From: Milton Wolf <wolf_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu>
CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES'
REPORT TO CHIEF COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT
OFFICERS OF LARGE ACADEMIC RESEARCH LIBRARIES June 1998
COLLECTION RESOURCES
The Center for Research Libraries operates a cooperative collection
development (CCD) program that assists academic and research libraries in
making otherwise inaccessible and important peripheral research materials
available to scholars and researchers. CRL has begun a number of
initiatives in support of research library collections, and we are very
interested in your thoughts about their value to you, and the program in
general. (There will be handouts on the CCD at the ALA meeting). The more
salient issues are:
1. Superseded Reference Collection storage facility at CRL. Basic
reference service will be provided to this superseded collection by
telephone, e-mail, FAX, etc. (A list of the initial core titles will be
included in a handout at ALA.) Discussion should help CRL to address
members needs and modify the service, and the title list.
2. Establishing an International Coalition On Newspapers (ICON) to provide
access and preservation to foreign newspapers for research libraries. The
charge to the ICON Working Group follows:
A. To develop and disseminate by December 31, 1998 an action plan
that describes how the North American research library community will
increase access to global newspapers. The action plan will include
strategies to achieve the following:
· Identifying newspapers that are representative of the world press
and essential for research.
· Collecting bibliographic descriptions and information on
repositories' holdings and maintaining this data in a reliable, easily
accessible international database.
· Prioritizing actions to be taken in geographic areas of the world
with endangered archival collections or with contemporary output in jeopardy.
· Applying the most appropriate technological solutions to
preservation and access to retrospective newspaper files.
· Engaging libraries and newspaper repositories throughout the world
to actively promote improved access to newspaper files through interlibrary
loan and electronic document delivery.
B. To establish a coalition to provide an ongoing framework for
international cooperation and to oversee continued work on the working
group's action plan.
The coalition will include principals from various sectors: commercial
publishers and micropublishers, academic institutions, research and
national libraries, scholarly and professional societies, funding agencies.
The ICON Working Group participants are:
Liz Lane, Director, Research Library Division, New York State
Library, Chair;
Hari Rorlich, Head of Micrographics, University of Southern
California;
Robert Harriman, Coordinator, U.S. Newspaper Program, Library of
Congress, Preservation Department;
Natalie Seweryn, Acquisitions Librarian, New York Public Library; John
Rutledge, Western European Bibliographer,
University of North Carolina;
Geoff Smith, Head of Modern Collections, British Library;
Dan Hazen, Librarian for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, Harvard
University;
Glenda Pearson, Head Microform & Newspaper Collections,
University of Washington;
Diane Nester Kresh, Director for Preservation, Library of Congress,
and Acting Director for Public Service Collections;
Milton T. Wolf, Vice President for Collection Programs, Center for
Research Libraries;
Linda Naru, Director of Access Services, Center for Research Libraries.
3. CRL's role as a depository facility for its members is generally well
known but CRL is also an archive for both electronic and paper resources.
CRL's aim is to retain a secure copy of critical works on behalf of the
research community, allowing libraries to reduce local shelving pressures.
As research libraries become more enmeshed in electronic information
resources, the housing of backup paper copy will become more of an
unnecessary space burden for many materials. CRL stands ready to assist
its members in guaranteeing that a paper archive will be maintained in case
of future needs. By the same token, as more scholarly communication and
research information becomes digital, there will be a need to capture the
various electronic editions and other transitory evolutions of content.
Again, CRL is ready to provide and preserve the variant digital information
that will undoubtedly occur as scholarship rapidly "accretes" in this
relatively new format.
If desired, CRL could provide the Chief Collection Development Officers of
Large Research Libraries with a permanent electronic archive for their
organizational documents, as well as a server for current electronic
communications.
4. CRL continues the expansion of its website access to CRL's holdings by
adding new databases. This year four searchable databases were added:
foreign (i.e., published outside of the U.S.) newspapers, ethnic press
titles, Russian and other Eastern European serials, and CCC camp papers.
The database format enables users to do more customized searching and to
identify materials using a search strategy more flexible than what the
online catalog allows. Users can search the databases for single fields or
by using the "and" Boolean operator; searchable fields include title,
language, publication date, subject, place of publication and other
attributes.
To access the databases from CRL's homepage (http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu):
on the navigation bar, click "Search CRL's Databases."
Foreign Newspapers
The foreign newspaper database replaces the list of newspapers on our old
website and expands users' searching capabilities by allowing searches by
title, place of publication, language, CRL's holdings, frequency, area
studies microform project, whether or not CRL currently receives this title
and has master negative microfilm holdings. The database record for each
title includes these elements as well as publisher, OCLC bibliographic
record number, and earlier and later titles. As the ICON initiative
progresses, the number of foreign newspapers in this database should
increase dramatically.
Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Papers
CRL preserved and provided bibliographic access to the most complete extant
collection of newsletters, magazines and newspapers produced by Civilian
Conservation Corps, ca. 1934 - 1942. The National Endowment for the
Humanities funded the project to microfilm these materials and to save for
researchers 5,000 titles from over 2,000 camps located throughout the
United States.
The microform set record is cataloged as Civilian Conservation Corps camp
papers [microform], OCLC # 20256133. A printed bibliography lists and
indexes the papers: Center for Research Libraries (U.S.) The Civilian
Conservation Corps camp newspapers : a guide / compiled by Marlys Rudeen;
OCLC # 23659659.
All the papers in this set are available for loan. CRL can also sell
service copies of any company's papers. On the web, click on "Click here
to request a price quote" for information on the price for purchasing fiche
or film.
