ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 215 News from the Field A C Q U IS IT IO N S • The Crosby Library, G o n z a g a U n i v e r s i t y , Spokane, Washington, has recently added to its C rosb yana C o lle c tio n five ne w gold rec o rd s, additional volumes of the original scripts of the Jack Benny radio show, and an oil painting of Bing Crosby by the California artist Anton Jovick. The library’s Rare Book Collection has acquired O tto Van V e e n ’s L ife o f St. T h o m a s A q u in a s ‚ published in Antwerp in 1610. The volume is composed of engraved plates illustrating scenes from the saint’s life, each accompanied by a short paragraph o f text. • A nineteenth-century hand printing press, in working condition, has been donated to S t a n ­ f o r d U n i v e r s i t y in memory of the late Bruce Bliven, Stanford alumnus, author, and a former editor of the N ew R e p u b lic magazine. The press, given by the Associates of the Stan­ ford University Libraries, is an improved Albion P re ss , m anu factu red abou t 1860 by W alk er B ro th ers of London. It has already made its debut as a working press at Stanford by produc­ ing a keepsake at the time o f its presentation to the university. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f L o u i s v i l l e Library has recently acquired a substantial addition to its col­ lection o f first editions in mathematics and as­ tronomy from the estate of the late William Mar­ shall B u llit t, fo rm er so lic ito r g e n e ra l o f the United States, him self an amateur mathematician. Combining his usual meticulous approach with c h a ra cteristic élan, B u llitt challenged Harlow Shapley, G. H. Hardy, and Eric Temple Bell to draft a list of the twenty-five greatest mathemati­ cians of all time— which they did. With the help of his good friend A. S. W. Rosenbach, Bullitt set out to acquire the first editions of the printed works o f the twenty-five “greats,” starting with the top three contenders: Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss. Successful in this, he expanded his search to include Apollonius o f Perga, C oper­ nicus, Descartes, Diophantus, Einstein, Euclid, Euler, Galilei, Kepler, Pascal, Riemann, and the other names on his list. After Bullitt’s death, the University Library re­ ceived (between 1958 and 1960) an initial gift of 100 of the most valuable rarities from the collec­ tion. The arrival of the rest of the collection in 1978 showed that Bullitt had collected the princi­ pal works o f no fewer than sixty “greats” in 370 separate title entries. Notable among the titles are the “Halifax” P rincipia of Newton (with the author’s holograph corrections on the errata leaf); the first and second editions of Copernicus’ De R e v o lu tio n ib u s (1543 and 1566); the N a r r a t io P rim a of Rheticus (Danzig, 1540); a near mint copy of the first printed edition of Euclid’s E le ­ m en ts in o rigin al V e n e tia n bin d ing (R atd o lt, 1482); first editions of the Bernoulli family; the extant works of the tragic young French genius Evariste Galois; presentation copies to Bullitt of Einstein’s Z ur E lectrod y n am ik b ew e g te r K ö rp er (1905) and his R elativ itätsth eorie (1916); and the 1832-33 Janos & Farkas Bolyai treatises on non- Euclidean geometry, the appendix to which Hal- sted refers to as “ the most extraordinary two dozen pages in the history of human thought.” HARPER’S BOOK DEAL REM EM BERED AT CHICAGO W hile on vacation in Germany in 1891, before taking up his duties as first president of the Uni­ versity of Chicago, William Rainey Harper ar­ ranged to purchase the com plete stock— about 450,000 items— o f Calvary and Company, a B er­ lin antiquarian book dealer. Harper, who wished to create a great univer­ sity in the shortest possible time, hoped that his bold move would focus national attention on the new university and bring money, faculty, and students, as well as books, to the south Chicago campus. Attention it did bring. The N ew Y o rk Tim es printed a front-page article that described the ac­ quisition as “one of the largest book deals ever consummated in America.” Although Chicago’s trustees were at first wor­ ried that raising money for the purchase would hurt efforts to obtain money for buildings, Harper was able to persuade nine businessmen on the board to contribute $ 4 3 ,000 to buy the books, and the deal was consummated. A scholar who was being lured to the new fac­ ulty wrote to Harper: “You have accomplished the incredible. And the manner of the doing of it is a most hopeful omen; for you have touched the heart and opened the purse of Chicago. … ” The Berlin purchase formed the base of a col­ lection that by 1896 was the second largest held by a university in the United States. “ In one stro k e , as it w e r e ,” says R o b e r t R o se n th a l, curator of special collections at the university, “the library had books on many subjects, some of which were not to become academically favored for decades to com e.” In mid-April, the