ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


Organizations Endorsing 
The Statement 

On Faculty Status

The following organizations have endorsed 
the statement on faculty status:

Association of College and
Research Libraries June 1972

Colorado Library Association December 1972 
American Association of

University Professors April 1972
Wisconsin Association of

Academic Librarians April 1972
Association of Academic

and Research Libraries, 
Washington Library
Association May 1973

Southeastern Library Association July 1973
New Mexico Library Association July 1973
District of Columbia Library

Association July 1973
Mississippi Library Association July 1973
West Virginia Library Association July 1973
Tennessee Library Association July 1973
Virginia Library Association August 1973
Oregon Library Association September 1973

Southwestern Library
Association September 1973

Ohio Library Association September 1973
Florida Library Association September 1973
Missouri Library Association September 1973
California Library Association September 1973
Special Libraries Association October 1973
Association of Research

Libraries* October 1973
Wisconsin Library Association October 1973
College and University

Section, Georgia Library
Association October 1973

Georgia Library Association October 1973
Academic Division, Minnesota

Library Association October 1973
Theatre Library Association October 1973
Rhode Island Library

Association November 1973

A draft version of the statement was en­
dorsed in principle by the North Carolina 
State Board of Higher Education, Advisory 
Committee of Librarians, in May 1972.

* VOTED “that the Board endorse in prin­
ciple faculty status for professional librarians, 
and commend to the attention of all college 
and university administrations the ‘Joint State­
ment on Faculty Status of College and Uni­
versity Librarians.’ ”

Librarians Wi
Williams & Wilkins Reversa

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Robert Wedgeworth, executive director of 
ALA, recently issued the following statement 
on the Williams & Wilkins decision.

On November 27, 1973, the U.S. Court of 
Claims issued a historic decision with respect to 
Williams & Wilkins vs. the United States. Plain­
tiff, the Williams & Wilkins Company, a medi­
cal publisher, had charged that the Department 
of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW ) 
through the National Institute of Health (NIH) 
and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) 
had infringed plaintiff’s copyrights in certain of 
its medical journals by making unauthorized 
photocopies of articles from those journals. The 
court decided in favor of the government in 
this case. The key factor in the decision in the 
court’s opinion was that the plaintiff failed to 
sustain the assumption that the defendant’s 
photocopying activities were, in fact, injurious 
to the financial health of the journals concerned. 
While we may hail this as an important vic­
tory, we must keep in mind that the court in­

dicated in its decision that the problem of 
photocopying materials under copyright would 
be best resolved through legislation. This means 
that with respect to a revision of the copyright 
law, there is a great deal of work ahead in 
order to assure that such a law protects the 
public interest with respect to access to in­
formation consistent with the decision of the 
U.S. Court of Claims.

Correction
A sharp-eyed reader informs us that 

our item about Inforasia on page 275 
in the November (No. 10) issue has a 
typographic error which may lead to 
problems with the Japanese post office. 
The address of the Japan English Service 
is correct up to the prefecture. The 
Chiga-ken is in reality Chiba-ken. Sorry.