ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 564 / C&RL News In the News History in the making. Not many of us get the opportunity to witness such a dramatic moment in history as did our colleagues attending the IFLA conference in Moscow, August 19-24, 1991. Bob Holley and his wife M artha Spear share with us their reactions to living through the attempted Russian coup. (A special thanks to ALA staffers Linda Crismond, Karen Muller, and Leonard Kniffel for sharing their photos of Moscow.) In this issue we learn that the editors of the Jou rn al o f the American M edical Association and the British M edical Jou rn al both predict that work ers in the allied health fields will continue to rely on print as the primary means of communication in the future thanks to a report of the Medical Library Association's Conference prepared by Kathryn Hoffman. In a report prepared by Jean Callaghan, we learn that speakers at the North American Serials Interest Group conference seemed to agree with this favoring of print as they predicted that electronic journals will not fully replace paper for mats in scientific and scholarly publishing in the next decade. Computers are certainly vital to infor mation transfer and communication (this editor cannot imagine publishing C &RL News without her trusty computer) but the paperless society prediction keeps getting pushed farther ahead into the future. It seems that readers will continue to favor the convenience of print— even if it means that they download the information and print it out at their own workstations. Many o f the other articles in this issue provide practical information. Barbara WittkopfandPatricia Cruse describe their experience using ACRL’s new Measuring Academ ic Library Perform ance: APrac- tical A pproach to obtain reliable data about their public services at Louisiana State University. Mary Nagel and Jeanne Molloy offer some tips to increase the effectiveness of student assistants, and tips for preparing orientation materials for your faculty advisory committee are presented by ACRL’s Task Force on Facuity Advisory Committee Orientation Materials. Mary Jo Lynch and Anne Beaubien outline the results of a survey of academic libraries to deter mine what other funding sources libraries rely upon. This is accompanied by a list of budget- cutting/revenue-generating ideas under consider ation by the libraiy staff at the U niversity of Califor nia, Irvine. William Jones continues the discussion on what type of degrees and credentials are needed by academic librarians. Be sure to review the committee volunteer form in this issue. ACRL needs active, committed mem bers to make the activities proposed by the mem bers a reality. — Mary Ellen K. Davis E d itor & Publisher Suggestions sought for Standard Citation Forms... The ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section’s Bibliographic Standards Committee, in collabora tion with the Library of Congress, is soliciting additions and corrections for a second edition of Standard Citation Form s f o r Rare B ook Cataloging (first edition prepared by Peter VanWingen and Stephen Paul Davis, and published by the Library o f Congress in 1982). A subject index will be in cluded in the new edition, as well as additional cross-references and guidelines for citing journal articles and electronic databases. Standard Cita tions includes bibliographies that are useful in veri fying, identifying, or describing items held in rare book or special collections and that have been or are likely to be cited in machine-readable catalog records. Bibliographies of or about individuals, printers, publishers, and jurisdictions below the national level are generally excluded. The editors would be pleased to receive correc tions and updates to existing citations. Suggestions for new citations should be accompanied by (1) a bibliographic record for the work or a photocopy of the title page, or both, and (2 ) a bibliographic record in which the work is cited. Specialized lists of bibliographies which have been compiled for local use are also welcome. To ensure that your suggestions are considered for inclusion in the second edition of Standard Citations, please submit them by January 31,1992, to Peter VanWingen or Belinda Urquiza, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Con gress, Washington, DC 20540.