ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

Chairman’s Letter to the Art Libraries Subsection

With this issue of C&'RL News we are beginning what I hope will be a continuing activity of our group, a roundtable of problems, news and ideas written for and by art librarians. The benefits to other readers of this journal will be, hopefully, of some value. The success of this initial effort is due to the enthusiasm and hard work of Mrs. Florence DaLuiso of the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Those who met at Kansas City were agreed that the Art Subsection must devote itself to current problems faced by all art libraries. To that end, an Index Committee was formed consisting of Miss Judith Hoffberg of the University of Pennsylvania, Miss Alice McGrath of the Rhode Island School of Design, Mrs. Florence DaLuiso of the State University of New York at Buffalo, Mr. David Ryan of the Minneapolis Institute of Art and myself. The Committee is engaged in a retrospective indexing of Art International from its inception in 1957 through 1968. As you know, the Art Index has begun to index Art International with the 1969 issue. We hope to publish the index in the near future.

Elsewhere in this issue you will find the results of the first group of titles gathered by the Reprint Committee chaired for the last two years by Miss Carol Selby of Eastern Michigan University and Mr. William Dane of the Public Library of Newark.

We are planning enough work sessions at the conference in Atlantic City so that we can hear reports from the present committees and discuss the purpose and direction of new committees and our organization as a whole. To that purpose I would appreciate hearing any suggestions for discussion that you feel would be valuable.

The Nominating Committee under the chairmanship of Miss Alice McGrath has given us a slate of candidates with a much broader geographic base. Let us hope that more active participation from all parts of our country and Canada soon becomes a reality.—Herbert Scherer, Chairman, Art Subsection.