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 | University of Maryland's Lowry Named ARL Executive Director
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Board of Directors has appointed Charles B. Lowry as the next executive director of the association, effective July 1, 2008. Since 1996, Lowry has been the dean of libraries at the University of Maryland (UM), a major library system serving over 35,000 students, faculty, and staff. Lowry's appointment, however, is only for a limited, three year period. He will step down from his deanship at Maryland and take a leave of absence to lead ARL for the next three years. When his term concludes, he will return to a post in UM's iSchool, where he holds a tenured professorship.
"My decision to offer only three years was fundamentally related to my desire to return to the College of Information Studies at UM to teach and conduct my research," Lowry told the LJ Academic Newswire, adding that he was grateful UM president Dan Mote was allowing him a "very generous" extended leave. "In addition, the ARL board and I are in strong agreement that my tenure will be shaped around two major tasks: refreshing the ARL strategic plan and supporting a national search for my successor," Lowry added. "We see these as eminently achievable within the three-year framework." The ARL board, meanwhile, also expressed its appreciation to UM administrators for making it possible for Lowry to take on the job.
Lowry takes over for the retiring Duane Webster, who began at ARL in 1970 and has led the organization since 1988, when he was appointed interim executive director, taking the permanent position officially in 1989. Webster will be honored at a reception at the 152nd ARL Membership Meeting, May 20-23, 2008, in Coral Gables, FL.
Lowry brings considerable library and administrative experience to the position. Within ARL, he has served on numerous committees, and he was elected by the membership to serve on the ARL Board of Directors for 2005 to 2008. His library positions prior to becoming dean at UM include director of libraries at the University of Texas at Arlington (1985-92) and at the University of South Alabama in Mobile (1980-85), and head librarian and director of learning resources at Elon College, NC (1978-80). He has also served on the boards of SOLINET and Amigos, OCLC advisory committees, and chaired state consortia.
Lowry said he was looking forward to taking the ARL helm at a time of "immense challenge for research libraries." Indeed, he joins ARL just as publishers have launched a federal lawsuit against Georgia State University over e-reserve practices. Asked if he will engage the e-reserve issue while leading ARL, Lowry told the Newswire that ARL has been "engaged with the issues surrounding copyright and fair use" for years and that he would "definitely engage these core issues as executive director."
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Public Librarian Tapped for Top Job at Nova Southeastern University
Lydia Acosta, director of the largest public library system in Louisiana, the East Baton Rouge Parish Library http://www.ebr.lib.la.us/, will return to a previous career track in academia by taking a job as VP of information services and university librarian at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Acosta told the Advocate that she'd be closer to family in Florida, and her boss said she'd be earning more money. She leaves Baton Rouge after some debate over whether the system should build a new main library downtown or keep it in the more central location at Independence Park.
Acosta and the library board in 2005 approved a plan for a downtown library, but citizens and political leaders resisted; Mayor and Parish President Kip Holden last year spurred a plan for a new main library at the current location and a new downtown branch, according to the Advocate. Acosta said her departure was not connected to the controversy; she had helped the library achieve a property tax renewal in 2004 and opened five new facilities.
The library, serving the state's capital city, has seen significant growth after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 displaced many residents from New Orleans and surrounding parishes. Acosta took the job in 2003; she had directed Fountaindale Library District, IL, and previously was dean of library and learning resources at Chicago State University. NSU's Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center is a joint-use facility that functions as the main library for the university and a branch for the Broward County Library.
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| Harvard Buys Papers of Norman Mailer's Mistress
An actress who claims she was the late Norman Mailer's mistress has sold her papers to Mailer's alma mater, Harvard University. According to the Associated Press, Carole Mallory, 66, saved "seven boxes" of materials collected from 1983 to 1992. The collection "contains Mallory's unpublished memoir, including a 20-page sex scene with Mailer, and a 50-page sex scene she said was based on her relationship with Mailer that she wrote for one of her books," which, she told reporters, Mailer had "challenged her to write that long." Harvard Library spokesperson Beth Brainard told the AP the school took possession of the papers within the last month but declined to say how much was paid for them. "It's important to have Mailer represented in some way in the collection," she told reporters. Mailer, died last November at 84. His papers reside at the University of Texas .
