ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 6 ACRL Chapter News • The California Chapter, the California Academic and Research Librarians (CARL), held its fall program in Pasadena on D ecem ber 8. Panelists p re se n te d b rie f rem arks on various aspects of reference librarianship, including the use of student assistants, centralization of ser­ vices, reference evaluation, collection weeding, and humorous aspects of reference librarianship. • The Eastern New York Chapter/ACRL Fall Conference was held at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, on October 10. Experts led dis­ cussions on a variety of topics: integrating reader services and technical services, conservation/pre­ servation of library materials, retrospective con­ version, census publications, direct access, weed­ ing collections, reference services in chemistry, and legal reference services. • The Georgia Chapter held its first official meeting in Macon on October 10-11. Cleo Tread­ way, past chair of the ACRL Chapters Commit­ tee, gave the chapter welcome for ACRL. Sandra Neville was elected Georgia C hapter Section chair of the Georgia Library Association’s College and University Division, and ACRL Chapters representative. Philip Varca, with the D epart­ COPYRIGHT survey The Copyright Office has awarded a contract to King Research, Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, to conduct a survey of libraries, publishers, and users in preparation for the Register of Copyrights’ report to Congress on January 1, 1983, as man­ dated by subsection 108(i) of the Copyright Act of 1976. The purpose of the study is to gather and analyze data to determine whether Section 108 has achieved a balancing of the rights of creators of copyrighted works and the needs of users who receive or make copies. The library survey, scheduled to be mailed out in January, will collect background data from 500 public, academic, Federal, and special libraries regarding the reproduction of copyrighted works (by photocopying and related methods of repli­ cation) by th e library staff on u n su p erv ised machines and on copying machines elsewhere in the surveyed organization. In addition, 200 of the 500 sample libraries will be asked to participate in on-site m onitoring of photocopying during three periods in March, June, and September, 1981, by filling out two kinds of forms similar to those used by King in their 1977 library photo­ copying study: an interlibrary loan request log and a photocopying request log. Elements in the background survey to the 500 sample libraries include: description of library, ment of Psychology at the University of Georgia, led the discussion of the topic, “ Performance Appraisal and Job Descriptions.” • The Greater New York Metropolitan Area Chapter held its inaugural m eeting on November 17 at the New York Public Library. The keynote speaker was ACRL president Milli- cent D. Abell, whose talk, “The Paperless Librar­ ian ,” focused on the impact of technology on academic libraries, and the concept of the institu­ tion as a knowledge resource and not merely as an information agency. Terry Belanger, assistant dean of the School of Library Service at Colum­ bia University, presented the proposed constitu­ tion and by-laws of the new chapter. Afterwards the members present held a general discussion of the chapter’s objectives and activities. • The New England Chapter held its fall m eeting on O ctober 27 at Bryant College in Smithfield, Rhode Island. A program entitled “ Practical Approaches to Preserving Academic Collections covered the topics of proper utiliza­ tion of the physical facility, the use of proper materials and preventive activities, disaster plan­ ning, and the New England Document Conserva­ tion Center. number of photocopying machines, photocopy ing revenue, reserve operations, photocopying per­ mission requests, royalty payments, interlibrary borrowing and lending, and patron access. The publisher survey will sample 150 pub­ lishers from each of the following three categor­ ies: books, scholarly and scientific journals, and general audience periodicals. Publishers will be surveyed in April-July, 1981. Major areas to be covered include: b irth and m ortality rates, copying royalty revenue to publishers, copying royalty disbursements to authors, membership in CCC (Copyright Clearance Center), proportion of works in CCC, individual vs. institutional sub­ scription prices, permission requests granted or denied, and journal reprint/tearsheet distribution plans. Users will be surveyed on-site in twenty-five libraries (distributed among types) in five geo­ graphic areas by trained survey personnel. A total of 1,250 library user responses will be gathered using two questionnaire forms: one for interview­ ing users of unsupervised copying machines and one for library patrons who are returning library materials. Because of the importance of the King Survey to all interested parties, ACRL is urging all sam­ pled libraries, publishers and users to cooperate to the fullest extent possible in responding to the survey questionnaire.