ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 398 / C&RL News W hat about checkout policies, loan periods, in­ terlibrary loan, open stacks, photocopying and other related aspects of library organization and service th a t can make the research task easier or more difficult? Students should have materials on these policies before they go. In Japan, I found in­ terlibrary loan available in virtually all libraries, but there did not seem to be the enthusiasm for lending or borrowing in this way th at appears to be the case among my American colleagues. Closed stacks are found more frequently in Tokyo than in the U.S. Having books paged and thereby losing one’s chance to browse may disturb some students, especially in the libraries w ith only a classified cat­ alog or otherwise poor subject access. W hat about periodical indexes and general ref­ erence materials? Will these be fam iliar tools or will students need to learn new ones? Virtually all the university libraries I visited contained basic En- Miriam Dudley Award At the 1983 ALA Annual Conference in Los An­ geles, the ACRL Board of Directors established the Miriam Dudley Bibliographic Instruction L ib rar­ ian of the Year Award, an annual aw ard of $900 presented to a librarian who has made an especially significant contribution to the advancement of bib­ liographic instruction. The aw ard honors Miriam Dudley, whose pioneering efforts in the field of BI led to the formation of the ACRL Bibliographic In ­ struction Section. Nominees for the Miriam Dudley Bibliographic Instruction L ibrarian of the Year Award should have achieved distinction in such areas as planning and im plem entation of a bibliographic instruction program that has served as a model for other pro­ grams; development of courses on bibliographic in­ struction in ALA-accredited library schools, or de­ velopment of bibliographic instruction continuing education courses th at have served as models for other courses; research and publication th at has had a demonstrable im pact on the concepts and methods of teaching bibliography; and/or active participation in organizations devoted to the pro­ motion and advancement of bibliographic instruc­ tion. Nominees need not necessarily meet all the criteria. The aw ard has been funded by Mountainside Publishing, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and it will be administered by ACRL. The ACRL/BIS Miriam Dudley L ibrarian of the Year Award Committee consists of five members, including the chair of BIS and the past ch air (who serves as chair of the Award Committee). T he d e a d lin e for n o m in atio n s for th e 1986 aw ard is December 1, 1985. Send nominations to: Miriam Dudley Bibliographic Instruction L ib rar­ ian of the Year Award, Attn: William Miller, Asso­ ciation of College and Research Libraries, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. ■ ■ glish language reference works th at students will have been familiar with including, W h o ’s Who in America, Encyclopedia Britannica, W orld A lm a ­ nac, Business Periodicals Index, Social Sciences In ­ dex, and many others. Students may be relieved to learn of this. These are a few of the questions th a t should be asked by libraries in American colleges with study abroad programs. The results of an investigation will probably show th a t not all programs need any attention from the library staff. Just as not all uni­ versity classes are conducive to teaching library skills and bibliographic instruction, neither will it be relevant to the needs of all students going abroad. On the other hand, there may be a pro­ gram or two in which some preparation of the stu­ dents by the staff before they leave may save the student considerable frustration. It certainly seems to be a m atter w orthy of more consideration than it has received to date. ■ ■ Letter UCB’s Bibliography 1 course To the editor: On page 352 of your July/August 1985 issue there is a highly inaccurate story about the Bibliography 1 course given in the School of Library and Infor­ m ation Studies at the University of California in Berkeley. I w ant to correct those inaccuracies. 1. T he Board of Regents did not reduce the credits for the Bibliography 1 course at Berkeley. It was not involved in any way. 2. The course was reviewed by the school’s fac­ ulty who found it to be inadequately related to bib­ liography and the purpose of the course and who proposed revisions to give it greater bibliographic direction. They concluded th at the revised content w arranted two units of credit rather than three, an assessment responsibility assigned to members of the faculty senate. 3. The University will give teaching assignment preference first to Ph.D. candidates and campus li­ brarians, and second to others, as it has for the past nine years, contrary to your report th at this is new. In fact a num ber of others usually receive teaching assignments in Bibliography 1 and th at will be true again this year in the revised format. Reform and improvement in education are diffi­ cult at best in a profession inherently reluctant to change. The filing of labor practice complaints makes the process of change all the more difficult and costly, increasing the odds against institutional improvement. The situation with Bibliography 1 at Berkeley, is, therefore, substantially different from the re­ port carried in your journal.—Bichard P. Hafner Jr., Public Affairs Officer, University of Califor­ nia, Berkeley. ■ ■