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College & Research Libraries News

ACRL Seeks Volunteers for Offices and Committees

Would you like to run for an ACRL office or volunteer for appointment to an ACRL standing committee? Are you interested in seeking office in an ACRL section or being considered for appointment to a section committee? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, here is how you proceed.

ACRL President

The ACRL Appointments and Nominations Committee will nominate candidates for the office of ACRL vicepresident/president-elect at the January 1982 Midwinter meeting of ALA. The election for this office will be held in the spring of 1983. The winner of the election will serve as vice-president/president-elect during 1983-84 and as president of ACRL during 1984-85. If you wish to be considered for nomination to this office or if you would lilςe to submit names for consideration, contact the Chair of the Appointments and Nominations Committee, P. Grady Morein, University Librarian, University of Evansville Clifford Library, P.O. Box 329, Evansville, IN 47702.

ACRL Committees

ACRL has eighteen standing and ad hoc committees: Academic or Research Librarian of the Year Award Committee, Academic Status Committee, ACRL Activity Model for 1990 Committee (ad hoc), Appointments and Nominations Committee, Audiovisual Committee, Budget and Finance Committee, College Library Standards Committee (ad hoc), Conference Program Planning Committee, Constitution and Bylaws Committee, Continuing Education Committee, Copyright Committee (ad hoc), Legislation Committee, Membership Committee, National Conference Committee, Planning Committee, Publications Committee, Standards and Accreditation Committee, and Supplemental Funds Committee. To learn about the areas of responsibility covered by these committees, see the ALA Handbook of Organization, 1981-82.

College & Research Libraries News(ISSN 0099-0086) is published by the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, as 11 monthly (combining July-August) issues, at 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Annual subscription: $10. Single copies and back issues, $3.50 each. Second-class postage paid for at Chicago, Illinois, and at additional mailing offices.

Editor:George M. Eberhart, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780. President ACRL: David C. Weber. Executive Director, ACRL: Julie Carroll Virgo.

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Inclusion of an article or advertisement in C&RL News does not constitute official endorsement by ACRL or ALA.

A partial list of the services indexing or abstracting the contents of C&RL News includes: Current Contents: Social & Behavior Sciences: Current Index to Journals in Education: Information Science Abstracts; Library & Information Science Abstracts; Library Literature; and Social Sciences Citation Index.

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©American Library Association 1981. All material in this journal subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be photocopied for the noncommercial purpose of scientific or educational advancement.

When scheduled vacancies occur on ACRL standing committees, the Appointments and Nominations Committee recommends to the president-elect of ACRL the names of members who might fill the vacancies. The president-elect makes the final appointments. If you are interested in being considered for appointment to an ACRL committee, you should complete the ACRL Committee Volunteer Form that is included in this issue of C&RL News and mail it to P. Grady Morein, chair of the Appointments and Nominations Committee, before January 1, 1982.

ACRL Section Offices

ACRL has thirteen sections (their names are listed later in this article). You will find a description of their areas of responsibility in the ALA Handbook of Organization. Each section has an executive committee and a nominating committee. The nominating committee nominates persons to run for the elective offices of the section. The major offices of a section are the chair and vice-chair/chair-elect. Some sections also elect secretaries and members-at-large to the section executive committee. If you would like to run for the office of vice-chair/chair-elect of a section or for secretary or member-at-large, contact the chair or a member of the appropriate section nominating committee (see “People to Contact,” below), before January 1, 1982.

ACRL Section Committees

The committees of ACRL sections offer a variety of opportunities for service to the division. The Community and Junior College Libraries Section alone has ten committees. For a complete listing of ACRL section committees, see the ALA Handbook of Organization.

The chair-elect of a section appoints the chair and members of all section committees when scheduled vacancies on these committees occur. If you would like to be considered for appointment as chair or member of a section committee, fill out the ACRL Committee Volunteer Form and mail it to the chair-elect of the appropriate section (see “People to Contact,” below), before January 1, 1982.

