ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 109 News From the Field G R A N T S • Stanford University’s building fund for a new Main Library is being given a $1 million boost by the James Irvine Foundation of San Francisco, President Richard W. Lyman of Stanford announced recently. The grant is des­ ignated for construction or equipping of the new library, estimated to cost $20 million or more. “In every great university of the world, the library is at the heart,” Lyman said. “There is no building project more important to the fu­ ture strength of Stanford than the new Main Library. We are very grateful to the Irvine Foundation for its gift to help achieve one of the top goals in the Campaign for Stanford.” The new Main Library will be connected to Stanford’s central library complex, including the research and undergraduate libraries. Near­ by are the libraries of business, food research, law, and the Hoover Institution. Construction, it is hoped, can begin in mid- 1976, if sufficient funds are in hand. In addi­ tion to the $1 million Irvine Foundation gift, an anonymous donor has pledged $5 million to match major gifts from individuals. The Campaign for Stanford, begun in 1972 with a goal of $300 million, is the largest fund raising program in the university’s history. Of the total, $125 million is sought for endowment, $92 million for current support, and $83 million for buildings. M E E T IN G S April 27-30: Computers and Reference. The twelfth annual Clinic on Library Appli­ cations of Data Processing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois. The theme of this clinic will be “The Use of Computers in Literature Searching and Related Reference Activities in Libraries.” Further information may be obtained from Mr. Brandt Pryor, Office of Continuing Educa­ tion and Public Service, University of Illinois, 116 Mini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. April 28-30: The 1975 IEEE Conference on Scientific Journals, cosponsored by the Association for Scientific Journals, will be held at Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Further information is available from the general chairman, James Lufkin, G2118 Honeywell Plaza, Minneapolis, MN 55408. May 5-7: Slide Collections. An institute for librarians who work with slide collections dealing with art history will be held in New York City. The institute will be sponsored by the School of Library Service, Columbia Uni­ versity with the cooperation of the Metropoli­ tan Museum of Art and the Art Libraries So­ ciety/N orth America. Open to museum, gal­ lery, academic, and public library personnel, particularly those east of the Mississippi, the institute will provide a survey of contemporary slide librarianship and laboratory experience for each participant. A fee will be charged which will include the cost of speakers, bus transportation, laboratory materials, and two cocktail receptions. For more information contact John C. Lar­ sen, Assistant Professor of Library Service, Co­ lumbia University, 516 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027. May 14-17: T echnical Communications. Sponsored by the Society for Technical Com­ munication, the twenty-second International Technical Communications Conference will be held in Disneyland. The theme of this year’s conference will be “The Challenge of Profes­ sional Development.” Registration information may be obtained from H. Small, 1630 S. Bar­ ranca, Sp. 170, Glendora, CA 91740. May 15-17: Library Orientation. The Eastern Michigan University Center of Educa­ tional Resources is planning the fifth annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academ­ ic Libraries to be held on the EMU campus, Ypsilanti, Michigan. The program will include speakers, discussions, and working sessions. Librarians, administrators, faculty, and stu­ dents are invited. Registration will be limited to 100 persons. For further information, please write to Hannelore Rader, Orientation Li­ brarian, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197. May 18-30: Administrators. The College of Library and Information Services, Univer­ sity of Maryland, is planning the ninth annual Library Administrators Development Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management, Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. See the January News for more information. 110 May 22-24: The twentieth annual meeting of the Midwest Academic Librarians Confer­ ence will be held at the Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus, Ohio. The theme will be “Magic and Libraries.” Contact Rita Hirsch- man, Main Library, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, for information and reg­ istration materials. May 27-31: The Middle E ast Librarian’s Association will be holding a workshop on Options in Cooperative Middle East Librarian- ship in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The workshop is being sponsored by the ACRL/SSRC Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East. Representatives of the twenty largest col­ lections in North America on the Middle East have been invited to attend. The workshop will assess the status quo and map out the goals for Middle East libraries to meet the needs of American scholars and the American public. For further information contact: John A. Eilts, President, Middle East Librarian’s Asso­ ciation, Near Eastern Division, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. June 15-20: XX SALALM. The XX Semi­ nar on the Acquisition of Latin American Li­ brary Materials will convene in Bogota, Colom­ bia, at the invitation of Dr. Jorge Rojas, direc­ tor of the Instituto Colombiano de Cultura. Address inquiries