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one-day meeting on interlibrary loans and the 
use of teletype. It was brought out in the dis­
cussion that Sharon Schatz from the Library 
of Congress has made a report on all facsimile 
transmission systems now being used. This re­
port would be available to those who wrote Mr.

Paul Reimers, Information Systems Office, Li­
brary of Congress.

At the end of this discussion, the meeting 
was adjourned and all members boarded the 
bus for the ride back to Bal Harbour.—(Mrs.) 
Margaret Knox Goggin, Secretary, Pro Tem.

Southwest Academic Library Consortium
The Spring of 1967 gave birth to another 

cooperative venture among institutions of 
higher education in the Southwest. Some 
twenty academic libraries in New Mexico, 
Oklahoma and Texas entered into a Consor­
tium. The following statements were accepted 
at the first two meetings, March 28, 1967 in 
Albuquerque and October 10, 1967 in Portales, 
New Mexico.
1. Each institution will prepare a list of serial 

holdings, giving title and volumes held, and 
will send this list to all libraries in the com­
bination.

2. A program of mutually exclusive serial pur­
chase will be established, participation to be 
voluntary.

3. The institutions will explore the possibilities 
of specializing in the acquisition of serials 
by subject fields.

4. Upon the request of the librarian in any 
institution in the combination, a library will 
Xerox the contents pages of designated 
serials and will mail to the requesting library. 
A fee of ten cents will be charged for each 
page. Faculty members receiving contents 
pages may check articles they want their 
library to request via interlibrary loan.

5. A simple tally record of interlibrary loan 
transactions will be maintained by each in­
stitution. An annual exchange of records 
and billing, if so desired, at ten cents per 
page was agreed upon.
The annual year will be the Gregorian cal­
endar year. Teletype messages will also be 
accepted in addition to regular interlibrary 
loan forms and checked contents page cop­
ies as request forms.

6. Several institutions already have TWX in­
stallations and others are anticipating instal­
lations. ALL institutions in the Consortium 
were asked to explore the possibility of tel­
etype. If library use alone could not justify 
the expense a combined effort of the entire 
institution was urged.

Federal Grants under Type C of the Higher 
Education Act based on the Consortium were 
received by five libraries for a total of $152,- 
200.00.

For the present, formal membership in the
Consortium will be limited to academic insti­

tutions of higher education. The Consortium 
will have two meetings each year, one in the 
Fall and one in the Spring. The place will 
change from one institution to another with 
the specific location of the next meeting to be 
decided at a regular meeting of the Consortium. 
The chairman for each meeting will be the 
head librarian of the institution following alpha­
betically on a continuous rotating basis begin­
ning with Panhandle State College.

The third meeting of the Southwest Aca­
demic Library Consortium was scheduled 
at New Mexico State University in Las Cru­
ces, New Mexico, March 15. Don Richardson, 
librarian at Panhandle State College, will act 
as chairman for the Spring meeting.

LIBRARY COLLEGE 
JOURNAL

The Library College Journal, a Magazine of 
Educational Innovation, is the latest in the 
growing fist of professional journals in librar- 
ianship. Its orientation, however, makes it of 
special interest to readers of CRL. Volume 1, 
Number 1, dated Winter 1968, offers eighty 
neatly packaged pages containing pieces by 
Louis Shores on modem media, methods, and 
librarians; E. J. Josey on a predominantly Ne­
gro library-college; Clarence J. Leuba on an 
ideal college; and University of Michigan pro­
fessor of higher education Robert Blackburn 
on library-campus conflicts. As a welcome to 
the new journal, CRL will reprint this last 
mentioned article in its May issue.

The Library College Journal, which will ap­
pear quarterly, presents several continuing de­
partments, including reviews of innovation and 
experimentation, hardware and software, learn­
ing resources, community college developments, 
grants and proposals, architecture, and books. 
It is edited by Howard Clayton, and its edi­
torial board comprises Dan W. Sillers, Louis 
Shores, Stafford North, Thomas Minder, Robert 
Jordan, and Sister Helen Sheehan. Its editorial 
office is at Box 173, Brockport, New York 
14420. LCJ costs $8 per year.