ALA 2006 Midwinter Conference Liaison Report



ALA 2006 Midwinter Conference Liaison Report

Center for Research Libraries as of December 27, 2005

ILL TURNAROUND TIME

The Center’s turnaround rate for filled requests remains at 90% being filled within 24 hours for both loans and copies.

PATRON-INITIATED BORROWING

The Center continues to expand unmediated access to its collections. This last spring the Center joined RAPID and our bibliographic records are in Prospector (The Colorado Unified Catalog).

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORDS

The Center is offering its records without charge to members who want to load them into their local catalogs. The first load of our records into a member’s catalog is planned for January 2006.

CATALOGING HIGHLIGHTS

Over 429,500 dissertations have been cataloged. Records for these in are both our OPAC and in WorldCat. Additionally, over 2,500 South Asian titles were cataloged this past year.

FY06 PURCHASE PROPOSALS

The Center for Research Libraries is pleased to announce the results of this year’s Purchase Proposals balloting. This year the items purchased had a list value of $195,505 (without shipping), see Appendix A for a full list or . All material will be available for interlibrary loan at no charge for any member library. For CRL member libraries, nominations for FY07 Purchase Proposals are being accepted. Please contact Mary Wilke, User Services Liaison, at (800) 621-6044, ext. 351, or e-mail wilke@crl.edu for more information about where and how to nominate items.

FY06 SHARED PURCHASE PROGRAM

Items from the Purchase Proposal ballot, which are not being purchased, are eligible for the Shared Purchase Program. The nominating libraries will be contacted in January to see if they wish to pursue a possible shared purchase of these items.

GLOBAL RESOURCES NETWORK

The Center advanced its collaborative relationship with the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of American Universities (AAU) in the ongoing development of the Global Resources Network (GRN). CRL continued to provide support to four of the six original GRN projects (see below). In January 2005, the Center's Board of Directors put forth a proposal to ARL to transfer the leadership, governance, coordination, and services of the Network from ARL to CRL. This proposal was endorsed by the Board of ARL and ratified by CRL's Board in September.

The transfer was regarded as in line with ARL's strategic plan to work with partner organizations to advance some of ARL's activities and projects. It was also the logical extension of the collaboration between ARL and CRL, manifested most recently in the successful move of administrative responsibility for the German and Latin American GRN projects to CRL. Since the goal of CRL is the development of collections that will support the globalization of universities and many current CRL programs already have links to GRN, there could be both synergy and economies if GRN activities were more closely tied to CRL programs.

Effective January 1, 2006, CRL has assumed overall responsibility for GRN. Activities in 2006 will be supported by the voluntary contributions from CRL & ARL member libraries and in-kind contributions from CRL. Beginning in 2007, the funding strategy to support the Network will be the sole responsibility of the Center. The details of the transition plan can be found at: .

For the GRN projects, the Center provides administrative, technical, legal, financial management, and communications support and is working to create synergies and crosswalks between these projects and other international resources projects at the Center. Activities and outcomes of the projects are highlighted in the electronic newsletter published by the Center, Global Resources. Recent issues include:

No. 3, Spring 2005 GNARP issue

No. 4, Fall 2005 LARRP issue

The German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP) continued to pursue access to German-language databases and electronic resources for its North American members. Several trials and licensing discussions took place, most notably for subscriber access to DigiZeitschriften, known colloquially as the "German JSTOR." The foundation and ongoing development of this resource has been undertaken by a partnership of German libraries, lead by the State and University Library of Göttingen. DigiZeitschriften () currently has 71 journals and 2 million pages in 15 disciplines available. The license agreement for interested GNARP institutions is currently being negotiated.

The Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP) recently held its Advisory Committee meeting at the University of Texas at Austin to review progress of its various initiatives, including the Latin American Open Archives Portal, hosted by LANIC. The project improves access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America through digitization and exposure through the Open Archives Initiative. LANIC and the lead institution, UCLA, continue to work with the Latin American partner participants to add content—over 4,000 documents have been digitized and are in the process of being loaded for harvesting. Two new institutions recently joined the project: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO, Buenos Aires) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in Washington, DC).

