ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries College & Research A L CRL i b New r s a Issu r e i (B e ) o s No. 9, October 1973 f College ne & w Resear s ch Libraries, Vol. 34, No. 5 Committee Appointed to Revise C o l l e g e Library Standards Norman E. Tanis, president of the Associa­ Award to continue the revision. The aim of the tion of College and Research Libraries, has ap­ project is to prepare new standards for college pointed Miss Johnnie E. Givens, librarian, Aus­ libraries that will take account of the many sig­ tin Peay State University, chairman of the com­ nificant changes in higher education that have mittee to revise the 1959 Standards f or C o lleg e occurred since adoption of the 1959 standards. L ibraries. Project director is David Kaser, pro­ The revised standards will be based upon care­ fessor, Graduate Library School, University of ful definition of goals, explicit recognition of as­ Indiana. Other members of the committee are sumptions, comprehensive identification and Barbara G. LaMont, librarian, Vassar College, searching evaluation of the relevance of the David L. Perkins, head bibliographic librarian, evidence to the goals, and clear formulation of California State University, Northridge, James criteria of judgment. W . Pirie, librarian, Lewis and Clark College, The committee met in Chicago, August 7, and Herman L. Totten, associate dean, College 1973. Future meetings have been scheduled for of Library Science, University of Kentucky. November 6, 1973, and December 18, 1973. The present committee continues the work on The committee will meet during the 1974 mid­ revision begun by the committee chaired by winter meeting of the American Library Asso­ Stanley McElderry in 1970. ciation in January 1974 and will conduct hear­ ACRL received the 1973/74 J. Morris Jones ings during the 1974 annual meeting in New —World Book Encyclopedia—ALA Goals York, July 7 -1 3 . ■ ■ ACRL Membership Meeting, 1 9 7 3 Russell Shank, the president of the Associa­ tion of College and Research Libraries, presid­ ed at the 1973 membership meeting of the as­ sociation held Monday, June 25, 1973, in the Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada. The minutes of the 1972 membership meeting were approved. Dr. Shank summarized his annual re­ port to the membership ( C R L N ew s, July/Au­ gust 1973) and introduced the newly elected officers of the association. Beverly Lynch, ex­ ecutive secretary of A CRL reported on some of the activities of the headquarters staff. Action of the ACRL Board of Directors Dr. Shank reported on three actions taken by the ACRL Board of Directors at its meeting that morning: C o lle g e & R esearch L ib r a r ie s is p u b lish ed by th e A s so cia tion o f C o lle g e a nd Research L ib ra rie s , a division of th e A m e ric a n L ib ra ry A sso ciation, 17 tim e s y e a rly — 6 b im o n th ly journa l issues a n d I I m onthly, c o m b in in g J uly- A u g u s t N ews issues a t 1201-05 Bluff St., Fulton, M o . 45251. S ubsc rip tio n , $15.00 a y e a r o r, to m em b ers o f th e d ivision, $5.00, in c lu d e d in dues. C irc u la tio n a nd a d v e rtis in g o ffic e : A m e ric a n L ib ra ry A sso ciation, 50 E. H u ro n St., C h ic a g o , I I I . 60411. Second-class pos ta ge p a id a t Fulton, Missouri 65251. News e d ito r : A lla n Dyson, M o f f it t U n d e rg ra d u a te L ib ra ry , U niversity o f C a lif o r n ia Berkeley California 94720. Associate News e d ito r - Susana H in o io s a, Ass stant L ib ra ria n , R e ference D e p a rtm e n t, M o ff i t t U n d e rg ra d u a te L ib ra ry . E d i t o r R ic hard M . D o u g h e rty U n iv ers ity L ib ra ry , U niversity o f C a lifo rn ia , Berkeley, C a lifo rn ia 94720. President, A C R L : N o rm a n Tanis. Executive Secretary, A C R L : Beverly Lynch, A L A . 22 2 S u pport o f th e R ec o m m e n d a tio n s o f T H E F O U R T H R E V O L U T IO N — The first matter discussed was the A CRL board’s resolution sup­ porting the report and recommendations of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education as stated in its report, T h e F o u r th R ev o lu tion ( A m erican L ib ra r ies, Sept. 1 9 7 3 ). In addition to its own endorsement, the board felt that the report should be endorsed by the American L i­ brary Association. Since it appeared that A C RL could not bring this matter directly to ALA Council for action, D r. Shank asked whether there was a member of council present in the audience who would submit the resolution. Jan ice Gallinger, Chapter Councilor, New Hampshire, volunteered to submit the resolu­ tion to ALA Council. (E d . note: ALA Council endorsed the resolution unanimously on June 28, 1 973.) A L A D u es P ro p osal—T he second action of the board concerned a proposed new dues structure for ALA. T he elem ent of the proposal that was considered by the board was that dues b e set at $35 a person per year. For $35, a per­ son joins the American Library Association and selects membership in any divisions he wishes to join without further charge; all division jour­ nals would be available only by subscription, but monographs published by ALA would be available at a 10 percent discount to ALA members. The A C R L Board of Directors passed the following motion: T he A C RL Board of Directors supports the notion of lower ALA membership dues, but rejects the proposal that the ba­ sic dues permits selection of membership in divisions at no extra charge and that all journals b e available only through sub­ scription. T he Association of College and Research Libraries offers the following al­ ternative proposal: T h at upon payment of the ALA membership dues, one primary divisional affiliation may be specified and that $15 of the $ 35 basic membership fee will be allocated to the division for what­ ever purpose it deems necessary to carry out its programs, including the publication of a journal, and that additional divisions may be joined for additional fees. Comments on A C R L ’s action regarding the dues proposal were invited. T he membership was urged to be sensitive to the impact of de­ cisions like the dues proposal upon the powers of divisions of associations like ALA to mount