ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Hearings Held on Standards Revision
ACRL members discussed the revision of the prepared by Herman Totten, and a review of 

during the library standards used in other countries, by 
ago, Jan­ David Kaser, also were discussed with the 

membership. Sets of these papers can be ob­
ision com­ tained by writing Beverly P. Lynch, Executive 
ustin Peay Secretary, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 
ssee, has 60611. Hearings on later working papers will 
d to clas­ be held July 10 and 11 during the annual meet­
e United ing of the American Library Association in New 
 Office of York. ■ ■

ommittee 
l on E du­ DOUGHERTY RESIGNS 
igher E d­ AS CRL EDITOR
 Develop­
Bernbaum Richard M. Dougherty, editor since 1969 of 

Universi­ College ir Research Libraries, a publication of 
ommittee. the Association of College and Research Li­
ost useful braries, has asked to be relieved of the editor­
he college ship effective July 1974. The Board of Direc­
 from the tors of ACRL has accepted Dr. Dougherty’s 
llege, and resignation with deep regret.
 to select The search for a new editor is being conduct­

fication of ed by the ACRL Publications Committee. Ap­
haracteris­ plications and recommendations should be sent 
sible. to Dr. Fred Blum, CRL Editor Search Coordi­
 prepared nator, Room 205, Mullen Library, The Catholic 
 paper on University of America, Washington, DC 20017.
standards, ■ ■

1959 Standards for College Libraries 
Midwinter Meeting of ALA in Chic
uary 20-25.

During its first six months the rev
mittee, chaired by Johnnie Givens, A
State University, Clarksville, Tenne
studied typologies currently being use
sify colleges and universities in th
States. Typologies developed by the
Education (the Federal Interagency C
on Education), the American Counci
cation, the Carnegie Commission on H
ucation, the Academy for Educational
ment, and James Cass and Max 
(Selectivity Index of Colleges and 
ties) have been compared by the c
The committee intends to select the m
typology available in order to define t
as an institution separate and distinct
two-year college, the community co
the university. The committee expects
its typology on the basis of a classi
homogeneous groupings which have c
tics that are easily identified and defen

A background paper on typologies,
by James Pirie and David Perkins, a
elements presently found in existing 

ACRL Board Action at Midwinter
The Board of Directors of the Association of

College and Research Libraries took the follow­
ing actions during its two Midwinter Meetings, 
held in Chicago on January 21 and 24, 1974.

Unanimously voted to support the dues sched­
ule presented by the American Association 
of School Librarians, which would have low­
ered the dues for membership in ALA and 
ACRL to $35. (The proposal subsequently 
was not approved by the ALA Council. See 
story elsewhere in this issue.)

Unanimously approved a resolution giving di­
vision presidents a seat on the ALA Council. 
(The resolution was subsequently defeated 
by Council.)

Agreed to support for election to ALA Council 
the following ACRL Board and committee 
members: Norman E. Tanis, H. William Ax- 
ford, Russell Shank, George S. Bobinski, 
C. James Schmidt, and Jasper G. Schad.

Accepted with deep regret the resignation ef­

Research Libraries, Richard M. Dougherty.
Approved a plan presented by Choice and 

CRL under which the advertising for CRL 
will be handled by the Choice office begin­
ning with the 1974/75 fiscal year.

Approved a plan to move the Choice subscrip­
tion files from ALA headquarters in Chicago 
to the Choice office in Middletown, Connect­
icut.

Accepted with pleasure and on behalf of the 
ACRL membership an invitation from E u­
gene P. Kennedy, director of libraries at New 
York University, to all ACRL members to at­
tend a reception at the Bobst Library at New 
York University on Wednesday, July 10, 
1974, during the ALA Annual Conference.

Voted to endorse the statement on “Security 
of Employment in Libraries” (American Li­
braries, December 1973, p.678-79) as
amended and to endorse the statement on 
“ALA Equal Employment Opportunity Pol-

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icy” (C R L N , Nov. 1973) with the imple­
mentation sections removed.

