ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 171 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • Lewis W . Douglas o f Tucson, Ariz., has recently presented to the U n iversity o f A r i­ z o n a library his voluminous files o f personal papers, with which are included those o f his father, James Stuart Douglas and grandfather, James Douglas. This is one o f the largest manuscript collections to be acquired b y the University o f Arizona library to date, and comprises eighty-six containers estimated to fill two hundred linear feet of manuscript box­ es. The papers will b e a major research source on Arizona history from 1870 to the present. It is estimated that the processing of the col­ lection for the use o f scholars will require two to three years. • Author Howard Pease has presented the U n i v e r s i t y o f t h e P a c i f i c with his complete writing collection including manuscripts, first editions, translations in eight European lan­ guages, notes, personal letters and other mem­ orabilia. Pease is a noted author of children’s literature. • Am ong recent acquisitions o f the manu­ script division of the L i b r a r y o f C o n g r e s s are the papers o f Joseph Galloway (1731- 1803), his wife Grace Growden Galloway, and their daughter Elizabeth (B etsey). Galloway, a native o f Maryland, a prominent and re­ spected citizen o f colonial Pennsylvania, and a member o f the first Continental Congress, remained loyal to the King. W hen indepen­ dence was declared, he fled Philadelphia and in 1778 went to England. Additions to the papers o f James Madison have included a letter from Madison to his father, April 29, 1781, written from Philadel­ phia while he was serving in the Congress, the youngest o f the delegates. Another Madison letter is addressed to D olly Madison, July 11, 1827, written from the University o f Virginia, where he had gone in his capacity as a mem­ ber of the Board of Visitors. A Madison item o f particular significance is a draft copy of his first speech before the Virginia convention called to revise the state constitution, de­ livered Dec. 2, 1829. An addition to the Monroe papers is a draft o f a letter from Monroe, Secretary o f State, to Joel Barlow, U.S. Minister to France, June 16, 1812, informing Barlow that Congress would pass an act declaring war on Great Britain either on that day or the following. The personal papers o f physicist Alan T. Waterman (1 8 92 -196 7), totaling thirty-five thousand items, also have been recently ac­ quired b y the library. Thirteen items have been added to the papers o f Return Jonathan Meigs (1 7 64 -182 4), Ohio pioneer, jurist, and politician, dated b e­ tween 1804 and 1813. The library’s growing literary collections have been augmented b y the papers o f Eliot Janeway, economist, author, and editor, and o f his wife, novelist Elizabeth Janeway. • A letter signed b y pioneering French chemist Antoine Lavoisier two weeks after the fall of the Bastille, and promising munitions supplies to a government military post, is one of two historic treasures given to T u f t s U n i ­ v e r s i t y recently. The other is a complete set o f first editions o f the works o f Henry David Thoreau. • Marion B . Folsom, Secretary of Health, Education, and W elfare and Undersecretary of the Treasury during the Eisenhower presi­ dency, has donated his papers to the U n i v e r s i ­ t y o f R o c h e s t e r ’ s Rush Rhees library. • The library o f the S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y C o l ­ l e g e a t F r e d o n i a , N ew York has recently acquired a collection o f correspondence be­ tween Stefan Zweig and his wife, Friderike M. Zweig. The correspondence consists of about five hundred letters o f which three hundred are Stefan Zweig’s and the balance those o f Friderike Zweig. Various other “ Zweigiana” writings are included in the col­ lection. • The K e n t S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y libraries has recently added three collections o f letters. There are a group o f letters from Theodore Dreiser to Bernard G. Ulizio, a second group are eleven letters from the author Richard W right to his friend Joseph Brown, and thirty- one letters from noted poets Cid Corman, Robert Creeley, Edward Dahlberg and Denise Levertov to the poet Carol Bergé. A gift of over eighty volumes o f poetry b y Edwin Arlington Robinson was given to the library b y Harrison Hayford o f Evanston, 111. The collection includes several autographed limited editions. Arrangements have been made with the poet and editor Cid Corman to have the archives o f the magazine Origin including all the correspondence, manuscripts, and proofs, added to the library. • The Bertrand library o f B u c k n e l l U n i ­ v e r s i t y has recently acquired from William D. Chase, founder o f the Shaw Society of America, his collection o f books, manuscripts, 172 pamphlets, documents, newspaper clippings, recordings, and ephemera pertaining to G.B.S. • The J o i n t U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r i e s , Nash­ ville, have acquired the papers o f the noted Southern poet-scholar, Donald Davidson. They consist primarily