ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 240 ACRL Chapters FALL M EETIN G S • The F l o r i d a C h a p t e r has scheduled its fall meeting for November 2 in Orlando. Tentatively, the program theme is “AACR 2 and Closing the Card Catalog.” • The K a n s a s C h a p t e r will meet October 4 -5 at the Holidome in Hutchinson. Robert De Can­ dido will conduct a workshop on “Binding and Preservation of Library Materials” on the morn­ ing of October 4. A program on AACR 2 will be held on the morning of October 5. • The M i s s o u r i C h a p t e r will hold a breakfast, a business meeting, and a presentation of papers on September 26-28 in Springfield in conjunction with the annual conference of the Missouri Li­ brary Association. • The N o r t h C a r o l i n a C h a p t e r s fall meeting will take place on October 18 at Charlotte in con­ junction with the North Carolina Library Associa­ tion biennial conference. The principal speakers will be political scientist James David Barber of Duke University and Julie A. C. Virgo, executive secretary of ACRL. • The O r e g o n C h a p t e r ’ s fall meeting will fea­ ture a presentation on the philosophy of on-line reference services by Agnes Grady of Oregon State University at a time and place to be an­ nounced. • The T e x a s C h a p t e r will cosponsor with the Texas Regional Group of Catalogers and Clas­ sifiers a workshop on AACR 2 at the University of Houston on October 11-13. • The V i r g i n i a C h a p t e r will meet with the Virginia Library Association at the Homestead in November. The featured speaker, David Kaser of the University of Indiana, will give a talk on “The Two Faces of Librarians in the Twentieth Cen­ tury.” • The W e s t e r n N e w Y o r k /O n t a r i o C h a p t e r ’s fall meeting will be held on October 12-13 at the ACRL Mail Ballot A ballot on amendments to the ACRL Con­ stitution and Bylaws was mailed to all ACRL personal members on August 15, 1979. The deadline for the re c e ip t of ballots at the ACRL office is November 7, 1979. ACRL per­ sonal members who have not received their ballots by September 24 may telephone the ACRL Office, (312) 944-6780, ext. 287, to re­ quest a replacement ballot. University of Toronto. The program will feature presentations on AACR 2 and the University of Toronto Microcatalogue. Richard Johnson, editor of C ollege & R esearch L ib ra ries, will speak on writing and publishing by and for librarians. W. Carl Jackson, dean of libraries, Indiana Univer­ sity, will give a talk and slide show on solo sailing the Atlantic. • The W i s c o n s i n C h a p t e r will hold its fall conference on September 2 7 -2 8 at the Quality Inn in Madison. The theme of the meeting will be “Evaluation of Library Services.” The speakers will be Thomas Galvin of the U niversity of Pittsburgh, Michael Gorman of AACR 2, Arthur Tannenbaum of New York University, Carolyn Snyder of Indiana University, Jeff Gardiner of the ARL Office, and others. Contact: Linda Olson or John J. Jax, P ie rce L ib rary, U niversity of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, W I 54751; (715) 232-2128. RECENT M EETIN G S • The E a s t e r n N e w Y o r k A C R L C h a p t e r held an all-day conference on May 18 at Siena College, Loudonville, New York. Talks by Den­ nis Dickinson of the University of Kentucky on collection development and by Roger Parent of Princeton and C. James Schmidt of SUNY-Albany on staff development during the morning session were followed by discussions during the afternoon of the topics covered by the speakers. The chap­ ter has a membership of 170, publishes a biennial newsletter, and meets twice a year. • The I l l i n o i s C h a p t e r drew sixty-five partic­ ipants to its spring meeting on April 26 at West­ ern Illinois University in Macomb. James Fu r­ man, executive director, Illinois Board of Educa­ tion; Robert Cronson, Illinois state auditor; Dan Martin, president, Associated Colleges o f the Midwest; and Roger Miller, president, Millikin University, each gave a talk on budget implica­ tions for library service. • The K a n s a s ACRL C h a p t e r met on April 19 at the Kansas Library Association annual meeting and heard Ronald E. Barnes speak on “Warming up the Library” (breaking down the psychological barriers that library users encounter). • The M i s s o u r i C h a p t e r ’s spring conference took place on April 5 in Columbia. Ellen Detlef- son of the University of Pittsburgh gave the keynote address, “The Non-User and User Frus­ tration.” Joyce Edinger and Leslie Whitaker of the University of Missouri-St. Louis spoke on “Marketing Library Services” and “Psychological Aspects Encouraging Library Use.” • The N e w E n g l a n d C