Library Juice 1:12 - April 1, 1998
Contents: 1. Public Administration and Management Journal 2. StatLib - system for distributing statistical information 3. Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics 4. PlaceComm Discussion List (Place and Community Studies) 5. Y? The National Forum on People's Differences (Ethnic Diversity Resource) 6. Scout Report Signpost (for searching Internic Scout Project) 7. Gary Price's "Direct Search," (for Librarians) 8. John Albee's "InfoFinder: Needle in a Cyberstack" 9. Labor History Web Sites 10. Resources on the European Monetary Union 11. New Bookbinding List 12. Mark Rosenzweig's Boy Scouts of America resolution, 3/26/98 revision 13. The Technorealism Manifesto 14. Story: Information Trumps Reality 15. About the NETFUTURE newsletter 16. The ICOLC document on purchase of electronic information by libraries ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Public Administration and Management Journal http://www.hbg.psu.edu/Faculty/jxr11/ Editors Jack Rabin and Robert Munzenrider from the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg oversee "The First Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet Devoted to the Fields of Public Administration and Management." The journal targets both scholars and practitioners in public administration and management. The most recent issue (vol. 3, no.4) contains an article discussing the value of the Doctor of Public Administration degree. Submission information and previous issues can be obtained at the site. [JR] The Scout Report's Web page: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/ ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. StatLib http://lib.stat.cmu.edu:80/ StatLib is a system for distributing statistical software, data sets, and statistical information via email, ftp, and the Web. Mike Meyer, of Carnegie Mellon University, edits this site, which contains browsable and searchable selections of tools and data for numerous statistical applications. Data sets are thoroughly annotated. Statisticians and scientists conducting data analysis will find this site well organized and accessible. In addition, the site contains a directory of people in the statistics field. [DF] The Scout Report's Web page: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/ ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/ "There are more female physicists than people know about!" This claim is made by the producers of this well-documented archive of citation and biographical information about 20th century women physicists, led by UCLA Physics Professor Emeritus, Nina Byers. This archive contains information about more than 50 women in the past century (to 1976) who have made original and important contributions to physics. The archive was compiled by UCLA staff and others "active in fields in which contributions have been made." Details about important contributions, publications, honors, employment history, and references are provided for each woman included in the database. Visitors can search the archive by name or by specific physics fields. A database of the print references used to compile information about the women cited is also available. [AG] The Scout Report's Web page: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/ ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. PlaceComm Discussion List Archives: http://earthsystems.org/list/PlaceComm/ The Place and Community Studies discussion list, sponsored by the Place and Community Studies Institute, is an interdisciplinary forum to discuss ways in which teaching, research, activism, living practices, and artistic production can be applied to valuing and sustaining our unique places--our natural and built environments, as well as our social communities. Part of the mission of the list is to foster dialogue and build bridges between people from all walks of life and, for teachers and scholars, between all levels and disciplines. To help build a strong community on the list, the list owner asks that all new subscribers post an introductory message describing their background and their specific interests regarding this list. [SC] To SUBSCRIBE email: PlaceComm-request[at]earthsystems.org In the subject line, type the word subscribe The Scout Report's Web page: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/ ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Y? The National Forum on People's Differences http://www.yforum.com/ The Y? forum, the first of its kind to our knowledge, is a moderated and edited online environment that is "designed to give readers a way to ask people from other ethnic or cultural backgrounds the questions they've always been too embarrassed or uncomfortable to ask." The site provides guidelines for both asking a question and providing the answer; however, both are read by the editor before posting "for space and readability, and to paraphrase questions and answers to render them suitable for general viewing." The result is a space where readers can safely follow a dialogue on sensitive topics without the fear of having to wade through racist attacks, foul language, or "flame wars." Topics welcome at Y? include those related to differences in age, class, disability, gender, geography, occupation, race/ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. The Y? Forum was developed and is managed by Phillip J. Milano, an editor for the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville. The site is not related to the newspaper. The site states that an unmoderated forum will be provided in the future in addition to the current moderated format. [SC] The Scout Report's Web page: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/ ________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Scout Report Signpost (for searching Internic Scout Project) HTTP://www.signpost.org/signpost/ is the URL for the Internet Scout Signpost search facility, where you can search the entire history of the Internic Scout Project's Scout Reports for librarian-reviewed web resources. ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Gary Price's "Direct Search," from George Washington University Submitted by a reader: http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm "It's a magnificent compendium of sources for anyone engaging in online reference work: access to lots of information (and damned useful stuff, too) not readily found using the standard commercial search engines. Got it off of the LII's 'What's New' page." ________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Needle in a Cyberstack (John Albee's InfoFinder) From: John Albee <albee[at]REVEALED.NET> Subject: UPDATE: InfoFinder: Needle in a CyberStack, Sunday, March 29,1998 To: Multiple recipients of list COMLIB-L <COMLIB-L[at]LSV.UKY.EDU> Hi COMLIB-L Listmembers, Please let me know what you think of my info/tool pages: Needle in a CyberStack at http://home.revealed.net/albee/ There are currently 74 interlinked pages including 24 alphabetized Business and Career Tools Pages, the Best of Curriculum, 24 alphabetized Medical and Scholarly Research Pages, Reference, Law & Justice, Cybrarians' Favorites, Intelligence & Security, Law Enforcement, Exploring, What's Cool, Fun, News Sources, etc. I've tried to keep it simple, powerful, quick-loading (Table Format), and useful - with links to all the best Search and Info Tools in the world. Comments and suggestions are much appreciated. If you know of a link that should be there please tell me!. My hope is that this will become a frequent and useful tool for your research, study, and writing. However, your staff, students and their parents should find it to be useful too. I also participate in several webrings (at the bottom of my main page) which may be useful to you or your family members: The History Ring, The Research Webring, Homeschoolers, Journalism and Research Resources Webring and the Homework Ring. If you like it, please pass it on as you see fit. Thanks! John John Albee mailto:albee[at]revealed.net Teacher, Davenport Community Schools Website: Needle in a CyberStack - the InfoFinder http://home.revealed.net/albee/ address: 736 Westerfield Road Davenport, Iowa 52806 phone: 319-386-2171 We are all Works In Progress... ________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Labor History Web Sites <http://stats.bls.gov/>Bureau of Labor Statistics <http://h-net.msu.edu/~labor/>H-Labor WWW Site <http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/IIRL/iirlnet.html#start>Guide to Labor-Oriented Internet Resources <http://www.dol.gov/dol/asp/public/programs/history/main.htm>DOL Historical Information <http://www.mun.ca/cclh/index.html>Canadian Committee on Labour History Home Page <http://www.cis.ysu.edu/as/cwcs/>Welcome to the Center for Working-Class Studies Home Page <http://www.solinet.org/LEE/index.html>Labour Movement <http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/workerweb.htm>Labour Movement II <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/%7Elhistory/left1.htm>Left History <http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/resources/>NYU-Tamiment Labor Sourc <http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/6460/ALabHist.html>American Labor History <http://www.solinet.org/LEE/gldod.html>The Global Labour Directory of Directories <http://www.solinet.org/>Solidarity Network Jeff Haydu ________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Resources on European Monetary Union "For a set of useful links on EMU, including the text of the Maastricht Treaty as well as analysis, visit the LBO (Left Business Observer) web site," http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html ________________________________________________________________________________ 11. New Bookbinding List Bookbinders and book restorers are welcomed to join the new bookbinding list: < URL:http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/bookbinding > This list is open to anyone with answers and questions about the art of bookbinding, with and emphasis on hand bookbinding. The topics welcomed on this list have to pertain to the historical, the technical, the esthetical aspects of the trade. Posters are encouraged to participate by sharing their knowledge in the art of bookbinding. Denis Gouey ----------------- European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) P.O. Box 19121, NL-1000 GC Amsterdam, visiting address: Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel. +31 - 20 - 551 0839 fax +31 - 20 - 620 4941 URL: http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ ________________________________________________________________________________ 12. Rosenzweig's Boy Scouts of America resolution, revised (3/26/98) From: Mark Rosenzweig <iskra[at]earthlink.net> To: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l[at]ala.org> Subject: Revised Boy Scout Resolution for Council's consieration Mime-Version: 1.0 X-To: alacoun[at]ala.org, member-forum[at]ala.org Dear fellow ALA Members and Councilors: What follows is the revised draft of my original Boy Scout resolution which has greatly benefitted from the input of Dr. Ruth Gordon, a co-sponsor of the resolution. She has, as many of you know, a long history of work on this issue and this draft reflects her understanding, deep concern and knowledge