ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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“Transition in Printing” from the original type­
script and a handlist of the University of Cali­
fornia, Santa Barbara, Guthrie Collection by 
Christian Brun. The keepsake was designed and 
printed by Mr. William Horton and his Sun 
Press. Copies are being mailed to the Friends 
of the UCSB library.

•  Xerox Corporation’s University Microfilms 
has been named publisher of The International 
Microfilm Journal of Legal Medicine, a unique 
medical-legal journal which is distributed only 
in microimage form. Sponsored by the Milton 
Helpem Library of Legal Medicine, the journal 
is published quarterly on microfiche. Editor-in- 
Chief of the publication is Dr. Milton Helpem, 
Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New 
York. Annual subscriptions are $17.50; single 
issues $5.00.

• The Harvard Graduate School of E duca­
tion, faced with the problem of improving its 
library facilities, convened a symposium on “Li­
brary Technology and Architecture.” Six “con­
sultants” contributed reports which formed the 
basis for an all day conference. The reports 
and conference transcript have been published 
in “Library Technology and Architecture, Re­
port of a Conference at the Harvard Graduate 
School of Education, February 9, 1967.” (Cam ­
bridge, Mass.: Library, Graduate School of E d ­
ucation, Harvard University, 1968. 51 pp. 
$1.00). Most attention was given to possible 
introduction of new library technology and 
methodology—decision areas which precede or 
should precede architectural design. The con­
sultants whose reports are included were: Carl 
F. J. Overhage, Director, Project INTREX 
(INformation TRansfer E xperim ent), Massa­
chusetts Institute of Technology; Joseph Beck­
er, Director of Information Sciences, 
EDUCOM, ( Interuniversity Communications 
Council); W alter H. Kilham, Jr., O’Connor and 
Kilham, Architects, New York, N.Y.; Richard 
E. Schutz, Director, Southwest Regional Lab­
oratory for Educational Research and Develop­
ment; Richard C. Oldham, Assistant Director, 
Education Division, WGBH-TV Educational 
Foundation; Theodore R. Conant, Executive 
Producer, Education Division, WGBH-TV E d­
ucational Foundation.

•  Brief descriptions in German and English 
of 55 mechanized systems and mechanization 
projects in W est German documentation cen­
ters and libraries are contained in a new pub­
lication: Mechanization in Documentation in 
the Federal Republic of Germany. Third Com­
pilation: Position as at 1st January 1968. The 
entries are arranged by subject fields. Libraries 
are listed separately. There is an index of in­
stitutions with addresses and a person index. 
Copies are available from Zentralstelle für 
maschinelle Dokumentation, 6 Frankfurt am

Main, Holzhausenstrasse 44, West Germany. 
The price is about $2.00.

• The Brazilian Institute of Bibliography and
Documentation (IBBD ) has issued a new edi­
tion of Periódicos Brasileiros de Cultura which 
lists 2,049 periodicals currently published in 
Brazil. To the extent the information was avail­
able to the Institute, each entry includes the 
name and address of the publisher, the year in 
which publication commenced, the frequency, 
and, for appropriate publications, in which in­
dex or bibliography it appears. Newspapers are 
not included, b u t a few of their regular sup­
plements on special topics are. In addition to a 
subject index, there is also an alphabetical list 
of titles with reference to the numbered entry. 
More than 800 Brazilian publications th at have 
ceased or suspended publication or th at failed 
to respond to the Institute’s questionnaire are 
listed separately. The Institute plans to publish 
supplements to this edition containing new 
serial titles, changes of title, publications that 
cease or suspend publication, and revisions, as 
necessary, of entries in the current edition. 
Copies of Periódicos Brasileiros de Cultura may 
be purchased at NCr 10,000 each by writing to: 
Institute Brasileiro de Bibliografia e Docu- 
mentação, Avenida General Juste 171, 4 °. an- 
dar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ■  ■

HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
On October 1, the President signed H.R.

18037 (Public Law 90-557), th e act making 
appropriations for the Departments of Labor 
and Health, Education, and Welfare. Included 
in the act is an appropriation of $5.5 million 
for Title II-C of the Higher Education Act.

On October 16, the President signed S. 3769
(Public Law 90-575), the Higher Education 
Amendments of 1968. The law extends Title 
II, Part C (National Program for Acquisitions 
and Cataloging) of the Higher Education Act 
for fiscal year 1969 and the next two succeed­
ing fiscal years. It authorizes an appropriation 
of $6 million for fiscal year 1969 and $11 mil­
lion for the next two years. In addition, this 
section of the Act was amended so as to give 
the Librarian of Congress authority to:
1. purchase additional copies of a single title 

of a book acquired through the Title II-C 
program.

2. provide not only cataloging information 
about currently acquired materials b u t also 
other aids to higher education, such as bib­
liographies, indexes, guides and union lists, 
describing not only current books b u t other 
important materials essential to research.

3. pay administrative costs of cooperative ar­
rangements for acquiring for institutions of 
higher education or combinations thereof, li­
brary materials not readily obtainable out­
side the country of origin. ■  ■