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2004 Motion of Actions By The 48th Board of Directors of the Association of Christian , June 12, 2003 - November 1, 2003

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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Christian Librarian by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The following motions are a record standards apply to all officers, survey would be comprised of a core of of the actions taken by the 48'h Board of employees, volunteer coordinators association-wide questions that relate Directors of the Association of Chris­ and Board appointees. to the service standards but also tian Librarians from June 12, 2003- ·Any requests and/or inquiries include a number of questions related November 1, 2003. Some business was (by email, phone, etc.) will be to a specific team/function on a rotating conducted via email; other business responded to within 2 business basis. Rotation would be Member was conducted at the midyear meeting days. Services (2004), CILA, CPI, TCL, of the Board of Directors in Cedarville, ·Requests for membership will Board of Directors. It was suggested OH, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2003. receive priority and the member will that an open-ended question be be added to the listserv within 14 included as well. The Member Services ORGANIZATIONAL& days. component will emphasize services PROCEDURALMATfERS ·All checks will be deposited since January 1, 2004 It was moved, seconded and within 2 business days. unanimously carried that the following -The website will contain current FINANCIAL MATTERS minutes of the Board of Directors of the and accurate information and be It was moved, seconded and Association of Christian Librarians be updated within 3 days of receipt of unanimously carried that a Task Force approved as distributed. updates by the ACL office. be appointed to develop a proposed 47'h Board of Directors: ·All publications will be alternative to the awarding of hono­ ·June 13,2002 meeting, received at the ACL office ready for raria. The Task Force, to be comprised ·June-Oct. 2002 electronic commu­ distribution in accordance with the of Steve Baker (Chair), Linda Poston, nications, timetable for publication as stipu­ Kathy Boyens and Tom Scott will ·Oct. 31 -Nov. 2, 2002 mid-year lated in the annual operating plan. review existing honoraria awards, meeting, ·Systems will be developed and define criteria to be eligible for ·Nov. 2002-June 2003 electronic maintained (such as databases) to compensation, develop contractual communications, keep accurate records (current/ language to facilitate the enumeration ·June 6- 11,2003 annual meeting. prospective membership, subscrip­ of duties and expectations in exchange 48th Board of Directors: tions, etc.) and to track activities. for compensation, and propose equi­ ·Jtme 11, 2003 meeting, ·Invoices and receipts for table categories of compensation. The ·June-Oct. 2003 electronic commu­ purchases on behalf of the associa­ report of the Task Force shall be nications tion will be submitted to the submitted to the Board of Directors by Business Manager within 7 days of April 1, 2004. It was moved seconded and purchase or receipt. It was moved, seconded and unanimously carried that the following It was moved, seconded and unanimously carried that in an effort to Service Standards be approved. unanimously carried that the Executive be good stewards of financial and In keeping with the Association's Director and Directors-at-Large Linda human resources, and in light of current emphasis on service in the context Poston and Kathy Boyens prepare a budgetary constraints, the Board of of a caring Christian community the draft version of a membership satisfac­ Directors requests that all teams following service standards are tion survey. Pending Board approval, planning a mid-year meeting seriously adopted to guide the effective the survey would be administered in consider alternative cost-effective achievement of its mission. It is Spring 2004 via email to all ACL options of communication such as understood that the intent of these members using a web-based form. The teleconferencing, etc.

