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ACRL Board of Directors Highlights of New York Meeting

MET in executive session to discuss the report of the Committee to Evaluate the ACRL Executive Secretary and VOTED that the full report be forwarded to the ALA Executive Director, that the Executive Secretary be commended for her work, and that the process of evaluating the Executive Secretary be continued.

GRANTED chapter status to the Academic and Research Division of the Minnesota Library Association.

HEARD a report from the chairman of the Slavic and East European Section Ad Hoc Committee on the LC Classification System and LC Subject Heading Use in Regard to Slavic and East European Materials.

VOTED to support the recommendation of the ACRL Committee on Interlibrary Communications and Information Networks, to establish an ALA committee on interlibrary cooperation, with divisional representation on the committee.

ACKNOWLEDGED the appointment of the new editor of College & Research Libraries, Richard D. Johnson.

HEARD a report from the editor of Choice.

VOTED to approve as policy the Model Statement of Criteria and Procedures for Appointment, Promotion in Academic Rank, and Tenure for College and University Librarians (including Appendixes) as published in College & Research Libraries News (September and October 1973) with the deletion from Section I Paragraph 1 of . —or its appropriate equivalent.”

RECOMMENDED the establishment of an ad hoc subcommittee of the ACRL Committee on Standards and Accreditation, for the purpose of developing quantitative standards as an addendum to the Guidelines for Two- Year College Learning Resources Programs.

VOTED to refer the matter of the constitutionality of the report of the ALA Standards Committee to the ACRL Committee on the Constitution and Bylaws and instructed the ACRL committee to communicate with the ALA Committee on the Constitution and Bylaws and to formulate an official ACRL position on this issue, to be submitted to the ACRL Board of Directors.

VOTED to recommend affiliation with ALA, through ACRL and its Slavic and East European Section, of the Ukrainian Librarians’ Association of America.

INSTRUCTED the ACRL President to write to Unesco concerning the status of the International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology and to offer ACRL's support for the continuation of the bibliography.

INSTRUCTED the ACRL President to write a letter of thanks to the Clearinghouse and

Laboratory for Census Data and to Vincent R. Barabba, Director of the Bureau of the Census, for their support and participation in the seminar sponsored by the ACRL Education and Behavioral Sciences Section on “Access to Printed and Computerized Census Data.”

DISCUSSED the issue of ACRL membership promotion and agreed to give the ACRL President primary responsibility for formulating a plan for promoting membership in ACRL.

DISCUSSED the COO recommendations concerning the ALA Awards Committee and agreed to ask the ACRL President to speak before Council on this issue.

DISCUSSED the COO recommendations concerning the establishment of a joint committee of ALA and the Society of American Archivists and agreed to ask the ACRL President to request that at least one representative to this committee be drawn from the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section.

ACRL Membership
June 30, 1974	12,930
June 30, 1973	12,232
June 30, 1972	11,666

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