Library Juice 1:13 - April 8, 1998
Contents: 1. Whale-Watching-Web 2. _The World Factbook 1997_--CIA 3. NewsReal Industry Watch 4. _We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah_--The Holy See 5. As-You-Like-It-Library, Seattle 6. Library Journal Digital 7. Instructions for subscribing to some ALA Intellectual Freedom listservs 8. ACLU Press Release on ruling in favor of lawsuit challenging filters 9. Text of Loudon County ruling (same case as #8 above) 10. Talks on Humanities Computing 11. "There is No Such Thing as Information" - a talk by Stephen L. Talbott 12. ALA join challenge to bookstore subpoena in Lewinski hubbub 13. Freedom of Information in the Publishing Industry discussion on CSPAN 14. Writers Union on Random House Purchase by Bertelsmann 15. ABA board member Tom Rider on small press issues 16. Catalogs Received - MSRRT Newsletter 17. Collected articles on evaluating web resources 18. ARL Diversity Program Launches New Publication Series 19. Information on CDT Policy Posts (for online civil liberties) Quote of the week: "The more we try to get a grip on information, the more it slips through our fingers like a ghost. Information, in fact, is the ghost of meaning, and our society's worship of the ghost signals a continuing loss of meaning." -Stephen L. Talbott ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Whale-Watching-Web http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/whale/ This metasite, by Rauno Lauhakangas of the University of Helsinki, Finland, includes a myriad of whale-related topics, some of which are scientific. The research-oriented sections include: Oceanographic Research (a collection of links to research sites, i.e. The Radio Acoustic Positioning and Telemetry Network -- a useful technique for monitoring whale/fish behavior); Cetacean's Rights (a section providing examples of legislation regulating whale-watching in Argentina, New Zealand, and elsewhere); and Bioacoustics (a section of links dedicated to Cetacean Research Technology). Educators will find useful information and compelling photographic images in the Cetacean Encyclopaedia (an introduction to whale species); Cetacean Pictures; and Virtual Whale Watching (a high-tech, state-of-the-art introduction to virtual whale-watching). [LXP] The Scout Report's Web page: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/ ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. _The World Factbook 1997_--CIA [frames] http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/index.html The US Central Intelligence Agency has recently released the 1997 version of this annual series of country information reference books. Data is available for over 250 countries. For each country, map and flag, geographic, population, government, economic, communication, transportation, military, and transnational issue information is provided for the latest year available. There are also seventeen individual reference maps and eight appendices. Derived from several US sources, this information has proved to be an indispensable reference source for those who want quick, thumbnail country information. Note that this Factbook supersedes previous editions. In addition, the CIA's Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments site has recently been updated. [JS] The Scout Report's Web page: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/ ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. NewsReal Industry Watch [JavaScript] Via CNNfn http://cnnfn.news-real.com/ Via Infoseek http://www.news-real.com/ CNNfn recently incorporated NewsReal Industry Watch into its web based news service. NewsReal Industry Watch has been available for some time via Infoseek. This powerful news service provides daily coverage of hundreds of stories in 20 categories via various wire services and newspapers, and presents this material in a unique, interactive format. When users click on a category from aerospace to utilities, a list of stories appears. Users can then simply move the mouse over a story for an executive summary of the story, which includes the source. One click on the story then brings up the full text, if available. This format allows quick scanning of many stories, a feature that can help the user decide which ones to investigate. The only drawback is that only five stories are listed at once and users must continually move to the next set of stories. A searchable archive is available. [JS] The Scout Report's Web page: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/ ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. _We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah_--The Holy See [frames] http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/sopra_en.htm Select: _We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah_ The Holy See's (Vatican--discussed in the April 4, 1997 Scout Report--http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/scout-970404.html#8) Commission for Religious Relations With the Jews, a part of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has recently released this fourteen page document, eleven years in the making, at the Holy See web site. The document is historic in its attempt to come to grips with the amount of assistance that Christians gave to Jews during the Holocaust. It states: "Those who