ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries November 1982 / 355 W A S H I N G T O N H O T L I N E b y C a r o l C . H e n d e r s o n D e p u t y D i r e c t o r A L A W a s h i n g t o n O f f i c e Library program funding. Before going home to campaign, Congress passed and the President signed a continuing resolution funding almost the entire federal government through December 17. The stopgap measure continues funding at fiscal 1982 levels for most programs affecting academic libraries, includ­ ing Higher Education Act college library, training and research, and research library programs, college work-study, the Library Services and Construction Act, the Medical Library Assistance Act, postal subsidies, and the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. Congress will return on November 29 for a brief lame duck session to consider regular funding bills. Tax deduction for manuscript donations. The Senate Finance Committee on September 24 approved S.2225, Sen. Max Baucus' (D-MT) bill to restore a fair market value tax deduction for donations of literary, musical or artistic compositions by their creators to libraries and museums. The Committee made some minor changes to the measure‚ and tacked it onto an unrelated tax bill passed by the House, HR 1524. This is a major step forward in restoring the deduction, lost to authors and artists since 1969 with a consequent decline in donations of contemporary manuscripts to libraries. HR 1524 came up on the Senate floor briefly October 1, but was passed over because the committee report (S. Rept. 97-643) was not then available. With enough constituent support, it could come up in the lame duck session; otherwise the process must begin anew in the next Congress. Naval Academy Library to be contracted out? The Public Affairs Office at the U.S. Naval Academy has confirmed that a 12-18 month study has begun to determine whether a number of administrative support service personnel, including 35 positions (2/3 of the staff) in the Academy's library, should be contracted out to the private sector. This is the latest and most extreme example of the trend toward contracting out federal libraries, and the first, to our knowledge, involving an academic library. The Navy's action seems to be part of the Reagan Administration's much more active implementation of Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76, "Policies for Acquiring Commercial or Industrial Products and Services Needed by the Government." The policy has been in effect for some time, but lately there has been a real push to turn over more areas of government activity to the private sector. A revised version of A-76 is expected before the end of the year. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy has transmitted to Congress, specifically to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees‚ notice of the decision to study the contracting out of various functions, including the library. HEA II-C Grants. Thirty-five grants involving forty institutions were awarded for FY 1982 under the Higher Education Act Title II-C Strengthening Research Library Resources programs, according to the Education Department's Office of Libraries and Learning Technologies. 356 / C &R L News AUTOMATED STAF TRAININ The Indiana University Libraries received t .W . Wilson Library Staff Development Gra or 1981-82 to create a series of computer-assiste essons for student employees. Student employe re a vital part of any college or university librar taff. The need for more efficient and effectiv raining of student employees is a common pro em shared by most academic libraries. Two areas were selected as most appropriate f omputerized individual instruction: Library ongress call numbers and the basic elements he card catalog. These two areas were selected b ause most student workers require such instru ion, yet the instruction is often tedious and tim onsuming for both employee and supervisor raining modules for these lessons were designe nd scrip ted under the guidance of F ran ce ilhoit, journalism librarian, who is director he grant project. Many librarians and staff me ers assisted with the creation of the lessons. Th odules were programmed for use on the PLAT ystem of computer-assisted instruction, so that t essons are readily available to the IU Librarie tudent employees and to other academic librari hich have access to PLATO. The Library of Congress call number lesson esigned to be universally applicable to all librari sing L C classification and includes these el ents: recognition of the call number, instructio n the sequential order of call numbers, a sample ibrary tasks using call numbers, and practice se or these tasks. The second lesson, using the card catalog, is d igned specifically for the card catalog in the Mai ibrary on the Bloomington campus. This modu imulates interactions between the library e BI in English Texts The lack of adequate user instruction in freshman English textbooks is described in the September 1982 issue of C ollege English by Vir­ ginia Tiefel, director of library user education at Ohio State University. Tiefel examined the section on libraries and librarians in 25 fresh­ man English textbooks published from 1952 to 1980. She found that although library instruc­ tion programs have proliferated over the last decade and a great deal has been learned about how to teach students effective ways of finding and evaluating information, most of the text­ books used in freshman English courses do not reflect this progress. Tiefel offers guidelines for ideal chapters on libraries that will “put the li­ brary into focus for students and make its ser­ vices and collections more relevant.” F G he H nt f d l es a y s e­ t b­ l or c of C of t e­ c c­ t e c s. T d a s W of t m­ b e m O s he l s’ s es w is d es u e­ m n i of l ts f e­ s n L le s mployee and a patron, utilizing questions which are commonly asked to teach appropriate responses. The modules have been successful training tools during pretesting, and the students have responded favorably to computer-assisted instruction. These innovative programs will fill a major need in the Indiana University Libraries and for academic li­ braries in general. ■ ■ NEW ACRL PUBLICATIONS The latest volume in the A C R L Publications in Librarianship has just been published by ALA Pub­ lishing. The Spirit o f Inquiry: The G raduate L i­ brary School at Chicago, 1921-51, by John Rich­ ardson, Jr. (238 pages, 1982), is Number 42 in this ongoing series, now edited by Arthur Young. The volume focuses on the first thirty years of education for librarianship at the University of Chicago and contains a Foreword by Jesse H. Shera. Six chap­ ters examine GLS history: the state of education for librarianship, 1876-1926; the formative Chicago period, 1919-27; the Works Era, 1927-29; the in­ terregnum, 1929-32; the Wilson E ra, 1932-42; and conclusions which evaluate the school’s ac­ complishments. Copies may be ordered for $35 from the Order Department, American Library Association, 50 E . Huron Street, C hicago, IL 60611. Those with standing orders to the series should have automatically received a copy. Now available from A C RL Headquarters is M anagem ent and S taff D evelopm ent, the proceed­ ings of a workshop sponsored by A C RL’s Califor­ nia Chapter. The workshop dealt with the role of line managers in staff development. Compiled by Jo Bell Whitlach, Celia Bakke, and Judy Reynolds, these proceedings co n ta in papers by Kaye Schoonhoven on organizational design; Tina Kass on management, automation, and staff develop­ ment; and Ruth Hafter on staff development and governance. An annotated bibliography is also in­ cluded. The 37-page monograph is available pre­ paid from A CRL, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611, at a cost of $8 for ACRL members and $10 for non-members. ■ ■ Ban Bom bs, Not Books A group of Boston-based lib rarian s has started an organization called L ib rarian s Against Nuclear W ar. The group has compiled a bibliography to be distributed at many New England campuses during the Veterans Day teach-ins on nuclear arms issues. Concerned li­ brarians may write Theresa Tobin, Assistant Humanities Librarian, Room 14S-222, Massa­ chusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, Cambridge, MA 02139. 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