ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • Now permanently housed in the Rare Books and Special Collections Department of Washington University Libraries, St. Louis, Missouri, The Philip Mills Arnold Semeiology Collection numbers approximately 1,600 vol­ umes. It is still being augmented by Mr. Ar­ nold, alumnus of the university and vice-presi­ dent for research and development of Phillips Petroleum Company. The collection emphasizes works which appeared at the early stages of the development of interest in topics relevant to semiotics. The collection is particularly strong in works on cryptography, shorthand, the de­ cipherment of ancient languages, the nature of the written and verbal signs of language, teleg­ raphy, mnemonic theory, and devices, signs, and emblems. A portion of the collection deals with the deaf and blind, and includes a copy of the Epistles of Saint John, embossed in Wil­ liam Moon’s alphabet for the library of Georg V, blind king of Hanover. A catalog of a recent exhibit (1973) of works from the col­ lection is available from Washington University Libraries. • The private library of the late New York book collector Jack Harris Samuels, 3,000 vol­ umes spanning four centuries of English and American literature, has been given to Colum­ bia University. The library is among the larg­ est and most important collections of such lit­ erature ever received at Columbia. The collection holds more than two hundred 19th- and 20th-century “association books”— ACRL Publications in Librarianship With Number 34, the title of the ACRL Monograph Series has been changed to “ACRL Publications in Li­ brarianship.” Number 35 of the series, Thomas Bray’s Grand Design, by Charles T. Laugher, has recently been published. Number 34, Pearce Grove’s Nonprint Media in Academic Libraries, will be published in November 1974. Number 36, Shaping of American Library Educa­ tion, by Charles Churchwell, will be published in December 1974. Persons or institutions that have standing orders for the series will receive these titles auto­ matically. volumes inscribed by their authors to other famous writers and associates. Among prized volumes in the collection are a 1545 edition of The Workes of Geffray Chau­ cer and the first edition of Christopher Mar­ lowe’s The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, published in 1633. The Samuels library was bequeathed to Co­ lumbia by the collector’s mother, Mollie Harris Samuels, who died in June 1971. Her son, who died in September 1966, had left her the books with the understanding that she in turn would bequeath them to Columbia. Jack Samuels, in­ ternationally known at his death as a biblio­ phile, had earned a master of arts degree at Co­ lumbia in 1940 and had been a frequent bene­ factor of the university libraries. • The Texas Tech University Library has acquired an outstanding collection of Conradi- ana. The basis for this collection consists pri­ marily of over 200 first editions purchased from Charles Sessler, Inc., Philadelphia, and collected by Mabel Zahn, manager. The Textual Studies Institute of the univer­ sity has been established to study the textual differences of Joseph Conrad’s major works, and the periodical Conradiana has been insti­ tuted to publish scholarly articles. Outstanding items include an original etching of Conrad listening to music by Muirhead Bone, an original autograph letter stating the source of The Rescue, three copies of the ap­ proximately fifty copies of the first issue of the 1913 Chance, and one of the thirty-three copies of the first privately printed edition of Notes on Life and Letters. Charlotte Hickson, cataloger of the Conrad collection, has compiled a bibliography of points of Conrad’s works. • The American Philosophical Society Library has received as a bequest from the late Colonel Richard Gimbel his extensive col­ lection on Thomas Paine and his times. The collection includes not only various editions of everything Paine wrote but also copies of books and pamphlets attacking Paine, a number of cartoons and caricatures, some manuscript let­ ters, a large number of photostatic copies of Paine’s letters, and large and extensive support­ ing collections of primary and secondary mate­ rials on the American and French revolutions and the English Reform Movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The catalog of the collection, which has not yet been complet­ ed, is being done by Mrs. Hildegard G. Ste­ phans, to whom inquiries about it may be ad­ 100 dressed, at 105 South Fifth Street, Philadel­ phia, PA 19106. • An outstanding collection of rare books and Californiana, including the only complete volume of the state’s first newspaper, has been given to the Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley. The gift is from Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth K. Bechtel of Kentfield. Mr. Bechtel, a San Francisco insurance executive, is an alumnus of the university. It is among the largest gifts from a single donor ever received by the Bancroft Library. Contained in the Bechtel gift are nearly fifty volumes, two dozen broadsides, and a few man­ uscripts. Included