ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


In this issue:

ACRL Officers for 1976/77 . . 199

News From the Field . . . . 202

ACRL at the ’76 Conference . 220

P e o p l e ..........................................223

Classified Advertising . . .  226

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NO. 8 •  SEPTEMBER 1976

ACRL Officers for 1976/77

Connie R. Dunlap

Connie R. Dunlap, university librarian at 
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, will 
serve as president of the Association of College 
and Research Libraries for 1976/77. As presi­
dent of ACRL, Dunlap chairs the ACRL Board 
of Directors, the ACRL Executive Committee, 
and the ACRL Conference Program Planning 
Committee for the 1977 Annual Conference in 
Detroit. She also serves as a member of the 
Choice Editorial Board and as an ex-officio 
member of all other units of ACRL. As presi­
dent of the division, Dunlap represents ACRL 
on the ALA Conference Program Committee 
for the Detroit Conference and on the ALA 
SCMAI Committee on Policy Implementation. 
Dunlap will also represent ACRL and ALA to 
other educational and professional organiza­
tions, such as the American Council on Educa­
tion.

In addition to her tenure as vice-president/ 
president-elect of ACRL during 1975/76, Dun­

lap’s service to ACRL and ALA includes chair­
ing the Clarence Day Award Jury in 1974/75, 
the Acquisitions Section of the ALA Resources 
and Technical Services Division, and the Orga­
nization Committee of RTSD. Dunlap served 
as president of RTSD in 1972/73. She has been 
a member of the ALA Council since 1974.

Eldred R. Smith, director of university li­
braries at the State University of New York at 
Buffalo, is the newly elected vice-president/ 
president-elect of ACRL. In the recent elec­
tions, Smith received 1,192 votes. His oppo­
nent, Johnnie Givens, head librarian at Austin 
Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, 
received 1,033 votes.

In the past, Smith has served ACRL as a 
member and chairman of the Committee on 
Academic Status and as chairman of the 
ACRL University Libraries Section. He has 
been a member of the ALA Standards Com­
mittee, the RTSD Library Materials Price In­
dex Committee, and the Library Research 
Round Table. He is currently the chairman 
of, and one of ACRL’s representatives to, the 
ACRL/Association of Research Libraries Joint 
Committee on University Library Standards.

As vice-president of ACRL, Smith will serve 
as a member of the ACRL Board of Directors, 
the ACRL Executive Committee, and the 
ACRL Planning Committee. He will chair the 
ACRL Conference Program Planning Commit­
tee for the 1978 Annual Conference in Chicago; 
and he will represent ACRL on the ALA Com­
mittee on Appointments, the ALA Budget As­
sembly, and the ALA Conference Program 
Committee for the 1978 conference. At the 
close of the 1977 Annual Conference, he will 
become ACRL’s thirty-ninth president.

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Jane G. Flener

Jane G. Flener, associate director of libraries 
for public services at the University of Michi­
gan, Ann Arbor, and Pauline Atherton, profes­
sor at the School of Information Studies, Syra­
cuse University, Syracuse, New York, were re­
cently elected to serve four-year terms as 
directors-at-large on the ACRL Board. Flener 
received 1,661 votes; Atherton, 956. Their op­
ponents, Louis C. Moloney, director of the 
Learning Resources Center at Southwest Texas 
State University, San Marcos, Texas, and 
Thomas E. Strader, library director at Towson 
State College, Baltimore, Maryland, received 
904 votes and 657 votes, respectively.

The results of the ACRL section elections 
follow. For each position, the elected candidate 
is listed first. The number of votes earned by 
each candidate is listed in parentheses.

AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGICAL 
SCIENCES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Doris Bo- 
lef, Assistant Dean for Learning Resources, Col­
lege of Medicine, East Tennessee State Univer­
sity, Johnson City, Tennessee (9 7 ); Nancy F. 
Hardy, Instructor, School of Library and Infor­
mational Science, University of Missouri—Co­
lumbia, Columbia, Missouri (58).

Secretary: Linnea Sodergren, Health Man­
power Bureau, H.E.W., Chicago, Illinois 
(121); Teresa M. Libro, Biomedical Librarian, 
Wausau Hospitals, Wausau, Wisconsin (28).

ANTHROPOLOGY SECTION
Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Marilyn L. 

Haas, Reference Librarian and Bibliographer 
for Anthropology and Linguistics, State Univer­
sity of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 
(6 8 ); Anne K. Beaubien, Social Sciences Ref­
erence Librarian and Bibliographic Instructor, 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 
(5 9 ).

Member-at-Large: Hazel Johnson, Social Sci­
ences Bibliographer, University of Pittsburgh, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (8 2 ); Max L. Plaut, 
Reference Librarian, Field Museum of Natural 
History, Chicago, Illinois (45).

ART SECTION
Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Antje Bult- 

mann Lemke, Professor, School of Information 
Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New 
York (157).

ASIAN AND AFRICAN SECTION
Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: John A.

Eilts, Head, Near Eastern Division, University 
of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan 
(9 4 ); Robert Edmond Booth, Director, Divi­
sion of Library Science, Wayne State Univer­
sity, Detroit, Michigan (36).

