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Groups that Filed "Intent to Apply" Forms for FY10 CARLI Collections Enhancement Awards Program
The following groups filed "Intent to Apply" forms with CARLI.
If you have questions about any of these groups, please use the contact information given.
Access to Archival Collection of Testimonials of Women Religious under Eastern Communism
Contact: Lisa Gonzalez - Catholic Theological Union
lgonzalez@ctu.edu
Access to Health History Archives
Contact: Arlis Dittmer - Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing
adittmer@brcn.edu
ACTS Peace-Justice-Conflict Film Project
Contact: Melody Layton McMahon - Catholic Theological Union
mmcmahon@ctu.edu
Archival Cataloging and Description at UIUC Special Collections
Contact: Chatham Ewing - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
cewing@illinois.edu
Association of Chicago Theological Schools Library Council-Serials Holdings Project
Contact: Lorraine Olley - University of St. Mary of the Lake
lolley@usml.edu
Authentic Qurans in I-Share Collections
Contact: Dallas Long - Illinois State University
dlong@ilstu.edu
Building Peace Studies Collections
Contact: Daniel K. Blewett - College of DuPage
blewett@cod.edu
CARLI I-Share Users Choose: A Purchase Model for User Driven Ordering for New Titles Shared by the Collective
Contact: Lynn Wiley - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
lnwiley@illinois.edu
The Circus: Creating and Enhancing Access to Illinois State University's Hidden Collection
Contact: Ted Schwitzner - Illinois State University
tcschwi@ilstu.edu
Digitization of 1950s IIT Radio Programs Audiotapes
Contact: Catherine Bruck - Illinois Institute of Technology
bruck@iit.edu
Digitizing Proust
Contact: Chatham Ewing - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
cewing@illinois.edu
Enhancing Access to Naxos Music Library and Improving the OPAC's Role as a Bridge to Electronic Resources
Contact: Denise D. Green - Millikin University
ddgreen@millikin.edu
Enhancing Bibliographic Records for Curriculum Materials Collections with Searchable Awards Notes
Contact: Priscilla J. Matthews & Julie Derden - Illinois State University
pjmatth@ilstu.edu ; jmderde@ilstu.edu
"Every Person is a Philosopher": the Journal of Ordinary Thought (JOT)
Contact: Peter Hepburn - University of Illinois at Chicago
phepburn@uic.edu
Expanding Access to Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Scientific Journals
Contact: Charles W. Uth - Illinois Institute of Technology
uth@iit.edu
Explorations in Teaching & Learning: Peace, Conflict & Social Justice
Contact: Stephanie Davis-Kahl - Illinois Wesleyan University
sdaviska@iwu.edu
Finding Aids for the VanderCook College of Music Historical Archive
Contact: Robert DeLand - VanderCook College of Music
rdeland@vandercook.edu
Improving Access to Collections of the State Scientific Survey Libraries
Contact: Susan Braxton - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
braxton@illinois.edu
Improving Access to Journals Articles through ILL
Contact: Cherie L. Weible - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
cweible@illinois.edu
Increasing Accessibility of Mississippi Valley Materials
Contact: Sarah Horowitz - Augustana College
sarahhorowitz@augustana.edu
Justice, Peace and Conflict of e-Learning
Contact: Brandon C. Taylor - Chicago State University
b-taylor@csu.edu
Keeping up with Curricula
Contact: Ruth A. Inman - Harold Washington College
rinman@ccc.edu
Leon Stover - H.G. Wells Collection
Contact: Charles W. Uth - Illinois Institute of Technology
uth@iit.edu
Limit Budget vs. Expensive Electronic Resources
Contact: Sharon Hu - Chicago State University
chu@csu.edu
Managing and Processing Hidden Print Collections
Contact: Jennifer Thom - Newberry Library
thomj@newberry.org
Movements of the People: Peace, Revolution, and Social Change in the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries
Contact: Gabrielle M. Toth - Chicago State University
gtoth@csu.edu
Native American Studies Collections in CARLI Libraries
Contact: Elaine Fetyko Page - Elmhurst College
elainep@elmhurst.edu
Peace, Justice and Conflict in the Arts and Humanities
Contact: Christine Kubiak - Illinois State University
cskubia@ilstu.edu
Picture Chicago
Contact: Betsy Kruger - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ; Peter Hepburn - University of Illinois at Chicago
