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16A special libraries Faith, Skill, and Unity The Three Graces of Librarianship

Margreet Wijnstroom

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The basic attitude which librarians ought to develop toward the current political and economic situation is defined. The worldwide need for theoretical knowledge in a post-industrial society must be challenged by librarians who are confident of their ability and united in an effort to stay ahead of change in order to provide valuable service to their users.

T IS not my task to dig deeply into the positive aspects of modern society the intricacies of political and in its relation to librarianship are mani- economic sciences. Therefore, I will fold and deserve serious consideration. not discuss methods of search strategies Theory will not figure conspicuously or of measurement, of "isoquants" or in this address. Some people hold the I, isocosts," or of any other sophisti- view that theory is the area in which cated research tools. Instead, I will try the library field is most vulnerable; to define the basic attitude that librar- they call us "talented tinkerers." Well, a ians ought to develop toward the talented tinkerer is always better than hazards of the political and economic an untalented theorist. So, I join with dangers lurking around them. This others under the banner of the talented statement indicates a defeatist attitude, library tinkerers, who will surprise the which is the least productive one. world as the most positive, constructive Therefore, we should- emphasize that and imaginative action group ever created. I am confident of this. Dr. Wijnstroom's address was presented at There is one group, however, that Plenary Session I, Jun 11, 1979, during would not wish to identify itself with SLA's 70th Annual Conference in Honolu- my new action group: the information lu. scientists. Perhaps it is unfortunate that september 1979 Copyright B 1979 Spec~alLlbrarles Assoc~at~on 35 7 the librarians of the late 1950s, when gested by each of these terms cannot be the information scientist entered the placed side by side, and it is impossible field, did not grab this title for them- to set them out in any simple pattern. In selves. That action would have pre- fact, they are at once closely dovetailed vented endless later discussion, thou- components and overlapping prospects sands of pages of extremely dull profes- in a vast, complex, and multidimen- sional literature, and also some friction. sional whole. In my eyes librarians have every- These deep views of one who has thing to do with information. But the been dealing with governments most of information scientist of today carries a his life may seem to you presently to be special name amongst his fellow librar- somewhat akin to the oracle of Delphi, ians, from whom he in many cases but later you may recognize their stems. Some even left librarianship to wisdom. In any case, they support me

Perhaps it is unfortunate that the librarians of the late l95Os, when the information scientist entered the field, did not grab this title for themselves. establish themselves as information in my determination not to attempt to brokers, selling highly sophisticated create an artificial barrier, which would search and retrieval services on a be intellectually and professionally commercial basis. undesirable. If I use the term library, I Whatever any of you prefers to call refer to an institution that uses the yourself, please feel free to identify medium documentation, recognizes the with the word librarian in this paper value of the cultural heritage, and is an whenever you think the situation is integral part of the information pro- worthy of you and your position. I cess. myself will continue to use the terms librarian and librarianship while includ- Politics and Economics ing the information scientists and docu- mentalists amongst you. Perhaps just The significance of the theme of the because the word librarian comes most 70th Annual Conference of SLA is our easily to my tongue. first consideration. Politics and eco- The Director-General of Unesco, nomics: their impact on library services; Amadeus M'Bow, said in his report to what does it imply? It implies that such the Unesco General Conference at an impact exists and that librarians Nairobi in September 1976 that infor- must be aware of that impact or must be mation should be considered a process made aware of it. Yet awareness in itself and, in its widest sense, a fundamental is insufficient. Something must be done datum that underlies all human activi- to translate the awareness into a posi- ties. He continued to state that the term tive attitude with matching actions in documentation refers to a certain infor- order to ensure a continuing adequate mation medium, the term library de- service to our users. After all, the users notes a certain form of institution, and are our ultimate goal, our reason for the term archives refers to a value of existence. cultural heritage. So, he said, we may It seems to me that SLA gave this title assume without undue simplification to the Conference this year not by that the information, documentation, chance. Economic regression is evident library, and archive services refer all over the world. We are confronted successively to a process, a medium, an with inflation and rising prices. Infla- institution, and a value. According to tion and the general economic situation him the systems or subsystems sug- are, of course, of overriding importance special libraries to governments. Governmental interest society can only remain viable by in libraries is partly an economic one, means of technology-intensive indus- since libraries-are increasingly expen- tries. And those industries will have to sive organizations and are financed rely heavily on specialized information mainly from the public purse, with the services. ~utalso all persons working exception of the libraries of private for service institutions need informa- companies. Yet, the latter also are tion to be able to give that service. economically sensitive. Libraries are, Whether we believe in Bell's theory or therefore, vulnerable in a time of not, it is certainly evident in day-to-day economic pressure. practice that, increasingly, advances in However, what the direction and any field are becoming dependent outcome of government involvement upon theoretical knowledge. We can- in library policy will be depends to a not function satisfactorily anymore large extent on the political climate of a without application of technology for country. That climate is becoming less library processes and information han- favorable to unproductive service insti- dling. tutions. Therefore, it is certainly appro- These are not the only critical forces priate, and not a day too soon, to do endangering the stability within the some soul searching and define the atti- system in which we function. The tude with which the profession can best continued effects of rapidly rising meet the conditions and demands of prices in a time of financial restraint as present-day society. bell as information explosion are We must not forget that the political certainly substantial-to put it mildly. environment is competitive. To stand This all leads to the "bottomless pit" our ground we need to develop a care- syndrome in the minds of our masters, ful planning procedure and give con- which creates a less than encouraging tinuous attention to ways and means of bargaining climate. However, I must securing a sound basis for our services. confess that this unfortunate syndrome At this point a moment of reflection also existed in the more halcyon days of on the place of the library in a post- the economically roaring 1950s and industrial society seems useful. A post- 1960s. We ourselves are responsible for industrial society, according to Daniel our image. If we are to build up a strong Bell's model, consists largely of services negotiating position, we sikply must as opposed to an industrial society in have faith in ourselves, present our case which the economy is largely made up skillfully, and as a profession work of goods-producing industries.* The together harmoniously. Western and North American hemi- spheres are well on their way to the Faith post-industrial society as defined by Bell. It does not need much economic How could librarians expect to con- insight to recognize that it is more diffi- vince others of the usefulness of their cult to increase productivity in a service services if they are not fully convinced industry than in a goods-producing themselves? Too many librarians, in my industry. Less productivity means a view, are suffering from an inferiority slower-paced economy with greater complex and accept too readily that difficulty in securing funding for they are on the bottom of the list of services. priorities as far as their financial back- To make the situation even more ers are concerned. complicated: The most important Faith must be built upon knowledge, knowledge in a post-industrial society not upon vaguely defined platitudes. is theoretical knowledge, since the Certainly, that is my conviction. In the opinion of Herman Liebaers, past presi- *Damel Belll The Corn~ng of Post-lndustnal dent, IFLA, and now Grand Marshall of Society New York, Bas~cBooks, 1973 the Belgian Court, knowledge does not Do we know how our users and our authorities see us? The American librarian may well answer this question in the affirmative after the White House Conference: an admirable example of a coordinated approach to the .place of library and information services in society by all parties concerned. I can assure my American colleagues that you are envied for your White House Conference all over the world! Coming back to user studies, I know that they are, in general, still scarce and far between. How satisfied are our users? Why are there so many nonus- ers? Do they lack interest or do they lack faith in the efficiency of our services? The concept of faith is like a double-faced Janus. Without faith in ourselves we cannot engender faith in others. The faith of others depends on the quality of our services; and so on. I will spare you the further cycle. My rank high among the values that make appeal will, hopefully, have reached life worth living; character tempered by you. wisdom, in his view, has to be put at the top.? But I feel that research is necessary to acquire an understanding of our Skill own nature, our present and future role In this respect we probably could do in the information process. with a little demystification of our We must not take ourselves for professional functioning. Why are we granted, because then we will lose our not surprised when the layman fails to motivation and, as a result, the good- grasp that librarianship, like any ser- will of the world that we serve. That vice industry, is constantly under the world is changing; we must never pressure of demand, and consequently forget that all-important fact. We are under the pressure of supply? We continuously challenged not only to should be surprised, because we should adapt ourselves to changing circum- be convinced that we have arranged stances and demand, but also to remain our services in a way that has created a step ahead of change. Flexibility of the best possible atmosphere of mutual approach will become the keynote to awareness and sympathetic under- success in the new knowledge society. standing. However, are we truly con- Our users in all walks of life must be vinced that our users and patrons alike our most ardent supporters. Probably have sufficient knowledge about the the worst disaster that could befall a production process within a library to library is to have its services reduced be able to develop an understanding for without the users noticing it. If nobody our needs? notices that operations are curtailed, Our production aims at converting one may well start to seriously recon- one commodity into a different com- sider one's reason for existence. modity, or a set of data into an output. It is clear that the library output is the

tHerrnan L~ebaerslMostiyin the Line of Duty satisfaction of our users. At the input Th~rtyYears With Books The Hague Mart~nus side, we find the collections, the build- N~jhoff,In press ings, the staff services. It has been said by many people that the economic makers to evaluate the fairness of our weakness of libraries is that there are demands and to translate our needs into no viable means of measuring the level actual support. In a competitive situa- of output from a library, that is, the tion where resources are being divided, level of service or the level of user the best substantiated case will carry satisfaction. the day. Let us hope-be convinced- It is criticized that the librarian in that the outstanding case will be ours! general has not shown a marked ability to use the allocation of resources in the Unity best possible way by varying the proportions of the input used in the Finally, I feel compelled to say a few production process. If we find this an words about the unity of our profes- unfair criticism, we must then prove by sion. We may be ever so clever in find- our deeds that the criticism has no ing arguments for stating our case, we foundation. If we make the imaginative may ooze the most convincing confi- effort to see our services through the dence, even so we will fail to engender eyes of the administrator, the user, the faith in others if we behave like little politician, then we may be able to children, envying each other's toys and improve the value, as well as the evalu- trying to take them away from each ation, of our services considerably with- other. It is a question of professional out much extra cost. integrity to stand united behind each

. . . [the] library uses the medium documentation, recognizes the value of the cultural heritage, and is an integral part of the information process.

In presenting their case, some librar- other in times of stress; this includes ians tend to use their annual reports as public librarians, academic librarians, the medium for parading their chronic special librarians, and all others work- state of anemia in the hope of arousing ing in the information field. That is one pity followed by a warm generosity. I aspect of our professional unity. truly pity them but do not have "the In addition, every profession needs a warm generosity" to follow. If we feel strong focal point of representation and that our library is run on insufficient influence to achieve its potential. Any resources, we must not indulge in blub- professional who is truly concerned bering complaints, which are sure to about the development of library irritate our users. A businesslike, posi- services will gladly contribute to the tive and imaginative approach will be strength of that focus. Fair criticism far more convincing when stating the will, generally speaking, always be an case that libraries are not really some integral part of members' contribution kind of optional extra, but that their use to the strength of an association. But and value is immensely out of propor- when one hears and reads the unimpor- tion to any funds that are spent on it or tant issues about which members by it. There is sufficient ammunition: hackle each other and their organiza- statistics, standards, evaluation of user tions, one gets impatient. In fact, it is needs, and so on. But the ammunition stupid and unworthy of the profession. could perhaps be more effective when Are the important key issues beyond applied in our budgetary strategy and the understanding of our members? I not in a retrospective annual report. In simply refuse to believe that. Therefore, preparing budget strategy, a librarian let each of us do some soul searching must be a politician as well as an econo- and try to make an honest appraisal of mist. Budgets should be presented in a what we, as individuals, contribute form which will enable decision- toward our professional association. Because we, the sum total of many indi- programs of Universal Availability of viduals, are the Association. Publications (UAP) and Universal Bib- Moving to regional and international liographic Control (UBC) have great cooperation in our profession is a small potential, but only if every single step, since the materials with which we professional is willing to support IFLA work are international by nature, as are in order that it may become a strong our methods. The international in- focal point for the international aspects fluence of professional developments of the profession. in any one country must not be under- Are all of you ready to share your estimated; their influence is increasing knowledge with others, to share your with the fading away of national boun- resources with others, and to work daries with regard to information together for our common goals? If that demand and services. Internationally, is the case, we can look into the future too, we must consider how to involve with faith, strong in the knowledge our activities within the world society that our force is a united force. Then, as a whole. Otherwise the world will go we really may boast that the three ahead without us. Already a disturbing Graces are with us: Faith, Skill and tendency of the worldwide information Unity. May that spirit remain with you systems to serve the users directly with- and prevail in your professional life. out the intermediary services of the libraries has become apparent. Margreet Wijnstroom is secretary-gener- We must in all honesty ask ourselves al, International Federation of Library if it is our own inability to keep abreast Associations and Institutions, and hono- of developments which induces the rary member, Special Libraries Associa- various systems to bypass us. The IFLA tion.

special libraries Aptitude Requirements for Library Assistants in Special Libraries Margery Ziegler Goldstein and Carolyn Musselman Sweeney

Digital Equipment Corporation, Corporate Library, Maynard, Mass 01754

Linguistic, logical, personal, and organizational abilities necessary for work on three nonprofessional and one professional level of special library employment are defined. Such a breakdown of aptitudes is useful for developing job descriptions and establishing pay scales, as well as for reviewing current employees and evaluating job applicants.

ORMULATING job descriptions manager must be aware when selecting for nonprofessionals is a difficult and promoting staff members. These task for the special library man- characteristics are not easily quantified; ager, as it is for other managers. The in this paper, they will be called "apti- library manager must determine not tudes." only what the job will entail but also We began to analyze aptitudes in an what characteristics the successful ap- attempt to define what type of plicant for the job should have. Charac- employees our company should seek to teristics usually specified in library job accomplish library tasks in the central descriptions are the educational level plant or in remote facilities. We recog- attained, work experience, subject train- nized that not all plants could provide ing, and library training. There is, enough high-level work to occupy a however, a range of unadvertised char- professional librarian full-time. How- acteristics of which the special library ever, we wanted to ensure that person-

Lbrar~esAssociaton 3 73 nel recruited to work in libraries have field or equivalent education; some characteristics that would make them training or expectation of training in successful in dealing with their clients library matters; some library experi- and with the professional staff of the ence. Corporate Library. Library Assistant 111: Reference Thirteen kinds of aptitude were eval- support; circulation management, ab- uated for three nonprofessional levels stracting / indexing; nonlibrarian sub- of employment and for a minimum ject specialist. Day-to-day autonomy professional level. Each level would, in under general supervision. Bache- practice, include several steps. The lor's degree; some library training three nonprofessional levels involve and experience. the following kinds of job responsibili- Technical Librarian: The profes- ties and minimum expectations of prior sional minimum would involve experience, education, and training: reference, bibliographic searching, Library Assistant I: Shelving, fil- original cataloging, plus library plan- ing, photocopying, record keeping, ning and management tasks. Sub- and related functions, under close stantial autonomy, with periodic re- direction. High school education or views. MLS and some library experi- equivalent and some work experience. ence, not necessarily in libraries. The following aptitudes are not listed Library Assistant 11: Book and in order of importance but are loosely subscription order processing and clustered as linguistic, logical, personal, claims; circulation and check-in; cata- and organizational abilities. They are log maintenance. Day-to-day auton- cumulative; people on each level omy following prescribed proce- should be proficient at the aptitudes of dures. Associate degree in library the lower levels.

Language Aptitude Lib. Asst. 111: Ability to analyze requests through an interview process. Lib. Asst. I: Ability to grasp terminol- Technical Librarian: Ability to direct ogy to the extent that worker can spell interviews and personalize interview to words heard on the phone or in conver- user. sation. Lib. Asst. 11: Ability to grasp terminology to the extent that worker can Writing Aptitude use dictionary definitions to get an Lib. Asst. I: Neat, legible writing or understanding of a subject. printing in order to communicate Lib. Asst. 111: Ability to grasp termi- requests or problems. nology to the extent that worker can Lib. Asst. 11: Ability to compose formulate synonym lists for terms. letters for claims, inquiries, orders, and Technical Librarian: Ability to do SO on. thesaurus building and abstracting; Lib. Asst. 111: Ability to compose ability to understand details of library's reports about the job; ability to write subject matter. intelligible abstracts. Technical Librarian: Ability to gener- Concept-Analysis Aptitude ate memos, reports, policy statements, and so on. Lib. Asst. I: Ability to understand simple specific requests. Record-keeping Ability Lib. Asst. 11: Ability to interpret requests and gauge complexity of ques- Lib. Asst. 1: Ability to keep tally of tions. activities (as requested). Communication Aptitude Lib. Asst. I: Ability to get along with users (to "interact with them in a positive fashion"). Lib. Asst. 11: Ability to adapt response according to user characteristics. Lib. Asst. 111: Ability to communicate with users on equal terms (adult/ adult). Technical Librarian: Ability to communicate with users as an expert in library matters.

Self-confidence Lib. Asst. I: Ability to appreciate the Lib. Asst. 11: Ability to compile peri- value of the job and to feel an identity odic statistics describing activities per- as a member of the team. formed. Lib. Asst. 11: Ability to maintain self- Lib. Asst. 111: Ability to compile statis- confidence and composure in the face tics into a concise report. of conflicting user demands. Technical Librarian: Ability to deter- Lib. Asst. 111: Ability to initiate (and mine what statistics should be gath- take responsibility for) knowledge- ered. broadening activities. Technical Librarian: Ability to be self-reliant in determining direction of Memory job growth and library gowth Lib. Asst. 1: Ability to remember routine library terms -and procedures once they have been explained and Cooperation practiced. Lib. Asst. I: Ability to understand the Lib. Asst. 11: Ability to remember a duties of the other staff members. broad range of procedures to cover Lib. Asst. 11: Ability to understand infrequently occurring situations; abil- and assist in basic procedures of other ity to identify recurring requests. staff members. Lib. Asst. 111: Abilitv to remember Lib. Asst. 111: Ability to pinch-hit or user or author specialties and other perform back-up for other staff mem- specifics of past library transactions. bers' operations. Technical Librarian: Ability to recall Technical Librarian: Ability to work methods and terms mentioned in in a team with other professionals and professional literature and course work. to tap the expertise of specialists in Ability to do SDI. other disciplines.

Mathematical Aptitude Detail Aptitude Lib. Asst. I: Ability to count and add. Lib. Asst. 11: Ability to perform basic Lib. Asst. I: Ability to perform mathematical operations. routine, repetitive tasks with accuracy Lib. Asst. 111: Ability to compute aver- under general supervision. ages and percentages. Lib. Asst. 11: Ability to understand Technical Librarian: Ability to com- the importance of routine procedures in pose charts anc' ' I. ---- -..:--..-..:&I- -LL,... job tasks. casting tools. :y to determine septemher 1979 those details of routine procedures Conclusion which should be delegated. Technical Librarian: Ability to han- In addition to aptitudes that can be dle details of subject matter rather than graded by job level, there are some apti- of procedures. tudes that should be found in full in all special library employees. One is the Time Management Aptitude ability to work alone, especially important in remote plant libraries with only Lib. Asst. I: Ability to complete task one staff member. Another is the ability in a predetermined amount of time. to speak and understand the standard Lib. Asst. 11: Ability to set priorities language that is used in the area or the and budget time in response to plant, in person or on the phone, and to demands of different users and job have patience with non-native speak- functions. ers. A third is the dexterity and strength Lib. Asst. 111: Ability to analyze time necessary to accomplish the physical budget to the extent that worker can aspects of the job. Finally, there is the identify and renegotiate overlarge proj- ability to realize when a question or ects. problem should be referred to another Technical Librarian: Ability to assign source within the library network, priorities in order to handle extraordi- within the company, or in the outside nary situations. information world. The aptitude levels and characteris- Task Organization Aptitude tics described here have several applica- Lib. Asst. I: Ability to arrange work tions. First, they can be used as a check- in a logical way. list in reviewing the development and Lib. Asst. 11: Ability to break down promotability of current staff members. complex procedures to plan workday Second, they can help determine the efficiently. suitability of company employees from Lib. Asst. 111: Ability to participate in other areas. Third, they will aid in the analysis of systems and procedures. interview process for new applicants Technical Librarian: Ability to ini- and in the tricky process of reviewing tiate analysis of systems and proce- character references from previous em- dures. ployers and other sources. Last, and most important for our case, they can be Delegation Aptitude used to demonstrate to nonlibrary managers and personnel departments Lib. Asst. I: Ability to understand and the practical reasons for posting a accept basis of delegation decisions. library job opening at a particular level. Lib. Asst. 11: Ability to delegate work. Lib. Asst. 111: Ability to forecast the need for assistants. Received for review Mar 22, 1979. Manu- Technical Librarian: Ability to deter- script accepted for publication May 25, mine qualifications of assistants. 1979.

Margery Goldstein is currently a writer, Digital Equipment C~rporation~Software Documentation Department. Carolyn Sweeney is information manager, Corpo- rate Library, Digital Equipment Corpo- ration, Maynard, Mass. SWEENEY

sp~ciallibraries On the Practical Side

Retention Periods for Journals in a Small Academic Library Barbara Frick Schloman and Ruth E. Ah1

Purdue University, Biochemistry Library, West Lafayette, Ind.

W A questionnaire was sent to the primary users of an academic departmental library to determine the number of years each journal should be shelved in the library. Based on this inquiry, journal retention schedules were established. Benefits to be realized from this plan were as follows: 1) 19% of the journal collection was initially removed to secondary storage; 2) a mechanism was established for annually weeding the shelves; 3) titles were identified for cancellation; and 4) guidelines were established for the class of binding to be used for each title.

EEDING has been common the criteria used for selecting materials, practice in many special li- but also of those used for weeding a braries that have space only collection. forw current material. Recent literature This paper presents the means used shows that weeding also has become an to weed the iournal collection in an option of increasing importance for academic departmental library in order academic libraries in the face of mount- to free needed shelf space. Retention ing budget and space problems (1-3). periods were set for each title based on Specifically, the increased cost of books the results of a user questionnaire. and journals and limited shelf space has The Purdue Biochemistry Library is a necessitated a reevaluation not only of small facility of approximately 10,000 volumes, serving primarily departmental graduate students and faculty. Most of the budget and space for the collec- Both authors were life science librarians, tion suppo&s the j;urnal collection of Purdue University, at the time of the study. eighty-nine titles; only eight of those septen~ber1979 Copyr~ghto 1979 Speciai L~braresAssoc

Earliest Year of Journal Run 1946- 1951- 1956- 1961- 1966- 1977- 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 present Total Number of Journal Runs Now Beginning in Time Period 3 3 19 34 14 16 89 Number of Journal Runs To Begin in Time Period Based on Survey 0 1 7 8 3 1 42 89

Table 2. Journals with Recommended Retention Periods of Fifteen to Twenty-five Years Based on User Survey.

Length of Time to be Held Journal 25 Years 20 years 15 Years J. of Biological Chemistry x Archives of Biochemistry 8 Biophysics x Biochemical Journal x Biochemistry x Biochimica et Biophysica Acta x Chemical Abstracts x Science x Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences x Analytical Biochemistry x Biochemical 8 Biophysical Research Communications Biological Abstracts European Journal of Biochemistry Journal of the American Chemical Society Journal of Bacteriology Journal of Molecular Biology Nature

0 complete removal from the library The distribution of the journal ages strictly on the basis of the survey. Those over the various time periods shows titles that received only a slight positive that, based on user preference, only response would later be reviewed by 22% of the titles are important enough the librarians and faculty. on a retrospective basis to have ready Table 1 shows the present and access to the last fifteen to twenty-five proposed "ages" of the journal titles years. Table 2 lists those sixteen titles. shelved in the Biochemistry Library A list was prepared of those journals (i.e., the length in years of each journal receiving enough low responses or run). Again, this is presented in periods negative comments that cancellations of five-year increments. It can be seen seemed to be warranted for the active that by following the suggested reten- titles and complete removals to storage tion periods, the journal collection for the ceased or already cancelled ones. shelved in the library's primary space There were ten possible removals and will indeed become younger. More twelve likely cancellations. Subscrip- titles will be held for shorter periods of tion costs and other sets on campus, if time. any, were noted. This list and the september 1979 results of the entire survey were last year contained in it falls outside the discussed at a faculty meeting. retention period. The faculty supported the immediate A sign giving the retention period cancellation of seven titles for a savings for each title will be posted, and a note of $688 and requested six new subscrip- made on the catalog cards. Careful tions. The other five possible cancella- records of retrieval from the storage tions will not be put through at this area will be kept in order to evaluate time, but will be held as a future source the appropriateness of the various for new journal funds. It was agreed schedules and to return to prime space that the ten "dead" journal runs could those that are indicated, as suggested by be placed in storage for an additional Snowball (9). gain of ten feet of shelf space. The newly cancelled titles will be phased Space Savings out slowly; they will be kept in the library on a five-year retention period. Measurements were made to deter- The faculty accepted the results of the mine how the journal shelves were survey and the resultant retention being used by the eighty-nine titles and schedules. the amount of savings the new reten- In instituting the schedules, the tion schedules might yield. The mea- volumes falling outside the retention surement was taken in five-year incre- periods will be moved into storage ments starting with 1975 (the last fully within the next few months. The bound year at the time of the study) and shelves in the library will always have going back for the entire run of the the full number of years indicated by title. the schedule. Nothing will be removed The total number of feet presently to secondary storage until the next year being used to shelve journals for each is complete and bound. In the case of five-year period is shown in Table 3. As multiple years bound together, the might be expected, the journal holdings volume will not be removed until the of more recent years occupy a signifi-

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Table 3. Amount of Space Occupied by Journals.

1946- 1951- 1956- 1961- 1966- 1971- Added 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 in 1976 Total Number of Feet Presently on Shelf in Time Period 4 12 36 101 198 255 59 665 Number of Feet to be Removed from Time Period Based on Retention Schedule* 4 7 10 46 49 9 1 126 Number of Feet Remaining in Time Period after lmple- mentation of Plan 0 5 26 55 149 246 58 538 I--Including savings from faculty approval on removing dead runs and cancellations 380 spc~iallihrarirs cant percentage of the total collection. do not require premium binding. Each In fact, holdings of the last six years title was evaluated separately. Basically, account for 48% of the shelving used for however, any title that will now be journals. The last year alone comprised shelved in the library proper for five 7% of the total. Table 3 also shows how years or less will be bound in class B; a space would be used following the few were changed to economy binding. retention periods set up after the user The savings in points was 165 out of a questionnaire. yearly total of 1752 or 9%. These points Following the retention schedules, it will be used in the following order of will be possible to remove 116 feet of priority: to bind new journal titles, to journals immediately, or 17% of the bind titles that had fallen behind due to currently used space. With faculty lack of points, and to rebind some approval another ten feet of already monographs. cancelled or ceased material will be removed for a total savings of 19%.This Conclusion will be enough space to loosen up the journal shelves that had become tight This study attempted to identify jour- and to allow for the increasing density nal titles and the years of those titles of many titles (i.e., the growth in the that comprise the core collection of number of pages published per year). journals in the Purdue Biochemistry Library. This was not meant to define Binding the core collection of the biochemistry journal literature per se, but rather the The next phase of the study exam- most significant journal volumes for the ined the retention schedule as a possi- main body of users of this facility. ble guide for choosing the class of bind- In using a questionnaire to determine ing to be used for a journal. Binding the significant years of each journal, the within the Purdue libraries is available authors realized that user response may in three classes. Each class is assigned a well be based on misconceptions con- given number of points that corre- cerning the respondent's own journal spond to the contracted price for each use and access needs. However, since type of binding (A: 6; B: 4; Economy: 3). this library is a small and largely dupli- The binding quota for a library in the cate collection with a strongly posses- Purdue system is the total number of sive group of users, it was felt that this points available for that year, and they method would produce the desired may be "spent" as the librarian sees fit. results, as well as allow user participa- At the time of the study all volumes tion in the weeding decisions. were being bound in Class A binding. It Responses from the survey formed was felt that those journals which will the basis of establishing a retention have relatively short retention periods schedule for each journal title. It will be septemher 1979 necessary to assess the validity of these cancellations and the creation of retention periods as time passes using funding for new subscriptions. It retrieval requests and users' comments also allowed for removal to storage as guides. Although a relatively small for ten already ceased or cancelled number of titles were under considera- titles. tion in this study, it is believed that it indicated the appropriate class of using retention schedules would yield binding to be used for each journal significant space savings in larger jour- title based on its retention. This nal collections as well. savings was considered significant. The benefits from this study have Since many libraries are nearing been as follows: capacity and new buildings are unlike- *the number of feet of journals ly, the need for guidelines for weeding shelved in the library was reduced has increased. Those institutions fortu- immediately by 19%; nate enough to obtain a storage space .it provides for yearly removal to outside the library will need a means of storage of journal volumes, thereby determining what will go into this stor- establishing some control over age area. Journals, as well as books, may growth of the collection within the need to be considered. While a user limited shelving space of the library questionnaire may not be feasible in itself. every situation, it is believed to have deadwood in the journal collection provided a means in this instance for was identified, reflecting changing evaluating a journal collection and research interests in the department improving the library's ability to pro- and journals of lesser pertinence. vide accessibility to the most used and This provided a list of possible needed journals.

APPENDIX. Sample of Questionnaire Format.

