ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 68 News From the Field ACADEMIC STATUS Editor’s note: The following general report on the Brooklyn College Library academic status problem was submitted to the News by a rep­ resentative of the Library Association of the City University of New York at the Editor’s re­ quest. As was noted when the first Academic Status item was published, we invite general replies pertaining to the problem of academic status for librarians. Brooklyn College librarians, along with all other librarians of the City University of New York, enjoy full faculty rank and status. Al­ though they do not have as short a work week or as long a vacation period as classroom teach­ ers and college administrators. For some twenty years the custom in the City University libraries has been to have a 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday work schedule. Eve­ ning, weekend, and holiday service has been given by librarians who volunteered to work these additional hours with compensation. Some of these librarians came from the regular day staff; others from other college and public li­ braries. On October 5, 1970, well after the semester had begun, the Library Department of Brook­ lyn College received a memorandum from Col­ lege President, John Kneller, ordering that “be­ ginning at once, the practice of hiring mem­ bers of the professional library staff to work during the evening and weekend is discontin­ ued. Professional staff schedules must b e ar­ ranged to provide coverage during all hours when the library is open.” In compliance with the directive evening librarians were fired and the regular day staff was assigned to work “staggered schedules.” Librarians protested angrily, arguing th at this arbitrarily changed the working conditions un­ der which they were hired, terminated evening positions without notice, and made it impos­ sible for some librarians to fulfill educational and professional commitments made for the se­ mester. An official grievance was filed with the Legislative Conference, collective bargaining agent for the faculty. The grievance was heard, the librarians won, and the order was rescind­ ed. However, President Kneller called a meeting of the Library Department and stated th at no tenure or promotions recommendations for li­ brarians would be signed by him until librari­ ans gave him a personal commitment to work staggered schedules and to give up their rights to file a grievance. The librarians accused President Kneller of “blackmail” and immediately w ent again to their bargaining agent. Grievances were filed on behalf of those being denied tenure and pro­ motion. (These people had all been passed on favorably by the College Faculty Personnel and Budget Committee, and ordinarily the presi­ dential recommendation is a mere formality.) At this point the Faculty Personnel and Budget Committee involved itself. A subcom­ mittee was formed to investigate the library sit­ uation. After several meetings and th e presenta­ tion of various documents, the Faculty Person­ nel and Budget Committee became convinced that the librarians’ view was the correct one and that the role of the Committee would be to help the President “save face.” A new staffing pattern was sent to the Presi­ dent th at would make a staggered schedule possible. He accepted it and “lifted the freeze on library personnel actions.” ACQUISITIONS • The American Antiquarian Society has received 1,265 early American children’s books from the late d’Alte A. Welch and his family of Cleveland, Ohio. Two hundred and eighty volumes of this collection were printed in this country before 1821 and were bequeathed to the Society under the terms of Mr. W elch’s will. The remaining nine hundred and eighty- five were given to AAS by Mrs. Welch and her family. The addition of the Welch books brings the Society’s already preeminent collection of American juvenile literature to twenty-eight hundred volumes. AAS holds what is consid­ ered to be the finest such collection in the Unit­ ed States, nearly three times the size of its near­ est institutional colleague, the Library of Con­ gress. In it are represented more than two- thirds of all known children’s books printed in America before the year 1821. • The Library of Carleton University has acquired a collection of some 7,000 books and periodicals relating to French literature in the second half of the nineteenth century. Included in the collection are large numbers of texts by all the French symbolist and decadent writers, as well as some critical works w ritten about them. Major writers of the period are well rep­ resented, as are relatively minor figures, such as Paul Adam, René Boylesve, Abel Hermant, Pierre Louys, and others. Among the works on the French theatre between 1850 and 1900 is 69 a collection of sixty-nine plays written and pro­ duced in the period. • A gift of an extensive collection of miscel­ laneous books was given January 10 to the Li­ brary of Georgia Southern College, States­ boro, Georgia, through the Georgia Southern College Foundation by the Sea Island Bank of Statesboro. The collection includes approxi­ mately seven thousand items. Presentation of the gift was made by F. Everett Williams, Pres­ ident of the Sea Island Bank, to Dr. John O. Eidson, President of Georgia Southern, and Dr. Richard Harwell, Director of Libraries a t the College. The collection given by the bank is an amalgamation of selections from collections put together by several private collectors over many years—mostly in New England and in New York State. • The Iowa State University Library has recently received as a gift an important soci­ ology collection of about 500 volumes—the private library of Dr. George Henry Von Tun­ geln (1883-1914) who was a professor at Iowa State from 1913-1944. Dr. Von Tungeln was probably the earliest regular staff member in rural sociology in any land-grant college in the country. At Iowa State he initiated the first for­ mal research project in sociology. He was well known and recognized nationally for his pio­ neering work in rural sociology. He was called into consultation on the first Rural Life Study in 1919 by President Woodrow Wilson. The collection is rich in materials of rural sociology, family relations, welfare, agricultural econom­ ics, and the social and economic effects of the Depression. The books date from late nine­ teenth century through the late 1930s. • A collection of historical aerial photograph­ ic maps of arable land in the United States was deposited in the National Agricultural Li­ brary by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service on November 1, 1970. The collection consists of 20,000 maps photo­ graphing all arable land in 3,000 counties of the United States. These aerial photographs were made