betsyk@illinois.edu ; phepburn@uic.edu
"Play Me the Music": Sharing the Gift of Music
Contact: Ruth Burridge Lindemann - Danville Area Community College
rlinde@dacc.edu
Providing Access to Student and Faculty Research Publications
Contact: Charlotte Johnson - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
cjohnso@siue.edu
Railroad Collection Analysis
Contact: Roberto A. Sarmiento - Northwestern University
r-sarmiento@northwestern.edu
Resources for the Study of Bioterrorism
Contact: Charles E. Malone - Western Illinois University
c-malone@wiu.edu
Scientific and Engineering Solutions to Sources of Global Conflicts
Contact: Carol DeBiak - Illinois Institute of Technology
debiak@iit.edu
Southern Illinois Libraries: Searching for Peace
Contact: Vicky Bonelli - Illinois Eastern Community Colleges
bonelliv@iecc.edu
Trauma and Metamorphosis
Contact: Arlene Dueker - Kaskaskia College
adueker@kaskaskia.edu
Usage of Science E-Journals in CARLI Libraries
Contact: Charles W. Uth - Illinois Institute of Technology
uth@iit.edu
War and Disability
Contact: Aric Ahrens - Illinois Institute of Technology
ahrens@iit.edu
WorldWide, Inc.: How Multinational Corporations Affect Peace and Conflict Around the Globe
Contact: Heather Parisi - Dominican University
hparisi@dom.edu
Access to Archival Collection of Testimonials of Women Religious under Eastern Communism
The archives at CTU contain manuscripts of testimonials of women religious who were imprisoned under Eastern Communism between 1949 and 1989. These testimonials come from women in the present day Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, the Ukraine, and Lithuania. The manuscripts in their original languages are in the archives, while the English translations have been bound and cataloged for the library's circulating collection. It is the library's intent to create an electronic guide to the manuscript collection in the archives in order to make the contents more accessible to researchers.
Access to Health History Archives
This project proposal falls under the Access and Analysis Award category. Both Brenner Library at Quincy University and Blessing Health Professions Library at Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing have extensive collections of 19th century and early 20th century medicine, nursing and hospital history. Very little of this content is available electronically. The rationale for the project centers on this often overlooked piece of American history. The prevailing diseases and the subsequent health of the population was central to the settling of certain areas in the state, the founding and growth of cities, the conduct of war and the availability of men to fight such wars. Diseases spreading on the frontier often preceded the establishment of organizations such as medical societies, medical schools, hospitals, nursing schools and city sanitation. Developing electronic guides to these hidden gems would be important addition to the health history of Illinois.
ACTS Peace-Justice-Conflict Film Project
The Association of Chicago Theological Schools Library Council is a regional consortium of ten libraries serving theological schools in Cook and Lake Counties. The Council exercises its responsibility to share the richness of its combined theological resources through collaborative collection development and cooperative access. Its combined library collections comprise over 1.7 million volumes of books, about 5,000 currently received periodicals, and electronic media. All ACTS libraries are CARLI governing members; five are I-Share members. The ACTS libraries propose to develop a digital film and audio collection that focuses on the issues of 'Peace, Justice, Conflict' as these topics intersect with interreligious dialogue. ACTS libraries will collaborate to identify commercially produced films with this theme and negotiate for digital rights so that the films may be shared with other CARLI libraries. In addition, they will identify videotapes and audiotapes that have been produced by their own institutions with no copyright issues and digitize these for access by all CARLI institutions. This proposal enhances the digital collections of all CARLI institutions by making available a wide array of digital resources on a topic that has high interest for scholarly research.