To: Biochemistry Faculty and Graduate Students

From: Ruth Ahl, Life Sciences Librarian

To gain needed space for journals in the Biochemistry Library, we are proposing that a retention schedule for each journal be established and the volumes for years prior to that period be moved to the attic (as space permits). For example, if Tetrahedron were to have a retention period of ten years, 1966 and the continuing years would be shelved in the library. When all of the volumes for 1976 were bound, the 1966 volumes would be moved to the attic. Please indicate on the following list the retention periods you would prefer for each title. It is important that we know what titles you use heavily on a retrospective basis. Also, indicate any journals that you feel could be cancelled and withdrawn. Thank you for the time you spend on this form. Your position in the department: -faculty grad.student -staff -other circle year 1 2 3 4 5

Biochemistry Library Journal Titles and Current Suggest Retention Periods Holdings in Library Room (other years to go to attic) 5 10 15 20 25 yrs. yrs. yrs. yrs. yrs. Accounts of Chemical Research, 197 1- Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 1964- Agricultural and Biological Chemistry, 1961 - Analyst, 1961- Analytical Abstracts, 1975- Analytical Biochemistry, 1960- Analytical Chemistry, 1961 - Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 1966- special lihrari~s Literature Cited Study at Children's Hospital of Michi- gan. Bulletin of the Medical Library Associa- 1. Gore, Daniel, ed./ Farewell to Alexandria: tion 58 (no. 1):65-67 (Jan 1970). Solutions to Space, Growth, and Performance 7. Bastille, Jacqueline D. and Carole J. Problems of Libraries. Westport, Conn., Mankin/ Report on Subsequent Demand Greenwood Press, 1976. 180p. for Journal Titles Dropped in 1975. Bulle- 2. Slote, Stanley J./ Weeding Library Collec- tin of the Medical Library Association 66 (no. tions. Littleton, Colo., Libraries Unlim- 3):346-349 (Jul 1978). ited, 1975. 177p. 8. Johnson, Carol A. and Richard W. Trues- 3. Urquhart, J. A. and N. C. Urquhartl Rele- well/ The Weighted Criteria Statistic gation and Stock Confrol in Libraries. Boston, Score: An Approach to Journal Selection. Oriel Press, 1976. 154p. College and Research Libraries 39 (no. 4. Kamenoff, Lovisal Retention of Journals 4):287-292 (Jul 1978). in a Community Hospital Library. Bulle- 9. Snowball, George J. and Joseph Sampe- tin of the Medical Library Association 65 (no. dro/ Selection of Periodicals for Return 4):446-447 (Oct 1977). to Prime Space from a Storage Facility. 5. Tibbetts, Pamela/ A Method for Estimat- Canadian Library Journal 30 (no. 6):490-492 ing the In-House Use of the Periodical (Nov/Dec 1973). Collection in the University of Minne- sota Bio-Medical Library. Bulletin of thc Medical Library Association 62 (no. 1):37-48 Received for review ]an 19, 1979. Manu- (Jan 1974). script accepted for publication May 24, 6. Smith, Joan M. B.1 A Periodical Use 1979.

Barbara Frick Schloman is visiting assistant reference librarian, Kent State Uni- versity, Kent, Ohio. Ruth E. Ahl is assistant director, Resources and Reference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. XHLOMAN AH1

september 1979 Issues for Delegate Consideration White House Conference on Library and Information Services Submitted by Special Libraries Association

Preface

The National Commission on Libraries and Conference delegate consideration since, we Information Science, in its report, Toward a believe, some of the issues may have been National Program for Library and Information overlooked by the delegates, or may have been Services: Goals for Action, states the presented by other interested individuals or fundamental assumption that "the total library associations from a different vantage point It is and information resource in the United States is our hope that the delegates, alternate delegates a national resource which should be developed, and observers to the White House Conference strengthened, organized and made available to on Library and Information Services will study the maximum degree possible in the public these issues, will formulate their own positions, interest." Without question, the library and and will arrive at recommendations for possible information resource encompassed by more action. than 12,000 special libraries in the United States We wish to express our thanks to The H.W. represents a unique resource, both hnman and Wilson Company for publishing Issues for matkriel, which, if properly utilized, could Delegatc Consideration as a public service." advance national goals for information access We believe that the published compilation of and the proper utilization of information in the these issues will be helpful not only to the public interest. delegates to the White House Conference, but As an association of individuals and will also be of value to the members of our own organizations deeply concerned with matters association and the library and information relating to information access and the maximum service community at large in assessing and utilization of information, Special Libraries solving a number of problems of mutual inter- Association (SLA) has selected a number of est. Our thanks and appreciation are expressed issues which it would like to bring to the to all SLA members and officers who shared attention of the delegates, alternate delegates their ideas, concerns and enthusiasm with us and observers to the White House Conference on Library and Information Services. It must, Vivian D. Hewitt, President however, be noted that all library and Special Libraries Association information service issues, to a greater or lesser extent, affect special librarianship and the Irving M. Klempner, Chairman provision of special library services. Members of SLA Special Committee on SLA are employed in a multiplicity of subject White House Conference on disciplines, mission-oriented enterprises, Library and Information Services agencies and associations, public and private sectors of our economy, large and small Aphrodite Mamoulides organizations, all requiring or providing James B. Dodd specialized information services. Patricia W. Berger The issues stated in the following pages are Beverly J. Ryd not intended to be interpreted as a position statement on the part of Special Libraries *This brochure is available from Special Libraries Association. Our aim has been to bring these Association at no charge upon request. The issues to the forefront for White House supply, however, is limited

384 Copyr~ghto 1979 Specla1 Llbrarles Assoc~atton special libraries Introduction which are not accessible to the public, is to be deplored as representing simplistic, if not In assessing the overall development of uninformed, judgment. federal, state, local, and other relevant Whatever the White House Conference on information services, the National Commission Library and Information Services does, one on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) thing it must not do is ignore special libraries concluded that the existing programs are and the information professionals who service generally unrelated to one another and that they these collections. The resources of special are being developed for the most part in an libraries have been vital to the development of uncoordinated way. As a result, the Commission this nation, technologically, scientifically and developed a set of Program Objectives in order socially by virtue of the advancements made by to coordinate and reinforce federal efforts to the organizations and institutions within which support local and specialized services and, they serve. These special library collections are concurrently, provide a national framework for there for others to use. It should, therefore, be planned, systematic growth of library and obvious that special libraries have a role to play information services in the public and private in meeting the information needs of the local sectors. Since a major responsibility of the White community. House Conference delegates will be to discuss Special libraries have a role to play in the and assess the National Program as set forth by national program on library and information the Commission, the SLA issues are grouped services proposed by the National Commission under the Program Objectives developed by on Libraries and Information Science. As a NCLIS for formulating and implementing a consequence, no national inventory, no national program for library and information national library and information service service. program, no national information network should disregard these specialized collections and the information professionals who service NCLZS Program Objective No. I: them. No national information policy should Ensure that basic minimums of library ignore the wealth of specialized information and information services adequate to which could be made available to ever larger meet the needs of all local communities segments of our citizenry. General public are satisfied. libraries need to be made aware of the existence of these collections which can help meet the minimal information needs of a variety of users. The Special Library as a Resource to Special libraries want to play a part in providing Meet the Needs of Local Communities local and national information services. Indeed, special libraries must be a part of the total The special library often represents a local as information picture. well as a national resource for specialized information. The White House has a library. Special Library Service as a Compo- Newspapers have libraries. Ranks have libraries. nent of Public Library Service; The Pharmaceutical companies, insurance Revitalization of the Public Librarv companies, consulting firms, state, municipal and federal agencies have libraries. Trade There is no question but that confronted with associations have libraries All of these libraries fixed or reduced budgetary allocations, forced have one characteristic in common in that all of to absorb inflationary increases in library them have collected and organized speciaked materials and related overhead expenditures, information in specific subject areas, or in public libraries have been caught in an support of specific missions, to meet the economic squeeze. The continued ability of the information needs of their respective clienteles. public library to provide even minimal While essentially established to assist the users information services to its local community is within their own institutions, the information now in question. resources and expertise of the special library are Concurrently, while the number of often made available to the public at large. publications and type of media are constantly on Certainly, special librarians and other the increase, the public library has been asked to information professionals, aware of the value, provide information services that, with scope and access routes to these specialized increasing frequency, encompass community collections, make frequent use of them for their problems whose solutions involve own clientele. Not maximizing the utility of interdisciplinary, general and special, these collections, or, what is worse, dismissing humanistic and legal, scientific and technical them as privately-held information resources information. The more general arts or september 1979 humanities-oriented information service governmental libraries which were established traditionally provided by most public libraries to serve only the employees of their respective needs to be augmented today by in-depth agencies or departments. The budgets and scientific, technological, regulatory, economic staffing of these libraries reflect the a priori and other information services designed to service restrictions to agency employees. Yet, provide the background information essential with increasing frequency these special libraries for local decision-making processes. Certainly are being asked to provide a wide range of local community concerns with respect to such information services to meet the information issues as the safety of a proposed nuclear power needs not only of their agency employees, but plant, the social and economic impact of a also the local community and the public at shopping center, the environmental protection large. The staffs of these special libraries are against toxic substances, etc., require access to more than willing to provide the required current and specialized sources of information services. Under the Freedom of Information which may not now be readily available in most Act, under state "Sunshine" laws, most public libraries. The quality of the decisions government documents and information re- made by the members of the community affects sources are available for public use. Availability their social and economic well-being, at times will not necessarily result in accessibility if the their very lives, if not the eventual survival of public service function of all government their respective communities. Thus, entering as libraries is not clearly made explicit in their we are now the threshold of the information respective charters, and if the budgetary alloca- age, with more than half of our working tions for these libraries do not reflect their population engaged in information-related recognized public service responsibility. activities, it is essential that not only general information, but specialized, in-depth Federal Data Banks as Potential information be available from the local or lnformation Resources to Meet the regional public library. Implicit in the information age is also the Needs of Local Communities communications age. Special libraries with their As an integral part of their activities, federal specialized staffs have historically served their agencies and their bureaus have been collecting organizations as windows or links to the wider and organizing data and information, including world of specialized information. Given even research in progress summaries, abstracts of the present state of network telecommunication pending legislation, numeric data files, development and the extant data bases that are bibliographic data, citations to the reports now accessible, the means should be found to literature, audiovisual materials, standards, enable the special librarian or information specifications, patents, their abstracts and professional to exploit a wide variety of remote indexing terminologies. To a very large extent information resources from the site of a public the collected data and information have been library. converted to machine-readable form and thus, The public library network exists today Its through on-line access, have the potential of plant is nationally and strategically located. By fulfilling the information needs of industry, broadening and deepening its information local businesses and the local community at service capability, the local public library has large. the potential of becoming the community Many of these computer-stored data files and information center, a more adequately funded, systems do not p-dvide print products or revitalized and indispensable ingredient for magnetic tapes for sale or distribution. Thus, for community well-being. example, the on-line system SCORPIO (Subject Content Oriented Retriever for Processing The Special lnformation Resources of Information On-Line), developed by the Federal Libraries and National Library of Congress for its Congressional Documentation Centers to Meet The Research Service (CRS). in addition to internal Needs of Local Communities CRS reports and other significant documents generated by CRS for the Congress, also A number of federal libraries and national includes Issue Briefs, the National Referral documentation centers have been established as Center Master File, digests of congressional a direct result of Congressional action. In most legislation, General Accounting Office files, instances, the public service function of these selected abstracting and indexing of journal facilities has been clearly written into the articles, United Nations documents and, enabling legislation. There are, however, many furthermore, incorporates data banks containing federal, state, municipal and other special other public and private information special libraries As presently organized and administered, NCLZS Program Objective No. 2: limited public access to SCORPIO is available Provide adequate special services to only from the site of the Library of Congress. special constituencies including the Full and national access to this and similar unserved. federal agency files and systems is thus far foreclosed. Since the bulk of information contained in these files is of public interest, and Special Services at the State Agency since the files do not bear a security Level for Special Constituencies classification, such files, purged of private or - proprietary information, ought to be made The National Commission on Libraries and accessible to meet national information needs. Information Science stated in its report that An excellent example of making federally "The right information provided when it is collected and organized information available to needed, where it 1s needed, and in the form in the public is provided by the National Library which it is needed, improves the ability of an of Medicine. Having automated its internal individual, a business, a government agency, or operations, the National Library of Medicine some other kind of organization, to make provides access to its Medical Literature informed decisions and achieve particular

Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS) goals " This goal for action is particularly crucial bibliographic data base as well as several other in the area of human services Individuals data bases (e.g.. TOXLINE) to medical libraries seeking information in human services on a nationwide basis. programs, unlike those in other types of Another example with somewhat more programs, are most often disadvantaged and limited access is the U.S. Department of Energy underserved. DOEIKECON file. The information indexed Two segments of our society that are very ranges from technical research and much affected by access-or more often, non- development reports to practical how-to access-to information, are the aging and the information and nontechnical information on handicapped. The federal government, through social, economic, and environmental concerns. legislation and the establishment of national In addition to bibliographic citations, a information clearinghouses, has taken positive compilation of energy research projects and steps toward making information available to inventories of other possible information sources these groups and to those working with them. are provided. On-line access to DOE/RECON is While this may have been the intent at the limited to Department of Energy employees federal level, the information services have not and qualified contractors. For the individuals generally permeated or been effective at the and organizations ineligible for on-line access, state and local levels where little attempt has RECON search services are available for a fee been made to assure the systematic provision of through the Western Regional Information accurate, up-to-date information for those Service Center. In addition, RECON search professionally employed in these areas, or those services are available to the public through who are the recipients of state agency services. Department of Energy information centers in Tragic instances can be cited of human several U.S. cities. suffering, and even loss of life, resulting from a lack of knowledge, both on the part of professionals and the recipients of state agency services, of federal or state legislative provisions or regulations. Obviously, the health, economic survival and general well-being of the handicapped and aged persons may depend not only on a knowledge of regulatory information, but also on agency application and utilization of pertinent research findings. While millions of dollars have been spent annually on research and development activity by federal and state institutions, field evidence indicates that the research results hardly reach the individuals who deliver the services and only haphazardly, the state and local administrative decision- makers. One possible solution to improve the The means must also be found for information jlow to disadvantaged individuals, determining and certifying the validity or as well as to the professionals and accuracy of numeric data. As has been noted in administrators who provide their services, is to the study, Passing the Threshold Into the establish within state, county, or n~unicipal Information Age-Perspectives for Federal agencies adequately funded and stafed special Action on Inforn~ation,carried out by Arthur Among the libraries and information centers. D. Little, Inc. for the National Science functions to be carried out by such libraries and Foundation. "Data aualitv control must be information centers would be the purposeful . , provided through careful documentation, high collection, organization and dissemination of and visible standards for review processes, at research findings, legislation, regulatory least some requirements for comparing similar materials and other documents or information data bases to remove incorrsistencies, assurance applicable to solving the problems of the aged that federally-supported data of potential value and handicapped. can be made broadly available, and improvements in advance planning for use of data." Conversely, in any field or discipline, those documents or data which have been NCLZS Program Objective No. 3: judged to be particularly praiseworthy, ought to Strengthen existing statewide resources be publicized and the bibliographic information and systems. about them selectively and purposefully disseminated. A fundamental assumption is Identification of Quality Data and made here that there exists within our society a Quality Information Resources set of principles or precepts, relative rather than absolute, which would help us to determine There seems to be no question but that the what does and what does not constitute good information age has been accompanied by a research mrthodology, what does and what does proliferation of print and nonprint materials. not constitute careful analysis, logical reasoning Some have referred to the so-called information or adequate supporting evidence. explosion as the information inflation. It is Efforts to certify the validity or accuracy of obvious that even with the most adequate data and the peer review process have, of funding, special libraries and information course, been operational for a long period of centers, indeed all types of libraries, have been time. What is needed now is the further forced to acquire only some of the many institutionalization of these processes through documents pertinent to their areas of interest. the creation of additional information analysis While national cooperative planning must centers and the expansion of relevant assure that every book, journal, report or other evaluation processes at centers which are now document of research value or redeeming social operational. Whether attached to discipline- purpose is available and accessible to the oriented national research centers, whether members or our society, quality criteria need to operating in tandem with libraries or be developed as aids in determining what should information centers in industrial organizations, or should not be retained indefinitely, what professional society documentation centers or should or should not be moved to regional or university deprtmental libraries, the primary national document repositories. function of the information analysis centers special libraries would be to evaluate, record and highlight both In many organizational environments, special current and retrospective materials of quality. librarians have made important strides in To some extent, discipline or subject area orienting themselves toward problem-solving responsibility has already been assumed by and in integrating the products and technology certain university libraries and centers. The of the information era. A great deal, however, development of quality criteria and their remains to be done. In the past, continuing application to documentary materials ought to education for librarianshi~ as well as the be a funded and distributed function among prevailing library science curricula required a the various states, based on the acknowledged minimum of highly expensive technical expertise and capabilities of their respective equipment. Amidst a dynamic society, the book, public and private industrial organizations and or monograph, reigned supreme and was institutions. Meeting basic minimums of relatively stable. This is no longer the case. In library and information service implies more implementing programs for library and than meeting quantitative standards. Implicit information science education, whether here also are qualitative standards. designed for individuals beginning their graduate studies in library and information science or for practitioners in the field, it is essential that library schools foster new attitudes, acquire the requisite terminals, communication lines, computer time, data bases, software packages, audiovisual NCLZS Program Objective No. 4: equipment and related materials considered to Ensure basic and continuing education be vital for modern instructional programs. of personnel essential to the While one can discuss the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) system or refer to the implementation of a national program. Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS), the System Development Corporation (ORSIT) or Basic/Continuing Education Curricula Lockheed (DIALOG) on-line retrieval services, and Information Technology supplementing discussion with practice is a prime ingredient for proper understanding of Imperceptibly but surely library and what is involved. information science curricula are beginning to Most librarv schools and their host universitv focus on the information transfer process rather administrative departments, even if fully aware than emphasizing manual and the more of new trends and the expanded information traditional aspects of cataloging and organizing technology currently required to carry out a library materials. The shift that is taking place meaningful program in education for library represents a necessary and fundamental and information science, do not possess the precondition for integrating current requisite financial resources to change or information science theory and the rapidly evolving products and technology of the improve existing programs. As was the case with oast National Science Foundation efforts to information age. Among the many factors that improve science education, may account for changes in library school special grants for curricula are undor~btrdl~the introduction of znfornlatton technology equzpment and the computer, its peripherals and mass storage servzces uzll be essentzal for zmprovzng devices, the advances that have taken place in educatzonal programs zn lzbrary and telecommunications technology, and the anformatzon sczence Contznuzng educatton improven~entsin the intellectual apparatus, i.e., senzznars, workshops, travelzng exhzhzts, and software, which enables us, through self-tnstructzonal learnzng packages wzll need combinatory searching techniques, to retrieve to be developed to update the knowledge and information through use of a variety of terms sktllr of many professtonal lzhrarzans uho, and data elrments. Of particular ~ignificancc although dt$czent In attztudcs and methods, has been an orientation of curricula to deal with continue to practice the profession of information problems-an orientation which librarianship and in servicing public ilow increasingly emphasizes data and information needs information, societal information needs, tht. socio-political environments within whic\h information transfer takrs place, and the procrss of information transfw itsc.lf rather than the forms in which information is packagtd, or the institutions which house. and storr information. NCLZS Program Objective No. 5: overlapping and duplicate functions, Coordinate existing federal programs of conflicting programs, and obsolete policies. library and information service. The Policy Group on Information and Computers of the Committee on House Streamlining Federal Legislation Administration, U.S. Congress, has made some efforts in bringing some of these problems to the Affecting Library and lnformation attention of Congress. A more comprehensive Service Programs and purposeful effort will be required in the near future. Federal programs in library and information services. whether or not so identified. constitute enormous investments of taxpayer funds Even a cursory perusal of federal agency activities reveals that they generate information, fund information programs, purchase or otherwise NCLZS Program Objective No. 6: acquire information, organize, package, sell and Encourage the private sector disseminate information A recent Congressional Research Service analysis of 74 (comprising organizations which are statutes enacted by the 95th Congress during not directly tax-supported) to become 1977178 reveals that 54 of the measures contain, an active partner in the development of in whole or in part, "mandates for new the national program. computer systems or data bases, directives for collecting or disseminating information, calls for Private Sector Special Libraries as the introduction of new telecommunications Components of the National Program systems, provision for protecting the rights of privacy and other information-related matters." In considering the above objective, the Thus, hidden within Public Law 95-444, "Civil National Commission on Libraries and Rights Commission Act," is the directive that Information Science recognized the unique the Commission serve as a clearinghouse on contribution that can be made by special discrimination toward the aged and the libraries and information centers operating in handicapped. Public Law 95-87, the "Surface both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Mining Control and Reclamation Act," contains The Commission report notes: "While little the innocuous provision authorizing the precedent exists for incorporating private sector Secretary of the Interior to prepare and resources and services into the country's maintain a continuing inventory of information functional information structure, it seems on surface coal mining and reclamation projects. essential that they be made an integral part of Public Law 9.5-491, "Federal Information any national program." Centers Act," authorizes the Administrator of It is obvious to most observers that General Services to establish within the General information service activities of government, Services Administration a nationwidr network industry, academic institutions, commercial of federal information centers for the purpose of organizations and professional and trade informing the public of programs and associations have become inextricably procedures of the federal government and for intertwined. Obvious, too, is the fact that the other appropriate and related purposes. rules for interaction between goverrirnental and While over the ~astdecades many measures private organizations have been frequently such as these have been enacted into law b\ obscure. inconsistent, or nonexistent. Thus, in various Congresses, little attention has been paid the realm of public/private interface, one can to coordinating existing federal library and cite examples of effective cooperation and, at information service programs or integrating the same time, disruptive conflicts operating in newly enacted programs with those already in tandem effect. Within the federal government, As indicatrd earlier, special libraries and interagency collaboration and coordination is, at information centers want to contribute to the best, very complex. Jurisdictional or functional national program of library and information areas of responsibility are often blurred. service. Although frequently possessing unique Information acccss requirements frequently resources, many of these libraries have small vary. A comprehensive review and analysis of staffs and limited budgets; their lack of all federal legislation afecting library and equipment may prech~dethem from sharing information services, progranzs and policies their information resources. On the other hand, needs to Ix undertaken with a oiezc of rcoising sporadic and inconsistent Internal Revenue legislation and rcgt~lations to eliminate Service rulings have inhibited some special libraries, operating in the for-profit sector, from NCLZS Program Objective No. 7: joining not-for-profit networks and making use Establish a locus of federal of or contributing their services. responsibility charged with Surcharges of approximately 20% have been implementing the national network and levied in the past on for-profit libraries using coordinating the national program processes and products provided by a not-for- under the policy guidance of the profit organization. In a recent series of cases involving OCLC, Inc. and, individually, other National Commission. networks, the Internal Revenue Service permitted for-profit libraries to participate A Coordinating Locus for Library and without special or higher charges than their Information Service Programs not-for-profit counterparts. It should be noted that studies of interlibrary loan activity of small That there has been a distinct need for a libraries that joined regional or national coherent conceptual framework against which networks indicate dramatic increases on the part existing and proposed library and information of the smaller libraries in making their programs could be evaluated is evident from the information resources available to others. Under report, National Information Policy, submitted past procedures, while the holdings of large to the President of the United States in 1976 by libraries were recorded and published in the staff of the Domestic Council Committee on national bibliographic tools, the holdings of the Right of Privacy. A good deal of research, small libraries were not so recorded. It seems discussion and speculation has taken place with reasonable to assume that this may account for respect to the more limited national policy for the heavy burden of interlibrary loan requests library and information services, the carried up to now by the larger institutions. coordination of such policy and services within How, then, can the small, non-tax-supported the federal government, the interaction between special library, though possessing in-depth public and private sector information-service information resources and a willingness to hart. organizations and institutions, etc. For the most them, be encouraged to join and participate as part, however, efforts aimed at coordination and an active partner in a program of national integration of library and information services library and information services? The National have been at best sporadic, superficial, Commission on Libraries and Information fragmentary, and largely unsuccessful. Science refers to inducements and subsidies to Within recent months, the Association of encourage such participation. Financ-ial Research Libraries (ARL) submitted a mechanisms, now lacking, need to be a, Statement, of Principles for Congressional developed for reimbursing non-tax-supported Action to Establish a National Library Agency." libraries and information centers either on an The Association based its recommendation for overall subsidy basis or for services actually creating such an agency on the following rendered. Internal Revenue Service regulations findings: need to be clarified and applied in a manner 1. Research and education in all disciplines clearly enabling the for-profit and not-for- depend upon libraries to collect, organize, projit special libraries to participate in the and preserve the information of potential use national program. A unifornt set of polieies to the scholars of the world. and regulations relevant to private sector- 2. Although libraries have been growing at government interaction should be promulgated exponential rates in recent decades, hecause at the earliest opportunity. The lack of such of the rapid growth in cost and volume of policies and guidelines creates tension and publication, each library is becoming uncertainty and are inimical to full utilization nf increasingly less able to satisfy the research national information resources. and education needs of its patrons. This experience is documented in studies of interlibrary loan and of access to the periodical literature which have been sponsored by several professional and scholarly organizations, including the Association of Research Libraries, and by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. 3. The solution to this problem requires the establishment of an operating library agency at the national level. The proposal for the National Library Welfare, the Technical Information Center of Agency calls for governance by a "body with the Department of Energy, the Scientific and the responsibility and authority to establish, Technical Information Facility of the National fund, coordinate, operate or contract for the Aeronautics and Space Administration, the programs and services required to carry out the Chemical Abstracts Service, the Institute for purposes of the agency; to determine operating Scientific Information, Inc., the National policies and evaluate and review management Archives, the Government Printing Office, and performance." While there may be a consensus similar organizations? If such an agency were to within the library and information service be limited only to the coordination of library community that there is a need for an activities, is it wise for us to exclude the non- integrating and coordinating authority at the library public and private, industrial and national level, and although the ARL proposal governmental information service components? seeks to establish a federal agency with no However defined, if a National Library Agency prescriptive authority, fears have been were to be established, how can we assure that expressed that eventually all government bodies such an agency would not autocratically become regulatory and, as a consequence, prescribe and control the direction and prescriptive. development of national and local information If a National Library Agency is to be programs and services? The issues and decisions established, is it essential that it be a federal relating to the creation of a National Library agency? How can we assure that, if established, Agency are fraught with serious consequences such an agency would represent and be for both the library profession and the general responsive to all types of user groups and the public. totality of the information service community? Without sufficient input from various user What form should this integrating organization groups and the profession itself, without take? If established, how will its membership be adequate representation in the formulation of chosen? What will be its relationship with the conceptual framework, planning, existing federal agencies and other public and development and eventual governance of such private entities, including the National an agency, the proposed agency may prove to Commission on Libraries and Information be a barrier rather than a boon in the provision Science, the Office of Libraries and Learning of library and information services to all Resources of the Office of Education, the segments of our society. The delegates to the Library of Congress, the Yational Librar) of White House Conference on Librar). and Medicine, the national documentation centers Information Services are urged to give careful such as the National Technical Information consideration to the issues involved here. At its Service of the Department of Commerce, the 1979 Winter Meeting, the Board of Directors of Educational Resources Information Center of the Special Libraries Association voted to the Department of Health, Education, and approve a recommendation of the Association's Chapter and Division Cabinets to the effect that part to the control and servicing of the the "Special Libraries Association not endorse monographic literature. While this effort may the development of a National Library Agency represent a laudable and necessary objective, it before the White House Conference on Library is insufficient to meet the network objectives as and Information Services is held.'' The set forth by NCLIS; it is insufficient to meet the conclusions and recommendations of the White information needs of our era. Parallel efiorts House Conference delegates will influence should be funded now to link the library future decisions of the Special Libraries bibliographic component with the multiplicity Association with respect to this issue. of machine-readable data bases of abstracting and indexing services, with special files developed by national documentation centers, NCLZS Program Objective No. 8: Plan, special libraries, information analysis centers, develop and implement a nationwide and a variety of other public and private network of library and information organizations. service. Although the library bibliographic component may be in harmony with an overall conceptual framework for a nationwide Monographs, Network Development network, consensus for such a framework has and Governance not yet been established. Consensus ought to be established now with respect to general The National Commission on Libraries and configuration, functions, services, de- Information Science defines the nationwide velopmen t effort management and eventual network as "an integrated system encompassing governance of the nationwide network. A state networks, multistate networks, and national forum, fully representing users, specialized networks, in the public and private existing cooperative networks, professional sectors." Its report advocates interrelating associations and all segments of the library and pluralistic cooperative programs and the optimum exploitation of the rich information information service community, ought to participate in network concept formulation, and knowledge resources in the United States. planning and development. Similar What is envisioned here is the horizontal as well representation, planning and development as vertical inteeration of all information resources. While an ideal nationwide network should prevail with respect to the evolution and may be projected in the Commission report, a implementation of the library bibliographic de facto network is being forged today; network component. component planning and development is now in effect with millions of dollars having been made Closing Remarks: Information as a available for this purpose by private Dr~klnm-Crrlw;n- Dnrnmmrnr. foundations To what extent is the current network planning ..-,1 -1 ...,-1 -----'-m--' :- harmony with t "o~timumex~loita and knowledge resc The over 12,C information center: almost all U.S. libra nerd current, in-dt and artistic conten Documents, as her journal articles, conference proce videotapes and materials. Withi] approximately $4( research and devel the research result: of scientific and tel De facto plar development are "the library biblio bibliographic info network planning and development will, sooner this important and abundant national or later, have to take cognizance of our basic resource. societal need to solve information problems The delegates to the White House Conference rather than to organize and link specific types of on Library and Information Services will arrive publications. A variety of formats, representing at a series of resolutions and recommendations. both print and nonprint materials, on-line as It is well for us to realize that there is a well as manual systems, will need to be difference between recommendation and acquired and organized; priorities for implementation. Implementation of White processing and electronic linking will need to House delcgate resolutions or recom- be assigned based on the potential of the mendations calls for an awareness of the value combined resources to yield solutions for of information on the part of those who are in community and societal information needs. a position to act on such recommendations. What is suggested here is more than marginal The Congress, management decision makers, improvements in the operating efficiencies of and the public at large will need to become existing systems. A great deal more is needed more fully sensitized, will need to acquire a than making bibliographic data, heretofore higher awareness of the national and local available in card or book format, more readily benefits to be derived through implementation accessible through use of a computer terminal. of the recommendations of the White House Information as a national resource, i.e., Conference delegates. A good start in this information as it is recorded in all formats and direction has already been attained through the as it appeals to a variety of senses, information as pre-White House state governors' conferences a problem-solving resource needs recognition and potentially, through the White House and acceptance not only within, but also outside Conference itself. A great deal still remains to be the library and information service community. done. Ultimately, it is our ability to solve our Regretfully, few users, administrators or societal information problems, our ability to elected officials have developed an truly meet the information needs of our users appreciation of the role of information in that will determine adequate funding and solving societal problems-of the broader national support for our existing and proposed perspective through which we now must view programs and services

