ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 352 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • A 1,435-item collection of manuscripts, papyri fragments, and scrolls has been donated to the Middle East Collection at the U n i v e r s i t y o f U t a h Marriott Library. The contribution was made by Dr. Aziz S. Atiya, distinguished professor of history and professor of languages at the University of Utah. A native Egyptian who is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on Arabic studies, Dr. Atiya was the original director of the university’s Middle East Center and has been instrumental in establishing the library’s Arabic collection as one of the most significant in the country. The donated items from Dr. Atiya’s private collection include four papyrus fragments of ancient scrolls, 180 ragpaper and old paper scrolls from the tenth century, 1,185 manu script folios from the eleventh to the nineteenth century, and 66 tracts and treatises in Arabic manuscript from the twelfth to the nineteenth century. The collection was valued at nearly $5,000 by George Makdisi, professor of Arabic and Islamic languages at Pennsylvania State Univer sity. Dr. Atiya said the original owner of one of the manuscripts had placed pound notes be tween the pages as a sort of savings account. After the owner’s death, the pages were torn out when the money was recovered, but Dr. Atiya— realizing the value of the material— obtained the manuscript. In another instance, the Utah scholar made a significant purchase when he discovered a crate of books with valu able manuscripts serving as packing paper. Dr. Atiya has been a Utah faculty member since 1959 and last year received the highest honor that can be accorded a scholar— a Fest schrift or collection of essays written by his most distinguished peers. • The Burrow Library of S o u t h w e s t e r n a t M e m p h i s announces the receipt of the third consignment of rare books from the extensive collection of Walter P. Armstrong, Jr. Arm strong is a Memphis attorney and Southwestern trustee who has been a private collector of books for more than forty years. Included in the latest shipment are about 200 English and American first editions and special editions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, valued at more than $8,000. The books, along with those given earlier by Armstrong, are housed in the Walter P. Armstrong, Jr. Rare Book Room. The college’s Board of Trustees named the room in honor of Armstrong last January, soon after he had announced that his entire personal library, consisting of some 5,000 volumes, would be given to Southwestern. Among the books in the consignment are three volumes of which the collector is especial ly proud. One is a signed first edition of Hart Crane’s T h e Bridge, one of fifty copies original ly published in Paris in 1930. Another signed first edition is James Joyce’s Finnegan’s W ake. The third is a signed first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s A F arew ell to Arms, published in 1929. The shipment also includes such rarities as three works by Charles Dickens in their original form (published in parts), a signed first edition of Oscar Wilde’s poems, a first edition of Na thaniel Hawthorne’s T h e M arble Faun and first editions of Dr. Je k y ll and Mr. H y d e and T he H ound o f th e Baskerυilles. • The Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, has deposited the following oral his tory interviews in the Bancroft Library and the Special Collections Library at the U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a at Los Angeles. “Cutter Laboratories, 1897-1972: A Dual Trust,” interviews with two generations of the Cutter family and several long-term members of the pharmaceutical corporation staff. In two volumes, 525p. Clara Shirpser, “One Woman’s Role in Dem ocratic Party Politics: National, California, and Local, 1950-1970.” In two volumes, 671p. Paul Schuster Taylor, “California Social Sci entist: Volume I, Education, Field Research, and Family; Volumes II and III, California W ater and Agricultural Labor,” 861p. • Recent acquisitions of the Urban Archives Center of T e m p l e U n i v e r s i t y Libraries in clude the records of the United Fund of the Philadelphia Area and its predecessors (1 9 2 0 - 1 9 7 2 ); the Philadelphia Chapter, National As sociation of Social Workers (1 9 2 2 -1 9 7 4 ); the Octavia Hill Association, Inc. (1 8 8 8 -1 9 4 1 ); the S.E. Pennsylvania Regional Planning Commis sion (1 9 5 2 -1 9 5 6 ) and Germantown Settlement (1 9 4 3 -1 9 7 2 ); and the papers of Kirk Petshek, Urban Development and Economic Coordina tor, 1954-1962. Significant additions were made to the collections of the Nationalities Service Center (1 9 4 0 -1 9 6 4 ), the S.W.-Belmont YWCA (1 9 2 3 -1 9 6 7 ), and the American Civil Liberties 353 Union (1 9 5 0 -1 9 7 1 ). The archives also received 111 series of annual reports of social service and civic agencies mainly in the period 1860- 1940, from the Free Library of Philadelphia. • In July the Board of Trustees of E m o r y U n i v e r s i t y voted unanimously to purchase the book collections of the Hartford Seminary Foundation of Hartford, Connecticut, for $1,750,000. The sale of a specialized research collection of this size and quality is without precedent in the history of American higher education. The Hartford collections occupy 23.000 linear feet of shelf space and number approximately 220,000 volumes. This represents an immediate 200 percent increase in the total size of the book collections of the Pitts Theolo gy Library, Candler School of Theology, from 110.000 volumes to something in excess of 300.000 volumes. “The combined Candler- Hartford collection,” wrote Dr. Raymond P. Morris, librarian emeritus of the Yale Divinity School in 1973, “would constitute one of the strongest theological collections on this Conti nent. For practical purposes, one could affirm that such a collection could never be brought together again.” The Hartford collections are both compre hensive in coverage and rich in research ma terials. A profile of the collections by number of titles includes the following: anthropology, 1,700; geography, 2,900; linguistics, 3,450; literature, 10,000; archaeology, 1,200; fine arts, 3,275; education, 4,000; sociology, 3,725; his tory, 10,500; psychology, 2,775; philosophy, 4,200; biography, 7,000; missions, 4,150; Asian religions, 1,350; Judaism, 1,025; liturgies, 13,- 550; biblical studies, 14,500; church history, 19,000; theology, 13,550; church education, 7,550; church, 3,250; bibliography, encyclo pedias, etc., 5,550. In addition, the Warrington- Paine-Pratt Hymnology Collection numbers over 8,500 volumes with special strength in English and American imprints, including a 1594 edition of Sternhold and Hopkins and a first edition of Tate and Brady, 1696. Until re cently Hartford has subscribed to 1,100 peri odicals and maintains