ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 558 / C&RL News College Library, first published in 1944, soon be­ came the vade mecum for all college librarians; its fourth edition came out in 1974. Lyle now resides in Decatur, Georgia. A. P. Marshall pioneered library instruction in the 1960s and 1970s, obtained one of the first pres­ tigious five-year grants from the Council on Li­ brary Resources and the National Endowment for the Humanities for a library outreach program at Eastern Michigan University, and in 1971 assisted in the foundation of the national clearinghouse for library orientation and instruction, Project LOEX, which continues as the national center for informa­ tion about library orientation and instruction. Marshall was named professor emeritus at the time of his retirement from Eastern Michigan Univer­ sity. He still resides in Ypsilanti, Michigan. L aw rence C lark Pow ell— a u th o r, bib lio g ra­ pher, bookman, essayist, librarian, teacher, dean, and adm inistrator—played a major role in turning the UCLA library into one of world caliber. He was also instrumental in launching the UCLA li­ brary school. Upon his retirement from UCLA, Po­ well served for 15 years as professor in residence at the library and library school of the University of Arizona. Powell resides in Tucson, Arizona. Joseph Reason spent 33 years at H ow ard Univer­ sity, including 24 years as director of libraries, and was responsible for turning it into a major research library adm itted to the Association of Research Li­ braries (the first and only predominantly black in­ stitution to have been honored with this member­ ship). Reason is the only person to have served as both president (1971-1972) and acting executive director (1962-1963) of ACRL. He has remained active in his retirem ent, serving as vice-chair of the Legislative Task Force of th e Florida State Li­ brary, as a member of the Leon City, Florida, Pub­ lic Library Roard, as a trustee of Eckerd College, and as a visiting professor at the School of Library and Information Science at Florida State Univer­ sity. He currently resides in Tallahassee, Florida. Eileen Thornton directed both the Vassar Col­ lege Library, the Oberlin College Library, and Oberlin Public Library. She was the first woman director of Oberlin’s library despite the school’s dis­ tinction of being the first coeducational college in America. Thornton served as president of two ALA divisions: ACRL in 1957-1958 and the Library Ad­ ministration Division (now LAMA) in 1967-1968. Thornton still resides in Oberlin, Ohio. James O . W allace directed the library of his alma m ater, San Antonio College, for 35 years un­ til his retirement in 1985, when he was named di­ rector of learning resources emeritus. Wallace was extraordinarily active in professional organiza­ tions. He served as president of the Texas Library Association in 1983-1984 and was named Texas Li­ b ra ria n of the Year in 1969. He served on the ACRL Board of Directors for nine years, chaired the Community and Junior College Libraries Sec­ tion for two separate terms, and served on th at sec­ tion’s Executive Committee for 16 years. He con­ tr ib u te d s ig n ific a n tly to th e d e v e lo p m en t of standards for two-year learning resources pro­ grams and currently serves as chair of the commit­ tee that is revising those standards. He continues to reside in San Antonio, Texas, where he is just com­ pleting a two-year term as president of the Friends of the San Antonio Public Library. These ten individuals were selected by an ACRL committee chaired by Carla Stoffle, University of Michigan. Other members of the committee in­ cluded: Evan Ira Farber (Earlham College), Rose­ mary Henderson (Coffeyville Community College) and P. Grady Morein (University of West Flor­ ida). ■ ■ ACRL executive summary At the Dallas Conference, we hope, the O perat­ ing Agreement issue will have been settled for a while. The manifold revisions have been distilled into something division leaders and staff and the COPES can live with. The negotiations have been alternately hot and cold, but in the end we have a r­ rived at a document th at is acceptable to all. Nei­ ther ALA nor the divisions are “w inners,” yet in coming to agreement, we all win. ALA will recoup more of its indirect costs than in the past, but will still have major overhead expenses that are not re­ covered. Divisions will pay much more in overhead to ALA, but will have some phase-in time to plan for implementation. A delicate balance has been achieved as we go to Dallas; we are all hoping for the best at the Conference. Professional development Once again, CJCLS will be holding a telecon­ ference. This one, scheduled for November 15, 1989, will address CD-ROM technology but will be at a more advanced level than the previous ses­ sion, which attracted an audience of about 11,000. ACRL began preparation for next year’s RBMS Preconference, “Issues Facing Special Collections in the ’90s.” We received an additional contribution from Katharine K. and Daniel J. Leab for their Ameri­ can Book Prices C urrent Exhibition Catalogue Awards. We also received additional support from K. G. Saur to allow multiple authors each to receive $500 when there is more than one author of the winning July/August 1989 / 559 entry for Best Article in College & Research L i­ braries. Preliminary results of the Cincinnati Conference evaluation indicate that attendees were very satis­ fied with their experience. On a scale of 1-5, they found it “worthwhile in meeting goals” at a level of 3.82 (slightly higher than the Baltimore respon­ dents) . 