ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


ACRL NOMINEES
Candidates for ACRL offices in 1969 have 

been announced. They are:
Vice President and President Elect

Anne C. Edmonds, Mount Holyoke College
Donald E. Thompson, Wabash College 

Director-at-Large
Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library
Marcus A. McCorison, American Antiquarian
Society
Raymond A. Bohling, University of Minne­
sota
Mark M. Gormley, University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee

Director on ALA Council
Dorothy M. Drake, Scripps College
James F . Holly, Macalester College
David W. Heron, University of Nevada
Carl W. Hintz, University of Oregon

ORIENTATION STUDY
Library Orientation and Instruction: Verna V. 

Melum, who has been in charge of the library 
orientation and instruction program at Northern 
Illinois University for the past eleven years 
and before that at Stephens College, Columbia, 
Missouri, will take a sabbatical leave for the 
second semester of 1968-1969 to make a study 
of orientation and instruction programs in col­
leges and universities in various parts of the 
U.S. She will also be glad to serve as a con­
sultant in this area, possibly in some high 
schools, too. Libraries which would like to 
have her visit them are invited to write her. 
Address: Parson Library, Northern Illinois Uni­
versity, DeKalb, Illinois 60115.

DIRECTORY OF BOOK 
CATALOGS

The Book Catalogs Committee of the Re­
sources and Technical Services Division of ALA 
is compiling a directory of on-going book cata­
logs. Libraries who presently have book cata­
logs are asked to send their name and address 
as well as the name of the person responsible 
for the book catalog to Paula Kieffer, Coordi­
nator, Technical Services, Baltimore County 
Public Library, 25 West Chesapeake Avenue, 
Towson, Maryland 21204. ■■

ACRL Membership Sept. 30, 1968 . . 12,931

Sept. 30, 1967 . . 12,226

Sept. 30, 1966 10,840

COLLEGE &

RESEARCH N E W S
LIBRARIES

ACRL News Issue of College & Research Libraries

Editor, David Kaser, Cornell University Li­
braries, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850.

Managing Editor, Mary Falvey, 50 E. 
Huron St., Chicago 60611.

News Editor, David Doerrer, Cornell Uni­
versity Libraries, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850.
Editorial Board: John M. Dawson, University of Dela­
ware; Gustave A. Harrer, University of Florida; 
Samuel Rothstein, University of British Columbia; 
James E. Skipper, University of California, Berkeley; 
Norman E. Tanis, Kansas State College of Pittsburg; 
Maurice F. Tauber, Columbia University; Eileen 
Thornton, Oberlin College.
ACRL Officers, 1968/69: President, David Kaser; 
Chairman, College Libraries Section, Evan Ira Farber; 
Junior College Libraries Section, Shirley A. Edsall; 
Rare Books Section, J. M. Edelstein; Subject Specialists 
Section, Thomas D. Gillies; Agriculture and Biological 
Sciences Subsection, Louise Darling; Art Subsection, 
Herbert G. Scherer; Law and Political Science Sub­
section, Morris L. Cohen; Slavic and East European 
Subsection, Dmytro M. Shtohryn; University Libraries 
Section, G. F. Shepherd.
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