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LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WORKSHOP

A “first-of-its-kind” was held November 9-11, 1966 at the Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia, when the Drexel Institute of Technology graduate school of library science sponsored a Library Association Administration Workshop. Attending the three-day session were representatives of seven national, two regional, two county, and nineteen state, provincial or district, library associations. Total attendance was fiftythree.

Workshop sessions were concerned with a wide range of problems of concern to both volunteer officers and paid staff members of large and small library associations. Topics covered included the function, structure, and influence of professional associations and of library associations in particular, officer-staff relationships, membership promotion and file maintenance, financial, tax and legal considerations, publications, meetings, exhibits and advertising, and legislation. Education, placement, standards, consultation, intellectual freedom, censorship, and recruitment were considered in small discussion circles.

A workshop advisory council was composed of Nancy Blundon, executive secretary, Pennsylvania Library Association; David Brunton, executive secretary, California Library Association; Alphonse Trezza, associate executive director, American Library Association; John Harvey, dean and Margaret Warrington, administrative assistant, Drexel; and Bill Woods, executive director, Special Libraries Association, chairman.

Conference proceedings will be published by Drexel during the summer of 1967 in the form of a manual of library association administration, the first such instructional manual to be issued. This volume will be part of the Drexel Library School Series for which a standing order may be placed. All orders should be sent to the Book Store, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.