20 The Christian Librarian, 47( 1) 2004 CHRISTIAN PERIODICAL INDEX­ Manager and Treasurer develop a minimum of $100 beginning with the ELECTRONIC procedure for receiving time reports for 2004 conference. It was moved, seconded and all ACL hourly employees on a monthly It was moved, seconded and unanimously carried that the Director of basis beginning with the 2004 fiscal unanimously carried that the conference Operations be empowered to explore year. This policy is to be added to the team set the annual conference fee at a and assemble information on opportuni­ Standing Rules. level that will ensure at least a 10% net ties and platform options to support It was moved, seconded and above all conference expenses begin­ CPI-E that would ensure ACL owner­ unanimously carried that a performance ning with the 2004 annual conference. ship of the database, and would provide evaluation form for hourly paid It was moved, seconded and the greatest flexibility in price structure employees as proposed by the Ad Hoc unanimously cmTied that the conference and presentation/retrieval of informa­ Personnel Committee be adopted and planning teams proceed with utilizing tion. By extension, the goal of this utilized to conduct performance evaluations the ACL website to disseminate as exploration would be to move forward ofpart-time staff. Evaluations should be much of the conference information as towards a full-text information product completed by July 31 of each calendar year is feasible ahead of time in lieu of line. A progress report will be pre­ for presentation to the Board of Directors at placement in a conference brochure and sented at the June 2004 meeting of the the mid-year meeting. notebook. This will include all session Board of Directors. It was moved, seconded and and workshop handouts and other To assist the Director of Operations unanimously carried that all completed infonnation that the team deems feasible. in the above mentioned initiative, it was personnel evaluation forms perma­ moved, seconded and unanimously nently reside in the personnel/employee APPOINTMENTS carried that the Director of Operations files retained by the Business Manager It was moved, seconded, carried that: and the Director-at-Large: Christian and Treasurer. This policy will be Sarah George be appointed as CPI Periodical Index assemble the pertinent added to the Standing Rules. Marketing Coordinator for a two-year infonnation for use in research and It was moved, seconded and term, 2003-2005. evaluation such as: number of indexers, unanimously carried thatACL office Dorothy Bowen be reappointed as number of tittles indexed (both current assistants be paid on the 15'h of each CILA Team Coordinator for a one-year and retrospective), contracts in force, month for the previous month's work, term, 2003-2004. duration of time required to index an beginning in 2003. the position of Membership issue, financial data over the past five It was moved, seconded and Handbook Coordinator position be years, completion time line for the unanimously carried that a Personnel terminated, effective July l, 2003. retrospective indexing project, copies Committee be established. The the oversight responsibilities of the of previous advertising initiatives, composition of the committee shall be duplicate exchange program be number of titles included in CPI-E both as follows: President, an additional formalized into the position of DUPEX current (active) and retrospective titles; Board officer, and two Directors-at-Large. Coordinator, effective July 1, 2003. A an indication of which titles indexed in It was moved, seconded and job description for this position will be CPI-E are available in full-text format unanimously carried that the Board of written and then presented for approval from ATLAS, EBSCOHost, etc. Directors appoint Steven Preston at the next Board of Directors meeting. (President), Dale Solberg (Vice­ Ruth McGuire be appointed as THE CHRISTIAN LIBRARIAN President) Linda Poston (Director-at­ DUPEX Coordinator for a two-year It was moved, seconded and Large: CILA) and Kathy Boyens term, 2003-2005. unanimously carried that the subscrip­ (Director-at-Large: TCL) to serve as the Leslie Starasta be appointed as a tion cost of The Christian Librarian for Personnel Committee for a one year member of the CLC Team for a one­ non members be increased to $30 term, 2003-2004. year tenn, 2003-2004: and that Sheila (USA) and $35 (CDN & foreign) per Gaines and Cindy Carlson each be year effective with the 2004 volume year. ACL REPRESENTATION AT AABC appointed as members of the CLC It was moved, seconded and carried Team for two-year terms, 2003-2005. PERSONNEL & OPERATIONS that funds be allocated to underwrite an It was moved, seconded and It is moved, seconded and carried ACL exhibit at the AABC 2004 annual unanimously carried that an ACL that the increase in hours and salary conference. honorary life membership be awarded previously approved by the ACL Board to Frances Arrington, beginning during its June 2003 Board meeting go CONFERENCE January l, 2004. into effect as of July I, 2003. It was moved, seconded, and It was moved, seconded and unanimously carried that the annual Respectfully Submitted, unanimously carried that the Business conference registration fee be set at a Sharon I. Bull, Secretary

