ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


News From the Field
A C Q U I S I T I O N S

Records of the seventy-three-year-old Inter­
national Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter
Workers have been given to the University
of Colorado libraries. Presentation of the
union records to the Western History collection
was completed this summer when the inter­
national union merged with the United Steel­
workers of America. The collection consists of
the equivalent of one hundred four-drawer file
cabinets. More than 90 per cent of the mate­
rial consists of union records since 1937.

University of Illinois library at Urbana
has received a gift of two thousand volumes,
mostly Russian, German, French, and English
publications in the field of economics. The col­
lection is the personal library of Simon Lit-
man, U of I professor of economics, emeritus,
who retired in 1942.

Margaret Symonds of W hite Plains, N.Y.,
has given the University of Connecticut li­
brary a collection of 248 books on landscape
architecture and architectural details. The gift
formerly belonged to Miss Symonds and Anne
Baker, noted landscape architects for a number
of years prior to Miss Baker’s death in 1949.

University of Illinois library has purchased
the personal library of Shakespearean scholar
T. W. Baldwin, a collection of approximately
5,806 volumes of sixteenth, seventeenth and
eighteenth century texts of classical authors
with commentaries, Bibles and prayer books,
rhetorics, and histories. The entire collection
is housed in the U of I library’s rare book room
at Urbana.

The Newberry library has purchased the
Frank Cutter Deering collection of Americana, 
a private library of rare books and manuscripts 
dealing especially with the colonial and Rev­
olutionary eras of this country. The collection 
comprises more than two thousand one hundred
items gathered by Mr. Deering, Maine lumber­
man and banker who died in 1939. The Deer­
ing collection contains several hundred books 
and manuscripts.

Important additions have been made by 
W ashington University, St. Louis, to its col­
lection of the papers of Elizabeth Jennings, 
contemporary English poet. Comprising about 
one hundred items, the Jennings additions now 
include five notebooks, a number of autobio­
graphical sketches, drafts of essays and poems, 
notes on visits to Rome, and about eighty loose 
ms. drafts of poems. Two archives of contem­
porary book publishing have been augmented: 
the first, papers emanating from W alter Low- 
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additional correspondence between Lowenfels 
and young, often unpublished poets on the 
book’s content, many unpublished manuscripts, 
and editorial matter. A new group of papers 
concerning publication of Robert Duncan’s A 
Book of Resemblances enlarges a previous Dun­
can collection. George P. Elliott, author of In 
the World, has added to the sizeable group 
of his papers held by this university, editorial 
matter and typescript of Parktilden Village, 
published in 1958.

A gift of 1,267 volumes has been given to 
the Rhodes R. Stabley library, Indiana Univer­
sity (Pennsylvania), by George Swetnam, staff 
writer of the Pittsburgh Press. Mr. Swetnam, 
a resident of Glenshaw, Pa., has gathered to­
gether a significant library which pertains spe­
cifically to the fields of literature, economic 
and social history for the State of Pennsyl­
vania.

A W A R D S , G R A N T S , G IF T S

The American Council of Learned Socie­
ties announces a study of the operations of the 
foreign library acquisitions programs under the 
Dingell Amendment to Public Law 83-480. 
Funds for the study in the amount of $9,500, 
are provided by the Council on Library Re­
sources and the work will be conducted by 
Mortimer Graves, executive director emeritus 
of the ACLS. The Council’s study is concerned 
with how best to exploit this valuable source 
in the national interest.

United States Office of Education has pro­
vided the University of Illinois library re­
search center with $7,711 in additional funds 
to complete a project entitled “Characteristics 
of Professional Personnel in College and Univer­
sity Libraries.” Mrs. Anita R. Schiller, research 
associate, is chief investigator of the project 
which was originally funded with a $22,445 
grant.

St . Mary’s College library in Winona, 
Minnesota has received a grant of $52,900 
from The Louis W. and Maud Hill Foundation 
in St. Paul, Minn, in support of a Winona Col­
leges Union Catalog Project. The grant will en­
able St. Mary’s, College of Saint Teresa, and 
Winona State College plus the Winona public 
library to cooperate in publishing a list of their 
combined holdings. At the present time, the 
our libraries have two hundred seventy-five 

thousand volumes on their shelves, which will 
involve punching 1.4 million cards, during the 
next two years, to produce a subject catalog 
directed toward undergraduate usage. The

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work will be under the supervision of J. Van 
der Veer Judd, data processing librarian.

