Correspondence files of Committee for Liaison with Japanese Libraries chairs, with Robert L. Stevens, Allen B. Veaner, and Theodore F. Welch to Committee members and conference participants, includes meetings, conference planning, funding, resolutions and programs, and international issue, and correspondence with Dr. Hiro Yamasaki (Tokyo), Hideo Kaneko (Yale), Warren Tsuneiski (LC), Kazuko Dailey (UC-Davis), E. J. Josey (Pittsburgh), Haruo Kuroda (Tokyo), Jane Wilson (ALA- International Relations Officer), Allen Y. Kuroda (LC-Tokyo) and Jean Lowrie (Chair, International Relations Committee).

Conference materials pertain to the Second Japan-U.S. Conference on Libraries and Information Science in Higher Education (1972), the Third Conference (1975) and the Fourth Conference (1988), and include applications and reports to funding sources. Files include lists of Japanese firms and businesses interested in libraries and materials on Japanese philanthropy. The Committee continues the work of the Ad-hoc Committee for Liaison with Japanese Libraries.

In 1967, Council created an advisory subcommittee of the International Relations Committee on Liaison with Japanese Libraries (ACLJL) (1), which was replaced by an advisory ad hoc committee (ACLJL) in 1978-79 (2). Its purpose was "in coordination with its Japanese counterpart, to plan and implement U.S. - Japan binational conferences on librarianship in fulfillment of goals and objectives established by the ALA International Relations Committee" (3). The formal duties of the ACLJL are "encompassed in the three main areas of conferences, exchange of persons, and publications" (4). The ACLJL also serves in an advisory role in connection with international meetings (5) and the ALA International Relations Committee (6).

1. Report from Thomas R. Buckman to the Ford Foundation, Ford Foundation Report File, July 1969, Record Series 70/93/1, Box 1, ALA Archives; ALA Bulletin, November 1967, p. 1170.

2. ALA Handbook of Organization, 1978/79, p. 7.

3. Ibid.

4. Report from Robert D. Stevens to the International Relations Committee, Report to IRC on Advisory Committee File, 1973-1974, Record Series 70/93/1, Box 1, ALA Archives.

5. Ibid.

6. ALA Handbook of Organization, 1978/9, p. 7.