ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Highlights of the Annual Conference
Meetings of the ACRL Board of Directors

 

The Board of Directors of the Association of 
College and Research Libraries met twice during 
the ALA Annual Conference: on Sunday, June 
24, 1979, and Wednesday, June 27, 1979.

ACRL Board Restructuring

The ACRL board gave its final approval to the 
recommendations of the Planning Committee for 
reshaping the structure o f the board. The rec­
ommendations must now be submitted to a vote 
of the membership. A mail ballot with explan­
atory material will be sent to all ACRL members. 
The purpose of the proposed restructuring, which 
will reduce the size of the board from thirty-one 
to thirteen members, is to strengthen the board 
by giving it a more workable size.

Budget and Finance

Acting upon the advice of the Budget and F i­
nance Committee, the board decided to appoint a 
study group to come up with a program break­
down of the current ACRL budget and staff time 
and to report back at Midwinter with recommen­
dations for a more effective planning cycle for 
ACRL activities.

Chapters

The board endorsed the recommendation of 
the Chapters Committee that ACRL should pro­
m ote the develop m ent o f state and regional 
ACRL chapters without regard to whether mem­
bers of the chapters are m embers of national 
ACRL. The board also approved petitions submit­
ted by librarians in Northern California and New 
J e r s e y  asking for recog n itio n  o f a N o rthern 
California Chapter and a New Jersey Chapter.

C h o ice

Acting on the recommendation of the Search 
Committee for C h o ice editor, the board approved 
the appointment of Jay Martin Poole of the Uni­
versity of Texas at Austin as the new editor of 
C h o ice and thanked Louis A. Sasso for his service 
as C h o ice editor.

C o lleg e & R esea rch  L ib ra r ies News

The board endorsed a Publications Committee 
recommendation that C ollege & R esearch  L ib r a r ­
ies and C o lleg e &  R e s e a rc h  L ib r a r ie s  N ews be 
recognized as sep arate p u blication s, that an 
ACRL staff member be delegated responsibility 
for editing C & R L  N ew s, and that a separate 
C & R L News editorial board be appointed. This

board would be similar in composition and func­
tion to the C h o ice Editorial Board.

Community and Junior College Libraries

The board endorsed the “Statement on Quan­
titative Standards for Tw o-Year Learning R e ­
sources Programs” prepared by the Ad Hoc Sub­
committee to develop quantitative standards for 
the “Guidelines for Two-Year College Learning 
Resources Programs.”

Continuing Education

Acting on a plan developed by the Continuing 
Education Committee, the board authorized the 
creation of a half-time position in the ACRL office 
to plan and implement a long-range program of 
continuing education for ACRL members and to 
design a model program for staff development in 
academic libraries.

T h e board also expressed its support for a 
planning conference on ALA s role in continuing 
education and indicated its willingness to provide 
funds to send an ACRL representative to such a 
conference if other funding were unavailable.

E R IC  Preconference

The board approved a request submitted by 
the E R IC  Regional Clearinghouse at Syracuse 
University for A CRL sponsorship of an E R IC  
Users Preconference at the 1980 ALA Annual 
Conference in New York.

Rare Books and Manuscripts

The board voted to endorse the “Joint State­
ment on Access to Original Research Materials” 
prepared by the Committee on Manuscripts Col­
lections of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Sec­
tion and the Committee on Reference and Access 
Policies of the Society of American Archivists.

Membership Dues

The board put itself on record as opposing an 
ALA dues increase. The sense of the board was 
that such an increase would be inappropriate and 
counterproductive until efforts have been made 
to contain and reduce costs. The ACRL president 
and executive secretary were directed to com­
municate the board’s position to the appropriate 
ALA officials and bodies.

Membership Promotion

The board gave its approval to a report on 
membership promotion submitted by the Mem­



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bership Com m ittee. T h e rep ort included recom ­
mendations for an A C R L  poster, a m embership 
campaign brochure, a renewal le tte r, a mailing to 
prospective m em bers, and a new m em ber m eet­
ing at Annual C onference.

Second A C R L  N ational C o nferen ce

Virgil F . Massman, chair o f the steering com ­
m ittee that is planning A C R L ’s Second National 
C onference, informed the board that the confer­
ence would take place Sep tem ber 3 0 - 0 c t o b e r  3, 
1981, in M inneap olis, and that the co m m ittee 
was thinking of a form at o f co n trib u ted  papers 
similar to the one used at the Boston conference.