o f outgoing correspondence of 661 letters written between 1917 and 1967; incoming correspondence o f 4,250 letters from such notable literary figures as Allen Tate, Jesse Stuart, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and John Gould Fletcher; approxi­ mately one hundred manuscript poems by Davidson and one hundred sixty poems by others; sixty-five manuscript articles in type­ script and holograph, largely dealing with the Southern Renaissance in literature, and the Agrarian political, social, and economic m ove­ ment. • The Martin Luther King Collection on Non-Violence, a private collection o f several hundred volumes, has been donated to B e l o i t C o l l e g e b y H. Vail Deale, director o f libra­ ries at the college. The collection deals with non-violence, conscientious objection, and world peace. It contains books by and about Henry David Thoreau, Mahatmi Gandhi, Jane Addams, and A. J. Muste. Included is a twenty- five year bound file o f “ Fellowship Magazine,” the official publication of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. The volumes will b e kept to­ gether forming an extensive resource for re­ search on non-violence and the collection may b e enlarged b y additional books purchased through the library’s general book funds. • M c M a s t e r U n i v e r s i t y has just obtained the papers o f Bertrand Russell. This collection is enormous, filling fifty or more filing cabinets, and comprising about one hundred fifty thou­ sand documents and manuscripts. McMaster is fortunate in having an archival and rare book area under active reconstruction so that they will b e well housed and available for scholars everywhere b y the beginning o f the academic year. A catalog o f the collection was pre­ pared b y Continuum 1 Ltd. o f London, Eng­ land, and the remaining forty copies o f this at $50 a copy is available from McMaster Uni­ versity Book Store. Preference will be given to those universities that are far from any center that obtains this catalog. Inquiries should be directed to the office o f the librarian. B U I L D I N G S • Named after the 12th century philosopher and theologian, St. Albertus Magnus, and in memory o f Brother Albert Plotz, late college president, St. Albert Hall library of S a i n t M a r y ’ s C o l l e g e o f C a l i f o r n i a is designed to hold 105,000 volumes. Currently, the col­ lection stands at 80,000 volumes. • A half-million-dollar gift for a new library has been received by L i n c o l n C o l l e g e ; the anonymous gift, property valued at $500,000, assures construction o f a new building. « The U.S. Office o f Education has awarded $2 million in Title II funds for the construction o f a new library at the U n i v e r s i t y o f M a s s a ­ c h u s e t t s in Amherst. The remainder o f the $14.8 million required for the building has been authorized b y the Massachusetts Legis­ lature. The building includes a 26-story tower, 1 1 0 ' x 1 1 0 ', set on a podium o f two much larger floors. The tower floors will be arranged in groups of three, with a study level between each pair o f stack levels. Six hundred faculty members and graduate students in the humani­ ties and social sciences will have individual studies adjacent to books in their fields. The study levels will also provide departmental seminar rooms in appropriate subject locations. Stack floors, holding 125,000 volumes each, will contain a total of about seven hundred carrels in their peripheries. Technical services and most public services (all centralized) will be on the two large podium floors; reserve collections and intensively used study areas will b e located in the first three levels o f the tower, for access by stairs. After the present library building undergoes extensive remodel­ ing into an undergraduate library, the book capacity o f the tower library will b e 2% million volumes. The new building is expected to open during the 1970/71 academic year. • The State University Board o f Governors has approved the awarding o f contracts total­ ing $1,024,621 for the construction o f a three- story addition which will more than double the size o f the library at the R u t g e r s campus in Camden. The library addition will b e con­ structed with a $433,333 federal grant through the Higher Education Facilities Act, and uni­ versity funds. • Ernest Stevenson (S teve) Bird of Austin, Texas, has given S y r a c u s e U n i v e r s i t y $3 million to help build its new library. The $3 million includes $150,000 from the donor’s wife, Mrs. Marie L . Bird. Construction con­ tracts for the $11.4 million library are sched­ uled to b e awarded in November, with com ­ pletion planned for the spring o f 1971. The seven-story building will b e called the E. S . Bird library. • The James P. Magill library was dedicated at H a v e r f o r d C o l l e g e on May 11. The struc­ ture was named in honor o f a retired Phila­ delphia investment banker and prominent civic figure who is vice chairman o f Haverford’s Board o f Managers. Magill, a 1907 graduate o f Haverford, served from 1964 to 1967 as chairman of the board’s Committee on the 173 Library—the group which guided the project and