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Bibliographic instruction
•B ack to the Books: Bibliographic Instruction 

and the Theory o f  lnform ation Sources (1983). Pa­
pers presented at the Bibliographic Instruction Sec­
tion program  at the 1982 ALA Annual Conference. 
Edited by Ross Atkinson. 76p. 6587-3. $15; ACRL 
members $12.

•  The Bibliographic Instruction Clearinghouse: 
A Practical Guide (1984). A guide to establishing a 
clearinghouse. 71p. 6775-2. $12; ACRL members 
$9.

•  Bibliographic Instruction Handbook (1979). 
Prepared by the ACRL Bibliographic Instruction



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Task Force (1971-77) and the Policy and Planning 
Com m ittee of the ACRL Bibliographic Instruction 
Section (1977-79). 68p. 6729-9. $10; ACRL m em ­
bers $7.

•  E v a lu a tin g  B ib lio g ra p h ic In stru c tio n : A 
Handbook (1983). Prepared by the ACRL Biblio­
graphic Instruction Section’s Subcom m ittee on 
Evaluation. 122p. 6608-X. $17; ACRL members 
$13.

•  Library Instruction Clearinghouses 1986: A 
D irecto ry. By M ary V an O rsdol. 7109-1. $5; 
ACRL members $4.

•  Organizing and Managing a Library Instruc­
tion Program (1979). Prepared by the ACRL Bib­
liographic Instruction Section’s C ontinuing E d u ­
c a tio n  C o m m itte e . 30p. 6731-0. $4; A C R L 
members $3.

Collection development
•  Building a C hildren’s Literature Collection 

(1983). 3rd ed. Choice Bibliographical Essay Se­
ries, no. 7. $9.95. 48p. 0-914492-06-3. O rder from: 
Choice, 100 Riverview Center, M iddletown, CT 
06457.

•  Collection D evelopm ent Policies: C LIP N ote 
#2-81 (1981). 131p. 6738-8. $12; ACRL members 
$9.

•  Curriculum Materials Center Collection De­
velopm ent Policy (1984) 27p. 6777-9. $7; ACRL 
members $5.

•  Guide fo r  the D evelopm ent and M anagem ent 
o f Test Collections w ith Special Emphasis on A ca­
dem ic Settings (1985). Prepared by the ACRL E d ­
ucation and Behavioral Sciences Section’s Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on Test Collections. 69p. 6926-7. 
$12; ACRL members $9.

•  W o m e n s Studies in Western Europe: A  R e­
source Guide (1986). Edited by Stephen Lehm ann 
and Eva Sartori. Contains country by country di­
rectory of organizations, libraries, bibliographies, 
diaries, publishers, journals, and bookshops p ro ­
viding inform ation about wom en’s studies. 129p. 
7037-0. $18; ACRL members $15.

Conference Proceedings
•  A c a d e m ic  L ibraries: M y th s an d  R ea lities 

(1984). Proceedings of the Third National ACRL 
Conference, April 4-7, 1984, Seattle. 420p. 6787-
6. $28; ACRL members $20.

•  Energies fo r Transition (1986). Proceedings of 
th e F o u rth  N atio n al ACRL C onference, April 
9-12, 1986, Baltimore. Edited by D an u ta A. Ni- 
tecki, 248p. 6976-3. $30; ACRL members $22.

•  Libraries and Accreditation in Institutions of 
Higher Education (1981). Proceedings of an invita­
tional conference sponsored by ACRL and COPA. 
Edited by Julie A.C. Virgo. 176p. 6741-8. $19; 
ACRL members $15.

•  N ew Horizons fo r  Academ ic Libraries (1978). 
Sixty-six co n trib u ted  papers from  the F irst N a­
tional ACRL Conference in Boston. Twelve m icro­

fiche. Free.
•  Options fo r  the 80’s (1981). Fifty-six contrib­

uted papers from the Second N ational ACRL C on­
ference in Minneapolis. Eleven microfiche. Free.

Database searching
•  Online Bibliographic Database Searching in 

College Libraries: C LIP N ote #4-83 (1983). Com ­
piled by D avid C arlson and P. G rady Morein. 
132p. 6624-1. $19; ACRL members $15.

Directories
•  Directory o f C urriculum  Materials Centers 

(1985). Compiled by Lois J. Lehm an and Eva K. 
Kiewitt. 2nd ed. 194p. 6917-8. $20; ACRL m em ­
bers $15.

