ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 8 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • Michael Butler, producer of the rock mu­ sical “Hair,” has formally presented his papers to the Twentieth Century Archives of Boston University. Among the papers the university will receive are scripts, scores, correspondence, and material relative to the history of “Hair,” the long-running show that continues to play on Broadway, across the nation, and throughout the world. Dr. Howard Gotlieb, director of special col­ lections in Mugar Memorial Library, said that the papers will have sociological as well as theatrical significance. Of particular interest to scholars will be legal papers growing out of the Supreme Court decision preventing Boston authorities from censoring “Hair’s” so-called nude scene. • On October 22, 1971, the Wisconsin Cen­ ter for Theatre Research officially opened its United Artists Collection for research use. The opening—announced by the center’s di­ rector, Tino Balio, and attended by executives of the film corporation, members of the uni­ versity community, and the general public— marks the culmination of three years of or­ ganizational effort by the center’s archival staff. In 1968, during the course of its field work, the Wisconsin Center for Theatre Research contacted United Artists, asking that the cor­ poration deposit its manuscripts and films with the center for research purposes. In the sum­ mer of that same year the first shipment of what was to become the largest single gift of film materials ever presented to a research in­ stitution arrived. Cataloging of the materials began immediately. Business archivists worked closely with film archivists to put the volum­ inous materials into an order that would maxi­ mize their research potential. In 1969 the uni­ versity Board of Regents accepted the gift from United Artists. Within the collection, scholars will find manuscripts, films, and photographs on which to focus their attention. Especially significant among the manuscripts are the corporate rec­ ords of United Artists. Those records date from 1919, when UA was founded by Mary Pick- ford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith, to 1951 when the present man­ agement headed by Arthur B. Krim and Rob­ ert S. Benjamin assumed control. The four founders incorporated United Artists as a mo­ tion picture distribution company for both artis­ tic and financial reasons—they wished to profit by the distribution of the films they had in­ dependently produced. The corporate records thus illustrate the many facets of a distribu­ tion company—relations between the company and producers; legal actions; foreign and do­ mestic distribution procedures; advertising cam­ paigns; and corporate decision-making. Of primary importance are the film libraries represented in the collection—more than 1,700 feature films and even more numerous cartoons and short subjects. The films which United Artists acquired during the course of its operation form a substantial portion of Holly­ wood’s production during the 1930s and 1940s. Included are the Warner Film Library, 1913- 1950; the RKO Film Library, 1929-1954; and the Monogram Film Library, 1931-1946. Clas­ sics such as Casablanca, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Citizen Kane, Women on the Beach, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Trea­ sure of Sierra Madre, and Footlight Parade are readily available for viewing. There are no films of Chaplin, Pickford, or the other United Artists founders in the collection, since those re­ leases generally reverted to the producers after the distribution period. The manuscripts and films together docu­ ment the work of men and women who occupy the upper echelons of film history—directors, such as Orson Welles, Michael Curtiz, William. Wellman, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Howard Hawks, and George Stevens; writers, such as Dudley Nichols, Raymond Chandler, Ben Hecht, and Budd Schulberg; and stars, such as Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, James Cag­ ney, Paul Muni, and Ginger Rogers. Within the United Artists collection are also films and manuscripts that provide the back­ ground for a detailed study of television. The development of the industry can be studied in the ZIV Film Library, 1948-1962; the library contains 2,000 episodes from thirty-eight tele­ vision series. The scripts and negatives that ac­ company these films make it the largest collec­ tion of nonnetwork programming in the coun­ try. Finally, numbers of still photographs and negatives from United Artists, Warner, Mono­ gram, Eagle Lion, and Film Classics releases; script materials and legal files from the War­ ner Library; pressbooks; and cartoons com­ plete this vast film archive. The United Artists collection is open to any serious researcher. Research projects—student term papers, graduate theses, scholarly articles, and the like—are registered at the Film Ar­ chive, and the researcher will be aided in his work by the film archivists and the manu­ scripts archivists of the center’s staff. Films in the collection are also available for classroom use on the University of Wisconsin’s Madison 9 SE-LIN labels stay on and stay clean for the life of the binding... Our SE-LIN System makes labeling of a book a one-time proposition. SE-LIN labels won't come off because they're heat sealed to the spine . . . can't get dirty because they're protected by a laminated layer of clear plastic. 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You can find over 54,000 reprint titles quickly and easily in the new 1972 edition of Guide to Reprints. In this one volume you will find the title, author, date of original publica­ tion, name of the reprint publisher and the current price for the reprint. Full names and addresses for 310 reprint publishers both in the United States and abroad are included. Soft bound. Published annually. $10.00 postpaid. GUIDE TO MICROFORMS IN PRINT. 1972. Guide to Microforms in Print, 1972, lists over 19,000 books, journals, newspapers, and multi-volume sets available on microfilm (16mm and 35mm), m icrofiche and m icro ­ opaque cards from publishers in the United States. Entries give full order­ ing information: author/title name of publisher, current price, microform used. Soft bound. Published annu­ ally. Available February, 1972. $6.00 postpaid. SUBJECT GUIDE TO MICROFORMS IN PRINT. 