ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Meeting of the ACRL Committee 
to Revise the 1959 Standards 

for College Libraries
The ACRL Committee to Revise the 1959 

Standards for College Libraries met in Chicago 
on November 6, to continue its work toward 
the preparation of a national set of standards 
for college libraries. The committee discussed 
the correspondence it had received from the 
field and reviewed the status of recent state, re­
gional, and foreign activities in the develop­
ment and use of standards for academic li­
braries.

At the meeting, various members of the com­
mittee presented working papers for use in de­
fining and categorizing those colleges for which 
the standards are to be used. David L. Perkins, 
head bibliographic librarian at California State 
University in Northridge, and James W. Pirie, 
librarian at Lewis and Clark College, are re­
searching typologies currently used in analyzing 
colleges. Herman L. Totten, associate dean of
the College of Library Science at the Univer­
sity of Kentucky, is attempting to identify and 
codify those library elements that should be in-

 

ADDITIONAL ACRL
NOMINATING COMMITTEES

ANTHROPOLOGY SECTION
Marilyn L. Haas, Reference Librarian, Lock- 

wood Memorial Library, State University of
New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214, Chair­
man

Two to be appointed.
EDUCATION AND BEHAVIORAL 

SCIENCES SECTION
Barbara S. Marks, Chief Reference Librarian, 

Bobst Library, New York University, 70 Wash­
ington Square South, New York, NY 10012, 
Chairman

Two to be appointed.
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION

W. David Laird, University Librarian, Uni­
versity of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, Chair­
man

Willis E. Bridegam, Director of Libraries, 
State University of New York at Binghamton, 
Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton, NY 13901

Anita R. Schiller, Reference Bibliographer, 
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, 
CA 92037

 

 

eluded in the standards. Barbara G. LaMont, 
librarian at Vassar College, is preparing a pro­
jection of future trends for colleges. The com­
mittee agreed to release the papers at the Mid­
winter Meeting in January and to announce in 
February the availability of the papers for re­
view and use by the membership. The commit­
tee continued its examination of whether or not 
a single set of standards can be applicable to 
the wide range of colleges and educational pro­
grams that exist today.

In its desire for comprehensive review and 
expression from the membership, the commit­
tee is scheduling a series of open hearings dur­
ing the New York Conference in June. In addi­
tion, the committee requests information input 
and exchange from members, officers, and pro­
gram chairmen of state and regional profession­
al associations. Please contact the chairman of 
the committee, Johnnie E. Givens, librarian at 
Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, 
Tennessee.

ADDITIONAL ACRL 
NOMINEES FOR 

OFFICES 1974/75
EDUCATION AND BEHAVIORAL 

SCIENCES SECTION
Vice-C hairman/Chairman-E lect

Wayne Gossage, Director of Library Ser­
vices, Bank Street College of Education, 610 
West 112th St., New York, NY 10024

Emil Greenberg, Professor and Chief Librari­
an, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 
The City University of New York, 134 West 
51st S t, New York, NY 10020

SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN SECTION
Vice-C hairm an/Chairman-E lect

Andrew L. Makuch, Bibliographer for Col­
lection Development, University of Arizona Li­
brary, Tucson, AZ 85721

Wasyl Veryha, Catalog Librarian, University 
of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Member-at-Large (one-year term)

Joseph Szeplaki, Head, Serials Department, 
Ohio University Library, Athens, OH 45701

Wojciech Zalewski, Curator, Russian and 
East European Materials, Stanford University 
Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305