•D irectory o f Western European Specialists in 
N orth Am erican Libraries (1984). 20p. 6762-0. $5; 
ACRL members $3.

•  Slavic E thnic Libraries, M useum s and A r ­
chives in the United States: A  Guide and Directory 
(1980). Compiled by Lubom yr R. W ynar. 164p. 
6742-6. $9; ACRL members $6.

Personnel issues and 
faculty status

•A cadem ic Status Survey (1981). Results of an 
ACRL 100 Libraries Project survey of academic 
status policies. 346p. 6737-X. $17; ACRL members 
$12.

•G overnance in the Academ ic Library (1981). 
Betamax or ¾ ” U–m atic videotape (specify) of six 
academic librarians reviewing issues relating to the 
status of the academic librarian and the ACRL

BI Clearinghouses 1986

The latest edition of ACRL’s directory of li­
brary instruction clearinghouses is now avail­
able from the ALA O rder D epartm ent.

This update of the 1985 directory helps bib ­
liographic instruction librarians identify where 
they m ay obtain guidance and m aterials in de­
veloping th e ir ow n lib ra ry  in stru ctio n  pro- 
grams. N ational, state, and regional biblio- 

• g ra p h ic  in s tru c tio n  c le a rin g h o u se s are
identified. Each entry provides nam e, address,  
founding date, source of funding, goals and ob-
jectives, planned projects, and publications, 
The book also includes a list of library instruc­
tion newsletters.

Library Instruction Clearinghouses 1986: A 
Directory (ISBN: 0-8389-7109-1) was compiled

 by Mary van Orsdol, University of California,  
 Irvine. Copies m ay be ordered from the ALA 
 O rder D epartm ent, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, 
 IL  60611. T he 25-page p a p e rb a c k  sells for

$5.00 ($4.00 to ACRL members). ALA mem- 
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Standard on Library Governance. $35. (Rental 
only).

•  Management and Staff Development (1982). 
Proceedings of a workshop sponsored by the North­
ern California ACRL Chapter in 1979. 37p. 6735- 
3. $10; ACRL members $8.

•  Managing Student Workers in College L i­
braries: CLIP Note #7 (1986). Compiled by Mi­
chael D. Kathman and Jane McGurn Kathman. 
182p. 7097-4. $17; non-members $14.

•  Travel Policies of Twenty-One College & Uni­
versity Libraries (1980). 77p. 6736-1. $3.

Planning
•  Mission Statem ents fo r  College Libraries: 

CLIP Note #5 (1985). Compiled by Larry H ar­
desty, Jam ie Hastreiter, and David Henderson. 
190p. 6944-5. $20; ACRL members $15.

Rare books, manuscripts and archives
•  Genre Terms: A Thesaurus fo r Use in Rare 

Rook and Special Collections Cataloguing (1983). 
41p. 6612-8. $7.50; ACRL members $5.50.

•  Printing and Publishing Evidence: Thesauri 
fo r Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cata­
loguing (1986). 28p. 7108-3. $7.50; ACRL mem­
bers $5.50.

•  Special Collections in College Libraries: CLIP 
Note #6 (1986). Compiled by Christine Erdm ann. 
Contains actual documents from college libraries 
on projects, publicity, financial support, archives,

CLIP Note #7:
Managing Student Workers

Librarians interested in policies and proce­
dures relating to the employment of students in 
college libraries may be interested in Managing 
Student Workers in College Libraries, the latest 
addition to the CLIP (College Library Infor­
m a tio n  P acket) Notes series p u b lish e d  by 
ACRL.

CLIP Note #7 reports the results of a survey 
of small college and university libraries that col­
lected basic data and sample documents about 
their student employees. Job descriptions, ap­
plications and interviews, general orientation 
and training, quizzes and tests, and evaluations 
are some of the topics covered.

Managing Student Workers in College L i­
braries (ISRN: 0-8389-7097-4) was compiled by 
Michael D. Kathm an, director of libraries and 
media at College of St. Renedict/St. John’s Uni­
versity, and Jane McGurn Kathman, associate 
professor of management, College of St. Bene­
dict. Copies may be ordered from the ALA O r­
der Departm ent, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 
60611. The 182-page paperback sells for $17 
($14 to ACRL members). ALA members re­
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preservation, and use policies. 95p. 7004-4. $18; 
ACRL members $15.