1972-73. Over 19,000 titles arranged by sub­ ject will be found in the 1972-73 edi­ tion of the Subject Guide to Micro­ forms in Print. This is a convenient reference book that enables librari­ ans to determine what titles on a given subject are available on mi­ crofilm and other microforms. Soft bound. Published biannually. Avail­ able April, 1972. $6.00 postpaid. 11 use The LC Card Number Index to the National Union Catalog. It lists for you by LC card number entries in the NUC. • Search the N U C by L C C ard N um ber • Reduce y o u r search tim e • Easy to use — No special tra in in g re q u ire d • Save tim e and m oney Write now for free descriptive brochure LISCO 2464 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140 Tel. (617) 868-0500 12 campus, with the exception of the RKO Film Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024. The deadline for submit­ ting applications is April 1, 1972. • A one-year traineeship in computer librari­ anship under the auspices of the National Li­ brary 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, 1972, through August 30, 1973. Stipend is $5,500, the first $3,600 of which is tax free, plus allowances for dependents. Applicants must have a graduate degree in librarianship, in­ formation sciences, or a biomedical field, and be American citizens or admitted to the United States for permanent residency. Mathematics through calculus is desirable, but not manda­ tory. A knowledge of at least one foreign lan­ guage is presumed. The program has been in operation for six years already, and the number of trainees ac­ cepted has varied from three to five. No more than four traineeships will be available for 1972/73. Trainees divide their time between the Medical Library, the Computing Facilities Center, university classes, and the offices and laboratories of scientists. They spend about one- quarter of their time on a research project of their own. For applications and further infor­ mation write to Dr. Estelle Brodman, Wash­ ington University School of Medicine Library, 4580 Scott Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110. G R A N T S • The National Agricultural Library has awarded a grant of $20,000 to Tennessee State University to initiate a basic survey, feasibility study, and inventory to determine the adequacy of library resources of the pre­ dominantly black university libraries in the vi­ cinity of Tennessee State University to support the teaching and research programs offered. An analysis will be made of estimated cost of unnecessary duplication of library resources such as costly little-used scientific journals. Cer­ tain disciplinary areas of particular interest to Tennessee State University, such as environ­ mental quality improvement, rural economic de­ velopment, health and nutrition, and urban studies will receive major attention in the study. Areas of interest to neighboring institutions will be included in the study with special at­ tention to new courses planned for early cur­ ricular adoption, including as appropriate, Afro- American studies, allied health and premed­ ical programs. • The Council on Library Resources and the National Endowment for the Humanities have joined to award a $40,000 grant to Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsyl­ vania, for the support of an innovative pro­ Library. Those films are shown only over WHA-TV, the university’s educational televi­ sion station. All of the center’s collections are available in the film archives and manuscript reading rooms of the State Historical Society. Further information on the opening of the United Ar­ tists collection or on any of the center’s other collections may be requested by writing or calling the center, 1166 Van Hise Hall, Uni­ versity of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (608/262- 9706). F E L L O W S H IP S / S C H O L A R S H IP S • The Medical Library Association invites applicants from abroad to apply for a fellow­ ship of six months in medical librarianship in the United States. There will be one award granted during the 1972/73 academic year. The program will include observation and work in a United States medical library with at­ tendance at a six-week course in medical li­ brarianship. A monthly stipend, tuition, and travel in the U.S.A. are provided. Candidates usually seek funds for travel to this country from other sources. Applicants should be work­ ing in or preparing to work in a medical li­ brary. They should be prepared to work in their own country for a period of two years after completion of the fellowship. Proficiency in the English language is required. For fur­ ther information inquiries may be sent to Dr. Carroll Reynolds, Chairman, MLA Committee on International Cooperation, Falk Library of the Health Professions, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. • The Riomedical Library, Center for the Health Sciences, University of California, is offering four, one-year traineeships in med­ ical librarianship for the year beginning Sep­ tember 1, 1972. The internship year is divided between planned training in medical librarian- ship and formal academic coursework selected from one or more of the following fields: health and life sciences, history of science, adminis­ tration, information science, and foreign lan­ guages. The summer quarter includes a six- week internship in a hospital library. One of the four traineeships provides for an opportuni­ ty to specialize in a selected area as an option to hospital library training. Applicants must be citizens of the United States (or have applied for citizenship) and hold master’s degrees from ALA-accredited li­ brary schools. Preference will be given to re­ cent library school graduates who have strong backgrounds in the biological sciences. Appli­ cation forms and additional information should be requested from Mrs. Leide Gilman, Train­ ing Officer, Biomedical Library, Center for the 13 gram which will make use of a newly created position of divisional librarian to increase the quality and quantity of service the library gives to students and faculty. Swarthmore will ap­ propriate $40,000 in matching funds for im­ plementation of the program. The program will involve the counseling of faculty in the bibliographical aspects of teach­ ing and the rendering of assistance to students preparing independent study projects. Provi­ sion is made for the selection and appointment of a divisional librarian in the humanities, a doctoral-level individual who will work closely with Swarthmore students in the preparation of research for courses and independent study