ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 74 / C&RL News Readmore Publications Research Publications Routledge, Chapm an and Hall Roy Young Bookseller, Inc. Russ Rassett Rutgers University—SCLIS Salem Press, Inc. Scarecrow Press Scholarly Rook Center SilverPlatter Information, Inc. Sobeco Group, Inc. Sociological Abstracts, Inc. SpaceSaver Corporation Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. Taylor & Francis, Inc. UMI United Nations-Publications University Publications of America Van Nostrand Reinhold Company V CH Publishers, Inc. W .H . Freem an and Company Wiley W omen’s History Research Center W right Investors’ Service—WORLDSCOPE Yankee Book Peddler, Inc. Poster sessions Forty poster sessions will be presented in the ex­ hibit hall on Thursday and Friday. Poster sessions provide an opportunity for the informal exchange of information. Presenters place materials (graphs, diagram s, pictures, d ata and narrative text) on bulletin boards and discuss their presentations w ith conference attendees. The presentations will cover a broad range of subjects and present research find­ ings, innovative programs and solutions for prob­ lems. Take me out to the ACRL Game! Come out to the ball game on April 5, 7:35 p .m ., to see the Cincinnati Reds play the World Series C ham ps, the Los Angeles Dodgers. I t’s “ACRL Night at the Reds” and if we get a good crowd for the game a lucky ACRL mem ber could throw out the ceremonial first pitch and sing the National An­ them! W ear your favorite library sweat shirt and join your ACRL friends at the Riverfront Stadium, just minutes from downtown hotels. The tickets for the lower level box seats (off third base) are $8.50 plus $1.00 postage and handling. Deadline for ticket orders is February 28, 1989. Use the order form in the prelim inary program to reserve your tickets. Treasures from the ALA Archives The ALA Archives at the University of Illinois, U rbana-Cham paign, is a treasure th at few librari­ ans have found. The University Archivist, May­ nard Brichford, will bring some of the treasures to you in Cincinnati. See some of the photos, docu­ ments and artifacts from our first century at the display in the West Exhibit Hall. Luncheon in honor of academic leaders E dw ard G. Holley will speak on “Building a Firm Foundation: ACRL Leadership, 1939-1989” at a luncheon in honor of past ACRL presidents and executive directors. You can have lunch w ith these outstanding leaders on Thursday, April 6, 12:30 p .m .-2:00 p.m . The cost of the luncheon is $15. Tickets may be reserved on the order form in the prelim inary program. All-Conference Reception Enjoy an evening w ith your ACRL colleagues at the gala All-Conference Reception, Friday, April 7 ,9:30 p .m .-1 1 :30 p.m . The reception will beheld a t the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, one of the top public research libraries in the country. Join your friends at the reception and enjoy jazz, desserts and after dinner liqueurs. The reception is generously funded by Baker & Taylor. Celebrate the century with CJCLS Comm unity and junior college librarians are in­ vited to attend an informal, cash bar rendezvous for CJCLS members and friends at the Sun G arden Lounge of the H yatt Hotel, on Thursday, April 6, 5:15 p .m .-7:00 p.m . Center for Research Libraries In honor of its fortieth anniversary, the Center will host a conference-wide reception on Thurs­ day, April 6, 5:15 p .m .-7:00 p.m . The reception will be held in the third floor reception area of the Albert B. Sabin Cincinnati Convention Center. Library tours If you enjoy a busm an’s holiday, stop by the Hos­ pitality Desk in the convention center to pick up a guide to the libraries w ithin the Greater Cincinnati area. It explains how to get to the library of your choice w ith ease. The guide was prepared by the Local Arrangements Committee. Cincinnati tours Two tour possibilities have been arranged to suit your recreational interests. They are being pro- Special Events 76 / C&RL News Historic Fountain Square blends the old and the new in dow ntow n Cincinnati. vided by Premier Events, 11695 Chesterdale Road, Cincinnati, OH 45246. You may use the form pro­ vided in your registration packet to reserve space for these tours. The mail deadline is March 27, 1989. RR Riverboat Cruise. For an evening to remem­ ber, board a BB riverboat in Covington, Kentucky, just across the river from downtown Cincinnati. This leisurely cruise on the famous Ohio River in­ cludes a delicious buffet dinner, music and the lovely old world scenery of both the Kentucky and the Ohio shores. Plan to attend w ith a group of your favorite ACRL friends. Thursday, April 6, 6:30 p.m.~9:30 p .m ., $21, includes dinner. Bus Tour of the City. Gaze at the highlights of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky the easy w ay— via a chartered bus! Boarding downtown near the conference hotels, you will see and hear about F o u n ta in S quare and m any o th er dow ntow n buildings and landm arks, including Music Hall and the Union Terminal. In picturesque nearby Mt. Adams, see Rookwood Pottery, lovely Eden Park and a beautiful Ohio River overlook. Across the historic Suspension Bridge into Covington, Kentucky, you will view the restored Main Strasse area and several churches of historic renown. Fi­ nally, at the new Oldenberg Brewery, you will en­ joy a show and lunch. Following a tour of this “Old W orld” brewery, you will return to the hotel area by 12:30 p .m . W ed n esd ay , A pril 5, 9:00 a .m .