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ACRL in Philadelphia

Association of College & Research Libraries

ACRL Program Meeting:“Fiscal Challenges and Responses in Higher Education” (July 12, 2:00-5:30 p.m.) will be the theme of the ACRL Program Meeting in Philadelphia. Frank Newman, president of the University of Rhode Island, will address the topic, “The Decades Ahead for Colleges and Universities.” Following him will be “A Venturesome View of Society and Its Conditioning of Higher Education and Library Services,” by Herman Kahn, director of the Hudson Institute. Kahn, a defense analyst and physicist who has consulted for the Rand Corporation and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, has many publications to his credit including World Economic Development (1979), The Emerging Japanese Superstate (1970), and Thinking about the Unthinkable (1960).

A business meeting will be held prior to the keynote speakers in which a summary of the past ACRL year will be given by Executive Director Julie Virgo. Richard Talbot, chair of the ACRL Budget and Finance Committee, will provide an overview of the status of fiscal year 1982 and prospects for fiscal year 1983.

The ACRL Reception, sponsored by the Baker & Taylor Company, will follow the Program Meeting from 6:00-8:00 p.m. To be held at the University of Pennsylvania Faculty Club, the reception will provide food and a cash bar. Activities will include the presentation of Baker & Taylor s Academic or Research Librarian of the Year Award.

Art Section: A luncheon and tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art has been scheduled with this section s membership meeting (July 13, 1:00-3:30 p.m.). Featured speaker will be Elizabeth Anderson, coordinator of public programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Tickets are limited to the first 40 section members who respond and cost $8.50 by advance registration not later than June 20. Send a check or money order payable to John C. Larsen, Department of Library Science, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. No fee is required for attending the membership meeting only.

Asian and African Section: AAS is cosponsoring the RTSD Resources Section’s Collection Management and Development Committee program on “Collection Management Decisions in a Resource Sharing Environment” (July 10, 9:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m.). Featured speakers are David Stam, New York Public Library; Francis Buckley, Detroit Public Library; and Ginnie Richie, Monroe County Public Library. Responding will be Jean Whaley, University of California at Irvine.

The section is also sponsoring a tour of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, July 10, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

AudiovisualCOMMITTEE:“TheUse of Non-Print Resources for Scholarly Inquiry” (July 12, 9:30-11:00 a.m.), co-sponsored by the Library. Research Round Table and the ALA/RTSD Audiovisual Committee, will inform participants on the possible uses of non-print resources for the purpose of scholarly inquiry and will provide two specific case studies on the use of certain resources. An overview will be given by Cathleen Flanagan of the University of Utah; case studies will be presented by Jane Lange of the National Archives and Records Service, and Marie P. Griffin of the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University.

Bibliographic Instruction Section: “Back to the Books: Bibliographic Instruction and the Theory of Information Sources” (July 11, 2:00- 5:00 p.m.) will attempt to establish the immediate need for BI to exploit advances in bibliographic theory and demonstrate the potential application of two divergent theories of bibliography to instructional program design. The program speakers, two theorists and two BI librarians, are: Patrick Wilson, University of California at Berkeley, on “Pragmatic Bibliography;” Frances L. Hopkins, Temple University, on “An Application of Professor Wilson’s Theory to Bibliographic Instruction;” Conrad H. Rawski, Case Western Reserve University, on “The Nature of Literatures: A Synergetic Attempt;” and Thomas Kirk, Berea College, on “An Application of Professor Rawski’s Theory to Bibliographic Instruction.” '

Black Studies Librarianship DISCUSSION Group: “Prospects for the Future of Black Studies Collections and Librarianship” (July 11, 2:00-4:00 p.m.) will be considered by a panel of librarians and scholars who will present viewpoints on how libraries might respond to the problems and prospects for Black Studies Collections and research. Panelists include William Van De Burg, University of Wisconsin; Valerie Sandoval, Schaumburg Collection, New York Public Library; Ann K. Randall, Brown University; and Sam Denison, Free Library of Philadelphia.

College Libraries Section: “Theft in Libraries” (July 12, 9:00-11:00 a.m.), co-sponsored with the University Libraries Section, the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, and the ALA Resources and Technical Services Division, will present information on the way people are raiding library collections, what these thieves are looking for, and what librarians can do to protect their collections. William Moffett, director of libraries at Oberlin College, will present an overview of recent events. Daniel Traister, curator of special collections at Lehigh University, will discuss librarians’ attitudes toward the theft situation and the types of materials that not everyone may realize are of value to thieves. Richard Boss, Information Systems consultant, will describe the library security audit procedure he has developed.

