ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries sponse. In fact the response rate was a barely ac­ ceptable 57 % . Nevertheless, the resluts seemed to substantiate my thesis. Like the pleading sinner, I yearned: if only I could live my life over. Well, maybe not my whole life, but at least regarding this survey effort I would do a few things differently. The reviewers for the paper all had problems w ith its research methodol­ ogy. I was not surprised—it was a real seat-of-the- pants effort. Were I to do this survey again, ran ­ dom sam p lin g all co m m u n ity colleges w ith enrollments over 4,000 FTE would head the list of changes. I have little basis for claiming th at my sample was representative. To increase my re­ sponse rate to a more defensible 80 %, I would do a second mailing or a telephone follow-up. F urther­ more, the questionnaire should have been pilot tested or at least reviewed by an experienced prac­ titioner in research design. Finally, data elements could have been better defined to ensure that the survey actually measured w hat it purported to measure. One final note: the ACRL conference was excel­ lent; but w ith only one contributed paper, one group session, and one them e speaker, community colleges w ere under-represented. I t ’s our own fault. One of the problems in community college li- brarianship and in community colleges in general, is the lack of required or even encouraged research. Unlike their college and university counterparts, in order to be retained and promoted, community college librarians and faculty rarely perform origi­ nal, publishable research and may even be discour­ aged from doing so as irrelevant to the teaching and service mission of a community college. Of course it’s a ludicrous position. W ithout eval­ uation our programs cannot improve. W ithout the concentrated study and analysis research requires, we may become superficial. Unfortunately the lack of research is part of our community college envi­ ronment. We slug through the mud and rarely look to the sky. I suggest th at we must look to the sky— research will be an essential means of establishing our college and program validity in the coming hard times in higher education. ■ ■ ★ ★ ★ News from the Field Acquisitions • T hirty-five C enter for Research L ibraries member libraries have contributed $120,000 for the purchase of the complete microfilm edition of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. The set is now being deposited w ith the Center and will be avail­ able on loan to all Center members. The maps used for filming have been provided by the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. The m i­ crofilm reproduces 623,000 maps of 10,000 Ameri­ can towns and cities for the period 1867 1950, in­ cluding all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Sanborn maps are large-scale plans th at show the outline of each building, street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Construction details are also noted. Film ing by C hadw yck- Healey began in January 1983 and will be com­ pleted in early 1985. • The Emerson College Archives, Boston, has received a collection of theater clippings and re­ views covering plays which opened in the Boston area from the late 1890s through the 1970s. Do­ nated by theater critic Elliot Norton, these files in­ clude reviews w ritten by him for the Boston Herald as well as those w ritten by other critics. Also in­ cluded are files pertaining to opera and dance per­ formances, and biographical information on noted individuals in the performing arts. • The Library of Congress Rare Book and Spe- cial Collections Division has acquired a copy of Vergil’s Opera printed in Venice by Aldus Manu- tius in 1501. This early printed work contains the first full book use of the letterform known today as italic, and is also the first of a series of classical works printed by Aldus in a form at smaller than quarto, making it the first portable secular book in print. • Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jer- sey, has purchased a collection of criminal justice books and documents from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, which recently closed its east coast office. The collection includes approx­ im ately 8,000 books, 400 bound periodical vol­ umes, 37,000 published and unpublished reports, 3,000 newspaper clippings, 175 subscriptions to criminal justice serials, and 6,000 documents on microfiche. Annual statistical reports from munici­ pal, state, and federal agencies, original research projects and doctoral dissertations from American universities are among the valued prim ary source 492 / C&RL News NUCfiche N ational U nion Catalog, P re -1956 Im p rin ts ‘the best record we shall ever have o f the first 500 years