCs and More

The open access movement has focused on making scholarship freely available, expanding distribution while lowering barriers for re-use.  The open educational resources movement has focused on making teaching and learning materials freely accessible and openly licensed.  The skyrocketing rise in the popularity of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) has put this trend squarely on the front burner, bringing openness to pedagogy in a way not previously experienced in higher education – and expanding free distribution of a university course to tens of thousands of students around the globe.

This convergence holds great promise for open education, and also raises questions on what that future might look like.  Our panel of experts will explore the recent developments and policy implications of open education, the rise of open resources, and the potential impacts of this trend on libraries and higher education.  They will also discuss both the promise and potential pitfalls of MOOCs and OER as part of open education.

We are pleased to announce our featured speakers:

• Kyle K. Courtney – Harvard Law School
• Cable Green, Director of Global Learning – Creative Commons
• Deirdre Woods, Interim Executive Director, Open Learning Initiative – University of Pennsylvania

Assessment: Demonstrating the Educational Value of the Academic Library Track – Discover how to approach assessment from a learning-centered perspective. Participants will emerge with a broader understanding of assessment and how to use assessment as an important tool to guide evidence-based classroom, curriculum and program development,  This track is intended for experienced academic librarians who are active in teaching and learning or those in leadership roles for information literacy program development who want to improve their knowledge and practice of both classroom and program assessment

Intentional Teaching: Reflective Teaching to Improve Student Learning Track – Find out how to become more self-aware and self-directed as a teacher.  This track is aimed at the experienced academic librarian (5+ years teaching experience, in a library or other setting) and facilitates the process of critical reflection through peer discussion, readings and personal reflection as a pathway to professional growth and renewal.  The program offers a mixture of structured and co-constructed learning segments such as peer discussions, individual reading and reflection times, and participant-led communities of practice.

Visit the Immersion website for complete details about the program, including curriculum, learning outcomes and application instructions. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. Central, Friday, May 24, 2013.  Questions concerning the program or application process should be directed to Margot Conahan at (312) 280-2522 or mconahan@ala.org.

The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) applauds the introduction in the US House of Representatives on May 9, 2013, of H.R. 1892, the Unlocking Technology Act of 2013, by Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), and Jared Polis (D-CO). The bill guarantees that legitimate uses of digital works and technologies will not run afoul of copyright law, even if they require breaking digital locks. Prompted by the recent uproar over cell phone unlocking, the bill recognizes that issue as a symptom of a much larger problem and would fix that problem permanently.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), passed in 1998, made it illegal for owners of legally purchased digital media and technologies to modify their property if it would break digital rights management (DRM) and other forms of digital locks. The DMCA placed a shadow over a host of normal activities of libraries and their patrons: ripping DVDs to facilitate teaching and learning, converting e-books to accessible formats, modifying tablets to run different software, and more. Under current law, libraries and their patrons must ask the Copyright Office for special carve-outs every three years to allow these kinds of uses, even though they don’t infringe copyright. The Copyright Office has issued some favorable rules for library uses, but those rules are limited in scope, difficult to win, and can be revoked by the office at any future rulemaking. Indeed, it was the revocation of the cell phone unlocking exception that raised recent alarms about the DMCA and the power it gives the Copyright Office.

The Unlocking Technology Act does away with this bizarre aspect of the DMCA, freeing all non-infringing uses regardless of their effect on DRM. Importantly, the Unlocking Technology Act also permits the creation and distribution of tools required for unlocking, without which the right to unlock would be useless. LCA applauds the bill’s sponsors for their leadership and vision, and urges others in the House to support this important bill.

The sponsors’ press release, full text of the bill, and a section-by-section summary are available on Rep. Zoe Lofgren’s website.

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Caring, innovative, creative.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? I am reading Tik Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum to my 10-year-old son along with Building and Managing E-Book Collections, edited by Richard Kaplan, for my own professional interests.

3. Describe ACRL in three words:  Exciting, helpful, authoritative.

4. What do you value about ACRL? ACRL provides unparalleled opportunities for networking and professional development.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? As an academic librarian working in acquisitions, I contribute to the library by selecting and purchasing new collections of ebooks and print titles for the collection.  I have noticed that the students at Southeastern Louisiana University are studious and intellectually curious, and really use our library resources. I feel like I am contributing to their education in a very tangible and fundamental way.

6. In your own words: Although I don’t work in a public service area, I enjoy working in an academic library and being surrounded by students and faculty. I am also fortunate to be able to work with exceptional colleagues, who help to make my career interesting and enjoyable.

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

Day 1 Topic: When Professionalism and Ethics Collide: A Case Study – A university library debates whether to accept the papers of a politician with a troubling legacy, or not.

Day 2 Topic: The Crossroads of Ethics and Professionalism: The Role of Ethics in Professional Practice – A conversation about the role ethics plays in professional librarianship; the Code and real world application.    

Register by joining the Ethics Forum email list. Registration for the forum is free but required.

Editorial

Scott Walter. “The ‘Multihued Palette’ of Academic Librarianship.” Full Text (PDF).

Articles

Cory Lown, Tito Sierra, and Josh Boyer. “How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box.” Abstract – Full Text (PDF).

Kun Huang and Diane Kelly. “The Daily Image Information Needs and Seeking Behavior of Chinese Undergraduate Students.”  Abstract – Full Text (PDF).

Ruth Sara Connell. “Maternity and Paternity Policies Available to Academic Librarians.” Abstract – Full Text (PDF).

Valerie Harris and Peter Hepburn. “Trends in Image Use by Historians and the Implications for Librarians and Archivists.” Abstract – Full Text (PDF).

Abiodun I. Ibraheem and Christopher Devine. “A Survey of the Experiences of African Librarians in American Academic Libraries.”  Abstract – Full Text (PDF).

Book Reviews

Harlan Greene. Patrick M. Valentine. A Social History of Books and Libraries from Cuneiform to Bytes, 2012. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, 2012. 203p. alk. paper, $60 (ISBN 9780810885707). LC2012-020892. Full Text (PDF).

John Repplinger. David Lee King. Face2Face: Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Tools to Create Great Customer Connections. Chicago: Information Today, Inc., 2012. 194p. alk. paper, $24.95 (ISBN 9780910965996). LC2012-013506. Full Text (PDF).

Michael Ryan. Publishing the Fine and Applied Arts 1500–2000. Eds. Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote. London and New Castle, Del.: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2012. 194p. $55 (ISBN 9781584562993). LC2012-003887. Full Text (PDF).

Marcy Simons. Library Services for Multicultural Patrons: Strategies to Encourage Library Use. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013. 338p. $65.00 (ISBN: 9780810887220). LC2012-029338. Full Text (PDF).

Maurice C. York. Planning and Constructing Book & Paper Conservation Laboratories: A Guidebook. Eds. Jennifer Hain Teper and Eric Alstrom. Chicago: Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, American Library Association, 2012. vii, 230p. $67.95; $61 for members of ALA (ISBN 9780838986011). LC2011-053444. Full Text (PDF).

Keith Gorman. Pam Hackbart-Dean and Elizabeth Slomba. How to Manage Processing in Archives and Special Collections. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2012. 160p. alk. paper, $69.95 (ISBN 1-931666-43-1). LC2012-024050. Full Text (PDF).

Errata

Errata. Full Text (PDF).

This month we profile ACRL Circle of Friends member Patricia Wand. Patricia is a consultant based in Bethesda, Maryland and has been a Friend of ACRL since 1998.

1. Describe yourself in three words:  I like people.

2. Why do you support the Friends of ACRL? I support Friends of ACRL because I believe in the power of communities whose members share a commitment to self-improvement.  In ACRL, our commitment to the information profession and life-long learning form the foundation of advancing learning, teaching and scholarship.   Hence, I support the ACRL community with my time, knowledge and money.

3. What might someone be surprised to know about you?  I grew up with seven siblings on an Oregon farm in the Columbia River Gorge.

4. Since you’ve become a member of ACRL, tell us about someone who influenced you in some way? A powerful mentor for me was JoAnn Segal, former executive director of ACRL.  JoAnn taught me about the external and internal characteristics of associations; how they differ from university, civic and commercial organizations and about the unique roles of staff and volunteers. In the late 1980s, I absorbed many valuable lessons watching JoAnn astutely manage in all directions as she brought us through the birth pangs of the first Operating Agreement with ALA.

5. What do you hope ACRL will achieve in the near future (or the long term)? I hope we continue building a toolkit to help us become stronger advocates for the importance of information in developing life-long learners, promoting creativity and innovation, generating new knowledge, and building democratic practices. To achieve these seemingly intangible goals we need tangible resources which include strong academic libraries, archives and information centers. Thus we must be proactive spokespeople with the skills and data to convince the decision makers of the need for financial support.

6. In your opinion, what is the most important work that ACRL does? The most important work that ACRL does is the venue it provides in bringing together committed professionals to improve learning, teaching, and research in higher education.

Technology is enabling higher education to change more in the next ten years than it has in the past hundred. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are potentially one such technological innovation and have generated a lot of press in the past year. This live, interactive webcast will focus on the role of the librarian in these online courses. Examine what librarians are currently doing to provide support for these institutional course offerings and discuss possible future roles that librarians can play as MOOCs move from the margins to the mainstream.

Complete details including the full webcast description, learning outcomes, and registration materials are available online.  Contact Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.org or call (312) 280-2522 with questions.

About NWSA
Established in 1977, the National Women’s Studies Association has as one of its primary objectives promoting and supporting the production and dissemination of knowledge about women and gender through teaching, learning, research and service in academic and other settings.

Our commitments are to: illuminate the ways in which women’s studies are vital to education; to demonstrate the contributions of feminist scholarship that is comparative, global, intersectional and interdisciplinary to understandings of the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences; and to promote synergistic relationships between scholarship, teaching and civic engagement in understandings of culture and society.

NWSA recognizes that women’s studies is broader than what happens in the classroom and acknowledges women’s centers staff as feminist educators. Campus-based women’s centers have a long history of working together with women’s studies to transform the curriculum, the campus environment, and society at large.

Through their scholarship and pedagogy our members actively pursue knowledge to promote a just world in which all persons can develop to their fullest potential—one free from ideologies, systems of privilege or structures that oppress or exploit some for the advantage of others. The Association has more than 2,000 individual and 350 institutional members working in varied specialties across the United States and around the world.

For more information about the organization, please visit the association website or contact the current NWSA/ACRL Liaison Cindy Ingold (cingold@uillinois.edu).

Deadline for Applications
Friday, May 17, 2013

Submission Requirements
Nominees must submit:
A letter of application articulating qualifications and a current vita to:

Jennifer Mayer, WGSS Chair (mayerj@uwyo.edu)

Expectations

• Liaison attends the annual NWSA conferences
• Liaison submits an annual report to the ACRL Liaisons Council
• Liaison writes an article about their activities for the WGSS newsletter
• Liaison serves as ex-officio on the WGSS Executive Committee and ex-officio on the WGSS Research Committee.

Qualifications

Required:

• Current member of ACRL and WGSS
• Experience with or interest in women and gender studies
• Interest in coordinating activities to increase interaction between NWSA, ACRL, and WGSS
• Experience with or interest in outreach and advocacy related to women and gender studies.
• Financial support to attend NWSA Annual Conferences for the length of the two-year term if not funded by ACRL (Note:  Liaison may apply for up to $1500 in conference funding from the ACRL Conference Grants Committee, but funding is not guaranteed).
• Excellent communication skills

Desired:

• Record of serving WGSS and/or ACRL on committees, task forces, or in other roles.
• Current membership in NWSA
• Previous NWSA conference attendance or other involvement with NWSA.

Selection Process Timeline

• May 20 – 24, 2013: A subcommittee of the WGSS Executive Committee reviews submitted applications.
• May 28, 2013: WGSS Chair contacts successful candidate.

Questions?  Please contact WGSS Chair, Jennifer Mayer: mayerj@uwyo.edu

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Engaged. Curious. Genuine.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? I am reading Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture by Karen Cox, a history professor at UNC Charlotte.

3. Describe ACRL in three words:  Important. Visionary. Leader.

4. What do you value about ACRL? ACRL provides the infrastructure for professional development and networking that allows me to grow as a librarian.  Especially valuable are the ACRL workshops, trainings, and publications that help me learn from and connect with other academic librarians.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? One of the perks of working as a librarian in a university setting is that you get to serve many different roles on campus; I am sometimes a teacher, sometimes an advisor, and sometimes an event organizer.  I like to think that in my traditional role as a research librarian I help students and faculty better connect to the resources that they need to be successful in their academic careers.  Libraries have an opportunity and a responsibility to envision how we can be used as resources on-campus and I enjoy contributing to that conversation.

6. In your own words: As an academic librarian, I am engaged in a community that is dynamic, rewarding and ever-changing.  The emergence of new library offerings and partnerships in universities, such as graduate fellowships and digital scholarship labs, is supporting students and faculty in new and creative ways.  With more changes ahead, and a strong association behind us, I feel very lucky to be working in and contributing to this profession.

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

Julia Gelfand, applied sciences and engineering librarian at the University of California-Irvine, and Susan Barnes Whyte, director of library and media services at Linfield College, have been elected to the ACRL Board of Directors as director-at-large. Douglas Lehman, director of the Wittenberg University Thomas Library, has been elected ACRL Councilor.

Full 2013 election results will be available Monday, May 6, on the ACRL website.

Congratulations to those elected and many thanks to the dedicated members willing to stand for office.

Assessment: Demonstrating the Educational Value of the Academic Library Track – Discover how to approach assessment from a learning-centered perspective. Participants will emerge with a broader understanding of assessment and how to use assessment as an important tool to guide evidence-based classroom, curriculum and program development.

Intentional Teaching: Reflective Teaching to Improve Student Learning Track – Find out how to become more self-aware and self-directed as a teacher.  This track is aimed at the experienced academic librarian (5+ years teaching experience, in a library or other setting) and facilitates the process of critical reflection through peer discussion, readings and personal reflection as a pathway to professional growth and renewal.

Visit the Immersion website for complete details about the program, including curriculum, learning outcomes and application instructions. Questions concerning the program or application process should be directed to Margot Conahan at (312) 280-2522 or mconahan@ala.org

The award program seeks nominations of individuals who have used, applied, or remixed open access research to innovate and make a difference in science, medicine, business, technology or society as a whole. The goal of ASAP is to build awareness of and encourage the use of scholarly research published through open access.

Three top awards of $30,000 each will be presented.  The nomination period is open from May 1 to June 15, 2013.  Winners will be announced in Washington, DC in October 2013, during an Open Access Week event hosted by SPARC and the World Bank.