projects. In addition to working with students, the di­ visional librarian will assist faculty members in the bibliographical aspects of teaching, and will counsel faculty and students in the prep­ aration of study and research bibliographies. He will also serve as a liaison for consultation with faculty on such matters as reserve books and interdepartmental purchases, and will su­ pervise the building of the McCabe Library’s humanities collection by consulting with faculty and students concerning gaps in the collection, becoming aware of research needs, and by paying particular attention to the acquisition of interdisciplinary materials. Grant funds are not provided for the purchase of materials. • Mrs. Virginia Barnes Coughlin, trustee of the Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation, Syracuse, has announced a grant of $11,260 to Syracuse University to provide for the completion of a definitive bibliography on Al­ gernon Charles Swinburne, the nineteenth-cen­ tury British poet and novelist. The study will be carried out by John S. Mayfield, curator emeritus of manuscripts and rare books at Syr­ acuse University. Mayfield has studied Swin­ burne (1837 1909) since 1929 and has col­ lected works by and about him for nearly fifty years. He is regarded as one of the world’s out­ standing authorities on Swinburne. M E E T IN G S March 22-25, 1972: The Alaska Library As­ sociation annual meeting will be held at the YWCA Building, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. The general theme will be “Redesign.” Program chairman is Miss Nancy Lesh, 1802 11th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501. April 6-8, 1972: The Seventh Annual Con­ ference of Junior College Libraries will be held on the campus of Rock Valley College, Rock­ ford, Illinois, from April 6 through April 8, 1972. The theme for this year’s conference is “The Junior College Library—Putting It All To­ gether.” The conference is definitely not limit­ ed to junior college librarians or media spe­ cialists from Illinois. One of the speakers will be Dr. Joseph Co- sand, formerly president, Junior College Dis­ trict of St. Louis, now director, Center for the Study of Higher Education, School of Educa­ tion, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich­ igan. Another speaker will be Norman Tanis, librarian, San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, California. The formal program and other details, when completed, will be avail­ able from Beverly H. Humphries, Reid Me­ morial Library, Lewis & Clark Community Col­ lege, Godfrey, IL 62035. April 13-15, 1972: The Oklahoma Library Association will meet at Oklahoma State Uni­ versity, Stillwater, Oklahoma. Mrs. Neysa Eber­ hard, Curriculum Materials Laboratory, Univer­ sity Library, Oklahoma State University, Still­ water, OK 74074, is the convention publicity chairman. April 30-May 3, 1972: The annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Li­ brary Science, University of Illinois, from Sunday, April 30, to Wednesday, May 3, 1972. The theme of the Clinic will be “On-Line Sys­ tems Applied to Library Automation.” Areas covered will include acquisitions, serials con­ trol, circulation, cataloging, and library net­ work functions. Among systems discussed will be the on-line circulation system at Ohio State University, the BALLOTS system at Stanford University, on-line serials control at the Bio­ medical Library of UCLA, LOLITA acquisi­ tions system at Oregon State University, and on-line cataloging activities in the Shawnee Mission, Kansas Public Schools. The role of on-. line systems in library networks will be dis­ cussed by Mr. Irwin Pizer, director of the Li­ brary of Medical Sciences of the University of Illinois, and a paper with the intriguing title “Automation, or Russian Roulette” will be pre­ sented by Dr. Ellsworth Mason, director of Library Services, Hofstra University, Long Is­ land, New York. Demonstrations of on-line systems will also be scheduled. Further infor­ mation may be obtained from Mr. Leonard Sigler, Division of University Extension, 111 Mini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. May 18-20, 1972: The Midwest Academic Librarians Conference will meet May 18, 19, 20, 1972, at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Convention chairman is Donald E. Thompson, Wabash College Li­ brary, Crawfordsville, IN 47933. June 19-23, 1972: The American Theolog­ ical Library Association will hold its 26th an­ nual conference, June 19-23, 1972, on the campus of Waterloo Lutheran University, Wa- " A n im p re ssive . . . dual media collec­ tion . . . [a ] monumental w o rk ." Joe Morehead, fíQ, Spring 1971 The United States Histoi b y special arrangement wit and the A c tin g Superintendent CHECK] .S . PU B L IC 789-1970 . . . a ui lists of meats 2 U P D A T E S T H E 19 09 C H E C K L IS T A N D O T H E R B A SIC R E F E R E N C E T O O L S U S E D B Y D O C U M E N T S L IB R A R IA N S Here’s how the two standard reference books on U.S. Government documents evaluate the public Docu­ ments Library, its collection, the SuDocs Classifica­ tion scheme, and the need for updating the predeces­ sors of Checklist ’70. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS AND THEIR USE, L. F. Schmeckebier and R. B. Eastin, 2nd Revised Edition, Brookings Institute, 1969. “There is probably no complete collection of govern­ ment publications in existence, but the one in the Public Documents Library is probably the most nearly complete . . . it has all issues listed in the Monthly Catalog and the biennial Documents Catalog. It also has some material not so listed, as back issues are often sent to the library after the catalogs are printed.” UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PUBLICA­ TIONS, A. M. Boyd and R. E. Rips, 3rd Revised Edition, Wilson, 1953. “The Library of the Office of Superintendent of Documents is of interest to librarians . . . because of the classification scheme by which its collection is arranged. It has been adopted by many other libraries throughout the country as a most convenient and satisfactory method of organizing and arranging collections of government publications. “There have been three checklists of government publications. . . . The third, which was much more inclusive and a monumental work of incalculable value covering the entire period of United States publications to 1909 . . . was published in 1911. “A fourth edition, bringing the third edition to date, is the aid to government publications