between 1940-1958. ASCS plans to add an annual increment of approximately 1,000 photographs to this aerial map collection. The collection will be available for study by ag­ ricultural scholars and researchers at the Na­ tional Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Mary­ land. • The manuscript diaries of Virginia Woolf consisting of twenty-seven bound volumes have been acquired by the Berg Collection of En­ glish and American Literature of the New York Public Library. Excerpts from it, selected and edited by her husband Leonard Woolf, were published in 1953 under the title A W rite r’s Diary. Virginia Woolf kept a journal for twenty-six years. The last entry is dated just four days before she committed suicide in 1941. A central figure of the “Bloomsbury Group” and a cofounder with her husband of the Ho­ garth Press, she knew most of the leading lit­ erary and artistic personalities of her day— E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, and Maynard Keynes, to name only a few. She used her diary as a means of de­ scribing people she met and for analyzing her ideas about the books she was reading and writing. • Dr. Leonard W. Ferguson has presented to the Ohio University Library three volumes relative to exhibits by artists at the Province- town Art Association 1915 through 1968. Vol­ ume I, Provincetown Art Register, gives alpha­ betically according to the name of the artist, the title of each artist’s exhibit. Volume 2, Rec­ ord of Exhibits, gives the name of each exhibit in chronological order according to the year of the exhibit. Volume 3, Title Register, lists the exhibits in alphabetical order according to the title of the exhibit. The volumes catalog more than 14,000 exhibits by more than 2,000 art­ ists. They represent the culmination of more than three years of work by Professor Ferguson and his wife, Edith P. Ferguson, and were pre­ pared with the assistance of the Ohio Universi­ ty Computer Center. According to Dr. Fergu­ son copies of the volumes are to be available only in four prime centers: Ohio University; The Provincetown Art Association, Province- town, Massachusetts; the Library of Congress; and the Archives of American Art at the De­ troit Museum of Fine Art. • Mr. John M. Malone of Pittsburgh has do­ nated his personal collection of some 300 vol­ umes on the Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) to the University op Pittsburgh Hillman Li­ brary. Mr. Malone is a longtime Mexico buff whose frequent visits to Mexican bookshops be­ gan in the 1920s. The collection focuses sharp­ ly and in considerable depth on the formative revolutionary years. The value of the collection is enhanced by the presence of numerous works by prominent revolutionary leaders of the era. The politics of the 1920s and 1930s is well represented. Among the more impressive volumes included in the collection, which will be of interest to those who are not specialists in the revolution, are the Casasola collection of photographs of twentieth-century Mexico and the impressive volume of Mexican mural paintings published by the Bank of Foreign Commerce. A first edi­ tion of Lucas Alaman’s classic history of Mexico and virtually all of the works of the Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos are also present. W ith the addition of the Malone Collection, the 70 Hillman Library’s Latin American holdings will be considerably enhanced. • W ashington University Libraries, St. Louis, has recently added the papers of poet Lee Anderson to the rare book department’s modern literature collections. The Anderson pa­ pers include more than 1,700 letters of substan­ tial literary and personal content from other writers, editors, and critics, as well as over 120 letters authored by Anderson, writing from E n­ gland in 1960 and from Berkeley, California, to John Trimmer in 1963-1965. Included also are materials relating to Anderson’s publication of four collections of his poetry: Prevailing W inds, privately published in 1941; Floating World, 1956; Nag’s Head and other poems, 1960, and a work-in-progress, Bearstone Tetral­ ogy. In addition, there are seventy journals, 1933-1970, containing drafts of poems and let­ ters, thoughts on poetry and the literary world, and records of meetings with contemporary poets. The collection is highlighted by an al­ bum containing autograph poems and quota­ tions of numerous British and American poets collected from 1958-1969. AWARDS/GIFTS • The American Antiquarian Society has been notified that it is the beneficiary of ap­ proximately $268,000 from the estate of Ethel B. Lee and the trust in her name. Mrs. Lee, who died in 1966, was the widow of John Thomas Lee of Madison, Wisconsin, and Chi­ cago, Illinois. Mr. Lee was a member of this So­ ciety from 1917 until his death in 1953. This bequest is in addition to a previous gift of $50,000 made in 1966. The two bequests have been merged into one fund, known as the John Thomas Lee Fund, the income from which shall be restricted to the purchase of books, manuscripts, and rare pamphlets dealing with American history. • Basic documents on the American Revolu­ tion and the Continental Congress will now be more readily available to historians and the public under two projects funded by F ord F oundation grants. A $150,000, two-year grant will enable the National Archives Trust Fund Board to prepare a complete computer­ ized index of the papers of the Continental Congress, thus making possible systematic re­ YOUR SOURCE FOR BOOKS IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND AMERICAN LITERATURE I f you do not already receive our catalogs, write AUSTIN BOOK SHOP— Dept. R.L. 82 60A Austin Street Kew Gardens, N.Y. 11415 search on these voluminous papers, which are preserved in the Archives. A $500,000, eight- year grant to the Library of Congress will sup­ port an extensive revision and enlargement of what has been since 1936 the principal docu­ mentary source on the revolutionary period, Edmund C. Burnett’s Letters of Members of the Continental Congress. The index of Continental Congress papers and a t least the first volume of the letters will be completed by 1976, the year of the bicen­ tennial of the revolution. In announcing the grants, McGeorge Bundy, the Foundation’s president, noted th at rather than developing a special program of grants related to the bicen­ tennial the Foundation intends to contribute in its normal course of operation. • John Ben Snow, president of the John Ben Snow Foundation, has given a personal check for $100,000 to Syracuse University for its von Ranke Collection of rare books and manu­ scripts. The check was presented to Chancellor John E. Corbally, Jr., by Dr. Allen C. Best of the University’s development office at an infor­ mal ceremony. Warren N. Boes, director of the university