ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 209 I urge all ACRL members to support this step, recognizing it for what it is: an investment in the future of academic libraries and librarianship. In his eloquent report last year my predecessor reported on a number of serious issues which we continue to confront. Progress has been made on a number of them. The most significant expendi tu re of effort during the year has been the attem pt to affect the developm ent of a new “Operating Agreement for ALA .and its D ivi sions.” This Agreement will affect both the gov ernance and the financing of the ACRL, the other divisions, and the ALA central structure. The ACRL objective in various forums has been to maximize the ability of ACRL to meet the needs of its members without undermining the essential services of the ALA central structure. There are embedded in the negotiations issues which may never be fully resolved. C ertainly the rela tionships are dynamic ones. However, we do ex pect that some of the basic issues will be settled in the Agreement scheduled to be adopted at the Midwinter Conference in 1982. N inety-two years have passed since Mr. Fletcher made his motion for the formation of an association of academic librarians. Since that time, the collective efforts of academic librarians to advance our profession and the association that sustains it have borne results that, I believe, effectively disprove Baudelaire’s contention that there can be no progress except in the individual. Millicent D. Abell President, ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Bibliographic Competencies for Education Students Students in education need an increasingly sophisticated knowledge of library resources in order to access information in the discipline. “Bibliographic Competencies for Education Stu dents,” an ACRL committee project, identifies minimal skills in the use of education materials which should be demonstrated by students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It is intended for use by students, teaching faculty, and librar ians. Members of the Bibliographic Instruction for Educators Committee of ACRL’s Education and Behavioral Sciences Section who developed the instrument are: George Jaramillo, Jim Olivetti, Virginia Parr, Hannelore Rader, Ilene Rockman, Harvey Soule, Charles Thurston, Thomas Toll man, and Joan Worley (chair). 1. To develop a logical approach to researching a topic. a. Locate definitions of general and specialized educational terms. Information sources: Diction ary of Education; International Dictionary of Education; Terms in Reading. Rationale: To rec ognize dictionary sources specific to education. b. Locate summary discussions of educational topics. Inform ation sources: Encyclopedia of Education; Handbook on Contemporary Educa tion. Rationale: To gain overview of topics of in quiry and learn secondary sources of research. c. Locate resources using the library’s author, subject, and title catalog(s). Information sources: Card, Online, Fiche or Film Catalog. Rationale: To gain access to a library’s holdings. d. Locate journal articles in indexes and ab stracts. Information sources: Education Index; Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography; Educational Administration Abstracts. Rationale: To access periodical literature in education. 2. To identify major reference tools in educa tion. Information sources: Encyclopedia of Edu cational Research; Second Handbook of Research in Teaching; Resources in Education. Rationale: To perform basic bibliographic research in sup port of teaching. 3. To identify and describe standardized tests. Information sources: Mental Measurements Year book; Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental M easures. Rationale: To become ac quainted with the characteristics of tests in use. 4. To locate and describe print and non-print curriculum materials, instructional aid resources. Information sources: Curriculum Review; Media Review Digest; NICEM Directories; Educators Guides to Free Films, etc. Rationale: To locate critical reviews of classroom materials, to effec tively access audiovisual and graphic aids in in struction. 5. To locate book reviews in education and re lated fields. Information sources: Book Review Digest; C u rre n t Book Review C itations. Rationale: To access critical commentary on books and authors in education. 210 NOTE: The following competencies may be more relevant to graduate level research. 6. To utilize state and federal government pub lications. Information sources: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications; Congres sional Information Service; United States Code; state codes. Rationale: To retrieve information issued by government agencies and legislatures. 7. To locate statistics relevant to the school community in government publications and other sources. Information sources: Digest of Educa tional Statistics; American Statistics Index; Statis tical Reference Index. Rationale: To effectively utilize demographic, financial, and other types of data for school planning. 8. To make a general assessment of an author’s competence. Information sources: Directory of American Scholars; Contemporary Authors; Social Sciences Citation Index. Rationale: To gain know ledge of the author’s credibility and position in the field. 9. To distinguish characteristics of general, scholarly, and professional association journals. Information sources: Education and Education- Related Serials, A Directory; Education/Psycholo- gy Journals, A Scholar’s Guide. Rationale: To gain awareness of the variety of periodicals cover ing education and to understand the scope and purpose of each. 10. To understand purpose and scope of pro fessional associations and their major publications. Inform ation sources: D irectory of Education Associations; Association for Supervision and Cur riculum Development Yearbook. Rationale: To acquaint student with significant research in sub ject-specific area. 11. To select and use computerized informa tion services. Information sources: ERIC; Psycho logical Abstracts (Psyc Info). Rationale: To under stand the function of computerized data bases and to appreciate the diffusion of information. 