ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


April 1989 /  287

Strategic m anagem ent directions

The ALA Membership System generated its first 
set of labels for new members. New m em ber kits 
were m ailed to all new ACRL members.

The 1990 prelim inary budget was subm itted to

ALA Fiscal Services. It anticipates a heavy deficit, 
and is w hat has m otivated the ACRL Budget and 
F in a n c e  C o m m itte e  to re c o m m e n d  a dues 
increase.—JoAn S. Segal, A C R L  Executive Direc­
tor.

A C R L  p r o f e s s i o n a l  l i a i s o n  a c t iv it ie s

By Louise S. Sherby
Chair, A C R L  Professional Association Liaison Com m ittee

A C R L  looks fo r  more links to other organizations.

T he ACRL Professional Association Liaison 

Com m ittee (PALC) has spent the last several years 
working towards the strengthening of ACRL’s re­
lationships w ith oth er professional associations. 
The committee has done this in several ways.

First, the comm ittee has aw arded grants to indi­
vidual members in support of their activities in 
no n -lib ra ry  professional associations. A PALC 
grant supported the participation of Gloria Smith, 
University of Arizona, in presenting a panel at the 
Twelfth Annual National Council of Black Studies 
in Philadelphia in April 1988. The idea for this 
panel grew o ut of Smith’s earlier involvement in 
the Black History Internship Project at the Arizona 
Historical Society. The purpose of this project was 
to learn about local African-American history. In 
addition to collecting individual oral history, fam ­
ily photos and surveying existing m aterials of the 
society, the group was trained in oral history tech­
niques and in techniques for working w ith older 
residents. This activity led to Smith’s continuing in­
volvement in local African-American history and 
ultim ately to her organizing a panel presentation 
for the National Council of Black Studies Confer­
ence. Smith’s paper explained the project’s Histori­
cal Happening at the Arizona Historical Society. As 
she indicates in her report to th e  committee, “This

panel shows how librarians can be productive in 
acquiring comm unity history and can work effec­
tively w ith professionals of other disciplines. I t  also 
shows how a library, the Arizona Historical Soci­
ety, can be productive in helping a community to 
gather, preserve and display its ethnic heritage.”

Another ACRL m em ber who received support 
was M artha L. Brogan, University of Minnesota. 
Brogan participated in the fourth biennial Inter­
disciplinary Conference for Netherlandic Studies 
(ICNS) in June 1988. As she reports to the commit­
tee: “T he ICNS is sponsored by the American Asso­
ciation for N etherlandic Studies (AANS), a n a ­
tional scholarly organization formed in 1982 to 
prom ote the study of the language, literature, and 
culture of the N etherlands a nd D utch-speaking 
Belgium. Its 250 members are prim arily engaged in 
teaching and research in the field of D utch studies 
in the United States.

“For the 1986 ICNS conference I proposed to 
w rite a paper analyzing the content of the RLG 
Conspectus relevant to D utch studies. It was re­
jected on the grounds th at it didn’t  fit into any of 
the pre-ordained program  areas. U ndeterred, I 
tried again in 1988, only this tim e I proposed to or­
ganize an entire session—‘High Tech in the Low­
lands: L ibrary Resources in the Electronic Age’—



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w hich w ould include m y p a p er. T his tim e  the 
proposal was accepted. It was m y contention th at 
the Conspectus has been discussed alm ost solely 
w ithin library circles and analyzed prim arily as a 
collection m anagem ent tool for library staff. F u r­
ther, few articles, w ith the exception of those on 
verification studies, have analyzed the substance of 
the Conspectus as it pertains to a specific subject 
area. It was my goal to consider in-depth the subset 
of Conspectus d a ta  p e rtinent to  D u tch studies and 
to present m y findings to faculty teaching in the 
field. I also invited Jam es Spohrer, associate lib ra r­
ian for G erm anic collections at th e  University of 
California-Berkeley, who contributed a p aper on 
‘Dutch, Flemish, Frisian M aterials at Berkeley: 
Collections a nd Access,’ and M ichael W intle, a so­
cial and economic historian a t the C entre for M od­
ern D utch Studies, at the U niversity of Hull (G reat 
Britain), w ho presented a p a p er about the com pi­
la tio n  of t h e  b i b li o g r a p h y , T h e  N e th e r la n d s  
(W orld Bibliographical Series, Clio Press, 1988), 
which he co-au th o red  w ith  P eter King. About 
th irty  faculty attended ou r session, including the 
President of AANS, w ho recom m ended publicly 
th at a program  on library resources becom e a regu­
lar feature of fu tu re  ICNS conferences. Selected 
papers, including Spohrer’s and m ine, w ill be p u b ­
lished by  th e  U n iversity Press of A m erica this 
spring.

“This conference experience reinforced the p a rt­
nership betw een professional lib rarian s and teach­
ing faculty in the academ ic enterprise. As an unex­

p e cted  result of th is professional liaison, I was 
invited to review W intle and King’s bibliography 
in the British journal, D u tch Crossing: A Journal o f 
L o w  Countries Studies. T he next ICNS will b e held 
a t UCLA in  June 1990 and a precedent has been set 
for a library session.”

