Government & Social Science Information (GSSI) and Digital Library Research & Development (DLR&D) would like to welcome Mr. Reino Lipponen (pronounced "Rain-o") from the University of Oulu, Finland for this semester. He has a varied professional experience including work with the Provincial Government of Lapland on the planning of trade policy, work at the Rovaniemi Regional Library as a Business information specialist, and recent employment at the University Library of Oulu as their European Union (EU) information specialist.
Reino will be active in a number of areas in The Library including attending various Library meetings and presentations, observing at the GSSI Reference desk, working on a Sunsite project, developing The Library's Finnish Studies page, and working on some guides to specific EU information sources. He can be reached via snail mail in GSSI (223 Doe Library) and his e-mail account is rlippone@library.
Please join me in congratulating Janice on her appointment.
Please note the following staff budget briefing schedule. People who cannot attend with their unit due to schedule limits can go to another unit's briefing.
Note: Budget briefings for the Sciences were held January 21.
The California Digital Library (CDL) is a tenth library for the University of California. A collaborative effort of the nine campuses, it is responsible for the design, creation, and implementation of systems that support the shared collections of the virtual library of California.
In 1997-98 the President allocated new funds from discretionary sources for the CDL. In 1998-99, new State funds are being requested to build the CDL.
University libraries are in a time of transition. They are being asked to blend new digital formats with existing print collections. The CDL will assist in this transition by:
Transforming the process of scholarly communication
The development of dissemination functions in digital libraries has the potential to more effectively manage the cost-driven journal crisis that is perceived to be strangling scientific communication. At present the University of California and other institutions of higher education subsidize and pay the costs of research, then give this intellectual property away to others, only to have to buy it back at ever increasing prices. The CDL will serve as a focal point for University efforts to break this circle. For example, by becoming its own publisher and disseminating and archiving materials electronically, the CDL can provide an alternative publication mechanism.
3. What is the Science, Technology and Industry Collection?
The Science, Technology and Industry Collection will be developed as the first shared digital collection of the CDL. Science and technology account for over 80% of the digital literature now available. At the same time, the core of the current library-funding crisis is directly related to continuous high inflation in scientific and technical publishing; close to 50% of UC Libraries' materials budgets go to scientific journals and since 1993 alone the cost of these journals has risen over 40%. Thus choosing a collection focused on science and technology will permit the University to begin to address the current funding crisis by achieving economies of scale for accessing the highest cost literature, thus reducing the rate at which costs increase.
Initially, the Science, Technology and Industry Collection will provide broad coverage of a critical mass of publisher-produced digital information in the Health, Life, and Physical Sciences as well as Engineering. In later phases, it will also include less traditional but equally important digital information resources, such as University-produced technical reports, patents, preprints and data sets, with one potential focus on areas which the University has designated as high priority for industry initiatives: biotechnology, microelectronics, and computer science. The CDL plans to have 1,000 science and technology journals available to UC faculty, staff and students via their campus computers by next July.
4. What about the Humanities and Social Sciences? Will they be part of the CDL?
The next CDL collection will be in either the Humanities or the Social Sciences. The CDL Operations and Planning Advisory Group, consisting of senior professional staff from each campus library, has been charged to recommend the next collection for CDL development by March of 1998, using the CDL Collection Framework (http://lpai.ucsf.edu:8080/outcomes/cdl/). The recommendation of this group will then be forwarded to the Systemwide Scholarly Information and Advisory Committee; this committee is currently being established to advise the Senior Provost on the CDL and on systemwide library planning activities.
Meanwhile, the CDL has already taken steps to establish collections outside of the sciences. The Encoded Archival Description Project (EAD) is a two-year pilot project to develop a UC-wide prototype union database of 30,000 pages of archival finding aid data encoded using the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) SGML document type definition. This database will serve as the foundation for the development of a full-scale digital archive for the University of California System (UC) available via the Internet to diverse user communities. (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/uc-ead/index.html). In addition, the CDL has submitted a proposal to participate as a testbed site for the AMICO project, which will license museum digital collections to the higher educational community.
