ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 244 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • Collins Memorial Library at the Univer­ sity of Puget Sound has been named recipi­ ent of two extremely rare books from the estate of Lionel Pries. According to Desmond Taylor, director of the library, the two-volume Holin- shed Chronicles, published in 1577, are valued at over $7,700 and have come to the university through the generosity of Robert W. Winskill, a 1947 UPS graduate. Taylor said the manuscripts are particularly celebrated because Elizabethan dramatists drew many of their plots from Holinshed’s pages, and nearly all Shakespeare’s historical plays, as well as “Macbeth,” “King Lear,” and part of “Cym- beline,” are based on the Chronicles. The volumes received by the university are in espe­ cially fine condition, he added. Also given to the school by Winskill are ten vellum manuscript leaves ranging from 1150 to the sixteenth century a.d. which, along with the Chronicles, will be housed in the library’s new rare books and manuscripts area, designed for the longtime preservation of such docu­ ments. • The University of Missouri at St. Louis Archives and Manuscripts Division has recently received the papers of Margaret Hickey, which have been arranged for use. The collection in­ cludes scrapbooks and correspondence dating from the 1940s, a photograph collection, and a series of taped interviews with Margaret Hickey. Margaret Hickey, a lawyer by profes­ sion and prominent in national and internation­ al organizations, is currently senior editor (pub­ lic affairs) of the Ladies Home Journal. Her career of public service dates from the 1940s when she served as chairman of the important Women’s Advisory Committee of the W ar Man­ power Commission during World W ar II. She was also president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs. More recently, Margaret Hickey chaired several presidential commissions on the Status of Wom­ en and is currently chairman of the Voluntary Foreign Aid Commission of the Agency for In­ ternational Development. Internationally, Mar­ garet Hickey is a member of the executive com­ mittee of the International Council on Social Welfare and has served on the Board of Gov­ ernors of the League of the Red Cross Socie­ ties. Additionally, she has been a consultant and adviser to a number of foundations and trustee for Tuskegee University and Brandeis University. • An outstanding collection of books by and about T. E. Lawrence was recently presented by George Fullerton to the Honnold Library, Claremont Colleges. Mr. Fullerton, a Cali­ fornia native whose primary collecting interest is Western Americana, has amassed a substan­ tial library during his sixty years as a collector of rare books. Distinguished by copies of limited editions, association copies, and specially bound items, the Lawrence collection includes books by this complex, legendary man, his translations and introductory material to other authors, the ma­ jor biographies, all controversial and none de­ finitive, and significant books providing back­ ground on Arabia. Lawrence’s major works are represented by first editions of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, on the Arab revolt, and The Mint, chronicling his life as an airman under the name J. H. Ross, accounts of archaeological expeditions as an Oxford scholar including the 1936 Golden Cockeral Press edition of Crusader Castles and The Diary, printed by the Corvinus Press in 1937. The Golden Cockerel Press’ Secret Des­ patches from Arabia is included. Notable among the translations are first edi­ tions of Lawrence’s version of The Odyssey un­ der the name T. E. Shaw and the printed but unpublished “Letters” and “More Letters from T. E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers,” written in con­ nection with the translation of The Odyssey. The authorized biographies by Robert Graves and Lidell H art contrast w ith the later de- mythicizing Lawrence of Arabia by Richard Al­ dington. In all, this notable gift consists of forty-one printed volumes and a miscellany of letters, ar­ ticles, and ephemera concerning Lawrence. G R A N T S • The I mmigration H istory Research Center will again offer grants–in–aid and re­ search assistantships during 1976-1977. Grants–in–aid up to $3,000 for travel and liv­ ing expenses are available to doctoral candi­ dates, recent Ph.D.s, and established scholars. Deadline for 1976 applications is November 15, 1975. Research assistantships for graduate students enrolled at the University of Minnesota and en­ gaged in studies relating to American immigra­ tion and ethnic history are available for the aca­ demic year 1976-1977. Candidates should be proficient in one or more languages of Eastern, Central or Southern Europe, or the Middle 245 East. Deadline for 1976-1977 applications is February 15, 1976. For more information, please contact the Im­ migration History Research Center, 826 Berry St., St. Paul, MN 55114. • A Council on Library Resources (CLR) grant of $210,000 to the Association of Re­ search L ibraries (ARL) will enable the five- year-old Office of University Library Manage­ ment Studies (OMS) to continue and broaden its operations through September 1978. Originally funded by CLR in 1970-72, with continuing support provided for the period of 1972-75, OMS has played a significant role in the library management field with its practical research and development, information ex­ change, and organizational training programs. In the research and development area, opera­ tion of its Management Review and Analysis Program (M RAP)—a self-study technique as­ sisted by the OMS–designed Manual, training sessions, and consultation—has been and will continue to be a priority interest of OMS. To date, twenty-one research libraries have partici­ pated in this intensive evaluation of manage­ ment practices. Heart of the OMS information exchange pro­ gram is the Systems and Procedures Exchange Center ( SPEC). Information collected on li­ brary practices and management techniques is summarized in SPEC Flyers and made avail­ able to ARL members and nonmembers alike in the form of SPEC kits. Other OMS publica­ tions are the OMS Occasional Papers and the A R L Management Supplement. In the training area, OMS sponsors special- focus workshops, management skills institutes, and a training film program in addition to pro­ viding direct assistance to member libraries in designing training courses for their staffs. These activities will be continued under terms of the new CLR grant. In addition, sev­ eral new programs are under consideration by OMS and its advisory group, the ARL Manage­ ment Commission. They are: a study of the public services function in research libraries; design of a performance audit technique; and development of specialized training packages for application in research libraries. • The Council on Library Resources ( C LR ) has announced an Advanced Study Pro­ gram for Librarians for 1976-77. The new pro­ gram will complement the council’s ongoing Fellowship and Academic Library Management programs, presently seeking their eighth and third classes of fellows and interns respectively. The new program is designed to further the development of subject specialists for the na­ tion’s