Statistics
• A C R L  University Library Statistics 1985-86 

and 1986 “100 Libraries'Statistical Survey. Forth­
coming, Spring 1987. Inquire for price.

• A C R L  University Library Statistics 1983-84 
(1985). Compiled by Sandy Whiteley. Statistics 
from 86 non–ARL university libraries in the U.S. 
and Canada. 55p. 6892-9. $15; ACRL members 
$12.

• A C R L  U niversity L ib ra r y  S ta tistics 
1981-1982 (1983). Statistics from 92 non-ARL uni­
versity libraries. 55p. 6596-2. $15; ACRL members 
$12. 

• A C R L  U niversity L ib ra ry  S ta tistics 
1978-1979 (1980). Statistics from 98 non–ARL uni­
versity libraries. 47p. 6739-6. $7.50; ACRL mem­
bers $5.

•  Library Statistics of Colleges and Universities, 
1982 Institutional Data (1984). D ata from the 
1981-82 HEGIS study conducted by the National 
Center for Education Statistics covering over 3000 
academ ic libraries. 177p. 6640-3. $16; ACRL 
members $12.

• 1984 “100 Libraries”Statistical Survey (1984). 
Task Force on Academic Library Statistics. 92p. 
6951-8. $12; ACRL members $9.

•  Quantitative Criteria fo r Academic Research 
Libraries (1984). By Kendon L. Stubbs. 135p. 
6788-4. $19; ACRL members $15.

Periodicals
•  Choice. Book review journal of the Associa­

tion of College & Research Libraries. Eleven issues 
per year; (July/August combined.) ISSN: 0009- 
4978. Editor/Publisher: Patricia Sabosik. Avail­
able by subscription only, $110/year. Order from: 
Circulation Departm ent, Choice, 100 Riverview 
Center, Middletown, CT 06457.

•  Choice Reviews–on–Cards. Reviews from each 
monthly issue of Choice printed on 3 x 5 cards. 
Available to Choice subscribers only for $175/year. 
Order from: Circulation Departm ent, Choice, 100 
Riverview Center, Middletown, CT 06457.

•  College & Research Libraries. Official journal 
of the Association of College and Research Li­
braries. Six bim onthly issues per year. Editor: 
Charles R. Martell Jr., California State University 
Library, Sacramento, CA 95819. Sent to ACRL 
mem bers as a perquisite of m em bership. Also 
available on subscription, $35/year. ISSN: 0010- 
0870. O rder from: Subscription D ep artm en t, 
Am erican L ib rary  Association, 50 East H uron 
Street, Chicago, IL 60611.

•  College & Research Libraries News. Official 
news magazine of the Association of College and 
Research Libraries. Eleven issues per year; (Ju- 
ly/A ugust co m b in ed ). E d ito r: G eorge M. 
Eberhart, ACRL/ALA, 50 East Huron Street, Chi­



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cago, IL 60611. Sent to ACRL members as a per­
quisite of membership. Also available on subscrip­
tio n , $15/year. ISSN: 0099-0086. O rd er from : 
Subscription D epartm ent, American L ibrary Asso­

ciation, 50 East H uron Street, Chicago, IL  60611.
•F ast Job Listing, Service. A job listing which 

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fied advertising in C ò R L  News. Published twelve

ACRL standards and guidelines
Copies of ACRL standards and guidelines 

are available free upon request. Send all re­
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ACRL/ALA, 50 E. H uron St., C hicago, IL 
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Access
Access Policy Guidelines (1975). Reprinted 

from C &R L  News, November 1975. 2p.

Bibliographic instruction
Bibliographic Competencies for Education 

Students (1981). P repared by the E ducation 
and Behavioral Sciences Section’s Bibliographic 
Instruction for Educators Committee. Provides 
examples of a w ide range of b ib lio g rap h ic 
sources, and presents a basic rationale for the 
use of th e given examples. Also appears in 
C ò R L  News, July/August 1981, in non-tabular 
form. 2p.

Guidelines for Bibliographic Instruction in 
Academic L ibraries (1977). R eprinted from 
C ò R L  News, April 1977. Ip.

Colleges and universities
Guidelines for Branch Libraries in Colleges 

and Universities (1975). Reprinted from C ò R L  
News, October 1975. 3p.