Potential nominees include individuals, teams, or groups of collaborators such as scientists, researchers, educators, technology leaders, entrepreneurs, policy makers, patient advocates, public health workers, and students. For more information on the ASAP program and to make a nomination, please visit the ASAP web site.

As the higher education association for librarians, ACRL is committed to advancing learning and transforming scholarship. One of ACRL’s three strategic goals is that librarians accelerate the transition to a more open system of scholarship. By sponsoring ASAP, ACRL is signaling the importance of its strategic objective to promote new means to reward and value open scholarship.

One hot topic in Indianapolis was the flipped classroom instructional model. Ilka Datig and Claire Ruswick continue the discussion by outlining “Four quick flips” they have successfully used in information literacy sessions. Their practical advice and activities can easily be applied to new or ongoing experiments with flipping in libary instruction. Distance learning librarianship was on the ACRL 2013 docket as well. Rachel E. Cannady, Britt Fagerheim, Beth Filar Williams, and Heidi Steiner provide tips and advice on “Diving into distance learning librarianship” that can help both veterans and librarians new to distance learning services.

Wrapping up our look at instruction this issue, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra discusses how her experiences as a high school teacher translate to the information literacy classrom in her The Way I See It essay “Eight tips from the trenches.” In this month’s ACRL TechConnect feature, Emily Ford of Portland State University examines moving Web usability card sorts studies online and discusses the question “Is digital better than analog?”

Make sure to check out the other features and departments in this issue, including the second round of profiles of 2013 ACRL award winners and a brief overview of the upcoming 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.

 What’s Involved?
Mentors will serve as role models in academic librarianship and provide career guidance, as well as help mentees find opportunities for involvement and leadership in the profession. They must be academic librarians, have professional experience (a minimum of ten years preferred), and be active in ACRL. Mentors must make a commitment for a minimum of one year and up to maximum of three years.

Mentors will receive Web-based training from ACRL to assist them in building a successful mentoring relationship. Mentor responsibilities include:

• Contacting the mentee monthly or on a regular basis.
• Spending time with the Spectrum Scholar at library conferences where both are in attendance.
• Submitting brief status reports and an annual report (one page form).

How Do You Apply?
If you are interested in becoming a mentor for a Spectrum Scholar through the ACRL Dr. E.J. Josey Spectrum Scholar Mentor program, please complete the application before May 17, 2013.

What Happens Next?
The ACRL Dr. E.J. Josey Spectrum Scholar Mentor Committee expects to be matching new pairs of mentors and Spectrum Scholars by early June, and both parties will be informed of the match soon thereafter. If we are unable to match you with a Scholar immediately, you will be notified and your paperwork will be kept on file.

Please apply today to be an ACRL Spectrum Scholar Mentor! The profession needs you.

If you have additional questions about the ACRL Dr. E. J. Josey Spectrum Scholar Mentor Program please contact Committee Chair Jade Alburo at jalburo@library.ucla.edu or ACRL staff member David Connolly at dconnolly@ala.org.

The 2013 ACRL Legislative Agenda focuses on three issues that the U.S. Congress has recently taken, or will most likely take, action on in the year ahead: first sale doctrine, public access to federally funded research, and federal funding for libraries. New this year, the agenda includes a watch list of policy issues of great concern to academic librarians. Legislation on these issues is not likely to arise and, moreover, ACRL does not believe that any legislation about these issues is necessary. Issues on the watch list are: government information, safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, orphan works/section 108, and fair use. ACRL will continue tracking these issues and advocate for the best interests of academic and research libraries, if necessary. Read the complete legislative agenda for more details.

Don’t forget to advocate for libraries in May by calling or emailing Congress as part of ALA’s Virtual Library Legislative Day.

The case began in 2008 when Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and SAGE Publishers sued GSU for alleged copyright infringement. The publishers argued that GSU’s use of excerpts from copyright-protected materials in password-protected course e-reserves and class sites was a violation of the copyright law. Notably, the Association of American Publishers and the Copyright Clearance Center, the licensing arm for much of the academic publishing industry, organized and funded the lawsuit.

In May 2012, Judge Orinda Evans of the US District Court in Atlanta ruled in favor of the university in a lengthy decision that reviewed each of 75 alleged infringements, finding only 5 infringing uses. In her ruling, Judge Evans saw little evidence of market harm to the publishers, and clearly understood that current teaching practices were beneficial to teachers and students, as well as being reasonable and fair. Because of GSU’s overwhelming victory, and the publishers’ aggressive litigation strategy, Judge Evans ordered the publishers to pay GSU’s attorneys’ fees and costs (nearly $3 million), an important ruling that could help discourage future aggressive lawsuits against good-faith fair users.

Now that the issues are narrowed and clarified on appeal, LCA is one of several groups filing on the side of GSU in a striking show of solidarity across the academic community. The American Council on Education, the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, and the American Association of University Professors, among others, are all represented in briefs defending the fair use rights of faculty, students, and librarians.

The Library Copyright Alliance consists of three major library associations—the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of College and Research Libraries. These three associations collectively represent over 300,000 information professionals and thousands of libraries of all kinds throughout the United States and Canada.

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Adapting, creative, pragmatic.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? Reading: The new issue of Oxford American, I Read Where I Am: Exploring New Information Cultures by Andrew Blauvelt et al, William Zinsser’s On Writing Well, and Digital Humanities by Anne Burdick et al. Listening: A couple of podcasts – Roderick on the Line and making my way through the Back to Work archive. And always a steady stream of music.

3. Describe ACRL in three words:  Big, connected, extensible.

4. What do you value about ACRL? The people. As a volunteer-driven organization, you make it what you want. Each of us decides what the future of academic libraries looks like. The association allows us to do this by providing a venue for us to share ideas, connect with colleagues, and act

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? I help people find the information they need.

6. In your own words: I was attracted to librarianship for its engagement in contemporary issues. Getting involved in this work, such as exploring new models of scholarly communication, has been both challenging and rewarding (in the best way possible).

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

Helping Non Innovators through Innovation: Managing Change: Change can be difficult to deal with in any workplace, but the fast pace of change in libraries is particularly difficult.  Designed for library supervisors who will need to lead staff (at any level) through change, learn about the potential impact of the stress of change, and how to properly prepare others and one’s self for change.  Examine the most common responses to change and how to deal with them, effective responses to change and how to instill them in others.

Planning, Assessing, and Communicating Library Impact: Putting the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education into Action: Libraries in higher education are increasingly required to demonstrate their value and document their contributions to overall institutional effectiveness.  The Standards for Libraries in Higher Education is a framework for library planning and assessment that can be used for a variety of circumstances including annual planning, program review, and accreditation self-study. Through presentation, discussion, and group activities, learn how to use the Standards to communicate your library’s impact!

Complete details, including descriptions, learning outcomes, and registration materials, are online.  Contact Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.org or call 312-280-2522 with questions.

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Cultured, Independent, Strong.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? I’m currently reading my book club’s selection, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie. I’m addicted to podcasts! Especially from the BBC (World Service and Radio 4). So I always have at least two or three loaded on my iPod, in addition to a very eclectic mix of music.

3. Describe ACRL in three words:  Excellent, Welcoming Resource!

4. What do you value about ACRL? Just how welcoming the group has been. A lot of people have reached out to me to offer mentorship, guidance, and now even to be featured here! I also really value their magazine: it’s full of interesting articles on topics that can be transferred to the public library setting. Seriously. Plus, I really like the tech notes, and the preservation notes sections. And I love the covers!!!

5. What do you, as a public librarian, contribute to your campus? A place where people can come for answers, whether it’s to help them improve themselves or they are looking for information on how to do something more practical. Whatever they’re looking for, I help them find it. My branch is located in a neighborhood with a very high percentage of recent immigrants. They need assistance for themselves, to find jobs, continue their education, learn about life in the U.S. in general, but also for their families. The neighborhood I serve is also very diverse demographically: we serve just about everyone, from toddlers to older patrons. With such a diverse community, I try to also accommodate them by offering a wide range or programs, from the more educational to the just plain fun. More than anything, they see me there every day, so I like to think I and the library give them a sense of dependability.

6. In your own words: I really enjoy being a public librarian. I love how every day — every patron — is different. It really keeps you on your toes, serving a diverse community and never knowing what the next patron will need from you. And you never know how much you help a patron — until months later, they come back to let you know they have moved on to complete a course, are now in college, or gotten that job they wanted. It’s incredibly fulfilling.

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

Entries must be submitted by May 1, 2013, to co-chairs Valeda F. Dent at Valeda.Dent@liu.edu and Lila Fredenburg at lilafred@rulmail.rutgers.edu. All entries will be judged by the Presidents’ Program Committee in consultation with the current presidents of ACRL and LLAMA. The winners will be announced in early June 2013.

Titled “Standing on Marbles: Ensuring Steady Leadership in Unsteady Times,” the session will feature noted author, executive coach, and leadership consultant Karol M. Wasylyshyn. The program, hosted by ACRL President Steven J. Bell, associate university librarian for research and instructional services at Temple University, and LLAMA President Pat Hawthorne, interim chief administrative officer at the Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library, will take place from 10:30-11:30 am on Saturday, June 29, 2013.

The List Administrator has an appointment as a member of the Communication Committee and, as such, participates in the work of the committee throughout the year.

List Administration responsibilities include:

• Creating lists with closed memberships for the IS Executive Committee and IS Advisory Council, as well as additional closed lists for Instruction Section committees and task forces.
• Maintaining membership of Section lists and acting as list owner for settings and other changes.
• Updating the document Tips for the IS Committee List Administrator as needed.

Qualifications:

• Membership in the ACRL Instruction Section.
• Ability to meet deadlines and to communicate effectively through email.
• Commitment to respond quickly to the Section’s needs.
• Institutional computer resources for maintaining the Section’s closed lists.
• Experience with mailing list software or list ownership, or demonstrated ability to learn.
• Knowledge of mailing list software settings and etiquette, or demonstrated ability to learn.

Appointment and term:

The IS Committee List Administrator is a volunteer who serves a two-year term, upon selection by the Executive Committee and appointment by the Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. The IS Communication Committee will make a recommendation for filling the position to the IS Executive Committee, and the appointment begins immediately after the ALA Annual Conference that year.

Application process:

Please submit a curriculum vitae or resume and cover letter to Kenneth Simon, chair, IS Communication Committee, at kssimon@pasadena.edu. The letter of interest should outline experience and knowledge applicable to the position. Any samples of relevant work will also be accepted. The application deadline is Monday, April 29, 2013.

The open access movement has focused on making scholarship freely available, expanding distribution while lowering barriers for re-use. The open educational resources movement has focused on making teaching and learning materials freely accessible and openly licensed. The skyrocketing rise in the popularity of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) has put this trend squarely on the front burner, bringing openness to pedagogy in a way not previously experienced in higher education – and expanding free distribution of a university course to tens of thousands of students around the globe.

This convergence holds great promise for open education, and also raises questions on what that future might look like. A panel of experts will explore the recent developments and policy implications of open education, the rise of open resources, and the potential impacts of this trend on libraries and higher education. They will also discuss both the promise and potential pitfalls of MOOCs and OER as part of open education.

Join SPARC and ACRL for the 11th Annual Forum, which will take place on Saturday, June 29th at 3pm. Meeting location and speakers will be announced soon.

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Optimistic, Driven, Inquisitive.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? I’m in the middle of rereading A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin and just started The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (plus a handful more).

3. Describe ACRL in three words:  Information, Communication, Research.

4. What do you value about ACRL? As a student, I really valued ACRL’s wealth of information. I used many of the ACRL’s sites to access different resources and news about different trends and theories. Now, I hope to become more engaged within the organization and profession by taking advantage of some of ACRL’s networking opportunities.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? Curiosity and enthusiasm for new ideas/processes as the information world and the needs of the library/patrons continue to evolve.

6. In your own words: I’ve been working in my current position for two years and just graduated last December, so I’m relatively new to this wonderfully crazy world of librarianship. I’m  really excited to be participating in this year’s Emerging Leaders program and learning all sorts of new things.

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

“Digitizing the archives of the premier research journal for academic librarianship provides a tremendous new asset for our profession,” said ACRL President Steven J. Bell of Temple University. “Creating and sharing this rich resource demonstrates ACRL’s ongoing commitment to promote and deliver on the promise of open access. It is a treasure trove of content where the academic librarians of today and tomorrow will delve into our history, understand how we evolved and make new discoveries that could stimulate groundbreaking research and innovation of real benefit to academic librarianship.”

C&RL archival contents from 1939 through 1996 were digitized through the generous volunteer efforts of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. The library’s Digital Content Creation department performed scanning and metadata creation for the approximately 340 back file issues of the journal in 2011 and 2012. The digitized files were added to the journal’s online presence with the financial assistance of the ACRL Friends Fund.

“It is no secret to anyone that academic libraries are in the midst of seismic changes,” noted Scott Walter, C&RL editor and university librarian at DePaul University. “As academics, we approach those changes in an evidence-informed manner and we shape the future of our profession in ways influenced by what we have learned over almost a century of scholarly inquiry into the nature of our work. With the complete contents of College & Research Libraries now freely available online, we hope not only to promote the integration of scholarship in academic librarianship into research in areas such as Library and Information Science and Higher Education Administration, but also to promote the use of the scholarship published over decades in current debates over issues of enduring professional concern, including the curation of library collections, the design of library services and the contribution of the library and its staff to the broader missions of the parent institution.”

Published since 1939, C&RL enacted an open access policy in April 2011. C&RL will become an online-only publication in Jan. 2014.

“The emergence of a robust community of open access journals in the field in recent years offers new opportunities for the integration of complementary content across traditional journal boundaries and the development of a new online community in academic library scholarship and practice,” Walter added.

Hosted through HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, C&RL’s online presence provides a variety of robust features. Online readers have the ability to comment on articles, share contents through social media and perform basic and advanced searches across C&RL and other ACRL serials. A variety of RSS feeds and email alerts provide notification of the availability of newly posted preprint and issues contents. Articles are freely available to read online or download as PDF files. The mobile-optimized version of C&RL online allows readers to read and interact with articles from their smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices.

Keeping Up With… is available on the ACRL website and each issue will be send via email to ACRL members. Non-members  can visit our email subscription page to sign up to receive Keeping Up With… and a variety of other ACRL awareness publications including the ACRL Update newsletter and table of contents alerts for C&RL and C&RL News.

ACRL is currently accepting topic suggestions for future editions of Keeping Up With… . Visit the Keeping Up With… website for more information or contact David Free at dfree@ala.org with questions or to submit topics.

