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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 129 259 IP 004 036 TITLE Library Ser ices Cross Borders. Ninutes of the Semi-Annual Meeting of the Associatio4 of Research Libraries (84th, Toronto, Canada, May 9-10, 1974). 7- TITUTION Association of Research Libraries, Washimgt n, D.C. REPORT NO IS5N-444-9652 PUB DATE May- 74 NOTE 134p. ATAMLABLE FROM Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 ($5.00) EDRS PRICE Mp-$0.83 Hc-$7.35 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Conference Reports; Economics; French; nterlibrary Loans; library Associations; *Library Ex enditures; ational Libraries; Research Libraries; *University Libraries IDENTIFIERS ARL; Association of Research libraries; -Ca_ da ABS..FACT The niinutes of the May, 1974, meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (AFL) contain the texts affive presentations about Canadian research libraries. Descriptionsof the National Library of Canada, the National Sciencelibrary, and Canadian University libraries and their associations arefollowed by a discussion of the nroblemsencountered in French-language university libraries in Canada and a report from theCommission on Canadian Studies, a council formed to investigate the stateof teaching and research in studies relating to Canada. Theminutes record the debate and vote on a fee system proposalfar interlibrary loan services, and the reports of a number of ARLcommissions and executives. Two presentations, one on the ecomoaics of academic libraries are included. (KB) Documents acquired by ERIC include -manyinformal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERICmakes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available.Nevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered andthis affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopyreproductions ERIC makes available * * Via the.ERIC Document ReproductionService (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of theoriginal document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can bemade from the original. * *********************************************************************** ts.5IT 574co44W-l2 Libra-yServices Cross Borders Minutes of the Eighty-Fourth Meeting May 9-10, 1974 Toronto Canada U S DEPARTMENTorHEALTH. DUCATIONft,ELFAIRE Ai AS IONAL IN iTIT:M OF EDUCATION TiS DOCuMENT RAS BEEN AE OW. OUEEO E *ACT LY AS RE CE sVED F AOM THE PERSON OR ONGAINIZ AT .ON Of4 !GIN AT iNG iTPOiNTS OF v IE?4 OR OPIN tONS STATED DO NOT NECESSAOLY OE PRE- SENT OFF ICAL. NATIONAL Ihr5TINLJT E OF EOuCATION POSiTioN ON POLIC Y ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LU3RARIES 2 C ONTENTS Page Opening ............ CANADIAN RESEAPM LI BRARI ES: RESOURCES AND SERVICES [nt -rocluc ti . .... The- NAtional Library of Canada --Guy 3-ylvestre - ..... The National Science Library and Its Program] -- Jack E. Brown '' ' . 14 Canadian University 1.1braries and Library Associations -- Dean Halliwell 20 French-language University Libraries and Their Problems -- Rosario de Varenne=1 26 Commissieo on Canadian Studies -- T.H.B.Symons . 30 FINANCIN NTERLIBRARY LOAN SERVICES Introduction -- David Weber 37 Background on ARL Studies -- David Heron 39 Implicatons for Action -- David Weber 43 The Arguments: Con -- Richard Chapin ........ ' . ''' 53 Proposition for Vote -- Joy Lucker Ss EC NOMICS OF ACADEMIC. LIBRARIES. Speakers: Mat ityahuMarcus. ' , 59 Warren J.. Haas ..... 65 Discuss BUSINESS MEETTNG Membership Vote on imter,Iibrary LoanFees , Iuteroutionul lic-luct ionPTOJ CC . - 88 . SdieduIef.yr ARL Meetings , . - , . 1,71-iite House Conference oh Library a.ncl 90 Information Service:s . , . Research 1,iraries Group Report , 92 Systems, and ProceduresENChangeten.ter , Report of the Executive Director ........ Report of the President APPENDICES . 99, A. Research Libraries ia Service toScholarship B. Center for Chinese Research gaterials 102 - April, 1974 Meeting 110, C. Foreign Newspaper gicrofilm ProjectReport 1973 D. Report of the Committee on theNational( Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging 114 115 E. Kliite House Conference Resolution . 116 F. Attmdance at the 84th Meetiag G. Commissions, Committees and Task Forces 120 of the ARE ,......... , 125 H. -r-lombor ship of the ARL ..1 , 4 iv CIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRAR ES utes of the 84th Meeting Ralph H. Hopp, presiding The EightyFourth Meeting of theAssociation of Research Libraries was held at the HyattRegency Toronto Hotel in Toronto, Canada onMay 9 and 10, 1974. President Ralph H. Hopp opened themeeting by welcoming and in roducing new and alternaterepresentatives attending their first ARL meeting and guests of the Association. Mr. Hopp preceded the formal programby asking the membership to of submit to any Board memberbefore the Business meeting the names candidates for the position ofLibrarian of Congress. L. Quincy Mumford will retire Deember 31, 1974. Mr. Hopp then discu sed the themeof the program "Library Services Cross Borders." 