ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 78 / C &R L News Chapter visits The ACRL Vice-President /President-Elect and Executive Director report on recent Chapter meetings. G feorgia, October 25-26. “At the Threshold of the 21st Century: Georgia Libraries Lead the Way” was the theme of the 1985 Biennial Confer­ ence of the Georgia Library Association, held in Augusta, October 23-27. The GLA’s Academic L i­ brary Division (ACRL’s Georgia Chapter) offered significant programming on Friday and Saturday. Two contributed paper sessions featured six pre­ sentations drawn from papers submitted to a selec­ tion committee. After the first session, commen­ tary was provided by R .W . H em phill, vice president of Georgia College. Colorado Chapter meeting On October 15 the ACRL Colorado Chapter sponsored a program jointly with the Rocky Mountain Bibliographic Center for Research entitled “Technology for Resource Sharing: A Possible Dream?” The program discussed tele­ facsimile, optical disk, and compact disk, and the potential applications for resource sharing. Keynote speaker was Richard Boss, of Informa­ tion Systems Consultants, Inc. His presentation was followed by a reaction panel composed of David Brunell, BCR; Richard Akeroyd, Den­ ver Public Library; Daniel Lester, Fort Lewis College; and John Regazzi, H.W. Wilson Com­ pany. Several vendors, including UMI Article Clearinghouse, Reference Technology, NEC America, and Meckler Publishing, described their own technological applications. The two-part program was part of the Colo­ rado Library Association’s Fall Conference at Copper Mountain, Colorado. Nearly 100 peo­ ple attended the program. I chose the topic of “Managing Technology: The Librarian’s Role” for my luncheon address. A busi­ ness meeting included election of officers and a brief presentation by myself on ACRL. Biennial conferences intensify the importance of successful programming. The Georgia Chapter certainly led the way in providing an opportunity for member involvement and offering quality pro­ grams for their members. A large attendance at ses­ sions testified to their success.—JoAn Segal. Ohio, September 20. An afternoon flight on Sep­ tember 19 brought me to Columbus on a warm and sunny fall day for the Academic Library Associa­ tion of Ohio (ALAO, ACRL’s Ohio Chapter) an­ nual meeting. The social gathering that evening was an effective method of meeting most of the 220 members who were attending the meeting, espe­ cially Paula Warnken, the president of ALAO. Paula and her fellow officers were most gracious and helpful in providing me with current informa­ tion on chapter activities. The next morning Charles Dygert, president of Motivational Enterprises International, Inc., pro­ vided the conference attendents with a very excit­ ing experience as he talked about “Creating Envi­ ronments for the Expression of Human Excellence.” Even the sleepiest person in the audi­ ence couldn’t help being affected by his enthusiasm and challenging ideas. This keynote address was a very appropriate way to begin ALAO’s excellent conference on “Developing Library Personnel for the 1980’s...and Beyond.” Sessions on new em­ ployee orientation, time management, microcom­ puters, copy catalogers, special collection person­ nel, and one-professional libraries followed. After lunch and several award presentations, I addressed the group on “The Role of the Profes­ sional Organization in Library Staff Growth and January 1986 / 79 D evelopm ent.” I focused on comparisons of ALAO and ACRL priorities and goals, an ACRL profile, ACRL’s role in continuing education, and the development of professional competencies. My final message to the group related to the role mem­ bership can and must play within ACRL to con­ tinue its growth and strength. Questions from the membership indicated a strong interest in ACRL. The afternoon meetings addressed topics such as communication, educating middle management, student employee supervision, search and screen committees, and professional appraisals. This was an ambitious, yet most successful meet­ ing held by one of the largest and strongest ACRL chapters .—Hannelore B. Rader. Texas, October 25. A humid 85-degree evening enveloped me as I stepped off the plane and re­ ceived a most gracious Texas welcome from Max­ ine Johnston, Texas ACRL Chapter Chair. During a delicious Mexican dinner with Maxine and fellow program speaker Jacquelyn Morris, chair of the ACRL Ad Hoc College Library Standards Com­ mittee, I learned a great deal about the Texas Li­ brary Association, the Texas ACRL Chapter, and Texas itself. Later on that night Maxine continued my orientation to Texas by walking with me around the campus of the University of Texas, Aus­ tin, and showing me the beautiful LBJ Presidential Library. The program of this year’s Texas ACRL Chapter meeting focused on “Library Standards and Texas Academic Libraries.” It was my privilege to open the meeting, attended by approximately 60 librari­ ans, with a presentation on “ACRL Programs and Priorities.” I discussed ARCL’s functions as our professional organization and compared ACRL’s goals and priorities to the Texas ACRL Chapter’s goals and priorities. This was followed by a sum­ mary of ACRL’s activities with particular empha­ sis on continuing education and standards. I ended with the future of ACRL and the importance of membership involvement in all ACRL activities. Jacquelyn Morris discussed new ACRL stan­ dards, their development and future impact. Sev­ eral Texas librarians provided a Texas perspective on the standards. Opportunity for questions and discussion after each presentation was most effec­ tive. Brooke Sheldon, past ALA president, pro­ vided a very thoughtful summary and overview. — Hannelore B. Rader. Tri-State, September 1 9 -2 0 . Three ACRL chap­ ters convened in Chicago for a series of presenta­ tions on the use of microcomputers. With support from the Chapters Special Programming Fund and planning by the Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois chapters, the program was highly successful. After official greetings from Donna Goehner, conference chair, from each chapter’s official rep­ resentative, and from the ACRL executive direc­ tor, the program began by examining the issue of stress, particularly stress caused by the introduc­ tion of technology into library opeartions. Charles Bunge from the University of Wisconsin School of Library and Information Studies made an enjoy­ able and insightful presentation. Workshops on a variety of microcomputer- related topics were held Thursday afternoon and Friday. About 120 members of the three chapters benefited from this activity, which addressed a member-identified need in a useful and engaging manner.— JoAn Segal. ■ ■ Acquisitions • Camegie-Mellon University Libraries, Pit burgh, Pennsylvania, has acquired the calligraphy and type design collection of professor emeritus of calligraphy Arnold Bank. The collection represents Bank’s own calligraphy, the work of his colleagues and students, his teaching exercises, and a substan­ tial number of historical samples of calligraphy and typography. It also contains work Bank exe­ cuted for commissions, including the Rockefeller Center Credo, the Scott Paper Alphabet Series, and bronze plaques and stained glass for the uni­ versity. Bank was professor of graphic arts in the university’s Design Department from 1960 to 1974. ts • Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, has acquired a complete collection of the first edi­ -tions of Sir Henry Rider Haggard, who published 85 volumes of novels and romances between 1882 and 1930. The collection, which also includes a sig­ nificant amount of autograph material and other ephemera, should prove useful to literary histo­ rians studying these works of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Duke’s Music Library has purchased the music collection of the eminent Viennese musicologist and bibliographer Alexander Weinmann. The col­ lection of over 3,000 items was assembled by Wein­ mann during his years of studying and cataloging the output of 18th and 19th century Austrian com­