is the only known complete set of the first volume of The Californian, Cali­ fornia’s first newspaper, published in Monterey in 1846-47. The paper moved to San Francis­ co in 1847 and a year later went out of busi­ ness, giving as its reason that all its readers and advertisers had left for the gold fields of the Sierra Nevada foothills. Other rare works include an account of an exploration of Oregon and California in the 1840s by Duflot de Mofras, published in 1844, and a pamphlet of regulations for governing California issued in Mexico City in 1784. Also included is the Up-Biblum God, the first com­ plete Bible printed in the language of an Amer­ ican Indian tribe. In the language of the Mas­ sachusetts Indians, it was printed by John Eliot of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1685. Another Bible, printed 100 years later, is a copy of the first Bible in the English language published in the United States, in 1781-82, which states it was “printed and sold by R. Aitken, at Pope’s Head, Three Doors Above the Coffee House, in Market Street,” Philadelphia. • A collection of rare Jewish manuscripts and texts has been presented to the University of Alherta Library. The collection is com­ prised of works by both Sephardic and Moroc­ can scholars. Donated to the library by the Harry R. Cohen Memorial Foundation, the collection has been described as unique and priceless. It is undoubtedly a major contribution to the fields of Sephardic and Moroccan studies. It demon­ strates how Spanish culture was perpetuated and supplemented by the Jewish scholars of Morocco in the 450 years since the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia (1492). The material in the collection dates from the 1300s to the mid-1800s. Written primarily by Spanish and Moroccan Jewish scholars, the col­ lection contains a wealth of historical and cul­ tural information pertaining to early Moroccan Jewry. The material is particularly important as lit­ tle written material has survived from this pe­ riod of Jewish history. The Harry R. Cohen Memorial Foundation was established with funds received by the uni­ versity from the estate of Harry R. Cohen, a long-time Edmonton resident and businessman. • The University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign now offers scholars the na­ tion’s third largest collection of books and peri­ odicals on the Ukraine. The U. of I. Board of Trustees has approved the purchase of 7,000 volumes on the Ukraine, now known as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, collected by the late Elia Czaykowsky of Detroit. Most of the collection is out-of-print monographs, serials, and periodicals issued from 1850 to 1950. Some of the books, especially those on religion, date from the end of the 18th cen­ tury. Several subjects are covered in the collection. These include literature—which has the most volumes—history, linguistics, geography, art, and the social sciences. Almost all the books are first editions. Professor Dmytro Shtohryn, head of Slavic cataloging in the U. of I. Library and a specialist in Ukrainian literature, said that in the U.S., only the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library have Ukrainian col­ lections larger than the one in the U. of I. Li­ brary. • The Pennsylvania Historical Collections and Labor Archives of the Pennsylvania State University Libraries has announced several recent acquisitions. They include the Robert Joyce collection, photographs of radical and protest activities and leaders in New York City, 1950-71, taken by the former art editor of the National Guardian, and an oral history interview with Mr. Joyce. In addition, the li­ braries now have the Martin Grayson research collection consisting of manuscript materials concerning the history of the lithographers un­ ions from 1886 to 1965 and Mr. Grayson’s ca­ reer in the Amalgamated Lithographers of America as international secretary-treasurer and vice-president, and a large collection of books, serials, and pamphlets on the labor movement and the graphic arts unions with a near-com­ plete run of Lithographers Journal, 1915-58. Recently completed interviews in the Graphic Arts International Union Oral History Project now available for use by scholars include John Connally, Harvey Loven, and Edward Volz. Additions to the Archives of the United Steelworkers of America include records of District 1—Providence, Rhode Island; records of District 27—Canton, Ohio; records of Dis­ trict 32—Milwaukee, Wisconsin; records of the Legislative Office—Washington, D.C.; and a large selection of records from the union’s in­ 101 ternational headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl­ , from the Nan and Matilda Heydt Fund to pro­ ­ vide for a computer generated Author-Title ­ Finding List for Reference Materials. f This pilot project will provide the nine par­ ticipating libraries with the location of refer­ ence materials, and serve as a guide for future ­ collection expansion and coordination. The list, . which will be made available to public and special libraries in the area, should enable both patrons and reference librarians to spend less