In their applications each institution identified a team, consisting of a librarian and at least two additional team members as determined by the campus (e.g., faculty member, student affairs representative, institutional researchers or academic administrator). They also identified goals for their action learning projects.

“The top applications were distinguished by the team composition, their readiness and the quality of their project goals. We also looked for strong institutional support to help the teams see their projects through to completion.” said Terri Fishel, vice chair of ACRL’s Value of Academic Libraries Committee and library director at Macalester College. “The application reviewers sought action learning projects with the greatest potential to contribute to the greater library and higher education community.”

The proposed topics of selected institutions include:

• Do students who attend information or media literacy sessions attain higher grades than students who did not?
• How does students’ work with special collections materials affect their ability to think critically and develop intellectual curiosity?
• Do re-admitted students (who have appealed dismissal) improve their academic performance and persist at a higher rate due to mandatory meetings with a librarian for research assistance?
• Does our new library/learning resource center facility have an impact on the student community, contributing to student enrollment and excitement about completing skills sessions and library orientations?
• Do library contributions to a program for at-risk students (empowering them by connecting more deeply to local community issues through faculty partnerships and learning projects) enhance research, critical thinking, problem solving, and analytical skills? Are library efforts to support this program helping to increase student success and retention?
• Are library interventions to increase students’ media fluency skills effective at improving their digital storytelling abilities?
• In what ways does library participation in a targeted sophomore year program lead to higher graduation and retention rates, improved student engagement and satisfaction, as well as post-graduation success?
• What is the impact of embedding librarians in our student scholar program?

To ensure project results are disseminated to the broader community, each institutional team will submit a final report and each librarian team leader will prepare and deliver a poster at the 2014 ALA Annual Conference. The AiA program, part of ACRL’s Value of Academic Libraries initiative, employs a blended learning environment and a peer-to-peer network over the course of the 14-month long program, which runs from April 2013-June 2014.  The librarians will participate as cohort members in a one-year professional development program that includes team-based activities carried out on their campuses. An important component of the AiA program is establishing a learning community where librarian team leaders have the freedom to connect, risk and learn together.

“I am thrilled to be working with such a diverse group of institutions pursuing these very interesting project ideas,” said Lisa Hinchliffe, co-chair of ACRL’s Value of Academic Libraries Committee, a lead facilitator in the AiA program and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “The program facilitators are strongly committed to establishing an environment which supports collaborative learning and shared competence. We can’t wait to get started!”

Learn more about the AiA program at the ACRL 2013 conference during the session Update on Value of Academic Libraries Initiative from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. on Friday, April 12.

AiA is a three year program. ACRL will be selecting 100 additional institutions to participate in the 2014-2015 class. Stay tuned for an announcement in January 2014 with more details on how to apply for the next round.

ACRL 2013 on Twitter

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Passionate, optimistic, visionary.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? I read a lot of reports – which I save to IBooks to read while traveling, such as Assessing Student Learning: Evaluating Alternative Models, Using Multiple Methods by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU). One non-fiction work on my IPad right now is Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think.

3. Describe ACRL in three words:  Professional, nurturing, advocacy.

4. What do you value about ACRL? I value the spaces that ACRL creates for it members to network and learn from each other.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? As Dean of Libraries, my most important role is to create the space where all library staff can contribute to the campus.  My responsibility is to ensure that the vision is clear and shared, that the environment provides places for all to contribute to making it real, that all that we do contributes value to the university as educational partners, in support of research, and through community engagement. My role is to nurture, guide, support, and remove obstacles for staff so that they can succeed.  One individual example is the strategic positioning of the Libraries as a full partner in our educational mission.  Specifically at UNLV, library faculty have been at ground zero in the redesign of a new core curriculum and they are full partners with faculty in course design for the new curriculum.

6. In your own words: I have worked in academic libraries for 35 years and I wake up every day loving my job.  How many people can say that?  Higher education is facing its biggest challenge ever and I believe that it is libraries that can lead it into a space where it will continue to add value.  Higher education needs us. Society needs us. Librarians need to value themselves in order to move confidently into that space.

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

The RBM editor is appointed for a three-year term, which may be renewed for two additional three year terms. Applicants must be a member of ALA and ACRL. Qualifications include professional experience in academic libraries, a record of scholarly publication, editing experience, an ability to meet publication deadlines, an understanding of the scholarly communication process, and a broad knowledge of the issues confronting academic libraries. Appointment will be made by the ACRL Board of Directors following the 2013 ALA Annual Conference upon the recommendation of the search committee and the ACRL Publications Coordinating Committee. The incoming editor will become editor-designate upon appointment in July 2013 and assume full editorial responsibility in July 2014.

Appointed for a nonrenewable five-year term, the PIL editor works closely with the ACRL content strategist and PIL Editorial Board to acquire and develop appropriate research-based monographic publications. Applicants must be a current members of ALA and ACRL. Qualifications include professional experience in academic libraries, a record of scholarly publication, editing experience, a willingness to proactively seek content and proposals, effective communication skills and experience working with a group, and a broad knowledge of the issues confronting academic libraries. Appointment will be made by the ACRL Board of Directors following the 2013 ALA Annual Conference upon the recommendation of the search committee and of the ACRL Publications Coordinating Committee. The incoming editor will become editor-designate upon appointment in July 2013 and assume full editorial responsibility in July 2014.

Finalists for both editorships will be interviewed at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.

Nominations or resumes and letters of application for either editorship, including the names of three references, should be sent to either RBM Search Committee or PIL Search Committee c/o Dawn Mueller, ACRL, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611 or email to dmueller@ala.org.

The deadline for receipt of applications for both positions is April 30, 2013.

In this issue’s The Way I See It essay, Veronica Arellano Douglas provides practical advice for graduating students and others seeking new positions on “Becoming a more thoughtful library job seeker” by taking full advantage of volunteer and professional association activities. Of course the need for growth and enhancing professional skills doesn’t end with the conclusion of graduate school. Valeda F. Dent argues that what you dont know can help you grow as a leader in the latest entry in ACRL President Steven J. Bell’s New Thinking for Leadership series.

Many of today’s LIS graudates will participate in some sort of information literacy instruction activites when they enter the professional workforce. Quill West provides tips for success in collaboration with classroom faculty in his article “Information literacy cooperation by design.” Angiah L. Davis further explores the design of information literacy assignments and instruction through collaboration with an instuctional design technologist and outlines her experiences with the ADDIE design model.

In our latest ACRL TechConnect article, Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco of University of California – Merced discusses her library’s attempt at gamifying campus welcome week activities using the SCVNGR gaming app.

Make sure to check out the other features and departments in this issue, including a Scholarly Communciation column on potential Secion 108 reform by Melissa A. Brown and the first round of profiles of 2013 ACRL award winners.

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Amicable, lucky, hardworking.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? Generally I use my mobile devices to read newspapers and blogs. For books, I tend to read a lot of international fiction, and I think the last full e-book I read was Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.  It’s a beautiful book that is set during the Biafran war in Nigeria. For music I always seem to have a copy of Aphex Twin‘s “Classics” in my player.

3. Describe ACRL in three words:  Information Literacy Magic.

4. What do you value about ACRL? I value that ACRL creates different standards and guidelines for information literacy, and the more recent Diversity Standards: Cultural Competency for Academic Libraries. I find that these standards are great launching points for discussing what we do as librarians.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? I provide library instruction for Business, Economics, and Sociology. I like integrating videos and activities in my instruction. I also participate in student orientations, and enjoy working with students at the reference desk. My responsibilities also include serving on college-wide committees, so I bring the library point of view when I work with other faculty on campus to address college-wide concerns.

6. In your own words: I think it’s a great time to be a librarian. I’m a relatively new professional (less than five years) so I have known nothing but a dynamic information environment that is highlighted by constant change and disruptive technologies. I spend a lot of time working with students, keeping up with technology, and learning about business information. As an academic librarian my job also allows me to explore my research interests in language, culture, and information. I value reference librarianship because of its interdisciplinary nature–subject librarians tend to support a wide range of disciplines so I am always learning new things.

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

In conjunction with the program, the ACRL/LLAMA Joint President’s Program Committee is sponsoring a creative contest that will provide us with an opportunity to share stories and learn from each other so that we can all improve the quality of our leadership. Any ALA member is eligible to participate. All you need to do is reflect on one of your own memorable leadership moments and share the story about how it provided you with insight into your own leadership style or potential. The twist is that you can refer back to “an example from a book, film, play, TV show, presentation or any other context where a “leadership moment” might be found.” The possibilities, given the number of books, movies and more that offer leadership moments, are nearly endless.

Being a leader means making a commitment to continuous learning. One of the best ways to learn about leadership emerges from leaders when they share their most challenging experiences. We can learn from both the successes and failures encountered in confronting leadership dilemmas. The more memorable those experiences are the more likely we will learn from them. Some of these significant experiences are referred to as crucible moments. Their value is that they make us wiser leaders and give us the confidence we need to succeed in a leadership role.

I am looking forward to learning from your memorable leadership stories. As your ACRL president I plan to refrain from submitting an entry. I’m sure there is something in the small print that specifies my ineligibility.  In the spirit of the contest though, I’d like to share a memorable leadership moment from an inspirational book. I first encountered this book when I was a graduate student in the higher education administration program at the University of Pennsylvania. In a course on educational leadership we were studying decision making approaches in order to improve our own ability to make better decisions. One of the readings for this course was Graham Allison’s The Essence of Decision, the classic book about decision making under uncertainty that explains the Cuban Missile Crisis.

If you’ve read the book or studied the Crisis you know about the gut wrenching process that President John F. Kennedy went through on his way to deciding how to counter the Russians’ decision to place offensive weapons in Cuba. It is a case study of decision making under conditions of extreme ambiguity. For Kennedy and his advisers  the reasoning and rationale behind Russia’s action was murky, so the days leading up to the end of the standoff were much like a game of chess with the ultimate in high stakes. It was also marked by multiple “mini-crises” within the crisis, such as a U-2 spy plane being shot down over Cuba.

The book, along with class discussions, was an excellent lesson in leadership. Kennedy had his failings as president, but the Missile Crisis provided him with an opportunity to redeem past issues by demonstrating top notch leadership. Adding to the complexity of the crisis, Kennedy’s top advisers were split on how to deal with the Russians. One group advocated attacking Russia with nuclear weapons while the other wanted to wait out the Russians to see if they’d just give up. With help from his brother Bobby, President Kennedy used a blend of diplomacy and saber rattling to take control and develop a course of action that resolved the Crisis.

While initially impressed with the book, I have since come to think of Essence of Decision as a leadership manual for decision making under pressure. The big takeaway for me is that great leaders force themselves to avoid settling for the obvious solutions and instead think creatively about ways to develop solutions that are neither option A or option B, but rather a new and previously unimaginable option C. The book and the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis can also help leaders by reminding them that there are going to be dilemmas where there are no easy answers, but that if we maintain our composure, seek the guidance of colleagues and do our best to avoid causing damage, we increase the odds of a successful outcome.

I encourage you to consider composing an entry for this contest. Whether it’s a book, movie, television show, play or other form of expression, I believe that many of us can conjure up a memorable leadership inspiration that is worthy of sharing with others. This will be a learning opportunity for all of us. Many thanks to Valeda Dent and Lila Fredenberg, the 2013 Presidents’ Program co-chairs, and all the members of the committee, for designing a great opportunity for all ALA members to engage with what will surely be a “do not miss this” program in Chicago.

Like its face-to-face counterpart, the ACRL 2013 Virtual Conference will run on a real-time schedule. The online conference features twelve live Webcasts, as well as asynchronous activities, allowing for convenient scheduling and flexibility. The Virtual Conference archive is available for one year and will include more than 130 slidecasts (PowerPoint slides or other presentations synced with audio of the speaker) from every contributed paper, Cyber Zed Shed presentation, invited paper and panel session presented at the face-to-face conference.

Registration materials are available in the Virtual Conference section of the ACRL 2013 website. Individual and group registration rates are available. Register your institution as a group and participate in professional development with your colleagues all year long.

For more information about ACRL 2013, contact Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.org or (312) 280-2522.

We were asked to:

1. Research national academic librarian position descriptions and identify those most current and relevant to today’s librarians
2. Maintain an open and interactive working relationship with CUPA-HR and ACRL staff throughout the process
3. Insure that the leadership and membership of ACRL have an opportunity to comment on the revised descriptions and guide the process
4.  Create a marketing plan to let librarians know about the CUPA’s librarian position descriptions

The task force has created a survey monkey form that includes the current descriptions, our proposed revisions and space for comments. The survey is available now at http://preview.tinyurl.com/ACRLcupahr 

Your comments and suggestions play an important role in this process. Please take a moment to read our revisions and offer your thoughts by March 31, 2013.

Debbie Malone
Chair, ACRL CUPA-HR Task Force

Steven Yates, assistant director/marketing director for the University Press of Mississippi, expressed enthusiasm for the project: “We are always delighted to be recognized by CHOICE and the American Library Association, and we’re really thrilled to participate in a program that makes it easier for libraries and their patrons to access our electronic content. What a great idea!”

“We are so pleased to be able to participate in the CHOICE E-Collection program—it’s such an easy way to let librarians quickly view Wesleyan books that have received CHOICE reviews so they can make an informed purchase decision,” said Leslie Starr, assistant director/marketing manager for Wesleyan University Press.

The CHOICE eBookStore, hosted by Publishers Row of Skokie, Ill., contains all of the available CEC titles. Specifically designed for academic libraries, the store offers three different sales models for acquiring CEC titles: a traditional purchase or ownership model (with perpetual access) and two Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) models—rent-to-own and rental only.

To explore the CHOICE E-Collection, visit the collection website.

This white paper explores and articulates three intersections between scholarly communication and information literacy:

1. economics of the distribution of scholarship (including access to scholarship, the changing nature of scholarly publishing, and the education of students to be knowledgeable content consumers and content creators);
2. digital literacies (including teaching new technologies and rights issues, and the emergence of multiple types of non-textual content); and
3. our changing roles (including the imperative to contribute to the building of new infrastructures for scholarship, and deep involvement with creative approaches to teaching).

“These intersections indicate areas of strategic realignment for academic librarians so that our libraries can be resilient in the face of tremendous change in the scholarly information environment,” said Barbara DeFelice, past chair of the ACRL Scholarly Communication Committee and director of the digital resources and scholarly communication programs at the Dartmouth College Library.

