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News From the Chapters

The Eastern New York Chapter of ACRL held its fall meeting at the State University of New York at Cortland on October 1, 1976.

The meeting consisted of seven roundtable discussions which were available in both morning and afternoon sessions. The group leaders were drawn from the chapter, thus providing an opportunity for the membership to utilize its expertise in various areas of librarianship.

The topics discussed were “Minicomputers in Libraries,” led by.John Linford, State University of New York at Albany; “Library Instruction,” Lynn Case and Jon Lindgren, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York; “Public Relations and Orientation,” Jacquelyn Gav- ryck, SUNY, Albany; “Which Services and to Whom,” Irving Stephens, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; “Weeding Library Collections,” Mina LaCroix and Barbara Rice, SUNY, Albany; “Budgeting for Library Acquisitions,” Sue Weaver, St. Lawrence University; and “Interlibrary Loan,” Lee Dalzell, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Comments solicited on a questionnaire distributed by the Program Planning Committee indicate that the informal nature of the program was conducive to productive group discussion and that the format should be repeated next year.

Evaluative interviewing will be the subject of the spring meeting to be held at Williams College on May 26, 1977. Sheila Creth of the University of Connecticut, Storrs, will be the featured speaker. ■ ■