most needed by the librarians.” U 1 O N M IC R O F IL M 1,200,000 shelf list cards on 16mm microfilm (roll or cartridge); arranged in SuDocs classification order by some 3000 government authors; and current as of October 1970. The active file contains approximately 550,000 cards describing publications of existing govern­ ment authors and continuous series. The inactive file contains 650,000 cards describing publications in discontinued series and items published by government authors that are no longer active. Also, both files contain about 50,000 guide cards which indicate changes of titles and identify predecessor and successor organizations. S E P A R A T E SU B SETS O F F E R E D FO R M A J O R G O V E R N M E N T A U T H O R S Department level author breakouts are available separately upon request. For example, you may order individual microfilm reels covering the shelf lists of publications of the Department of Agricul­ ture, Interior Department, Health, Education and Welfare. Please write for price information. ical Documents Institute h the U.S. Public Printer o f D ocum ents announces the T ST OF DOCUM ENTS ìl media collection of the Active and Inactive shelf the Superintendent of Documents’, Public Docu- brary, Washington, D.C. "The most comprehensive single source o f published information on U.S. Government Documents." Carper W. Buckley U.S. Superintendent of Documents 1953-1970 B IB L IO G R A P H IC D A T A ON M O R E T H A N 1.5 M IL L IO N U.S. G O V E R N M E N T P U B L IC A T IO N S Now available to librarians for the first time in any format. As stated by Carper W. Buckley, who until his retirement in 1970 had served as U.S. Superin­ tendent of Documents since 1953. ‘‘Checklist ’70 provides librarians with the most comprehensive single source of published information about United States Government documents. It lists all titles which appear in the shelf lists of the Public Documents Library of the U.S. Government Printing Office, covering the period 1861 through October 1970. Also included are the publications listed in the Checklist o f U.S. Public Documents, 1789-1909, the Monthly Catalog and Mary Elizabeth Poole’s Docu­ ments Office Classification to 1966.” Each citation is at least as complete as the entries in the Monthly Catalog and often provides more infor­ mation. For instance, bibliographic data on each issue of certain periodicals are included, as well as com­ plete cross-references for changes in classification numbers, titles, or issuing agencies. Cutterized sepa­ rates are listed for some series publications. IN B O U N D V O L U M E S - N O W A V A IL A B L E F O R IN D IV ID U A L P U R C H A S E These five full size indexes to the microfilm collection are now being supplied as part of the dual media edition and are also for the first time being made available as individual volumes. All but Index IV were computer generated and were compiled by Mr. and Mrs. Daniel and Marilyn Lester of Mankato State College in Minnesota. INDEX I. SUDOCS CLASSIFICATION ORDER INDEX OF U.S. GOVERNMENT AUTHOR-ORGANIZATIONS, 1789-1970 lists the names of some 6000 government “author-organizations” in SuDocs Class order showing microfilm reel numbers. casebound $42.50 INDEX II. U.S. GOVERNMENT AUTHOR-ORGANIZATION INDEX, 1789-1970 arranged alphabetically by the official names o f 6000 active and inactive publication-issuing offices. This index brings together all SDC numbers for any issuing office regardless of its reorganization history. casebound $42.50 INDEX III. DEPARTMENTAL INDEX TO U.S. GOVERNMENT AUTHOR-ORGANIZATIONS, 1789-1970 contains a breakdown o f Government issuing offices listed alphabetically under the cabinet level departments or major agencies to which they report. casebound $42.50 INDEX IV. U.S. GOVERNMENT SERIAL TITLES, 1789-1970 Note: This index volume has been substantially expanded in size and scope since our initial announcement. It now contains not only an alphabetical listing o f 18,000 current and discontinued serial titles contained in the Serials card File o f the Public Documents Library (with their SDC numbers and microfilm reels), bu t also their bibliographic histories and other annotations. This additional information was obtained by checking each title against the microfilm copies of the shelf list cards in both the active and inactive files. casebound $52.50 PLUS O U R N E W L Y A N N O U N C E D A D D IT IO N TO T H E C H E C K L IS T '7 0 IN D E X SET NDEX V. 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And the Science Citation Index tells you, like no other combination of references available anywhere.* In study after study, the Science Citation Index has demonstrated its ability to identify specific items of the world’s scientific and technical literature with an ease, speed, accuracy, and thoroughness that make it indispensable to scientific, medical, and technical libraries both large and small. And the new 5-Year Cumulative SCI® — covering all of the scientific disciplines for the years 1965 through 1969 in a single reference — virtually guarantees that you’ll find and validate the information about almost any paper ever published. So there’s no need to waste time looking through all the other indexes it might be in. What’s more, the new 5-Year SCI takes less than half the space of the five annual issues it replaces. You owe your library patrons, your staff, and yourself the con­ venience, the authority, and the unrivaled efficiency of the new 5-Year SCI. Find out more about how it can save you time and money. Write for our new brochure. •Williams, J. F. & Finis, V. M., "A Study of the Access to the Scholarly Record from a Hospital Health Science Core Collection.” Report No. 54, Wayne State University. School of Medicine. Library and Biomedical Information Service Center, Detroit, Michigan, January 1970, 22pp. terloo, Ontario, Canada. The keynote speaker will be Frederick G. Kilgour, director of the Ohio College Library Center. Others address­ ing the conference include Joseph Becker, a member of the National Commission on Li­ braries; Helmut T. Lehmann, book editor of Fortress Press; John P. Wilkinson, professor at the School of Library Science, University of Toronto; and Gregory Baum, Catholic theologian from the Pontical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto. The program committee is headed by Peter N. VandenBerge of Rochester, New York, vice-president of ATLA. Host librarian, to whom inquiries about the conference may be directed, is Erich R. W. Schultz