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Joseph M. Dagnese sion began to take shape. Ile served as a graduate library assistant working in the acquisitions and cataloging departments of Catholic Cniversity. SLA President 1979/80 .After spending two yrars in the C.S. Army, Joe studied German language and literature for a Monday, Oct 10, 1927, was a rather unevent- year at the ~nterpreter's~~nstituteof Heidelberg ful, blase day according to the .Veuj York Tzme\- University. Recognizin~ his talents, Catholic John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gave in excess of University called him back to he assistant head, 11,750,000 to the llniversity of California at Cataloging Llivision. Berkeley for a 500-room dormitory; King George The next year Joe began his work in the banned bobbed hair among the royal maid special library world. IIr went to Nuclear servants; the American Church had a Paris festi- Lletals, Inc., as doc.unients librarian and then to val; a judge issued a warning against witchcraft; MIT where he progressed from head of Acquisi- Purdue University's prestige was rising in the Big tions to science lihrarian and head of Circulation ,I .en; the Yankees won the World Series; and the and finally to assistant director of the library for ex-Kaiser said God might call him back. Ziegfeltl Technical Srrvices. During this timr he spent one was starring Eddie Cantor in his Follies and year at Rirla Institutr of 'l'echnology anti Science, Jeannette hlcDonald was playing in, "Yes, Yes, Pilini, Rnjasthan. India, as ;I library consultant Yvette." The stockmarket was doing well with on a Ford Foundation sponsored program. AT&T closing 18I7/H;up 3%; Gold Dust was at Finally, in 1972, Joe came to Purdur Irniver- h8%, up IO~!~;and blidland Steel was at 162',5, up sity with the distinguished title of director. 21%. However, in Worcester, hlass., this un- Library and Audio-Visual (:enter, and professor eventful blonday was an eventful day for Mr. of Library Scirnce. LVith 28 years of profrssional and Mrs. Dagnese. Joseph M. Dagnese was horn experience, Pre.;ident Dag-nesr has shown that he after much anxiety. His parents were proud of is a capable, c.oncerned. conscirntious, congenial, little Joe. They had no idea that the hard-time happy, and trientlly person ready to serve and '30s were just around the corner anti least of all guide thc Association through rough ;md calm that some day Joe would become thr president of waters. 1Ir is always ready to listrn. react. act, Special Libraries Association. .;peak, and car-r!. thr t~;inrirr in the name of After graduating from Worcester primary md Special 1,it)raries ,\ssociation. secondary schools. Joe rrnharketi on his career by Joe's SIA activities Iq;m in earmest in 1964 attending Boston <:ollegc where he acquired a BA when he brcarne PI-rsitlentof the Boston C:h,iptrr. in English. He expanded on this by being granted His nexi major jot) with the :\ssociation \Ins an MA in English at (:atholic Cniversity, Wash- C:hapter liaiwn ollic.cr (1069 1072). It was a~ ington, D.C., with major concentration in :\meri- this time that he became well-known and liked by can literature and ;I minor in linguistics and Associ;rtion rncmlwrs. I can rrrncmhrr how \

Pres~dent-electDagnese poses after the lnternat~onalWelcome to Hawaii (I. to r.):Mary Lee Tsuffis, SLA Director; Jean K. Mardfin, representing the Mayor of Honolulu; Dagnese; Eileen R Anderson, representing the governor of Hawa~i;and Virginla Yagello, Division Cabinet Chairman. september 1979 397 Shaping the Future

Joseph M. Dagnese

The success of this Worldwide Conference on There is a leadership and, hence, a power Special Libraries attests to the significant role of struggle taking place in the information Special Libraries Association in international community, the outcome of which will likely librarianship. This conference must be thought of determine the future of the information society. It as a beginning, for there remains a great deal to is disturbing to observe the contest, because of the do to assess the increasingly global nature of possibility of lost opportunities to fashion a truly information activities. In order for SLA to significant statement of what can be. Our only maintain its position of influence at the hope is that somehow we will, as usual, muddle international level, it must underscore its more through and evolve a reasonable compromise. primary role on issues of national concern. Some of the issues that have been joined are the These issues deal in one way or another with new copyright law, a national periodicals center, the future of information: questions of avail- a system for a nationwide network, the White ability, accessibility, control, governance, and House Conference on Library and Information cost. These are not solely library issues. Indeed, Services, free versus fees for services, and so forth. their impact is universal because they involve the The library community has been less than entire continuum of the information process: cohesive in its response to these concerns. That

One primary concern of the future is the provision not only of access to information but, indeed, the provision of information itself. authors, publishers, sellers, buyers, libraries, may well be because libraries have so many free-lance specialists, copyright owners, and a constituencies whose needs vary so widely. But host of other vested interests. The inter- the heart of the matter is not libraries; rather, it is relationships of these varied groups, the information, and libraries are only one generators and consumers of information, have component of the total information process. never before been so widely and sometimes Yet we cannot ignore, or worse, abandon, the stridently debated. Old alliances, previously taken role of libraries in the process, for they fill a vital for granted, are being sundered, while newly need for many as the interface between evolving relationships are being forged. information and its use. What needs to be done is special libraries President's Report 1978/79 Vivian D. Hewitt

This report is a modest reflection highlighting the real progress that has been made in SLA during the year 1978/79. A full report would require a large volume were it to recognize just the major achievements of SLA's 48 Chapters and 29 Divisions, one of which is Provisional, its many hard-working Committees and Represen- tatives. Chapter and Division reports will be heard here today, and, of course, will appear in full in the September issue of Special Libraries, as will those of Committees and Hepresenta- tives. Presidents of SLA have many demands rnarle on their time in addition to their own administrative responsibilities in their place of emplov- Turning to the circumstances of my presiden- ment. When 1 made my inaugural address last tial year: the very afternoon following the burial June in Kansas City, little did I realize that of Dr. McKenna on Nov 16, 1978, the Executive events no one could have predicted, unless one Committee of the SLA Roard of Directors met had the uncanny foresight of Nostradanlus or and authorized Richard E. Griffin, Assistant the services of an as yet undiscovered crystal Executive Director, to act as Executive Director ball, would occur. The responsibility of the until a new Executive Director assumed respon- ofice of President, awesome under normal sibility. I cannot speak too highly of the manner circumstances, became doubly so after the quite and way he and the Association's dedicated, unexpected death of Executive Director Dr. loyal staff have conscientiously performed their Frank E. McKenna who was stricken with a work, far above and beyond the call of duty. m'e heart attack and taken from us quite literally at members have been blessed and we are lucky. I the height of his remarkable career and in the am indebted to Richard Griffin and the Associa- prime of his life. tion staff and to Harry A. LeRien, the Associa- Since that day, many SLA members, profes- tion's counsel, for helping me, and indeed, all of sional colleagues, and other people still come up us, the membership, through this period of time to me and ask, I suppose, out of courtesy, and in Special Libraries Association. I am also yet with a bit of apprehension, "How are things indebted to Thomas L. Hughes, President, at SLA?" If I were to give a complete answer to Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, their questions about how things are, I might who endorsed my standing for the office of paraphrase Dickens and say that my tenure as President of SLA, to the staff of the Endow President has been the best of times and the ment's Library who carried on their work worst of times. It has been a period of promise admirably during my absences from the office and of doubt. It has been both the "winter of and who bore the brunt of the physical move of despair" and the "spring of hope." the library when I was attending Roard of I need not view SLA's situation in Dickensian Directors meetings in Tucson, Ariz., and to my terms, as a dichotomy of the negative and the husband, John H. Hewitt, who tolerated my positive. For me what is required is an inte- comings and goings without ever complaining. I grated judgment of our situation, the view that am grateful and appreciative, too, of the many "problems" do exist but that they are "opportu- offers of assistance from the Board, Chapters, nities." Divisions, and individual members of SLA. special libraries . . .special librarians must not be bypassed on issues of national concern dealing with the future of the information age. to reassess present suppositions to determine Another issue is that of information as a which ones are valid in the evolving structure and commodity. Although knowledge is a public good, to pursue those goals wholeheartedly. information is not now, and never has been, free. One primary concern of the future is the Someone somewhere has had to subsidize it. The provision not only of access to information but, recognition of this concept by libraries and users indeed, the provision of information itself. In our is rapidly changing how information is obtained. information-based society, where glut is far more Again, special librarians have been out in front likely than famine, the need for evaluation of because they have understood this and have information is essential. What better place for this operated successfully in this milieu. to happen than in a library, and who is better While these two ideas-the provision of equipped to do it than technically competent information and the recognition of information as information specialists? This message needs to be a commodity-have clearly been among the promulgated widely, for it is too often lost sight of hallmarks of special librarianship for years, it is in the press of other concerns such as literacy, less clear that our practitioners have been able to purity of bibliographic records and preservation impact on the profession as a whole to influence of materials, among others. Special librarians change. Special librarians have in the past been have been in the information evaluation business accused of talking mostly to themselves. This for many years. Our success in this area could accusation, if ever true, is certainly no longer well serve as a model for our colleagues in other valid. Witness the impact of the Association on types of libraries. the copyright hearings. We are now actively involved in disrussions concerning the national periodicals center, the White House Conference on Library and Information Services, the evolving nationwide network, and other topics. And so it should be because we have a unique perspective to offer. The message I have tried to convey on my Chapter visits this past year has been that special librarians must not be bypassed on issues of national concern dealing with the future of the information age. We want to be proactive, not reactive. We want to be represented at all discussions of importance. I believe we have been able to impress this fact on those agencies that sponsor such meetings and discussions. A second point I have expressed is that many of these issues are political in nature, inasmuch as they involve a jockeying for power to fashion the future. Special librarians must become more politically astute and be willing to deal on that level. We cannot afford to act otherwise. We do not have the luxury of thinking that what takes place will not affect special libraries. We can and must be leaders in shaping the future. It is imperative that all our members commit themselves to this end. I urge us all to join together to make our positions heard. We are in the forefront now. We can be the bridge between today and tomorrow. Let us get on with it.

Mr Dagnese's inaugural remarks were presented at the Annual Business Meeting, Jun 13, 1979, The new president receives the gavel and a kiss during SLA's 70th Annual Conference in from current president Vivian D Hewitt. Honolulu september 1979 399 Because the First Worldwide Conference on have talked with students during the past year at Special Libraries was conceived and planned by Atlanta and Emory Universities in Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. Frank E. McKenna and because it was his McCill and Montreal Universities, Montreal; idea that the SLA 70th Annual Conference be Western University, Kalamazoo, Mich.; and an international meeting of special librarians, those who were guests at the Cleveland Chapter the Board of Directors dedicated the Confer- meeting from Kent State and Case Western ence to his memory Reserve University, Ohio. Chapters are becoming more alert to the Highlights opportunities of using the media to publicize SLA. Notable were the television appearances During the past year SLA's tangible growth arranged by the Public Relations Committee of has produced clear-cut statistics: comprehensi- the Cleveland Chapter. Joan Long, president, ble, impressive, and respected. The Association's and I were interviewed on a 15-minute talk 1978 year-end membership of 10,852 included: show, "Here It Is," which was shown twice over 2,319 individuals who joined as new members in WKYC-TV. I also appeared on another 15- 1978; and 1,088 library or information science minute talk show, "The Coffee Shoppe," which graduate students who plan careers in special was shown on WUAB-TV servicing the greater library and information services. The Associa- Cleveland area. In December, Special Libraries tion's total membership is expected to surpass Association received exposure when I was inter- 11,500 before the end of 1979. viewed, along with Ella Scarborough, librarian, The Board approved a petition from 15 SLA Duke Power Company and a member of the members from the central section of Pennsylva- North Carolina Chapter, on "Focus," a 15- nia for the establishment of a Central Pennsyl- minute show aired in Charlotte on WCCR-TV. vania Chapter. There are indications of Chapter The Heart of America Chapter arranged an formation in other sections of the country in thtl interview during my visit celebrating its 30th not too distant future, especially the state of Anniversary which was reported in The Kansas Utah. City Star, Monday, Feb 19, 1979. Likewise, the One of the most pleasant aspects of the Presi- State Times, Baton Rouge, La., for Wednesday, dency is the opportunity to visit Chapters, to Feb 14, 1979, included an interview with me meet members on a one-to-one basis, to talk and Louisiana Chapter president, Olga Hay- with library school faculty mernbrrs and to ward. Each article was a major one about SLA. address library school students encouraging %A's impact is being exerted both nationally them to consider special librarianship in their and internationally. At the former level, a career goals. I have visited seven Chapters as number of members have participated in their President-Elect and seven Chapters as President states' Governor's Conference preceding throughout the United States and Canada. I WHCLIS which will take place in Washington,

The top level of SLA (I, to r ) Joseph M. Dagnese, President 1979/80; Vivian D. Hewitt, President 1978179, David R. Bender, Executive Director september 1979 D.C., Nov 15-19, 1979. Our role did not come easy. We had to be aggressive to be included so that special libraries, the least known and least understood of the professional categories of libraries, would have recognized input into this most important conference. The Board endorsed the concept of a national lending library with equal access to all types of libraries and which would include all publications formats. As an intermediate step in this goal, SLA supported the concept of a National Periodicals Center. A Special Committee on the White House Conference on Library and Information Ser- vices prepared "Issues For Delegate Consider- ation: White House Conference on Library and Information Services," a succinct and substantive 21-page booklet which sets forth a number of issues SLA would like to bring to the attention of delegates, alternate delegates, and observers Pres~dent Hewitt pres~des at the International to WHCLIS. The booklet was published for SLA Welcome to Hawail. by the H. W. Wilson Company as a public service. We are grateful to the company, especially its Vice-president, James Humphry 111, and the grounding of all DC-10s-must go for helping to make publication possible. We down in the annals of SLA history as an unqual- believe that the published compilation will be ified success. Meeting with the Japan Special helpful not only to the delegates to the White Libraries Association and IFLA's Special Librar- House Conference but will also be of value to ies Division, 18 nations are represented in this the members of our own Association and the gathering of librarians, information scientists, library and information service community at archivists, association leaders, publishers, and large in assessing and solving a number of prob- manufacturers of information-related products lems of mutual interest. who have discussed states-of-the-art, learned The Association's unique network of Chapters about new technology, and discussed solutions and Divisions continues to provide special for harnessing the information explosion from librarians with numerous opportunities for an international perspective. professional growth and development by parti- As is always true, no president can accomplish cipation in local seminars and workshops. in any one year all the things one would wish to Through Special Libraries, the Association's do. The seeds, however, must be sown which official journal, special librarians have kept will then be harvested in the years to come. A abreast of trends and innovations in the special committee of the Board was appointed handling of information. Now in preparation to study the need for an increase in dues and and scheduled for publication later this year or fees. The necessary steps have been initiated to early 1980 is Profiles of Special Libraries, a submit a dues increase to the membership at the completely new edition of that publication first annual meeting, June 1980, with an effective issued by the Association in 1966. date of 1981. The Association continues to be aware of the In a contingent financial vein, the Board, at need for current salary and employment data. the request of the president, decided to consider SLA salary surveys have been conducted in the formation of an endowment fund. The 1959, 1967, 1970, 1973, 1976 and the sixth one, Assistant Executive Director is investigating the 1979 will be published in an issue of Special procedures to establish such a fund and will Libraries by year's end. report to the Board at the Fall 1979 meeting. The Association was represented by your A five-member Search Committee appointed president at the First Soviet-American Library by the president, and approved by the Board of Seminar sponsored by ALA, the Library of Directors, began the long, arduous hunt for a Congress, and the U.S. International Communi- new Executive Director. They are to be cation Agency. It was held May 4-6, 1979, at the commended for a job well done, for at this U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. Conference the Board gave unanimous approval This First Worldwide Conference on Special of Dr. David Render as Executive Director. He Libraries-in spite of the United Airlines strike will begin his duties on Monday, Jul 30, 1979.

special libraries The Future The same applies to SLA-its Chapters, its Divi- sions-its members. SLA has reached its status This positive change of leadership in SLA and stature in the library world and the interna- through Dr. Bender, should be a source not of tional information community because of the fear but of confidence in the Association's self-sacrificing contributions of the hundreds future. and thousands of you who make up its member- He knows and he has been forewarned that ship. the leadership role in a membership organiza- There is an inscription on the Chapel of Saint tion is not an easy one. He will be criticized by Gilgen near Salzburg which states that Man some, praised by others; but I believe he has the should not look mournfully into the past because capacity to help us and in partnership with him it does not come back again; that he should we will build a stronger SLA. In this partner- wisely improve the present because it is his; and ship, we, all of us together, must that he should go forth to meet the shadowy 1) have open and honest communications, future, without fear, and with a manly heart. 2) operate in an atmosphere of mutual confi- We have now passed the threshold of an era in dence and respect, SLA and it is the logical moment for us in the 3) identify and agree on the mission of Association to ask basic questions about the SLA-and I mean beyond "putting knowledge future. "If you do not think about the future, to work," you cannot have one," John Galsworthy said. By 4) identify our responsibilities-who does considering what tomorrow may bring, we in what and who is responsible for what, and so SLA can face tomorrow with greater certainty on. and confidence. We in Special Libraries Association must As for me: A year ago, you, my peers, remember: crowned me "Queen for a Year." I have worn that crown with dignity, pride and above all Wherever we are we got here from where we were; with integrity-even though at times, it truly Wherever we are going we will get there seemed to be a crown of thorns-and today I from where we are. pass it on to my successor, I hope unblemished, unsullied, untarnished. SLA grows and gains strength with every completed worthwhile activity. Someone wrote: The great river is the sum total of contributions of hundreds, perhaps thousands of little brooks and rivulets which come tumbling down the hillsides Mrs. Hewitt's report was presented at the and mountains, singing as they go, eager to cast Annual Business Meeting, Jun 13,1979, during themselves into the channel of the great-river. SLA's 70th Annual Conference in Honolulu.

Saturday, Jun 9, was King Kamehameha Day. One of the biggest annual festivals for Honolulu included a parade which passed by the Hilton Hawaiian Village. The man in the center of this float represents Kamehameha I. september 1979 403 Treasurer's Report 1978 / 79 tute. It was just not a good year for our General Fund. Obviously, we cannot continue over- Ellis Mount spending that ~undwithout having to dip into our Reserve Fund, which would be an unfortu- This report will cover the year 1978 as well as nate situation. the highlights of 1979 through May. You may It is only candid to report that our effort to recall that in last year's report I noted that 1977 increase the Gerleral Fund in 1978 by encourag- ended with an excess of income over expenses in ing the more well-to-do Chapters and Divisions the General Fund of about $65,000, a fortunate to forego collecting the second half of their situation for the Association However, even in annual allotments was not successful. While we June of 1978 I brought to your attention the greatly appreciate the cooperation of the hand- many unbudgeted expenses incurred to that ful of (:hapters and Divisions that did not ask for point Some of these 1978 expenses included their entire 1978 allotment, the total sum was $34,000 for copyright publications and asso- not nearly as large as we had hoped for. Perhaps ciated legal fees, as well as $3,000 for brochures suggestions for a viable plan will someday be for various Governors' Conferences Then some developed in the Chapter or Division Cabinet. financial reversals occurred in 1978 after last As for this year's activities, one hit of good year's Annual Meeting. For example, income news is that the Association has been able to take from the Kansas City Conference was found to advantage of high interest rates available for be $5,000 less than budgeted, we suffered a loss certain transactions, such as certificates of of some $17,000 on the cancellation of a govern- deposit or U.S. Treasury bills. Early in 1979 we ment contract (although there is hope that half were able to purchase one such bill for $100,000 of this will be recovered eventually), and ballots and will receive 10%interest on it-an easy way for the Bylaws revision and the ERA question to earn $5,000 in six months. We are also reex- came to more than $6,000. On the other hand, amining our investment plan currently held increasing membership figures for 1978 fortu- with a bank to find a better use of the funds. On nately added some $14,000 more than was the negative side, we know of one problem expected, and expenses for salaries and office already. The Internal Revenue Service has ruled services were $15,000 lower than budgeted. At that we must increase the amount set aside for any rate, the net result of the year was that 1978 each member to be used for the Special Li- ended with the General Fund showing that we braries program from $7 to $10 per member, spent nearly $52,000 more than our income for thus further reducing the General Fund by that year in that fund. some $35,000. Before you get greatly disturbed over this It is clear that the Association must carefully situation, it should be kept in mind that at the study the situation, reconsidering our priorities end of 1978 the General Fund balance was and our options in order to improve the status of $78,000, we had over $152,000 in the Reserve the General Fund. Fund, there was over $95,000 in the Scholarship It would not be fitting to close this report Fund, and the Non-serial Publications Fund without giving my thanks to the generous balance was more than $103,000. If we were to donors of funds for the support of this Confer- total all our fund balances and liabilities, the ence-The H. W. Wilson Foundation; the sum would amount to $796,000 for 1978, an Xerox Corporation, and the Exxon Education increase of $4,000 over 1977. So our overall Foundation. It goes without saying that the position has actually improved; we are not desti- Association is most grateful for these gifts. special libraries Chapter Cabinet Report 1978 I79

Jeannette M. Privat mation to the Board regarding member wishes and the question was reconsidered In her President's report for 1977178, by the Board at the Annual Conference in former SLA President Shirley Echelman Honolulu. concluded by saying "My parting advice to Meeting Membership Needs members is to keep up the extraordinary work, and to remember that you pay the The local program meetings continue to salaries and elect the officers, that SLA provide one of the most valuable services to belongs to, and is, its members." members. In addition to a variety of library The Chapters heeded that advice, had an tours, there continues to be a concentration extraordinary year, and through the Chap- of interest in meetings on aspects of auto- ter Cabinet made known their interests and mation, networking, and libraries of the concerns in a positive manner. future. Recent topics that interest members also include the impact of AACR 11, the effect of Proposition 13 and libraries in Communicating Membership Concerns China. Continuing education and helping mem- A variety of situations in the continuing bers stay current and grow were provided education program concerned the member- by Chapter workshops and seminars. Practi- ship, particularly the lack of Chapter cal topics were the key and many aspects of involvement and the seeming discontin- managing a library were covered. uance of the shared sponsoring of regional A number of Chapters used special events seminars. Upon Cabinet request, the Man- for fund raising and for helping their own ager, Professional Development and the members or others. The popularity of the Education Committee willingly met with King Tut Exhibit was lucrative in one case them at the Winter Meeting in a productive and two round-trip tickets to Hawaii were session which brought out both construc- the prize in another Chapter's raffle. Chap- tive criticism and concrete ideas and ter T-shirts were sold and a Chapter cook- resulted in the Cabinet sending a number of book is being developed for sale. recommendations to the Board of Directors. Concern for others was shown by one The Cabinet also expressed concern over Chapter donating books to developing the Board decision to not publish an Asso- nations and another Chapter, quite distant ciation Membership Directory in 1979 from Hawaii, offering a $200 award for a because of financial constraints. Chapters library school student's paper concerning surveyed their members to give fuller infor- attending the Hawaii Conference. Unfortu- september 1979 nately, it is perhaps a commentary on our ~'entralPennsylvania Provisional Chapter. inflationary times that no student applied. Some meetings were held in Utah to deter- Union lists and directories being pub- mine the potential for a provisional Chap- lished by Chapters caused two Chapters to ter, and it appears likely in the future request loans from the Association. One is although a little premature now. There is being paid back at mid-year and the other at also possible future interest in Iowa and year-end, showing that the Chapters are Alaska. fiscally responsible. Communicating to Others This year three Chapters celebrated anniversaries: Florida (10th anniversary), South- A good trend away from the tendency to ern Appalachian (25th anniversary), and talk only to ourselves is emerging in many Michigan (50th anniversary). Chapters. Some Chapters are trying to reach managers in business and industry to make Communicating to Members them more aware of the potential of libraries and librarians. Others have been able to Chapters are concerned about reaching all get articles in business newspapers. members and are trying some different Continuing work with library schools is approaches to accomplish this. Some are seen throughout the United States and taping meetings and making the tapes avail- Canada. Chapter members participate in able to those not at the meeting; others are library school workshops, lists of libraries experimenting with giving the same meet- willing to host student tours are provided, ing in two different cities. Reaching a far- and member libraries participate in library flung membership continues to be a prob- school intern programs. A copy of an excel- lem. lent article which appeared in a Chapter Another means of reaching one's mem- bulletin on the idiosyncrasies of different bership as fully as possible is one Chapter's types of special libraries was sent to all policy of publishing a bilingual bulletin. library schools to share with their students. That Chapter also made a French translation One of the major efforts this year of the SLA RCsumC this year. involved participation in Governors Con- Many Chapters made efforts to improve ferences around the United States which are two-way communication this year by con- preliminary to the White House Conference ducting needs assessment surveys. They on Libraries and Information Services. also queried members regarding dates and Many Chapters were frustrated with the locations of meetings to try to be as available difficulty in getting involved, seemingly as possible. because of our previous low profile, but a Bulletins continue to be the prime great many overcame that and increased our method of communications and also con- visibility with a lot of hard work and crea- tinue to pose challenges and problems. tive thinking. It is hoped that this will serve Many Chapters are experimenting with as a stimulus and a reminder that we need to different means of producing the bulletins reach out more and tell our story. and more effective ways of getting advertis- As always, much work goes on behind the ing in an effort to reduce the drain on scenes to provide for smooth operations. Chapter funds. However, many of the bulle- Chapters are becoming much more busi- tins are stimulating and informative and ness-like with finance committees, budgets, one of the Chapters' most important long-range planning committees and proce- services to members. dures manuals. Work on archives was stimu- Members were given an opportunity to lated by the Joint Cabinets' Study and talk with and question SLA officials on Guidelines on Archives. Chapter visits. President Vivian Hewitt Chapters are also showing concern for visited the Alabama, Cleveland, Eastern their own members by trying to assist them Canada, Heart of America, Louisiana, North with expanded "joblines" being published. Carolina, and South Atlantic Chapters. Pres- ident-Elect Joseph Dagnese visited the Conclusion Central Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Oregon, Obviously, it has been an active, pro- Pacific Northwest, Southern Appalachian, ductive year. After reading the annual Southern California, and Washington, D.C. reports of the Chapters, I understand more Chapters. why SLA has been growing. The Chapters An effort to provide better accessibility to are getting more "consumer-oriented" and members where a concentration had devel- are responding to the needs of their market! oped resulted in the formation of the I commend them. special libraries Division Cabinet Report I978 I79

