Brief Description: Committee files of Executive Secretaries Beverly P. Lynch, J. Donald Thomas, JoAn Segal, and Julie Virgo, including correspondence about ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award (1977- ), academic status (1969- ), appointments and nominations (1961- ), audiovisuals (1965- ), chapters (1975-77), constitution and bylaws (1969- ), continuing education (1976- ), cooperation with educational and professional organizations (1965-75), copyright (1979- ), grants (1961-76), legislation (1967- ), library surveys (1965-72), membership (1965-66, 1976- ) microcard series (1963-75), monograph series (1963-71), National Library Week (1963-69), planning (1963- ), publications (1958- ), research (1962-67), standards (1963- ) and supplemental funds (1977- ). The series includes a salary survey of academic librarians (1975-76); correspondence with the Grants Committee, under the chairmanship of Mark M. Gormley, which administered a program of foundation grants for library development primarily in private four-year colleges and universities (1955-71); rosters of ACRL committees (1966-77); reports and minutes concerning review of ACRL goals and committees in the light of ALA reorganization (1970-77); and files on the Budget and Finance Committee (1981- ), College Library Standards Committee (1984-86), Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Committee (1982- ), Professional Association Liaison Committee (1984- ), Research Development Committee (1984- ), Samuel Lazerow Fellowship Committee (1984- ), Strategic Planning Task Force (1984- ), the Support of New Members and Chairs Task Force; general files of all committees (1968-2007), including Historically Black College and University Library Project Task Force (1979-1994) and Equal Access to Software Info (EASI) Advisory Committee (1994-1997).

Record Series Number: 22/2/51

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

Volume: 36.0 Cubic Feet

Acquired: 9/27/79, see IWS, 9/17/02; 9/4/03; 7/2006; 9/24/2007; 10/13/2011; 8/7/2013, 11/13/2019

Arrangement: Chronological, alphabetical thereunder; (Alphabetical,chronological thereunder to 1975 & after 1986)

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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