did help to save Jewish lives as much as was in their power, even to the point of placing their own lives in danger, must not be forgotten... Alongside such courageous men and women, the spiritual resistance and concrete action of other Christians was not that which might have been expected from Christ's followers... For Christians, this heavy burden of conscience of their brothers and sisters during the Second World War must be a call to penitence." The document is currently available in English and Italian. [JS] The Scout Report's Web page: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/ ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. As-You-Like-It-Library, Seattle Dear fellow Librarians- I manage an alternative library in Seattle, Washington that is independent of any government,academic, or corporate control. It is the As-You-Like-It-Library in Seattle. We have been in Seattle since 1961. We are basically metaphysical, occult, spiritual althought we do have some political material both left and right. In fact several sites link to the conspiracy section of our book-list. Our web-site is http://www.frugal.com/~ayli I'd be interested in feedback in how you think our library fits in to the anarchist progressive spectrum ,if at all, especially our mission statement under WHY. If you get a chance check out our web-site and tell me what you think.- Philip Lipson-Librarian <ayli[at]frugal.com> ________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Library Journal Digital Library Journal Digital can be found at http://www.bookwire.com/ljdigital/. At LJ Digital there is a section titled "Intellectual Freedom Legislation: The State of the States," which can be found at http://www.bookwire.com/ljdigital/legislation.articles. Don Wood American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Instructions for subscribing to some ALA Intellectual Freedom listservs I have provided instructions at http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/news_inf.html#listserv for subscribing to ALADNOW (a listserv of the ALA Library Advocacy Network for idea sharing, updates and legislative alerts of special interest to library advocates), ALANEWS (a subscription service to obtain news releases online, issued by the ALA Public Information Office), ALAOIF (a listserv of the Office for Intellectual Freedom on which many intellectual freedom issues and news items are posted and discussed), and ALAWON (a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office). Don Wood American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 Office: 800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 E-Mail: dwood[at]ala.org ________________________________________________________________________________ 8. ACLU Press Release on ruling in favor of lawsuit challenging filters According to an ACLU press release (April 7), the first major ruling on the use of Internet blocking software in libraries, a federal district judge today forcefully rejected a government motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the use of such software in public libraries in Loudoun County, Virginia. The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Virginia, which represent a diverse group of eight Internet speakers seeking to reach library patrons, hailed the ruling as one of the strongest ever defenses of online free speech. The press release can be found at http://www.aclu.org/news/n040798a.html Don Wood American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom ________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Text of Loudon County ruling (same case as #8 above) The trustees of the Loudoun County (Virginia) Library are being sued to get them to stop filtering library web access. The judge (I hear she is a former librarian) ruled that the board members as individuals could be dismissed from the suit. The judge wants to hear more about the filtering policy and the X-Stop software they use before ruling on the defendants' other motion to toss out the suit. If you want to read yesterday's ruling, follow the link below. -Chris [headers cut] > >David Carney of TechLaw Journal has called to say he scanned >the text of yesterday's Loudoun County ruling onto his website, >if anybody out there needs it. The URL for Judge Brinkema's >opinion is: > >http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/loudon/80407mem.htm > >..We'll probably have the text up on our own website soon, but >until then... > >Will Heyniger >People For the American Way >wheyniger[at]pfaw.org [snip] "The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society= outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship." -- U.S.= Supreme Court majority decision, Reno v. ACLU, June 26, 1997 "So, there!" - Chris Mays <thecity.sfsu.edu> ________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Talks on Humanities Computing ............................................................ Heyward Ehrlich, President, NEACH and Lorna Hughes, Asst. Dir., Humanities Computing, ACF, NYU announce NYU-NEACH Talks on Humanities Computing, Spring 1998 in Warren Weaver Hall, West 4th and Mercer Streets, off Washington Square South, in New York City. For travel directions, see <http://www.nyu.edu/infocenter/directions-g.html>. ............................................................ HUMANITIES COMPUTING AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE 21ST CENTURY Susan Hockey, University of Alberta, Canada Friday, 3 April 1998 - 2:00 PM - Room 109, Warren Weaver Bldg. ........................................................... ESCAPING FLATLAND: 3D COMPUTER MODELING FOR HUMANISTS Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Virginia Wednesday, 8 April 1998 - 1:00 PM - Room 102, Warren Weaver Bldg. ............................................................ ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Preservation and Access: Resolving the Contradictions John Price-Wilkin, University of Michigan Friday, 1 May 1998 - 2:00 PM - Room 109, Warren Weaver Bldg. ............................................................ THE PENNSYLVANIA _FRANKENSTEIN_ ELECTRONIC EDITION Jack Lynch, University of Pennsylvania Friday, 8 May 1998 - 2:00 om - Room 109, Warren Weaver Bldg ............................................................ ________________________________________________________________________________ 11. "There is No Such Thing as Information" a talk by Stephen L. Talbott Senior Editor at O'Reilly and Associates and author of The Future Does Not Compute and NETFUTURE. "The more we try to get a grip on information, the more it slips through our fingers like a ghost. Information, in fact, is the ghost of meaning, and our society's worship of the ghost signals a continuing loss of meaning." Stephen L. Talbott has worked full-time with computers since 1980 as a technical writer and software developer. For the past several years Mr. Talbott has been senior editor at O'Reilly & Associates, a leading publisher of technical books about computers. In 1995 O'Reilly published Mr. Talbott's book, The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst. This was one of the three or four books that initiated the highly public and controversial reassessment of networking technology, following the public's initial rush to the Internet. It was named one of the "Outstanding Academic Books of 1996" by the library journal, Choice, and an "Outstanding Book of the Year" by UNIX Review. Mr. Talbott is also the publisher of one of the most respected online newsletters, called NETFUTURE, focusing on technology and human responsibility and is a frequent and popular public speaker on this subject. 7:30 P.M., Wednesday, April 15, 1998 National Library of Canada Room. 156, 395 Wellington Street Ottawa, Ontario, Canada There is no fee for this event. ________________________________________________________________________________ 12. ALA join challenge to bookstore subpoena in Lewinski hubbub >From ALA News Release ALA, Freedom to Read Foundation join challenge to bookstore subpoena The American Library Association (ALA) and its sister organization, the Freedom to Read Foundation, have joined with booksellers, publishers and other groups in support of a legal challenge to the subpoena issued by independent counsel Kenneth Starr for records of Monica Lewinsky's book purchases. *We believe there is a fundamental right to privacy in regard to the books you read, * said William R. Gordon, executive director of the American Library Association. *Whether it's what you borrow from libraries or purchase from bookstores, what you read is nobody's business but yours. The action taken by the Office for Independent Counsel tramples the First Amendment.* An amicus brief supporting a motion by Kramerbooks & Afterwords to quash the subpoena was filed April 2, in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Other organizations joining the brief are the American Association of Publishers, the American Booksellers Association and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. The document is under seal as are all proceedings in a grand jury hearing. The mission of the American Library Association, based in Chicago, is to promote the highest quality library service and public access to information. The association has 57,000 members, including librarians, trustees and other library supporters. ________________________________________________________________________________ 13. Freedom of Information in the Publishing Industry discussion on CSPAN >FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MISSED THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION IN PUBLISHING PANEL >AT NYU LAST MONTH, IT WILL BE AIRED ON CSPAN-2 ON SATURDAY APRIL 11 AT 8 PM. >PLEASE FORWARD That's Saturday, April 11 at 8pm. The US publishing industry is in crisis. As global corporations absorb one publishing house after another, celebrity titles push serious books on to the basement shelves of mega-bookstores. Sales are down and the overall literary quality is lower than it has ever been. How bad is it? And what can be done? On Wednesday, March 11, the Media Literacy Club at New York University will host a roundtable discussion on commercial and governmental pressures on the book publishing industry. Media critic and author Mark Crispin Miller of NYU's department of Culture and Communication will discuss the trend toward conglomerate ownership and its overall effects on the type of books published and promoted. Andre Schiffrin of the New Press and Peter Osnos of PublicAffairs will each discuss the perils of independent publishing in the current