Voted, upon the recommendation of the ACRL 
Committee on Academic Status, to recom­
mend a formal evaluation of the ALA Staff 
Committee on Mediation, Arbitration and In­
quiry, with a view to assessing its direct and 
indirect costs; reviewing its charge, policies, 
and procedures; determining its effectiveness; 
recommending such changes in the Program 
of Action for Mediation, Arbitration and In­
quiry as may be deemed desirable or neces­
sary; and recommending reports to ALA 
Council on the Program of Action at regular 
specified intervals.

Voted to request from SCMAI a clarification 
of certain language in the SCMAI report on 
J. Michael McConnell.

D irected the ACRL Committee on Academic 
Status to develop an instrument for gather­
ing and publicizing salary information for 
academic librarians that will be made avail­
able annually in College ‹Lr Research L i­
braries News.

Approved the establishment of another ACRL 
chapter, the Association of College and Re­
search Libraries of the Illinois Library Asso­
ciation.

Voted to accept the report of the ACRL Plan­
ning Committee in which the committee rec­
ommended “in the strongest possible terms 
that the Board convey to the ALA Commit­
tee on Planning the following message: 
ACRL firmly believes that success in all of 
the programs reflected in [the ALA commit­
tee’s] draft of a goal statement will be de­
pendent upon implementation through the 
divisions, not ALA headquarters.”

Agreed to support the grant proposal presented 
by the ACRL Committee on Standards and 
Accreditation to fund Phase II of the revision 
of the 1959 Standards for College Libraries.

F orwarded to the ACRL Committee on Stan­
dards and Accreditation the tentative state­
ment “Commitment to Reference Services,” 
developed by the RASD Standards Commit­
tee, and the 1966 Statement of Service to L i­
brary Users, approved by the ACRL Board 
at th e 1966 Midwinter Meeting, with the 
strong recommendation that the committee 
consider both in the light of the necessity of 
developing guidelines or standards for per­
formance measurement with respect to the 
effective allocation of library resources.

Voted to change the ACRL Ad Hoc Commit­
tee on Bibliographic Instruction to a Task 
Force on Bibliographic Instruction, to in­
crease its membership to eight, and to revise 
and expand its charge.

Agreed that the members of the advisory com­
mittee for the Black Internship project be

drawn from the membership of the commit­
tee which drew up the proposal.

Accepted the report of the ACRL Committee 
on Legislation regarding the draft report of 
the National Commission on Libraries and 
Information Science and a proposed draft of 
an ALA legislative policy.

Voted to assign a definite term of appointment, 
two to three years, to all ACRL committees 
an d /o r task forces, with renewal dependent 
upon a positive performance evaluation of 
the committee by the ACRL Planning Com­
mittee.

D irected the chairman of the ACRL Commit­
tee on Appointments and Nominations to 
contact in writing the chairmen of ACRL 
committees concerning appointments and re­
appointments to those committees.

Approved program plans for two ACRL pre­
conferences prior to the San Francisco An­
nual Conference in 1975: one sponsored by 
the ACRL Committee on Academic Status, 
on the governance of th e academic library, 
and one sponsored by the ACRL Rare Books 
and Manuscripts Section, on eighteenth-cen­
tury bibliography.

Approved as policy the statements on “Repro­
duction of Manuscripts and Archives for 
Noncommercial Purposes” and “Access to 
Original Research Materials in Libraries, 
Archives, and Manuscript Repositories” 
(C R L N , Sept. 1973).

Supported a resolution, sponsored by the Com­
mittee on Manuscripts Collections of the 
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, which 
favors the changing of tax laws to allow tax 
deductions for self-created works of art.

Approved a proposal of the Rare Books and 
Manuscripts Section to display at the 1976 
Annual Conference in Chicago an exhibit of 
original archival materials dealing with the 
Bicentennial.

Accepted the report of the ALA Ad Hoc Com­
mittee on the Depository Library System as 
presented and approved by the ACRL Law 
and Political Science Section and voted to re­
quest that the section be represented on the 
committee.

Voted to invite a group of Japanese junior col­
lege librarians to attend the 1974 Annual 
Conference in New York and recommended 
that the ACRL Community and Junior Col­
lege Libraries Section serve as host to the 
group.

Agreed to undertake an evaluation of the per­
formance of the ACRL Executive Secretary. 

Voted to encourage Charles E. Hale, doctoral
student at the Graduate Library School at 
Indiana University, to write a history of 
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