University of Chicago Library opened an exhibition of books and manuscripts from the B e r lin C o lle c tio n to co m m em o rate Harper’s purchase. ■■ A ll 25 Volum es A re A va ilab le F o r Im m ediate D e live ry H ER E IS S U B JE C T -A N D -A U T H O R A C C E S S TO MORE THAN 400,000 A R T IC L E S IN T H E B A C K F IL E S OF 531 JO U R N A L S IN H ISTO RY, P O L IT IC A L S C IE N C E AND SO C IO LO G Y . C R IS — H ISTO R Y, 1838- 1974, in eleven hardcover volumes. More than 180,000 articles from the backf iles ot 234 H istory jou rna ls in the English language have been indexed together and published in 9 casebound cum ulative subject index volum es and 2 cum ulative author in dex volumes. A rticle s were assigned to one or more of 336 hierarchical subject categories, and then com puter sorted b y keyw ord under each ca te g o ry to give in-depth specificity. C R IS — P O L IT IC A L S C IE N C E , 1886- 1974, in eight hardcover volum es. Th is set contains 6 cum ulative subject volum es and 2 cum ulative author volum es. Coverage includes more than 115,000 articles on such topics as Politics, Public Adm inistration and International Relations, from the backfiles of 179 English Language journals. A rticle s were assigned to one or m ore of 95 hierarchical subject categories. C R IS — S O C IO L O G Y , 1895-1974, in six hardcover volumes. From the retrospective collection s of 118 English Language S o c io lo g y journals, some 110,000 articles have been indexed and their entries interfiled in five casebound fo lio -s iz e cum ulative subject volumes, and one cum ulative author volum e. A rticle s were assigned to one or m ore of 87 hierarchical subject categories. Each Volume Contains an “Introduction & User’s Guide” By Evan Farber AND NOW… m ore than 1 m illion B O O K R E V IE W S w h ic h appeared in 472 of these sam e jou rna ls have been indexed by a uthor and title in a separate fiftee n -volum e C R IS Index Set, C O M B IN E D R E T R O S P E C T IV E IN D E X T O B O O K R E V IE W S IN S C H O L A R L Y J O U R N A L S , 1886-1974 Evan Farber, Librarian of Earlham C o lle g e and a uthor of the standard reference w ork, Classified List of Periodicals tor the College Library, is the ch ief com p ile r of this new set. A s he points out, " O u r set will com plem ent existin g ind e xe s of b ook review s because the m a jority of its entries have never been indexed anyw h ere but in th e ir ow n jou rnals. “Book Review Digest, fo r instance, is retrospective to 1905 but quite weak in its covera ge of sc h o la rly journals. “ M eanwhile, the new indexes w h ich re ce n tly began to cover large num bers of sc h o la rly jo u rn a ls are not retrospective. "T h e re fore , this substantial ga p in coverage can o n ly be filled b y an ind e x w h ich is both retrospective and more th o ro u gh in its covera ge o f s c h o la rly jou rna ls — nam ely, o u r Com bined Retrospective Ind ex.” U SE TH E COUPON ON TH E RIG H T TO ORDER T H IS S E T AND TH E O TH ER C R IS IN DEXES SEND FOR FREE BROCHURES LISTING THE JOURNAL COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEX SETS CRIS, THE REFERENCE PREFERENCE OF THE RESEARCH MAJORITY, … is n ow com plete and at w o rk in hundreds o f undergraduate libraries in the U n ited States and overseas. B y sheer w eight of numbers, undergraduates constitute the “ research m a jo rity" in academ ic libraries. B y elim inating hundreds of unproductive searches in short-term o r s in g le -title indexes, C R IS sets have becom e the favorite reference tools of those students w ho w ant to build b ib liographies fast. “extremely popular with both students and faculty members” Typ ica l of comments from lib ra ry users is this quote from R o y S. Barnard, Serials Librarian, Kearney State C o lle g e Library, Kearney, Nebraska. In a letter dated Ja n u a ry 30, 1979, he w rote “W hile at JUL. (Jo in t U niversity Libraries, Nashville, Tennessee) I became fam iliar with y o u r C R IS -H is to ry and found it very helpful in m y w ork with their H istory Department. Because it was so convenient and e asy-to-u se, it was extrem ely popular with both students and fa cu lty mem bers.” TH E G R E A T LE A P BACKW ARD IN R E T R O S P E C T IV E INDEXING TITLES COVERED IN ALL FOUR CRIS INDEX SETS 218 A W A R D S • R a l p h E . M c C o y , now completing a year as interim director of libraries, University of Geor­ gia, A then s, was awarded th e D istin g u ish ed Service Award by Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, at their commencement on May 12. McCoy had served for more than twenty years as director of the libraries and later as dean of library affairs at Southern Illinois U niversity. When he began his work at Carbondale in 1955, the university library held approximately 160,000 volumes; at the time of his retirem ent in 1976, the library had grown to nearly 1.5 million vol­ umes, making it the forty-second largest univer­ sity library in the nation. G R A N T S • T h e C