ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries College & Research Librarie news No. 4, April 1973 ACRL News Issue (B) o s f College & Research Libraries, Vol. 34, No. 4 Highlights of ACRL’s Midwinter Meetings At its Midwinter meeting, the ACRL Board of Directors approved two sets of standards developed by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section; the “Statement on Appraisal of Gifts,” which replaces the 1960 policy on appraisal, and the “Statement on Legal Title.” The ap­ proved statements have been published in the March 1973 issue of CRL News (v. 34, no. 3, p. 49–50). The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section is developing a form that can be used in assigning legal title. The board passed a resolution, also recom­ mended by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, which urges ACRL to take steps to effect change in those sections of the Tax Re­ form Act of 1969 which deal with gifts to tax- exempt institutions: BE IT RESOLVED that the ACRL Board of Directors take immediate and vigorous steps to seek elimination of those sections of the Tax Reform Act of 1969 which limit the tax advantages of gifts of self- created materials to tax-exempt research institutions and to restore to the pre-1969 tax appraisal guidelines all such gifts. Ad­ ditional steps must be taken to prevent proposed legislation, now pending in Con­ gress, to limit the tax advantages in gifts of any book, manuscript, or art collection to tax-exempt research institutions. The resolution was referred to the Legislation Committee for implementation. Two recommendations were referred to the LAD Committee on Statistics for College and University Libraries. The ACRL Board recom­ mends that the committee attempt a market analysis among academic libraries of their in­ terest, need, and level of concern for annual statistics, and especially for their willingness to pay for annual statistics. The board also recommends that the committee address itself to the need for two additional kinds of statis­ tical compilations; (1 ) for correlations of li­ brary size characteristics against other institu­ tional data in the HEGIS document, such as faculty and student body size; and (2 ) for more data on the productivity and output of libraries for comparative use for purposes of performance evaluation. Upon recommendation of an ad hoc com­ mittee chaired by David Kaser, ACRL will re­ double its efforts to impress upon the National Center for Educational Statistics the impor­ tance of frequent, accurate, comprehensive li­ brary statistics for many purposes other than to justify and evaluate grant programs. ACRL will undertake similar efforts with the Na­ tional Commission on Libraries and Informa­ tion Science. The ACRL Planning Committee, in develop­ C o lle g e & Research L ib ra rie s is published by the Association of Co llege and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 17 times yearly— 6 bimonthly journal issues and I I monthly, combining July- August, News issues a t 1201-05 Bluff St., Fulton, Mo. 65251. Subscription, $15.00 a year or, to members of the division, $5.00, included in dues. Circulation and advertising office; Am erican Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, I l l . 606 11. Second-class postage paid a t Fulton, Missouri 65251. News ed ito r: A llan Dyson, M o ffitt Undergraduate Library, University of C alifornia, Berkeley, California 94720. Associate News e d ito r: Susana Hinojosa. Assistant Librarian. Reference Departm ent, M o ffitt Undergraduate Library. Editor: Dougherty, University Library, University of C alifornia, Berkeley, Califo rn ia 94720. President, ACRL: Russell Shank, Executive Secretary, ACRL; Beverly Lynch, ALA . 70 ing a five-year plan for the Association, has been considering short-range and long-range goals and objectives. In pursuing short-range objectives, ACRL will promote with other or­ ganizations the standards of academic librarian- ship and the status of librarians, will continue to communicate with the membership and main­ tain its publications program, will provide sup­ port for the eleven sections, will encourage the growth of ACRL chapters and strengthen col­ lege and university libraries sections within ALA chapters, and will recommend increased support for the ACRL headquarters staff. The board received reports from two sec­ tions which plan precon ferences in connection with the 1973 conference in Las Vegas. The University Libraries Section will present a pre­ conference on “The Role of the University Li­ brary in Information Networks.” In Los Angeles, the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section will hold a preconference on “Pacific Coast Research Collections.” Nine sections plan program meetings during the Las Vegas conference. Continuing its pre­ vious programs, the University Libraries Sec­ tion will hear Fellows of the Council on Li­ brary Resources discuss their research. A de­ bate on open or closed archives for Letter- press editions will be sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. The Junior College Libraries Section will discuss the “Guidelines for Two-Year College Learning Re­ sources Programs” (CRL News, no. 11, Decem­ ber 1972, p. 305–15). The Anthropology, Art, and Asian and North African Sections will co-sponsor an illustrated lecture on African art. A program on develop­ ing networks in the biological sciences will be presented by the Agriculture and Biological Sciences Section. The Education and Be­ havioral Sciences Section will present a dis­ cussion and demonstration by the American Psychological Association of the computer search program P.A.I.S. The Law and Political Science Section’s program will be a “prac­ ticum” on the types of information most ap­ propriately obtained from traditional printed census sources and on those best obtained through the census tapes. The ACRL division program will consider the “Future of the Li­ brary and Information Services in Post-Second­ ary Education.” The board approved two preconferences to be held prior to the 1974 conference in New York; “Library Support for Non-Western Area Studies,” sponsored by the Asian and North African Section, and a preconference honoring the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. The ACRL Board strongly endorsed the res­ olution presented by AHIL which urges that a larger percentage of the budget be assigned to conference programs. Two grant proposals were approved by the Board of Directors. The proposal to revise the 1959 Standards for College Libraries is be­ ing recommended for a J. Morris Jones—World Book Encyclopedia—ALA Goals Award. The proposal to develop an Academic Library Administration Internship Program for Black Librarians is being referred to the ALA Exec­ utive Board for approval and funding. The board received a progress report on the “Joint Statement on Faculty Status of Col­ lege and University Librarians” (CRL News, no. 8, September 1972, p. 209–10). In Decem­ ber 1972, the Board of Directors of the As­ sociation of American Colleges announced that it could not endorse the adoption of the state­ ment in its present form. That board did re­ affirm its concern for the status of academic librarians, but found that “the teaching and research functions which, in terms of the statement, would justify the ‘fundamental identity’ of certain librarians with the teaching faculty are insufficiently defined.” The AAC Board “feared that adoption of the statement by the AAC would create great pressures on institutions to grant faculty status, including tenure, to most, if not all, professional li­ brarians, regardless of the quality of their administrative performance.” The American As­ sociation of University Professors will con­ sider the joint statement at its April meeting in St. Louis. The ACRL Academic Status Committee will review the action taken by the Association of American Colleges. The committee also plans to review statements on governance currently used by library faculties and to develop a model governance plan and guidelines for peer performance evaluation. At its meeting, the ACRL Standards and Accreditation Committee reviewed a draft of guidelines for branch libraries. The draft will be submitted to other librarians for comments and additional information. The Joint Committee on University Library Standards (ARL/ACRL) met during the Mid­ winter meeting to continue developing a stan­ dards statement for university libraries. The Joint Committee on University Exten­ sion Library Services (NUEA/ACRL) met to discuss goals and objectives of the committee and to plan a possible program meeting at the NUEA conference in Omaha in April. Mr. Wallace C. Olsen, Library Liaison Of­ ficer, National Agricultural Library, met with the Executive Committee of the Agriculture and Biological Sciences Section and other agri­ culture librarians to discuss the role of the Na­ tional Agricultural Library in information dis­ semination. The Junior College Libraries Section re­ ported that it had completed its project to prepare periodical bibliographies for seventeen public service occupational programs. Plans for publication are under way. ■ ■