ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 302 ACRL Candidates, 1977 Elections VICE-PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT Evan Ira Farber, Librarian, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana Arthur Monke, Librarian, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE Marjorie C. Dennin, Director of Learning Re­ sources, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Campus, Annandale, Virginia Hal C. Stone, Assistant Dean, Instructional Resources, Los Angeles City College, Los An­ geles, California William J. Studer, Associate Dean of Univer­ sity Libraries, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Billy R. Wilkinson, Staff Relations Officer, The New York Public Library, New York, New York AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES SECTION Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect David K. Oyler, University Librarian, Hum­ boldt State University, Arcata, California Linnea Sodergren, Health Manpower Spe­ cialist, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Man­ power Branch, Chicago, Illinois Secretary Vladimir Micuda, Life Sciences Librarian, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Linda L. Phillips, Librarian, Agricultural Technical Institute, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio ANTHROPOLOGY SECTION Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect David L. Perkins, Head Bibliographer, Cali­ fornia State University, Northridge, North­ ridge, California Suzy M. Slavin, Assistant Head, Reference Attention All future news items should be sent to: John V. Crowley, James M. Milne Li­ brary, State University College, Oneonta, New York 13820. Please draw this information to the at­ tention of your colleagues and of your personnel officers and newsletter editors. Department, McLennan Library, McGill Uni­ versity, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Secretary Elizabeth J. Airth, Reference Librarian and HRAF Supervisor, Reference Department, Gen­ eral Libraries, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Patricia Ann White, Reference Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries, East Lan­ sing, Michigan Member-at-Large M. Sangster Parrott, Assistant Professor, Li­ brary Science/Educational Technology, School of Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina Patricia W. Silvernail, Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island Library, Staten Island, New York ART SECTION Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect Karen Esper, Materials Selector for Human­ ities, Case Western Reserve University Librar­ ies, Cleveland, Ohio Rosella L. Ferster, Art Cataloger, Duke Uni­ versity, Durham, North Carolina Betty Jo Irvine, Fine Arts Librarian, Fine Arts Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Secretary James R. Burch, Assistant Head, Environ­ mental Design Library, University of Califor­ nia, Berkeley, California Karen Muller, 1110 Grove Street, Evanston, Illinois ASIAN AND AFRICAN SECTION Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect Corinne Nyquist, Director, World Study Center, Sojourner Truth Library, State Univer­ sity College, New Paltz, New York Hans E. Panofsky, Curator of Africana, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois Member-at-Large Hideo Kaneko, Curator, East Asian Collec­ tion, Yale University Library, New Haven, Con­ necticut Elizabeth A. Widenmann, African Bibliogra­ pher and Cataloger, Columbia University Li­ braries, New York, New York COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect Dale K. Carrison, Executive Director, Man­ kato State College Library, Mankato, Minneso­ ta 303 Gertrude C. Davis, Head Librarian, Martha S. Grafton Library, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia Secretary Joel M. Lee, Head of Technical Services, Donnelley Library, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois Brother Paul J. Ostendorf, Head Librarian, Fitzgerald Library, Saint Mary’s College, Wi­ nona, Minnesota COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect Imogene I. Book, Director of the Library, Rend Lake College, Ina, Illinois Bob Schremser, Head Librarian, Alexander City State Junior College, Alexander City, Ala­ bama Secretary William I. Bunnell, Director of Library Ser­ vices, County College of Morris, Dover, New Jersey Raymond G. Roney, Director of the Library, Washington Technical Institute, Washington, D.C. EDUCATION AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES SECTION Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect Darrell Jenkins, Assistant Serials Librarian, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico Jean C. Jones, Librarian, American Psychi­ atric Museum Association, Washington, D.C. Secretary Leslie Benton Bjorncrantz, Curriculum Li­ brarian and Reference Librarian, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Marjorie Zumstein, Education and Psychol­ ogy Librarian, Purdue University, West Lafay­ ette, Indiana LAW AND POLITICAL SCIENCE SECTION Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect Susan C. Finsen, Assistant Executive Officer, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Myron Jacobstein, Law Librarian, Stanford University Law Library, Stanford, California Member-at-Large Frances Hunt Hall, Law Librarian and Asso­ ciate Professor, Law Library, Southern Method­ ist University, Dallas, Texas Leslie W. Sheridan, Director of University Libraries, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS SECTION Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect Evert Volkersz, Head, Department of Special Collections, State University of New York at Continued on page 320 News