ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

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JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

• The Junior College Libraries Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries is sponsoring a preconference “Merging Materials: A Total Approach to Instruction,” at Detroit, Michigan, June 26–27, 1970. The two days of sessions will include panel discussions and small group sessions. Dr. 8. Lamar Johnson, Professor of Higher Education, University of California, Los Angeles, will be the keynote speaker at the banquet. There will also be a special workshop on Proposal Writing.

Attendance is limited to 250 persons. The registration fee is $50.00. For further information write to: J. Donald Thomas, Executive Secretary, Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

LAW AND POLITICAL SCIENCE SUBSECTION

• The Preconference Institute “Workshop on Legal Bibliography” scheduled for Detroit has been cancelled, it was announced by the Law and Political Science Subsection of the Association of College and Research Libraries. The Institute was scheduled for June 26–27, 1970, at the Wayne State University Law School in Detroit prior to the Annual Conference of the American Library Association. All registration fees will be refunded. It will be the responsibility of the registrants to cancel their housing arrangements.

The Association of College and Research Libraries sincerely regrets this inconvenience to all members who had made plans to attend.

• “Government Publications: New Directions in Content, Dissemination and Control” will be the focal point of panel discussions at the ALA Conference in Detroit. Scheduled for Monday, June 29, at 2:00 p.m., and sponsored by the Subject Specialists Section and its Law and Political Science Subsection, the panels will touch on government information programs at every level, local, state, and federal, with emphasis on recent developments and on association participation in their improvement. The meeting will be open to all attending the Conference, and the program will be designed not only for documents librarians but also for all potential users of government information. If that includes you, plan to attend.

RARE BOOKS SECTION

• “The Private Collector of Books and Manuscripts” will be the theme of a preconference sponsored by the Rare Books Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries at Detroit, Michigan, from June 25– 27. Planned to provide a much deserved recognition of the importance of the private collector to the world of books and scholarship, it is a natural followup to the program on the antiquarian book trade held several years ago. Major presentations will be made by Charles Feinberg, Charles Blockson, William H. Bond, James D. Hart, Harry Moore, Harrison Hayford, Frederick Goff, C. E. Frazer Clark, James B. Meriwether, Robert Taylor, Gordon Banks, Stuart Schimmel, Kenneth Rendell, Karl Ruhe, and Howell Heaney.

Attendance is limited to 150, and the registration fee is $50.00. Further information and applications may be obtained from: J. Donald Thomas, Executive Secretary, Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

• The Committee on Manuscript Collections of the Rare Books Section of ACRL will hold a program on the “Administration of Manuscript Collections in Colleges and Universities” during the ALA Annual Conference in Detroit, June 28–July 4.

The program will be held on Monday, June 29, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. The panelists will be Mattie Russell, Duke University; Philip P. Mason, Wayne State University; Ruth Salisbury, University of Pittsburgh; Wayne C. Mann, Western Michigan University; and James M. Babcock, Alma College, chairman of the panel. The program is open to the public. ■ ■