ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


ADDITIONAL ACRL 
NOMINEES FOR 

OFFICES 1973/74
LAW AND POLITICAL SCIENCE SECTION

Vice-chairman (Chairman-elect)
Dan F. Henke, Librarian and Professor of 

Law, Hastings College of Law Library, Univer­
sity of California, San Francisco, CA 94102

Margaret A. Otto, Assistant Director for 
Reader Services, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
retary

Mrs. Joan L. Chambers, Assistant Reference 
Librarian, University of Nevada at Reno, Reno, 
NV 89507

Frances B. Woods, Chief Cataloger, Yale 
University Law School Library, New Haven, 
CT 06520
mber-at-Large

Mrs. Silvia A. Gonzalez, Acquisitions Librari­
an, University of California Law Library, Da­
vis, CA 95616

Mrs. Ann M. Randall, School of Library Ser­
vice, Columbia University, New York, NY 
10027

In September 1973, the School of Li­
brary Science of Simmons College, Bos­
ton, will inaugurate a new program lead­
ing to the Doctor of Arts degree. The 
doctoral program will specialize in pub­
lic or academic library administration or 
school media center administration. 
Among other requirements for admission, 
candidates must present not only a grad­
uate degree from a program accredited 
by the American Library Association but 
also a graduate degree in another disci­
pline.

The Doctor of Arts, a new academic 
credential wholly distinct in character 
from either the Ph.D. or the D.L.S., is 
designed to meet the particular need of 
practicing administrators at the doctoral 
level. A distinguishing characteristic of 
the D.A. degree is the absence of any 
requirement for a dissertation. Insofar as 
is known, Simmons College is the first to 
offer the Doctor of Arts degree in library 
science, although it is currently available 
in various areas of the arts and sciences 
in other colleges and universities. Addi­
tional information about this new pro­
gram may be obtained from the admin­
istrative assistant of the School of Li­
brary Science.

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