ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES NEWS An Open Letter to ACRL Members For ACRL members the time has come to approve a dues increase for the division. Since 1975 when the divi­ sions became financially independent, ACRL has carried out a full program of activities on a $15-per-member fee. An initial surplus, which provided a large carry-over from year to year, has made that possible. In 1981 inflation virtually exhausted those annual cash reserves. Another factor that has affected our income is that our membership has remained stable. Although we have not ex­ perienced a decline in membership, neither have we seen much growth in the numbers of people joining ACRL. The resulting stalemate means that in order to continue the present level of activities an additional fee per member is essential. Look at the facts and figures presented below and you will understand why the Board of Directors of ACRL is asking you to take the following actions: 1. Approve the fee increase of $10 per member that will be found on your July mail ballot. 2. Bring in at least one new member to ACRL. The Board of ACRL, in turn, has already: • Approved an increase in the subscription price of Col­ lege & Research Libraries from $15 to $25 beginning with the September 1981 issue (included in ACRL membership dues). • Approved an increase in the subscription price of C&RL News from $5 to $10 beginning with the September 1981 issue (included in ACRL membership dues). • Approved an increase in advertising rates in College & Research Libraries and in C bR L News, and an in­ crease in classified rates in CbRL News. • Approved increases in the prices of the Fast Job List­ ing Service, the JOBLINE, and various ACRL publica­ tions. • Begun short- and long-range planning aimed at further diversifying income sources. The time has come for each of us to come to the financial aid of our professional association to support the work we know must be done at a national level. The vote on this dues increase is a referendum. An 166 In this issue: An Open Letter to ACRL M em b ers...................165 Academic Status Survey..........171 A Conversation with David W eber.........................172 Bibliographic Instruction: A Non-Credit/Non-Graded Course at the University of K a n sa s.............................173 News from the Field.................180 P eop le......................................182 Publications............................188 Calendar..................................193 Classified Advertising. . . . .........195 affirmative vote is a vote for maintaining the ser­ vices ACRL currently provides. A negative vote is a vote for retrenchment—a sharp reduction in support of membership activities and services. If you believe as I do that the issues and opportuni­ ties which academic librarians face in the future require a strong role for ACRL, you will join me in voting for a dues increase. I urge you to do so.—Millicent D. Abell, President, ACRL. Questions and Answers on ACRL Financial Matters • How many members are there and how has ACRL grown? W hile ACRL programs have grown and m em bership participation has in­ creased, total membership has not grown (except for an increase at the time of the Roston confer­ ence) and appears to have reached a plateau (Table 1). TABLE 1 ACRL Membership, 1976-1981 1976 8,473 1977 8,609 1978 8,600 1979 8,904 1980 8,915 1981 8,991 College & Research Libraries News (ISSN 0099-0086) Is published by the Association of College and Research Librar­ ies, a division of the American Library Association, as 11 monthly (combining July-August) Issues, at 50 E. Huron St,, Chicago, IL 60611. Annual subscription: $5; or to members of the division, $2.50, included In dues. Single copies and back Issues, $2 each. Second-class postage paid for at Chicago, Il­ linois, and at additional mailing offices. Editor: George M. Eberhart, ACRI√ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780. President ACRL: M¡llicent D. Abell. Executive Director, ACRL: Julie Carroll Virgo. Production and circulation office: 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Display advertising should be sent to Leona Swiech, Advertising Traffic Coordinator, ALA, at above address. Send classified ads to ACRL. Change of address and subscription orders should be addressed to College & Research Libraries News, for receipt at the above address at least two months be­ fore the publication date of the effective issue. Inclusion of an article or advertisement in C&RL News does not constitute official endorsement by ACRL or ALA. A partial list of the services Indexing or abstracting the con­ tents of C&RL News Includes: Current Contents: Social & Be­ havior Sciences; Current Index to Journals in Education; In­ formation Science Abstracts; Library & Information Science Abstracts; Library Literature; and Social Sciences Citation In­ dex. To the postmaster: Please send undel¡verable copies to ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. © A m erican Library Association 1981. All material In this journal subject to