ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 317 ACRL AWARDS The Association o f College and Research Li­ braries announces two awards made possible by the Institute for S cien tific In form ation in Philadelphia. The first, the Samuel Lazerow Fel­ lowship for Outstanding Contributions to Acquisi­ tions or Technical Services in an Academic or Re­ search Library, honors a man who made out­ standing contributions to these fields. The fellow­ ship o f $1,000 is to foster advances in acquisitions or technical services by providing a practicing li­ brarian with funds for research, travel, or writing. The second award, the ACRL Doctoral Disser­ tation Fellowship, provides an award o f $1,000 to a doctoral student working on a dissertation in the area o f academic librarianship. Applications for both awards should be made to Sandy Whiteley, Program Officer, ACRL/ALA, 50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611, and are due by Decem ber 1, 1982. The winners of the awards will be announced at the ALA Annual Conference in Los Angeles in June, 1983. To be eligible for the Lazerow Award, a librar­ ian must be working in acquisitions or technical services in an academic or research library. Ap­ plication proposals should be brief (five pages or less) and include the following: 1) Description of research, travel, or writing project; 2) Schedule for the project; 3) An estimate of expenses. An up-to-date curriculum vitae should accom­ pany the proposal. Proposals for the Lazerow Award will be judged on the following: 1) Potential significance o f the project to acqui­ sitions or technical services work; 2) Originality and creativity; 3) Clarity and completeness of the proposal; Bibliographic Instruction 4) Evidence o f an interest in scholarship, such as a previous publication record. In order to be eligible for the ACRL Doctoral Dissertation Award, the applicant must meet the following qualifications: 1) Be an active doctora l student in the academic librarianship area in a degree-granting institution; 2) Have all course work completed; 3) Have had a dissertation proposal accepted by the institution. The application proposal should be brief (less than ten pages) and include the following: 1) Description o f the research, including sig­ nificance and methodology; 2) A schedule for completion; 3) Budget and budget justification for items for which support is sought (these must be items for which no other support is available); 4) The name o f the dissertation advisor and committee members; 5) A cover letter from the dissertation advisor endorsing the proposal. An up-to-date curriculum vitae should accom­ pany the proposal. Proposals will be judged on the following criteria: 1) Potential significance o f the research to the field o f academic librarianship; 2) Validity o f the methodology and proposed method o f analysis; 3) Originality and creativity; 4) Clarity and completeness o f the proposal; 5) Presentation o f a convincing plan for com ple­ tion in a reasonable amount o f time; 6) E v id e n ce o f a con tin u in g in terest in scholarship, such as a previous publication rec­ ord. For further information on either o f these two awards, contact Sandy Whiteley, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 606Íl; (312) 944-6780. User Education at UCLA The 1980s may be an inauspicious time to em­ bark on a new and comprehensive user education program, but that’s just what the UCLA libraries are doing. Starting in the 1982 Fall Quarter, li­ brarians from the undergraduate College Library, with voluntary assistance from librarians and staff from other UCLA libraries, will help teach 50 sections o f English 3 each quarter. The “ library com ponent” of the class takes one class session and is com posed o f a ten-m inute talk on the UCLA library system, a twelve-minute slide/tape on a search strategy, and in the remaining 25 minutes, a hands-on replication o f the strategy in the reference area o f the library. This program is modelled on one in use successfully at the Uni­ versity of California, San Diego. The major dif­ ference will be in the larger audience to be reached. English 3 (C om position, R hetoric and Lan­ guage) is required o f all UCLA undergraduates. For the first time it is required in the student’s first year as an undergraduate. This means that all 4,000 entering Freshmen will take English 3 in their first year and will get a basic dose o f library An essential index for those who must search the literature of mathematics and related disciplines… CompuMath Citation IndexTM F o r m a x im u m re s u lts in d o in g re tro s p e c tiv e s e a rc h e s an d b ib lio g r a p h ic v e r ific a tio n in th e lite ra tu re o f m a th e m a tic s , c o m p u te r s c ie n c e , s ta tis tic s , o p e ra tio n s re se a rch , and re la te d d is c ip lin e s lik e m a th e m a tic a l p h y s ic s and e c o n o m e tric s , yo u , y o u r s ta ff, an d y o u r users can rely on th e C o m p u M a th C ita tio n In d e x. C M C !