ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

MEETINGS

Apr. 12-14; The University of Pittsburgh will hold its second national conference on Electronic Information Handling. The conference will be co-sponsored by the university, Goodyear Aerospace Corporation, Western Michigan University, the Office of Naval Research, and the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval—Association for Computing Machinery. Further information regarding the conference may be obtained from Professor Allen Kent, Director, Knowledge Availability Systems Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213.

Apr. 13: Fifth annual Symposium for Librarians, sponsored by the alumni and faculty of the Graduate School of Library Service, Rutgers University. “Planning—Process, Problems, Politics” will relate planning for the development of libraries of all types to the problems of operating within the political and social sphere. For more information or reservation forms, write to Glenn Reed, Franklin High School, Francis Street, Somerset, N.J. 08873.

Apr. 28-29: A conference on The Developing Junior College Library will be held at DeKalb, Illinois, under the joint sponsorship of the Illinois Library Association and Northern Illinois University. Sessions will be held on the general topics of Library Administration, Collections, Services, Buildings, and Curriculum for Training Library Clerks. For further program information, write to: Sherman Zelinsky, Librarian, Danville Junior College, 2000 East Main Street, Danville, Illinois 61832. For conference reservations, write to: Mr. James B. Dodd, Faraday Library, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115.

May 5-6: Midwest Academic Librarians Conference, Chicago Circle Campus, University of Illinois.

May 5-6: The annual Spring meeting of the Tri-State (Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries, at Shepherd College Library, Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

May 21-26: Seminar in Public Library Administration. Drexel Institute of Technology. Led by Edwin Castagna, Enoch Pratt free library, Baltimore.

June 12-16: Distinguished figures in librarianship from three continents will speak at an International Conference on Education for Librarianship at the University of Illinois, Urbana. The conference is being conducted by the graduate school of library science through the U. of I. division of university extension.

The Use of Data Processing Equipment by Libraries and Information Centersis the report of a survey made by Creative Research Services for the Documentation Division of Special Libraries Association and the Library Technology Program of ALA, primarily for their own use as a first step in identifying library functions which are automated and places in which they are operational. Because copies were desired by others, a limited supply was printed, and copies are available from the Library Technology Program offices, ALA headquarters, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611, for so long as the supply lasts. Price of this working paper is $10.00 per copy.