CON F E RE N CE REVIEWS 

A B rief Review of the Fifth Off-Campus Library 
Services Conference, held in Albuq uerq ue ,  New M exico,  1 9 92 

Submitted by Carol .Jacob 

NOW AVAILABLE- FIFfH OFF-CAMPU S S ERVICES 
CONFERENCE PROC EEDINGS. 

The forty papers that make up the Fifth Off-campus Library 
Services Conference Proceedings were presented at the Off­
campus Library Services Conference sponsored by the Central 
Michigan University Libraries and the Extended Degree Pro­
grams of Central Michigan University. The conference was held 
October 30 - November 1, 1992 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
The papers included in this volume reflect the primary object of 
the conference: to provide a forum where practitioners involved 
with off-campus constituents could gather to exchange relevant 
ideas, concerns and perspectives. Topics include internal and 
external relationships, program administration, program start­
up, needs assessments, bibliographic instruction, service in ur­
ban settings, promoting services, services in specialized settings, 
program measurement and evaluation, technology, and research 
conducted in off-campus library services. It should also be noted 
that where applicable copies of survey instruments have been 
included. 

The authors contributing to this volume represent a variety 
of institutions and off campus library delivery systems. For 
example, Thomas Abbott and Susan Lowe (University of Maine, 
Augusta) discuss bibliographic instruction using interactive tel­
evision in the Community college of Maine System. Ellen Waite 
(Loyola University of Chicago) described what it is like to 
provide off campus library services to a branch library in Rome, 
Italy. Rob Morrison (Utah State University) discussed the 
impact of CD-ROM technology in providing services in rural 
Utah and Steven Smith and Sharon West (University of Alaska) 
related similar challenges in Alaska. The role of librarians in 
faculty development activities were discussed by Julia Daniels 
and Robert Trullinger (Central Michigan University). 

Also included in this volume are papers on the uses of 
technology by: Herbert White (Indiana University), Pamela 
Grudzien (Central Michigan University); on interinstitutional 
planning and cooperation by: Nancy Finney, Kathie Lewis and 
Connie Fly (California State University), Lynn LaBrake (Uni­
versity of Central Florida), Sharon Stewart (University of Ala­
bama), Ruth Britton (University of Southern California) and 
David Combe (Ventura County), Donald Wing and Kul Gauri 
(Macomb Community College); on bibliographic instruction by 
Susan Cleyle (University of Regina), Linda Fritz (University of 
Saskatchewan), Monica Hines Collier (Central Michigan Uni­
versity), and Jerilyn Marshal (Northwestern University); on 
program development by: Gary Pitkin (University of Northern 
Colorado), Kate Adams, Rebecca Bemthal, Tracy Bicknell and 

Debra Pearson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln); on services in 
an urban setting by Lynn Klekowski and Sharon Mader (DePaul 
University) and Betty Braaksma (York University); on funding 
and staffing by: Betty Van Blair (Southwest Baptist University), 
Rick Bean, Meg Frazier and Bonnielynn Kreiser (DePaul Uni­
versity), Alexander Slade (University of Victoria); on eva! uation 
and effectiveness of service by: Steve Schafer (Athabasca 
University), Virginia Witucke (Central Michigan University), 
Raymond Fisher (University of Birmingham), Keith Cottam, 
William Van Arsdale, Donna Whitson (University of Wyo­
ming); on licensure and accreditation issues by: Edward Garten 
(University of Dayton), Kenneth Marks and Frances Bradburn 
(East Carolina University); on needs assessment by: Janice 
Bradley, Gretta Siegel, and Carol Terry (Washington State 
University), Stephen McLeod (St. Leo College) on contracts by: 
Allen Dollerschell (Rochester Community college), Susan Pot­
ter and Andrew Scrimgeour (Regis University). In the case of the 
paper by Susan Potter and Andrew Scrimgeour a reprint of the 
"Memorandum of Understanding" used at Regis college has 
been included. 

Research in the area of off campus library services was 
reported by: Marie Kascus (Central Connecticut State Univer­
sity), Karen Jaggers, Eve Tallman and William Waddell (North­
em Arizona University), Jack Fritts and Carol Moulden (Na­
tional-Louis University), Sheila Latham (University of 
Lethbridge), Martha Hale and Catherine Hoy (Emporia State 
University), R. Neil Scott, J. Gordon Long and E. Lorene Flan­
ders (Georgia College), Colleen Power (California State Univer­
sity, Chico). 

Copies are $35.00 per copy from Judith Porter, 2f17 Park 
Library, Central Michigan University, Mt. ·Pleasant, Michigan 
48859 or call (517) 77 4-3500. A limited number of copies of the 
Fourth Off-Campus Library Conference Proceedings (Charleston, 
S.C. 1988) are also available for $35.00 per copy. 

Carol Jacob, Off Campus Library Services, Library at Central 
Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan. 

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