raised the funds. The Magill library, one o f two connected library buildings at Haver­ ford, was completed this year. • Ground breaking ceremonies for the $3 million library/information center o f PMC C o l l e g e s (Pennsylvania Military College and Penn Morton C ollege) were held April 16. • A 2.5 million dollar library building at the U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s Medical Branch at Galveston, a five story, 69,610 gross square foot building, will include rooms for the his­ tory o f medicine and rare book collections, study carrels for students, a publications office, a book bindery, microfilm viewing and listen­ ing carrels, and an audio-visual resource learn­ ing center. • U n i v e r s i t y o f U t a h in Salt Lake City dedicated its library on May 17. • Durick library at St . M i c h a e l ’ s C o l l e g e was dedicated on May 3 on the Winooski college’s campus. The circular structure, built at the cost o f $1.34 million, opened in Feb­ ruary. F E L L O W S H I P S , S C H O L A R S H I P S • A limited number o f U . S . Office o f Edu­ cation fellowships for persons pursuing the master’s or PhD degrees in library science will be oíīered next fall b y the U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h e r n C a l i f o r n i a . Doctoral fellowships provide a $5,000 stipend for the academic year, $600 for each dependent, remission o f all tuition and a travel allowance to the uni­ versity from distances o f more than 1 0 0 miles. Doctoral fellows will receive a $1,020 stipend for the summer session and $ 1 2 0 for each de­ pendent. Master’s fellowships provide a $2,200 stipend for the academic year and $450 for the summer session, $600 for each dependent, remission o f all tuition and the same travel allowance. Beginning in the 1968-69 academic year, the fellowships are available for fulltime study only and require continuous residence for the academic year. Further information and application forms can be obtained by contact­ ing the dean, school o f library scence, U S C , University Park, Los Angeles 90007. • U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s graduate school o f library science at Urbana has received a $184,960 grant from the U . S . Office o f Edu­ cation for twenty-one fellowships— sixteen doc­ toral and five master’s degrees— for the 1968- 69 academic year. Authorized by the Higher Education A ct of 1965, the fellowships provide a basic stipend o f $5,000 at the doctoral level and $2 , 2 0 0 at the master’s level, both for nine months, with an additional $1,020 and $450 available, respectively, for the summer session. The fellowships also provide a travel allow­ ance, waiver o f tuition and fees and an allow­ ance of $600 per dependent for an academic year and an additional $ 1 2 0 per dependent for the summer session. The doctoral fellow­ ships are renewable. • The M e d i c a l L i b r a r y A s s i s t a n c e A c t o f 1965 (Public Law 89-291) authorizes pro­ grams o f financial support to assist in meeting the nation’s need for adequate medical library services and facilities. The A ct established grant programs for construction, resources, training programs, traineeships, post-doctoral fellowships, research projects, special scientific projects, publications, and regional medical library programs. Research Grants support the conduct o f re­ search and investigation in medical library science and related activities, and the develop­ ment o f new techniques, systems, and equip­ ment for processing, storing, retrieving, and distributing information in the health sciences. Grants may b e awarded for scholarly projects in the history o f the life sciences. Publications Grants assist in the preparation an d /or publication of single or serial secondary publications which pertain to scientific works o f importance for health research, education, and service. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f O r e g o n school o f li­ brarianship announces availability o f H EA fel­ lowships for fulltime study, $2,650 plus de­ pendency and travel allowances; one-third time position as research assistant, $1,800; Elma L. Hendricks Scholarship o f $500 award­ ed by Oregon Development Fund; Elementary School Library Internship, $3,600 while work­ ing on MLS degree; half-time position in ele­ mentary school library, $2,500 while working on MLS degree. Information may b e obtained from the dean o f school. • Twenty-one fellowships for advanced study in the graduate school o f library and information sciences have been awarded to the U n i v e r s i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h b y the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Under the Higher Education A ct o f 1965, ten doctoral fellowships, five post-mas­ ter’s and six master’s fellowships will provide a total o f $181,590 in funds for twenty-one recipients to begin graduate work in the fall of 1968. A travel grant is included for those living more than one hundred miles away. The graduate school o f library and information sciences is now accepting applications for these fellowships. T H E I N T E R N A T I O N A L S C E N E • The Fourth United States-Japan Confer­ ence on Cultural and Educational Interchange 174 was held in Washington, D .C. on April 3-8. O f interest to librarians was the recognition given by this international conference of dis­ tinguished educators to problems o f library development and exchange of publications. Special attention was given to the A L A Mis­ sion to Japan in November and Decem ber 1967 which was reported in the April issue of the CRL N ews (p . 