Archival Cataloging and Description at UIUC Special Collections
The project will involve doing statistical sampling to assess extant documents and databases that describe portions of important collections held at the UIUC Rare Book and Manuscript Library, developing new methods of recon for manuscript archives, creating new descriptions when necessary, and creating and pushing out to the public collection level MARC records and EAD finding-aids for heavily used collections that lack them.
Association of Chicago Theological Schools Library Council - Serials Holdings Project
The Association of Chicago Theological Schools Library Council (ACTS) is a regional consortium of ten libraries serving theological schools in Cook and Lake Counties. The Council shares the richness of its combined theological resources through collaborative collection development and cooperative access. The ACTS Library Council members' combined library collections comprise over 1.7 million volumes of books, about 5,000 currently received periodicals, and electronic media. All ACTS libraries are CARLI governing members; five are I-Share members. The serials inventory project supports the upgrade of holdings records of the five remaining libraries in preparation for eventual inclusion in I-Share. This first phase of the project focuses on periodicals. Future phases of the project will target the more complex serials and series titles. Among many benefits, the project will accurately enumerate periodical holdings available to ACTS and CARLI members; enhance holdings records prior to inclusion in I-Share; and identify unique, rare, and "last copy" journals in the ACTS consortium holdings.
Authentic Qurans in I-Share Collections
The purpose of the project is to identify authentic copies of the Qu'ran, the holy book of Islam, in the I-Share catalog that potentially require fuller catalog records and/or special treatment in shelving and circulation. The idea for this collection analysis is a result of recent complaints from Muslim patrons at Illinois State University, who reported that our copies of the Quran were shelved too low to the floor and were not well maintained, contrary to the Islamic requirements for appropriate display and handling of the Quran. Upon investigation, the library staff learned that only untranslated copies (original Arabic language only) are considered authentic copies and necessitating special handling and preservation. This proposal aims to identify which works in the I-Share catalog are authentic Quran's, and if such copies reflect notes for special care and handling in the catalog record.
Building Peace Studies Collections
Peace remains a rich scholarly topic. Many academic courses touch on some aspect of peace; students require materials for research projects; and several formal academic programs in Peace Studies thrive. Aside from big research collections, however, most academic libraries require significant additions to collections to meet faculty and student information needs. The College of DuPage Library, in partnership with the libraries at Illinois State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Joliet Junior College, Kankakee Community College, Lewis and Clark Community College, and Moraine Valley Community College, intend to join together to acquire materials to strengthen our Peace Studies collections. College of DuPage will be the agency coordinating the request. Subject interests for library acquisitions include: human rights and peacekeeping; the effects of war on families and individuals; military humanitarianism and peacekeeping; and publications from other countries, international, governmental, and non-governmental organizations. All items will be cataloged and made available through standard interlibrary loan procedures.
CARLI I-Share Users Choose: A Purchase Model for User Driven Ordering for New Titles Shared by the Collective
I-Share resource sharing is a great CARLI achievement. The ease of requesting and fulfillment allows CARLI users incredible access to monographs. It also offers an opportunity to think differently about collection development. Member libraries are diligent in choosing titles to serve users. But what about new titles not in I-Share? It is also clear that money will be tight for future monograph purchases for the I-Share libraries. This proposal offers a model where users help choose book purchases. A pilot project will test loading vendor records into I-Share that can be made "requestable" for purchase. When requests meet a basic criteria for selection, they will be rushed ordered, processed and sent to users. * UIUC will do this work and the purchases would be "owned" by all of CARLI. ALL details will be available in the full proposal. UIUC will match the amount requested (5,000 proposed) to purchase these new monographs.