The Rockefeller Foundation has made a grant 
of $15,000 to Eugene V. Muench, New York 
University medical center library, to produce 
a computerized English/Spanish correlation in­
dex to biomedical library classification schemes. 
The index will be accomplished by supplying 
appropriate classification numbers of five clas­
sification schemes (National Library of Med­
icine, Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal, 
Cunningham and Boston Medical Library) to 
the subject headings of the National Library 
of Medicine (M ESH ) and a Spanish transla­
tion of MESH by Alcira Mejia Andrión of Pan­
ama, presently librarian at the Smithsonian 
Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Canal 
Zone. The data will be keypunched, merged on 
magnetic tape, and sorted in the computer al­
phabetically by English and Spanish subject 
headings and sequentially by classification num­
bers. Other classification schemes, such as the 
Universal Decimal Classification, and transla­
tions of MESH into other languages can be 
added.

The 1967 Doctoral Dissertation Award of 
The Kosciuszko Foundation has heen made to 
Jerzy Maciuszko, Chairman, Slavic East Euro­
pean Subsection of the Subject Specialists Sec­

tion of ACRL, for his work on The Polish 
Short Story in English Translation, prepared 
at Western Reserve University. The work will 
be published towards the end of this year by 
W ayne State University Press. The Doctoral 
Dissertation Award is made each year by The 
Kosciuszko Foundation to encourage the p u b ­
lication of outstanding doctoral dissertations on 
Polish subjects, to any interested publisher who 
is willing to publish that doctoral dissertation 
which the Foundation considers the best work 
brought to its attention in any given year.

B U IL D IN G S

University of F lorida has announced the 
opening of its new six-floor research library 
with a capacity of 600,000 volumes, 590 seats, 
plus various conference and seminar rooms, 
and a total area of 116,000 square feet.

Construction of Michigan State Univer­
sity’s five-story graduate research library is 
part of a $4.3 million library expansion pro­
gram that will double floor space, seating ca­
pacity, and volume of business in the univer­
sity’s library. W hat is now the main library 
will become, after remodelling is completed 
Dec. 1, the undergraduate library. Seating 
space for four thousand and one hundred thou­

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sand volume collection of heavily circulated 
undergraduate materials will be contained there. 
The new wing will house most of the univer­
sity’s 1.3 million volume collection and provide 
private study rooms for faculty and 600 indi­
vidual study carrels for graduate students. 
These study booths will be strategically lo­
cated around the perimeter of the second, 
third and fourth floors near the major research 
collections.

F E L L O W S H IP S , 
S C H O L A R S H IP S

Norman Peter Cummins, Brooklyn; Laura 
Nell Gasaway, Denison, Tex.; Joan Marie 
Mann, Baltimore; Frieda Ann Noell, Laramie, 
Wyoming; Janet Scott Reed, Rochester, N.Y.; 
and Libby Potter Soifer, Gorham, Maine, have 
been awarded $1,500 scholarships by the Spe­
cial Libraries Association for graduate study 
at accredited library schools during the 1967- 
68 academic year. The scholarship winners 
were announced by Elizabeth Burrows, 1966-67 
Chairman of the Association’s Scholarship and 
Loan Fund Committee. Miss Burrows is li­
brarian at Alcan Aluminum Corporation, Cleve­
land. The six scholarship winners were selected 
from ninety-five applicants from twenty-eight 
states and eight foreign countries.

The W interthur program in early Ameri­
can culture is a two-year graduate course of 
study leading to the master of arts degree, 
planned as preparation for careers in curator- 
ship, teaching, research, writing, and librarian- 
ship with museums, colleges and universities, 
historical societies, restoration projects and his­
torical sites. A minimum of seven Fellowships 
with stipend will be awarded under the pro­
gram each year. Five of the Fellowships in­
clude grants that carry a base stipend of $2500 
in addition to payment of tuition fees ($315 
for residents, $750 for nonresidents). Depend­
ing upon need, the W interthur Fellowship 
Committee may award allowances of up to 
$500 for a spouse and $150 per child for a 
maximum of two children. A W interthur Fel­
lowship may therefore total a maximum of 
$4050 annually or $8100 for the two years. 
Only Fellows are admitted to the program. 
Preference is given to college seniors or grad­
uates who have shown marked ability and 
exceptional interest in Early American studies, 
particularly art history, history, and literature. 
Applications should be filed by February 1. 
For application blanks and further information 
write; The Coordinator, Winterthur Program, 
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 
19711.

