ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


In this issue:

Beverly Lynch Resigns as ACRL
Executive Secretary …  299

John Crowley Named Editor of
C&RL N e w s ..............................300

Guidelines for Bibliographic In­
struction in Academic Libraries … 301

ACRL Candidates, 1977 Elections 302 
News From the Chapters 303
Tentative Schedule of ACRL Mid­

winter M e etin g s.............................304
News From the Field . . . .  306
P e o p l e .............................................. 323
Classified Advertising . . . .  326

ISSN 0099-0086

COLLEGE 
& RESEARCH 

LIBRARIES
n e w s

NO. 11 •  DECEMBER 1976

Beverly Lynch Resigns 
as ACRL Executive Secretary

At the end of December, Beverly Lynch will 
resign as executive secretary of ACRL to be­
come university librarian at the University of 
Illinois, Chicago Circle campus on January 1, 
1977. Dr. Lynch has served as ACRL’s chief 
staff officer since October 1972 and has been 
a dynamic and moving force in the association. 
She is a dedicated professional who is seriously 
concerned with organizational problems and 
their solutions; and because she has been ex­
tremely sensitive to ACRL’s inner tensions and 
to its relationship with ALA, she has been able 
to minimize conflict and to focus ACRL’s en­
ergies on vital issues.

During her tenure, ACRL has received three 
J. Morris Jones awards, a three-year grant from 
the Mellon Foundation for the Academic Li­
brary Internship Program for Administrators of 
Black College Libraries, and a grant from the 
Council on Library Resources for a survey of 
academic library salaries. Major projects com­
pleted include the revision of standards for col­
lege libraries, revision of standards for univer­
sity libraries, and the publication of a new edi­
tion of Books for College Libraries. Dr. Lynch 
has been especially successful in establishing 
relationships with other professional organiza­
tions and in raising the level of consciousness 
of nonlibrarian groups to the problems of aca­
demic librarians.

As university librarian, Dr. Lynch will direct 
a staff of 150 and will hold the ranks of profes­
sor and dean.

Dr. Lynch holds degrees from North Dakota 
State University, the University of Illinois, and

Beverly Lynch
the University of Wisconsin. Her major aca­
demic interests are the theory of organization 
and management. In addition to serving as 
ACRL’s executive secretary, Dr. Lynch has 
worked in reference (Plymouth, England), 
serials (Yale and Illinois), and cataloging (Mar­
quette University). She has taught in the library 
schools of the universities of Chicago and Wis­
consin, has served as consultant to a number of 
institutions and organizations, and has been in 
frequent demand as a program speaker. Dr. 
Lynch has also been published widely in li­
brary and other professional journals.

Members of ACRL thank Dr. Lynch for her 
four years of creative service as their executive 
secretary and will wish her continued success 
in her new post.

Connie R. Dunlap 
President of ACRL

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