From: Milton Wolf <wolf_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu>
CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES' REPORT TO CHIEF COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT
OFFICERS OF LARGE ACADEMIC RESEARCH LIBRARIES JANUARY 1999
COLLECTION RESOURCES
The SUPERSEDED REFERENCE PROGRAM, which officially began in September,
seems to be finding a place in the collection development programs of some
of our members. More titles will be added to the initial 25 core titles
(See the CRL Website for the Superseded Reference List.) at a later date.
We will also begin professional reference service to this Core List right
after the first of the new year (1999). We are now in the process of
hiring someone to fulfill this reference service (by telephone, fax, Ariel,
e-mail, etc.).
The INTERNATIONAL COALITON ON NEWSPAPERS (ICON) Working Group had their
final meeting in Chicago in late September, and a last conference call in
December, as they prepared to submit their Final Report (to the Mellon
Foundation) on the significant issues facing access and preservation of
International Newspapers.
A core group of 12 institutions will be invited to set up the
infrastructure of ICON and begin work on such issues as a Union List, a
Preservation List, a Website, etc. before membership is opened to all those
who would like to participate in this gargantuan task.
The initial Core Group of ICON that will be invited to join are:
The British Library
Center for Research Libraries
Harvard University
Library of Congress
The National Library of Canada
New York Public Library
New York State Library
University of Florida
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Southern California
University of Washington
A new initiative at CRL is the proposal for a Science Research
Materials
Project (SRMP), modeled on the Areas Studies Programs. The SRMP will focus
on the extensive collection of Science/Technical serials held at CRL
(approximately 6,000 subscriptions). While the majority of these are
third-world publications (with emphasis on Japanese, Russian, South Asian
and South East Asian materials), the SRMP will attempt to make this
collection more relevant to the membership and to start a program of
preservation for many vulnerable science titles.
The SRMP Advisory Committee will have its first formal meeting in April
and at this time includes the following professionals:
Ross Atkinson
Deputy University Librarian
Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
Linda Musser
Head Earth & Mineral Sciences Library
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
Lucy Rowland
Head, Science Collections & Branch Services
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
Susan Starr
Associate University Librarian
University of California-San Diego
David Stern
Director of Science Libraries & Information Services
Yale University
New Haven, CN
Gary Wiggins
Head, Chemistry Library
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Patricia Yocum, Chair
Coordinator for Collections
Shapiro Science Library
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Kathleen Zar
Science Librarian
John Crerar Library
If any of you are interested in learning more about the SRMP, or would
like to be a member, please contact Patricia Yocum, Chair, or Milton T.
Wolf at CRL.
FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1848 MATERIALS DIGITIZED: CRL is cooperating with
ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
on a demonstration project to digitize newspapers, pamphlets, and
monographs from the French Revolution of 1848 held by CRL.
The majority of the scanning has been completed for the joint project among
(ARTFL), the University of Chicago and CRL. The project involves images
and a new database of print materials from the 1848 Revolution in France.
The materials consist primarily of pamphlets and periodicals printed in
Paris from 1848 to 1851. Currently, one can search the database according
to title or one can browse the entire collection through the bibliography.
Once a document is chosen, the page image can be brought up and scaled. The
1848 periodicals project is an exciting new development for the ARTFL
project and for everyone interested in the revolutionary history of France.
This is still a work in progress with additional titles still being scanned
and changes planned for the search interface.
The URL is: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/CRL/
PURCHASE PROPOSALS: PURCHASE PROPOSALS: Purchase proposal ballots for 15
proposals were sent to the Voting members recently with final tabulation of
the results available in late February. The proposals are for:
Allgemeinwissenschaftliche und literarische Zeitschriften des 17 & 18
Jahrhunderts.
Anti-Napoleonische Pamphlete.
Board of Foreign Missions Correspondence. Africa, Latin America & Southeast
Asia Missions
Church Missionary Society Archives. Section 1. China. Pts. 10-12.
