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LIBRARY UPDATEAsk. Explore. Discover.UPCOMING EVENTSBOOKS, BYTES AND BEYONDSFU Open House, May 26, 11:00 am -4:00 pm, WAC Bennett Library,www.lib.sfu.ca/openhouse (see p. 2).SFU authors eventVOL 18 NO 1 MAY 2012NORMAN & ALLAN SAFARIKwill read from their new book Bluebacksand Silver Brights:A Lifetime in theB.C.Fisheries from Bounty to Plunder.(Early October in the WAC BennettLibrary, exact time to be announced.)LIBRARY OPEN 24/7 AT EXAM TIMEResponding to a request from the SimonFraser Student Society, the BennettLibrary stayed open all night duringexam period, April 10-22. Meanwhilethe Fraser Library at SFU Surreyextended its evening and weekendservice hours from April 10-21.Unlike previous 24-hour exam openingsin December 1981 and April 1982,there were no reports of drinking andsmoking, just a whole lot of studyingfuelled by Red Bull and energy bars.Several hundred students used the BennettLibrary between midnight and 8ameach day during the extended openingperiod. Given the enthusiastic responsefrom students, the Library anticipatesremaining open 24 hours a day againduring future exam sessions.A large turnout marked the fifth annualcelebration of SFU authors hosted bythe Library on March 20th in the SpecialCollections and Rare Books division ofthe Bennett Library. University PresidentAndrew Petter welcomed attendees. Over100 authors had collectively produced 79books and 42 book chapters. There were atotal of 127 works by 107 authors, including77 faculty, 7 staff and 23 alumni. Someof the highlights included:• Rob Taylor’s The Other Side of Ourselves,the manuscript for which won the 2010Alfred G. Bailey Prize (in poetry).• Anne Salomon’s work Imam Cimiucia:Our Changing Sea won the AlaskaLibrary Association’s 2012 Alaskana ofthe Year Award.• Andrea Gieger’s Subverting Exclusion:Transpacific Encounters with Race, Casteand Borders, 1885-1928 won the 2012Theodore Saloutos Memorial BookAward of the Immigration and EthnicHistory Society.• David Scott Hamilton’s first originaltranslation of a work by Nelly Arcan wasa finalist for the 2011 Governor General’sLiterary Award for French to Englishtranslation.One of the special guests attendingthis year’s celebration was Alan Twigg,founder, publisher and owner of BCBookworld. He also manages the websiteABC BookWorld (abcbookworld.com) hosted by the SFU Library, whichcatalogues the works of nearly 10,000 BCauthors. Twigg says, “I see the support ofSFU as a clear example of the university’sremarkable dedication to learning.”Visit the Authors Event website for afull catalog of this year’s works: www.lib.sfu.ca/authors-event. •SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UPDATE MAY 2012 1

Grace McCarthy’sscrapbooksVideomatica documentariesnow in the SFU LibraryGrace McCarthy, a Social Credit MLA for morethan 22 years who became cabinet ministerand deputy-premier, has donated her scrapbooksto SFU Library Special Collections. Hermany successes are evident in the 88 volumes,which cover the larger part of her politicalcareer. The scrapbooks contain newspaperarticles, campaign literature, photographsand other materials. The archive of the SocialCredit Women’s Auxiliary was also donated. Itis a rich source of minutes books, Social Creditpublications, and numerous studies.LIBRARY OPEN HOUSE ACTIVITIESThe Library is at the heart of the university,supporting research and learning of faculty andstudents. On May 26 SFU Open house visitorscan relax in the Library’s lobby lounge, learnabout innovative Library projects, and tell uswhat they’re currently reading. Lobby, loungeor media screening room displays and activitiesinclude:• Rotating images from the Punk Rock andPostcards holdings in Special Collections• Pull up banners from Belzberg and Fraser• Quick fact sheet handouts from all threelibrary branches• Komagata Maru posters, postcards and avideo presentation• “What are you reading now? Electronic orprint?” interactive display• Children’s zone in lounge• Student Learning Commons display andactivitiesCataloguing division head Penny Swanson shows off one of almost 3000 documentaries.On October 31, 2011 Vancouver’s great4th Avenue video store, Videomatica,closed its doors for good. But for SFU,it was a new beginning. Then AssociateUniversity Librarian, Collections,Todd Mundle, along with several staff,spent a rainy Saturday in November atVideomatica boxing up thousands ofmovies for the Library’s media collection.“We got the documentaries andUBC got the rest,” says Mundle.“Because of the subject content, it willhave as good an application within anacademic environment as a collectionof feature films. We already have a lot ofdocumentaries, so this enhances whatwe’ve already collected.”Library staff are now matching theDVD disks and VHS tapes to theircases, which were kept separately and insome disorder. In all, about 2,300 DVDsand 500 VHS films were acquired. Sortingand cataloguing is expected to lastthrough most of 2012 with borrowingstarting in early 2013.As he was boxing them up, Mundlekept thinking to himself, hey I wanted tosee that. “Kings of Pastry caught my eye,for example. It’s an intense and exhilaratingfilm about four guys going for theirpastry chef certification in France. Thetitles are all over the map,” says Mundle.The owners of Videomatica originallyhad approached the VancouverPublic Library and asked them to takeover the collection, but it was so large,the public library could not afford it. Sothen UBC and SFU were approached.