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C&RL News 30th anniversary quiz

Here is the next installment of the C&RL News 30th anniversary quiz.

Test your recollection of events that have been reported in the News since 1966.

1. According to Hardy Franklin, 1994 ALA president, what is at the heart of the library profession?

2. What was Zeb’s (a student) suggestion for improving his university’s library in 1992?

3. When did the Board of Directors vote to establish a Bibliographic Instruction Section (now known as the Instruction Section) within ACRL?

4. What did participants think about the first ACRL National Conference held in Boston in 1978?

5. On May 5, 1972, library history was made when a class action suit challenging the constitutionality of a state statute was filed in federal court on behalf of all librarians and library employees of that state. Name the state and the statute.

1. Customer service (February 1994). 2. To get some better looking librarians (July/August 1992). 3. January 31. 1977 (May 1977). 4. 35% of those surveyed rated the conference “excellent” and 51% judged it “very good” (March 1979). The suit challenged the constitutionality of the California Harmful Matter Statute, which became effective in 1969 (July/August 1972).