T he Professional Liaison C om m ittee also p a r­
tia lly  su p p o rts th e  activ ities of th e  a p p o in te d  
ACRL liaisons to professional associations. Sharon 
J. Rogers, George W ashington University, is the 
ACRL liaison to th e  A m erican C ouncil on E duca­
tion. At th e  1989 ACE A nnual M eeting in San 
Diego, C alifornia, Rogers presented a p aper enti­
tled “M anaging Inform ation F o r C hange” a t the 
ACE Fellows W orkshop.

T he com m ittee is also looking a t o ther ways to 
enhance th e  visibility of academ ic lib ra rian s in 
other professional associations. Suggestions from 
th e  ACRL m em bership w ould be welcome. ACRL 
encourages such p articipation and the Professional 
Association L iaison C o m m itte e  w ould w elcom e 
such proposals.

If you are interested in applying for a g rant in 
support of individual liaison activity, applications 
sh ould be received by Ju n e  1, 1989. Proposals 
sh o u ld  in c lu d e  th e  fo llo w in g  in fo rm a tio n : 1) 
nam e, title, address a nd telephone num ber of re­
quester; 2) n am e of organization sponsoring the 
program ; 3) requester’s relationship to the organi­
zation; 4) sum m ary of p a rticipation (e.g., abstract 
of paper); 5) statem ent of potential im pact for pro ­
m o tin g  a ca d em ic  or re sea rc h  lib ra ria n s h ip ; 6)



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budget and am ount being requested; and 7) sup­
porting docum entation as relevant (e.g., receipts, 
program , etc.). The criteria for the distribution of 
funding appeared in “Funds for Professional Activ­
ities,” by Jacqueline M. Morris, C‹bRL News 49 
(May 1988): 291-92.

Please send applications to: Louise S. Sherby, 
C h a ir, A CRL Professional Association L iaison 
Com m ittee, General Library, Room 107, Univer­
sity of Missouri-Kansas C ity, 5100 Rockhill Road, 
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499.

A C R L  a w a r d  w i n n e r s , 1 9 8 9

ACRL opportunities and honors for members.

.A .C R L  is pleased to announce the recipients of 

the 1989 ACRL awards. These winners were se­
lected by separate aw ard juries and will be honored 
at the ALA Annual Conference in Dallas. The In­
stitute for Scientific Inform ation Fellowships—the 
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship a nd the Samuel 
Lazerow Fellowship for Research in Acquisitions 
or Technical Services—and the K .G . Saur Award 
for Best College and Research Libraries Article will 
be presented at the ACRL President’s Program  in 
Dallas, Monday, June 26, beginning at 2:00 p.m . 
T he ACRL Academic or Research L ibrarian of the 
Year Aw ard, sponsored by Baker & Taylor, will be 
presented at a special reception imm ediately fol­
lowing the ACRL President’s Program  at approxi­
m ately 5:00 p.m . Please join us in honoring these 
outstanding individuals.

The deadline for most of the 1990 aw ards is De­
cember 1, 1989. Inform ation about nominations 
and applications for the 1990 aw ards are available 
from Mary Ellen Davis, ACRL Program  Officer, 
ACRL/ALA, 50 East H uron, Chicago, IL  60611, 
(800) 545-2433; in Illinois, (800) 545-2444; in C an­
ada, (800) 545-2455; or (312) 944-6780, x287.

Academic or Research Librarian 
of the Year Award

Jo h n  P. M c G o w an , u n iv e rsity  lib r a r ia n  at 
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, has 
been chosen to receive the $3,000 Academic or Re­
search L ibrarian of the Year Aw ard. M cGowan 
will receive the aw ard im m ediately following the

ACRL President’s Program  a t 5:00 p.m . on Mon­
day, June 26, a t a reception in his honor during the 
ALA Annual Conference in Dallas. ACRL Presi­
dent Joseph A. Boissé will present the cash aw ard 
and citation, which are donated by the Baker & 
Taylor Company.

The aw ard is given annually to recognize an in­
dividual who has m ade an outstanding contribu­
tion to academic or research librarianship and li­
b r a ry  d e v elo p m en t. In  n a m in g  M cG ow an to 
receive the aw ard, Barry B. Baker, assistant direc­
tor for technical services a t the University of Geor­
gia Libraries, a nd chair of the aw ard jury, said, 
“John P. M cGowan is truly a pioneer of library au­
tom ation. Through his vision of library autom a­
tion and his understanding of the possibilities af­
forded libraries by integrated library systems, John 
McGowan has h ad significant influence on devel-

ACRL Publications in Librarianship

T he ACRL Publications in Librarianship
Editorial Board invites m anuscripts or prospec­
tuses for monographs or collections of articles 
on im portant issues and problem s in academic 
librarianship.

Those interested should contact:
Jonathan A. Lindsey 
University L ibrarian 
Baylor Univerity 
B.U. Box 7143 
W aco, TX 76798-7143