Graduate Record Examination scores must be 
submitted with application.

M E E T IN G S
Oct. 14; Kansas State University one day 

conference for academic librarians at Man­
hattan, Kansas. This conference has been organ­
ized to portray some of the roles of the United 
States librarian in the international scene. By 
analyzing the relationship of the United States 
librarian-consultant to his foreign assignment, 
it is planned to note not only the nature of 
such assignments but also the nature of librar- 
ianship in these countries. Papers will be 
delivered by: Neva L. White, former A. I. D. 
consultant in Afghanistan; Thomas R. Buck- 
man, former ALA consultant on international 
programs; Wayne R. Collings, former A. I. D. 
consultant in Turkey and in Egypt; and G. A. 
Rudolph, former Fulbright consultant in Peru. 
Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Pan-American 
Union, will deliver the evening banquet ad­
dress.

Oct. 23-25: American University’s Center 
for Technology and Information Institute on 
Transfer of Technical Information. Gramercy 
Inn, Washington, D.C.

Nov. 5-8: Division of university extension of 
University of Illinois announces the 14th an­
nual Allerton Institute, on Trends in American 
Publishing sponsored by the graduate school of 
library science, at Allerton Park.

Apr. 29-May 2, 1968: The department of 
library science of Indiana State University

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plans a junior college libraries conference d ur­
ing the period April 29-May 2, 1968. Although 
emphasis will be on library programming for 
the community junior college, the conference 
should be of interest to professional librarians, 
other junior college faculty, and administrators 
of all types of post-high school, two-year insti­
tutions. Ample accommodations are available 
near campus in Terre Haute through the uni­
versity. Meetings and other events will be held 
in the Student Union. Suggestions and requests 
for program scheduling and consideration of 
topics, as well as for further information, 
should b e directed to Helen Wheeler, Associate 
Professor, D epartm ent of Library Science, In ­
diana State University, Terre Haute, Ind. 
47809. (Telephone 612 area code: 232-6311.) 
All public junior colleges listed in the 1967 
Junior College Directory will automatically re­
ceive an announcement by mail.

M IS C E L L A N Y
University of Arizona library began classi­

fying currently received books according to 
the Library of Congress classification in July. 
A decision on reclassification will be m ade at 
some future time.

Two long-missing manuscript pages of an

THE TIM E IS NOW
Have you returned the “College and 

University Library Resources and Facil­
ities, 1966-67” form for th e collection of 
academic library statistics? If not, you 
have missed the deadline. You are urged 
to immediately return your form, as in ­
structed, to the U.S. Office of E duca­
tion. Your cooperation is urgently needed 
if the publication of college and univer­
sity library statistics for 1966-67 is to in­
clude a large percentage of academic in ­
stitutions in order to be issued early in 
1968. May I remind you to check w ith 
the proper office on your campus on com­
pletion of the library-related data on fi­
nance and personnel (employees) forms. 
Be sure these are returned by the desig­
nated deadline.

Algernon Swinburne novel were returned to 
G reat Britain by Syracuse University library 
in a ceremony a t the British Embassy in W ash­
ington on Sept. 29. T he blue 8 x 13 inch pages 
were accepted for th e  British Museum, which 
has th e rest of the handw ritten manuscript of 
“Lesbia Brandon,” w ritten by Swinburne in 
the 1860s.

Roger W illiams Junior College has been 
authorized to offer a four-year program and 
confer baccalaureate degrees. The college is 
changing its nam e to Roger Williams College.

A new  International and Comparative Li- 
brarianship Group is to be formed w ithin the 
(British) Library Association. The formation 
of the group, which will operate from next 
January, was approved by the Council of the 
Association, following a request by about one 
hundred and fifty members, and it already has 
the interest of a num ber of overseas members.