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| Library of the "Dead": UC Santa Cruz Lands Legendary Band's Massive Archive
The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) announced this week that the surviving members of legendary Bay Area band the Grateful Dead have decided to give the group's archives to the UCSC university library. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal the archive that will be transferred to UCSC, includes photos, artwork, press clippings, posters, letters, backstage passes, and other documents assembled by the band over 30 years, as well as memorabilia sent to the group by fans. It will not include, however, the band's massive archive of live recordings. A press conference is set for today-at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco-to announce the gift. According to the Wall Street Journal, band members also considered Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley, before settling on UCSC, located just south of San Francisco.
This isn't the first time the Grateful Dead members have teamed up with UCSC. Last year, the Rex Foundation, founded by the Grateful Dead and friends in 1984, and the Unbroken Chain Foundation, established in 1997 by Phil and Nancy Lesh, each donated $10,000 to UCSC to support the Lou Harrison Archive in the Special Collections Library. That archive includes more than 600 reel-to-reel tapes that date as far back as 1949, and many unreleased personal copies of Harrison's performances.
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Best Sellers in Mathematics, August 2007-present, as compiled by YBP Library Services
(13 digit ISBNs in brackets)
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Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey
Pasles, Paul C.
Princeton University Press
2008. ISBN 0691129568 [9780691129563]. $26.95
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Smoot's Ear: The Measure of Humanity
Tavernor, Robert
Yale University Press
2007. ISBN 0300124929 [9780300124927]. $25.00
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Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
Netz, Reviel
Perseus
2007. ISBN 030681580x [9780306815805]. $27.50
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Story of Measurement
Robinson, Andrew
Thames & Hudson
2007. ISBN 0500513678 [9780500513675]. $34.95
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World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God
Mazzotti, Massimo
Johns Hopkins University
2007. ISBN 0801887097 [9780801887093]. $49.95
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Visual Thinking in Mathematics: An Epistemological Study
Giaquinto, M.
Oxford University Press
2007. ISBN 0199285942 [9780199285945]. $72.00
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Nets, Puzzles, And Postmen
Higgins, Peter M.
Oxford University Press
2007. ISBN 0199218420 [9780199218424]. $29.95
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Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences
Grosholz, Emily R.
Oxford University Press
2007. ISBN 0199299730 [9780199299737]. $63.00
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Cellular Automata: A Discrete View of the World
Schiff, Joel L.
John Wiley
2008. ISBN 047016879x [9780470168790]. $111.50
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Mathematical Thought and Its Objects
Parsons, Charles
Cambridge University Press
2008. ISBN 0521452791 [9780521452793]. $95.00
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History of Abstract Algebra
Kleiner, Israel
Birkhauser
2007. ISBN 0817646841 [9780817646844]. $49.95
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Multiparametric Statistics
Serdobolskii, Vadim I.
Elsevier
2008. ISBN 0444530495 [9780444530493]. $95.00
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Potential Flows of Viscous and Viscoelastic Fluids
Joseph, Daniel D.
Cambridge University Press
2008. ISBN 0521873371 [9780521873376]. $95.00
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Life Distributions: Structure of Nonparametric, Semiparametric, and Parametric Families
Marshall, Albert W.
Springer
2007. ISBN 0387203338 [9780387203331]. $89.95
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Thinking as Communicating: Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing
Sfard, Anna
Cambridge University Press
2008. ISBN 0521867371 [9780521867375]. $99.00
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Matrix Computations and Semiseparable Matrices; V. 1: Linear Systems
Vandebril, Raf
Johns Hopkins University
2008 ISBN 0801887143 [9780801887147]. $75.00
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Inference and Prediction in Large Dimensions
Bosq, Denis
John Wiley
2007. ISBN 0470017619 [9780470017616]. $105.00
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Algebra in the Early Grades
Kaput, James
Lawrence Erlbaum
2008. ISBN 080585472x [9780805854725]. $160.00
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Elementary Dirichlet Series And Modular Forms
Shimura, Goro
Springer
2007. ISBN 0387724737 [9780387724737]. $59.95
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40 Puzzles And Problems In Probablity And Mathematical Statistics
Schwarz, Wolfgang
Springer
2008. ISBN 0387735119 [9780387735115].
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