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Highlights of the Midwinter Meetings of the ACRL Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of the Association of College and Research Libraries met twice during the ALA Midwinter Meeting: on Sunday, February 1, 1981, and Wednesday, February 4, 1981.

ACRL Conference Site Selection

The board adopted the “Selection Criteria for ACRL National Conference Sites" developed by an ad hoc committee in response to a need to establish and publicize selection criteria before considering invitations to host ACRL conferences.

Budget and Finance Committee

Richard Talbot, chair of the Budget and Finance Committee, gave a report on the 1981/82 ACRL budget and explained that there was a deficit of $70,000 in uncovered expenditures. He sought the board’s guidance in either reducing basic membership services, or increasing revenue by adding a surcharge to conference and preconference registrations, increasing journal subscription prices, or raising ACRL divisional dues.

The board resolved that as a first step it would look to increasing revenues rather than reducing expenses, and it endorsed a dues increase of $10 per year for ACRL divisional membership, effective with the 1982 calendar year. This action will require a majority of the voting ACRL membership mail ballot following the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco.

Chapters

The board approved the petitions for the establishment of a Mississippi Chapter, an Ohio Chapter, and a South Dakota Chapter.

The Budget and Finance Committee’s recommendation was endorsed that a chapter check-off be instituted in which members will determine a portion of his/her membership fee to be allotted to the chapter of the area in which they reside.

Discussion Groups

The board approved the dissolution of the Future of the Catalog in Research Libraries Discussion Group.

Executive Committee

The board approved a revision of the ACRL Constitution and Bylaws that would include the ACRL councilor on the Executive Committee. If the ACRL board gives a second affirmative vote at the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco, it will be submitted to a membership vote.

Institute on Collection Management and Development

The board approved ACRL cosponsorship with ALA’s Resources and Technical Services Division of a series of regional collection management and development institutes.

Journal Subscriptions

The board directed the Budget and Finance Committee to explore C&RL and C&RL News subscription increases for non-members and increased advertising rates.

Membership in NCATE

The board approved in principle (pending budgetary approval) the recommendation of the EBSS section that ACRL request the status of associate membership in the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and that, when appropriate, a member be appointed from EBSS. Minneapolis Conference

Virgil Massman, chair of the Minneapolis Conference Executive Committee, reported that a group of excellent speakers had been approved. The conference dates were adjusted to October 1—4 to avoid conflicting with the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashannah.

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NEH Grant Proposal

The board approved a proposal to seek a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities to support four workshops to assist academic libraries in developing public programming in the humanities.

Sections

The board endorsed the policy that ACRL division members receive two sections free, and that one of these be a type-of-activity section and the other a type-of-library section. There will be a $2 fee charged for each additional section membership.

Standards and Accreditation Committee

The board voted to consolidate the responsibility for reviewing and recommending revisions related to the “Standards for College Libraries” with the College Standards Revision Subcommittee during its tenure by abolishing the Ad Hoc Standards Committee and requesting that the College Libraries Section review the status of its Committee on College Standards.

The board instructed the Standards and Accreditation Committee to consult with the CLS Committee on College Standards and reconsider the charge of the proposed committee in light of the survey findings just issued by that section’s ad hoc committee.

Student Dues Reduction

The board endorsed a resolution to rescind the ALA Council motion that the ALA Bylaws be revised to reduce divisional memberships to $5 for students. The principal issue was that the Council should not take action that has divisional fiscal implications without divisional support.