ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


In this issue:

Letter to ACRL EBSS Members 31

Additional ACRL Nominees
for Offices, 1976/77 . . . . 32

Organizations Endorsing the
Statement on Faculty Status  33

News From the Chapters . 34

News From the Field . . . . 35

P e o p l e ..........................................47

Classified Advertising  50

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Letter to ACRL EBSS Members

Dear colleague in the Education and Behavioral 
Sciences Section:

An appropriate celebration of the bicenten­
nial year, it seems to me, would be to form 
“committees of correspondence” to begin the 
process of liberating ourselves, as education 
and/or behavioral science librarians, from our 
professional problems by, at least, trying to 
articulate what some of our problems/opportu­
nities are.

In other words, I hereby invite as many of 
you as possible to become my “pen pals” for 
1976. I want to receive a simple, spontaneous 
letter from you, soon, setting forth some of 
your concerns about our specialized field of 
librarianship. I have been disturbed, over the 
years, that there is so little participation of the 
membership at large in section activity. Now 
that I am myself the chairperson for a year, I 
feel a responsibility to see if we can change 
that. How does one go about productively in­
volving as many as possible in an ALA group?

At the risk of suggesting too definitely what 
you might think about, here are some areas of 
concern that occur to me:

1. Information on education/psychology 
libraries and librarianship: What statis­
tical and other factual information exists, 
or should exist, on North American edu­
cation /  psychology /  psychiatry libraries? 
What about state-of-the-art papers? 
Practitioner’s handbooks?

2. Materials selection: W hat distinctive 
problems do we, as education and be­
havioral science specialists, have in the 
selection process? How adequate is our

review literature? What about written 
selection policies for our fields?

3. Classification systems: How do we as 
education and/or psychology specialists 
see LC, Dewey and other classification 
systems?

4. Subject heading systems: Similarly, how 
do we, as specialists working with li­
brary users, see the LC, ERIC, Ed Index 
and other subject heading/descriptor 
systems?

5. Bibliographical and other reference 
works: What gaps exist in the biblio­
graphical control of our field?

6. User studies: W hat studies have been, 
or should be, made of how psychologists 
and/or educators communicate, including 
their patterns of use of recorded infor­
mation in their fields?

7. Bibliographical instruction: Isn’t there a 
special responsibility to educate the edu­
cators, and future educators, in the use 
of education materials? What about liai­
son with teacher education organiza­
tions?

8. Standards for education libraries: Should 
standards or guidelines for our special­
ization be formulated and promulgated, 
perhaps at the initiative of our section?

9. Curriculum materials: Isn’t this one of 
the most difficult, yet least studied, areas 
in all of academic librarianship? What 
can we do to change this? The time is 
ripe.

10. Behavioral sciences: What do you mean, 
“behavioral sciences,” anyway? Psychology

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 and what other fields? W hat are the 
distinctive problems of this field of li­
brary specialization?

As you can see, I have concentrated on edu­
cation/psychology librarianship in higher ed­
ucation and research institutions. I have as­
sumed that our section is not in business to deal 
with school librarianship since AASL serves 
that purpose. Nor is our section primarily con­
cerned with education for librarianship since 
L E D  exists for that. Learning resource center 
librarianship in two-year colleges is somewhat 
closer to the emphasis of our section; however, 
the Community and Junior College Section of 
ACRL and the Audiovisual Section of ISAD 
adequately cover this interest. I must hasten to 
add, however, that, although I particularly 
want to hear from librarians specializing in ed­
ucation/curriculum materials or psychology/ 
psychiatry in higher education or research in­
stitutions, I will be pleased to get responses 
from other librarians as well. Two groups able 
to make especially valuable contributions to the 
discussion are ex-education/psychology librari­
ans now in other career lines, and social science 
librarians who include education or psychology 
among their areas of responsibility.

W hat do I  intend to do with the letters once 
you have written to me? First, I expect to learn 
something as chairperson about the concerns 
of my colleagues. Also, I hope in this way to 
learn of those members of the section who 
would like to be more actively involved. Per­
haps, depending on the kinds and number of 
responses, letters could be xeroxed and dis­
tributed to all correspondents or to circles of 
people with interests in common, or round 
robins might be formed.

Finally, your letters will provide topics of 
grass roots interest for the Annual Conference 
in Chicago. On Sunday afternoon we are plan­
ning to try out discussion circles of members 
interested in education and behavioral science 
librarianship. Maybe we should call them 
“juntos” in memory of one of the founding 
fathers of American libraries, Benjamin Frank­
lin, and to introduce a bicentennial note. We 
are likely to ask some of you to co-lead small 
discussion groups on areas of interest to you, 
or act as recorders and reporters.

Like most of you nowadays, I am overbur­
dened with work both in my job and in other 
professional commitments. Nevertheless, I hope 
you will make the burden even more over­
whelming by responding to this, an effort to 
make a tour of duty as chairperson of your sec­
tion interactive.

Wayne Gossage, Library Director 
Bank Street College of Education 
610 W . 112 St.
New York, NY 10025

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A DDITION A L ACRL 
NOM INEES FOR OFFICES, 

1976/77

ASIAN AN D AFRICAN SECTION

Vice-C hairman / Chairman-Elect 
Robert Edmund Booth, Director, Wayne 

State University Division of Library Science, 
Detroit, M I 48202 

John A. Eilts, Near Eastern Bibliographer, 
University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, 
M I 48104 
Secretary

Mohammed M. Aman, Chairman, Depart­
ment of Library Science, St. John’s University, 
Jamaica, NY 11432 

Josephine R. Fang, Professor, School of Li­
brary Science, Simmons College, Boston, MA 
02115
Member-at-Large 

Rosalie C. Amer, Technical Services Librari­
an, Cosumnes River College Library, Sacramen­
to, CA 95823 

David G. Donovan, Assistant Director for 
Administration, University of Notre Dame Me­
morial Library, Notre Dame, IN  46556

COM M UNITY AN D JU N IO R  CO LLE G E  
LIBRARIES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect 

J. Daniel Vann III, Chief Librarian and Pro­
fessor, Staten Island Community College, 715 
Ocean Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301 ■■

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