ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 328 series will be continued with the fall 1971 sur­ vey. A comparison of the 1968 and 1969 editions reveals certain differences between the two. The 1969 report does not contain the Budgeted Operating Expenditures, i.e., the expenditures which were current in 1969-70, although the usual previous year (1968-69) expenditures are included. In Table 1 for 1968, interlibrary loan transactions were reported, but such informa­ tion was not collected in 1969. For 1969, Table 3 reports Vacant Positions, both professional and nonprofessional, b ut the beginning salary for a librarian with a master’s degree and no experience, which was noted in Table 5 in 1968, was not obtained in 1969. The surveys on college and university library statistics have been published annually by the OE from fall 1960 to fall 1964, and from fall 1967 to fall 1969. The OE has collected and published data annually from the HEGIS report forms since fall 1967. The Library Surveys Branch has tried to give a truly representative picture of national data by imputing statistics in its Ana­ lytic Reports for those institutions which did not respond or submit useable figures. It is these Analytic Reports on which Office of Edu­ cation estimates are based when Congress or the Bureau of the Budget requires information on the academic library situation. The Office of Education is concerned about the data for individual institutions but its primary responsi­ bility is to produce information on the total li­ brary picture. Late news: On July 27, Burton E. Lamkin, formerly Assistant Director for Public Services of the National Agricultural Library, became Associate Commissioner, Bureau of Libraries and Educational Technology. The Division of Library Programs is happy to be reporting to a Bureau Chief who is a librarian, too. ■ ■ News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • A group of letters and manuscripts of Oliver St. John Gogarty has been acquired by the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library of Buckneel University from the poet’s son, Oliver D. Go­ garty. Among the manuscripts are poems and a television play. Included among the writers of the letters are Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Dun- sany, Robert Flaherty, H. Montgomery Hyde, Joseph P. Kennedy, Queen Mary the Queen Mother, and Philip Sayers. This considerably enhances the collection of letters previously ac­ quired from Mr. Gogarty and made possible through funds given to the library by Dr. La­ Fayette Butler of Hazleton. • A number of President Eisenhower’s let­ ters are in a group of some 5,000 private pa­ pers and historical documents given to Co­ lumbia University by Dr. Allen Nevins, De­ witt Clinton Professor Emeritus of American History at the University. These will be added to the 20,000-item collection he has built since 1953 in the University Libraries. In addition to President Eisenhower, other prominent per­ sons represented through correspondence in the new gift include Dean Acheson, Anthony Eden, James T. Farrell, Robert Frost, Lyndon John­ son, Robert Kennedy, Herbert Lehman, Rob­ ert Dowell, Archibald MacLeish, Carl Sandburg, Adlai Stevenson, Robert Penn Warren, and Andrew Wyeth. • Lawrence J. O’Connor, Jr., Federal Power Commissioner, has announced that his personal and official papers will be given to the Univer­ sity of H ouston libraries for the University’s Texas Gulf Coast Historical Collections. O’Con­ nor’s papers include records of oil and power cases, personal correspondence with Congress and industry, legislative material, speeches, and miscellaneous items. The University has already received the first shipment of the O’Con­ nor papers, those relating to the Permian Basin Case, and will receive others over a period of years. At an appropriate time they will be made available for historical research. Com­ missioner O’Connor was appointed to the Fed­ eral Power Commission by the late President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and was reappointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. He received a B.A. degree from Rice University and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard. From 1945 to 1958 he was Vice-President and Trea­ surer of the Goldston Oil Corporation of Hous­ ton. In 1949-60 O’Connor served as Assistant Director, Office of Oil and Gas, U.S. Depart­ ment of the Interior and he was Administrator of the Oil Import Administration 1960-61. F E L L O W S H I P S / S C H O L A R S H IP S • A one-year traineeship in Computer Li- brarianship under the auspices of the National Library of Medicine, Public Health Service, is available at the Washington University School of Medicine Library, St. Louis, Missouri. The traineeship will run from September 1, 1971 through August 30, 1972. The stipend is 329 $5500, the first $3600 of which is tax free, plus allowances for dependents. Applicants must have a graduate degree in librarianship, infor­ mation sciences, or a biomedical field, and be American citizens. Mathmatics through calculus is desirable, b u t not mandatory. A knowledge of at least one foreign language is presumed. Trainees divide their time between