**ALCTS Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries DG\
ALCTS CMDS Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research
Libraries\
**

**Cornell Round Robin Report, January 2007\
** Submitted by Scott Wicks and John Saylor

***PERSONNEL***

**University President**\
Cornell\'s new president, David Skorton, was inaugurated in September
2006.

**University Librarian**\
Cornell University Librarian Sarah Thomas is named to directorship of
Oxford University\'s libraries.  After eleven years of dynamic and
transformative leadership as University Librarian at Cornell, Sarah
Thomas is leaving to become Bodley\'s Librarian and Director of
University Library Services at the University of Oxford.   See the
following link for more of the story:\
[http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov06/sarah_thomas.html![](media/image1.png){width="7.291666666666667e-2in"
height="7.291666666666667e-2in"}](http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov06/sarah_thomas.html)\
An announcement for the interim leadership is imminent.

For an interesting review of all ten of Cornell\'s university
librarians, please see the exhibit hosted at:
[http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/libraryhistory/librarians/![](media/image1.png){width="7.291666666666667e-2in"
height="7.291666666666667e-2in"}](http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/libraryhistory/librarians/) 

**Associate University Librarian for**

**Scholarly Communication and Collections\
**With the impending vacancy at the university librarian level, CUL has
postponed this search until the new university librarian is on board. 
In the interim, John Saylor has been appointed Acting Associate
University Library for Scholarly Communications and Collections.

**Senior Associate University Librarian for**

**Public Services and Assessment\
**Anne Kenney has been promoted to Senior Associate University Librarian
for Public Services and Assessment. \
[http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/documents/PSAOrgChart.pdf![](media/image1.png){width="7.291666666666667e-2in"
height="7.291666666666667e-2in"}](http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/documents/PSAOrgChart.pdf) 

**Senior Associate University Librarian for**

**Information Technology and Technical Services\
**Karen Calhoun has been promoted to Senior Associate University
Librarian for Information Technology and Technical Services.
[http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/ITTS/ITTS%20Org%20Chart.pdf![](media/image1.png){width="7.291666666666667e-2in"
height="7.291666666666667e-2in"}](http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/ITTS/ITTS Org Chart.pdf) 

**Associate University Librarian for Subject Libraries**\
Jean Poland is now responsible for coordinating most social sciences and
humanities unit libraries as well as the Associated Science and
Technology Libraries within the framework of Public Services and
Assessment.

**Curator of the Wason Collection on East Asia**\
Dr. Liren Zheng has been appointed as Curator of the Wason Collection on
East Asia.

**Research and Assessment Services**\
David Banush has been kidnapped from directing Cornell\'s cataloging
operations for a six-month special assignment to investigate possible
models for a CUL 'data farm', a compendium of statistics, user survey
data, and other measures within the Research and Assessment Services
unit.  His focus will be to survey the landscape of existing data,
investigate data repositories at other libraries, and recommend a
possible means for CUL to collect, store, and analyze data about our
operations, with special attention being given to measuring the impact
of library services on our user community.    

***CAPITAL CAMPAIGN***\
Cornell University announced its campaign  \--
[http://www.campaign.cornell.edu/index.cfm![](media/image1.png){width="7.291666666666667e-2in"
height="7.291666666666667e-2in"}](http://www.campaign.cornell.edu/index.cfm) \--
to raise \$4-billion in private donations in October 2006. Cornell\'s
\$4-billion drive will be a joint effort between the university and its
Weill Cornell Medical College, which is located in New York City. The
centerpiece of the campaign is a new biomedical-research building in
Manhattan. Funds will also be used for basic and medical research,
hiring and retaining faculty members, and a new program in biomedical
engineering, among other things. The money is expected to help expand
collaboration in scientific and medical research between the campuses in
Ithaca, N.Y., and Manhattan.

***CORNELL PARTNERS WITH MICROSOFT TO SUPPORT DIGITAL ACCESS***\
Cornell joins both the University of California and the University of
Toronto in this new Microsoft initiative, Windows Live Academics, which
is positioned as a high-quality, publisher-endorsed product.  Our
primary objectives in this partnership are to digitize scholarly
materials that support Cornell\'s academic programs, to ensure that
these works are handled safely during the digitization process, and to
be ready to assume the responsibility of archiving the master digital
files.