retrospective holdings for 3,100 periodical titles. The Richardson Collec tion contains about 18,000 volumes printed be tween 1450 and 1750. The works of the early printers are well represented among more than 80 volumes printed between 1450 and 1500. The collection of early Reformation tracts in cludes 1,239 separately published items by Martin Luther printed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Plans for the renovation and expansion of the present library facilities are now complete. Paul Rudolph of New York City is the architect, and the Atlanta firm of Ira Hardin and Company is the contractor. The renovation is expected to J u s t R e l e a s e d Available Pay Survey Reports: An Annotated Bibliography H ow d oes a research er locate a recent pay survey report covering the jo b , type o f em ployer, a n d /o r geographic area which is o f interest? T o solve this reference prob lem, comprehensive information concerning pay survey reports available from publishers, consulting firms, chambers of commerce, governmental agencies, and technical, professional, and trade associations has been gathered into one publication, “A v ailable Pay Survey R ep orts: An A nnotated B ibliography.” Each of the hundreds of annotated pay survey reports (both U.S. and foreign) is cross-indexed intensively. The many thousands of cross-references on sources of data, job titles, types of employer, and geographic areas covered appear in four comprehensive indexes. ABBOTT, LANGER & ASSOCIATES, P. O. Box 275, Park Forest, IL 60466 P le a s e m a il ........................c o p ie s o f “ A v ailab le Pay Survey R ep o r ts: An A n n otated B ib lio g ra p h y ” @ $ 3 5 .0 0 e a c h . □ B i l l u s. □ C h e c k e n c lo s e d . Y o u p a y th e s h ip p in g c h a r g e . M a i l t o : N a m e : ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... O r g a n iz a t io n : .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... S t r e e t A d d r e s s : ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ C i t y : ............................................................................................................................ S t a t e : ....................... Z ip C o d e : ....................... 354 own be finished by early spring and to cost $1.25 million. • The Houghton Mifflin Company has pre sented to G e o r g e t o w n U n i v e r s i t y the vast body of language information used as the basis for T h e A merican H eritage S chool Dictionary published in 1972. This massive collection of data will be located in the university library’s Special Collections Division for use by scholars, educators, and researchers concerned with the English language, the American dialect, and general and applied linguistics. The material constitutes the most extensive analysis ever undertaken of the words actually read by American children in elementary and junior high school classrooms. The cost of the research and analytical work in preparation of the dictionary amounted to more than one mil lion dollars. Ownership of the collection was conveyed to Rev. R. J. Henle, S.J., president of Georget Networks and the University Library The published proceedings of the ACRL University Libraries Section pre conference institute on “The University Library’s Role in Information Networks” have been reprinted. They are now avail able, in a limited quantity, from the ACRL office. The institute was held in June 1973 in connection with the ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas. The proceedings, entitled Netw orks an d th e University L ibrary, have been edited by LeMoyne W . Anderson, direc tor of libraries at Colorado State Univer sity. The papers, published substantially as they were presented at the institute, treat the following aspects of the topic: a definition of networks; a philosophical basis for networks; discussions of five op erational systems; factors of success and of failure; jurisdictional and organization al constraints on networks; financial, pro cedural, and personnel constraints on net works; prospects for state and national plans; and a consideration of the future of networks. The proceedings are available at a cost of $3.00 each if prepaid or $5.00 each if an invoice is required. Checks should be made payable to the American L i brary Association. Requests for copies should be addressed to Beverly P. Lynch, ACRL, 50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. University, by Harold T. Miller, president of the Boston firm which publishes T h e A m eri can H eritage Dictionary and its related publica tions. • An outstanding collection of Korean litera ture has been donated to the W h e a t o n C o l l e g e library as a last request of an alumnus of the school. The late Olivet R. Swallen, St. Petersburg, Florida, and her parents assembled the more than 350 titles during their service as missionaries to Korea. Included are both E n glish and Korean materials covering aspects of religious, social, and cultural life there. Among the periodicals, novels, and many books are some titles from the nineteenth cen tury, a rarity in Korea where most printing be gan in the present century, Paul Snezek, spe cial collections librarian, points out. He adds that it will provide an opportunity for students interested in missionary work in Korea to do some first-hand study of the area and its litera ture. Much of the material is autographed, and many of the pieces are first editions. It wall be housed in the special collections room of the Nicholas Library upon completion of remodel ing there. Ms. Swallen, a member of Whea ton’s class of 1929, left the collection in mem ory of her parents, Dr. William L. and Sally W. Swallen, missionaries to Korea for forty-eight years under the United Presbyterian Church, United States. F E L L O W S H I P • The S p e c i a l L i b r a r i e s A s s o c i a t i o n has announced that it will award three $2,500 scholarships for the academic year 1976-77 toward graduate study leading to a master’s degree at a recognized school of library or in formation science in the United States or Can ada. Applicants pursuing careers as special li brarians, those trained in the theory and prac tice of library science, as well as in the funda mentals of a particular field, will be preferred. The deadline for applications is January 15, 1976. Forms may be requested from: Special Libraries Association, Scholarship Committee, 235 Park Ave. South, New York, NY 10003. G R A N T S • The Lucy Hampton Bostick Trust has made an $11,750 matching grant to the U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h C a r o l i n a for a study of the continuing education needs of library personnel in the state. The one-year study will be con ducted by the USC College of Librarianship to identify the needs for continuing education of library personnel and to develop a plan for meeting those needs where they exist. 