ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 380 / C &R L News analysis of courses in which BI is a component. The committee is currently updating and verifying in­ formation in preparation for writing this analytical overview based on the results of the study. In collecting these syllabi, the committee dis­ cerned that there is a great deal of interest in library school education for BI. These syllabi represent a growing support, not only among practicing li­ brarians, but also among library educators of the importance of bibliographic instruction. Copies of the syllabi are available at the L O E X Clearinghouse, Eastern Michigan University, Yp- silanti, MI 48197. Additional information about this project may be requested from Betsy Baker, Committee Chair, Northwestern University L i­ brary, Evanston, Illinois 60201. ■ ■ BI Liaison Update C arolyn K irken d all P roject L O E X There is good news to report! The ACRL Biblio­ graphic Instruction Liaison Project has been ex­ tended another year, as initial designated funding for the Project has not yet completely expired. E f­ forts that the Project will continue to emphasize will include expanding the exhibit opportunities for our ACRL BI Liaison display, “Integrating L i­ braries into Higher Education,” at the conventions of other groups, and the continuing publication of our press kits. The ongoing effort to publish articles on the instructional role of the library in higher ed­ ucation journals and to schedule presentations by librarians at other organizations’ conventions re­ mains our Project’s top priority. Several opportunities exist for interested librari­ ans to attend forthcoming meetings of other associ­ ations. ACRL members who plan to attend any of the following should contact me: the National Adult Education Conference in Philadelphia and the 73d Annual Convention of the National Coun­ cil of Teachers of English in Denver, both in No­ vember; the March 1984 meeting of AAHE; the February session in Boulder of the Fifth Interna­ tional Conference on Contemporary Issues in Aca­ demic and Research Libraries; a seminar on Im ­ proving U niversity T e a ch in g next Ju ly ; the January National Institute on the Teaching of Psy­ chology to Undergraduates; the Improving College Teaching workshops sponsored by Kansas State University; or the University of Delaware’s semi­ nar in November on Developing Skills in Working with International Students. All these topics have implications for academic library involvement, and first-hand information on the form ats and content of these programs would be valuable for the BI Liaison Project to col­ lect. Sessions relating to the library conventions of other associations this past year have included Tom Patterson of the University of Maine Library, who spoke on library use of Canadian studies bibliogra­ phy at the Conference of the Association for Cana­ dian Studies in the United States; presentations on library instruction by librarians from the Universi­ ties of Toledo and Cincinnati at the Ohio Academy of Science; and programs at the meetings of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, and the South Central Regional Group of the Medical Library Association in Dallas. The College Board has mounted a grassroots project, the “Educational Equality Project,” focus­ ing on the need to re-define the overall learnings ex­ pected of high school students, especially those go­ ing on to college. At the ALA/LIRT program in Los Angeles last June, Katherine Jordan, head of li­ brary instructional services at Northern Virginia Community College’s Alexandria Campus, de­ plored the fact that no professional library organi­ zation has been involved in the development of these College Board competencies. Library skills are not included as a separate category among the basics. Forthcom ing library-related programs at the meetings of other organizations include a panel on “The Impact of Online Databases on Teaching Po­ litical Science,” by Mary Reichel of Georgia State University and others, at the March 1984 meeting of the International Studies Association; two spe­ cial sessions at December’s New York meeting of the Modern Language Association— “Today’s Aca­ demic Libraries and University Presses: Their Role in Modern Language Studies,” with D anielle Mihram of New York University, and “Literature Collections in Academic Libraries: A Crisis Situa­ tion,” with William Miller of Michigan State Uni­ versity, William Wortman of Miami University, and Connie Thorson and Jeanne Sohn of the Uni­ versity of New Mexico. A proposal for the March 1984 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci­ ence has been submitted: “Course-Related Library and Library Use Instruction in Undergraduate Sci­ ence Education.” The American Sociological Asso­ ciation has formed a new interest group named the Sociologists Interested in Library User Skills that hopes to work with this Project to sponsor work­ shops. Many good articles about the role of the aca­ demic library and implications for instruction have been published recently in professional higher edu­ cation journals. Pertinent articles include: N ovem ber 1983 / 381 Roger S. Bagnall & John B. Hench, “Man Versus Machine: Are W e Prepared for the Technological Revolution in Scholarly Research?” C h a n g e 15 (Ju­ ly/August 1983):38-42. Richard DeGennaro, “Libraries, Technology, and the Information M arketplace,” N ation al F o ­ rum 63 (Summer 1983):30-31. John Diebold, “Managing the Information Re­ sources: The Changing Role of Librarians,” N a­ tion al F oru m 63 (Summer 1983): 6 -7 . Judith Eannarino, “The Information Connec­ tion: Library Literacy and the Business Curricu­ lum ,” Jo u rn a l o f Business E d u catio n 58 (March 1983):212-13. John F. Kozlowicz, “Teaching Legal Research Methods,” N ew s f o r T each ers o f P olitical Science, no.37 (Spring 1983):7 -8 . Stacy E . Palmer, “Teaching Students to do Re­ search: Professors G et Help from L ib ra ria n s ,” C h r o n ic le o f H ig h er E d u c a tio n , 18 May 1983, pp.2 7 -2 8 . Joseph Raben, “Advent of the Post-Gutenburg U n iv e r s ity ,” A c a d e m e 69 (M a rch -A p ril 1983):21-27. Readers are encouraged to contact me with news of other articles that relate to the academ ic li­ brary’s instructional role. One of the charges of this Project is to encourage and promote the publica­ tion of these kinds of articles. One opportunity: the n ew ly-consolidated A m erican A ssociation for Adult and Continuing Education will begin pub­ lishing a new periodical, L ife lo n g L ea rn in g : An O m n ib u s o f P r a c t i c e a n d R e s e a r c h , this fa ll. Guidelines for authors may be obtained by writing to me. The AAACE sponsored a Lifelong Learning Leaders Retreat last year and ALA was repre­ sented. Also, starting with the 1983 series, the ERIC/Higher Education Research Reports are co­ sponsored by the Association for the Study of Higher Education. One of the manuscripts in prep­ aration is T h e F u tu re o f A c a d e m ic L ib ra ries: P re­ p arin g T od ay f o r T o m o r r o w ’s N eeds. A regular column on library resources and re­ search methods will be featured in the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences’ newsletter as a result of a roundtable of interested B I librarians at the ACJS conference last March. Agreement has also been reached to schedule a half-day seminar on library research at the annual ACJS Conference next year. Sale of the press kits, developed by this Project to distribute to offices and staff members of profes­ sional associations and offered for purchase to off­ set this cost, has been brisk. Additional kits in the areas of Women’s Studies, Philosophy, and Health Sciences are now available with pre-payment of $10. W e hope you will be interested in contributing sample copies of library handouts you have devel­ oped in any of the 12 subject areas. Your donations will be greatly appreciated.— C arolyn K irk en d all, L O E X C learin g h ou se, C en ter o f E d u c a tio n a l R e ­ sources, E astern M ichigan University, Ypsilanti, M I 48197. ■ ■