ACRL College & Research Libraries News

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A few words on our type

To the Editor:

The print in College & Research Libraries News is too small. I believe it is six point. That is too small for the average reader over 40 to read comfortably. Anyone who is visually impaired would find the print size a serious handicap. College & Research Libraries seems to be in ten-point type.

Not trusting my own judgment, I showed an issue to one of my colleagues who is a professor in the department that teaches teachers of the handicapped. She felt that the print size was a disservice to the handicapped. I realize that you are trying to put more material on less pages, but you have gone too far. Thank you for your kind cooperation.—Leslie R. Morris, director of libraries, Niagara University, New York

Ed. note: We hope the new design and increased type size introduced last month will improve the readability of C&RLNews.

Moved to tears

To the Editor:

After reading “Journey to Transylvania: The 1991 ALA Colloquium on Library Science” in C&RL News, March 1992,1 wanted to cry. When I thought about their [Romania’s] 46 years of isolation from new scholarly resources, their hunger for up-to-date information, and their need for intellectual freedom for so long, I could have wept buckets of tears. But not only for them would I weep these buckets, it would be mostly for some of the developing countries which have access to this freedom but which do not take advantage of it due to their indifference, taking for granted their freedom! Let us not be guilty of even one moment of indifference to our blood-bought freedom!— Bessie Siemens Lobsien, library director, Universidad de Montemorelos, Montemorelos, N.L. Mexico

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