5. How can I recommend materials or projects to the CDL?
Librarians on each campus are working with faculty to establish the collections and services of the CDL. You can contact any reference librarian or bibliographer with your concerns. In addition, you can contact appropriate members of the Scholarly Information and Advisory Committee whose members will be listed at http://lpai.ucsf.edu:8080 shortly. At least one member of each campus serves on this committee, some of whom are faculty representatives appointed by Academic Council. By July, the CDL should have a web site available with an email address for correspondence.
6. Where can I get more information about the CDL?
Further information on plans for the California Digital Library may be found at the Library Planning and Action Initiative Web site: http://lpai.ucsf.edu:8080
A recent issue of Notice, from the Academic Senate, also provides an overview of the CDL: http://www.ucop.edu/senate/notice/nov7notc.pdf
- from a message by Susan Starr
Library Planning & Action Initiative Coordinator
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CONTENTS
1. SPARC Working Group Calls for ARL Member Library
Investment in Project
2. ARL Deputy Executive Director to Spend Two Years in
Ukraine
3. 1998 ARL Committee Appointments in Place
4. OMS Renamed Office of Leadership and Management Services
5. Search for Director of the ARL's OLMS Suspended
6. ARL Spring 1998 Membership Meeting Advanced
7. Statistics and Measurements Program Update
8. CNI Plans Spring Meeting
9. Top Performing ILL Operations Showcased
10. IFLA Developments
11. Directory of Electronic Journals Published
12. Other ARL Publications Issued in December
13. Upcoming ARL/OLMS Institutes and Workshops
14. Web Site for Museum Digital Licensing Collective Now
Open
15. Upcoming ARL Licensing Workshops
16. ARL Transitions
17. Other Transitions
18. Honors
1. SPARC Working Group Calls for ARL Member Library
Investment in Project
At its meeting in New Orleans on January 11, the newly appointed
SPARC Working Group determined that the work needed to launch the SPARC
enterprise, including development of a business plan, would require funds
to hire and support a full time Project Manager, and to secure both
business and legal advice. The Working Group concluded that there is
enough interest generated around the concept of SPARC to raise funding for
an 18 month start-up cycle. For example, the discussions at the Pew
Higher Education Roundtable in November supported the development of
SPARC. The AAU Committee on Digital Networks and Intellectual Property
has endorsed the concept and encourages ARL to continue to develop the
project. In addition, discussions with a number of interested potential
partners, including professional and scholarly societies, AAUP, and
NASULGC have taken place and/or are scheduled.
The Working Group believes that it is time for Working Group
members and other interested ARL members to show their support by
contributing to the initial developmental phase of the project. The
Working Group recommended to the ARL Executive Committee that member
libraries be invited to make an initial investment in the operational
planning for SPARC. The ARL Executive Committee met by telephone on
January 15 and accepted the Working Group's recommendation. A mailing to
membership is forthcoming.
The Working Group intends to have a business plan in place by the
May ARL membership meeting, at which time a formal request for SPARC
membership will be made.
2. ARL Deputy Executive Director to Spend Two Years in Ukraine
In July 1998 , ARL Deputy Executive Director Jaia Barrett will
leave Washington, DC to accompany her husband to Kiev, Ukraine where he
has a 2-year assignment at the U.S. Embassy. Jaia will use the network to
continue to work for ARL during this period; however the nature of Jaia's
current role in the office, along with her experience and tenure with ARL,
prompts a review of assignments among the ARL staff (see item number 5,
below). This is an opportunity for an ARL staff person to grow and
develop as part of long term career planning. Jaia came to ARL from Duke
University in 1984 as Federal Relations Program Officer, a position she
held until 1989 when she took a leave of absence. On her return in 1991,
she took on management of ARLŐs Access Program, the ARL newsletter, and
the Office of Research and Development. In 1993 she was named Deputy
Executive Director.
3. 1998 ARL Committee Appointments in Place
On December 16, the ARL Executive Committee reviewed the results
of the Survey of ARL Director interest in service on ARL committees.
Thirty directors were appointed for 3-year terms on one of ARL's 8 standing committees. In most cases, the Executive Committee was able to match a director's first or second choice for committee assignment. In addition, appointments were made to the SPARC Working Group; given the
high level of interest in being part of this group, these appointments
were made as assignments in addition to ongoing standing committee
service. An updated committee roster will be distributed in February
following the acceptance of all committee assignments.