their own programs. R ep o rt o f t h e A L A C o m m itte e on S tan dards — The third board action reported to the A CRL membership concerned A C R L ’s response to the report of the ALA Committee on Standards. T he essential part of the ALA report consid­ ered by the board was that all standards to be offered as ALA Standards must be submitted first to the ALA Committee on Standards for that committee’s approval or disagreement. In the A CRL Board of Directors’ view, the pro­ posal would take from the division the right it now has to speak for the American Library As­ sociation in matters of concern to college, uni­ versity, and research libraries and librarians. Approval of the ALA Committee on Standards’ report would change the present policies of ALA that assign to the division authority and responsibility for the evaluation and establish­ m ent of standards in its field (A L A Bylaw V I, sec. 3. ( b ) .2 ). T he A C RL Board of Directors passed the following motion: T he A C RL Board objects strongly to the report of the ALA Committee on Stan­ dards insofar as adoption of that report would centralize authority for approval of all standards prepared by ALA units in the ALA Committee on Standards. The A CRL Board therefore insists that the approval clause of the report be deleted. (E d . note: Following discussion on the floor of A LA Council, Friday, June 29, 1973, the report was referred back to the ALA Committee on Standards for deletion of the approval clause.) ACRL Committee Reports Two A C RL committees reported to the mem­ bership, the Committee on Standards and Ac­ creditation and the Committee on Academic Status. S tan dards a n d A ccred itatio n —Jasper Schad, chairman of the Committee on Standards and Accreditation, reported on several meetings he and members of his committee had with repre­ sentatives of various regional accrediting associ­ ations and the Federation of Regional Ac­ crediting Commissions of Higher Education (F R A C H E ). T h e Standards and Accreditation Committee will continue its work with accredit­ ing agencies during the next year. Mr. Schad introduced Johnnie Givens, the chairman of the Subcommittee to Revise the 1959 S tan dards fo r C o lle g e L ib ra r ies. Miss Giv­ ens outlined the approach the subcommittee will take in the revision and the time table the committee will use. Miss Givens urged A C RL members to write to her regarding the revision. The subcommittee continues the work on revi­ sion begun by the committee chaired by Stan­ ley McElderry. A c a d e m ic Status— Eldred Smith, chairman o f the Committee on Academic Status, reported that the membership of the American Associa­ tion of University Professors approved unani­ mously the “Jo in t Statem ent on Faculty Status of College and University Librarians” ( C R L N ew s, Sept. 1 9 7 2 ) at its 59th annual meeting in St. Louis, April 1973. T he Association of American Colleges still is considering the state­ ment. Several state library associations and oth­ er agencies have endorsed the statement, and 223 ACRL is continuing to further such endorse­ ments. Mr. Smith reported that the Academic Status Committee is providing information, advice, and help to academic librarians with respect to problems that arise in the area of academic status. The committee is implementing A CRL’s program of furthering academic status of li­ brarians through contact and work with other organizations. Mr. Smith informed the membership that ACRL has been hampered in its efforts to up­ grade the kind of information and assistance ACRL provides academic libraries since ALA has not provided sufficient funding to support this program. The committee continues to press for financial support for the establishment of an academic status office in ACRL; it is critical if the program of academic status for college and university libraries is to be strengthened and expanded. The draft of the “Model Statement of Cri­ teria and Procedures for Appointment, Promo­ tion in Academic Rank, and Tenure for College and University Librarians” ( C R L N ew s, Sept. 1973, Oct. 1973) written by the committee, was distributed to the ACRL membership at the meeting. Mr. Smith reported that the form was an attempt by the committee to elaborate the principles of the ACRL ‘‘Standards for Faculty Status for College and University Librarians” (C R L N ew s, Sept. 1972) and the Joint State­ ment. The committee felt a sense of urgency in developing model documents in this area that could be of use to the membership of the association, since for some academic librarians the need is fairly critical. The Joint Statement and the Standards provide the rationale for academic or faculty status for college and uni­ versity librarians; the model criteria essentially implements these statements by providing a general model that can be adapted from one in­ stitution to another. A long discussion followed on the various aspects of the model. (E d . note. Some revisions were made in the Model Criteria following the membership meet­ ing and the second meeting of the ACRL Board of Directors.) Other Business Supporters of librarians whose positions were abolished at the library of the University of Chicago read a statement at the membership meeting. ACRL took no action in the matter, referring the librarians to ALA’s “Program of Action for Mediation, Arbitration and Inquiry” ( A m erican L ibraries, Sept. 1 971). There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned. ■■ T he story of A u d u b o n ’s B ird s of A m e ric a THE DOUBLE ELEPHANT FOLIO by Waldemar H. Fries T h e story of Jo h n Ja m e s Audubon is well known and extensively documented. Y e t surprisingly little has been w ritten about his struggle to prepare, print and sell th e great work which made him im m ortal, the “ double elep hant folio” produced a t a cost of $ 1 , 0 0 0 . 0 0 e a c h a n d s o ld , m o s t r e c e n t l y , fo r $ 2 1 6 ,0 0 0 .0 0 a t a London auction. T h is is th e story of the creation and sale of th e double elephant folio with a census and survey on e x ta n t com plete sets. M u ch of author F r ie s ’ in ­ form ation has never before been recorded. 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