ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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interest and effort among the division’s com­
mittees and sections, given the severe shortage 
of funds in the ALA drive for generalization 
and professionalization. But work on problems 
in the substance of librarianship manages to go 
on as is shown by these ACRL activities:

•  ACRL received $9,250 as a J. Morris 
Jones-World Book Encyclopedia-ALA 
Goals Award to start work on a revision 
of the Standards for College Libraries un­
der the aegis of its Committee on Stan­
dards and Accreditation. We are reason­
ably assured of an additional award in 
1974 to complete the task.

•  The concept of networks among academic 
and research libraries was the focus for 
both the preconference meeting of the 
University Libraries Section and the regu­
lar program of the Agriculture and Bio­
logical Sciences Section. And the Board 
of Directors approved the establishment 
of an Ad Hoc Committee on Interlibrary 
Communications and Information Net­
works to study the implications of the rec­
ommendations of the ALA Airlie House 
Conference on that subject in 1970.

• The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section 
provided a forum for the discussion of the 
problems of access to collections of papers 
awaiting publication. The Committee on 
Community Use of Academic Libraries is 
preparing to study guidelines for individu­
al library policy statements on access to 
academic libraries.

•  The Board of Directors approved two pol­
icy statements for use by the profession 
concerning the attainment of legal title to 
collections and the appraisal of gifts to li­
braries. The Rare Books and Manuscripts 
Section is preparing two more statements 
to cover photocopying of and access to 
special collections.

•  The Junior College Libraries Section has 
completed bibliographies of periodicals in 
seventeen career areas. The section will 
gather documentation on courses on li­
brary instruction for deposit and use at 
ACRL headquarters.

•  The ACRL Ad Hoc Committee on Biblio­
graphic Instruction has begun preparation 
of guidelines for library instruction. The 
results of its survey of instruction were 
submitted to ERIC/CLIS for distribution 
under the title “Academic Library Biblio­
graphic Instruction.”

I cannot leave office without thanking many 
persons—other officers, committee chairpersons, 
association members, and hard-working friendly 
office staff at headquarters—for their support.

Russell Shank 
President, ACRL

Controversy over 
Personnel Policy

ACRL has entered the battle between the 
California State University and Colleges librari­
ans and the chancellor’s office of the system 
over the new personnel policy for librarians 
(see the June News under Miscellany). Calling 
the policy vague and unreasonable, Norman 
Tanis (as president-elect of ACRL) has writ­
ten Glenn Dumke, chancellor of the state sys­
tem, requesting the policy’s withdrawal and 
asking for librarian input in setting new stan­
dards. The text of the Tanis letter follows:

The American Library Association and its 
academic division, The Association of Col­
lege and Research Libraries, has shown an 
active concern in the matter of academic 
status for the librarians of California State 
Universities and Colleges since 1969 when 
representatives of ALA met with the 
Chancellor and members of his staff. We 
are therefore dismayed to find that FSA 
73-25 was recently issued without consul­
tation with librarians, library directors, the 
faculties of the California State University 
and Colleges, and the Academic Senate.

FSA 73-25 is vague, unreasonable in its 
requirements, and makes demands upon 
the librarians which California State Uni­
versity and Colleges does not provide the 
means to accomplish. It continues to block 
real and effective peer judgement and con­
trol of promotional machinery at the cam­
pus level. The document does not promote 
the high level of professional contribution 
which the California Universities and Col­
leges deserve from their librarians.

Because the requirements of adequate 
and full consultation with faculty and Aca­
demic Senate have not been met ( Board of 
Trustee adoption October 26, 1967 meet­
ing of a resolution entitled “Statement on 
Government of Colleges and Universities,” 
AAUP Bulletin 52 (Winter, 1966) 375-9) 
we now ask you to withdraw FSA 73-25 
in order to allow real and meaningful con­
sultation with the Academic Senate, the li­
brarians themselves, and library directors.

Because an adequate library is the basis 
of teaching, study, and research and a ma­
jor criterion in judging the strength of the 
library is the quality of the library faculty 
and staff, we request that FSA 73-25 be 
withdrawn with a view toward seeking 
adequate consultation as a preliminary 
step to a new document.



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