Virginia E. Yagello Conference Because of the long-range planning The Division Cabinet consisting of the involved in holding a Conference off the Chairmen and Chairmen-Elect of 28 Divi- mainland, more joint Division programs sions and one Provisional Division spent a than usual were planned. The approxi- busy and productive year involved in Divi- mately 45 Division and joint Division sion administrative affairs and in Confer- programs were of a high professional level, ence planning. The results of their latter involved our colleagues from other nations, endeavors ar; amply evident in the excel- and constituted a ;orthy tribute to the late lent programs, panels, and workshops Executive Director of SLA, Dr. Frank E. presented in Honolulu. McKenna, to whom this first Worldwide Conference on Special Librarianship is Meetings dedicated. Approximately 20 Division and The Division Cabinet met twice during joint Division field trips were planned the Winter Meeting in Tucson. There were taking advantage of the many unique also two planning sessions for the Honolulu opportunities provided by this exotic island and the Washington, D.C. Conferences, setting. In addition, each Division held its respectively. The Joint Division and Chap- Annual Business Meeting during the Con- ter Cabinets met once to discuss topics of ference. common interest, viz., the endorsement of Formation and Scope of Divisions the concept of a national lending library and of a national periodicals center; the At the request of the Board of Directors, support of SLA representation to the all Divisions worked on developing scope proposed three meetings to coordinate notes describing their interests. The ration- information sciences associations' positions ale behind scope notes is to provide assis- for the White House Conference on Library tance to prospective Division members for and Information Services; and to hear a decisions concerning Division affiliation report of the Joint Archives Study Commit- and to serve Divisions themselves as plan- tee regarding the disposition of archives of ning guides for future programs. All Divi- Divisions and Chapters. sion scope notes except for those of two Two meetings for Division Chairmen and Divisions were approved in principle by the Chairmen-Elect were held in Honolulu: an Board of Directors, subject to appropriate orientation session for incoming officers editorial changes as deemed necessary. Two and the Division Cabinet meeting; as well as Divisions, Biological Sciences and Petro- two meetings for the 1980 Division Confer- leum & Energy Resources, approved their ence Program Planners. Orientation ses- scope notes at their annual business meet- sions were scheduled for Bulletin Editors ings in Honolulu for presentation to the and Treasurers. Board at the final Friday session. september 1979 407 Changing times and technology have Divisions. Several Divisions published di- brought corresponding changes and some rectories as a part of their newsletters. conflicts of scope to Divisions. In an attempt The Aerospace Division has compiled a to resolve these conflicts and to prevent Criss-Cross Index to NASA and DDC Numbers; possible future ones, the Division Cabinet at the Insurance Division has sent a biography the Annual Conference in Kansas City of Daniel Nash Handy to the SLA Publica- established an Ad Hoc Committee on the tions Department for consideration; the Formation and Scope of Divisions to Newspaper Division received the balance of develop a mechani& to assist in advising their $2,000 grant from the Association and the Board of Directors in the formation of completed two more slide-tape programs; future Divisions. Members of this Commit- they also produced basic specifications for a tee were Helen Armstrong (Geography & full-text on-line newspaper library system. Map) Chairman, Joe Ann Clifton (Informa- The Education Division has commenced tion Technology), Lois Collet (Advertising publication of a journal directed to the & Marketing), Mary Pike (Social Science), education community entitled Education and Thomas Rogero (Engineering). Libraries; Environmental Information and At the Winter Meeting in Tucson the Social Science Divisions' members contrib- Board of Directors accepted the concept of uted substantive articles to theme-oriented the creation by the Division Cabinet of a issues on Environmental Education and on Standing committee to consider petitions Multi-Lingual and Multi-Cultural Educa- for the formation of new Divisions and tion. mergers, name changes, and dissolution of existing Divisions at the recommendation of Awards and Anniversaries the Division Cabinet Committee on the The MetalsIMaterials, Newspaper, and Formation and Scope of Divisions as unani- Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Divisions mously approved by the Division Cabinet. presented Divisional Awards at the Hono- The final report of recommendations on the lulu Conference. definition of this Standing Committee and The Picture Division celebrated its twen- its modus operandi were approved by the ty-fifth anniversary in Honolulu. Division Cabinet in Honolulu for subsequent presentation to the Board of Direc- Student Conference Fees tors. The Information Technology Division paid Conference registration fees for ten Publications library school students from the University of Hawaii; the Business & Finance Division All Divisions have communicated with granted a $200 stipend to a library school their members at least once during the Asso- student from the University of Hawaii for ciation year via Division bulletins and Conference expenses; and the Advertising newsletters. There appears to be a trend & Marketing Division was the host for toward publication of issues devoted to a several students. single topic. The Natural Resources Divi- sion has resumed publication of its Division Provisional DivisionsINew Units bulletin and distributed a brief history of the Division in Honolulu; the recently Environmental Information Provisional formed and rapidly growing Library Man- Division attained full Division status in agement Division has developed a bulletin Honolulu. which is a fine example of quality publica- The Business & Finance Division has tion; the Social Science Division conducted established a new interest group of Trade & a member survey which reaffirmed the Professional Association Librarians which importance of the Division bulletin as a held its first meeting in Honolulu. The communication link with widely scattered Natural Resources Division has established Division members. Advertising & Market- an Environmental Pollution Section. ing, Insurance, Library Management, Other Division Activities Metals/Materials, and Picture Divisions prepared new procedure manuals; member- Archives: The final report of the Joint ship directories were published by the Cabinets' Archives Study Committee, Advertising & Marketing, Business & "Guidelines for Division Archives," was Finance, Food & Nutrition, Library Manage- approved by the Division Cabinet in Hono- ment, Metals/Materials, and Publishing lulu. Division members of the Joint Report- special libraries ing Committee were: Neil K. Van Allen my-Mathematics Division is exploring the (Metals/Materials), Sandra K. Paul (Publish- possibility of funding for the mutual ing), and Elizabeth Heintzberger (Public exchange of librarians between the People's Utilities). Most Divisions have been busily Republic of China and members of the reviewing their Division archives in antici- Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division. pation of implementing the new guide- In April it received notification that the lines. American Mathematical Society will grant Ioint Dioision and Non-SLA Liaison: Divi- the Division $750 for the project. sions are increasingly cooperating in joint Conclusion meetings and projects with their professional colleagues in other organizations Time constraints prevent mention of all with similar interests. The Chemistry Divi- of the accomplishm&ts great and small of sion is planning for a joint meeting in the 28 Divisions and one Provisional Divi- Spring 1981 with the Division of Chemical sion, many of which are the achievements Information Science of the American Chem- of a small percentage of dedicated Division ical Society and the Biology-Chemistry members-both old and new. But it is espe- Special Interest Group of the American cially encouraging to observe the increasing Society for Information Science. The Geo- participation in Division activity of younger graphy & Map Division is establishing and newer members of SLA. As long as such working relations on problems of mutual enthusiasm and interest in Division affairs interest with the US. Geological Survey and keeps being renewed, there appears to be a the Geography & Map Division of the great future for the overall role of Divisions Library of Congress. The Physics-Astrono- in the Association.

septernber 1979 Actions of the Board of Directors 1979 (Jun 8/ Jun 9/ Jun 15) Chapter Cabinet (Jun 12) Division Cabinet (Jun 12) Annual Meeting (Jun 13)

The Board of Directors met Jun 8 and 9 Conference delegates by the H. W. Wilson and Jun 15, before and after the 70th Annual Company. (It is reproduced on pp. 384-394 Conference in Honolulu. The Chapter and of this issue of SL in the hope that even Division Cabinets met on Jun 12. The greater dissemination will be achieved.) Annual Business Meeting of the Association The Special Committee and the Board was held on Wednesday, Jun 13. The follow- formally expressed its deep gratitude to the ing actions were taken. H. W. Wilson Company for publishing lssues for Delegate Consideration, White House Confer- Appreciation Expressed-In appreciation ence on Library and Information Services, as a of the grants received from the H. W. public service. Particular thanks and appre- Wilson Foundation ($25,000), Xerox Corpo- ciation were extended to Mr. James ration ($5,000), and Exxon Education Foun- Humphry 111, Vice-president of the H.W. dation ($5,000) to underwrite the extraordi- Wilson Company, and his staff for their nary expenses of the First Worldwide help, understanding, and cooperation Conference on Special Libraries, the Board which made possible an adequate and formally expressed its gratitude for the timely distribution of this SLA document. generosity and support given this unique international meeting. Delegate Status Sought-In order to have additional input to the White House Confer- Executive Director-The appointment of ence, the SLA President was instructed to Dr. David R. Bender as executive director request NCLIS to designate David R. Bender was unanimously approved by the Board in a delegate-at-large to the Conference. As a executive session. Bender assumed this post delegate-at-large, Dr. Bender would have on Jul 30, 1979. His contract is for a mini- voting privileges. mum of three years, not to exceed five years. Dues Increased Proposed-The last SLA With this appointment the Search Com- dues increase became effective in 1976. Over mittee was dissolved with the appreciation the last three years, inflation has consider- of the Board. ably reduced the purchasing power and the services of the Association. There is every Executive Director Job Description reason to expect that this trend will Amended-In the past the executive direc- continue in the next few'years. The Board, tor has generally submitted a status report to therefore, recommended that the necessary the Association Office Operations Commit- steps be taken to submit an increase of $15 tee at each AOOC meeting. However, this for Members, $4 for Student Members, and was never a requirement of the position. $50 for Sustaining Members to the member- AOOC recommended to the Board that this ship at the Annual Business meeting in June be made a part of the executive director's job 1980. If approved by two-thirds of the description. This report will be presented at voting members at the Annual Business the Fall and Spring meetings. A statement Meeting, the proposed increase would raise of the goals to be accomplished during the the dues of these classes of membership to next twelve months will be made at the Fall $55, $12, and $250, respectively, effective Meeting of AOOC. Jan 1, 1981.

White House Conference Issues-The SLA Education Committee-In accordance with Special Committee on the White House the recommendation of the Chapter Cabinet Conference on Library and Information at the 1978 Annual Conference and the 1979 Services prepared a document Issues for Dele- Winter Meeting, guidelines were drafted so gate Consideration. A draft of this document that the Education Committee, the Manager, was approved by the Executive Committee Professional Development, and the Chap- of the Board in March 1979. The pamphlet ters and Divisions could better understand was printed for distribution to White House their relationships to one another and to 410 special libraries continuing education. The Board accepted for currencies have also cost SLA money. In these guidelines in principle. the first quarter of 1979, for example, SLA The Chapter Cabinet recommended that lost $981 on foreign exchange. Therefore, at a continuing edycation needs assessment the suggestion of the Finance Committee survey of the membership be conducted the Board agreed to make it SLA policy to immediately. The Board decided that the accept payment for membership dues and estimated expense was prohibitive and that fees, subscriptions, advertising, and other the time schedule specified would not allow Association sources in U.S. dollars only. for an in-depth analysis; thus the suggestion was not accepted. Since the Fall Meeting is a Nominating Procedures-At the 1978 Fall budget session, it is anticipated that the Meeting of the Board of Directors, the issue will again be raised at that time. Committee on Committees (ConC) was asked to review the procedures of the Nomi- Archives Guidelines-At the 1978 Winter nating Committee. This request was made in Meeting, a Joint Cabinet Archives Study response to a report of the Nominating Committee was formed to draft guidelines Committee for Spring 1979 Elections indi- for Chapter and Divison archives. After cating that it would be helpful if there were surveying the present situation, recommen- greater continuity among members of dations were made on the agreement that successive Nominating Committees. The should be used for storage of archives at an report also expressed an interest in future institution, on a records retention policy, candidates being asked to state their views and on photographic storage. At the recom- about issues important to the Association. mendation of the Chapter and Division The ConC studied the nominating proce- Cabinets, these Guidelines will be included dures of fifteen other organizations similar in the Chapter and Division Guidelines. to SLA and concluded that the present SLA In addition, the Cabinets recommended system provides sufficient continuity of that the Association provide format and Nominating Committee members. It was filming specifications for Chapter and Divi- felt that greater overlap of committee sion archives so that uniformity can be members might lead to perpetuating vested maintained. A report will be made at the interests. The ConC further recommended 1980 Winter Meeting. that if the Board thought it desirable for candidates to present statements of their 'iNational Periodicals Center-The Board of views, such a request could be made by Directors reaffirmed its endorsement of the Board action. Therefore, the ConC recom- concept of a National Periodicals Center mended no change in Nominating Commit- (NPC) as an intermediary step to the forma- tee procedures. The Board reviewed these tion of a National Lending Library (NLL). findings and voted to approve the recom- Once again the Board urged Congress to mendation of the ConC. consider the eventual establishment of an NLL to include all publication formats. Draft legislation for an NPC has been drawn Annual Conference 1985-The 1985 An- up by the NCLIS Advisory Committee for a nual Conference has been scheduled for Jun National Periodicals System; it was re- 8-13, 1985 at the Winnipeg Convention viewed by the SLA Board and was endorsed Center, Winnipeg, Manitoba. in concept. This action was taken after careful consid- In a related action the Board formally eration of the recommendation of the expressed its desire to actively seek partici- Conference and Exhibits Coordinator and a pation in the development and administra- review of the procedures followed in select- tion of an NPC. In order to further this goal, ing a conference site. SLA will seek to become a joint sponsor of the draft legislation when it is presented to Joint 1985 Conference Discussed-Know- Congress. ing that SLA was considering a Canadian city for its 1985 Conference, the Chairper- Foreign Exchange-Although payments son of the Canadian Association of Special made to the Special Libraries Association Libraries and Information 'services (CAS- over the years were generally requested in LIS) proposed a joint SLA/CASLIS confer- U.S. dollars, no formal policy to this effect ence. CASLIS is a division of the Canadian was ever made binding. Bank charges for Library Association (CLA). Unfortunately, the conversion of foreign currency diminish there may be as yet unresolved problems in SLA's income. The unequal exchange rates CASLIS meeting apart from a CLA annual september 1979 411 conference. The SLA Board, however, for the same period. In making these recom- expressed its interest in holding a joint mendations, both committees considered conference in Winnipeg in 1985 pending the escalating costs of library education and resolution of such problems. the declining number of applications for scholarships and stipends. Atlanta, 1981 Conference-The appointment of Jeannette M. Privat, Seattle-First Chapter Activities-The status of the union National Bank, Seattle, Wash. 98124, as list of serials project of the Eastern Canada 1981 Conference Program Committee Chapter was considered. On the recommen- Chairman was approved by the Board. dation of the Chapter Cabinet Chairman, Other members of the Committee are Diana the repayment date of the Association's loan Carey, Patricia Berger, Ted Slate, and to the Chapter for the project was extended Martha Jane K. Zachert. from May 31 to Jul 31. On Jun 12 the Chapter Cabinet consid- New Representatives Appointed- Early in ered the report of the Cabinet's Special May the Library of Congress announced Committee on Revisions to Chapter Guide- that it was forming a Cataloging in Publica- lines. The Board approved the Cabinets tion Advisory Group and asked SLA to recommendations to include revised Guide- appoint a representative. Since the deadline lines on Groups within Chapters in the established by LC was prior to the meeting Chapter Guidelines. of the SLA Board, the SLA President-Elect acted at the direction of the President to Division Formation and Scope-The Divi- appoint an SLA Representative. This action sion Cabinet heard and accepted the final was ratified by the Board. report of the Division Cabinet Committee At the request of the Chairman of the on the Formation and Scope of Divisions. Resources and Technical Services Divi- The Board subsequently accepted the report sion/Cataloging and Classification Section in principle and approved its inclusion in of ALA, the SLA Board considered the ques- the Division Guidelines. tion of approving the establishment of a nonvoting SLA representative to this Sec- Executive Committee Actions Ratified- tion's Committee on Cataloging. Although On Mar 29, 1979, the Executive Committee the opinion was expressed that SLA should of the Board of Directors convened via have its own mechanism for recommending conference call to approve the preliminary revisions to AACR 11, the Board voted to draft of Issues for Delegate Consideration, White approve the appointment of an SLA repre- House Conference of Library and Information sentative Services. In addition, the Executive Commit- tee approved the suggestion of the Assistant Bibliographic Control-In February 1979 Executive Director to allocate $2,500 of the the Board had asked the Standards Commit- Xerox Corporation grant for the Conference tee to investigate the need for a common expenses of a delegation of librarians from bibliographic exchange format. The Com- the People's Republic of China and the mittee reported that the idea was sound, remainder to the costs of simultaneous although there are a number of difficulties translation equipment and personnel. In the yet to overcome, and that endorsement of event this delegation could not attend the the concept by SLA would be appropriate. Conference, the Executive Committee Therefore, the Board approved the notifica- agreed to allocate to the costs of simulta- tion of the Committee for the Coordination neous translation. of National Bibliographic Control of its At the Board meeting prior to the Confer- support. SLA also will request an opportu- ence in Honolulu, the full Board of Direc- nity to review and comment on any stan- tors ratified these actions of the Executive dards that are drafted. Committee.

Scholarships and Stipends-The Board ap- Conference Travel Coordinator-The proved the Scholarship Committee's recom- Board defeated a recommendation of the mendation that up to three $3,000 scholar- Division Cabinet that the planners of Divi- ships be awarded for the 1980/81 school sion programs be polled about the effective- year. The Board also approved the recom- ness of the Conference travel coordinator mendation of the Positive Action Program (Group Travel Unlimited). It was felt that a for Minority Groups Committee that up to sense of the registrants' feelings had already three $1,500 minority stipends be awarded been obtained. In addition, since it was special libraries unlikely that the services of a travel coordi- Honorary Member-Helen F. Spencer, nator would be necessary again, the survey president, Helen F. and Kenneth A. Spencer would serve no useful purpose. Foundation, was elected Honorary Member of SLA at the Annual Business Meeting. Special Libraries Directory Issue-The Board considered similar recommendations SLA Awards-A Special Committee of the of the Chapter and Division Cabinets that Board was appointed by the President in the Association publish the complete 1979 1978 to recommend guidelines for staff in Annual Directory issue of Special Libraries. purchasing Association awards. The Board Since a Special Committee to investigate endorsed the Committee's recommendation putting Special Libraries on a break even basis that the SLA Professional Award, the SLA will report at the 1979 Fall Meeting, a Hall of Fame Award, and the SLA John motion to rescind the Board's previous Cotton Dana Award all be made in the form action not to publish the Annual Directory of engraved silver plated bowls and in its entirety was defeated. The Board had engrossed scrolls. taken the earlier action to alleviate a projected deficit budget for FY '79. Chapter Growth Award-The Special Com- The Division Cabinet recommended that mittee that was appointed in June 1978 to future issues of the Directory include consider the costs of SLA Awards recom- members' phone numbers. The Board had mended that the Chapter Growth Award be voted in favor of this concept at the Fall discontinued since membership growth on 1978 Meeting. However, since this is one of a percentage basis limited its presentation the matters being considered by the Special only to the smaller Chapters. Committee, action on the Divisions' recom- The Board voted to discontinue the Chap- mendation was postponed until the Special ter Growth Award and referred to the Chap- Committee presents its report in the fall. ter Cabinet the issue of how to recognize Chapter membership recruitment efforts. Recommendations of the Cabinet are Publications Sales Plan Investigated-In expected on or before the 1980 post-Confer- response to a recommendation by the Asso- ence meeting of the Board. ciation's auditors, the Board acted to instruct the Association staff to develop and propose a plan to actively market SLA publications. Finances-To aid in the development of the No formal delegation of this function has FY 80 budget, the staff submitted a projec- been made for a number of years. It is tion of Association membership to the believed that a revised marketing plan and Board. A projection of 11,500 members as of accepted sales procedures would be helpful. Dec 31, 1980, was approved. The total A report will be submitted to the 1979 Fall membership of Jun 1,1979, was 10,879. Board Meeting. Medical Examination for Executive Direc- Grant Funds Requested-The Geography tory-AOOC recommended to the Board and Map Division requested $2,000 from the that an annual medical examination be Association for the publication of its required of the executive director. The September Bulletin. The need arose because Board voted that SLA would pay up to $250 of the rapid depletion of its project funds annually for an examination if the Executive due to the escalating costs of typing, print- Director would allow the Doctor's report to ing, and mailing the Bulletin, as well as the be submitted to AOOC. cost of publishing the cumulative index in 1978. Feeling that there was not sufficient Investment Management Service-The Fi- information, the Board asked the Division nance Committee, after reviewing SLA's Cabinet Officers to contact the appropriate Investment Management Service (Citibank) people within the G&M Division and report Account urged the Board to instruct Citi- back to the Board. At the Jun 15 meeting, the bank that any proceeds from the sale of any Cabinet Officers reported that the G&M of the Association's holdings be invested in Division had not sought any other sources U.S. Treasury bills or six-month certificates of funding before requesting a grant from of deposit. Furthermore, it was recom- the SLA Board. However, the Division mended that the Executive Director investi- agreed to do so when it was informed of the gate alternatives to the Investment Manage- Association's deficit budget for FY '79. ment Service and report to the Finance 413 Committee at its Fall 1979 Meeting. After staff, AOOC, and the Board that a reason no some discussion and a review of the reports longer existed for this situation. On the submitted by the Association accountant, contrary, knowing the job descriptions of the Board accepted the Committee's recom- others in the office could facilitate increased mendations. efficiency in the operation of some office functions. Therefore, the Board approved Profiles Revision-Last Fall the Board of the AOOC recommendation that the confi- Directors authorized Dr. Paul Kmse to dential classification of staff salary ranges undertake a revision of Profiles of Special and job descriptions be eliminated, effective Libraries. In his progress report Kruse immediately. indicated that no response had been received from libraries representing the Allocation of Members' Dues to SL-In Chemistry, Education, MetalsfMaterials, 1972 negotiations between SLA and the Natural Resources, and Picture Divisions. It Internal Revenue Service resulted in an is necessary for data to be sent to Kruse so agreement that $7.00 of the dues of that the Profiles can be completed. The Board Members, Associate Members, and Sustain- asked the Division Cabinet Chairman to ing Members be allocated to the Special follow up on those Divisions that have not Libraries program. This figure has continued responded. to be used. A recent IRS audit of Association Special Committee Formed-A proposal tax returns for FY 77 led to a challenge of was brought to the Board for a publication this allocation. The IRS also challenged the commemorating the Association's first 75th lack of any allocation for Retired or Student Anniversary for distribution at the 1984 Members. (These two groups had been Annual Conference. In order to avoid exempted because they pay reduced dues.) taking hasty and uncoordinated action, the In negotiations it was agreed that the alloca- Board asked the President-Elect to appoint a tion should now be increased to $10.00 per special committee to investigate ways of Member and that one-half of the Retired commemorating this event. An initial report and Student Member dues be allocated to will be made to the Board at the Winter 1980 SL. SLA's legal counsel advised acceptance Meeting. of these changes. To reflect the increased allocation of member dues to Special Libraries Employee Job Descriptions-Association in the FY 79 Budget, the Board took an policy had mandated that the job descrip- action to transfer $35,500 to the Special tions and salary ranges of Association staff Libraries Program Fund from the Associa- members be kept confidential. It was felt by tion's operating fund.

SLA Board of Directors 1979/80 Seated (I. to r.): Chapter Cabinet Chairman Fred Roper; past President Vivian D. Hewitt; President Joseph M. Dagnese; President-Elect James 6. Dodd; Division Cabinet Chairman Patricia Marshall. Standing (I. to r.): Chapter Cabmet Chairman-Elect Edwina H. Pancake, Jack Leister, Mary Vasilakis, Beryl L. Anderson, Treasurer Dorothy Kasman, Doris Lee Schild, Pat Molholt, Floyd Henderson, Division Cabinet Chairman-Elect Ruth S. Smith. 414 special libraries The First Worldwide Conference on Special Libraries

In retrospect it is obvious that Honolulu have made Hawaii their home. Oahu now is the ideal site for a worldwide conference. boasts 80% of the state's 886,600 inhabi- No matter who you are-whatever your tants. But even this surfeit of people cannot nationalitv-vou2 4 are comfortable in Hono- lulu. Not only the overwhelming gracious- totally obscure the natural beauty of Oahu. ness of the people but the mix of nationali- Perhaps it is because the people live so ties in which all groups become minorities easily upon the land. One example, outdoor makes this island state unique. advertising is prohibited. Hawaii, America's gateway to Asia and The inviting reputation of the islands the South Pacific, is not typically American was no match, however, for the adverse in pace. The spirit of aloha permeates the affects on the Conference of an airline islands. It is not the languor of the south- strike affecting 60% of the air traffic into eastern United States; it is a spirit that the Hawaii, followed by the grounding of all ancient inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands DC-10 aircraft-which most of the carriers considered a sacred obligation. Stangers to Hawaii fly. These two occurrences were-and still are-welcomed warmly. beyond the control of SLA staff, did affect The residents of the islands approach life the number of registrants who were able to with an ease and dignity that is unusual but attend the 70th Annual Conference of SLA, only more special for its rarity. even though we were joined by the Special The island of Oahu uDon which Hono- Libraries Association of Japan (SENTO- lulu is situated is 604 square miles of tropi- KYO) and the Special Libraries Division of cal wonderland where the mean air IFLA. Conference registration this year temperature generally averages from 71°F was 1,801. Yet attendees came from 18 to 78OF and the average water tempera- countries, one territory, and one crown tures is 76OF at Waikiki Beach. It is no colony making this a truly international wonder that visitors from all over the world event. 1979 Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii BORED OF DIRECTORS AGENDA (Revised, Real, Hidden) Frill5 June 79,8:00 a.m. to ? Coral Ballroom IV, Hilton Hawaiian Village Open Session (More or less) Fr. 1 Call to Chaos Fr. 2 Election of Bored Doodler Fr. 3 Bun Call Fr. 4 Disapproval of the Hours Fr. 5 Wisecracks by El Primo Fr. 6 Actions and Recommendations of the (Re)verse Cabinet Fr. 7 Actions and Recommendations of the Subtraction Cabinet Fr. 8 Conference Reports Fr. 8.1 Nomination of King Kamehameha the Great to Honorary Membership in SLA Fr. 8.2 Proposal to hold the 1985 Annual Conference in Tahiti Fr. 8.3 Proposal to hold the 1984 Winter Meeting in the Brave New World Fr. 9 Report of Monkey Business 'Break, 8:15-11:45 a.m. Fr. 10 Approval of Signatories for BPE (Bribes, Payola, and Embezzlement) Fr. 10.1 Overt Fr. 10.2 Covert Fr. 10.3 Divert Fr. 10.4 Go Directly to jail; do not pass GO; do not collect $200. Fr. 11 Worldwide Bibliographic Confusion Committee Fr. 12 Report on the White HouseFollies of 1979 Fr. 13 Resolution of Thanks to the Incoming Bored Members Fr. 14 Unconditional Surrender

Some Members, having had too much poi (?I, suggested this agenda for the first meeting of the new Board. september 1979 415 Pres~dentHewitt stands w~thmembers of the Japanese delegation to the Conference Standing, second from left, is Yasushl Sakai, vice pres~dent,SENTOKYO, and deputy I~brar~an,National Diet Library

Japanese Participation mainland and visited several libraries in Southern California, New York, New The Conference was originally con- Jersey, Boston, and Washington, D.C. ceived and planned by Frank E. McKenna, SLA's late Executive Director, as a joint Conference of SLA and SENTOKYO. Conference-Wide Events When interest in participation was expressed by the IFLA Special Libraries Divi- The Conference theme, "Politics arid sion, as well as library associations in the Economics: Their Impact on Library/In- Pacific Basin area, the Conference was formation Services," was particdarly time- designated by the SLA Board of Directors ly. This is true not only because of the as the First Worldwide Conference on White House Conference on Libraries and Special Libraries. Information Services which will be held Simultaneous translation equipment and this Fall but also because of the tightening personnel and Japanese-English interpret- of the money flow that is effecting libraries ers were available at the four Plenary all over the world. As Thomas Hughes of Sessions and other selected programs. the Library of Congess said during Plenary Generous grants of the H. W. Wilson Foun- Session II, information has become "the dation, the Xerox Corporation, and the commodity of power." This power is both Exxon Education Foundation assisted SLA economic and political. Three Plenary is providing this service and in meeting Sessions were devoted to these issues. Ple- other extraordinary Conference expenses. nary Session I1 dealt with "Politics and The SENTOKYO delegation was led by Economics of International Transfer of Yasushi Sakai, Deputy Librarian, National Information"; Session 111 covered the "In- Diet Library, Dr. Yasunosuke Morita, pact of Corporate/Institutiollal Politics and Executive Director of SENTOKYO, n.as Economics"; and Sessio~iI\: focused on the also a member of the delegation. Several "Impact of Government Politics and

SENTOKYO members delivered papers at Economics. " the Contributed Paper Sessions, and others Six Continuing Education Courses were participated in Division programs as speak- offered this year. Although total Confer- ers or panelists. ence registration was low, the timely topics Following the Conference, a number of and useful skills taught in the courses the SENTOKYO delegation traveled to the encouraged good registration. The 250

416 S~PCZU~lihrario The Conference-Wide Reception in the Exhibits Area was a smashing success. The three spacious exhibits rooms gave visitors every opportunity to view new exhibits and talk with representatives of 105 publishers, service companies, and equipment manufacturers. To encourage attendees to take full advantage of the continuing education opportunity provided by the exhibits, free Tropical Continental Breakfasts were available in the Exhibits Area Monday, Tues- day, and Wednesday mornings. Left IFLA Secretary-General Wijnstroom and Sentokyo Executive Dlrector Morita during the Special Events International Welcome Right. SENTOKYO Vice- On Sunday evening this very special President Sakai addresses the Conference worldwide conference got off to an international start. Greetings were expressed by people who attended these sessions learned Vivian D. Hewitt, President of SLA; Yasu- about archives management, organiza- shi Sakai, Vice-president of SENTOKYO; tional structure and behavior theory, Derek Clarke, chairman, IFLA, Special research techniques, marketing library Libraries Division; Gabriella Watt, Presi- services, advanced micrographics, and dent, Special Libraries Section, Library effective decision-making skills. Association of Australia; Eileen Anderson, The Sunday orientation session that has representative of the governor of Hawaii; become traditional in the past few years and Jean K. Mardfin, representative of the was held in the Hilton Hawaiian Village's mayor of Honolulu. Both Clarke and Sakai geodesic dome. This popular session drew paid tribute to the late Frank E. McKenna close to 300 people Topics included "Get- to whom the Conference was dedicated. ting Acquainted" and "Getting the hlost Sakai quoted a particularly fitting Japanese from the Conference Promam."u Atten- adage. "One who drinks the water of our dance at all other Conference sessions was well should not forget the people who dug high, and this preview was undoubtedly that well." And, of course, it was not possi- helpful. ble for us to forget. Having paused for a moment to remember, we turned to enjoy an explanation of the Hawaiian culture presented in song and dange by a troup of Polynesian dancers. This highly polished group of professional entertainers was contrasted by the entertainment at Monday's Scholarship Event. After cocktails around the pool at

