From: Deborah Jakubs <jakubs_at_duke.edu>
REPORT FROM
THE ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES
TO THE
CHIEF COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS OF LARGE RESEARCH LIBRARIES
Prepared for the June 26, 1999 Meeting
Special Collections Survey Completed
At its May 1999 meeting, the ARL Research Collections Committee received
a report on the recently completed survey of "Special Collections in ARL
Libraries." The response rate was an impressive 90%, and the data
collected is an especially rich source of information on current and
future practices and concerns regarding special collections. A report on
the survey results is included in the agenda for the CCDO meeting in New
Orleans. Data will soon be available on the web.
The Changing Nature of Collection Development
The most recent draft of a discussion paper by Joseph Branin, Frances
Groen, and Suzanne Thorin, "The Changing Nature of Collection Development
in Research Libraries," is now available on the web and the authors wish
to encourage feedback from readers. See
http://www.arl.org/collect/changing.html.
The AAU/ARL Global Resources Program
The program now has a sixth regional project, the Southeast Asian
Journals Indexing Project, developed by the Committee on Research
Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA) and coordinated by Cornell
University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Washington,
and the Technical Information Access Center (TIAC) in Bangkok. The
project will focus on enhancing the indexing of the online Bibliography
of Asian Studies for a period during the 1970s, and on establishing a
pilot project to index Thai journal literature using a visual database
that will carry an image of part of the original text.
The next issue (#205) of the ARL Newsletter will feature an article on
the Global Resources Program.
Lou Pitschmann has been named co-chair of the Advisory Committee of the
German Resources Project, joining John Van Oudenaren, Chief of the
European Division of the Library of Congress.
Implementation of ILL Protocol
For the past three years, vendors have been working toward the exchange
of interlibrary loan transactions. The ILL Protocol Implementers Group
(IPIG) was established to encourage implementation of the international
standard for interlibrary loan communication, the ISO ILL Protocol.
During the past six months, a number of IPIG members have successfully
exchanged test messages, and several of the IPIG vendors are poised to
put their Protocol-compliant systems into production. The IPIG is
nearing completion of a Profile that outlines the common set of
decisions, options, and values agreed upon by IPIG members. True
interoperability among ILL messaging systems should result in more timely
delivery of materials, which in turn will support cooperative collection
development agreements. For additional information on the status of
testing, see: http://www.arl.org.access/naildd/ipig.shtml.
New Challenges Conference
Two-hundred people attended the "New Challenges for Scholarly
Communication in the Digital Era" conference held March 26 and 27 in
Washington. Participants included faculty, administrators, publishers,
graduate students, information technologists, and librarians. The
keynote speaker for the conference was Donald Langenberg, Chancellor of
the University System of Maryland. Panel keynote presentations were made
bythree faculty members (Gregory Crane, Professor of Classics at Tufts;
Jonathan Bagger, Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Johns
Hopkins;and Daniel Barron, Professor of Library and Information Science
at the University of South Carolina) who actively use technology in their
work. Panelists from throughout the academic community responded to these
presentations as well as to panel keynotes by Richard Ekman, Secretary of
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Clifford Lynch, CNI. The conference
was enthusiastically received. Speakers' remarks are being posted on the
ARL website as they become available
<http://www.arl.org/scomm/conf.html>. The conference was co-sponsored by
ARL, the American Association of University Professors, the American
Council of Learned Societies, the Association of American University
Presses, and CNI.
Copyright in the New Millennium
"Copyright in the New Millennium: Recent Changes to U.S. Copyright Law,"
a satellite teleconference, was held on Friday, May 21. Panelists for
the program were: Laura N. (Lolly) Gasaway, Director of the Law Library
and Professor of Law, University of North Carolina; Georgia Harper,
University of Texas System, Office of General Counsel; Sharon A. Hogan,
University Librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago; Peter A. Jaszi,
Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University; and
Frederick W. Weingarten, Director, Office for Information Technology
Policy, American Library Association. ARL co-sponsored the event with
ALA, AALL, MLA, and SLA. The panelists addressed changes to copyright
law introduced by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Sonny Bono
Copyright Term Extension Act. They discussed the implications for
libraries and educational institutions of the new laws and proposed
strategies for community action in the ongoing fair use studies required
by the law. Almost 300 sites around the U.S. participated in the
teleconference. Registered sites were allowed to make a videotape of the
program. If you missed the event, videotapes of the conference will be
available for purchase shortly from ARL.
Embracing Ambiguity
A compendium of recent changes to U.S. Copyright Law was sent to ARL
libraries in May. "Embracing Ambiguity: An ARL Copyright Briefing
Notebook for 1999" provides initial analyses of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Additional copies of the notebook can be ordered from ARL for $30 for ARL
members.
Licensing Workshops and Videoconference
A two-day License Review and Negotiation workshop was held in Washington,
DC, on Monday and Tuesday, May 3 and 4. A second workshop is scheduled
for Thursday and Friday, September 16-17 in Dallas, Texas, sponsored by
Amigos. Details are available at
<http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/lworkshop.html>.
Over 100 sites in the US, Canada, and Britain participated in the SLA/ARL
March 4 satellite videoconference "De-mystifying the Licensing of
Electronic Resources." Videotapes of this broadcast are also available.
Contact pubs_at_arl.org for details.
Copyright Ownership Policies
ARL is collaborating with Rodney Petersen, Office of Information
Technology, University of Maryland, on a project to collect information
on copyright ownership policies for ARL and AAU institutions. Petersen,
who is working on a Ph.D. in higher education policy, planning, and
administration at the University of Maryland, has set up a website with
links to online IP policies <http://www.umd.edu/copyown>. He sent a
letter and questionnaire to university presidents during the spring about
copyright ownership issues. He is working with ARL on a SPEC Kit and
will share with us the results of his research.
An AAU Intellectual Property Task Force recently issued a report,
"Intellectual Property and New Media Technologies: A Framework for Policy
Development at AAU Institutions." The report will be posted soon on the
AAU website <http://www.tulane.edu/~aau/index.html>. Jonathan Cole,
Provost of Columbia University, was the Chair of the group.
NEAR Endorsement
At its meeting in May, the ARL Board unanimously adopted a resolution
commending Provost David Shulenburger, University of Kansas, for "his
leadership and energy in bringing the need to transform scholarly
communication to the attention of faculty, administrators, and university
governing bodies, and for his commitment to stimulating discussion as
evidenced by his proposal to create a National Electronic Article
Repository (NEAR)." The Scholarly Communication Committee had urged the
Board to take this action and helped frame the statement. The full text
of the resolution can be found at
<http://www.arl.org/scomm/resolution.html>.
Discussion List for Scholarly Communication Librarians
A discussion list hosted by ARL has been set up to facilitate the work of
librarians who have been assigned responsibility for educating faculty on
scholarly communication and copyright issues. Please contact Mary Case
<marycase_at_arl.org> to be added to the list.
Deborah Jakubs
Director, Collections Services Director, Global Resources Program
220 Perkins Library Association of Research Libraries
Box 90193 21 Dupont Circle, NW
Duke University Washington, DC 20036
Durham, NC 27708
Phone: 919/660-5846 Phone: 202/296-2296
Fax: 919/660-5923 Fax: 202/872-0884
E-mail: deborah.jakubs_at_duke.edu
Received on Tue Jun 22 1999 - 10:15:01 EDT