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Library Authors Nominated for Award
Mellon Foundation Continues Support for Latin American Project
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Library Authors Nominated for Award
Anne Lipow, The Library's former education and training specialist, Roy Tennant, of the Digital Library, and John Ober, Acting Director of the Systems Office, are the co-authors of "Crossing the Internet Threshold, 2nd Edition," published by Library Solutions Press, 1994. This work has been nominated for the 1996 American Library Association/G. K. Hall Library Literature Award. The award winner will be announced by early Spring after the jury has made its selection.
We wish you much success, Anne, Roy and John!
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Mellon Foundation Continues Support for Latin American Project
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has made a generous grant of $125,000 to ARL (Association of Research Libraries) for the second phase of the Latin Americanist Research Resources Pilot Project. Begun in 1994 with Mellon support, the project's overall goals are to broaden the array of Latin Americanist resources available to students and scholars, to restructure access to these collections on a comprehensive scale, and to assist libraries in containing costs. Originally envisioned as a pilot endeavor of twenty libraries, the project expanded rapidly during its first phase to include thirty-two ARL institutions. These libraries have jointly designed an organizational structure and implemented a system of coordinated collection management that utilizes advanced communication technologies to deliver Latin Americanist research materials, especially those that may be difficult to acquire. The most significant project accomplishment to date is an easily accessible Internet database that offers students and scholars the tables of contents of 300 academic journals from Argentina and Mexico that are not widely indexed. In addition, participating libraries have assumed collecting responsibilities for publications of non-governmental organizations from the two countries.
Phase two of the project will be completed between November 1995 and December 1996. An evaluation of the costs and benefits of the first phase will be completed, the cooperative collecting assignments will be refined and expanded, and efforts will be made to build partnerships with Latin American institutions. Mark Grover, Brigham Young University, will continue as Project Coordinator on a half-time basis.
The most important part of the second phase, however, will be to take a step toward full implementation of the distributed model that is the overall goal of ARL's global initiatives by analyzing the effect that such a model will have on the internal structure of libraries. Five "case study" libraries will address management, staffing, and economic issues, and will determine the intra-institutional and inter-institutional changes needed to realize the full benefits of sharing Latin Americanist research resources, in particular the potential cost savings. The ARL institutions that will pursue this analysis within a collaborative framework are the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Florida, Stanford University, the University of Texas, and Yale University. This stage of the project will also focus on the development of models for subsequent cooperative endeavors within the emerging networked environment.
The Association of Research Libraries is a not-for-profit membership organization comprising 119 libraries of North American research institutions. Its mission is to shape and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL operates as a forum for the exchange of ideas and an agent for collective action. ARL programs and services promote equitable access to, and effective use of recorded knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and community service. The Association articulates the concerns of research libraries and their institutions, forges coalitions for cooperative action, influences information policy development, and supports innovation and improvement in research library operations.
For further information please contact:
Jutta Reed-Scott
ARL Senior Program Officer for
Preservation and Collection Services
jutta@cni.org
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