of Water­ loo Lutheran University. M IS C E L L A N Y • Members of the American Library As­ sociation have voted by mail, 6,917 to 981, to ratify amendments to ALA Bylaws calling for the reorganization of the ALA Council. The amendments were prepared by the ALA Con­ stitution and Bylaws Committee at Council’s re­ quest when, at the Annual Conference of ALA in Dallas, Council approved these recommenda­ tions of the ALA Committee on New Direc­ tions for ALA (ACONDA) which Council felt should be implemented immediately. (A) Council be composed of 100 members elected at large, with 25 elected each year for a term of four years; plus one councilor repre­ senting each chapter, to be elected for a term of four years by the ALA members in the chapter. By amendment, Council added the members of the Executive Board; (B) All candidates for Council positions be nominated by the ALA Nominating Commit­ tee or by Membership petition; the procedure for nomination by petition be facilitated and publicized; the election ballot show no distinc­ tion between candidates nominated by the Nominating Committee and those nominated by petition; (C) The Nominating Committee be expand­ ed in size and instructed to reflect the distribu­ tion of membership among the several divi­ sions in its selection of candidates and to make a systematic canvass to elicit the names of nominees; (D ) The number of nominees to be at least twice the number of seats to be filled each year; no ceiling be placed on the number of nominees; ( E ) The election ballot be accompanied by information about each candidate for office, consisting of a brief biographical sketch and a statement of concerns, both prepared by the candidate. In the mail vote, 24,755 ballots were mailed. A total of 7,898 members (31.9 percent) par­ ticipated in the balloting. The members of Council in the present year will continue to serve through the 1972 An­ nual Conference in Chicago, at which time all of their terms will expire. The newly consti­ tuted Council will be in office at the adjourn­ ment of the 1972 Annual Conference with the Executive Board members continuing as mem­ bers of Council until their Board terms expire. Under the old Council structure, it was com­ posed of ninety-six councilors-at-large; fifty- three chapter representatives; one councilor for every 1,500 members, nominated by the divi­ sions; the presidents of divisions; past presi­ dents of ALA; representatives of affiliated asso­ ciations; and (nonvoting) the chairmen of ALA committees. In another vote cast by mail at the same time, members of ALA Adult Services Divi­ sion and Reference Services Division voted to merge the two divisions into one by a vote of 1,434 to 366 among the RSD members and by a vote of 674 to 43 among the ASD members. A total of 4,928 RSD ballots were mailed and 1,800 (36.5 percent) of RSD members voted; I, 654 ASD ballots were mailed and 717 (43.4 percent) ASD members voted. • Brigham Young University has been au­ thorized by the Board of Trustees to plan a ma­ jor new library addition south of the present J. Reuben Clark, Jr. Library. President Oaks said the Board had also approved a major fund­ raising campaign to raise funds for the new facility. This would include an organized ef­ fort to obtain substantial outside gifts. In ad­ dition, BYU student officers are being au­ thorized to conduct correlated fund-raising ac­ tivities with BYU students and parents of stu­ dents. The announcement coincides with the cele­ bration this week of the acquisition of the mil­ lionth volume by the library. The event was observed with a special forum assembly Thurs­ day at 10:00 a.m., a donors luncheon, Millionth Volume Colloquium with lectures and discus­ sions, a reception, and an exhibit of the vol­ ume, “Catalog of Fixed Stars,” the only hand­ written volume in existence by Johannes He- velius, seventeenth-century Danzig astronomer. Ed. note: The following letter pertaining to the recent firing of Mr. Doiron, former editor of CHOICE, was submitted by Mr. E. J. Josey for publication in the News. Mr. Joseph Reason President, ACRL 1242 Girard Ne. Washington, D.C. Dear President Reason: The following list contains names of 80 members of ACRL who strongly protest the 18 recent firing of the Editor of CHOICE. We understand that this action was taken without prior consultation or notification of any of the officers of ACRL or appropriate committees, e.g., the CHOICE Editorial Board or the Pub­ lications Committee. Furthermore, the firing took place a few weeks after the Annual Conference. If there were problems with the operation of CHOICE these should have been discussed at the ALA conference. Under the editorial leadership of Mr. Doiron, CHOICE has been a successful—in fact ALA’s only profit-making publication. We must then wonder at the unusual secrecy, methodology, and reasoning behind ALA’s action in firing Mr. Doiron. We respectfully urge the ACRL Board and officers to request a complete investigation of this arbitrary action and prepare a report for the membership at the 1972 Midwinter Con­ ference. E. J. Josey, Member, ACRL ACRL MEMBERS WHO JOIN E. J. JOSEY IN PROTESTING THE DISMISSAL OF MR. PETER DOIRON Richard G. Akeroyd, University of Connecti­ cut Library, Storrs; June C. Aimes, Lock Ha­ ven State College, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; Edward Bachus, Skidmore College Library, Saratoga Springs, New York; Barbara Bartley, University of Wisconsin, School of Library & Information Science, Milwaukee; Mary Beilby, SUNY at Cortland, Cortland, New York; John Berry, III, Library Journal, New York, New York; Fay M. Blake, School of Librarianship, University of California, Berkeley; Thomas Bonn, SUNY College at Cortland, Cortland, New York; Robert S. Bravard, Lock Haven State College, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; Jo­ seph N. Carman, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, New York; Roger Cartmill, Pratt In­ stitute Library, Brooklyn, New York; Tien Lu Chu, Lock Haven State College, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; Willard Davis, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor; Oliver Delaney, Coppin State College, Baltimore, Maryland; Richard S. Dillman, Lock Haven State College, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; Laurence R. Eb­ bing, Macomb County Community College, South Campus, Warren, Michigan; Hans En- gelke, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo; William R. Eshelman, Wilson Library Bulletin, Bronx, New