of how to best craft a resolution of this type. It is considerablly shortened, less rhetorical and somewhat refocused in a manner which I hope will be more acceptable to ALSC and to all ALAers. I hope that those who support taking a stand on this issue find this resolution expresses clearly and precisely what we want to say and accomplish, and does so in a way that is consistent with process and policy of the Association. Thank you in advance for your input and for the support of those who feel we should act on this matter with expediency and resolve. Mark C. Rosenzweig ALA Councilor at large ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Whereas, ALA has a long relationship with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), and Whereas, the BSA continues to justify its exclusion of persons from membership on the basis of religious ideas and/or sexual orientation, and Whereas ALA Policy 9.5 specifically prohibits ALA or its divisions,round tables, etc., from having formal relationships with organizations which violate ALA's principles and policies, Therefore, be it resolved that: The American Library Association hereby suspends relations with the Boy Scouts of America until such time as the BSA ends its exclusionary policy on the basis of a person's religious beliefs or sexual orientation, and, Be it furthermore resolved: ALA Council strongly urges the Boy Scouts of America to change its membership practices so that they demonstrate a commitment to rights of the individual, human rights and social justice: to be inclusive, tolerant, and consistently democratic, and to so inform the Boy Scouts of America. ________________________________________________________________________________ 13. The Technorealism Manifesto I read in the latest The Nation magazine this technorealism manifesto. There's a story on it in wired, http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/10872.html The manifesto itself, as printed in The Nation, from http://www.technorealism.org .... _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Technorealism AN OVERVIEW In this heady age of rapid technological change, we all struggle to maintain our bearings. The developments that unfold each day in communications and computing can be thrilling and disorienting. One understandable reaction is to wonder: Are these changes good or bad? Should we welcome or fear them? The answer is both. Technology is making life more convenient and enjoyable, and many of us healthier, wealthier, and wiser. But it is also affecting work, family, and the economy in unpredictable ways, introducing new forms of tension and distraction, and posing new threats to the cohesion of our physical communities. Despite the complicated and often contradictory implications of technology, the conventional wisdom is woefully simplistic. Pundits, politicians, and self-appointed visionaries do us a disservice when they try to reduce these complexities to breathless tales of either high-tech doom or cyber-elation. Such polarized thinking leads to dashed hopes and unnecessary anxiety, and prevents us from understanding our own culture. Over the past few years, even as the debate over technology has been dominated by the louder voices at the extremes, a new, more balanced consensus has quietly taken shape. This document seeks to articulate some of the shared beliefs behind that consensus, which we have come to call technorealism. Technorealism demands that we think critically about the role that tools and interfaces play in human evolution and everyday life. Integral to this perspective is our understanding that the current tide of technological transformation, while important and powerful, is actually a continuation of waves of change that have taken place throughout history. Looking, for example, at the history of the automobile, television, or the telephone -- not just the devices but the institutions they became -- we see profound benefits as well as substantial costs. Similarly, we anticipate mixed blessings from today's emerging technologies, and expect to forever be on guard for unexpected consequences -- which must be addressed by thoughtful design and appropriate use. As technorealists, we seek to expand the fertile middle ground between techno-utopianism and neo-Luddism. We are technology "critics" in the same way, and for the same reasons, that others are food critics, art critics, or literary critics. We can be passionately optimistic about some technologies, skeptical and disdainful of others. Still, our goal is neither to champion nor dismiss technology, but rather to understand it and apply it in a manner more consistent with basic human values. Below are some evolving basic principles that help explain technorealism. *** PRINCIPLES OF TECHNOREALISM 1. Technologies are not neutral. A great misconception of our time is the idea that technologies are completely free of bias -- that because they are inanimate artifacts, they don't promote certain kinds of behaviors over others. In truth, technologies come loaded with both intended and unintended social, political, and economic leanings. Every tool provides its users with a particular manner of seeing the world and specific ways of interacting with others. It is important for each of us to consider the biases of various technologies and to seek out those that reflect our values and aspirations. 2. The Internet is revolutionary, but not Utopian. The Net is an extraordinary communications tool that provides a range of new opportunities for people, communities, businesses, and government. Yet as cyberspace becomes more populated, it increasingly resembles society at large, in all its complexity. For every empowering or enlightening aspect of the wired life, there will also be dimensions that are malicious, perverse, or rather ordinary. 