environment, as well as their different strategies to remain in business. Nancy Kranich, NYU's Associate Dean of Libraries and American Library Association board member, will discuss the effects of these trends on libraries and the declining amount of information available to authors and the public-at-large due to privatization of government information services. Peter Osnos, Publisher and Chief Executive of PublicAffairs: Peter Osnos was Publisher of Random House's Times Books Division from 1991-1996 and before that was a Vice President and Associate Publisher of the Random House imprint. Before entering book publishing, Osnos spent nearly twenty years in various positions at The Washington Post. He has been a commentator and host for National Public Radio and has also served as Chair of the Trade Division of the Association of American Publishers. Andre Schiffrin, Director and Editor-in-Chief, The New Press: Since 1990, Andre Schiffrin has been the director and editor-in-chief of the New Press. Before that, he was for twenty-eight years the managing director and editor-in-chief of Pantheon Books at Random House. Schiffrin was for many years a member of the board of the Freedom to Publish committee of the American Association of Publishers, and its anti-censorship committee, the Freedom to Read Committee. Mark Crispin Miller, Author and Media Critic: Mark Crispin Miller is a renowned author and media critic. His first book, Boxed In: The Culture of TV (Northwestern University Press, 1988), was a collection of his essays on film, television, advertising and rock music. He edited Seeing through Movies (Pantheon, 1990), Mad Scientists, a study of propaganda in the United States, will be published by Norton in 1999, to be followed the next year by Spectacle: Operation Desert Storm and the Triumph of Illusion. Miller is a professor and director of the Project On Media Ownership (PROMO) at New York University. Miller has written extensively on the effects of media concentration on book publishing, television news and popular music for The Nation and other publications. Nancy Kranich, Associate Dean of Libraries at New York University, American Library Association Board: Nancy Kranich has also served as the chair of the Coalition on Government Information and as host of Freedom of Information Day. She speaks and writes frequently on topics related to the information superhighway, government information and telecommunication policy. She is the author of The Internet, Access and Democracy. ________________________________________________________________________________ 14. Writers Union on Random House Purchase by Bertelsmann Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 16:41:26 -0800 (PST) To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: NWU-National Office West <nwu[at]nwu.org> Subject: NWU Criticizes Random House Purchase WRITERS UNION CALLS RANDOM HOUSE PURCHASE ANOTHER BLOW TO CULTURAL DIVERSITY The National Writers Union (NWU) today called the announcement that German publisher Bertelsmann plans to acquire U.S. book publishing giant Random House a serious blow to cultural diversity. "This is another troubling step toward the homogenization of the media," said Jonathan Tasini, President of the NWU. The NWU has long warned about the dangers of concentrating the culture industry in the hands of a decreasing number of companies. "Fewer companies means fewer voices," Tasini stated. This latest deal will put Bantam Doubleday Dell, which Bertelsmann purchased in 1986, under the same corporate roof as the various Random House imprints, which include Knopf, Pantheon and Crown. "The dwindling number of outlets for trade books makes it increasingly difficult for controversial or unorthodox trade books to find a home," noted Philip Mattera, NWU Vice President and Book Contract Advisor. "The merger of two behemoths like Random House and Bantam Doubleday Dell shrinks the field to an alarming degree." The National Writers Union is a nationwide organization of some 5,000 freelance writers and authors. It is affiliated with the United Auto Workers union and the AFL-CIO. (end) Commentary on this topic appears as part of editorial ("Alternative to What?") in current MSRRT Newsletter: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~davidson/msrrt/mar98.html Chris D. ________________________________________________________________________________ 15. ABA board member Tom Rider on small press issues to address with IPA From: Charles Willett <willett[at]afn.org> Subject: ABA/IPA negiotiations I have put ABA board member Tom Rider, a marxist who owns Goerings Book Store here in Gainesville, in touch with John Anner, Executive Director of the Independent Press Association, following a spirited discussion on the IPA listserv in February about how to deal with the chains. John's message to Tom summarizing that discussion is copied below. Since Tom and I are going to BookExpo America in Chicago at the end of May, I have set up a meeting to discuss these issues with IPA Education Director Beth Schulman, who lives and works there. In preparation for that meeting, can any of you think of specific ways the Alternatives in Print Task Force could assist this possible alliance between independent book stores and alternative magazine publishers by introducing a third dimension -- libraries? --Charles -------------------------------- Dear Tom, Charles Willett suggested I get in touch with you regarding areas where the Independent Press Association and the ABA might collaborate, or at least explore a discussion of the "litany" of mutual issues we face with respect to how big chain stores are wiping out the indy book stores and newsstands. >From our point of view, there are five main issues: 1. The declining number of bookstores/newsstands makes it very difficult for some magazines to get any kind of single-issue distribution. 2. Fewer bookstores means that many mags have to deal with the chains; there is no other alternative means of distribution. 3. Small mags have a hard time getting chain accounts. 4. The chains have enforced onerous terms that mean that even if you do get a chain account often you don't make any money from it. 5. There is a distinct lack of collective means of distribution tailored to small magazines; it seems that one way to counteract the power of the chains and distribution companies would be to work together but this is not happening at the moment. The IPA is currently exploring setting up a number of strategy sessions for our members to discuss and make plans for how we could work on this issue. We would be very interested in seeing how we could join forces with the ABA. Let me know if you need more detail on any of this. Regards, John Anner IPA Director _______________________________________________________________________________ 16. Catalogs Received - MSRRT Newsletter Web edition of the March/April MSRRT Newsletter is now up, with a longer-than-usual rant ("Alternative to What?"): http://www.cs.unca.edu/~davidson/msrrt/mar98.html New Day Films recent titles include "Battle for the Minds" (documentary about keeping women down in the Baptist Church) and "Dirty Secrets: Jennifer, Everardo & the CIA in Guatemala." (22-D Hollywood Ave., Hohokus, NJ 07423, phone: 888-367-9154, FAX: 201-652-1973, tmcndy[at]aol.com, http://www.newday.com). Alternative Radio offers tapes of David Barsamian's hour-long weekly public affairs program featuring interviews with (and lectures by) Winona LaDuke, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, and others. (P.O. Box 551, Boulder, CO 80306, 1-800-444-1977). New from Apex Press: Washington's new poor law: welfare reform & the jobs illusion and Nurtured by knowledge: learning to do participatory action-research. (777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, 1-800-316-2739). African Books Collective new titles include Making a difference: feminist publishing in the South and Nigerians as outsiders: military dictatorship and Nigeria's destiny. (c/o The Jam Factory, 27 Park End St., Oxford, OX1 1HU, UK, abc[at]dial.pipex.com). American Association of University Women new and recent titles (1998) include Gender and race on the campus and in the school: Beyond Affirmative Action Symposium proceedings and Girls can! Community coalitions resource manual. (1111 16th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036, 1-800-225-9998, ext. 424; http://www.aauw.org). La Caille Nous Publishing, begun in 1995, specializes in literary works by new writers "on topics that are relevant to African people." Four titles are in print so far, including Guichard Cadet's Lonewolf's cry, with Haitian literature forthcoming. (Box 1004, Riverdale, MD 20738; http://www.lcnpub.com). Northeastern University Press new titles include Women's voices, women's lives: documents in early American history, Nation and race: the developing Euro-American racist subculture, and Combating corporate crime: local prosecutors at work. (360 Huntington Ave., 416 CP, Boston, MA 02115). New and recent titles from Feral House include Stuart Goldman's Snitch: confessions of a tabloid spy and Barry Chamish's Who killed Itzhak Rabin? (2532 Lincoln Blvd., #359, Venice, CA 90291; http://www.feralhouse.com). NBM Publishing Company specializes in graphic novels. Recent titles include Vittorio Giardino's A Jew in communist Prague and Rick Geary's The Borden tragedy. (185 Madison Ave., Suite 1504, New York, NY 10016, FAX: 212-545-1227). New titles from Shambhala (Autumn 1997) include Bill Alexander's Cool water (a "nonreligious approach to addictions recovery") and Healing emotions: conversations with the Dalai Lama on mindfulness, emotions, and health. (Horticultural Hall, 300 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, MA 02115-4544, http://www.shambhala.com). Rego Irish Records & Tapes distributes CDs and cassettes by the likes of the Wolfe Tones, as well as videos and language learning materials. (64 New Hyde Park Rd., Garden City, NY 11530, 1-800-854-3746, kellsmus[at]pipeline.com, http://www.regorecords.com). TUC Radio distributes Michael Parenti's series of tapes on such topics as democracy, militarism, media bias, and corporate welfare. (Box 410009, San Francisco, CA 94141, 415-861-6962, FAX: 415-861-4583, tucradio[at]igc.apc.org). Mind Books distributes titles on "mind-expanding plants and compounds," with titles whose emphases range from public policy and law to pharmocology and neuroscience. (321 Main St. #543, Sebastapol, CA 95472, http://www.promind.com). Venom Press, publishers of the litmag Curare, has issued such books as David Huberman's sickest stories ever, Thaddeus Rutkowski's