127th Membership Meeting Examines Partnerships

ARL President Jerry Campbell presided over the 127th Membership
Meeting of ARL on October 18-20 in Washington DC.  The directors or
deans of libraries, representing 110 ARL member libraries and 20
member libraries of SCONUL, the Standing Committee on National and
University Libraries in Great Britain, along with a handful of guests,
attended programs and discussions that centering on the theme Building
Partnerships That Shape the Future.

The program explored issues and projects that aim to reshape scholarly
communications in an electronic environment, including: the AAU/ARL
Research Libraries Project; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's JSTOR
project; proposals to create new models for dissemination of
government information; and recent legislation to alter copyright to
encourage commercial investment in electronic communication.  The
program also included panels on the expectations of benefits from
inter-institutional agreements, and the changing demographics of
research libraries and the communities they serve.

During the Business Meeting, representatives elected three new members
to the ARL Board of Directors: Betty Bengtson (University of
Washington), William Crowe (University of Kansas), and Carole Moore
(University of Toronto).  President Jerry Campbell announced that the
ARL Board elected Gloria Werner (UCLA) as Vice President/President-
Elect.  At the conclusion of the Business Meeting, Dr.  Campbell
handed the gavel to Nancy Cline (Pennsylvania State University) as she
assumed her term as ARL President.

Three directors were honored for their service on the ARL Board of
Directors: Dale Canelas (University of Florida), George Shipman
(University of Oregon), and David Stam (Syracuse University); and
special thanks were extended to John Black (University of Guelph) for
four years of service to ARL as a member of the Board and Executive
Committee.

The next ARL Membership Meeting will be held May 15-17, 1996 in
Vancouver, British Columbia.

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ARL 183
A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions
Association of Research Libraries
December 1995