P U B L IC A T IO N S
Over four thousand eight hundred rare im­

prints in the collection of the U.S. Public 
Health Service’s National Library of Medicine 
are listed in A Catalogue of Sixteenth Century 
Printed Books in the National Library of M edi­
ine, 698-page casebound volume, on sale at 

$5.25 (from  the Superintendent of Documents, 
.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 
.C. 20402). It was prepared by the library’s 

istory of medicine division, and lists over 
orty-eight hundred imprints in the collection.

The Directory o f Library Periodicals, just 
ublished by the Drexel Press, was compiled 
y Mary Adele Springman and Betty Martin 
rown, and lists library science, information 

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on the periodicals includes sponsoring organiza­
tion, title, editor, publication frequency, first 
date of publication, content, price and other 
subscription information. Many staff and facul­
ty newsletters, library association bulletins, as 
well as leading national journals are included. 
One thousand copies of the Directory, number 
23 of the Drexel Library School Series, are 
available for $4 each or by standing order for 
the Series from the Bookstore, Drexel Insti­
tute of Technology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
19104.

Drexel Information Science Research Studies, 
edited by Barbara Flood, instructor of infor­
mation science (Num ber 19 in the Drexel 
Library School Series), is available from the 
Drexel Bookstore, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104, and 
costs $7.50 postpaid. It contains the theses of 
three of the first four graduates of the School’s 
information science curriculum, “A Computer- 
Oriented G raph Theoretic Analysis of Citation 
Index Structures,” by Ralph Garner; “The 
Development of a Machine-Searchable Index- 
Abstract and Its Application to Bio-Medical 
Literature,” by Lois Lunin; and “A Technique 
to Discern Patterns of Alkaloid Research in 
Soviet Block Countries,” by Lois Baker.

Guide to Selected Legal Sources of Main­
land China: A  Listing of Laws and Regulations 
and Periodical Legal Literature with a Brief 
Survey of the Administration of Justice, may 
be purchased from the Superintendent of 
Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, 
Washington, D.C. 20402 at $2 a copy.

The Identification of Data Elements in Biblio­
graphic Records, the final report of the Special 
Project on Data Elements for the Subcommit­
tee on Machine Input Records (SC-2) of the 
Sectional Committee on Library Work and 
Documentation (Z-39) of the United States 
of America Standards Institute, was prepared 
by Ann T. Curran, formerly of the Harvard 
medical library, and the project director, Mrs. 
Henriette D. Avram, Assistant Coordinator in 
the Information Systems Office at the Library 
of Congress. The work was assisted by grants 
from the National Science Foundation and 
the Council on Library Resources. Inquiries 
about the 62-page, processed report, of which 
only a limited number of copies were pre­
pared, should be directed to Dr. Jerrold Ome, 
University of North Carolina Librarian and 
chairman of the Sectional Committee on Li­

TPI, 1967
The Title page and index for volume 28 
of CRL (including CRL News issues) 
will appear in the Dec. 1967 CRL News.

brary Work and Documentation at the Uni­
versity of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill, 
N.C. 27515.

A bibliography just published by the Library 
of Congress lists relatively inexpensive paper­
back books on Latin America and is particularly 
useful for teachers and students in colleges 
and universities. Latin America: An Annotated 
Bibliography of Paperback Books is a 77-page 
publication which may be purchased by mail 
from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. 
Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 
20402, at 35 cents a copy. It is a revision of a 
1964 edition entitled Latin America: A  Bibli­
ography of Paperback Books, which listed 240 
titles. The new edition lists more than six 
hundred titles in the humanities and the 
social sciences. Entries are arranged alpha­
betically by author and include full biblio­
graphic information, the price of the publica­
tion, and a brief descriptive comment. Com­
piled in the Hispanic Foundation of the li­
brary’s reference department by Mrs. Georg­
ette M. Dorn, the bibliography is No. 11 in 
the Hispanic Foundation Bibliographical Series.

