Seventeenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, Amherst

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SEVENTEENTH SEMINAR ON THE ACQUISITION
OF LATIN AMERICAN LIBRARY MATERIALS
FINAL REPORT AND WORKING PAPERS. VOL 1
Secretariat
Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials
University of Massachusetts Library Amherst, Mass. 01002 1975
SEVENTEENTH SEMINAR
ON THE ACQUISITION
OF LATIN AMERICAN
LIBRARY MATERIALS
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 11-lU, 1972
Sponsored by the
University of Massachusetts Library
and the
General Secretariat, Organization of American States
FINAL REPORT AND
WORKING PAPERS
Volume I
Jane Garner , Rapporteur General
1975
Digitized by the Internet Archive
in 2011 with funding from
Brigham Young University
http://www.archive.org/details/seventeenthseminOOsemi
PREFACE
The Organization of American States, which published the Final Report
and Working Papers of the annual Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American
Library Materials for ten years prior to 1972, found itself unable because of
budgetary cutbacks to issue those for the 17th (1972) and l8th (1973), the
last two conferences which occurred during the years the SALALM Secretariat
was located at the OAS. Although an increase in membership dues provided
sufficient funds for the publication of the proceedings beginning with the
19th, (197U), the association had not the money to publish those for the 17th
and 18th. A grant from the Tinker Foundation has underwritten the cost of
issuing these two unpublished sets of documents. The members of SALALM and
other librarians and scholars who have found the Seminar's Final Report and
Working Papers indispensable to their work are grateful to the Tinker
Foundation for its assistance.
Pauline. P. Collins
Executive Secretary SALALM
March 15, 1975
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume I
Page
Introduction i
FINAL REPORT
I. Executive Board Meetings 1
II. Business Sessions of SALALM
29
III. Conference Reports of the Committees
39
IV. Workshop Reports
59
1. Gifts and Exchanges
2. Government Publications
3. Book Dealers and Subscription Programs
k. Selection and Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese
Language Materials for School and Public Libraries
5. Latin American Acquisitions Clearinghouse
6. Acquiring Current Serials from Latin America
7. Competition of Latin American Programs with other
Area Studies Programs
8. Acquisitions without a Latin American Bibliographer
V. Special Reports
97
1. Latin American Programmes in Canada
2. United States Book Exchange
SEMINAR COMMITTEES, 1972-1973
105
INFORMATION DOCUMENTS
Program of the Seventeenth Seminar
125
Participants in the Seventeenth Seminar
-^k3
List of Working Papers
^7
SALALM Membership List 1971/72
-,£,
Final Resolutions of the Seventeenth Seminar -,7^
Page
WORKING PAPERS
A-l Progress Report on SALALM, 1972
Part A Shepard, Report of the Executive Secretary.... l8l
Part B Annual Committee Reports 195
Part C Garner, Minutes of the Executive Board Meeting
January 21-22 , 1972 207
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INTRODUCTION
The Final Report of the Seventeenth Seminar on the Acquisition of
Latin American Library Materials differs both in arrangement and in con-
tent from past Final Reports. For sixteen Seminars the Report featured
summaries of the general sessions fashioned from the copious notes of a
Rapporteur General supplemented by those of assistant rapporteurs. With
the continued growth of the Seminars, however, accounts of the general
sessions alone became insufficient for expressing the wide range of
activities occurring at the annual conference.
Due to an already heavy workload, the SALALM Executive Secretariat
was unable to assume any additional responsibilities in the compilation
of the Final Reports. Furthermore, for the same reason, it was experi-
encing increasingly greater difficulties in preparing SALALM' s Progress
Reports, appearing annually usually as Working Paper No. 1. From the
first six-page report entitled "Progress Report on the Recommendations
of the First and Second Seminars on the Acquisition of Latin American
Library Materials," issued at the Third Seminar of 1958, it expanded
yearly until, by the Twelfth Seminar of 1967, when it reached fifty-two
pages, it became necessary to divide the Report into two parts:
"Part A. Books and Libraries" and "Part B. Progress Report on SALALM
Recommendations." This format for a Report which rose to over one
hundred pages in length continued until the Sixteenth Seminar of 1971.