Community and Junior College Libraries Section:The CJCLS program, “Fiscal Challenges: The Two-Year College Response” (July 11, 11:30 a.m.— 5:30 p.m.) will provide new ideas on how to do “more with less” in responding to current budgetary problems. Speakers include: Alice Ihrig, Moraine Valley Community College, “Fiscal Politics;” Keith W. Russell, Council on Library Resources, “A View from Washington;” Michael Sentlowicz, Rockland Community College, “Media Systems’ Audio Visual Tutorial (AVT) Learning System;” and Nancy Wareham, Cleveland Area Metropolitan Library System, “Consortia: A Response to Fiscal Challenges.” Tickets are $16 by advance registration (deadline June 15) available from Marcia J. Myers, Associate Director of Libraries for Administrative Services, University of Tennessee Library, Knoxville, TN 37916-1000. No refunds will be given after June 15.

The section will also sponsor a tour of the Bucks County Community College Library in Newtown, Pennsylvania (July 12, 8:30 a.m.—1:30 p.m.). Also slated is a visit to the Community College of Philadelphia Library, which will be in the process of moving to a new building. Tickets are $14 (including a buffet lunch) by advance registration before June 15. Tickets are available from Marcia J. Myers (address above).

Education and Behavioral Sciences Section: “Videodisc Applications in Education and the Behavioral Sciences” (July 12, 9:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m.) will provide a state-of-the-art review of videodisc use. Main speaker will be William H. Ford of Online Computer Systems.

English and American Literature Discussion Group: At the first meeting of this newlycreated discussion group, members will discuss online access to the MLA International Bibliography and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index databases (July 10, 2:00-4:00 p.m.).

Librarians of Library Science Collections Discussion Group: a panel discussion is scheduled for July 11, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., featuring Cathy Rentschler, editor of H.W. Wilson’s Library Literature index, and George Lewicky, director of indexing services at Wilson, as well as a number of library science librarians (names to be announced later). The topic will be library literature indexing, past, present and future.

Membership Committee: The committee will review, evaluate, and plan membership promotion and retention programs and activities (July 11, 2:00-4:00 p.m.; July 12, 9:00-11:00 a.m.).

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section: A panel of speakers is scheduled to discuss the traditional alliance of “Friends of Libraries” groups and the rare book and manuscript collections of academic and research libraries. Experiences with both formally and informally organized groups of friends will be covered. The panelists are: Richard M. Ludwig, Princeton University; Margaret Maloney, Toronto Public Library; Anne-Marie Bouche, Mills College; and Brian Rogers, Connecticut College.

RBMS Standards Committee: “Special Cataloguing Products for Special Collections: Or, Now That We Have an Archive Tape, What Do We Do with It?” (July 11, 8:00-10:00 p.m.) will feature keynote speaker Lawrence F. Buckland of Inforonics, Inc. Buckland will discuss how to provide access to and how to retrieve computerstored bibliographical data. He will also report on ways to manipulate data and the difficulty and/or cost of various types of manipulations. Questions will be presented by John Knapp of Ringgold Management Systems, Kathy Leab of American Book Prices Current, and Peter Graham of Columbia University. Following this presentation, Penny Mattern from OCLC, Inc., and Alan Rucker from RLIN will participate in discussions with their users.

Slavic and East European Section: The SEES program, “Preserving Cultural Heritage: Ethnic Press and Ethnic Research Centers in the' United States and Canada” (July 13, 2:00-5:00 p.m.), will be held at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies. Moderator will be M. Mark Stolarik, executive director at Balch, and the papers will be presented by Robert F. Harney, University of Toronto (Canadian ethnic materials); M. Mark Stolarik, Balch Institute (major U.S. ethnic research centers); John J. Grabowski, Western Reserve Historical Society (ethnic ephemera and newsprint); Sylva N. Manoogian, Los Angeles Public Library (building ethnic library collections); and Lubomyr R. Wynar, Kent State University (ethnic newspapers and periodicals in the U.S.).

Undergraduate Librarians Discussion Group: Roland Person, Southern Illinois University, is the featured speaker in this program, “The Role of the Undergraduate Library: Have Its Goals and Rationale Changed Since the 1960s? If Not, Should They?—A Research Paper” (July 13, 2:00-4:00 p.m.). Moderator Marc Gittelsohn, University of California at San Diego, will conduct a panel of reactors consisting of: Janice Koyama, University of California at Berkeley; Linda L. Phillips, University of Tennesee; and Yoram Szekely, Cornell University.

Western European Specialists Section: “Resources of German-Speaking Europe: Publishing Patterns and Bibliographic Strategies for the 80s” (July 12, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) is particularly aimed at librarians who occasionally buy, use or teach about German-language books, or those who wish to know more about the field. Knut Dorn, of Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, will give a general overview of German-language publishing, its intricacies, and recent advances in technology. Peter R. Frank, curator of the Germanic Collection at Stanford, will give a more specific view of access and selection in German studies, outlining search strategies and describing major reference sources. ■■