ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 289 documents for the library and continued to write on the history of libraries, the university, Cape Town, and South Africa.— W inifred B. Linderman. C h a r l e s P e r c y P o w e l l , who retired from the Library of Congress in 1965, died on May 13. At the time of his retirement he was historian and reader adviser in the Manuscript Division. ■■ News from the Field ACQUISITIONS • B e t h u n e - C o o k m a n C o l l e g e , Daytona Beach, Florida, has acquired the private library and papers of the late Joseph Henry Taylor noted historian and educator. The collection in cludes books on U.S., Latin American, African Afro-American, and world history, as well a copies of theses written by students whom Taylo advised at North Carolina College at Durham. • E a s t e r n N e w M e x i c o U u n i v e r s i t y , Por tales, has received the papers of the late U.S Congressman Harold Runnels (D-N.Mex.). Pre sented by his wife Dorothy on behalf of the Run nels family, the papers encompass over 200 cubi feet of general, administrative, and legislativ files, press releases, speeches, committee pro ceedings, and documents that pertain to Run nels’s activities in the Democratic Party in hi home state. The university plans to house them in special quarters to be constructed in Golden Library. • The E d u c a t i o n a l T e s t i n g S e r v i c e , Princeton, New Jersey, has acquired a complete , set of the published articles and papers of Louis ­ L. Thurstone, one of the most renowned , psychometricians of the 20th century. The collec­ s tion will be housed in E T S ’s Carl Campbell r Brigham Library where it will be available to re­ searchers in the field of educational psychology. ­ Materials in the collection date to before World . War I and include the period when Thurstone ­ developed his first theories of applied psychology ­ at Carnegie Institute of Technology. At Carnegie c he was responsible for developing objective tests e which were the foundation for modern ability ­ tests such as the SAT. ­ • The N a t i o n a l G a l l e r y o f A r t Library, s Washington, recently acquired the library of the late Wolfgang Lotz who had been director of the 290 Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome from 1962 until his death last year. The Lotz library comprises over 3,000 volumes and is particularly rich in ma­ terial on the histoiy of Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture. • T e x a s A & M U n i v e r s it y , College Station, has received the personal collection of Dudley Smith, retired vice president, Washington representa­ tive, and technical and scientific advisor of the Association of Sugar Producers of Puerto Rico. This collection contains books, reports, and pa­ pers on the scientific, technical, and historical as­ pects of cane sugar, including an almost complete set of the Proceedings o f Congresses o f the Inter­ national Society o f Sugar Cane Technologists. • T e x a s C h r is t ia n U n iv e r s it y Library has re­ ceived a 200-volume collection of books and let­ ters concerning every U.S. vice president from John Adams to George Bush. Fifteen of the books are autographed either by a vice president or by the author. The gift, donated by Dr. and Mrs. A.M. Pate, Jr., will complement the Pate Collec­ tion on the Presidency acquired in 1971. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f H a w a i i a t M a n o a re­ ceived a bequest of art, books, manuscripts, and correspondence from the artist Jean Chariot (1898-1979). The gift includes mural drawings, sketchbooks, and a nearly complete collection of Chariot prints. Manuscript material includes Chariot’s shorthand diaries, published and unpub­ lished research, and a large collection of letters to and from his fellow artists in France, Mexico, and the United States. • The Humanities Research C enter at the U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s , Austin, has acquired the complete archives of James Jones (1921-1977), whose first novel From Here to Eternity sold mil­ lions of copies and won him the National Book Award for fiction in 1952. The archives include all of Jones’s literary manuscripts except one given away in his early career, along with contracts and correspondence about movie rights and adapta­ tions. GRANTS • The Library of the A c a d e m y o f N a t u r a l Sc i e n c e s o f P h i l a d e l p h i a has received a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission in the amount of $4,650. The grant will fund the appointment of two con­ sultants: one archival/record management spe­ cialist and one photographic curator. They will review the Academy’s manuscript collection, ar­ chives, and photograph resources and develop a program for their management and physical needs. • The E i g h t e e n t h - C e n t u r y S h o r t T i t l e C a t a l o g u e /N o r t h A m e r i c a has announced the renewal of its grant from the National Endow­ ment for the Humanities. The NEH has granted $150,000 outright, with additional matching funds of $200,000. A matching grant has already been received from the Mellon Foundation. More than 340 libraries in the United States and Canada have promised to send, or have already sent, rec­ ords of their 18th-century holdings to the project. As of July 1 there were 133,948 records in the short title file and 48,434 locations for North American holdings. Plans are far advanced for the publication of the first ESTC, a COM catalog list­ ing the British Library’s 18th-century holdings. Its release is scheduled for June, 1983. The en­ riched ESTC , containing all identified library holdings, will be published in 1987. • F i v e C o l l e g e s , I n c ., the consortium of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts- Amherst, has been awarded a grant of $854,000 by the Pew Memorial Trust to support library au­ tomation. The award will be used for the acquisi­ tion of computer hardware and software for a fully automated library system serving the five in­ stitutions. • The U n iv e r s it y o f C a l i f o r n i a , B e r k e l e y ’s School of Library and Information Studies has been awarded fellowship support of $8,000 for “Innovation in educating information professionals in a pluralistic society’’ by the U.S. Department of Education. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , D a v is , has been awarded a HEA Title II-C grant of $105,000 for computer cataloging of special collections in the Higgins Library of Agricultural Technology using the u niversity’s UNIX database. The monies will also provide for the preservation of unique items and for contributing of collection level records to RLIN. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , San F r a n ­ c i s c o , has received a $13,000 grant from the Commemorative Association for the Japan World Exposition to purchase books for its Oriental Medicine Collection. The 19-year-old collection contains over 10,000 volumes of books and jour­ nals related to the development of medicine and medical practices in Japan, China, and other Asian countries. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s , Austin, has re­ ceived a $157,581 grant from the U.S. Depart­ ment of Education to help preserve important li­ brary resources in the Benson Latin American Collection. The grant will be used to microfilm some 600 Central American, Andean regional, and other Latin American serials. The materials were selected from the Benson Collection be­ cause of their poor or threatened physical condi­ tion and their research value. NEWS NOTE • The C o m m i t t e e on P r o d u c t io n G u i d e l i n e s f o r B o o k L o n g e v it y has issued a preliminary re­ port on longevity in book bindings. Formed in 1979 by the Council on Library Resources with 291 the assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Founda­ tion, the Committee has been investigating pa­ pers and binding materials used in book produc­ tion. The present report on bindings supplements its April 1981 statement on book paper. The Committee recommends that an independent or­ ganization compile information on the longevity of binding materials and it urges publishers to pay more attention to such materials and judge carefully the need for longevity of individual ti­ tles. Copies of the report, On Longevity in Bind­ ing: Preliminary Report, are available from the Council on Library Resources, 1785 Massachu­ setts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20036 (in­ clude a self-addressed mailing label). ■■ Publications RECEIVED (Selected items will be reviewed in future is­ sues of College and Research Libraries). • S h elf Access f o r L ib ra ries‚ by Richard Joseph Hyman (American Library Association, 1982, $12.50), begins with a history of shelf ar­ rangement from ancient times and an analysis of the intrinsic inadequacies of bibliographical schemes for shelf access. The following chapters describe how librarians in the major types of li­ braries deal with the practical problems of direct access by devising shelf schemes appropriate to their clients’ interests and requirements. The final chapter considers the future of shelf classification. • “In the past several years, I have written ex­ tensively on an evolving paperless society and the implications of this evolution for libraries and li­ brarians,” writes F.W . Lancaster. His Libraries and Librarians in an Age of Electronics (Informa­ tion Resources Press, 1982, $22.50) represents an “attempt to pull this and other material together and to present it as a coherent whole. ” • Pierian Press has announced the publication of Union Lists: Issues and Answers‚ number two in the series Current Issues in Serials Manage­ ment. The $16.95 book is intended to assist union list planners to identify concerns and problems they will encounter in their work. It contains the proceedings of a 1979 conference on union list work sponsored by the Technical Services Chap­ ter of the California Library Association. • Reading Research and Librarianship: A His­ tory and Analysis‚ by Stephen Karetzky (Green­ wood, 1982, $37.50), “traces the development of the movement within the library profession to conduct scientific research on the sociological as­ pects of adult reading. ” • Electronic Document Delivery: The AR­ TEMIS Concept fo r Document Digitalisation and Teletransmission, by Adrian Norman and Arthur D. Little, provides a review of the technology of electronic document delivery by focusing on a description of ARTEMIS (Automatic Retrieval of Text from Europe’s Multinational Information Service). The report, available at $45 from Knowledge Industry Publications, explains cap­ ture and conversion techniques, intelligent copiers and printers, and how the user can store and exchange data. • The purpose of Ahead of Its Time: The En­ gineering Societies L ib ra ry ‚ 1 9 1 3 -8 0 (Shoe String, 1982, $25) is to describe the technical re­ sources of the Engineering Societies Library of the United Engineering Society in Manhattan, and the “significant contribution the library has made to the furtherance of the goals of the engi­ neering profession,” writes author Ellis Mount. • Library Leadership: Visualizing the Future‚ edited by Donald E. Riggs, is a collection of 12 essays. Contributors were asked to address the current status of leadership in their areas of ex­ pertise and to project the impact leadership (or lack of it) will have on their specialties. They were asked: 1) not to project beyond the year 2000; and 2) not to devote much attention to li­ brary administration and management. The 1982 hardcover is available from Oryx Press for $27.50. • James R. Mingle & Associates’ Challenges of Retrenchment: Strategies fo r Consolidating Pro­ grams‚ Cutting Costs‚ and Reallocating Resources concerns the difficult management and policy is­ sues facing higher education and government be­ cause of expected declines in enrollment and in financial support.” Published in 1981 by Jossey- Bass, the hardcover is priced at $17.95. • Conservation Treatm ent P rocedures: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures fo r the Main­ tenance and Repair o f Library Materials‚ by Carolyn Clark Morrow (Libraries Unlimited, Handbook Help Wanted The ACRL Community and Junior College Library Section’s Instruction and Use Com­ mittee is attempting to revise and update their published guidelines for producing col­ lege library handbooks, both for students or faculty. Any library that has guidelines for the preparation, revision, or production of such handbooks or flyers (for either students or faculty) is requested to send a copy to: Mary Sue Farrell, Library, Western Nevada Com­ munity College, 2201 Nye Lane, Carson City, NV 89701.