After elaborating on each intersection, the paper provides strategies for librarians from different backgrounds to initiate collaborations within their own campus environments between information literacy and scholarly communication. Erin Ellis, head of libraries instructional services at the University of Kansas and chair of ACRL’s Student Learning and Information Literacy Committee, noted that, “developing new collaborations between information literacy and scholarly communication programs is an important strategic response to the changing academic environment.”

After articulating these intersections and exploring core responses, the paper recommends four objectives, with actions for each, which could be taken by ACRL, other academic library organizations, individual libraries and library leaders. The overarching recommendations are:

1. integrate pedagogy and scholarly communication into educational programs for librarians to achieve the ideal of information fluency;
2. develop new model information literacy curricula, incorporating evolutions in pedagogy and scholarly communication issues;
3. explore options for organizational change; and
4. promote advocacy.

“We feel that these objectives will support libraries in becoming more resilient in the face of the changing digital information environment,” said Kevin Smith, chair of ACRL’s Research and Scholarly Environment Committee and director of copyright and scholarly communication at Duke University.

This white paper is issued as both a downloadable PDF and an interactive online format. Readers are encouraged to add comments and reactions in order to help further the conversation.

This white paper complements the recently published ACRL book Common Ground at the Nexus of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication, edited by Stephanie Davis-Kahl and Merinda Kaye Hensley.

Please join ACRL leaders for a conversation about the white paper and the exciting changes these intersections bring to our work during a panel presentation at the upcoming ACRL 2013 conference from 8:30 a.m.- 9:30 a.m on Friday, April 12, in Indianapolis.

Davis-Kahl and Hensley explore how librarians at a variety of institutions can engage students and faculty in discussing topics such as open access, copyright, fair use, publishing models, the social and economic aspects of scholarship and publishing through the lens of information literacy. Readers will come away with new ideas for forging partnerships with others in their organizations in order to enrich both information literacy and scholarly communication programs, activities and services.

The seventeen chapters in Common Ground at the Nexus of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication represent the diversity and creativity in librarianship and aims to spark conversations about how to approach these topics using the case studies and interviews about programming, advocacy, outreach and instruction. This volume is essential reading for librarians working in either information literacy or scholarly communication programs, along with library school students.

Common Ground at the Nexus of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication is available for purchase in print, as an e-book, and as a print/ e-book bundle through the ALA Online Store; in print and for Kindle through Amazon.com; and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the U.S. or (770) 442-8633 for international customers.

In keeping with the scholarly communication principles discussed in this title, ACRL is also making available an Open Access (OA) edition. This edition is a variant edition in that it is lacking one of the chapters present in the original print and e-book full editions. The OA edition may be found on the ACRL website.

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Dedicated, empathetic, optimistic.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? I’ve been reading a few things in fits and spurts, so hopefully by typing this out I can finally hold myself accountable for finishing them!  Some of the titles I’ve started include Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid’s Hot Sour Salty Sweet, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth, and David Sedaris’ Holidays on Ice.

3. Describe ACRL in three words:  Connected, driven, professional.

4. What do you value about ACRL? I greatly value the community provided through ACRL, which facilitates connections amongst a diverse range of academic library professionals in our field.  At the same time, it provides a number of opportunities to support our active engagement and growth, including collaborative committee work, publications and continuing education workshops, and open discussion forums on the latest topics of the day. ACRL helps to foster collegiality; in many ways, its most valuable resources are the people within it!

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? I like to think (and hope!) that I bring an enthusiasm and genuine interest in supporting our campus’ needs, which I try to apply into all of my daily activities.  Outreach and developing relationships—whether by making a personal connection during a research consultation or by working with other campus units on joint projects—is one of the more increasingly important activities in which academic librarians need to be involved.  It allows us to better understand our institutions’ needs, as well as to demonstrate our role in supporting them.

6. In your own words: I often find myself excited by the new ideas and challenges I encounter every day on the job.  This constant feeling of discovery and learning is at the very heart of librarianship, and in fact is part of what makes it such an engaging profession.  I love the energy of a college campus and the types of inventive questions, discussions, and projects that this environment inspires.  Academic libraries and the librarians within them are essential in supporting the intellectual inquiry, advancement, and advocacy of both their respective campuses, as well as the greater community at large. Bearing all this in mind, it’s hard not to be feel inspired ourselves!

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

The case involves a US graduate student named Supap Kirtsaeng who coordinated with his family to buy less expensive foreign editions of textbooks abroad and resell them to college students in the US. These books were not pirated copies; they were genuine textbooks authorized by Wiley for manufacture and sale abroad. Nevertheless, Wiley brought suit, alleging that the purchase and resale of foreign-made copies in the US infringed copyright.

In his defense, Kirtsaeng invoked a principle known as the first sale doctrine: a lawful owner of a lawful copy of a copyrighted work can generally do whatever she wants with that copy—resell, lend, donate, and even destroy it—without asking permission from the copyright holder. To put it another way, the author’s right to control a particular copy of her work ends after the first sale. The first sale doctrine is especially important to libraries, whose primary activity throughout history has been to buy copies of works and make them available to their communities by lending.

The Court’s decision (PDF) ensures that libraries can rely on the critically important principle of first sale to continue lending the estimated 200 million foreign-made volumes in our collections. Wiley and others who sought a right of perpetual control over these materials may turn to Congress to roll back the Court’s wise decision. Libraries and our allies remain vigilant in defense of first sale and all of the rights that make it possible to serve our communities.

For more information on first sale, download “First Sale Fast Facts for Libraries (PDF).”

The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) consists of three major library associations—the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of College and Research Libraries. These three associations collectively represent over 300,000 information professionals and thousands of libraries of all kinds throughout the United States and Canada. Find us on the web at http://librarycopyrightalliance.org/.

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Complete details on the 2013 ALA/ ACRL elections are available on the ACRL website.

About the Music:
The music in ACRL Podcasts is “Don’t you,” mixed by stefsax and available on ccMixter. The music is used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.

Access to the forum will be available approximately 15 minutes before the start time through Adobe Connect.

More information on the 2013 ACRL election, including links to candidate statements from C&RL News and a full slate of candidates for ACRL section offices, is available on the ACRL website.

Voting in the 2013 ALA/ ACRL election begins on Tuesday, March 19. We strongly encourage you to help shape the future of your associations by casting a ballot for the candidates of your choice!

Susan Barnes Whyte is Library and Media Services Director of the Linfield College Linfield Libraries in McMinnville, Oregon. Susan has been an ACRL member since 1990 and is a 2013 candidate for the ACRL Board of Directors as Director-at-Large.

1. Describe yourself in three words: Compassionate, Visionary, Pragmatic.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? Reading: Generation on a Tightrope by Arthur Levine and Diane Dean as well as yet another Scandinavian noir mystery. Listening to: Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cole Porter.

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Leading, Mentoring, Networking.

4. Why do you value most about ACRL? ACRL provides us with a view of our profession as a whole, with collaborative learning opportunities, and with constant reminders that what we do as academic librarians matters.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? As library and media services director at Linfield College, I provide leadership, vision, and perspective. With my excellent colleagues at Linfield College Libraries, we strive to deliver meaningful services and resources for the students, faculty, and staff.  I work constantly with faculty and staff across the college to ensure that the library sustains the mission and vision of the college.

6. In your own words: I never cease to marvel at the constant changing terrain of our profession within higher education, which is itself in the midst of deep upheaval. The message we deliver to our faculty and students needs to reflect these challenges as well as the opportunities we have in libraries to impact student learning, faculty research, and the hope of higher education. I work in a liberal arts college because I believe profoundly in our future as embodied in our students.

The new ACRL-CHOICE webinars present a unique opportunity for fostering discussion among vendors, publishers and authors and an unmatched academic library audience of 11,500 ACRL members and 15,000 CHOICE users and fans.  Structured as 60-minute, live, interactive webinars, this new program offers an unprecedented way for libraries to learn about new ideas, developments and products, and to actively participate in discussions with companies that serve their market.  It also allows sponsors to receive unfiltered feedback from the academic library community.

For further information on becoming an ACRL-CHOICE webinar sponsor or to register to attend a webinar, please contact Pam Marino at pmarino@ala-choice.org.

Ann M. Watson is Dean of the Library at the Shepherd University Scarborough Library in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Ann has been an ACRL member since 2000 and is a 2013 candidate for the ACRL Board of Directors as Director-at-Large.

1. Describe yourself in three words: Energetic, Inquiring, Passionate.

2. What are you reading right now?  I am reading Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis and Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience by Sharon Salzberg.

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Connection, Opportunity, Engaging.

4. Why do you value most about ACRL? ACRL’s volunteer opportunities have allowed me to grow professionally and personally throughout my career. Through committee work I have gained knowledge and confidence in my professional abilities. My involvement in ACRL has also provided personal satisfaction in knowing that I am contributing to the future betterment of academic libraries. I value greatly the ACRL standards, educational resources, networking opportunities, and intellectual stimulation that I derive from being an ACRL member. The friendships I have made in ACRL over the years are truly an extra value.  My ACRL involvement has afforded me the privilege to meet librarians all around the country and given me a deep knowing that I can always look to these kindred spirits for advice, support, and assistance and maybe even a laugh.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? My contribution as Dean of the Library at Shepherd University is to be an advocate for the library insuring the library meets the research needs and services that benefit faculty and students now and in the future. I am a “library value” spokesperson whenever an opportunity arises!  I serve as an advocate for the library staff and work to create a positive work environment where the library staff shines.  The entire library makes an important contribution to the campus through our involvement, collaboration, creativity, and dedication in campus planning, activities, responsiveness, and going above and beyond to assist our campus users. My biggest contribution is modeling an attitude and behavior that reinforces this atmosphere of cooperation, satisfaction, and job fulfillment.

6. In your own words:

Top 10 things about Life as an Academic Librarian:

10. Being amazed at how smart and accomplished students are!
9.   Being continually impressed by the intellectual depth of faculty members.
8.   Having each work day provide different experiences than the previous day.
7.   Being inspired by working with such dedicated and fun library staff.
6.   The wonderful feeling of being part of an academic campus community.
5.   Excitement from seeing many newly minted librarians entering the profession.
4.   Being in awe of how much the new librarians are contributing to the advancement of the profession.
3.   Pride I feel when a former student employee decides to become a librarian.
2.   Feeling of contributing to the betterment of society as a whole.
1.  Opportunity to learn something new every single day.

Karen Williams is Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning at the University of Minnesota Libraries in Minneapolis. Karen has been an ACRL member since 1985 and is a 2013 candidate for the ACRL Board of Directors as Vice-President/ President-Elect.

1. Describe yourself in three words: Passionate, Learner, Shared-Leadership.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? I have always loved fiction so there’s at least one novel on the night stand or the Kindle at all times. My current fun read is The Sound of Broken Glass by Deborah Crombie.  I’ve recently finished two excellent book club selections, Yan Martel’s Life of Pi (looking forward to seeing the movie), and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried (how did I miss this when it originally came out?)  I’m a huge dance aficionado so am enjoying Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans.  I had a “can’t put it down” experience with Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, a memoir by Cheryl Strayed.

I subscribe to a number of health and nutrition newsletters, and podcasts of This American Life and Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me accompany me as my Fitbit relentlessly tracks those daily steps. There is too much professional reading to list it all, but I’ve just picked up Transforming Information Literacy Programs: Intersecting Frontiers of Self, Library Culture, and Campus Community, edited by Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson and Courtney Bruch.

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Catalytic, Empowering, Lifelong Colleagues.

4. Why do you value most about ACRL? One of my favorite library school faculty members advised me that becoming professionally active would be rewarding, energizing, and essential to my own growth – all of which proved to be true. I chose ACRL as my professional home and it has been an excellent venue for networking, sharing, and learning from each other as we set about reinventing our work.  I have valued the great variety of educational offerings and the many opportunities to participate in shaping our collective future.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? Librarians possess a broad academic perspective and have become adept at supporting valuable traditions in areas where this is necessary, and pioneering new services and new models for everything from cooperative collection management to discovery and delivery systems that are responsive to how scholars and students work. I’ve been an advocate for open access and an educator on a broad range of scholarly communication issues. I’ve supported a variety of teaching and learning efforts from working on the development of undergraduate student learning outcomes to the recent initiatives on eLearning and the introduction of MOOCs.

6. In your own words: We are experiencing transformational change in both higher education and the information landscape, which makes this a tremendously exciting, if challenging, time to be a librarian. New and rapidly changing technologies, an abundance of digital information in myriad formats, an increased understanding of how students learn, changing practices in how scholars communicate and disseminate their research and creative work, and increasing public demand for accountability are all part of our new landscape.  As a profession, I believe we are up to these challenges and our collective efforts will result in new services for our clienteles and new ways of defining and connecting scholars and students to the content they need.

Maggie Farrell is Dean of Libraries at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. Maggie has been an ACRL member since 1989 and is a 2013 candidate for the ACRL Board of Directors as Vice-President/ President-Elect.

1. Describe yourself in three words: (I would hope others would also say) Engaging, Smart, Funny.

2. What are you reading right now? The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough is our UW Libraries’ author in April and we are thrilled to bring him to our campus.

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Expertise, Professional, Scholarship.

4. Why do you value most about ACRL? Advocacy for academic libraries. Connecting with academic librarians on common issues. Professional development.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? Student and faculty success – our resources enable students and faculty to incorporate current research resources into their research and teaching, our instruction provides lifelong research skills for our students, and our digital collections promote UW research and scholarship to the world.

6. In your own words: While an undergraduate working at UMKC Nichols Library, I was intrigued by the reference librarians who connected people with information and made a career decision to become an academic librarian. When I attended the University of Arizona, I was committed to my decision to become an academic librarian because I believed, and still regard, our instructional mission to be critical in our profession. I am energized by working in the academic environment and truly enjoy getting to know students. I have been fortunate to work at a variety of institutions that support student success and believe that my contributions have made an individual and institutional difference for our students and faculty.

The institutions selected to host the 2013 road shows are:

• Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa.
• Academic Libraries of Indiana. Indianapolis, Ind.
• Illinois Wesleyan University. Bloomington, Ill.
• Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries. Edmonton, Alberta
• University of Texas Libraries. Austin, Tx.

In its fifth year, when the 2013 workshops are complete, the road show will have visited 19 different states, the District of Columbia, 1 U.S. territory and 2 Canadian provinces. The 25 workshops offered over these years will have reached more than 1,500 participants from over 400 different colleges and universities.

“The goal of the workshop is to empower participants to help accelerate the transformation of the scholarly communication system. The curriculum is updated annually to meet the evolving needs of the community, and it places a strong focus on discovering opportunities to engage with faculty and on campus that are appropriate to your local intuitional context,” said Kevin L. Smith, chair of the ACRL Research and Scholarly Environment Committee and director of copyright and scholarly communication at Duke University Libraries.

