ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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A rt L ib ra rie s 
S ubsection ACRL

Theme: The Art Subsection as a national forum 
for college and research art libraries.

Tuesday, June 24 (Time to be announced) 
Organizational Meeting

Open Forum on reorganization of the Art 
Subsection

Wednesday, June 25
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. All day tour via bus to 

Princeton University
Visit Art Library and Index of Christian 

Iconography
Luncheon. Members and Art Librarians only. 
Send advance reservations and deposit

($3.00) to:

Miss Phyllis Hoffberg 
Program Chairman—Art Libraries 
Fine Arts Library—Furness Building 
University of Pennsylvania 
Philadelphia, Pa. 19104

Balance of fee (to be announced) will be 
paid at the ALA Central Tickets desk, 
where tickets will be picked up.

Thursday, June 26
2:00-4:00 p.m. Organizational Meeting (cont.)

Formulation of objectives, long term plans 
and projects.

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C h a irm a n ’s L e tte r to th e  A rt L ib ra rie s S ubsection
With this issue of C&'R L  News we are be­

ginning what I hope will be a continuing activi­
ty of our group, a roundtable of problems, 
news and ideas written for and by art librarians. 
The benefits to other readers of this journal 
will be, hopefully, of some value. The success of 
this initial effort is due to the enthusiasm and 
hard work of Mrs. Florence DaLuiso of the 
State University of New York at Buffalo.

Those who met at Kansas City were agreed 
that the Art Subsection must devote itself to 
current problems faced by all art libraries. To 
that end, an Index Committee was formed con­
sisting of Miss Judith Hoffberg of the Universi­
ty of Pennsylvania, Miss Alice McGrath of the 
Rhode Island School of Design, Mrs. Florence 
DaLuiso of the State University of New York at 
Buffalo, Mr. David Ryan of the Minneapolis 
Institute of Art and myself. The Committee is 
engaged in a retrospective indexing of Art In ­
ternational from its inception in 1957 through 
1968. As you know, the Art Index has begun to 
index Art International with the 1969 issue. We

hope to publish the index in the near future.
Elsewhere in this issue you will find the re­

sults of the first group of titles gathered by the 
Reprint Committee chaired for the last two 
years by Miss Carol Selby of Eastern Michigan 
University and Mr. William Dane of the Public 
Library of Newark.

We are planning enough work sessions at the 
conference in Atlantic City so that we can hear 
reports from the present committees and dis­
cuss the purpose and direction of new commit­
tees and our organization as a whole. To that 
purpose I would appreciate hearing any sugges­
tions for discussion that you feel would be val­
uable.

The Nominating Committee under the chair­
manship of Miss Alice McGrath has given us a 
slate of candidates with a much broader geo­
graphic base. Let us hope that more active 
participation from all parts of our country and 
Canada soon becomes a reality.—Herbert 
Scherer, Chairman, Art Subsection.

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A rt S ubsection T itles for R e p rin tin g  
a n d  M icrofilm ing

At the business meeting of the Art Subsection 
at the ALA Convention in New York in 1966, 
a suggestion was made to form a committee to 
investigate a program for microfilming and re­
printing of unavailable source material in the 
field of art history. The membership felt that this 
was a worthwhile project as individual requests 
for reprinting had received scant attention from

reprint publishers and microfilm companies.
A committee was appointed which included

Carol Selby, then librarian at the Detroit Insti­
tute of Arts, as Chairman, with Herbert 
Scherer, art librarian of the University of Min­
nesota, and William J. Dane, principal art li­
brarian, Newark Public Library, as committee 
members. The committee decided on the fol­