ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

News from the Sections

Note from the Editor: With this issueCRL News begins a new column, “News from the Sections.” This column will be set aside for items of interest to the members of the various ACRL sections and subsections. Items may be either submitted to the respective editors appointed by the section chairmen or sent directly to the editor of the News. The items will then be placed in this new column under the particular section name. It is hoped that this new column will offer a place for the sections to place communications for their members.

ART SUBSECTION

Art Librarians meetings at Detroit (1970): Monday, June 29, at 2:00 p.m.: Garnett McCoy, archivist of the Archives of American Art will speak on “The Archives of American Art, Achievements and Goals.”

Tuesday, June 30: half-day bus tour to Ann Arbor to visit the Collections of the Chinese National Palace Museums at the University of Michigan with a talk by Dr. Richard Edwards, Professor of Far Eastern Art. Luncheon will be followed by optional visits to the University of Michigan art and slide libraries and an opportunity to explore other libraries of the university. Reservations are to be made in advance, payment of which includes chartered bus, luncheon and gratuities. Send check or money order to Judith A. Hoffberg, Secretary, Art Subsection, University Library, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037. Reservations are $5.75 and should be made before May 15, 1970; limited to fifty participants.

Wednesday, July 1: William Treese, Head, Arts Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, will speak on “Experiences with Computer-Indexing of Art Exhibit Catalogs.” This will be at 10:00 a.m.

Thursday, July 2: Annual business meeting.

Closed meeting, 10:00 a.m. to 12 Noon.

Thursday, July 2: Dr. Jan van der Meulen, Professor of Art History, Pennsylvania State University, will speak on “Computer Applications to the History of Medieval Art.” 2:00 p.m.

EDUCATION AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES SU BSECTION

The Education and Behavioral Sciences Subsection of the Subject Specialists Section will ratify their new constitution and bylaws at their annual business meeting at the Detroit Conference. Date and time for the meeting will be Monday, June 29, at 4:30 p.m. The proposed constitution has been published in the News (in the November 1969 issue). Speaking at the meeting will be Harvey Marron, head of the ERIC Program, U.S. Office of Education. His topic will be “Information Dissemination in Education: a Progress Report.”

Proceedings of the 1970 Midwinter Conference, Chicago, Illinois

Present were Donald Leatherman, Chairman; Sidney Forman, Vice-chairman, Teachers College; Mrs. Barbara Marks, Past chairman, New York University, Librarian, Education Library; and Miss Eleanor Buist, Vice-chairman, Subject Specialists Section of ACRL. Committee chairmen attending the meeting were Miss Margaret Mattem, Librarian, Education Library, University of Rochester; Mr. Earl Shaffer, Acting Librarian, Teachers Curriculum Laboratory, Hunter College; Mrs. Toyo Kawakami, Assistant Librarian, Education Library, Ohio State University; and Mrs. Priscilla Linsley, Librarian, Educational Testing Service. Rex Hopson, secretary of the subsection was unable to attend, and Mrs. Linsley acted as secretary.

The minutes of the Atlantic City meeting were printed in a recent issue of CRL News and so the reading of them was dispensed with at this time.

Barbara Marks, Chairman, gave the report of the Nominating Committee. Nominated for the office of Vice-chairman were Shirley Wigmore, Chief Librarian, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and Mrs. Toyo Kawakami, Education Library, Ohio State University. The chairman’s report was brief and emphasized the large amount of correspondence involved in this job.

The program for the Detroit conference will be centered around the activities of the Educational Resources Information Centers. Eight meetings on this subject will be held throughout the conference week, six being done as workshops, limited to small groups. A seventh session is to be the subsection’s annual meeting. This one will be done as a lecture to the large group attending the subsection’s annual meeting. Our eighth meeting is to be a section of the SSS annual meeting to be done on government documents by the Law and Political Science Subsection. Additional discussion on the forthcoming Detroit conference program centered around the ways in which we intended to publicize these meetings. It was stated by the chairman that a business meeting would be a part of the Detroit meeting. Following the formal meeting, a cocktail hour will be planned.

The reports of five working committees were next given. Margaret Mattern reported on her Committee on Bibliographic and Physical Control of Nonbook Materials. Initially, this committee will seek to cooperate with other ALA and NEA committees, as well as the Canadian Library Association, for the purpose of producing a manual of standards on the control of nonbook materials. Also being explored by this committee is the possibility of joining the RTSD in sponsoring a preconference on the control of nonbook materials at the 1971 Dallas conference.