1 1 1). In progress reports o f both the American and Japanese sister committees on educational and cultural coop ­ eration, the findings o f the A L A mission were extensively reported, and in his general review for the U.S. delegation, James W . Morley, spe­ cial assistant to the American Ambassador in Tokyo, devoted considerable time to question o f library development and interchange. In its final communique, the conference singled out certain specific needs for priority consideration in future efforts at binational cooperation, among them the following: “ In the field o f library development and the exchange o f published materials, the desira­ bility in each country to work toward the es­ tablishment o f one or more comprehensive libraries o f materials published in the other country, to enrich a number o f smaller collec­ tions primarily for undergraduate study, to establish an effective clearinghouse to assist libraries in both countries with bibliographical information and with acquisitions problems, particularly o f official publications and other materials not available in regular commercial channels, to advance cooperative cataloging, to exchange library consultants and in-service trainees.” M E E T I N G S Jun e 20-22: The Thirteenth Seminar on the Acquisition o f Latin American Library Materi­ als will be held at the University o f Kansas. The principal topic for discussion will b e the Collec­ tion o f Retrospective Materials from Latin America, considered from the points of view of libraries of varying sizes for study and research purposes. Progress made in the past year on matters concerning the booktrade and acquisi­ tions, bibliography, exchange o f publications, official publications, and photoduplication of Latin American materials will b e discussed. Meetings o f Seminar Committees will take place on Thursday morning, June 20. The first general session to b e held Thursday afternoon will initiate the committee and progress re­ ports which will continue at the Friday morn­ ing session. Institutional membership in the Thirteenth Seminar is $15 payable to the “ University o f Kansas: Thirteenth SALALM ,” and checks should be sent to: L. E. James Helyar, Assistant Director o f Libraries, Uni­ versity o f Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66044. Preprint working papers are included in the membership fee, and are available only through payment o f the institutional member­ ship. They will b e distributed at the time of the meeting and to those registered but not attending. The registration fee for additional participants from the member institution is $7.50, and includes preprint working papers. Additional sets o f working papers can be subscribed to in advance for $5 each. The Final Report and Working Papers will subse­ quently be published by the Pan American Union. Further information on participation in and local arrangements for the thirteenth sem­ inar can be procured from Mr. Helyar at the University o f Kansas; and on the program and working papers from Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Associate Librarian, Pan American Union, Washington, D .C. 20006. Ju n e 23-26: The Association of Jewish Li­ braries will hold its 1968 convention in Cin­ cinnati. Convention headquarters will b e at the Sheraton Gibson Hotel, with sessions at the Hebrew Union College, the Isaac M. W ise Temple, and the Adatli Israel Congregation. Ju n e 23-29: A L A Conference, Kansas City, Mo. Those planning to attend are urged to register in advance. For their convenience, an advance registration form has been in­ cluded in the April issue of the A L A Bulletin. FOR THE RUSSIAN BOOK SECTION R e f e r e n c e a n d S o u r c e M a t e r i a l • Russian Literature: Classics, C on tem porary • Linguistics and Literary Criticism • English-Russian and Russian-English D ictionaries • Russian Language R ecord s, F o lk Songs and D ram atic Readings • C hildren’s Literature • B ook s o n A rt • B ook s o n Science • T ex tb o o k s o n m athem atics, geography, natural sciences, history, etc. • S o c io -E c o n o m ic Literature • Russian Atlases and M aps • Soviet M agazines and N ewspapers In qu ire about our out-of-print b ook s and b a ck issue m agazines. W rite fo r Catalogs & Prices Phone 212 CH 2-4500 FOUR C O N T I N E N T BOOK CORP. DEPT. 7 2 7 156 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YO RK, N. Y . 