ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 282 News from the Field ACQUISITIONS • The University of Arizona has acquired two manuscripts that strengthen its holdings on the history of the Spanish Southwest. The documents are Garces, Francisco, Diario, de las Ultimas Peregrinaciones del Padre Fr. Francisco Garces, hasta la Provincia del Moqui, y Noticias de Varias Nuevas Naciones Exparcidas hasta el Rio Colorado en California, and Dominguez, Francis­ co Atanacio, Derrotero de los Padres Fray Fran­ cisco Atanacio Dominguez, & Fr. Silvestre Velez, de Escalante, en sus Exploraciones, desde las Missiones de Zuny del Nuevo México, hasta las Ymmediaciones de Monte Rey de California. Together they provide an account of the area be­ tween Santa Fe and the Colorado River, and the southern portion of Alta California. Garces pioneered the Mojave Trail to San Gabriel in 1775 and 1776, and Dominguez and Escalante opened what came to be known as the Old Span­ ish Trail from Santa Fe to California in 1776. • The Duke University library has received two gifts for its departments of rare books and manuscripts. The Kenneth Willis Clark Manu­ script Fund, which will be used to purchase Greek manuscripts, was established by a gift from Adelaide D. Clark. Clark also presented seven Greek manuscripts to the library, thereby in­ creasing the size of the collection to eighty-one, the second largest collection in the United States. Area journalist, author, and civic leader Her­ bert Clarence Bradshaw’s papers, which number over 39,000 items, were presented to the Duke University library by his widow. • The McGill University Library has ac­ quired the substantial Kierkegaard-Malantschuk Library Collection. This is the first large Kierke­ gaard collection in Canada. The collection of approximately 1,000 volumes includes first edi­ tions of all of Kierkegaard’s works; a reconstruc­ tion of Kierkegaard’s private study library, with six of his own copies; and other publications that influenced Kierkegaard’s thought. • The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Library has acquired the books and papers of John A. Tennant (1868-1957), the pub­ lisher and editor of The Photo-Miniature, a monthly journal of photography published from 1899 to 1935. The collection went to the universi­ ty as a result of a gift by Dr. and Mrs. Horace P. Reeves. • Union College Library, Schenectady, New York, has recently instituted the Adirondack Re­ search Center, with the support of Paul Schaefer, noted New York State conservationist and architect of the Adirondack Park boundary. The center’s collections will include books, periodic­ als, maps, and historical and political records of the Adirondack Park area. Among the early ac­ quisitions are the papers of the Adirondack High­ way Council and those of the Forest Preserves Advisory Committee, Joint Legislative Commit­ tee on Natural Resources, State of New York. ■■ ESTHER J. PIERCY JURY AWARD NOMINATIONS INVITED The Esther J. Piercy Jury Awards Committee of ALA/RTSD is now accepting nominations for the 1980 award. Candidates can be nominated by anyone who is well acquainted with the candidate’s contribution to technical services librarianship. The award rec­ ognizes a librarian with not more than ten years of professional experience who has shown out­ standing promise for continued contribution and leadership in technical services by professional activity, association activity, publication, or re­ search. The jury selection of the award winner will be based on the documentation submitted by the nominator. Nomination forms should be submit­ ted to the committee chair not later than Decem­ ber 15, 1980. Nomination forms are available from Peter Spyers-Duran, Chair, E sther J. Piercy Jury Award, Director of the Library, California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Boule­ vard, Long Beach, CA 90840. ■■ ALTERNATIVE FORMATS FOR LIBRARY CATALOGS Online, COM, or a card catalog alternative? How should your library cope with the closing of the card catalogs at the Library of Congress and implement AACR 2? Sixty-eight university librar­ ies now have comparative data that will help them decide. Participants in the Library Catalog Cost Model Project, sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries, submitted detailed data and computer runs that contributed to the de­ velopment of Alternatives fo r Future Library Catalogs: A Cost Model (King Research Inc., 1980), a model that other libraries may use to gather data to use in their institutional planning process. Developed as a tool for use by individual