12. To identify theses and dissertations. In formation sources: Dissertation Abstracts Interna tional; Comprehensive Dissertation Index; Mas ters Theses in Education. Rationale: To gain awareness of educational research at the graduate level. 13. To identify and locate information re sources available outside the local community, us ing general and national bibliographies. Informa tion sources: A Cuide to Sources of Educational Information; National Union Catalog; British Museum Catalog. Rationale: To become familiar with significant resources beyond the local li brary.—Subm itted by Joan H . Worley, chair, EBSS Bibliographic Instruction fo r Educators Committee. Editors Note: This document is available in tabu lar form, free to members, $1 to non-members, from ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. All orders should include a self-addressed mailing label and 30¢ in postage. 212 LIBRARY MANAGEMENT DEGREE The Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago has received a grant of $250,000 from the Council on Library Resources to support a special program designed to lead to the award of a Certificate of Advanced Study in Library Man agement. The grant is for two years and may be renewed for a third. Among the objectives of the program, which is geared towards academic and research libraries, are: 1) to provide students with an opportunity to study formally general management issues, prob lems, and techniques; 2) to broaden and deepen students’ knowledge of the problems facing large academic, research and other libraries; 3) to de velop the ability of students to conceptualize, analyze, and obtain evidence for recommending solutions to management problems; 4) to help prepare students for successful occupancy of mid dle and ultimately upper level management posi tions in libraries; and 5) to increase the effective ness of large academic, research and other librar ies by strengthening their management structure, processes and personnel. The course of study proposed will have four components: a group of courses taken in the Graduate Library School; a group of courses taken in the Graduate School of Business; an In vestigative Internship to be held in one of the participating academic and research libraries; and a Management Seminar which will be conducted throughout the course of the program. Students in the program will be known as CLR Library Management Fellows. They will already have a first professional degree, and five or more years of successful library experience. Libraries participating in the program by providing possi ble sites for the Investigative Internship are: the Newberry Library, Northwestern University, the John Crerar Library, the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, the University of Chicago, and Subscription Price Increase Effective September 1, 1981, the price for a one-year subscription to C&RL News will be $10. The ACRL Board of Directors has approved the increase to help offset the effects of inflation and maintain the current quality of the magazine. The increase will affect subscribers only and not members, who receive CirRL News as part of their mem bership benefits. The price of a subscription to College & Re search Libraries will also rise from $25 to $35 beginning with the September 1981 issue. Articles W an ted C&RL News asks readers to submit articles to be considered for publication in the month ly columns for continuing education and bibliographic instruction. Articles should be no longer than l . 000 words in length. Topics within the fields of continuing education and bibliographic instruction might include: in novative programs at the author’s institution; organization and enhancement of a program; or educating others to develop/teach/monitor these programs. Materials submitted should be of practical or topical interest, rather than scholarly articles. Anyone interested should contact C. Brigid Welch or George M. Eberhart at ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780. the Chicago Public Library. The first intake of students will be in the spring term of 1982. For further information con tact: W. Boyd Rayward, Dean, Graduate Library School, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637. CINCINNATI SURVEYS AUTOMATION OPTIONS The University of Cincinnati libraries are per forming a planning study which will present a set of options concerning automated record systems to its vice presidents in September, 1981. Work is now underway on a user survey of faculty, stu dents, staff, and administrators. The goal is to find out how current manual record systems help or hinder research and instructional activities. Simultaneously, the libraries are observing national trends in library automation. Charles B. Osburn, vice provost for university libraries, said: “We have nearly ten years of OCLC data; our job now is to find the most cost-effective options for the 80s. Having waited until this point to consid er systems, there is now much to choose from.” Cincinnati will proceed conservatively, im plementing and operating one function at a time in order to maintain financial and administrative control. The university’s five independent library jurisdictions (including medical, law, and two off- campus centers) have indicated that circulation and the serial record are the highest ranked candidates for automation. Ellen Miller, director of library systems de velopment, is in charge of the planning study. She asks libraries to send word of operative sys tems (whether vendor or library created) available for acquisition by the University of Cincinnati li braries. Send information to: Ellen Miller, Room 466, Central Library, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221.