ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 167 JUNIOR CO LLEG E LIBRARIES INFORMATION CENTER By P e g g y S u l l i v a n W h e n the Junior College Libraries Section of the Association of College and Research L i­ braries received $15,000 as a J . Morris Jones- World Book Encyclo- p e d ia -A L A G o a ls Award at the San Francisco conference in 1967, it was an ap­ propriate and well de­ served recognition for one of ALA’s liveliest sections. The money was to be used to sup­ port a Junior College Library Information Center at ALA head­ Miss Sullivan quarters for a period of one year. Sharply reduced from the amount which the section had originally requested, this fund provided salaries of a half-time project director and a half-time secretary, a modest budget for ma­ terials, and the related expenses of correspond­ ence, advisory assistance from a blue-ribbon advisory committee, and similar expenses asso­ ciated with a project of this kind. There was a short-lived hope that some other source of funds might bring the sum up to the $24,000 originally requested, but that was not to be. The title of the Center was carefully selected so that it would logically include private two- year colleges as well as community colleges. Sometimes, in press releases or in news items about the Center, there has seemed to be con­ fusion. The Center’s concern is libraries in two-year colleges. One of the difficulties of a short-term Project with funds only for a half-time staff is, as would be expected, the recruitment of per­ sonnel. By setting March 1, 1968, as the open­ ing date for the Project, it was possible to re­ cruit two staff members formerly associated with the Knapp School Libraries Project, which terminated February 29. Janet Winandy serves as secretary while completing her senior year of college, and Peggy Sullivan serves as direc­ tor while working toward a doctoral degree at the graduate library school of the University of Chicago. The termination date for the Junior College Project is February 28, 1969. A three-man advisory committee was ap­ pointed by ACRL and the American Association of Junior Colleges. Members are Richard L. Ducote of College of DuPage, chairman; Nor­ man E. Tanis of Kansas State College in Pitts­ burg; and Clifford G. Erickson of Rock Valley Community College. Since they are, respec­ tively, a junior college librarian, college librari­ an with extensive junior college experience, and junior college president, they bring indi­ vidual interests and abilities to the service of the Center. The first meeting of this commit­ tee was held at American Library Association Headquarters Friday, May 10, 1968. At that time, the committee examined materials gath­ ered to date, set priorities for future acquisi­ tions, and recommended policies for general operation of the Center. As outlined in the proposal for the Project, these are the purposes it serves and the kinds of materials it is intended to collect: 1. Produce, for publication, lists of documents, studies, and plans, indexed by subject, type, and size of junior college. 2. Make the resulting collection available to junior college personnel through interlibrary loan. ( This service was later revised to note that the Center would not provide materials on interlibrary loan, but would work only through Headquarters Library). 3. Prepare brief summaries of activities of the Center for publication in C R L News, the Junior C o lleg e Journal, other library and educational publications. 4. Materials to be collected: a. Booklists and guides to book selection b. Orientation programs—descriptions, man­ uals, etc. c. Programs of special services to faculty, students, and the community—descrip­ tions, manuals, etc. d. Budgets e. Surveys—by library consultants, self­ surveys, commercial surveys f. Annual reports—to provide information about programs, plans, and needs, as a means of securing information for future statistical evaluation g. Bibliographies compiled by junior col­ lege librarians—to provide information for planning of all phases of junior col­ lege library development h. Buildings—programs plans and state­ ments, in cooperation with the Library Administration Division i. Federal funds—information about avail­ able funds, possible uses of such funds, past utilization of funds, and needs j. Cooperative programs—information about present activities in such areas as pur­ chasing, processing, and sharing of serv­ ices k. Standards—collection of existing state­ ments on state, regional and national basis; and statements about utilization of standards by various groups of librar­ ians, administrators, educational organi­ zations, and accrediting associations 1. Innovative programs—statements for the improvement of library service L I B R A R Y O F C O N G R E S S C A T A L O G o n m i c r o f i c h e $ 6 99 . 0 0 "B ecause o f the im m ensity o f the collections, the excellence o f the cataloging, and the fu ll b ib liogra p h ic descriptions, the Catalog o f the Library o f Congress has been fo r many years an invaluable w ork in any library and indispensable in those w here research is done. O f first im portance in cataloging, acquisition, and reference w ork, and fo r the bibliograph er and research w orker, it is valuable fo r author bibliograph y, verification o f titles, bibliograph ical inform ation, historical notes, location o f copies, etc.” "S co p e : It is an author and m ain entry catalog (w ith cross references but n ot added entries) o f book s and other materials fo r w hich Library o f Congress Printed cards w ere available in : ( 1 ) the Library o f Congress (as cards had not been prin ted fo r all the Library’s books, the catalog is not a com plete record o f the Library’s h old in gs, but does represent a large percentage) ; ( 2 ) m any governm ent departm ent libraries; ( 3 ) various libraries throughout the country as a result o f the cooperative cataloging p rogra m .” "In fo rm a tio n given is detailed and represents a h ig h degree o f accuracy usually including, as pertinent: fu ll nam e o f author, dates o f birth and death; fu ll title; place, publisher, and da te; c o lla tio n ; series; e d itio n ; notes o n contents, history, etc.; tracing fo r subject headings and added entries; L .C . class num ber, som etim es D ew e y class num ber, and L.C. card n um ber,” W in ch e ll, Guide T o Reference Books (8 th e d it io n ), entry A A 6 3 . Dept. B M icrocαrd Editions 9 01-26th Street, N .W . W ashin g ton , D. C . 