Conference entertainment ranged from a presentatton of htstortc Hawallan dance at the lnternatlonal Welcome to the ant~csof preschoolers at the Scholarship Event This data base was developed for political reasons, so that the East and West could share technological information. However. he added. the flow of information has changed in recent years. The United States, formerly the major producer of scientific information, has produced less, while other countries have increased their output. Politically speaking, some smaller countries have begun to resent the U.S. dominance in information and the resulting dependence upon U.S. sources. A spark of controversy arose from this L. J Anthony presents his vlews during Plenary statement. During his talk, Rafael Rivera Session 11. Sanchez de Aparicio, Nacional Financiera, Mexico, said that a developing country the Ilikai overlooking the Pacific Ocean, such as his does not consider itself totally everyone moved indoors. The entertain- dependent upon U.S. information sources. ment was provided by Huli O'Kamalei, a Such sources provide otherwise unavailable local dancing school. The performance material, he explained, that can be used to was singularly delightful, although neither develop Mexican technology to the point of slick nor polished. Youngsters from perhaps complete scientific freedom from foreign four years old to teenagers presented music data bases. and dancing of the Pacific Islands. What does concern Mexican information centers, he said, is the northern flow of information to the United States, especially The Program sensitive materials such as petroleum data. Everything starts early in Honolulu. Only drastic government regulation can Perhaps this was a good thing since regis- halt the flow of such information across an trants from the central and eastern parts of international border, Rivera said. The diffi- North America had biological clocks that culty lies in finding a balance between the generally woke them up at five or six a.m. control of "nationally private" information anyway. However, with breakfast in the and the beneficial flow of most business Exhibits Area served from seven until information. eight, everyone was ready for the short As a counter to this viewpoint, Roger K. walk down the hall to the Plenary Session Summit, Lockheed Palo Alto Research The keynote address was delivered b) Laboratory, said that government regula- Margreet Wijnstroom, Secretary-General, tion of data base use had usually increased International Federation of Library Asso- bureaucratic problems and decreased effi- ciations and Institutions (IFLA) and Hon- ciency orar) Member of SLA An edited version of her excellent presentation appears on pages 357-362 of this issue Her address set the stage for Plenary Session I1 As more countries become involved in sharing their resources, their governments also become involved with the flow of information At Plenary Session II, the growth and changes of this flow were discussed. Thomas E Hughes, Science arrd Tech- nology Division, Library of Congress, discussed this flow in the context of the Pres~dent-ElectJoseph M. Dagnese jokes w~th International h'riclcar Information S>stem. Horace Becker after Plenary Session Ill The Conference program included events such as this well-attended Plenary Session

He explained that politics and economics want to have the necessary technology were secondary factors when computer- available within their own borders in case based information systems were developed access to U.S. sources is curtailed. They also twenty years ago. Now, however, factors want to reverse the cash flow out of such as the development of telecommuni- Europe. cations networks, the entry of private The discussion of money and politics companies into data base production, and continued. As Anthony explained, most the revolution in the size and cost of elec- new data systems are developed by private tronic data processing equipment were companies, which will provide services on a major factors in this change. profit basis. While this is not a promising As a result, Summit concluded, interna- prospect, he wondered whether a worse tional cooperation in data base develop- future would result if the industry were ment has become a completely political controlled instead by government, with the matter; user's interests are served only if problems of political influence and bias. they are consistent with political objectives. At Plenary Session 111, Horace Becker, Speaking from the European viewpoint, who calls himself a working engineer but is L. J. Anthony, deputy director-general, also a vice-president of the Xerox Corpo- Aslib, was quick to return to the problem of ration, shared his experiences on how U.S. information systems. "Europeans are he survived corporate politics. He also not entirely happy about the present Amer- commiserated with his audience: "Engi- ican domination of the on-line market and neers are like librarians, they don't go about their increasing dependence on anywhere." The answer is to recognize why

American systems. " and do something about it. Many man- He added that the European countries agers, having come up from the sales ranks, do not understand the function of a library. To Recker a library was functioning well if it stopped research and development people from duplicating effort. In order to do this, the librarian needs to be a part of the team-not someone offering a service. Make your presence felt, don't go to your users and offer help. Go to your users' bosses. Tell them, "I can help you with free information." "Your people are wasting 3. '. your money. They would prefer to rein- vent the wheel." Deal in man-hours and as well as many mformatwe smaller sesslons talk in terms of dollars. "We think this I?I) Ruth C Srn~thof the U S A (I ) and J S Sossa~of Malays~a(r ) were among the speakers at the IFLA Special Libraries Division session saved two man-years . . . [or] $50,000."The half of the U.S. gross national product. onlv wav to survive is to be certain that Barry Jagoda, president, American Infor- communication takes place. This contro- mation Exchange, Washington, D.C., pro- versial session was followed by a call to vided these statistics during his presenta- action for librarians tion. The tone of Plenary Session IV was one Jagoda explained that 45% of the U.S. of encouragement, or rather incitement workforce is involved with some facet of Before it is too late. librarians should realize information; this percentage has grown their own worth and fight to assure that rapidly since the late Nineteenth Century. their employers, organizations, and govern- As a result, Jagoda said, information has ment also realize that worth. In a group, become our most valuable resource. "It librarians have even greater power; such a would be a mistake to underestimate or group as SLA should be able to wield its undervalue our information products and power in order to gain recognition and services." He stressed that librarians should appreciation. Hannah Atkins, Oklahoma House of Representatives and one-time librarian, urged her former colleagues to become involved in exerting pressure and power upon those people who make the decisions; lobbying and letter writing are essential skills. "Your message must get across to the political world," she said "There is power in numbers; S1.A is a sleeping giant. You can make things happen." Atkins added that the decision by many librarians to be apolitical is in itself a political choice. a choice of inaction. As a result. said Atkins, those \vho do not participate are passed over when funding is distributed. She noted that the White House Conference of Libraries and Information Services and the 1980 SL.4 (hnference in Washington, D.C. offer perfect opportunities for positive political actio11. Librarians' claim to recognition is well- SLA Execut~veDirector designee Dav~d Bender deserved. since the\ are art of the "infor- confers w~th SENTOKYO Execut~ve D~rector mation society" \vhich constitutes almost Yasunosuke Mor~ta demand a larger share of the economy and UNESCO programs dealing with libraries consider themselves the most necessary must be planned with the advice of IFLA. assets of the modern economy. IFLA was organized during the fiftieth The six Contributed Papers sessions anniversary of the Library Association, presented speakers from five countries. Great Britain, Wijnstroom explained. The New review procedures instituted this year founders of IFLA, she said, "wanted to by the Conference Program Committee led meet regularly and make a permanent to especially good results. These papers union. hey wanted to discuss joint inter- combined with the fine Division pro- ests-and joint frustrations, too." gram-particularly the management pro- "IFLA is very much an organization of gram-made this Conference especially personalities," she said. "The federation worthwhile. Selected papers from these staff and office space is very small. We try sessions will appear in future issues of to cover the world with four staff Special Libraries. members." Derek Clarke outlined the structure of the Division. It is composed of six sections: IFLA Session Provides Social Science Libraries; Geography and an International Perspective Map Libraries; Biological and Medical Sciences Libraries; Science and Technology In keeping with the international flavor Libraries; Art Libraries; and Administra- of the Conference, the IFLA Special tive Libraries. Libraries Division session provided a Clarke explained that the Social Science review of the services the Division has Libraries Section generally has been provided for special libraries throughout involved with economically based libraries the world. and the production of economic directories. An overview of IFLA structure was However. he added that the Section now is given by Margreet Wijnstroom. IFLA- developing in other areas and will be in now in its fifty-second year-consists of contact with the International Association more than nine hundred members, cover- of Law Libraries concerning future proj- ing approximately one hundred ten coun- ects. tries. She added that IFLA has a high The future of the Section itself was consultative status with UNESCO; any outlined by Vivian D. Hewitt. She said the

President Dagnese chats with James Humphry Ill, H. W Wilson Company. september 1979 Section extends to topics such as civil rights, several associations and individuals so that statistics, and sociology. She added that the they could participate in IFLA. recent reorganization of IFLA to allow personal memberships would help toward And Then . . . increasing its total membership, especially from the United States. This year many Divisions planned field Speaking for the Biological and Medical trips which took their members to the other Sciences Libraries Section, Ruth C. Smith, islands of the Hawaiian archipelago. National Institutes of Health, Washington, Among the destinations were the Sugar D.C., noted that among the recent projects Planter's Association, Volcanoes National of the Section are an inventory of data Park, the Alex Baldwin Company, the bases and data base systems in biological Bishop Museum, Haiku Gardens, COMSAT and medical science libraries, which will be earth station, the EDUCOMP system, Lyon completed in September, 1980, and a Arboretum, and Iolani Palace-the only compilation of world listings of biological royal palace in the United States. and medical science libraries. Group Travel Unlimited also arranged Pat Molholt, Renssellaer Polytechnic for post-Conference tours to the islands of Institute, spoke on the Science and Tech- Maui/Kauai and the "Big Island," Hawaii. nology Libraries Section. "There is a great These tours were strictly for pleasure, deal of potential in the Section," she said; rather than the educational tours arranged however, she noted that major changes by the Divisions. Members who took them were occurring because of the death of saw Lahaina, the ancient capital of the Frank E. McKenna, SLA Executive Direc- Hawaiian kingdom and later a whaling tor and chairman of the Section. Molholt center; the town of Waimea, where also spoke about the Astronomical and Captain Cook first landed; Ka'u Desert; Geophysical Libraries Round Table. She and Black Sand Beach-among other inter- noted that the Round Table has a small but esting sites. devoted membership. "Astronomical li- And so we come to the end. This first braries represent some of the strongest Worldwide Conference was a rewarding international efforts in science" she said. experience. The tone set by sessions on "Our members can give a lot of support to political and economic awareness will their own people." prove to be valuable in the year to come. The Administrative Libraries Section, The international aspects of this Confer- dealing mostly with government libraries, ence have set the stage for future meetings was discussed by Otto Simmler, Vienna. He of special librarians throughout the world. said that the main work of the Section has The 1980 Conference in Washington, D.C., been to make the public aware of these will also be attended by many friends and libraries and to make the government agen- colleagues from outside North America. cies themselves aware of the value of their We look forward to it. own libraries. "We want to find where these libraries are hiding," he said. "So many are underused." J. S. Soosai, Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia, explained the workings of another IFLA Division, the Division of Regional Activities. Established in 1976, the Division deals with the problems of developing countries, especially the problems of Third World Nations. He said that the Third World now gets a high priority in IFLA; one indicator of this is the 1980 IFLA Conference which will be held in Manila, The Philippines. The Division has Sunset over Honolulu. How will it compare to even paid for the membership fees for sunsets over Washington, D.C.? special libraries The Winners 1979

SLA Hall of Fame Gretchen Little and Frank E. McKenna were elected to the SLA Hall of Fame/1979. Engraved medallions and engrossed scrolls were presented at the Annual Awards Banquet. Gretchen Little received her award from Presi- dent Hewitt (right). Frank McKenna's award was presented posthumously to his cousin Alex With (below). The citations appeared in the August 1979 issue of SL, pp. 343-344. -

SLA John Cotton Dana Award The first recipients of the SLA John Cotton Dana Award were Ruth S. Smith and Jessie C. Wheelwright. Engrossed scrolls and engraved silver bowls were presented by President Hewitt. Below left. Ruth S. Smith listened as Vivian Hewitt commented on her award. Below, Jessie Wheelwright as she expressed her appreciation. The citations appeared in the August 1979 issue of SL, pp. 342-343.

september 1979 423 SLA Honorary Member Helen F. Spencer, president of the Kenneth A. and Helen F. Spencer Foundation, was elected as Honorary Member of SLA on Jun 13, 1979. An engrossed scroll was accepted for Mrs. Spencer by Sara Hill (left). The citation appeared in the August 1979 issue of SL, p. 344.

Chapter Growth Award An engraved gavel was awarded to the Sierra Nevada Chapter for the 1979 Chapter Growth Award. The Chapter's 31.7% increase in membership was the highest for the year. Scott Kennedy (right), president of the Chapter, accepted the gavel from President Hewitt. The Southern Appalachian Chapter was second with a 27.7% increase; Connecticut Valley ranked third with 20.4%.

SLA Scholarships 1979/80 Three $2,500 scholarships were awarded by the University of California at Berkeley School Special Libraries Association for graduate study of Library and Information Studies. in librarianship leading to a master's degree in Four $1,000 stipends for the academic year library or information science. The awards for 1979180 were also awarded by Special Libraries 1979180 were announced by SLA President Association to members of minority groups. Vivian D. Hewitt at the Annual Awards Recipients were Kirk Gregory (St. Louis, Mo.) Banquet on Jun 13. who will attend the University of Missouri, Wendolyn Clark (Florence, Ala.) received her Columbia, School of Library and Information BS degree in English, library science, and sociol- Science; Hiawatha Norris (Claremont Calif). ogy from the University of North Alabama. who is attending the University of Southern Since 1969 she has worked in the technical California, School of Library Science; Thu- library, Tennessee Valley Authority. Her first Thuy Thi Trinh (Austin, Texas) who is enrolled position was library assistant; in 1977, she at the University of Texas at Austin, Graduate became reference librarian. She will attend the School of Library Science; and Keith Martin George Peabody College School of Library West (Flushing, N.Y.) who will attend Pratt Science, Nashville, Tenn. Institute, Graduate School of Library and Infor- Donna Harnden (St. Paul, Minn.) received a mation Science. BA degree in library science from the College of St. Catherine. She worked four years as librarian in the Minneapolis office of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell. Harnden is an active member of the Minnesota Chapter of SLA and is editor of its bulletin. She is also a contributing member of an information network of Minneapolis corporate libraries. Harnden plans to attend the University of Minnesota library school. Mary S. Williams (Berkeley, Calif.) received her BA and MA in Spanish from the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently assistant librarian at Pettit and Martin, a law firm in Donna Harnden recelves her check and con- San Francisco. Williams has been accepted at gratulations from President Vivian D. Hewitt. special libraries SLA Employment Clearing House

SLA Employment Clearing House at the Honolulu Conference listed 64 position openings for the 82 registrants seeking new employment. Students comprised slightly over one-fourth (21) of the 82 registrants. Many of these students were recent graduates of the University of Hawaii. The other 61 registrants were employed librarians who were seeking career advancement and goegraphic mobility in a new position. The ratio of ECH registrants to Positions Open in Honolulu was 1.3 to 1. This ratio is slightly higher than the Kansas City Conference. However, these figures still represent a somewhat more encouraging market than those of 1975 through 1977. Table 1 illustrates these As is usual with conference employment figures. clearing houses, this opportunity provides only Table 1 the initial meeting between an interviewer and job applicant. After the conference come Ratio of ECH follow-up interviews, site visits, and final offers Registrants to and acceptances. As this report goes to press, Conference Positions Open Bnal figures on the number of positions filled as - 1975 2.5: 1 a direct result of the ECH service are not 1976 2.8: 1 available. 1977 2.8: 1 1978 1.1:l Table 2 1979 1.3:1 Starting Salary Number of Positions A total of 46 organizations listed the sixty-four positions opened. Starting salaries ranged from a $10,000 3 low of $10,000 to a high of $29,000. The major- 11,000 2 ity of positions listed salaries in the mid-teens 12,000 9 and required at least 3 years experience. At least 13,000 13 15 of the job openings were for heads of depart- 14,000 10 ments. Table 2 shows the salaries posted at the 15,000 4 ECH. 16,000 8 The geographic locations for positions avail- 17,000 1 able were as follows: Northeast-29; Midwest- 18,000 1 8; Southeast-3; West-12, Southwest-12. Col- 19,000 2 leges and universities provided the majority of 20.000 3 job openings. The academic openings accounted 2 1,000 1 for 70% of the listing (45 job openings). Business 22,000 2 and industry followed with 12 positions open. 23,000 - United States government agencies listed 4 posi- 24,000 2 tions, while a hospital, public library, and law 25,000 1 office listed one position each. 29,000 2 september 1979 Hawaii Conference Program Chairman Jack Leis- ter talks with Hawaiian Pacific Chapter President A member of the Korean delegation at the Michelle Pommer during the Reception preceding pre-Banquet Reception. the Awards Banquet.

Former SLA Presidents Gilles Frappier and Miriam H. Tees enjoy a moment of conver- President-Elect James B. Dodd talks with Yasunosuke sation. Morita at the Rece~tion.

Joe Dagnese receives a special token of office After the Banquet, the Honolulu Boys Choir enter- during the Awards Banquet. tained with a wide variety of music. 426 special libraries Reports of Standing Committees l978/79

Association Ofh'ceOperations Bylaws

The Committee met three times on Oct 10, Due to a change in the chairman of this 1978, and Jan 31 and May 8, 1979. Among the committee, work has just begun to gear up. actions taken were the following. However, all Chapter requests received to date 1) Recommended to the Board of Directors the are being processed. replacement of the Xerox 2400 with the Xerox ELIZABETHMOORE 7000 effective Jan 1, 1979. 2) Recommended to the Board of Directors the Committee on Committees inclusion of $5,600 in the draft 1979 budget for microprocessing of Board Minutes, Division The Committee on Committees (ConC) first Bulletins, and Chapter Bulletins as appropriate. task was to redefine the definition of the Educa- 3) Recommended to the Board of Directors tion Committee. In 1978 the position of Manager, inclusion in fiscal year 1979 budget of $2,650 as Professional Development, was established at the estimated rental for word processing equipment. Association Office necessitating the redefinition 4) Recommended to the Board of Directors that of the Education Committee, approved by the Fred Baum be designated as the third signatory Board of Directors at its Fall 1978 meeting. for Association bank accounts. The Board, at its meeting on Jun 16,1978, voted 5) Recommended to the Board of Directors that to establish a Standards Committee and a Statis- the confidential classification of job descriptions tics Committee and asked the ConC for defini- of SLA employees be eliminated. tions of the two committees by the 1979 Winter 6) Recommended to the Board of Directors that Meeting. The definition of the Standards Com- the confidential classification of the salary ranges mittee was approved by the Board at its Fall 1978 as given in the SLA pay plan be eliminated. meeting. A revision changing the Association 7) Recommended to the Board of Directors the Office contact for this committee was approved adoption of the Executive Director Performance by the Board at the Winter 1979 meeting. Appraisal which AOOC had prepared. The Board at that time also approved the 8) Recommended to the Board of Directors that ConC's definition of the Statistics Committee. an amount up to $6,700 be included in the fiscal The Copyright Committee was established as a year 1979 for the work of the Search Committee. Standing Committee replacing the Special Com- 9) Recommended to the Board of Directors that mittee on Copyright Law Practice and Implemen- David R. Bender be approved as the new Execu- tation. The definition for this new committee was tive Director. approved by the Board at the Winter 1979 meet- AOOC wishes to express its appreciation to the ing. Acting Executive Director and the Association At this Fall 1978 meeting, the Board asked the Staff for their dedicated and loyal devotion to ConC to study the procedures for selecting nomi- duty and for their significant accomplishments, nating committees in associations similar to SLA especially those related to the Honolulu Confer- and to make appropriate recommendations to the ence, during the year. Board not later than June 1979. A report for VIVIAND. HEWLTT actions in June 1979 was submitted. ConC recommended no change in SLA's nominating procedure. A wards JEANDEUSS