Led by two expert presenters, this structured interactive overview of the scholarly communication system supports individual or institutional strategic planning and action.  The workshop focuses on access, emerging opportunities, intellectual property, and engagement. It is intended to provide a foundational understanding for participants and serve as a catalyst for action.

Host sites are partnering with other institutions and organizations in their area to extend the reach to as diverse an audience as possible. Library staff, including liaison librarians, catalogers, access services and senior management from two-year, liberal arts, master’s, comprehensive and doctoral institutions will attend the workshops.

In addition to offering a partial subsidy on a competitive basis to these five hosts, ACRL offers the option of bringing this one-day workshop, at full cost, to your campus, chapter, or consortia year round. Read more about how to bring this workshop to your region.

Douglas K. Lehman is Director of the Wittenberg University Thomas Library in Springfield, Ohio. Douglas has been an ACRL member since 1985 and is a 2013 candidate for the ACRL Board of Directors as Councilor.

1. Describe yourself in three words: Thoughtful, Inquisitive, Steadfast.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? I am reading Lennon: The Man, The Myth,The Music—The Definitive Life by Tim Riley. My iPod has a mix of The Beatles, Sara Watkins, Gram Parsons, Jackson Browne, Buddy Miller, The Rolling Stones, The Decemberists, Jimmy Buffett, Steve Goodman, The Byrds, and many others too numerous to mention.

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Professional, Scholarly, Valuable.

4. Why do you value most about ACRL? ACRL has been an important part of my professional life for the last twenty-five years. It is my professional home and is has provided me with the opportunities to serve on section committees, serve as the chair of two sections and serve on, and chair, ACRL-level committees. It has allowed me to broaden my professional network by making connections with librarians in different types of libraries and it has allowed me to develop friendships that have lasted beyond our time spent working together on committees or in section work. I value those relationships and what it has contributed to my professional growth and also what I have been able to give back to the profession through my work on ACRL committees and in the sections. I truly do not know where I would have found myself in ALA if not for ACRL. It has been a key part of my career and my growth as a librarian.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? As an academic librarian with faculty rank and tenure on a small liberal arts college campus I have been able to become an integral part of the campus community. By virtue of being an administrator with faculty status I can provide a unique perspective to campus issues by seeing them from the viewpoint of both a faculty member and an administrator. I have been an active participant and leader on faculty committees as a faculty member as well as serving on faculty committees as an ex-officio member by virtue of my role as an administrator. I believe that as academic librarians we also contribute to our student’s education by working with them on research and explaining that research is not easy and it is a process that must be learned. We teach our student’s how to build their body of knowledge in the research process by taking what they knew and then adding what they learned in this encounter to understand what they are capable of doing.

6. In your own words: I have been very proud and happy that I made a career as an academic librarian. I have met many good and interesting people during my career and have watched the profession change from a print-based operation to one with many more options for the delivery of information. Even though I have been involved in library administration for much of my career, I still enjoy working at the reference desk and spending time with students talking with them and teaching them how to take their research to new levels. I feel fortunate to have worked in virtually every area of the library during my career, starting as a cataloger in a small public library to working with state documents at a state historical society to  reference and technical services administration in a community college to head of reference, instruction and government documents in a state university and now as library director at a small, private liberal arts college. The variety in the types of libraries I have worked in and the range of positions I have held prevented my career from becoming stale and continue to provide new challenges every day.

But, one also realizes that you don’t get to where you are by yourself. There are family supporting you and mentors that provide direction for you during your career. Everyone has a mentor or two during their career, individuals who provide you with direction and guidance. It may not be a formal process, but it is there nonetheless. For me four librarians have served that role: David Kaser (Indiana University Graduate Library School), Glenn Tripplett (Miami-Dade Community College), Milton Crouch (University of Vermont), and Tom Kirk (Earlham College). Each of these librarians, in some way, have provided guidance and inspiration for me throughout my career. It is my hope that I have done the same for other, younger librarians.

Thomas (Tom) Abbott is Dean of Libraries and Distance Learning at the University of Maine at Augusta in Augusta, Maine. Tom has been an ACRL member since 1988 and is a 2013 candidate for the ACRL Board of Directors as Councilor.

1. Describe yourself in three words: Intuitive, Entrepreneurial, Enthusiastic.

2. What are you reading right now? Let’s see: yesterday after dinner I checked the Internet for the latest news and weather, saw a note and photo from our son and granddaughter on Facebook, watched a “how to” video about installing a radio in my tractor cab – the hole for the radio is there and my son gave me an old car radio so now it’s a project. On the bedside table I switch between escapism like James Patterson and more meaty items like Ken Follett’s Winter of the World which I am about halfway through.

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Members, Professional, Diversity.

4. Why do you value most about ACRL? ACRL has provided me with the opportunity to work with and learn from the greater academic library community, allowing me to be a more effective advocate for my library and the university libraries in Maine and New England.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? I wear three hats at my university: Libraries, Distance Learning, and Region Accreditation Head. As such my role is diverse and ever interesting. I support the provost and academic deans and their faculty in all things distance learning. I supervise an instructional support team. I work with our president on accreditation matters including guiding the campus process for our self-studies and also represent her in NEASC activities as our campus liaison to the organization.

This level of campus-wide engagement and the working relationships it develops, provides a platform for me to present library plans, advocate for changes and influence curricular discussions as they may relate to library integration.  My campus connections also put me at the Finance and Budget table – important this year as we are again being forced to reduce our budgets due to less than desired state subsidies.  All in all, I like to think I serve as a “rudder” for the university always steering the ship toward or through the library and all it does for students and faculty.

6. In your own words: In the best of all worlds academic librarians are change agents and good managers of people and processes. They (we) stay on top of emerging trends, sort out the important stuff from the fads and then figure out how to make it all work with the budgets we have. We speak up at the right times, influence the academic processes and maintain good relationships with faculty AND the administration. Finally, we support and listen to our employees so they can become an active part of a process toward continuous improvement.

Julia Gelfand is Applied Sciences and Engineering Librarian at the University of California-Irvine Libraries in Irvine, California. Julia has been an ACRL member since 1985 and is a 2013 candidate for the ACRL Board of Directors as Director-at-Large.

1. Describe yourself in three words: Committed, Adventurous, Intense.

2. What are you reading right now? I am inspired by people’s stories so I read a lot of biographies – current reads include J.G. Ballard’s autobiography Miracles of Life (2013), Mike Wallace: A Life by Pete Rader (2012); My Bookstore by Ronald Rice (2012); but I really enjoyed Thessaly La Force and Jane Mount’s My Ideal Bookshelf (2012), an experiment about how a variety of successful people define their favorite books and how those books influenced and helped them find their way in the world.  The illustrations were even more telling than the very short vignettes, but let’s conclude that “books can say a lot about who we are.”  Also, The Lean Start-Up by Eric Ries (2011); Gavin Newsome’s Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government (2013) about how communities can transform themselves with the powerful social media tools available today; and Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012), are each recommended.

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Supportive, Engaging, Relevant.

4. Why do you value most about ACRL? Its advocacy role, the ability to learn from colleagues, be influenced by a range of leaders, and learn how to employ new strategies and technologies to help redefine our goals, operations and professional role.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? How to follow best practices in scholarly communication and be a good promoter and steward of research methods and scholarship; solve informational queries, teach research strategies and techniques, promote learning and discovery; and hopefully be a good colleague.

6. In your own words: We have chosen a very dynamic career, where the possibilities are constantly changing and the best directive or maxim appears to be “open to change,” and “not afraid of ambiguity and uncertainty.” We are fortunate to have opportunities to develop new ideas, applications and services and to often work with intellectually curious, creative, ambitious, self-directed and motivated users. We also get to test the limits of increasingly working under limited and varying resources to maximize the potential for richer diversity.  Higher education is at a challenging nexus right now and defining how to generate the best value and provide this generation and our future ones the ability to learn, engage with and contribute to society is a privilege that my work and affiliating with ACRL helps allow.

Assessment: Demonstrating the Educational Value of the Academic Library Track – Discover how to approach assessment from a learning-centered perspective. Participants will emerge with a broader understanding of assessment and how to use assessment as an important tool to guide evidence-based classroom, curriculum and program development.

Intentional Teaching: Reflective Teaching to Improve Student Learning Track – Find out how to become more self-aware and self-directed as a teacher.  This track is aimed at the experienced academic librarian (5+ years teaching experience, in a library or other setting) and facilitates the process of critical reflection through peer discussion, readings and personal reflection as a pathway to professional growth and renewal.

Visit the Immersion website for complete details about the program, including curriculum, learning outcomes and application instructions. Questions concerning the program or application process should be directed to Margot Conahan at (312) 280-2522 or mconahan@ala.org.

Bradford Lee Eden is Dean of Library Services at the Valparaiso University Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources in Valparaiso, Indiana. Bradford has been an ACRL member since 1994 and is a 2013 candidate for the ACRL Board of Directors as Director-at-Large.

1. Describe yourself in three words: Innovative and change agent.

2. What are you reading right now?  Medieval historical novels and J.R.R. Tolkien research.

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Academic libraries and advocate.

4. Why do you value most about ACRL? Its professional support for librarians working in college and research libraries.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? Support for the information and research endeavors and needs of faculty, students, administrators, and staff

6. In your own words: It is an exciting time to be an academic librarian:  open access, digitizing and providing access to unique resources, informing our users about copyright and author rights in the digital environment, re-purposing collections and library spaces, integrating existing and new services into the educational experience.

Editorial

Scott Walter. “The Improvisation of Human Experience: Joseph J. Branin (1947–2012).”
Full Text (PDF).

Articles

Daryl R. Bullis and Richard D. Irving.  “Journals Supporting Terrorism Research: Identification and Investigation into Their Impact on the Social Sciences.”
Abstract – Full Text (PDF).

Karen Rupp-Serrano and  Sarah Robbins. “Information-Seeking Habits of Education Faculty.”
Abstract – Full Text (PDF).

Gay Helen Perkins and Amy J.W. Slowik. “The Value of Research in Academic Libraries.”
Abstract -  Full Text (PDF).

David W. Lewis. “From Stacks to the Web: The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting.”  Abstract – Full Text (PDF).

Deborah D. Blecic, Stephen E. Wiberley, Jr., Joan B. Fiscella, Sara Bahnmaier-Blaszczak, and Rebecca Lowery. “Deal or No Deal? Evaluating Big Deals and Their Journals.”
Abstract – Full Text (PDF).

Jingfeng Xia and Ying Liu. “Usage Patterns of Open Genomic Data.”
Abstract -  Full Text (PDF).

Book Reviews

David Henige. H. Faye Christenberry, Angela Courtney, Liorah Golcomb, and Melissa S. Van Vuuren. Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English: Strategies and Sources. Literary Research: Strategies and Source, 11. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2012. 262p. $60.00 (ISBN 9780810883833). LC 2012-009243. Full Text (PDF).

Loreen S. Henry. David Shumaker. The Embedded Librarian: Innovative Strategies for Taking Knowledge Where It’s Needed. Medford, N.J.: Information Today, Inc, 2012. 232p. $49.50 (ISBN 9781573874526). LC2012-017662. Full Text (PDF).

Scott Krafft. Colin Franklin. Obsessions and Confessions of a Book Life. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press; Camberwell, Victoria, Australia: Books of Kells; London: Bernard Quaritch, 2012. 262p. alk. paper, $49.95 (ISBN: 9781584563044). LC2012-018734. Full Text (PDF).

Judy Li. Priscilla K. Shontz and Richard A. Murray. What Do Employers Want: A Guide for Library Science Students. 1st ed. California: Library Unlimited, 2012. 119p. $45 (ISBN 9781598848281). LC2012-005693. Full Text (PDF).

Lynne F. Maxwell. Milena Dobreva, Andy O’Dwyer, and Pierluigi Feliciati. User Studies for Digital Library Development. London, U.K.: Facet Pub., 2012. 272p. FSC accredited paper, $99.95 (ISBN 9781856047654). Full Text (PDF).

Carli Spina. Laura N. Gasaway. Copyright Questions and Answers for Information Professionals: From the Columns of Against the Grain. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2013. 284p. alk. paper, $24.95 (ISBN 9781557536396). LC2012-032276. Full Text (PDF).

Errata

Errata. Full Text (PDF).

LCA reviewed the comments filed to date and concluded that “the significant diversity of opinion expressed in the initial comments submitted in the response to the Copyright Office’s Notice of Inquiry Concerning Orphan Works and Mass Digitization indicates that it will be extremely difficult to forge a consensus approach to these issues…In light of these fundamental disagreements, LCA recommends that the Copyright Office pursue non-legislative solutions such as continuing to make the Copyright Office records more accessible. Moreover, the Office should seek to bolster fair use in both judicial and international fora. If the Copyright Office does decide to recommend a legislative solution, the only approach likely to achieve consensus is, as we suggested in our initial comments, a one sentence amendment to 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(2) that grants courts the discretion to reduce or remit statutory damages if the user conducted a reasonably diligent search prior to the use.”

For more, see LCA’s original comments to the Copyright Office from mid January, and view the full list of comments on the Copyright Office’s website.

The ProQuest Library Support Staff Scholarships recipients are:

• Jennifer L. Adams, The Catholic University of America Libraries
• LaToya Augustine, New Orleans Public Library
• Christina Diep, Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University
• Yolyndra Green, Central Piedmont Community College
• Velvet Marlin, Pierce College
• Jennifer Smith, Belk Library at Elon University
• Monya Tomlinson, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
• Jasmine Woodson, Temple University

The ProQuest Library Support Staff Scholarships include complimentary registration to the ACRL 2013 conference (a $380 value) and a travel stipend for non-local scholarship recipients.  ACRL extends our thanks to ProQuest for their generous underwriting of these scholarships.

Complete details about ACRL 2013 are on the conference website. Questions should be directed to Margot Conahan at (312) 280-2522 or mconahan@ala.org.

More information on the 2013 ACRL election, including links to candidate statements from C&RL News and a full slate of candidates for ACRL section offices, is available on the ACRL website.

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Passionate, motivated, organized.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? I just finished Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson. This was a book that I read for a committee at work and I really enjoyed it. For a fun read, I am currently reading The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker.

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Network, valuable, informative.

4. What do you value about ACRL? I value the broad network, the great ideas from fellow academic librarians, and the community created through ACRL. The discussion lists to which I subscribe have been instrumental for new ideas and new ways to approach my job.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? As an instructional and research librarian, it is my hope to provide curricular support. I am passionate about research skills and the need for students to understand how information is organized, how to evaluate it, and then how to ethically use it.  This is a lifelong skill. Also, I hope to continue to get more involved on campus. Through my involvement on campus, I hope that students know the library is a place to use and the library staff are always happy to help.