™ is an e s s e n tia l to o l fo r y o u r lib ra ry b e ca u se it is … • C o m p re h e n s iv e . In fo rm a tio n fro m o ve r 360 jo u rn a ls in m a th e m a tic s an d re la te d d is c ip lin e s is in d e x e d fro m c o v e r to c o v e r a n n u a lly . T h is in c lu d e s a rtic le s , e d it o r i­ als, te c h n ic a l no tes, le tte rs , re v ie w a r t i­ cles, etc. F u rth e rm o re , a d d itio n a l ite m s are s e le c te d fro m o v e r 6,000 s c ie n c e , s o ­ cia l s c ie n c e s , and a rts and h u m a n itie s jo u rn a ls fo r th e ir re le va n cy. A n d each e n ­ try g ive s you c o m p le te b ib lio g r a p h ic in ­ f o r m a tio n f o r o b ta in in g th e ite m y o u w a n t. • C o m p le te . C M C ! h e lp s you and y o u r u s ­ ers re trie v e th e m o st c o m p le te in fo r m a ­ tio n a v a ila b le b e ca u se it is an in te g ra te d se a rc h syste m m ad e up o f fo u r in te r r e la t­ ed in d e x e s . Y ou can b e g in y o u r se a rch fro m a v a rie ty o f e n try p o in ts — a u th o r in ­ de x, title - w o r d in d e x , c o rp o ra te in d e x , o r th e c ita tio n in d e x . A n d you can be su re th a t y o u ’ ll re trie v e a ll re le v a n t in fo r m a ­ tio n on a t o p ic — in fo rm a tio n you m ig h t m iss u s in g tr a d itio n a l se a rch m e th o d s . • Versa tile . T he C o m p u M a th C ita tio n In d e x n o t o n ly e n a b le s you to d o c o m p re h e n ­ sive re tro s p e c tiv e s e a rc h e s and m ake a c ­ c u ra te b ib lio g r a p h ic v e rific a tio n s , b u t it a ls o le ts y o u d o c u r r e n t a w a r e n e s s s e a rch e s. C M C I ’ s tw o s o ftb o u n d in te rim issu es (J a n u a ry -A p ril an d M a y -A u g u s t) keep you up to da te th r o u g h o u t th e year, a n d th e a n n u a l h a rd b o u n d c u m u la tio n fa c ilita te s re tro s p e c tiv e s e a rc h in g . • C o s t-E ffe c tiv e . W hen you o rd e r y o u r 1982 s u b s c rip tio n to th e C o m p u M a th C ita tio n In d e x , yo u g e t tw o m o n e y -s a v in g b o ­ nuses. F irst, you w ill be a b le to acce ss th e c o rre s p o n d in g in fo rm a tio n o n lin e , w ith IS I/C o m p u M a th , at a re d u c e d p re fe re n tia l s e a rch rate. A cc e s s to th is d a ta base g ive s you h ig h ly p re c is e , c o m p re h e n s iv e b ib lio g ra p h ie s in a m a tte r o f m in u te s . N ext, y o u ’ll re ce ive a y e a r’s s u b s c rip tio n FREE to C u rre n t C o n te n ts ®IC o m p u M a th . T h is m o n th ly p u b lic a tio n re p ro d u c e s ta ­ bles o f c o n te n ts fro m th e m o s t s ig n ific a n t jo u r n a ls in th e m a th e m a tic s lite r a tu r e a n d re la te d d is c ip lin e s to keep y o u r users u p -to -d a te on th e m o s t c u rre n t in fo r m a ­ tio n a v a ila b le . For more information about the Com pu­ M ath Citation In d e x ‚ simply fill in, detach; and mail the coupon. 319 instruction. They will be exposed to, taught to use, and taught the value of, subject encyclo­ pedias, LC Subject Headings, the card catalog, periodical indexes, and the UCLA periodicals list. This process will create a base from which other bibliographic instruction can build. Instruction in more advanced courses will then be able to con­ centrate more on the literature o f a particular discipline rather than on the techniques neces­ sary to find information. For the past three years College Library was involved in English 1, a course required o f stu­ dents who did not pass the basic com position exam (about 50% o f entering freshmen). Upon successfully completing English 1, the students moved on to English 3. The Library’s involve­ ment in English 1 was in the form o f a self-paced workbook. Rather than simply transferring the workbook to English 3, the Library and the Eng­ lish Department agreed on a new form o f library instruction. Reasons for the move away from the workbook are many and varied. Primarily, faculty and librarians feel they can more closely coordi­ nate library instruction with course-assigned re­ search projects by bringing the class into the li­ brary. Instruction is timed to precede the re­ search assignment, and the topics used in the search strategy exercise will be chosen by instruc­ tors or they will relate to the content o f those courses that are subject-focused. True, this may be an inauspicious time to begin a large user education program. Past theory has always held that “ the more you teach them about the library, the more they will demand o f you.” UCLA, like most publicly supported uni­ versities, is hardly in a period o f financial growth and not in a position to add public or technical service staff. So naturally the question arises, “ How can we handle the increased demand fo service?” Quite simply, our users will be m ore self- sufficient once they have com pleted English 3. There will be times when demand for reference service outstrips supply o f librarians. This ha happened often over the past several years. Ou users who have taken English 3 will be bette able to work unassisted. W hen they do have questions, the questions will be more substantia reference questions, not directional questions. W e will concentrate our staff resources in time of highest UCLA undergraduate use, which, ac cording to surveys conducted last year, are Mon day through Friday. W e will pull back staff re sources from days and hours o f heavy outside us (high school students, the general community, and other college and university students) o evenings, Saturdays, and Sundays. This may be an inauspicious time to begin user education program if it involves adding ne staff or decreasing existing services. W e believ that it is a good time and in fact a long tim overdue to start this program. There is a stron commitment at UCLA to ensure the success o entering undergraduates and to ensure that upo graduation they will have the ability to reason, t think critically, to analyze problems, and to writ lucidly and with style. This is an important prod uct o f a university education and one which wil serve the student throughout life.— Thomas K. Fry. E ditors Note: Thomas K. Fry is college librarian at the University o f California, Los Angeles. ■ r s r r l s ­ ­ ­ e n a w e e g f n o e ­ l ■