10010 175 It should b e filled out completely and then returned, with check or money order payable to the American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. This form must b e mailed no later than May 31. Those who pre-register will pick up their complete annual conference kits and programs at a special preregistration desk in Kansas City. The desk will be located in the foyer of the Music Hall o f the Municipal Auditorium — 13th Street entrance. Ju n e 24-A u g. 2: Junior and Community College Librarianship Institute under Title IIB o f the Higher Education A ct o f 1965, spon­ sored b y the department o f library science of the University o f Michigan. Stipends are pro­ vided under the law at the rate o f $75 per week plus $15 per week for each dependent. There are no tuition fees, but each participant must pay his own travel costs and living ex­ penses and must purchase certain textbooks. Application blanks may b e secured b y writing to: Thomas P. Slavens, Director, Junior and Community College Librarianship Institute, Department o f Library Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. J u n e 3 0 - J u l y 1 3 : The New York State Historical Association seminars on American Culture. Tw o courses presented the first week are o f particular interest to librarians and archivists: The Administration o f Historical Manuscripts, and Archives and Conservation o f Library and Archival Materials. In the Manu­ script course, Philip P. Mason, W ayne State University, will focus attention on the prob­ lems of operating a small historical collection or archives, covering such subjects as organiz­ ing and processing historical records; literary property rights and copyright laws; appraisal o f manuscripts for insurance and incom e tax purposes; and the recruitment o f manuscript curators. Paul N. Banks, conservator of The Newberry Library in Chicago, will head the Conservation course. H e will discuss environ­ ment in which books or documents live; guide­ lines for identifying problems and maintaining standards for work including simple and fine binding; restoration, and treatment and repair of paper. Mrs. Carolyn Horton, author o f Cleaning and Preserving Bindings and Related Materials, will give a special guest lecture, as well as an evening talk on a related subject. For further information write Seminars on American Culture, Cooperstown, N.Y. 1 3 3 2 6 . Ju ly 8-26: University o f Oklahoma school o f library science Institute for Training in Librarianship on Problems in Administration and Organization o f Multi-Media Resources, on the campus o f the University o f Oklahoma in Norman. Request application forms from Mrs. Evelyn Clement, Director, Institute on Administration and Organization o f Multi- Media Resources, University o f Oklahoma, School of Library Science, Norman, Oklahoma 73069. Forms should be completed and re­ turned to the Director b y May 1. Ju l y 23-25: 2d session IC SU /U N E SC O Central Committee to Study Feasibility of W orld Science Information System. A u g. 5-30: The Georgia Department of Archives and History in cooperation with the Emory University Division o f Librarianship will hold its second Archives Institute. The institute is designed for those presently em­ ployed or preparing for employment in the fields o f archives, manuscripts, records man­ agement, or special libraries; or advanced stu­ dents in history or related disciplines. Appli­ cants should hold a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution. Enrollment will be limited to ten. The Institute will b e under the direction o f Carroll Hart, state archivist and director o f the Georgia department of archives and history, and will be held in the new Archives and Records Building, Atlanta. Participants may register on a non-credit basis or receive six quarter hours academic credit. For non-credit registrants the fee is $50; for credit awarded by the Emory Uni­ versity graduate school, the fee is $275. D or­ mitory housing will b e available on the Emory University campus. For further information contact Miss Carroll Hart, Director and State Archivist, Georgia Department o f Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia 30334. A u g. 5-10: 4th Congress o f the International Federation for Information Processing (I F I P ), Edinburgh. A u g . 11-16: Institute for New Higher Edu­ cational Administrators to b e held at Brevard College near Asheville, North Carolina. Spon­ sored by Higher Education Executive Associ­ ates. Sections will b e arranged for the follow ­ ing groups: ( 1 ) academic deans, ( 2 ) depart­ mental chairmen, ( 3 ) deans o f students and men, ( 4 ) deans o f women, ( 5 ) directors of institutional research, ( 6 ) assistants to the president, public relations and development officers, ( 7 ) chief business officers, and ( 8 ) residence program and campus activities and center directors. A ug. 11-23: Second Annual University o f Maryland Library Administrators Development Program. Senior administrative personnel of large public, research, academic libraries and school library systems will study organization and administration under the direction o f man­ agement consultants, professors o f business and public administration and library scholars. The program will be held at the University o f Mary­ land’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit 176 (M d .), and will be directed by John Rizzo of the school o f government and business admin­ istration, George Washington University. A ug. 18-25: 34th Conference o f IFLA, Frankfurt/Main. A u g. 19-23: University o f Pittsburgh’s grad­ uate school o f library and information sciences summer institute to train teachers in the use o f m odem equipment in libraries. Director of the institute will be Jay E. Daily, assisted by George Sinkankas. S e p t . 