The Awards Committee has elected the following people to the SLA Hall of Fame: Frank E. Consultation Service McKenna and Gretchen Little. The chairman assisted the Newspaper Division The John Cotton Dana Awards have been in coordinating plans to establish a Division awarded to: Ruth S. Smith and Jessie C. Wheel- consultation committee and specialized skills wright. inventory. Chapter consultation officers can refer Furthermore, the Committee requests that the requests for qualified newspaper librarians to the Board of Directors recommend (by 213 vote) to Division. the membership at the next Annual Meeting, the The chairman conducted a workshop on library election of Helen F. Spencer to Honorary space planning for the Southern California Chap- Membership.* ter. Requests for consultation service were MARKBAER received from two organizations outside the United States. *Mrs Spencer was elected on Jun 13 JOHANNAE. TALLMAN septemher 1979 Copyright Law Implementation tion courses. During 1978179 five regional courses were held, in New York, Chicago, Los In the Fall of 1978, the US. Register of Copy- Angeles, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta. Their topics rights began steps to carry out the statutory were "Micrographics in the Special Library" and charge in Section 108(i) of the new Copyright "Organizational Behavior: The Role of the Special Law to provide a 5-year review and report on "the Librarian." The six courses presented at the extent to which (Section 108.Limitations on exclu- Annual Conference were "Archives Manage- sive rights:Reproduction by libraries and ar- ment," "Advanced Organizational Structure and chives) has achieved the intended statutory Behavior Theory for Large Special Libraries," balancing of the rights of creators and the needs "Developing Skills in Effective Decision Mak- of users." The Register of Copyrights has ~ng,""Learning Research Techniques," "Market- appointed the following representatives to a mg Your Services," and "Advanced Micro- 108(i) Advisory Committee: graphics." The Committee also advised on the five-year Dr. James Barsky, Academic Press, Inc.; Charles course sequences being developed in the areas of Butts, Houghton Mifflin Co.; J. Christopher management, technology, communications, and Burns, The Washington Post; Efren W. Gonzal- information science. As mandated by the Board of ez, librarian, Bristol-Myers Products; Irwin Directors, details of the 1979180 regional and the Karp, esquire, The Authors League of America, expanded 1980 Conference courses have been Inc.; Madeline Henderson, National Bureau of made available during this summer to allow Standards; Dr. Rita Lerner, American Institute ample time for planning. Chapters are being of Physics; Nancy Marshall, director, Wiscon- offered the option of making local arrangements sin Interlibrary Loan Service, University of for the regional courses. Wisconsin; August Steinhilber, associate execu- Open Committee meetings were held at both tive director, National School Boards Associa- the Winter meeting and the Annual Conference. tion; Dr. Alfred Sumberg, associate secretary, The Committee and the Manager, Professional American Association of University Professors. Development, had an additional opportunity, at Gonzalez and Marshall chair similar Copyright the Winter meeting, to discuss the content and Committees in SLA and ALA, respectively, and presentation of SLA's continuing education represent the library community on the new courses with the Chapter Cabinet. A report on the advisory committee. They are also members of the Committee's activities was presented to the Chap- CNLIA Ad Hoc Committee on Copyright Law ter Cabinet at the Annual Conference. Each of Practice and Implementation (Gonzalez, chair- these meetings produced useful feedback and man) which also includes representatives from suggestions. AALS, ARL, Medical LA, and Music LA (see sepa- The Committee sponsored its first Conference rate report on CNLIA Committee). program, "Library School Education and Committee activities have awaited the develop- Beyond." Three speakers, Joseph N. Whitten, ment of this latest focus of library photocopying Lucille Whalen, and Wayne Gossage, discussed concerns. The 108(i) Advisory Committee has the state of library science education; formal now met twice and it should begin to be clearer continuing education programs; and nontradi- how SLA can cooperate in the development of tional, lifelong continuing education, in the data for the 5-year review. context of special librarianship. A capacity EFRENW. GONZALEZ audience seemed to find the presentations informative and even controversial. Education Future efforts of the Committee will include maintaining and improving two-way communi- This year the Education Committee worked to cation about SLA's continuing education program develop the relationship between the Committee with members and Chapter and Division officers, and the Manager, Professional Development, and implementing a needs assessment, and reporting with Chapters and Divisions, in addition to at the Fall Board meeting on the question of expanding SLA's continuing education program. income-sharing with sponsoring Chapters. A restatement of the purpose of the Committee MURIELREGAN was written and approved by the Board of Direc- tors. Guidelines for the Education Commit- tee/Manager, Professional Development /Chap- Finance ters and Divisions were written and approved in principle by the Chapter Cabinet and the Board of The Finance Committee held its first meeting Directors, with the understanding that the guide- on Oct 19, 1978, at which time the annual review lines were an initial effort and would require of the budget (for FY 1979) took place, including development and alteration as we have experi- the making of recommendations for the Board of ence in using them. Directors regarding requests for funds received The Committee, with suggestions from Chapter from various Association Committees and Chap- and Division officers and interested members, ters. worked closely with the Manager, Professional In view of the likelihood of a deficit for the Development, in the planning and presentation year in the General Fund, due to unusual, unbud- of the regional and Conference continuing educa- geted expenditures for such activities as copy- special libraries right publications for members, Governors' Con- the Government Printing Office operations ference documents for publicity purposes and a (including the Federal Depository Library Sys- Bylaws ballot, the Committee sought ways to tem) but the activities of the important informa- reduce expenditures in 1979. One proposal was tion centers such as NTIS, NASA, and NUREG. the elimination for the year of the annual The Committee publicized the major issues of membership directory. concern to the JCP, which will be reflected in the The Committee recommended Board approval language of a bill to be introduced in May and on of a loan to the New York Chapter for preparation which hearings will be held in June of 1979. The of a union list and a directory. It considered a Committee hopes to assist in bringing views of proposed questionnaire prepared by Gilles Frap- particular interest to the Association to the atten- pier to be used in surveying the need of Associa- tion of the appropriate congressional committees, tion Committee chairmen and official Represen- and to keep the Association fully informed on the tatives for travel expenses, at present not granted. developments which will have a significant The Association's Investment Management Ser- impact, especially on libraries which are vice agreement with a bank was reviewed as to its primarily engaged in support of research activi- performance during its first year of operation. ties. The other meeting of the Committee was held Close contact with federal information and on May 18, 1979, at which time a projection was documentation operations has been strengthened agreed upon of the total Association membership by the appointment of the chairman to a three- at the end of 1980 to use in the preparation of the year term (1978/81) on the Depository Library budget for FY 80. Council to the Public Printer to represent our At that meeting the annual audit of the Associa- Association. Cooperation with GODORTIALA tion was reviewed with a representative of the has continued to be of significant benefit to this auditing firm; all records and procedures were Committee in keeping itself and the Association found to be in good order. One of the actions informed of developments in the government taken by the Committee was to recommend to the information services. Board that an alternative be sought to the Invest- The Association, through this Committee, is ment Management Service arrangement in view again a cosponsor of an Institute on Federal Infor- of its mediocre performance during its first eigh- mation, a two-day seminar to be held at the teen months. The Committee also recommended American University College of Public Affairs on that the Board ask the Division and Chapter Cabi- May 21-22, in Washington, D.C. Mary Lou nets to study the matter of unused Chapter and Knobbe, former chairman of this Committee, has Division funds since some Association units have helped in the preparations as the local representa- unused funds when other units lack sufficient tive and won the appreciation of the organizers funds to carry out worthwhile projects. St111 and this Committee for her fine efforts. another action was to recommend to the Board JOHN HENRYRICHTER that dues and other payments to the Association be made only in US. dollars, to avoid losses due Net working to varying foreign currency exchange rates. The Committee heard the results of the survey In the belief that networking is a specialized conducted by Frappier on the needs of Associa- form of communication and that a good library is tion Committee chairmen and official Represen- a communication medium, the main thrust of the tatives in regard to travel funds. No action was Networking Committee during the year has been deemed necessary. to establish lines of communication so that SLA ELL~SMOUNT members and their libraries could more easily keep up to date and exchange information activi- Government Information Services ties that affect them. In that direction, four actions were taken. During August and September of 1978, the 1. In October, each Chapter was asked to Committee worked with other Librarians from all appoint a member or committee to serve as liaison over the United States in responding critically to with the SLA Networking Committee. Twenty- the proposed new policies for the Nntu~rtnlTrchrri- five Chapters have made such appointments; cal Irlformation Service, as published by the Office several of the representatives have reported on of Management and Budget in the Fcdcrnl Repter cooperative and networking activities in their in July. As a result the proposal was withdrawn Chapter areas. and a much revised version prepared for further 2. At the Winter Meeting in Tucson, a similar public discussion this year. request was made to the Division officers to The remainder of the report period was taken appoint networking liaison representatives. up with efforts to familiarize the Association's Seven Divisions have responded to date. Perhaps membership with the on-going activities of the SLA members can best use networking concepts congressional Joint Committee on Printing to for their own needs by employing networking revise, and in fact, rewrite Title 44, L1.S. Code. This activities in subject and format specialties, repre- undertaking is of prime importance to all librar- sented by division structures and activities, as ians, since it will set the future policies for federal compared to the strongly local and regional activities in the areas of printing, publishing, and multi-type library networks in which Chapter information dissemination. It involves not only networking activities are concentrated. septemher 1979 3. A column, "Networking Notes," was insti- Plen um Publishing tuted in Special Libraries beginning with the April Corpora tion A ward 1979 issue. Some concern has been expressed at Committee meetings that this means of communication is not prompt enough for effective commu- The SLA Plenum Publishing Corporation nication of networking and other news to the Award was approved in 1976 to be given to a membership, and it has been suggested that the member of Special Libraries Association for an Association explore the possibility of issuing a outstanding original paper not previously pub- newsletter either as a separate publication or as an lished or presented covering any aspect of special insert in Special Libraries. librarianship. Both the 1976177 and the 1977178 4. A recommendation was made to the Associa- committees found no worthy papers to reward tion's Committee on Committees to establish with the Plenum funds. formal communications between the Networking This year the committee has been charged with Committee and certain SLA Representatives by recommending alternatives for the award. making the SLA Representatives to the Library of The chairman queried the members of the Congress Network Advisory Committee and to committee asking for suggestions. After a confer- the National Periodicals System Advisory Com- ence call, numerous written communications and mittee ex-officio members of the Networking a brief dialog with Frank Columbus at Plenum, Committee. Such communication has been infor- the following scholarship was recommended. mally established with the two current Represen- Although we do have a Scholarship Fund for tatives. future librarians which is well-supported and In other activities, committee meetings were well-organized in its collection efforts, we could held at the Kansas City Conference and at the make the Plenum Award available for one Tucson Winter Meeting, and one is scheduled for specific scholarship, and that to a worthy SLA the Honolulu Conference. Also at the Honolulu member pursuing a Ph.D. The money should be Conference the committee is sponsoring a important to the research efforts of the Ph.D. ad program on Monday afternoon, Jun 11, and is so cited in the resulting dissertation. It was felt adding its joint sponsorship to another program that an award of this nature aligned itself most during the morning of the same day. closely with the intent of the Plenum Award. Committee members gave assistance to the SLA We further believe that this scholarship could Special Committee on the White House Confer- be administered by the present SLA Scholarship ence on Library and Information Services. The Committee, hence dissolving the SLA Plenum Chapter networking liaison representatives were Publishing Corporation Award Committee.' asked to report to that special committee on activ- SUSANGENSEL ities at the various state Governors' White House *The Board of D~rectorsapproved this recornrnenda- Conferences that had some bearing on special tion at the Winter Meeting in Tucson (see p 196 Special libraries. The committee chairman was invited and Libraries April 1979) expects to attend the national conference, Critical Issues in Cooperative Library Development: A Conference on Networks for Networking, spon- Positive Action Program sored by the Indiana Department of Public for Minority Groups Instruction and funded by the U.S. Office of Education. The stipend program for members of minority A nearly complete discontinuity of Committee groups was continued this year, offering four membership has hampered Committee activities stipends to qualified applicants of $1,000 each. to some extent. As of March 1979 only one The applications decreased this year from 21 to 7. member had been on the committee for a We feel that there is still a great need for this complete year. Furthermore, the committee will program and we are making an effort to deter- have had three different chairmen within three mine the cause of so few requests. In light of the years. need, we are requesting three stipends of $1,500 The Committee wishes to thank all those liai- each for the coming year. son representatives and other SLA members who The committee is happy to note the increase in have provided a great deal of information and the appointment of Chapter liaison officers over assistance to the Committee. the past year. It could be the result of sending a JAMES BEAUPREDODD bulletin to Chapter presidents in November 1978 entitled "For Your Information," which gave Nomina t ing information concerning the Committee's purpose and function, as well as the responsibilities of The Nominating Committee for Spring 1979 Chapter liaison officers. This was followed by Elections presented the slate of Nominees for telephone calls to those Chapters that did not office to the Board of Directors at the November respond. In an effort to determine why liaison 1978 Board of Directors meeting. This slate was officers were still not appointed in some of the published in Sprc~alLibrarm 70(no.l):37-45 (Jan Chapters, a letter was sent out to Chapter presi- 1979). dents urging them to evaluate the program and JAMES A. ARSHEM indicate problems, if any, and suggest ways they special libraries felt would improve the program. The response to publishers of advertising standards in advertise- this inquiry has been poor. ments and other promotional materials, and the The Committee felt that the Minority Volun- projected but never completed survey, Selection teer List should be updated. We attempted to do and Acquisition Practrces In Special Libraries, devel- this through the Chapter liaison officers. We oped several years ago by the Publisher Relations received 11 responses from 46 Chapters. The first Committee. meeting of Chapter liaison officers is planned Currently, the Committee is exploring ways of during the Honolulu meeting, and we hope to taking a survey of a sample group of special find answers to some of our questions at that librarians for the purpose of determining time. whether or not a national survey of this kind Two additional projects are being considered should be proposed once again. During the year for the coming year: establishing communication two members of the Publisher Relations Commit- with the Indian Awareness Centers in 18 metro- tee undertook a literature search to determine to politan areas to identify potential special librar- what degree issues of interest to this Committee ians; and attempting to match, through a clear- had been discussed in the press. The result was inghouse, minority librarians who work on a discouragingly small, but reinforced the feeling nine-month schedule, and recent graduates of that encouragement of the writing of such articles library schools, with special libraries that would should be pursued. We are also continuing our be willing to hire them during the summer communication with the SLA membership via the months because of vacations of the regular staff. Chapter and Division publications. This would afford an enriching experience for JAMESPOTEAT both, and may attract more minorities to the field of special librarianship. As I view the program: 1) The Positive Action Program for Minority Research Groups needs time to grow and establish itself for the purpose for which it was intended. During the 1978 Annual Conference, the 2) Chapter presidents, hopefully, will realize Research Committee presented a program on the real possibilities of the program and will Research Methodologies. As an introduction to promote it. the program, a paper reviewing SLA reserve 3) Members appointed to the Committee needs of the previous fifteen years by Robert should be truly committed and have adequate Havlik, a former Research Committee member, time to give to the work. This is extremely impor- was presented. Following that, two speakers tant. presented papers on various research methodol- 4) It is a good program that can meet the needs ogies: Dr. Harold Borko, Professor at the School of of a growing number of minorities who could Library and Information Science, UCLA, and strengthen the Special Libraries Association. Paula Strain, Manager of Information Services at JAMIER. GRAHAM MITRE corporation in McLean, Virginia. All three papers provoked lively discussion regarding research and possible ways the Committee could Publisher Relations assist members interested in presenting research proposals. Members of the Publisher Relations Committee The following projects, funded through the serve concurrently on the Association of Ameri- Committee, are still in progress: "Continuing can Publishers/Special Libraries Association Joint Education Programs of Three National Library Committee. After a period of several years' inac- Associations" (Zachert/Conroy); "Comparative tivity, the work of this Joint Committee was reac- Costs of Writing and Executing Library Related tivated at a meeting on Nov 28, 1978. Several String Processing Programs in the SNOBOL4 and projects designed to cultivate the dialogue of PL/1 Programming Languages" (Saffady); and mutual interests between publishers and special "Management Attitudes toward Information and librarians were discussed. Information Professionals" (Ripin). The project A direct result of this Joint Committee meeting on "Computer Assisted Instruction in the Educa- was an Issues Workshop held on Mar 22,1979. At tion of Librarians" (Slavens) is completed and in this workshop twenty publishers and special the process of being published but has not been librarians met in an informal, free-wheeling presented to the Committee. No new proposals discussion for the purpose of laying out specific for Grants-in-Aid were received during the year. issues of mutual interest and suggesting future Grieg Aspnes is presently preparing the State- projects and ways to bring them to fruition. of-the Art Review on Networking. The Commit- Discussion at this Issues Workshop underlined tee is planning an open information session on a point that arises any time publishers and special research in SLA at the Annual Conference in the librarians gather, namely, that hard information hope that prospective applicants for Grants-in- about the practices of publishers as a group and Aid will bring questions regarding their projects responses to these practices by special librarians and others who have possible projects will as a group is simply not available. We continue to become informed regarding the Grant-in-Aid work in a vacuum. The two principal areas of program. discussion revolved around the use or nonuse by LUCILLEWHALEN septemher I979 Scholarship in conjunction with the Assistant Executive Director and make recommendations to the Board The three winners of $2,500 scholarships for at the June 1979 meeting." 1979180 are: Wendolyn Clark, Florence, Ala.; In the course of carrying out this task a wealth Donna J. Harnden, St. Paul, Minn.; Mary of literature and opinion has been uncovered. Williams, Berkeley, Calif. Our participation in this effort has been stimu- The Committee received 38 applications, a 30% lated by and will obtain some guidance from the [U.S.] Committee for the Coordination of decrease over 1977178 and a 50% decrease over 1976177. The Committee continues to believe that National Bibliographic Control, which together the winners, alternates, and other qualified appli- with many other groups and individuals advo- cants will be able to find jobs. cates the adoption of universal standards for record structure, content designators and data Of the applicants, 29 were women, and 9 were elements, to enable us to achieve a common men. Three were from Canada, the rest were from the United States distributed geographically as communications format. follows: East, 18; Central, 12; Mountain, 3; Pacific, In addition to the above, the Committee has 2. Applicants were distributed into the following responded to correspondence from counterpart age groups: 20-22 had 6 applicants; 23-24, 8; groups in this country and abroad. We shall 25-26, 8; 27-29, 5; 30-35, 6; 36 and older, 5. Five endeavor to work cooperatively with others having similar concerns and to share our experi- applicants are members of the Association. ence with them as well as to benefit from their Undergraduate majors are as follows (some applicants had more than one): English, 12; linguistics efforts. or a foreign language, 5; art history, philosophy, Our recommendations to the Board will be presented at the June 1979 meeting. and library science, 3 each; history, political science/public administration, math, biology, LEROYH. LINDER music, 2 each; and social science, interdisciplinary, anthropology, chemistry, psychology, 1 each. Statistics Six applicants had masters' degrees,- three also had a-P~.D.,and 1 had a J.D. At its Jun 9, 1978, meeting, the 1977178 Board A portion of the available scholarship money of Directors acted to dissolve the Standards and was used to provide four $1,000 stipends for the Statistics Committee. On June 16, the 1978179 Positive Action Program for Minority Groups Board authorized the establishment of separate Committee. Statistics and Standards Committees. The Com- The Committee has been given the additional mittee on Committees was charged to present responsibility for administering the Plenum definitions for the new Committees at the 1979 Publishing Scholarship for a doctoral student. Winter Meeting. The definition for the Statistics The Committee appreciates the support given Committee was accepted by the Board on Feb 3, by Richard Griffin, Ruth Rodriguez, and other 1979. members of the Association Office staff. Without Past-President Echelman and the Statistics their assistance, the duties of the Committee, Committee Chairman continued participation on especially the Chairman, would have been more the Project Review Group for the National Center time consuming. The Committee also wishes to for Higher Education Management Systems acknowledge the contribution of the interviewers (NCHEMS). This project called for the develop- in the selection process. ment of a handbook and glossary for library JANET S. REED statistics. The original work was funded by CLR, and the continuation was funded by NCES. The project's basic premise assumes a common Standards set of funct~ons,purposes, and resources which outweigh differences in size, setting, or organiza- We are a new Committee created by action of tional goals. It is recognized that there is no the Board of Directors, and jointly with the new typical library, and therefore no typical data set Statistics Committee succeed the former Stan- exists which is appropriate to the individual li- dards and Statistics Committee. Working with the brary. Like most nonprofit organizations, a Committee on Committees, we have developed a library has no overall measure of its success, such functional definition which was approved by the as profit, and must rely on essentially compara- Board on Feb 2, 1979. This definition states in part tive or historical data. If the data definitions could that "The Committee shall: 1) identify existing be agreed upon, and if the groupings could be standards for services, facilities, staffs and selected to fit specihc groups of libraries, data resources of special libraries and information could be collected to serve a variety of manage- centers; 2) disseminate to Association members ment and decision-making uses. Such data could information about standards affecting special be used for planning, budgeting, performance libraries and information centers; and 3) serve as measurements, and reporting at the parent orga- liaison between the Association and other organi- nization level. The data could also be useful to zations concerned with standards." report on a state, regional, national or association Additionally, in February, the Board instructed level. Finally, the data could be used to compare the Committee "to investigate the relevant mate- one type of library against another similar type, rials on a common bibliographic exchange format such as a bank or chemistry library.

S)IPC~/libraries The Project Review Group met for its second Under the new guidelines all student groups meeting and last in Denver during September are required to submit reports to the Student 1978. The review draft of the Handbook of Standard Relations Officer; those groups that did not Terminology for Reporting and Recording Information comply were placed on inactive status until the about Libraries was issued in November. The Past- reports were received. Efforts are underway to President and the Committee Chairman submit- reactivate those groups on inactive status and to ted comments to strengthen the special libraries establish new student groups. Organizational sections. Dr. Hoban, a member of the NCHEMS planning is underway for improving communica- Special Libraries Task Force, also submitted her tion among all student members and among the comments. The Handbook has been sent to NCES faculty advisors; plans are also being made to for final review in January 1979. It has not yet coordinate student activities at the 1980 Confer- been released for general distribution. ence in Washington, D.C. Dr. Hoban has slated for the 1980 Conference a RAYMONDE. DURRANCE Continuing Education Workshop on Statisfral Methods for Special Libraries. The Chairman suggested a potential instructor for the workshop. Tellers Committee The incoming Chairman of the Library Manage- ment Division was contacted and expressed an For the report on the Election of Officers, see interest in cosponsoring a meeting at the 1980 Special Libraries 70(no.7):293 (Jul 1979). Conference featuring the NCHEMS Handbook concepts and definitions for special libraries. This luncheon meeting is viewed as an ideal opportu- H. W. Wilson Company A ward nity for a panel discussion. During the coming year, the Committee will The Committee of the H. W. Wilson Company also pursue other avenues. It is hoped the letter Award has voted not to designate a recipient of by Committee Proctor A. Mamoulides in the the Award for 1978. December Special Libraries will provide useful This decision was not arrived at easily. All feedback. Further announcements concerning the articles of merit were seriously considered by the Handbook and other statistical activities will be full committee. Each member was further solicited for Special Libraries and Division bulle- assigned two issues of Specral Libraries to critically tins. The Committee is looking forward to a pro- review and, after each eligible article had been ductive year. read at least twice, nominations for the best arti- SCOTTKENNEDY cle of 1978 were submitted. Several ballots failed to select an article which met the criteria for Student Relations Officer award selection. While a few articles were well written and Student members who affiliated themselves informative, none met the guidelines; feature with SLA student groups enjoyed another active articles, those generally over two pages in length, year during 1978179. A variety of programs and were reviewed for a significant contribution to tours involving students with SLA Chapter and the philosophy, development, and general prac- Division activities was reported by the sixteen tice of special librarianship. The articles were groups that submitted reports to the Student Rela- examined for these additional criteria: originality, tions Officer. It is apparent from reading the innovativeness, universal implications, validity, reports that successful student groups are depen- and communication effectiveness. dent on the efforts of active student officers and The Committee wishes to express its thanks to interested faculty advisors. Faculty advisors have the Board of Directors and the officers of the played a key role by accepting responsibility for Special Libraries Association for the privilege of liaison between the groups and local SLA Chap- being of assistance to the profession in this ters and for providing initial organizational lead- instance. ership at beginning of each academic year. SARAHK. WIANT Reports of Special Committees l978/79

Special Committee on WHCLIS public service by the H. W. Wilson Company. (It is reprinted in this issue; see pp. 384-394.) Suff- cient copies have been printed to allow for a In accordance with priorities set by the SLA distribution to the approximately 4,000 White Board of Directors, a major effort of the Special House Conference delegates and alternate dele- Committee on the White House Conference on gates, to other professional association officers, to Library and Information Services was devoted to federal and state legislators and government offi- the preparation of an issues paper intended for cials, and to SLA officers as well as attendees of distribution to White House Conference dele- SLA White House Conference sessions to be held gates and other individuals in a position to at the Hawaii Conference. The Committee has advance the goals and interests of special librar- collected information pertinent to pre-White ianship. A secondary priority was the identifica- House Conference delegate resolutions, has tion of SLA members who had been selected as compiled a list of White House Conference dele- delegates or alternate delegates to the White gates and alternate delegates who are also House Conference in the hope of fully informing members of SLA and is seeking, through their aid them of the issues deemed important to the SLA and with the help of others, to consolidate our membership. position and project our concerns at the White The paper, Issucs for Delegate Consideration, Whlte House Conference on Library and Information House Conference on Library and Information Services, Services scheduled to take place Nov 15-19, 1979. was prepared and was published for SLA as a IRVINGM. KLEMPNER

Reports of Joint Chapter/Division Cabinets Committees 1978/ 1979

Archives Study Committee The draft guidelines were presented at the 1979 Winter Meeting of the Joint Cabinet. Joint Cabi- net members were asked to review them and notify the Committee chairman of any problems The Joint Cabinet Archives Study Committee, or suggestions. The Picture Division was asked to consisting of three members from the Chapter provide guidance for the care of photographs and Cabinet and three members from the Division negatives in the archival collections. Cabinet, was appointed at the February 1978 The final products of the Joint Cabinet Winter Meeting of the Special Libraries Associa- Archives Study Committee consist of: tion. As a first step, it was felt necessary to exam- 1. Guidelines for Chapter Archives including ine the existing situation regarding Chapter and 1) a sample agreement for storage of archives at Division archives before any recommendations an institution; 2) a records retention policy; and 3) for procedures could be made. A response form photographic storage recommendations. was developed and sent to all Chapter Presidents 2. Guidelines for Division Archives including and Division Chairmen. By the time of the 1978 1) a sample agreement for storage of archives at Annual Conference, responses had been received an institution; 2) a records retention policy; and 3) from 98% of the Chapters and Divisions, and a photographic storage recommendations. summary of the results had been compiled. It is recommended by the Joint Cabinet Four new committee members were appointed Archives Study Committee that: to replace outgoing Chapter and Division off- 1) The "Guidelines for Chapter Archives" be cers. The reformed committee analyzed the included in the Association's Chapter Gurdelincs; results of the survey and determined that some the "Guidelines for Division Archives" be specific Association-level direction was needed to included in the Association's Dirilsro~~Gu~dclincs. assist Chapters and Divisions in the organization 2) The Association provide the Chapters and and storage of their archival material. The Divisions with format and filming specifications committee proceeded to develop draft guidelines for the microfilming of archival material in order for Chapter/Division archives which would to ensure Association-wide uniformity. provide general direction to ChapterIDivision 3) The Association consider publishing the archivists. An effort was made to include specific Guidelines for Archives in booklet form and instructions for areas in which the survey indi- make it available for purchase. cated confusion and/or questionable practices. MARYLOU STURSA sp~ciallihrarics Reports of Joint Committees

Special Libraries Assocjation/Associa- discuss future projects. As a direct result, an Issues tion of American Publishers Workshop was held Mar 22,1979, at which a large group of special librarians and publishers met to The reactivation of this Joint Committee during discuss topics of mutual interest. For further the 197711978 year led to further productive information about this workshop, see the Annual meetings during the year just past. On Nov 28, Report of the Publisher Relations Committee. 1978, a Joint Committee meeting was held to JAMESPOTEAT