3. Government has an important role to play on the electronic frontier. Contrary to some claims, cyberspace is not formally a place or jurisdiction separate from Earth. While governments should respect the rules and customs that have arisen in cyberspace, and should not stifle this new world with inefficient regulation or censorship, it is foolish to say that the public has no sovereignty over what an errant citizen or fraudulent corporation does online. As the representative of the people and the guardian of democratic values, the state has the right and responsibility to help integrate cyberspace and conventional society. Technology standards and privacy issues, for example, are too important to be entrusted to the marketplace alone. Competing software firms have little interest in preserving the open standards that are essential to a fully functioning interactive network. Markets encourage innovation, but they do not necessarily insure the public interest. 4. Information is not knowledge. All around us, information is moving faster and becoming cheaper to acquire, and the benefits are manifest. That said, the proliferation of data is also a serious challenge, requiring new measures of human discipline and skepticism. We must not confuse the thrill of acquiring or distributing information quickly with the more daunting task of converting it into knowledge and wisdom. Regardless of how advanced our computers become, we should never use them as a substitute for our own basic cognitive skills of awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment. 5. Wiring the schools will not save them. The problems with America's public schools -- disparate funding, social promotion, bloated class size, crumbling infrastructure, lack of standards -- have almost nothing to do with technology. Consequently, no amount of technology will lead to the educational revolution prophesied by President Clinton and others. The art of teaching cannot be replicated by computers, the Net, or by "distance learning." These tools can, of course, augment an already high-quality educational experience. But to rely on them as any sort of panacea would be a costly mistake. 6. Information wants to be protected. It's true that cyberspace and other recent developments are challenging our copyright laws and frameworks for protecting intellectual property. The answer, though, is not to scrap existing statutes and principles. Instead, we must update old laws and interpretations so that information receives roughly the same protection it did in the context of old media. The goal is the same: to give authors sufficient control over their work so that they have an incentive to create, while maintaining the right of the public to make fair use of that information. In neither context does information want "to be free." Rather, it needs to be protected. 7. The public owns the airwaves; the public should benefit from their use. The recent digital spectrum giveaway to broadcasters underscores the corrupt and inefficient misuse of public resources in the arena of technology. The citizenry should benefit and profit from the use of public frequencies, and should retain a portion of the spectrum for educational, cultural, and public access uses. We should demand more for private use of public property. 8. Understanding technology should be an essential component of global citizenship. In a world driven by the flow of information, the interfaces -- and the underlying code -- that make information visible are becoming enormously powerful social forces. Understanding their strengths and limitations, and even participating in the creation of better tools, should be an important part of being an involved citizen. These tools affect our lives as much as laws do, and we should subject them to a similar democratic scrutiny. ________________________________________________________________________________ 14. Story: Information Trumps Reality ...From the newsletter NETFUTURE... Information Trumps Reality -------------------------- You may have seen the story awhile back, but I'll bet you passed over its significance. Look again; what you're seeing in this little scenario is the perfect symbol of the Information Age: A young woman hobbles painfully onto the college basketball court and positions herself by her team's basket. The whistle sounds, a teammate throws her the ball, and -- while the opposing players stand and watch -- she puts the ball through the hoop. Then the young woman hobbles back off the court and the other team shoots a basket, similarly unopposed. With the score now 2-2, the real game begins. But the young woman, whose college career-ending injury had left her one point shy of the scoring record, now has her record. Everyone feels wonderful (with the possible exception of the previous record holder). There you see the mystical power of information. The fact in the database takes precedence over the brilliant, real-life career supposedly being honored. Of course, the career was actually being dishonored. The supporters of the pre-game exercise said, in effect, "The young lady's career lacked its own intrinsic meaning and value. None of us will sufficiently appreciate her without the additional two points in the database, however artificial and disconnected from her achievement they may be." The idea of it all is brutally clear: manipulate a human life so as to produce a bit of stored information, which then becomes the basis for appreciating the life. Information