ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 120 ACRL Programs at Detroit Conference Stephen K. Bailey Stephen K. Bailey, acting president of the American Council on Education and a major spokesman for higher education in the United States, will address the Association of College and Research Libraries at a major program ses­ sion during the 1977 ALA Annual Conference in Detroit. An articulate speaker, Dr. Bailey is an expert on the future of higher education and on the effects society has upon education. His address, entitled The F uture of College and Re­ search Libraries: A Washington Perspec­ tive, will emphasize economic trends and their impact on libraries. Dr. Bailey’s paper will be presented at ACRL’s principal program and membership meeting, on Saturday, June 18, 2:00-4:00 p.m. The membership meeting, scheduled to precede the program, will include consideration of a proposed amendment to the ACRL Bylaws, the text of which was published in the April issue of CirRL News. Rare Books and Manuscripts Preconference The eighteenth annual preconference spon­ sored by the ACRL Rare Books and Manu­ scripts Section will examine Book Selling and Book Buying: Aspects of the Nineteenth- Century British and North American Book T rades. The preconference will be held June 14-17 at the Park Plaza Hotel in Toronto, On­ tario, Canada. The scheduled speakers include Terry Bel­ anger, assistant professor, Columbia School of Library Service, and editor of the Bibliography Newsletter; Franklin Gilliam, proprietor of the Brick Row Bookshop in San Francisco; Mihai Handrea, librarian of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library in New York; Douglas Lochhead, D a­ vidson Professor of Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University, and former president of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; Robert Ni- kirk, librarian of the Grolier Club in New York; Michael Turner, of the Bodleian Library, Ox­ ford; Judith St. John, head, Osborne and Lil­ lian H. Smith Collections of Children’s Litera­ ture, Toronto Public Libraries; Stuart Schim­ mel, president of the Bibliographical Society of America and well-known collector; and Robert Stacey, Canadian art historian. Special exhibits will be mounted at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the Uni­ versity of Toronto; at Massey College; at the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections of the Toronto Public Libraries; at the E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University; and at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The social highlights of the preconference will include a reception given by the lieutenant- governor of Ontario, the Honourable Pauline News items for inclusion in C&RL News should be sent to John V. Crowley, Assistant Director of Libraries, M ilne Library, State University C ollege, O neonta, NY 13820. Advertising (including classi­ fied ads) should be sent to Leona Swiech, A d ­ vertising O ffice, Am erican Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Production and circulation matters are jiandled by A L A Central Production Unit, at the above address. News editor: John V. Crowley, Assistant Director of Libraries, M ilne Library, State University C o l­ lege, Oneonta, N Y 13820. Associate news editor, W illia m B. Weiss, Assistant Librarian, C a taloging Departm ent, M ilne Library, State University C o l­ lege, Oneonta, N Y 13820. Editor: Richard D. John­ son, M ilne Library, State University C o llege, Oneonta, NY 13820. President, ACRL: Connie R. Dunlap. Executive Secretary, ACRL: Julie A. Virgo. C o llege & Research Libraries is published by the Association of C o llege and Research Libraries, a division of the Am erican Library Association, 17 times yearly— 6 bim onthly journal issues and I I monthly (com bining July-August) News issues— at 1201-05 Bluff St., Fulton, M O 65251. Subscription, $15.00 a year, or to members o f the division, $7.50, included in dues. Second-class postage p aid a t Fulton, Missouri 65251. © Am erican Library Association 1977. A ll m aterial in this journal subject to copyright by the A m eri­ can Library Association may be photocopied for the noncommercial purpose o f scientific or educa­ tional advancement. 