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JUNIOR COLLEGE INFORMATION CENTER

A Junior College Library Information Center, established by a $15,000 grant from the J. Morris Jones-World Book Encyclopedia-ALA Goals Award for 1967, will begin operation at ALA headquarters on March 1. Serving as director of the information center on a halftime assignment for twelve months will be Peggy Anne Sullivan, who will conclude her appointment as director of the five-year Knapp School Libraries Project on February 29. Miss Sullivan also will be doing graduate work in library science at the University of Chicago. The project will be under the supervision of ACRL.

The information center has been funded as a crash program to collect and disseminate information on a variety of subjects of concern. Recommendation for a center of this kind was part of a ten-point program developed in 1965 by the American Association of Junior Colleges/ALA Committee on Junior College Libraries, and by librarians, junior college administrators, and instructional personnel. Materials on such topics as standards for junior college libraries, innovative programs, surveys, budgets, and annual reports will be sought out and organized for reference and loan for individuals, colleges, and other agencies interested in this rapidly growing and indigenous American institution, the two-year community college. A survey of the literature in the field of junior college libraries will be a part of this one-year project. Handbooks for faculty, students and staff; blueprints; charts of organization; plans for development; annual reports, and similar materials from junior college libraries, will be included in the collection. Such materials may be sent at any time to the Junior College Library Information Center, Association of College and Research Libraries, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

Miss Sullivan has done both public and school library work, as well as teaching at Catholic University of America, Drexel Institute, University of Maryland, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. From 1961 to 1963 she was library specialist with the Montgomery County Board of Education in Rockville, Maryland. Previously, she was head of work with children in the Arlington County library in Virginia and worked as school specialist in the Enoch Pratt free library in Baltimore. She began her professional work as assistant children’s librarian in Kansas City public library.

Miss Sullivan has an AB from Clarke College and an MS in LS from Catholic University in Washington. She is a frequent contributor to professional journals, and is the author of a book for children called The O’Donnells. She also has written Impact: the School Library and the Instructional Program‚ the first booklength report on the Knapp Project, published in 1967.