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ALA confirms New Orleans as 2006 gram is scheduled to mail with the March Annual Conference Location issue of American Libraries. The May issue ALA has confirmed its original plan to hold of C&RL News will contain a listing of ACRL its 2006 Annual Conference in New Orleans, programs, meetings, and events. June 22–28, 2006. In the aftermath of Hurri­ cane Katrina, it was not immediately known ACRL announces Kara Malenfant if maintaining the conference location was as new scholarly communications/ feasible. The association has been closely government relations specialist monitoring the situation and receiving al­ ACRL is pleased to announce the hiring of most daily reports from local atuhorities on Kara Malenfant as the damange and reconstruction efforts. In the division’s schol­ mid­October, a delegation from ALA visited arly communications New Orelans and found that downtown, the and government re­ French Quarter, and the Garden District had lations specialist. largely escaped flooding, and that essential Malenfant pre­ services have been fully restored in those viously worked at areas. In addition, major repairs to the con­ DePaul University in ference center and conference hotels are Chicago and brings underway and restaurants are reopening on six years of experi­ a daily basis. ence as a reference In announcing ALA’s decision, President librarian and history Kara Malenfant Michael Gorman stated, “Our primary con­ bibliographer to her new position. She is cern, of course, must always be the health known for her development of a university­ and safety of our members. Both the Loui­ wide information and referral service based siana Department of Public Health and the in DePaul’s library. Malenfant is also an active Federal Environmental Protection Agency member of ACRL and has served as chair of have found no cause for concern on the part ACRL’s International Relations Committee of visitors to New Orleans. By law, all of the from 2003–05. ALA conference hotels have conducted or “Kara brings practical experience to this will soon be conducting EPA air quality audits position with her knowledge of scholarly and all restaurants must meet strict inspection communications issues, her work in academic requirements prior to reopening. librarianship, her experience in grassroots “We realize that many sections of the advocacy, and her understanding of higher city, and particularly the Ninth Ward, have education and ACRL,” said Mary Ellen Davis, suffered tragic damage, and that many New ACRL executive director. “We are delighted to Orleans residents have lost their homes for­ have her join the ACRL team and look forward ever. If we truly care about the residents of to deepening ACRL’s scholarly communica­ New Orleans, however, the best thing that tions and government relations initiatives.” the association and its members can do is to Ray English, director of libraries at Ober­ go to New Orleans and lead the reconstruc­ lin College and chair of the ACRL Scholarly tion by example. Our conference will help Communications Committee, added, “Kara to provide the jobs and tax revenues needed has great energy and enthusiasm for legisla­ if residents are to reestablish their lives and tive advocacy and scholarly communications for the city to fully restore services, includ­ reform. I look forward to working with her ing library services. We speak often of how as we continue to build ACRL’s scholarly libraries build communities, and we now communications program and increase the have chance to show the country and world association’s effectiveness in the legislative that librarians build communities, too.” arena.” Early registration for Annual Conference Prior to her experience as a librarian, opens December 1, and a preliminary pro­ Malenfant worked in Washington, D.C., for

