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C&RL News 30th anniversary quiz

What do you recall read- ing in C&RL News each month for the past 30 years? To celebrate the News’ 30th anniversary, the Editorial Board and editors of C&RL News have written questions based on news and articles published since its inception in 1966. Five questions (and answers) will be pub- lished each month to help you wend your way through the past 30 years of academic librarianship as reported by C&RL News

We hope you have as much fun answering these questions as we did writing them. If you have a question you’d like considered for the anniversary quiz series please send your suggestion to Mary Ellen Davis at medavis@ala.org.

1. Which of the following acronyms werefeatured in the April 1977 C&RL Neivs as “Recent LA’s (Library Acronyms) Encountered,” BLAISE, ERNEST, TINA, or GEORGE?

2. According to the 1991 article “Quiet StudyArea: No Applause between Movements,” the library at the North County Campus of San Diego State University also doubled as what?

3. The Huntington Library’s decision togive scholars unrestricted access to what rare documents unleashed a “publicity storm” around the question of intellectual freedom and access?

4. What document did the CLS HistoricalCommission produce in recognition of the College Library Section’s 100th anniversary?

5. A national conference that attractedlibrarians, curators, booksellers, attorneys, and law enforcement officers was held at Oberlin College in 1983 to discuss what subject?

Answers: 1. BLAISE (British Library Automated Information Service) and TINA (Technology Innova- tion Alert) (April 1977). 2. A concert hall (lanuary 1991). 3. Then Huntington director William A. Moffett announced on September 22. 1991. that the Huntington Library would provide unrestricted access to the complete set of photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls contained in its collections (November 1991). 4. The Historical Commission produced the Manual of the College Libraries Section of ACRL, which w^ras presented to the CLS Executive Committee during the 1989 Midwinter Meeting (April 1989). 5. Theft was the topic of the September 1983 conference which was cochaired by William A. Moffett, then Oberlin College librarian, and Elisabeth Woodbum, president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (October 1983).