From: Susan Rabe <rabe_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu>
CRL Report to
Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research Libraries
THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS - JANUARY 1997
Questions and comments are encouraged on the topics presented in this
on-line report. Please direct them to:
Linda Naru, Director of Member Services (naru_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu)
or Don Simpson, President, (simpson_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu)
REMINDER - The area code for the Center for Research Libraries has changed
to 773.
1. The new Collections and Services Advisory Panel to the Board's Planning
Committee (CSAP) met for the first time on November 18, and again on
December 5. The panel members are Chair - Linda Gould, University of
Washington; Anthony Ferguson, Columbia University; Kay Flowers, Rice
University; Deborah Jakubs, Duke University; Wendy Lougee, University of
Michigan; Robert Sewell, Rutgers University; Barbara Van Deventer,
University of Chicago.
They first familiarized themselves with CRL collections, services, policies
and budget processes. Then, they began an exploration of expanding CRL
program to include some of the recent AAU-ARL global resources initiatives
related to newspapers, journals and international studies.
CSAP is currently planning the program symposium on the CRL's role in
emerging global resources efforts for the Center's Annual Membership
Meeting, April 25 in Chicago. Two separate announcements and attendance
information have been mailed to member library directors since December 1.
Business meeting documents will be sent to "councilors" on April 1.
2. Purchase proposal ballots for 16 proposals were sent to the Voting
members recently with final tabulation of the results available in late
February.
Cabinet Papers. PREM 3, Pt. 1.
Church Missionary Society Archives. Section 1: Japan, Pts. 1-3, Section 2:
Women, Pt. 1, and Section 3: Central Manuscript Records, Pt. 1.
Colombo Overland Observer.
Corpus Christi College Medieval Manuscripts, Pts. 4-5, 7.
Corriere della Sera. Flag of Ireland & United Ireland.
L'Illustration.
Japan through Western Eyes, Pt. 1.
Mailrapporten, Pt. 1.
Port of Spain Gazette.
Pusat Dokumentasi Hukum Microfiche Collection, Pts. 2-3.
Weekly Freeman.
Weekly News & Dublin Weekly News.
Zemstvo Statistics. Supplement 2.
3. The Foreign Official Gazettes Task Force (Chair - Robert Buckwalter,
Harvard Law Library) met January 6 at the Law Library of Congress. CRL
continues to receive Foreign Official Gazettes on deposit from the New York
Public Library. Records with holding information from other libraries are
being added to CRLCATALOG. A Web Site access tool is being designed (URL
http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu).
4. The U.S. State Documents Task Force (Chair - David Farrell, UC-Berkeley)
will meet on February 6 to review the results of the recent survey of the
membership as part of developing a recommendation on the future of the U.S.
State Documents collection program component.
5. The CRL Collections & Services Policy Manual is being revised and
updated by a Task Force consisting of Chair - Robert Sewell, Rutgers
University; Joan Grant, New York University; Diane Perushek, Northwestern
University; and Louis Pitschmann, University of Wisconsin-Madison. A new
and better Manual will be mounted on the Web Site with limited paper
distribution in summer 1997. Of special interest is a new subject
categorization of CRL collections underway.
6. CRL will convene an International Newspaper Symposium, co-sponsored by
the Library of Congress and the Association of Research Libraries on May
27-28, 1997 in the Library of Congress Madison Building. The purpose of the
conference is to gather together librarians, researchers, and newspaper
publishers to define the problems of collecting, storing, preserving, and
providing access to international newspapers and, most importantly, to
design a course of action that will guarantee acquisition of and access to
international newspapers. A registration brochure in paper and electronic
formats will be distributed widely in late February.
7. The newly established Slavic and Eastern European Microform Project
(SEEMP) held its first meeting in Boston on November 17 and elected an
Executive Committee with Chair - Alan Urbanic, University of California;
Secretary - June Pachuta Farris, University of Chicago; Wojciech Zalewski,
Stanford University; and Nadia Zilper, University of North Carolina.
Ex-officio members of the Executive Committee are Karen Rondestvedt,
University of Pittsburgh, Chair of the Bibliography and Documentation
Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies; Abby Smith, Library of Congress; and Cathy Zeljak, George
Washington University, Chair of the Slavic and Eastern European Section of
ACRL. SEEMP will soon announce its acquisition and preservation priorities.
8. As part of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this past fall
CRL has redesigned and upgraded its World Wide Web site
(http:///wwwcrl.uchicago.edu). Extensive improvements have been made to
both hardware and software as well as form and content. The new Web site
will debut February 3 with homepages for each area studies project, a
What's New section updated weekly, and an improved foreign newspaper access
tool. The site includes much new content about CRL and will add a full-text
search engine soon.
9. New publications include a paper edition of the Center's, which will
also appear on the Center's Web site in the spring. The South Asia
Microform Project (SAMP) has published a new brochure. All publications may
be ordered through Yvonne Jefferson (jefferso_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu); see
the Web site for a list of available publications.
10. This fall, CRL added the automated circulation module to its Innovative
Interfaces automated library system. Using the new system, the Access
Services Department is currently testing patron initiated access from
OhioLINK libraries. The cataloged hardcopy monographs in the collection,
excluding vernacular South and Southeast Asian monographs that remain to be
reconned or the hardcopy foreign doctoral dissertations, have been barcoded
as part of this process.
11. CRLCATALOG now has 470,000+ bibliographic records, including 401
monograph (182 original and 219 enhanced) records from the Malayalam
Cataloging Project, which has submitted authority work for 161 authors to
the National Authority File. CRL continues to use or add subject headings
for all new cataloging records, and in-process records for on-order
dissertations are searchable in the OPAC.
Susan M. Rabe
Collection Resources Bibliographer
Center for Research Libraries
6050 S. Kenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637-2804
Tel: 773-955-4545 x323
Fax: 773-955-4339
Email: rabe_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu
Received on Sat Feb 08 1997 - 12:03:42 EST