Brief Description: Editorial Files from the office of executive directors Richard B. Harwell (1956-60), Mark M. Gormley (1961-62), Joseph H. Reason (1962-63), George M. Bailey (1963-68), J. Donald Thomas (1969-71), Beverly Lynch (1972- 77), Julie C. Virgo (1977-84) and JoAn S. Segal (1984- 91) and Althea Jenkins (1991-2000) for College and Research Libraries, C&RL News, Choice and ACRL Monographs and Publications in Librarianship contains contracts, correspondence, editing guidelines, reports, and surveys concerning advertising and promotion, budgets, circulation, complaints, personnel, production, subscription, material accepted for publication, reports of editorial board meetings, and searches for new editors. After 1974, the series contains the correspondence relating to the submission of manuscripts and specific issues of C&RL for editors Richard D. Johnson (1978-80), C. James Schmidt (1980-84), Charles R. Martell (1984-90), Gloriana St. Clair (1990- ), Robert Balay (1989-93 ), Stephen E. Wiberley, Jr. (1993-95), and Irving E. Rockwood (1995-2008).

Record Series Number: 22/3/5

Created by: Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)

Volume: 30.3 Cubic Feet

Acquired:

3/27/80; 1/30/97; 9/15/97;10/13/98; 5/14/1999; 1/10/2000; 7/28/06

7/15/08; 7/17/08; 7/22/08; added .3 cubic feet on 11/25/08; 9/3/15

Arrangement: Chronological and alphabetical thereunder

Biographical Note for Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) :

According to its 1980 statement of Responsibility, "The mission of the ACRL is to represent academic and research librarians and libraries. This includes all types of academic libraries-community and junior colleges, college and university-as well as comprehensive and specialized libraries and their professional staffs. ACRL also has as its mission the enhancement of library service, in the broadest sense, to the academic research communities" (1).

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) fulfills its mission through programs of identification and evaluation of book and nonbook materials, by issuing statements on library standards, and by concerning itself with the role, function, and status of the academic librarian (2).

The Association first met in 1889, under the title of the College and Reference Section of ALA (3). In June of 1938, the membership voted to change the name to the Association of College and Reference Libraries (4). Under this name, ACRL was accepted as a division by the ALA Council in May, 1940 (5). A 1942 revision of ACRL bylaws provided for the establishment of state, regional, and local chapters (6). The name was changed to the Association of College and Research Libraries in 1957 (7).

The organizational structure of ACRL was streamlined in 1979-80 to provide for a 13-member Board of Directors which includes the three officers )President, Past President, and Vice-President/President-Elect) and the Executive Director (8). ACRL publications include the bimonthly College and Research Libraries, the monthly College and Research Libraries News, the monthly book selection journal Choice, and occasional ACRL Publications in Librarianship. ACRL has sponsored national conferences and has presented the Academic/Research Librarian of the Year award annually since 1978 (10).

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