121 McGibbon, and an opening-night reception hosted by Toronto booksellers. Registration materials have been sent to members of the ACRL Rare Books and Manu­ scripts Section and are available to others, upon request, from the ACRL Office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Registration is limited to 200 persons. Agriculture and Biological Sciences Section The general membership and program meet­ ing of the ACRL Agriculture and Biological Sciences Section will be held on Saturday, June 18, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Peter H. Cousins, curator of Agricultural Technology Collections at the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michi­ gan, will deliver a slide program and talk on The Development of the Agricultural Technology Collection at the Henry Ford Museum. David K. Oyler, chairman of the ABSS Oberly Memorial Award Committee, will present the biennial Eunice Rockwell Ober- ly Memorial Award for the best bibliography in the field of agriculture or a related science since 1975. Doris Bolef, vice-chairman of the section and chairman of the ABSS Goals and Structures Committee, will lead a discussion on the topic “Is There a Place within ALA for Science and Technology Librarians?” On Monday, June 20, 12:00 noon-5:00 p.m., the section will sponsor a tour to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. At the museum, participants may view the unique agricultural technology collection and the dec­ orative and mechanical arts galleries. At the village, participants may watch craftsmen work­ ing at daily tasks as they did a century ago, board a paddle-wheel steamboat, or visit Edi­ son’s Menlo Park laboratory and the homes of McGuffy, Burbank, Carver, the Wright broth­ ers, and others. The tour will be limited to fifty persons. The fee of $7.00 includes the bus trip and admission to either the museum or the village. Advance reservations will be accepted until May 15. Send check or money order, pay­ able to ACRL Agriculture and Biological Sci­ ences Section, to Carrol Jones, Science Library, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824. Any remaining tickets will be available at the ALA Ticket Desk at the Conference. Anthropology Section On Saturday, June 18, 8:00-11:00 a.m., the ACRL Anthropology Section will meet to con­ sider The Other Field Work: Bihliographic Instruction for Effective Library Re­ search in Anthropology. Anne Beaubien, social sciences reference librarian and biblio­ graphic instructor, University of Michigan, and Vem Carroll, professor of anthropology, Uni­ versity of Michigan, will discuss the importance of instruction in the use of the library in the light of more restricted opportunities for field research; the role of faculty and librarians in providing bibliographic instruction; and the benefits for students, faculty, and librarians of a program of bibliographic instruction. The dis­ cussants will draw upon their experiences in the University of Michigan’s ongoing bibliographic instruction program for graduate students in cultural anthropology and archaeology. Art Section A Program on Prints will be sponsored by the Art Section of ACRL on Saturday, June 18, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Alan Fern, director of the Department of Research at the Library of Congress, will moderate the discussion, which will review and survey developments in the area of original prints, with emphasis on the role of the library and the librarian as resources for information, research, and referral. The program will be fol­ lowed by a luncheon at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Tickets for the luncheon are $9.00 and are available by advance reserva­ tions until May 14. Send check or money order, payable to ACRL Art Section, and a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Shirley B. Slovick, 630 Merrick, Apt. 202, Detroit, MI 48202. On Sunday, June 19, 9:00 a.m .-l:00 p.m., the Art Section will study Detroit Buildings by Bus: An Architectural Tour. The tour, limited to fifty persons, will set the scene by an overview of historic and representative struc­ tures that define the 1977 Conference city. Tickets are $5.00 and are available by advance reservation until May 15. Send check or money order, made payable to ACRL Art Section, with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Shirley B. Solvick, 630 Merrick, Apt. 202, Detroit, MI 48202. The Art Section will also present a program on This Business of Art: The Librarian and the Art Market, on Tuesday, June 21, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Alan Baer, president of International Art Registry, Ltd., P. Alfred Innarella, director of research at Art Reference Gallery, Inc., and Milton Esterow, editor and publisher of ARTnews and A R T newsletter, will present representative examples of the publica­ tions, services, and organizations which have proliferated in recent years, paralleling the sharply intensified activity in the art market. The Art Section’s membership meeting will be held on Monday, June 20, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Asian and African Section National Bibliography in the Develop­ ing Countries of Asia and Africa will be examined by the ACRL Asian and African Sec­ tion in a program scheduled on Saturday, June 122 18, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Papers on Malaysia and Singapore, the Middle East, India, and Rhodesia will be presented by Charles R. Bryant, curator, Southeast Asia Collection, Yale University Library; David H. Partington, as­ sistant librarian for Middle East Collections, Harvard