Current CIS Serials
CRL has long-standing exchange agreements with the Russian Academy of
Sciences and with other academies and scholarly publishers in Eastern
Europe. This agreement ensures that we receive serial titles held by few
libraries in North America. The database includes the scientific,
humanities and social sciences journals we currently receive. Users can
search by any combination of these elements: title in Roman alphabet,
title in Cyrillic text, language of publication, subject, place of
publication, years held, and other field. The database record for each
title includes those elements, plus ISSN and OCLC bibliographic record
numbers, number of holding libraries, earlier or later title.
Ethnic Press
This is a database of about 2,000 periodicals and newspapers published in
the U.S. and Canada by or for ethnic communities. Users can search by
serial title, ethnic group, language, place of publication, or CRL's
holdings. The database record for each title includes these elements as
well as frequency, publisher, OCLC bibliographic record number, earlier and
later titles, and whether or not CRL holds master negative microfilm.
PURCHASE PROPOSALS
The Center will acquire eleven microform sets approved in the fiscal year
1997/98 purchase proposal balloting. These are:
Church Missionary Society.,Church Missionary Society archive. Section 1:
Japan_, Pts. 4-9, _Section 2: Missions to Women_, Pt.3, _Section 3: Central
Manuscript Records_, Pt. 2-3; Corporation of Foreign Bondholders (Great
Britain). _Newspaper cuttings files of the Council of Foreign
Bondholders in the Guildhall Library, London_; _Galveston news_ [title
varies]; _Little magazines series : selected complete short-run cinema
periodicals, 1889-1972_; Dutch East Indies. Gouverneur Generaal.
_Mailrapporten/Mail reports from the Netherlands East Indies, 1869-1940
[1945]_ Pt. 2; _Mao Tse-Tung p'ing tien
Erh shih ssu shih_; Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. _Board of Foreign
Missions correspondence and reports, 1833-1911_ Iran (Persia),
Syria-Lebanon and India missions plus calendar reels; Pusat Dokumentasi
Hukum, Fakultas Hukum Universitas Indonesia. _Koleksi mikrofis / PDH-FHUI_
Pts. 4-5; and _World of Port Royal : the Jansenist movement in theCatholic
Church, 17th-18th centuries_. The _Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton &
Susan B. Anthony_ were rejected because more than five members have bought
it. The original budget for purchase proposals was $95,000. The eleven
approved proposals are estimated at $92,805.
MEMBERSHIP & ACCESS SERVICES
USE STATISTICS -With 11 months of the fiscal year completed, CRL's Access
Services Department processed 41,269 interlibrary loan and direct patron
request transactions. The fill rate is 68% -- 27,563 requests filled by
loan, photocopy, fax or Ariel. Loan requests filled number 16,004; of
these, 2,414 (15%) are OhioLINK patron-initiated requests for printed
monographs. Requests for copies (11,559) were filled by photocopy (5,642
transactions, or 49% of copy requests), fax (208, or 1%), and Ariel (5,709,
or 49%). Please contact Linda Naru (naru_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu) if you are
interested in receiving a use report for your library.
CATALOG STATUS - CRLCATALOG now has over 480,000 catalog records and
170,000 authority records.
Cataloging Department staff were heavily involved in the development of the
newspaper and serial databases on CRL's website; both in the development of
the original databases and the website access.
EXPANDED CRL COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM
As we move closer to the 21st century and CRL's 50th anniversary, CRL has
made many changes that reflect its commitment to enhance its communications
efforts. CRL has planned a number of actions to improve the way it
communicates to its members, users, and the broader academic community
significant information regarding its programs, collections, and
activities. These activities include:
The establishment of a new Communications Manager position at CRL to
increase our professional capabilities in this important area. Ms. Kanika
Sago was appointed to this position in February.
The development of a new approach to CRL's publications, which will
introduce a new CRL logo, updated graphical design, and more simplified
approach. These developments include the revamping of FOCUS, the CRL
newsletter and an increased CRL presence at annual conferences important to
our members and patrons. FOCUS will convey more information about CRL
activities as well as important additions to our collections. This new
format will debut in the September edition of FOCUS. In addition to our
exhibit here at ALA, (BOOTH # T-421). CRL will also exhibit at the
African Studies Association and American Association for the Advancement of
Slavic Studies in the fall and other upcoming conferences over the next year.
Continuing improvements to the CRL website to provide a single access point
for both general organizational information as well as important details
about specific CRL collections and programs, all in a user-friendly context.
We welcome your suggestions and feedback about additional improvements CRL
might make in these areas.
PERSONNEL:
Systems Manager, Tim Tidmarsh, Promoted.
As the systems requirements for access and delivery of research
materials,
and other CRL operations continue to grow, Tim Tidmarsh continues to grow
with it, moving up from Systems Technician to Systems Manager
OTHER NEWS:
Consistent with rising costs, inflation, and Board policy requiring
cost
recovery, the Center for Research Libraries must announce a microfilm price
rise to $35 per reel for Center members and $68 per reel for non-members
effective July 1, 1998.
Non-member ILL transaction fees remain at $25.00 for libraries in North
America, $30.00 for libraries outside of North America.
ALA EXHIBIT BOOTH: CRL is exhibiting at the Washington, DC Convention
Center, booth T421. Please stop by to meet CRL staff and discuss CRL
services and current initiatives.
NEW CRL MEMBERS: The University of Calgary began negotiations to
become a
Voting Membership and The University of Texas at San Antonio joins CRL as
an Associate Member.
CRL announcements are also posted to CRLONLINE. You can subscribe by
sending the following message to majordomo_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu: subscribe
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IN MEMORIAM
We regret to announce the death of Sergei Ignashev, Assistant Head of
Cataloging.
Milton T. Wolf
Vice President for Collection Programs
The Center for Research Libraries
6050 South Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637-2804
TEL: (773) 955-4545 EXT. 334
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Received on Tue Jun 16 1998 - 17:01:57 EDT