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CLS Spring 2006 ISSUED BY THE COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION OF THE ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES, A DIVISION OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Spring 2006 Volume 22, Issue 1 CLS Chair’s Column, Spring 2006 Inside this issue: Judging from past newsletters, the Chair teaching information literacy skills. I’m of CLS is supposed to write a column on declaring a momentary moratorium on CLS Friday Night 2 pithy issues facing college libraries or hand-wringing over how ill prepared high Feast comment on the affairs of the organiza- school students are to do college level Special Katrina 4 tion. Past columns offer a commentary on work. KUDOS the comings and going of chairs and com- mittees and provide a snapshot of what Instead, I want to talk Call for Spectrum Mentors 5 lies ahead. I can’t bear to do it. about the pleasures of browsing and encour- News from our CLS is a great organization and ACRL is a age you all to take a ACRL liaison 5 decent parent with all kinds of meaningful walk through your initiatives. But you can read about those stacks if you haven’t Katrina KUDOS: 6 two stories on the listserv archive or web site. I don’t done so in awhile. Robin Wagner, CLS Chair want to reflect on another new initiative or KUDOS 7 environmental scan. I’m taking a break Who browses any- from the crisis in publishing, cost of more in an academic library? Almost no CLS Program 8 budget-wrecking e-journals and benefits one. Certainly not me. We are trained to (or pitfalls) of federated searching when (Continued on page 2) Special points of interest: Ray English: ACRL Academic Librarian of the Year Ray English, Azariah Smith Root Director English will receive a $3,000 award on • Watch COLLIB-L of Libraries at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Monday, June 26, at 4:30 pm., at a cere- for details about Ohio, is the 2006 ACRL Academic/ mony and reception during the ALA con- ALA Annual Con- Research Librarian of the Year. The ference in New Orleans. ference meeting award, sponsored by YBP Library Ser- locations. Times vices, recognizes an outstanding member “Ray English is an influential librarian,” are listed on p. 5 of the library profession who has made a said award committee chair Les Canter- • Check out the significant national or international contri- bury. “He is a leader in various organiza- location of the bution to academic/research librarianship tions at the state and national levels in- Friday Night and development. cluding the Oberlin Group of Liberal Arts Feast at www. Colleges, OhioLINK, and other units of bourbonhouse.com (Continued on page 4) CLS Newsletter (ISSN 0887-3550) is a semiannual publication of the College CLS Chair’s Column, Spring 2006 (cont.) Libraries Section of the Association of (Continued from page 1) back issues of Life Magazine was a College and Research Libraries, a be information seekers. We know way to beat the steamy heat of a Car- division of the American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL what we want. We google it. We use lisle, Pennsylvania summer. The col- 60611-2795; 800/545-2433, ext. 2519. our journal locator tools to find the lege’s archivist, who also was proba- This publication is sent free of charge to full text of articles. We never leave bly looking for air-conditioning, members of the ALA/ACRL College our seats. If we want a book, we plucked me from the stacks one Au- Libraries Section. For membership search online, find the call number, gust evening and offered me a job information contact the American Library grab and go. my junior and senior years in Special Association. Collections. “You're always here do- Or we request it on interlibrary loan ing research,” she said. “That’s the © American Library Association, 2004 and have it delivered to our desk, as I kind of student I want.” Little did she did the other day when I wanted to know it had everything to do with a find the short story on which Broke- different kind of sweat! back Mountain was based. I googled Editor: the movie, found the name of the But I fell in love with old, popular Anne Garrison short story, and looked up Annie magazines and became a history ma- McCabe Library Proulx online. I discovered that Close jor. I might have been one of the few Swarthmore College Range: Wyoming Stories was people at my school, in the years be- 500 College Ave. checked out until May 15—no point fore bibliographic instruction (when Swarthmore, PA 19081 in recalling it (although I could have the term information literacy had not Tel: (610) 328-8492 done that online too). I pulled up a passed the lips of any librarian), who [email protected] consortium borrower form and or- knew what primary sources were and dered it. The volume arrived from the used them! CLS Website: University of Pittsburgh in 48 hours. http://www.ala.org/acrl/cls I never had to leave my desk. That student archive position led me Editor: David Cassens to a post-college job in a university Southern Illinois University Edwardsville I used to browse. In fact I used to be Special Collections where I spent my a first class browser. I credit certain time as a paid snoop. I read dead professional opportunities to a series of serendipitous browsing experi- (continued on page 3) ences. In college I discovered that perusing CLS Friday Night Feast at ALA Eight years ago, the tradition began. This year CLS returns to the city where the first dinner was held and to one of the finest Dickie Brennan restaurants: The Bourbon House in New Orleans. The menus is fabulous: shrimp remoulade, spin- ach salad, and a choice of one of three entrees—pan sautéed Gulf fish with meuniere sauce, grilled pork chop, or a vege- tarian choice—topped off with vanilla pots and coffee/tea. The best part of the dinner, however, is the chance to relax with colleagues, so reserve your seat for Friday, June23rd (form available on the CLS web site). For six years The Haworth Press, Inc.’s contribution has kept costs reasonable (this year $31 for CLS members, guests $43) and also underwritten ten free dinners for prospective new members. As such, The Haworth Press, Inc. gift has ad- vanced the Sections opportunities to develop new leaders and attract new members. We’ll have a chance to raise a glass in their honor again at this dinner. See you there! Page 2 CLS Newsletter CLS Chair’s Column (cont.) people’s letters. I was browsing manu- browse in the stacks. Off to the PS go method of retrieval) very diffi- scripts and getting a salary for it! I was 3535s where I found my poem and cult. hooked. another dozen collections by the author, as well as commentary in a I ran into a faculty member who Browsing paid off again in my first librar- volume on multiple poets of the needed help finding something in ian job at a large university. We were do- same time period and genre. I was the Qs. The catalog indicated ing reclassification from Dewey to LC the browsing. I actually sat on the “available” but the book was not on summer I was hired. I was assigned to the floor. the shelf. I talked to a home- 300’s, starting with economics, a subject schooling parent who was studying about which I knew nothing and cared In the process I discovered that we electricity and was hoping we had even less. possibly have a dyslexic shelver. I something accessible to middle found several shelves of PS 3553s school age students. All of a sudden But right near the 330s were the 360s and mistakenly shelved with the 3535s. I found myself browsing in science! 370’s—public welfare, charities, social I put them where they belonged— services—which in this particular library which was right by the PS 3563s, I realized how long it had been consisted of shelves of 19th century ad- home to some pretty good new fic- since I spent any time in our stacks. vice books for women. tion, which led to another browsing And what a pleasure to actually tangent. handle books and see what we’ve “She’s such a hard worker. She’s really been buying with our budget! Many getting into this reclass thing,” said my In the end, I left the stacks with my of our books come in on approval, new co-workers, impressed that I headed poem, two volumes of explication, fully processed, and are whisked off off to the stacks each day with cheer. Lit- an anthology of different poets, to the stacks. How perfectly deca- tle did they know I was having a time of two collections of short stories and dent to spent time browsing the col- it, browsing the fun stuff. That fun stuff two novels that looked interesting. lection and connecting with your became the basis of my thesis some years I also made a vow to come back library users. later. again! No matter what you do in your li- But I digress in my effort to prove my I learned that we need to check our brary, it probably has been a while browsing bona fides. Returning to my shelvers more closely. I made a since you spent any time in your most recent epiphany on the virtues of note to see if we were still shelf- stacks.
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