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Library Scenefall 2012 The Fall 2012 Library SceneVolume 16 • Number 1 CuNY Celebrates “Open Access” Week IN ThIs Issue “Open Access” refers to the ability of the scholarly and scientific communities CUNY Celebrates “Open Access” to share their papers and the results of their research without the burgeoning Week 1 expense of academic journal subscriptions. Free information not only benefits Research to Live by 3 individual students and faculty, but also schools, libraries, healthcare providers, and many other kinds of organizations all over the world. The unencumbered Reading Programs Planned for Spring 3 interchange of research and ideas fosters the development of knowledge and of discovery. “Open Access Week” is celebrated in recognition of the impor- QCC Participates in tance and growth of this idea. On October 26 the LACUNY Scholarly Com- NY Archives Week 2012 4 munications Roundtable, the Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY, Education among the UFS Open Access Advisory Group, and the Graduate Center’s Mina Rees the Palm Trees 5 Library held a daylong program at the Graduate Center to support movement toward this goal. ACRL/NY Upcoming Symposium, Cultivating Entrepreneurship This excellent and highly informative program began with an “Au- in Academic Libraries 5 thor’s Rights Workshop.” Here the publication agreements and contracts of different academic publishers were distributed to be compared and analyzed. My Favorite Book 6 Participants were asked if they had studied and really understood their con- Meet Your Librarian: tracts when they published articles, if they had signed away the copyrights to Jean Amaral 6 their writings. Some publishers were viewed as being very open and amenable QCC Picks: to at least some access outside of their journals. Most permitted some acces- Among the New Books 7 sibility, at least after an embargo period. Others were shown to be very rigid, Databasepalooza 7 without any eventual leeway for the sharing of research. The complex elements involved in attempting some document sharing, including reuse, prestige of The Library Experience venues, sustainability, peer review methods, article quality and costs were ad- and Hurricane Sandy 8 dressed, illustrated, and explained in documents and guides. Authors of aca- Ferocious Beast 8 (continued on next page) First Person Feature: Researching Numismatic Libraries 9 Meet Your Librarian: The Library is happy to invite everyone to come in to view our new ex- Susie Murphy 11 hibit, “The Art of Asia and The Rubin Museum” featuring the beautiful art catalogs that were a gift to our Library from the Museum. Also included in the display are an exquisite Korean needlepoint tap- estry provided by Christine Kim, lovely items provided by Florence Tse, and the wonderful dolls from the collection of Barbara Bonous-Smit. We want to thank all the contributors to the exhibit. The Rubin Museum of Art, located at 150 West 17th St., Newsletter of the KURT R. SCHMELLER LIBRARY provides innovative educational programs and welcomes Uni- versity participation. QCC is a University partner, and faculty QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE and students enjoy free admission to the Museum. a college of City University of New York (continued from previous page) demic articles may have more rights than what is imme- Open Access Resources diately apparent, and it is important to understand and http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ exercise these rights. SHERPA/RoMEO is an excellent resource for learning more about publishers’ copyright Keep up with all things Open Access @ CUNY by visit- and self-archiving policies (see Open Access Resources ing and bookmarking this site. to the right). http://tinyurl.com/OAhandout Presenters were Stephen Francoeur of Baruch This link takes you to the handout for the workshop “Do Library, Ann Matsuuchi of LaGuardia Library, and You Know Your Rights About What You Write? Under- Maura A Smale of City Tech Library. standing Authors’ Rights and Open Access.” An excellent The most effective means of self-archiving introduction to this topic with links to additional infor- academic articles to facilitate resource sharing was mation on authors’ rights and open access. addressed in the second session. This was a panel pre- http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm sentation on “Progress Toward a CUNY Institutional A very brief introduction to open access by Peter Suber, Repository,” including Jill Cirasella of Brooklyn Library, who has been advocating in this area for several years. and Stephen Klein and Polly Thistlethwaite both of the Grad Center Library. A clearly convincing case for the http://www.doaj.org/ advantages of having a University Institutional Repos- “Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly itory was made, as well as a description of the activi- journals, covering all subjects and many languages.” ties occasioned by the need to accomplish this goal at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ CUNY. On November 15, 2011, the CUNY University SHERPA RoMEO rovides a “summary of permissions Faculty Senate voted to support the “development of an that are … given as part of each publisher’s copyright open-access institutional repository for the City Uni- transfer agreement.” versity of New York…” Various types of software to enable such a repository were presented along with their Open education Resources strengths and problems. The best solution seems to be http://collegeopentextbooks.org an “out-of-the-box” application, that does not require “The Community College Open Textbooks Collaborative hiring staff and could be facilitated most quickly. is funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The afternoon sessions spoke to the issue of This collection of sixteen educational non-profit and textbook costs and how to have effective classes without for-profit organizations, affiliated with more than 200 subjecting students to these growing additional expens- colleges, is focused on driving awareness and adoptions es. First, Kristina Baumli, English professor at Temple of open textbooks to more than 2000 community and University, presented “Ditch that Textbook” Project: How other two-year colleges.” to Make it Work in Your Classroom. The approach here is http://flatworldknowledge.com the use of e-classes, rather than textbooks, with laptops “…our mission has been to publish high-quality, peer-re- for content delivery. Prof. Baumli favors Chrome Books viewed, textbooks that represent the best value in the as being most effective. Laptops that are purchased in industry. Our business model has included a free online lieu of books have the advantage of facilitating multi- format, along with affordable upgrades to digital and ple classes. The large number of available free websites print textbooks and study aids.” for teaching literature, grammar, and citation styes were http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/index. described, as well as public domain poetry, short stories, htm and novels. A concomitant benefit is the ability to design “TeacherServe® is a curriculum enrichment service offer- one’s own courses, rather than be limited to the struc- ing teachers practical help in planning courses and pre- ture of a textbook editor. senting rigorous subject matter to students. It is designed The final session was a “ Panel Presentation by to deepen course content by providing convenient access CUNY Faculty Who Have Created and/or Used Open to scholarship tailored to classroom use.” (continued on next page) 2 • The Library Scene • Fall 2012 (continued from previous page) Reading Programs Planned for spring The Library will participate in two reading programs during spring, 2013. The great success of last year’s school-wide study of To Kill a Mockingbird as a Common Read brought about plans for a new col- lege-wide Common Read program, this time with Access Textbooks or Other Educational Materials.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Presenters included English professor, Susan Amper of Lacks. Beginning in March Bronx Community College, James DiGiovanna, philos- activities will include dra- ophy professor at John Jay, Michael Waldman from the matic presentations, writing Baruch Library, and our own QCC philosophy profes- contests, debates, and vari- sor, Philip Pecorino. ous class assignments across Explained here were means of obtaining free use disciplines. The Library will of open textbooks and other online educational mate- provide support for the pro- rial, as well as publishing one’s own textbooks online. gram, including a Library Presenters provided a number of useful online sites. display, participation in dis- Some examples may be found in the box to the right, cussion groups, and a library along with descriptions found on their web sites. based online LibGuide to help with finding resources. Professor Pecorino, who was a pioneer in the We are also partner- publication of original textbooks, has published a large ing with the Queens Public number of such books over the years. He described how Library in support of their Big he enabled good students to participate in creating this Read Grant for the reading material. of Fahrenheit 451. This event ~SANDRA MARCUS will take place in April and will include our leading book NEW Feature discussion groups, a Library Research to Live by exhibit and helping to find performers for a dramatic “Help! I can’t focus, and my paper is due tomorrow!” production. If you find yourself saying something like this, We are happy to have the opportunity to take recent research suggests that before you start writing part
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