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C&RL News 30th anniversary quiz

Here is the next C&RL News 30th anniversary quiz. Test your recollection of events reported in C&RL News since 1966.

1. When did James Cagney, John Wayne,and Humphrey Bogart appear in C&RL News?

2. The 1979 President of the American Association of University Professors was a librarian. Who was she and where did she work as a librarian?

3. What ACRL committee met for the firsttime at ALA’s 1991 Midwinter Conference?

4. According to the results of the 1993ACRL member survey, what was the number one reason for ACRL membership?

5. Who was Michael Kunashko, and whatwas his significance in the history of librarianship?

Answers:1. North Texas State University won a Special Award in the 1987 John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award Contest for its “Tough Guys Fight Crime” PR campaign against mutilation and theft which featured the three actors on posters and bookmarks (June 1987). 2. Martha Friedman was an associate professor and history and philosophy librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana (February 1979). 3. The ACRL Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee (April 1991). 4. To update knowledge of library practice (June 1994). 5. Michael Kunashko pleaded guilty to book theft from the General Library at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a six-month sentence to county jail, which was suspended, and was placed on probation and forced to pay restitution to the university and to the booksellers to whom he had sold stolen books (June 1984).