time locating materials. ­ The nine libraries in the group are from the following colleges: American International Col­ lege, Bay Path Junior College, College of Our Lady of the Elms, Holyoke Community Col­ lege, Springfield College, Springfield Technical Community College, Western New England College, Western New England College School of Law, and Westfield State College. ­ • The Kennedy Institute at Georgetown f University has received a three-year, $280,000 grant from the National Library of Medicine ­ to establish the first comprehensive information retrieval system for the field of bioethics. The purpose of the information retrieval project is to develop a mechanism for biblio­ graphic control of the rapidly expanding litera­ ture in bioethics. The project will generate three major products: an index language appro­ priate to the field; three comprehensive annual bibliographies of English language print and nonprint materials; and, beginning in the third ­ year, an automated information retrieval system capable of providing a variety of services, in­ l cluding demand searches. ­ Bioethics is the study of social and ethical ­ questions raised by developments in the fields of biology and medicine. The subject matter is r drawn from the natural sciences, social sciences, t and humanities, and includes such topical issues r as euthanasia, experimentation on human sub­ jects, genetic manipulation, and behavior con­ ­ trol. The information project will provide syste­ ­ matic access to the literature of bioethics, now widely scattered in the journals of the contrib­ uting disciplines. ­ Long-term plans call for the expansion of the t system to include foreign language materials, quarterly publication of the bibliography, and monthly dissemination of information on select­ s ed topics. In addition, the institute staff will f seek to collaborate with major academic li­ braries and research centers in developing an a information network for the field of bioethics. M E E T I N G S May 24-25: Midwest Academic Librarians ­ Conference, to be held on the campus of , The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. De- vania consisting of files from the civil rights education, housing, public relations, legal, re search, and contract administration depart ments. Researchers interested in the history o the steelworkers can obtain copies of ‘ United Steelworkers of America Archives: A Guide (10 p .) and “Collection of Oral History Inter views . . . to August, 1973” (29 p.) from Dr Ronald L. Filippelli, Labor Archivist, W342 Pattee Library, University Park, PA 16802. • The notable writings of British and Amer ican authors dating from the invention of the printing press in the 15th century to 1800 have been purchased by the University of New Mexico’s Zimmerman Library. The massive 38,000 volumes of fiction and periodical works can be housed in just a few colorful cases, for they are contained on 10,000 reels of 35mm microfilm. The major purchase was negotiated at a “sig nificant discount” approaching 40 percent o the cost of that number of books, and included such “extras” as unpacking, shelving, catalog ing, and setting up the cases. The unusually favorable conditions are all attributable to state bond issue money which permitted the library to buy the entire group of collections and with ready cash. G R A N T S • The National Endowment for the Human ities has awarded the Folger Shakespeare Lirrary a grant of $151,302. The grant wil support the Folger’s central library and re search-related activities by providing special ized staff and further allowing the Folger to enlarge its program of consultantships fo scholars. The NEH grant brings to almos $400,000 the total amount given to the Folge by the endowment in the past three years. Funds for consultantships in the Folger In stitute of Renaissance and 18th-Century Stud ies, a cooperative venture of the library and five area colleges and universities, are one large part of the grant. Recipients range from emi nent scholars to advanced graduate students a the dissertation level. In addition, by assuring new strength for the core functions of the library, the endowment’ grant is designed to encourage the library’s staf and trustees to concentrate their energies and skills on preparation and implementation of long-range development program designed to afford a substantially improved financial base for the library’s future. • The Committee of Librarians of the Coop erating Colleges of Greater Springfield Massachusetts has been granted $9,058.00 102 tails: William C. Roselle, Director, UWM Library, Milwaukee, WI 53201. June 5-7: Indexing in Perspective Seminar. A three-day seminar on indexing has been an­ nounced by the American Library Association and the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services. The seminar will be sponsored by the Subject Analysis and Organization of Library Materials Committee, Cataloging and Classification Sec­ tion of ALA’s Resources and Technical Services Division. It will be hosted by the University of Toronto, Faculty of Library Science, at the Toronto campus. The seminar will cover the vocabularies used