ACRL News Issue  (B)  of College &  Research  Libraries


M IDDLE ATLANTIC 
COMMUNITY COLLEGE

LIBRARIANS
A meeting of librarians from selected com­

munity colleges in the Middle Atlantic area was 
held on Dec. 9 at the Community College of 
Philadelphia. J. L. Gotlobe, librarian of Phila­
delphia’s year-old Community College, and 
Guy D. Chappell, assistant librarian, initiated 
the librarians meeting and served as co-hosts 
for the afternoon conference. The meeting en­
abled librarians of similar institutions from 
Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey to 
come together and discuss problems of mutual 
and individual concern and provided assistance 
to those community colleges just getting under­
way. Among the numerous topics discussed 
were preparation for accreditation, AV ma­
terials in the library, availability and use of 
published lists for assembling a basic com­
munity college collection. During the informal 
round table discussion the remarks of Mrs. 
Katherine Brubeck of Baltimore Junior College 
and James McCoy of Trenton Junior College 
were especially helpful.

Mr. Gotlobe closed the meeting, stating he 
hoped the groundwork laid at this brief con­
ference would prompt future meetings to dis­
cuss the many other development phases of 
academic libraries and services which are 
unique to community colleges. ■■

SE MEDICAL LIBRARIES
On Wednesday, October 5, 1966, the deans, 

administrative officers, and medical librarians 
of eight medical schools in Alabama, Georgia, 
Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee met at 
the Vanderbilt medical center to discuss the 
regional medical library concept and its im­
plementation. Dr. Carl D. Douglass, chief of 
facilities and resources division of the National 
Library of Medicine, and Dr. Louis S. Gerber, 
regional medical library program director. Na­
tional Library of Medicine, were on hand to 
discuss viewpoints and philosophy related to 
this program, including basic criteria for the 
designation of medical libraries as Regional 
Medical Library Centers, the ideal concept of 
the regional medical library complex, the co­
operation of several institutions for the develop­
ment of extensive resources, MEDLARS search 
centers, the training of medical librarians, and 
information services. ■ ■

ACRL Membership, December 31, 1966 11,464
December 31, 1965 10,126

COLLEGE &

RESEARCH

LIBRARIES

N E W S

ACRL News Issue of College & Research Libraries

Editor, D avid Kaser, Joint University Li­
braries, Nashville, Tenn. 37203.

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ACRL Executive Secretary, George M. 
Bailey.
ACRL Officers, 1 9 6 6 /6 7 : President, Ralph E. McCoy; 
College Libraries Section Chairman, Lee Sutton; Junior 
College Libraries Section, Harriett Genung; Rare Books 
Section, William H. Runge; Subject Specialists Section, 
Mary E. Schell; Agriculture and Biological Sciences 
Subsection Chairman, Roy L. Kidman; Art Subsection, 
Mrs. Kathryn Blackwell; Law and Political Science 
Subsection, Jane Wilson; Slavic and East European 
Subsection, Bohdan S. Wynar; University Libraries 
Section Chairman, John M. Dawson.
Editorial Board: John M. D awson, University of Dela­
ware; Gustave A. Harrer, Boston University; Sam­
uel Rothstein, University of British Columbia; 
James E. Skipper, Association of Research Libraries; 
Norman E. Tanis, Kansas State College o f Pitts­
burg; Maurice F. Tauber, Columbia University; 
Eileen Thornton, Oberlin College.
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