Guidelines for Extended C am pus L ib rary  
Services (1982). Reprinted from C ò R L  News, 
M arch 1982. 2p.

The Mission of an U ndergraduate Library 
(Model S tatem en t). R ep rin ted  from  C ò R L  
News, November 1979. 5p.

Standards for College Libraries (1986). Re­
printed from C &R L  News, March 1986. 12p.

Standards for University Libraries (1979). 
R e p rin te d  from  C &R L  N ew s, A pril 1979. 
ACRL/ARL. 10p.

Community and junior colleges
Guidelines for Two-Year College Learning 

Resources Program s (1982). R eprinted from 
C ò R L  N ew s, Ja n u a ry  and F e b ru a ry  1982. 
ACRL/AECT. lOp.

S tatem en t on Q u a n tita tiv e  S tan d ard s for 
T w o -Y ear L e a rn in g  R esources P ro g ra m s
(1979). 4p.

Personnel issues and 
faculty status

Guidelines and Procedures for the Screening 
a n d  A p p o in tm e n t of A cadem ic L ib ra ria n s
(1977). Reprinted from C ò R L  News, Septem­
ber 1977. 4p.

Joint Statem ent on Faculty Status of College 
a n d  U n iv e rsity  L ib r a r ia n s  (1974). 
ACRL/AAUP/AAC. R eprinted from  C ò R L  
News, F ebruary 1974. Ip.

Model Statement of Criteria and Procedures for 
Appointment, Promotion in Academic Rank, and 
Tenure for College and University Librarians 
(1973). Reprinted from C ò R L  News, September 
1973 and October 1973, with a revision by the 
ACRL Board of Directors. 10p.

Standards for Faculty Status for College and 
University Librarians (1974). Reprinted from 
C &R L  News, May 1974. 2p.

Statem ent on Collective Bargaining (1975). 
l p

Statem ent on the Term inal Professional De­
gree for Academic Librarians (1975). Ip.

Rare books, manuscripts 
and archives

Guidelines for the Security of R are Book, 
M an u scrip t, an d  O th e r Special C ollections
(1983). Reprinted from C ò R L  News, M arch
1982. 4p.

G uidelines on M anuscripts an d  Archives 
(1977). Com pilation of policy statements p re­
pared by the ACRL R are Books and M anu­
scripts Section’s C om m ittee on M anuscripts 
Collections. Contains: Statem ent on Appraisal 
of Gifts; Statem ent on Legal Title; Statem ent 
on the Reproduction of Manuscripts and Ar­
chives for Noncommercial Purposes; Statem ent 
on the Reproduction of Manuscripts and Ar­
chives for Commercial Purposes; and Universal 
Gift Form  and Instructions, l i p .

Joint Statem ent on Access to Original Re­
search M aterials (1979). this supersedes the 
1976 ACRL Statem ent on Access and the 1974 
Standards for Access of SAA (American Archi­
vist, Jan u ary  1974). R eprinted from C ò R L  
News, April 1979. 2p.

Relator Terms for Rare Books, Manuscripts 
and Special Collections Cataloging (1981). Re­
vised by the ACRL RBMS Standards Com m it­
tee. R ep rin ted  from  C ò R L  N ew s, O ctober 
1981. 4p.



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tim es p e r y ea r. S ix-m onth su b sc rip tio n . $15; 
ACRL members $10. O rder from: ACRL/ALA, 50 
East H uron Street, Chicago, IL  60611.

•  Index fo r  Volumes 26 to 40 (1965-1979) of 
College & Research Libraries and College & Re­
search Libraries News (1980). Prepared by Eldon 
W. Tam blyn. 6482-6. $12; ACRL members $10.

•  Rare Rooks and Manuscripts Librarianship. 
Two issues per year. Available by subscription 
only. 0884-450x. $20 U.S. and C anada; $25 over­
seas.

CE course syllabi
ACRL continuing education course syllabi are 

available at a cost of $15 (ACRL members $10) per 
syllabus. O rder from Sandy Donnelly, ACRL, 50 
E. H uron St., Chicago, IL  60611.

•  Librarians as Supervisors (CE 101) identifies 
the skills necessary to become an effective supervi­
sor w ithin library organizations and explores cur­
rent m anagerial concepts and practices through 
outlines, checklists and skill inventories. By M au­
reen Sullivan. 1982. 26p. 6745-0.