The Collaborative Initiative for French and North American Libraries (CIFNAL) continues to gain momentum as a developing project under the Center's guidance. This effort will promote and facilitate the cooperative exchange of ideas and resources between French and North American libraries, with an aim of eventual expansion to all Francophone regions. Currently, the group has prepared a development plan and is narrowing its priorities for action. Discussions are already underway regarding a collaborative project to digitize and encode a collection of Bibliothèque bleue, a genre of popular reading material from the 16th to 19th centuries, held in various libraries around France. CIFNAL meets at ALA on January 22 (8:30-10am, Hyatt Bowie A/B) to discuss its ongoing progress.

These activities, among others, are detailed on the GRN Web pages, now hosted by the Center, at .

Digital South Asia Library

One of the original GRN Projects, the Digital South Asia Library (DSAL) continues to set an example of innovative approaches to international partnerships. Through its collaboration with the Center for South Asia Libraries (CSAL), DSAL continues to develop the South Asia Union Catalogue, a project to facilitate the creation of an online historical bibliography comprehensively describing books and periodicals published in South Asia from 1556 through the present. Funding from the Ford Foundation and the Department of Education (TICFIA program) has allowed work to begin for the cataloging of imprints from South India and Sri Lanka, north central South Asia, including Nepal, and western South Asia including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northwestern India. A recent meeting of CSAL partners in New Delhi, India, brought together cataloging specialists to undergo advanced training in authority control, led by Ms. Sunita Murthy, Head of the Cataloging Division at the Library of Congress field office in Delhi.

DSAL is laying important groundwork for the activities funded under the TICFIA grant from the Department of Education. In addition to the cataloging activities mentioned above, DSAL will continue to work on preservation, indexing, and digitization of periodicals in the languages of South Asia. The project is also working with the British Library on the digitization of the sound recordings from the 1913-1929 Linguistic Survey of India, to be delivered as streaming audio over the Internet. In pursuit of these and other activities, project co-directors James Nye (University of Chicago) and James Simon (CRL) traveled to India in the fall to meet project partners and develop plans of work for the overseas components of the grant activity.

To enhance the infrastructure of DSAL and allow for improved storage and maintenance of the burgeoning resources of DSAL, the Center signed a memorandum with the University of Chicago Library to host and maintain the project data on the library's servers. The University, through its Digital Library Development Center, will ensure the integrity and continuing availability of the DSAL resources through robust support and regular backup procedures.

Digital Library for International Research

Through its ongoing collaboration with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), the Center continues to foster additional international partnerships and develop resources through the Digital Library for International Research (DLIR). The Center houses the administration of the project, leveraging its experience in international collaborative initiatives to provide access to the rich collections of the various overseas research centers and their respective networks.

The American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS), a participant in the DLIR, was awarded a four-year grant from the United States Department of Education's Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) Program for a Local Libraries and Archives project (LLAP). For this project participating overseas research centers, coordinated by CAORC and the DLIR staff, will conduct full-fledged, on-the-ground surveys in world areas important to American scholars and students, using teams of knowledgeable scholars and librarians, following formalized protocols and standardized methodologies. The resulting survey data, access resources, and representative digital objects will be available through the DLIR web site ().

The DLIR continued to expand its online catalog representing the libraries of 22 overseas research centers in Europe, the Middle East, North and South Asia, North and West Africa, Central America, and Southeast Asia. Holdings increased by 3,351. In addition, the catalog, hosted at University of Utah’s Marriott Library was upgraded and given an improved search interface.

The Mapping the Mediterranean (MEDMAPS) project, funded by the United States Department of State, Education and Cultural Affairs program, conducted a survey of the cartographic collections at 9 research centers, resulting in 4,271 map records. Records have been converted to MARC format and are being reviewed before loading to the DLIR catalog. An online exhibition of selected maps has been published at .

The Middle East Research Journals (MERJ) project, funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services, has nearly completed its original cataloging of 125 titles. Journals have been selected for indexing and digitization/preservation. This work will commence in the first quarter of 2006.

International Preservation Projects

The Area Studies Microform Projects furthered their objectives of identifying and preserving critical resources for scholarship. In addition to their cost-effective microfilming efforts, the AMPs have begun thinking more broadly about ways to provide access to international content.

The Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) has formed numerous subcommittees to explore new approaches to its activities. One issue being discussed is digitization and newer technologies to meet the demands of Africanist scholars increasingly interested in access to research materials in other formats. The Center is collaborating with CAMP to provide Web-based access to a set of Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu (to be released in early 2006). CAMP is also focusing on better bibliographic access to its material, and is actively promoting the African Newspapers Union List as an information discovery and collection development tool.

Another example of the innovative approaches is the work of the "African and Africa-related Archives" subcommittee, which has been assisting in building capacity in African archives to preserve and provide access to their material. With support of the Title VI National Resource Centers for Africa and other institutions, CAMP has recently approved funds to conserve the personal papers of William V. S. Tubman, Liberia's longest serving president. Through the efforts of Indiana University's Liberian Collections Project and with generous support of the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme, CAMP will receive film of the Tubman archives retrieved from the library of his unoccupied mansion in Liberia. The project will also preserve and make available the personal archives of Bai T. Moore, a noted Liberian poet, novelist and folklorist who as undersecretary, assistant minister and deputy minister of Cultural Affairs and Tourism in the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs, and Tourism was considered “the greatest champion of Liberia’s culture and indigenous heritage” until his death in 1988. Finally, included with the collection will be the papers of E. Reginald Townsend, Liberian journalist, politician, and high-ranking government official who held many important positions, including Minister of State for Presidential Affairs and National Chairman of the ruling True Whig Party.

The excellent work of CAMP is mirrored in the other projects as well. The Latin American Microform Project (LAMP) continued its reach into important archives in the region, supporting preservation of serials published by Argentina's many social organizations and political groups on national and international political movements and held by the Centro de Documentacion e Investigacion de la Cultura Izquierdas (CeDInCI). LAMP has also pursued enhanced access to its collections, funding the digitization of documentation on Brazilian youth and supporting a large-scale cataloging project for the Coleccion Lafragua, one of the foremost collections covering 19th century Mexican intellectual history.

The Southeast Asia Microform Project (SEAM) has supported the encoding of Philippine election data and is looking to host the data with the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).

The Middle East Microform Project (MEMP) has recently collaborated with CRL in selecting political Web sites for harvesting and preservation under a pilot project with the Internet Archive. The project utilized the Internet Archive's open source crawler to capture sites through their subscription service, “Archive-it”. MEMP is in the process of assessing the efficacy and utility of the crawls before recommending a formal program or partnership with Internet Archive. A list of sites crawled is available at: .

Appendix A

FY06 CRL PURCHASE PROPOSAL ITEMS TO BE PURCHASED

Empire and Commonwealth. Part 1: The Colour Question in Imperial Policy, c.1830-1939.



List Price $3,850

Empire and Commonwealth. Part 2: Imperial and Commonwealth Conferences, 1887-1955

Adam Matthews



List Price $3,200

German Colonial Archives (Reichskolonialamt, called R1001): Installment 1

List Price $13,000

Heal Collection (Part of the Banks and Heal Trade Card Collection in the British Museum)



List Price $2,700

Immigration and Refugee Services of America, 1918-1985: From the Collection of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota. Part 1: Foreign Language Information Service (FLIS)



List Price $4,500

Immigration and Refugee Services of America, 1918-1985: From the Collection of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota. Part 2: Common Council for American Unity (CCAU)



List Price $19,200

Immigration and Refugee Services of America, 1918-1985: From the Collection of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota. Part 3: American Federation of International Institutes (AFII)



List Price $7,350

Immigration and Refugee Services of America, 1918-1985: From the Collection of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota. Part 4: American Council for Nationalities Services (ACNS)



List Price $22,050

Masculinity, 1560-1918: Men Defining Men and Gentlemen (Parts 1-3)

Adam Matthews



List Price $10,000

Newspapers of the French Revolution of 1848 from the British Library, London and the British Library Newspaper Library, Colindale, London

Gale



List Price $10,500

PLANTATION LIFE IN THE CARIBBEAN »Part 1: Jamaica, c1765-1848: The Taylor and Vanneck-Arcedeckne Papers from Cambridge University Library and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London



List Price: $2,600

Russian Archives. Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905



List Price $25,500

Uno mas Uno (Mexico City), 1979-2005

List Price $48,555

Women's Periodicals: Eighteenth Century to the Great Depression.



List Price $22,500

Total List Value: $195,505

This list of materials to be purchased is also available from our website at:

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