The Advisory Committee to the Secretariat, created at the Fifteenth
Seminar of 1970 and chaired by Mayellen Bresie, undertook to study the
problems of producing both the Progress and Final Reports and at the
1972 Midwinter meeting of the Executive Board held in Chicago presented
its proposal for restructuring the Progress Report and decentralizing
reporting responsibilities (see Appendix A, Working Paper No. A-l, Part C,
XVII SALALM, for the text of the proposal). The Executive Board's
acceptance in principle of the proposal resulted in a totally new format
of diverse authorship for both the Progress Report and the Final Report,
thereby relieving the workload of the Secretariat and at the same time
permitting the membership to assume a fairer share of responsibility.
The Progress Report and Final Report of XVII SALALM are the first to be
issued in the new format.
As restructured, the Progress Report includes a report prepared
by the Executive Secretary, the reports of the committees prepared
by the respective committee chairmen, the minutes of the Midwinter
Executive Board meeting prepared by the Rapporteur General, and special
reports, if any, pertaining to SALALM' s activities. News items no
longer appear in the Progress Report but have been relegated to the
SALALM Newsletter .
The revamped Final Report includes the summaries of the general
business session of SALALM and the minutes of the Executive Board meetings
held at the conference (both prepared by the Rapporteur General)
summaries of committee activities at the conference and reports of the
general conference sessions related to a given committee (prepared by
each committee chairman) , and any other reports of additional conference
activities or topics of interest to SALALM.
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The Final Report of the Seventeenth Seminar then reflects the
activities of the conference not by chronology but by the various
aspects which comprised it. Out of a program consisting of meetings
of the Executive Board and individual committees, four general sessions,
eight workshops, three discussion groups, two cocktail parties, one
banquet, one slide presentation, and two films, there evolved a Report
covering five basic units: the Executive Board meetings, SALALM busi-
ness sessions, committee sessions, workshops, and other reports.
Preparation of this Final Report was greatly facilitated by
the availability of tape recordings. XVII SALALM was perhaps the
best documented of any held to date. On tape were the two Executive
Board meetings, the four general sessions, seven of the eight workshops,
and the three discussion groups.
The Seventeenth Seminar took place in the multi-storied Murray D.
Lincoln Campus Center of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
with 153 persons from 16 countries registered as participants. In
addition there were 49 special registrants for Workshop Number 4,
"Selection and Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese Language Materials
for School and Public Libraries." The theme of the conference was
"Education and Training of Librarians for Area Collections."
The Opening Session, held the afternoon of June 12, formally
launched XVII SALALM. Following several cordial welcomes on behalf
of the host institution, the organization's officers presented their
reports, representatives of the Executive Board committees presented
theirs, and the Committee on Library Organization, Personnel and
Research reported and discussed its activities.
Responsible for the content of the Second Session, which took
place the morning of June 13, were the Committees on Acquisitions
and Bibliography. The respective chairmen conducted the discussion
and reported the various activities and accomplishments of the two
committees.
After a brief recess, participants gathered for the third general
session, the Theme Presentation. Authors of five of the seven working
papers bearing on "Education and Training of Librarians for Area
Collections" summarized their working papers in five minutes apiece.
Moderator William Jackson then posed some provocative questions to
the assembly: How much formal training does the area studies librarian
need? What kind of a mix does the area studies librarian need of
academic courses on the area and library science training? How necessary
is a master's degree in library science? Which type of education
should come first, or can they be acquired concurrently?
A lively debate ensued. According to the study made by Beverly
Brewster, library skills were not a priority. Nettie Lee Benson,
Daniel Cordeiro, and Gilberto Fort eloquently defended the need for