•  Strategies and Tactics fo r Enhancing the Role 
and Position o f the Library w ithin the College or 
University (CE 104) (2nd edition) explores internal 
and external factors influencing the role of the aca­
demic library in the college and provides exercises 
designed to help library adm inistration advance 
the library’s position w ithin the institution. By P. 
G rady Morein and H. Lea Wells. 1983. 6747-7.

•  Operating and M arketing Fee-Based Services 
in Academ ic Libraries: A Small Business Approach 
(CE 108a) provides inform ation to enable adminis­
trators and librarians from academic libraries to 
critically analyze fee-based service operations. By 
B arbara Stump. 1985. 57p. 6965-8.

•  Job Training: Developing Training Plans fo r 
Your S ta ff (CE 110) reviews learning principles 
and explains w hy initial orientation and training is 
critical to effective operation of library d ep art­
ments. Covers areas requiring training (for new 
employees, for perform ance im provem ent, in op­
erational problems or changes and for employee 
development) and the responsibility of the supervi­
sors in planning, conducting and evaluating tra in ­
ing. By Anne G. Lipow. 1984. 64p. 6882-1.

Micro directory

Meckler Publishing C orporation will be p u b ­
lishing a book on public access m icrocomputers 
in academ ic libraries. A list of all known instal­
lations in college and university libraries will be 
included. If you are not involved w ith  th e  
ACRL M icrocomputer Services in Academic 
Libraries Discussion Group and would like to 
have your institution included, send your nam e 
and address to: Jeannine U ppgard, Assistant 
L ib r a r ia n , E d u c a tio n a l R esources C e n te r, 
W estfield State College, Westfield, MA 01086.

•  A n  Introduction to Maps in Libraries: Maps as 
Inform ation Tools (CE 201) describes the inform a­
tion potential of maps in the academic library envi­
ronm ent. Considers acquisitions, collection devel­
o p m e n t, re fe re n c e , in s tru c tio n  sp ac e a n d  
eq u ip m e n t req u irem en ts. By D avid C obb and 
Charles Seavey. 1982. 55p. 6750-7.

•  Teaching Methods fo r the Bibliographic In ­
struction Librarian (CE 202) provides an introduc­
tion to basic learning theory and alternate instruc­
tio n a l m ethods used in lib ra ry  in stru ctio n . By 
M arilla Svinicki. 1981. 62p. 6751-5.

•  C reative A pproaches to Video fo r  B ib lio ­
graphic Instruction (CE 206) examines uses of 
video, critical production issues and a financial 
comparison of various m edia products. By Thomas 
McNally. 1985. 30p. 6927-5.

ACRL Publications in Librarianship
E ditor: A rthur P. Young, D ean of L ibraries, 

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881.
Available on standing order or as single volumes. 

O rder from ALA Publishing, 50 E . H uron S t., C hi­
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O ut-of-print titles are available from Univesity 
Microfilms International, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann 
Arbor, MI 48106.

Titles in Print
•  No. 39— Libraries fo r  Teaching, Libraries fo r 

Research: Essays fo r a Century. R ichard D. John­
son, comp. (1977). 276p. 0247-2. $15.

•  No. 40— Book Selling and Book Buying: A s­
pects o f 19th C entury British and N orth Am erican 
Book Trades. Richard Landon, ed. (1979). 118p. 
3224-X. $15.

•  No. 41 — W om en View Librarianship: Nine 
Perspectives. K athryn L undy, ed. (1980). 99p. 
3251-7. $8.

•N o . 42— The Spirit o f Inquiry in Library Sci­
ence: The Graduate Library School at Chicago, 
1921-1951. John Richardson. (1982). 238p. 3273- 
8. $35.

•  No. 43— The Landscape o f Literatures: Use of 
Subject Collections in a University Library. Paul 
Metz. (1983). 157p. 3286-X. $30. “

•N o . 44— The Carnegie Corporation and the 
D e v e lo p m e n t o f A m e ric a n  C ollege L ib ra ries, 
1928-1941. Neil A. Radford. (1984). 272p. 3295-9. 
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Cover error

The photograph on the cover of the Decem- 
 ber 1986 issue of C& RL News th a t highlighted 
 the article, “T rain in g  O nline C atalog Assis- 

tan ts,” was erroneously attributed to the Uni­
versity of Wyoming. The photo actually shows
staff at the Arizona State University.