ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 402 and distributed; 16) budget information is sent to new members of the budget committee; 17) guest registrations at annual conference are forwarded to the ALA Executive Office. As you can imagine, simply keeping ACRL and its various parts functioning on schedule is a fairly time-consuming task. W ithout our having d e­ signed such a system of reminders, the office would be unable to assist units in meeting ALA and ACRL deadlines and as a result we would be unable to provide any of the programs or services we know today. 2) Supervision of ACRL membership services and promotional activities. There are actually two operations here though they are certainly related. ACRL must work very hard to retain its mem­ bership each year and at the same time encour­ age new people to join. Though exact figures are not available, approximately 25% of the division’s membership in any given year fails to renew the next year. Several years ago we undertook a campaign to reduce the number of non-renewals. At the same time, ACRL began to actively recruit new members through chapters, state association meetings, the division’s national conferences, and the expansion and development of programs. Let­ ters are sent encouraging people to renew, wel­ coming new members, and following up on non­ renewing members. Brochures have been created seeking new members. Advertisements in library newsletters have been produced. Programs of the association have been expanded—a Fast Job List­ ing Service and telephone Jobline have been in­ stitu ted , two national conferences have been held, a continuing education program has been developed, preconference activity is increasing— all of these are partially responsible for the 800 personal membership increase over the past three years (500 this year alone). Along with the increase in promotion and re­ tention activities has come a concerted effort to provide b e tte r m em bership service. Though ACRL has no direct control over ALA’s mem­ bership, order or subscription department rec­ ords, we make every effort to assist members if their records are not in order. One of the roles this office takes most seriously is providing ACRL members a place to seek help in their dealings with ALA. 3) Coordination of ACRL publications including production, m arketing, sales and distribution. Here too ACRL’s operation has expanded greatly in recent years. From a time where we were dis­ tributing little more than library standards and position papers, the office now is responsible for a wide variety of publications ranging in scope from a survey of academic status among librar­ ians, to materials on collection developm ent, travel policies, bibliographic instruction, and con­ tinuing education. Because of our success in this area, we find ourselves at headquarters responding to approxi­ mately fifty orders daily for one kind of publica­ tion or another. We are very excited about the outcome of our publishing endeavors, yet we realize that a great deal of time is spent at both the clerical and professional level in support of the program. Editor’s Note: This m onth’s “View fro m HQ" column will be concluded in the January issue. News from the Field ACQUISITIONS • Bowling Green State University’s Library and C enter for Archival Collections, Bowling Green, Ohio, was recently presented an exten­ sive Ray B radbury collection by jwilliam F. Nolan, author of the Logan series of science fiction novels. Believed to be the most complete collection of B radbury books, m anuscripts, periodicals, pamphlets, records, and memorabi­ lia, it was gathered by Nolan, a close friend of Bradbury, over a period of 37 years. Nolan chose Bowling Green as the recipient of his collection because of the university’s reputation as a center for the stuey of popular culture in the United States. • The State University of New York-Stony Brook Library has been given the public papers, manuscripts, and memorabilia of Senator Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.). The materials will be housed in the library’s D epartm ent of Special Collec­ tions. Two to five years of cataloging work will be required before the vast collection, housed in over 1,300 cartons one cubic foot in size, can be made available to scholars. The materials include legislative bills sponsored by Javits, extensive correspondence with international leaders, manu­ scripts, plaques, scrolls, photographs, tapes, and films. • Temple University’s Central Library Sys­ tem, Philadelphia, has acquired the archives of the magazine Seven Days as part of its Contem­ porary C u ltu re Collection. Seven Days first appeared in 1975 and was considered the succes­ sor of Ramparts. The leading name on the edito­ rial board was David Dellinger, one of the defen- dents in the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. The col­ lection includes office files, correspondence, editorial files, published materials, and a selec- 403 tion of Dellinger’s papers as they relate to Seven Days. • The University of Massachusetts-Boston Library has acquired over 1,000 volumes from the collection of the late Professor Howard Mum­ ford Jones. Donated by Mrs. Bessie Jones, the collection reflects Jones’ wide interests in Ameri­ can and European civilization. Included are many first editions of novels by Willa Cather, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Meyer Levin, Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck, and Thomas Wolfe. GRANTS • Thirty grants to major research libraries were awarded by the Department of Education in fiscal year 1981 under Title II-C of the Higher Education Act. Some of them were: Indiana University, Bloomington—$145,000 to catalog the microform set English and American Plays o f the 19th Century. Iowa State University, Ames—$127,975 to both preserve and provide access to the Amer­ ican Archives of the Factual Film. Newberry Library, Chicago—$131,658 to re­ place and