Christian Librarian, 47( 1) 200·1< 21 (Tucker & Davis, continued from page 15.) schemes for theological materials.36 Butler served for 16 years as library educator at Indiana University. Four others had enormous impact bibliographer and rare books specialist He described his home church-where on the profession at large. A Norwe­ for the Newberry Library and for 21 his mother taught Sunday school and gian Lutheran, J. C. M. Hansen (1864- years as professor at the University of played the piano for worship services­ 1943) graduated from Luther College Chicago GSLIS. He reacted negatively as old-fashioned, evangelical, and God­ and studied at Concordia Theological to what he considered a professional fearing. Kaser attended revivals, Seminary in St. Louis. He then research focus on vacuous social summer Bible schools, and prayer superintended a Sunday School and science methodology. He, thus, wrote meetings, and came to regard his faith directed a parochial school. Joining the An Introduction to Library Science as an "integral ... part of the social library profession, he served as a (1933), a clear philosophical statement fabric" of his childhood.33 His parents cataloger at the Newberry Library, the of the function of the library in society. quoted scripture at home, encouraging University of Wisconsin, the Libraty of Subsequently complemented by the their young to study hard, work hard, Congress, and the University of works of Mary Lee Bundy, Kathleen de and treat others responsibly. His father Chicago. He was principal architect of Ia Peoa McCook, A. Robert Rogers, wrote books of humor and folk wisdom. the classification Jess Hauk Shera, and others, Butler's He claimed, for example, that, after the system and chair of the group that book remains the most articulate fall, God told Adam that he would have produced the Anglo-American catalog­ presentation, still studied by genera­ "to earn his living by the sweat of his ing rules of 1908.37 Ernest Cushing tions of students. B. Harvie Branscomb frau."34 Richardson (1860-1939) studied at ( 1894- 1998), likewise, began his career Amherst and at Hartford Theological as a minister and theologian. He LIBRARIANS Seminary. Like several others we studied at Birmingham-Southern, PRACTICING FAITH encountered, he "was licensed to preach earned BA and MA degrees in theology For several individuals, theological but never became a minister."38 He from Oxford, and a PhD from Colum­ training or missionary service laid the directed the library at Hartford and in bia University and Union Theological foundation for important 20th century 1890 moved to Princeton where he Seminary. He taught theology at SMU contributions to librarianship. Harlan remained as director for more than and Duke University where he served at Page Beach (1854-1933) graduated three decades. He had taught bibliogra­ various times as librarian, department from Andover and Yale and served as a phy throughout his career and served as head, and dean. Though later chancel­ missionary to China under the Ameri­ association officer and consultant to the lor at Vanderbilt University, he made can Board of Commissioners for Library of Congress. He published his library mark with Teaching with Foreign Missions. He worked on a several works on cataloging and Books: A Study of College Libraries translation of the Bible into Mandarin, cooperation including A Union World based on student grades and library use helped establish an early YMCA in Catalog of Manuscript Books (I 933- in 60 liberal arts colleges. Richly China, and published histories and 37). Lee Pierce Butler (1886-1953) grounded in an understanding of faculty reference books on foreign missions. studied at Dickinson College and Union and library cultures, this volume He described his work as preaching the Theological Seminary, earning BD and influenced college librarianship and "gospel of an all powerful savior." 35 ln PhD degrees from the latter, and library use instruction for more than 1906 Beach was appointed the first becoming an ordained deacon in the fifty years. 