in indexing, indexing systems and formats, and the effects of indexing on the retrieval process. Emphasis will be placed on relating indexing developments of the past twenty years to the entire field of information science and library science; against this background lecture specific case histories will be presented and discussed. The course is designed to serve as an intro­ duction for the person with little or no experi­ ence and to provide a perspective review to the more experienced. Each day there will be a special session at the basic level and an oppor­ tunity for an in-depth examination and discus­ sion of the specific case history presented. The following questions will be covered: What is the relationship between classification and indexing? What differences and similarities exist between classification decimal entries, sub­ ject headings, terms, descriptors, etc.? What are the characteristics of a classification scheme, a subject heading list, and a thesaurus? What ef­ fect has the computer had on indexing vocabu­ laries and the manual card file? What are the characteristics of serial and inverted (horizon­ tal and vertical) files? How do subject indexes differ from coordinate indexes? The cost of the three-day seminar is $80.00. The registration fee includes a special kit being prepared for the course. Full details from the National Federation of Abstracting and Index­ ing Services, 3401 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; or from Nancy Williamson, Faculty of Library Science, University of Toronto, 140 St. George S t, Toronto, M5S1A1, Canada. (416) 928-7079. June 16-22: Administrators. An executive development program for library administrators will be offered this summer at Miami Univer­ sity, Oxford, Ohio, by Miami’s School of Busi­ ness Administration. The program is designed to assist library administrators in improving their managerial effectiveness. The fee of $235 includes all program ex­ penses: tuition, instructional fees, cost of all reading materials and other handouts, person­ alized notebooks, plus room and board (in­ cluding three banquets). Anyone interested in attending should write the program director, Dr. Robert H. Myers, School of Business Ad­ ministration, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, requesting a brochure and application form. For further information see the April News. June 17-20: ATLA. The American Theologi­ cal Library Association will hold its annual con­ ference at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. For further information, write Jerry Campbell, Assistant Librarian, Iliff School of Theology, 2233 South University Blvd., Denver, CO 80210. June 19-20: Information Management Symposium. “Problem Solving through Infor­ mation Management” will be the focus of a two-day symposium, sponsored by the Univer­ sity of Pittsburgh’s Office of Continuing Edu­ cation, at the Sheraton Inn, Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. The symposium, to be led by faculty from the University of Pittsburgh’s departments of Information Sciences and Industrial Engineer­ ing, will examine the effective use of informa­ tion and information science, information man­ agement in problem solving and its impact up­ on individuals and organizations, how to assess information needs, the impact of information technology, data bases, information networks, and the use of information systems for strategic planning. Fee for the symposium is $175, which in­ cludes all instructional materials, two lunch­ eons, and a cocktail party. Mail or phone regis­ trations will be accepted through June 5, 1974. For further information and a descriptive bro­ chure, write to the Director of Continuing Edu­ cation, 418 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, or call (412 ) 624-6618. June 24-28: Automation. The College of Engineering at Cornell University will offer a short course on Automatic Library Processing and Information Retrieval. This course is in­ tended for documentalists and librarians who are interested in the application of computer methods to library processing. Specifically cov­ ered are automatic indexing and document analysis, automatic thesaurus construction, au­ tomatic file organization, search methodology for large files, interactive information retrieval, and future library organization for mechanized processing. The fee for the course is $350. For further information contact Director of Contin­ uing Education, Upson Hall, Cornell Universi­ ty, Ithaca, NY 14850. Phone: (607) 256-5088. 