20037 □ This is an order for A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards, issued to July 31, 1942,* on 105 x 148mm □ positive microfiche; □ negative microfiche; □ micro-opaque cards— at $699-00. □ Please send □ your current catalog; □ sample microfiche; □ information about reading machines. Name ................................................................................... D a t e ...................................... Organization ........................................................................................................................... Address .................................................................................................................................... * Originally published in 167 volumes between 1942 and 1946. M 901 T I WE C NTY R -SIXT O H ST RE C ET, A N.W R ., W A D SHIN ® GT E ON, D D. C. I 2 T 0037 I , 2 O 02/33 N 3-63 S 93 I N D U S T R I A L P R O D U C T S D I V I S I O N , T H E N A T I O N A L C A S H R E G I S T E R C O M P A N Y 169 m. Automation— existing program statements in junior college libraries It is easy to see from this statement that there are many possible lines o f intercommunication and, indeed, confusion with other offices at A LA and with related agencies outside. An obvious relationship exists with the Educational Re­ sources Information Centers (E R IC clearing­ houses) at University o f California, Los An­ geles, for junior colleges, and at University of Minnesota for libraries. As a much smaller operation, with an annual budget approximat­ ing a monthly budget at either o f these clear­ inghouses, the A LA Junior College Library Information Center must have a narrower focus but one which combines both of those ERIC centers’ concerns. Somewhat unexpectedly, the center at A L A has also attracted a sizeable number o f general reference questions from librarians and others both within and outside the junior college field. These have included: W here may w e sell a junior college library collection from a college now being discon­ tinued? What are typical expenditures for periodicals in a junior college library o f our size? How may I get in touch with junior college library personnel in my own or neighboring states? Again, this kind of question illustrates many possible overlaps with A L A offices. Questions of budget, administration, and recommendations o f consultants are within the purview o f the Library Administration Division; materials to b e borrowed from A L A headquarters are logically the responsibility o f the headquarters library, which has a well established procedure for treatment o f interlibrary loans; many ques­ tions relating to library technical assistant pro­ grams in junior colleges are the natural con­ cern of both the Office o f Library Education and the Library Education Division. These facts have prompted a meeting with staff mem­ bers from these headquarters offices and some fairly firm agreements about responsibilities. Because o f the growth of activities and mem­ bership in the Junior College Libraries Section and because so many o f the institutions repre­ sented by those members are in growing and changing stages themselves, there are, pre­ dictably, many questions o f general interest and concern which seem to b e directed to the Center. These include inquiries about member­ ship, publications and materials that have been published or are forthcoming about junior col­ lege libraries (three major bibliographies slated for 1968 publication, for example!). Frustrating as it is to be building a collection with set priorities and goals which do not always match the requests received from the field, w e have attempted to the extent possible to service such requests. W e will continue to do so. A logical questions is: W hat happens to ma­ terials collected by the Center after the Center itself goes out o f existence? T o avoid inun­ dating the headquarters library with materials in late February, 1969, our plan is to forward relevant materials to that collection as they are received. The perennial problems o f limited staff, budget, and time place a ceiling on how much even o f free materials the library is able to request and to absorb into its collec­ tion, but our gradual approach and continued communication are planned to assist rather than to burden that staff and those facilities. An example o f one area in which junior col­ leges are represented only minimally in the headquarters library collection is in the slides o f library buildings. The current eight-page listing of slides includes new library facilities for the most part. O f the eighty-six institutions listed, only four are junior colleges, and in the collection totaling 1,192 slides seventeen slides are of junior colleges. Considering the many junior colleges now in building programs or contemplating them, this meager representa­ tion appears to offer little assistance. Yet the task o f requesting slides, follow-up on articles about new buildings, etc., is a time-consuming one which has not called on any A L A staff member’s primary interest. W