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ALA Goals Award to Standards Project

The Association of College and Research Libraries has been awarded a J. Morris Jones— World Book Encyclopedia—ALA Goals Award for 1974/75 by the Executive Board of the American Library Association. The award will fund Phase II of ACRL’s project to revise the 1959 Standards for College Libraries.

Phase I of the project to revise the college library standards, which was supported in 1973/74 by a J. Morris Jones—World Book Encyclopedia—ALA Goals Award, was aimed at defining the goals of the standards and the assumptions upon which standards are based. Phase II of the project will enable the members of the committee preparing the revision to discuss the revision with leaders of regional and national organizations in postsecondary education.

The committee is chaired by Johnnie Givens, librarian at Austin Peay State University, in Clarksville, Tennessee. The project director is David Kaser, professor at the Graduate Library School at the University of Indiana. Other members of the committee are: Arthur Monke, librarian at Bowdoin College; David L. Perkins, head bibliographic librarian at California State University, Northridge; James W. Pirie, librarian at Lewis & Clark College; Herman L. Totten, dean of the School of Librarianship at the University of Oregon; and Jasper G. Schad, director of libraries at Wichita State University, ex officio.