libraries, was also present. The von Ranke Collection includes the li­ brary of nineteenth century German historian Leopold von Ranke. Contained in it are six­ teenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century manuscripts dealing with the history of Venice and its relationships with the major European powers and the Ottoman Empire. The collec­ tion was purchased for the University in 1887 by John H. Reid and was formerly housed in what is now the administration building. Upon completion of the Ernest S. Bird Library in 1972, the collection will be permanently housed on its sixth floor. Best emphasized that the latest gift of $100,000 was a personal gift from John Ben Snow. Snow, 87, formerly of Pulaski, New York, and 1900 graduate of Pulaski High School, now lives in Colorado Springs, Colo­ rado. He graduated from New York University in 1904 with a bachelor’s degree in commercial science. • T ulane University Library in New Or­ leans has received a grant of $500,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York which will make possible a number of library improvements. The chief purpose of the grant is to strengthen the acquisitions and binding programs in a number of subject areas impor­ tant to Tulane’s research activities. Some funds will also be used for construction, in the base­ ment of the main library building, of a storage area for little-used books and a reading room to serve two collections. Additional personnel to process materials may also be employed, and it is hoped that some funds can be used as a 7] base for endowed income. Strengthening of the acquisitions program and the improved facili­ ties will be of importance to researchers throughout the city and region. MEETINGS Mar. 11-13: Library Automation: Workshops in Administration and Management, ISAD In­ stitutes to be held March 11 13 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, and May 13-15 at MIT Endicott House, Ded­ ham, Massachusetts. A fee of $135 per person will include housing, meals, registration fee, and materials. Information and application forms may be obtained from Don S. Culbert­ son, Information Science and Automation Di­ vision, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. For fur­ ther details, see January CRL News. Mar. 18-20: Alaska Library Association an­ nual meeting, Centennial Building, Sitka, Alas­ ka. The theme is Marketing Library Resources. For further information contact the exhibits chairman, Richard Engen, Alaska State Library, Juneau, Alaska 99801; or the program chair­ man, Robert Geiman, Box 194, Auke Bay, Alas­ ka 99821. Mar. 25-27: The Sixth Annual Conference on Junior College Libraries will be held on the University of Illinois campus, Champaign, Illi­ nois, from March 25 through March 27, 1971. The theme for this year’s conference is: The Junior College Media Center Looks at Itself. The Conference is partially sponsored again this year by the Illinois Library Association but is not limited to junior college librarians or me­ dia specialists from Illinois. While the program is not yet completed, one of the speakers will be Roger H. Garrison, for­ mer chairman of the English department and vice-president at Briarcliff College, New York; presently, chairman of the Language and Liter­ ature department, Westbrook Junior College, Portland, Maine. Another is Terry O’Banion, associate professor of higher education at the University of Illinois. The formal program and other details when completed will be available from: Ambrose Easterly, Harper College Library, Algonquin and Roselle Roads, Palatine, Illinois 60067. April 8: “The Academic Librarian: Educat­ ing, Yes; Serving, No” is the subject of the 1971 institute of the Library Association of the City University of New York. The institute, to be held at Queens College on April 8, will be open to librarians and to interested students, faculty, and administrators. The institute will feature E. J. Josey, Chief, 72 Bureau of Academic and Research Libraries, Division of Library Development, New York State Department of Education, on “Librarians as Faculty: An Evaluation”; John H. Moriarty, Professor Emeritus of Library Science, Purdue University, on “Training and Needs of Aca­ demic Librarians as Teachers”; Dr. Fay M. Blake on “The Expendable Academic Librari­ an” ; Kenneth Kister, Reference Librarian, The State University College at Potsdam (N.Y.), on “The Educator-Librarian; A View from the Front”; and “South Bronx, the Nightmare of Reality,” a multimedia presentation prepared by Daniel Davila. For further information contact Betty Seifert, City College Library, 135th Street and Convent Avenue, New York, New York 10031. Phone: 212-621-2268. April 23-24: The College and Reference Section of the Kentucky Library Association will be meeting on April 23-24 at Rough River State Park in Kentucky. The theme of the meet­ ing will be the “College Library.” Contact Brantley H. Parsley, Library Direc­ tor, Campbellsville College, Campbellsville, Kentucky 42718 for further information. April 29-M ay 2: The Library Association of Alberta will be holding its annual meeting in Calgary April 29-May 2. Its theme will be “Library Co-operation in Alberta.” The first day will be devoted to a workshop designed to ac­ quaint librarians with the function of the Na­ tional Library. The Saturday session will be keynoted by Earl Farlay, Director of the Clen­ dening Medical Library of the University of Kansas Medical Center. Mr. Farlay will speak on library networks. The remainder of the day will be devoted to a variety of seminars. Any­ one interested in further information on the conference should contact B. B. Manson, Infor­ mation Center, University of Calgary, Library, Calgary 44, Alberta, Canada. May 6-7: The 8th Annual National Informa­ tion Retrieval Colloquium (ANIRC) will be held in Philadelphia, May 6-7, with the estab­ lishment of a goal of participation by practi­ tioners and those new in the field of informa­ tion retrieval as the basic objective of the meet­ ing. Formal papers are not being solicited be­ cause source material for discussion is available to attendees and discussants in advance in this experiment to establish the type of interaction and dialog implied by the word, “colloquium.” Subjects for discussion will be the major infor­ mation retrieval issues reviewed in chapters of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.), categorized for purposes of the Colloquium as “design,” “implementation,” and “manage­ ment.” Selected authors of appropriate chapters in the five volumes of the Annual Review and other skilled moderators will chair sessions. To develop the closer tie between panel and au­ dience needed for active participation of at­ tendees, one or more preregistrants will b e se­ lected randomly and invited to join