ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


LEGISLATION

The following bills are available and should 
be requested from your congressman: HR 6232, 
Higher Education Amendments of 1967 (Per­
kins Bill); Senate Bill Number 1122, Higher 
Education Amendments of 1967 (Morris Bill).

In a recent Washington Newsletter, the fol­
lowing statement was made: “The immediate 
future of library programs hinges almost en­
tirely on these Congressmen: Reps. Daniel J. 
Flood (D -Pa.), Chairman; William H. Natcher 
(D-Ky.); Neal Smith (D-Iowa); W. R. Hull, 
Jr., (D-Mo.); Bob Casey (D-Texas); Melvin 
R. Laird (R-Wisc.); Robert H. Michel (R-I1I.); 
and Garner E. Shriver (R-Kansas).” Many 
academic librarians have indicated the value 
of the Higher Education Legislation. Librarians 
are very aware of the value of this Legislation, 
but every librarian should be responsible for 
informing his congressman and senator of the 
importance of such Legislation. Your contact 
with your local representative becomes even 
more important with the beginning of the 90th 
Congress, which includes many new members 
who are unfamiliar with library programs.

ALA is quite proud of its Washington Office 
and the work which it has accomplished in 
providing extensive federal funds for library 
development. The effectiveness of this office 
is dependent on your extensive support.

LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 
WORKSHOP

A “first-of-its-kind” was held November 9-11, 
1966 at the Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia, when 
the Drexel Institute of Technology graduate 
school of library science sponsored a Library 
Association Administration Workshop. Attend­
ing the three-day session were representatives 
of seven national, two regional, two county, 
and nineteen state, provincial or district, li­
brary associations. Total attendance was fifty­
three.

Workshop sessions were concerned with a 
wide range of problems of concern to both 
volunteer officers and paid staff members of 
large and small library associations. Topics cov­
ered included the function, structure, and in­
fluence of professional associations and of 
library associations in particular, officer-staff re­
lationships, membership promotion and file 
maintenance, financial, tax and legal considera­
tions, publications, meetings, exhibits and ad­

vertising, and legislation. Education, placement, 
standards, consultation, intellectual freedom, 
censorship, and recruitment were considered in 
small discussion circles.

A workshop advisory council was composed 
of Nancy Blundon, executive secretary, Pennsyl­
vania Library Association; David Brunton, ex­
ecutive secretary, California Library Associa­
tion; Alphonse Trezza, associate executive di­
rector, American Library Association; John 
Harvey, dean and Margaret Warrington, ad­
ministrative assistant, Drexel; and Bill Woods, 
executive director, Special Libraries Associa­
tion, chairman.

Conference proceedings will be published by 
Drexel during the summer of 1967 in the form 
of a manual of library association administra­
tion, the first such instructional manual to be 
issued. This volume will be part of the Drexel 
Library School Series for which a standing 
order may be placed. All orders should be sent 
to the Book Store, Drexel Institute of Technol­
ogy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.

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ISAD PRECONFERENCE

A Preconference Institute on Library Auto­
ation, sponsored by ALA’s Information Sci­

nce and Automation Division, will be held 
une 22-24 in San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium, 
o review the state-of-the-art of library auto­

ation today and the prospects for the future. 
ndividual sessions will concentrate on partic­
lar areas of library automation, identifying the 
eneral types of systems which are now oper­
ting in each area and discussing particular 
ystems as examples or exceptions. Speakers 
cheduled for such sessions include Joseph 
ecker, Wesley Simonton, Barbara Markuson, 
enriette Avram, C. D. Gull, Charles Bourne, 
ruce Stewart, Kelley Cartwright, and Connie 
unlap. The Institute will also feature a half 
ay’s instruction in library systems analysis by 
dward Chapman and Paul St. Pierre, for 
hich a manual of systems analysis will be 

urnished free to each registrant. Exhibits by 
ata processing equipment manufacturers will 
emonstrate actual library systems or provide 
hands-on” experience for Institute attendees.

The registration fee is $20, and registration 
 limited to 900. For further information, 
rite to Preconference Institute on Library 
utomation, American Library Association, 
0 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. 
eadline for registrations is June 5.

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