ACRL College & Research Libraries News

Association of College & Research Libraries

News from the Field

Mary Ellen Davis

ACRL gift spurs donations to ALA's Fund

The Fund for America’s Libraries is pleased to announce the receipt of $500,000 from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to support the Office of Information Technology and Policy (OITP) at ALA’s Washington Office. The Fund would like to acknowledge the important role ACRL played when committing $100,000 to support the OITP and ALA’s legislative agenda during the 1995 Midwinter Meeting. Member commitment was essential for the success of early fundraising. ACRL’s contribution first helped leverage a grant for $30,000 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which in turn attracted support from W.K. Kellogg. The Kellogg moneys will go for operating expenses and the Winter Technology Summit.

ACRL conference proceedings available

Discover how academic librarians from around the country are coping with the challenges of building a new information infrastructure. The proceedings of the ACRL 7th National Conference held March 29-April 1, 1995, in Pittsburgh, are now available.

Included in Continuity and Transformation: The Promise of Confluence‚ edited by Richard AmRhein, are 54 refereed contributed papers and 31 abstracts of panel sessions organized by the four conference themes—technology and the service-centered library; knowledge workers and their organizations; multiculturalism and internationalism; and society, economics, and politics. The papers describe how librarians are using new and established technologies to enhance the teaching, learning, and research processes in their institutions.

The 500-page proceedings (ISBN: 0-8389-7786-3) sells for $49.95; the ACRL member price is $44.95. To order Continuity and Transformation call toll free (800) 545-2433, press 7, or fax your order to (312) 836-9958, or send it to Hugh Thompson, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

Knight Ridder to acquire CARL Corp.

Knight-Ridder Information, Inc., intends to acquire 100% interest in the CARL Corporation and total interest in the UnCover Company, a joint partnership of CARL and Blackwell Limited. Ward Shaw, chairman and CEO of CARL, professed his delight with the acquisition.

Baruch wins awards

The new Baruch College Campus Library and Technology Center was awarded the Municipal Art Society of New York’s Certificate of Merit and an AIA/ALA Library Building Award in June. Using the 1894 Metropolitan Street Railway Company of New York building, the architectural firm of Davis, Brody & Associates gracefully integrated classic design with new technology.

The interior of the new Campus Library and Technology Center at Baruch College in New York City.

Photo credit: Peter Aaron/Esto Photographies

The spacious interior of cherry paneling and colorful carpeting is bathed in natural light flooding in from the 70 x 90-foot skylight which overlooks the entire nine-story structure. The seventh floor atrium, which is lined with trees, provides an indoor campus for a college that has no outdoor space of its own. Fiber-optic cable connects the library, media and conferencing centers, and computer lab to other CUNY Colleges and to the Internet.

Designed to allow total interaction between students, faculty, and technology, the new 330,000-square-foot library holds 1,700 computer workstations, 270,000 volumes, 2,100 periodical subscriptions, 1.6 million microforms, and 2,000 audiovisual materials.

Instruction Section revising guidelines

A working draft of ACRL’s Instruction Section’s (formerly Bibliographic Instruction Section) “Guidelines for Instruction Programs” is available for your review at http://uxl.cso.uiuc.edu/ ~bswoodar/guidelin.html. A print copy of the final draft will be published in the December 1995 issue of C&RL News. This is the first revision to the “Guidelines for Bibliographic Instruction” since its approval in 1977.

Wedding doesn't stop conference attendance

Mary Lou Goodyear, ACRL member and the 1995–96 ALA Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD) president, was married during the 1995 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. Goodyear married Adrian Alexander, director of western region sales for the Faxon Company, on June 22 at the Doral Plaza Hotel. Goodyear, senior associate director at the Texas A&M University Library, said she wanted to have both family and friends at her wedding and chose the ALA Annual Conference as the perfect place. Following the conference, the couple honeymooned on the West Coast and the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon.

Married at the ALA Annual Conference were ACRL member Mary Lou Goodyear (right) and Adrian Alexander (center). RASD executive director Cathleen Bourdon is at left.

Visit the ALA homepage

Visit the ALA homepage at http://www.ala.org. The illustrated directory includes an orientation to the association and its units, lists of ALA officers and staff, intellectual freedom and other policies, fact sheets, ALA Goal 2000, news releases, and other materials. Visitors to the ALA homepage are also automatically linked to the ALA gopher where ACRL has posted information.

Editorial cartoonists needed

C&RL Newsis pleased to welcome editorial cartoonist Kappa Waugh to its pages (see above). Waugh, coordinator of bibliographic instruction and reference librarian at Vassar College, is donating her talents to C&RL News, which is developing a pool of artistically talented individuals with a knowledge of academic library issues willing to donate their time and talent. If you have a flair for drawing and the ability to capture the humorous side of library issues in a single cartoon, C&RL News would like to hear from you.

Send a cover letter expressing your interest and experience along with three to five samples of your work to: Mary Ellen K. Davis, Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

Michigan library gets facelift

An $11 million transformation of the University of Michigan (UM) Undergraduate Library has brought with it a new name and look, and expanded resources, facilities, and services. The library, which opened in 1958, was recently named the Harold T. and Vivian B. Shapiro Library in honor of the former UM president and his wife. The renovation included an additional 30,000 square feet, new workstations providing World Wide Web access to the Internet, and a multimedia collection of information resources for undergraduate study, including the Core Journal Project which gives undergraduates access to a full-text digital library of key journal literature. The new library also includes an Academic Resource Center for instruction and consultation with campus academic support groups, a reading room of required courserelated texts, 13 small group study rooms equipped with ethemet connectivity, individual study seating for 750, with classroom and microcomputer facilities providing 100 additional spaces. The library also houses the newly unified science library collections which include more than 300,000 volumes. ■

The newly renovated Shapiro Undergraduate Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Notes

1. ALA Handbook of Organization 1994/ 95(Chicago: ALA, 1994), 41.
2. Susan Kroll, ed., Academic Status: Statements and Resources, 2d ed. (Chicago: ACRL, 1994).