ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


686/C&RL News

In the News
Money. Whether it is making budget cuts or 

looking for new funding sources, money and 
finances play an important part in providing 
library programs and services. And identifying 
new funding sources is an increasingly impor­
tant task for libraries.

In this issue Irene Hoffman shares with us 
fundraising resources available on the Internet 
(page 692).

Gary Byrd continues our look at finances 
with his conference circuit report on “Challeng­
ing Marketplace Solutions to Problems in the 
Economics o f Information” (page 694).

And Diane Kaufman looks at ways to save 
libraries money by building student awareness 
o f the importance o f preservation by using a 
humorous and informative exhibit (page 707). 
Preservation may mean more to students when 
they realize that the 40 damaged books that 
need replacing would pay for one semester’s 
tuition to their university!

Other articles in this issue give us ideas for 
new or enhanced library services and programs. 
Dan Blewett advocates having librarians keep

office hours in academic departments (page 
701). This lets the faculty become more famil­
iar with library services and the librarians be­
come more familiar with faculty needs.

Ellie Fogarty and Nelson Evans describe the 
reading course they developed that uses librar­
ians as instructors and gives students credit for 
reading and discussing books they select (page 
704).

Stephanie Bangert and Bonnie Gratch pro­
vide the next “Every Librarian a Leader” col­
umn and suggest 20 things you can do to par­
ticipate in the accreditation process (page 697).

Ellen Metter suggests how w e can improve 
our reference skills by watching more MTV and 
paying attention to other popular culture re­
sources (page 710).

Watch for ACRL’s Annual Report in the De­
cember issue. Regular readers may remember 
it being in the November issue but this year 
the financial information was not available at 
press time.

— Mary Ellen K. Davis
Editor & Publisher