355 The Bostick Trust was created by the will of the late Lucy Hampton Bostick, philanthropist, publisher, civic leader, and a long-time director of the Richland County Library. The plan resulting from the study will take into account the use of new educational tech nology such as television and videotape, and it will also coordinate resources of the College of Librarianship with state agencies concerned with continuing library education. Katherine Armitage, an assistant professor and continuing education consultant with the USC College of Librarianship, will be directly responsible for carrying out the study. As part of her effort, she will be traveling around the state talking with librarians to learn what the continuing education needs of librarians are and where those needs exist. Ms. Armitage, who holds a master’s degree in librarianship, will also be conducting an inventory of existing resources for continuing education. The continuing education plan resulting from the study will be designed for library personnel who had had no formal library education, for librarians with professional education who want to stay abreast of new developments in the field, and for librarians who want to develop specialized skills. “There has never been a comprehensive, in- depth study of the continuing education needs of librarians in South Carolina,” said Wayne S. Yenawine, dean of the USC College of Librari anship. “We need to know what the continuing education needs of librarians are, where those needs exist and just what the dimensions of the needs are.” It will be up to the College of Librarianship to implement the continuing education plan once it is prepared. • The Graduate School of Librarianship of the U n i v e r s i t y o f D e n v e r recently announced that it has received a grant from the Organiza tion of American States to extend its Multi- National Educational Program to include an in tensive two month’s Pro-Seminar on National Planning for the assessment of information needs of developing countries in Latin America, and the development of infrastructural models. The participants of the seminar will be nine Latin American librarians, engineers, and com puter specialists who have completed a special twelve-month program at the Graduate School of Librarianship, studying the information needs of their countries. The goal of the pro seminar is to complete their preparation so that upon returning to their countries they will as sume roles of leadership in planning and im plementing national information systems in Bolivia, Columbia, Costa Rica, and Mexico. The proseminar is planned and directed by Professor John T. Eastlick of the Graduate School of Librarianship and Mrs. Jessica Perry, presently of the Graduate Library School of the University of Arizona and formerly of the School of Library Science of Case Western Reserve University. Professor Eastlick, former city librarian of the Denver Public Library, has been on the faculty of the G SL since 1969. He has special ized in library administration and has presented numerous special continuing education pro grams for professional librarians. In addition to serving as a management and building con sultant to many libraries in the United States, he has served as a consultant to the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia de Mexico and the Metropolitan Autonomus University of Mexico City. Ms. Perry has had extensive experience in in formation science, both in the classroom and in developing and operating systems. She has taught courses in information science at the Universidad Autonomo de Mexico; the In stitueo Brasiliero de Bibliografia e Documen tacoa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and at the Escue la Interamericana de Bibliotechologia, Universi dad de Antioquia, Medellin, Columbia. As as sociate director of the Center for Documenta tion of the Case Western Reserve library school, she participated in the development of and was responsible for the administration of the metals documentation service for the Amer ican Society for Metals. This service was the Marquette Librarians Make Governance Gains An Academic Librarians Assembly has been established for the professional li brarians of the Marquette University Me morial Library. Formation of the assem bly gives the librarians official status as part of the university’s academic com munity and an advisory role in the deci sion-making process affecting their ap pointments and promotions. Librarians will now be given the ranks of assistant librarian, senior assistant li brarian, associate librarian, or librarian. A permanent committee of the assembly will be established to make recommenda tions to the library director on all future appointments and promotions. A steering committee studied the mat ter of giving official status to the twenty members of the library’s professional staff. Its proposal received university ap proval, effective Sept. 1. Olive Caulker, catalog librarian, was elected chair woman of the assembly. 356 first automated information retrieval system for a professional society in the country. • T he University of Southern Califo r nia Library School has received a grant of $86,000 from the U .S. Office of E ducation for a special program, “A Library School E d u ca tional Program without W alls.” T h e Library School will provide a group of independent, self-paced courses to persons unable to attend classes in traditional, scheduled, regular for mat. Courses offered in the 1975 fall semester under this plan include: L .S . 401, Introduction to Librarianship; L .S . 492, R eference Sources and Services; L .S . 506, Inform ation Sources: Humanities; L .S . 509, Selection and Acquisition o f Library M aterials; L .S . 510, Inform ation Sources: Sciences; L .S . 563, Inform ation Sys tems for Library Service. For more information call or write to: Dean Martha Boaz, School of Library Science, Uni versity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007; (2 1 3 ) 746-2548. • C a s e W e s t e r n R e s e r v e U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r i e s a r e w e l l o n t h e w a y t o b e c o m i n g t h e m a j o r c e n t e r f o r r e s e a r c h m a t e r i a l s i n U r b a n a n d E n v i r o n m e n t a l S c i e n c e i n N o r t h e a s t O h i o , t h a n k s t o r e c e n t g r a n t s f r o m t h e C l e v e l a n d a n d G u n d f o u n d a t i o n s . A grant of $28,000 from the Cleveland Foun dation will enable the libraries to catalog the 50,000 volume Ernest J. Bohn Housing and Planning Library, which is second in size only to Harvard’s housing and planning collection. An additional $37,400 from the Cleveland Foundation and the George Gund Foundation will be used to bolster the Environmental Sci ence Collection. The Cleveland Foundation provided the initial funding for this collection in 1971. “The Bohn and Environmental Science col lections represent a resource of unsurpassed