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At the ALA Midwinter Conference the College Library Section (CLS) of ACRL began working for the first time under an expanded committee structure. Carla Stoffle, section chair from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, has added four ad hoc committees to CLS so that the section may better fulfill its role of representing the special needs and perspectives of baccalaureate librarians. To the existing Executive Committee, Nominating Committees, Conference Program Planning Committee, and the ad hoc Continuing Education Committee have been added the Committee on Standards and Guidelines for the College Library, Committee on the Impact of National Library Policy and National Library Developments on the College Library, Committee on Nonprint Media and the College Library, and Committee on Membership Participation in the College Library Section.

The highlights of committee activity at Midwinter included discussions of: (1) the impact of the National Periodicals Center, AACR II, third party use of OCLC records, and the merging of audiovisual services with the college library; (2) a possible survey to assess the application of the 1975 Standards; (3) the New York CLS program cosponsored with the ACRL Audiovisual Committee and entitled “The Marriage/Divorce of Print/ Nonprint: Some Thoughts on Merging Library and. Media Services”; (4) the forthcoming publication of the first in a series entitled “College Library Information Packets” (CLIP), which are the CLS equivalent to the “SPEC Kits” published by the Office of Management Studies of ARL; (5) a survey of midwest college librarians on continuing education needs; and (6) means of communicating more effectively with the CLS constituency to encourage participation in CLS and its state affiliates and to determine the ways in which the section can assess and respond to the needs of the librarians in principally baccalaureate institutions. Willis Hubbard, section vicechair and chair-elect from Stephens College, has prepared the first budget to include the new CLS committees (which are intended to operate for at least two years). ■■

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