ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


April 1 9 9 4 /2 1 3

The tim e to lead

ACRL seeks nominees fo r  office

W ould you like to serve on the ACRL Board o f Directors as vice-president/ 
president-elect or seek office in an ACRL sec­
tion? Would you like to nominate anyone else 
for one o f these positions? If the answer is yes, 
here is what you need to do.

ACRL Board of Directors
The ACRL Appointments and Nominations Com­
mittee will be nominating candidates for ACRL 
vice-president/president-elect. The election will 
be held in the spring of 1995 and the winners 
will hold office beginning in the summer of 
1995. If you wish to be considered for nomina­
tion or if you would like to submit names for 
consideration, contact the chair o f the commit­
tee: Suzanne H. Calpestri, Head, Cooperative 
Services, University o f California-Berkeley, Uni­
versity Library, Room 386, Berkeley, CA 94720; 
fax: (510) 642-9293; e-mail: scalpest@library. 
berkely.edu, prior to the ALA Annual Confer­
ence in Miami this June.

ACRL section officers
Candidates for vice-chair/chair-elect o f ACRL 
sections are selected by the Nominating Com­
mittee o f each section. If you would like to 
nominate som eone or be nominated for vice- 
chair/chair-elect o f an ACRL section, contact 
the chair o f the Nominating Committee for 
the appropriate section prior to the ALA An­
nual Conference in Miami. Other section of­
ficers, including secretary and m em ber-at- 
large, may also be under consideration for 
this term o f office, which will begin in the 
summer o f 1995.

Section nominating committee chairs
A fro-A m erican  Studies L ib rarian  Section .
Gerald V. Holmes, Reference Librarian, Univer­
sity Libraries and Media Services, Kent State 
University, P.O. Box 5190, Kent, OH 44242- 
0001.

A n th rop olog y an d  S ociology Section. Maija 
M. Lutz, Head o f Technical Services, and Col­
lection Development Librarian, Harvard Uni­
versity, Tozzer Library, 21 Divinity Ave., Cam­
bridge, MA 02138.

Arts S ection . Kim N. Fisher, P.O. Box 461, 
Lemont, PA 16851-0461.

A sian , A frica n , a n d  Middle E a s te rn  S ec­
tion. The name of the chair is not available at 
this time. Contact vice-chair Brenda E. Bickett, 
Arabic Materials Specialist, Georgetown Uni­
versity, Joseph Mark Lauinger Library, 37th and 
O Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20057-1006.

B ib lio g ra p h ic In s tr u c tio n  S ectio n . Betsy 
Baker, Head o f Reference, Northwestern Uni­
versity Library, 1935 Sheridan Road, Evanston, 
IL 60208-2300.

College L ib raries S ection . Jam es R. Cubit, 
Assistant College Librarian, Williams College, 
Sawyer Library, Williamstown, MA 01267.

C om m u n ity an d  J u n io r  College L ibraries 
S e c tio n . Susan M. Anderson, D irecto r o f 
Libraries, St. Petersburg Junior College, P.O. 
Box 13489, St. Petersburg, FL 33733-3489.

Education and B ehavioral S cien ces Section.
Jo  Ann Carr, Director, INC, 225 N. Mills, Madi­
son, WI 53706-1707.

E nglish an d  A m erican  Literatu re Section.
William Baker, Associate Professor, Northern 
Illinois University, University Libraries, DeKalb, 
IL 60115.

E xten d ed  Cam pus L ibrary Services Section.
Marie Kascus, Central Connecticut State Uni­
versity, I 6 l 5  Stanley Street, Wells Street, New 
Britain, CT 06050.

Law an d  Political Scien ce Section. Stephen 
J. Stillwell Jr., 3550 S. Fielder Road, #60, Ar­
lington, TX 76015-3920.

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April 1994/223

there is no treatment applicable to all types o f 
paper and com patible with all the constituents 
o f  a book. N o  process seem s adequate for 
strengthening already fragile, aged papers. A p ­
pendices provide information on methods for 
testing paper characteristics, artificial aging, pH 
measurement, com panies marketing mass d e­
acidification processes, the Montreal protocol 
on regulation o f  CFCs, and a com parative table 
o f processes. Published by the Bibliotheque 
Nationale, this inform ative study m ay b e or­
dered for $70.00 from  John Benjamins Publish­
ing Company, 821 Bethlehem  Pike, Philadel­
phia, PA 19118. ISBN 2-7177-1853-2.