40 professor of missions at Yale. He Protestant Episcopal Church. In served for more than a decade as subsequent years he worshipped with INTEGRATING FAITH director of the Day Missions Library; Congregationalists and Methodists, &PRACTICE he organized the Library and laid the eventually returning to the church of his Our purpose, to identify those foundations for Yale's rich resources in youth. One biographer commented that librarians whose Christian faith and missiology. Charles Ripley Gillett Pierce Butler lived the model professional service came directly into ( 1855-1948), an ordained Presbyterian life ofa modern Christian priest. . contact, remains elusive. We believe minister, earned a theology degree at .. His kindness to his students those elements exist in the lives of New York University. He served for 25 stretched from restrained petu­ many librarians but to show this years as director of the library at Union lance toward the intellectually actually happening through historical Theological Seminary, making that lazy ... to avuncular consideration and biographical research has been library the largest theological collection of the greatest concern. His in­ quite difficult. For Reuben Brooks in the nation. He directed it during difference to scheduled responsi­ Poole ( 1834-1895) it was easy. He construction of a new facility to house bilities was countered by his char­ graduated from Brown University in 200,000 volumes, and he formed the acteristic charity and benevolence 1857, engaged in teaching and social concepts for subsequent classification toward al1 .39 work, and in 1864 became librarian for

22 The Christian Librarian, 47( I) 2004 the New York City YMCA, a post he and began library work there. He held Houston and of the library school at the held for 30 years. He participated in several positions at Princeton and the University ofNorth Carolina, is one of the first 14 ALA conferences and Library of Congress, and then moved to the leading Christian librarians of our emerged as a powerful spokesman for where he was library director time. He spoke at ALA in 1979 on YMCA libraries. He observed that for 26 years. Perhaps the most impor­ "Growing as a Christian and as a '\vhilc the library will be a place of tant academic librarian of the 20th Professional" to a group then known as interest to nearly every [YMCA] century, he contributed a rich profes­ the Fellowship ofEvangelical Librar­ member, to some it will be the most sional literature, promoted national and ians.48 His topic was essentially the attractive feature of the institution, and international cooperation, and aided in same as ours except that he drew on his may be the bait by which not a few are the establishment of the International own experience while we have drawn won to Christ."41 Federation of Library Associations. on the experience of many. He ad­ Mary Elizabeth Wood (1861-1931) Over a period of seven years, he served dressed the question "How does one served as librarian in Batavia, New as principal consultant to the Vatican bring the principles of faith to apply to York and in 1900 she joined her Library planning budgets, preparing for the practice of librarianship?" He brother, an Episcopal missionary to systematic cataloging and classification quoted Cotton Mather to the effect that China. She taught English in the Boone of priceless incunabula and manu­ each of us has two callings, a general School in Wuchang, Hubei and founded scripts, acquiring equipment, expanding calling and a personal calling. The one China's first and library facilities, and training staff. His service is service to the Lord Jesus Christ; the school and organized the China to the Vatican was an act of Christian other is service in the earthly arena to Foundation of Culture and Education courage and diplomacy.44 which one has a moral duty based on and the Library Association of China. Pierce Butler's biographer writes precepts of Christian theology and She funded these projects by soliciting that his "ministerial emphasis on the democratic faith. Holley observed that friends, government agencies, and Word eased his transition into another one's faith has little or no opportunity religious groups. Thus, her profes­ discipline interested in words, for growth, apart from relationshjp to sional activity had begun with mission­ librarianship."45 Butler himself everyday life. He described his own ary work and was supported by people undoubtedly included librarianship sources of strength as family, friends, offaith.