copyright by the American Library Associa­ tion may be photocopied for the noncommercial purpose of scientific or educational advancement. • Why are my dues being spent on new ser­ vices which 1 don’t want? Most of the new ser­ vices are self-supporting and even contribute money to the ACRL general fund. It is the com­ ponent of ACRL costs which provides basic mem­ bership service that now costs more. Because of inflation over the past seven years and the need to find other revenue sources, membership dues now contribute a smaller percentage of revenues than in the past. Other sources of income have been needed to supplement the income from membership dues. These other sources include publications, JOBLINE, Fast Job Listing Service, gifts, national conference, and continuing educa­ tion activities (see Table 2). • What is the pattern o f ACRL expenditures? Below is a table which shows ACRL revenues and expenditures over the last six years. ACRL has sometimes had a surplus but as membership demands have grown, this surplus has been used to cover the deficit and in the 18 months ahead expenses will so far exceed revenues that the sur­ plus will be entirely expended (see Table 3). • What happened to the surplus from the Bos­ ton conference? The total surplus from the Bos­ ton conference was $63,000. Of this, $40,000 was for uncharged staff time. This $40,000 has been used as seed money for the staff time for the Minneapolis conference. The remaining $23,000 has been available for ACRL activities. It is not 167 TABLE 2 Sources of ACRL Income 75/76 76/77 77/78 78/79 79/80 80/81 Membership $91,980 $100,652 $114,447 $127,308 $125,093 $121,445 C&RL 49,894 53,804 70,676 80,685 87,760 88,814 C&RL News 22,974 25,034 25,236 25,051 34,218 37,448 Other 20,041 25,191 3,914 8,102 78,985 92,174 Total 184,889 204,681 214,273 241,146 326,056 339,881 planned to use these conferences as significant money-making enterprises since to do so would raise the registration fees to attendees and defeat ACRL’s purpose for having conferences. • Why doesn’t ACRL seek other sources o f in­ come? ACRL is actively exploring other sources of income. Already some success has been achieved (see Table 2) but more needs to be done. A dues increase will stabilize our finances and give us time to actively explore alternative sources of revenue. Despite inflation ACRL has not raised its dues of living increase over the past five years, and an operating reserve. The first is a budget without a dues increase, but it does include revenue in­ creases attributable to changes in advertising rates in C&RL and C&RL News, classified adver­ tising rates, subscription prices, and ACRL prod­ ucts and services (JOBLINE, Fast Job Listing Service, publications, etc.). The second includes a dues increase of $10 per member. • What happens i f the dues increase fails? In the short run, that is for the year 1981/82, the direct support to committees, chapters, and sec- TABLE 3 Income and Expense Pattern 75/76 76/77 77/78 78/79 79/80 80/81 81/82 Surplus carried forward — $5,103 $41,619 $78,420 $110,913 $135,623 $71,000 Income 184,889 204,681 214,273 241,146 326,056 339,881 430,000 Expense 180,676 188,489 193,522 230,401 301,346 404,430 501,000 Closing income transfers 890 20,324 16,050 21,748 — — — Balance 5,103 41,619 78,420 110,913 135,623 71,074 0 for seven years, although ALA did so in 1980. ACRL can no longer avoid this and still furnish the basic member services. • What is the present state o f the budget? Two budgets have been drawn up (see Table 4). Both include reserves for the first time: a salary re­ serve for staff which has not had a significant cost tions will have to be cancelled. The Continuing Education and the Bibliographic Instruction pro­ grams will have to be terminated or curtailed. These are the only non-revenue producing ser­ vices which can be readily singled out of the budget. In the longer run, the ACRL office could be TABLE 4 1981/82 Budget with and without Dues Increase Budget 1 Budget 2 No Dues increase Dues Increase Income $430,000 $488,000 Expense 454,000 480,000 Balance (24,000) 8,000 Surplus carried forward 71,000 71,000 Salary reserve (20,000) 20,000 Operating reserve (27,000) 30,000 Final surplus 0 29,000 168 restructured in a more truncated form and furth­ er savings realized by reducing staff; but this would result in a sharp reduction in membership services.—Richard Talbot, ACRL Budget and Fi­ nance Committee Chair. College Standards Survey A four-page summary of the results of a 1980 survey on The Use and Effectiveness o f the 1975 “Standards and Guidelines fo r Col­ lege Libraries" (C&RL News, October 1975) is now available from ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. The summary may be ordered free of charge to ACRL members and for $1 to non-members. All orders should in­ clude a self-addressed mailing label and 30¢ in postage. C O N T IN U E YOUR E D U C A T IO N Enrollment is still open in ACRL’s five Con­ tinuing Education courses, offered this month in conjunction with the ALA annual meeting in San Francisco. The CE courses, ranging from one to three days in length, cover the following areas of interest: CE 1—The Librarian as Consultant offers a comprehensive view of the major aspects of con­ sultation and provides p articip an ts w ith the knowledge and skills to interact effectively with clients. Such skills can be valuable to specialists, managers, organization leaders, and program directors w hether they are external or internal consultants. The instructor is Jim Ekendahl of Consulting Concepts, Inc., Seattle. The course will be held Thursday-Friday, June 25-26, 9:00 a.m .