preserve rare materials on British his­ tory and family history, reference works and scholarly journals. Stanford University, California—$209,013 to catalog the microform set, Early American Im­ prints 1801-1819. University of Hawaii, Honolulu—$150,000 to undertake the retrospective conversion of the Pacific Collection into OCLC. Yale University, New Haven—$228,000 to support the organization, preservation, and auto­ mated cataloging of the manuscript and Latin American collections. • The Cheney State College Leslie Pinckney Hill Library, Cheney, Pennsylvania, has received a grant of $9,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to plan an exhibit of early black newspapers. The exhibit will demonstrate the importance of the black press in articulating the Afro-American experience. • Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, has been awarded LSCA Title I funds in the amount of $98,048 to develop an Illinois Coop­ erative Conservation Program. The program will make use of the existing cooperative mechanisms of the Illinois Library and Information Network (ILLINET) and the 18 Illinois Library Systems to channel basic conservation information and assist­ ance to over 1,200 libraries in Illinois. It will address both the conservation needs of rare or local history materials as well as the maintenance and repair of general circulating collections and the proper care and use of audio-visual materials. Components of the program include an informa­ tion service, workshops, publication of a newslet­ ter, distribution of training materials, and coor­ dination of conservation activities such as disaster 404 preparedness and access to fumigation services. F or m ore inform ation contact ICCP Project Director Carolyn Clark Morrow, Morris Library, S outhern Illinois U niversity, Carbondale, IL 62901. • The University of Kansas Libraries’ Kansas C ollection, L aw rence, has b een aw arded a National H istorical Publications and Records Commission grant of $21,000, pending funds available for 1982, to process and preserve the J. B. Watkins papers. Watkins was a 19th century business entrepreneur in Lawrence who operated a land mortgage company. The Kansas Collection has also received $8,813 from the Kansas Com­ mittee for the Humanities to prepare a traveling exhibit on women school teachers in Kansas. • The University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, has been awarded a national resources center grant of $105,000 by the Office of Education to support and develop its West European Area Studies curriculum. In 1981-82 the funds will be used primarily to conduct a survey of the librar­ ies’ statistical collections. During the second year a national symposium for West European special­ ists will be held in Minneapolis in May, 1983. NEWS NOTES • The New York Public Library, in conjunc­ tion with the American Trust for the British Li­ brary, has begun a project to microfilm nearly 6,000 books destroyed in the London Blitz of World War II. After the project is completed in five years, most of the lost American titles that were lost will be once again available to the Brit­ ish Library. Photocopies of catalog entries for books missing from the library’s shelves for de­ cades will enable the New York Public Library staff to determine what can be replaced by mic­ rofilming from its own holdings. • The University of California, Santa Bar­ bara and the University of California, Ber­ keley have become the 24th and 25th general members of the rapidly expanding Research Li­ b raries G roup h e a d q u a rte re d in S tanford, California. RLG’s general programs cover preser­ vation, collection development and management, resource sharing, and automated technical pro­ cessing via an integrated acquisitions/cataloging system (RLIN). People PROFILES D. Kaye Gapen, assistant director for technical services at the Iowa State University Library', has been named dean of the University of Alabama L ibraries, U niversity, effective in November. G apen holds an MLS from the University of W ashington L ibrary School. Prior to her position at Iowa State, she served as aesistant head and la ter head of th e Quick Editing Unit of the Ohio S tate U ni­ versity Libraries’ Cata­ loging Department. She has also h eld various D. Kaye Gapen positions at the College of William and Mary Library and the Seattle Public Library. Gapen was named chair of ACRL s Academic Status Com mittee and serves as ACRL repre­ sentative on the ALA Standing Com mittee on Library Education. She is also chair of the ALA Resources and Technical Services Division’s Cata­ loging and Classification Section. Gapen has been active in OCLC, Inc., espe­ cially on the Users Council in which she was named chair of the Task Force on the Effective­ ness of the Users Council in 1980. She has been on the OCLC Board of Trustees since 1978. H er many publication activities include terms on the ediorial boards of Technicalities and the Journal o f Academic Librarianship; articles in Library Trends, Footnotes, College & Research Libraries, and Library Resources and Technical Services; and co-editing Closing the Catalog: Pro­ ceedings o f the LITA In stitu tes, a 1980 Oryx Press monograph. In 1979 Gapen was responsible for organizing and coordinating th e Consortium on th e De­ velopm ent of On-line Catalogs (CONDOC), a group of small and medium-sized libraries jointly seeking the solution to the need for an online public catalog. R. Joseph Anderson has been appointed li­ brary director of the Balch Institute for Ethnic S tudies, P h ilad elp h ia, effective O cto b er 1. Anderson was an archivist and coordinator of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection in the Department of Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, from 1979 to 1981, and earlier worked as a manuscript proces­ sor at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Anderson has a master’s degree in American history from Ohio University and an MLS from