The initiative supports both the Library\'s long-standing commitment to
make its collections broadly available and President Skorton\'s goal of
making Cornell\'s enormous resources available to the global academic
community.  In the first year, approximately 100,000 books will be
digitized and the volumes will be put online using Windows Live Book
Search Service.  The project will focus on works already in the public
domain and meet the sophisticated access and discovery requirements of
today\'s students, researchers, and scholars.  In addition to Windows
Live, the newly digitized materials will also be accessible online
through the CUL digital library.

***SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS***\
Cornell\'s collection development librarians continue to meet with
faculty and departments to maintain open dialog about changes and
opportunities for change in scholarly communication. John Saylor, Terry
Ehling, and Kizer Walker represented Cornell at the ACRL/ARL Scholarly
Communications Institute held Dec. 6-8 at Duke University.  We are
convening a Cornell University Scholarly Communications Council made up
of librarians, faculty and administrators to advise the library on its
expanding engagement in this area and to share its findings university
wide.

**DPubS v.2**

CUL's digital publishing system was launched softly in November. The
open source distribution suite is available from SourceForge. Additional
modules will be available this coming spring. Information about DPubS
v.2 architecture and features can be found at
[http://dpubs.org](http://dpubs.org/) .

**Project Euclid**

Cornell's on-line publishing service for journals from independent
publishers in mathematics and statistics has concluded its funding cycle
(the Mellon Foundation awarded CUL \$1.1 million over a 5-year period to
develop the technology and business plan). Euclid is now operating on a
cost-recovery basis and currently delivers 45 journals. During the 2^nd^
quarter of 2007, we expect to deliver monographs and conference
proceedings from the same platform (DPubS v.2).

***NEW COLLECTIONS: PRINT AND DIGITAL***\
CUL\'s newest purchased interdisciplinary electronic resources are
listed in a blog at
[http://drcnew.library.cornell.edu/![](media/image1.png){width="7.291666666666667e-2in"
height="7.291666666666667e-2in"}](http://drcnew.library.cornell.edu/).

This fall Cornell Library\'s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

hosted an exhibition of rare books and manuscripts by and about Edgar

Allan Poe. On loan from the collector Susan Jaffe Tane, the exhibition

features many of Poe‚s unique manuscripts and letters, scarce copies of

his first editions, rare examples of the original newspaper and magazine

issues in which much of his work first appeared, one of the 12 known

copies of his first book \"Tamerlane\" and editions of his most famous
poem, "The Raven."

A complete electronic version of the exhibition can be found at

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/poe/ and copies of the 120 page full
color

illustrated catalog can be purchased by contacting rareref@cornell.edu

***E-ONLY SERIALS REVIEW***\
Selectors have been working in close contact with faculty and students
on an e-only review (switching serials subscriptions to electronic only)
for the past several years.  Approximately 1,000 titles on the Ithaca
campus have been converted to e-only access for the 2007 subscription
year.  This is on top of the 1,515 subscriptions converted to e-only
access for 2006 and before.  A more complete description of the process
and the criteria for exceptions is at
[http://www.library.cornell.edu/insidecul/200611/eonly.html![](media/image1.png){width="7.291666666666667e-2in"
height="7.291666666666667e-2in"}](http://www.library.cornell.edu/insidecul/200611/eonly.html) 

***MATERIALS BUDGET***\
Overall the Library received a 5% increase in its allocated materials
budget for 2006/7.

***CURRENT ISSUE OF* *BACKSTORY* -**
<http://www.library.cornell.edu/backstory/> Our technical services
newsletter, edited by David Banush, features the\
following articles that cover technical services issues from OCLC
reclamation to our most recent reorganization:

> **Features:**\
> Sizzling hot SUSHI: The quest for better usage statistics\
> ITTS: Not Monty Python\'s Flying Circus\
> Love Train(ing): LTS staff build skills through new initiative 
>
> **Added entries:**\
> Reclamation: The remains of the array\
> Debuts: New Staff in LTS\
> Professionally Speaking

***ILS UPGRADE***

Cornell has upgraded its Voyager software to version 6.1.1 allowing for
the expanded OCLC number index, effective use of ISBN13 in acquisitions
activities, and a number of other searching and index capabilities.