ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


November 1987 /  637

th a t everything takes longer th a n  I thought it 
would—especially the mail service. I have had to 
use telefax on a few occasions when “we simply 
must have it by Friday.” Be sure to allow yourself 
plenty of time. My exchange took longer to arrange 
than most I know of, but much of that time was 
spent finding an exchange partner.

Another thing I learned was th at in your initial 
inquiry, make your institution and area as attrac­
tive as possible. I doubt that too many people in 
Ireland are all that familiar with Vermont. After I 
described the city and noted that it was located 90 
minutes from Montreal and 4 hours from Boston, 
the area seemed much more attractive. After my

initial letter received so few responses, I jazzed it 
up so th at I emphasized the city and area more. I 
know this made a vast difference.

It has now been two years since I first started to 
think about the possibility of an exchange. It was 
hard to believe it until I actually was sitting at my 
desk at Trinity College. Since most of my time had 
been taken up with w hat Brid would encounter 
when she arrived in Vermont, I really hadn’t any 
time to worry or wonder about w hat awaited me in 
Dublin. I’m sure when I return next Fall, all the 
time, frustrations, and worries of the past two 
years will be just a memory and it will have all been 
worthwhile. ■  ■

Newberry Library and Center for Research Libraries 
announce cooperative plan

The Newberry Library, Chicago’s pre-eminent 
humanities research library, and the Center for Re­
search Libraries (CRL) have agreed to inaugurate 
a program of inter-institutional cooperation. The 
program stresses improved access to each other’s 
collections as well as joint projects in preservation 
and collection development.

Newberry Library fellows may now use CRL’s 
unrestricted collections on site at the Newberry or 
through interlibrary loan. The Newberry in turn is 
offering to CRL member institutions, via interli­
brary loan, materials from its collection of Ameri­
can Indian studies on microform. Newberry Li­
b ra ry  collections have tra d itio n a lly  not been 
available for loaning to other libraries.

The two institutions are planning cooperative 
collection development to extend their resources. 
Mutually beneficial collaboration in preservation 
and conservation will blend the extensive experi­
ence of CRL in preservation microfilming with the 
significant expertise in conservation and restora­
tion practices of the Newberry staff, which has

been a leader in this field.
A joint working group has been established to 

recommend procedures for implementing all areas 
of cooperation.

The Newberry Library, which celebrates its 
100th birthday this fall, houses collections in his­
tory and the humanities from the Middle Ages to 
the 20th century. The N ew berry aw ards some 
$300,000 annually in fellowships for research in 
residence, sponsors four centers for scholarly re­
search, and conducts numerous outreach programs 
to draw  public attention to its collections.

The Center for Research Libraries was founded 
in 1949 to provide a means by which the libraries of 
major research institutions can practice coopera­
tive collection development and management. The 
Center’s prinicipal program is the acquisition and 
preservation of a dedicated-to-lending collection, 
now exceeding 3.6 million volumes and 1.2 million 
microfilm units, th a t complements and supple­
ments the collections of its 150 member institu­
tions. ■ ■

ACRL executive summary

Every month, JoAn Segal, A C R L ’s executive direc­
tor, will summarize Association activity. The “Ex­
ecutive Sum m ary”will highlight accomplishments 
of broad interest to the Association.

Although the New Orleans Conference seems a 
long way off, Sandy Donnelly has been soliciting 
new course proposals, advertising scholarships and 
cooperative courses, and developing new courses 
on “Negotiating Contracts with Vendors” and “In ­

formation Liability,” based on last spring’s needs 
assessment.

ACRL President Joanne Euster appointed a new 
Task Force on Awards to review ACRL’s awards 
p ro g ra m  an d  m ake re c o m m e n d a tio n s—Joan 
Chambers chairs the task force.

Mary Ellen Davis is working with the ACRL 
Performance Measures chair Virginia Tiefel to re­
vise and circulate an RFP seeking an author for a 
M anual o f O u tp u t Measures fo r  A cadem ic L i­