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Recent trends in authorship and referencing practices in the pages of College & Research Libraries are studied. A dramatic increase in the use of quantitative techniques, beginning around 1970 and peaking in the period 1980-84, is also demonstrated. s the Association of College and Research Libraries celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, an examination of the past accomplishments of the association is in order. This examination would be incomplete without an analysis and appreciation of the role that College & Research Libraries (C&RL) has played. The publication of a high quality journal devoted to the unique challenges and problems of academic and research libraries has always represented one of ACRL' s major commitments to its membership. From the beginning, C&RL has been a major instrument of communication among academic and research librarians, and one of the most widely respected journals in librarianship. A study by Robert Swisher and Peggy Smith found that C&RL was read by nearly 90 percent of ACRL members working in academic libraries, placing it behind only American Libraries in both their 1973 and 1978 surveys.1 A 1982 survey by David Kohl and Charles Davis found that ARL directors consider C&RL to be the most prestigious journal in terms of its value for tenure and promotion decisions at their institutions. When the deans of library schools were asked the same question, publication in C&RL was ranked third behind publication in the Library Quarterly and Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS). 2 Citation data reported in Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) further support the significance of C&RL' s role. For the period 1981 through 1986, C&RL was the third

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In both selecting individual titles and designing gathering plans, collection d~velopment librarians are strongly influenced by the perceptions they have about publishers. In the near absence of data that might indicate the overall perceptions the collection development community has about academic publishers, the authors distributed a reputational assessment survey to a national sample of heads of collection development in academic libraries. The resulting data on perceptions of the quality and academic relevance of selected publishers' monographs are reported and analyzed.

In 1994, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) Libraries founded a College Librarian Program. Begun with four librarians serving four colleges, it has since grown to include eleven librarians providing comprehensive library services to the six of Virginia Tech’s eight colleges not served by branch libraries. Other authors have described the early history of the program or outlined some of its specific elements.1 By reviewing how the program came to be, by analyzing the choice points it presents, especially from an administrative perspective, and by discussing its benefits and costs from a university point of view, the authors hope to illuminate an exciting and potentially beneficial approach that other large institutions might seek to adapt to their own missions.