ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
NAMED FOR FREED O M  TO 

READ FOUNDATION

The Executive Board of the American L i­
brary Association has designated eight persons 
to serve on the Board of Trustees of the new 
Freedom to Read Foundation, announced Wil­
liam S. Dix, ALA President. They will serve 
until elections are held this spring.

Those appointed as trustees are Alex P. Al­
lain, Trustee, St. Mary Parish Library, Frank­
lin, Louisiana; Sanford Cobb, Vice-President, 
General Manager, and Editor-in-Chief, Trade 
Publishing Division, Rand McNally & Com­
pany, Chicago; Robert B. Downs, Dean, Li­
brary Administration, University of Illinois, Ur- 
bana; Mrs. Jacqualyn K. Eubanks, Reference 
Librarian, Brooklyn College Library, New York; 
LeRoy C. Merritt, Dean, School of Librarian­
ship, University of Oregon, Eugene; Mrs. Car­
rie C. Robinson, School Libraries Consultant, 
State Department of Education, Montgomery, 
Alabama; Joseph H. Reason, Director, How­
ard University Libraries, Washington; and 
C. Lamar Wallis, Director, Public Library, 
Memphis, Tennessee.

Seven other trustees serve on the board by 
virtue of their office in the American Library 
Association: William S. Dix, President of ALA,

and Librarian, Princeton University Library, 
Princeton, New Jersey; Mrs. Lillian M. Brad­
shaw, First Vice-President and President-Elect, 
ALA, and Director, Public Library, Dallas, 
Texas; David H. Clift, Executive Director, 
ALA; Edwin Castagna, Chairman of the In­
tellectual Freedom Committee of ALA, and 
Director, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, 
Maryland; Mrs. Sophie Silberberg, Chairman 
of the Intellectual Freedom Subcommittee of 
ALA’s American Library Trustee Association, 
and member of the staff of Thomas Y. Crowell 
Publishing Company, New York City; Gerald 
B. Hubble, Chairman, ALA Junior Members 
Round Table, and Director, Stephens College 
Library, Columbia, Missouri; and Julius R. 
Chitwood, President of ALA’s Library Admin­
istration Division, and Director, Public Library 
and Northern Illinois Library System, Rock­
ford, Illinois.

The formation of the Freedom to Read 
Foundation was announced recently. Its pur­
poses are to promote freedom of speech and of 
the press, to promote acceptance of libraries as 
repositories of the world’s accumulated wisdom 
and knowledge, and to support the right of li­
braries to include in their collections and make 
available any creative work legally acquired. 
The Foundation may also supply legal counsel 
and support to libraries and librarians suffer­
ing legal injustices because of their support of 
freedom of speech and of the press.

T H E  P O L IT IC S  O F  D O O M S D A Y

Concentrating on the careers of Carl McIntire,
B illy Jam es Hargis, Edgar C. Bundy, and Verne P. 
Kaub, Erling Jo r s ta d  studies the rise, appeal, and 
influence of ultrafundamentalism and its alliance 
with the political far right. $4.95

A  H IS T O R Y  O F  C H R IS T IA N  T H O U G H T

Vol. 1, From the Beginning to the Council of 
Chalcedon in A.D. 451. J u s to  L. G onzalez. This is 
the first of a three-volume series designed for 
classroom use. $9

R E L IG IO N  IN  C O M M U N IS T  C H I N A

R ichard C. Bush, Jr ., documents the fate of 
religious institutions under the Chinese Communist 
regime and shows how belief in Communism 
displaces religious belief. $9.50

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There are two ways to keep abreast 
of the 2 0 ,000 new English Language 
books that come out each year.
The old w ay: Read tens of thousands of listings and ads.

The new w ay: Use the unique Books-Coming-Into-Print Service 
from Bro-D art's Stacey's Division.

Books-Coming-Into-Print is a computer­
operated advance notification and acquisi­
tion program which allows your library to 
profile its needs in specific disciplines. It 
gives you notification, continuations, and 
automatic shipment of books on approval.

This is much more than an approval pro­
gram.

Our Stacey's Division, the nation's lead­
ing academic bookseller, will classify and 
organize over 20,000 titles a year of interest 
to your library.

Then there's the matter of our computer 
and the Thesaurus we provide you with. By 
using our Thesaurus and your specifications 
you pin point the exact type of books you'll 
be interested in, regardless of how broad or 
narrow your areas of special interest or the 
academic level desired. By carefully profil­
ing your needs, you'll be receiving books or 
information about only those publications 
that would be of special interest to your 
library. That's the advantage of dealing 
with a computer.

The Books-Coming-Into-Print Program 
will provide you with an advance notice 
card prior to publication for each title which 
fits your profile. If you, for any reason, 
don't want the book, all you have to do is 
return the computerized card. And we won't

send you the book. If, on publication, the 
book is not appropriate to your profile, you 
will receive a rejection notice with explana­
tion. O f course, all shipments are "on 
approval."

Remember, you'll be dealing with one 
source for books from all publishers. The 
Books-Coming-Into-Print Program applies 
to all English language books, continua­
tions, and monographs by commercial and 
non-commercial publishers. In the humani­
ties. O r the sciences.

Then, since you'll be dealing with Bro- 
Dart, you'll have the option of getting your 
books with a full variety of supplemental 
cataloging and processing services.

Since you'll be given advance notice 
about each new book, the system is com­
patible with your present way of ordering 
monographs and continuations.

And what you'll have is an "o n  order" 
file which your library can use for ordering, 
reference, or cancellations.

Naturally, your library will receive com­
petitive discounts. Rapid service. And ac­
curate selections.

Much easier than reading all those ads 
and listings.

For additional information on this excit­
ing new service, write: Dept. CRL-786

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