“From a cost perspective we could notafford the whole thing,” says Mundle.Library Dean Chuck Eckman andformer AUL for Collections Gwen Birdconducted the negotiations with UBCand the Videomatica owners. Eckmansays, “We could not think of a clear wayto make this a shared acquisition until[SFU Contemporary Arts filmmaker]Colin Browne mentioned that our filmprogram focused on documentaries. Atthat moment we knew this componentof the collection would be most appropriateto SFU’s interests.” UBC actuallytook 90% of the collection.Asked how she felt about UBCgetting the lion’s share, CataloguingDivision Head Penny Swanson said,“The feature films will all eventually beonline, but the documentaries, becauseof their very small distributions, maynever be online. And we’ve got them!” •2 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UPDATE MAY 2012

Library Distinguished Scholar in ResidenceJohn Willinsky, the father of the PublicKnowledge Project (PKP), will become SFULibrary’s inaugural Distinguished Scholar inResidence. Among other things, Willinskywill deliver an annual lecture and advise theLibrary on strategic initiatives in scholarlycommunications. Library Dean ChuckEckman says, “I am thrilled that wewere successful in formalizing JohnWillinsky’s relationship to SFU in multipleprogram areas. John’s leadershipin global scholarly communicationsis unparalleled, and his residency willhelp move the Library’s initiatives inthis area forward.”Willinsky and PKP are changingthe way scholarly communication isdone and the SFU Library is front andcentre in this new world of free OpenSource ePublishing. PKP is based atSFU, with UBC, Stanford U., the Universityof Pittsburgh and the CaliforniaDigital Library as partners.Willinsky will also have a threeyearappointment in SFU’s Masterof Publishing program within theCanadian Centre for Studies inPublishing. The Centre’s director,Rowland Lorimer, says, “The arrivalof John Willinsky engages SFU in thedevelopment of technology that, like Apple’snew iBooks Author, has the potential tochange the fundamentals of publishing.”Willinsky tends to see the goal in simplerterms: to make more of the knowledge thatuniversities produce freely available to thewider world. “Scholars need to avoid thetwo monastic sins of vanity and pride. Wejust want to make a little more of what weknow free to everyone,” he says.Currently Khosla Family Professor ofEducation at Stanford University, Willinskyalso has a home in Vancouver’s Kitsilanoneighbourhood. While at the Library,he will continue working on PKP, as wellas on a book currently entitled A Historyof the Intellectual Properties of Learning.He will also do some teaching.SFU’s relationship with Willinsky beganover 10 years ago, but in 2005, then headLibrarian Lynn Copeland and Associate UniversityLibrarian for Processing and SystemsBrian Owen officially brought PKP softwaredevelopment to the SFU Library.Since then, the team has developed manyfree publishing tools including Open JournalSystems, Open Conference Systems, OpenHarvester Systems, and the PKP Web ApplicationLibrary. All were created by contractprogrammers managed by SFU Library staff.PKP products have been installed by usersaround the world, with some choosing tohave the software hosted by the SFU Library.In fact, the Library now hosts over 350 internationalacademic journals on its servers.Brian Owen says Willinsky’s appointmentformalizes a very productive relationship.“In 2005 when we started, there wereabout 250 known installations of OpenJournal Systems (OJS); as of May 2012 thatnumber has passed 12,000 and appears tobe growing at the rate of 7-10 new OJS sitesevery day.”OJS improves the efficiency and securityof publishing a journal online. Willinskyand his team have been careful to keep theirsoftware compatible with internationalstandards. “Everything that’spublished is findable by Google,” saysLorimer. In recent years, reading toolswere added making the software aspowerful as any commercial solution.“But it’s all done in open source,” saysLorimer, so a wide community ofprogrammers can make changes.PKP is an enormous success, yetWillinksy has bigger plans. These includepreprint publishing and the additionof software that allows for collaborativewriting where people canprovide feedback as an article is beingwritten and reviewed prior to formalsubmission. “We’re already using it inthe Canadian Journal of Communicationand in Scholarly and ResearchCommunication,” says Lorimer, whois editor of those journals. “It’s all veryusable and slick.”According to Lorimer, Willinskywants to challenge the whole systemof scholarly publishing so that it need not bedependent entirely on commercial publishers.“With PKP it’s already possible to buildin sound, movie and image files. Now weare working on the development of mobileapplications,” he says.Willinsky sees the Public KnowledgeProject as a perfect fit with SFU, given theuniversity’s roots in the 1960s when it wasfirst known across the country as a radical,progressive institution. Lorimer characterizesWillinsky as the Steve Jobs of open sourceacademic publishing. “He’s not the programmer,but he understands what he wants andhe can talk to programmers and explain tothem what it should be. But he’s not as hardto get along with as Steve Jobs was.” •SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UPDATE MAY 20123

