ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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ACRL PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER 
ANNUAL MEETING

Approximately one hundred twenty librarians 
met at the Samuel Paley library of Temple 
University, Philadelphia, on May 13, for the 
annual meeting of the Association of College 
and Research Libraries, Philadelphia Chapter.

The morning session was opened by a wel­
come from Warren S. Owens, director of 
libraries, Temple University. A brief business 
meeting followed, presided over by Clyde 
Haselden, president. Ethel Klingerman, secre­
tary-treasurer, read the minutes of the last 
annual meeting and the treasurer’s report.

Mr. Haselden reported that twenty-five sig­
natures of ACRL members were necessary to 
establish the Chapter under the revised ACRL 
Constitution and Rylaws (ACRL News, no. 7, 
October, 1966, p.134-136). As a result of 
this announcement, twenty-eight ACRL mem­
bers signed a petition requesting this establish­
ment of the Philadelphia Chapter, and it was 
sent to George M. Bailey, executive secretary 
of ACRL. The new officers and members of the 
Board of Directors, 1967-68, are Vice President 
( and President-Elect) : Richard Snyder; Sec­
retary-Treasurer; Joan Gotwals; Director-at- 
Large: Emery W. Wimbish, Jr.

Miss Klingerman stated that the Executive 
Board had fulfilled the May 14, 1966 recom­
mendation of membership and increased the 
Chapter’s annual contribution to the Union 
Catalog of Pennsylvania from $50 to $100. 
The business meeting was then adjourned.

The morning program on Reclassification to 
the Library of Congress System was presided 
over by Herbert Anstaett, librarian of Frank­
lin and Marshall College and the program 
chairman. He introduced Mrs. Irene Rice, re­
classification director of Franklin and Mar­
shall. Mrs. Rice spoke of the organization and 
operation of the LC Reclassification Project at 
the College.

Next Mr. Anstaett introduced members of 
the panel on reclassification: Mrs. Miriam 
Weiss (Beaver College), Jack Slater (Drexel), 
Geraldine McCulley (Lippincott library, UPA), 
Alice Hall (Lafayette), and Lee Brown 
(PMC).

Both Mrs. Weiss and Mr. Slater described 
the reclassification project at their colleges, 
and Miss McCulley indicated the plans for 
reclassification at the Lippincott library. Miss 
Hall gave the results of a questionnaire sent 
to ten college and university libraries in the 
process of reclassifying to LC. Mr. Brown 
spoke against reclassification to LC.

After the panel had finished, there was a 
brief question period and the meeting was 
adjourned for lunch and an informal tour of 
the new Samuel Paley library building.

The Area College Library Cooperative Pro­
gram, South Central Pennsylvania was the 
topic for the afternoon program session. Mrs. 
Lillian H. Smoke, librarian of Gettysburg Col­
lege was the speaker. She described fully the 
origin, growth, and advantages of the coopera­
tive program adopted by nine south central 
Pennsylvania colleges and the Pennsylvania 
state library in 1965. Questions and some dis­
cussion concluded the program for this session.

Mr. Haselden expressed the group’s ap­
preciation to Mr. Anstaett and the participants 
for two excellent programs. Mr. Haselden then 
presented Warren S. Owens as the new presi­
dent of the Chapter, and the meeting was 
adjourned.—Clyde L. Haselden. ■ ■

NON-WESTERN COLLECTIONS
Library resources of ninety-six state col­

leges and universities offering non-Western 
courses vary from 20,000 to 465,000 volumes, 
with an average of about 129,000, and annual 
additions of books and periodicals that re­
late to non-Western studies amount to 6.3 per 
cent and 4.2 per cent respectively of current 
total annual acquisitions, according to a re­
cently published study. Of 132 colleges that 
answered an inquiry from the Association of 
State Colleges and Universities, only about one- 
third responded to a question concerning 
planned expenditures for developing non- 
Western holdings of the library; colleges that 
answered will average just under 8 per cent 
a year for the next three years, according to 
the association’s report of the survey.

To the request for colleges to evaluate their 
holdings as good, adequate, or poor, seventeen 
of the ninety-six rated their libraries as good, 
forty-five as adequate, and twenty-one as poor, 
for instruction. For faculty research, only two 
colleges rated their libraries as good, and 
sixty-eight rated them poor.

Institutions which considered their library 
holdings less than adequate for their present 
non-Western courses responded in various ways 
to a request to list their three greatest needs. 
The majority listed their needs in terms of ad­
ditional publications in each of three geograph­
ic areas, with Africa, Asia in general, and the 
Slavic and East European area being the most 
frequently mentioned. A smaller number of col­
leges expressed their needs in other than geo­
graphic terms and included such things as 
additional funds for more space, more biblio­
graphic specialists, more clerical help, out-of- 
print books, foreign documents, monographs 
and, more frequently than any other one need, 
more periodicals, according to International 
Education in the Developing State Colleges and 
Universities, a report of a study conducted for 
the ASCU dated November 1966, by Fred F. 
Harcleroad and Alfred Kilmartin. ■ ■