103 July 4-6: Juvenilia as a Scholarly Re­ source. A preconference sponsored by the Na­ tional Planning of Special Collections Commit­ tee, Children’s Services Division, American Li­ brary Association, will be held prior to the 1974 ALA Annual Conference in New York. Registration will be limited to 200, and will close May 15, 1974. Application blanks will be available from the Children’s Services Division, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611, after February 15, 1974. Registration fees, including room and meals, are $75 for ALA members; $85 for nonmembers. Special registration fees, without room and meals, are $45 for ALA members; $50 for non­ members. Accommodations will be in Dorm Vil­ lage with meals at the Student Center. For fur­ ther information see the April News. July 5-6: Women in a Woman’s Profes­ sion: Strategies is the title of the ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table sponsored 1974 preconference on women in librarianship. The conference will be held at Douglas College of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. This is a working conference by, for, and about women in librarianship. It will focus on the problem of being the majority in a profes­ sion in which men hold most of the positions of influence, power, and authority. The first session will be devoted to information on prob­ lems in librarianship. The second day will con­ sist of workshops to plan future and continuing action. Advance registration is required and space is limited to 200. The cost is $60.00 and in­ cludes three nights’ (July 4, 5, 6) lodging and all meals. For further information and registration con­ tact Betty-Carol Sellen, Brooklyn College Li­ brary, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Phone: (212) 780- 5335. July 5-6: Serials Workshop. The Serials Section of RTSD and the Library of Congress are sponsoring two workshops on serials proce­ dures at the Library of Congress in Washing­ ton, D.C. The workshops are intended primari­ ly for serials librarians involved in daily serials processing and are designed to acquaint the se­ rials librarian with the processing activities, with an emphasis on cataloging, of the Serial Record Division of the Library of Congress. The first workshop on Friday-Saturday, 5-6 July 1974, is intended for librarians who reside outside of the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area and is scheduled immediately preceding the Annual Conference of the American Library Association in New York City. The second workshop on Tuesday-Wednesday, 1-2 October 1974, will be a repeat of the first workshop and is intended for those librarians in the Washing­ ton, D.C. area. Because of space limitations, preference will be given to those applications bearing the ear­ liest postmark. Preregistration (by 1 June for the July workshop and by 1 September for the October workshop) and confirmation are re­ quired. Application forms may be obtained from Herbert Linville, Chairperson, Serials Section, RTSD, University of California Li­ brary, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (telephone 805-961-2854), or Joseph Howard, Chief, Se­ rial Record Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540 (telephone 202-426- 5302). July 7-8: Census Data. The Education and Behavioral Science Section will spon­ sor the Clearinghouse and Laboratory for Cen­ sus Data (operated by Data Use and Access Laboratories of Rosslyn, Virginia) in a day and a half seminar/workshop on access and use of 1970 Census of Population and Housing data during the 1974 ALA Annual Conference in New York. For further information see the January News. July 7-13: Library Automation. A workshop on the latest techniques in library automation, sponsored by Richard Abel & Company, will precede the 1974 American Library Association conference in New York City. Persons interested in further information oi in participating in the workshop should contact the Abel Workshop Director at this address: Abel Workshop Director, Richard Abel & Com­ pany, Inc., P.O. Box 4245, Portland, OR 97208. See the March News for more informa­ tion. July 28-Aug. 9: Administrators. The Col­ lege of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the eighth annual Library Administrators Development Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of manage­ ment at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. Participants will include senior administrative personnel of large library systems—public, research, academic, special, governmental, and school—from the United States and Canada. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Administrators Development Program, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. See the January News for further infor­ mation. August 5-6: Media. “Differentiating the Me­ dia: A Focus on Library Selection and Use of Communication Content” will be the topic of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference of the 104 University of Chicago Graduate Library School. Mrs. Roscoe Rouse, librarian at the Stillwater e Middle School. Dr. and Mrs. Rouse, who lived w in New York before coming to Stillwater, di­ s­ rected the first Great Libraries Tour last sum­ c­ mer. ­ • The Yale University Library reports r that its research suggests the famous Vinland Map may be a forgery. This conclusion is based r on exhaustive studies initiated by the Yale Li­i­ brary taking advantage of techniques of chemi­a­ cal analysis only recently developed by sci­n­ entists.n­ The Vinland Map, given to Yale University of in 1965, was believed to have been executed L about 1440 a.d., but scientific analysis indicates a­ that it may be of 20th-century origin. The map contained what was thought to be the earliest a­ cartographic representation