the panel. Each can briefly sketch his point of view of the subject under discussion whether based on aca­ demic study, work experience, or other bases of conviction. The 8th annual meeting will be held a t the new Holiday Inn, 18th and Market Streets, Philadelphia. Additional information may be obtained from program chairman Don King, Graduate School of Library Service at Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903. Inquiries and registration materi­ al requests should be addressed to Miss A. Ber­ ton, MDS-COP, 19 South 22d Street, Philadel­ phia, Pennsylvania 19103. May 7-8: Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians will hold its annual meeting at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, May 7-8. The topic will be “The Challenge of Reprints.” May 13-15: Library Automation: Workshop in Administration and Management. See entry for Mar. 11-13, above. May 20-22: A three-day institute entitled “Library Management: Man-Material-Service” will be held at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, May 20-22, 1971. The institute is intended for library administrators and super­ visors. The institute director will be John H. Moriarty, Professor Emeritus of Library Sci­ ence, Purdue University. For additional infor­ mation, interested persons may write Depart­ ment of Library Science, Indiana State Univer­ sity, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809. May 21-22: Sixteenth annual Midwest Aca­ demic Librarians Conference at Indiana Uni­ versity, Bloomington. For information contact Dr. Jane G. Flener, Assistant Director, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, Indiana 47401. The previously announced dates of April 23-24 have been changed due to conflicts. May 30-June 3: The 70th Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association will be held in New York City, May 30-June 3. June 14-17: The University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico, will be the site of the Six­ teenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, June 14-17. Spe­ cial attention will be given to the acquisition problems of the Latin American Libraries and the training of Latin American librarians. Oth­ er sessions will deal with progress made in the past year in the areas of acquisitions, bibliog­ 73 raphy, exchange of publications, photoduplica­ tion of Latin American materials, official pub­ lications, and booktrade. The program and working papers for the meeting are being planned by a committee composed of Presi­ dent, Carl Deal, and Elvia Barberena, Nettie Lee Benson, Ario Garza Mercado, and Elsa Barberena. Institutional registration in the Sixteenth Seminar is $20.00. Preprint working papers are included in the registration fee and are avail­ able only through advance payment of the in­ stitutional registration. They will be distributed at the time of the meeting and to those regis­ tered b u t not attending. T he registration fee for additional participants from the registering in­ stitution is $10.00 and includes preprint work­ ing papers. Additional sets of working papers can be subscribed to in advance for $7.00 each. Mexican librarians desiring to have the work­ ing papers may register for a payment of $7.00 each. Others not wishing working papers may register as observers a t no cost. Librarians and professors from other Latin American countries and the Caribbean may attend without paying the registration fee and will receive the work­ ing papers. Further information on local arrangements for meetings and hotels for the Sixteenth SALALM as well as on registration will soon be available. Information on the content of the program and working papers can be procured from Dr. Nettie Lee Benson, Latin American Collection, The University of Texas Library, Austin, Texas 78704. For other information re­ fer to the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. 20006. July 11-13: The School of Library and In ­ formation Services, University of Maryland, is planning the fifth annual Library Administra­ tors Development Program to be held July 11- 23. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742. The January News contains complete details. July 20-23: The third Cranfield International Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems will be held July 20- July 23 in Bedford, England. See the December News, Meetings section, for complete details on the topics to be covered and general theme outline. 74 Enquiries or offers to present papers should be sent to the Conference Director, Cyril Cleverdon, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford, England. Aug. 29-Se p t . 3: The International Confer­ ence on Information Science in Tel Aviv orig­ inally announced for August 23-28, has been changed to the week following the IFIP Con­ ference in Yugoslavia, from August 29 to Sep­ tember 3. Group flights at reduced rates will be available from various points including Yu­ goslavia. Titles and abstracts are due no later than January 1971. Registration fee ($50) in­ cludes a ladies’ program and a tour of Jerusa­ lem. For further information contact: The Or­ ganizing Committee, P.O. Box 16271, Tel Aviv, Israel. See also September News, page 249. Se p t. 30-O ct. 2: The Indiana Library Asso­ ciation will meet at Stouffer’s Inn, Indianapo­ lis, Indiana. Further information can be ob­ tained from Jane G. Flener, President, Indiana Library Association, Indiana University Li­ brary, Bloomington, Indiana 47401. Oct. 15-16: The North Dakota Library As­ sociation will hold its 1971 convention in Fargo on Friday and Saturday, October 15 and 16. Headquarters will be the Town House Motel. Oct. 22-23: The North Dakota Library Asso­ ciation will hold its 1971 convention in Fargo on Friday and Saturday, October 22 and 23. Headquarters will be the Town House Motel. MISCELLANY • The ALA-AAJC Joint Committee will meet during the 1971 AAJC Conference in Washington, D.C., March 1-5. The chief item before the Committee is a draft statement of “Guidelines for Junior and Community College Library Learning Resource Centers.” A forum discussion will be held for all interested confer­ ence attendees. ALA members of the Joint Committee are Louise Giles, dean of learning resources, Ma­ comb County Community College, Michigan; Joleen Bock, director of library services, Col­ lege of the Canyons, California; and Harriett Genung, dean of library and audiovisual aids, Mt. San Antonio College, California. J. Donald Thomas, executive secretary of the Association of College and Research Libraries, is staff rep­ resentative. AAJC members are Joseph B. Rushing, chan­ cellor, Tarrant County Junior College District, Texas; Richard W. Hostrop, former president, Prairie State College, Illinois; Rhea M. Eckel, president, Cazenovia College, New York; and Howard L. Simmons, associate dean of instruc­ tional innovation, Northampton County Area Community College, Pennsylvania. Roger Yar­ rington, director of publications for AAJC, is staff representative. • Help is now available to nonprofessional church librarians in the form of the Church and Synagogue Library Association. Created to aid in the formation and improvement of li­ brary facilities and services in our houses of worship and schools, the CSLA is interdenomi­ national and open to all interested people. It has members in forty-eight states and several foreign countries. The theme of the 1970 annual conference held in May in Pittsburgh was “The Library Serves Families.” Professionally trained and ex­ perienced librarians shared their knowledge in seminars on book selection, processing, and cat­ aloging repairing. Tours of local church and synagogue libraries, book exhibits, and talks by authors provided a well-rounded program of in­ spiration and information. The 1971 conference will be on the campus of the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Min­ nesota ( “The Land of Ten Thousand Lakes” ), June 13-15. The program is being designed around a theme of th e library as a media cen­ ter. The handling of slides, mounted pictures, art masterpieces, and audiovisuals will be in­ cluded at the three-day conference. The Association offers a bimonthly bulletin and other publications geared to be helpful in a practical way, plus the knowledge th at you are not alone with your problems. W rite to the Church and Synagogue Library Association, P.O. Box 530, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010 for further information. • The Columbia University libraries will undertake a comprehensive review of research library management while serving as the loca­ tion for a case study of the forms of university library organization and the pattern of staffing library operations. The study, funded by the Council on Library Resources, Inc., will be car­ ried out by the management consulting firm of Booz, Allen, and Hamilton under the general direction of an Advisory Committee established jointly by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the American Council on E duca­ tion (A C E ). Columbia’s library system was selected for this phase of the study because it incorporates in representative portions the operational com­ plexities, the service capabilities, and the finan­ cial problems characteristic of most large, aca­ demic research libraries. Further, the Columbia libraries are deeply involved in the develop­ ment of computer-based record systems and in regional and national cooperative programs de­ signed to extend access to resources on the one hand and to promote coordination of resource 75 development and bibliographic control on the other. The recently published report, “Problems in University Library Management,” prepared by the consultants under the direction of the ARL/ ACE Advisory Committee with the help of a Council grant, pinpoints specific library man­ agement problems and suggests approaches for their solution. For example, in the areas of or­ ganization and staffing, the report notes th at or­ ganization plans have evolved gradually and do not reflect a total view or consider possible alternatives; library administrative officers do not have clear or appropriate standing within the university’s organization structure; libraries often have too few middle level executives; or­ ganization rationale and position responsibili­ ties are rarely documented; staffing require­ ments are unclear and information on reported shortages is not available; training programs, especially those relating to management skills, are inadequate; subject specialists and other highly trained professionals are not given ade­ quate recognition. With the focus on these and other similar topics, the consultants will work to develop al­ ternate plans of organization and will seek to identify the total staff capabilities required to meet service objectives. Working in the context of library goals and with the array of con­ straints and other elements that affect library performance, new ways will be sought to em­ ploy to maximum effect the talent and resources of the libraries in the university. In addition to internal organization, the organization of the library within the university and in relation to other large research libraries will also be con­ sidered. The fundamental purpose of this entire effort is to develop and to refine a library op­ erating capability that is both responsive to the academic requirements of individual users and suitable for meeting longterm library obliga­ tions. The goal is not merely cost reduction. Rather, it is to secure for the university maxi­ mum benefits from its library resources—funds, talent, collections, and space. • The First Conference on Horticultur­ al and Botanical Libraries was held at Hor­ ticultural Hall in Boston on November 13, 1969. The conference was conceived as an op­ portunity to discuss problems of significance to libraries devoted to the botanical and horticul­ tural fields. The response to this inaugural meeting was enthusiastic. Plans for a second meeting and a study committee to report on fu­ ture developments were undertaken. The sec­ ond conference was held at the Hunt Botanical Library in Pittsburgh on April 24-25, 1970. At this time the study committee recommended the formation of an official organization with a permanent secretariat. At the second meeting many new institutions were represented. A third conference will be held in New York City in the spring of 1971. It is cosponsored by the New York Botanical Garden and th e Horticul­ tural Society of New York. At the first two meetings emphasis was placed on the sharing of information in the fields of technical process­ ing and preservation. Several cooperative pro­ grams are under discussion. The Conference on Botanical and Horticul­ tural Libraries is open to both small and large botanico-horticultural libraries of public and private institutions, subject specialist librarians, interested persons from, the horticulture and botany professions, and friends. Overseas mem­ berships are encouraged. Institutional and per­ sonal memberships are available. For further membership and program information write to Charles R. Long, Chairman, The Secretariat, Conference on Botanical and Horticultural Li­ braries, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Mas­ sachusetts 02138. • The Idaho State University library has available over seventy reading lists on many di­ versified topics. Anyone wishing further infor­ mation should send 10¢ in stamps or coin to the Gifts and Exchange Department, Idaho State University Library, Pocatello, Idaho 83201 for a three-page mimeographed “List of Reading Lists.” Any reading list wanted is available for 10¢ each. • The recommendations of a subcommittee set up to consider the use of the Classification Research Group’s Classification of Library Sci­ ence in Library & Information Science Abstracts have now been accepted by the Library Asso­ ciation’s P ublications Committee. From 1971, the scheme will continue to be used as the basis for the arrangement, but processes and stock will be the leading facets rather than types of libraries and library users. This means that abstracts on compound subjects such as cataloging in university libraries and micro­ forms in public libraries will be entered under cataloging and microforms, respectively, and not under the type of library. The feature head­ ings will be in the following form; Cataloguing. University libraries Microforms. Public libraries Backing alphabetical subject index entries will be provided at: University libraries: Cataloguing Public libraries: Microforms A recommendation to make the annual cumu­ lation of the alphabetical subject index lead to serial numbers of abstracts rather than to the notation of the scheme has also been accepted. Alphabetical subject indexes to individual issues will continue to lead to the scheme’s notation. 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He concludes that “ every library interested in the subject of American culture should have a complete set." Bill Katz, Editor of RQ, stated in a review o f the cumulative Index volume, “ Librarians without a copy should send lor one immediately, especially as the Reports are a constant source of valued information for scientists and historians alike." Joseph Shipman, Director of the Linda Hall Library for Science and Technology, points out that, "The set covers a very significant period in the development of American science and technology." ...T H E AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION SERIES: Dr. Paul Ward, Executive Secretary of the AHA, stated, "The Annual Reports o l the Amer­ ican Historical Association lor its first three decades, beginning with the initial volume of Papers, are a prime source of information for the first flourishing of professional historical scholarship in our nation. The annual meetings of the Association brought together the best historical minds of the time, and the papers they presented are recorded here. These are, therefore, volumes that deserve to be more widely available and more often consulted lor the quality of scholarship they contain on many topics still of interest." ** Dr. Goetzmann commented, "Here is fascinating reading on an infinite variety of historical subjects. The journal is a basic tool lor any serious academic program in history." Send for our free brochures for details on these two fully indexed reference resources. 78 • The R. W. Norton Art Gallery library of Shreveport, Louisiana, has recently opened to provide a facility for art research. The pres­ ent collection has 3,000 volumes of books and periodicals. Facilities have been provided for five study rooms in which the patron may work for an extended time, even for weeks, in pri­ vate. The library has a large collection of books on the history of Virginia and Louisiana. In particular there is “The James M. Owens Me­ morial Collection of Early Americana,” 1,000 volumes given to the library by Mrs. Kathleen M. Owens, widow of the late Dr. James M. Owens of Shreveport. Recently, the library has been collecting as much material as possible on the state of Louisiana. Already in th e library are outstanding works by artist/ornithologists from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, including James Audubon. • “SPIRES/BALLOTS Report,” an award­ winning 16mm color film describing two Stan­ ford University research projects designed to computerize library systems, is available for purchase, rental, and preview-before-purchase from the University of California Extension Media Center, Berkeley, California 94720. The fifteen-minute film enlivens its description of the research work with amusingly satiric glimpses of man’s previous efforts to solve the problem of information storage, and makes ir­ reverent comments on the relationship of wis­ dom and bureaucracy in libraries. The film re­ ceived the 1970 outstanding information sci­ ences movie award from th e American Society for Information Sciences. SPIRES (Stanford Public Information Re­ trieval System) and BALLOTS (Bibliographic Automation of Large Library Operations using Time Sharing) are significant projects th at show promise of revolutionizing library re­ search. The Stanford system has been devel­ oped to a point where a computer can instantly search the university library by subject. “SPIRES/BALLOTS Report” may be pur­ chased for $180; one-day rental is $12.50. The film was made by students in Stanford’s School of Communication. F urther details may be ob­ tained from the Extension Media Center. • A conservation laboratory has been estab­ lished by The New York Public Library for the extensive treatm ent of books and paper in the research collections. James W. Henderson, Chief of the Research Libraries, who made the announcement, said th a t the project has been made possible by an anonymous gift of $100,000. The new laboratory, in the library’s annex building a t 521 West 43rd Street, is an essential part of “Conservation Program Num­ ber 3” under which materials in the general col­ lections will be preserved in their original form. The program is so numbered because it is the third major effort of the library to deal with conservation of the collections. The first of these is the extensive microfilming program which has been carried out over the past thirty- five years, creating some 40,000 reels of micro­ film, th e equivalent of over 200,000 volumes. A second effort is the library’s cooperation in a large number of reprinting projects during the past decade. The laboratory is under the super­ vision of H. Wayne Eley, Jr., a conservation specialist trained in New Haven during his studies at Yale. He will be staffing the program in early 1971. • One of the most complete dental libraries in the West has opened in a well-known San Francisco architectural structure. The Ernest G. Sloman Memorial library of th e University of the Pacific School of Dentistry moved into a nearby structure which was reopened and dedicated as a new comprehensive health sci­ ences library for the Pacific Medical Center. The center’s library was constructed in 1912 for w hat was then Lane Hospital and Stanford University’s School of Medicine. The building had been closed since 1959 when Stanford moved its hospital and library to the Palo Alto campus, twenty-five miles south of San Fran­ cisco. W ith 20,000 bound volumes, the dental li­ brary has a comprehensive dental journal col­ lection and receives practically every dental publication in the United States. The library also receives dental publications from fifty-one foreign countries in twenty-three different lan­ guages. In addition to the main journal collec­ tion, the library has an extensive duplicate jour­ nal collection. • The librarians of the University of W ash­ ington have recently organized th e Association of Librarians of the University of Washington (A L U W ). As stated in its bylaws, the objec­ tives of the Association shall be: To promote library service of the highest quality at the Uni­ versity of Washington; to promote the profes­ sional standing of the members and to encour­ age their professional development; to provide a forum where matters of professional concern to the librarians of th e University of W ashing­ ton may be considered and appropriate courses of action determined; to develop an organiza­ tion responsive to the ideas of its members in which each individual may participate freely without regard to administrative position or professional rank. A copy of the full text of the bylaws is available to any group interested in forming a similar organization. Please write Miss Clairann Schickler, Secretary, ALUW, Catalog Division-Main Library, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98115 and enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. 79 • The Western Americana Collection at the University of U tah libraries has become the official archives for Utah labor organizations’ documents. The labor archives will preserve various documents and make them available for research projects in other universities or unions. According to Dr. Everett L. Cooley, curator of the Western Americana Collection and Univer­ sity archivist, “The collection now contains a number of records covering the Utah labor un­ ion movement from the 1880’s to the 1950’s, with major emphasis on the period between 1930 and 1956. More participation from all the state labor organizations and unions is needed.’’ Minute books, correspondence, arbitration rec­ ords, account books, convention papers, con­ stitutions, and scrapbooks are among the docu­ ments being sought for the archives. Docu­ ments gathered so far date back to the Deseret Typographical Union, the first labor union in Utah, and a locomotive engineers’ union. Other documents cover the Utah State Federation of Labor, the Utah State Industrial Union Coun­ cil, and their affiliates. • W estern Kentucky University library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, recently began to automate its various functions. It will launch its first library automation project in cataloging instead of circulation or acquisitions. At the end of November 1970, ten ATS (Administrative Terminal Systems) were installed in the cata­ loging department. The ATS is an IBM 2471 (a programmed selectric typewriter) which has the capability to address and recall data direct­ ly into and from a computer. I t serves as a ter­ minal to connect on-line with the campus IBM 360/40 computer. W ith the joint efforts of sys­ tems librarian, Patricia W. Custead and head cataloger, Simon P. J. Chen, the ATS terminals will be utilized to convert 250,000 volumes from Dewey to LC, and, meanwhile, to key in the newly acquired library materials. The com­ plete cataloging data are keyed in by ATS op­ erators to store on magnetic tapes permanently. The reclassification project is estimated to last from six to nine months. After the comple­ tion of the project, the computer will print a brand new card catalog containing two million cards, new labels in LC for the old Dewey books, and various printed bibliographies and catalogs. PUBLICATIONS • Duke University Library has announced the publication of a two-volume set, Periodicals and Other Serials in the Libraries of D uke Uni­ versity. This computer-based list contains over 50,000 entries for titles held in the Duke Uni­ versity libraries (excluding the Medical Center Library) as of January 31, 1971. Entry includes almost full bibliographical information in addi­ tion to holdings. Periodicals and Other Serials will be available in April from the Assistant Li­ brarian for Technical Services, William R. Per­ kins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706, at $35 for the two-volume, pa­ perbound set. Libraries interested in acquiring a microfiche set (a t 42 x reduction ratio) with comprehen­ sive index should inquire at the above address. • A revised and enlarged guide recently pu b ­ lished by the Library of Congress will help re­ searchers identify U.S. Government reports which have become known by the name of a person prominently concerned with them rather than by their official titles. Entitled Popular Names of U.S. Government Reports: A Cata­ log, this 43-page publication may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, at 55¢ a copy. The revised and updated edition supersedes one compiled and published initially in 1966. It has been enlarged by adding reports appear­ ing after 1965 and reports published as early as 1821. Among the 753 reports listed are many th at are important in U.S. history and those which are primary sources for research. These reports, known popularly by the names of per­ sons prominently concerned with them, are dif­ ficult to locate in the absence of full identifica­ tion since the published documents do not carry their authors’ name and are therefore cataloged under the name of the official issuing agency. The “Kerner Report” on civil disorders and the “Rockefeller Report” on the quality of life in the Americas are examples of titles for which full bibliographic identification is provided. The reports cited are arranged alphabetically by popular name. The guide was compiled in the Serial Divi­ sion of the Library’s Reference Department by Bernard A. Bernier, Jr., and Charlotte M. D a­ vid, and the foreword was written by James B. Childs, Honorary Consultant in Government Document Bibliography. • Number 16 in the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science’s Allerton Park Institute series, Serial Publications in Large Libraries, has recently been published. The 194-page volume, edited and introduced by W alter C. Allen, contains eleven articles dealing with serials and their relationship to large libraries. Authors and titles include: “The Bright, Bleak Future of American Magazines” by Theodore Peterson; “Serials Selection” by William A. Katz; “The Serials Perplex; Acquir­ ing Serials in Large Libraries” by Peter Gel­ latly; “Serial Cataloging Revisited—A Long 80 Search for a Little Theory and a Lot of Coop­ eration” by Kathryn Luther Henderson; “Li­ brary Binding” by James Orr; “Binding—A Li­ brarian’s View” by William T. Henderson; “Se­ rial Records; A Mechanism for Control” by Samuel Lazerow; “Serial Publications in Large Libraries: Machine Applications” by Donald P. Hammer; “Document Serials, Technical Re­ ports, and the National Bibliography” by Thomas D. Gillies; “Bibliographic Control of Serial Publications” by Bill M. Woods; and “Service” by W arren B. Kuhn. This indexed volume is available from the II­ lini Union Bookstore, 715 S. W right Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820, for $4.50. Standing orders for the Allerton Park Institute series may be placed by w riting to the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Ur­ bana-Champaign, 331 Main Library, Urbana, Illinois 61820. LC Card Number is 74-629637 and the International Standard Book Number is 0-87845-011-4. • In order to help th e student and faculty member keep abreast of current developments in the law, Tarlton Law Library a t The Univer­ sity of Texas is inaugurating a new series of special bibliographies on timely subjects. I t is hoped th at this series will make the resources of the Tarlton library and of other law libraries more accessible. Beginning in 1966, bibliographies compiled by the library staff were included in th e li­ brary’s bimonthly acquisition lists, Notes from the Tarlton Law Library. Although the Notes will continue to include staff bibliographies, those to be published in the new series, “Tarl­ ton Law Library Legal Bibliography Series,” will be issued separately. The first in the series is entitled The Bill of Rights and Military Jus­ tice; a Selected Legal Periodical Survey, 1940 to 1970, and was compiled by Bardie C. Wolfe, Jr., Circulation Librarian. This bibliography covers a time period during which the cold war and the Vietnam “w ar,” as well as two major wars have occurred. T he second in the series is entitled A Bibliog­ raphy on Student Activism, 1963-1970, com­ piled by Adrienne C. deVergie, Technical Ser­ vices Specialist. It represents the outcome of an intensive investigation of materials concern­ ing all aspects of campus unrest at colleges and secondary schools in the United States, and in­ cludes monographs, articles from both legal and general periodicals, and state and federal docu­ ments. The third and latest in the series is A Bibli­ ography on Juvenile Delinquency in Texas, compiled by Jane Olm, Librarian for th e Crim­ inal Justice Reference Library, a special collec­ tion housed in Tarlton Law Library. The bib­ liography was prepared specially for the Task Force on Juvenile Delinquency, recently creat­ ed by the Texas Criminal Justice Council. Vari­ ous state and private agencies, as well as n u ­ merous Texas colleges and universities, were contacted by Mrs. Olm and h er staff in gather­ ing data for the bibliography. Numbers one and two in the series are avail­ able from th e Tarlton Law Library for $10 each. Please address your inquiries to Mrs. Kathleen Long, Tarlton Law Library, Universi­ ty of Texas School of Law, and make your check payable to University of Texas Law School Foundation. • A Union List of Current Periodical Sub­ scriptions has been published by th e six aca­ demic libraries affiliated with the Lehigh Val­ ley Association of Independent Colleges con­ sortium. This computer-produced directory lists the locations of more than 4,000 periodical ti­ tles on the subscription lists of the libraries at Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales, Ce­ dar Crest College, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, Moravian College, and Muhlenberg College. Arranged alphabetically by periodical title, the directory identifies the library holding the longest file of each title and the beginning date of the file, and notes other libraries hold­ WE FIND THE UNFINDABLE Scholarly Services Ltd. is in an unrivalled position to locate th e books, m anuscripts and letters you req u ire to complete special col­ lections. Y our le tte r or w ant-list w ill receive an im m ediate confirmation, w ith periodic bu lle­ tin s as to item s located and prices. Scholarly Services Ltd. is u n iq u e in th a t we do n o t utilize common m ethods for th e loca­ tion of these m aterials, consequently th e item located is uncom mon as well, an d n o t from a dealer’s catalogue. T he range and scope of o u r methods of location are beyond the m eans o r ken of even th e m ost w orldly an tiq u aria n bookseller. We seek o u t and re triv e only th e ra re s t titles, an d only unpublished, h ith erto unknow n let­ te rs and mss. historic or literary. We a re also responsive to any quotes you m ay care to m ake, as regards th e sale of items, b u t ra rity an d th e inedited is o u r p rim ary criteria. A ll enquiries h eld in stric t confidence. Jeanne Monos, Director Scholarly Services Ltd. 1847 Barryw ood Drive San Pedro, Ca. 81 ing shorter runs. Title entries are accepted as submitted by each of the six participating li­ braries. Twice a year the list will b e updated to record new titles and changes in holdings records. Copies of the 99-page Xerox list can be purchased for $10 each, without binders. Orders on institutional order forms should be addressed to the Mart Library, Lehigh Univer­ sity, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015. • Two new publications by members of the Pennsylvania State University faculty have been released in the bibliographical series of the university libraries. Theory of Wages and Collective Bargaining, a Bibliography, by Eu­ gene A. Myers, professor of economics, is num­ ber two in the series, and A Tentative Portu­ guese-African Bibliography by Gerald M. Mo­ ser, professor of Portuguese, is the third num­ ber. General theories, factors in wage determina­ tion, and related areas are covered in Myers’ 146-page bibliography. References to wage de­ termination in selected industries are also in­ cluded. The literature of Portuguese sub-Sahara Afri­ ca, including Angola, the Cape Verdean Is­ lands, Mozambique, Portuguese Guinea, and the islands of São Tomé and Principe, is cov­ ered in Moser’s 148-page bibliography. Nine portraits, a frontispiece, and the cover of a Cape Verde periodical are included in the il­ lustrations. His aim was to include all writings from earliest times through 1969 within the bounds of belles lettres, including books, pamphlets, or offprints. Manuscripts and peri­ odical articles are included when no other form of publication was found. Oral folk literature, written literature, and literary history and criti­ cism are covered. There is an index of authors which includes short biographical notes show­ ing whether the writers were born in Africa or Europe and how long they lived in Africa. The price of each bibliography is $5.00; they may be ordered from the Office of the Director of the Pennsylvania State University Libraries, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802. ■■