2-6: FID Advanced Instruction course on Mechanized U DC Retrieval, Copenhagen. S e p t . 2-7: Third IA T U L Seminar on the Application o f International Library Methods and Techniques at the D elft Technological University library under the direction o f L. J. van der W olk. Number o f participants is lim­ ited to 25. Fee will be 400 guilders. Please direct all correspondence to Miss T. Hall, c /o Library Technological University, 101 Doelen- straat, D E L F T , The Netherlands. S e p t . 9 - 1 8 : 34th FID Conference and In­ ternational Congress on Scientific Information, Moscow. S e p t . 19-24: Frankfort Book Fair. S e p t . 22-26: 42nd Annual Conference o f As- lib, Canterbury. O c t . 4-5: Indiana Chapter of the Special Libraries Association and the Purdue Univer­ sity libraries two-day meeting at Purdue Uni­ versity on “ Automation in the Library.” Mrs. Theodora Andrews, pharmacy librarian at Pur­ due University, is chairman in charge of meet­ ing plans. O c t . 20-24: American Society for Informa­ tion Science, formerly American Documenta­ tion Institute, 31st annual meeting in Colum­ bus, Ohio. Papers are invited on all facets of methods and mechanisms to improve the op ­ erations of information systems. The technical sessions chairman, David M. Leston, Jr., Bat- telle Memorial Institute, should be notified o f intent to submit papers, by March 1. Nov. 1968: The Washington University school o f medicine is planning to present its fifth Symposium on Machine Methods in Libraries in November, 1968, if enough people are interested. It will b e a 3-day meeting and registration will be $35. Speakers will discuss automation at the libraries o f the UN, The Royal Society o f Medicine, The Upstate M ed­ ical Center’s Biomedical Network, The New York Medical Center, The University o f Louis­ ville medical school, and other institutions, as well as the work o f the Washington University school o f medicine library. Those who might be interested in attending the Symposium should communicate with Dr. Estelle Brodman, Librarian and Professor o f Medical History, School o f Medicine Library, Washington Uni­ versity, St. Louis, Missouri 63110. D e c e m b e r : (A IB D A ) 2d Inter-American Meeting of Agricultural Librarians and D ocu ­ mentalists in Bogotá, Colombia. M I S C E L L A N Y • A collection o f source material in Negro history, designated as a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been established at S a n F r a n c i s c o T h e o l o g i c a l S e m i n a r y , San Anselmo. This collection will bring to­ gether the library’s considerable holdings in the pre-Civil W ar abolition movement and the current civil rights movement. The collection comprises original pamphlet literature dealing with the anti-slavery issue, sociological studies, and publications o f modern civil rights groups. • On July 1, the Association o f Research Libraries office will move to its new quarters on the fourth floor of the American Political Science Association Building at 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W ., Washington, D.C. This building is located just off Dupont Circle. • Louis E. Martin, associate director of libraries at the University o f Rochester, has accepted the position of associate executive director of Association of Research Libraries effective July 1. At the ARL, Mr. Martin will have administrative responsibilities, will work closely with committee chairmen on existing programs and will participate in developing and carrying out new programs. • Mrs. Ella V. Aldrich Schwing, a former member o f the Louisiana State University Board o f Supervisors has donated the royalties of her textbook, “ Using Books and Libraries” to the LSU Foundation for the Friends o f the LSU Library excellence program. Royalties amounting to some $3,000 a year will b e used to build an endowment fund for the purchase o f books and special collections not now possible in the library budget. • Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, former Fellow o f the Yale University Corporation, and former chairman of the Yale Library Associates, was honored May 24 by P r i n c e t o n U n i v e r s i t y , as the second recipient o f the Donald F. Hyde Award in recognition o f his “ distinction in book collecting and service to the community o f scholars,” at the annual dinner o f the Friends of the Princeton University library. • A reference library service has been es­ tablished by S t a n d a r d O i l C o m p a n y (N ew Jersey). George L. Aguirre, former head of Esso Standard eastern’s information center, has been appointed administrator o f the service. 