o f man’s written history’ A v a ila b le complete on microfiche — NOW 12.5 million entries authoritatively edited at LC Includes all LC cards in Scope Incorporates and enhances previously published segments of LC/NUC 1898-1957 Makes the NUC record continuous from Gutenberg to today Provides bibliographic reference for c. 8 million records not available in machine readable form Covers holdings of major US research libraries 9200 fiche. Silver halide, 105 X 148 mm, 24 X reduction $9750 until 30 November 1984, $117 50 thereafter Inquiries, sample fiche, purchase options fro m mariaLAQUEUR, PO Box 220, Vienna, Va 22180 (703)2815214 National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 imprints, 90 Great Russell Street, London W O B 3PY documents. The collection will be administered as a separate, special collection in the John Cotton D ana Library. • Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illi- nois, has recieved a collection of railroad books, photographs, and memorabilia from the estate of W illiam DiMarco, a member of Sangamon’s first graduating class. Included are over 2,000 photo­ graphs, many rare books, and a variety of tim eta­ bles, annual reports, maps, and other materials on Illinois railroads. Grants • The American Philological Association, Co- lum bia University, New York, has received grants from the National Endowm ent for the Humanities and the Andrew W . Mellon F oundation for a model project of preserving deteriorating im por­ ta n t w orks in classical studies in m icroform . Scholars will be involved in determining which books and periodicals from the period 1859-1914 have the highest priority for preservation filming. Editorial work will be supported by the Mellon grant, while the NEH will support a three-year program of filming the works chosen by the edito­ rial board. • California State Polytechnic University, Po- mona, has received a gift of $500 from the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers to purchase energy-related books in sup­ port of students and faculty in mechanical engi­ neering. • CLASS, the Cooperative Library Agency for Systems and Services, San Jose, California, has re­ ceived two LSCA grants: $97,600 for withdrawals from the database and evaluation of CATALIST as a monograph finding tool for California libraries; and $350,000 for corrections and changes to the database for publishing the 10th edition of CULP, the California Union List of Periodicals. • The Library of Congress has received a grant of $99,700 from the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation to continue the W ashingtoniana Proj­ ect in its Prints and Photographs Division for one more year. The project, begun last year under ini­ tial funding from the Cafritz Foundation, will cul­ m inate in the production of a guide to the division’s visual resources on the District of Columbia. There are an estimated 750,000 photographic images of W ashington housed in the division, dating from the earliest known photographs from the 1840s to those of the 1980s. • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Li- braries, Cambridge, have received an HEA Title II-C grant to catalog books and serials in the Ro­ m an Jakobson Collection of linguistics. Most of the original cataloging will be for items in Russian, Czech, Polish, and other Slavic languages. •T h e M etropolitan Toronto L ibrary’s C ana­ dian History D epartm ent has received a grant of $55,175 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of C anada to complete a second supplement to A Bibliography of Canadiana, pub­ lished by the Toronto Public Library in 1934 and 1959. Part II of the second supplement, funded by a grant received from SSHRCC in 1983, will be published this fall. • Rutgers University, New Rrunswick, New Jer- sey, has received a grant of $50,000 from the J. Paul Getty Trust in support of its Lexicon Iconographi- cum Mythologiae Classicae project. This is an in­ ternational project of 37 countries to publish a pic­ torial dictionary of classical mythology (ca. 800 B .C.-400 A.D.). Each country studies the classical m aterial in its public and private collections and sends its catalogue of objects to the Central Edito­ rial Office in Basel, Switzerland, which distributes th e in fo rm a tio n to a u th o rs. A rtem is V erlag (Zurich/Munich) published the first double volume in 1981; the second double volume appeared last spring, and the rem aining six will follow at two- year intervals. Rutgers’ Center for the History of Art and the Humanities is the center responsible for all American material. • The University of Cincinnati Engineering Li- brary has received a grant of $5,000 from the Gen­ eral Electric Company’s Aircraft Engine Business Group Evendale Plant. The grant money will be used