ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries January 1991 / 19 “dressing rooms.” Probably the greatest joy is in knowing that the concerts draw hundreds of people who might never visit an academic (or any!) library and who certainly would never enter a jazz club or perhaps wouldn’t make the drive 40 miles south to Symphony Hall. So often, these “strangers” leave the library uplifted by the music and enchanted by the place that hosted it. They often return, and remain, friends for life. San Diego State University, North County, will “phase down” its operation over the next two years as we become a part of the twentieth California State University. In 1992, California State Univer­ sity, San Marcos, will abandon its industrial park quarters and move to a 304-acre site nearby. The library will initially occupy two floors of a fìve-story administrative building, and expects to open its doors in 1992 with a collection of 50,000 volumes. The permanent library and the performing arts building are scheduled for the second phase of construction. The mission statements for the library, the Friends of the Library, and the university all com­ mit to providing a forum for the arts. We look forward to the construction of a full-service, 21st- century performing arts center, but as the library’s mission statement reads, we will continue “to serve as a cultural center for the campus and the local community.” Why not? ■ ■ C&RL News guidelines for submission o f articles o r columns A statement o f purpose and content f o r College & Research Libraries News. Purpose o f C &R L News College & Research Libraries News is the official news magazine of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, it reflects the priorities of ACRL as embodied in the goals and objectives of its Strategic Plan. Its purpose is to record significant activities of ACRL and to report news about aca­ demic and research libraries. As the official ACRL news magazine, CirRL News maintains a record of selected actions and policy statements of the Asso­ ciation and publishes timely reports on the activi­ ties of ACRL and its sections, committees, discus­ sion groups, councils, task forces, and chapters. As a vehicle for communication among college and research libraries, C&RL News reports news items pertinent to academic and research librarian- ship, including information on bibliographic in­ struction, continuing education, appointments, acquisition of special collections, grants to libraries, new technology, and publications (brief notices). The editor bears responsibility for the contents of each issue of C&RL News. Materials selected by the editor must be newsworthy, timely, and of practical value to people in the field. 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E d itors note: These guidelines were adopted by the C&RL News Editorial B oard at the Denver Midwinter Meeting on January 25,1982. ■ ■ Humanities projects grants available Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives, a program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, invites proposals for support of plan­ ning or presenting public humanities programs. Applications for planning awards should include: a clearly defined topic or thesis, a list of scholars to be involved in the project, and a plan of work describ­ ing preparations and intended results. Planning grants provide support for up to six months. Im ­ plementation awards are made for periods of one to three years. Proposals for implementation must also include a clearly defined topic and substantiate how scholarship in the humanities will reach a general audience. All proposed projects must demonstrate active collaboration between hu­ manities scholars and librarians or archivists. Examples of recently funded projects: a state library conducted a series of reading and discussion programs on regional literature; an urban library presented an exhibition and published a catalog on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War; several uni­ versity libraries presented a series of lectures and mounted a traveling exhibition on the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. These and other examples are included in the program’s guidelines, which are available from the Office of Publications and Pub­ lic Affairs, National Endowment for the Humani­ ties; (202) 786-0438. A list of projects currently being supported by the program is also available on request. Upcoming deadlines for planning awards: Feb­ ruary 1, 1991, for projects beginning after July 1, 1991; May 3, 1991, for projects beginning after October 1, 1991; and August 2, 1991, for projects beginning after January 1, 1992. Upcoming dead­ lines for implementation awards: March 15, 1991, for projects beginning after October 1,1991; Sep­ tember 13,1991, for projects beginning after April 1, 1992. ■ ■ Sprechen Sie Deutsch? “LOEX News,” the newsletter of the LOEX Library Instruction Clearinghouse, reports in its fall 1990 issue that a “really striking” BI guide to German studies has been produced at Haver- ford College. LOEX is willing to lend its one copy of the bibliographical guide. The Clearing­ house is at Eastern Michigan University Li­ brary, Ypsilanti, MI 48197; (313) 487-0168.