today less and less *derives* from real life; more and more it *defines* real life. The Net, of course, is the primary Kingdom of Information. Many of its current policy debates can be seen as expressions of the following problem: when our "presence" on the Net dissolves (as it tends to do) into decontextualized bits of information, what distortions affect the various recontextualizations that occur? That is, how do our lives get redefined? The data harvester with a product to sell redefines us one way, the bank's loan department assessing our credit data redefines us another way, the politician analyzing survey data with an eye on the upcoming reelection redefines us yet another way, the security cracker looking for an opening, the lonely person looking for a conversation, the haranguer looking for a soap box ... each finds it all too natural to cultivate a reduced image of the human being on the other end of the channel. The same danger certainly occurs off the Net as well. But there is no denying that the more thorough and easy the decontextualization -- and the Net is a veritable engine of decontextualization -- the more difficult it is to remain faithful to the real-life depth of persons and communities in our various reconstructions. Information, fragmented though it be, takes on a life of its own. That is unfortunate, because information is not so much the beginning of understanding as the end of it. Information is the last, abstracted residue of what once was living knowledge. In the case of basketball, it is the reduction to mute number of moves to the hoop that only a poet, physiologist, mechanical engineer, sports analyst, and artist, combining their insights, could capture with any justice. ________________________________________________________________________________ 15. About the NETFUTURE newsletter NETFUTURE is a newsletter and forwarding service dealing with technology and human responsibility. It is hosted by the UDT Core Programme of the International Federation of Library Associations. Postings occur roughly once every week or two. The editor is Steve Talbott, author of "The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst". You may redistribute this newsletter for noncommercial purposes. You may also redistribute individual articles in their entirety, provided the NETFUTURE url and this paragraph are attached. Current and past issues of NETFUTURE are available on the Web: http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/stevet/netfuture/ http://www.ifla.org/udt/netfuture/ (mirror site) http://ifla.inist.fr/VI/5/nf/ (mirror site) To subscribe to NETFUTURE, send an email message like this: To: listserv[at]infoserv.nlc-bnc.ca subscribe netfuture yourfirstname yourlastname No Subject: line is needed. To unsubscribe, the second line shown above should read instead: signoff netfuture Send comments or material for publication to: Steve Talbott <stevet[at]oreilly.com> If you have problems subscribing or unsubscribing, send mail to: netfuture-request[at]infoserv.nlc-bnc.ca ________________________________________________________________________________ 16. The ICOLC document on purchase of electronic information by libraries X-Sender: terry.kuny[at]nlc-bnc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Approved-By: Terry Kuny <Terry.Kuny[at]XIST.COM> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 11:56:17 -0500 Reply-To: International Federation of Library Associations mailing list <IFLA-L[at]INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA> Sender: International Federation of Library Associations mailing list <IFLA-L[at]INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA> From: Terry Kuny <Terry.Kuny[at]xist.com> Subject: [FYI] ICOLC Statement on Library Purchasing of Electronic Information Comments: To: PACS-L[at]LISTSERV.UH.EDU, web4lib[at]library.berkeley.edu, bibcanlib-l[at]infoserv.nlc-bnc.ca, lita-l[at]ala1.ala.org, ipct[at]guvax.acc.georgetown.edu, NETTRAIN[at]LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU, ASIS-L[at]asis.org, DIGLIB Mailing List <diglib[at]infoserv.nlc-bnc.ca> To: IFLA-L[at]INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA Hello all, I think this is a very *important* document for the library community to take notice of. I see the ICOLC document as an overdue response from the library community to publishers and policy-makers who have been working to shape a very particular vision of the electronic environment. To help frame what will undoubtably be an interesting debate, I think it is valuable for librarians to read the International Publishers Association "Position Paper on Libraries, Copyright and the Electronic Environment" (22 April 1996). The IPA statement can be found at: URL: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/documents/infopol/copyright/ipa.txt Reading the two documents side-by-side is an interesting and illustrative exercise which pretty much draws all the important lines in the sand. Enjoy! ;-) -terry ---------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF LIBRARY CONSORTIA (ICOLC) PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION - March 25, 1998 For further information about this statement, contact: Arnold Hirshon, Vice Provost for Information Resources, Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA. Phone: 610/758-3025. Email: arh5[at]lehigh.edu Fax: 610/758-3004 For further information about ICOLC, contact: Tom Sanville, Executive Director, OhioLINK. Columbus, OH. Phone: 614-728-3600, ext. 322. Email: tom[at]ohiolink.edu Fax: 614-728-3610 +++++++ The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) announced today the release of its "Statement of Current Perspective and Preferred Practices for the Selection and Purchase of Electronic Information." The Statement establishes for the first time an international perspective on consortial licensing and purchasing of electronic information by libraries. The document addresses current and future electronic information environment issues such as the increasing expectations of library users in a stable funding environment, fair use, archiving of information, pricing strategies, and electronic information delivery metrics. The preferred practices section covers contract negotiations, pricing, data access and archiving, system platforms, licensing terms, information content and its management, and user authentication. The explosion in electronic licensing, the wide variance in publisher practices, rapidly escalating prices, and a concern about the reduction in the number of independent scholarly information providers all served as the impetus for the statement. The Statement calls for developing multiple pricing models, separating charges for electronic licenses from those of paper subscriptions, and lowering the cost for the electronic information below that of print subscriptions. ICOLC expresses its concern over the growing practice of publishers that levy initial surcharges on electronic information, which is compounded by significant multi-year inflation surcharges and prohibitions against libraries canceling print versions of journal titles. As a result, while libraries may receive access to a larger array of titles by paying the "print price plus electronic subscription cost plus inflation," the total base price for electronic access over the print subscription could increase by 40% or more within as little as three or four years. Arnold Hirshon, vice provost for information resources at Lehigh University, executive committee chair of the Pennsylvania Academic Library Connection Initiative, and one of the authors of the Statement noted that "the 'print price plus' cost model simply is not economically sustainable for academic libraries. We must develop alternative pricing structures before the current pricing practices become the norm." While recognizing that publishers should be able to recover reasonable costs, the Statement asserts that publishers cannot expect libraries to bear all development costs today for incomplete product features and unstable systems. ICOLC seeks new economic models that reduce the unit cost of information while enabling the lowest possible cost-per-access to a journal title or article. "We see a potential for dramatic shifts in pricing, with publishers and libraries working together to break the current cycle in which libraries each year spend more on serials but are able to buy fewer of them," said Tom Sanville, executive director of OhioLINK and ICOLC convener. The ICOLC intends for the statement to be an olive branch to the publishing community. Ann Okerson, associate university librarian at Yale University and coordinator of the NorthEast Research Libraries consortium (NERL), says "through the ICOLC we want to begin discussions with the publishing community to advance the use and availability of electronic information resources in educational and research institutions." Elmar Mittler, Library Director, Niedersaechsische Staats- und UniversitSigmatsbibliothek Goettingen, adds that "the ICOLC represents a combined membership of over 5,000 libraries worldwide, which makes it an effective forum to work with information providers to find common ground." David Kohl, dean of libraries at the University of Cincinnati and a statement author, stresses that the Statement is about more than just money. "We are as concerned the quality of the content provided and the ability to archive that content to guarantee future availability as we are about the cost of purchasing that information today." THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION The statement is endorsed by consortial representatives in Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with additional endorsements anticipated from other nations. Inspired by a previously developed statement of electronic information principles by a group of Dutch and German universities in 1997, Hirshon approached that group on behalf of the ICOLC to seek European cooperation on the Statement. Hirshon attended a meeting in The Hague in February with representatives from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany. "We developed an instant rapport and common views," said Fred Friend, Director, Scholarly Communication, University College London. Hans Geleijnse, university librarian, Tilburg University, added "Scholarly publishing increasingly is a global enterprise, and the strength of libraries increases by working globally through consortia to establish mutual positions." John Gilbert, head librarian, Universiteit Maastricht, observed that "academic librarians around the world share the same interest in providing the maximum amount of information to our faculty and students at the lowest possible cost." The complete Statement can be found at: http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/statement.html Further information about the ICOLC can be found at: http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia AUTHORS OF THE STATEMENT Arnold Hirshon, Vice Provost for Information Resources, Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA, and Chair, Executive Committee, Pennsylvania Academic Library Connection Initiative. Phone: 610/758-3025. Email: arh5[at]lehigh.edu Fax: 610/758-3004 Tom Sanville, Executive Director, OhioLINK. Columbus, OH, and Convener, ICOLC. Phone: 