A Summary and Overview of the Conference

Goldhor, Herbert

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Title

A Summary and Overview of the Conference

Author(s)

Goldhor, Herbert

Issue Date

1972

Keyword(s)

Environmental protection --Information services

Abstract

There were fifteen speakers at this Institute, excluding chairpersons and makers of announcements. I was asked to summarize and bring out the highlights of their remarks. I shall leave aside the details and specifics of individual titles and focus on matters of more general import. I shall speak of those ways in which it seemed the remarks and concerns of the speakers at this conference are typical of what (good) librarians do in regard to any specified subject. Later I shall discuss the ways in which they are not. 1. A good librarian usually becomes aware of an emerging problem area of general interest reasonably early, and of its ramifications and implications. Several speakers pointed out how recently the problem of environmental control has come into the limelight, and how pervasive it is. In 1965, according to Quigley, the ACS made its initial decision to work on the problem. The National Environmental Policy Act was passed in 1969, but according to Friedlander EPA is already funding 4,000 projects. Zimmerman pointed out that only in the last few years have standard tools like the Subject Guide to Books in Print and the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, used some of the appropriate subject headings. On the other hand, Veyette reported that Engineering Index has used subject headings dealing with the pollution of the environment since before 1900, but that was for technical literature for engineers and apparently had no great impact.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (18th : 1972)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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