Editorial Boards

ACRL has five editorial boards: the Choice Editorial Board, the College & Research Libraries Editorial Board, the College & Research Libraries News Editorial Board, the Nonprint Media Publications Editorial Board, and the Publications in Librarianship Editorial Board. When a vacancy occurs on an editorial board, the editor recommends the name of a person to fill the vacancy. The Publications Committee must approve the recommendation. The ACRL Board must give its approval, and finally the president of ACRL makes the appointment.

If you would like to be considered for appointment to an editorial board, contact the editor of the publication (see “People to Contact,” below).

Remember that at any given time there are only a limited number of vacancies on ACRL’s committees, sections, and boards. If at once you don’t succeed in obtaining an appointment, try again. Make yourself known to committee chairs by sitting in on meetings, volunteering to help with committee projects, etc. If committee chairs see that you are interested in the work of their committees, they may recommend your name to the appropriate appointing body when a vacancy occurs.

People to Contact Anthropology and Sociology Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Pamela Haas, Photographic Collection Librarian, American Museum of Natural History Library, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024.

Nominating Committee: Chair, Cheryl C. Kugler, Lamont Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; Barton M. Clark, Assistant Director of Public Services for Social Science Libraries, 100 Main Library, University of Illinois at Urbana, 148 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801; Kathleen Gunning, Head of Reference/ Information Services and Collection Development, University of Houston Libraries, 4800 Calhoun Boulevard, Houston, TX 77004; Judith Campbell Turner, Museum Librarian, Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 N. Wells St., Milwaukee, WI 53233; Patricia White, Reference Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries, East Lansing, MI 48824.

Art Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Shirley B. Solvick, Chief, Fine Arts Department, Detroit Public Library, 5201 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202.

Asian and African Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Merry Burlingham, South Asia Librarian, General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin, Box P, Austin, TX 78712.

Nominating Committee: Chair, Louis A. Ja∞b, Head, Southern Asia Section, Asian Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540; Francine McNulty, Middle East Department, Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; Elizabeth A. Widenman, Africana Bibliographer, Columbia Universitv Librarv, New York NY 10027.

Bibliographic Instruction Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Anne Roberts, Associate Librarian, SUNY-Albany, Library 104, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222.

Nominating Committee: Chair, Mary Reichel, Head, Reference Department, Pullen Library, Georgia State University, 100 Decatur Street S.E., Atlanta, GA 30303; Joann H. Lee, Head, Reader Services, Donnelley Library, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 60045; Kathy McGreevy, Santa Rosa Junior College Library, 1501 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95401. College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Thomas G. Kirk, College Librarian, Hutchins Library, Berea College, Berea, KY 40404.

Nominating Committee: Chair, Michael Stuart Freeman, Library Director, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691; Louise Gerity, Head of Reference, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR 97219; John Sheridan, Library Director, Transylvania University, 300 N. Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508.

Community and Junior College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Joseph L. Lindenfeld, Director of Library Services, Shelby State Community College, 717 Beale Street, Memphis, TN 38104.

Nominating Committee: Chair, James F. McCoy, Director, Learning Resources Center, Hudson Valley Community College, 80 Vandenburgh Avenue, Troy, NY 12180; Stanley N. Ruckman, Director of Learning Services, Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 SW Pacific Boulevard, Albany, OR 97321; Colette Wagner, La Guardia Community College, 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101.

Education and Behavioral Sciences Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Hannelore B. Rader, Director of the Library Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Box 2000, Kenosha, WI 53141.

Nominating Committee: Chair, Eva Kiewitt, Associate Director, CBN University Library, CBN Center, Virginia Beach, VA 23463; Sarah Watstein, Reference Librarian & Coordinator of Instructional Programs, Teachers College Library, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027.

Law and Political Science Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Robert Goehlert, Librarian for Economics and Political Science, Indiana University Library, Bloomington, IN 47405.

Nominating Committee: To be appointed.

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Joan M. Friedman, Curator of Rare Books, Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, P.O. Box 2120 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520.

