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Oregon ACRL Chapter Meets

The Oregon ACRL chapter met at the Lewis & Clark College library in Portland on February 17. Marcia Lowell, state librarian, chaired the meeting. She discussed the Oregon Governor’s Conference scheduled for June 1-3 and gave background on planning for the conference.

The ACRL members present broke into groups to discuss ideas that should be raised at the conference regarding library services, needs, and development. The results were presented to Marcia Lowell and Laurelyn Schellin, conference coordinator, to aid in setting an agenda and as expression of the concerns of academic librarians.

On March 13 the chapter met at Oregon State University to hear Pauline Atherton discuss the subject access project. On-line catalogs may not be as useful or accessible as they should be if only LC subject headings are used for description. Her experimental project expanded traditional subject access points to include significant words from the index and contents page. The file that was created was then searched via the traditional entries and using the augmented information. The results of their comparison are due to be published soon.—Mary Devlin, Chairperson, Oregon ACRL Chapter.

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