York; Rice Estes, Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, New York; Evan Ira Far­ ber, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana; Rob­ ert Ford, Medgar Evers College, 317 Clermont Ave., Brooklyn, New York; Elizabeth D. Futas, Queens College Library, Flushing, New York; Alvin Gamage, Skidmore College Library, Sar­ atoga Springs, New York; Joseph F. Gantner, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York; Mrs. Louise P. Gerity, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon; Rupert Gilroy, Brandeis Uni­ versity, Waltham, Massachusetts; Robert T. Gragier, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich­ igan; Selby Gration, SUNY at Cortland, Cort­ land, New York; Elayne P. Hagen, Skidmore College Library; Saratoga Springs, New York; William Hinchliff, Media Services, T -l, Fed­ eral City College, Washington, D.C.; Felix E. Hirsch, Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey; James F. Holly, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington; Jane A. Ja- cober, Skidmore College Library, Saratoga Springs, New York; Beverly M. Johnson, San Diego State, San Diego, California; Harold D. Jones, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, New York; Robert C. Jones, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, New Jersey; Sar­ ah D. Jones, Goucher College, Towson, Mary­ land; E. J. Josey, Division of Library Develop­ ment, Albany, New York; Normal Jung, SUNY College at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York; William Katz, SUNY at Albany, Albany, New York; James Kennedy, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana; Thomas Kirk, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana; Tad Kumatz, Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, New York; Susan J. Lee, Eastern Michigan University Li­ brary, Ypsilanti; Lillian Lester, Brooklyn Col­ lege Library, Brooklyn, New York; James F. McCoy, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, New Jersey; Edward Mapp, City Community College, Brooklyn, New York; Joan K. Marshall, Brooklyn College Library, Brook­ lyn, New York; Pauline F. Micciche, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York; Anne A. Mitchell, SUNY College at Potsdam, Potsdam, New York; John S. Page, Jr., Media Services, Federal City College, Washington, D.C.; Gertrude E. Parker, Lock Haven State College, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; William E. Peters, University of Connecticut Library, Storrs; James W. Pirie, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon; Avram Rosenthal, Henry Ford Community College Library, Dearborn, Michigan; Carl H. Sachtleben, Western Michi­ gan University, Kalamazoo; Theodore Samore, University of Wisconsin, School of Library & Information Science, Milwaukee; R. H. Schim- milpfeng, University of Connecticut Library, Storrs; Patricia A. Schuman, Associate Editor, School Library Journal, New York, New York; Betty-Carol Sellen, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, New York; Jane E. Sherman, Skid­ more College Library, Saratoga Springs, New York; Alvin Skipna, Skidmore College Library, Saratoga Springs, New York; Samuel Sias, Uni­ versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Yong Sup Sim, Mercer County Community College, Tren­ ton, New Jersey; Barbara Ann Simons, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland; Barbara Smith, 19 Skidmore College Library, Saratoga Springs, the user is the agency which makes the infor­ mation store available within the local environ­ ment (whether small or large, manual or auto­ mated) and which is responsible for the total system.” Impetus for the establishment of this or­ ganization came from numerous sources. Rec­ ognition of the problems libraries were having with microforms led to a national’ meeting in Denver late last year on “Microform Utiliza­ tion: The Academic Library Environment.” This conference of representative specialists and administrators from academic libraries contin­ ued for three days and resulted in position statements and recommendations, among which was the expression that “the library community has played a passive role in the evolution of library-related microforms and must begin to define its own needs so that the industry can respond to requirements rather than attempting to define them.” Management of OMI will be through an administrative board composed of representa­ tives of the host institution, the operational staff, and the subscribing community. This board will select and review the programs and projects undertaken by and for the member­ ship. An operational staff will initiate the pro­ grams and develop the projects to whatever extent is consistent with the goals of the or­ ganization. Cooperation with other agencies having interests which bear upon the objec­ tives of this organization will be proffered through a Panel for Organizational Liaison, to the end that duplication of effort is avoided and cooperation encouraged in problem solu­ tion. Further, since problems of microinforma­ tion use are directly tied to available products, a Panel for Industrial Liaison will be formed to assure that expressions from the membership reach the industrial community in proper form and forcefulness and that expressions from industry are conveyed back to the mem­ bership. • A major addition to the Harvey S. Fire­ stone Memorial Library at Princeton Univer­ sity providing space for nearly a quarter of a million volumes and additional study seats for several hundred students has been dedicated. The addition is part of a $2.5 million exten­ sion and renovation program for the building, which originally opened in 1948. Construction of the two-level, below-grade addition was started in April 1969, with the facility opening for use early this year. It ex­ pands by 13 percent the floor space of one of the nation’s largest research libraries, adds 10 miles of open-stack shelving, and provides new seminar rooms, offices, and other facilities. Built around a central garden court, the addi­ tion—which attaches to the existing building’s “B” and “C” levels at the north (toward Nas- New York; Eldred R. Smith, University of California, Berkeley; Norman D. Stevens, Uni­ versity of Connecticut Library, Storrs; Howard A. Sullivan, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; Eugene J. Taylor, Lock Haven State College, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; Bruce E. Thomas, Lock Haven State College, Lock Ha­ ven, Pennsylvania; Joseph