quality for urban planners, environmentalists, and other researchers in Greater Cleveland,” observed James V. Jones, director of university libraries. While only Case Reserve students may with draw books from university libraries, the collec tions are open to everyone in greater Cleveland, Jones added. A portion of the grant money will be used to produce guides to both the Bohn L i brary and the Environmental Science Collec tion. The Bohn Library was formed and donated by Ernest J. Bohn, former head of the Cuyaho ga Metropolitan Housing Authority and a na tionally recognized pioneer in public housing and planning. “The Bohn Library will be an in valuable aid to professionals in the fields of The least expensive and most up-to-date source of cataloging now contains 2 /3 million popular and recent titles. M ARCFICH E, with five cumulative indexes, grows by thousands of new items each week. F r e e trial use a v a il a b l e on re q u e st to: M A R C A P P L I E D R E S E A R C H C O M P A N Y Post O ffice Box 40035, W ashington, D .C. 20016 357 housing, planning, development, public admin istration and problems of the aged,” said Wes ley Williams, curator of special collections. The Environmental Science Collection is cur rently providing support for approximately $500,000 worth of environmental research on the Case Reserve campus. “Supporting such re search is the Libraries’ way of helping solve many of today’s most pressing problems,” ob served Marcia Parsons, head librarian at CW RU’s Sears Library, where the collection is housed. The Cleveland Foundation grants were pro vided by the A. E . Convers Fund, and the John C. and Elizabeth F. Sparrow Fund. • The S o c i e t y o f A m e r i c a n A r c h i v i s t s has begun a comprehensive archival security program. Major facets of the project will be supported by a $99,690 grant from the Nation al Endowment for the Humanities. Ann Mor gan Campbell, executive director of the SAA, will direct the project, and Timothy G. Walch has joined the society’s Chicago staff as associ ate director of the program. He will assume primary responsibility for implementation of various phases of the work plan. Kathryn M. Nelson will be program assistant for the project. The staff is now involved in a large-scale in vestigation of the nature and extent of the ar chival security problem and of possible solu tions. Legal and technical experts, manuscript dealers, as well as archivists and manuscript curators, will be consulted. The agenda for the program is as follows. A registry of missing manuscripts will be estab lished by spring 1976. A format will be devised within the next few months and solicitation of listings will begin by the end of this year. A special section of the SAA N ew sletter will be devoted to security developments. Eventually, distribution of security news will be broadened to include nonmember, interested parties. B y fall 1976, a consultant service will make com petent experts available to archival institutions to advise them in the areas of security systems, internal archival procedures, legal problems, and other aspects of archival security. The project will culminate in 1977 with the publi cation of an archival security manual. For further information please write to the Associate Director, SAA Archival Security Pro gram, Society of American Archivists, Box 8198, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL 60680. M E E T I N G S J a n u a r y 9 -1 0 : F e d e r a l D o c u m e n t s W o r k s h o p . A regional workshop (Texas, New Mex ico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana) on federal documents will be held at the University of Houston. The workshop is sponsored by the Texas Library Association Documents Round Table and endorsed by the Government Documents Round Table of the American L i brary Association. Program highlights include: reference ma terials available from GPO and commercial agencies; automated retrieval of documents; collection development, maintenance, and man agement; the depository program; and speak ers from NTIS and GPO. Registration fee of $40.00 will include three meals. For further information, please contact Bar bara Kile, Documents Division, Fondren L i brary, Rice University, Box 1892, Houston, TX 77001. J a n u a r y 1 4-16: A U.N. T r a i n i n g S e s s i o n f o r U.N. D o c u m e n t s will be held in New York City at U.N. Headquarters under the aus pices of the United Nations Institute for Train ing and Research and the Dag Hammarskjold Library. For further information contact Mina Pease, Chairperson, ID T F Working Group on Workshops, 551 Warren Blvd., Garden City South, NY 11530. J a n u a r y 23 -2 4 : The C o n t i n u i n g L i b r a r y E d u c a t i o n a n d N e t w o r k E x c h a n g e will hold Las Vegas Library Contributor Honored The Bicentennial year is an opportuni ty for unique library projects. One of those is that of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Individuals in the Southern Nevada area who are contributing to the growth of the university and the commu nity are being honored by an exhibit, a reception, and a brochure. The brochure tells of the contributions of the honored person. The first individual honored, Florence Lee Jones Cahlan, a newspaper woman and historian, is a founder of Las Vegas Service League, now Junior League. She is responsible for many his torical collections being added to the university library as well as being instru mental in beginning the first university library endowment. Currently, four of her family members are remembered by library endowments, the interest from which is used to purchase books annual ly. Librarians interested in a sample of the brochure may secure a copy from the Director’s Office, University of Ne vada, Las Vegas Library, Las Vegas, NV 89154. Now available for the firs t tim e in book fo rm a t… combined cumulative indexes to the complete runs of 531 journals in H istory, Political Science and Sociology COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEX SETS T h e “N E X U S ” com puter data base, originally created as a custom bibliographic search service in the social sciences, has been acquired by C a rro llto n Press and is being published fo r the library com m unity in 2 5 hardcover index volumes. M ore than 3 5 0 ,0 0 0 articles from the backfiles of scholarly journ als dating b ack to 1 8 3 8 , were indexed by Su b ject and A u th or as input to the N E X U S com puter file, and later reprogram m ed by us fo r com position in folio-size page form at. T h e availability of the N E X U S data base in b o o k form will not only result in its m ore frequent and convenient use, but it will also m ake it av ailab le to students and oth er patrons who could not afford to spend their own funds fo r com p uter searches. Single-Source Bibliographic Access Eliminates Non-Productive Search Time Until now, anyone wishing to make exhaustive retro