6. In your own words: My undergraduate degree was in secondary education and I think I always knew that I wanted to teach, but I was not sure about teaching at the secondary level. After some soul-searching, I decided to go back to school and obtain my MLS.  When I started working part-time in an academic library I knew that I had found my place. Being an academic librarian is the perfect fit for me.  It allows me to teach, manage projects, and learn about different disciplines of study.  I love what I do and I have often caught myself smiling on the drive to work.

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

Heidi Madden and Ann Marie Rasmussen of Duke University traveled metaphorically back in time through the use of German literary histories in assignments in graduate literature courses. They describe their experiences in their article “Hiding in plain sight.”

With ACRL 2013 just around the corner, it is time for conference attendees to consider their travel plans in earnest. In this month’s feature on our host city of Indianapolis, Meagan Lacy provides a delicious look at the city’s culinary scene.

Also this month, we conclude our look at the upcoming ALA/ACRL election with responses by the candidates for ALA vice-president/president-elect to questions from the ACRL Board of Directors. Make sure to vote in the election beginning March 19.

Make sure to check out the other features and departments in this issue, including Internet Resources on “SK8 zines” by Joshua Finnell, Melissa Moore’s The Way I See It essay on becoming a library coach, and ACRL Board of Directors actions from the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting.

Like its face-to-face counterpart, the ACRL 2013 Virtual Conference will run on a real-time schedule. The online conference features twelve live Webcasts, as well as asynchronous activities, allowing for convenient scheduling and flexibility. The Virtual Conference archive is available for one year and will include more than 130 slidecasts (PowerPoint slides or other presentations synced with audio of the speaker) from every contributed paper, Cyber Zed Shed presentation, invited paper and panel session presented at the face-to-face conference.

Registration materials are now available in the Virtual Conference section of the ACRL 2013 website. Individual and group registration rates are available. Register your institution as a group and participate in professional development with your colleagues all year long.

Registration remains open for the face-to-face conference in Indianapolis. Submit your ACRL 2013 registration materials by the March 13 advance registration deadline in order to save $50 or more on your conference registration fees.

For more information about ACRL 2013, contact Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.org or (312) 280-2522.

• Tell us a story about what you, as a member of the academic library community, contribute to your campus and how ACRL has had a role in making that possible.
• Tell us about a time you felt on top of your game in your career and how ACRL helped you get there.
• Tell us a story about the personal connections you’ve made in ACRL and what those relationships have meant to you.
• Tell us how ACRL helps you make an impact on the profession.
• Tell us about your favorite ACRL moment.

Selected videos will receive one year of free ACRL membership (a $57 value, does not include ALA membership) and an invitation to the ACRL 2013 Chair’s Reception held Thurs., April 11 at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. Complete details and submission requirements are available on the ACRL website.

The deadline for submission is Feb. 28, 2013, and all applicants will be notified via email by March 29, 2013.

For more information, contact ACRL Conference Supervisor Tory Ondrla at tondrla@ala.org or (312) 280-2515.

He continued, “We must still strongly advocate for the passage of FASTR. Though it will take more time and present a greater struggle, the academic community needs a lasting legislative resolution for expanded public access to federally funded research. For today, we are extremely gratified by the Obama administration’s action.”

For more on what this directive means and its relationship to the recently introduced legislation, the following post from the ALA Washington Office blog, District Dispatch (written by Jessica McGilvray, Assistant Director in the Office of Government Relations) provides full details:

On Friday afternoon, John Holdren, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, released a Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies. The memo, Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research (pdf), is the Obama Administrations response to last year’s We the People petition that asked for a requirement for scholars and researchers to provide “free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research.”

This memo comes at an opportune time, as two weeks ago the bicameral, bipartisan Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) was introduced in the house and senate. There are many similarities between Friday’s memo and FASTR; however it is important to understand that the open access fight is not over! While the memo became policy the day the White House released it, the next president could overturn the policy on his / her first day in office. We must continue to work with congress to make FASTR into law.

This memo demonstrates that the Obama administration has a good grasp on the needs of the public, going beyond what FASTR would mandate to include data as well as published research. The memo states that “to achieve the Administration’s commitment to increase access to federally funded, published research and digital scientific data, Federal agencies investing in research and development must have clear and coordinated policies for increasing such access.” Unlike with FASTR, these new polices must be completed within 6 months.

For a further comparison on FASTR and Friday’s OSTP memo, check out this insightful piece by Peter Suber of the Harvard Open Access Project and SPARC.

Please take a moment to reach out to your congressional representatives to ask for their support on FASTR – request that they become a cosponsor on the bill! The ALA Legislative Action Center is ready and waiting on your visit!

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Resourceful, curious, supportive.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? Ahab’s Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund. My favorite genre is historical novels.

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Dynamic, relevant, network.

4. What do you value about ACRL? The opportunities for networking and sharing best practices provided through ACRL’s Personnel Administrators and Staff Development Discussion Group and listserv have been invaluable. ACRL also offers targeted well designed and delivered professional development opportunities that we often offer in a group setting to encourage dialogue among our staff.

5. What do you, as a human resources professional, contribute to your campus? As a human resources professional I hope to offer employees and managers consistent interpretation of policies and procedures, fair consideration, and guidance through employment changes. Through research and service I also contribute to the work of academic libraries and continue to grow as an HR professional.

6. In your own words: Working as a human resources professional and faculty member in an academic library has given me the opportunity to think strategically and broadly about the profession. Participation in conferences, research and service have brought we into a strong community of respected HR practitioners. These relationships are invaluable as we work together to strengthen procedures, skills and the organizational stability of the libraries we serve. I feel honored to be a part of the academic and research library community.

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

The program, hosted by ACRL President Steven J. Bell, associate university librarian for research and instructional services at Temple University, and LLAMA President Pat Hawthorne, interim chief administrative officer at the Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library, will take place from 10:30-11:30 am on Saturday, June 29, 2013.

In conjunction with the program, the ACRL/LLAMA Joint President’s Program Committee is excited to offer all ALA members the opportunity to reflect on memorable moments of leadership that have inspired insights into their own leadership or potential.  The committee wants to hear about these “leadership moments” by way of a written reflection competition.

The guidelines for the competition are as follows:

Using an example from a book, film, play, TV show, presentation or any other context where a “leadership moment” might be found, participants are asked to define and discuss how that moment contributed to their own conception of great leadership or inspired their own development as a leader.  In a short essay of 500 words, participants should explain why that moment stayed with them and how it influenced their own personal experience or thoughts on leadership. Winners will receive an Amazon gift card.

Entries must be submitted by May 1, 2013, to co-chairs Valeda F. Dent at Valeda.Dent@liu.edu and Lila Fredenburg at lilafred@rulmail.rutgers.edu. All entries will be judged by the Presidents’ Program Committee in consultation with the current presidents of ACRL and LLAMA. The winners will be announced in early June 2013.

If successful, it would not only be damaging to Askey personally but do great harm to the ability of all academic librarians to perform their professional duties.  We trust that the Edwin Mellen Press will, in the light of growing outrage in the academic community, drop what appears to be an ill-considered assault upon free expression in general and academic librarians in particular.

- ACRL Board of Directors

Read full details about participating in the first cohort and apply online by 5 p.m. Central, Friday, March 8.

Learn more about the AiA program in a newly available recording of an update session held during the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle (best viewed in Firefox browser, browse to Sunday at 1pm for session recording).

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Inquisitive, responsive, compassionate.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? I am currently reading Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug are Killing North America’s Great Forests by Andrew Nikiforuk. Perhaps not a surprising choice for an Agriculture Librarian!

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Visionary, engaged, supportive.

4. What do you value about ACRL? ACRL provides vital opportunities for librarians to expand their professional knowledge by learning from colleagues’ successes. While pursuing my M.L.I.S. (and now into my professional career), I have read College and Research Libraries News and College and Research Libraries to stay current with new ideas in the field of librarianship. I often use these publications to connect with others and invigorate the services I provide.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? I work as a Reference and Instruction Librarian, serving as the liaison to the University of Idaho’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

6. In your own words: I love serving the diverse research needs of an academic institution. Universities are such a hopeful, forward-looking place, filled with people seeking to improve their lives through education. I consider myself very fortunate to have the opportunity to positively impact the lives of students and faculty.

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

ACRL joined other national and regional library, publishing, research and advocacy organizations in a letter thanking members of Congress who introduced the bills: U.S. Representatives Mike Doyle (D-PA), Kevin Yoder (R-KS), and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ron Wyden (D-OR). ACRL has long supported legislation that would provide public access to federally funded research, and it is the organization’s top legislative priority.

“I am particularly pleased that this legislation addresses both greater access to research and greater reuse through open licensing,” said ACRL President Steven J. Bell, associate university librarian for research and instructional services at Temple University. “As scholars undertake new research, it is crucial to build on the works of others who came before. Open licensing is an important step towards a more open system of scholarship as it facilitates subsequent reshaping into new scholarship.”  Bell continued, “I am looking forward to attending National Library Legislative Day in May so that I can directly advocate for FASTR with my congressional representatives, and I encourage other academic librarians to join me in taking our message to the Capitol.”

FASTR builds on the successful public access policy at the National Institutes of Health and would apply to the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Defense, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation.

One of ACRL’s three strategic goals is that librarians accelerate the transition to a more open system of scholarship, and individual librarian support of this legislation will further that goal. Our partners at SPARC have developed Campus FAQs and background materials to assist librarians in supporting this legislation. The Alliance for Taxpayer Access has issued a Call to Action in their legislative action center that makes it easy to connect with your members of Congress. Stay tuned for more on how you can support this legislation.

Registration materials and the conference program are available on the ACRL 2013 website.

• Andrea Falcone, Head of Instructional Services, University Libraries, University of Northern Colorado
• Rhonda Huisman, Assistant Librarian, University Library, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
• Sharon Mader, Dean of Library Services, University of New Orleans
• Lisa Stillwell, Information Literacy Librarian, Franklin & Marshall College

The day-long Standards workshop is led by expert presenters at locations across the country. The workshop curriculum is designed to support librarians in applying the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education at their institutions. Stay tuned for more details on how to bring the workshop to your campus or consortia.  Contact Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.org or (312) 280-2522 with questions.

Qualifications include:

• professional experience in academic libraries;
• a record of successful social media planning and implementation;
• knowledge of best practices in social media planning and innovative practices in the use of social media as a component of scholarly communications;
• ability to identify, prioritize, and implement social media projects that enhance and amplify the content disseminated through the journal;
• ability to meet deadlines; and
• familiarity with the existing social media program employed by ACRL.

Appointment will be made by the ACRL Publications Coordinating Committee upon the recommendation of the C&RL Editorial Board. The social media editor will begin a three-year term of appointment following the ALA Annual Conference in July 2013. A nominal honorarium may be available for this position, pending final review of the C&RL editorial budget for 2013-14.

Applications and nominations (including self-nominations), including a current CV and a statement addressing the nominee’s qualifications in the areas noted above, should be sent to:

Scott Walter / Editor, College & Research Libraries / swalte11@depaul.edu

The deadline for receipt of applications is March 15, 2013. Finalists will be interviewed by conference call during April 2013.

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Pragmatic, collaborative, loyal.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators by Char Booth and Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day by Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams.

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Profuse, active, challenging.

4. What do you value about ACRL? There seems to be no end to the areas of support offered by ACRL. No matter what my current focus or interest is, there’s a group or program available to me!

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus?As a residency librarian, my formal priorities include bringing innovative and diverse perspectives into the work of the library. I also like to think that I contribute a big picture perspective and synthesizing influence into the projects and groups I work with.

6. In your own words: The library community is faced with many opportunities in the changing information environment. I think one of the best ways we can adapt and meet the needs of our campus communities is to acknowledge and respond to the diversity in our libraries. In addition to focusing on ethnic and racial diversity in our profession, let’s use universal design (everywhere), so that people of many ages, abilities, and perspectives can shape our work!

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

Are you looking for ways to expand your professional network and contribute to ACRL? Committee volunteers help shape ACRL by advancing its strategic plan and influencing the direction of academic and research librarianship. Serving on a committee or editorial board is a great way to become involved and make an impact on the profession. If you’d like to become more engaged, I invite you to volunteer to serve on a 2013–14 division or section committee.

Volunteering in ACRL is a wonderful way to help develop your leadership skills, meet new colleagues, and develop or enhance your professional network.  I therefore strongly encourage all association members to volunteer to serve.  After all, the association is only as strong as its members.  It is through the dedicated work of our member-leaders that ACRL continues to thrive.  Your contributions help ACRL achieve the goals stated in the Plan for Excellence (our strategic plan), provide an opportunity for you to share your expertise, and continue to promote ACRL as the higher education association for librarians.  I thank you, in advance, for volunteering your time and efforts to strengthen the association.

The ACRL committee volunteer form for section and division-level appointments is now open! If you wish to be considered for a committee appointment, complete the volunteer form by February 15, 2013.  For more information and a link to the volunteer form, visit the ACRL website.

—Trevor A. Dawes, ACRL Vice-President/President-Elect

There will be a virtual meeting at 11:00 a.m. CST on April 18, 2013, for ACRL units and members interested in submitting proposals for a 2014 ALA Annual Conference program. The purpose of this meeting is to provide potential conference program planners with an understanding of the Annual Conference program planning process, including budgets, timelines and planning tips. Please note that the Annual Conference program planning process spans fourteen months, lasting until June 2014.

RSVP online to attend the April 18 virtual meeting. Once login instructions are available, attendees will be notified. Login instructions will also be posted on the main ACRL page in ALA Connect.

2014 ALA Annual Conference program proposals are due September 1, 2013.  The ACRL Professional Development Committee will review proposal and select 2014 Annual Conference programs, with notifications issued in October 2013.

More details about the Annual Conference program process are on the ACRL website. Contact ACRL Program Officer Megan Griffin at mgriffin@ala.org or ACRL Manager of Professional Development Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.orgwith questions concerning the program proposal process.

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Enthusiastic, Innovative, Fearless.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? I’m currently reading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and I’m in the middle of the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. More importantly, though, I am watching (over and over again) every episode of The Walking Dead!

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Opportunity, Professional, Guide.