Secretary: Josephine Riss Fang, Professor of 
Library Science, Simmons College, Boston, 
Massachusetts (6 9 ); Mohammed M. Aman, Di­
rector, Division of Library and Information 
Science, St. John’s University, Jamaica, New 
York (67).

Member-at-Large: David G. Donovan, Asso­
ciate Director of Libraries, University of Notre 
Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (6 7 ); Rosalie 
Cuneo Amer, Head, Technical Services, Learn­
ing Resource Center, Cosumnes River College, 
Sacramento, California (63).

COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION
Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Mary Louise 

B. Cobb, Head, Cataloging Department, Col­
lege of William and Mary Library, Williams­
burg, Virginia (467); Betty-Carol Sellen, Chief, 
Circulation Division, Brooklyn College Library, 
Brooklyn, New York (211).

Secretary: Robert K. Bruce, Librarian, Uni­
versity of Alaska—Southeast, Juneau, Alaska 
(405); Barbara J. Williams, Head Librarian,

News items fo r inclusion in C&RL News should be 
sent to  Mary Frances Collins, Assistant Director of 
Libraries for Technical Services, University Library 
ULB-35A, State University of New York a t Albany,
1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222. A dver­
tising (including classified ads) should be sent to  
Leona Swiech, Advertising Office, American Li­
brary Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 
60611. Production and circulation matters are han­
dled by ALA Central Production Unit, at the 
above address.

News editor: Mary Frances Collins, Assistant Di­
rector o f Libraries for Technical Services, State 
University of New York at Albany, Albany. Editor: 
Richard D. Johnson, Milne Library, State University 
College, Oneonta, New York 13820. President, 
ACRL: Connie R. Dunlap. Executive Secretary, 
ACRL: Beverly P. Lynch.

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South Carolina State College, Orangeburg, 
South Carolina (273).

COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGE 
LIBRARIES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: J. Daniel 
Vann, III, Chief Librarian, Staten Island Com­
munity College, Staten Island, New York 
(164); Sidney August, Director, Division of 
Educational Resources, Community College of 
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (127).

Secretary: Kathlyn King Lundgren, Audio­
visual Librarian, Nebraska Western College, 
Scottsbluff, Nebraska (184); Joseph F. Linden­
feld, Director of Library Service, Shelby State 
Community College, Memphis, Tennessee 
(109).

EDUCATION AND BEHAVIORAL 
SCIENCES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Joe Mapes, 
Education Librarian, University of Colorado, 
Boulder, Colorado (165); Lawrence W. Mar­
ble, Education Reference Librarian, Temple 
University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (97).

LAW AND POLITICAL 
SCIENCE SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Signe E.
Larson, Chief, Research Services, Natural Re­
sources Library, U.S. Department of the Interi­
or, Washington, D.C. (130)- Egon A. Weiss, 
Director, U.S. Military Academy Library, West 
Point, New York (7 0 ).

Secretary: Joan L. Chambers, Government 
Publications Librarian, University of Nevada, 
Reno, Nevada (104); Marie Morris, Reference 
Librarian, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 
(89).

Member-at-Large: Alice D. Ball, Executive 
Director, Universal Serials and Book Exchange, 
Washington, D.C. (103); Aaron Hause, Head 
Documents Librarian, University of Arizona, 
Tucson, Arizona (90).

RARE BOOKS AND 
MANUSCRIPTS SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Terry Bel­
anger, Assistant Professor, School of Library 
Service, Columbia University, New York, New 
York (212); Marian Mackay Orgain, Assistant 
Director of Libraries and Curator of Special 
Collections, University of Houston, Houston, 
Texas (153).

Member-at-Large: William P. Wreden,
Books and Manuscripts, Palo Alto, California 
(187); Anne C. Skoog, Fine and Rare Books 
Librarian, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pitts­
burgh, Pennsylvania (172).

Member-at-Large: Marion E. Brown, Head, 
Department of Rare Books and Special Collec­
tions, University of Toronto Library, Toronto, 
Ontario, Canada (247); Minnie E. Paugh, Spe­
cial Collections Librarian, Montana State Uni­
versity, Bozeman, Montana (107).

SLAVIC AND EAST 
EUROPEAN SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Eugene E. 
Petriwsky, Assistant Director for Technical Ser­
vices, University of Colorado Libraries, Boul­
der, Colorado (5 0 ); David P. Rose, Librarian 
for Slavic Studies, University of North Carolina, 
Chapel Hill, North Carolina (46).

Member-at-Large: Carol Ann Leadenham, 
Catalog Librarian, University of Arizona, Tuc­
son, Arizona (5 2 ); Marvin F. Bielawski, Sub­
ject Analyst, Princeton University Library, 
Princeton, New Jersey (44).

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Millicent D. 
Abell, Associate Director of University Li­
braries, State University of New York at Buf­
falo, Buffalo, New York (641); Susan Brynte- 
son, Associate Director for Technical Services, 
University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, 
Tennessee (593).

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