spective searches on certain subjects, or even locate works whose dates of publication were unknown, have been forced to search year-by-year through numerous annual volumes issued by several different serial indexing services or in some cases in the cumulative indexes to individual journals. The new C om bin ed R etrospective In dex Sets for His tory, Political Science and Sociology, however, provide not only the equivalent of long-term com bin ed cum ula tive coverage of several o f the indexing services, but also access to the many earlier issues of those journals which were being published for many years before the indexing services started covering them. Moreover, many o f the journals, such as those in the field o f “State and Local History,” have never been adequately covered by general indexing services. Separate Keyword Indexes Under 585 Categories Provide Precise Subject Access The three sets contain 585 subject categories listed under 101 major subject headings. Because of the size of the data base, and the fact that there are an average of 600 entries for each of the 585 subject categories, we modified the N E X U S programs to produce separate, self-contained keyword indexes to all entries listed under each category. As a result, each entry is listed under an average of 3.8 keywords, which gives a total o f 1.3 million subject entries for the entire collection. UPDATING Each set will be kept current with an Annual Supplem ent volume containing both subject and author entries. Beginning with coverage of journals issued during 1975, the supplements will also in clude entries from the backfiles of other journals which will be added to the data base. Prices and delivery dates will be announced. COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEXES TO JOURNALS IN HI 1 S 838 T - 197 O 4 RY More than 150,000 articles from the backfiles of 234 History journals in the English Language have been in dexed together and published in 9 casebound cumulative subject index volumes and 2 cumulative author index volumes, COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEXES TO JOURNALS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE 1886 -1974 This set contains 6 cumulative subject volumes and 2 cumulative author volumes. Coverage includes more than 115,000 articles on such topics as Politics, Public Administration and International Relations, from the backfiles of 179 English Language journals. COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEXES TO JOURNALS IN SOCIOLOGY 1895 - 1975 From the retrospective collections of 118 English Lan guage sociology journals, some 85,000 articles have been indexed and their entries interfiled in five casebound folio-size cumulative subject volumes, and one cumula tive author index volume. 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The primary purpose of the assem bly will be to provide a forum for discussing major issues in continuing education and to fo cus on two of C L E N E ’s program goals: experi mentation and innovation in the design, con text, techniques, and technology used in con tinuing education and ways in which CLEN E can assist groups and individuals in continuing education programs. The two-day program will open with a pre sentation of the current problems and future requirements for continuing education in the library profession with a candid commentary on present efforts in relation to demand. Impli cations of self-assessment for future develop ment will be highlighted by a sequence of pre sentations by well-known specialists in continu ing education. Small group discussion of major issues in continuing education in which CLEN E will take a leadership role will investigate develop ment and use of testing and self-assessment in struments; organization, governance, products, and services of continuing education; criteria for evaluation; and professional benefits and financing of continuing education programs. The attendees will form the nucleus of the first CLEN E assembly, and the closing session will be devoted to the organizational and pro cedural issues relating to CLEN E. In conjunc tion to the first CLEN E assembly meeting, a continuing education materials fair will offer pertinent and relevant materials for examina tion and distribution. For further information, contact: Dr. Elizabeth Stone, CLEN E, 620 Michigan Ave., NE, Washington, D C 20064. F e b r u a r y 16-20: OCLC W o r k s h o p . The Kent State University Library announces a five- day intensive workshop on OCLC. Planned chiefly for middle management and systems personnel in institutions about to begin network participation, it will also be of interest to li brarians and library school faculty concerned with networks and with interinstitutional bib liographic control. Each participant will be guaranteed individ ualized hours working on-line. Resource people in a number of remote locations will be avail able as consultants and lecturers, via the uni versity’s telelecture capabilities. Topics will include: “The OCLC System”; “The MARC Format” (as the system’s biblio graphic medium); “The OCLC Terminal” (op eration, possibilities, limitations, printing at tachments); “In-House Procedures” (work flow adaptations, management implications); and “Teaching Methods” (sharing this complex of information with others). For maximum personalization, the group will be limited to thirty registrants. Special consideration will be given to individuals in libraries whose “on-line” date is imminent. For further information contact: Anne Marie Allison, Asst. Prof., Library Admin., University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242. M a r c h 8 -1 2 : The L i b r a r y B i n d i n g I n s t i t u t e C o n s e r v a t i o n W o r k s h o p will be held at the New England Document Conservation Center, located at Merrimack Textile Museum, 800 Massachusetts Ave., North Andover, MA 01845. George M. Cunha is director/conserva- tor of the center, a nonprofit organization, and Robert C. Morrison, Jr., is director of educa tion. The technical aspects of the seminar will be dependent upon the technical background of the participants as to which information is re quested. The program will consist of both lec tures and workshop. Arrangements have been made for lodging and lectures with Boston University at the Os good Hill Conference Center, a nonprofit entity, which is located in North Andover. The cost of the seminar workshop is $275, which includes tuition, room and board ( four nights, three meals a day) at the Osgood Hill Conference Center, and the text. The course is limited to twenty-five. To par ticipate send your reservation form with deposit of $50.00 to Library Binding Institute (deposit returned if reservation cancelled prior to Feb ruary 1, 1976), balance to be paid on or before March 1, 1976. For further information contact Library Binding Institute, 50 Congress St., Suite 630, Boston, MA 02109; (6 