h a p t e r attracted eighty 241 participants to its spring program m eeting on “Economic Reality: Strategies for the Academic Library” on May 3 at the University of Maine, Orono. The New England Chapter has 768 per­ sonal members and 86 institutional members. • The O r e g o n C h a p t e r has established the pattern of m eeting in the winter, spring, and fall of each year. At the February meeting, held on the campus of Pacific University in Forest Grove, Stephen Beckham, a historian at Lewis and Clark College and an authority on Northwest Indians, discussed the ways in which libraries have been helpful to him in his research. The April meeting at Oregon State University in Corvallis featured a presentation on Earlham College s course-related library user instruction program by Tom Kirk, science librarian, and Jerom e Woolpy, professor of biology at Earlham. • The W e s t e r n N e w Y o r k / On t a r i o C h a p t e r sponsored a workshop on April 7 in Rochester jointly with the Upstate New York Chapter of the Sp ecial L ib ra rie s A ssociation. T h e to p ic was “Analysis of Library Collections: How to Evaluate What You Own and How Much It Is U sed.” ■■ PO O LE NAMED C H O IC E EDITOR Jay Martin Poole has been appointed the new editor of C h o ic e , a monthly book selection journal published by ACRL in Middletown, Connecticut. At C h o ic e Poole will have responsibility for a publication with a circulation of about 6,000, a budget of $700,000, and a staff of twenty-two. Since 1974 Poole has been head librarian of the Undergraduate Library, University of Texas at Austin. He was head of the Reference D epart­ ment at the State University of New York at Buf­ falo Library during 1973-1974, and special pro­ grams librarian and referen ce librarian at the University of Washington (Seattle) Libraries from 1970 to 1973. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Tulsa and his M .L .S . degree from the Univer­ sity of Oklahoma. Active in ACRL, he was the 1978-1979 chair of the ACRL Undergraduate Librarians Discussion Group. Inside Washington J a m e s D. L o c k w o o d Assistant D irec to r ALA W ashin gton O ffice The W hite House Conference on Library and Inform ation Serv ices is now only two months away. Much has been w ritten about the reso­ lutions adopted by the state conferences. Now people are beginning to speculate on the possible impact of resolutions that will come out of the na­ tional conference. The Washington office is greatly interested in what happens at the W hite House Conference. The office is constantly seeking new material that will help tell the library story to those in gov­ ernment who make laws and regulations. Reso­ lutions of library organizations and meetings lend weight to the message we convey on behalf of li­ brarians and libraries. Resolutions from the W hite House Conference will be special, however, and the 96th Congress will indeed require something special if libraries are to come out ahead. The purse strings of Con­ gress remain very tight. As a result, more than the usual justifications will be necessary just to keep in place successful federal program s, let alone start new ones. Every once in a while federal programs in any area need a shakedown. No matter how impor­ tant the goals of minority librarian recruitment, service to the disadvantaged, and cooperation and sharing, the programs designed to m eet these needs must occasionally b e reviewed and repack­ aged. To be sure, the U .S. Office of Education conducts its own evaluations, but an evaluation by librarians and library users themselves could have an even greater impact. T he results of the W hite House C onference will have special significance for several reasons. First, the time is right for a fresh look at the di­ rection the library field is taking. Second, the conference will focus national attention on library issues. Third, the predominance of citizen partic­ ipants (two-thirds of the total) should not only improve discussion but also enhance the overall credibility o f the process. And finally, multiple targeting on local, state, and national issues and the wide scope of the topics to be considered will give added importance to the resolutions that come out of the conference. All of this is not to say that the current slate of library problem s will be wiped clean, or that long-debated issues will finally be resolved. On the other hand, it will be refreshing to look at a brand new distillation of what is changing (and not changing) in the field. In the Washington office, we are confident that the overall results of the conference will help to highlight our national assets, to reconfirm continuing needs, and to focus our efforts in new areas. ■■