Sex-fiend monologues, and Huggy-Bear Ferris' Sad songs in empty theaters. (20 Clinton St., 1G, New York, NY 10002). ________________________________________________________________________________ 17. Collected articles on evaluating web resources From: Roslyn_Donald[at]iacnet.com I recently wrote a paper on evaluating web resources, and I thought I'd pass along some cites of articles that were particularly helpful to me. Please put them on the reflector if you think they would be useful. The first two are about evaluating any website, and the others are specifically for search engines. Thanks Roslyn Cites: Smith, A. G. (1997) Testing the surf: criteria for evaluating Internet information resources. The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 8 (3). [Online] Available World Wide Web: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html Tillman, H. N. (1997) Evaluating quality on the net. Talk given at Internet Librarian Conference Monterey, California, Monday, November 17, 1997. [Online] Available World Wide Web: http://www.tiac.net/users/hope/findqual.html Selected bibliography on comparing web search engines: Birmingham, J. (1997) Major Internet search engines. [Online] Available World Wide Web: http://www.stark.k12.oh.us/Docs/search/info.html Feldman, S. (1997) "Just the answers, please:" Choosing a web search service, Searcher 7 (3), p. 44+. [Online] Available World Wide Web: http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/may/story3.htm Lynch, C. (1997) Searching the Internet. Scientific American 276(3). 52-57. [Online] Available World Wide Web: http://www.sciam.com/0397issue/0397lynch.html Notess, G. (1997) Search engine showdown. [Online] Available World Wide Web: http://cu.imt.net/~notess/search/ ________________________________________________________________________________ 18. ARL Diversity Program Launches New Publication Series Contact: DeEtta Jones <deetta[at]arl.org> ARL Announces.. ARL Diversity Program Launches New Publication Series The ARL Diversity Program is launching a publication series called "Leading Ideas" to focus attention on the issues of diversity, leadership, and career development. Responding to requests from the library and higher education community for resource tools on these issues, each newsletter in this series will focus on a particular topic and will also provide information and highlight opportunities for readers to learn even more about the subject. Featured articles will be authored by those in the field, highlighting talent and tracking workplace trends. "Leading Ideas" is being launched in concert with the ARL Leadership and Career Development (LCD) Program. The LCD Program is a Higher Education Act grant-funded opportunity that provides librarians from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups with a vehicle for professional development by enhancing their competitiveness for leadership positions in academic and research libraries. "Leading Ideas" will provide a national forum for sharing the research and writing of the LCD Program participants. The premier issue of "Leading Ideas" is available in print and at the ARL Diversity Program website <http://www.arl.org/diversity/leading>. The featured article in the March 1997 issue is, "Promotion and Tenure: The Minority Academic Librarian." Written by Mark Winston, ARL Visiting Program Officer for Diversity and LCD Program participant, the article is based on Dr. Winston's presentation at the 1997 American Library Association Annual Conference. Topics in forthcoming issues include: shared leadership, peer information counseling programs, post-master's residency programs, affirmative action, and workforce recruitment strategies. The ARL Diversity Program defines and addresses diversity issues in ARL libraries, supports activities to encourage broad participation in the field, and encourages the development of workplace climates that embrace diversity. In its work with the higher education community, the Program also addresses recruitment of staff from underrepresented groups and assists institutions in designing programs that explore the rich gifts and talents diverse individuals bring to their libraries. Six issues of "Leading Ideas" will be published in 1998 and each issue will be made available in print and through the Program's website. Annual subscriptions are available for $35.00/calendar year (International orders add $5.00). Contact the ARL Publications Office <pubs[at]arl.org> or place an order at <http://www.arl.org/pubscat/order/index.html. Order Form: Leading Ideas ISSN 1095-8770 6 issues/year $35.00 (US/Canada) $40.00 (International) PAYMENT: Prepayment is required (ARL members may be billed) Payment may be made by check, Visa, or Mastercard and must accompany order form. Send completed form and payment to: ARL Publications Department #0692 Washington, DC 20073-0692 Make check or money order payable in US funds to: ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES (Federal ID #52-0784198-N) Purchase order # Credit card MC Visa Exp. date Acct # Acct holder Signature _____Establish an annual subscription TOTAL QUANTITY: TOTAL PRICE: SHIP TO: Name Address Phone Fax Email ________________________________________________________________________________ 19. 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