ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

ACLS COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES

The American Council of Learned Societies has announced the appointment of a committee of scholars, librarians, and university presidents to propose programs of action to meet the urgent and long-term needs of American research libraries.

Research libraries tend to double in volumes held every fifteen years and the result is increasingly critical shortages. One important topic the committee will take up is the extent to which shortages of space, personnel, and funds can be overcome by the application of modern technology.

The study is being made at the request of the National Advisory Commission on Libraries. It is being financed through a grant of $39,300 from the Council on Library Resources.

Members of the ACLS committee are: William O. Baker, Bell Telephone Laboratories; Kingman Brewster, Yale University; Douglas Bryant, university librarian, Harvard University; T. Robert S. Broughton, University of North Carolina; Lyman S. Butterfield, Massachusetts Historical Society; William S. Dix, librarian of Princeton University; Warren Haas, director of libraries, University of Pennsylvania; Chauncy Harris, University of Chicago; James D. Hart, University of California, Berkeley; H. Field Haviland, Jr., Brookings Institution; Gordon N. Ray, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; Robert G. Vosper, university librarian, University of California, Los Angeles; Herman B Wells, Indiana University; Walter Muir Whitehill, director and librarian, Boston Athenaeum; Gordon R. Williams, director, Center for Research Libraries, Chicago; Edwin Wolf 2nd, librarian, Library Company of Philadelphia; and Louis B. Wright, director, Folger Shakespeare library. ■■