By (Unknown); Salvatore V. De Sando; Faith McConnon
Collection Overview
Title: Office Subject Files, 1929-2008
Predominant Dates:1966-92
ID: 60/1/7
Creator: Accreditation Committee
Extent: 8.0 Cubic Feet
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Languages: English [eng]
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Office Subject Files of the Committee on Accreditation containing announcements, correspondence, memoranda, handbooks, flyers, organizational notes, rosters, and reports concerning accreditation of schools; affirmative action; awards; and conferences and meetings, including the Seminar on Accreditation (1972) and the ALA/USDE Conference on Accreditation (1984). Files also document the accreditation activities of the Board of Education in Librarianship (BEL), its correspondence and announcements (1940-60), the Revision of Standards (1972) and its correspondence (1971/2), and annual report correspondence (1966-1968), annual report forms (1961-1963, 1966-1976), and annual report statistics (1969-1975)
Biographical Note
On June 21, 1956, the Council created the Committee on Acceditation (COA) (1). It is responsible for the execution of the accreditation program of ALA, and it develops and formulates standards of education for librarianship for the approval of Council (2).