ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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year preceding the presentation, donated by 
the Scarecrow Press and administered by ALA 
Awards Committee. Deadline for nominations 
is January 15, 1969. Send nominations to the 
jury chairman, Mrs. Virginia G. Young, Missouri 
State Library, State Office Building, Jefferson 
City, Missouri 65102.

ACRL SECTION AND 
SUBSECTION COMMITTEE

CHAIRMEN
COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION 

Nominating Committee, David Brunton, 
executive director, California Library Associa­
tion; Non Western Resources, Mother E. 
O’Connor, Manhattanville College, Purchase, 
N.Y.; Steering Committee, Evan I. Farber, 
Earlham College, Richmond, Ind.
JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

Instruction and Use, Richard L. Ducote, 
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Ill.; Instruc­
tional Materials Center, James O. Wallace, 
San Antonio College, San Antonio, Tex.; Nom­
inating Committee, Mrs. Ruth Riggs, Middle­
sex County College, Edison, N.J.; Preconfer­
ence Committee, Mrs. Mayrelee Newman, El 
Centro College, Dallas, Tex.; Ad Hoc Com­
mittee to Revise JCLS Bylaws, Ruth M. 
Christensen, California State College, Los An­
geles; Special Projects Committee, Mrs. 
Alice B. Griffith, Mohawk Valley Community 
College, Utica, N.Y.
RARE BOOKS SECTION

Ad Hoc Committee on Manuscript Col­
lections, Mrs. Arline Custer, Library of Con­
gress; Nominating Committee, J. William 
Matheson, Washington University, St. Louis, 
Mo. Standards Committee, Howard L. Apple- 
gate, Syracuse University (N.Y.); Work Man­
ual Subsection, Richard C. Berner, University 
of Washington, Seattle.
SUBJECT SPECIALISTS SECTION

Nominating Committee, Mary Frances 
Pinches, Case Western Reserve University, 
Cleveland, Ohio.
Agriculture and Biological Science 
Subsection

Nominating Committee; Richard T. Samuel­
son, Somerset County College, N.J.
Law and Political Science Subsection

Nominating Committee, Frances B. Woods, 
Yale University Law School, New Haven, 
Conn.; Committee on Model Law Collections, 
Roy Mersky, University of Texas School of 
Law, Austin.
Slavic and East European Subsection

Nominating Committee, Bohdan Wynar, 
State University College, Geneseo, N.Y.

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION

Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Status, 
Lewis C. Branscomb, Ohio State University, 
Columbus; Committee on Extension Library 
Service, Frank C. MacDougall, Michigan State 
University, East Lansing; Nominating Com­
mittee, Gustave A. Harrer, University of 
Florida, Gainesville; Research and Develop­
ment, Earl Farley, University of Kansas, Kan­
sas City; Steering Committee, G. F. Shep­
herd, Jr., Cornell University Libraries, Ithaca, 
N.Y.; Urban Universities Library Commit­
tee, Bernard Kreissman, City College of the 
City University of New York. ■ ■

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APPRENTICE SURVEYORS
Well qualified library surveyors are not 

plentiful, and the ACRL Committee on Libran’ 
Surveys would like to increase the supply. One 
of the best means of learning how to survey 
libraries is to make surveys. Indeed, experience 
is so obviously desirable that the persons in­
vited to do work of this kind usually are al­
ready successful and experienced surveyors. 
The problem is obvious: How does one start? 
How can the beginner acquire experience?

The committee strongly recommends that, 
whenever practicable, surveys be made by a 
team rather than by a single individual, and 
that each team include an “apprentice” sur­
veyor who has never directed a library survey.

The committee hopes to be able to suggest 
to the directors of surveys names of persons 
who may be interested in serving as appren­
tices. In order to do this it needs to know who 
is interested in surveying junior college, college, 
university, and other research libraries. This is 
an invitation to supply the information that is 
needed:

All persons interested in working as ap­
prentice surveyors are asked to summarize 
their educational preparation and professional 
positions held to date, to give present position 
and address, to describe any particularly rele­
vant special qualifications or experience, and 
to indicate interests or specialties—i.e., type of 
college or research library or field such as ad­
ministration, automation, collections, public 
services, technical services, etc. Correspond­
ence should be addressed to Edwin E. Wil­
iams, Chairman ACRL Committee on Library 
Surveys, Widener Library 183, Harvard Uni­
versity, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

In 1964 the committee attempted to com­
pile a roster of experienced surveyors, and it 
would also welcome correspondence from 
persons who have directed surveys and would 
like to have their names added to that ros­
ter. ■ ■