News from the Field:
Digital
Library Federation (DLF)
AQUIFER
Katherine Kott is hard at work making contact with Aquifer institutions,
having started work on January 3rd, and we spent a very good day together
last week in DC to ensure tight coordination between Aquifer and all the
other DLF endeavors. The next Aquifer Prototype Group meeting is all set
up, at Stanford on Feb 28.
The DLF Newsletters have made a significant contribution here -- the
Collections Database that we extract from the Newsletters you submit has
allowed us to give Katherine a list of the collections that we know of
from Aquifer Prototype Group institutions, as she works with those
institutions to determine which of their collections also meet the initial
Aquifer collections criteria.
MISSION STATEMENT
The new mission statement went onto the DLF website shortly after the
meeting, and the original statement was retained under the title of our
founding charter (1995).
http://www.diglib.org/about/dlfmission.htm
http://www.diglib.org/about/dlfcharter.htm
STEERING COMMITTEE AGENDA ITEM: ABSTRACT FRAMEWORK
The first item on the list of recommendations from the Steering
Committee's Agenda Committee -- Create an abstract framework for the
digital library domain -- is underway, and the Framework Group, led by
OCLC's Lorcan Dempsey, met last week at MIT to continue their work on a
draft framework concerning the services, interfaces, and collections that
make up a digital library.
ELECTIONS TO THE DLF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The nominating committee members -- Suzanne Thorin (Chair), Paula Kaufman,
and Linda Matthews -- have met by phone, have solicited nominations (Jan
1-15), and are now working on a slate for an election (for two places on
the Committee).
The nominating committee was also asked to work out how to get continuity
on the Executive Committee, and both Deanna Marcum and Betsy Wilson have
agreed to serve until 2006 and 2007 respectively to achieve this. As has
been the case in the past, the outgoing Chair has been asked to serve an
additional year as a committee member, also to ensure continuity, and Mike
has agreed.
MEMBERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE
The Governance Committee -- Suzanne Thorin, James G. Neal (Chair), Sarah
Thomas, Paula Kaufman, Nancy Eaton, Linda Matthews, and David Seaman --has
finished their examination of the membership criteria and a draft
recommendation has been submitted to the Executive Committee. We meet
again by phone on February 1st and shortly after that time will circulate
a document to the whole group.
DOCUMENTING THE CLIR/DLF RELATIONSHIP AND DLF INCORPORATION
Nancy Davenport and David Seaman have been working on the issue of
clarifying, documenting, and rationalizing the organizational relationship
between CLIR and DLF, and two weeks ago met with a lawyer who specializes
in not-for-profit work here in DC. They made clear what they want to
achieve, and expect to see his draft soon. They'll work with the DLF
Executive Committee to have something that can be circulated, discussed,
and (hopefully) adopted by both groups at their spring meetings (April 29
for the CLIR Board; May 20 for the DLF Steering Committee).
Council on
Library & Information Resources (CLIR)
1. CLIR's sixth
annual Sponsor's Symposium will be held Monday, April 18, 2005, in
Washington, DC. Program details and registration information will be
forthcoming in a subsequent e-bulletin.
2. Applications are now being accepted for CLIR's Postdoctoral Fellowship
in Scholarly Information Resources. The program, offered in conjunction
with a consortium of academic research institutions, offers postdoctoral
fellowships to individuals who have earned their Ph.D.s in disciplines in
the humanities within the past three years (or who will complete it before
starting the program) and who believe that there are opportunities to
develop meaningful linkages among disciplinary scholarship, libraries,
archives, and evolving digital tools. Four institutions will offer a total
of five fellowships in 2005-2006. For more information and application
forms, visit
http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/postdoc.html. Applications
must be submitted by mail and postmarked by February 8, 2005.
3. CLIR is pleased to announce that it has received a $750,000 grant from
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will be used in 2005 to support
general operations, program planning, and selected publications.
4. CLIR has been named to the U.S. National Commission to UNESCO. Fifty
nongovernmental members and 38 federal, state and local, and at-large
members currently make up the commission, whose purpose is to advise the
Department of State on issues related to education, science,
communications, and culture and on the formulation and implementation of
U.S. policy toward UNESCO. CLIR will serve on the subcommittee for
communications.
5. The January-February 2005 edition of CLIR Issues is now available
online at
http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/index.html. Articles focus on a
forthcoming publication about the value of library as place, and the
findings of a Digital Library Federation panel to explore digital
scholarship needs.
Association
of Research Libraries (ARL)
GOVERNANCE AND
MEMBERSHIP ACTIVITIES
1. ARL Strategic Plan
Completed; Implementation Team Established
2.
Governance Task
Force Report Issued; 2004 Committee Assignments Extended
3. ARL Board Encourages
ARL Libraries to Consider ACRL "Standards for Libraries in Higher
Education"
4.
ARL Transitions: Duke,
Temple
SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
5. Karla Hahn Named
Director of ARL's Office of Scholarly Communication 6.
The Future of Scholarly
Communication in the Humanities: Adaptation or Transformation?
7. Libraries and
Changing Research Practices 8.
Progress in Advocating
Open Access and Institutional Repositories 9.
Treasury Department
Changes Regulations to Permit the Publication of Books and Journals from
Authors in Sanctioned Countries 10.
Google Launches Beta
Edition of Google Scholar OTHER ARL NEWS
11. AAU/ARL Global
Resources Network (GRN) Update 12.
Education and Training
Needs for Special Collections Professionals Identified
13. ARL Research
Library Leadership Fellows Program Selects 21 Participants
14. ARL OLMS Presents
2005 Calendar of Professional Development Events 15.
Upcoming Distance
Learning Webcasts and Online Lyceum Courses 16.
ARL Recruits M.L.I.S.
Students to Research Librarianship at ALA Midwinter 17.
ARL and SPARC at ALA
Midwinter Meeting in Boston 18.
ARL Statistics &
Measurement Program: Status of Annual Surveys 19.
LIBQUAL+(TM) Update
20. ARL Publications
Recently Released 21.
CNI Update
22. Leadership Roles &
Honors: Jan Merrill-Oldham OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
ARL DIRECTORS
23. Information
Literacy Programs Make All the Wrong Assumptions 24.
IFLA Experiences
Significant Change 25.
Other Transitions:
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