e n t e r f o r R e s e a r c h L i b r a r i e s , Chicago, Illinois, has received two grants from the Ford Foundation. T he cen ter will use the first grant of $19,500 to draw up plans for new acq u isitio n program s co v ering E a st Asia, th e Middle East, and Eastern Europe and to make plans for expanding the existing African and Latin American programs to include current materials. The center will use the second grant of $21,166 to study the feasibility of constructing a national union catalog of East Asian monographic mate­ rials. • T he Andrew W . M ellon Fou nd atio n has awarded a $ 3 5 ,0 0 0 grant to the C l e v e l a n d M u s e u m o f A r t . The grant will provide start-up and operating funds for the museum s library to join the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN ). U nder a plan designed by Jack Perry Brown, head librarian of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the art libraries of the Art Institute of C o n ta ct M exican E m b assy for L o st Books A m erica n L ib r a r ie s reported in May that Mexican authorities had arrested two Ameri­ cans for using phony interlibrary loan requests from fictitious Mexican institutions to obtain thousands of rare and expensive books from the United States. T h e M exican Em bassy in W ashington is now inviting libraries that may have lost books to this scheme to write or call the embassy and provide as much information as they can about their suspected losses so that volumes recovered can be returned as soon as possible. Libraries wishing to report losses or to re­ q u e st ad d itio n al d e ta ils shou ld co n ta ct Rosamaria Casas, Cultural Attache, Mexican Embassy, 2829 16th S t., NW, Washington, DC 20009; (202) 234 -6 0 0 0 . — D en n is D ick in ­ so n , U niversity o f K en tu cky L ib ra r ies . Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will join with Cleveland in participat­ ing in the RLIN system. • The R e s e a r c h L i b r a r i e s G r o u p (RLG) has received a new $1-million grant to support the development of a national cooperative network of research libraries. The Andrew W. Mellon Foun­ dation of New York has awarded $1 million to R LG , bringing foundation support for R L G ’s de­ velopment program to $2 million since the first of the year. RLG has already received grants total­ ing $1 million from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. • T h e School o f L ibrary S c ie n c e , S i m m o n s C o l l e g e , Boston, Massachusetts, has received two grants from the U .S. Office o f Education. The first, a research and demonstration grant for $99,806, will support a project entitled “A Re­ gional Investigation o f the Citizen’s Information Needs in New England.” The second grant is for two library training doctoral fellowships. The fellowships will be used to encourage qualified minorities and women to pursue the doctor of arts program in library ad­ m inistration. T he fellowship period can begin either with the fall sem ester, Septem ber 1979, or with the spring sem ester, January 1980. More in­ formation can be obtained from Fellowship Proj­ ect Director, Dr. Ching-chih Chen, School of L i­ brary Science, Simmons College, 300 The F e n ­ way, Boston, MA 02115; (617) 738-2224. • The Japan Foundation has awarded a $5,000 grant to the Asian Collection o f the U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s General Libraries, Austin. T he grant will be used to purchase English- and Japanese­ language monographs on Japanese culture, his­ tory, and literature. The Asian Collection’s hold­ ings include approximately 135,000 volumes on South Asia and East Asia. M EETINGS A u g u s t 2 7 - S e p t e m b e r 1: The I n t e r n a t i o n a l F e d e r a t i o n o f L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n s a n d I n ­ s t i t u t i o n s will hold its forty-fifth Congress and Council Meeting in Copenhagen. The theme of the conference will be “Library Legislation.” The program will consist of two theme sessions (the first focusing on library legislation and the second on copyright) and approxim ately 1 7 0 planned meetings of the eight divisions and twenty-eight sections and other specialized groups. F o r reg istration inform ation, co n ta ct: 45th IF L A Congress, c/o D IS Congress Service, 3, K n a b ro s tr a e d e , D K -1 2 1 0 , C o p en h a g en K, Denmark. S e p t e m b e r 2 7 - 2 8 : W i s c o n s i n A s s o c i a t i o n o f A c a d e m i c L i b r a r i a n s will hold its fall conference at the Quality Inn, Madison, Wisconsin. Confer­ ence them e is “Evaluation of Library Services,” fea tu rin g : T hom as G a lv in , U n iv e r sity of Pittsburgh; M ichael Gorman, AACR 2 ; Arthur T an n enb aum , New York U n iv ersity ; Carolyn 219 Snyder, Indiana University; Je ff Gardiner, ARL office; and others. Contact: Linda Olson or John J. Jax, Pierce Library, University o f W isconsin- Stout, Menomonie, W I 54751; (715) 232-2128. O c t o b e r 1 2 -1 4 : The N o r t h E a s t S o c i e t y f o r E