ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


716/C&RL News

In the News
As Althea Jenkins implies in her Annual Re­

port to the m em bership (page 751), “the times, 
they are a changing.” No longer does th e con­
ventional role of the academic librarian— to wait 
passively for patrons to com e to the library and 
w ork w ith them  to satisfy their inform ation 
needs with the materials on  hand—suffice. Now 
librarians must reach out beyond their library 
and into the cam pus and th e comm unity in 
w hich they reside.

Nancy Stimson and Nancy Schiller share with 
us how  librarians at the State University of New 
York at Buffalo left the library building to make 
“office calls” on the faculty (page 723) to help 
them  better use the Internet. This initiative has 
generated am ong the faculty new  interest in 
and respect for both the library’s services and 
the librarians w ho provide them. They m ay find 
Francie B auer’s article on chemistry resources 
on the Internet (page 726) o f use during their 
next session.

Jean Major reflects on past-president Patri­
cia Senn Breivik’s them e, “Every Librarian a 
Leader,” and offers practical suggestions to li­
brarians on how  to gain prom inence and cred­
ibility in their cam pus comm unities (page 736).

Susan Kaye Phillips, chair of ACRL’s Gov­
ernm ent Relations Committee, describes efforts 
being m ade to follow ACRL’s Strategic Plan to 
“maintain at the national level a prom inent role 
in planning and decision making for influenc­
ing information policy” (page 734).

While it is im portant to chart a new  course 
for the future it is also fun to pause an d  reflect 
u po n  the past. W e’re fortunate to have in this 
issue a retrospective look by Ed Holley at the 
past 30 years of C&RL News in celebration o f its 
30th anniversary (p. 730). And be sure to review 
the rest of ACRL’s Annual Report, 1995-96, on 
pages 747-67.

—Mary Ellen K. Davis 
Editor & Publisher 

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