1 7 ) 227-9614. M a r c h 23 -2 5 : ASLIB in association with six European organizations will conduct EU RIM 2, a conference on the application of research in information services and libraries at RAI Inter national Congrescentrum, Amsterdam, Nether lands. Further information is available from Conference Organiser, ASLIB, 3 Belgrave Square, London SW 1X 8PL, England. A p r i l 8-11: An I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e o n A r t P e r i o d i c a l s , sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the Art Libraries Society of North America will be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Uni versity of Sussex. An exhibition of art period icals will be on display at the Victoria and Al bert Museum in spring 1976 to commemorate this international conference. The conference itself is open primarily to art librarians. For further information, contact: Peter R. B. Moore, Tutor Librarian, Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, 7 Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts., England. 361 A p r i l 2 5 -2 8 : The thirteenth annual C l i n i c o n L i b r a r y A p p l i c a t i o n s o f D a t a P r o c e s s i n g will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, at the Ulini Union on the Urbana campus. The theme of this clinic will be “The Economics of L i brary Automation.” In an era of double-digit inflation and re duced budgets, libraries are being forced to examine automation costs very carefully. Can an automated system be less expensive than the manual system it replaces? Are there objective measures of the dollar value of improved ser vice? When can a library justify independent development of a computer system? Papers at the 1976 clinic will attempt to answer these questions and to describe the economics of spe cific library applications. J. L. Divilbiss, associate professor of library science, is chairman of the committee planning the clinic. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Edward Kalb, 116 Illini Hall, Univer sity of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. The com­ plete program of the clinic will be available by November 1975. M a y 9 -2 1 : The College of Library and Infor mation Services, University of Maryland, is planning the tenth annual L i b r a r y A d m i n i s t r a t o r s D e v e l o p m e n t P r o g r a m . Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. As in the past nine summers, participants will include senior administrative personnel of large library systems— public, research, academic, special, governmental, and school— from the United States and Canada. The faculty is made up of well-known scholars, educators, management New Acquisitions Plan Available With libraries suffering from inflation, and in some cases reduced funds, we would like to offer new and/or small- size college libraries the opportunity to purchase items s e lec ted (mostly “solid” nonfiction) from our collection for pos sible use in college libraries. W e have sold thousands of dollars worth of books by this method and would like to extend our market. Here’s how it works. W e mail you (at library rate) selected books. You value and keep the ones you want, send us a check, and return the ones you don’t want. For further information, write or call: Marvin H. Scilken, Director, Orange Public Library, Orange, NJ 07050; (2 0 1 ) 673-0153. consultants, and lecturers drawn from uni versities, government, and consulting fields. Seminar sessions will concentrate on the prin cipal administrative issues which senior man agers encounter. Leadership, motivation, com munication, personnel policy, decision making, problem solving, financial planning and control, performance appraisal, the impact of technol ogy, and the planning of change are among the issues considered in lecture, case analysis, group discussion, and seminar. The two-week resident program will again be held at the University of Maryland’s Don aldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland, a serene twenty-acre estate overlooking the Sus quehanna River and offering a variety of rec reational facilities and an informal atmosphere conducive to study, reflection, and discussion. Those interested in further information are in vited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad ministrators Development Program, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. M a y 10-11: S y m p o s i u m o n t h e B o o k A r t s at the University of Alabama. Among the speakers will be R. Hunter Middleton (Cherry burn Press) of Chicago; Carolyn Hammer (An vil Press and King Library Press), Lexington, Ky.; William Haynes (Ashantilly Press) of Darien, Ga.; Susan Thompson, an authority on William Morris, of Columbia University; and Frank Anderson, Librarian of Wofford College and the compiler of Private Presses in th e Southeastern United States. Also included will be discussions and demonstrations of papermak ing, marbleizing, bookbinding, calligraphy, and type design. M a y 10-28: T y p o g r a p h i c W o r k s h o p , a three-week introduction to fine printing and book design. For further information about both the symposium and the workshop write James D. Ramer, Dean, Graduate School of L i brary Service, P.O. Box 6242, University, AL 35486. J u n e 2 1 -2 5 : The A m e r i c a n T h e o l o g i c a l L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n will hold its thirtieth an nual conference at the Calvin Theological Sem inary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Further in formation may be secured from: The Reverend Erich R. W. Schultz, University Librarian, W il frid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2C5. M I S C E L L A N Y • R o c k e f e l l e r U n i v e r s i t y has announced the opening of the Rockefeller Archive Center at Hillcrest, Pocantico Hills, North Tarrytown, New York. The center will be the depository 362 for the archives of the Rockefeller University, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Rockefeller family. The Rockefeller University Archives include the records of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, which was established in 1901. There are also papers of individual sci entists who were associated with the institute. The Rockefeller Foundation Archives for the years prior to 1942 were opened to scholars in 1973 when they were located at 333 West 52d Street, New York City. They document the foundation’s worldwide programs in educa tion, research, public health, medicine, arts, hu manities, social sciences, and agricultural devel opment from 1913 on. Also included are the records of the Bureau of Social Hygiene (1911— 4 0 ), the China Medical Board (1 9 1 3 -2 9 ), the General Education Board (1 9 0 2 -5 4 ), the In ternational Education Board (1923Í-41), the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (1 9 1 8 - 4 1 ), the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease (1 9 0 9 - 1 5 ), and the Spelman Fund of New York (1 9 2 8 -4 9 ). There are also papers of a few in dividuals who were associated with the founda tion. A booklet briefly describing these collec tions, which was published in 1973, is now available from the Archive Center. The Rockefeller Family Archives include some of the papers of John D. Rockefeller (1939-1960), the office of the Messrs. Rockefeller Second Volume of Library Festschrift Index Forthcoming We are preparing a second volume of the Index to F estschriften in Librarian ship (New York, Bowker, 1 9 7 0 ), to be published by Klaus Saur, Verlag Doku mentation, Munich. The new work will include not only honor volumes pub lished from 1966— the terminal date of the In dex … — through 1975, but also such pre-1966 titles omitted from the In dex … as have been discovered since its publication. The standard bibliogra phies, e.g., L ibrary Literature, Library and Inform ation S cien ce Abstracts, T h e Library o f Congress C atalog o f Printed B ooks, etc., are, of course, being searched, but we should be especially grateful to be informed of Festschriften, honoring libraries and librarians, and from any period, that are not noted in such sources. Address all such information you may have to: J. Periam Danton or Jane F. Pulis, School of Librarianship, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. d (1 8 9 5 -1 9 6 1 ), the American International Association for Economic and Social Develop ment (1 9 4 6 -1 9 6 9 ), and the Davison Fund (1 9 3 0 -1 9 4 2 ). Scholars interested in these research materi als should address the Rockefeller Archive Center, Hillcrest, Pocantico Hills, North Tarry town, NY 10591, or call (9 1 4 ) 631-4505. The Rockefeller Archive Center also an nounces that the records of the General Educa tion Board, previously opened for research for the years prior to 1942, have now been opened through 1954. P U B L I C A T I O N S • An experimental ten-minute color and professionally produced training film, Reference —More Than an Answer, depicts typical refer ence situations designed to stimulate discussion on: importance of interpersonal relations, con flicting verbal and nonverbal messages, value of privacy in conducting the interview, priority of personal versus telephone inquiry, librarian attitudes, open and closed questions, total refer ence service. The film is available on loan from the L i brary Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee for a fee of $10.00 per showing. A taped critique of the film, presented by Dr. Charles Bunge, director of the University of Wisconsin Library School, is available for use in conjunction with the film. Reprints of the training film are available for purchase at the following costs: 16mm color print, $115; videotape cassette color, $37.50; cassette recording— critique, $4.00. A preview charge of $10.00 (prepaid) will be applied to the price of a print upon receipt of a purchase order. Orders and further information are available from: Library Council of Metropolitan Milwau kee, 814 West Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, W I 53233. • The staff of the Educational Resources In formation Center (E R IC ) Clearinghouse on In formation Resources has prepared a publication geared for educational library/media specialists who wish to use E R IC in their professional ca pacities and who wish to teach others to use E R IC . The twenty-two-page paper, ERIC: What It Can Do for You/How to Use It, was originally designed as part of a training pack age for professional education classes. It now has been made useful to anyone wishing to learn about ERIC. Sections cover: E R IC : what it can do for you; directory of E R IC clearinghouses and relate 363 units; E R IC searching tools; doing a man ual search of E R IC ; access to E R IC resources; developing an E R IC computer search; adding materials to E R IC ; and additional materials and agencies in the field. E R IC : W h at It Can D o fo r You is available for $3.75 from: Box E , School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. Checks made payable to “Box E ” must be in cluded with orders. It also will be available from the E R IC Document Reproduction Ser vice when its E D number is announced. • A rare book in a limited first edition of 1,000 copies will be published before the end of 1975, International Women’s Year, by the U n i t e d S t a t e s C o m m i t t e e f o r t h e E l e n a L u c r e z i a C o r n a r o P i s c o p i a T e r c e n t e n a r y , with a generous grant from the Hunt Founda tion of Pittsburgh. The year 1978 will be the three hundredth anniversary of the graduation of Elena Lu crezia Cornaro Piscopia from the University of Padua in 1678, “Prima Donna Laureata nel Mondo,” the first woman university graduate of the world. This beautiful volume cannot be ordered through any commercial outlet; however, a copy may be obtained for rare book or refer ence libraries in return for a contribution of twenty-five dollars to the Cornaro Restoration Fund as the gift of a donor. The donor may be an individual, organization, group, or any spe cial endowment fund available for such a con tribution in memory of an individual whose name would be inscribed on the special book plate. Of the 1,000 copies to be published, 500 have already been assigned. There is still time to add this exciting source book, the only one in English, to library collections in anticipation of the Cornaro Tercentenary in 1978. Orders may be sent with a check for twenty-five dol lars made payable to the Cornaro Restoration Fund to: The Cornaro Restoration Fund, 1102 Bruce Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pitts burgh, PA 15260. • The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center of the Association of Research Libraries’ Office of University Library Management Stud ies has issued a new SPEC Kit. The SPEC Kit and Flyer on specialists con sists of thirty-nine documents describing vari ous types of specialist positions such as: per sonnel, budget and computer specialists, ac countants, and systems analysts. Other docu ments relevant to effective utilization of spe cialists are also included. Requests for copies of these kits should be sent to the Office of University Library Man agement Studies, Association of Research L i braries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036. The cost to SPEC members and subscribers is $7.50 for each kit, and $15.00 to others. • Librarians who serve engineers, scientists, and educators in these fields will find eighteen recommendations for cooperative library ser vices in Russell Shank’s report “Regional Access to Scientific and Technical Information.” The 218-page report was originally published in 1968 after Shank had completed a two-year study for M ETRO (New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency). M ETRO has republished the report as a work ing tool to guide further actions