The Circus: Creating and Enhancing Access to Illinois State University's Hidden Collection
Milner Library is fortunate to have many materials from its Milner Library's Circus and Allied Arts Collection featured in the 2008 publication of The Circus: 1870-1950 edited by Noel Daniel. While the major emphasis of the collection is upon circus, this collection also includes related arts such as carnivals, carousels, conjuring, music halls, and vaudeville. In addition to book holdings of over 6,000 items, the Circus and Allied Arts Collection includes photographs, circus posters, programs, route books, correspondence, business records, band scores, videotapes, audiotapes, and realia. These materials bring the total holdings to over 100,000 items, making it among the most comprehensive and in-depth circus and allied arts book collections anywhere. However, these varied materials are largely uncataloged. Milner Library's goal for this Access and Analysis Award is to increase access and awareness in the state and nationally of these resources through both traditional OCLC cataloging and non-traditional discovery tools.
Digitization of 1950s IIT Radio Programs Audiotapes
IIT Archives/Galvin Library will apply for funding to digitize audiotapes produced by Illinois Institute of Technology in the 1950s for broadcast on Chicago radio and TV stations. IIT produced a number of these high quality educational programs for local broadcast. The award-winning series Ear on Chicago was broadcast on WBBM from 1955 to 1958 and continued on WMAQ as City in Sound into 1959. The American Scene began in 1958 and ran for 5.5 years on WNBQ-TV, with a weekly rebroadcast on radio station WMAQ. The IIT Archives holds over 200 audiotapes from the three series. The tapes exist as the original reel-to-reel recordings. We will partner with one or more Chicago museums, radio, and/or TV stations to supplement the audios with visual images, historical background, and possible creation of new A-V programs to make the audiotapes known and accessible.
Digitizing Proust
Working with the Kolb Proust Archive, UIUC Rare Book and Manuscript library will assess, and, using modern standards, arrange, describe (in MARC and EAD), digitize (for preservation purposes), and transcribe over 1000 items of Proust correspondence. We seek to hire student assistants for arrangement, description, and data entry. The grant will also seek funds to sponsor initial digital capture and transcription of the correspondence. We are aware of and will address complex questions of international IP in the full proposal.
Enhancing Access to Naxos Music Library and Improving the OPAC's Role as a Bridge to Electronic Resources
We seek funding for 4,584 customized MARC records from OCLC. The records will describe many of the recordings in the Naxos Music Library online resource. Millikin students and faculty will have improved bibliographic access to music recordings via the OPAC. This enhanced access will also facilitate library staff processing gift recordings and weeding the existing LP and CD collections.
Enhancing Bibliographic Records for Curriculum Materials Collections with Searchable Awards Notes
Awards for young adult and children's literature and media have expanded well beyond the Newbery and the Caldecott Medals. Library patrons, especially researchers, often ask for these materials by the name of the award, rather than specifying a title or author. However, at the time of bibliographic services acquisition and cataloging, the fact of the title's award-winning status may not be known and thus cannot be added to the bibliographic record at that time. Therefore, in order to enhance access by adding all awards to the searchable 586 field, retrospective enhancement is needed. Enhanced records would be available in the VuFind version of the Universal Catalog as well as in the Illinois State University catalog and, if not overlaid, in the WebVoyage version of the Universal Catalog, thereby benefiting the consortium as a whole and other libraries with similar collections to Milner Library's Teaching Materials Collection.
"Every Person Is a Philosopher": The Journal of Ordinary Thought (JOT)
The University of Illinois at Chicago Library and the Neighborhood Writing Alliance will partner to digitize issues of the Association's award-winning magazine. The Journal of Ordinary Thought, founded in 1991 by a UIC faculty member, is dedicated to sharing stories of Chicago, mostly from people who are cut off from traditional, mainstream means of publishing because of class, race, isolation, or other social issues. Specific publications have directly considered themes of Peace / Justice / Conflict while others have addressed related topics, including housing, formal and informal education, and borders and boundaries. Works appearing in the journal range in style across personal essays, plays, poetry, and fiction. "Every Person Is a Philosopher" would add modern-day Chicago voices to historic collections being digitized. The project would involve digitization of past issues of the quarterly journal with the full extent and number of items to be determined.