still extant of the of New World, showing lands discovered by Leif r­ Ericson long before Columbus. s­ • Henriette D. Avram, chief of the MARC t­ Development Office at the Library of Congress, ty is one of six recipients of the Federal W. om­ an’s Award for 1974. Government-wide in scope, the Federal Woman’s Award is the only award program in the federal government that is exclusively for women. Winners are judged nt for their contributions to the federal govern­ ill ment, based upon specific accomplishments that g have made, or are making, an important con­ e tribution to administrative, social, scientific, or of technical progress in the work of a federal ty agency. Personal qualities of leadership, or n sustained individual performance, integrity, ry honesty, and judgment are also required. ar As chief of the library’s MARC Development Office, Mrs. Avram directs all research and de­ m velopment projects necessary for automation of of the technical processes of the library’s biblio­ re graphical services. In her eight years at the Li­ t­ brary of Congress she has become the single i­ most influential person in the field of library e automation, both nationally and internationally. s, The multipurpose MARC format which she de­ n­ signed for the interchange of bibliographic in­ rk formation in machine-readable form has be­ er come an international standard, which will p­ make possible worldwide sharing of biblio­ g graphic information in an automated mode. The MARC format and the MARC Distribu­ ­ tion Service constituted the breakthrough re­ ll quired for significant progress to be made in li­ e brary automation throughout the world. y, e­ • The Division of Library Services and the ­ Department of Library Science at Western Kentucky University has offered for one aca­ e demic year a formal course of instruction to all d freshmen. The success of this program has been d acknowledged by the University Academic The aim of the conference is to go beyond th current pro and con arguments about the “ne media” and to stress, instead, the characteri tics of each medium which influence its effe tiveness as a carrier of different kinds of com munication to serve different kinds of needs fo different kinds of audiences. The conference will be held at the Center fo Continuing Education on the University of Ch cago campus. For further details about registr tion, housing, etc., write to either of the co ference directors, Lester Asheim or Sara I. Fe wick, Graduate Library School, University Chicago, 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, I 60637. See the April News for more inform tion. September 29-October 2: Public Rel tions—A Library Tool will be the theme the Pennsylvania Library Association Confe ence to be held at Host Farm Resort, Lanca ter, Pennsylvania. Information may be reques ed from Stephen D. Wood, Lancaster Coun Library, 125 N. Duke St., Lancaster, PA 17602 M I S C E L L A N Y • Libraries, museums, and other importa institutions in New York and Washington w be the subject of study for a group travelin from Oklahoma for a thirteen-day jaunt to th Eastern seaboard in June. The Department Library Science at Oklahoma State Universi will sponsor, with the College of Educatio Extension Division, a two-hour course, Libra Science 4550, for the second consecutive ye under the title Great Libraries Tour. A small number of students will depart fro Will Rogers World Airport on the morning June 2 for a flight to New York City whe they will spend eight days visiting such ou standing institutions as the New York Public L brary, the library of the United Nations, th Pierpont Morgan Library, the New York Time the CBS Information Center, the Lincoln Ce ter for the Performing Arts, the New Yo Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many oth interesting sites. In addition, free time, sho ping trips, Broadway shows, and sightseein tours are planned for the students. After a bus trip to Washington via Indepen dence Hall in Philadelphia, the group wi spend four days in the Capitol city visiting th Library of Congress, the White House Librar the National Archives, and the Folger Shak speare Library, among other outstanding land marks. Traveling with the group will be Dr. Rosco Rouse, director of the OSU Library and hea of the Department of Library Science, an 105 Council and it has been included among gen­ scriptions of the goal setting process at a num­ tion. ber of academic and research libraries and di­ oted rects the reader to sources of additional infor­ urse mation. hour The Supplement was prepared by Mr. Rich­ rary ard Dionne, head, Science and Technology Li­ ccess braries at Syracuse University, as part of a ieval Council on Library Resources Management the Fellowship carried out at the Office of Univer­ neral sity Library Management Studies. The Requests for copies of this Supplement heme should be sent to the Office of University Li­ and brary Management Studies Office, Association se of of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036. The cost are of each Supplement is $2.00 prepaid.d li­ lec­ • The National Commission on Libraries ircu­ and Information Science has