Church Missionary Society Archives. Section 2. Women. Pt. 4.
Church Missionary Society Archives. Section 3. Central MSS. Annual letters.
Pts. 4-5.
Church Missionary Society Archives. Section 5. Americas. Pt. 1.
Comintern archive.
Deutsche Zeitschriften des 18 & 19 Jahrhunderts.
Documenta Orthographica.
Early Canadiana - Pre- 1900 Monographs.
Hsin pien hung wei ping tzu liao = New collection of Red Guard publications.
Mailrapporten. Pt. 3.
Washington, Booker T., Papers. Pts. 4-6.
Widerstand als "Hochverrat" 1933-1945.
The 16th proposed title, Women composers collection, was rejected prior to
balloting because five members own and were willing to lend.
TECHNICAL SERVICES
In October, CRL replaced the server for its Innovative Interfaces
system
with a Dec Alpha. The result has been increased response time and
resumption of access to the Z39.50 software that had been disabled due to
degradation of response time. The new server will enable CRL to have
considerably more flexibility in advancing projects previously on the back
burner. One of these includes permitting CRL to purchase Innovative's
WebPac software later on in this fiscal year. The second is allowing CRL
to experiment with "ftp-ing" its bibliographic file to libraries wishing to
load these records into their local systems for better information about
CRL's holdings. (More detailed information and subscription prices will be
forthcoming.) Previously, records were loaded via tape processed by
Blackwell North America. Acknowledging the importance of CRL's OPAC
(CRLCATALOG) to the research community, Innovative donated $10,000 towards
the purchase of the Dec Alpha.
The Cataloging Department made many contributions in support of its
continued commitment to the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC).
CONSER, BIBCO, and NACO requirements were met.
Work continued on cataloging the foreign newspaper collection held
at CRL.
The Center received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
to catalog foreign newspapers at CRL. Work started on the project in June
1997.
The Cataloging Department cataloged, created item records and
barcoded new deposits to the Superseded Reference Collection.
Cataloging Department staff were involved in maintaining and updating the
serial and newspaper databases on CRL's website.
The Cataloging Department continued to make significant
contributions to CRL's implementation of the Innovative Interfaces
circulation module by
barcoding and creating item records for all newly cataloged monographs and
multi-volume monographs previously cataloged.
The Cataloging Department also started working with the Cataloger's
Desktop and Classification Plus software. This improved workflow and
throughput in that the staff are now able to access many of the cataloging
reference sources on their workstations.
Joint China-US Microfilming Project Records for the microfilm series
"Pre-Kangzhan and Kangzhan Period Preservation Project " were loaded in
RLIN and CRLCATALOG. This is the first-ever joint project between the
Committee on Scholarly Communication with China and Fudan University
(Shanghai), which has preserved and improved access to more than 3,000
books published between 1932 and 1945. 3608 bibliographic records were
loaded into CRLCATALOG.
As of June 30, 1998, CRLCATALOG, CRL's online public access catalog,
contained 483, 206 bibliographic records. On Dec. 11, 1998 CRLCATALOG
contained 502,083 bibliographic records.
MEMBERSHIP & ACCESS SERVICES
USE STATISTICS: The Access Services Department ended FY 98 having processed
44,617 requests and sending 62,736 items out on loan. Through November
1998, the department has processed 18,803 requests and has sent 29,743
items out on loan. Please contact Marjorie Bloss
(Bloss_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu) if you are interested in receiving a use
report for your library.
OTHER NEWS:
Linda Naru resigned from her position as Director, Member Services
at the end of September. Linda had worked at CRL for 16 years in a number
of
positions, Circulation/Interlibrary Loan, Membership and Grants, and lastly
in her position as Director for Member Services. She assumed new
responsibilities at the University of Illinois at Chicago as Director of
Advancement at the beginning of October.