Expanding Access to Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Scientific Journals
Illinois Institute of technology has over 2,000 volumes of uncatalogued scientific journals dating from the early Nineteenth Century through the mid-Twentieth Century. To enhance statewide access to this material, we propose to catalog these journal runs with full holdings information.
Explorations in Teaching & Learning: Peace, Conflict & Social Justice
The discipline of education is rich with possibilities for the subjects of peace, conflict and justice. There is keen interest in integrating elements of social justice, conflict resolution and diplomacy into all of levels of education, from daycare to postsecondary education. We aim to connect the threads of diversity, multiculturalism, international affairs and philosophy of education in its broadest sense to provide current and future teachers, principals, administrators and researchers with key perspectives and pedagogical support for 'local impact' topics such as mediation, bullying, and school violence. We aim also to provide insight into a complementary, global view of cultural differences, human rights, war and its impact on children and adolescents, civil rights, and social justice. We anticipate our materials will range from children's and young adult literature, curriculum materials, teacher training materials, and research into teaching of social justice.
Finding Aids for the VanderCook College of Music Historical Archive
The project will entail creating electronic finding aids for a collection related to the history of VanderCook and music education in Illinois. Included in this collection are unique photos, programs, writings, and recordings from renowned musicians and educators such as Walter Dyett, Haskell W. Harr, William D. Revelli, Victor Zajec, and Clifford Lillya, none of which are available anywhere else. All materials cover the period circa 1930-1960.
Improving Access to Collections of the State Scientific Survey Libraries
In July 2008 the four Illinois State Scientific Surveys transferred administratively from the Department of Natural Resources to the University of Illinois to form the Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability. The libraries of the Geological Survey, Natural History Survey, Water Survey, and Sustainable Technology Center will merge into one Institute library whose collection will be included in the University of Illinois Voyager database (currently, only the Natural History Survey collection is represented there). Materials from all four libraries are available for interlibrary loan, but each library has some holdings not represented in OCLC and thus inaccessible to users. We will request hourly wages for graduate students or paraprofessionals to add holdings to existing OCLC records and identify unique materials requiring original cataloging. In addition to improving access for borrowing, having all holdings in OCLC will facilitate the planned addition of the collections to the UI Voyager database.
Improving Access to Journal Articles through ILL
Imagine being able to search the approximately three million serial titles at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library and having the ability to easily access any of these titles through Interlibrary Loan at your local library. With the funding provided through this year's CARLI grant, the UIUC Library will continue to take steps toward making this level of access a reality. The Library has begun entering LHRs for approximately 140,000 serial titles so that the holdings will be listed in OCLC and will be current in the UIUC Library Catalog. This grant will allow us to continue working on this project and give us resources to help it reach its final stages more quickly. Successful implementation of the grant will allow for more accurate and faster turnaround for journal articles requested through Interlibrary Loan.
Increasing Accessibility of Mississippi Valley Materials
If successful with this grant application, we plan to use the money received from the CARLI access and analysis award to catalog rare books related to the Upper Mississippi Valley, Native Americans, and Northwest Territory exploration. All these books have relevance to Illinois and/or the Mississippi River Valley. Some of these books currently have limited records with Dewey call numbers. About half are currently accessible via our online catalog in Dewey, while others have only catalog card access, and some have never been cataloged. Cataloging and/or reclassifying these materials will provide us with consistency within our materials by using only Library of Congress call numbers, decrease our reliance on our card catalog, and allow federated online searching. Having these records online will also make our holdings more available to the consortium.
