
doi: 10.1086/619693
A YEAR ago, Leon Carnovsky published his masterful paper first presented at the International Conference on Library Education, held at the University of Illinois (June 1216, 1967), on the evaluation and accreditation of library schools. He succinctly summarized the history of library school accreditation, rightly noted that the procedure of initial visitation and review are adequately covered elsewhere,1 presented a definitive account of ALA Standards, and concluded with a carefully researched evaluation of the means for implementing them.2 Unavailable to him at the time he wrote were any results of a new procedure of annual reporting. Although he was himself a prime mover in initiating this procedure, he could only write then that it was "still in the future."3 Since that time the gathering of annual reports has been experimentally initiated, and it is possible to summarize the findings and to begin the appraisal of the validity of this procedure as an instrument for continuing review.
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