Dear Everyone:
One Idea: Vote in the American Library Association Elections (to 4/26) for
accessibility advocates (for instance, ALA Council Candidates who are ASCLA
members; see: http://www.ala.org/ascla/candidates4council.html).
The following partial description of my platform is NOT a solicitation, but
just a point of fact.
1. A for Accessibility. Accessibility, relevant to everyone and all types of
libraries and information centers, on the very top of ALA's agenda.
2. Full implementation/practice of ALA's Accessibility Policy - applicable to
ACRL too. See: http://www.ala.org/ascla/access_policy.html. This policy's
Paragraph
"9. ALA Publications and Communications: All ALA publications, including books,
journals, and correspondence, must be available in alternative formats
including electronic text. The ALA Web site must conform to the currently
accepted guidelines for accessibility, such as those issued by the World Wide
Web Consortium."
3. Increased cooperation, sharing among all ALA components. Like the ALA ASCLA
Division that originated ALA's Accessibility Policy and the leader in ALA in
promoting accessibility, ACRL and all other components of ALA also need to be
full-time proponents and practitioners of accessibility.
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Ellen Perlow
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> A comment to the announcement below:
> "Fostering cost-effective alternative means of publishing, especially
> those that take advantage of electronic information technologies..."
> This certainly is a laudable initiative. I just wonder whether
> accessibility for everyone is part of the picture.
> Is anyone on this list involved in this or similar initiatives (such as
> SPARC)? Is access for all being considered? If not, any ideas of how we
> can get our voices heard in these groups?
> Axel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alison Buckholtz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:26 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: ACRL's new scholarly communication initiative
> NEWS
> For Immediate Release
> Contact: Mary Ellen K. Davis
> April 9, 2002
> 312-280-3248
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> ACRL begins scholarly communication initiative
> Prioritizes plans for education, advocacy, coalition-building, research
> (CHICAGO) - The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
> announced today that it will embark on a three-year scholarly
> communications initiative as one of its highest strategic priorities.
> Addressing issues critical to the future of all academic libraries,
> the association will work to reshape the current system of scholarly
> communications, focusing in the areas of education, advocacy,
> coalition building and research. Broad goals of the initiative
> include creating increased access to scholarly information; fostering
> cost-effective alternative means of publishing, especially those that
> take advantage of electronic information technologies; and
> encouraging scholars to assert greater control over scholarly
> communications.
> "The librarian-faculty relationship is the cornerstone of the
> academic library system," said ACRL President Mary Reichel. "When
> librarians and faculty work together to improve the scholarly
> communication system, everyone benefits. ACRL's leadership role in
> the academic library community means that it has a unique role to
> play in improving access to scholarly information, and this new
> initiative provides a framework for our ongoing efforts."
> Beginning with the American Library Association (ALA) Annual
> Conference in June 2002, ACRL will establish a standing committee on
> scholarly communications. The committee will be responsible for
> coordinating the association's scholarly communications activities,
> under the general direction of the ACRL board. ACRL also will create
> a discussion group to encourage member participation on scholarly
> communications issues, and a visiting program officer will be hired
> to work on implementing plans.
> ACRL's board of directors voted in January 2002 to begin the
> scholarly communications initiative, based on the report of a
> scholarly communications task force chaired by Ray English, Director
> of Libraries at Oberlin College. The task force sought broad input
> from ACRL members regarding their assessment of the importance of
> scholarly communications issues and the role ACRL could play in
> addressing them.
> Further information regarding this initiative will be announced in
> the May 2002 issue of College & Research Libraries News.
> ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America
> that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique
> needs of academic librarians. ACRL's 1,000 members are comprised of
> individuals from a wide range of academic institutions, publishers
> and vendors who sell in the academic marketplace. ACRL enhances the
> effectiveness of academic and research librarians to advance
> learning, teaching and research in higher education. More
> information about ACRL's programs and services can be located on the
> Web at www.ala.org/acrl.html. ACRL is a division of the ALA.
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