concerning the program to Mrs. Emma C. Simonson, Latin American L i­ brarian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401. Other questions may be directed to Mrs. Pauline P. Collins, Executive Secretary of SALALM, Secretariat, University of Massa­ chusetts Library, Amherst, MA 01002. Mem­ bership in SALALM is $10.00 for personal members ($7.00 for members from Latin America and the Caribbean) and $25.00 for institutions. Dues may be forwarded to the Secretariat. See the January News for more in­ formation. June 15-27: The Catholic University’s library science department will host the third annual I nstitute on the Library and the Govern­ mental Process. The institute offers partici­ pants an opportunity to study and observe, at first hand, the governmental processes and forces affecting libraries and information cen­ ters. The techniques of library legislation will be analyzed on the federal, state, and local lev­ els. Conducting the sessions will be Robert E. Frase, consulting economist and author of L i­ brary Funding and Public Support, and Al­ phonse F. Trezza, executive director of the Na­ tional Commission on Libraries and Information Science. Participants in the library science institute may receive three graduate credits. Tuition and fees total $215.00. The program is open to qualified practicing librarians and graduate stu­ dents in library science. For more information write: Dept. of Library Science, The Catholic University, Washington, DC 20064; (202) 635- 5085. June 22-25: L aw L ibrarians. The Amer­ ican Association of Law Libraries will meet in the Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, Califor­ nia. More information from AALL, 53 W. Jack- son Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604. June 23-27: Manpower Planning. The theme of the 1975 annual management course organized by the London and Home Counties Branch of the Library Association will be “Li­ brary Manpower Planning in the ’70s and ’80s.” The course will be held at Woburn, Bedford­ shire. Inclusive residential course fee is $95.00. Techniques and experiences relating to staff utilization, work measurement, and manpower requirement projection in public and academic libraries will be described and critically as­ sessed by senior librarians. Full details are available from David Baynes, 61, Crossways, Crawley, Sussex, U.K. June 25-28: “Eighteenth-Century English Books Considered by Librarians and Booksell­ ers, Bibliographers and Collectors” is the theme of the 1975 Rare Books and Manuscripts Preconference to be held in San Francisco. John W. Jolliffe, the keeper of catalogues, Bodleian Library, Oxford University and direc­ tor of Project LOC, and William Cameron, dean, School of Library and Information Sci­ ence, University of Western Ontario and direc­ tor of the HPB project, will discuss the short- title catalog. G. Thomas Tanselle, professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present problems of bibliographical description. Problems of editing manuscript ledgers will be discussed by Patricia Hernlund, professor of English, Wayne State University. Keynoting the conference will be William B. Todd, professor of English, University of Texas at Austin. Herman W. Liebert, librarian emeri­ tus, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, will provide the conference summary. The preconference is sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Donald D. Eddy, associate professor of English and librari­ an of the Department of Rare Books, Cornell University, is chairman of the Program Plan­ ning Committee. Peter E. Hanff, coordinator I I I of technical services, the Bancroft Library, Uni­ versity of California, Berkeley, is chairman of local arrangements. The chairman of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section is Hendrik Edelman, assistant director for development of collections, Cornell University Libraries. Further information and registration details can be obtained from Beverly P. Lynch, Execu­ tive Secretary, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chi­ cago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780. June 26-28; Collective Bargaining. “Col­ lective Bargaining in Higher Education; Its Implications for Governance and Faculty Status for Librarians” will be the topic of a precon­ ference meeting in San Francisco. Sponsored by the ACRL Academic Status Committee, the program is part of the continuing effort of the committee to provide information which will help librarians in understanding and evaluating status and governance issues. Further information and registration forms are available from: Beverly P. Lynch, Execu­ tive Secretary, Association of College and Re­ search Libraries, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. July 22-25: The fifth Cranfield Confer­ ence on Mechanised I nformation Storage and Retrieval Systems will be held at Cran­ field Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bed­ ford, England. The conference will be fully residential and the cost, including accommodation, meals, and the conference dinner will be $82.00. Full de­ tails of the program, together with application forms, are available from Cyril Cleverdon, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford MK 43 OAL, England. August 4-15: The Catholic University’s li­ brary science department’s third annual I nsti­ tute on F ederal L ibrary Resources will be directed by Frank Kurt Cylke, chief of the Di­ vision for the Blind and Physically Handi­ capped at the Library of Congress. The institute will offer an opportunity to study the collections and specialized services of major federal libraries and information cen­ ters, including the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the National Agriculture Library. The program is open to qualified practicing librarians and graduate students in library science. Participants in the institute may re­ ceive three graduate credits. Tuition and fees total $215.00. For more information write to the Dept. of Library Science, The Catholic University, Washington, DC 20064; (202 ) 635-5085. August 10-16: L ibrary Administration. An executive development program for library ad­ ministrators will be offered 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. To accomplish this purpose the program will be presented by a team of internationally known management experts—business consultants and executives and management academicians. All of these management authorities have participated in past library conferences at Miami, are familiar with library situations, and are able to relate sound management principles to the library en­ vironment. Case analysis, group discussion, problem-solving techniques, role-playing, a wide variety of audiovisual presentations— all are used to present management concepts as effectively as possible. This will be the twenty-first executive de­ velopment program presented by Miami Uni­ versity for library administrators within the last seven years. Because of its emphasis on general management principles and techniques, the program is of value to all kinds of library administrators—public, university, special, tech­ nical, corporation, e tc .. The fee of $295.00 includes all program ex­ penses: tuition, instructional fees, cost of all reading materials and other handouts, per­ sonalized notebooks, plus room and board. Any­ one interested in attending should contact the program director: Dr. Robert H. Myers, School of Business Administration, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. August 24-28: The Urban and Regional I nformation Systems Association (URISA) will hold its thirteenth annual conference at the Washington Plaza Hotel in Seattle, Washing­ ton. The theme will be “The Role of Informa­ tion Systems Technology in Community Man­ agement.” 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 112 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.” W ith the centennial of the first edition of Dewey’s classification system coming in 1976, the faculty of the school decided to devote next fall’s institute to a study and evaluation of clas­ sification systems. The cosponsor of the 1975 Allerton Institute will be the Forest Press, Al­ bany, New York, publishers of the decimal classification. The institute, however, will con­ cern itself not only with Dewey but with other major classification systems being used in E n ­ glish-speaking countries. A brochure describing the program in detail will be issued in June 1975. Individuals inter­ ested in receiving the brochure and registration information should write to Mr. Brandt W. Pryor, Institute Supervisor, 116 Mini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. M IS C E L L A N Y • An exhibit commemorating the centenary of the birth of D. W. Griffith, pioneer devel­ oper of the American cinema and one of the most influential motion picture directors in the brief history of this dynamic art form of the twentieth century, opened at the Library of Congress on January 22, 1975. The library’s exhibit displays material on Griffith’s greatest triumphs, including The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance, as well as many of his later films. Included in the display are the program from the New York premiere of The Birth of a Nation at the Liberty Theatre, and invitations to special screenings at the W hite House and in honor of the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. These latter programs are autographed to actress Mae Marsh by Thomas Dixon, author of The Clans­ man, one of the literary sources of The Birth of a Nation. These are displayed through the courtesy of the Library of the Academy of Mo­ tion Picture Arts and Science. The Library of Congress is also fortunate to have a large number of Griffith’s Biograph Co. SLIP-ON BOOK JACKETS BOO OF CLEAR K PLAST PA IC Protective pal L e ® nterprises AAttttraraccttiivvee st louiS4i6 4m6 oB r6a3v1o1i6s Long-lasting (314) 481-2779 films in its collection. The original copyright de­ posit for The Adventures of Dolly (th e first film directed by Griffith) is on display along with photographic reproductions from several other Biograph films which demonstrate some of the cinematic techniques Griffith perfected during his career. The Library of Congress, the George E ast­ man International House of Photography, and the Museum of Modern Art together hold copies of most of the films made by D. W. Griffith, providing scholars with a unique op­ portunity to study the work of the American pioneer whose work influenced filmmakers in the United States and in almost every country of the world. “D. W. Griffith: A Centenary of His Birth” will be on exhibit through April 30. For further information, please call the Information Office, Library of Congress; (202) 426-5108. • A substantial portion of the outstanding collection of E rnest H emingway papers which Mrs. Mary Hemingway has deposited in the John F. Kennedy Library has been opened for research use at the library in Waltham, Massa­ chusetts. The materials, which may be studied with Mrs. Hemingway’s permission, include over 15,000 pages of manuscripts for Heming­ way’s published novels and collections of short stories, and over 3,000 photographs. Besides holograph and typescript drafts, set­ ting copies, and galleys of many of the books, the collection includes the original opening