ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

FOREIGN AREA MATERIALS CENTER

Representatives of eleven regional groupings of colleges and universities have announced the formation of a National Council for Foreign Area Materials. The Council will seek to meet the needs for teaching materials about foreign areas at the undergraduate level. Initial plans of the Council include support for the production and distribution of bibliographies, library acquisition guides, course syllabi, audio-visual materials, and reprints of out-ofprint materials appropriate for undergraduate programs. The Council hopes to identify priorities and to coordinate the production of materials to meet these needs on a nation-wide scale. The Council looks forward to working closely with scholarly groups, publishers, and other sources of materials in the United States and abroad and is already in close touch with such groups as the Association for Asian Studies.

The Council headquarters will be in New York. Further information may be obtained from the Foreign Area Materials Center, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, New York (212- CH 4-8480). ■■

Fred C. Cole, president of Washington and Lee University since 1959, has been elected to the presidency of the Council on Library Resources to succeed Verner W. Clapp in September. Dr. Cole’s resignation from the university presidency was accepted by Washington and Lee trustees on May 20. He is chairman of the USOE Advisory Committee on Research. Mr. Clapp, who is retiring, will continue with CLR until he is relieved by the new president.