ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries COLLEGE & RESEARCH Vol. 4 4 , No. 9 Bar H arbor Times S taff and facu lty m em bers (inset) dry m aps and library books d am ag ed in the fir e at the C ollege o f the Atlantic. Fire at Bar Harbor The Thorndike Library of the College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, suffered a massive loss of its book, periodical, and reference collections in a fire that destroyed Kaelber Hall, the college’s ad­ ministration building, on July 25. The library, located in a wing of the administration building that was formerly a 100-year-old summer estate, had just been dedicated two weeks earlier in honor of donors R. Amory and Elizabeth Thorndike. Losses were estimated at well over $600,000. College staff, fire department personnel, and other volunteers managed to save the card catalog, O C L C computer equipment, and approximately 5,000 volumes from the flames. These volumes, al­ though severely damaged by water and smoke, will serve as the basis for rebuilding the 12-year-old college’s highly specialized collection in ecology and natural sciences. (continued on p. 324) LIBRARIES NEWS Association of College & Research Libraries October 1983 October 1983 / 323 COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES NEWS October 1983 Volume 44 N um ber 9 CONTENTS Fire at Bar Harbor… 321 ARL Library Faculties and Their Meetings Joan H. W o r l e y … 324 ACRL Continuing Education Courses at M idw inter… 327 Academic Library Approval Plans: A Nationwide Inquiry John H. Reidelbach & Gary M. 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All material in this journal subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be photocopied for the noncommercial purpose of scientific or educational ad­ vancement. 324 / October 1983 Fire, cont’d The Town of Bar Harbor provided temporary quarters for the Thorndike Library in an industrial arts building. Library staff aided by volunteers from the college and the community worked seven days a week to dry and salvage the volumes saved from the flames. Many books were transferred to a large blueberry freezer in Ellsworth where they have been stored frozen until they can be properly treated. The library opened for business last month in time for the start of the academic year. Besides destoying the library, flames, smoke and water also ruined the college’s kitchen, dining fa­ cility, and business offices. The fire, which has been attributed to a human, not mechanical, origin, apparently began in the front corner of Kaelber Hall in the early hours of July 25. By the time it was spotted and reported by a fisherman on the town pier, flames had filled much of the lobby and were shooting up through the roof. Firemen from Bar Harbor, Ellsworth, Northeast H arbor, and Acadia National Park rushed to the scene at 4:30 a . m . ‚ but were unable to contain the fire which then spread to the library wing. The blaze was stopped in the library, and the library offices and Natural History Museum (in an adjacent building) received only minor smoke and water damage. The College of the Atlantic urgently needs books and periodical backfiles to help rebuild its collec­ tion. Especially needed are indexes and abstract services in general science and ecology, as well as post-1950 books in the following areas: natural his­ tory, alternative energy, botany, ecology, environ­ mental studies, evolution, zoology, art, architec­ ture, contemporary literature, design, economics, psychology, and public policy. Gifts, offers of assistance, and inquiries should be directed to: M arcia L . Dworak, Librarian, Thorndike Library, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME 04609; (207) 288-9082. ■ ■ ARL Library Faculties and Their Meetings Joan H. W orley R eferen ce Librarian, Undergraduate Library University o f Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee Librarians at the University of Tennessee, Knox­ ville (UTK) have held faculty status and rank since 1950. They enjoy the same benefits and share the same responsibilities as teaching faculty, with a few major exceptions: unlike teaching faculty, li­ brarians work a 12-month contract year with 24 days of paid vacation; university requirements for research and scholarly activity are not stringently applied to library faculty; and library faculty gov­ ernance is minimal within an administrative hier­ archy of director, associate directors, and depart­ ment heads. (The library faculty is involved in the administrative decision-making process in an advi­ sory capacity, informally on any issue and formally in tenure and promotion decisions.) The faculty meets once each month during the academic year to hear occasional committee reports; presenta­ tions by speakers from within and without the li­ brary on professional concerns; policy announce­ m ents and c la r ific a tio n by th e lib ra ry administration; or any combination of these. Ten­ ure and promotion deliberations are held at spe­ cially called meetings. Regular meetings are mod­ erated or led by the chair or another member of the Faculty Program Committee, appointed by the di­ rector. When the director of the library charged the Faculty Program Committee to review the purpose and scope of faculty meetings, in addition to the committee’s customary charge to plan program meetings for the year, the committee decided to in­ vestigate practices of other library faculties. It would be interesting, the committee thought, to know if faculty groups at other libraries meet regu­ larly as a body, and if so, how their meetings are organized and what the subject matter is. A litera­ ture search yielded articles on faculty status per se and numerous studies on faculty status and com­ pensation, faculty status and selected benefits, fac­ ulty status and publication, and so on. There were no recent articles on the organization of library fac­ ulties or their meetings, however. To satisfy curiosity, the committee developed an informal questionnaire that was sent in February 1983 to the personnel librarians at 39 ABL libraries reporting faculty status for librarians.1 Questions included the five following: 1. Does the library faculty meet on a regular ba­ sis? How often? Who chairs the meeting? 2. For what purpose does the library faculty meet? (Six items and “other” were listed, to be 1The 39 A BL libraries where librarians have fac­ ulty status were taken from Thomas G. English, “Librarian Status in the Eighty-Nine U.S. Aca­ demic Institutions of the Association of Besearch Libraries: 1982,” C ollege & R esearch L ibraries 44(1983): 199-211.