ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

ACRL executive summary

Every month, JoAn Segal, ACRL’s executive director, will summarize Association activity. The “Executive Summary”will highlight accomplishments of broad interest to the Association.

Although the New Orleans Conference seems a long way off, Sandy Donnelly has been soliciting new course proposals, advertising scholarships and cooperative courses, and developing new courses on “Negotiating Contracts with Vendors” and “Information Liability,” based on last spring’s needs assessment.

ACRL President Joanne Euster appointed a new Task Force on Awards to review ACRL’s awards program and make recommendations—Joan Chambers chairs the task force.

Mary Ellen Davis is working with the ACRL Performance Measures chair Virginia Tiefel to revise and circulate an RFP seeking an author for a Manual of Output Measures for Academic Libraries. An author will be selected at Midwinter.

Plans were finalized for the October 18-20 meeting in Atlanta to plan a project that would allow ACRL to help libraries in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s).

ALA released 1987 year-end figures showing that ACRL exceeded 10,000 members as of August 31, 1987.

Equipment was received in our Middletown, Connecticut, office for automating the production of Choice magazine through the H. W. Wilson Company.

ACRL staff members began training for their newly-established Quality Circle.

Joseph Boisse met with ACRL staff and attended the ALA Division Leadership Program for all division presidents–elect. As a result, one program in Dallas will be co-sponsored by ALA president Bill Summers and all the ALA divisions. The topic will be “Access to Information.”—JoAn S. Segal. ■ ■