Sections

T h e Anthropology Sectio n recom m ended that 
A C R L  c r e a te  a c o u n c il o f r e p r e s e n ta tiv e s  o f

"typ es o f activity” sections. This council would 
nominate persons for election at large to one of 
the seats on the A C R L  Board o f D irecto rs. The 
board gave its prelim inary approval to th e An­
thropology Sectio n’s proposal and will consider it 
again at the Midwinter M eeting.

Standards

T h e  board endorsed the recom m endation of 
the Standards and Accreditation C om m ittee that 
“An Evaluative Checklist for Reviewing a College 
Library Program ’’ be adopted as a supplem ent to 
“Standards for C ollege L ib raries.”

W estern E uro p ean Language 
Specialists Section

T h e board approved the request of the W est­
ern E u ro p ean  Language Sp ecialists D iscussion 
Group for section status. ■■

A C R L  O fficers fo r  1 9 7 9 /8 0
L e  Moyne W . A nderson, director o f libraries at 

Colorado State U niversity (W illiam  E . Morgan 
Library, F ort Collins, C O  80523), is the forty-first 
president o f the Associ­
a tio n  o f  C o lle g e  and 
R e s e a r c h  L ib r a r ie s .
D u rin g  h is te rm  o f 
office, he w ill p re sid e  
ov er th e  A C R L  B oard 
o f D ir e c to r s  and th e  
A C R L  E xecu tive C om ­
m it t e e . H e w ill c h a ir  
the A C R L  C o n fe re n c e  
P ro g ra m  P la n n in g  
C om m ittee for the 1980 
A LA  A nn u al C o n f e r ­
en ce in New York and L e  M oyn e W. 
will d evelo p  th e  plans A n d er s o n
for A C R L ’s m ajor pro­
gram m eeting at that conference.

As president o f the division, Anderson will rep­
resent A C R L on other ALA com m ittees, includ­
ing th e  ALA New  Y ork C o n fe r e n c e  P rogram  
C o m m itte e  and th e  ALA D iv isio n a l In te r e s ts  
Special C om m ittee. H e will also rep resen t A C R L  
and ALA in th eir relations with other organiza­
tions, such as the American Council on Educa­
tion.

A nderson has b e e n  a m e m b e r o f the A C R L  
Board o f D irectors, chair o f the U niversity L i­
braries Sectio n, and a m em ber o f several A C R L 
and ALA com m ittees.

M illicent D . A bell, university librarian at the 
University o f California, San D iego (C entral U ni­
v ersity L ib rary, L a  Jo lla, CA 9 2 0 9 3 ), has b e en

e le cte d  vice-president/ 
p r e s id e n t- e le c t  o f  th e  
A ssociatio n o f C o lleg e 
and Research Libraries.
T he Jun e 1979 election 
re s u lts  for A C R L  
o ffic e rs sh ow ed  1 ,5 2 7  
votes for Abell and 909 
votes for Susan B ry nte­
son, a ss is ta n t d ir e c to r  
for te c h n ic a l s e r v ic e s , 
U n iv e r s ity  L ib r a r ie s , 
In d ia n a  U n iv e r s ity , 
Bloomington. M illicen t D. 

As v ic e -p r e s id e n t/  A b ell
p r e s i d e n t - e l e c t  o f 
A C R L, Abell will serve on the A C R L  Board of 
D irectors and the A C R L  Executive C om m ittee. 
She will ch air the A C R L  Planning C o m m ittee 
and th e  A C R L  C o n fe r e n c e  P rogram  P lan ning  
C o m m ittee for the 1981 Annual C o n feren ce in 
San Francisco. She will rep resent A C R L  on the 
A LA A p p o in tm e n ts  C o m m itt e e , th e  ALA 
P lan ning and B u d g et A ssem bly, and th e  ALA 
C onference Program C om m ittee for the 1981 con­
ference. At the close o f the 1980 Annual Confer­
en ce, she will becom e A C R L ’s forty-second pres­
ident.

A bell has served A C R L  as a m em b er o f the 
Board o f D irectors, as chair of the University L i­
braries Section, as chair o f the Planning Comm it­
tee for the 1975 Preconference In stitute, and as a 
m em ber of the com m ittees on Academic Status, 
Budget, and Bibliographic Instruction.

T he results o f the A C R L  section elections fol­
low. F o r each position, the elected  candidate is