ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries N ovem ber 1983 / 375 strategies for dealing with the major difficulties al­ ready detailed and may offer to help the new li­ brarian adjust to a foreign city. Handling all library routines singlehandedly, coping with a different kind of librarian/patron re­ lationship, and adjusting to foreign ways— these are the major problems that challenge the overseas librarian. Our overseas librarians also have cher­ ished memories of wandering the ancient roads of Pompeii, attending symphonies conducted by Zu­ bin Mehta or Riccardo Muti, examining illumi­ nated manuscripts at the great Biblioteca Medicea- Laurenziana (with its Michelangelo staircase), and enjoying many other events of cultural enrich­ m ent. But it is professional en rich m en t— the broadening of professional experience— that has been the most constant, and perhaps the most im­ portant, benefit derived by all the librarians who have managed the Florence branch library of Flor­ ida State University. ■ ■ ACRL Seeks Volunteers for Offices and Committees Would you like to run for an ACRL office or vol­ unteer for appointment to an ACRL standing com­ mittee? Are you interested in seeking office in an ACRL section or being considered for appointment to a section committee? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, here is how you proceed. ACRL P r e s i d e n t The A C R L Appointments and Nominations Committee will nominate candidates for the office of ACRL vice-president/president-elect at the Jan ­ uary 1984 Midwinter meeting of ALA. The elec­ tion for this office will be held in the spring of 1985. The winner of the election will serve as vice- president/president-elect during 1985-86 and as president of ACRL during 1986-87. If you wish to be considered for nomination to this office or if you would like to submit names for consideration, con­ tact the chair of the Appointments and Nomina­ tions Committee, Mary Reichel, Head, Reference Department, Pullen Library, Georgia State Uni­ versity, 100 Decatur Street, Atlanta, GA 30303. ACRL C o m m i t t e e s A CRL has eighteen standing committees to which appointments may be made: Academic or Research Librarian of the Year Award Committee, Academic Status Committee, Appointments and Nominations Committee, Audiovisual Commit­ tee, Budget and Finance Committee, Conference Program Planning Committee, Constitution and Bylaws Committee, Continuing Education Com- mittee Copyright Committee, Doctoral Disserta- tion Fellowship Committee Legislation Commit- te e , M em bership C o m m ittee , N ation al Conference C om m ittee, Planning C om m itte Publications Committee, Samuel Lazerow Fellow­ ship C om m ittee, Standards and A ccreditation Committee, and the Supplemental Funds Com- mittee. To learn about the areas of responsibility covered by these committees, see the A LA H an d ­ b o o k o f O rganization 1983-84. ' When selected vacancies occur on ACRL stand­ ing committees, the Appointments and Nomina­ tions Committee recommends to the president­ elect of ACRL the names of members who might fill the vacancies. The president-elect makes the fi­ nal appointments. If you are interested in being considered for appointment to an ACRL commit­ tee, you should complete the ACRL Committee Volunteer Form that is included in this issue of C &R L N ew s and mail it to Mary Reichel, chair of the Appointments and Nominations Committee, before January 1, 1984. ACRL S e c t i o n O f f i c e r s A CRL has thirteen sections (their names are listed later in this article). You will find a descrip­ tion of their areas of responsibility in the ALA H a n d b o o k o f O rganization. The chair-elect of a section appoints the chair and members of all section com m ittees when scheduled vacancies on these committees occur. If you would like to be considered for appointment as chair or member of a section committee, fill out the ACRL Committee Volunteer Form and mail it to the chair-elect of the appropriate section (see “Peo­ ple to Contact” below) before January 1, 1984. E d i t o r i a l B o a r d s ACRL has five editorial boards: the C h o ice Edi­ torial Board, the C