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CONFERENCE NOTES

• The Research Committees of the Library Education Division of ALA and of the Association of American Library Schools will cosponsor an open program meeting on research in library science at the annual ALA conference in Kansas City, on Wednesday morning, June 26, at 8:00 to 9:30 a.m.

John McCrossan, assistant professor of the department of library science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and program chairman, will preside. Directors of three recent library research projects will describe the organization, research methods, and results of their work.

Mrs. Florence D. Cleary, project director, and Mrs. Ruth Allen, chief investigator, of the College of Education, University of South Florida, Tampa, will report on “The Effect of a Librarian-Centered Reading Guidance Program on the Reading Skills and Habits of Elementary School Pupils.”

Haynes McMullen, professor of library science, graduate library school, Indiana University, Bloomington, will report on “The Use of a Computer in the Study of American Libraries in Existence before 1876.” A computer was used for sorting data, performing simple arithmetic processes, and producing graphs as an aid in the study of approximately 6800 libraries founded in the United States before 1876. The computer was used because it saved enormous amounts of time in handling data and eliminated many clerical errors that would have resulted from non-computer methods.

Marina E. Axeen, associate professor, department of library science, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, will report on “Teaching the Use of the Library to Undergraduates; An Experimental Comparison of Computer- Based Instruction and the Conventional Lecture Method.” Two groups of undergraduates were taught an introductory course in library science, one by a computerized program and the other by the conventional lecture methods. Results of the two methods were analyzed and compared. A doctoral dissertation at the University of Illinois.

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An announcement will be made of the new research grants awarded by the U.S. Office of Education.

•ASpecialized placement service will again be operated by ALA in cooperation with the U.S. Employment Service at the 87th Annual Conference of ALA in Kansas City, Missouri, June 23-29. The U.S. Employment Service, with its affiliated State Employment Security agencies and by arrangement with the Missouri State Employment Services, will provide placement service at the conference site.

Deadline for advance registration of job applications and job vacancies at your state employment service offices is June 7. Individual state employment services offices have the appropriate forms and will assist in their preparation. From June 7 through June 20, applications and vacancies should be forwarded to National Registry for Librarians, Professional Placement Center, 208 South LaSalle Street, Chicago 60604.

Applicants should provide details of academic achievement and experience, specifying cities, states, and regions in which employment would be considered, and the minimum acceptable salary. This information also should be forwarded by the office to the annual conference.

Employers and employees should contact the convention Placement Service upon arrival at the conference.

Registrations will be accepted at the center for those unable to register in advance. Those unable to attend the conference may also apply for this service at the nearest local office of their State Employment Service.

• “Effective Public Relations Recruits!” will be the theme of the LAD Office for Recruitment’s program meeting at Kansas City sponsored by the Regional Representatives. It is to be held Thursday, June 27, 2:00-4:00 p.m. in Room 500 of the Municipal Auditorium. The meeting is open to anyone interested in recruiting. Herschel V. Anderson, audiovisual consultant, North Carolina state library, Raleigh, N.C., will preside at the program meeting. Five panelists will discuss a particular program which has been effective in bringing the library profession as a career possibility to the attention of a specific audience.

The topics for discussion include: “Cooperative Efforts to Produce a Recruitment Film” —Donald Hunt, library career consultant, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia; “Workshop for Student Assistants”—Mrs. Sara R. Mack, assistant professor, library education, Kutztown State College, Kutztown, Pennsylvania; “The Role of the State Representative in the Recruitment Network”—Mary Jack

Wintle, Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; “Use of a Convention to Focus Attention on Recruitment”—Matthew R. Wilt, executive director, Catholic Library Association, Haverford, Pennsylvania; “Federal Funds as a Stimulant to Recruitment Efforts”—Evelyn Mullen, library services program officer, Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Charlottesville, Virginia.

• In 1966 a Discussion Group of Technical Services Directors of Processing Centers was formed within the Resources and Technical Services Division to provide a forum for discussion of common problems encountered by cooperative regional centralized processing centers. Why not join the discussion. Exchange ideas. Join a discussion with kindred souls about your problems and concerns. (You may discover a new angle which you had not thought of before, you may help others with your ideas and methods. At least you’ll find you are not alone with your problem.) You may if you are a member of RTSD and a director or assistant director of a cooperative regional centralized processing center or school system processing center. Others who are interested may request invitations by writing to the chairman: Rudi Weiss, chief, technical services, Westchester Library System, 1500 Central Park Avenue, Yonkers, New York 10710.

Join the discussion in Kansas City, Wednesday, June 26, 10:00 a.m. The place will be given in the closed meeting section of the official program.

The new Education and Behavioral Sciences Subsection of ACRL will hold its first meeting at 4:30 Tuesday, June 25, in Kansas City. Librarians with a particular interest in the proliferating problems common to these disciplines are invited to participate in organizing an active subsection. The tentative program for this meeting includes a speaker with an intimate knowledge of indexing and abstracting in these fields, plus an informal discussion period providing an opportunity for all who attend to help formulate the goals and objectives of the subsection. A social hour will follow.

Until it is possible to officially nominate and elect officers, the three sponsors of this subsection have temporarily, if undemocratically, appointed themselves to the following positions: Barbara S. Marks, education librarian, New York University, chairman; Howard Dillon, librarian, Harvard graduate school of education, program chairman; and Wayne Gossage, librarian, Bank Street College of Education, nominating committee chairman.

The following (among the thirty-four who signed the petition permitting the formation of this subsection) have been asked to serve on committees, as a result of their expressed desire to be of assistance: Barbara Anderson, San Francisco State College education librarian; Lorraine Mathies, University of California at Los Angeles education and psychology library; Rose Marie Service, University of Oregon social science librarian; and Hilmar Sieving, University of Chicago education library.

Others wishing to be active participants should get in touch with Mrs. Marks, if possible before the ALA conference.

Arrangements have been made for all registrants at the 1968 ALA annual conference to be supplied with seventy-two personal, addressed, pressure-sensitive mailing labels, free of charge. These labels are for their convenience in requesting literature from exhibitors, mailing packages home from the accommodations desk and other tasks.

Those who preregister for the annual conference can pick up their supply of labels at exhibit booth No. 2101, which is located just to the left of the main entrance to the Arena of the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City. Other registrants, who do not preregister, should first fill out a request card procured from the ALA Registration Desk and take it to the exhibit booth No. 2101 to pick up labels.

The labels, called Avery Tabulabels, are produced in conjunction with the Suffolk (New York) Cooperative Library System and are supplied without cost through the courtesy of the Avery Label Company and UNIVAC Data Processing Division, Remington Rand.