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RESEARCH ROUND TABLE

A business meeting will be scheduled for the newly established Research Round Table at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Washington next January and a general membership meeting and probably a joint program meeting of the round table will be scheduled for the ALA annual conference in Atlantic City next June. The organizational meeting of the Research Round Table was held during the 1968 annual conference in Kansas City. About 120 persons attended. The statement of purpose for the Research Round Table, approved by the ALA Council last January 11, is as follows—

To contribute toward the extension and improvement of library research;

To provide public program opportunities for describing and criticizing library research projects and for disseminating their findings;

To orient and educate ALA members concerning research techniques and their usefulness in obtaining information with which to reach administrative decisions and solve problems.

At the organizational meeting in Kansas City, five provisional officers were elected and given the responsibility of appointing committee chairmen for bylaws, program, and nominations. This entire group of eight is then to operate as a provisional executive committee until permanent officers are elected during 1968-69. The provisional officers are James Krikelas, assistant professor, University of Wisconsin library school, chairman; Mrs. Barbara Slanker, research association, Library Research Center, University of Illinois, secretary-treasurer; and the three members-at-large: Herbert Goldhor, director, graduate school of library science, University of Illinois; Ben-Ami Lipetz, research department, Yale University library; and Mrs. Elizabeth L. Tate, chief librarian, National Bureau of Standards.