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Association of College & Research Libraries

Baltimore ’86

The program for the Fourth ACRL National Conference, “Energies for Transition,” is taking shape. Librarians in and around Charm City are setting the stage to welcome you to Baltimore April 9-12, 1986. Theme speakers will stimulate your thinking. They will include representatives from the academic community, the publishing world, and the private sector explaining the difficulties we face in coping with and managing change.

The prow of the U.S.S. Constellation, with the National Aquarium in the background, in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

Contributed papers

Three types of contributed papers will be featured: research reports (descriptions of studies utilizing rigorous reseach methodology), position papers (identification of problems and proposed solutions) and idea briefs (new concepts and programmatic concerns to stimulate discussion). Completed manuscripts were due to Danuta A. Ni- tecki, contributed papers chairperson, by July 8. It is hoped that these authors will explore such issues as new information technologies, networking, special services, automation, changing management techniques, bibliographic instruction, collection development, funding, and bibliographic control.

Exhibits featured

Participants will be able to visit over 200 exhibits of publishers, audio-visual producers, new information technologies, equipment and materials suppliers, wholesalers and jobbers, networks and consortia—among the largest group of library/in- formation exhibitors in the nation. New Products Seminars will feature discussion by exhibitors of new products introduced within the last year.

All ACRL members will automatically receive a packet of the Conference program, hotel information, and registration materials shortly after December 1. Others who would like to attend the Conference or prospective exhibitors who have not received an invitation to rent exhibit space please write or call: Energies for Transition, ACRL/ALA, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780.

How to get to Baltimore

Ideally situated on the mid–Atlantic coast, Baltimore is 35 miles from Washington, 100 miles from Philadelphia, and 185 miles from New York City. The newly expanded Baltimore–Washington International Airport is located 10 miles from center city. About 20 airlines provide direct daily service from 135 cities in the United States and Canada. Taxis and buses provide easy access to downtown. Baltimore’s recently refurbished Pennsylvania Station is located a five-minute taxi ride from center- city hotels. Amtrak service provides rapid transportation along the entire Northeast corridor, including Montreal, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington and points South, with indirect routes from Chicago, New Orleans, and the West Coast.

Highway access

Baltimore is conveniently linked by the Interstate system in four directions from the Beltway (I- 695) that surrounds the city: 1-70 to Frederick and the West, 1-83 to Harrisburg and the North, and I- 95 Northeast to New Jersey and Southwest to Washington. Trail ways (close to the Convention Center) and Greyhound both serve Baltimore. For detailed auto and sightseeing information about Baltimore and environs consult the ten-page section in the AAA Guide. Within Baltimore, tourists are well served by the new Metro, public transit buses, and taxis.

“Baltimore…shining on the sea” Conference planners and ACRL attendees in

Chicago have been treated to a new promotional film about Charm City with the above title. The theme of that film is “participate and relax.” For readers who want to be well prepared to enjoy Baltimore, a booklist is in the works to appear in a subsequent issue of College & Research Libraries News. In the meantime, you might write for the Special June 1985 issue of Baltimore Magazine for $1.75 at 26 S. Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202; (301) 752-7375.— Bill Wilson.