84 % said they planned to come to the next conference in Phoenix! The highest marks for the conference w ent to the them e sessions, which ranked 3.87, then exhibits at 3.79, and facilities at 3.73. Financially, the non-official word is that we definitely did better than break even, despite heavy expenses. Enhancing service capability Clarification of the status of standards, guide­ lines and related documents will take place as a result of work by the ACRL Standards and Accred­ itation Committee. A packet has been sent to all ACRL units having such documents in their pur­ view; at Dallas they will inform the Committee about th e category in which these documents should fall and whether they need title changes to conform w ith the definitions of standards and guidelines. We received the first draft of the O utput Mea­ sures Manual fo r Academic Libraries manuscript from Nancy Van House. The project is on time; if all continues well, the Manual should be published in the Spring of 1990. Publishing and research Choice autom ation is progressing nicely. Use of the H. W. Wilson Company as a service bureau for production of the magazine has proven successful; now we are moving into autom ation of the office operations. An RFP has been circulated and re­ sponses are being considered. The Choice staff will serve as project manage­ ment for ALA’s Guide to Reference Books. Bob Ba- lay will serve as editor of the guide and Pat Sabosik will be project director. The immediate project is a supplement to the 10th edition. Negotiations for preparation of the database are underw ay. Ar­ rangements w ith major academic libraries for au­ thorship have advanced. Newly approved publications procedures (see pp. 582-87) have been sent to chairs of all commit­ tees and sections. The clarity of ACRL publishing procedures and guidelines will make it easier for units to decide how to publish and succeed in get­ ting their materials published. Progress has been made on the disk version of the A C R L Academic Library Statistics. An announce­ ment of publication will be coming soon. Strategic management directions We began negotiations for carrying out a survey of ACRL’s membership in connection with the on­ going planning process. It has been five years since we last asked members their opinion about ACRL activities; we will sample the membership this fall. The questionnaire is under development. ACRL membership grew over 2% this year, at least partly due to the Cincinnati Conference. We remain the largest division at ALA, but also the one with the greatest market saturation, so growth is not easy. We hope the membership survey will help us continue to implement programs our members and other academic librarians w a n t.— Jo An S. Se­ gal, A C R L Executive Director. ■ ■ Letters Unfriendly takeover To the Editor: I would like to call attention to some additional facts related to your news item, “Unfriendly Ta­ keover A ttem pted” (Có-RL N ew s, May 1989, p.385), which states that Wayne State University Press (WSUP) was successful in fighting off an un­ friendly takeover of the journal, Human Biology. While the journal may continue to be published, a more careful examination of the new competing journal, A m erican Journal o f H um an Biology (Alan R. Liss, $90, v . l - , 1989- ) suggests that it is WSUP that must compete. I reviewed the first issue of the new journal and noted the following: 1) the editor-in-chief and asso­ ciate editor performed the same duties for Human Biology until April 1988; 2) twelve of the new jour­ nal’s fourteen editorial board members were on the editorial board of Hum an Biology, and one person is now associated with both journals; and 3) Am eri­ can Journal of H um an Biology now carries the des­ ignation, “The official journal of the Hum an Biol­ ogy Council,” which appeared on Hum an Biology until April 1988. When I called Wayne State University Press I learned that press administrator Robert Mandel re­ signed effective October 1989 and is on administra­ tive leave until then. There certainly seems to be more to this story than was related in Cò-RL News. The tone of your news item suggests sympathy and solidarity for the friendly, non-profit university press and a sense of satisfaction at the defeat of an unfriendly commer­ cial publisher. For whatever reason, the fact re­ mains that there are now two journals where a year ago there was only one. The problem for libraries is familiar. It will be interesting to follow both of these journals for the next few years to see how they survive.—Daniel H. Jones, Assistant Library Di­ rector fo r Collection Development, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. ■ ■