to autom ate the library’s cataloging and cir­ culation functions. • The University of M aryland at Baltim ore’s H ealth Sciences Library has received a grant from the National Library of Medicine to develop, test, implement, and evaluate an electronic reference service system. Dubbed EARS (Electronic Access to Reference Service), the system will be a comple­ ment of the library’s electronic mail system, which is linked to its Integrated Library System. Users will be able to dial into the library’s computer via terminals or microcomputers to access the system for requesting computer searches, photocopies of articles, materials on interlibrary loan, or refer­ ence information. • The University of Missouri, Colum bia, Li- braries have been awarded a $68,230 HEA Title II- C grant to catalog a microform collection of “Span­ ish D ram a of the Golden Age.” The collection con­ sists of 3,900 titles, mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries. The cataloging will be entered into the OCLC database. • The Upper Peninsula Region of Library Coop- eration, M arquette, Michigan, has been aw arded an $836,200 grant by the W .K. Kellogg Founda­ tion to implement an Upper Peninsula-wide auto­ m ated library system. Ten member libraries, in­ cluding Northern Michigan University, Michigan Technological University, and Lake Superior State College, have been selected for the initial phase of cost planning and telecomm unications installa­ tion. D uring the four-year grant period the project 494 / C&RL News will develop as a model to demonstrate techniques for delivering continuing educational opportuni­ ties to persons living in a large, sparsely populated geographic region. ■ ■ Changes at Choice Choice, ACRL’s monthly print and nonprint re­ view publication for academic libraries, has an­ nounced some changes in editorial policy. Beginning w ith their September 1984 issue, each review will carry the name of the reviewer and the reviewer’s institutional affiliation. In making the change to signed reviews, Choice has reversed a policy of anonymity instituted w ith the founding of the magazine tw enty years ago. Choice began reviewing nonprint m aterial in 1980 and expanded the nonprint coverage to in­ clude microcomputer software in 1984. The 30-50 nonprint reviews in each issue will now be featured in a separate section of the magazine to facilitate location and reference, and there will be cross- references from the subject sections. The editorial and advertising offices of Choice are located at 100 Riverview Center, Middletown, CT 06457; (203) 347-6933. Annual subscriptions are $95 domestic and $105 C anadian and foreign. Single copy sales are $9. ■ ■ W A S H I N G T O N _______ H O T L I N E Carol C. Henderson Deputy Director ALA Washington Office UCNI Restrictions. Sandra Peterson, Documents Librarian, Yale University, testified September 13 for ALA at a Department of Energy (DOE) hearing on DOE’s revision of its proposed rule on the identification and protection of Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information (UCNI). Peterson, past Chair of ALA’s Government Documents Round Table, also testified in August 1 9 8 3 at a DOE hearing on the original proposal (April 1, 1983 Federal Register, pp.13988- 93), expressing concern about the broad scope of the restrictions on access to information on nuclear materials, including documents already distributed to federal depository libraries which are depositories of DOE nuclear materials. In the revised proposed regulations (August 3, 1984 Federal Register, pp. 31236-46) DOE made several changes directed at concerns of librarians. While questioning the philosophy which allows an agency to restrict access to unclassified information, Peterson acknowledged DOE’s congressional mandate to issue regulations under Section 1 4 8 of the Atomic Energy Act, and commended DOE for responding to criticism and adopting a realistic approach. She recom­ mended that the required quarterly report detailing the application of regula­ tions or orders under Section 1 4 8 be distributed not only upon request but also to federal depository libraries. DOE now states that in implementing the regulation, it "is not going to retrieve and control documents that have been widely disseminated in the public domain (e.g., to a public or university library)," and "private indivi­ duals (e.g., public or university libraries) are not required to control, review, or submit for review unmarked documents in their possession which they perceive as possibly falling within the scope of these regulations." In addi­ tion, DOE will allow release of nonsensitive portions of documents containing UCNI, and will provide for special access to UCNI for nongovernmental persons with a "need-to-know." October 1984 / 495