4. OMS Renamed Office of Leadership and Management Services
Effective January 1998 the ARL Office of Management Services (OMS)
adopted the new name of Office of Leadership and Management Services
(OLMS). The new name corresponds to the change in name for the ARL
Committee on Leadership and Management. The new title is intended to
convey the focus of the office on advancing both the discourse and
practice of shaping research library and information service organizations
of the future. Use of the new title has begun and will be phased in
during the year on pre-printed materials.
5. Search for Director of the ARL's OLMS Suspended
The search for a Director of ARL's Office of Library and
Management Services was suspended for at least six months. Changing
circumstances at ARL have prompted a broad review of the staffing
requirements at the Association over the short and long term. This review
will take into account the temporary relocation of the Deputy Director as
well as the work needed to advance the SPARC initiative. OLMS will
continue to operate under the very able leadership of Kathryn Deiss,
Senior Program Officer for Training Leadership Development. For more
information contact Duane Webster - duane@arl.org.
5. AAU/ARL Global Resources Program Update
The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns
Hopkins University and the Library of Congress are finalizing plans for a
partnership that will, for the first time, provide part-time, dedicated
staff support for the German Demonstration Project.
Plans are underway for a one-day conference just preceding the
June 1998 ALA meeting to focus on the potential role of the Library of
Congress field offices and area studies divisions in the AAU/ARL Global
Resources Program. The directors of the LC field offices will be in
Washington DC for this event, which will take place at the Library of
Congress on June 24, 1998.
Rice University has joined the AAU/ARL Latin Americanist Research
Resources Project, bringing the total number of participating libraries to
39. For more information contact Deborah Jakubs - jakubs@acpub.duke.edu.
6. ARL Spring 1998 Membership Meeting Advanced
Plans for the ARL Spring 1998 Membership Meeting on May 12-15,
hosted by the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon are progressing. ARL
President Jim Neal will chair a program on "The Future Network:
Transforming Learning and Scholarship". The program goals include:
extending understanding of national and international network development
strategies, identifying new approaches to instructional programs at the research university through electronic and distance methods, identifying
the expanding needs of the research community for expanding network
capacity and functionality, and identifying the current and future role
and involvement of the research library community in network policy.
George Shipman, University of Oregon Librarian and host for the
meeting, is planning social events to highlight the culture and excitement
of the western Oregon environment. A preliminary program will be sent to
member libraries in February.
7. Statistics and Measurements Program Update
ARL Survey Coordinators met on Friday, January 9, at the ALA
conference in New Orleans. Topics for this meeting included: data
gathering about library investments in electronic resources, the ARL
interactive web site at the University of Virginia, and a group
conversation about ideas for other measures.
The University of Virginia developed and maintains the interactive
web site for ARL statistics. New features and some revisions were added
to the site this fall. The new web site address is: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/socsci/newarl/. ARL thanks UVA for this exceptional support and encourages all member libraries to take advantage
of the site's new features.
Data collection and validation is complete for the 1997/98 ARL
Annual Salary Survey. Final tables for University libraries (excluding
law and medical libraries) for average and median salaries (excluding the
director) and number of staff and years of experience (including
directors) were issued electronically to ARL directors and salary survey
coordinators at the end of December. The printed publication is in
production and should be available in February.
Data collection for the 1996/97 ARL Statistics is in its final
stage and data validation checks are being run.
The Preservation Statistics survey questionnaire for 1996/97 was
mailed to directors in early December for routing to the preservation survey coordinator. Based on recommendations from the Preservation and
Statistics and Measurement Committees, the survey was revised. Fewer
questions are asked, primarily by requesting composite figures for some
categories and by collapsing some data categories. Two optional questions
regarding digitizing were added to begin to gather data on that method of
preservation. This year, as with other surveys, the data will be
collected over the web. Deadline for receipt is February 15, 1998.