research and academic libraries. It will enable up to five librarians to pursue a year of full-time graduate course work in a scholarly discipline— one traditionally considered within the “liberal arts and sciences”— at a graduate school of distinction in the chosen field of study. The program is not intended to support work in “professional” areas such as library sci­ ence, business administration, or management, nor may the funds be used to travel or for writ­ ing a dissertation. The awards cover graduate study for one academic year (1976-77), with successful can­ didates receiving stipends of up to $15,000— based on salary and normal benefits received from the home institution for a comparable pe­ riod during 1975-76— plus graduate tuition and fees for two semesters or three quarters and some assistance for necessary moving costs. Although a candidate need not have been ac­ cepted by a graduate school at the time of fil­ ing the application, receipt of the award is de­ pendent upon such acceptance by an approved institution. Applicants must meet the following require­ ments: age 50 or under; master’s degree in li­ brary science from an accredited school; five years of professional library experience; citizen of the U.S. or Canada or with resident status in either country; a demonstrated interest and competence in the scholarly discipline of choice as indicated by work already done; qualities that will facilitate work with persons of high scholarly attainment; and a leave of absence to cover the period of study. Completed applications must be postmarked no later than November 8, 1975. Awards will be announced in April 1976 for study to begin within the 1976-77 academic year. Interested librarians may receive application forms by sending a self-addressed # 1 0 enve­ lope or mailing label to: Advanced Study Pro­ gram for Librarians, Council on Library Re­ sources, Suite 620, 1 Dupont Circle, Washing­ ton, DC 20036. • The Council on L ibrary Resources ( C LR ) is accepting applications from and nom­ inations of mid-career librarians of outstanding leadership potential for its 1976-77 class of up to five academic library management interns. Aimed at the development of future man­ agers for the nation’s large research and aca­ demic libraries, the CLR program has thus far provided opportunities for two groups of five interns to spend a full academic year working closely with the directors and top administra­ tive staff of several of the country’s great aca­ demic libraries. The librarians selected in 1974 are at present completing their internships at Princeton and Columbia universities and the universities of Michigan, California at Los Angeles, and Ten­ nessee at Knoxville. Those recently chosen for 247 the academic year starting September 1975 will intern at Yale, Rutgers, and Columbia univer­ sities and the universities of Pennsylvania and California at Los Angeles. The internship covers a full year, w ith ten months spent at the host institution and one month in preparation of a report to the council. The remaining month is considered annual leave. The council pays the interns the basic salary and benefits (up to $20,000) they re­ ceived during the year the application was made and also provides some assistance for costs of moving and for certain travel expenses. Applicants must be individuals with at least five years of library experience at a profession­ al level, under forty-five years of age, and citi­ zens of the U.S. or Canada or w ith resident status in either country. Those interested in receiving an application form should send a self-addressed # 1 0 enve­ lope or mailing label to: Management Intern Committee, Council on Library Resources, 1 Dupont Circle, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036. To qualify for the 1976-77 internships, completed applications must be postmarked no later than January 1, 1976. M E E T IN G S October 9-10: The F irst Annual L i­ brary Microform Conference, sponsored by Microform Review and the ALA Resources and Technical Services Division Resources Section Micropublishing Projects Committee and Book- dealer-Library Relations Committee, will be held at the Biltmore Hotel, New York, New York. The program will consist of seminars on “The Microform Reading Room; Preservation Out-of-Print Title Uncovered In an attic on one of the campuses in the Atlanta University campus, a large supply of a long-out-of-print title was uncovered—John Hope President More­ house College 1906-1931. President A t­ lanta University 1929-1936. John Hope is one of the outstanding black educators and leaders. His innova­ tions in higher education led to one of the earliest consortia of institutions of higher education in 1929: the Atlanta University complex. Requests for copies will be accepted as long as the supply lasts. Send a stamped (eighteen cents) self-addressed nine-by-twelve-inch envelope to: Casper L. Jordan, University Librarian, Trevor Arnett Library, Atlanta University, At­ lanta, GA 30314. and Storage”; “Bibliographic Control of Micro­ forms”; and “Micrographics Equipm ent and Maintenance.” Registration forms and informa­ tion are available from Alan M. Meckler, Mi­ croform Review, P.O. Box 1297, Weston, CT 06880. October 12-17: The fifteenth Audio-Vis­ ual I nstitute for E ffective Communica­ tions will be held on the campus of Indiana University, it was announced by Robert P. Abrams, chairman of the Industry and Business Council of the National Audio-Visual Associa­ tion, cosponsors of the semiannual event along with the Audio-Visual Center of the university. An intensive five-day course, the institute is conducted by some of the nation’s foremost training and audiovisual experts, according to Abrams. “The Program can only be described as unique,” Abrams said. “I t covers the art and technology of audio-visual communications. And it is designed especially for training direc­ tors and educational media specialists in busi­ ness, industry, education, government, and the health sciences.” The institute provides a comprehensive and practical overview of a variety of innovative audiovisual techniques, all aimed at help­ ing the training communicator to communicate more effectively. Tuition is $350 for the entire course and includes registration costs, text­ books, manuals, and social events. Registration is limited to 130 people. Additional information on the fifteenth A-V Institute is available from the National Audio- Visual Association, 3150 Spring St., Fairfax, VA 22030; (703) 273-7200. October 17-18: The New England Regional Group of the Medical L ibrary Association will hold its annual meeting at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. October 17-18: The eighth annual insti­ tute of the Library Institutes Planning Com­ mittee will be held at Rickey’s Hyatt House Hotel, Palo Alto, California. Paul W. Winkler, principal descriptive cata- loger (on leave), Library of Congress, at pres­ ent editor of the forthcoming second edition of AACR, will be the main speaker on a program entitled “The Catalog as a Reference T ool.” Mrs. Mildred Nilon, head, Reference Depart­ ment, University of Colorado Libraries, will present a reference librarian’s view of the cata­ log. Speaking for the subject cataloger will be Edward J. Blume, Jr., chief, Subject Cataloging Division, Library of Congress. The institute is designed to encourage a dialogue between ref­ erence librarians and subject/descriptive cata­ loged. 