4. What do you value about ACRL? The resources and connections that ACRL provide are invaluable to my work as a librarian. I am always looking to ACRL for ideas and for help. ACRL is a source of constant advice, resources, and opportunities for personal and professional advancement. Despite the fact that ACRL is a large professional organization, it is clear that every member is valued. ACRL works hard to provide connections and educational opportunities for all its members.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? My ultimate goal as an academic librarian is to help students become critical information consumers, to build up their critical thinking and problem solving skills, and to help them understand the importance of the library in not only the information gathering process but in every other aspect of their lives. I help make our students more competitive and more informed participants in today’s society. We are all information consumers and I try to make that transparent by participating in campus events, teaching information literacy and fluency skills, and by hosting relevant workshops and programs in the library.

I also advise the library’s student organization and internship program. I am constantly collaborating with different departments across campus including Student Services, the Center for Academic Advancement, and the Writing Center. I also help make the library an active center for learning, creating, and social interaction. I center most of these activities around social media, technology, current events, popular culture, and anything else that the students and faculty deem relevant to their academic, professional, and personal lives.

6. In your own words: Librarians have the flexibility and the intellectual resources to constantly redefine themselves to help their community become better, more active, and more informed citizens. I feel so privileged be a part of this group! Through every interaction I have with students, staff, or faculty I have the opportunity to transform their perceptions of the world and I am also transformed. My work as a librarian is a constant surprise (and delight) to both myself and others in my community. I never know will happen each day but whatever it is, I always strive to knock it out of the park. To me, that is the magic of librarianship. They must teach us that in library school.

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

Irene Gashurov and Ann Matsuuchi outline “CUNY’s Critical Thinking Sills Initiative,” which aligned information literacy instruction with the needs of students entering today’s workforce. In this issue’s Scholarly Communication column, Kevin L. Smith of Duke University provides a recap of the recent Berlin 10 Conference, held in South Africa.

Outreach to faculty and students continues to be a focus of all types and sizes of academic libraries. In their article “Faculty reconnect,” Alicia Virtue and Loretta Esparza of Santa Rosa Junior College in California describe the creation of a faculty outreach LibGuide to assist in the integration of library resources and instruction in the curriculum. At Southern Illinois University, the library welcomed traveling printmakers Drive By Press to campus as part of their focus on creative student outreach. Megan Lotts discusses the event in her article “Woodblock Woodstock.”

Also this month, we continue our look at the upcoming ALA/ACRL election with statements from the candidates for ACRL vice-president/president-elect. Review the full statements by the candidates for ALA vice-president in the March issue and vote in the election beginning March 18.

Make sure to check out the other features and departments, including Internet Resources on “Learning languages on the Web” by Seth Kershner, a The Way I See It essay on “Library catalogs and the changing political world” by Eugene W. Kelly III, and information on shopping opportunities in our ACRL 2013 host city of Indianapolis.

“These deserving recipients demonstrate the commitment to student learning, focus on continuous innovation and integration with the campus community that exemplify today’s best academic and research libraries,” said ACRL Executive Director Mary Ellen K. Davis. “Receiving an Excellence in Academic Libraries Award is a national tribute to each library and its staff for outstanding services, programs and leadership.”

The Walla Walla Community College (WWCC) Library, winner in the community college category, was chosen for its articulation of organizational outcomes, emphasis on student learning and leveraging staff resources for great impact.

“The award committee was impressed with WWCC library’s clarity of purpose and mission and emphasis on student learning and success,” said Lisa Hinchliffe, chair of the 2013 Excellence in Academic Libraries Committee and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Working with the challenging circumstances of interim, part-time and cyclic staff, the library’s commitment to student learning is embedded throughout its activities.”

“The growth in the breadth and depth of the information literacy program is notable in many areas and the committee took particular note of the dedication and innovation in serving students in the instructional programs at two local correctional facilities,” Hinchliffe continued.  “From the heartfelt and personal letters of support, it is clear that the WWCC serves its entire community.”

“The Walla Walla Community College Library staff is thrilled and honored to be a recipient of the 2013 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award,” said WWCC Director of Library Services Stacy L. Prest. “The library strives to find that perfect balance of effective classroom instruction, modern technology and traditional resources without overlooking the ever-important personal touch. The library staff is truly dedicated and enthusiastically serves our diverse student body and surrounding community. As we continue to draw inspiration from our students and their successes, we fully embrace WWCC’s mission of ‘inspiring students to discover their potential and achieve their goals.’ We’re proud to help make a difference.”

Olin Library of Rollins College, winner of this year’s award in the college category, impressed the selection committee with its intentional and extensive integration into the campus community as well as academic programs.

“Underscoring its centrality to the campus, Olin Library’s renovated library space, well-designed to meet user needs and well-used, served as a place of comfort and community during Hurricane Isaac,” noted Hinchliffe. “The new organizational relationship with the Tutoring & Writing Center, the establishment of the Center for Creativity multimedia lab and initiation of a digital preservation program and digital archivist position give further evidence to this centrality. The emphasis on library performance and user satisfaction, data-information decision making and engagement with systematic assessment of student learning in general education underscore service development and improvement.”

“Everyone at the Olin Library is honored to have won the 2013 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award,” said Jonathan Miller, director of the library at Rollins College. “We are delighted that the association has recognized all the hard work we have put in, along with our partners in Information Technology and Tutoring & Writing Consulting, to making the library a vibrant hub of intellectual and community activity for the Rollins community. We could not have done this without the sustained support of faculty, staff and most importantly, students. Olin truly is their library.”

The Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova University, winner in the university category, was selected for its continuous innovation in serving the university’s mission through an organizational structure built around teams and work groups and collaborative philosophy.

“Through true collaboration across all levels of the organization, Falvey Memorial Library has leveraged expertise and enthusiasm to engage itself in serving all aspects of Villanova University’s mission,” said Hinchliffe. “The Learning Commons furthers this philosophy by integrating library services and resources with other campus educational centers in support of student learning and the additional event spaces create a true public forum for the intellectual life. The library’s work in digital initiatives, particularly the partnerships with other Catholic universities and the creation of vuFind, demonstrates the commitment to working collaboratively with the broader library profession. vuFind is a quintessential example of local work having global impact.”

“We are thrilled to receive this recognition for the achievements of Falvey Memorial Library,” said Joseph Lucia, university librarian at Villanova University. “The ACRL Excellence Award represents for us the highest level of peer endorsement of our efforts to create an innovative ‘commons-centered’ model for academic library service and success in the digital era. There are many extraordinary academic libraries doing many creative things at this time so it is difficult to stand out from the pack.  We are truly honored to have been selected.”

Each winning library will receive $3,000 and a plaque, to be presented at an award ceremony held on each recipient’s campus.

Additional information on the award, along with a list of past winners, is available on the ACRL website.

About ACRL

ACRL is a division of the American Library Association, representing more than 11,500 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians.  Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments. ACRL is on the Web at http://www.acrl.org/, Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ala.acrl and Twitter at @ala_acrl.

About YBP Library Services

YBP Library Services, a Baker & Taylor company, provides books and supporting collection management and technical services to academic, research and special libraries in the Americas, Asia, Middle East, Australia and the Pacific Rim. GOBI³, YBP’s acquisition and collection development interface, provides access to more than 10 million titles. YBP is located in Contoocook, NH, USA. For more on the company, visit www.ybp.com.

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Contemplative, forward-thinking, industrious.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? I try to have a well-balanced media diet. Most of my reading is work-related these days like NISO’s recent Information Standards Quarterly on Linked Open Data for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, American Libraries Magazine E-Content blog (and hundreds of others). For leisure, I’m mostly listening to podcasts like Intelligence Squared Debates, RadioLab, Freakonomics Radio, The Truth, and Never Not Funny.

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Leadership, community, authoritative.

4. What do you value about ACRL? As the head of an incredibly diverse member organization (over 250 academic, public, school, medical, and special libraries in the metropolitan New York region), ACRL helps keep me up-to-date on key issues facing academic libraries. It’s nearly impossible for me to keep up with everything going on in school, public, special, and academic libraries, so I look to ACRL as a lifeline to the academic library community.

5. How does METRO, as an association, contribute to higher education community? Academic libraries make up more than one-third of our membership, and we pay close attention to the needs of our academic library community as we organize and host close to 100 professional development workshops and events for our members. We also provide grants for digitization projects, delivery service for interlibrary loan, and more innovative services on the horizon. After close to 50 years of service to the region’s libraries, we’re working toward being a hub for collaboration, communication, leadership, and innovation for the LAMs community as well as a provider of traditional library-centric services. 

6. In your own words: I’m fortunate to be able to work with a talented staff here at METRO to provide key services to our varied member communities. What I like most about this work is wrestling with the challenges facing each of our discrete member communities and identifying commonalities we can exploit toward widespread solutions that benefit the greater LAMs landscape.

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

Since its launch in the spring of 1999, Choice Reviews Online has continually evolved to meet the changing needs of its readership. Now the third and latest version Choice Reviews Online – CRO₃, introduces a plethora of new features, beginning with a state-of-the-art HighWire Press platform, in addition to major updates and improvements to the features and functionality that have made it a favorite discovery and reference tool for its thousands of loyal users. Never before has there been a faster, more flexible way to access the more than 172,000 Choice reviews and editorial content from Choice magazine, including forthcoming titles lists, Outstanding Academic Titles (OATs), editorials, bibliographic essays and feature articles, as well as exclusive online content.

CRO3 will be available for demonstrations in the Choice booth ( #2200) at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. To sign up for a free trial of Choice Reviews Online – CRO₃, visit the Choice website.

The workshop will take place Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 1:00-5:00 p.m. and Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Indianapolis, IN, prior to the ACRL 2013 conference.  Read more about the workshop and register by January 31, 2013.

Iannuzzi will receive a $5,000 award at 4:00 p.m. on Wed., April 10, 2013, during the ACRL 2013 conference opening keynote session in Indianapolis.

“Patricia Iannuzzi’s distinguished career as a librarian and educator has been marked by her dedication to information literacy and student learning, and by her passionate advocacy for academic libraries through developing outcomes-based standards for measuring their value in higher education,” noted David D. Oberhelman, Chair of the ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award Committee and Professor in the Oklahoma State University Library Humanities-Social Sciences Division. “We are thrilled to honor her with this award for her remarkable ability to effect positive change, for as they say at the UNLV Libraries, ‘Patty will kick down the doors, so be ready to walk through them!’.”

“I am honored to be recognized by ACRL for my work in academic libraries and higher education,” said Iannuzzi. “To have fellow librarians, leaders in higher education and library staff support me for this award is truly humbling. Librarians have the privilege to build upon the work of earlier generations as we nurture and support the next generation. For all those who have contributed to my professional career, thank you. I am truly humbled to be part of the prestigious group selected before me, but just as honored to be part of a legacy of collaboration and achievement in academic libraries and the larger higher education community for our colleagues who follow.”

Over the course of her career, Iannuzzi has been a national and international leader on, and advocate for, information literacy and student learning issues in higher education. By chairing the recent task force resulting in a major revision of the ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education and the committee that developed the seminal ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, she has served a pivotal role in establishing a standards-based, outcomes-driven framework for both library assessment and instruction efforts. Through her vision and gifts for integrative inquiry, thinking and action, Iannuzzi has been a leader in efforts to make information literacy a meaningful educational goal and to ensure that libraries are part of the focus on learning outcomes that is occurring across higher education. As a result of her efforts, leadership and example, Iannuzzi has served as a mentor and inspiration for many in the academic and research library community.

Her distinguished record of service to the library profession includes chairing both the ACRL Task Force on Standards for Libraries in Higher Education (2009-2011) and ACRL Task Force on Information Literacy Competency Standards (1999-2001), along with co-chairing the AASL/ACRL Joint Task Force on the Educational Role of Libraries (1998-2000). Iannuzzi additionally served ACRL as a member of the association’s Value of Academic Libraries Committee (2011-2012). Iannuzzi also served as a faculty member in the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Greater Expectations Institute (2006- 2011), a member of the Greater Western Library Alliance Board of Directors (2010-present) and on the ALA Presidential Committee on Information Literacy Partnerships (2000 -2002). She received the ACRL Instruction Section Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award in 2001.

Iannuzzi has presented on information literacy issues, undergraduate education, faculty-library collaborations and more at a wide range of conferences including the AAC&U Greater Expectations Institute, LOEX of the West, LILAC: Libraries Information Literacy Annual Conference, Music Library Association and the ALA Annual Conference. She has also served as a consultant on issues including information literacy, curriculum design and budgeting for a variety of institutions. Iannuzzi’s publications include “Reforming the Undergraduate Experience” in New Directions in Teaching and Learning (with Diane VanderPol and Jeanne Brown, 2008), “Focus: Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education” in Community and Junior College Libraries (2000) and “Faculty Development and Information Literacy: Establishing Campus Partnerships” in RSR: Reference Services Review (1998).

Prior to joining UNLV in 2005, Iannuzzi served as associate university librarian and director of the Doe/ Moffitt Libraries (2000-2005) and interim director of collections (2002-2005) at the University of California-Berkeley, head of the reference department and co-director of the information literacy initiative at Florida International University (1991-2000) and in a variety of positions at the University of Miami, Yale University and Tufts University.

Iannuzzi received her B.A. in Psychology from Yale University in 1976 and her M.S. from the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 1981.

The award dates back to 1978, and recent award winners include Paula T. Kaufman (2012); Janice Welburn (2011); Maureen Sullivan (2010); Gloriana St. Clair (2009); Peter Hernon (2008); Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson (2007); Ray English (2006); Ravindra Nath (R. N.) Sharma (2005); Tom Kirk (2004); Ross Atkinson, (2003); Shelley Phipps (2002) and Larry Hardesty (2001).

More information regarding the ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year award, along with a complete list of past recipients, is available on the ACRL website.

About ACRL
ACRL is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), representing more than 11,500 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments. ACRL is on the Web at http://www.acrl.org/, Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ala.acrl and Twitter at @ala_acrl.

About YBP Library Services
YBP Library Services, a Baker & Taylor company, provides books and supporting collection management and technical services to academic, research and special libraries in the Americas, Asia, Middle East, Australia and the Pacific Rim. GOBI³, YBP’s acquisition and collection development interface, provides access to more than 10 million titles. YBP is located in Contoocook, NH, USA. For more on the company, visit www.ybp.com.

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Energetic, funny, foodie.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? I’m about to finish The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides on my iPad and I can’t wait to start The Language of Flowers, a book enthusiastically recommended by a friend.  Also, I enjoy listening to NPR and Pandora a lot during my commute.

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Forward-looking, supportive, dynamic.

