ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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ACRL Emphasizes Ethnicity Theme 

at Chicago Conference

Ethnicity is ACRL’s principal program theme 
for the 1976 ALA Centennial Conference. Ju­
lian Bond, Georgia State representative, will 
address the general topic at ACRL’s program 
meeting, Monday, July 19. Edwin Wolf II, li­
brarian, Library Company of Philadelphia will 
discuss the development of Black History Col­
lections, and Nettie Lee Benson, librarian emer­
itus of the Latin American Collections, Univer­
sity of Texas at Austin, will speak on the devel­
opment of Mexican-American Collections at the 
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section program, 
Sunday, July 18. Several other ALA units will 
emphasize ethnic programs during the week. 
The Reference and Adult Services Division of 
ALA will cosponsor with ACRL tours of ethnic 
collections in the Chicago area.

The College Libraries Section will hear 
Grady Morein describe the Academic Library 
Development Program. The project, funded by 
the Council on Library Resources and being 
conducted at the University of North Carolina, 
Charlotte, is modeled upon the Management 
Review and Analysis Program of the Associa­
tion of Research Libraries. The objective is to 
design a program that could be applied to 
smaller college and university libraries.

A review of the state of the art in community 
and junior college learning resources centers 
will be sponsored by the Community and Jun­
ior College Libraries Section on Sunday, July 
18. Trends and projections for future LRC pro­
grams will be considered.

On Monday morning, July 19, the Rare 
Books and Manuscripts Section will present a 
program on the security of library materials. 
Addressing the topic of “Stealing the American 
Heritage: The Theft of Manuscripts from Li­
braries and Archives” will be William J. Riley, 
agent in the General Investigation Division, 
FB I; Tim Walch, associate director, Archival 
Security Program, Society of American Archi­
vists; and Alex Ladenson, legal advisor to the 
SAA Archival Security Program.

The Art Section will meet with the Music Li­
brary Association on Wednesday, July 21, to 
consider common problems in art and music li­
braries. The Art Section also will sponsor a 
panel discussion on modern art and its docu­
mentation at the Art Institute of Chicago and 
a boat ride on the Chicago River and Lake 
Michigan with a review of the Chicago archi­
tecture.

Members of the Law and Political Science 
Section will tour the Public Administration Service

 Joint Reference Library on Tuesday, July 
20.

Two meetings are being planned by the Edu­
cation and Behavioral Sciences Section. Small 
discussion groups will consider various topics 
of interest on Sunday, July 18. On Tuesday, 
July 20, a panel of experts from the Library of 
Congress, the H. W. Wilson Company, and 
ERIC will discuss “Subject Access to Educa­
tion Literature.”

Members of the Chicago Library Anthropolo­
gy Research Group will be among the speakers 
at the membership meeting of the Anthropolo­
gy Section, scheduled for Tuesday, July 20. 
The section also is planning tours of collections 
in Chicago of special interest to anthropology 
librarians.

Various sections of ACRL are participating 
in the program on the International Flow of 
Books being sponsored by the Resources and 
Technical Services Division of ALA.

The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section 
preconference will be held at the University of 
Michigan, Ann Arbor, July 14-17, 1976. The 
theme is “Maps and Atlases: A New World in 
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections. Norman 
J. W. Thrower, University of California, Los 
Angeles, is the keynote speaker. Other speakers 
are Paul Banks, Newberry Library; Ralph E. 
Ehrenberg, National Archives and Records Ser­
vice; Robert Karrow, Newberry Library; An­
drew McNally III, Rand McNally and Compa­
ny; Douglas Marshall, University of Michigan; 
Coolie Verner, University of British Columbia; 
Joan Winearls, University of Toronto; John A. 
Wolter, Library of Congress; and David Wood­
ward, Newberry Library. For more information 
on the preconference, contact The University 
of Michigan Extension Service, Conferences & 
Institutes, 412 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 
48109. ■■

A C R L Chapters

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in the United States and Canada. For 
information on how to start an ACRL 
chapter, write to the ACRL office, 50 
East Huron Street, Chicago, IL  60611.