University; Henry Scholberg, librarian, Ames Library of South Asia, University of Min­ nesota; and Alan R. Taylor, associate director of libraries, Johns Hopkins University. Bibliographic Instruction Section The newly established ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Section will hold two organiza­ tional meetings at the Detroit Conference, on Friday, June 17, and Tuesday, June 21. In­ terested persons should check the official ALA program for exact times. College Libraries Section The ACRL College Libraries Section will of­ fer a program on Coping with Change in the College Library, to provide a background and interpretation of the milieu of the college library in 1977 and to address particular prob­ lems of college libraries. The program will be­ gin with a presentation on “The Changing En­ vironment of College Libraries: Social and Eco­ nomic Challenges and Library Responses” by Beverly P. Lynch, university librarian, Univer­ sity of Illinois at Chicago Circle, and a talk on “Coping with Technological Change in the Col­ lege Library” by Barbara E. Markuson, execu­ tive director, Indiana Cooperative Library Ser­ vices Authority. Three concurrent small-group sessions will follow: (1 ) “Changing Work Pat­ terns and Computer-Assisted Cataloging,” mod­ erated by Karin Trainer, catalog maintenance librarian, Princeton University; (2 ) “The Role of the Paraprofessional in the College Library,” moderated by Marjorie Sibley, head librarian, Augsburg College; and (3 ) “Follow-up on the Academic Library Development Program: Its Evaluation and Adaptability to Other Li­ braries,” moderated by Grady Morien, associ­ ate professor, North Carolina Central Universi­ ty, and Jordan Scepanski, assistant director of the library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The meeting will be held on Satur­ day, June 18, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Community and Junior College Libraries Section The ACRL Community and Junior College Libraries Section will hold a Champagne Breakfast on Communication and Coopera­ tion on Saturday, June 18, 8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon. Robert Lucas, dean of learning resources, Thornton Community College, will present a program on “NILRC: A Study in Sharing.” Special guests at the breakfast include Julie A. Virgo, executive secretary of ACRL, and Rob­ ert Wedgeworth, executive director of ALA. Tickets are $7.50 and are available by advance reservation. Send check or money order, pay­ able to ACRL Community and Junior College Libraries Section, to Barbara Collinsworth, As­ sociate Dean of Learning Resources, Macomb County Community College, 16500 Hall Rd., Mt. Clemens, MI 48043. The CJCLS membership meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 21, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Education and Behavioral Sciences Section On Saturday, June 18, 8:00-11:00 a.m., the ACRL Education and Behavioral Sciences Sec­ tion will sponsor a program on Issues and Answers for Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarians, to provide current infor­ mation about curriculum materials and biblio­ graphic instruction for educators. Laura Gowdy, Teaching Materials Center librarian, Illinois State University, Normal, will present a paper on “The University Curriculum Ma­ terials Center: A Few Nuts and Bolts and a Look at the Literature.” Lois Lehman, educa­ tion librarian, Indiana University, and Marianna Markowetz, coordinator, Media Resource Cen­ ter, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will participate in a discussion of the paper. John Lubans, Jr., assistant director for public ser­ vices, University of Colorado, will present a paper on “Bibliographic Instruction for Educa­ tors.” James Olivetti, education/psychology li­ brarian, George Mason University, and Patricia Butcher, reader’s advisor in education, Trenton State College Library, will lead a discussion of the paper. A program on Education Statistics: Gov­ ernment and Nongovernment will be pre­ sented on Monday, June 20, 2:00-4:00 p.m., to provide information on the latest developments in the collection and dissemination of statistics in education and behavioral sciences and to provide an opportunity for participants to dis­ cuss their needs and the needs of library users regarding government- and nongovernment- generated statistics. Speakers include Mary Allen, librarian, National Center for Higher Education, American Council on Education, and Marie Eldridge, administrator, National Center for Education Statistics. Joseph Mapes, education librarian, University of Colorado, and Paul Perry, librarian of the Faculty of Educa­ tion, Gutman Library, Harvard University, will react to the speakers’ presentations. Law and Political Science Section The ACRL Law and Political Science Section will consider How to Avoid the Practice of 123 Law When Giving Legal Reference Ser­ vice in Public and University Libraries. The program will be held on Saturday, June 18, 8:00-11:00 a.m. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section The ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, the RBMS Continuing Education Com­ mittee, and the RBMS Committee on Manu­ scripts Collections will cosponsor a program on The Marking of Rare Books and Manu­ scripts: Safeguard or D efacement? on Sun­ day, June 19, 2:00-6:00 p.m. The program will examine the rationale behind the marking of rare materials and will consider whether mark­ ing an item identifies and secures it or whether it merely disfigures it needlessly. Frazer G. Poole, assistant director for preservation, Li­ brary of Congress, will describe the effective­ ness of various marking techniques as well as damages which can occur in applying such techniques. A dealer in rare books and manu­ scripts will consider the advantages and dis­ advantages of marking from the antiquarian book trade’s point of view. A third panelist will analyze the historical development of marking. The audience will be invited to ask questions and to participate in the discussion. The RBMS business meeting will follow the program. Slavic and E ast E uropean Section On Saturday, June 18, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, the ACRL Slavic and East European Section will meet to discuss The Development of Slavic Collections in North America. Edward J. Blume, chief, Subject Cataloging Division, Library of Congress, will present a talk on “Recent Developments in Subject Analyses of Slavic Materials at the Library of Congress.” The future of Slavic collections in various academic and public libraries in North America will be discussed by a panel consist­ ing of George C. Jerkovich, director, Slavic De­ partment, University of Kansas Library; Tanja Lorkovic, head, Cataloging Department, Uni­ versity of Iowa Libraries; Anna Stuliglowa, So­ viet studies specialist, Cornell University Libraries; Stanley Humenuk, head catalog li­ brarian, Western Illinois University; and Wojciech Zalewski, curator, Russian and East European material, Stanford University Li­ brary. From 1:00 to 10:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 18, the section will sponsor a tour of Slavic collections and sights in the D etroit area. Participants will visit the Foreign Language Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Hamtramck Public Library, the Ukrainian- American Center, the Adam Mickiewicz Li­ brary, the Orchard Lake Seminary Library and Archives, and St. Albertus and Sweetest Heart of Mary Churches. The tour will conclude with a special Polish dinner. Tickets are $18.00 and include round trip transportation, dinner, and entertainment. Advance reservations, limited to 150 persons, may be made by sending check or money order, payable to Convention Services International, to Convention Services Interna­ tional, 494 Lake Shore Ln., Grosse Pointe, MI 48236. University Libraries Section The membership meeting of the ACRL University Libraries Section will be held on Saturday, June 18, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Cinema L ibrarians D iscussion Group The program presented by the ACRL Cine­ ma Librarians Discussion Group will feature James L. Limbacher, author, critic, instructor, and librarian, who will present a workshop on film reference, entitled How Tall Is Glenn Ford?, on Tuesday, June 21, 8:00-9:30 a.m. The program will include a general introduc­ tion to the aims of this newly established dis­ cussion group and a display of a basic film studies information collection. Undergraduate Librarians D iscussion Group On Monday, June 20, 2:00-4:00 p.m., the Undergraduate Librarians Discussion Group will meet to study Undergraduate Library Services to the Campus Community. Small- group sessions will be formed to discuss reserve collections, core collections, automation, ref­ erence and instructional services, and library/ community interaction. W estern European Language Specialists Discussion Group Methodologies for D etermining Pat­ terns of Collection Use by Humanities Scholars is the topic to be considered by the Western European Language Specialists Dis­ cussion Group, on Monday, June 20, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Herbert S. White, professor and director of the Research Center, Indiana University Graduate Library School, will de­ liver an address on “The National Endowment for the Humanities Study of the Characteristics and Use of Published Materials in the Humani­ ties.” Charles Osburn, assistant university li­ brarian for collection development, Northwest­ ern University, will lead a discussion on the general topic. On Tuesday, June 21, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, Walter Achtert, director of research pro­ grams at the Modern Language Association, will meet with the discussion group to consider various topics of mutual interest and concern to ACRL and MLA. ■■