A report on the 1995/96 Supplementary Statistics was distributed
to directors. The report includes a trend analysis for the supplementary
statistics prepared by Tim Jewell, University of Washington and ARL
Visiting Program Officer. The trend analysis will also be added to the
statistics web site. The mailing also includes a revised supplementary
statistics questionnaire for 1996/97 for routing to the library survey
coordinator. Based on Mr. Jewell's work and recommendations by the ARL
Statistics and Measurement Committee, the revised questions focus on
expenditures and ask for figures on both library and external spending in
order to capture information on the total institutional investment in
electronic resources that are managed by the library. Clarifications
regarding what is to be included in the figures for expenditures also have
been made. No changes were made to the sections of the survey addressing
electronic access, use, or service hours. Data for this survey will also
be collected over the web and deadline for receipt is February 28, 1998.
For information on these and any other projects in the Statistics
and Measurement Program, contact Julia Blixrud, Senior Program Officer
- jblix@arl.org.
8. CNI Plans Spring Meeting
The Spring meeting of the Task Force for the Coalition for
Networked Information is scheduled for April 14-15 in Arlington, Virginia.
It precedes the NET '98 meeting to be held April 15-17 in Washington DC.
9. Top Performing ILL Operations Showcased
The NAILDD Directors Forum on Managing ILL/DD Operations, held
Friday, January 9, 1998 in New Orleans, LA, showcased four of the top
performing ILL operations in research libraries. Representatives from
Colorado State, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Wisconsin described their ILL/DD
operations to a standing room only audience of nearly 70 library directors
and senior staff. These four low-cost, high performing operations were
several of the top performing operations identified from analysis of the
findings of the ILL/DD Performance Measures Study. The Study, funded by
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and undertaken in collaboration with the
Council on Library and Information Resources, collected data from 119
North American research and college libraries.
Several themes emerged from the presentations: extensive use of
technology, the continual questioning of existing workflow and procedures,
the willingness to make change and the support from directors if mistakes
are made, and the strong commitment by library directors that the service
is critical to the success of libraries.
A series of workshop are being planned for 1998 to help ILL
managers examine and improve local operations using the findings of the
top performers and of the Study. Information about the ILL/DD Performance
Measures Study and the forthcoming availability of the final report is on
the ARL website: http://www.arl.org/access/illdd/illdd.shtml.. For
additional information, contact Mary Jackson - mary@arl.org.
10. IFLA Developments
The International Federation of Library Associations established
two new committees of interest to North American librarians. First is a
Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters. This committee is chaired
by Marianne Scott (National Library of Canada) and includes: Cynthia
Hill, (Sun Microsystems), James Neal, (Johns Hopkins), and Gary Strong,
(Queens Public Library).
A second committee on Freedom of Access to Information and
Freedom of Expression was also established with Ann Symons, (ALA
President), and Marianna Tax Choldin, (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign) named from the US.
IFLA meets in Amsterdam, Netherlands on August 16 - 21, 1998. The
theme of the program is "On Crossroads of Information and Culture." ARL
member library staff interested in attending the conference may want to
note that two hotels not listed in the Program Announcement are being made
available for the American delegation. The hotels are: The Grand
Krasnopolsky (a great location on the Dam across from the Palace and a
5-star hotel) and the Pulitzer (Sheraton Hotel with atmosphere, located
between two canals in 29 connected town houses). These hotels are priced
in the A category and since they are not noted in the program brochure
people interested should simply note them in the form for preferred hotel.
Program brochures are available from the ARL offices - linda@arl.org - or
IFLA.
11. Directory of Electronic Journals Published
The 1997 Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and
Academic Discussion Lists was edited by ARL Electronic Services
Coordinator Dru W. Mogge. This seventh edition of the Directory shows
continued growth in online resources with 3,409 journals or newsletters,
and 3,808 scholarly e- conferences. This year's print publication
includes a much expanded subject index covering both sections, and an
article by Judy Luther that reviews the various options available from
electronic publishers and subscription agents. Also available this year
is a fully searchable web version at: http://www.arl.org/scomm/edir/. For
price and ordering information, contact Ken Rodriguez at: pubs@arl.org.
12. Other ARL Publications Issued in December
* "After the User Survey: What Then?" Transforming Libraries #4
(and SPEC #226). Written for ARL by GraceAnne DeCandido, the publication
documents a user survey process in eight ARL libraries and describes how
library staff reacted and responded to the results of their user surveys.