C&RL News November 2005 706 the Armenian Assembly of America as the as­ of diverse American groups. They are ac­ sistant director of grassroots advocacy and as a companied by background materials that development assistant. She served as a Peace provide a context for the films and their Corps volunteer in the fi rst group posted to subjects. Use of the site is free, although the the Republic of Armenia. films are protected by copyright. In her new role, Malenfant will work with The UNC­CH collaborators on the proj­ librarians in all types of academic libraries to ect are ibiblio.com, a free public library of foster new forms of scholarly communication digital material on the Internet; the Southern that are more responsive to the needs of Folklife Collection in Wilson Library; and the the academy. She will serve as an advocate School of Information and Library Science. for academic libraries and will work with School faculty members will guide the proj­ other library and scholarly organizations to ect. Folkstreams Inc. is a nonprofi t Virginia bring about positive change in the system of organization that seeks to preserve signifi cant scholarly communication. She will coordi­ documentaries and videos about American nate ACRL’s legislative initiative developing traditional culture. strategies to influence legislation affecting academic and research libraries. Within Purdue creates endowed chair for ACRL, she will provide staff support for the information literacy Scholarly Communications Committee, the Purdue University has created the fi rst en­ Scholarly Communications Discussion Group, dowed chair in information literacy in the the Government Relations Committee, and nation, through a $2.5 million gift from the Advocacy Coordinating Committee. Wayne Booker, a former vice chairman of Malenfant received a bachelor of arts in Ford Motor Company. The person fi lling the English from Allegheny College and an MLS W. Wayne Booker Endowed Chair in Infor­ from the University of Illinois at Urbana­ mation Literacy will conduct research and Champaign. launch additional initiatives to increase stu­ dents’ ability to access, assess, and integrate PAIS Archive available through CSA information literacy and make good judg­ Illumina ments about what information they choose PAIS Archive is now available as a supple­ to use. Booker said he funded the chair in ment to the PAIS International database large part to bolster the leadership role of through CSA Illumina, providing access to Purdue Libraries, in addition to wanting to research in the fields of global public policy provide students with the skills to be life­ and world affairs going back to 1915. Infor­ long learners. mation in PAIS International and the archive James L. Mullins, dean of libraries at cover topical public and social issues in ad­ Purdue commented, “This gift highlights the dition to evaluating public policy. Publica­ importance of information literacy, and we tions in English, French, German, Italian, expect this person to be a national spokesper­ Portuguese, and Spanish dealing with public son who will help encourage other universi­ affairs are included. PAIS Archive includes ties to follow our lead.” The holder of the more than 1.2 million records from the print chair will be hired after a national search. PAIS Bulletin covering the years 1915 to 1976. Boston Library Consortium adopts author’s rights agreement UNC collaborates on video streaming The Boston Library Consortium’s Board of site for documentaries Directors has approved the adoption of Three University of North Carolina­Cha­ an “Agreement to Extend Author’s Rights,” pel Hill (UNC­CH) organizations and Folk­ which will give authors and their employing streams Inc. have collaborated to create institutions non­exclusive rights to use, dis­ folkstreams.net, a video­streaming Web site tribute, and reproduce material in electronic built as a national preserve of documentary or print form in activities related to the au­ films about American folk and roots culture. thor’s academic and professional activities. The hard­to­fi nd films available through the The amendment also supports placement site give voice to the arts and experiences of material in institutional repositories. The

November 2005 707 C&RL News consortium is an association of 19 academic ny. Other events throughout the week in­ and research libraries. The agreement, which cluded a donor appreciation dinner, a staff was initially developed by member MIT, is and faculty appreciation brunch, and a stu­ available for downloading at www.blc.org. dent assistant luncheon. The week conclud­ ed with a Constitution Day program and a Oxford Journals preserves content in reading series book talk. LOCKSS Oxford Journals is now participating in Stan­ Cornell develops preservation guide ford University’s LOCKSS Program. LOCKSS in Arabic (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) is a com­ Cornell University Library’s Department of munity­based, open source, presistent access Preservation and Collections Maintenance digital preservation program. It enables pub­ has developed an online tutorial to guide lishers to guarantee long­term perpetual ac­ librarians in the Middle East in the preserva­ cess to their content by allowing libraries to tion of books and manuscripts. Available in store, preserve, and provide back­up access both Arabic and English, the tutorial is based to the content they have purchased. Oxford on Cornell’s online preservation tutorial cre­ has released 13 titles to date for preservation ated some time ago for Southeast Asia, but through LOCKSS. The publisher’s participa­ it includes many changes to more accurately tion in the program reflects its commitment reflect the special needs of professional li­ to providing long­term accessibility, follow­ brarians in the Middle East. The Arabic tuto­ ing its archiving agreement with the Nation­ rial offers approaches that can be carried out al Library of the Netherlands, Koninklijke with limited resources. And because the Ar­ Blbliotheek in 2004 and its backfule digitiza­ abic­speaking world represents a variety of tion program. climate zones, information on dry arid areas has been added to existing information on Appalachian State celebrates new hot and humid areas, as this offers a more library dedication balanced view of climate in the entire re­ Appalachian State University celebrated gion, from coastal areas to the interior. Also the opening of a new $40 million campus included are specifics on the preservation of library and information commons in Sep­ papyrus, parchment, and clay tablets. tember with a week of events honoring the All three tutorials were written by John library’s history and future. The new Belk Dean, preservation and conservation librarian Library and Information Commons, which in the Department of Preservation and Collec­ opened this summer, was built with fund­ tions Maintenance at Cornell, and illustrated ing from a bond initia­ tive passed by North Carolina voters in 2000. During the grand open­ ing and dedication on September 15, the li­ brary hosted speakers, including University of North Carolina system president Molly Broad; Appalachian State Uni­ versity chancellor Ken­ neth Peacock; Boone, North Carolina, mayor Velma Burnley, and award­winning chil­ University of North Carolina System President Molly Broad makes a dren’s author Gloria toast to dedicate the new Belk Library and Information Commons at Houston. The library Appalachian State University. On the right is University Librarian Mary hosted an open house Reichel and to Broad’s left is Appalachian State University Chancellor following the ceremo­ Kenneth Peacock.

