ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 329 a user s guide to the collections of the Society, States. The pamphlet costs $3.95 and is available which has one o f the largest collections o f wom ­ from the State Historical Society o f Wisconsin, en’ s periodicals and newspapers in the United 816 State St., Madison, W I 53706. ■ ■ New Technology • A m e r i c a n S o f t w a r e P u b l i s h i n g C o m p a n y , Washington, D .C ., has developed a “ Software Loan Service” that provides a central location where people with personal computers can bor­ row software much as they borrow books from a library. To support this s e rv ice, A m erican Software has in trod u ced the F reeload er 500 Software Library, a collection o f over 2,500 pro­ grams for use on an A pp le C om p u ter. The software is in the p u b lic dom ain and can be co p ie d for hom e use. The programs com e in seven looseleaf binders, each binder containing 7-10 diskettes recorded on both sides. The seven subject categories are: business and finance, utilities, graphics and sound, education, home, games, and adventures. Libraries may purchase the com plete collection for $500 or individual m odules for $75 each. Contact the Am erican Software Publishing Company, 1010 16th Street, N .W ., Washington, DC 20036; (202) 887-5834. • D e s i g n E n t e r p r is e s o f Sa n F r a n c i s c o has published Write, Edit, & Print: W ord Processing with Personal Computers, by Donald McCunn (527 pages, 1982), a step-by-step guide to select­ ing and using the appropriate equipment. For experienced users, this book is an introduction to the next generation o f word processing systems in which equipment is trained for specific applica­ tions. The book begins with a consumer’s guide to buying a computer, detailing guidelines neces­ sary for intelligent buying decisions. An introduc­ tion to the popular programming language BASIC provides time tests that may be used to deter­ mine the relative efficiency of any computer. The book then provides four fully annotated word processing program listings, and concludes with operator’ s manuals for the listed programs with sam ple applications that teach a n eoph y te operator the simplicity of the system. The book may be ordered in hardback ($34.95) or paper­ back ($24.95) from Design Enterprises o f San Francisco, P.O. Box 14695, San Francisco, CA 94114. • The F . W . F a x o n C o m p a n y has developed a new component o f LINX, an online serials man­ agement system, that will allow librarians to set up and maintain their journal routing lists on a single co m p u te riz e d system . C alled LIN X ROUTE, the system automates the creation, up­ dating, and printing o f journal routing slips. It also allows each library to specify the categories o f information to be recorded in each reader’s record, including such information as name, job title, and building location. Individual reader records are easily searched by reader name, number, or by direct transfer from a routing list. Libraries utilizing ROUTE receive a monthly master listing o f all journals routed and the corre­ sponding readers of each journal. Print listings of journals received by individual readers can be produced so that readers can indicate journals they no longer wish to receive or new titles they now wish to see. ROUTE will be available to li­ braries this Novem ber. For more information, contact: Susan Bragg-Kalalas, LINX Marketing C oordinator, F .W . Faxon C o ., 15 Southwest Park, Westwood, MA 02190. • G e a c , I n c ., L os Angeles, has been selected by the University o f Houston Libraries to supply the hardware, software, training, documentation, and maintenance for its Integrated Library Sys­ tem, to be installed beginning in January, 1983. Geac was selected from nine vendors submitting bids. The software supporting Houston’s system will include Geac’s Online Catalog, Circulation, Materials Acquisitions, Serials Control, O C LC Interface, Community Access, and Word Proces­ sing modules. The hardware will consist o f two Geac 8000 CPUs, a special Boolean search pro­ cessor, five 675 MB disk drives, two tape drives, two system printers, two receipt printers, twelve screen printers, 103 CRT terminals, and com ­ munications equipment. The new system will re­ place the Central Campus Libraries’ 9-year-old CLSI circulation system, Innovative Interface mi­ crocomputer link between OCLC and the CLSI CPU, and an online BATAB acquisitions system. The Online Catalog will include holdings o f the M .D . Anderson Library, four branch libraries, and the Law Library, as well as holdings of the libraries on the Downtown College, Clear Lake City, and Victoria campuses. The initial load database will contain 730,000 bibliographic and 1.1 million item /copy records, growing to 1.32 million bibliographic and 2.1 million item/copy records within three years. Access terminals to the catalog will be located in libraries and in of­ fices and laboratories throughout the University o f Houston system. • A British unit o f I T T C o r p o r a t i o n , the ITT Europe Engineering Support Centre, Harlow, England, is offering E u rop e’ s first com puter- assisted