Justice, Peace and Conflict of e-Learning
The proposed Justice, Peace and Conflict of E-Learning (JPCE) project's goal is to augment the collections related to E-Learning's implications for justice, peace and conflict. Although, E-Learning has been cited as a tool for justice (e.g. providing quality education to those who would not otherwise have access to quality education), peace (e.g. education has been associated with peace), there is some conflict (e.g. teacher unions vs. virtual schools) regarding E-Learning. However, e-learning collections tend to be relatively smaller than more traditional or broader collections. Thus, additional E-learning collections that can be shared among libraries and their clients are needed. In addition, the proposed Justice, Peace and Conflict of E-Learning (JPCE) project would provide sharable subject guides, online resources, etc. regarding the augmented E-Learning collections. The proposed Justice, Peace and Conflict of E-Learning (JPCE) project's collaborators include Chicago State University, Northern Illinois University, Western Illinois University and potentially additional CARLI institutions.
Keeping up with Curricula
Kennedy-King College has started several new programs, including Juvenile Justice, Entrepreneurship, Music, and Nursing, along with a revised Broadcasting curriculum. To meet the community mission the Library is interested in providing materials for veterans' post traumatic stress disorder and reassimilation into society; and books on healthy food choices and developing community gardens.
Leon Stover - H.G. Wells Collection
Leon Stover was a faculty member at IIT and also one of the premier H.G.Wells scholars in the U.S. His widow bequeathed his collection of H.G.Wells materials to the Library. This collection includes every published work of H.G.Wells, except for one pamphlet, and first editions (both U.S. & U.K) of all his major works. Many of these items would represent the only copy in Illinois once fully accessioned by the library. Also included are a number of Dr. Stover's manuscripts. This proposal is for cataloging the published materials and for creating the necessary finding aids to the non-published items.
Limit Budget vs. Expensive Electronic Resources
The consistently increased price of electronic resources has been challenged to the limit acquisition budget in the libraries. Therefore, what electronic resources are the mostly needed and used by the library users is very important, which will efficiently impact the decision of acquisition budget expend. This research will collect and analyze all types of data in three years, including the prices of electronic resources purchased, utilization of the resources, the resources' duplicates, facilities and systems used in an academic library. After analysis on the quantitative and qualitative statistics with their comparisons of three years, the conclusion will be further analyzed through a list of electronic resources ranked by the utilization, price, budget spend, etc. This analysis processing and the conclusions will benefit to the libraries to purchase electronic resources.
Managing and Processing Hidden Print Collections
In 2007, the Newberry conducted a survey to identify and quantify uncataloged collections. It exposed 71 hidden print collections that range in size from a few hundred to over 85,000 items. Staff has since compiled abstracts for 15 collections. Several hundred collection-level records for published material were also revealed upon completion of the retrospective conversion project. Many of these records are insufficiently descriptive and lack subject and name headings. They are difficult to find and inadequately useful once located. Through this grant, the Newberry will: Explore the use of open-source archival data management systems (e.g. Archon, Archivists Toolkit) for collections of published materials and develop a strategy for their management, Share research findings with institutions with hidden print collections, Analyze existing collection-level records to identify those with greatest need of improvement, Enhance identified records as appropriate, Create new collection-level records based on hidden collections abstracts.
Movements of the People: Peace, Revolution, and Social Change in the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries
The 20th Century rumbled with "history from below" as people previously oppressed into silence spoke up to demand their rights and independence. This group proposes to collect monographic and audiovisual materials which document the variety of means, both violent and non-violent, that peoples the world over used to obtain social change. Participating institutions will focus on regional revolutionary and social change movements, peace movements both local and global, and U.S. responses to international movements, as well as precursor movements in the 19th century in the United States and abroad.
Native American Studies Collections in CARLI Libraries
Elmhurst College is interested in analyzing the collections of CARLI libraries to assess the availability of Native American studies resources. The purpose of this analysis is twofold: as a first step to beginning our own unique collection, and to create a finding aid to assist in access to Native American collections across the consortium. We have not had an emphasis in Native American studies but have done some collecting to support an intercultural studies program on our campus. We would like to build a collection, focused on contemporary Native American issues, that complements other available collections in CARLI, and to that end, our proposal also includes creating an electronic finding aid to other CARLI library Native American collections.