177 The service will b e responsible for devel­ oping and implementing an up-to-date method of handling published information, including gathering, organizing, and retrieving data. The new unit consists o f three reference libraries: two special libraries dealing with certain op­ erating disciplines; and a technical services section. Present plans call for all library facili­ ties to b e centralized. New members o f the staff include Camille Forma and Mrs. Jennifer Sim, reference librarians; Sung Chen Lee, technical services librarian; Mary K. Blair, senior reference librarian; Matthew J. Vellucci, reference librarian, and Mary McPardand, librarian. • The eighteenth Distinguished Service Award, presented annually by the Library Associates of B r o o k l y n C o l l e g e , goes this year to Professor Oscar Handlin, director, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. The citation presented to Dr. Handlin at a dinner to be held in the Brooklyn College Student Center on May 18, reads: “ In recognition o f your own sense o f aware­ ness o f the United States of America as a Nation of Immigrants, and your brilliant suc­ cess in opening the eyes o f others to this phenomenon, The Library Associates o f Brook­ lyn College, mindful of your record as scholar, author, and warm human being, are proud to present to you their Distinguished Service Award for 1968.” • The American Jewish Historical Society has issued a preliminary survey o f its manu­ script holdings containing a detailed enumera­ tion of sixty-eight of its major collections. Copies of the catalog are available free of charge from the Society’s offices at 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10011. • Maurice L. Tainter, vice president of Sterling Drug Inc. and vice-chairman o f thé Sterling Research Board, was elected president of the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (M E T R O ) at the April meeting o f the agency’s Board of Trustees. • T h e equivalent o f a m ajor university li­ brary in the field o f b io lo g y is b e in g created through the joint efforts o f ten small colleges in central Pennsylvania. M em bers o f the A rea C ollege L ibr a r y C oo pe r a tiv e Pr o g r a m are poolin g their resources in b io lo g y to dem on ­ strate the possibility o f creating a univers’ ty­ size library distributed am ong the m em ber colleges. A t a m eeting o f the Area C olleg e Library grou p at G ettysburg C o lle g e o n M ay 10, the organization discussed the developm ent o f cooperative bu y in g as on e o f the m ajor items o f the agenda. Featured speaker in the after­ noon session was Katherine Stokes, U.S. Office of Education. The project is being spearheaded b y Robert Barnes o f Gettysburg College. • A new international publishing company has been established to help meet the ever-in­ creasing demand for the availability of the major sources o f learning— the printed records o f knowledge in many fields published through­ out the world over the last two centuries. The company will b e known as Kraus-Thomson Organization, Ltd., and will have its principal operations, including large warehouses, in Liechtenstein, where the Kraus interests have been established for many years. It has come into being as a result o f the acquisition by Lord Thomson of Fleet, through his Thomson International Corporation, Ltd., of Toronto, Canada, o f a controlling interest in the Kraus reprint and periodicals organization operating in Liechtenstein and N ew York. P U B L I C A T I O N S “ Academic Librarianship in the International Milieu” is the title of the seventy-nine-page proceedings of a conference for academic li­ brarians held at Kansas State University on October 14, 1967. Copies o f the proceedings may b e obtained from the KSU library for $ 2 each. American Book Publishing Record F ive Year Cumulative 1960-64 has been issued in four volumes by the R. R. Bowker Co. Arranged by D ewey Classification, the 5,682-page work sells at $79.95 net postpaid in the United States and Canada ($87.95 elsewhere). It contains the bibliographic information listed originally during the five-year period in the monthly issues of the American Book Publish­ ing Record. On April 10, 1968 the Oberlin College Con­ servatory library published a catalog o f the C . W . B e s t C o l l e c t i o n o f A u t o g r a p h s , a collection o f autographs and holographs re­ lated to the field o f music. The collection was given to the Conservatory b y C. W . Best, an 1890 alumnus. The 55-page, 6 - x 9-inch, paper­ back catalog includes 1 1 0 entries, ten black and white reproductions o f letters (w ith por­ traits) from the collection, and portraits o f Mr. and Mrs. Best. The catalog entries include a brief physical description of each item, a note on the contents o f each letter, and a transla­ tion o f those in a language other than English. Copies o f the catalog are available for $1.50 from the Conservatory Library, Oberlin Col­ lege, Oberlin, Ohio. The Bro-Dart Foundation has published a selected list o f 2 0 , 0 0 0 books for j u n i o r a n d c o m m u n i t y c o l l e g e s . The collection was pre­ pared by Frank J. Bertalan, director o f the 178 school of library science o f the University o f Oklahoma and ten associate editors, with the assistance o f the librarians, department heads and faculty members o f eighty-eight junior colleges, and with the cooperation of their presidents. The collection will be continuously updated. The Library of Congress arrangement is being utilized. The work includes a section o f complete bibliographic information and is conveniently indexed by author, title and sub­ ject. For further information write to Bro-Dart Foundation, Department PR-112, 113 Freling­ huysen Avenue, Newark, New Jersey 07114. Guide to American Directories, seventh ed. ( edited by Bernard Klein. 