ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


184 /  C &R L  News

Current BI Liaison Activity: 

Can You Help?

C arolyn  K irken d all 
P roject L O E X

Compilations of press kits in all discipline areas 
continue to be one of the top priorities for the L iai­
son Project. Thanks to all of you who have donated 
materials to represent your local BI programs! I 
would like to collect a comprehensive variety of 
pathfinders and guides to the literature in all possi­
ble subject areas and still could use 25 to 30 copies 
of appropriate handouts. Your continued assist­
ance is very much needed and appreciated.

In addition to the broad disciplines, our Project 
also needs to collect materials representing these 
subject areas: anthropology, engineering, health 
sciences (especially nursing and medicine), philos­
ophy, and women’s studies. Can you help?

Furthermore, we also need your contributions 
for general press kits, including samples from a 
wide variety of BI programs to illustrate and pro­
mote the potential instructional role that academic 
libraries can and do play on many campuses. 
Therefore, donations of general guides for library 
research and term paper topics, as well as copies of 
publicity and promotional materials sent to teach­
ing faculty, would be very helpful to include. I ’m 
convinced that a promotional packet of good BI 
samples, accompanied by reprints of articles ex­
plaining how the library’s instructional services 
can facilitate quality teaching, is the most effective 
concrete method for publicizing our mission.

Efforts continue to find speaking opportunities 
for librarians at meetings and conventions of other 
professional associations. I ’d be delighted to hear 
from any ACRL members who are involved with 
the Association for Canadian Studies in the U .S., 
from Canadian lib rarian s who w ill attend the 
Learned Societies Conference this fall, and from 
any librarian who also holds membership in the 
American Psychological Association.

R e ce n t related  a c tiv ity  inclu des the c o ­
presentation of a paper by Deborah A. Sommer of 
the University of North Carolina-W ilm ington’s 
Randall Library at the spring Conference on Col­
lege Composition and Communication on “Teach­
ing the Research Paper.” One of the BI liaison ex­
hibits was tailored for display at the recent Kansas 
City and Columbus regional meetings of the Amer­
ican Sociological Association. This month, Beth 
Sibley of UCLA will participate as chair of the L i­
brarians’ Task Force of the National W omen’s 
Studies Association on a panel, “The Librarian’s 
Role as E ducator in W om en’s Studies” at the 
NWSA Convention later this month. W atch for 
our exhibit in the small press section at the summer

ALA meeting. If you’d like to help staff our display, 
please write.

Finally, I ’d like to hear from any A CRL mem­
bers who are also members of other associations, to 
keep me informed of liaison possibilities— C arolyn 
K irken d all, L O E X  C learin ghou se, C e n ter o f  E d u ­
c a tio n a l R esources, E astern M ichigan University, 
Ypsilanti, M I 48197. ■ ■

ACRL HAS NEW DEPUTY 
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Cathleen J. Krzyminski has been appointed dep­
uty executive director of the Association of College 
and Research Libraries effective June 23. She re­
places D onna H arlan, 
who has been filling the 
position on an interim 
basis. Krzyminski has 
been director of the L i­
brary Media Center at 
Alverno C ollege, M il­
w aukee, W isco nsin , 
since 1979.

Prior to serving as its 
director, from 1974 to 
1979 K rzym inski was 
the library’s supervisor 
of the C ataloging D e­ C athleen  J . Krzym inski
partment as well as as­
sistant professor and co­
ordinator of the Library Science Department. At 
that time she collaborated with other faculty mem­
bers to institute a new curriculum of library and in­
formation science.

Krzyminski holds a master’s degree in library sci­
ence and a bachelor’s degree in political science 
from the University of Wisconsin (1973-1974). 
Earlier, she had studied journalism at Marquette 
University for three years, and served as Peace 
Corps volunteer in Arba M inch, Ethiopia. She 
worked there from 1969 to 1972 teaching home ec­
onomics and English as a second language to ele­
mentary and secondary school students.

Currently president of the executive board of the 
L ib ra ry  C ouncil of M etrop olitan M ilw aukee, 
Krzyminski is also secretary of the Wisconsin Asso­
ciation of Academic Librarians, and an active 
member of the Council of Wisconsin Librarians 
and the Wisconsin Association of Independent Col­
leges and Universities. ■  ■