id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14147 Ford, Vikki PR: The State of Public Relations in Academic Libraries 1985-09-01 7 .pdf application/pdf 3562 209 58 7 Citing the combined need to provide better user information, to build a positive image, and to project that image to users and potential support groups, Carroll urges academic libraries to join the communications era of the 1980s.8 To fill the information gap surrounding library PR programs, a survey was con- ducted to characterize and determine the scope of the current state of academic li- brary PR. 21 More recently, Frank Wylie, director of public affairs at California State University and ex-president of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), completed a national survey of library PR programs. cache/crl-14147.pdf txt/crl-14147.txt