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Annual Report, 1999-2000. INSTITUTION Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, DC DOCUMENT RESUME ED 446 776 IR 057 921 TITLE Council on Library and Information Resources: Annual Report, 1999-2000. INSTITUTION Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, DC. PUB DATE 2000-00-00 NOTE 50p.; For the 1998-99 annual report, see ED 437 949. PUB TYPE Reports - Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Academic Libraries; Access to Information; Annual Reports; Electronic Journals; *Electronic Libraries; Higher Education; Leadership; *Library Associations; Library Materials; *Library Services; *Preservation; Research Libraries; World Wide Web IDENTIFIERS Council on Library and Information Resources; Digital Collections; Economics of Information ABSTRACT This annual report of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) begins with a list of staff, a letter for the Chairman of the Board, and a message from the CLIR President. Activities for 1999-2000 in the following areas are then summarized:(1) resources for scholarship, including the artifact in library collections, collections/content and the World Wide Web, and authenticity in the digital environment;(2) preservation awareness, including preserving multimedia resources, recorded sound in peril, and digital preservation;(3) digital libraries, including the Digital Library Federation program and communications infrastructure;(4) economics of information, including electronic journal usage statistics, a Stanford University study on scholars' use of electronic journals, economics of digital library collections, a Columbia University Press study of online resources, responsibility for digital archiving, and managing cultural assets from a business perspective;(5) leadership, including the Frye Leadership Institute, College Libraries Committee, Patricia Battin Scholarship Endowment, and Zipf Fellowship; and (6) international developments, including preservation awareness in Brazil, capacity building in South Africa, a survey of preservation science research, access to manuscripts and archives, and translation of encoded archival description standards into Spanish. Lists of publications, advisory groups, and active grants and contracts, as well as financial statements, are included. (MES) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND Office of Educational Research and Improvement DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION BEEN GRANTED BY CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization B.H. Leneyr originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Points of view or opinions stated in this INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) document do not necessarily represent Annual Report 1 official OERI position or policy. 1999-2000 2 DI RECTORS BETTY G. BENGTSON University of Washington VIRGINIA BETANCOURT Fundacion Romulo Betancourt CHRISTINE L. BORGMAN University of California at Los Angeles ROBERT BOVENSCHULTE American Chemical Society JERRY D. CAMPBELL University of Southern California STANLEY A. CHODOROW University of California BILLY E. FRYE Emory University DAVID B. GRACY II The University of Texas at Austin NILS HASSELMO Association of American Universities PAUL LECLERC New York Public Library THE COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES (CLIR)grew out KLAUS-DIETER LEHMANN of the 1997 merger of the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA) Stiftung PreuRischer Kulturbesitz and the Council on Library Resources (CLR). Over the years, CPA and DEANNA B. MARCUM CLR, in partnership with libraries, archives, and other information provid- Council on Library and Information ers, advocated collaborative approaches to preserving the nation's intellec- Resources tual heritage and strengthening the many components of its information MARILYN CELL MASON system. CLIR was founded to continue this tradition of support for a OCLC national information system and a seamless web of informationresources, of which all libraries and archives are a part. CHARLES PHELPS University of Rochester The convening role is central to CLIR's mission. CLIR brings together ELAINE SLOAN Columbia University experts from around the country and around the world and asks them to turn their intelligence to the problems that libraries, archives, and infor- WINSTON TABB mation organizations face as they integrate digital resources and services Library of Congress into their well-established print-based environments. DAN TONKERY The Faxon Company CUR urges individuals to look beyond the immediate challenges and SIDNEY VERBA imagine the most desirable outcomes for the users of libraries and ar- Harvard University chivesto be rigorously practical and to dream. COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND NFL RM TION RESOURCES ANNUAL REPORT 1999-200 Contents Page Acknowledgments ii Staff iv Letter from the Chairman 1 Message from the President 2 Activities 6 Resources for Scholarship 7 Preservation Awareness 9 Digital Libraries 11 Economics of Information 15 Leadership 18 International Developments 21 Publications 23 Advisory Groups 24 Grants and Contracts 26 Financial Statements 31 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The following provide crucial support for the activities and programs of the Council on Library and Information Resources: Sponsors Agnes Scott College Linda Hall Library University of Alberta Albion College Macalester College Library University of Arizona Library American Theological Library Association Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley Amherst College McGill University Libraries University of California, Davis Arizona State University Library Miami University University of California, Irvine Association of American Publishers Michigan State University University of California, San Diego Auburn University Library Middlebury College University of California, Santa Barbara Bates College Mills College University of Chicago Library Berea College Mount Holyoke College University of Colorado, Boulder Boston College National Agricultural Library University of Connecticut Boston Public Library National Library of Canada University of Delaware Library Bowdoin College National Library of Medicine University of Florida Libraries Brigham Young University New York Public Library University of Georgia Libraries Brown University Library New York University University of Illinois at Bryn Mawr College North Carolina State University Urbana-Champaign Bucknell University Northeastern University University of Kansas Libraries Case Western Reserve University Northwestern University Libraries University of Kentucky Libraries Coalition for Networked Information Oberlin College Library University of Maryland at College Park Colby College Occidental College University of Michigan Colgate University Ohio State University Libraries University of Minnesota Libraries College of Charleston Ohio University University of Missouri College of Wooster Libraries Pennsylvania State University University of North Carolina at Colorado College Princeton University Library Chapel Hill Columbia University Purdue University Library University of Notre Dame Connecticut College Reed College University of Oregon Cornell University Rice University University of Pennsylvania Dartmouth College Libraries Rollins College University of Pittsburgh Davidson College Rutgers University Library University of South Carolina Denison University Saint Lawrence University University of Southern California Duke University Simmons College Libraries University of Tennessee Earlham College Skidmore College University of Texas at Austin Emory University Smith College University of Toronto Franklin & Marshall College Smithsonian Institution Libraries University of Utah Georgetown University Southeastern Library Network, Inc. University of Virginia Georgia Institute of Technology Southern Illinois University Library University of Washington Gettysburg College Southern Methodist University University of Wisconsin-Madison Grinnell College St. John's University Vassar College Libraries Gustavus Adolphus College St. Olaf College Libraries Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Hamilton College Stanford University State University Harvard University Library State University of New York at Albany Washington and Lee University Haverford College State University of New York at Buffalo Washington State University Hope College State University of New York at Washington University Libraries Indiana University Stony Brook Library Wellesley College Johns Hopkins University Swarthmore College Wesleyan University Kenyon College Syracuse University Wheaton College Lafayette College Temple University Whittier College Lake Forest College The Catholic University of America Williams College Laval University Library The Claremont Colleges Yale University Library Lehigh University Trinity College Library Library of Congress Union College Foundation and Corporate Support The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Institute of Museum and Library United Board for Christian Higher Documentation Abstracts, Inc. Services Education in Asia The William and Flora Hewlett The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The H. W. Wilson Foundation Foundation The William Penn Foundation Robert W. Woodruff Foundation Zipf Fellowship Fund (contributions received in 1999-2000) Wilmirth and Irving Briggs Martin Cummings Mary and James Mc Kenney Madeleine Bronstone Raleigh and Carol De Bow The Olympic Club Bernard and Lynne Butcher
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