Reports of SLA Representatives l978/ 1979

American Association of Law Libraries American Library Association, Library Administration Division, Library The 1978 Annual Conference of the AALL was Organization and Management Section. held in Rochester, N.Y., where it had been held Statistics Coordinating Committee 33 years ago when the membership was 503. The 1978 membership totaled 2,767. Emphasis shifted Since the Statistical Coordinating Committee from academic and court libraries to the private chairman, Katherine Emerson, is also the Chair- law sector, thus the program shifted likewise. The man of the ANSI 239.7 Subcommittee, this liaison 1978 conference general sessions covered profes- has offered SLA a particularly timely oppor- sional subjects of interest to all, which were inte- tunity. grated with the programs of the special interest The 239.7 Subcommittee is charged with the sections and the Education Committee. preparation of a revised standard for library Of concern to the association were affirmative statistics together with a glossary and handbook. action and equal rights. Resolutions were submit- The Subcommittee was organized in December ted and approved by the membership. A long- 1977 and began work in January 1978. At the range planning committee was appointed to April meeting of the NCHEMS Project Review consider the directions the association should Group, Katherine Emerson and I discussed the take and the financial structure required to special libraries point of view in relation to statis- accomplish various purposes. tics and the problem of defining a "special" li- The 1979 conference will be held in San Fran- brary. In June, I attended the Statistics Coordinat- cisco June 30-Jul 5, to include both pre- and ing Committee Meeting at the ALA Conference at post-conference workshops. The theme is "To- which the discussion draft of the revised standard ward the More Effective Delivery of Legal Infor- was issued. The old standard was organized by mation Service." The special interest sections will library type, but the discussion draft was orga- sponsor workshops for their own memberships nized functionally to increase the potential and and there will be workshops or panels for the ease of being used by all types of libraries. general membership. At the January 1979 ALA Midwinter meetings, The association, through a member of the some eighty members of ten statistics committees National Advisory Committee, will take an active met to intensively review the next to final draft of part in the White House Conference on Libraries the NCHEMS Handbook (see the annual report of and Information Services. The position of AALL the Statistics Committee for more details about is that law libraries should stress the need for the Handbook). It was recognized as a major effort public access to legal information, thus entailing which will have an affect on library statistics need for support funds for public libraries to since it has an extensive treatment of all types of build basic collections. At the San Francisco libraries, as well as a detailed glossary. The Annual Conference, there will be a session reviews produced a number of critical comments devoted to the training of public librarians to use which will be considered by NCES during its legal information. review and revision of the Handbook. Since I had Regional chapters of the association have already submitted comments on the draft to continued to conduct meetings which are geared NCHEMS as a member of the Project Review toward the continuing education of their meni- Group, I did not attend these meetings. bership. Thus the association and its component The potential of coupling the Hnndbook and the parts are ever cognizant of the fast-changing draft of the ANSI 239.7 Subcommittee was appar- information needs of the people they serve as ent, and work is proceeding on this front. members and clientele. Both the NCHEMS Handbook and the 239.7 ELINORM. ALEXANDER draft will receive further attention at the June 1979 ALA Conference. The results will be borrowing for undergraduates, borrowing of in- followed with interest. print materials, and responsibility for replace- A final note: The Library Administration and ment of lost materials be clarified. Management Association (LAMA) of ALA has I was unable to attend the second meeting of organized a new Statistics Section. The Special the Committee on Jan 10,1979. Libraries Association's Statistics liaison is in- THELMAFREIDES cluded in this new section. SCOTTKENNEDY American National Standards Institute, Sectional Committee pH5 on American Library Association, Micrographic Reproduction of Reference and Adult Services Documents Division, Interlibrary Loan Committee Two meetings of the full ANSI PH5 Committee The ALAIRASD Interlibrary Loan Committee on Micrographic Reproduction were held in met at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago on Washington and in New York during which the Jun 26 and Jun 28, 1978, and at the ALA work of revision on seventeen standards by the Midwinter meeting in Washington, D.C., Jan 7 subcommittees was reviewed. A summary of the and Jan 10, 1979. status of seven other standards in the subcommit- At the June meeting, the Subcommittee on tees also was presented by the Technical Coordi- Interlibrary Loan Code and Procedures Manual nator of the National Micrographics Association, Revision reported that revision of both the Code the Secretariat for ANSI PH5. Discussions and and Procedures Manual were needed and recom- balloting on these draft standards have covered a mended that the Code be revised first. The period of two or more years. Your Representative, Committee voted unanimously to accept the a member of the ANSI PH5 Standards Advisory report and appoint a subcommittee to undertake Committee, also attended two meetings of this the revision. The following subcommittee mem- Committee to discuss recommendations for devel- bers were subsequently appointed by the chair- oping new standards in addition to those man: Marilyn Boria, Chairman, Chicago Public currently being developed. Your Representative Library; Virginia Boucher, University of continues to stress the needs of the consumer and Colorado; Jeanne Henning, Florida State Library; the importance of this consideration to the repre- Rebecca Kroll, State University of New York at sentatives of the industry. Many factors must be Buffalo; Jay K. Lucker, Massachusetts Institute of considered during the development of voluntary Technology; Jack McDonald, Jr., Library of standards acceptable to the members of the indus- Congress; Andrew Hansen, American Library try. This Committee has recommended that a Association. (standard) document be developed to "inform The Canadian Library Association is revising and guide manufacturers and users of micro- its interlibrary loan code and has requested infor- graphic equipment, materials, and systems of mation on the U.S. copyright law, for purposes of possible safety considerations." This would copyright representation on requests from Cana- include electrical, chemical, environmental, oper- dian to US. libraries. Nancy Marshall, Committee ator injury hazards, and flammability. cochairman, reported that she had requested clar- The NMA Standards Board includes 27 commit- ification on this point from the Copyright Office, tees covering formats, equipment, systems, and but had not yet received a reply. services. Each has its scope and responsibility. On the question of copyright status of periodi- Draft documents developed by the committees cals, it was observed that some journals display are sent out for ballot to the representatives of information about reproduction for educational about 40 organizations that comprise the ANSI purposes on the masthead, while others do not. PH5 Committee on Micrographic Reproduction. The committee will ask the publisher of Ulrich's A list of the NMA standards committees is avail- periodicals directories to include information able from NMA. The NMA Standards Board about reproduction for educational purposes in recently adopted the policy that any new stan- the directory listings. dard should be used by the industry for one year At the Midwinter meeting, the Subcommittee before it is presented to ANSI for approval as an on Code Revision reported that it had communi- American standard. cated with libraries asking for ideas about the The International Organization for Standard- code and had drawn up preliminary drafts. A ization (150) Technical Committee 46ISubcom- proposed code will be presented at the ALA mittee 1, Documentary Reproduction, known as Annual Conference in Dallas in June 1979. ISO/TC 46/SCI /WG6, held meetings during June Comments from the library community will be in Paris. The six working groups are: WGI-Micro- considered at the 1980 Midwinter meeting, and a fiche, WG2-Engineering Drawings, WG3-News- final draft will be submitted to the ALA Refer- papers, WG4-Quality of Microcopies, WG5- ence and Adult Services Division Board at the Vocabulary, WG6-Equipment. Your Representa- 1980 Annual Conference. tive is a member of WG6 and is concerned with Major concerns expressed thus far were that the the draft of DPh198 "Standard for Microform Code begin with a clear statement of underlying Readers" and also with TC171 /WG6-19 "Methods philosophy; that there be clear definitions of for Measuring Properties of Microform Readers." terms such as "research", that policies concerning Extensive comments from our U.S. delegations on these and other draft standards of the working 2.39.43 Identification Code for the Book groups require resolving the comments of the Industry foreign members, Japan, France, United King- 2.39.44 Library Identification Code dom, Canada, Germany, and others. Thus it takes several more years of discussions and drafts to 2.39.45 Dissertations produce an IS0 standard than to produce an approved ANSI standard. Only standard 2.39.43 has been submitted to The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the American National Standards Institute published a draft rule on product standards, certi- (ANSI) for publishing. The others are still in the fication programs and marketing of products in committee awaiting the close of balloting or reso- the Federal Register, Dec 7, 1978. The National lution of negative votes. An affirmative ballot Standards Policy Advisory Committee (NSPAC) was also cast for new 2.39 Committee bylaws. desires to establish a cooperative relationship on Because of the change of Executive Directors standardization between the government and the and the moving of the committee's secretariat, private sector. Implementation of a plan will be work on new standards was reduced. The past carried out by the Department of Commerce and year has been devoted to completing standards the American National Standards Institute begun under the previous Executive Director. The (ANSI). Micrographics Management at the Na- Executive Committee reviewed proposals for tional Archives and Records Service (NARS) GSA, more than 60 new standards, and 26 have been will follow expanded regulations and standards given priority. Preparation of draft copies of these which were published in the Federal Register, Mar 26 standards should be underway by the end of 15, 1979. 1979 providing that funding is secured. Three new standards are available: ANSI/ISO Your representative attended the committee's 3334-1979 "Microcopying: IS0 Test Chart no. 2- annual business meeting in Washington, D.C., on Description and Use in Photographic Documen- May 9, 1979. James Wood, the chairman, cited the tary Reproduction," which costs $4.00 and is following problems facing the committee: Secur- available from NMA Publications Sales, 8719 ing adequate funding; the image of the committee Colesville Road, Silver Spring, Md. 20910. NMA whose activities are frequently unknown or MS22-1979 "Standard Practice for Uniform Prod- misunderstood; extending the membership; and uct Disclosure for Unitized Microform Reader" is jurisdictional disputes with other ANSI commit- also available from NMA for $3.00. The standard tees. NMA MS21-1979 "Measuring COM Recording When the recently approved bylaws have been Speeds" can be obtained from NMA for $3.50 and accepted by ANSI, the name of the committee test tape MS300-1979 to be run for the bench- will be changed to American National Standards mark is available from NMA for $75. Committee 2-39: Library and Information ANSI is considering a proposal to establish a Sciences and Related Publishing Practices. new standards committee to cover all standards RICHARDL. FUNKHOUSER necessary to interface electronic data systems between different organizations. At present two American National Standards Institute, NMA committees relate in part to this subject, C5 Sectional Committee 2-85 on Computer Information Interfaces and C13 Elec- Standardization of Library Supplies tronic Storage, Transfer and Reproduction of Reduced Document Images. and Equipment Your Representative would welcome com- Two meetings were held by the Committee, ments or suggestions from the members. one on Jun 27, 1978, in Chicago and the other on LORETTAJ. KIERSKY Jan 7, 1979, in Washington, D.C. Your representative was able to attend only the second meeting. American National Standards Institute, During the year, the Committee's membership was increased from four to sixteen by the addition Sectional Committee 2-39 on Library of representatives from industry. The old 1969 Work, Documentation, and Related ANSI Standard 285.1 for Permanent and Durable Publishing Practices Library Catalog Cards was revised, approved by members of the committee, and submitted to Affirmative ballots were cast on behalf of the ANSI. New standards have been proposed and Association for the following reaffirmation of discussed. existing standards, revision of existing standards, DONT. HO or proposed new standards: American Society for Information 2.39.15 (1971) Title Leaves of a Rook Science 2.39.21 (1973) Book Numbering (Incorporating ISBN) SLA presented a successful program at the ASIS National Conference held in New York City. The 2.39.41 Book Spine Formats (Incorporates program, organized by Gail R. Goldstein, was a changes proposed by SLA) panel of three speakers who talked about market- 2.39.42 Serials Holdings Statement at the ing of library resources and services. The three Summary Level and one-half hour program was entitled "How to september 1979 Painlessly Promote Your Information Center for administration of access services. An index or Fun and Profit"; the panelists were Peter Parks register of all documents, including those classi- (Documents Management Group), Benjamin fied as exempt, should be published and cumu- Compaine (Knowledge Industry Publications), lated frequently. CLA supported the principle and Roberta Gardner (Dun and Bradstreet). There that applicants not be required to give reasons for were approximately 100 people in attendence wanting information and recommended that which is quite good considering the program was users should be able to obtain information that scheduled for 3:15 p.m. came into existence prior to the legislation. The A program is now being planned for the 1979 Association agreed that a small service charge Minnesota ASIS Conference. Mary Lou Kovacic might be necessary to discourage frivolous has agreed to be responsible for this session and is demands. working with the ASIS Conference Program In a related issue, CLA action coordinated by chairman. the Government Publications committee con- ASIS has not scheduled any events at the SLA vened by Gail Wamsley was, along with moves by 1979 Hawaii Conference. other interested librarians and citizens, instru- BETTIEJANE THIRD mental in preventing cutbacks in the number of depository libraries for federal government publications. CLA maintained that a reduction in Canadian Library Association the number of depository libraries would contra- The 1978 Conference of the Canadian Library dict federal government plans to introduce free- Association began with the pleasant announce- dom of information legislation and would have ment that the Association would operate during adverse effects on national unity by impeding a fiscal 1978179 on what should be its last deficit free flow of information. budget, due largely to the excellent work of its The Association submitted a brief to the federal treasurer (and president-elect for 1979/80), Alan Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of MacDonald. The conference was enhanced by a Canada recommending that coordination of theme speech by a former SLA President, Herb library and information services in Canada be White, which was well received by the audience. specified as a federal responsibility. The brief Delegates passed resolutions that requested more proposes a section be added to the constitution consultation on the interlibrary loan code, urged stating that Parliament "shall further the devel- the National Library and the Canada Institute for opment and coordination of libraries and library- Scientific and Technical Information to imple- related information services" without altering the ment a national information network, and legislative jurisdiction of Parliament or the prov- endorsed the efforts of the Association of Cana- inces regarding education. dian Universities for Northern Studies to achieve Although conference delegates had requested a bibliographic control of literature on the Cana- delay, the Council members voted in October to dian Arctic. approve the revised interlibrary loan code with The Presidential goals for the year 1978179 an additional revision specifying the prerogative included steps towards experimental local CLA of the lending library to honor or refuse loan chapters, a focus on librarian-publisher relations requests. The code was published in the Decem- (theme of the 1979 conference), and a crusade for ber 1977 and July/August 1978 issues of the CLA Canadian literacy, all announced during the inau- newsletter, Feliciter. gural address. Also during the conference, the Spurred by its new but active Committee on Association approved a revised policy that Library Services for the Print Handicapped, asserted that CLA must maintain a neutral posi- convened by Paul Thiele, the Association decided tion on "buying around," a practice believed to to request the Secretary of State to make funds function to the detriment of the Canadian available to pursue the National Library's publishing industry. While the Association program for the visually and physically handi- would back efforts to change the conditions that capped. The program was cancelled because of now make it necessary for libraries to import limited resources. The co-convenors of the some books directly (mostly from American and equally active Intellectual Freedom Committee, British sources), it rejected moves that would Steven Horn and Meg Richeson, recommended make direct importations by libraries illegal or that CLA endorse a brief from the Canadian Asso- more expensive. ciation of University Teachers objecting to Bill During the year CLA responded to the govern- C-21, which proposes to tighten existing obscen- ment green paper on legislation for public access ity and pornography laws. The Association also to government documents. The Association dis- drafted its own brief on the issue. agreed with statements in the green paper that During the recent federal election campaign, public access could inhibit free discussion among the Association solicited the opinions of the three public servants, and that ministerial responsibil- major political parties on matters of concern to ity could be eroded by a review or appeal mecha- libraries. The questions concerned access to nism. The CLA document said the policy should government information, the role of the National be to make all government information available Library in fulfilling cultural and research require- unless it is specifically exempted and that, if ments, and federal assistance to libraries. necessary, documents could be released with In line with its policy to inform members more exempted sections deleted. Federally employed effectively about the affairs of the Association, librarians should be involved in the planning and CLA distributed a 115-page handbook and special libraries membership directory to its members. Other CONSER Advisory Group achievements announced during the year included the first dollar surplus in eight years, the The first meeting of the newly established printing of the first issue of the Canadian Periodical CONSER Advisory Group was held at OCLC, Inc., Index to be on schedule since 1972 (now that Columbus, Ohio, on May 30, 1979. The function automation problems have been solved), and a of the CONSER Advisory Group is to advise healthy membership increase. A $110,000 con- CONSER management on policy matters, review tract was awarded to a research team to study the progress on the CONSER Project, and to keep the future of public libraries in Canada. "Project: constituent memberships informed about Progress," partially funded by member institu- CONSER Project developments. tions and the private sector, is to be completed by The members of the CONSER Advisory Group Jul 30, 1980. The beginning of this study, the discussed and reaffirmed with minor modifica- most ambitious project ever to be undertaken by tions the following purpose and objectives of the the Canadian Library Association, capped an CONSER Project: active and successful year. SUSANKLEMENT Purpose To continue to enlarge and improve a core data Catholic Library Association base of bibliographic information on serial titles available for use on the international, national, The Catholic Library Association held its 58th regional, and local level. Annual Conference in Philadelphia at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel and the Philadelphia Objectives Civic Center, Apr 16-19. The conference theme was "Library Services for Life, Liberty, and the 1. To provide a reliable and authoritative Pursuit of Happiness." serials data base to meet the needs of library John J. Delaney, author, editor, and scholar, patrons, other users of information, and the was the keynote speaker at the first general developing national and international biblio- session held at the Philadelphia Free Library. A graphic networks. reception in the Rare Book Room was hosted by 2. To assist the national libraries of both the Trustees of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Canada and the United States in the establish- The Regina Medal was awarded to Morton ment and maintenance of a machine-readable Schindel, President and Founder of Weston serials data base. Woods Studios, Weston, Conn., for his contribu- 3. To provide a source data base of use within tion to children's library services which exempli- the International Serials Data System. fied the excellence implied in Walter de la Mare's 4. To support local, regional, and union list words-"Only the rarest kind of best in anything serial activities. can be good enough for the young." Also, the 5. To ensure the use of nationally and interna- Children's Section was honored to have Anne tionally accepted standards, rules, and conven- Pellowski, Director of the Information Center on tions for building and maintenance of serial Children's Cultures of the United States Commit- bibliographic records. tee for UNICEF, speak on "Children and Stories 6. To identify deficiencies in the data base such Around The World." as subject, language, and retrospective coverage A panel of experts in the publishing world and to implement appropriate remedies. discussed the selection of books for publication. Thus far, fifteen of sixteen institutions have selecting special books for special people, deter- responded to an invitation to participate in the mining the make-up and format, promoting a new CONSER Advisory Group. Members of the book and a look at the costs or "where your Group include the following: The British Library, money for a book goes" which provided an Ross Bourne; IFLA, A. L. van Wesemael; NFAIS, opportunity to get inside the publishing world J. L. Wood; National Library of Australia, Arthur for librarians. Ellis; Joint Committee on Union List Serials, The role of the public library in providing Vandolyn Savage; Federal Library Committee, support in adult education and lifelong learning J. P. Riley; SLA, Irving M. Klempner; ARL, John was addressed by staff members of the Philadel- Lorenz; Library of Congress, Mary Sauer; phia Free Library who are nationally known as National Library of Canada, Cynthia Durance; leaders in their various areas of specialization to National Library of Medicine, Joseph Leiter; the members of the Public Library Section. Council on Library Resources, George Parsons; Continuing Education Institutes were held Network Advisory Committee, Henriette Avram; demonstrating that Archives are more than the National Library of Agriculture, Richard Farley; preservation and maintenance of important docu- OCLC, Inc., Mary Ellen Jacob. ments but must fit into the broader concepts of IRVINGM. KLEMPNER history, social data, and public study; a second institute on Today's Youth/Today's Librarian Continuing Library Education Network focused on today's teenager as a new type of and Exchange (CL ENE) individual formed by a new society, living in a rapidly changing environment, sustained by a The fifth CLENE Assembly which was to be new technology. held prior to the SLA Conference in Kansas City MARY-JODIMUCCIO was cancelled due to a lack of registrants. The september 1979 officers of CLENE met at the ALA Conference results of changing methods of information which was held in Chicago the end of June. dissemination upon citizens and information CLENE received a grant from USOE to fund a transfer organizations. Ways in which special year-long training institute for personal involve- libraries, industry, and other hitherto poorly ment in continuing education action from state represented groups can participate more fully library agencies. This will build on CLENE's have been established. Library associations were experience with a similar activity in 1977178 and asked to send position statements to NCLIS. most of CLENE's effort this past year has been Vivian Hewitt mentioned that SLA had already with this project. Interest is growing in identify- prepared a paper. ing CLENE members on a regional basis. The Efren Gonzalez, chairman of the CNLIA Ad Recognition System Task Force members have Hoc Committee on Copyright, spoke about the approved a scaled-down version of its record meetings that the Committee has been holding keeping system of CEUs for individuals. This will with representatives of the Copyright Office. It be discussed fully when CLENE meets in Dallas at was suggested that CNLIA try to compile answers the ALA Conference. to questions on the impact of the new law on The Nominating Committee of CLENE asked if libraries' ability to provide service and the help- I would run as a candidate for Board of Directors fulness of the literature distributed by library for 197911982 and I have accepted the nomina- associations in helping libraries develop policies tion. to implement the new law. JUDITHJ. FIELD Filomena Simora, the new editor of the Bowker Annual, talked about the forthcoming edition. Vivian Hewitt questioned the omission of SLA's annual report in the last two Annuals and hoped that the situation will be rectified in the coming Annual. Council of National Library and A motion was passed to establish an Ad Hoc Information Associations CNLIA Committee to monitor any changes in AACR2. Relevant bodies of the American Library The Council of National Library Associations, Association and other participants in AACRZ Inc. held meetings on Dec 1, 1978, and May 4, formulation will participate. 1979, at the Summit Hotel in New York City. Robert Frase reported on the Status of the ANSI The officers who assumed duties on Jul 1, 1978, Committee 2-39. A 2-39 handbook of procedures are Jane Hammond (American Association of Law has been approved, and a newsletter, The Voice of Libraries) as Vice-chairman and Chairman-Elect; 2-39, is being sent to approximately 850 subscrib- Barbara Preschel (American Society of Indexers) ers. Future plans include an investigation of the as SecretaryITreasurer, and Mary M. Cope (Art use of standards, sending speakers to appropriate Libraries Society/North America) as Director for organization meetings, seeking new members, 197811981. working on the 20 new standards currently in At the Dec 1 meeting, a proposal to change the existence, and establishing new standards in name Council of National Library Associations to areas that need them. Council of National Library and Information John Corrigan reported on ANSI Committee Associations, previously approved by the SLA 2-39 finances. CNLIA must provide $59,000 for Board of Directors, was approved. Reports were 197911980, Applications for funding have been heard on the Bowker Annual, ANSI 2-39 Commit- sent to CLR and NCLIS, although neither have tee, the role of library associations in relation to yet replied, and Corrigan distributed a list of the White House Conference, and new CNLA other organizations from which funds might be programs for the preservation of materials and a solicited. Other suggestions for funding included register of machine-readable texts. using a percentage of the dues, assessing CNLIA Douglas Price, substituting for Alphonse members, and asking CNLIA members for volun- Trezza of NCLIS, spoke at length at the May 4 tary contributions. A motion was passed to desig- meeting about a National Periodicals Center nate 30% of the 197811979 CNLIA dues for which would provide better access to periodicals support of 2-39 in the coming year; this proce- literature. Earlier meetings in April and May dure will be reconsidered as a possible annual discussed whether there should be a National contribution. The Executive Board was asked to Periodicals Center, its scope, governance, and bring recommendations about these options to strategies for its implementation. the Fall meeting. Vivian Hewitt was invited to discuss the advis- The Lutheran Library Association and the ability of the National Library Agency. She National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing expressed SLA's fears that it will develop into a Services were unanimously accepted as members. regulatory agency and noted concern about the Erich Meyerhoff, chairman of the Nominating haste with which legislation on this matter is Committee, submitted the following slate of being promoted. nominees: Richard Buck, Vice-ChairmanIChair- Jerry Manolatos, Deputy Director of WHCLIS, man-Elect; Barbara Preschel, Secretary /Treasurer; spoke about the White House Conference. The Vivian Hewitt, Director for a 3-year term. The Conference will provide a forum for librarians, nominees were elected. citizens and government officials to discuss the VIVIAND. HEWITT special libraries CNLIA Ad Hoc Committee on documentation contained in diazo microfiche. It Copyright Law Practice and apparently will last as least as long as printed Implementation documentation. This GPO decision will in turn influence manufacturing programs for microfiche The Ad Hoc Committee consists of a represen- by the private sector, which remains an important tative and an alternate from: American Associa- source for documentation on microfiche for tion of Law Libraries, American Library Associa- special libraries in private industry. tion, Association of Research Libraries, Medical The Council drew the attention of GPO to the Library Association, Music Library Association, need for standardization of federally produced and Special Libraries Association. It is chaired by microfiche and the desirability of acceptance of Efren W. Gonzalez (SLA). the ANSI standards by any federal agency wish- The Committee met twice this year, each time ing to develop a micropublishing program. With to precede the meeting of the new 108(i) Advi- regard to improvements of the Monthly Catalog, sory Committee on the 5-year review appointed Council recommended a KWIC or KWOC index to by the US. Register of Copyrights in November those currently provided and the use of as many 1978. Efren W. Gonzalez and Nancy Marshall LC subject headings as necessary to provide both (ALA) are the library representatives on the 108(i) broad and specific access. It was further suggested Advisory Committee and, therefore, are anxious that the Serials Supplement (published annually to obtain the thinking and concerns of the CNLIA as part of the Monthly Catalog) have its coverage Ad Hoc Committee. It is expected this pattern of extended to include all title series. Council also meetings will continue for the time being. approached the question of having GPO publish The Ad Hoc Committee developed a list of monthly cumulative indexes on COM microfiche items presented to the 108(i) Advisory Committee as a supplement to the current paper format. In regarding the scope of a survey to determine how view of the rising importance of the Monthly Section 108 of the new law "has achieved the Catalog as a bibliographic control device for many intended statutory balancing of the rights of cre- more federal publications than ever before, all ators, and the needs of users." There was also these improvements will make the Monthly Cata- favorable consideration by the CNLIA Board of log more useful and valuable, and without doubt a Directors for a short survey by the respective much better bibliographic resource for every member associations of the impact of the new library. Copyright Law on library services. This will be The April 1979 meeting of the Council heard a developed by the Ad Hoc Committee. detailed report from the Superintendent of Docu- EFRENW. GONZALEZ ments on the implementation and study of the various Council recommendations. In addition, the Council had an extended discussion of the issues involved in the revision of Title 44, U.S. Code (dealing with the policies on printing and distribution by the federal government). Among Depository Library Council to the the many new recommendations, the Council Public Printer dealt with the OCLC search key for Su Docs numbers, GPO operations [especially the GPO's The Depository Library Council to the Public Cataloging and Depository Distribution System Printer met in October 1978 in Alexandria, Va., (CADDS), which promises to offer greatly and in April 1979 in San Francisco, Calif. Among improved record maintenance and faster re- the subjects discussed in October were the integ- sponse to the requests and requirements of depos- rity of GPO records in the OCLC data base, itory libraries], as well as the establishment of an including the alteration of serial records by Acquisitions Unit, which would greatly improve CONSER. Following this meeting, the Library of the bibliographic control of federal government Congress was informed of the concern of both publications. GPO and the Council for the CONSER alteration While a fair portion of the deliberations of the and steps have been taken to correct this unfortu- Council involve GPO operations and the manage- nate situation. Another issue of considerable ment of the depository library program, it is clear interest to special libraries is that of the proposed that many of the recommendations involve, at policy for NTIS, as published in the Federal Regis- least indirectly, the efforts to increase sharply ter last year and withdrawn after considerable public access to government publications, and to and unexpectedly strong opposition from docu- improve the bibliographic control of these publi- ments librarians. GPO will be working closely cations. Both efforts are of lasting value to those with OMB to redraft OMB Bulletin 78, the revi- who serve highly specialized clientele in special sion to be published in early Fall of 1979. libraries in all fields. With the continuing The decision on the part of GPO to retain diazo increase in reliance on data banks and biblio- as the microfiche type for its micropublishing graphic networks, which now include GPO-cata- program was based primarily on the decision that loged federal publications, the efforts of the diazo quality is sufficient for libraries that do not Council will benefit the patrons of special librar- maintain archival quality storage facilities and ies no less than those using public and academic that diazo lifetime is fully sufficient to cover the libraries. anticipated needs of depository libraries for the september 1979 Federal Library Committee, Guest Federal Librarians Extension Instructional System Observer (FLEXIS), which are self-instructional home- study courses. These courses, supported by Activities of the Federal Library Committee regional workshops, were devised to broaden the (FLC) might be summarized as studies, services, expertise of federal librarians and information and experimental programs. The highlights professionals and paraprofessionals. which are reported here are discussed more fully On-line retrieval. In addition to its on-line cata- in the FLC Annual Report. loging activities, FLCIFEDLINK currently acts as a broker for the services of three large data base retrieval systems [Bibliographic Retrieval Ser- Studies vices (BRS), LockheedIDIALOG, and Mead Data Center/LEXIS]. These FLC-negotiated contracts Career classification standards. A study of "Fed- result in lowered costs because of group rate eral Library/Information Service Staffing as discounts. Affected by Classification and Qualification Stan- Shared acquisition services. Thirteen agencies dards" was launched by the FLC to investigate participated in a shared acquisition program coor- the technological changes which have caused dinated by FLC. The libraries/information cen- librarians and information specialists to move ters share bibliographic and vendor information, dramatically into nontraditional roles. Tradi- computer software, a minicomputer and system- tional library functions were found to be chang- support personnel, while generating their orders, ing rapidly. Recommendations were made for claiming, and tracking fund accounts on-line. A new standards and a completely revised approach variety of on-demand management information to staffing. The Committee asked the Office of reports also are available to the participants. Personnel Management (formerly Civil Service Commission) to develop updated standards. In this regard, your Guest Observer presented Experimental Programs two recommendations to the SLA Board of Direc- Slow-scan televisionltelefacsimile. A group of 15 tors at the Winter meeting in Tucson, which were federal and nonfederal libraries, widely dispersed adopted as follows: geographically, are taking part in a pilot experi- 1) That the SLA Board of Directors endorse the ment involving the installation of slow-scan tele- Federal Library Committee's request for a prompt vision and telefacsimile equipment. As the pilot review of the present Civil Service Standards for experiment progresses, data will be gathered and the Librarian Series (GS-1410) and the Technical analyzed and the use of the equipment will be Information Series (GS-1412) and that this evaluated. endorsement be sent in a letter from the SLA Federal cataloging center. The concept of a President to Paul A. Katz, Chief, Standards Divi- Federal Cataloging Center, proposed to the FLC at sion, Bureau of Policies and Standards, US. Office a meeting on Jan 24, 1979, supposedly would of Personnel Management, Washington, D.C. eliminate an estimated 60% duplication in cata- 20415, as soon as possible after the SLA Winter loging among federal libraries. A centralized on- Meeting. line federal catalog also would facilitate the shar- 2) That the SLA Board of Directors a) note with ing of federal library resources in areas such as interest the establishment of an Information acquisition, circulation, interlibrary loan, collec- Management Series, b) recommend that the qual- tion storing, and participation in national ification standards to implement the classification networks. A potential result, according to the standards not only include but clearly delineate a proposal, would be a reduction in executive agen- career path for librarians as information man- cies having to depend so heavily on the Library of agers, afid c) send this endorsement and recom- Congress for all levels of assistance. mendation in the same or a similar letter to Paul In response to this proposal, the FLC passed a A. Katz. motion that the Federal Library Committee A survey of federal libraries was Data collection. undertake a feasibility study for the establish- conducted in cooperation with the Learning ment of a centralized cataloging capability for Resources Branch of the National Center for federal Libraries, under the aus,pices of the Educational Statistics. Data collected in the survey FLCIFEDLINK, to be supported by those libraries will provide planners in the three branches of interested in participating. Members then gave government with an overview of the range and permission to FLC's Executive Director's Office to diversity of federal library operations and assist discuss and experiment with any interested party in developing uniform reporting systems for on ways to provide centralized cataloging evaluation. Accurate data on the size of collec- services prior to the conclusion of the feasibility tions, staff, and budgets will assist departments study. and agencies in planning library services. The idea of a federal library bibliographic data base service is no! new. It has been discussed previously as a means of providing costleffective Services services to federal libraries based on the records FLEXIS. To enhance continuing education for they have created. For example, the FLC now has personnel of federal libraries and information OCLC tapes of federal library input from 1976 to services, FLC contracted for the development of a the present. Bibliographic services could be special libraries provided from those tapes. However, one of the Congress on Medical Librarianship; exchange of requirements for a Federal Cataloging Center will publications among member libraries; and im- be to provide a "clean" data base (with consis- proving interlibrary loan services. tency of cataloging) as the first Step. A progress report on ICML4 was read. The RUTHS. SMITH theme for the meeting is "Health Information for a Developing World," with sub-themes for invited papers and panel discussions: "Health Science Libraries: Infrastructure for Information Services," "Modern Technology Applied to International Federation of Library Health Information Services," and "Cooperation Associations and Institutions (IFLA) through Health Information Networks." Sugges- tions were solicited for the Section program at the Please refer to the February 1979 issue of Special Copenhagen meeting in 1979, where the theme Libraries (pp. 103-109) for information and exten- will be "Library Legislation." There was a sugges- sive reporting about IFLA. tion from the Coordinating Board of the Special VIVIAND. HEWIIT Libraries Division that the "Copyright Laws" and how they affect interlibrary loan be the subject of one of the plenary sessions. Standing Committee member Ritva Sievanen- Allen announced the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Finnish Research Library Association next IFLA. Biological and Medical year, immediately following the 1979 IFLA meet- Sciences Libraries Section ing in Copenhagen. Medical librarians plan to have a continuing education program at the meet- The 44th IFLA Council Meeting met in the ing. IFLA will be asked to support this meeting as High Tatra Mountains, StrbskC Pleso, Czechoslo- a regional program. vakia, Aug 27 to Sep 2, 1978. The Standing The meeting ended with members expressing Committee of the Section met on Sunday, Aug 27, interests in the Section and its proposed plans 1978. The agenda for the business meeting on and projects. Many expressed plans to attend the Tuesday and programs and projects for the SLA Conference in Honolulu in 1979, where the Section were the principal items of discussion. IFLA Special Libraries Division will play a special The business meeting of the Section convened part in the "First Worldwide Conference on on Tuesday, Aug 29,1978, with Irwin Pizer, chair- Special Libraries." man, presiding. The chairman explained that in The Biological and Medical Sciences Libraries accordance with directions from the IFLA Secre- Section will hold its first regional meeting for tary General, the provisional officers would North Europe in Helsinki in connection with the remain in office until 1979 and that an election Finnish Research Library Association on Sep 4 would be held during the year. He also reported and 5. that the "Section Terms of Reference" had been RUTHC. SMITH accepted. Programs and Projects for the Section The chairman reported on the meeting of the Standing Committee on Sunday at which the IFLA. Geography & Map Libraries decision was made to concentrate efforts on two Section projects: one a short-term, the other a long-term project, if approved. The short-term project was See the report in the February 1979 issue of the compilation of an inventory of data bases and Special Libraries pp. 105-106. information systems in the biological and medical MARYMURPHY sciences. This will be a part of a larger project which all IFLA Divisions and Sections were asked to consider. The completion date was September 1980 to coincide with the meeting of the Fourth International Congress on Medical Librarianship IFLA. Science & Technology Libraries (ICML4) in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The long-term Section project proposed to the membership was the compilation of a "World List of Biological and Due to the change in leadership, it was not Medical Sciences Libraries." Letters to A. L. van possible for a report to be submitted. Wesemael were read proposing the Section's participation in these projects and requesting funding for the long-term project. The Section members accepted the projects and will await IFLA. Art Librarians Round Table answers to the letters. Other projects discussed by the members Mountains in sunshine and mist, rain and included the proposal that the Section ask to take snow, looked down on European librarians in the responsibility for the 5th International warm parkas and climbing boots, and on shiver- september 1979 ing North American librarians wearing all the Slovak choir in national costume; superb displays clothing they had been able to take by air for an of beautifully embroidered costumes from the August holiday in Europe, walking to meetings in different regions of Slovakia in the National the different resort hotels in Strbske Pleso. Museum at Martin; a visit to the Demanovl caves Nature was definitely more in evidence than art where the glistening colours of the stalactites & for the 12 art librarians who had managed to stalagmites make them look like some contempo- overcome the hurdles of traveling to and in rary ceramic sculptures. And for the art librarian, Czechoslovakia in order to attend the meeting of getting to the conference in Czechoslovakia the Art Librarians Round Table of IFLA. They meant having the opportunity of seeing Prague came from seven countries-Canada, DDR, en route-its old buildings, its art collections, and France, Poland, UK, USA, and USSR; they repre- its libraries. sented libraiy associations and 11 separate institu- NOELBALKE tions. At this meeting in the High Tatra mountains Jacqueline Viaux of the Bibliotheque Forney in IFLA. Music Librarians Round Table Paris, chairman of the Round Table, reviewed the year's activities, including contacting and stimu- I was appointed to the position of SLA Repre- lating the interest of colleagues in the work of the sentative to the IFLA Music Librarians Round Round Table and organizing groups of art librar- Table late in the Spring of 1978. Unfortunately, I ians in other countries such as Scandinavia, !as unable to attend the IFLA Conference held at France, and Switzerland. The resignation of Strbske Pleso, Czechoslovakia, Aug 24 to Sep 2, Judith Hoffberg, elected Secretary/Financial Of- 1978, although I travelled in the CSSR as a tourist ficer in Brussels in 1977, was tabled. Noel Balke of earlier in August and visited Strbskb Pleso. the Library of the National Gallery of Canada, Frank McKenna did attend the session held by representing the Special Libraries Association, the Music Librarians Round Table and in a and Peter Anthony of the Art and Architecture personal letter to me written from Amsterdam on Library of the University of Manitoba, repre- Sep 5 reported in part: "The sections in Special senting the Canadian Library Association, were Libraries Division had rather good meetings. appointed secretary and financial officer, respec- About 20 in Music Librarians Round Table meet- tively, of the Round Table until elections could be ing (from all types of libraries). . . I think Music held during the 1979 meeting in Copenhagen has real potential to grow into a full section. . . ." when it was hoped that a larger number of art I plan to attend the IFLA Conference which librarians would be able to be present. will be held in Copenhagen Aug 26 to Sep 1 and Of the projects proposed at the Brussels meet- was asked by the chairman of the Round Table to ing for members of the Round Table, compiling prepare a paper on "The Role of Sound Record- an international directory of art libraries was ings in Library Collections" for presentation at selected as the most useful. Discussion centered the group's session on Aug 31. on the problems involved and the type of ques- FORRESTALTER tionnaire to be distributed. It was proposed that the world be divided into regions, one region to be surveyed each year, starting with Europe. The Library Binding Institute directory would be published annually in sections covering the regions surveyed with a The paper presented by your Representative on final cumulation into one international directory. May 16, 1978, during a panel discussion on "Rela- A preliminary questionnaire was outlined, the tionships of Certified Library Binders and their covering letter drafted, the work apportioned Customers" at the annual LBI Convention in among the members present and a production Williamsburg, Va., was published, in abbreviated schedule established. The hope was expressed form in LBI's official publication: Barbara M. that the European directory would be ready for Davis/Bookbinding for Special Libraries is the Congress in Copenhagen in 1979. Indeed "Special." Library Scene 7 (no. 3): 29-31 Plans were made for the Copenhagen meeting. (Sep-Dec 1978). It was hoped that papers could be presented there The Princeton-Trenton Chapter, in coopera- on the organization and resources of art libraries tion with the Library Binding Institute and Rut- in the Scandinavian countries and that visits gers Graduate School of Library Service, is plan- could be arranged to the galleries, museums, and ning a "Conference on the Preservation of art libraries of Copenhagen and Denmark. Current Library Materials" on Jul 20-21 of this Art in a variety of forms was to be seen-and year. heard-among those mountains and valleys of BARBARAM. DAVIS Slovakia. Highlights of the 1978 conference included the concert for the delegates given in a mountain hotel by one of Czechoslovakia's major Library of Congress Networking symphony orchestras where a performance of Advisory Committee Dv6rlk's symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95, was listed on the English-language program provided See the column, "A Nationwide Library as "From the Newfoundland"; the opening Network," in the May/June 1979 issue of Specla1 session where IFLA delegates were greeted by a Libraries pages 251-252.

special libraries Medical Library Association year. This matter subsequently was rectified by an SLA Board action which formally extended No report received. complimentary Conference registration to offi- cially designated Representatives who are not SLA members (see Special Libraries, April 1979, page 198). Presumably the SLA Representative to Music Library Association NFAIS again will be accorded this courtesy by NFAIS in the future. Such gestures are decidedly I attended the Music Library Association helpful in nurturing a closer relationship Annual Winter Meeting held in New Orleans, between the two organizations. Feb 5-10. It was announced at the NFAIS Conference that During the year I continued to serve as the the Executive Director, Toni Carbo Bearman, will Music Library Association Representative to SLA. be leaving the Federation in the Fall of this year. I FORRESTAL.TER most decidedly share the opinion, expressed by NFAIS membership, that this is a loss to the organization. During my three years as SLA Representative I have enjoyed a cordial and productive relationship with Toni Bearman, who also National Federation of Abstracting served as NFAIS's representative to SLA. As an and lndexing Services SLA member, she has been profoundly aware of the need for communication and cooperation At the SLA Kansas City Conference in June between the two associations. It is to be hoped 1978 the National Federation of Abstracting and that her successor will be as energetic as she has Indexing Services sponsored a session on "The been in pursuing goals of mutual interest. Effect Of On-Line Searching On Indexing In GWYNETHHEYNES MALLINSON Secondary Services-A Look Ahead." This was the first time NFAIS had participated actively in a Special Libraries Association Conference. The session was well received and it is to be hoped that other such programs may be planned for future Conferences. National Micrographics Association At the NFAIS Annual Conference, which I attended in March 1979, I was once again The 28th Annual Conference and Exposition of impressed by the quality of some of the programs the National Micrographics Association was held and by the eminent suitability of some topics and May 8-11 in Atlanta. The theme "Confluence of speakers to a large audience of special librarians. Technologies" was selected because it signifies a For example, the first theme session on "Policies new direction for what was once an association Concerning Coverage of Documents" was of called National Microfilm Association. Now it is great interest to librarians (of whom there were exploring new relationships with microfacsimile, few in attendance), as was the session on "The data processing, and word processing-and hope- Impact Of On-Line Use On Data Bases," a similar, fully other technologies now and of the future. but differently focused, program to the one There were about 125 exhibitors of interfacing presented at Kansas City. technologies displaying their products and The "members only" pre-conference, which I systems. The educational program included seven was permitted to attend for the first time this seminars for professionals, eleven common inter- year, had two workshops of particular interest, est applications seminars and nine sessions cover- "Bibliographic Input Problems" and "The Ex- ing systems design, equipment, and software panding Role of A and I Services in User Educa- information. Following up on this successful tion." I would like to see a version of both of conference will be the 1979 midyear meeting, these sessions at an SLA Conference. The theme Nov 6-9 in San Antonio, with the theme "Inter- of the Conference, "Today's Challenges for Infor- Tech" emphasizing the technologies that relate or mation Services," was addressed by Donald King interface with micrographics. in a thoughtful Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture The 1980 NMA Conference and Exposition will on "The Information Community-Its Dilemma, be held Apr 21-25 in New York City and the Opportunities and Challenges." theme will be "Focus on Productivity." This During the year the Boards of Directors of both subject was discussed in the Mar 12, 1979, issue of SLA and NFAIS reviewed the question of affilia- Fortune magazine in a special section, "Productiv- tion between the two organizations. NFAIS ity and Information Management." Other tech- misunderstood somewhat that its complimentary nologies, including the facsimile, computer and Conference Registration to the SLA Representa- word-processing products and systems were tive was not reciprocated [SLA does not extend among the micrographics advertisers. The pro- this privilege to Representatives of other organi- ductivity discussed relates to the office and again zations who are also SLA members] and decided librarians must make their own innovative trans- to revoke that privilege for the SLA Representa- fer to their own informational activities. This tive to NFAIS. Consequently, my company paid special section is essentially a "white paper" to the registration fee for the NFAIS Conference this management which has come out of the NMA SLA President Joseph M. Dagnese (far left) delivers his Inaugural Address during the Annual Business Meeting, 1979 Honolulu Conference. The Board members shown here (from left). Vivian D. Hewitt, Jack Leister, James B. Dodd, Ruth S. Smith, Patricia Marshall, and Floyd L. Henderson.

