Please reply to:
				Mrs. Lois Bebout
April 14, 1973			4004 Silverspring Drive
				Austin, Texas 78759


Dear Committee Member:

Thank you for attending the meeting in Fort Worth to discuss the 
means by which the TLA-RRT Committee on Texas Infomation Sources 
can best accomplish the duties with which it is charged.  Your 
interest and suggestions were all very helpful.

As I understand the consensus of the meeting, the following steps 
are the ones which we decided to follow:

   1)	Each committee member is to solicit assistance and suggestions 
	from other librarians within his district for additions and/or 
	deletions from the basic list of "Sources of Information about 
	Texas" which was compiled in September, 1972. (Copy enclosed.) 
	Each committee member may use any method he desires for this 
	information gathering.  All suggestions for additions and 
	deletions should be forwarded to me by June 1 (that's a whole 
	month later than we originally set).  My own feeling is that 
	this basic list should include not more than 50 titles; probably 
	closer to 30 would be preferable.  Of course, as we agreed at 
	the meeting, any district could add or subtract from the basic 
	list in preparing an exhibit or program for his district.

   2)	I will compile from the lists submitted to me a list of all the 
	suggested titles and send a copy to each member of the committee 
	no later than June 15.  That list will be your final chance to 
	"vote" on the basic list.  From your replies which should reach 
	me no later than July 15, I shall compile the "official committee 
	basic list." For each title on that final list I shall have 
	made annotations (preferably covered in plastic).  These annota-
	tions will be the "travelling" part of the exhibit.  Of course, if 
	all the books are not readily available within a district, we'll 
	have to help each other locate copies for display.

  3)	Each committee member is responsible for seeing that the annota-
	tions, the books, and a presentation if it is desired, is available 
	for his district meeting.  As soon as you know the date of your 
	district's meeting, please let me know so that I can be certain 
	that we have enough copies of the annotations available when needed.

  4)	If you are interested in working on the compilation of the 
	SUBJECT GUIDE TO REFERENCE BOOKS ABOUT TEXAS, please indicate 
	your subject interest on the attached sheet.  As you are asking
	for suggestions for the basic list, of course, you can be 
	soliciting ideas for the "Texas Winchell." As soon as I 
	have volunteer editors for each subject area, I'll let you 
	all know, and, hopefully, get Mary Pound to publish the 
	list in the TEXAS LIBRARY JOURNAL so that anyone and everyone 
	will have the opportunity to contribute information to the 
	appropriate people.  Our deadline for this part of our 
	committee's work, I feel, can be delayed until after the 
	district meetings next fall; hopefully, we'll all receive 
	suggestions from librarians at those meetings.  It would be 
	great if we could ask for funds for publication of our 
	"masterpiece" at next year's TIA meeting! Or, maybe even 
	before. (If you personally are not interested in working 
	as an editor on the "Texas Winchell," please feel free to 
	recommend people who might be.)

  5)	One other point on which we agreed is that each committee 
	member is to check with all the library schools in his district 
	to be certain that no library school student has compiled or 
	is compiling any similar publication.

If anyone feels that the above outline does not fairly closely 
follow the thinking at the committee meeting we had in Fort Worth 
last week, I stand ready to be corrected.  I certainly enjoyed 
meeting and talking with all of you; I hope to hear from you all 
again soon.
			Sincerely yours,

			(Mrs.) Lois Bebout
			Chairman, TLA-RRT-CTIS

Enclosures: 2

A SUBJECT GUIDE TO REFERENCE BOOKS
ABOUT TEXAS

General Editor: Lois Bebout

(Code letters correspond with those used in Winchell's GUIDE TO
REFERENCE BOOKS)

Subject editors:

AA	Bibliography				)
AB	Librarianship & Library Resources	)

AC	Societies			)
AD	Encyclopedias			)
AE	Language dictionaries		)
BC	Linguistics and Philology	)
AF	Periodicals			)
AG	Newspapers			)
AI	Dissertations			)

AH	Government Publications	)
CI	Political Science	)
CJ	Law			)

AJ	Biography	)
D	History 	)
AK	Genealogy	)
BB	Religion	)

BD	Literature			)
CF	Folklore.and Popular Customs	)

CB	Education )

CC	Sociology			)
CD	Anthropology and Ethnology	)

CG	Statistics	)
CH	Economics	)

CK	Geography  )

EE	Earth Sciences  

EC	Biological Sciences  )

BE	Fine Arts	)
BF	Applied Arts	)
BG	Theater Arts	)
BH	Music		)

All E (Pure and Applied Sciences)
	except EE and EC)