the Medi­ cal Library, the Computing Facilities Center, university classes, and the offices and labora­ tories of scientists. They spend about one quar­ ter of their time on a research project of their own. For applications and further information, write to: Dr. Estelle Brodman, Washington University School of Medicine Library, 4580 Scott Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110. M E E T I N G S Jan. 6-12, 1971: Following on the XXVIIth International Congress of Orientalists Library Panel at Ann Arbor in 1967, Library Seminars will be held during the 28th International Con­ gress of Orientalists, Canberra, 6-12 January, 1971. These may be regarded as the first ma­ jor activities of the International Association of Orientalist Librarians set up at the Ann Arbor meetings. Jan. 16-Feb. 13, 1971: W hat is public re­ lations? How can libraries reach new publics? W hat is the best way for a library to communi­ cate through the mass media? How can a li­ brary gain financial support? These are the topics which will be discussed at a Public Re­ lations Workshop which St. John’s University’s Department of Library Science will present at the University’s Jamaica Campus on five con­ secutive Saturdays from January 16 to Febru­ ary 13. The workshop, which will include lec­ tures, discussions, demonstrations, and projects, will focus on public relations principles and techniques as they relate to libraries. Library public relations consultant Alice Norton will direct the workshop, and the guest faculty will be comprised of public relations specialists, representatives from the communications media, and a graphics designer. The registration fee for the workshop is $95, and the application deadline is December 15. Librarians interested in attending can obtain more information by contacting: Dr. Milton S. Byam, Chairman, Department of Library Science, St. John’s Uni­ versity, Jamaica, New York 11432 (212) 969- 8000, Ext. 200. Feb. 3-5, 1971: A three-day seminar on in­ dexing to be held February 3–5, 1971, has been announced by the American Library As­ sociation and the National Federation of Sci­ ence Abstracting and Indexing Services. The seminar will be sponsored by the Subject Anal­ ysis and Organization of Library Materials Com­ mittee, Cataloging and Classification Section of ALA’s Resources and Technical Services Di­ vision. It will be hosted by Pratt Institute, Grad­ uate School of Library and Information Sci­ ences in its Manhattan Center at 46 Park Ave­ nue, New York City. The seminar will cover the vocabularies used in indexing, indexing systems and formats, and the effects of index­ ing on the retrieval process. Emphasis will be placed on relating indexing developments of the past twenty years to the entire field of in­ formation science and library science; against this background lecture, specific case histories will be presented and discussed. The principal lecturer for the course is E. H. Brenner (American Petroleum Institute) with the following guest lecturers: F. W. Lancaster University of Illinois); Peter Wolters (Nation­ al Science Library, C anada); Margaret E. Fischer (Time, Inc.); Carolyn Flanagan (E n ­ gineering Index, Inc.); John Rothman (New York Times); and Stella Keenan (National Federation of Science Abstracting and Index­ ing Services). The course is designed to serve as an in­ troduction for the person with little or no ex­ perience and to provide a perspective review to the more experienced. Each day there will be a special session at the basic level and an opportunity for an in-depth examination and discussion of the specific case history presented. The following questions will be among those covered in the seminar: W hat is the relation­ ship between classification and indexing? W hat differences and similarities exist between clas­ sification decimal entries, subject headings, terms, descriptors, etc.? W hat are the charac­ teristics of a classification scheme, a subject heading list, and a thesaurus? W hat effect has the computer had on all indexing vocabularies? W hat are the characteristics of serial and in­ verted (horizontal and vertical) files? How do subject indexes differ from coordinate indexes? How is the computer effecting the manual card file? The cost of the three-day seminar is $75.00. The registration fee includes a special kit being prepared for the course. Full details may be obtained from the National Federation of Sci­ ence Abstracting and Indexing Services, 2102 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103; or from Miss Carol Raney, Executive Secretary, Resources and Technical Services Division, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. Feb. 17– 19, 1971: The third international seminar on “Approval and Gathering Plans,” sponsored by the Florida Atlantic University Library and Division of Continuing Education, will be held in West Palm Beach, Florida, on February 17-19, 1971. The two-day seminar is designed to assist those who have recently 330 started with approval plans or are contemplat­ ing starting one. The attendance will be limited to individ­ uals who participate in the decision-making process affecting acquisitions policies and prac­ tices in their respective