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Celebrate •• 
In this centennial year for the American Library Association, College 

& Research Libraries contiq.ues its mission of providing a forum for 
communication of matters of concern and interest to its readers. In 
this issue we publish the full text of the remarks by Peter Drucker at 
the annual meeting of the Association of College and Research Li-
braries in San Francisco in June 1975 on the management of public 
service institutions. 

Through a series of articles, beginning in this issue and continuing 
during the year, we shall also relive and summarize major themes of 
academic librarianship in this nation over the past century. In this 
issue Edward G. Holley provides the foundation upon which develop-
ments of the century are based, with his account of academic libraries 
in 1876. As his article so well demonstrates, concerns of 1876 have 
remained among persistent issues in academic libraries today. 

Forthcoming issues will present articles on the literature of academic 
librarianship, collection development in college and university libraries, 
cooperative programs among academic libraries, the role of the inde-
pendent research library, leaders in academic librarianship, a century 
of academic library buildings, international relations of American 
academic libraries, services to readers in academic libraries, organi-
zational patterns for college and university libraries, and the role of 
the academic librarian in the college and university. W. L. Williamson 
has selected for the covers of our issues illustrations of college, uni-
versity, and research library buildings that recall for us a few of the 
structures that have .housed our collections and services during this 
century. 

Academic librarians were among the leaders in the formation of . the 
American Library Association, and throughout the century they have 
assumed important roles in this organization. Librarians, working to-
gether in one association, can better assure the strengthening of all 
libraries; and we join now with all librarians in this centennial cele-
bration of ALA. 

R.D.J. 

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