Peace, Justice and Conflict in the Arts and Humanities
Nine humanities librarians from eight institutions plan to acquire materials in a variety of formats on issues in this year's theme: Peace, Justice and Conflict. Two participants are focusing on Latin America. One will collect Literature in French and Spanish depicting the various conflicts throughout the regions history. The other is looking at the documented History of conflicts and resolutions as depicted through various social movements in Latin America. Conflict management and resolution at personal and global levels, will be viewed through the disciplines of Communication and Theology. The Arts will be strongly represented by various participants as we explore the representation of Peace, Justice and Conflict in music, theatre, by activist groups in the visual arts, and in films and dance.
Picture Chicago
UIUC (Kruger) and UIC (Hepburn) intend to apply for a CARLI Collections Enhancement Award for a ContentDM pilot digital collection titled "Picture Chicago." Over the last several years, our two institutions have digitized over 600 public domain books related to the history and culture of the city of Chicago. Most of these books have significant photographic content, maps, and drawings not available elsewhere. We propose to extract a portion of this graphic content from the JPEG2000 master image files, which are stored on UIUC servers to create a ContentDM digital image collection. The Digital Content Creation Unit at UIUC will oversee the image extraction; metadata creation will be overseen by the metadata librarian at UIC. We intend to put the collection into UIUC's ContentDM system, and the collection will also be harvested into Illinois Harvest.
"Play Me the Music": Sharing the Gift of Music
Danville Area Community College has received a gift of approximately 1000 CDs, principally of classical music with a few jazz titles as well. We propose to create a circulating collection of these CDs, something that is currently in very short supply in I-Share. We plan on using the funds to both catalog the collection and buy the necessary materials to make it circulation ready through the purchase of appropriate shipping containers and maintenance equipment.
Providing Access to Student and Faculty Research Publications
Many academic libraries in Illinois have, or are considering starting, institutional repositories. Others may not be able to do so, but still want to promote the research efforts of their own faculty and students. This project would organize a statewide conference on the topic. Librarians would be encouraged to bring along representatives of their administrative and/or institutional research units. Representatives from IR software companies, university presses, and database producers will be asked to participate in and support the conference. Possible topics include: 1) institutional research/library/university press collaboration; 2) using catalogs, databases, citation indexes and research collaboration tools to gather information on faculty publications; 3) the state of electronic portfolios, theses and dissertations in Illinois institutions; 4) using bibliographic management tools to gather and promote publications; 5) moving library funds from "buying back" publications to supporting open access "author fees"; and 6) including the ethics of research in library instruction programs.
Railroad Collections Analysis
Northwestern University Transportation Library and the University of Illinois - Chicago would like to submit a joint proposal for the �Access and Analysis Awards.� We propose to conduct a collection analysis project of both our railroad collections and, if possible, other Chicago-area collections. Illinois, and in particular, the Chicago-area, has a rich and well documented railroad history stretching back to the 1840's. Our project would not only analyze our collections to discover and document areas of strength and weaknesses, but also areas of duplication and areas for future collection development. In addition, the project would identify items or collections such as maps, serials, annual reports, etc, of rare and/or unique value for future digitization efforts. Finally, we could provide a very focus document listing titles related to subjects such as: the impact of railroads on Chicago-area urban development (i.e. Pullman Neighborhood), or social or work-related issues.
Resources for the Study of Bioterrorism
Increasingly, peace is being threatened by a relatively new venue of conflict - bioterrorism. In early December, 2008, the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism made news headlines when they issued a report that the United States should expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or biological weapons sometime in the next five years. In 2006, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich launched a partnership with Illinois state universities and gave money to Illinois public universities to create courses, seminars, workshops, internships, and programs (both degree and non-degree) for the student or professional pursuing a career related to homeland security in a number of key fields, including engineering, chemistry, biology, and emergency management. Additionally, eight Illinois public universities have formed the Innovative Delivery of Education Alliance � Homeland Security (IDEA HS) http://www.illinoisideahs.org/idea/ network to offer a formal program to prepare professionals with education and training in homeland security, disaster preparedness, and emergency management. This proposal seeks to partner with the libraries of several Illinois public universities to build a collection of resources on the study of bioterrorism that would be made available to the citizens of the state of Illinois and the organizations and educational institutions involved bioterrorism study and training.