Public Libraries: Travel T reasures o f the
West, by Marty and Anna Rabkin (332 pages, 
N ovem b er 1993), is a travel guide to hundreds 
o f public libraries in the western states. The 
authors have visited every one, so their d e­
scriptions o f  the architecture, collections, and 
surrounding scenery are authentic. Libraries that 
are architecturally, historically, or scenically 
outstanding are identified (such as the Apache 
Junction (A riz.) Public Library, w ith its spec­
tacular v ie w  o f  the Superstition Mountains). The 
b oo k  includes som e 90 black-and-white pho­
tographs (including Booker, the cat at Seattle’s 
Rainer Beach Branch Library) and credits the 
architectural firms that helped expand and up­
date old  libraries. Addresses, phone numbers, 
and open  days are provided for the library tour­
ist. Copies are $19.95 from  North Am erican 
Press, 350 Indiana St., Suite 350, Golden, CO 
80401-5093. ISBN 1-55591-915-4.

Rethinking Reference in Acαdemk Librar­
ies, edited by Anne Grodzins Lipow  (242 pages, 
N ovem ber 1993), contains the papers presented 
at the Library Solutions Institute No. 2 in March 
and June 1993 at UC-Berkeley and Duke Uni­
versity that focused on the future o f  reference 
services. It details the n ew  models o f reference 
that em erged there, as w ell as ideas for practi­
cal steps for im plem enting them. Contributors 
include Larry O berg on n ew  roles for support 
staff and Jim Rettig on  innovations in academic 
reference departments. Th e b o o k  also offers 
case studies on  referen ce change at several 
universities. Finally, the organizers provide tips 
for replicating the institute in case readers wish 
to arrange a similar meeting. An appendix re­
prints selected docum ents from  the institute 
packet, the pre-institute reading list, texts o f 
som e readings, and samples o f  participants’

follo w -u p  activities. A  cop y costs $32.00 from 
Library Solutions Press Sales O ffice, 1100 In­
dustrial Road, Suite 9, San Carlos, CA 94070. 
ISBN 1-882208-02-1.

Videos for Understanding Diversity: A Core
C ollectio n  and Evaluative Guide, by G re­
gory I. Stevens (217 pages, June 1993), is an 
expansion o f  the videography d evelo p ed  by 
the State University o f  N e w  York at Albany to 
support its required course in human diversity. 
T h e detailed review s exam ine 126 videos that 
offer a stimulating perspective on h o w  diverse 
cultural groups have contributed to the social 
and historical developm ent o f  the U.S. The list­
ings range from  feature films (D o  the Right 
Thing, El Norte) to documentaries ( Frida Kahlo, 
Ken Burms’s The Civil War). Access is enhanced 
by a title-theme index and a category index. 
An excellent tool for undergraduate courses in 
the social sciences and humanities. Copies are 
available for $35.00 (A LA  members $31-50) from 
the ALA Order Department, 50 E. Huron St., 
Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0-8389-0612-5. ■

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Rare Books and M anuscripts Section. Gary 
L. M enges, Head, Special Collection and Pres­
ervation, University o f  Washington, Seattle, W A  
98195.

Scien ce and Technology Section. Karen E. 
Cargille, Head, Acquisitions Department, Uni­
versity o f  California-San D iego, Library 0175-A, 
9500 Gilman Dr., LaJolla, CA 92093-0175.

Slavic and East European Section. Lydia W. 
W asylenko, Associate Librarian, Syracuse Uni­
versity Library, E.S. Bird Library, 222 W averly 
Ave., Syracuse, N Y  13210-2010.

U n iv e r s ity  L ib r a r ie s  S e c t io n . C a r o ly n  
Robinson, Associate University Librarian, G eor­
gia State University, Pullen Library, 100 Decatur 
St. SE, Atlanta, G A  30303-3081.

W estern E uropean Specialists Section. W il­
lia m  M o n r o e , 63 R o g e r  W illia m s  C irc le , 
Cranston, RI 02905.

W om en ’s Studies S e ctio n . B ernice Lacks, 
H ead o f  Reference, California State University, 
Fresno, H en ry M adden Library, 5200 N orth 
Barton Ave., Fresno, CA 93740-0034. ■



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