As a result of Linda's departure, CRL has reorganized its senior
management staff. Milton Wolf assumed the position of Senior Vice
President (deputy to the President), and Marjorie Bloss is now Vice
President for Library Operations (Access Services, Acquisitions,
Cataloging, Stack Management, and Systems). These changes became effective
on 30 November.
Susan Rabe is now Special Projects Coordinator, reporting to the President
of CRL, Don Simpson. In early February, Carol Stukey will join the
Acquisitions Department as Assistant Department Head. Carol currently
holds a similar position at Kraus Jesuit-McCormick Theological Library.
Marlys Rudeen will be leaving CRL effective December 31, 1998. She will be
going to the Washington State Library, and will be part of the
Consultants Team assigned primarily to the Government Information Locator
Service. She says she has enjoyed the many fruitful years working with CRL
members on various projects and will "continue to work on collaborative
projects of a different sort at the Washington State Library."
COUNCIL OF VOTING MEMBERS: The next Council meeting is scheduled for
Friday, April 16, 1999 in Chicago.
EXHIBIT BOOTH: Besides exhibiting at ALA this past summer, CRL also
exhibited at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
(AAASS) in September and at the African Studies Association (ASA) in
October. CRL will also exhibit at the American Historical Association's
meeting in January.
NEW CRL VOTING MEMBERS: New members are Texas Tech and The Pennsylvania
State University, which now means that all the CIC are now CRL members!
MAJOR COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE:AND CALL FOR PAPERS:
A major collection development conference devoted to CREATING NEW
STRATEGIES FOR COOPERATIVE COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT will be held November
12-14, 1999 at the Aberdeen Woods Conference Center in Atlanta Georgia, and
will be sponsored by CRL, ARL, CLIR, RLG and ICOLC as part of a 50 year
anniversary celebration for the Center for Research Libraries, which
operates the nation's oldest Cooperative Research Library. The conference
goal is to formulate an agenda for the community to begin to design and
implement new strategies for cooperative collection development.
The Conference itself will be divided into three overlapping investigations:
I: Assessing the Situation: Looking at cultural, commercial and political
issues, such as volume count fixations (quantity vs. quality), faculty and
commercial resistance to reforming scholarly communications, publishing
monopolies, look-alike research collections, traditional campus cultural
impediments, and how some groups have been able to manage them.
II: Identifying New Opportunities: How do we build on our traditional
cooperative models (large scale centralized like CRL, large scale
distributed like. ARL/AAU, and regional like ICOLC) to advance new
approaches in areas such as archiving, preservation, and digitization?
What are the characteristics of successful programs? What case
studies/models provide insight? How have they built on lessons from the
past? What enabling technologies can assist us? What achievable benefits
are appropriate to strive for in the current environment?
III: Eliminating Borders: What are the implications/opportunities
presented to cooperative collection development by the growing unimportance
of national borders and other geographical restraints? Can technologies
provide new forums for cooperation? Can we grow new partnerships? How?
If you are interested in writing a paper for this conference, please send a
note of intent and a short abstract of your thesis (by e-mail, fax or
letter) to:
Milton T. Wolf
Senior Vice President for Collection Programs
The Center for Research Libraries
6050 South Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637-2804
TEL: (773) 955-4545 EXT. 334
FAX: (773) 955-4339
INTERNET: wolf_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu
Final deadline for papers that are accepted is June 1, 1999. There will be
no extensions! Papers accepted will be made available to conference
attendees one month prior to the conference. Selected papers will be
orally presented by the author(s) at the conference in abstract form and a
moderated panel discussion of the author(s)' ideas will be convened. All
final papers must be presented in electronic format.
Milton T. Wolf
Senior Vice President for Collection Programs
The Center for Research Libraries
6050 South Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637-2804
TEL: (773) 955-4545 EXT. 334
FAX: (773) 955-4339
INTERNET: wolf_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu
http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu
Received on Thu Jan 14 1999 - 17:26:20 EST