-12:30 p.m ., $20, includes lunch. Chapter meetings Three ACRL affiliated chapters will hold their spring meetings in conjunction with the ACRL Na­ tional Conference. The College and University D i­ vision of the Indiana Library Association, the Aca­ d em ic L ib ra r y A ssociation oi O h io an d th e Academic Section of the Kentucky Library Associ­ ation will each hold their business meeting on Thursday, April 6, 5:15 p .m .-6:15 p.m. January 1989 / 79 Preconference on regional history collections “Local History, Global Village: Regional Col­ lecting, Regional Collections” is the theme of the ACRL Rare Rooks and Manuscripts Section’s pre­ conference, set for June 22-23, 1989, on the cam­ pus of Southern methodist University in Dallas. D onald J. Pisani, associate professor of history at Texas A&M University and author of From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Cru­ sade in California and the West, 1850-1931, will give the keynote address. Pisani will explore the difficulties of collecting an ever-increasing mass of documents pertaining to the region’s history at public, academic, and state agency libraries and institutional archives. O ther presentations will ex­ amine regional cooperation and the need to coordi­ nate collection development, documentation strat­ egies, an d th e exp erien ces of a v a rie ty of institutions and libraries w ith extensive regional collections. Preconference activities include receptions on Thursday and Friday evenings and a dinner on F ri­ day. Housing will be available in the SMU dormi­ tories for $16 a night or in any of the ALA confer­ ence hotels in dow ntow n D allas. All program sessions will take place on the SMU campus, so there will be no official RBMS hotel for the Dallas preconference. Registration for the preconference is limited to the first 200 applicants. The fee is $85 for ACRL members and $ 110 for non-members. The deadline is May 15,1989. Late registration will be accepted on a space available basis after May at an addi­ tional cost of $25 per person. A registration brochure will be mailed to all RBMS members. Additional brochures and infor­ m ation may be requested by contacting Mary Ellen Davis, RBMS Preconference, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; (800) 545- 2433; in Illinois, (800) 545-2444; in C anada, (800) 545-2455. ■ ■ ★ ★ ★ News from the field Acquisitions • T he College of W illiam a n d M ary’s E a rl Gregg Swem Library, W illiamsburg, Virginia, has acquired the Murray and Shirley G. Horowitz Col­ lection on Dogs and Related Subjects, a gift from Shirley G. Horowitz, of North Woodmere, New York. The collection contains some 6,000 volumes and will complement the Peter Chapin Collection of Books about Dogs presented to W illiam and M ary in 1937. • E ast C en tral State U niversity, Ada, Qkla- hom a, has acquired 71 volumes of typescripts of proceedings and docum ent books pertaining to Cases One and E ight of the Nazi W ar Crimes Trials heard by Tribunal One of the United States Mili­ ta r y T rib u n a l a t N u re m b e rg , G erm an y , 1946-1947. The set, donated by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Elwood Kemp of Ada, belonged to John­ son T ai Craw ford, a local Pontotoc County district judge who was one of the three judges who made up T ribunal One. In some cases the books contain C raw ford’s handw ritten notes about the evidence and the disposition of a case. Document books for Case One, the case against the doctors, also include photographs of victims of medical experiments. These volumes join other personal papers of C raw ­ ford’s acquired by the University some years ago. • The N ational Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, has acquired a copy of the book describ­ ing the discovery of oxygen in 1773 by the Swedish apothecary C arl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786), who isolated the gas prior to and independently of Joseph Priestley, the British scientist credited with the discovery in 1774. Although the manuscript for Scheele’s Chemische Abhandlung von der L u ft und dem Feuer was ready for the printer by December 1775, publication was delayed for tw o years and he did not publish his results until 1777. The book is extremely rare and NLM has been fortunate to ac­ quire a copy in fine condition. • Ohio State University’s E dgar Dale Media Center, Columbus, has acquired a collection of 4,000 children’s books from professor C harlotte Huck, who retired in June 1988. This teaching and research collection, recently appraised at $21,000, traces the developm ent of children’s literatu re from 1820 to the present. The collection includes works by Caldecott, Crane, Greenaway, Potter, and Baum, along w ith significant picture books, classics, special reference books, and Mother Goose Collections. Two original woodblocks, valued at $400 each, of Randolph Caldecott’s illustrations