ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


W H O ’S W H O  
D E A D L IN E  S T R E T C H E D

Library Association officers and executives 
are asked to bring to the attention of their 
members who may be meeting in convention 
this Spring and Summer notice that the dead­
line for return of Who’s Who in Library Serv­
ice V questionnaires can be extended as far 
as is practicable in consideration of the edi­
torial, clerical, and machine input schedules 
now in operation. This is directed particularly 
to new graduates of library schools and those 
who never received questionnaires or computer 
printouts. Questionnaires may still be obtained 
from the publisher and may be reproduced lo­
cally for multiple copies to be distributed to 
professional staffs. Request them of Shoe String 
Press, 995 Sherman Avenue, Hamden, Con­
necticut 06514.■ ■

I N D I A N A  U N IV E R S IT Y  
L IB R A R Y  SU FFERS

S E C O N D  F IR E  LOSS
A fire of incendiary origin caused serious 

damage to the main library building and book 
collections at Indiana University, Bloomington, 
on May 1, 1969. This was the second fire in 
less than eleven weeks to devastate the collec­
tions and buildings. The first fire occurred on 
February 17, 1969. The fire originated in a 
basement room shelved with oversized vol­
umes. It spread to three adjoining areas on the 
basement floor as well as to the circulation lob­
by on the first floor. Limited library service 
was resumed on May 5. Stacks in the building 
have been closed to all library patrons.

Library officers have estimated book and 
journal losses from the fire of May 1 at 40,000 
volumes totally destroyed and 27,000 volumes 
damaged by heat, smoke or water. Many of 
the damaged books may be salvaged by re­
binding. The destroyed or damaged books in­
cluded monographs and serials in German lan­
guage and literature, history of the Pacific is­
lands, Spanish and Portuguese history, tech­
nology, general science, forestry and agricul­
ture. Grievous losses occurred to the German 
literature collection in the two fires. More than 
50 per cent of this collection has been totally 
destroyed.■ ■

ACRL Membership

May 31, 1969 ...................................  12,839

May 31, 1968 ...................................  12,163

May 31, 1967 ...................................  11,357

C O L L E G E  &

R E S E A R C H N E W S
L IB R A R IE S

ACRL News Issue of College & Research Libraries

Editor, David Kaser, Cornell University Li­
braries, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850.

News Editor, David Doerrer, Cornell Uni­
versity Libraries, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850.

Editorial Board: John M. Dawson, University of Dela­
ware; Gustave A. Harrer, University of Florida; 
Samuel Rothstein, University of British Columbia; 
James E. Skipper, University of California, Berkeley; 
Norman E. Tanis, Kansas State College of Pittsburg; 
Maurice F. Tauber, Columbia University; Eileen 
Thornton, Oberlin College.

ACRL Officers, 1968/69: President, David Kaser; 
Chairman, College Libraries Section, Evan Ira Farber; 
Junior College Libraries Section, Shirley A. Edsall; 
Rare Books Section, J. M. Edelstein; Subject Specialists 
Section, Thomas D. Gillies; Agriculture and Biological 
Sciences Subsection, Louise Darling; Art Subsection, 
Herbert G. Scherer; Law and Political Science Sub­
section, Morris L. Cohen; Slavic and East European 
Subsection, Dmytro M. Shtohryn; University Libraries 
Section, G. F. Shepherd.

News from the Field, Personnel profiles and notes, 
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Indexed in Library Literature. Abstracted in Library 
Science Abstracts. Book reviews indexed in Book Re­
view Index.

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