ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


NEWS

No. 6, June 1968

A C RL News Issue (B ) of College & Research Libraries, Vol. 29, No. 3

G e o r g e  M. B a i l e y , executive secretary 
o f A C R L  since November 1, 1963, has 
resigned from his position effective Au­
gust 31. The Board o f Directors o f AC RL, 
in its search for a successor to Mr. Bailey, 
requests the membership to submit 
names o f candidates to the President, 
with a copy to the Executive Secretary 
o f A C R L at A L A  Headquarters.

The description o f the position and 
qualifications are as follow s:
D e s c r i p t i o n :

The position o f Executive Secretary of 
the division is one o f high professional 
responsibility. It involves provision of 
staff service to the members to enable 
them to develop the divisional program; 
representation o f the division and of 
A L A  to other associations, government 
officials, other professions, and the public 
at large; and provision o f consultant 
service to administrators and librarians 
of junior colleges, colleges, universities, 
and research institutions on the problems 
o f academic libraries. A  great deal of 
travel, public speaking, and writing for 
publication is involved.
Q u a l i f i c a t i o n s  :

Four years o f college plus an MS in 
LS degree. Appropriate experience and 
knowledge o f materials and activities re­
lated to academic libraries; ability to 
handle detail and to meet deadlines; to 
make public appearances; and to work 
cooperatively with a great variety of 
people.

—James Humphry, III 
President, ACRL 

The Metropolitan Museum o f Art 
N ew  York, New York 10028

G eorge Bailey has served with distinction in 
the position o f Executive Secretary o f the 
Association of College and Research Libraries, 
the largest division o f the American Library 
Association, for the past five years. W h en  he 
came to us in 1963 he brought with him the 
benefit of his library experience at the Uni­
versity of California at Berkeley and Davis, and 
Northwestern University. G eorge has devoted 
himself to the cause of improving and helping 
libraries and librarianship in all the types of 
institutions the Association represents: junior 
colleges, colleges, universities, research and spe­
cial. Although the membership has increased 
by 65 per cent betw een 1963 and 1968, with 
the inevitable increase in the work load, by 
dint o f long hours and hard work, he has kept 
pace with it. His sense of professionalism, his 
ability to work with the members as well as 
his colleagues at headquarters— not to mention 
“ his”  president!, are qualities which make him 
a model executive secretary.

In his new position as librarian and professor 
at on e o f the municipally supported institutions 
of higher education in N ew  York City— York 
College—G eorge, b y his AC R L experience in 
all its variety, as well as his previous service in 
libraries, is admirably equipped to develop a 
first-rate library. W e  are all agreed that AC R L’s 
and A L A ’s loss is York’s gain. W e  will miss 
G eorge in his present post, but w e’ll put him 
to work in the Association— in another capacity 
— when he assumes his new post. It is inevitable, 
and right, that G eorge should m ove on to an­
other important library position— w e wish him 
well in the new endeavor and at the same 
tim e vote him a rousing and unanimous round 
of thanks for a singularly outstanding job at 
ACRL. Speaking selfishly, I’m relieved that 
my term o f office expires b efore G eorge’s; 
speaking from experience, I’m pleased that 
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for several weeks before G eorge leaves. To put 
it another way, working with G eorge in pur­
suing goals to which w e are all devoted, is a 
privilege and a pleasure.—James Humphry III.

N o t e : See profile on  pages 194-195.

CONFERENCE NOTES
• The R e s e a r c h  C o m m i t t e e s  o f the Librar

Education Division o f A L A  and o f the Associ­
ation o f American Library Schools will co­
sponsor an open program meeting on research 
in library science at the annual A L A  confer­
ence in Kansas City, on W ednesday morning, 
June 26, at 8:0 0 to 9:30 a . m .

John McCrossan, assistant professor o f the 
department o f library science, University of 
Michigan, Ann Arbor, and program chairman, 
will preside. Directors of three recent library 
research projects will describe the organiza­
tion, research methods, and results of their 
work.

Mrs. Florence D. Cleary, project director, 
and Mrs. Ruth Allen, chief investigator, of the 
College of Education, University o f South 
Florida, Tampa, will report on “ The Effect 
o f a Librarian-Centered Reading Guidance 
Program on the Reading Skills and Habits of 
Elementary School Pupils.”

Haynes McMullen, professor of library sci­
ence, graduate library school, Indiana Uni­
versity, Bloomington, will report on “ The Use 
o f a Computer in the Study o f American Li­
braries in Existence before 1876.”  A computer 
was used for sorting data, performing simple 
arithmetic processes, and producing graphs as 
an aid in the study o f approximately 6800 
libraries founded in the United States before 
1876. The computer was used because it 
saved enormous amounts o f time in handling 
data and eliminated many clerical errors that 
would have resulted from non-computer meth­
ods.

Marina E. Axeen, associate professor, de­
partment of library science, Ball State Univer­
sity, Muncie, Indiana, will report on “ Teach­
ing the Use o f the Library to Undergraduates; 
An Experimental Comparison o f Computer- 
Based Instruction and the Conventional L ec­
ture Method.”  Tw o groups o f undergraduates 
were taught an introductory course in library 
science, one by a computerized program and 
the other b y  the conventional lecture methods. 
Results o f the two methods were analyzed 
and compared. A doctoral dissertation at the 
University o f Illinois.

AC RL Membership April 30, 1968 . 11,870 
April 30, 1967 . 10,978 
April 30, 1966 .... 9,669

N E W S

ACRL News Issue of College & Research Libraries

Editor, David Kaser, Joint University L i­
braries, Nashville, Tenn. 37203.

Publications Officer, Mary Falvey, 50 E. 
Huron St., Chicago 60611.

ACRL Executive Secretary, George M. 
Bailey.
ACRL Officers, 1 9 6 7 /6 8 : President, James Hum­
phry III; College Libraries Section Chairman, Audrey 
North; Junior College Libraries Section, Mrs. Alice B. 
Griffith; Rare Books Section, Lawrence S. Thompson; 
Subject Specialists Section, Richard L. Snyder; Agri­
culture and Biological Sciences Subsection, Mrs. 
Pauline W . Jennings; Art Subsection, James K. Dick­
son; Law and Political Science Subsection, Morris 
Cohen; Slavic and East European Subsection, Jerzy 
(G eorge) J. Maciuszko; University Libraries Section, 
Stuart Forth.
E d i t o r i a l  B o a r d :  Jo h n  M . D a w s o n , U n i v e r s i t y  o f  D e l a ­
w a r e ;  G u s t a v e  A. H a r r e r , B o s t o n  U n i v e r s i t y ; S a m ­
u e l  R o t h s t e i n , U n i v e r s i t y  o f  British C o l u m b i a ;  
Ja m e s  E. S k i p p e r , P r i n c e t o n  U n i v e r s i t y ;  N o r m a n  E. 
T a n i s , K a n s a s  S t a t e  C o l l e g e  o f  P i t t s b u r g ; M a u r i c e  F. 
T a u b e r , C o l u m b i a  U n i v e r s i t y ; E i l e e n  T h o r n t o n , 
O b e r l i n  C o l l e g e .

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