i g h t e e n t h - C e n t u r y S t u d i e s will hold its Third Annual M eeting at the University of Toronto. For information, w rite Patricia Bruckm ann, Trinity College, Toronto, ON M5S 1H8, or Brian Cor- man, E rin d ale C o lleg e, M ississauga, ON L 5 L 1C6. O c t o b e r 3 1 : T h e A r c h i v e s - L i b r a r i e s C o m ­ m i t t e e o f t h e A f r i c a n S t u d i e s A s s o c i a t i o n will hold its annual m eeting in conjunction with the twenty-second annual conference o f the African Studies Association at the Los Angeles Hilton Hotel. Topics on the agenda include discussions of bibliographical needs and cataloging problems and a panel on the su bject “African Government Archives and the Expatriate R esearch er.” Contact E liz a b e th A. W id e n m a n n , H e r b e r t L eh m an L ib rary , C olum bia U niversity, New York, NY 10027. M ISC ELLA N Y • On C harter Day, April 5, the General L i­ brary at the U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , B e r k e ­ l e y , ce le b ra te d th e acquisition o f its five m il­ lionth volume, A C o m p a n io n to C a lifo r n ia , writ­ ten by James D. Hart, professor o f English and director of the Bancroft Library. In ceremonies commemorating the founding of the university, Erich S. Gruen, professor of history and chair of the Academic Senate Library Com m ittee, on b e ­ half of the faculty, presented the five millionth volume to Joseph A. Rosenthal, acting university librarian. Among the speakers at these activities were Peter Jay, British ambassador to the United States, and Kingman Brewster, J r ., United States ambassador to the United Kingdom. • T h e C o n s o r t i u m o f R h o d e I s l a n d A c a d e m i c a n d R e s e a r c h L i b r a r i e s , an organiza­ tion of thirteen libraries based in Providence, is now incorporated under the laws o f Rhode Is­ land. The consortium has already begun coopera­ tive programs in interlibrary loan services and acquisitions. It is planning a union list of serials and other library holdings, a statewide directory o f th e sp e cial c o lle c tio n s and se rv ice s o f the m e m b e r lib r a r ie s , and c o m p u te r iz e d b ib lio ­ graphic search services. M em bers o f the consortium are Barrington Col­ lege, Brown U niversity, Bryant C ollege, Prov­ id e n c e C o lle g e , P ro v id e n c e P u b lic L ib ra ry , Rhode Island C o llege, Rhode Island Historical Society, Rhode Island Junior College, Rhode Is­ land School of Design, Roger Williams College, Salv e R egin a (th e N ew p ort C o lle g e ), U n ited States Naval War College, and the University of Rhode Island. T h e p resid en t o f th e consortium is E arl R. Schwass, U .S. Naval War College Library. ■■ DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Nominations and applications are invited for the p o sitio n of D I R E C T O R O F U N IV E R S IT Y L I ­ B R A R IE S at State University of New York at A l­ bany, one of four u n iversity centers within the state-wide S U N Y system . T h e University Librar­ ies, a member of A R L , serve a cam pus com m u­ nity of 14,500 stu d en ts and 2200 fa c u lty and staff. T h e collections include 940,000 catalogued volum es and support a wide range of doctoral and research program s. T h e University Libraries have a staff of 151 F T E , an acquisitions budget of $1,116,000, an automated circulation system, and an on-line com puter based reference service. Mem berships include S U N Y / O C L C network, C e n ­ ter for Research Libraries, and the Capital District Library Council. R e s p o n s ib ilit ie s : T h e D irec to r reports to the V ice P resident for A ca d e m ic Affairs and is re­ sponsible for the administration of the library, its staff, and its services; represents the University Libraries' interests at a variety of cam pus and e x­ ternal levels; serves as a member of the Senate U n iv e rs ity L ib ra ry C o u n c il and the U n iv e rs ity Council of Deans. Desired Q ualificatio ns: Proven record of lead­ ership; M LS from an A L A accredited program ; additional graduate training (doctorate preferred); substantial adm inistrative experience; familiarity with the operation in large academ ic or research libraries; fam iliarity with modern library technol­ ogy; ability to relate and communicate effectively with library staff, faculty, students, and adm inis­ tration; evidence of significant professional and scholarly attainment. Position Open: August 1, 1979 Salary: Com petitive N om ina tion s and app lica tio ns sh ould be re ­ ceived by Septem ber 29, 1979. A d d re ss replies to: Dr. Ricardo Nirenberg Chairm an, Search Committee c/o Director of Personnel, A D 319 T h e State U niversity of New York at Alba n y 1400 Washington Avenue Alba n y, N Y 12222 S U N Y A is an Equal Opportunity/Affirm ative A c tio n E m p lo y e r . A p p lic a tio n s fro m m in o ritie s , w o m e n a n d h a n d ic a p p e d a re especially w elcom e. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY