ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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College Library Section
At the ALA Midwinter Conference the College 

Library Section (CLS) of ACRL began working 
for the first time under an expanded committee 
structure. Carla Stoffle, section chair from the 
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, has added four 
ad hoc committees to CLS so that the section 
may better fulfill its role of representing the spe­
cial needs and perspectives of baccalaureate li­
brarians. To the existing Executive Committee, 
Nominating Committees, Conference Program 
Planning Committee, and the ad hoc Continuing 
Education Committee have been added the Com­
mittee on Standards and Guidelines for the Col­
lege Library, C om m ittee on th e Im pact of 
National Library Policy and National Library De­
velopments on the College Library, Committee 
on Nonprint Media and the College Library, and 
Committee on Membership Participation in the 
College Library Section.

The highlights of committee activity at Midwin­
ter included discussions of: (1) the impact of the 
National Periodicals Center, AACR II, third party 
use of OCLC records, and the merging of au­

diovisual services with the college library; (2) a 
possible survey to assess the application of the 
1975 Standards; (3) the New York CLS program 
cosponsored with the ACRL Audiovisual Commit­
tee and entitled “The Marriage/Divorce of Print/ 
Nonprint: Some Thoughts on Merging Library 
and. Media Services”; (4) the forthcoming publica­
tion of the first in a series entitled “College Li­
brary Information Packets” (CLIP), which are the 
CLS equivalent to the “SPEC Kits” published by 
the Office of Management Studies of ARL; (5) a 
survey of midwest college librarians on con­
tinuing education needs; and (6) means of com­
municating more effectively with the CLS consti­
tuency to encourage participation in CLS and its 
state affiliates and to determ ine the ways in 
which the section can assess and respond to the 
needs of the librarians in principally baccalaure­
ate institutions. Willis Hubbard, section vice­
chair and chair-elect from Stephens College, has 
prepared the first budget to include the new CLS 
committees (which are intended to operate for at 
least two years). ■■



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