C&RL News November 2005 708 by Carla DeMello of the library’s Instruction, Research and Information Services. They are Correction available at www.librarypreservation.org. The URL for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library at San José State University IMLS accepting 21st Century Librarian was listed incorrectly in the September grant applications 2005 Job of a Lifetime column. The cor- The Institute of Museum and Library Ser­ rect URL is www.sjlibrary.org/gateways vices (IMLS) has put out a call for applica­ /academic.The editors regret the error. tions for the Laura Bush 21st Century Li­ brarian grant program. Libraries, archives, library agencies, associations, and consortia als drawn from across the world. The librar­ are invited to apply for grants totaling more ies will contribute books and resources in than $21 million to help recruit and educate order to build a collection of out­of­copy­ librarians and strengthen graduate schools right American literature that will include of library and information science. The pro­ works by many great American authors. gram continues its emphasis on recruiting With the support of Yahoo! Inc., UC library and educating students at the master’s and books will be digitized by the Internet Ar­ doctoral levels, while also supporting efforts chive using a new technology that scans to recruit future librarians from the ranks of books at the cost of 10 cents per page. This promising junior high, high school, and col­ compares to a typical cost to scan archival lege students. photographs and documents that begins at For fiscal year 2006, IMLS encourages, $20 a page. applications for projects that promote col­ The materials will be available from laboration between educators and librarians the Web site of the Open Content Alliance employed in educational institutions. The (OCA), a newly created global consortium application deadline is December 15, 2005; that will build and openly distribute a more information is available at www.imls. comprehensive set of digitized print and gove/grants/library/lib_bdre.htm multimedia content. In addition to UC and Yahoo!, the OCA’s founding contributors UC libraries partner to provide free include the University of Toronto, the access to digitized books European Archive, the National Archives The University of California (UC) libraries (UK), O’Reilly Media, Adobe, and Hewlett are participating in a partnership to build a Packard Labs. The OCA Web site is: freely accessible digital library with materi­ opencontentalliance.org.

ACRL announces theme for 13th National Conference

“Sailing into the Future—Charting Our Des- Attracting and Thriving; Collaborations; tiny” will be the theme of the ACRL 13th Content, Collections, and Access; Teach- National Conference. The conference, to ing and Learning; and the Environment for be held in Baltimore, March 29—April 1, Libraries. 2007, will explore the changing nature and The Call for Participation (included roles of academic and research librarian- in this issue) invites quality proposals ship. Mary Reichel, university librarian, for presentations including: contribut- Appalachian State University, chairs the ed papers, panel sessions, workshops, conference committee. preconferences, poster sessions, and Conference programs will emphasize the roundtable discussions. The Call for Par- need for academic and research librarians ticipation is also posted on ACRL’s Na- to anticipate and prepare for transforma- tional Conference Web site (www.acrl.org tions in the profession, and will encourage /baltimore). innovative ways to create and implement Questions? Contact (800) 545-2433, ext. change. Conference theme tracks include: 2522; or e-mail: [email protected].

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