1 CANADIAN RFSEARCH LIBRARIES: RESOURCES ND SERVICES roduction MR. HOPP: Oui theme, "Library Services Cross Borders," has multiple mean ings. The various program elements will bring these out in due course. There is nothing really new here, for ARL did cross the border and came to Canada two times before. Looking back in the history of the Association, among the very first concerns and the activities of the Association were some having to do with interlibrary loan. This morning we will have the opportunity of hearing about Canadian research libraries from several Canadian library leaders. I am most grateful indeed to Bruce Peel, Librar- ian of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, who with his Canadian col- leagues have organized a full morning's program. MR. PEEL: This morning our Canadian content program is intended to acquaint you with some of the achievements, some of the problems and some of the solutions which Canadian research libraries have. This afternoon, of course, you will be seeing one of OUT fine new library buildings, the seventh won- der of Toronto. OUT first two speakers are our two National Librarians, and I would like to tell you that Canadian librarians are delighted with the leadership which these two men have given to library service in this country in recent years. It is quite exciting, what they have been doing. OUT National Library is only 22 years old. During the incumbency of the first National Librarian, he was engaged in organizing the institution and constructing the building. Now, Dr. Guy Sylvestre has been taking the National Library services to the farthest reaches of this country. Likewise, Dr. Jack Brown has vitalized OT revitalized the services of the National Science Library. Dr. Sylvestre might be introduced as an authqr_ librarian and politi- cian, and when 1 say politician, I am using that in the sense that all of us who arc administrators should be politician6-in trying to influence the powerP that be into supporting library programs. He has been very success- ful rt,ideed in persuading the government to support the programs in which he is iAterested. I shall now call on him to tell you about the National Library of Canada. ** 6 2 NDILATIONAL LIBRARY OF CANADA Guy Sylvestre ional Librarian of Canada e come this,opportunity to te l you something about the National Library of Canada. As you know, my friend and colleague Jack Brown will speak to you, later about the National Science Library, Both our presentations will,I hope, make clear to you how the two institutions complement one another, how they attempt to coordinate as best they can their programs and to cooperate in fields of common concern.Since I was asked to speak first, it will be my duty to commentbriefly on general policies so that the respective roles of the two libraries and of some related agencies and other libraries maybe_ seen in the more general context within which policies are developed and programs implemented. If there are anywhere in the world countries which are easy to govern, Canada is not one of them. Our country is larger in area than the United States, yet its population is one tenth as large. It follows that the developing and operating costs of any communications system - highways, transportation, telephone, etc., including library networks - are higher per capita here than anywhere else; we have twoofficial languages and a multicultural policy, which creates problems, of course, but also offers great opportunities; we have no federal department of education,although the federal government pays 50 percent of the postsecondary education operating costs, but ten provincial ones which have full jurisdiction over their respective educational systems at alllevels. I could go on in this vein, but there is no time and I probably have said enough to indicate to you that in a country whose geography is a daily challenge, we Canadians tend to specialize in the art of makingthe developmtnt of national policies as complicated as possible. Be that as it may, in the review of the scientific and technical information policy in Canada conducted &par years ago by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), one could read: "Canada has a large number of libraries, information and documentation centers, data banks, etc. and can justly be proud of its achievements." Well; it is gratifying to read such remafks, although our own evaluation of our resources is not as optimistic. We have nowhere any library whose collections could be compared to those of the Library of Congress,Harvard, Yale or New York Public. The University of Toronto Library, which we will discuss and visit