ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 70 (e.g., “A Proposed Planning Process for ACRL,” V. Requests for Donations September 1984). C &R L News may occasionally print requests for the donation of books or materials to libraries, es­ IV. Manuscript pecially foreign libraries, which have suffered ex­ A uthors should subm it tw o copies, d o u b le­ tensive loss through fire, hurricane, or other natu­ spaced, following either the Chicago Manual of ral disaster. Other libraries soliciting contributions Style or Turabian. for other reasons will be referred to the rates for The preferred typewriter elements are: Courier classified advertising in C&RL News. 10, Prestige Elite 12, or Letter Gothic 12. The deadline for receipt of editorial copy is ap­ Editor’s Note: These guidelines were adopted by proximately the 26th of each month, for inclusion the C&RL News Editorial Board at the Denver in the issue of the second month following. M idwinter Meeting on January 25, 1982. ■ ■ Chapter visits The ACRL Executive Director visits the Minnesota and Illinois chapters. M in n e s o t a , November 1. A brisk fall day, clear and bright, greeted me in Minnesota. Driving to Northfield for the Minnesota C hapter meeting with Peg Johnson gave me the chance to meet our new Audiovisual Committee chair and see some suburban countryside. The Concert Hall on Carle­ ton College’s campus was the setting for the meet­ ing, which was attended by over 60 academic and research librarians. The day-long program began with my talk, enti­ tled “ E ig h t Possible Things Before th e M ain Speaker,” in which I described ACRL, its physical setting, its relation to ALA, a who’s who of the staff and a description of key staff activities, and how to participate in the Association at a variety of levels. Beverly Lynch, president-elect of ALA, gave the keynote speech and addressed the role of the librar­ ian as related to the academic environment. Em ­ phasizing the Naisbett theme of decentralization, Lynch suggested that ALA will be increasing its outreach activities to involve members. She urged librarians in academ ic institutions to become aware of the environment within their institutions, to consider the problems facing the administration as the key problems for them also, and to contrib­ ute a unique viewpoint to their solution. She also emphasized th at they need to keep abreast of the whole field of higher education—the external envi­ ronment of the institution—and to increase their attention to such matters as information policy, ac­ cess to inform ation, the cost of inform ation re­ trieval, new skills needed by library staff and users, and the principles of learning. Lynch reviewed some of her earlier work on the relationship of the library to other organizations, characterizing them as input/output relations, and stressed the political realities which often carry more weight than “rational” management tech­ niques in practical dealings among organizations. A lively question period ensued. During the lunch break, visitors were treated to tours of the remodeled library building, which fea­ tures beautiful vistas, practical facilities, plenty of cozy spaces for study, and room for expansion. The afternoon’s program featured a panel of Minnesota librarians: Michael K athm an, Allen Dollerschell, Valera Rohrer, and Darrel Meinke, who presented some thought-provoking ideas for everyone to take back, including: •th e need for libraries to rise above competition 7 1 am ong their institutions; • new professionals are not ready to w ork on their first day on the jo b —how do we train them ? • recruitm ent potentials am ong rural junior col­ lege librarians; • the assertion th a t the for-profit sector will pay for inform ation and will make contributions if a p ­ proached. Illinois, November 2. The suburban train ca r­ ried me from Chicago to Glen Ellyn to atten d the Fall Conference of the Illinois C h ap ter (IACRL) at the College of D uPage, a very large com m unity college serving th e residents of D uPage County. T he full-day m eeting began w ith my talk on o r­ ganizational change. I described organizations as having life cycles and pictured change as equiva­ lent to grow th. After noting some of the most sig­ nificant changing trends in higher education and their im pact on libraries, I spoke about the w ay in w hich organizations (among them libraries) deal w ith change in the external environm ent via the techniques of differentiation and integration. D escribing th e w ay in w hich libraries apply these concepts led to an exam ination of conflict and its resolution in the academ ic library, and to a p re­ sentation on open com m unication as a strategy for reducing resistance to change. T he day continued w ith sessions on funding, a d ­ dressed by Ted W elch, N orthern Illinois Univer­ sity, and Ken Peterson, Southern Illinois Univer­ sity, as well as innovative solutions to cutbacks, w ith speakers D onna G oehner, W estern Illinois University, R uth McRride, University of Illinois, U rb an a, an d D arrell Jenkins, S outhern Illinois University. After lunch, there was a business m eet­ ing, followed by fu rth er small group sessions: one on th e p arap ro fessio n al’s role and th e o th er on group dynam ics in m aintaining quality services, including papers by John Tyson, N orthern Illinois University, and Karen Bingham , University of Illi­ nois, U rbana. The closing session was addressed by George F. G ruendel, of the m anagem ent faculty at Sanga­ m on State University. His topic was “M aintaining Q uality W orklife in U ncertain T im es.” Both of th e chapters presented program s e n ­ riched by outside speakers, b u t gave th e ir ow n m em bers an im p o rtan t opportunity to m ake p re ­ sentations to their colleagues at the local level—an invaluable experience for encouraging m em bers’ professional d e v e lo p m e n t.—JoAn Segal, A C R L Executive Director. ■ ■ ★ ★ ★ News from the Field Acquisitions Française, ou nouvelle instructions por ceux qui d é sire n t d ’a p p re n d re I ’o f f i c e ..., p u b lish e d a t • Iowa State University’s Archives of Am erican Nancy in 1751. Its plates offer splendid depictions A g ric u ltu re , Ames, has received th e p a p e rs of of 1 8 th -c e n tu ry ta b le w a r e . A m ong A m e ric a n Roswell G arst, a friend of H enry A. W allace and works in the collection, the most interesting is an an ard en t advocate of hybrid corn. G arst spent early work by an A m erican black author, The H o­ considerable tim e in Russia at the invitation of So­ tel K eep e r’s, H e a d -W a ite r’s and H ousekeeper’s viet Prem ier Nikita Khruschev and encouraged im ­ G uide, w ritten by Tunis C am pbell and published proved tra d e relations w ith Eastern E urope. T he in Boston in 1848. A rchives, recen tly estab lish ed by Io w a S ta te ’s • T he University of Toronto L ibrary held a cere- Parks L ibrary and located in Special Collections, m ony O ctober 5 to m ark the official deposit of the offers m any agriculture-oriented m anuscript col­ M illenium Collection of 21 Old U krainian books. lections for scholarly use, especially the papers of Purchase of this invaluable collection of 17th and individuals prom inent in A m erican agriculture. 18th-century U krainian titles from the estate of • M ichigan State University L ib ra rie s, E ast Paul Fekula, a leading N orth Am erican book col­ Lansing, has received a collection of rare cookery lector, was m ade possible through funds obtained books assembled by the late Beatrice V. G ran t, by th e C h a ir of U k rain ian Studies F o u n d atio n . professor of foods and n u trition at MSU. Included E d w ard Keenan, H arvard University professor, are about 50 works on cookery and related subjects. and E d w ard Kasinec, chief of the Slavonic D ivi­ Most w ere published in the 18th and 19th centu­ sion of the New York Public L ibrary, w ere featured ries, b u t a num ber of 17th-century works and a few speakers at the presentation. An illustrated c a ta ­ from th e 20th cen tu ry , in cluding b ib liographic logue is available from th e C h a ir of U krainian tools, are in c lu d e d . O f p a r tic u la r in te re st is a Studies, P aul Magocsi, a t th e U niversity of T o­ French work on candy m aking, La Cannam eliste ronto.