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ACRL Board of Directors’ actions, June 1998: Highlights of the Board’s Annual Conference meetings

During the 1998 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., the ACRL Board of Directors took the following actions:

ACRL governance

Confirmed electronic and conference call votestaken between February and May 1998: February 10, 1998, second vote to adopt revised bylaws; May 18, 1998, to expand the ACRL Legislative Agenda to include: preservation, digitization, funding to support the National Agricultural Library, funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and library appropriations; and to establish the Millennium Task Force.

By consent, voted to approve a namechange for ACRL’s Constitution and Bylaws Committee to ACRL Bylaws Committee and to establish three discussion groups: Sports and Recreation, Team-based Organizations, and Criminal Justice/Criminology.

Accepted the final report from the ACRL/Chapters Task Forceand approved the task force recommendations (see sidebar on p. 585).

Approved, upon recommendation fromthe ACRL Government Relations Committee, a job description for ACRL legislative representatives with the proviso that some word- smithing be done and brought to the Board’s attention when completed.

Expanded the past-president’s duties toinclude planning for, convening, and maintaining a record of the ACRL Fellows activities.

Requested that the Bylaws Committee review the current staggering of the terms of office of Board members,and recommend a method for returning to the staggering of terms prescribed in the Bylaws.

ACRL appointments

Approved the names of three ACRL members:Barbara Jones, Laurence Miller, and James Schmidt as nominees to the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee for the Honor Roll, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Office of Intellectual Freedom. These members were nominated because they had made significant contributions in sustaining intellectual freedom efforts in their communities.

Approved, upon recommendation fromthe Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS), forwarding Laurene Zaporozhetz’s name to the ALA Executive Board as one of its representatives to the NCATE Board of Examiners.

Approved, upon recommendation fromvarious ACRL sections and the ACRL International Relations Committee, the following IFLA Section Standing Committee nominees: Section of Art Libraries, Nancy L. Stokes; Section on Bibliography, Talbot Huey; Section on Rare Books and Manuscripts, Susan Allen; Section of Science and Technology Libraries, Julia Gelfand; and Section of University Libraries and Other Research Libraries, Barbara Ford.

ACRL structure

Approved establishing a Friends of ACRLgroup to be officially launched in January 1, 1999.

Awards and honors

By consent, approved a memorial resolutionto Mario Casalini (see sidebar on p. 582).

Approved a resolution from the Academic or Research Librarian of the YearAward Committee recognizing the 20th-year anniversary of the award and Baker and Taylor for its sponsorship (see sidebar on p. 584).

ACRL Board 1997-98 (I to r): (backrow) Linda Muroi, Carol Pfeiffer, Helen Spalding, Jill Fatzer, John Sheridan, Victoria Montavon, Bernard Fradkin; (front row) William Miller, Althea Jenkins, W. Lee Hisle, Maureen Sullivan, and Ray English.

Approved the resolution honoring Dr. Joseph A. Boisséon his retirement as a university librarian, an outstanding leader in the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and an active member of the American Library Association (ALA) and awarding him permanent membership in ACRL (see sidebar on p. 586).

Approved the resolution honoring ACRL Board member Dr. Bernard Fradkinfor his service, advocacy for all academic libraries and for all personnel in libraries, and congratulated him on receipt of the 1998 EBSCO Leadership Award (see adjacent sidebar).

Financial actions

Approved the ACRL balanced budget definition.

Approved the 1998—99 ACRL and CHOICE budgets:ACRL budget revenues of $2,315,000, expenses of $2,142,825, and a surplus of $172,176; CHOICE budget revenues of $1,931,350, expenses of $2,018,777, and a projected deficit of ($87,427).

ACRL 1998-99 Board (I to r): (back row) Linda Muroi, Carol Pfeiffer, William E. Brown, Helen Spalding, Mary Lee Sweat; (front row) Larry Hardesty, Althea Jenkins, Maureen Sullivan, and W. Lee Hisle. Not pictured: Barbara Baxter Jenkins, Paul E. Dumont, Dana C. Rooks, and Lynn Sutton.

Approved ten scholarships at $995 eachto enable four minority librarians, four librarians who are new to the profession, and two library school students who are ACRL members to participate in the 1999 information literacy immersion program.

Approved adding $12,000 to the 1998—99 ACRL staff salaries line in the budget for upgrading selected positions during the year.

Approved a pilot program for 1999— 2000 of revenue sharingfor ACRL Sections that sponsor preconferences during the fiscal year that result in net revenue.

Higher education

Confirmed the electronic vote taken onMarch 12, 1998, to endorse the American Council on Education statement, “On the Importance of Diversity in Higher Education."

Professional development

Confirmed the conference call votes ofMay 18, 1998, to name Denver as the 2001 National Conference site; and to establish criteria and an application process for 1999 National Conference scholarship program.

Approved the grant proposal from theInstitute for Information Literacy to seek funding to support an institute on “Best Practices” in information literacy in order to develop criteria for program modeling throughout the profession.

Approved sponsoring 17 programs inaddition to the ACRL President’s Program at the 1999 ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans.

Publishing

Endorsed the ARL Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition(SPARC) initiative and committed $5,000 to support the work. SPARC is a newly formed alliance of libraries that aims to foster expanded competition in scholarly communication (see p. 565 for details)

Approved the recommended policies andprocedures for the ACRL Web page defined by the ACRL Web Task Force in its report. (Ed.note: These will be published in the ACRL Guide to Policies and Procedures.)

Approved, upon recommendation ofthe Publications Committee, to charge future national conference committees to publish each conference’s contributed papers so that a permanent record will be established and they will be picked up by appropriate indexing and abstracting services.

Standards

VOTED to accept the final report fromthe Academic Libraries Outcomes Assessment Task Force and approved the recommendations in the report (see sidebar on p. 583).