ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


3 7 2  /  C&RL N e w s

In the N e w s
By all accounts ACRL’s Sixth N ational C onfer­
en ce w as a success; th e participants gave it the 
highest evaluation ever received by an  ACRL 
National Conference. The beautiful spring weather 
in Salt Lake City provided a glorious backdrop to a 
stimulating array o f speakers and ideas.

Julian B ond o p e n e d  the conference w ith a 
m oving review  o f civil rights in the U.S., re­
m inding us o f w h at it is to  b e  a have-not. Paul 
Saffo gave us a look at the p h e n o m e n a  o f over­
night success— technologically speaking it takes 
ab o u t 20 years to  achieve overnight success—  
an d  predicted that libraries will b e everyw here 
b u t now here; they will b e  less o f a place and 
m ore o f a space. Catharine Stimpson review ed 
the role o f w o m e n ’s studies in h igher ed u ca­
tion an d  W. D avid P ennim an challenged us to 
find new  w ays to m easure th e effectiveness and 
success o f library services.

The many papers an d  program s offered prac­
tical ideas for m anaging day-to-day library o p ­
erations an d  providing library services. C&RL 
N ew s’ call for reporters w as so successful and 
the reports so interesting that this issue co n ­

tains the first o f tw o articles reporting o n  the 
conference. The seco n d  article will ap p e a r in 
th e  J u ly /A ugust issue. I w a n t to  ex te n d  my 
thanks to  the m any volunteer reporters w h o  
to o k  o n  the difficult job of providing succinct 
(an d  interesting) sum m aries o f program s— and 
m ade a quick deadline! I h o p e you find their 
reports as interesting as I did. My apologies to 
those w h o se reports I w as un ab le to  use due 
to space limitations.

This issue also includes reports on other confer­
ences: the Coalition for Networked Information 
(page 399), New Information Technology (page 
374), Earlham/E ckerd College BI (page 402), and 
the Très Grande Bibliothèque (page 394).

Sharon Vaughters, a career guidance co u n ­
selor at th e University o f Michigan, m akes prac­
tical suggestions you can im plem ent to en co u r­
a g e  in d i v id u a l s  to  c o n s i d e r  a c a r e e r  in  
librarianship.

— Mary Ellen K. Davis 
E ditor & P ublisher

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