248 Registration for the two-day meeting is lim­ ited; the fee is $27.50 and includes two lunch­ eons. Further information, including a list of hotel accommodations, will be mailed to appli­ cants. Registrants of the 1973 and 1974 institutes will automatically receive registration forms. Others may obtain forms by writing Joseph E. Ryus, 2858 Oxford Ave., Richmond, CA 94806, or by telephoning him during weekday hours at the University of California, Berkeley; (415) 642-4144. October 19-22: The Colorado L ibrary Association and Mountain- P lains L ibrary Association will sponsor a joint convention at the Executive Towers Inn, Denver, the theme being; “Continuing Education— Continuing Ex­ cellence.” Keynote speaker will be Elizabeth W. Stone from the Catholic University of America, project director of the Continuing Li­ brary Education Network and Exchange (C L E N E ). Preconference workshops on “Networking” and “Documents” will take place October 19. Miniworkshops will also be conducted on such topics as “Blind and the Physically Handi­ capped,” “ERIC,” “Grant Writing,” and “Tele­ communications.” For more information, contact Mrs. Ann Kimbrough, CLA Executive Secretary, 2341 S. Josephine, Denver, CO 80210. October 23-26: The Oral H istory Asso­ ciation will hold its tenth National Colloquium on Oral History at the Grove Park Inn in Ashe­ ville, North Carolina. The theme for the colloquium will be “Oral History Comes of Age: The Tenth National Col­ loquium on Oral History.” The program chairperson for the colloquium is Thomas Charlton, Baylor University, and the workshop chairperson is W addy Moore, State College of Arkansas. For further information about the Oral His­ tory Association write Ronald E. Marcello, Sec­ retary, Box 13734, North Texas Station, North Texas State University, Denton, TX 76203. November 9-12: Classification Systems. The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science will hold a four-day institute at Allerton Park, the university’s conference center near Monticello, Illinois, about twenty- five miles southwest of Champaign-Urbana. The institute for 1975, the twenty-first in the series, is scheduled to be on “Major Classifica­ tion Systems.” A brochure describing the program in detail is available. Individuals interested in receiving the brochure and registration information should write to Mr. Brandt W. Pryor, Institute Supervisor, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. See the June C&R L News for further details. November 12-14: Media and Messages, a workshop planned to acquaint academic ori­ entation/instruction librarians with techniques used in the design and production of instruc­ tion of materials: slide/tape, transparencies, and videotape, will be held at the Undergraduate Library, University of Michigan. For registra­ tion materials and program information con­ tact: Department of Conferences and Institutes, Extension Service, University of Michigan, 350 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104. November 20: The Middle E ast L ibrari­ ans’ Association (M ELA ) will hold its fourth annual meeting at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies As­ sociation of North America. The program, co­ ordinated by Vice-President Richard S. Cooper (Univ. of California—Berkeley), will be de­ voted to discussion and implementation of the proposals resulting from the first two sessions of the Workshop on Cooperation among Mid­ dle East Libraries in North America, which were held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in No­ vember 1974, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, in May 1975. Further details and the proceedings of the first two sessions are available from Martha Dukas, Secretary-Treasurer of MELA, Middle Eastern Department, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, MA 02138. For informa­ tion about the MESA meeting please write to the MESA Headquarters and Secretariat, 50 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10003. F ebruary 16-20: OCLC W orkshop. 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 w ith networks and w ith 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 tachm ents); “In-House Procedures” (work flow adaptations, management implications); and “Teaching Methods” (sharing this complex of information with others). 249 For maximum personalization, the group will be limited to thirty registrants. Special consid­ eration will be given to individuals in libraries whose “on-line” date is imminent. For further information contact: Anne Marie Allison, Ass’t. Prof., Library Admin., University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242. March 23-25: ASLIB in association with six European organizations will conduct EURIM 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 SW1X 8PL, England. June 21-25: The American Theological Library Association 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, Wil­ frid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2C5. M IS C E L L A N Y • The General Library of the University of California at Riverside has fully analyzed, in accordance with AACR, the microform editions of the following multivolume monographic col­ lections and, as a service to libraries, can pro­ vide copies of their catalog cards for the mon­ ographs and their analytics on a cost basis. Dibdin, Thomas John, 1771-1841. The London theatre. London, Printed for Whittingham and Arliss, 1815 [1814— 25] 12 v. 13 cm. Total of 104 individual titles analyzed. Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764, comp. A select collection of old English plays. 4th ed. London, Reeves and Turner, 1874- 76. 15 v. 22 cm. Total of 85 individual titles analyzed. Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913, ed. Early western travels 1748-1846. Cleveland, A. H. Clark, 1904-07. 32 v. 25 cm. Total of 37 individual titles analyzed. These cards are offered without call numbers in the following options. All orders must be for complete collections. 1. One main entry for the collection and one main entry for each analytic. Dibdin $7.50; Dodsley $6.00; Thwaites $5.00. 2. Complete sets of cards for both the collec­ tion and all analytics including a main en­ try card, a shelflist card, and a card for each subject or added entry in the trac- 250 ings. Dibdin $35.00; Dodsley $21.00; Thwaites $40.00. We can offer complete sets of cards at the same prices for the following hard copy edi­ tions of: Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764, comp. A select collection of old English plays. 4th ed. New York, B. Blom [1964] 15 v. in 7. 18 cm. Reprint of the 1874-76 ed. of the work first published in 1744. Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913, ed. Early western travels, 1748-1846. New York, AMS Press, 1966. 32 v. fronts, (v.l, 3, 19-20, 27, 29) illus., plates (2 fold) ports., maps (part fold) fold plan, facsims. 