Finding Aid for Office Subject Files, 1929-2008 | The American Library Association Archives

Title: Office Subject Files, 1929-2008

Predominant Dates:1966-92

ID: 60/1/7

Primary Creator: Accreditation Committee

Extent: 8.0 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: Alphabetical

Subjects: Accreditation, Accreditation, Committee on, Accreditation, Committee on - Revision of Standards, Board of Education for Librarianship (BEL)

Languages: English

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)

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).

Repository: The American Library Association Archives

Accruals: 10/12/98, 5/14/99, 8/02/01, 7/02, 11/15/02

Other Note: 5 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/6001007a.pdf

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