From the Chapters The Eastern New York Chapter of ACRL held its fall meeting at the State University of New York at Cortland on October 1, 1976. The meeting consisted of seven roundtable discussions which were available in both morn­ ing and afternoon sessions. The group leaders were drawn from the chapter, thus providing an opportunity for the membership to utilize its expertise in various areas of librarianship. The topics discussed were “Minicomputers in Libraries,” led by.John Linford, State Uni­ versity of New York at Albany; “Library In­ struction,” Lynn Case and Jon Lindgren, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York; “Pub­ lic Relations and Orientation,” Jacquelyn Gav- ryck, SUNY, Albany; “Which Services and to Whom,” Irving Stephens, Rensselaer Polytech­ nic Institute, Troy, New York; “Weeding Li­ brary Collections,” Mina LaCroix and Barbara Rice, SUNY, Albany; “Budgeting for Library Acquisitions,” Sue Weaver, St. Lawrence Uni­ versity; and “Interlibrary Loan,” Lee Dalzell, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Comments solicited on a questionnaire dis­ tributed by the Program Planning Committee indicate that the informal nature of the pro­ gram was conducive to productive group dis­ cussion and that the format should be repeated next year. Evaluative interviewing will be the subject of the spring meeting to be held at Williams College on May 26, 1977. Sheila Creth of the University of Connecticut, Storrs, will be the featured speaker. ■ ■ 320 A C R L C a n d id a te s Continued from page 303 Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York Marjorie Gray Wynne, Edwin J. Beinecke Research Librarian, The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Secretary Thomas D. Burney, Assistant to the Chief, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Li­ brary of Congress, Washington, D.C. Maud D. Cole, Keeper of Rare Books, The New York Public Library, New York, New York Member-at-Large Elizabeth A. Swaim, Special Collections Li­ brarian and University Archivist, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Liana Van Der Bellen, Chief, Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN SECTION Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect Stan Humenuk, Head Catalog Librarian, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois Andrew L. Makuch, Bibliographer for Col­ lection Development, University of Arizona Li­ brary, Tucson, Arizona Member-at-Large Marianna Tax Choldin, Slavic Bibliographer and Associate Professor of Library Administra­ tion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham­ paign, Urbana, Illinois Douglas K. Freeman, Slavic Cataloger/ SOLINET Coordinator, University of Tennes­ see Library, Knoxville, Tennessee UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect James T. Dodson, Director of Libraries, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas James F. Wyatt, Dean of Libraries, The Uni­ versity of Alabama, University, Alabama ■ ■ SOLAR ENERGY DIGEST The u n iq u e, illu stra te d , m o n th ly n e w s le tte r w h ich m ak es th e w o rld w id e b lizzard of new s on ail facets of so la r en erg y conversion u n d e r­ sta n d a b le to y o u r re a d e rs. S end f o r a f re e copy a n d be convinced! SOLAR ENERGY DIGEST 5644-0 K e a rn y Mesa Road P.O . 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(L ib ra rie s that opportunities, media, technical Blandings.) Foundations of Microprogramming A rchitecture, Software, and A pplications by ASHOK K. AGRAWALA and TOMLINSON G. RAUSCHER A Volume in the ACM MONOGRAPH Series “ Agrawala and Rauscher present a fine survey of the current status of microprogram­ ming. The well-written introductory chapters provide a framework for detailed analysis of the architecture and the vertical, horizontal, and diagonal microprogramming of thirteen existing computers. Chapters on microprogramming languages, applications, and suggested areas for further research complete their well-conceived effort. The book is remarkably readable, consider­ ing the dryness of the material in the detailed examples … this volume belongs in any li­ brary used by undergraduate or graduate students interested in computer science.” — Choice, September 1976 1976, 416 pp., $15.50/011.00 ISBN: 0-12-045150-6 Computer Chess by MONROE NEWBORN A Volume in the ACM MONOGRAPH Series “ Making digital computers play chess is a fascinating and challenging programming problem. Newborn’s book begins by review­ ing the history of computer chess— from early contributions by von Neumann, Shannon, and Turing to the ongoing work of current practi­ tioners. The historical material is interwoven with the basic ideas used to implement the chess program algorithms. Most of the re­ maining chapters describe specific programs and some of the games in which they were used. … Citing many references through­ out and containing a short index, this book may be enjoyed by any chess player inter­ ested in how computers play the game and by others curious about how computers may be programmed for this purpose.” — Choice, December 1975 1975, 200 pp., $15.00/010.65 ISBN: 0-12-517250-8 Information for Action From Knowledge to Wisdom edited by MANFRED KOCHEN A Volume in the LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES Series “ This work addresses itself to WISE (World Information Synthesis Encyclopedia) or the idea of a "world brain.” In the first part, the basic issues and priorities of information sci­ ence and technology and their relation to social problems are discussed. The second section contains papers on the utilization of knowledge and information. 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