24 cm. Reprint of the work first published 1904-07. We are presently working on the following collections and will probably be able to offer copy by the time this note is published. Please inquire as to prices: Eighteenth century sources for the study of English literature. American culture I. Three centuries of English and Ameri­ can plays 1500-1800. The segments Three centuries of drama; American 1714-1830, and Three centuries of drama; English 1737-1800. Larpent. (Work will be begun on the other segments of this collection later.) Send orders, requests for sample cards, or in­ quiries to: Microforms Cataloging Project, Monographs Department, General Library, University of California, Riverside, CA 92507. • The Library of Congress has mounted an exhibit in honor of F ritz Kreisler’s 100th birthday. Fritz Kreisler—born in Vienna on February 2, 1875, died in New York on Janu­ ary 29, 1962—was one of the great personal­ ities of the twentieth century. He impressed millions of music lovers with his highly indi­ vidual interpretations and his infinitely charm­ ing compositions. As a violinist he was unique, and as a man he was loved by all who knew him and heard him. The library’s association with the artist be­ gan in 1949 when he presented two rare manu­ scripts to the Music Division: Brahms’ Violin Concerto and Chausson’s Poème for violin and orchestra. These scores may be seen in the dis­ play. Then, in 1952, Mr. Kreisler donated to the Library of Congress his Guameri del Gesù violin. Made in 1733, it is considered to be one of the finest instruments in existence. This is now on permanent display in the Whittall Pa­ vilion. Three years later he gave the library a large collection of his own manuscripts of orig­ inal compositions and arrangements. Varying from his classical string quartet to his lighter and ever popular Viennese melodies, these au­ tographs vividly reflect an artist and a man whose career spanned the world. • Old D ominion University of Norfolk, Virginia, has received the final payment of $35,846.58 from the estate of Miss Alice R. Burke, one of the first faculty members at the institution when it was the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary. With the payment, the total bequest of $185,846.58 is complete. According to Robert Granville Burke, friend and executor of her will, the bequest was made to establish a section in ODU’s library which will be devoted to government and political science. This will be done as soon as possible, in accordance with the wishes of Miss Burke, and the section will be known as the “Alice R. Burke Collection.” Dr. John W. Ramsey, professor of political science at the university, has been appointed chairperson of a faculty committee established to develop guidelines for the purchase of books and other library materials to be includ­ ed in the collection. Concerning the importance of the bequest, Ramsey said, “The Alice R. Burke bequest comes at a propitious time in the life of political science at ODU. We are in­ volved in two master of arts degree programs and have several new undergraduate and grad­ uate programs planned for the next five years. While a great deal of attention has been paid to building our holdings, with considerable suc­ cess, the very [small] budgets of past years have precluded the expansion of our resources in every area of a very eclectic discipline.” Miss Burke, who died May 10, 1973, joined the faculty of what is now ODU in 1931, the second year the school was open. During her eleven years at the institution, she taught courses in government, political science, and English, and was registrar from 1937 to 1942. • The first volumes of the Woodstock The­ ological Library have arrived at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The Rev. Ed­ ward Glynn, S.J., director of the Woodstock Theological Center, said that the Woodstock Library, which contains 150,000 volumes, is among the country’s largest and most important theological libraries. It will be housed in the university’s Lauinger Library on the main cam­ pus. The Woodstock Theological Library was formerly part of Woodstock College, a school of theology for Jesuit students and seminarians in New York. • The National Science Foundation (N S F ), the National Commission on Libraries and In­ 251 formation Science (N C LIS), and the Council on Library Resources (CLR) have announced the establishment of an Advisory Group on National Bibliographic Control. The mis­ sion of the jointly sponsored group is to advise the three sponsoring agencies on how best to coordinate their programs and to recommend priorities for action. When requirements for specific projects to enhance national bibliographic control are agreed upon, the sponsors will be asked to set up working groups for each task. The members of these working groups will be drawn from the functional areas of principal interest to the three sponsoring agencies: libraries, abstracting and indexing services, publishing, and informa­ tion delivery services. Activities of the working groups will be supported by the three sponsor­ ing agencies; the advisory group will monitor their activities and recommend further action as appropriate. Although the members of the advisory group come from the functional areas of interest, they are not primarily representatives of their parent organizations. Instead, each was chosen for his background, maturity, judgment, and reputa­ tion for getting things done. Their names and their respective terms of ap­ pointment are: W. T. Brandhorst, director, ERIC Processing and Reference Facility—two years; James L. Carmon, assistant vice chancel­ lor for computing systems, University of Geor­ gia– two years; Dan Lacy, senior vice-presi­ dent, McGraw-Hill, Inc.—three years; Jerrold Orne, professor of library science, University of North Carolina—four years; William Welsh, director, Processing Department, Library of Congress—four years; Ronald L. Wigington, director, Research and Development, Chemical Abstracts—three years. Lawrence G. Living­ ston, of the CLR staff, serves as chairperson. The concept for the advisory group was de­ veloped at an NSF–CLR-sponsored meeting on “National Bibliographic Control” which was held April 17 through April 20, 1974, in Ross- lyn, Virginia. Representing libraries, abstract­ ing and indexing services, publishers, and vendors, participants at the meeting joined to­ gether in urging the establishment of an on­ going body of the type described. In operation, the advisory group will draw upon expertise from all segments of the infor­ mation community for the solution of specific, common problems, attempting thereby to en­ hance cooperation among those who publish, process, and store information in all its forms. The end goal is better national bibliographic control for the benefit of those who use infor­ mation. Staff support and files of the advisory group are located in the offices of the Council on Li­ brary Resources. Requests for information on the project should be directed to the Advisory Group on National Bibliographic Control, One Dupont Circle, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036, or telephone (202) 296-4757. • “To Set a Country F ree,” the major Li­ brary of Congress exhibition on the Bicenten­ nial of American Independence, opened in the Great Hall of the library on Thursday, April 24, a date which coincided with the 175th anni­ versary of the creation of the library. It will re­ main on view through 1976. Borrowing its title from Thomas Paine’s American