recently issued its , ref­ Annual Report to the President and the Con­ , and gress 1972-1973. In summarizing the year’s ac­ men tivity, discussion is devoted to issues identified emic at the NCLIS regional hearings and studies supported by the commission during the year. N S The report is available for 650 from the Govern­ ment Printing Office. s has irec­ • The American Library Association has and completed the latest in its ongoing series of t the evaluations of microform readers. Included in e an­ the series are reports on the Kodak Ektalite these 120 and the Bell & Howell Briefcase Reader, ticles, two machines which have received a great deal e this of attention and have been heavily promoted ill be for use in educational institutions. The tests tance were conducted at the facilities of R. A. Mor­ Inter­ gan Company, Palo Alto, California. The re­ Third ports, which were published in the November 1973 and January 1974 issues of Library Tech­ nology Reports, also include evaluations of the s be­ Dietzgen/Gakken 4309, Dietzgen 4323-02, Du- e first kane Explorer 14, Micro Design 175, Micobra ews— K-100 Escort, Micobra K-71, RTS Mini-View­ ed at er, and the Xerox University Microfilms 2240 1973 series. d the For more information contact Library Tech­ uium nology Reports, American Library Association, xford, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. rsonal • The Texas Chapter of Special Libraries hased Association has compiled a 1973 edition of its rizona Texas Special Libraries Directory. These are opy. distributed at no cost, while the supply lasts, by Anita Farber, Editor, University of Houston nage­ Libraries, Cullen Blvd., Houston, TX 77004. h Li­ ARL • R and E Research Associates, a research ew of and publishing firm, has gathered together a Aca­ broad spectrum of information on nearly every e dis­ ethnic group making up the various minorities ission in the United States, with special emphasis on t per­ the Third World. Most of these sources are s de­ from out-of-print books going back to the early eral education courses required for gradua The need for such instruction has been n by teaching and library faculty. The co “Use of the Library” carries one semester of credit and includes an orientation to lib services with emphasis on bibliographic a to all instructional resources and to retr techniques. Instructional procedures include use of five video presentations on: Ge Orientation to the Libraries on Campus; Card Catalog, the LC Classification Sc and Operation of the Scope; Periodicals Their Indices; and two programs on the U Reference Tools. Laboratory experiences conducted following each presentation an brary faculty are involved with informal tures describing activities and services in c lation, periodicals, government documents erence, microforms, the special collections the museum. Approximately 2,000 fresh have completed the course for the acad year 1973-74. P U B L I C A T I O • International Mimes & Pantomimist announced the publication of a unique D tory, listing all the known practitioners courses of mime and pantomime throughou world. It will also contain the first complet notated bibliography ever published on art forms, covering the areas of books, ar scripts, and films. The cost is $12.00. Sinc edition will be extremely limited, orders w honored in accord with the date of remit only so long as the supply lasts. Write to national Mimes and Pantomimists, 192 Avenue, New York, NY 10003. • The University of Arizona Library ha gun a new series of occasional papers. Th number, Service or Organization: Two Vi Three Responses, contains papers present a double session colloquium held in April under the sponsorship of the library an Graduate Library School. At the colloq Lawrence Clark Powell and H. William A the featured speakers, dealt with their pe philosophies of library management. Copies of this publication may be purc from the Library Office, University of A Library, Tucson, AZ 85721, for $1.00 per c • The Office of University Library Ma ment Studies of the Association of Researc braries has issued Vol. 2, No. 1, of the Management Supplement. Entitled “Revi the Formulation and Use of Objectives in demic and Research Libraries,” this issu cusses systems of objectives including m statements, continuing objectives, and uni formance goals. The discussion include 106 19th century, and from more recent theses and dissertations of degree candidates. The firm has published an impressive list of these works for convenient reference, including nearly 300 titles covering principally Black Americans, Asian Americans, and Mexican Americans. Other ethnic groups are also cov­ ered in depth, including studies of immigrants from all parts of the world. Such specialties as Armenians, Yugoslavs, Basques, Italians, Portu­ guese, Chilenos, Swedes, and Poles are repre­ sented. They have a vast bibliography and are equipped to do research in and to publish any ethnic reference material. Other researchers in this field who have written the results of their studies may submit their work to R & E for pos­ sible publication and marketing. 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