id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-12596 American Library Association, Letters 1974-01-01 8 .pdf application/pdf 5650 237 57 Yes, many noises are made about the need for and use of subject specialists in academic libraries, but did Dr. Moffett make a survey to find how many are in charge of subject departments in academic libraries and what they do? As the study for new or revised stan- dards for academic libraries is getting un- derway, it seems to me that the ACRL Standards Committee might well consider the possibility of a research/systems, or R & D, unit as one of the requirements in the standards for the libraries of senior re- search universities, and as a strong recom- mendation for those academic libraries on the tier immediately below the senior insti- tutions, and so on down the line. cache/crl-12596.pdf txt/crl-12596.txt