Crisis— “We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in”—the exhibit draws heavily from the library’s rich and varied resources in U.S. history, displaying rare books, manuscripts, prints and engravings, broadsides, maps, and newspapers of the Revolutionary War era. Of special interest in the exhibit are three documents of major significance in the Revolu­ tion. Taken from the library’s collection of Jef­ ferson papers, Thomas Jefferson’s famous “orig­ inal Rough draught” of the Declaration of In­ dependence—a holograph manuscript contain­ ing suggested alterations penned by the hands of John Adams and Benjamin Franklin and the changes made by the Congress—is on view in the center of the library’s Great Hall in a case designed especially for this showing. The other items of major interest are the “Olive Branch” petition, sent to King George III by members of the First Continental Congress in 1775, which is on loan to the library for this exhibi­ tion from the Public Records Office, London, and the exchange copy of the 1778 Treaty of Conditional and Defensive Alliance Between France and the United States, signed by King Louis XVI and his foreign minister, the Count de Vergennes, on loan to the library from the National Archives. The “Olive Branch” petition and Treaty of Alliance are also displayed in special eases in the Great Hall. Other notable items in the exhibit include the Your Help, Please By arrangement with the Wing Revi­ sion, Studies in Bibliography will, in the forthcoming volume (Volume 29, 1976), begin regular publication of additions and corrections to the second edition of the Wing Short-Title Catalogue. Sug­ gestions for corrigenda and related cor­ respondence may be sent to Mr. Clinton Sisson, Research Librarian, Alderman Li­ brary, University of Virginia, Charlottes­ ville, VA 22901. 252 first edition of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Com­ mon Sense, printed in Philadelphia in January 1776; Pierre L’Enfant’s panoramic drawing of West Point; a view of Savannah, from the Oz- anne Collection, at the time of the unsuccess­ ful American attempt to recapture that city from the British; and The Sentiments of an American Woman, an anonymous, undated broadside in which the author recounts the deeds of famed heroines of the past. On view are some of the letters written by Grace Grow- den Galloway to her Loyalist husband, Joseph, after he had escaped from Philadelphia; they were tightly folded up, hidden in buttons and other wearing apparel, and smuggled through the American lines. During the Revolution, scenes, maps, and figures were drawn on pow- derhorns. Two of these powderhorns are in­ cluded, one belonging to Robert Kelmns, dated 1778, in “Bed Ford” [Pennsylvania?], and the other belonging to James Downie, designed by E. Crosby in 1781, depicting the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. A poignant human note is provided by a manuscript letter from British army officer John André to George Washington following Major André’s capture as a spy, in which he pleaded unsuccessfully for execution by a firing squad rather than by hanging. The first printing of the Declaration of Independence is also displayed; published ANSI Z39 Subcommittee on Serials Holdings Statements Formed The Z39 Subcommittee 40 on Serials Holdings Statements has recently been formed. The chairperson is Glyn Evans, director of library services of the State University of New York, and the other committee members include Richard Anable (CONSER), Paul Fasana (NYPL), Lois Hacker (CUNY Graduate Center), Mary Sauer (LC– National Serials Data Program), and Bob Tannehill (Chemical Abstract Service). The committee wants to examine as many examples of serials union lists or local serials lists holding statements as it can in the course of its work. I t would also like to elicit comment from editors and compilers of such lists. If you wish to submit comment a n d / or samples (title page, prefatory material, and sample text pages are essential) to the committee, please forward them as soon as possible to Glyn T. Evans, Di­ rector of Library Services, State Univer­ sity of New York, Central Administration, 99 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12210. in Philadelphia by John Dunlap, this broadside was probably prepared on the night of July 4-5, 1776. The exhibit is presented in several sections tracing the history of the American Revolution from the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763, when Great Britain began to reconsider her un­ articulated policy of “salutary neglect” toward her North American colonies, to the Treaty of Paris in 1783, when Great Britain acknowl­ edged the sovereign independence of the Unit­ ed States. Accompanying the exhibit is a profusely il­ lustrated account of the story of the American Revolution, also entitled To Set a Country Free, which is available for $4.50. It is for sale at the library’s Information Counter in the ground floor west lobby of the Main Building, or by mail from the Information Office, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540; all mail or­ ders must be prepaid. The booklet was pro­ duced through the Vemer W. Clapp Publica­ tion Fund. The library’s exhibition halls are open from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays and holidays. P U B L IC A T IO N S • A book of more than 200 prints and pho­ tographs– a sampling of one of the world’s largest pictorial collections—has been pub­ lished by the Library of Congress. Viewpoints, A Selection from the Pictorial Collections of the Library of Congress presents for the first time a broad survey of the library’s extensive hold­ ings in prints and photographs by American and foreign artists. Publication of the 223-page book coincides with the seventy-fifth anniver­ sary of the formal organization of the visual arts collections at the library. Most of the photo­ graphs reproduced in the book were part of the exhibit “Viewpoints” held at the library in 1962 to suggest the various approaches and wide range of subjects found in the work of photographers and printmakers. The publication was prepared by Alan Fern, chief of the library’s Prints and Photographs Di­ vision; Milton Kaplan, recently retired curator of historical prints; and other library staff mem­ bers. Viewpoints is divided into seven general cat­ egories– World History, Transportation, United States History, The American Scene, Architec­ ture in the United States, The Lively Arts, and Artists’ Prints. Within each section, the photo­ graphs and prints are arranged in chronological order. Annotations that accompany each picture briefly explain its technical or historical signifi­ cance. The reproductions are in black and white. 