ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


LEGISLATION

The following bills are available and should 
be requested from your congressman: HR 6232, 
Higher Education Amendments of 1967 (Per­
kins Bill); Senate Bill Number 1122, Higher 
Education Amendments of 1967 (Morris Bill).

In a recent Washington Newsletter, the fol­
lowing statement was made: “The immediate 
future of library programs hinges almost en­
tirely on these Congressmen: Reps. Daniel J. 
Flood (D -Pa.), Chairman; William H. Natcher 
(D-Ky.); Neal Smith (D-Iowa); W. R. Hull, 
Jr., (D-Mo.); Bob Casey (D-Texas); Melvin 
R. Laird (R-Wisc.); Robert H. Michel (R-I1I.); 
and Garner E. Shriver (R-Kansas).” Many 
academic librarians have indicated the value 
of the Higher Education Legislation. Librarians 
are very aware of the value of this Legislation, 
but every librarian should be responsible for 
informing his congressman and senator of the 
importance of such Legislation. Your contact 
with your local representative becomes even 
more important with the beginning of the 90th 
Congress, which includes many new members 
who are unfamiliar with library programs.

ALA is quite proud of its Washington Office 
and the work which it has accomplished in 
providing extensive federal funds for library 
development. The effectiveness of this office 
is dependent on your extensive support.

LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 
WORKSHOP

A “first-of-its-kind” was held November 9-11, 
1966 at the Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia, when 
the Drexel Institute of Technology graduate 
school of library science sponsored a Library 
Association Administration Workshop. Attend­
ing the three-day session were representatives 
of seven national, two regional, two county, 
and nineteen state, provincial or district, li­
brary associations. Total attendance was fifty­
three.

Workshop sessions were concerned with a 
wide range of problems of concern to both 
volunteer officers and paid staff members of 
large and small library associations. Topics cov­
ered included the function, structure, and in­
fluence of professional associations and of 
library associations in particular, officer-staff re­
lationships, membership promotion and file 
maintenance, financial, tax and legal considera­
tions, publications, meetings, exhibits and ad­

vertising, and legislation. Education, placement, 
standards, consultation, intellectual freedom, 
censorship, and recruitment were considered in 
small discussion circles.

A workshop advisory council was composed 
of Nancy Blundon, executive secretary, Pennsyl­
vania Library Association; David Brunton, ex­
ecutive secretary, California Library Associa­
tion; Alphonse Trezza, associate executive di­
rector, American Library Association; John 
Harvey, dean and Margaret Warrington, ad­
ministrative assistant, Drexel; and Bill Woods, 
executive director, Special Libraries Associa­
tion, chairman.

Conference proceedings will be published by 
Drexel during the summer of 1967 in the form 
of a manual of library association administra­
tion, the first such instructional manual to be 
issued. This volume will be part of the Drexel 
Library School Series for which a standing 
order may be placed. All orders should be sent 
to the Book Store, Drexel Institute of Technol­
ogy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.

ISAD PRECONFERENCE

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A Preconference Institute on Library Aut
mation, sponsored by ALA’s Information Sc
ence and Automation Division, will be hel
June 22-24 in San Francisco’s Civic Auditoriu
to review the state-of-the-art of library aut
mation today and the prospects for the futur
Individual sessions will concentrate on parti
ular areas of library automation, identifying th
general types of systems which are now ope
ating in each area and discussing particula
systems as examples or exceptions. Speaker
scheduled for such sessions include Josep
Becker, Wesley Simonton, Barbara Markuso
Henriette Avram, C. D. Gull, Charles Bourn
Bruce Stewart, Kelley Cartwright, and Conni
Dunlap. The Institute will also feature a hal
day’s instruction in library systems analysis b
Edward Chapman and Paul St. Pierre, fo
which a manual of systems analysis will b
furnished free to each registrant. Exhibits b
data processing equipment manufacturers wi
demonstrate actual library systems or provid
“hands-on” experience for Institute attendees

The registration fee is $20, and registratio
is limited to 900. For further information
write to Preconference Institute on Librar
Automation, American Library Association
50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611
Deadline for registrations is June 5.

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