SIL NEWS DIGEST

New Regional Consortium

The Libraries is a founding member of the Chesapeake Information and Research Library Alliance CIRLA Board Members (from left) Susan Martin, Georgetown University, Mod Mekkawi, Howard University, Ann McLeod, University of Maryland, College Park, Barbara Smith, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Susan Bryteson, University of Delaware, James Neal, Johns Hopkins University.

CIRLA Board Members (from left) Susan Martin, Georgetown University, Mod Mekkawi, Howard University, Ann McLeod, University of Maryland, College Park, Barbara Smith, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Susan Bryteson, University of Delaware, James Neal, Johns Hopkins University.

(CIRLA), a consortium of six regional libraries formed to promote library service and cooperative activities. Founding members are Georgetown University, Howard University, Johns Hopkins University, Smithsonian Institution, University of Delaware, and University of Maryland College Park. CIRLA's overall goal is to enhance education and research at member institutions through collaborative development of library collection and service programs and expanding use of information technology. Director Barbara J. Smith serves as secretary-treasurer of the group.

Maria Sanjur, Curator

Library Hall Exhibition

"Conquistadores del Cielo (Conquerors of the Sky): Latin American Aeronautical Materials in the National Air and Space Museum Branch Library" is up through June 1996. The exhibition topics cover "Pioneers of Aviation," "Commercial Aviation," and "Aviation and Nationalism."

150th Bookmark

The Libraries is distributing bookmarks to celebrate the 150th anniversary year. Printed on acid-free lightweight paper, the bookmark carries a "bright idea" image from the 1883 The Edison System of Incandescent Lighting, one of the 300,000 pieces in the Libraries' collection of trade catalogs. These souvenirs are available at the circulation desks of all 18 branch libraries and are being distributed throughout 1996 with each piece of interlibrary loan material sent from the Libraries.

IN BRIEF

Every month more than 40,000 users and browsers visit SIL's online catalog, while the Libraries' Home Page on the World Wide Web provides researchers with substantive reference help, providing links to subject specialty resources from the 5 branch libraries which already have their own Home Pages. Visitors to the Libraries' Home Page will also find the online version of the Libraries' exhibition, Science and the Artist's Book, as well as the network version of the semi-annual illustrated newsletter, Information, #79.

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