The issue's corresponding website at: http://www.arl.org/transform/index.html provides details of the surveys and gives additional information to those interested in transforming their libraries based on data from users.
* Discovering Online Resources Across the Humanities: A Practical
Implementation of the Dublin Core. Edited by Paul Miller and Daniel
Greenstein on behalf of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and
the U.K. Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN). This
report is distributed in the U.S. by NINCH via ARL Publications. This
work is a practical guide to the use of the Dublin Core metadata for
describing and accessing electronic humanities information resources.
* Realizing Digital Libraries: Proceedings of the 126th
Membership Meeting. Edited by Patricia Brennan and Karen A. Wetzel, ARL.
Papers presented and issues addressed at this meeting include:
"Libraries, Printing, and Infrastructure: A Historian's Perspective" by
Bruce E. Seeley.
* ARL Newsletter #195. In the lead article, Mary Jackson provides
a preview of the findings of the Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery (ILL/DD) Performance Measures Study. Included also are Patricia Renfro's
report on the Endangered Monograph Conference, an update on Copyright
legislation, a report of the CNI Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis,
highlights from the University of Texas' digital library programs, as well
as a roster of the librarians selected for the Leadership and Career
Development Program and an article by Kathryn Deiss and George Soete on
Shared Leadership.
For more information on ordering these titles contact the ARL
Publications Office at: pubs@arl.org, or via the ARL website: http://www.arl.org/pubscat/order/.
13. Upcoming ARL/OLMS Institutes and Workshops
January 21-23, 1998 - Training Skills Institute, Tucson, AZ
March 10-13, 1998 - Library Management Skills Institute, Seattle, WA
April 28-30, 1998 - Human Resources Institute, Baltimore, MD
May 4-7, 1998 - Library Management Skills, Institute II, Los Angeles, CA
October 7-9, 1998 - Facilitation Skills, Washington, DC
October 27-28, 1998 - Leading Change
November 16-19, 1998 - Library Management Skills, Institute, Washington, DC
For more information or to register for an OLMS Workshop, contact
Christine Seebold - cseebold@arl.org.
14. Web Site for Museum Digital Licensing Collective Now Open
The web site of the Museum Digital Licensing Collective (MDLC) is
now public at: http://www.museumlicensing.org. The MDLC is a non-profit
corporation formed to provide technical and financial assistance for the
digitization of museum materials and to manage the storage, distribution,
and licensing of digitized materials to educational institutions and the
public. Developmental organizations for MDLC include the American
Association of Museums, Cornell, UC-Berkeley, and SUN-Microsystems. ARL
will advise MDLC on issues related to licensing and academic use. MDLC
and another museum licensing initiative was described by NINCH Executive
Director David Green in an excellent article in ARL newsletter # 193
(August 1997): http://www.arl.org/newsltr/193/intro.html.
15. Upcoming ARL Licensing Workshops
* February 12-13, 1998
Hosted by the University of California and California State
University Faculty Center, UCLA campus
* March 19-20, 1998
Hosted by the Triangle Research Libraries Network
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Full details about the licensing workshop, schedules, and
registration, are available at: http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/lworkshop.html.
16. ARL Transitions
* UC-Berkeley: Peter Lyman announced his resignation as
University Librarian effective July 1, 1998. He will become Professor in
the Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems full time.
17. Other Transitions
* American Library Association: Sandra Rios Balderrama was named
Diversity Officer of ALA, effective January 8, 1998. She was previously
Supervising Librarian for Recruitment, Staff Training and Retention at the
Oakland (California) Public Library. She is also president of REFORMA and
a member of ALA's Spectrum Initiative Steering Committee.
18. Honors
* Paul Evan Peters was honored posthumously at the Annual CAUSE
conference with the award of the 1997 CAUSE ELITE Award for Exemplary
Leadership and Information Technology Excellence. A tribute to Paul and
his leadership in the Coalition for Networked Information is hosted by
CAUSE
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Welcome Reino Lipponen!
Janice Dost appointed LAMA/PAS Officer
"Mini Early Bird" budget briefing schedule announced