ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

ACRL Chapters

• The California Chapter of ACRL was formed by the merger of ACRL’s Northern and Southern California Chapters and the Chapter of Academic and Research Librarians of the California Library Association (CLA). The new ACRL California Chapter is called the California Academic and Research Librarians.

Membership in the new chapter is free to those who already are members of both ACRL and CLA. Dues are $2 for persons who are members of either ACRL or CLA, for retired librarians, and for library school students. Dues are $10 for persons who are not members of ACRL or CLA. Applications may be obtained from Kathy McGreevy, Pasadena City College Library, 1570 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91106.

• The Minnesota Chapter of ACRL drew seventy people to a Bibliographic Instruction Workshop that the chapter sponsored jointly with MINITEX on February 7 and 8 in St. Paul.

Keynote speaker Carla Stoffle, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, urged librarians to make the teaching library concept a reality by developing bibliographic instruction programs while maintaining traditional library services. Given the political realities on most campuses, she suggested that libraries should work for small successes, cultivate opinion leaders on the faculty, find courses that require library use, deomonstrate the effectiveness of bibliographic instruction without asking for funds, and show how bibliographic instruction affects the whole school.

A panel of librarians representing several types of academic libraries discussed the philosophical and practical issues raised by bibliographic instruction in four diverse academic settings. The panelists were John Montag (private colleges), Roger Sween (state universities), Dorothy Kett- ner (community colleges), and Marcia Pankake (universities).

On the second day of the workshop participants joined in small group discussions on such topics as “Contacting and Working with Faculty,” “Publicity to Students,” and “Classes for Credit.”

• The Oregon Chapter attracted sixty people to its February 22 winter meeting at Lewis and Clark College in Portland. Resource sharing was the theme of a series of talks by a panel that included Marcia Lowell, Oregon State librarian; William Dejohn, Pacific Northwest Bibliographic Center; and Vicki Kreimeyer, chair of the Northwest Area Private Colleges and Universities librarians. ■■