Dr. Lorraine Mathies, Librarian, Education and Psychology Library, UCLA, heads the Ad Hoc Committee on Educational Terminology which was reported upon next. Dr. Mathies did not attend the meeting, but she had sent a report to the chairman. She reported that she was negotiating with the Program Planning Committee of the International Federation for Documentation for an agenda item at the meeting in Buenos Aires in September of this year.

The Committee on Psychological Tests report was given by its chairman, Mrs. Priscilla Linsley. She reported that this committee was concerned with such problems as the cataloging of tests, an updating of Tests in Print, and the possibility of the collection of a complete test file, possibly by an ERIC center.

Two other committee reports were given. Earl Shaffer reported for the Ad Hoc Committee on ASCD Curriculum Materials Display while the Ad Hoc Committee on Educational Acronyms report was given by its chairman, Mrs. Toyo Kawakami. This latter committee is publishing a directory of educational acronyms.

Donald Leatherman, Chairman

LAW AND POLITICAL SCIENCE SUBSECTION

The Law and Political Science Subsection is planning a two-day preconference institute on legal bibliography to be held in Detroit June 26-27 prior to the American Library Association’s Annual Convention. Wayne State University Law School has volunteered to serve as host institution and will permit us to use their physical facilities and resources. The purpose of this institute is to familiarize librarians working in public and university libraries with the bibliographic resources of American legal literature. The institute will emphasize the resource techniques involved in using legal materials and will stress familiarity with instructing patrons concerning those legal materials that would generally be found only in law libraries.

The following are among the topics which will be covered: Introduction: Who Uses the Law Library, What for, and How; Literature of the Law; Authorities. Decisional Law: National Reporter Systems, American Digests Systems, State Reports. Discussion of Federal Reporters: U.S. Supreme Court Reports, Federal Reporters, American Law Reports, Encyclopedias. Discussion of Statutory Law: Federal and State. Shepards. Administrative Law: Federal and State, Looseleaf Services. Secondary Authorities: Treatises, Restatements, Periodicals and Indexes, Directories, and Form Books.

Faculty—Roy M. Mersky, Professor of Law and Director of Research, University of Texas;

J. Myron Jacobstein, Professor of Law and Law Librarian, Stanford University; Roger F. Jacobs, Law Librarian, University of Windsor; Bethany J. Ochal, Law Librarian, Wayne State University; Donna Lubin, Reference Librarian, Wayne State University; and Janet L. Wallin, Librarian, University of Toledo.

Room Reservationsshould be made by using the ALA Hotel/Motel Room Reservation Form on page 81 of the January 1970 issue of American Libraries. The Belcrest Hotel, 5440 Cass, is located only one block away from Wayne State University and is most convenient.

Applicationsand the $50.00 registration fee (which includes: luncheons on both days, a formal dinner on June 26, and four coffee breaks) should be sent to J. Donald Thomas, Executive Secretary, ACRL, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. Checks should be made payable to the American Library Association.

SLAVIC AND EAST EU ROPEAN SUBSECTION

The revised edition of the Directory of Librarians in the Field of Slavic and Central European Studies is now being prepared by Peter Goy, Slavic librarian at the City College of New York. Librarians, archivists, bibliographers, information specialists, library school graduates or students, and those performing library related work involving Slavic or Central European languages in the U.S. and Canada are eligible for inclusion.

Forms have already been mailed to all persons listed in the first edition, which was published by ALA in 1967, as well as to directors of large libraries and to library schools for distribution to persons eligible for inclusion. The editor reports that there is a considerable problem connected with persons listed in the first edition whose addresses have changed and whom he has been unable to contact. Any person who has not yet submitted a biographical data form for the new edition should do so as soon as possible, since a cutoff date will be made soon. Forms are still available from: Peter Goy, Editor, Directory of Slavic and Central European Librarians, c/o City College Library, Room 312, New York, N.Y. 10031.

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION

“The Undergraduate Library: A Time for Assessment” is the title of the Conference program planned for the University Libraries Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries at the annual conference of the American Library Association in Detroit this summer. Dr. Roscoe Rouse, Chairman of the Section and Director of the Library, Oklahoma State University, announced the program objective to be a consideration of service to undergraduates in the university library and an evaluation of the degree of success attained by undergraduate libraries within universities.

John Haak, Undergraduate Librarian at the University of California at San Diego, will serve as program chairman. Billy R. Wilkinson, Ph.D. candidate at the School of Library Service, Columbia University, will present four case studies in reference service to undergraduate students. Kenneth Toombs will speak on the experience of the undergraduate library at the University of South Carolina, and a presentation by Mrs. Norah E. Jones will be entitled “The College Library at U.C.L.A.” Audience response and participation is expected to be a part of the overall program plan.

A brief business session will precede the program, Dr. Rouse said.