4. What do you value about ACRL? What I value most about ACRL is the support it provides to academic librarians whether it’s a conference, webinar, workshop, or leadership institute. I appreciate learning about new and innovative things librarians do in their institutions through the College & Research Libraries News and the ACRL Insider blog. The level of engagement and the chance to connect and network with other librarians is an invaluable benefit of being an ACRL member.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? I’d like to think that as librarians, we are an integral part of the academic success of our students. For a community college library such as LCC, where we serve a diverse group of students, it is essential that the services we provide and materials we make available to them reflect our commitment to information literacy, workforce development, and lifelong learning.  In my role as systems librarian, I’m determined to provide our students with a positive experience in accessing information whether through the library catalog or website. The technology solutions I have implemented and will implement in the future would allow our students to discover and access a variety of resources to help them train for the workforce, complete their degrees, or transfer to higher levels of education. 

6. In your own words: I’m very fortunate to be in a profession that I really love. Growing up, I did not necessarily aspire to be a librarian but somehow I found myself taking library science as an undergraduate degree. I was a very young librarian back then in the Philippines who worked mostly in special libraries. I did everything and worked my way up until I found myself here in the U.S. working for a library vendor. I’m very fortunate to be given opportunities through the support and diversity initiatives of ALA and ARL that allowed me to learn more about our profession and the issues important to libraries as well as be mentored by accomplished librarians whom I admire and look up to. I really feel that this is an exciting time to be a librarian. If we are already living the future, I can’t wait to see what lies ahead.

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

• Tell us a story about what you, as a member of the academic library community, contribute to your campus and how ACRL has had a role in making that possible.
• Tell us about a time you felt on top of your game in your career and how ACRL helped you get there.
• Tell us a story about the personal connections you’ve made in ACRL and what those relationships have meant to you.
• Tell us how ACRL helps you make an impact on the profession.
• Tell us about your favorite ACRL moment.

Selected videos will receive one year of free ACRL membership (a $57 value, does not include ALA membership) and an invitation to the ACRL 2013 Chair’s Reception held Thurs., April 11 at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. Complete details and submission requirements are available on the ACRL website.

The deadline for submission is Feb. 28, 2013, and all applicants will be notified via email by March 29, 2013.

For more information, contact ACRL Conference Supervisor Tory Ondrla at tondrla@ala.org or (312) 280-2515.

Read more about the case on ALA’s web page First Sale Doctrine and Kirtsaeng v. Wiley & Sons, Inc.  Additionally, ALA and ARL are founding member of the Owners’ Rights Initiative, a diverse coalition of businesses, associations and organizations that have joined together to protect first sale rights in the United States.

Registration for all online courses and webcasts qualifies for the ACRL Frequent Learner Program. Register for three ACRL e-Learning events and receive one free registration.

ACRL online courses provide asynchronous, multi-week content delivered through Moodle. Online courses scheduled for winter 2013 include:

Planning, Assessing, and Communicating Library Impact: Putting the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education into Action (February 4-22, 2013): The new ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education provide a strong framework for demonstrating the impact and value of all types of academic libraries. In this hands-on course, individuals or teams will learn to use the standards to prepare for accreditation, demonstrate value of their library to student learning and success and institutional initiatives, and improve quality in all library programs, departments and service areas.

Creating Accessible Video Tutorials (March 4-22, 2013): Learn about the types of accessibility needed for video tutorials, as well as why accessible videos can benefit everyone. While other seminars and classes have covered creating tutorials, accessibility is usually either not covered or not covered in detail. Providing accessible tutorials benefits not only individuals with disabilities, but also ESL learners and mobile users.

ACRL also offers a variety of timely live webcasts addressing hot topics in academic librarianship. Webcasts last from an hour and a half to two hours and take place in an interactive online classroom. Group discounts are available for all ACRL e-Learning webcasts. Winter 2013 Webcasts include:

The Crisis in Academic Libraries (and Why This is the Best Thing Ever) (February 12, 2013): There is a crisis in academic libraries and librarianship. Or so we are being told. Frankly, Michael Ridley delighted. In this webcast, Ridley will explore insights into some key challenges facing academic libraries, academic librarianship and universities; opportunities for collaboration and leadership in addressing mutual objectives; and identification of academic librarians as agents of transformational challenge in higher education.

When a Librarian Met an Archivist: Collaborating to Teach and Promote the Special Collections and Archives (February 19, 2013): This live, interactive webcast relevant to archivists and librarians trying to promote their special collections and archival materials within their university. Learn how to how to engage students in discussion and pique their interest in special collections and archival materials.

Oh, Snap! Using Popular Culture to Reach Undergraduates in Library Instruction (March 12, 2013):
Tired of boring, run-of-the-mill library instruction? Want to jazz up your information literacy program and connect with students? This webcast will provide a variety of approaches incorporating pop culture themes into information literacy instruction from several different institutions, as well as allow for participants to share their own experiences.

Stealth Librarianship: Creating Meaningful Connections Through User Experience, Outreach, and Liaising (March 22, 2013): Join three academic librarians specializing in user experience, outreach, and liaison librarianship to discover how they use relationship-building to enhance their work. Learn how user experience research, outreach, and stealth librarianship can be used to create meaningful connections within the campus community.

Complete details and registration information for all winter 2013 e-Learning opportunities are available on the ACRL e-Learning website. Contact Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.org or (312) 280-2522 for more information.

The 2011 data show that while the percentage of library expenditures for collection materials increased slightly over 2010, the amount spent on e-books increased dramatically. Baccalaureate schools increased their spending by an average of 109.5%; associate degree-granting institutions increased spending by an average of 109.2%; comprehensive degree-granting institutions spent 102.7% more on average; and doctoral degree-granting institutions spent 78.9% more for e-books in 2011. The percentage of the collection materials budget spent on serials decreased slightly for all types of institutions except baccalaureate schools where it remained unchanged from 2010. On average, doctoral degree granting institutions spent 66.12% of their materials budgets for serials in 2011; comprehensive schools spent an average of 57.62%; baccalaureate schools spent an average 52.56% and associate degree granting institutions spent an average of 33.87%.

Salary and wages expenditures as a percentage of total library expenditures increased slightly for doctoral and comprehensive institutions (by 0.94% and 0.98%, respectively), and slightly decreased for associate- institutions and baccalaureate schools (by 1.85% and 0.64%, respectively). Salaries and wages constituted 74.43% of total library expenditures for associate-degree granting institutions, 59.51% for baccalaureate 58.18% for comprehensive schools, and 45.57% for doctoral/research institutions.

In the past year 12.8% of academic libraries surveyed lost square footage, 6.2% gained space, and 76.7% experienced no change.  In the next five years, 15.9% of academic libraries surveyed expect to lose space, 20.4% expect go gain space, and 58.4% anticipate no change.

The 2011 survey includes data from 1,514 academic libraries in six major categories:

• Collections (including volumes, serials, multimedia)
• Expenditures (library materials, wages and salaries, other operating)
• Electronic Resources (including expenditures, collections, services, usage)
• Personnel and Public Services (staff and services)
• Ph.D.s Granted, Faculty, Student Enrollment
• Faculty Rank, Status, and Tenure for Librarians

The survey also provides analysis of selected variables and summary data (high, low, mean and median) for all elements. The 2011 data can be used for self-studies, budgeting, strategic planning, annual reports, grant applications, and benchmarking.

2011 Academic Library Trends and Statistics is available for purchase through the ALA Online Store or by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the U.S. or (770) 442-8633 for international customers.

In order to apply, each prospective institution must identify a team consisting of a librarian and at least two additional team members from other units (e.g., faculty member, student affairs representative, institutional researcher, or academic administrator). The application requires two essays – the first describes the team’s project goals and the second describes the goals of the librarian team leader – and statements of support from the library dean/director and campus chief academic officer.

Read full details about participating in the first cohort and apply online by 5 p.m. Central, Friday, March 8. Learn more about the AiA program at the ALA Midwinter Meeting during the session Update on ACRL’s Value of Academic Libraries Initiative to be held Sunday, January 27, 2013, 1:00pm - 2:30pm.

Questions? Contact ACRL Senior Strategist for Special Initiatives Kara Malenfant.

The Office is seeking comments regarding “what has changed in the legal and business environments during the past few years that might be relevant to a resolution of the problem and what additional legislative, regulatory, or voluntary solutions deserve deliberation.”

In its comments, LCA explains that “significant changes in the copyright landscape over the past seven years convince us that libraries no longer need legislative reform in order to make appropriate uses of orphan works.” Specifically, two key developments make it possible for libraries to engage in mass digitization and other projects that involve orphan works:

• Court decisions have further solidified libraries’ rights under fair use; and
• Libraries have successfully engaged in a range of projects involving orphan works and mass digitization.

While other communities may prefer greater certainty concerning what steps they would need to take to fall within a safe harbor, libraries can rely on their existing rights, including fair use. If Congress does consider legislation, LCA suggests that Congress abandon the overly complex arrangement it arrived at in 2008 and instead make a simple one sentence amendment to the Copyright Act giving courts the discretion to reduce or remit statutory damages in appropriate circumstances.

LCA also submitted to the Copyright Office a stand-alone policy statement on the kind of copyright reform that could benefit libraries. Originally published by LCA in May 2011, the statement emphasizes the same fundamental principles as the LCA comments: confident reliance on fair use and related rights together with the suggestion of simple reform focused on limiting remedies against libraries acting in good faith.

LCA encourages librarians and libraries to submit comments, which are due February 4, 2013, and can be submitted online.

This shift in publication model is the result of thoughtful study undertaken with input from a survey of the ACRL membership by the Board of Directors, Budget & Finance Committee, C&RL Editorial Board, Publications Coordinating Committee, and other stakeholder groups to balance the ways readers prefer to engage with ACRL publications with the financial realities of the changing scholarly publishing landscape. The membership survey informed discussions and the final decision to invest resources in the online platform rather than sustain print.

“The Board’s decision to transition to an online-only format is an acknowledgement of the academic reader’s preference for the e-journal format – and our members support this action,” said ACRL President Steven J. Bell of Temple University. “With this move ACRL will be able to better direct the resources needed to keep our flagship publication the most prestigious, versatile and consulted scholarly journal for academic librarianship. Under the leadership of new C&RL editor Scott Walter, the Board is confident we will achieve this goal.”

Hosted through HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, C&RL’s online presence provides a variety of robust features. Online readers have the ability to comment on articles, share contents through social media and perform basic and advanced searches across C&RL and other ACRL serials. A variety of RSS feeds and email alerts provide notification of the availability of newly posted preprint and issues contents. Articles are freely available to read online or download as PDF files. The mobile-optimized version of C&RL online allows readers to read and interact with articles from their smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices.

“The transition to a purely digital publication platform presents an exciting opportunity for College & Research Libraries,” added Scott Walter, C&RL editor and university librarian at DePaul University. “In addition to maintaining our commitment to publishing the highest-quality research in our field, we will be able to enhance the connections between research reported in C&RL and other research and research-based continuing education programs provided through ACRL. We will work with a wider range of ACRL members to explore the potential that C&RL has to anchor a broader portal promoting access to basic and applied scholarship in academic and research libraries.”

The C&RL Editorial Board will host an open forum on the future of the publication at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 in the Westin Hotel Seattle St. Helen’s room. All interested parties are invited to contribute to the next stage in the journal’s evolution, and to ensure that C&RL remains the leading resource for research on academic and research libraries.

Published since 1939, C&RL enacted an open access policy in April 2011. The full backfiles of the publication are being made available online thanks to the digitization efforts of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1. Describe yourself in three words:  Helper, teacher, flosser.

2. What are you reading right now (or listening to on your mobile device)? Right now I’m reading Death in the Truffle Wood by Pierre Magnan, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by Kevin Dutton, and Hoaxes, Myths, and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking by Robert Bartholomew.

3. Describe ACRL in three words: Innovative, collaborative, comprehensive.

4. What do you value about ACRL? ACRL is a vibrant avenue to information and community in our profession. The opportunities it generates for knowledge sharing and teamwork make it a vital resource.

5. What do you, as an academic librarian, contribute to your campus? My most important contributions are friendly assistance and training in critical information use. As the library partner to two campus groups, the Honors College and the School of Social Work, I ensure that information literacy concepts and tiered library instruction are embedded into programs and courses. I’ve also had the opportunity to teach term-long, for-credit courses to dozens of incoming students. In these classes, we discuss the value and relevance that libraries and research skills have in students’ daily lives before and after graduation.

6. In your own words: I’m excited to see what the future of academic libraries will bring. I believe that we will continue to use assessment information, flexibility, creativity, and strong service orientation to show our students how the library continues to be a relevant destination in their lives for information access, collaboration, learning, and critical thinking resources.

Editor’s Note: Are you an ACRL member? Would you like to be featured as ACRL Member of the Week? Nominate a colleague? Contact Mary Jane Petrowski at mpetrowski@ala.org for more information.

Pay It Forward provides a unique perspective on mentoring by examining aspects of the relationship from the points of view of both mentor and mentee. Mavrinac and Sytmest describe the benefits of mentoring to each participant, and the profession as a whole, in forming a mentoring partnership. The fourth title in the ACRL Active Guides series, Pay It Forward also provides helpful tips on mentoring, a leadership focus tool, and insight to encourage new information professionals to seek out mentoring partners and to encourage more seasoned information professionals to act as mentors to newly minted librarians.

ACRL Active Guides address professional and workplace issues. Other titles in the series include Life-Work Balance, Influencing without Authority, and Conversations that Work: Conducting Performance Assessments.

Pay it Forward: Mentoring New Information Professionals is available for purchase through the ALA Online Store, Amazon and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the U.S. or (770) 442-8633 for international customers.

Dennis J. Smith, Jessi Hurd, and LeEtta Schmidt examine how the University of South Florida Library made changes to its evaluation system in “Developing core competencies for library staff.” Librarians from Boise State University describe a program to provide “iPads for all” to encourage staff innovation in this month’s ACRL TechConnect feature.

This month’s issue also features two articles on collaboration in information literacy instruction. Clarence Maybee, Tomalee Doan, and Catherine Fraser Riehl outline a campus-wide collaboration on course content and learning space at Purdue University in “Making an IMPACT.” Librarians from a number of institutions in Alberta discuss “Making assessment less scary” through the development of a local collaborative model and instrument.

We take a first look at this year’s candidates for ACRL vice-president/president-elect, Board of Directors, and section officers this month. Review the full statements by the vice-presidential candidates forthcoming in the February issue and vote in the election beginning March 18.

Make sure to check out the other features and departments, including Internet Resources on “Virtual worlds and libraries,” an essay by Melissa D’Agostino on her “Wall of fun facts,”  and the next installment in the series introducing our ACRL 2013 host city of Indianapolis.