ARLIS/NA CONFERENCE HOTLINEAuthor(s): Tom JacobySource: ARLIS/NA Newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 5 (OCTOBER 1981), p. 192Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Art Libraries Society of NorthAmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27946594 .

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192 ARLIS/NA Newsletter, October 1981

five per cent of the time of twenty librarians as the equivalent of one bibliographer.

The impact of technology, funding and changing user needs was a

major topic. Solutions for coping with this ranged from identifying use and user needs (Whaley), establishing and training Collection

Development units (Mosher, Alldredge, Faigel and Perkins), writing a policy statement (Mosher and Kaiser), budget forecasting and allo cations (Bacchetti and Reed-Scott) to cooperative acquisitions (Mosher and Steinberg).

Librarians involved in collection development are still struggling to define and set standards for the field and an institute such as the Stanford one provides them with an excellent vehicle to do so. The Institute not only forced speakers to articulate their stands on collec tion development issues, but also forced practioners to examine these issues and their own job performance.

Participants' evaluation and criticism will be used to refine the

papers and handouts for the other institutes which will be held throughout the country during the next few years. I strongly urge any librarian involved or interested in collection development to attend the Institute held in his or her region.

Wanda V. Dole

University of Miami

ARLIS/NA NEWS SECTION FROM THE CHAIR

The mid-year meeting of the Executive Board was held on July 11 and 12 at the home of Secretary Barbara Sevy, in Jenkintown,

Pennsylvania. On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Roger and Barbara Sevy publicly for their gracious hospitality. Our work seemed less oppressive because we were treated to buffet luncheons on the patio, mid-afternoon iced tea breaks, and dinners fit for vaca tioners in Provence. The setting was nearly perfect?thank you!

Our meetings began Friday evening with a tour of the Franklin Plaza Hotel, the site of our 1983 Conference, followed by dinner in the hotel's rooftop restaurant (if you go, do NOT ask for separate checks?unless you also plan to dance while you wait). On Saturday evening, the Delaware Valley Chapter joined us for dinner, followed

by an open Board meeting where Tom Jacoby, 1982 Conference

Chairman, reported on plans for the Boston Conference. We were

pleased with the interchange between members and officers during the

open meeting and have decided that, except for times when an execu tive session is necessary, all future Board meetings will be open to

members. Because there IS a lot of work to go through, participation in discussion by observers will have to be at the discretion of the Chairman. Accordingly, the Board will be meeting prior to the 1982 Conference from 1 p.m. or so on Friday, February 19, until 8 or 9 at

night, and then again Saturday morning. We will try to get through private matters early so the meetings will be open by the time "early arrivals" reach the Copley Plaza.

The following excerpts from a few of the motions passed during the two days of meetings will report the most important of our decisions. The Board moved that:

1) we express our thanks to Pamela Parry for maintaining a high level of performance for the Society during a very difficult time in her life; 2) a new membership class called Business Affiliate be created and fees for all classes be raised (these measures were put to a vote with a ballot in the Summer Newsletter); 3) the budget for fiscal year 1981/82 be approved; 4) the Exhibits Coordinator be a rotating appointment, the Coor dinator to be drawn from the local Conference committee, as the current Exhibits Coordinator has recommended.; 5) the MIA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and

Dissertations be considered the standard guide for all manuscripts submitted to ARLIS/NA for publications, as recommended by Occa sional Papers copy editor David Patten; 6) that an ARLIS/NA member join one chapter in his Region, nor mally the closest; if there is no chapter in the Region, a member may participate as a guest in the activities of a chapter in an adjacent Region; and that 7) ARLIS/Northwest be chartered as a chapter (the nineteenth! !).

All in all considerable progress was made, particularly in the areas of Publications, Membership, and Fundraising. Credit for this prog ress goes not only to the Board, who worked very hard, but also to the various committee chairmen who have been working all along. The

longer I do this job of Chairman the more I'm convinced that the members truly make ARLIS/NA. Nothing, absolutely nothing, gets done unless there is a member willing to take the responsibility for

seeing it through. There really is not "they" (as in, "they should have such-and-such at the conference"). "They" iswe.

Karen Muller

ARLIS/NA CONFERENCE HOTLINE Updates to the preliminary conference program that appeared in the

summer Newsletter are as follows:

Saturday, February 20th: 1-4 P.M.?Workshop on "Teaching

Art Methodology & Bibliography*

' (Academic

TOL Sponsored) Sunday, February 21st:

9-11 A.M.?Publications Committee Meeting Fund Raising Committee Meeting International Relations

Committee Meeting Membership Committee Meeting

11 A.M.-Noon?Archives Committee Meeting Wittenborn Committee Meeting Muehsam Committee Meeting CAC Committee Meeting

Monday, February 22nd: 8-9 A.M.?Nominating Committee Meeting

1:30-3:30 P.M.?New Reference Tools In-Progress (General Session)

8-11 P.M.?Ars Libri Reception

Tuesday, February 23rd: -9 A.M.?Standards Committee Meeting

10 A.M.-12:15 P.M.?Disaster Preparedness 3:30-5:30 P.M.?Books as Artists' Inspiration

(General Session) 8-10 P.M.?Reception at Boston

Public Library

Wednesday, February 24th: A.M.?Tours to Harvard and M.I.T. P.M.?Tours of Providence (R.I.)

area libraries & Yale British Art Center

Tom Jacoby 1982 Conference Program Chairman

TO ALL CHAPTERS: I am sorry to announce what I hope will be only a temporary

suspension of the Chapter Idea Exchange column. In the May 1981 column Joan Benedetti proposed two possible solutions to the need for a successor or assistance in editing the Idea Exchange: 1) that another individual simply assume her duties as editor, or 2) that Joan remain as editor of the column but that her function change from "author" to "coordinator" of contributions from other chapters. We had hoped that Stephen Patrick's article on membership recruitment in the Sum

mer Newsletter would be the first of such contributions, since no one seemed willing to take on the role of full-time editor, but no other

responses have been forthcoming. We therefore have no other option but to discontinue the column

until further discussion can take place, most likely at the Boston conference. In the meantime, however, if you would like to take on the job of column editor, contribute an article or report on some aspect

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