SUPPORTING THE HEART OF SFUArtist’s concept of new WAC Bennett Library entry.Plans are underway for some majorupgrades to the WAC Bennett Library,and thanks to our donors, we already havefunds ready. Over the past year, nearly 1,000people and organizations have donatedmore than $110,000 for library upgrades.WAC Bennett Library was built morethan 45 years ago, so upgrades are requiredto keep up with today’s students, researchers,and faculty who expect information24/7. Immediate revitalization plans are inplace to create vibrant and collaborativelearning spaces for students, faculty andthe community on the second and thirdfloors, including a new main entrance.Dean of Library Services and UniversityLibrarian Charles Eckman says,“The library is the heart of the university,a place where all alumni have spent timewriting papers, preparing for examsand working with friends. So it doesn’tsurprise me that donors have alwaysbeen so generous. I’m looking forwardto continuing our work with our friendsand supporters to improve resources, pilotnew services and enhance physical spacesto support learning and research.”It’s not too late for you to lend a hand.Contact Virginia Hong: 778.782.9341 orvirginia_hong@sfu.ca.SFU LIBRARY UPDATEPublished by SFU LibrarySimon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6778.782.6704 library@sfu.ca www.lib.sfu.caCharles Eckman, DeanBarry Shell, writer and editorCopyright © 2012 Permission granted toreproduce articles for SFU promotionalpurposes. Comments and suggestionswelcomed.ISSN 1929-316X (Print)ISSN 1929-3178 (Online)STAFF ADVANCEMENTS AND MOVESAssociate UniversityLibrarian (AUL) forCollections & ScholarlyCommunication ToddMundle accepted an appointmentas University Todd MundleLibrarian at Kwantlen PolytechnicUniversity effective May 1st, 2012. Toddcame to SFU in 1995, first as Head ofthe Interlibrary Loans and TelebookUnit, and then via a promotion in 1999to become Head of the CollectionsManagement Division. From 2002 to thepresent Todd has served as AUL.While SFU Librarylooks for a replacementfor Mundle, Patty Gallilee(Head, Acquisitions/Serials Division) willserve as Acting AUL for Patty GallileeCollections & Scholarly Communication.Don Taylor (Assistant Head, AccessServices) will serve as Acting Head,Acquisitions/Serials Division.Meanwhile, BaharakYousefi will become Headof the Fraser Library atSFU Surrey effective July1st. Yousefi comes to SFUfrom Capilano University Don Taylorwhere she is serving as electronicresources and liaison librarian. Yousefiis well known to the SFU community;prior to Capilano she served in theNEW LOOK FOR THE NEWSLETTERAs you may have noticed, this issue of theSFU Library Update has been redesigned.Josh Laidlaw of SFU’s Design Group createdthe new look.In addition, this is the first issue of LibraryUpdate that is published and distributedin both paper and electronic versions.We will continue to produce a paper versionof the newsletter, but those who wishto receive the latest issue automatically intheir email inboxes can now subscribe atwww.lib.sfu.ca/update. It’s free.SFU Library as a liaisonlibrarian. Her backgroundalso includes significantmanagement experience atChapters Bookstore. Yousefihas a record of success in Baharak Yousefideveloping innovative programming andengaging diverse communities in all ofher professional endeavours, includingher work as librarian at Vancouver PublicLibrary and with the social discoverysystem, Bibliocommons. Yousefi is anSFU alumna with an MA in Women’sStudies.Nicole White wasappointed coordinator ofthe Library’s new ResearchCommons in December2011. Since then Whitehas coordinated workshop Nicole Whiteofferings and the development of onlinetutorials under the Research Commonsbrand, as well as participating inprogram planning discussions with theOffice of Graduate Studies and otherpartners. A reorganization is bringingmore staff to the Research Commonsincluding the complex operations of theThesis Office. To reflect the increasingprofile of the Research Commons,White has been promoted to the rank ofDivision Head and her new title will beHead of the Research Commons. •To reduce costs and save trees weencourage fans of the Library to switch toour e-newsletter. Or you can downloadprintable versions of the paper newsletter.All issues of Library Update are availableas pdf files in the online archive at: www.lib.sfu.ca/whats-new/newsletter.Please subscribe to receive the newsletterby e-mail. And let us know if youhave any questions or comments aboutthe new look and feel: shell@sfu.ca. •4 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UPDATE MAY 2012