olleg e & R esearch L ib ra ries Ed ­ itorial Board, the C olleg e & R esearch L ibraries N ew s Editorial Board, the N onprint M edia P ubli­ cations Editorial Board, and the P ublication s in L i ­ brarian ship Editorial Board. When a vacancy oc­ curs on an editorial board, the editor recommends the name of a person to fill the vacancy. The Publi­ cations Committee must approve the recommen­ dation. The ACRL Board must give its approval, and finally the president of ACRL makes the ap­ pointment. If you would like to be considered for appoint­ ment to an editorial board, contact the editor of the 376 / C &R L News ACRL COMMITTEE VOLUNTEER FORM If you are interested in serving on an A CRL standing committee, please complete this form and mail it before the ALAi Midwinter Meeting to: M ary Reichel, Head, Reference Department, Pullen Library, Georgia State University, 100 Decatur S t., Atlanta, GA 30303. If you would like to serve on an ACRL section committee, send this form to the appropriate section vice-chair/chair-elect before the ALA Midwinter Meeting NAME, T IT L E , IN STITU TIO N A L ADDRESS P R E F E R R E D M AILING ADDRESS D A TE O F A P P L IC A T IO N ____________________ NUM BER O F YEARS AS M EM BER O F A L A ________A C R L ______________________________________ ACADEM IC BACKGROUND (List institutions, dates of degrees, and relevant subject areas) PRO FESSIO N A L A C T IV IT IE S ALA or ACRL Committee Assignments State and Regional Committee Assignments ALA or A CRL Offices Held State and Regional Offices Held Publications Other A CRL C O M M IT T E E P R E F E R E N C E S R EL E V A N T BACKGROUND OR E X P E R IE N C E FO R C O M M IT T E E ASSIGNMENT Can you attend regularly the ALA Midwinter and Annual conferences? Y E S ___ N O ___ (Members of A CRL committees are expected to attend all meetings. Failure to attend two in a row may constitute grounds for removal.) PLEA SE EX PR ESS YOUR MAJOR CONCERNS FO R STREN G TH EN IN G TH E ASSOCIATION O F C O L L E G E AND RESEA RCH L IB R A R IE S: N ovem ber 1983 / 377 publication (see “People to Contact” below). Remember that at any given time there are only a limited number of vacancies on A C R L’s commit­ tees, sections, and editorial boards. If at first you don’t succeed in obtaining an appointment, try again. Make yourself known to committee chairs by sitting in on meetings, volunteering to help with committee projects, etc. If committee chairs see that you are interested in the work of their commit­ tees, they may recommend your name to the ap­ propriate appointing body when a vacancy occurs. P e o p l e t o C o n t a c t A n thropology an d Sociology Section Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Bonnie R. Nelson, As­ sistant Professor, Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 445 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10012. Nominating Committee: Chair, Linda Katzoff- Grodofsky, 7305 Woodcrest Avenue, Philadel­ phia, PA 19151; Chris D. Ferguson, Social Sciences B ib lio g rap h er, U niversity L ib ra ry , P .O . Box 19557, University of California, Irvine, CA 92713; Hazel Marie Johnson, 4628 Bayard Street #407, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Art Section Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: GraceAnne A. DeCan- dido, 716 East 235th Street, Bronx, NY 10466. Asian an d A frican Section V ice-C hair/ C hair-Elect: M artha Dukas, 26 Greymere Road, Brighton, MA 02135. Nominating Committee: Chair, Basima Q. Be- zirgan, 5000 South C ornell, 7-B , C hicago, IL 60615; Rosalie C. Amer, 5524 Caleb Avenue, Sac­ ramento, CA 95819; Victoria K. Evalds, 83 Ken­ wood Street, Brookline, MA 02146. B ib lio g ra p h ic Instruction Section Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: William Miller, Michi­ gan State University Libraries, East Lansing, MI 48824. Nominating Committee: Chair, Judy Reynolds, 2435 Cottle Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125. C olleg e L ib ra ries Section Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: W illiam A. M offett, Director of Libraries, Oberlin ’College, Oberlin, OH 44074. C om m u n ity an d Ju n ior C o lleg e L ib ra ries Section Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Elinor Ebeling, 228 Clubhouse Drive, Middletown, NJ 07748. Nominating Committee: Chair, Laura D. Fury, 1124 Pennsylvania Avenue #5, Ashtabula, OH 44004; Jane L. Crocker, Director, Library Media C enter, Gloucester County College, Tanyard Road, Sewell, NJ 08080; Gloria Terwilliger, D i­ rector, Learning Resources, Alexandria Campus, Northern Virginia Community College, 3001 N. Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311. E d u cation an d B eh a v io ra l Sciences Section Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Thomas M. Peischel, Director of College Libraries, State University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY 13676. Nominating Committee: Chair, Hannelore B. Rader, Director of the Library Learning Center, U niversity of W isconsin-Parkside, Box 2 0 0 0 , Kenosha, W I 53141; David L. Legel, Bibliogra­ pher, University of Rochester Libraries, Rochester, NY 14627; Ilene F. Rockman, 2480 Coburn Lane #2, Pismo Beach, CA 93449. L a w an d P olitical Science Section Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Peter P. Malanchuk, 2510 N .W . 90th Terrace, Gainesville, F L 32606. R are B ooks an d M anuscripts Section Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Lynda Corey Claasen, Head, Department of Special Collections, Central University Library, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093. Nominating Committee: Chair, Joan M. Fried­ man, 178 Linden Street, New Haven, C T 06511; Ann S. Gwyn, Assistant Library Director for Spe­ cial Collections, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218; William L. Joyce, 433 W olf’s Lane, Pelham Ma­ nor, NY 10803; Thomas F. W right, L ibrarian, William Andrews Clark Library, 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018. Science an d T ech n olog y Section Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Linda L. Phillips, Act­ ing Head, Undergraduate Library, University of Tennessee, 1015 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996. Nominating Committee: Chair, Martin A. Kes- selman, Science Library, Coles Science Center, New York University, New York, NY 10012. Slavic an d East E u rop ean Section V ice-C hair/ C hair-E lect: Laszlo L . Kovacs, 2051 Robinhood Lane, West Lafayette, IN 47906. University L ib ra ries Section Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Cynthia B. Duncan, Dean of Library Services, Old Dominion Univer­ sity, Norfolk, VA 23508. Nominating Committee: Chair, Ralph E . Rus­ sell, University Librarian, Georgia State Univer­ sity, 100 Decatur Street, S .E ., Atlanta, GA 30303; Kenneth G. Peterson, Dean of Library Affairs, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Car- bondale, IL 62901; Allene F. Schnaitter, P.O . Box 2337 C .S ., Pullman, WA 99163; Julia A. Woods, 11243 North Kendall Drive, F -208, Miami, F L 33176. W estern E u rop ean Specialists Section Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Ross W . Atkinson, 141 378 / C &R L News Grand Avenue Court, Iowa City, IA 52242. N o m in atin g C o m m ittee : C h a ir, C . R oger Davis, Bibliographer, Sm ith College L ib ra ry , Northampton, MA 01063; James M. Campbell, 1626 Oxford Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903. E d ito ria l B oards C h o ice Editor: Rebecca D. Dixon, C h o ic e, 100 Riverview Center, Middletown, C T 06475. C o lleg e & R esearch L ib ra ries Editor Designate: Charles Martell, Associate University Librarian for Public Services, California State University, Sacra­ mento, 200 Jed Smith Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95819. C o lle g e & R e s e a r c h L ib r a r ie s N ew s E d itor: George M. Eberhart, ACRL/ALA, 50 E . Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. A C R L N o n p rin t M e d ia P u b lic a tio n s E d itor: Jean W . Farrington, Assistant Head, Circulation, Van Pelt L ib ra ry , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104. A C R L P u blication s in L ib ra ria n sh ip Editor: Ar­ thur P. Young, Dean of Libraries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881. ■ ■ M A R T E L L T O BE C & R L E D IT O R Charles Martell J r ., associate university librar­ ian for public services at California State Univer­ sity, Sacram ento, has been selected as the next editor of C o lleg e & R e ­ s e a r c h L i b r a r i e s . He will work with the retir­ ing e d ito r, C . Jam es Schmidt, as editor desig­ n ate for th e next six m onths, then w ill as­ sume full responsibility for the jo u rn a l beg in ­ ning with the July 1984 issue. M artell, whose pro­ file appeared in the Sep­ te m b e r 1983 C & R L C harles M artell, Jr. N ew s, has an extensive publication record. He is author of T h e C lie n t-C e n te r e d A c a d e m ic L i ­ b r a r y : An O rg a n iz a tio n a l M o d e l (Greenwood Press, 1983) and many articles on library manage­ ment, including: “Q W L Strategies: Trust, Sub­ tlety, & Intim acy,” Jou rn al o f A c a d em ic L ib r a r i­ a n s h ip , M ay 1 9 8 3 ; “ W ork E n ric h m e n t in Academic Libraries,” Jo u rn a l o f A c a d em ic L ib r a r ­ ian ship, January 1983; and “Improving the E ffec­ tiveness of Libraries Through Improvements in the Q uality of W orking L if e ,” C &R L , Septem ber 1981. He is currently the series editor for a “Quality of Work Life” column that appears in the Jou rn al o f A c a d em ic L ib r a r ia n s h ip . HH U P D A T E ON STA TISTICS SOU RCES Several people have written about the article on academic library statistics that appeared in C ir R L N ew s, July/August 1983, pp.2 2 1 ,2 2 4 -2 5 , and have recommended additional statistical sources. E .J. Josey wrote from the New York State L i­ brary about a publication he edits with Alice L. Britenbaker, A D irectory o f C o lleg e a n d University L ib ra ries in N ew York State. Pages 127-220 are statistical tables covering 266 academic libraries. The most recent edition available is the 14th (1981) with statistical data for FY 1980. The 1982 edition is now at the printers and can be ordered from the New York State Library, Library Development, Albany, NY 12230. The ISSN is 0070-5276. James O. W allace wrote from the Texas Library Association that the Texas State Library has pub­ lished T exas A c a d e m ic L ib r a r y S tatistics since 1977. T he current issue contains statistics for 1981-82 for 142 institutions, both public and pri­ vate. The ISSN is 0276-458X. Claude Bonnelly of the University of Laval wrote that the Library Subcommittee of the Con­ ference of Rectors and Principals of Quebec Uni­ versities created in 1977 a Statistics Task Force of which he is currently president. The Task Force de­ signed a questionnaire which was used by the 18 li­ braries for the first time in 1979-80. Since then the questionnaire has been distributed annually. Re­ cently, Statistics Canada has agreed to cooperate in the compilation and publication of this data. A his­ tory of this project is given in a paper which Bon­ nelly presented at the 1982 IFL A meeting in Mon­ treal entitled, “Standardization of Statistics: The Experience of the Quebec University Libraries.” For more information, contact Claude Bonnelly, Assistant Chief Librarian , University of Laval, Quebec, Canada G1K 7P4. The American Association of Law Libraries has for many years published statistics on law school li­ braries in their L a w L ib ra ry Jou rn al. The most re­ cent data published wa s for 1979-80 in volume 74, number 2 (Spring 1981). Since then there has been discussion of publishing the data somewhere else, though it would appear that the most recent deci­ sion is to continue to publish it in the L a w L ib ra ry Jou rn al. Data for 1981-82 has been submitted to the Jo u rn a l but it is not known when or if it will be published. For further information, contact the N ational Statistics Coordinator of the A A LL, David Thomas, Law Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602. Pat Bush, management librarian at the North­ western University Library, mentioned that the College and University Business Librarians Round T able of the Special Libraries Association pub­ lishes statistics on academic business libraries. The most recent edition of C o lleg e a n d University Busi­ ness L ib r a r y Statistics is the fourth and covers