Outreach Program designed to reach top-level to span the gap from microforms to advanced data decision makers and to tell them that micro- entry techniques and the rapid retrieval of image graphics plays an active role in information information. systems. LORETTAJ. KIERSKY The Outreach Program has been the responsibility of Truett E. Airhart as Vice-president and National Periodicals System now this year's President of NMA. As part of the Advisory Committee program Harvard University Professor J. Cash will be concerned with studying the state of the In 1977, a task force from NCLIS produced a art of micrographics for management. The NMA report called Effective Access to the Periodical Litera- has also obtained a consulting firm, International ture: A National Program. In that report, NCLIS Data Corporation, to assist it in carrying out its recommended that a National Periodicals Center long range goals, one of which is the growth of (NPC) be created within the Library of Congress. the industry. This Representative would expect Then LC asked the Council on Library Resources that the application areas studied and developed to produce an implementation plan; the result of would include the library /information center, as this is the "burgundy book" entitled A National networking in this area continues to develop and Periodicals Center, Technical Development Plan expand, and also that interfacing technologies which was published in August 1978. The charge would offer new possibilities for information from NCLIS to the Advisory Committee on a service to the information center in the multi- National Periodicals System is to react to this national corporation. implementation plan with a series of recommen- A great deal of emphasis is being placed upon dations. The Advisory Committee consists of educating top management, but as everyone in representatives from library associations, publish- organizations knows, the lower echelon must be ers groups, and information industry organiza- well-informed to present a program to upper tions. management, and unless education is also aimed It was evident from the Committee's October at that level, the library/information center of the 1978 meeting that it views the "burgundy plan" future will not develop in the same way that the as only one way to implement the NPC. After the office of the future will develop. There are 40 first review of the general aspects of the plan, the NMA Chapters that can offer educational Advisory Committee agreed to endorse the plan programs on micrographics jointly with SLA in principle. However, it should be noted that Chapters and with other information and records while the Committee accepted most of the objec- associations. This is an opportunity for all Chap- tives set forth in the plan, it rejected some as ter program chairmen to provide micrographics inappropriate and others as superfluous. At the information and to make new systems applica- Committee's meeting in December 1978, it reaf- tions known to others in their area. firmed its endorsement of the principles of the The 11th International Micrographic Congress document. (IMC) will be held Sep 24-27 in Paris with the The SLA Representative to the Advisory International Exhibition on Data Processing, Committee reported to the Board of Directors at Communication and Office Organization (SI- the 1979 Winter Meeting. The SLA Board voted to COB). It will include 25 sessions on techniques, endorse the concept of a national lending library applications, and future developments of micro- with equal access for all types of libraries and to graphics in member countries. U.S. government include all publication formats. As an interme- groups and others will attend the Annual diate step, the SLA Board endorsed the concept of Government Micrographics Conference and Ex- a National Periodicals Center. position, Sep 17-19, Shoreham Americana Hotel, In March 1979 there was an open forum at Washington, D.C. More information is needed by which library organizations and representatives the managers of libraries and information centers of the information industry expressed their views

446 special libraries on the proposal for the NPC, Participants seemed accessibility of most public and private buildings, to be in agreement that an NPC is needed and including libraries. that it should be under the direction of an inde- The time for pleading and begging has passed. pendent agency with both federal and nonfederal Federal, state, and local legislation has become a support. reality. Laws in the fields of Special Education, A draft legislation proposal for an NPC evolved Vocational Rehabilitation, Affirmative Action in from the open forum of March 1979. The SLA Hirings, Promotions, and Dismissals, now require Board of Directors at its June 1979 pre-Conference that institutions come under closer scrutiny than meeting took actions that reaffirmed the Associa- they have in the past. tion's support of efforts to establish an NPC. The PL 94-142 on Mainstreaming Exceptional Chil- Board's actions included 1) an endorsement of the dren and Regulations 503 and 504 spell out in concepts set forth in the draft legislative proposal, greater detail what was merely a hope a few years and 2) an appeal to Congress urging the eventual ago. We find many agencies, employers, and asso- establishment of a national lending library to ciations asking how they can help and also how include all publication formats. individual libraries and schools can comply. In a related action the SLA Board expressed the Having recently reviewed Dr. Kieth Wright's Association's intention to be designated as a joint book Library and Information Services to the sponsor of draft legislation for the NPC. Handicapped (Libraries Unlimited, 1969) it is At its May 1979 meeting, NCLIS endorsed in possible for me to see specific examples of how to general the concepts articulated in the draft NPC provide better library service whether it is due to legislative proposal and encouraged the continu- compulsory motivation or a compassionate view ing activities of the Advisory Committee on a of one's fellow man. National Periodicals System and in particular, the preparation of background documents and the Activities collection of further input from interested A number of authors (ten) appeared in Wash- groups. ington, May 2, at the President's Committee The Commission's Advisory Committee on a Annual Conference to discuss their books on National Periodicals System is scheduled to meet various aspects of disabilities and to meet the in July 1979 to review the work of the legislative public attending the reception. This event was drafting team, consider any responses transmitted given in lieu of our regular Subcommittee meet- by the various library associations that have met ing and in cooperation with the National Library in late May or June, and the reactions from other Services for the Blind and Physically Handi- organizations on the role of the private sector in a capped of the Library of Congress and the ALA National Periodicals System and a National Peri- Division of Association of State Cooperative odicals Center. Library Agencies. LAURAGASAWAY The Subcommittee continued its active role in (Note: This report prepared by Rlchard E. Gr~ffin, 1978179 in working on several fronts: setting up Assistant Executive Director.) meetings with HEW on creating layman's literature on the highlights of Regulations 503 and 504; meeting with ALA national representatives and other groups instrumental in drafting state wide National Translations Center standards and national standards on compliance There is no activity to report. with various regulations prohibiting discrimina- DONS. CULBERTSONtion against handicapped people; and architectural standards. A number of college and university officials are interested in meeting the June 1980 President's Committee on deadline for full compliance. Incidentally, a Employment of the Handicapped, common complaint has been the failure of Library Subcommittee Congress to provide some federal money along with the laws to help institutions and libraries The past four and one half years have been comply with the requirements. eventful in terms of service to SLA as Representa- The meetings scheduled last year included tive to this key Subcommittee of the President's ALA in Chicago (Summer 1978), ALA Mid- Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. Winter, Washington, D.C., President's Annual Viewed in retrospect, since 1975 the Library Conference May 2-4, 1979, in Washington, and Subcommittee has worked on a personal level ALA in Dallas, June 1979. 1 was not able to attend with the library community. We sought under- any of the meetings this year, but was in touch standing of the scope of the problem and hoped with the Committee Members by phone and by that librarians as employers. and as direct provid- mail; minutes and documents were reviewed ers of service, would hire the handicapped and regularly and my opinion about several matters service them in an encouraging manner. The pertaining to SLA's part in disseminating "The same approach had been used with the publish- Librarian's Guide to 504" were included. ing industry in seeking better literature and less The meeting held in Chicago on Jun 25, 1978, stereotyped illustrations in various publications. was a panel discussion at the Association of State Architectural barriers were also, and still are, a Cooperative Libraries Agencies Division on "Net- major battlefront for recognition of the lack of working: The Delivery of Services to Populations september 1979 with Specialized Needs." Various topics related to and restoration of old theater buildings; and a the question were discussed with representatives slide lecture on the holdings of the Enthoven from various centers possessing data bases includ- Theater Collection at the Victoria and Albert ing: 1) NIMIS-National Instructional Materials Museum in London. Information System; 2) National Clearinghouse On May 14, the annual George Freedley- on the Aging; 3) National Rehabilitation Informa- Theatre Library Association Awards were pre- tion Center (located at the Catholic University sented at the Algonquin Hotel. Richard D. Altick Graduate Department of Libraries Science, which was honored for The Shows of London and Kevin has recently received a five-year grant and will Brownlow for his book on the movies, The War, begin operation in October 1979). The grant from the West and the Wilderness. A special citation was Rehabilitation Services Administration will fur- given to the authors of the multivolume Bio- ther information delivery to the Rehabilitation graphrcal Drctionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, and Placement Community and increase the Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in effectiveness of programs serving handicapped London, 1660-1800. people. DOROTHYL. SWERDLOVE Publications Recommended The crowning achievement of the year for the Library Subcommittee was a publication entitled, US. National Committee for the "A Librarian's Guide to 504-A Pocket Guide." United Nations Educational, Scientific Write Larry K. Volin, State Liaison, President's and Cultural Organization General Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, Washington, D.C. 20210 for copies. Also recom- Information Program (UNESCO/PGI) mended is: "Your Responsibilities to Disabled The US. National Committee for the UNESCO Persons as School or College Administrator," General Information Program met for the first Office of Civil Rights, DHEW, Washington, D.C. time on Mar 17, 1978, in Washington, D.C. This 20201. A third publication, "White House Confer- organizational meeting discussed the Charter of ence Follow-Up Programs for Handicapped," the Committee, funding, sponsorship and estab- Office of Handicapped Individuals, DHEW, lishment of a Bureau to be responsible for super- Washington, D.C. 20201 is also suggested. vising the activities of the Executive Secretary in WILLIAMB. SAUNDERS administering the Committee's affairs. A subsequent election of Bureau members Theatre Library Association resulted in the following make-up of the Bureau: Chairman, Robert Wedgeworth, ALA; Vice Chair- The Theatre Library Association held its 1978 man, Vladimir Slamecka, Georgia Institute of summer meeting in Chicago on Jun 28, during Technology; Treasurer, Toni Bearman, NFAIS; the Annual American Library Association Con- Members by constitutional mandate: Library of ference. The program included morning tours of Congress, William J. Welsh; National Archives the St. Nicholas Theater and the new theater of and Records Service, James B. Rhoads; National the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center. The Library of Medicine, Mary Corning; Member- afternoon included talks on theater and theater at-large, Joseph Becker, Becker and Hayes; collections in the Chicago area and a panel discus- Members non-government sector: Association of sion on appraisal of performing arts materials. Research Libraries, John G. Lorenz; Information The annual business meeting was held in New Industry Association, Paul G. Zurkowski; Society York on Oct 23 at the Shubert Archives. It was of American Archivists, Ann Morgan Campbell. followed by a panel discussion on preserva- The second plenary meeting of the Committee tion/conservation of performing arts materials. was held in Washington on March 28, 1979. The Association joined the American Society Wedgeworth gave a report of the Bureau's activi- for Theater Research in a four-day conference in ties and program for 1979. Lee Burchinal San Francisco, Nov 16-19, the theme of which discussed the upcoming Intergovernmental Con- was Theatre West: Image and Impact. Papers dealt ference on Science and Technology Information with misconceptions of the West in European for Development (UNISIST 11.) Nominated to the drama versus the real West discovered by State Department as US. representatives to this performers trouping through towns and mining conference are Vladimir Slamecka, Melvin Day camps, as well as with the influence of Western (NTIS), Toni Bearman and Joseph Becker. life on performers and audience. Members also Jacques Tocatlian, Acting Director of the visited the Woodland Opera House, near Davis, UNESCO/PGI, gave a status report of some of the which is being restored. organization's projects. James Wood (American For the second year, the Theatre Library Asso- Chemical Society) spoke at length about ANSI ciation and the American Society for Theater 239, ISO, and the coordination of the interna- Research cosponsored a free lecture series for tional standards. It was decided not to maintain a members and friends in the New York area. permanent secretariat for the Committee. Topics covered were: facilities for researching The next plenary meeting of the Committee musical comedy; history of the Eugene O'Neill will be scheduled for sometime in March 1980. Theatre Center in Waterford, Conn.; preservation S. K. CABEEN

special libraries sZa news

SLA Members Chosen as Federal Libraries Delegates to WHCLIS Patricia W. Berger and Mary A. Huffer, tionship and position of federal library and both SLA members and former presidents of information services to national issues, and the Washington, D.C. Chapter, have been 3) to select two voting delegates from the elected to represent federal libraries as federal community to participate in the voting delegates at the White House Confer- White House Conference. Berger reports ence on Library and Information Services that the SLA booklet, Issues for Delegate (WHCLIS). Berger is Chief Librarian of the Consideration, White House Conference on National Bureau of Standards, and Huffer is Library and lnformation Services, was well Librarian, Office of Library and lnformation received at the pre-Conference and proved Services, U.S. Department of the Interior. invaluable in guiding the participants' They were chosen as WHCLIS voting dele- discussions. gates at the Federal Libraries and Informa- Federal librarians and other persons who tion Services Pre-White House Conference, are concerned with the role of federal librar- Jul 19-20, 1979, at the National Defense ies in WHCLIS and in formulating and University, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washing- implementing a national library and infor- ton, D.C. mation service program are urged to contact The pre-Conference of Federal Libraries Pat Berger at the National Bureau of Stan- was convened to 1) review the White House dards (3011931-3405) or Mary Huffer at the Conference agenda, 2) determine the rela- Department of the Interior (2021343-5821).

MEMBERS IN THE NEWS

Rao Aluri, research assistant, OCLC, Inc. . . . re- tions and Services, Universal Serials and Book ceived a CLR fellowship (1979180) to compile a Exchange, Inc., Washington, D.C. guide to US. Government scientific and technical information sources. Diana Carey, acting head, Boeing Technical Libraries, Seattle, Wash. . . . appointed manager Maxine Beaton, librarian, Presbyterian Medical of the libraries. Center Libraries, Denver, Colo. . . . retired after 28 years at the library. Margaret Carpenter, formerly with the St. John Hospital Library, Detroit, Mich.. . . now Michi- Carol A. Berger, formerly director, Library gan field representative, EBSCO Subscription Services, National Live Stock and Meat Board, Services. Chicago . . . now manager, Library and Informa- tion Services, Beatrice Foods Co., Research Li- Elfrieda L. Cavallari, supervisor, Cataloging brary, Chicago. Section, U.S. Air Force Geophysics Laboratory Library, Hanscom AFB, Bedford, Mass. Linda S. Bryan, formerly assistant librarian, Dun . . . awarded the U.S. Air Force Equal Employment & Bradstreet Business Library, New York Opportunity Certificate of Appreciation. City . . . promoted to librarian. Ching-chih Chen, School of Library Science, Faith Taylor Burton, formerly technical librarian, Simmons College, Boston, Mass. . . . promoted to Illinois Institute of Technology Research Insti- professor and appointed associate dean of the tute, Annapolis, Md. . . . now manager of Collec- library school. Attention My January EDITORIAL announced that there would be a reader's survey before the end of the year. It will appear in the November issue of Special Libraries. I hope to hear from every SL reader. This is your chance to tell me what you want from your journal. Watch for it. THE EDITOR

James M. Matarazzo, School of Library Science, Enid Miller Slivka, formerly with the Science Simmons College, Boston, Mass. . . . appointed and Business Department, Seattle Public Library, associate dean of the library school. Wash. . . . now law librarian, R.W. Beck and Asso- ciates, Seattle. Shula Monroe, formerly coordinator, media processing services, Northern Virginia Commu- Sallie A. Smith . . . appointed technical librarian, nity College . . . now city librarian, National City St. Joe Mineral Corp., Monaca, Pa. Public Library, National City, Calif.

Patricia Oyler, School of Library Science, Arlene Solomon, law librarian, Troutman, San- Simmons College, Boston, Mass. . . . promoted to ders, Lockerman, and Ashmore, Atlanta, Ga. associate professor. . . . elected president, Atlanta Association of Law Libraries. Amy Raedecke, Minneapolis Public Library and Information Center, Minn. . . . named project Kenneth 0. Stevenson, librarian, Gulf Research director of the library's three-year "Learning and Development Company, Pittsburgh, Library" program sponsored by National Endow- Pa. . . . retired. ment for the Humanities.

Gail Ann Schlachter, assistant university librar- Enid T. Thompson, adjunct professor, University ian for public services, University of California, of Denver. . . appointed member, Local History Davis. . . named editor, "In Review" section, Board, Continuing Library Education Network ALA Reference and Adult Services Division jour- and Exchange, Washington, D.C. nal RQ. John Timour, Scott Memorial Library, Thomas James G. Schoenung, formerly instructional Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pa. . . . ap- services supervisor, OCLC, Inc. . . . appointed pointed representative, State LibraryIPennsylva- executive director, PALINET and Union Library nia Library Association continuing education task Catalogue of Pennsylvania. force.

MetalslMaterials Division Presents Award

The SLA Metals/Materials Division has Technology Division, and chairman, SLA presented its 1979 Honors Award to Doro- Non-serials Publications Committee. thea McKim Rice. The Awards Committee felt that Rice's A graduate of Boston and Columbia willingness to serve has contributed much Universities, Rice started her career at the to the success of the Division. The Honors Boston Public Library. After serving in vari- Award was presented at the Division's ous positions at the First National City Bank, award luncheon during the SLA Annual Vick Chemicals Company, Port of New York Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii. Authority, and the National Industrial Conference Board, she assumed her duties as Technical Librarian at AMAX, Inc. Rice, a member of SLA since 1945, has served the metals/materials Division as The "In Memoriam" for Jim Cris- chairman, editor of the MetalslMaterials well (Jul 79 SL, p. 299) should have Division News, and chairman of the Audit- stated that Criswell died on Jan 27, ing, Nominating, Public Relations, Goals and Archives Committees. In addition, she has served on the executive board, Science- 450 special libraries White House Conference Announces Themes and Plans

The first national White House Confer- mission of libraries and information ser- ence on Library and Information Services vices, which they defined as follows: "To will be structured around five themes rang- improve the quality of citizens' lives, main- ing from helping people solve everyday tain a free and democratic society, continue problems to fostering international peace a healthy national economic growth, and and understanding. The Conference will be encourage a peaceful world." In that held Nov 15-19 in Washington, D.C. connection, both Benton and Gell said, the According to conference Chairman White House Conference will strive to Charles Benton, chairman, National Com- accomplish that mission, set realistic goals mission on Libraries and Information and means to achieve them, and clarify the Science (NCLIS), and Marilyn K. Gell, principal issues. conference director, the five themes will A unique feature of the Conference will relate to library and information services be a Joint Congressional Hearing based on for: 1) Meeting Personal Needs; 2) Enhanc- the five themes to be co-chaired the morning Life-long Learning; 3) Improving Orga- ing of Monday, Nov 19, by Sen. Claiborne nizations and the Professions; 4) Effectively Pel1 (D-R.I.), chairman, Senate Subcommit- Governing Our Society; and 5) Increasing tee on Education, Arts, and the Humanities, International Understanding and Coopera- and Rep. William Ford (D-Mich.), chairman, tion. House Subcommittee on Postsecondary "We do not want to focus on institutions. Education. Also expected to participate will We want to focus on the person-the indi- be Rep. John Brademas (D-Ind.), House vidual who is the consumer of information. Majority Whip, and other members of the And that means everyone," Gell explained. two subcommittees. The themes and issues to be discussed The themes and other plans for the under each of the five major themes were conference were announced during the drawn from the results of fifty-seven state American Library Association's Annual and territorial pre-White House Confer- Conference, Jun 23-29, 1979, in Dallas, Tex. ences, existing legislation, input from private and public sector groups in the library and information community, and special theme conferences sponsored by the White House Conference. In announcing the themes, Benton and Gell stressed that they are closely tied to the septemher 1979 GPO Reorganization Bill Introduced in Congress Legislation to rewrite and modernize key tors, appointed by the President. The Board portions of Title 44, U.S. Code, was intro- chairman and two other members will duced on Jun 22 in the U.S. House of Repre- represent the general public, while the sentatives. The bill, formulated by members other four members will be made up of of the Committee on House Administration, representatives of the library community, would reorganize the structure and opera- the printing industry, information indus- tions of the Government Printing Office in tries, and organized labor. The chairman order to deal with new technology, meet the will be the chief operating official of the printing needs of Congress and Executive reorganized Government Printing Office. A offices, and bring about significant cost- public printer and superintendent of docu- savings through more efficient manage- ments will be hired on a contract basis by ment. the Board to supervise production and The measure was introduced by Commit- distribution activities at GPO. tee Chairman Frank Thompson, Jr. (D.-N.J.) Congressional printing requirements will and Printing Subcommittee Chairman Au- be determined by regulations issued by the gustus F. Hawkins (D.-Calif.). The bill is House Administration Committee and the cosponsored in the Senate by Claiborne Pel1 Senate Rules and Administration Commit- (D.-R.I.), chairman, Senate Rules and Ad- tee for their respective bodies. The two ministration Committee, and vice-chairman, committees will also exercise annual budget Joint Committee on Printing. Thompson is authorization authority and "legislative chairman of this Joint Committee. veto" power over replations issued by the Under this bill, functions presently Board of the GPO, which no longer would carried out by the Public Printer and the be an arm of the Legislative Branch, but Joint Committee on Printing will be would be an independent agency of govern- handled by a seven-member Board of Direc- ment.

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HAVE YOU HEARD? NCLIS Endorses Periodicals Center Plan explore the ways in which the risks, The National Commission on Libraries impacts, and opportunities of technology and Information Science (NCLIS) has can be assessed, as well as evaluate the announced that it endorses the concepts options of society, e.g., energy versus pollu- stated in the draft legislative proposal for tion. Edited by George Bugliarello and the National Periodicals Center (NPC). The A. George Schillinger of the Polytechnic Commission made its decision after consul- Institute of New York, Brooklyn, the journal tation with representatives of the library, will examine these aspects on an interna- publishing, higher education, and informational level. $15.00 yearly for individuals; tion fields on their views concerning the $66.00 yearly for institutions, $125.40 for NPC. Aside from endorsing the proposal of two years. Contact: Pergamon Press, Max- Apr 26,1979, NCLIS will also encourage the well House, Fairview Park, Elmsford, N.Y. continuing activities of its own Advisory Committee on an NPC in its preparation of background documents. Modeling and Simulation Journal A new Marcel Dekker journal dealing with simulation has recently finished its first year of publication. Iournal of Interdisci- plinary Modeling and Simulation includes research results,-position papers, and so on, Attention in new and emerging areas of modeling and My January EDITORIAL an- simulation. The editors feel the journal nounced that there would be a provides a forum for topics that previously could be published only by societies and reader's survey before the end of groups within each discipline, as well as for the year. It will appear in the those topics that cross the disciplinary lines. November issue of Special Libraries. Issued quarterly, the journal is $45.00 per I hope to hear from every SL read- volume, from Marcel Dekker Journals, P.0. er. This is your chance to tell me Box 11305, Church Street Station, New what you want from your journal. York, N.Y. 10249. Watch for it. New Technology Journal THE EDITOR Technology in Society, an international quarterly journal from Pergamon Press, has just begun publication. The editors plan to september 1979 REVIEWS

Library and Information Services for arrange cooperative programs with other Handicapped Individuals, by Kieth C. social and special agencies equipped for Wright. Libraries Unlimited, Inc., Littleton, counseling/ medical /rehabilitative tasks. Colo. 1979. 196p. There may be criticism from within the library profession and from other social This is an exceptionally valuable book agencies that the introduction of libraries based on much of the author's previous into these areas is not "essentially library experience as leader of several workshops work" or that they are "intruding into other on Library Services to the Handicapped, social programs." Libraries are best suited to given by Catholic University School of the task, since they maintain the role of Library Service as part of its MLS degree information guide through the maze of program. studies, research reports, laws, local ordi- Designed with a primary focus on nances, federal regulations, and public laws. describing the literature of various handi- Their role may change further as they capped groups, the book proceeds to sugges- become more knowledgeable about other tions for librarians and others in the infor- community services and information func- mation community on how to implement tions and abcut providing coordination or federal and state legislation regarding acting as an information referral service. library services. In eight chapters, Wright The book also contains many up-to-date succinctly details how specific "interper- references at the end of each chapter plus sonal and institutional responses" can be three appendixes (Glossary of Acronyms, made by libraries to the blind and visually Selected Organizations Offering Services, impaired; deaf and hearing impaired; men- and a Directory of Selected Sources). A tally handicapped; aging ;nd&iduals; and subject index is included. physically handicapped. In conclusion, little substantive published The summary chapter provides refresh- material has appeared on library and infor- ing insights for libraries new to these types mation services to handicapped individuals of programs in the community, school, or [see Whalen, Lucille and Joan A. Miller, college. There are a number of caveats, eds./Library Services for the Adult Handicapped including an emphasis on background read- 7(no.2) of Information Reports and Bibliogra- ing in the earlier chapters pertaining to phies (1978)l. Wright's book helps to remedy myths and stereotypes regarding the dis- the situation and promises to be a key abled. Wright stresses that service should be bridge to greater awareness among library provided with due emphasis on the funda- personnel of the vast need for specific mental dignity of the library user. The services mentioned. Although highly rec- middle class orientation of many library ommended for library school educators, it is professionals can hamper their dealings also a useful work in special libraries, school with mentally retarded or mentally handi- libraries and instructional material centers, capped children or adults, or users who are businesses, social agencies, and the in- deaf, blind, and so on. Librarians who feel formed layman, particularly civic and com- they are "doing a good deed" only place an munity leaders. additional additudinal barrier in the way. The author feels that the primary role of William B. Saunders libraries and library staff should be to Antioch University gather and disseminate information and Philadelphia, Pa. 19108

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