ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


•  When Worlds Combine: How technolo­
gists and librarians communicate. The two lan­
guages and two cultures of librarianship and 
information technology.

•  Making Connections: National Issues and 
Local Initiatives in Networked Information Re­
sources. A survey and report on what’s hap­
pening in the networked information and in­
fo rm atio n  reso u rc e  field in the n a tio n a l 
organizations (e.g., ACRL, CAUSE, Internet En­
gineering Task Force [IETF], etc.), or in national 
communications of shared interests (e.g., some 
of the informal information communities that 
communicate on the Internet). Also a report on 
what’s happening, at Indiana University and in

the sta te  of In d ia n a , that c o rre sp o n d s to 
n a tio n a l issues or a d d re sse s n a tio n a l ini­
tiatives.

•  A report on the development and future 
plans of Indiana University’s Library Electronic 
Text Resource Service (LETRS), a collaborative 
project between the University Computing Ser­
vices and the Libraries to develop an innova­
tive electronic text center.

Other INforum programs planned for the 
spring 1994 semester will address such topics 
as: “Information Anarchy and Information Over­
load;” “Copyright, Intellectual Property and 
Electronic Information;” and “Issues on the In­
ternet and NREN.” ■

Letters
National Library Week fest
To the Editor:

Susan Hahn and I chaired the committee 
for NLW [National Library Week] here at W.B. 
Roberts Library. We had a very limited budget 
so we used some of the resources at hand, our 
faculty and our music department. We had a 
fine free week of course! We also planned three 
major activities. An open house Sunday after­
noon with music students singing show tunes 
and food prepared by the NLW committee. The 
next event was a poetry reading by six faculty 
members. This was very well attended; in fact 
the room we had it in was too small and we 
had to turn people away. The last event was 
jazz on the library lawn. The school jazz bands 
played for lunch hour. We invited people to 
come with a sack lunch. We followed the na­
tional theme of “Libraries Change Lives” and 
we added a sub theme “We Bring You the Arts.” 
Events were well received and we plan to re­
peat them next NLW. I enjoy your short, prac­
tical pieces of news and your articles. I can 
always find something useful in C&RL News.—  
Victoria S. Chase, circulation librarian, Delta 
State University, Cleveland, MS

Thanks from a 1993 award winner
To the Editor:

I am writing to the editor to express my 
utmost appreciation for the wonderful hospi­
tality I experienced from the ACRL BI section 
after receiving the Miriam Dudley Bibliographic 
Instruction Librarian of the Year Award. I would

like to thank the committee, particularly its 
chair, Mary Ellen Litzinger, for selecting me to 
receive the award in 1993- Likewise I would 
like to publicly state my appreciation for the 
many letters of congratulations and good wishes 
I received from friends and colleagues who are 
members of ACRL. It was indeed an honor to 
receive this award, and I will treasure it forever.

I hope that this award will inspire new li­
brarians to select bibliographic instruction/in- 
formation literacy as one of their specializa­
tions to gain the necessary skills and experience 
for future academic library leadership. I know 
that working in bibliographic instruction is one 
of the best ways to gain experience in using 
creativity and talent in the right combination 
to address the changes that must be faced and 
to prepare for and succeed in the next century.

Again, I want to express my sincere thank 
you for this great honor that ACRL and the BI 
section bestow ed upon me.—Hannelore D. 
Rader, director, University Library, Cleveland 
State University

Correction
To the Editor:

The list of instructors contributing to the Elec­
tronic Library course (C&RL News, July/August 
1993, p. 380) at the University of Oregon should 
have included Isabel Stirling, head of the Sci­
ence Library. Stirling taught access to the Inter­
net through gophers and contributed to the plan­
ning of the course.—Paid Frantz, coordinator of 
library instruction, University o f Oregon, Eugene

October 1993/515