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Reports that the Chinese American Library Association (CALA) is looking for papers to be presented at the CALA Conference on June 24, 1990 in Chicago. Theme of the conference; Details for submission.

Reports on the need for effective and innovative programs, plans, materials or concepts used for instructing patrons in use of public library materials and services for a paper to be delivered at the April 1986 Public Library Association conference in the U.S.

Reports on the developments concerning libraries in the U.S., as of November 1988. Approval of a library bond issue for the King County Libray System in Seattle, Washington; Symposium of the Technical Association for the Pulp and Paper Industry on permanent paper and deacidification; Presentation of the library schools to encourage placement officers to present librarianship to undergradutes in New York.

Reports on the National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries in Baltimore held from April 9 to April 12. Inventory of the changes in the academic libraries proposed by Barbara Uehling, chancellor of the University of Missouri-Columbia; Quiz on the importance of research training for academic library; Presentation of papers on problems related to libraries in the conference.

This article highlights the annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), held from January 8-11, 1991 in Chicago, Illinois. The theme of the conference, Exploring Elements for Educational Excellence: Experience, Expectations, Enhancements, Evaluations, addressed the pressures faced by modern academe. The week began with an assessment of the doctoral programs in library and information science (LIS) in the U.S. Mary Biggs of Mercy College asserted that library schools should abandon them and let the subjects of LIS doctoral research go to other disciplines. Faculty grappled with a set of ALISE position papers for the upcoming White House Conference on Libraries and Information Services. Richard Halsey tried to steer the resolutions, most deeply stricken with the academic language problem, to approval. According to Brooke Sheldon, library leaders have negotiating skills, a penchant for risk-taking, an ideological commitment, and the ability to move back and forth from the bottom line to a larger vision. In her review of writings in faculty evaluation, Barbara Moran of the University of North Carolina, found that little had been added in 20 years. She found no evidence of a correlation between excellence in research and in teaching, finding that new work on faculty evaluation is clearly needed.