-5 00 p.m. CE 2—Planning and Procuring a L ibrary Turnkey System will work through the process whereby an academic library manager can assess the potentials for, determine needs, and design a process for procuring a turnkey automated library system. Each participant will be contacted in ad­ vance of the course by the instructors, Rob McGee and Howard Dillon of RMG Consultants, Inc., Chicago, for information pertaining to their in­ stitution and its needs. The course will be held Thursday-Friday, June 25-26, from 9:00 a.m .- 5:00 p.m. CE 3—Effective Supervisory Skills introduces techniques for effective supervision, such as eval­ uating progress, d eterm ining and scheduling completion dates, and maintaining an interim re­ port system. Discussion topics include under­ Current Awareness Alert Current awareness services to library pro­ fessionals is the topic of a study by ALA’s Li­ brary and Information Literature Membership Initiative Group. This group has established a Task Force on Information Needs of the Li­ brary Profession that wishes to hear from any­ one involved in offering a current awareness service to library and information profession­ als. Any program which updates individuals on recent professional literature and trends would be of in te re st, including table-of- contents services, newsletters specifically for current awareness purposes, and presentations on new developments in the literature. In­ formation should be sent to: Patricia Tegler, Library Studies/Communications Librarian, Lockwood Library, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260. standing the people supervised, responsibilities of the supervisor, and techniques of supervision. The in stru cto r for th e course is H erb ert S. White, dean and professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Indiana Uni­ versity. It will run Friday, June 26, from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. CE 4—Career Planning fo r the Academic Li­ brarian will review factors that influence career developm ent, explore alternative methods of career planning, apply techniques to help deter­ mine career goals and objectives, review methods for putting career plans into effect, and discuss obstacles to implementing career plans. Partici­ pants should be academic librarians with two or more years of library experience. Course instruc­ tor Keith Russell is a program associate with the Council on Library Resources, Washington, DC. The course will be held Friday, June 26, from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. CE 5—Basic Archives Management fo r Librar­ ians, co-sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, will inform librarians about basic archival functions. Enrollment is open to librar­ ians with little or no formal archival education. Course instructors are David Horn, university archivist, DePauw University, and Megan Floyd Desnoyers, Kennedy Library, National Archives, Boston. The course will be held Wednesday-Fri­ day, June 24-26, from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Advance registration is required and attend­ ance will be strictly limited. Four of the five CE courses will be held at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco; CE 5 will be held at the Sheraton- Palace. For further registration information, con­ tact: C. Brigid Welch, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St,, Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780. REGISTRATION FORM PLEASE CIRCLE THE APPROPRIATE DOLLAR AMOUNT FOR THE COURSE OF YOUR CHOICE Course ACRL Member Non-member CE 1 Librarian as Consultant (2 days) $160 $180 CE 2 Planning and Procuring a Turnkey Library System (2 days) 145 165 CE 3 Effective Supervisory Skills (1 day) 75 95 CE 4 Career Planning for the Academic Librarian (1 day) 75 95 CE 5 Basic Archives Management for Libraries (3 days) 195 220 PC 1 Views and Approaches to Bibliographic Instruction (includes housing and meals) (2½ days) 115 140 PC 2 The Impact of the New Technology on LRC Programs (2 days) 95 115 PC 3 The Collection Builders: Booksellers, Book Collectors, Librarians (3½ days) 140 180 *Late registration fee 15 15 ENTER TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED *Fee for registration after May 15 (applies to PC 1-3 only). CONFIRMATION: Written confirmations will be made. CANCELLATIONS: Written notice of cancellations received by June 1 will be honored subject to a $20 cancellation charge. 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