of The Sun Also Rises, one unpublished section and an early draft for the Bimini section of Islands in the Stream, several unpublished chapters from A Moveable Feast, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s comments on A Farewell to Arms. The photograph collection covers Hemingway’s life and family from the late 1890s through 1961. Interested researchers should contact the li­ brary for further information. P U B L IC A T I O N S • Three new titles of the University of Michigan Graduate Library Guide Series are available: Special Microform Collections; A D e­ scriptive Guide (2 2 p .), American Politics and Government; Selected Basic Beference Works. Annotated. (1 7 p .), and English Literature; Se­ lected Basic Reference Works. Annotated. (35p.). These and other guides in the series are available for $1.50 each. Payment must accom­ pany orders. Send orders to Mrs. Connie R. Dunlap, 818 H atcher Library South, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. • After a long hiatus, the microfiche series 113 of library literature known as Kentucky Micro­ forms: Library Series has been resumed. Origi­ nally published by the University of Kentucky Press, the series will be published on 4 x 6 microfiche in the future by the General Micro­ film Company, 100 Inman St., Cambridge, MA 02139. Libraries which had standing orders for the old series should notify General Microfilms of their interest in receiving future titles. In the future the series will include impor­ tant unpublished or out-of-print monographs in the general field of librarianship and bibliog­ raphy. In addition, it will include titles in these fields selected from General Microfilm’s con­ tinuing series of state documents. A list of titles in print is available upon application to General Microfilm. • The University of New Mexico General Library announces the publication of two new bibliographies in its Sources series: A Navajo Reading Bibliography, compiled by James M. Kari. (Sources, no.2) Albuquer­ que: University of New Mexico General Li­ brary, July 1974. 40p. $1.50 prepaid. A Current Bibliography on Chicanos, 1960- 1973, Selected and Annotated, compiled by Helena Quintana. (Sources, no.3) Albuquer­ que: University of New Mexico General Li­ brary, June 1974. 44p. $1.50 prepaid. Orders should be sent to: UNM Bookstore, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131. • The Case Memorial Library announced recently th at a directory to the archives of the foundation titled The Archives of the Case Me­ morial Library has just been printed by the li­ brary and is available for $2.00 a copy. I t can be ordered from the Case Memorial Library, Hartford Seminary Foundation, 55 Elizabeth St., Hartford, CT 06105. It contains a brief his­ tory of the H artford Seminary Foundation; de­ scribes the Alumni Alcove and papers relating to church and mission fields here and abroad; lists sermons of eminent ministers (1705- ), letters of prominent ministers and American authors (1739- ), diaries, journals, and tape recordings; describes the nature of seventeen important manuscript collections; and explains the arrangement, the policy for use, and the availability of the materials. • The Sciences-Engineering Library of the University of California, Santa Barbara has re­ cently announced its publication of: Chemistry Literature Guide by Arthur Antony. Price $3.00; and General Biological Sciences Includ­ ing Biochemistry and Biophysics by Virginia R. Weiser. Price $2.00. Both publications may be ordered from The Librarian’s Office, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. ■ ■ San Francisco Continued from page 107 sections in the Library System and Library Ser­ vice. The program will be held on Monday, June 30, 2:00 4:00 p.m. Requirements for a T otal E ducational System At the EBSS business meeting on Thursday, July 3, 10:00 a.m .-12:00 noon, Karl M. Pear­ son, Jr., project head at System Development Corporation, will discuss his study of informa­ tion requirements in education, based on a sur­ vey of education information resources and a market analysis of information users. Art Research M ethods On Wednesday, July 2, 2:00-6:00 p.m., the ACRL Art Section will hold a workshop on Bibliographical Research Methods: Iconogra­ phy, Signs, Symbols, and Symbolism; Western Art from Early Christian Times to the E nd of the Eighteenth Century. The program will con­ sist of three slide-illustrated lectures, each fol­ lowed by a question and answer period. Dr. Sara Jane Pearman, slide librarian at the Cleve­ land Museum of Art, will lecture on “Biblio­ graphical Sources for the Study of Christian Iconography.” Dr. W alter S. Gibson, chairman of the Departm ent of Art at Case W estern Re­ serve University, will lecture on “Bibliographi­ cal Sources for the Study of Humanistic and Secular Themes in Art.” Dr. Luraine G. Tan- sey, art consultant at San Jose City College, will lecture on “Computerized Retrieval of Iconographical Information.” Dr. Gibson will serve as moderator of the discussion. Art Reference T ools The Art Section will also sponsor a program meeting on primary source materials and art reference collections. The program will be held at Stanford University, Tuesday, July 1, 9:00 a.m .-3:00 p.m. The program will include a slide-illustrated lecture on Art Reference Tools and Art Historians of the Past, by Dr. Susan V. Lenkey, art historian and rare book librarian at Stanford. Program participants may then choose to tour ( a ) the Art and Architecture Library in the N athan Cummings Art Building, where the newly appointed art librarian will discuss the scope and objectives of the collec- Join ACRL! For reduced rates at conferences!