253 The library’s pictorial collections provide ex­ tensive coverage not only of the United States but of foreign countries. Among the items in­ cluded in the new publication are two Crimean W ar photographs (1855) by the English pho­ tographer Roger Fenton which are some of the first examples of war reporting; a lithograph de­ picting the first landing of Americans in Japan under Commodore M. C. Perry in 1853; and a 1936 drawing of Stalin by German cartoonist Josef (Sepp) Plank Indicating early signs of an­ tagonism and distrust between Germany and Russia. The earliest known photographic image of the U.S. Capitol (ca. 1846), attributed to John Plumbe, Jr., is included in a selection of prints and photographs of early American architec­ ture. A sampling of stock posters, lithographs, and photographs depict the theater and the lively arts in the nineteenth and twentieth cen­ turies. Reproductions of prints by prominent American and foreign artists— a sampling of the library’s rieh collections of works of art— among them Edgar Degas, James A. McNeill Whistler, and Albrecht Dürer, comprise the final section of Viewpoints. The items in the publication are representa­ tive selections from the library’s holdings of more than 10 million prints and photographs, which have previously been described in part in Guide to the Special Collections of Prints and Photographs in the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1955, now out of print), compiled by Paul Vander­ bilt, and in American Prints in the Library of Congress: A Catalog of the Collection, compiled by Karen F. Beall and the staff of the Prints and Photographs Division (Johns Hopkins Pr., 1970), and in various exhibition catalogs pub­ lished by the library. Viewpoints, however, is the first illustrated publication to present a broad overview of the collections. Viewpoints, A Selection from the Pictorial Collections of the Library of Congress is avail­ Librarian Named Faculty Senate President Ms. Sally Small, the librarian at the Pennsylvania State University’s Campus in Berks County was recently elected president of the faculty senate, the uni­ versity’s major faculty governance body. She has been a senator since 1971 and was elected vice-chairman a year ago. She was one of a slate of five the senate voted on and is the first librarian in the university’s history to be elected to this position. able for $7.75 from the Superintendent of Doc­ uments, U.S. Government' Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (Stock Number 3014- 00001), or in person from the Information Counter, ground floor, Library of Congress Main Building. • The Commission on Librarianship at Stan­ ford was created in May 1972 by the director of university libraries to examine the role and status of librarians at the university including; professional relationships within the university; means of facilitating the effective use of librari­ ans; suitable recognition of the services of li­ brarians to the community; aspects of appoint­ ment, promotion, and perquisites; and involve­ ment of librarians in formal and informal teach­ ing, and other aspects of their working environ­ ment. The 140-page final report, encompassing twenty-three major recommendations, has now been completed and will be made available to interested parties at a cost of $10.00. Send or­ ders to Financial Office, Stanford University Li­ braries, Stanford, CA 94305. • Single copies of A Researcher s Guide to African Materials at Memphis State University are available upon receipt of a self-addressed, 10 x 15 envelope bearing 210 postage. The guide is a bibliography of some 3,600 mono­ graphs held by the MSU Libraries. It is indexed by subject and includes additional, brief infor­ mation about the African Area Studies Program at MSU. Requests should be sent to: Lester J. Pourciau, Jr., Director of Libraries, Memphis State University Libraries, Memphis, TN 38152. • Copies of the East Asian Bibliographic Group’s Recommended East Asian Core Collec­ tions for Childrens, High School, Public, Com­ munity College, and Undergraduate College L i­ braries are available for $7.50 each, prepaid, from Karl Lo, Head, Asiatic Collection, Uni­ versity of Washington Libraries, Seattle, WA 98195. Please make check payable to Universi­ ty of Washington. Edited for the group in 1974 by Wm. H. O. Scott, documents librarian, Western Washing­ ton State College, the bibliography is a volun­ teer effort of predominantly northwest-coast li­ brarians and East Asian scholars, and is being presented in order to foster the development and use of library resources in the area of East Asian studies and to promote better under­ standing about the countries and peoples of East Asia. Intended to serve as a basic buying list for libraries seeking to develop the East Asian section of their holdings, it consists of books, periodicals, films, filmstrips, tapes, and phonorecords, primarily in English, pertaining to East Asia—i.e., China, Formosa, Japan, Ko­ 254 rea, Mongolia, and Tibet. It records a total of 1,782 items for all types of libraries (741 for college; 389, high school; 831, public; 1,356, university; and 175 for juvenile collections). Closing date of publication for the selections is 1973. • The first edition of Libraries and Informa­ tion Centers in Southeastern Wisconsin is now available from the Tri-County Library Council. This new reference work represents a first step toward an overall inventory of knowledge re­ sources in the seven-county southeastern Wis­ consin region. The directory represents the combined efforts of the Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee and the Tri-County Library Council. Entries in the 332-page, 8½-by–l l –inch pa­ perback include detailed descriptions of 188 li­ brary and information centers and 54 school districts, including information regarding col­ lections, staff, hours, services, and borrowing privileges. Also included are a geographical in­ dex, a map of southeastern Wisconsin, a guide to subject strengths and special collections, and informative sketches of professional associations in library and information science. The cost of the directory to non-members is $10.00. Checks and purchase orders should be sent to: Tri-County Library Council, c /o UW —Parkside Library, D-115D, Kenosha, WI 53140. • The Texas A&M University Library has issued its Miscellaneous Publication No. 13, The Discovery of the Future: The Ways Science Fiction Developed. The publication consists of the lecture delivered by Professor James Gunn of the University of Kansas English Department and is available for $2.00 from the Texas A&M University Library Administrative Offices, Col­ lege Station, TX 77843. Index to Chapter 6– AACR Available An index to chapter 6 (1974) of the AACR is available from the University of Michigan School of Library Science. Only one copy can be sent to each re­ questor, but recipients should feel free to duplicate as many copies as they wish for their own internal use. Please send one self-addressed nine-by-twelve-inch envelope with forty cents postage to: Ms. Judith Hopkins, School of Library Sci­ ence, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. • The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science has recently published the Proceedings of the 1974 Clinic on Library Ap­ plications of Data Processing: Applications of Minicomputers to Library and Related Prob­ lems, edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster. The volume is available for $6.00 from: Pub­ lications Office—249 Armory Building, Univer­ sity of Illinois Graduate School of Library Sci­ ence, Champaign, IL 61820. • Despite the economic decline, or perhaps because of it, opening fall enrollments in com­ munity, junior, and technical colleges for the academic year 1974-75 took a jump of 12.1 percent over 1973-74, according to data