Scientific and Engineering Solutions to Sources of Global Conflict
The world is facing difficult times with many emerging issues that may become sources of future conflict. Issues relating to security, the economy, community psychology, health and environmental change are among the destabilizing influences in the world today as a growing population competes for declining resources such as oil and water. People are relying on advances in science and engineering to solve many of these problems in a peaceful manner. If funded the award will provide monies for several CARLI libraries to purchase materials to support educational initiatives in advancing the study of various topics like sustainable energy, soil remediation, electronic surveillance, pollution, genetic manipulation, prosthetics, health, disease and psychological issues. These various topics in science and engineering may be able to support in different ways the lessening of conflicts and the promotion of global peace and justice.
Southern Illinois Libraries: Searching for Peace
The librarians from Lewis and Clark Community College, Lincoln Trail College, Olney Central College, and Wabash Valley College have formed a collection partnership. We are all I-Share members, so materials purchased through this grant will be available statewide through the I-Share catalog. Our focus will be undergraduate level material. We are striving to update materials to support our school curricula in corrections, criminology, and the administration of justice, which would fall under the broad headings of Peace and Justice. We also want to purchase new materials that will help Illinois students become more informed about piracy, terrorists, and the various areas of conflict in our world today, such as Afghanistan, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, and Somalia. We will need background material concerning the history of these regional conflicts, as well as the current situation. These materials would fall under the broad headings of Peace and Conflict.
Trauma and Metamorphosis
Trauma and Metamorphosis is the theme we propose to collectively address for collection development. Trauma (as injury from conflict) and metamorphosis (the action or process of changing in form, shape, or substance) explores the multiple complexities for personal, local, national and global regions addressing recovery from conflict and moving towards peace and justice efforts. War injuries, genocide, imprisonment, resettlement, and ethnic cleansing are some examples. Each traumatic situation creates metamorphosis which can accelerate, or assist individuals or global populations to heal successfully from conflict. Conversely, such metamorphosis can also impede, or cause further delay to sociological, psychological and economic efforts in recovery for peace and justice. We would address purchases for both scientific and humanities materials in this topic with an emphasis on creating and promoting this theme for use by public, school and academic use as CARLI partners.
Usage of Science e-Journals in CARLI Libraries
A group of academic libraries, consisting of Illinois Institute of Technology, Northern Illinois University, and Illinois State University, will evaluate the use of e-journals subscribed to by the libraries, including through CARLI. As a pilot project, only those journals in well defined areas of the sciences will be investigated. Usage will be measured through the use of vendor supplied reports (especially COUNTER compliant reports); reports from article-level linking tools, such as SFX or SerialsSolutions; interlibrary loan requests; and citation analyses, both of faculty publications and graduate theses. Additionally, several other aspects of the libraries' e-journal collections will be analyzed, such as: - the budget of libraries spent for the e-journals investigated - the number of titles subscribed to - subjects analysis - overlap & unique title analysis - analysis of aggregated vs. Non-aggregated sources - comparison of access systems between institutions (SFX, full cataloging, &c).
War and Disability
The subject of the collection award would be the collection of volumes on the subject of war and disability, including but not necessarily limited to Persian Gulf Syndrome, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and amputation.
WorldWide, Inc.: How Multinational Corporations Affect Peace and Conflict Around the Globe
In this 21st century of global business, it is extremely important to prepare our future leaders to promote peace as well as prosperity. Dominican University in partnership with the Illinois Institute of Technology would like to acquire material that would help increase understanding of the economic, social and political challenges to doing business around the world. The materials would explore the ways in which social entrepreneurs can create change for the global good, as well as focus on corporations' roles in international conflict and peace action. All of these materials will be cataloged and available to other libraries through standard interlibrary procedures.
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