e have rather carefully examined such collections as the student handbooks on file in headquarters library and frequently requested on loan. This collection for the most part dates from 1964, when a Junior College Libraries Section committee chaired b y Mrs. Alice Grif­ fith sent out many requests and built up a collection which has been arranged so that a librarian requesting materials will receive a selection o f handbooks in varied formats and from colleges in varied locations, with differ­ ent purposes for use of the handbooks. In up­ dating this collection, we have also benefited greatly from the generosity o f junior college libraries which have provided annual reports, self-surveys, bibliographies, information about buildings, and other materials. At the present time and probably throughout the Project, it is our plan to make up lists o f materials and to identify sources where copies might be obtained while also permit­ ting, within the limits of staff time and space, visitors to use materials in the Center. This will undoubtedly mean that more calls will b e made on the junior colleges which have materials that others can use as models or which have provided most materials to the Center, but it also should mean that the kinds o f requests made will b e more precise and may b e an­ swered b y materials available. C ollege and Research Libraries N ews is the Center’s link with the membership o f the Junior College Libraries Section and, beyond that, with the Association of College and Research search Libraries. This brief report is expected to be only the first of several on this one-year Project. One of four recipients of the 1968 Tangley Oaks graduate fellowship grants is Peggy Sulli­ van, who recently concluded her appointment as director of the American Library Associa­ tion’s five-year Knapp School Libraries Project and now heads the Junior College Library In­ formation Center for ALA. Miss Sullivan was granted $2500 for work toward her doctoral degree in the graduate library school at the University of Chicago. Award recipients were chosen by the United Educators Foundation selection committee for the eighth year of the Tangley Oaks Graduate Fellowship program. With this year’s awards, a total of twenty-five graduate fellowships have been granted since the inception of the program in 1960. Miss Sullivan was graduated maxima cum laude from Clarke College, Dubuque, la., in 1950, a major in language and literature, and received her master’s degree in library science from Catholic University, Washington, D.C., in 1953. ■■ C O LLEG E LIBRARY NOTES A n e w c o m m u n i c a t i o n m e d i u m designed to inform college presidents of current library de­ velopments will be published by ACRL and the Association of American Colleges, with the aid of a grant from the Shell Companies Foun­ dation. C olleg e L ibrary N otes will be published four times a year under the direction of the Joint Committee on College Library Problems of the two associations. Basil Mitchell, execu­ tive director of the Southeastern New York L i­ brary Resources Council, will edit the publica­ tion, now scheduled for initial distribution in September. Editorial address of publication is 103 Market St., Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12601. ■ ■ From Inside the DLSEF By Dr . K a t h a r i n e M. S t o k e s C o lleg e an d University L ibrary Specialist, L i­ brary Planning an d D evelopm en t Branch, D i­ vision o f L ibrary Services an d E du cation al F acilities, U.S. O ffice o f E ducation , W ashing­ ton, D .C . 20202. You have probably read in your state li­ brary or state association publications the an­ nouncements of awards to library education programs. These awards will enable library educators to conduct institutes for intensive training to upgrade and update the compe­ tencies of persons serving all types of libraries. These institutes are funded under authority of Title II-B of the Higher Education Act and vary in length from two weeks to a semester or more. At least fifteen of them are related to some phase of academic librarianship. The University of California offers two-week programs in map librarianship or oral history at its Los Angeles campus, and a month-long institute in law librarianship at Berkeley. In­ stitute participants at the University of Mary­ land, College Park, will study the automation of bibliographical services. The University of Hawaii, Honolulu, offers a six-week institute on Asian materials for college libraries. At the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, one may study junior and community college librarian­ ship for six weeks. Participants in the Uni­ versity of Oregon’s program at Eugene will work part-time from summer to midwinter on mechanization in technical services and circu­ lation areas of the library. In April, the Uni­ versity of Washington, Seattle, will offer a two- week program on library executive develop­ ment, and in June 1969, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will offer a two-week study of bibliographic services in East Asian studies. These are examples of the sixty-three institutes being offered; a complete listing may be obained from the D L SE F. There is a $75 a week stipend plus $15 for each dependent during the institute period; no travel money is included. It is suggested that you begin planning quickly, as some of these institutes start in the middle of June. If you cannot attend an institute, perhaps you have a friend who should be encouraged to go. Any person who has been or is engaged in librarianship, or who has an undergraduate or graduate degree in library science may apply. Information, admission requirements, and ap­ plication forms for institutes should be ob­ tained from the school offering the program. ■ ■ 170