608 pages including index. 7 x 10 hardbound; B. Klein & Co., $2 5), is designed to aid business and industry in locating new markets and to assist organiza­ tions, associations and individuals in finding sources o f information, and in locating new sources o f supply of products and services. The seventh edition of the Guide includes over twelve hundred directories not previously listed and describes in detail more than forty-five hundred directories in over three hundred major categories. The meaning and development of Library o f Congress classification is the subject of A Guide to Library oj Congress Classification, by John Phillip Immroth, assistant professor of library science, State University College at Geneseo. The book is published by Libraries Unlimited, Inc., Rochester, N.Y., and is in­ tended to fill a gap in available library litera­ ture. As a part o f the Library Science Text Series this work is designed as both a textbook and a reference work. Dean H. Keller, associate librarian for read­ ers’ services and special collections in Kent State University is the author o f An Index to The Colophon, New Series, The Colophon, N ew Graphic Series and The New Colophon. The book was begun while Keller was on a Lilly Fellowship at Indiana University in 1967. Publisher is Scarecrow Press. Richard M. Dougherty and James G. Ste­ phens of the U n i v e r s i t y o f C o l o r a d o libra­ ries have produced a sixty-page report on an “ Investigation Concerning the Modification of the University of Illinois Computerized Serials Book Catalog to Achieve an Operative System” in their base library. The purpose of the NSF-funded study was to determine the feasi­ bility o f adapting part or all o f one library’s machine program to the needs o f another. Conclusions reached are that such systems can b e adapted but not, at the present time, with­ out difficulty. Problems arise from the lack of consensus and standardization among institu­ tions as to best formats, computer languages, choice of entry, punctuation, and filing prac­ tices. Library historians will welcome a new re­ print which has been issued as number seven in the Monograph Series o f the University of Illinois graduate school o f library science. William J. Rree’s Manual of Public Libraries‚ Institutions, and Societies in the United States and British Provinces of North America, origi­ nally published in 1859, is newly available from the school at $4 in paper or $5 hard­ bound. The well known but long unavailable manual is a veritable mine of data and in­ formation on American libraries and related agencies at mid-century. A survey of academic and research libraries in Canada has been completed by Robert B. Downs, University o f Illinois dean of library administration. His work, Resources o f Cana­ dian Academic and Research Libraries, has been published in both English and French by the Association o f Universities and Colleges o f Canada in Ottawa, Ont. Downs covered four major areas in his study o f Canadian libraries. They are resources, techniques, serv­ ice and administration, and finance. The pro­ posal for a comprehensive investigation origi­ nated with the Canadian Association o f College and University Libraries, and was funded by the Canada Council and the Council on Li­ brary Resources. “ The Search for Meriwether Lewis: From Tillamook to Grinder’s Stand,” by Richard D il­ lon, was the second annual C. C. Williamson Memorial Lecture at the Peabody library school. The address was published, and while they last copies may b e had upon application to Edwin S. Gleaves, director of the school. A Subject Index to New Serial Titles, 1950- 1965, has been issued by The Pierian Press, P.O. Box 1808, Ann Arbor, Mich. Divided into four parts, the new Index presents: ( 1 ) a classified table o f contents; ( 2 ) a subject index o f 217,000 entries; ( 3 ) a comparative subject index with 44,500 entries; and ( 4 ) an index to the 1,800 subject headings under which the entries are grouped. It provides an approach to approximately six times more serials and lists them under approximately seven times more subject headings than does any other reference book on serials. The U n i v e r s i t y o f U t a h libraries have recently published the first o f a series of Middle East book catalogs showing their hold­ ings in Middle East materials. The first vol­ ume includes all o f their processed Arabic collection. It contains over eight thousand en­ tries on 841 pages. The entries are a photo­ graph of the shelf list arranged alphabetically within broad subject classifications. The cata­ log, which is bound in buckrum, sells for $ 2 0 a volume. Orders may b e placed with the interlibrary loan librarian at the University of Utah libraries.