li­ 283 braries, the model considers card, COM, online, and the nine combined catalog formats. It was hoped that the study would result in general conclusions about which alternative card catalog forms would be least costly. Instead, the study found that local factors so greatly influ­ enced an individual library’s costs that even size and geographic location did not distinguish groups of libraries conclusively. Cost analyses de­ termined by this model for individual libraries in­ dicated a high degree of variability. Data gathered to develop this model confirmed several trends in catalog preparation and mainte­ nance. As expected, preparing catalog records was found to be the dominant cost of developing and maintaining a catalog. The results indicate that, in most cases, AACR 2 implementation will account for less than 10 percent of those costs. In addition to the findings of the project, the King report includes a description of the model, definitions of parameters, the model’s equations, analysis of the data subm itted by participants, analysis of costs for various alternatives, a back­ ground paper used in preparing default values (prepared by Richard W. Boss, Information Sys­ tems Consultants), and recommendations for fu­ ture model development. Alternatives fo r Future L ibrary Catalogs: A Cost Model, by Robert R.V. Wiederkehr, is avail­ able from King Research, Inc., 6000 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852, for $12, plus $3 postage and handling. ■■ A C Q U ISIT IO N S A LERT Frank Gille, and his son Michael Gille, are represented by forty-five imprints on a list com­ piled by the ALA Bookdealer-Library Relations C om m ittee, w hich receives com plaints about publishing practices. Frank Gille was indicted in June 1980 on several counts of mail fraud and one count of interstate transportation of stolen prop­ erty; his mail order publishing business continues while litigation is under way. The federal indictment cites mail order sales of various referen ce books, among them : Ency­ clopedia of Indians of the Americas; Encyclopedia of Computers and Data Processing; Encyclopedia of Indians of Canada; W orld E ncyclopedia of Black People; Encyclopedia of the United States; International Dictionary of Prominent Physicians; International Dictionary of Artists. Frank and Michael Gille are U.S. publishers known to solicit advance payment for purchase orders. The Committee urges that libraries exer­ cise care when paying in advance for materials, especially when large amounts of money are in­ volved or substantial discounts are offered for prepayment. For a fuller discussion of the Com­ m ittee’s recommendations, see “The Pre-payment Dilemma: A C onsum er’s G uide,’’ American Li­ braries, November, 1977, pp. 571-572. Lists of Gille imprints and addresses are avail­ able from the Resources and Technical Services Division, ALA, 50 E. Huron, Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780. For additional information, please contact Ma­ rion T. Reid, Library, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803; (504) 388-8620. ■■ B IB L IO G R A PH IC IN ST R U C T IO N “T H IN K TANK:” CA LL FO R N O M IN A TIO N S Up to seven people will brainstorm on the fu­ ture of bibliographic instruction and present their findings and recommendations to participants at the end of the 1981 ACRL Bibliographic Instruc­ tion Section Preconference on Library Instruction in San Francisco, June 25-26, 1981. The seven will be selected from nominations received by the preconference planning committee by November 1. They will be exempt from preconference reg­ istration fees. Individuals nom inated should have dem on­ strated achievem ent in research, planning and im plementation, or publication and scholarship germane to the development of bibliographic in­ struction. N om inations should include th e n o m in ee’s achievem ents and th e n o m inator’s name and address, and should be sent by November 1 to Anne N. Seeley, Chair, ACRL/BIS 1981 Precon­ ference Planning Com m ittee, J. H enry Meyer Memorial Library, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. ■■ Late Job Listings Looking for a faster way to advertise your job openings? C &RL News is now accepting orders for late job listings after the regular second-of- the-month deadline for classified ads. Thus, if you miss the regular deadline, you may now call the ACRL office to order a late job ad. L ate job listings will be accepted on a space-available basis after the ninth of the m onth (by telep h o n e only). 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