The three volume Lista de encabezamientos 
de materia para bibliotecas is a Spanish lan­
guage list of subject headings for the subject 
analysis of library books. It contains over 
ten thousand different terms in all fields of 
knowledge, with many subdivisions, and in­
dicates related subjects. The Lista was com­
piled by Carmen Rovira and Jorge Aguayo, 
with the assistance of a grant from the Coun­
cil on Library Resources. Copies at $12.50 for 
the 3 volumes, may be purchased from Sales 
and Promotion, Pan American Union, Wash­
ington, D.C. 20006, or from the OAS Offices 
in the member states.

Trattati di Scrittura del Cinque Cento Italiano 
(Milan: Catiera Ventura, 1967) has been 
completed by Emanuele Casamassima, direc­
tor of the National Library in Florence, Italy. 
Dr. Casamassima was reading proof of the work 
when the flood struck Florence last November. 
Price is 25,000 lire.

W ILLIN G ’S EUROPEAN PRESS GUIDE 
recently published by Hutchinson Willing Ltd., 
is being distributed exclusively in the United 
States by R. R. Bowker Company. This new 
volume is patterned after Willing’s famous 
British PRESS GUIDE which is also dis­
tributed in the U.S. by Bowker. Countries in­
cluded in the EUROPEAN PRESS GUIDE 
are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germa­
ny, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, 
Sweden and Switzerland. Entries are fisted 
under 183 subject categories. The foreword, 
indexes and subject headings appear in English, 
French, German, and Italian. Information under 
each entry includes name and address of publi­
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cation, and price per issue or per annum. Avail­
able at $15 net postpaid, from R. R. Bowker 
Company, 1180 Avenue of the Americas, New 
York, N.Y. 10036.

SUGGESTIONS, ANYONE?

The ACRL Committee on Appointments 
(1968) and Nominations (1969) wishes to 
solicit suggestions for appointments to ACRL 
committees for 1968/69. ACRL’s success or 
failure during th e year will depend to a large 
extent on these appointments.

Therefore, we urge you to submit the names 
of members who would make significant con­
tributions to the work of ACRL through com­
mittee appointment. As the number of ap­
pointments to be made is limited, it is impor­
tan t that the best possible appointments be 
made.

Members of the Committee on Appointments 
(1968) and Nominations (1969) include Ben 
C. Bowman, Jane G. Flener, Harriett Genung, 
Marcus A. McCorison, Carl H. Sachtleben, 
Mrs. Jessie Carney Smith and Howard Rovel- 
stad, chairman.

Kindly send your recommendations of pro­
spective appointees to the following ACRL 
committees to th e undersigned:

Audio-Visual Committee
Committee on Community Use of Academic 

Libraries
Advisory Committee on Cooperation with E d ­

ucational and Professional Organizations
Committee on Grants
International Relations Committee
Committee on Legislation
Committee on Liaison with Accrediting Agen­

cies
Committee on Library Services
Committee on Library Surveys
National Library W eek Committee
Planning and Action Committee
Publications Committee
Committee on Standards

Recommendations should be sent to th e un­
dersigned by Novem ber 15.

Howard Rovelstad, Chairman 
ACRL Committee on Appointments ( 1968) 

and Nominations ( 1969)
University of Maryland Libraries 

College Park, Maryland 20740

…  AN APPRECIATION
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subject-centered bibliographic articles, has 
contributed such selection aids as the 
“Opening Day Collection,” and, according 
to the response from subscribers, has filled 
a void in current reviewing of academic 
books. It has proved useful to public, junior 
college, secondary school, special, and 
foreign libraries.

CHOICE promises to provide continu­
ing evaluation of new books; but it is also 
considering the publication of supplements 
to Books for College Libraries, and is mov­
ing toward reviewing U.S. Government 
documents and foreign publications.

CHOICE is essentially the product of 
the intelligence, determination, and cour­
age of Verner Clapp and members of the 
Council on Library Resources. Because of 
their support and advice, librarians and li­
braries are benefiting. Both the Council 
and Verner Clapp have eschewed inter­
ference with editorial policy, placing confi­
dence in the Association of College and 
Research Libraries, which in turn, has in­
trusted the policy-making to an editorial 
board. The Association appreciates the 
Council’s further commitment to CHOICE 
in the form of a three-year grant renewal 
for $108,855. Such confidence merits in­
creased service to libraries by the Associa­
tion and the editorial staff of CHOICE.

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