ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 1 3 2 /C & R L News 1995– 96 College Library D irector Mentor Program Semi­ nar participants: left to right: front row: Sylvia Kuhlmeier (Tabor College), Mary Ledoux (Franklin Pierce College), Kristin Doty (Maine College of Art), Sharon Mader (Chris­ tian Brothers University), Susan Richards (Western State College). Second row: Carol Ahmad (Schreiner College), Chris Nugent (Maryville College), Cindy Potter (Texas Wesleyan University), Evan Farber (Earlham College), Jan ice Kemp (Monmouth College). Third row: Charles Getchell (Quinnipiac College), Steve Stoan (Drury Col­ lege), Mignon Adams (Philadelphia College o f Pharmacy and Science), Judy Donovan (Moore College of Art and Design). Back row: Andrew Pearson (Florida Southern College), Paul Jenkins (College of Mount St. Joseph ), Paul Frisch (Washington and Jefferson College), Larry Hardesty (Austin College). Not pictured: Kim Herndon (Shorter College). a jobs bulletin board, and other key sites will be available at http://www.ala.org/logon.day. ALA is encouraging all libraries to schedule and promote public demonstrations o f the Internet throughout National Library Week. CLS mentor program meets at Trinity Prior to the 1996 ALA Midwinter Meet­ ing in San Antonio, Trinity University hosted the fourth annual seminar for the 1995-96 first-year college library di­ rectors participating in the ACRL Col­ lege Libraries Section’s College Library D irecto r M entor Program. Mignon Adams (Philadelphia College of Phar­ m acy and S c ie n c e ), Evan Fa rb er (Earlham College), and Larry Hardesty (Austin College) led the seminar, which covered such challenges to first-year college library directors as budgeting, faculty and administration relations, staff morale, collection development, and bibliographic instruction. Carol Ahmad (Schreiner College) provided the perspective of a second-year direc­ tor who had participated in the pro­ gram last year. The program, funded by the Council on Library Resources, each year enables up to 15 first-year directors of small colleges, usually un­ der 2,500 enrollment, to be matched with experienced college library direc­ tors to help guide the new directors through their first year. During its four years o f existence, 59 college library directors have participated in the pro­ gram. For more information contact Larry Hardesty, College Librarian, Abell Library, Austin College, 900 N. Grand, Sherman, TX 7 5 0 9 0 ; e-m ail: lhard esty @ au stin c.ed u ; phone: (903) 813-2490. ■ Five Ohio colleges form consortium Five institutions— the College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, Oberlin College, and Ohio Wesleyan University— have formed a new consortium, the Five Colleges o f Ohio. Although the consortium is institu­ tional, involving more than libraries, the ini­ tial focus has been on library cooperation. Four o f the five colleges will merge their online catalogs into a single system to be located at Denison University. The newly created sys­ tem will become a member of OhioLINK, the statewide library network that links the cata­ logs of the state’s university and community college libraries to facilitate resource sharing. The fifth institution, O berlin, has joined OhioLINK independently. To fund these efforts, the Five Colleges received an $840,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation.— D am on D. Hickey, the C ollege o f Wooster http://www.ala.org/logon.day mailto:lhardesty@austinc.edu March 1 9 9 6 /1 3 3 5 8 , 0 0 0 A m e r i c a n s d i e d t h e r e . 3 6 5 , 0 0 0 W E R E W O U N D E D . O v e r 2 , 0 0 0 a r e s t i l l m i s s i n g . H o w r i s k y a n i n v e s t m e n t i s V i e t n a m t o d a y ? 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