ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Many voices are calling for change in aca­
deme. Others insist that higher education can­
not reform itself, that only external pressure 
will bring about necessary reorientation and 
restructuring. The ACRL President’s Program 
considers current criticisms of our colleges and 
universities, exploring possibilities of essential 
change from within. Both Dr. Zempsky and 
Dr. Barone are dynamic speakers and will of­

fer a “non-librarian” perspective on “Headed for 
the Beach? Redirecting the Academic Whale.”

The computer has changed and is continu­
ing to change, the way we think and work. 
The impact on education has been, and will 
continue to be, profound. Academic libraries 
are at a fork in the road and it appears that we 
have the opportunity to choose among the op­
tions confronting us on the road still ahead. ■

Letters
More on class gifts
To the editor:

I noticed in the April 93 issue of C&RL 
News, the article by Jinnie Davis on class gifts 
to libraries. At Whitman College, w e have 
benefited from several classes. The Whitman 
Class of 1982 raised $20,000 to refurbish and 
equip properly a com puter lab located in the 
library in memory of their dear, departed class­
mate Kam Graves Lincoln. This class w anted 
to donate funds for more and better PCs be­
cause w hen they graduated PCs simply did 
not exist. Lincoln and her husband, a com­
puter programmer, were killed in an airplane

crash in Thailand. The door to the computer 
lab is marked with a memorial plaque.

The 1993 class at Whitman has identified 
Penrose Library as their special class project. 
All funds raised in their fundraising campaign 
will be donated to Penrose. Seniors are espe­
cially encouraged to donate their initial $100 
security deposit to the library u pon gradua­
tion. Books purchased with Class of 1993 
funds will be marked with a special book­
plate, and all donors of $25 or more may honor 
an individual w ho has changed their lives by 
having the individual listed on the b o o k ­
plate.—Henry Yaple, W hitman College Library