Davis, 'NCSU Libraries and Students Selected an ALA Best', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v20n02 (September 1992)
 
_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 20 no. 2
September 1992
Davis, Jinnie Y.02
"NCSU Libraries and Students Selected an ALA Best"


In May 1992 Patricia Schuman, president of the American 
Library Association (ALA), called for entries in ALA's "Best & 
Worst List" of library events for 1992.  At the June ALA 
conference in San Francisco, Schuman announced her top ten 
choices after reviewing submissions from across the country.  
She selected the fund-raising activities of NCSU students as 
one of the nation's five BEST examples of library support, 
based on their magnificent job of responding to news of the 
Libraries' budgetary difficulties and serials cancellations.

In a section of the ALA list entitled "One for the books," 
Schuman states: "The last three senior classes at North 
Carolina State University, Raleigh, have pledged class gifts 
totaling $385,000 to the college library.  Other student fund-
raising ventures (including a Jail-a-thon) have added an 
additional $15,000 to the [NCSU Students'] Library Endowment."  
The staff of the NCSU Libraries is proud of its students for 
recognizing the critical role of the academic library in the 
educational process.