614-728-3600, ext. 322. Email: tom[at]ohiolink.edu Fax: 614-728-3610 Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian, Yale University, New Haven, CT, and Coordinator of the NorthEast Research Libraries consortium (NERL). Phone: 203/432-1764. Email: ann.okerson[at]yale.edu Fax: 203/432-8527 David Kohl, Dean, University Libraries, University of Cincinnati, and Member, OhioLINK Library Advisory Council Coordinating Committee. Phone: 513/556-1515. Email: david.kohl[at]uc.edu Fax: 513/556-0325 ++++++++ ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF LIBRARY CONSORTIA (ICOLC) The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) is an informal organization that began meeting in 1997. Comprising about sixty library consortia in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Israel, and Australia, the Coalition represents over 5,000 member libraries worldwide. The Coalition serves primarily higher education institutions by facilitating discussion among its members on issues of common interest. ICOLC conducts meetings to keep its members informed about new electronic information resources, pricing practices of electronic providers and vendors, and other issues of importance to consortium directors and their governing boards. These meetings also provide a forum for consortial representatives to meet with the information provider community, discuss their products, and engage in a dialog with Coalition members about issues of mutual concern. The ICOLC also maintains listservs and web pages for the benefit of its members. Alex Klugkist, chairman, Dutch University Library Association, and university librarian, Groningen University notes that "the ICOLC has become a highly effective forum to coordinate academic library efforts internationally." Further information about the ICOLC can be found at http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia +++++++++++ ADOPTERS OF THIS STATEMENT This statement was adopted in principle by member representatives of the "International Coalition of Library Consortia" (ICOLC) whose institutions are listed below. This statement does not necessarily represent the official views of each consortium listed. Consortia listed are in the United States unless otherwise noted. Adventist Libraries Information Cooperative (ALICE); AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, Inc.; Arizona Universities Library Consortium (AULC); Big Twelve Plus Library Consortium; Boston Library Consortium (BLC); British Columbia Electronic Library Network [Canada]; California Digital Library (CDL); California State University - Software and Electronic Information Resources (CSU-SEIR); Center for Digital Information Services [Israel]; Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries; Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Center for Library Initiatives; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) [Australia]; Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) [United Kingdom]; Council of Australian University Libraries (CAUL) [Australia]; Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL); Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) and the Florida State University System Library Directors; Gemeinsamer BibliotheksVerbund (GBV) [Germany]; Illinois Cooperative Collection Management Program; Illinois Libraries Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO); Israel Inter-University Library Network; Louisiana Library Network (LLN); MINITEX Library Information Network (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota); Missouri Research Consortium of Libraries (MIRACL); Missouri Research and Education Network (MOREnet); OhioLINK; Netherlands Association of University Libraries, Royal Library, and Library of the Royal; Academy of Sciences (UKB) [Netherlands]; Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL); New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO); New York Comprehensive Research Libraries (NYCRL); NorthEast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL); Pennsylvania Academic Library Connection Initiative (PALCI); Ontario Academic Research Libraries (OARL) [Canada]; PORTALS; Standing Conference of National and University Libraries (SCONUL) [United Kingdom]; TexShare; Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN); University of North Carolina System University Librarians Advisory Council; University of Texas System Knowledge Management Center; Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA); WALDO; Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC); Washington State Cooperative Library Project ++++++++ INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS FOR THE STATEMENT: In the United Kingdom: Fred Friend, Director, Scholarly Communication, University College London, England. Phone: 0171-380 7090. Email: f.friend[at]ucl.ac.uk Fax: 0171-380 7043In Germany: In Germany: Elmar Mittler, Library Director, Niedersaechsische Staats- und UniversitSigmatsbibliothek Goettingen, Germany. Phone: +49 (551) 39-5212. Fax: +49 (551) 39-5222 Email: mittler[at]mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de In the Netherlands: Hans Geleijnse, University Librarian, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands. Phone: +31 13 466 21 46. Email: geleynse[at]kub.nl Fax: +31 13 466 33 70 John Gilbert, Head Librarian, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Phone: +31 43 388 3404. Email: j.gilbert[at]ub.unimaas.nl Fax: +31 43 325 6932 Alex Klugkist, Chairman, Dutch University Library Association, and University Librarian, Groningen University, Groningen, The Netherlands. 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