<2 when he wrote that and Christian community. Helpful (1862-1 927) The Kingdom of God is the Christian writers included Harry was Oberlin College Library director realm of the Spirit, where God's Emerson Fosdick, D. Elton Trueblood, for 40 years, also ALA president and a judgments, not man's judgments, and C. S. Lewis. Deeply embedded library school professor. He built the God's standards, not man's stan­ concepts included overt commitments Oberlin College Library into the largest dards prevail. It is the origin, to respecting and honoring colleagues. college (as distinct from a university) inspiration, and driving force of He urged fellow believers to stick to library in the United States. He was every noble human aspiration and Christian principles even against budget director for the First Church in endeavor.46 powerful opposition, remembering that Oberlin, adjacent to the campus. He David Kaser writes that as a the few principles worth fighting for supplied the pulpit to allow Howard H. professor he quoted biblical scripture as must be well chosen. For that inextri­ Russell to expand temperance activities frequently as Shakespeare or Lao-Tzu. cable link between Christian and and he preached annually in local He proceeded in this fashion to the worldly vocations, he offered the words African-American churches. When surprise and delight of his students, of Paul. negative publicity arose regarding race neither hiding his beliefs nor distorting It is God who is at work in you, relations among Oberlin sh1dents, Root his lectures by advocating doctrine. enabling you both to wi ll and to sounded much like the prophet Amos in One faculty colleague, recently arrived work for His good pleasure.~9 appealing to "fundamental principles of from the Ivy League, approached For encouragement when weary or righteousness and justice."43 He thus Kaser, stressed, Holley recommended these promoted Christian values as a matter "Surely, Dave, you don't be­ words from isaiah. of personal belief and institutional lieve in the biblical miracles." I Even youths will faint and policy. replied simply, "Of course I do. weary, and the young will fall ex­ William Warner Bishop (1871- Doesn'teverybody?" He [the Tvy hausted; but those who wait for the 1955) engaged in undergraduate and League colleague] walked away Lord shall renew their strength, graduate studies at Michigan in the and has not spoken to me since, they shall mount up with wings fields of New Testament Greek and but I continue to pray for him.47 like eagles, they shall run and not archaeology. He subsequently taught Edward G. Holley (1927- ), former be weaty, they shall walk and not Greek at the Garrett Biblical Instihlte dean oflibraries at the Un iversity of faint. 5°

The Christian Librarian, 47(1) 2004 23 TOPICSFORFURTHER ing the results of a survey that asks a Changing New York City," Libraries RESEARCH librarians about their religious convic­ & Culture 26 (1991 ), 219-49; Margaret Our probing into library lives has tions and belief structures? A. Corwin, "An Investigation of Female yielded more questions than answers. In the current CIPA litigation, it Leadership in Regional, State, and Some topics can be addressed by more became clear, once again, that moral Local Library Associations, 1876- systematic historical and biographical values impact different communities 1923," Library Quarterly 44 (1974), inquiry. We want first of all, always, to differently. Sociologists could show us 133-44; James V. Carmichael, Jr., know more about those who have how this occurred. Other questions "Southerners in the North and North­ preceded us, those who addressed might be, "How are Christians distrib­ erners in the South: The Impact of the equally complex questions, those who uted among types of libraries?" "From Library School of the University of cleared the trails and mapped the roads which denominations?" "How do lllinois on Southern Librarianship," we travel today. demographic characteristics differ University ofIllinois Occasional 1. We are concerned about bio­ among Christian and non-Christian Papers 196/197 (1994), 27-1 04; Wayne graphical writing. Donald G. Davis, Jr., librarians?" "How could data such as A. Wiegand and Geri Greenway, "A in editing the Second Supplement to the this inform daily practice, lending Comparative Analysis of the Socioeco­ Dictionary ofAmerican Librmy greater integrity and effectiveness to nomic and Professional Characteristics Biography (Libraries Unlimited, in our callings?" Answers to these and of the American Library Association press), asked contributors specifically related questions should make us Executive Board and Council Mem­ to comment on church affiliations, stronger, "so that by steadfastness and bers, 1876-1917," Library Research 2 funeral rites, and other religious by the encouragement of the scriptures ( 1981), 309-25; Wayne A. Wiegand, influences, with minimal results, we might have hope." "American Library Association probably for a variety of reasons. Executive Board Members, 1876-1917: 2. Are Christian librarians leaving REFERENCES A Collective Profile," Libri 31 (1981), the trail of evidence (oral or written) so 153-66; Wayne A. Wiegand and that potential biographers could make 1 Donald G. 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