ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


Under this proposal, ACRL members will duction of the enormous overhead costs at 
 headquarters.
l The ALA Council was charged by some 
. members of the association with being fiscally 
­ irresponsible, since in recent years Council has 

passed policies which also mandate expensive 
methods of implementation. It was argued dur­ 
ing debate on the floor of Council that the ALA s 
Executive Board should refuse to implement ­

s policies that ALA cannot afford. The Executive 
Board gave every indication that it would ac­ 

­ cept that responsibility in the future. The draft 
 ALA policy on equal employment opportunity, 

­ brought forward to Council for adoption during 
y the meeting, was amended to exclude methods 

of implementation. ACRL supported the  
amendments.e 

Few social issues were considered by Council ” 
during the Midwinter Meeting. Council re­e fused to admit to its agenda a resolution sup­

 porting the impeachment of President Nixon.
­ The power struggle between the divisions 
e and central ALA continues, with increased 
­ strength being given to the argument that there 
s are some matters that concern all librarians and 

some that concern librarians in different work­
r ing environments, i.e., in different types of li­
n braries. Clearly, the COPES dues proposal sup­
­ ports the argument for the decentralization of 
­ authority and power. ■ ■

pay annual dues of $50, giving them all rights
and privileges afforded ALA members and al
rights and privileges afforded ACRL members
The divisional fees will go directly to the divi
sions for their own use.

A substitute dues proposal presented by the
American Association of School Librarians wa
similar in concept to the COPES plan but low
er in actual fees. Under that proposal, member
would have paid a basic fee of $35, which
would have included membership in one divi
sion. Of the $35, $15 would have gone directly
to the division for its own use. The AASL pro
posal was similar to the one presented b
ACRL at the Las Vegas meeting. Bernard
Franckowiak, president of AASL, called th
COPES proposal “a guaranteed annual wage
for central ALA headquarters personnel, sinc
approximately 40 percent of the current ALA
budget supports the administration and opera
tions of central ALA. ACRL supported th
AASL proposal, but the two divisions were un
able to muster enough votes in Council to pas
the AASL proposal.

ACRL and AASL both stand to gain unde
the COPES proposal, since for the first time i
several years divisions will have fiscal autono
my. Both divisions pledged to work for the re

Captain Serves New Jersey 
Academic Libraries

A centralized computer operation will order, 
receive, process, and catalog books for the and has been in operation on the Rutgers cam­

­ puses since last spring.
­ When a member library wants to order a 
­ book, it processes an order request through a 

computer hookup with Rutgers’ Alexander Li­
e brary here. The system then orders the book 
e from the publisher, encumbers the funds, re­
f ceives, catalogs and processes the book, and 
s returns it to the ordering library ready for 
s shelving, together with a set of catalog cards— 
, thus eliminating a great deal of duplication.
­ Officers of the corporation, in addition to 
e Lucker, are Secretary Fleming Thomas of Bur­

lington County College, president of the Two- 
- Year Colleges Library Association of New Jer­
­ sey, and Treasurer Mrs. Virginia Whitney, li­
e brarian at Rutgers.
- A nineteen-member advisory council, repre­
. senting both public and private college inter­
o ests, is being formed and a full-time executive 
­ director will be hired to administer the project.
s ■ ■

academic libraries of New Jersey under a pro
gram being developed by Captain Library Ser
vices Corp., a newly formed nonprofit educa
tional corporation here.

The outgrowth of three years of cooperativ
effort by Rutgers University, the eight stat
colleges, and the New Jersey Department o
Higher Education, the program as it mature
should provide better service to library patron
and increased efficiency in library operations
according to Jay K. Lucker, associate uni
versity librarian at Princeton, who heads th
board of the new corporation.

Serviced initially by Captain ( Computer
Aided Processing and Terminal Access Informa
tion Network) will be the libraries on th
various Rutgers campuses and libraries at Stock
ton State College and William Paterson College
Other units of the state system are expected t
join in the future. Funded by the state Depart
ment of Higher Education, the program wa

developed by IBM in cooperation with Rutgers 

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