of its member libraries. A limited number of copies are avail able for sale at $22.75 each if a check accom panies the order and $25.00 if an invoice is re quired. Checks should be made payable to M ETRO and orders sent to: M ETRO, 11 West 40th St., New York, NY 10018. • The Louisiana Library Association an nounces the publication of the Louisiana Union C atalog on microfiche. The Louisiana Union C atalog, first published in 1959, is a union cata log of all Louisiana materials in Louisiana li braries, with location symbols. It is a main en try catalog, in N ational Union C atalog format. All of the entries contained in the 1959 volume and its three supplements, and new entries through 1973, are arranged in one alphabet in the microfiche edition. Additional holding loca tions have been added to the older cards as well as a few more added entries. Also, an index to the whole catalog through 1973 has been compiled and put on microfiche. The index is very comprehensive in that au thors, titles, subjects, and added entries are listed, and each entry contains author, title, imprint, date, and up to ten holding locations. The fiche for the catalog is 40X reduction, negative, and the fiche for the index is 42X COM negative. The Louisiana Union Catalog Committee was fortunate to receive a grant through the Louisi ana State Library in order to undertake the project. The committee has assembled an up- to-date “package”; including bimonthly ad vance sheets through June 1978, which is avail able for $85.00. For information on other plans and placement of orders, please write: Norma Durand, Dupre Library, University of South western Louisiana, Lafayette, LA 70501. • UPDATA Publications, Inc., of Santa Monica, California, has announced the forth coming publication of all the relevant research material published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines between 1910 and 1969, on microfiche. The collection consists of more than 13,000 documents, or close to a half-million pages of bulletins, reports of investigations, technical 364 papers, annual reports, information circulars, mineral yearbooks, mineral resources, and other publications. The U.S. Bureau of Mines Collection 1910- 1969 contains some of the most important ma terial available today on research and develop ment of better methods of extracting and pro cessing minerals and mineral fuels. It provides a basic continuing reference source for under ground construction, safety and health, metal lurgy, rock mechanics, pressures, temperatures, coal research, statistics on mineral resources and fuels, oil shale conversion technology, re covery operations after mining fires and explo sions, and the recovery of low-grade ores— a basis for important research on tomorrow’s problems. Each document will be reproduced with all illustrations, photographs, and maps. The entire collection will consist of more than 6,000 4x6 24X NMA-standard microfiche, produced on negative diazo film of heavy quality. The use of a new polyester-based diazo film will elimi nate the need for envelopes. The “U.S. Bureau of Mines Collection 1910- 1969” is scheduled for publication in 1976. In quiries may be addressed to UPDATA, 1508 Harvard St., Santa Monica, CA 90404. Interest ed parties located on the U.S. mainland may call UPDATA President, Herbert Sclar, collect, at (2 1 3 ) 829-5090. • The Drexel Library Quarterly, volume 11, no. 3, examines “Current Issues in Serials L ibrarianship.” SUNYA Librarian Cited as Outstanding Teacher For the first time in the history of the State University of New York at Albany, a member of the library faculty was se lected to receive the coveted Outstand ing Teacher Award for 1975. The award, which is given annually to individuals selected by a student faculty committee, was presented by President Emmett B. Fields to Maria Zych, assistant librarian, at a luncheon held in her honor. Fred erick Tesch, assistant professor of psy chology, received the same award. Ms. Zych has held positions in circulation, government documents, reference, and information retrieval, where she is cur rently a search analyst. She also teaches one course each semester in the Depart ment of Slavic Languages and Litera tures. She was honored for her contribu tions as a librarian and as a teacher of Polish. Ms. Zych has been on the library faculty at SUNYA since 1970. Serials librarians often have diffi culty identifying up-to-date sources of informa tion directly related to their work. The upcom ing issue deals with these difficulties which are affecting on-the-job librarians. The articles, selected for their timeliness, often emphasize the manner in which serials li brarians can have impact upon the issues under discussion. Benita M. Weber, serials librarian of Mont gomery County (P a .) Community College, and Toni Carbo Bearman, executive director of the National Federation of Abstracting and Index ing Services, are guest editors for the issue. Articles included in the issue are: “The Se rials Librarian as Activist” by David C. Taylor; “Main Entry for Serials” by Joseph J. Howard; “I S B D (S ) and Title Main Entry for Serials” by C. Sumner Spalding; “International Coopera tion in Serials” by Joseph W. Price; “National Serials Data Program” by Mary Sauer; “The CONSER Project” by Paul Vassallo; “CONSER Inter-Relationships” by Lawrence G. Living ston; “Serials: Costs and Budget Projections” by F. F. Clasquin; and “Education of Serials Librarians” by Benita M. Weber. Copies of vol. 11, no.3, “Current Issues in Serials Librarianship,” are available for $4.00 each ($5.0 0 outside the U.S. and Canada) from the D rexel Library Quarterly, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104; telephone (2 1 5 ) 895- 2483. • The Emerging University Library: Les sons from the Sixties, by ALA Past-President Edward G. Holley, has been published by the libraries of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The Holley publication is the first number in a series of occasional papers to be issued by Stony Brook. The series is planned to address a wide variety of issues in librarian ship and related fields. In his paper, Dr. Holley reviews those cir cumstances during the sixties which influenced the rapid development of new universities and their libraries in such places as Illinois, Cali fornia, New York, and Texas. That phenomenal period of development now at an end, Dr. Holley comments upon the opportunities and challenges remaining to these “instant” research universities and their libraries. The landscape which Dr. Holley outlines is not bleak, only somewhat changed. He sees a need for reexami nation of directions and priorities. In general, he feels that the libraries of young institutions will continue to be vital and interesting places. Copies of the seventeen-page paper are avail able from the Office of Director of Libraries, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794. The cost is $ 1.00. ■ ■