Nominating Committee: Chair, Carolyn Harris, Head, Preservation Department, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY 10027; Beverly P. Lynch, University Librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, 801 South Morgan Street, P.O. Box 8198, Chicago, IL 60680; Samuel Allen Streit, Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Brown University, Box A, Providence, RI 02912.

Science and Technology Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Charles L. Gilreath, Assistant Professor of Library Science, Texas A&M University Libraries, College Station, TX 77843.

Nominating Committee: Chair, Frederick Getze, University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE 19711.

Slavic and East European Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Tanja Lorkovic, Head of Cataloging Department, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA 52242.

Nominating Committee: Chair, Miranda Beaven, Slavic Bibliographer, Wilson Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455; Patricia Polansky, Russian Bibliographer, University of Hawaii Hamilton Library, 2550 The Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822; Wojciech Zalewski, Curator for Russian and East European Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305. University Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Kenneth G. Peterson, Dean of Library Affairs, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901.

Nominating Committee: Chair, Susan Brynteson, Director of Libraries, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19111; Pearce S. Grove, Research Division, National Endowment for the Humanities, 806 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20506; Margaret Perry, Head of Readers Services, University of Rochester Library, Rochester, NY 14627.

Western European Specialists Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Charles S. Fineman, Humanities Bibliographer, Collection Planning Unit, University Library, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064.

Nominating Committee: Chair, Mina B. LaCroix, University Library, SUNY-Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222; Mary Jane Gibson, Reference Librarian, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540; Charles R. Smith, Humanities Reference Librarian, Texas A&M University Library, College Station, TX 77843.

Editorial Boards

ChoiceEditor: Jay Martin Poole, Choice, 100 Riverview Center, Middletown, CT 06475.

College & Research LibrariesEditor: C. James Schmidt, Research Libraries Group, Jordan Quadrangle, Stanford, CA 94305.

College & Research Libraries NewsEditor: George M. Eberhart, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

ACRL Nonprint Media PublicationsEditor: Jean W. Farrington, Assistant Circulation Librarian, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

ACRL Publications in LibrarianshipEditor: Joe W. Kraus, Director of Libraries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61761.

NEW PUBLICATIONS FROM ACRL

Any library whose institution is going or will be going through the accreditation process will want to have Libraries and Accreditation in Institutions of Higher Education. This publication represents the proceedings of an invitational conference cosponsored by the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation and ACRL. Representatives from the six regional accrediting associations and participants on accreditation teams presented papers and discussed existing standards.

The contents include: an overview of the accrediting process; the reasons for the development of standards to supplement the accrediting associations’ guidelines; a discussion of different types of standards (qualitative, quantitative, and checklists); the rationale underlying the three different sets of ACRL standards; the processes by which they were developed; how they are currently used; how they relate to the self-study process; their relationship to other library standards; how an accreditation team evaluates a library when there is not a librarian on the team; and how the accreditation process can be improved from the viewpoints of a team member, the accreditation agency, and a librarian who has successfully completed the accreditation process.

For all of you who have ever wanted to know about this subject, Libraries and Accreditation in Institutions of Higher Education is available from the ACRL office for $14.95 to ACRL members and $18.95 for non-members. Orders must be prepaid or a $5 invoice charge will be levied.

The Cumulative Index to College and Research Libraries, Volumes 26 to 40 (1965-1979) is now available for $10 to ACRL members and $12 to non-members (orders must be prepaid). This index includes the contents of College and Research Libraries and College and Research Libraries News.

Eldon Tamblyn, the compiler of this index, is the chief cataloger at Portland State University, Oregon.

ACRL COMMITTEE VOLUNTEER FORM

If you are interested in serving on an ACRL standing committee, please complete this form and mail it before the ALA Midwinter Meeting to: P. Gradv Morein, Clifford Library, University of Evansville, P.O. Box 329, Evansville, IN 47702.

If you would like to serve on an ACRL section committee, send this form to the appropriate section vice-chair/chair-elect before the ALA Midwinter Meeting.

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