translation service. By coupling the new system with its existing translation activities, ITT’s service is more reliable for lengthy techni­ cal documentation between English and French, 330 G erm an, and Spanish. The s erv ice uses six software programs, one for each language pair, and runs on a PDP 11/44 or a VAX 11/780 com ­ puter. Original text can be input either from a keyboard or a disc, tape, or optical character readers, or via telex and data links. Final editing is perform ed online by expert technical trans­ lators who are natives o f the language they trans­ late into. The center returns work to the cus­ tomer, as desired, in hard copy, or on tape or disc or over data links worldwide. Initially de­ veloped for use by ITT companies, the service is now offered commercially to other organizations in computing, electronics, or telecommunications fields. • ONLINE ’82, the fourth annual conference and exposition for users o f online databases, will be held at the Atlanta Hilton N ovem ber 1-3. Sponsored by Online, Inc., publisher of Online and Database magazines, the conference is ex­ pected to draw over 1,200 people who use such systems as Lockheed’ s Dialog, SD C’s Orbit, BRS, the New York Times Information Bank, and Dow Jones News/Retrieval. Keynote speaker at Online ’82 will be Janet Egeland, president o f Biblio­ graphic Retrieval Services, Inc. This fall BRS will introduce a powerful new micro-software package for database creation and retrieval which will be demonstrated at the conference. A total o f 80 speakers will make presentations, and 10 online database com panies will offer post-conference workshops and seminars. For further information, contact Jean-Paul Emard, Online, Inc., 11 Tan­ nery Lane, Weston, CT 06883; (203) 2127-8466. • R e s e a r c h P u b l i c a t i o n s , I n c ., W oodbridge, Connecticut, has announced the signing o f an ex­ clusive, world-wide agreement with Dialog In­ formation Services for the Official Washington Post Index. The database is expected to become available for commercial searching early in 1983. Research Publications began filming, producing, and distributing microfilm o f the Washington Post in 1979, including current editions, com plete backfiles to 1877, and m on th ly and annual printed indexes. ■ ■ Calendar October 20— Ohio: Annual meeting, Academic Libraries Association o f Ohio, at the Hyatt Regency, Columbus, Ohio, in conjunction with AS IS. The theme will be “ Effective Communication.” Contact: Virginia Yagello, Chemistry Library, Ohio State University, 140 W. 18th St., Col­ umbus, OH 43210. 29— Reference Performance and Evaluation: A w orkshop sponsored by the R eferen ce and Adult Services Section o f the North Carolina Library Association at the Elliott University C e n te r, U n iversity o f N orth Carolina at Greensboro. Fee: $25. Contact: Nancy Frazier, Humanities Reference D ept., Wilson Library 024A, University o f North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 962-1356. November 4 -7 — Africana: Fall m eeting o f the Archives- Libraries Committee o f the African Studies As­ sociation, W ashington, D .C . Contact: Leon S pencer, Archivist, Talladega C ollege, Tal­ ladega, AL 35160. 2 -9 — Restoration: The Guild o f Book Workers will sponsor the “ Bernard Middleton Seminar in Restoration” in the bindery of the New York Botanical Garden. The seminar will include re­ pairing leather bindings, finishing a restored book, and headbanding. Students must bring their own small handtools and as many pre- 19th century leather bindings in need o f repair as possible. The workshop is limited to 10 par­ ticipants. Fee: $225 for GBW members, others $255. Contact: Workshop Chairman, Nelly Balloffet, 259 Illington Road, Ossining, NY 10562; (914) 941-8166. 4 -7 — Ontario: 80th Annual C onference o f the Ontario Library Association, Royal York Hotel, Toronto. The theme will be “ Creative man­ agement in the 80s.’’ Contact: OLA, Suite 42, 73 Richmond Street W ., Toronto, M5H 1Z4, Canada; (416) 363-3388. 7-9— New Technology: ’Small Bytes and Little Bits: The Microcomputer in Libraries, or Does Your Library D o a W hole Lot with a Little Bit?” an institute and programming workshop sponsored by ALA’s Library and Information Technology Association at the Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee. Fee for the institute: ALA/LITA m em bers $85, ALA m em bers $100, others $110. Fee for the workshop: ALA/LITA mem­ bers $20, ALA members $35, others $45. Con­ tact: Don Hammer, LITA/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780. 8 -1 1 — Information Science: The Information Business: Profits or Promises,” the 14th Annual Conference o f the Information Industry Associ­ ation, Walt Disney World Conference Center, Orlando, Florida. Contact: IIA, Suite 400, 316 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E., Washington, DC 20003; (202) 544-1969. December 1-3— Photographs: A workshop on the administ­ ration of still photographic collections, Norman, Oklahoma, sponsored by the Society o f Ameri­ can Archivists with support from the University o f Oklahoma Libraries. The workshop is open to individuals currently responsible for photo-