institutions. The seminar will be organized into interest groups by the size of the book budgets of the libraries represented. For further information, write to Peter Spyers–Duran, Director of Li­ braries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fla. 33432. Feb. 22-24, 1971: The 1971 Conference of the National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services will be held from Feb­ ruary 22-24, 1971, in Washington, D.C. One of the highlights of the meeting will be the Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture to be given this year by Dr. Burton W. Adkinson, Head, Office of Science Information Service, of the National Science Foundation. The Conference will in­ clude special sessions on the Interface of Pri­ mary and Secondary Publications and Coop­ erative Studies of Secondary Services. Special interest discussion sessions will be held on stan­ dard data elements and formats for tape ser­ vices, photocomposition, and computer type­ setting and indexing. The Federation program will include a special session organized by As­ sociation of Scientific Information Dissemina­ tion Centers (ASIDIC) on February 24 which will focus on Current Problems of Information Centers. ASIDIC is holding a back-to-back meeting from February 24-25 in the same hotel. The program chairman for the meeting is Bill M. Woods, President-elect of the Fed­ eration and Executive Director of Engineering Index, Inc. The meeting will be held at the Hospitality House Motor Inn, 2000 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia 22202. The Hospitality House is a few minutes from the Washington, D.C. airport with courtesy trans­ portation available. It is about ten minutes from downtown Washington by cab. Registra­ tion fee is $35.00 for members and $50.00 for nonmembers and includes a banquet luncheon and the conference digest which will be pub­ lished after the meeting. More information from National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services, 2102 Arch Street, Phila­ delphia, Pennsylvania 19103. Apr. 23-24, 1971: Sixteenth annual Midwest Academic Librarians Conference at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. May 30-June 3, 1971: The 70th Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association will be held in New York City, May 30­ June 3, 1971. A letter of intent to submit a formal paper for consideration, accompanied by a short ab­ stract, should be sent by September 1, 1970, to: Alfred N. Brandon, Librarian, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Fifth Avenue and 100th Street, New York, New York 10029. The dead­ line for submission of completed papers is February 1, 1971. For information regarding the type of papers needed see July/August CRL News, pages 220 and 224. July 20-23, 1971: The third Cranfield Inter­ national Conference on Mechanised Informa­ tion Storage and Retrieval Systems will be held July 20–July 23, 1971, in Bedford, En­ gland. Invited speakers will present papers dealing with the main theme of the conference, namely, the relationship between the large mechanized information retrieval systems cov­ ering a complete discipline, and the smaller specialized information services which may use their data bases. A number of sessions will be reserved for contributed papers; such papers can either relate to the main theme of the con­ ference or to any aspect covering the design, operation, or evaluation of mechanized infor­ mation services. Within the general theme of the conference a number of aspects can be iden­ tified, of which the following are a few ex­ amples: (1) The Market: W hat proportion is interested only in a single subject and how much is interdisciplinary? Is there a greater need for industry-oriented systems? Who is concerned with principles and who needs facts? (2) The Distribution Pattern: The large data bases have tended to grow out of secondary publications. Are these packaged in such a way as to make them directly suitable for the user, or only for competent professional middlemen? (3) Cost Effectiveness: Is it possible to gen­ eralize on the optimum compromise between performance (e.g., speed and comprehensive­ ness of service) and cost? (4) Technical As­ pects: What is the supportable level of index­ ing and content analysis for the large data bases and the smaller specialized services? Co­ operation and software for merging and re­ packaging large bases. The logistics of retro­ spective searches (either batched or on-line) in large systems. When does inversion result in improvement in cost-effectiveness? Can ret­ rospective searches and current awareness ser­ vices be effectively covered by the same sys­ tem? Can subsets for retrospective searching be generated by current-awareness services? Enquiries or offers to present papers should be sent to the Conference Director, Cyril Cleverdon, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford, England. Aug. 22-27, 1971: An International Con­ ference on Information Science will be held in Israel August 22-27, 1971. For information write Conference Secretary, ISLIC—Israel So­ ciety of Special Libraries and Information Cen­ tres, P.O.B. 16271, Tel-Aviv. See also Septem­ ber CRL News, page 249.