re­ leased by the American Association of Commu­ nity and Junior Colleges. The data is contained in the 1975 edition of the Community, Junior, and Technical College Directory, just published by the association. Data was gathered from 1,203 nonprofit two-year institutions. The Community, Junior, and Technical Col­ lege Directory, edited by Sandra Drake, con­ tains various enrollment summaries by states and types of institutions, lists names of colleges, and their chief executive officers, and addresses, shows tuition costs, and has listings of junior college organizations and state offices. The pub­ lication is available for $7.00. Orders can be sent to AACJC Publications, 621 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314. • The Agricultural History Center in the University of California at Davis has added two new titles to its list of bibliographies on Amer­ ican agricultural history: A List of References for the History of Agriculture in California, compiled by Richard Orsi, and A List of R ef­ erences for the History of the United States De­ partment of Agriculture, compiled by Mary- anna S. Smith. The bibliographies may be ob­ tained by librarians upon request, without charge, while they last. Address requests to: Publications Office, Pe­ riodicals Department, University of California Press, 2223 Fulton St., Berkeley, CA 94720. • Free for the asking are copies of Select List of Serial Sources of Information on Inter­ national and Comparative Librarianship Held by the Library Science Library, University of Michigan. Compiled by Edmund F. Santa Vic- ca, a doctoral student, the list presents over 300 serial titles arranged by geographic area. Please enclose a stamped (20¢ ) self-addressed enve­ lope with request to: Library Science Library, 320 Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. • The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center of the Association of Research Libraries’ ESSAYS IN BIBLIOGRAPHY, TEXT, AND EDITING B y F redson Bowers. 580 p p . (a p p r o x .), b ib lio g ., in d e x . (B ib lio g r a p h ic a l S o ciety) $30.00 T h is th o ro u g h survey of tex tu al theory and m ethods considerably extends and supplem ents Fredson Bowers’ earlier studies in bibliography. T h e twenty-six articles selected by Bowers, ra n g in g from 1949 to 1975, cover the m ajo r fields of b ib liography and tex tu al criticism in four m ain groupings: “T h e B ibliographical W ay,” “D escriptive B ibliography,” “A nalytical B ibliography,” and “T e x tu a l C riticism a n d E d itin g .” T h e collection contains Bowers’ latest statem ents on the difficult problem s m ost often faced in editing. M an u scrip t exam ples range from the sixteenth to the tw en tieth centuries. CARL SANDBURG AND THE ASGARD PRESS, 1 9 0 0 –1 9 1 0 A Descriptive Catalogue of Early Books, Manuscripts, and Letters in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library C o m p ile d by J oan St . C. Crane, w ith a F o rew o rd by M argaret Sandburg. 160 p p . ( a p p r o x .) ollu s., b ib lio g ., in d e x . (A sso cia tes o f th e U n ive rsity o f Virginia. L ib r a r y ) $15.00 C om plete bib lio g rap h ical descriptions of Carl S an d b u rg ’s little-know n earliest books, those of his frien d an d p u b lish er P h ilip G reen W rig h t (two w ith Sand­ b urg prefaces), and o th er Asgard publicatio n s are presented here. Also provided are d etailed descriptions an d transcrip tio n s of a n u m b e r of u n p u b lish e d Sand­ b u rg m anuscripts of the p eriod between 1903 a n d 1910. THE LIVING ALPHABET By W arren Cha ppell. 64 p p . (a p p r o x .), i l lus. $10.00 W ritte n , designed, an d illu strated by W a rre n C happell, this handsom e volum e is a concise re c a p itu la tio n of th e n a tu re of le tte r forms and th e ir survival over the past 1,200 years. A ddressing him self to concepts ra th e r th a n models, C h ap p ell captures th e sp irit of carved, w ritten , an d p rin te d words w ith th e sim plicity and clarity of a m aster artisan. T h e a u th o r’s ow n typography and design, w hich features m any illustrations, beau tifu lly d o cum ent this discussion. THE HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA By I saiah T homas E d ite d by M arcus A. M cCorison. x x i, 650 p p ., fr o n tis ., in d e x . ( A m e r ic a n A n t i ­ q u a ria n S o ciety) $5.95 Isaiah T hom as, an avid book collector an d fo u n d er of the A m erican A n tiq u a ria n Society, was the leading A m erican p rin te r an d p u b lish er of his day. H is H is to r y o f P r in tin g in A m e ric a , first p ublished in 1810, is still th e beg in n in g p o in t for most investigations in to the history of A m erican p rin tin g . T h is re p rin t of the 1970 Im p rin t Society ed itio n makes the w ork available inexpensively an d to a w ider readership th a n ever before. UNIVERSITY PRESS Box 3608 OF VIRGINIA University Station Charlottesville, Va. 22903 259 Office of University Library Management Stud­ ies has issued a new SPEC Kit. The SPEC Kit and Flyer on library instruc­ tion, the result of an inquiry into the adminis­ trative patterns, formats, content, and innova­ tions occurring in ARL libraries’ library instruc­ tion programs, documents committee reports, course content descriptions, job positions, and proposals relating to library instruction. Requests for copies of the kit should be sent to the Office of University Library Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036. • America’s 2,533 largest philanthropic foundations have assets of more than $20 bil­ lion and make annual grants totaling $1.5 bil­ lion (an average of more than $400 million a day), according to the new fifth edition of The Foundation Directory. For librarians the direc­ tory is the major source of reference informa­ tion in the field and also an important guide when they seek foundation grants for libraries. The directory, prepared and published by the Foundation Center, describes major founda­ tions in detail and summarizes their giving. Each of the foundations has assets of $1 million or more or has made grants totaling $500,000 annually. All states except Alaska and North Dakota are represented. Included in the $30.00 price of the directory are four new semiannual supplements. Two will list the names of about 26,000 foundations in the country for which the center can provide recent information. The alternate issues will list the names of those foundations in the directory N ew “Hotline” Announced The Georgia Job Hotline, a recent in­ novation which allows all Georgia li­ braries to list staff vacancies, is geared to help individuals seeking library posi­ tions in the state of Georgia. This auto­ mated telephone answering service will enable prospective employees to contact employers concerning professional and paraprofessional positions which have been listed. To list vacancies by telephone, call (404 ) 767-9484. To list by mail, write Box 22533, Emory Station, Atlanta, GA 30322. Vacancies will be run for two weeks. Potential employees should call (404) 378-2811 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. Monday through Friday and from 12:00 p.m. Saturday to 8:00 a.m. Monday. for which updated information is available. Marianna O. Lewis is editor for The Founda­ tion Directory. The distributor is Columbia University Press, 136 South Broadway, Irving­ ton, NY 10533. • The Oregon Regional Union List of Seri­ als has produced its first microfiche edition of the OSSHE–OSL Union List of Serials. The list includes holdings for all libraries in the Ore­ gon State System of Higher Education and the Oregon State Library, Salem. The microfiche edition contains 34,000 titles and 9,000 cross- references, for a total of 43,000 entries. The re­ duction ratio is 24x. The May 1975 edition con­ sists of thirty-nine fiche. Copies are available through prepaid orders. Prices are $15.00/fiche set and $20.00/fiche set with binder. Orders may be sent to: Oregon Regional Union List of Serials, Portland State University Library, P.O. Box 1151, Portland, OR 97207. • The Scientific Manpower Commission, a private nonprofit corporation, has published a comprehensive manpower data study on the availability of women and minorities for profes­ sional positions. The 320-page report, Profes­ sional W om en and Minorities—A Manpower Data Resource Service, brings together avail­ able data on manpower at professional levels, w ith special emphasis on women and minorities in the natural and social sciences, engineering, arts, humanities, education, and the professions. The publication, prepared by Betty M. Vetter and Eleanor L. Babco of the commission staff, is published in loose-leaf format with subject di­ vider tabs to allow insertion of semiannual ad­ ditions and updates. The Ford Foundation pro­ vided partial support for preparation and publi­ cation of the study. Copies are $40.00 each from the Scientific Manpower Commission, 1776 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036. • The Library of Congress has published a new research aid for the study of the Amer­ ican Revolution. The 327–page guide, Manu­ script Sources in the Library of Congress for Research on the American Revolution was com­ piled by members of the library’s American Revolution Bicentennial Office and describes the original documents and photocopies in the library’s various divisions. The 1,617 entries in the guide are arranged alphabetically in two basic divisions, domestic collections, and foreign reproductions. The li­ brary noted that a substantial amount of its col­ lections was purchased with a $100,000 appro­ priation by Congress in 1867 which enabled it to obtain the material amassed by Peter Force, compiler of the nine volumes of American Ar­ 260 chives, 1774-1776. A gift in 1927 from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., made possible the photo­ graphic reproduction of millions of pages of manuscripts in foreign libraries and archives. The guide is $8.70 (Stock No. 3003-0011) from Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Gov­ ernment Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. • A bibliography of all doctoral research done in the field of educational media from 1969 to 1972, with short annotations, has just been made available from the ERIC Clearing­ house on Information Resources. The 100-page Doctoral Research in Educa­ tional Media divides the citations into eight categories— audio, audiovisual, computers in in­ struction, library, programmed instruction, pro­ jected materials: motion, projected materials: stills, and television. Sources for titles were Dissertation Abstracts and American Doctoral Dissertations, published by University Microfilms. According to authors Charlene Kirschner, Joseph Mapes, and Ray Anderton ( all of the University of Colorado at Boulder), this publication was produced “to as­ sist those people who are engaged in education­ al media research, and those who need to know the results of this doctoral research.… Disser­ tations were selected … if they used some form of educational media as the subject of their research or as the methodology of their research.” In addition to short annotations, vol­ ume and page citations to Dissertation Ab­ stracts are included to aid the reader in locat­ ing the full abstract. Doctoral Research in Educational Media is available for $5.00 from: Box E, School of E d ­ ucation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. Checks must be included with orders and made payable to “Box E.” The paper is available for the same price from the American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Annual updates to this publication are planned. • W om en in a W oman’s Profession: Strate­ gies: Proceedings of the 1974 A L A –SRRT W om en’s Conference— the proceedings are 96 pages long and include a bibliography and pho­ tographs. The price is $3.50 and is available, prepaid, from Betty-Carol Sellen, Brooklyn Col­ lege Library, Brooklyn, NY 11210. ■ ■ Join ACRL! For reduced rates at conferences! Insid e W ashington Continued from page 240 the effect of the regulations on intercollegiate football. Actually, a more serious dispute cen­ tered on HEW ’s right to make regulations on specific administrative practices of colleges and universities. Setting aside the athletic entangle­ ment as a special issue, Rep. James O’Hara (D —Mich.), chairman of the House select sub­ committee on higher education, argued that requiring institutions to establish internal griev­ ance procedures and carry out extensive self- analysis activities exceeded the requirements of the statute. “I don’t want you to discuss the wisdom of this procedure. I think it’s probably a good idea,” O’Hara said to then-secretary of HEW Caspar Weinberger at one point during hear­ ings on the regulations, “but the Congress only said ‘Thou shalt not discriminate.’ Where in the plain language of Title IX does the Department of Health Education and Welfare find the au­ thority to tell institutions to set up internal grievance procedures?” Accusing HEW of usurping the legislators’ role, O’Hara concluded that “some way has to be found so that Congress writes the laws and nobody else.” Privately, O’Hara bemoaned the fact that the long-brewing battle between Con­ gress and HEW over “administrative lawmak­ ing” had erupted over regulations on affirmative action, a subject which most liberal Democrats favor. After weeks of testimony and two acrimoni­ ous subcommittee meetings in which represent­ atives Shirley Chisholm and Bella Abzug lob­ bied assiduously for the regulations, the O’Hara motion to disapprove the regulations was bot­ tled up in committee and on July 21 they went into effect. At one point in the Title IX hearings a Re­ publican congressman had suggested the HEW procedures were unnecessary and that affirma­ tive action complaints should be handled in­ stead by the independent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. On the contrary, re­ torted Rep. Frank Thompson, Jr. (D — N .J.), that “would be a mistake of major proportions unless EEOC can be straightened out. They have a backlog of three years now and I don’t share the gentleman’s confidence that they can handle the work.” The relationship between EEOC, the Labor Department, and other federal agencies charged with enforcing civil rights and employ­ ment regulations had already been held up to public examination during June. In addition to unveiling a history of lackluster administration at EEOC, Rep. Augustus Hawkins (D — Calif.) subcommittee on equal opportunities discov­