ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Belmont Abbey College 
Belmont, North Carolina

Bluffton College 
Bluffton, Ohio

Campbellsville College 
Campbellsville, Kentucky

College of Notre Dame 
Belmont, California

College of Notre Dame 
of Maryland 
Baltimore, Maryland

Lane College
Jackson, Tennessee

Paine College 
Augusta, Georgia

Rosary Hill College 
Buffalo, New York

St. Edward’s University 
Austin, Texas

St. Joseph’s College 
Calumet Campus 
East Chicago, Indiana

Westmar College Library 
Le Mars, Iowa

Research Grants Awarded

Hazel A. Johnson 
Librarian
Connecticut College
New London, Connecticut 06320

Jalal Zuwiyya
Associate Librarian
State University of New York
Binghamton, New York

LAUNCHING OF THE LAUC
Approximately sixty librarians from various 

UC campuses met at Fresno on October 25 to 
hear the report of the Steering Committee and 
to consider some of the immediate organiza­
tional problems of the Librarians’ Association 
of the University of California (LAUC). Wil­
liam Treese, chairman of the Steering Com­
mittee, presented the report of the committee 
and served as chairman pro tem; Jean Hudson, 
secretary for the San Francisco meeting, again 
served as secretary pro tem.

Although the details of the ratification vote 
will be distributed with the minutes, it should 
be noted that the vote was 64 against and 299 
for approval of the “Proposed Structure.” Berke­
ley, which approved the Structure 79 to 6, had 
a 47 per cent voting return; Los Angeles, which 
rejected the Structure 49 to 37, had a 50 per 
cent voting return. On other campuses, the re­
turns varied from 64 to 100 per cent of the pro­
fessional staff.

In its report, the Steering Committee recom­
mended Assembly consideration of the problem 
of membership of special university units, such

as those at Los Alamos, Livermore, Berkeley 
Radiation Laboratory and the Davis and Los 
Angeles medical schools; procedural requisites 
for formal meetings; scope and limitations of 
standing committees; problems of organizational 
communication; and problems of revision and 
amendment of the Structure and the Statement 
of Purpose, Objectives and Implementation. The 
Steering Committee, which had completed its 
original task, was asked to act as a nominating 
and elections committee, except that committee 
members who become candidates for office are 
to be excluded from the committee. Nomina­
tions from the floor were as follows: President: 
Eldred Smith, UCB; Fay Blake, UCLA. Vice- 
president: James Mink, UCLA; Richard Moore, 
UCSC. Secretary: Fay Blake, UCLA; Shirley 
Walton, UCR.

J. Richard Blanchard, university librarian at 
Davis, reported briefly on the progress of the 
Spiess Report through the Committee on Privi­
lege and Tenure and the Budget and Interdi- 
visional Relations Committee of the Assembly of 
the Academic Senate.

During the latter half of the meeting, Mrs. 
Johanna Tallman, UCLA, presented a resolu­
tion critical of the “Proposed Structure.” A mo­
tion was passed 47 to 11 disassociating the 
meeting from certain aspects of the resolution. 
Mrs. Tallman also presented a petition for an 
amendment to section III, D of the Structure.

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