News from the Field

David Free

Pepperdine celebrates renovated main library

Pepperdine University’s Payson Library reopened last fall after a 15-month, $22.4 million renovation. Influenced by Spanish Revival architecture, the new building design honors tradition while addressing 21st-century needs for digital integration and flexibility to accommodate diverse learning styles. The new additions range from a high-tech makerspace to expanded study areas that seamlessly integrate traditional setups with more informal seating configurations. Responding to environmental concerns, motion-sensor LED lighting reduces power usage, as does a NEH grant-funded sustainable preservation and storage system for Special Collections and Archives.

The service goals of openness and accessibility also provided key inspiration for the design. Since reopening, Payson Library has nearly doubled its daily gate count and now draws more than 3,000 people a day.

ACRL Policy Statement on Open Access to Scholarship by Academic Librarians draft revision feedback

The ACRL Research and Scholarly Environment Committee (ReSEC) is seeking community input on proposed revisions to the ACRL Policy Statement on Open Access to Scholarship by Academic Librarians, approved by the ACRL Board of Directors at the 2016 ALA Annual Conference. The policy statement was initially developed by ReSEC with feedback from members and the broader community, then vetted by the ACRL Standards Committee. After approval of the statement by ACRL, discussions suggested that a broader definition of scholarship would be embraced by the community. Feedback in 2017 from the Library Publishing Coalition Forum, in particular, recommended that products across the lifecycle of scholarship ought to be included more explicitly in the statement.

ReSEC is proposing revisions to make a more inclusive and forceful case for openness across all types of scholarship and scholarly products, and to provide a model for citation. As scholarship is a dynamic enterprise, ever changing in its goals and methods, ReSEC views the statement as a living document, subject to further changes with the future evolution of scholarship. Please review the draft revision on the ACRL website at www.ala.org/acrl/standards and send feedback by July 1, 2018, to Steven Harris (stevenharris@unr.edu).

Temple’s new library to be named for Steve Charles

Temple University’s new library will be named Charles Library in recognition of a $10 million gift from entrepreneur and university trustee Steve Charles. Charles’s gift, one of the largest individual contributions in Temple history, will be invested into an endowment to provide perpetual funding for Temple Libraries to attract and retain high-quality faculty and staff; maintain and enhance Charles Library; promote community outreach, partnerships, and public programs; purchase and preserve materials and collections; and support technology and innovation.

Charles Library, set to open in May 2019, will feature technology such as high-performance computation that supports advanced research. It will also include a space-saving automated book retrieval system that will store most of the library’s volumes and create more space for collaboration.

GPO completes Federal Register digitization

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) and the National Archives’ Office of the Federal Register have digitized every issue of the Federal Register, dating back to the first one published in 1936. A total of 14,587 individual issues, which is nearly 2 million pages, has been digitized. The first issue of the Federal Register came off GPO presses on March 14, 1936. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the first document, an executive order, to be published. The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. It is updated daily by 6 a.m. and is published Monday through Friday, except federal holidays, in both digital and print editions. The complete Federal Register from 1936 to the present is now available digitally on GPO’s govinfo at www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/FR.

OU Libraries Western History Collections names 2018 fellows

The University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections selection committee has awarded five research fellowships for summer 2018. Three new fellowship categories support research residencies in the Western History Collections and are designed to connect researchers to the collections’ archival, print, and visual resources. Learn more about the fellows and their research projects at http://bit.ly/WHCfellows2018. Applications for summer 2019 fellowships are welcome through January 15, 2019, for the Masterson Fellowship, and March 25, 2019, for the Haley and Dale Fellowships.

CLIR names 2018 Mellon Dissertation Fellows

Fifteen graduate students have been selected to receive awards this year under the Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources program, administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The fellowships are intended to help graduate students in the humanities and related social science fields pursue research wherever relevant sources are available; gain skill and creativity in using primary source materials in libraries, archives, museums, and related repositories; and provide suggestions to CLIR about how such source materials can be made more accessible and useful. The fellowships carry stipends of up to $25,000 each to support dissertation research for periods ranging from nine-to-twelve months. Complete information is available at www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/.

EBSCO FOLIO Innovation Challenge second round winners

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is providing grants to four academic libraries as part of the EBSCO FOLIO Innovation Challenge. The grant program is awarding up to $100,000 in grants to libraries to develop innovative technology solutions that address the challenges academic libraries face. The second round’s winning proposals came from the University of Alabama (UA), the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (UIUC), Johns Hopkins University (JHU), and Lehigh University (LU). UA has plans to create data collection, reporting, and analysis tools designed to support the core reporting module for FOLIO; UIUC will share the innovative work they have done with their kiosk-based wayfinding mobile app with the FOLIO community; JHU will be building out a set of APIs on the FOLIO platform that helps to expose a library’s collection in FOLIO’s Codex data repository; and LU has been working to solve a problem that plagues libraries of all types and will help to bring their Lost Item Application to the FOLIO community .

The Korea Times now available from ProQuest

Sixty years’ worth of content from The Korea Times is now available through ProQuest Historical Newspapers, thanks to a new partnership with the newspaper’s publisher. Using the ProQuest platform, users can browse, read cover-to-cover, or search full digitized issues of the paper, including images, from 1956 to 2016. The oldest and most influential English-language newspaper in Korea, The Korea Times is globally recognized for its coverage of international business, economic, and financial news, as well as perspectives on regional issues and events. More information is available at http://media2.proquest.com/documents/hnp_koreatimes.pdf.