H. Treyz, Univer­ sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Evert Volkersz, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York; C. Edward Wall, University of Michigan, Dear­ born; David R. Watkins, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Jean A. Widmaier, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, New Jersey; Frederick Willerford, SUNY at Old Westbury, Oyster Bay, New York; Barbara Winch, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, New York; Edith Wise, New York University, New York; Arthur P. Young, SUNY College at Cortland, Cortland, New York. • The winning books in the 1971 Midwest­ ern Books Competition and the 1971 South­ ern Books Competition (two separate shows) are available for exhibit upon application to Lawrence S. Thompson, Department of Clas­ sics, 1169 Patterson, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506. Any library which wants to display these books should request Mr. Thompson to assign three months between February and December 1972, in order of preference, and also give the months when the exhibit cannot be used. There will be twenty to thirty-five books in each show. Requests for the two exhibits should be sent in separate let­ ters if both are wanted. There is no charge for the exhibits, but each exhibitor will be re­ sponsible for checking the books in and out by a handlist (printed by May 1972; twenty-five copies free to each exhibitor). The books must be displayed in locked cases, but interested readers are welcome to study them. • The Organization for MicroInforma- tion (OMI), focusing upon users’ problems with microforms, has been designed by the University of Denver. This new agency antici­ pates library subscriptions whereby member li­ brary administrators collaborate in the state­ ment of their own requirements insofar as li­ brary-related microforms are concerned. The prospectus for OMI states that it will serve “the user,” and the user is defined as: “first of all, the individual who is using a mi­ croform presentation to gain information. The user in the library environment is different from the microform user found in commercial appli­ cations; his purpose, motivation, and informa­ tion needs require special considerations in sys­ tem design. Secondly, the user is that individ­ ual who assists the library patron and is a part of the requisite microform system; and finally, 20 MAKE SPECIAL NOTE OF THESE NEW TITLES O N MICROFORMS FOR 1 9 7 2 * AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSY­ CHOLOGY. Vols. 1-53 (1887-1940). 135mm m icro film ], $220.00. ■ Butler, Samuel. THE SHREWSBURY EDI­ TION OF THE WORKS OF SAMUEL BUT­ LER. Edited by Henry Festing Jones and A. T. Bartholomew. New York (1923-1926). 20 vols. 14x6]. $50.00. ■ CORNELL LIBRARY JOURNAL. Nos. 1-12 (1966-1971). 14x6]. $7.00. ■ Eliot, George. WRITINGS. Boston (1908). 26 vols. 14x61. $60.00. ■ Kingsborough, Edward King, Viscount. ANTIQUITIES OF MEXICO. London (1830-1849). 9 vols. [4x6]. $75.00. ■ MUSICAL QUARTERLY. Vols. 46-56 (1960-1970). 14x61. $44.00. Vols. 57- (1971-) $4.00/per year. ■ PUBLIC OPINION: a comprehensive summary of the press throughout the world in all im portant current topics. Vols. 1-40 (1886-1906). |35mm m icro­ film ]. $250.00. ■ REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS. Vols. 1-23 (1947-1969/70). 14x61. $102.00. Vols. 24- (1970/71-) $4.00/per vol. ■ REVUE DES LANGUES ROMANES. Vols. 1-68 (1870-1939). 14x6]. $199.00. ■ Stoughton, John. HISTORY OF RELIGION IN ENGLAND FROM THE OPEN­ ING OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT. London (1901). 8 vols. 14x61. $50.00. ■ TRACK AND FIELD QUARTERLY REVIEW. (1964-1970). $22.00. 1965- $4.00/ per year. ■ UNESCO COURIER. Vols. 1-23 (1948/49-70). |4x6|. $130.00. Vols. 24- (1971-) $5.00/per year. ■ U.S. Department of Labor. Women’s Bureau. BULLETIN. Nos. 1-233 (1918- 1954). 14x6J. $260.00. 21 sau Street)—contains 43,350 square feet of floor space and accommodates 210,000 volumes. There are 191 individual study seats, most of them in open carrel arrangements, and 171 student spaces in a dozen seminar and study rooms. There are also seven staff and faculty offices and an expanded map room. • The School of Library and Information Services (SLIS), University of Maryland and the National Agricultural Lirrary (NAL) have signed a research agreement to develop an educational process which provides training in research methodology for teams of graduate library students, librarians, and library school faculty by involving them in the analy­ sis of important and current problems of a li­ brary system. Participants learn to apply re­ search techniques in the identification and solu­ tion of library problems and improve their ability to be critical consumers of library re­ search. The fifteen-week project is organized into two parts. The first five weeks are devoted to learning basic technical skills such as reading tables and graphs, understanding basic statis­ tical measures, and reformulation of problems. In the remaining ten weeks, the students prac­ tice their analytic skills with actual library problems. These problems are of two types: (1) in the beginning, highly structured prob­ lems are presented where students chose among alternative problem reformulations and data sets; (2) in later seminars, students are re­ quired to formulate the problem and obtain and analyze their data. The problems which are analyzed are chosen by the NAL participants, who function as re­ source persons in the planning and evaluation of the seminar outputs. The students are pri­ marily responsible for presenting and discuss­ ing specific research methods pertinent to deal­ ing with the seminar topics. The faculty mem­ bers structure each seminar session. The research agreement is effective Septem­ ber 1971 and extends through June 1972. The project director is Dr. Edwin E. Olson, a pro­ fessor from SLIS. The NAL liaison officer is Mr. Alfred Hodina. • The $8,500,000 Scott Library (general li­ brary) of York University in Toronto, On­ tario, Canada, was dedicated on October 30, 1971. The York University libraries, which were begun in 1960, now have close to 700,000 vol­ umes which are housed in five separate li­ brary buildings and have a staff of nearly 300 people. • The winning books in the 1971 Midwest­ ern Books Competition and the 1971 South­ ern Books Competition (latter sponsored by Southeastern Library Association) are available for display upon application to Lawrence S. ACRL Membership November 30, 1971 ..........................11,983 November 30, 1970 ..........................12,079 November 30, 1969 ..........................14,006 Thompson, Department of Classics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506. There are usually some twenty-five to forty books in each exhibit, chosen by a competent jury as the best in the region from the standpoint of typogra­ phy, design, and general physical excellence. A printed handlist is likely to be available by May 1972, and before that date a processed short-title list of winning books will be avail­ able. Prospective exhibitors should choose three months in 1972, from February through De­ cember, in order of preference, and advise Mr. Thompson. Preference will be given to libraries within the region from which the books are chosen. There is no charge for the exhibit or for twenty-five copies of the handlist, but exhibi­ tors will be responsible for insurance of books in shipment and while on exhibit and for re­ placement of any missing or damaged books. The exhibit may be kept for one calendar month, then shipped to the next exhibitor to ar­ rive by the first of the month of exhibit. The books must be displayed in locked cases, but Librarians— H ere's a gu id e th a t tells you how to use m odern data processing in libraries. HAYES R obe rt M. and BECKER, Joseph. H a nd boo k of Data Processing for Libraries. 885p. ISBN 0-471-36484-3 72-120705 $19.95. A com prehensive, factual g u id e to m odern techniques and e q uipm e nt, th is book sug­ gests methods fo r plan ning , d e velopin g, im ­ p lem entin g and m anaging lib ra ry data p ro c ­ essing systems. The advantages and lim ita tio n s o f various approaches are discussed in term s of cost, effic ie n c y , and ap propriateness to the lib ra ry environm ent. Illustrations, extensive footnotes, b ib lio g ra ­ phies, glossary, and an in v e n to ry of data bases are includ ed. 22 they may be handled by interested persons. Printed handlists for the 1970 winners are available upon application to Mr. Thompson. P U B L IC A T IO N S • The Tarlton Law Library of the University of Texas School of Law announces the publica­ tion of the latest in its Tarlton Law Library Le­ gal Bibliography Series entitled Canon Law Bibliography, 1965-1971, compiled by Leslie W. Sheridan, director of technical services. The sixth in the series, it presents a compre­ hensive listing of books and articles in English from approximately the end of the Second Vatican Council to the fall of 1971. The more than 1,200 entries, including law review ar­ ticles, are classified through the table of con­ tents which follows the format of the Code of Canon Law. Notable sections include the re­ form of canon law, tax-exemption of church property, the role of the lawyer in ecclesias­ tical courts, and church-state relations. The cost is $7.00, and orders may be sent to Don­ ald Zedler, Administrative Assistant, Tarlton Law Library, 2500 Red River, Austin, TX 78705, with checks made payable to the Uni­ versity of Texas Law School Foundation. • The following publications are available from the Stanford libraries. The list represents those titles produced in the last year that FOREIGN LANGUAGE INDEX a new index of publications on public and economic affairs in French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish will be issued by Public Affairs Information Service in 1972. Volume 1 of the P.A.I.S. Foreign Lan­ guage Index covers the years 1968-1971 and indexes periodical articles only. Membership fee for the bound volume is $100. Beginning with Volume 2, 1972, the P.A.I.S. Foreign Language Index will be issued as a quarterly, with the fourth quar­ terly being an annual cumulated and bound volume. Indexing will cover a selection of the latest books, pamphlets, government pub­ lications, reports of public and private agen­ cies, and periodical articles. Membership fee is $100 a year, including three quarterly is­ sues and an Annual bound volume. Public Affairs Information Service, Inc. 11 West 40th Street, New York, New York 10018 Ed. note: The following reminder was received from Dr. Wasyl O. Luciw, Chairman, Slavic Holdings Committee, ACRL. Dear Colleagues: Many of you received two, in some cases three, questionnaires or letters about Slavic holdings in your libraries. Not all have returned these question­ naires or at least your own brief infor­ mation on Slavic material if your li­ brary does not have a separate Slavic Section. Friends, please send in your answers as soon as possible. Address: Slavic Holdings Committee, A.L.A.—A.C.R.L., Dr. Wasyl O. Luciw, Chairman, 418 W. Nittany Ave., State College, PA 16801. Stanford feels might be of interest to other academic libraries. The fourth edition of the Stanford Univer­ sity Union List of Serials: Science and Tech­ nology, last published in 1968, is available at a cost of $15, postpaid. The new List has been completely revised and updated to include the more than 7,000 scientific and technical serials currently received. The 306-page reference work can be obtained from the Financial Of­ fice, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305. The 1971 Meyer Library Book Catalog, the basic reference tool to the undergraduate col­ lection at Stanford University, has just been published. The new biennial edition incor­ porates the 67,000 titles in the Meyer collec­ tion including new acquisitions in Afro-Ameri­ can, human biology, and a variety of inter­ disciplinary materials supporting undergradu­ ate courses at Stanford. The price per set (4 author-title, 3 subject volumes) is $300. A companion bibliographic tool, the Meyer Library Audio Catalog, lists the 3,500 carefully selected discs and tapes of music and spoken- word recordings available in the J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library. The 4th edition of the catalog, published earlier this year, con­ tains two author/title volumes and one subject volume, is bound in buckram, and is priced at $150. Send orders to Financial Office, Stan­ ford University Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305. The first volume of a planned series of Cata­ log Procedure Manuals has been completed by members of the Stanford University Libraries Catalog Department. Entitled “Catalog Depart­ ment Typing Manual” the fifty-one page vol­ ume deals with card preparation for mono­ graph sets, series, and serials. The price for the Typing Manual is $12. Send requests to Fi­ nancial Office, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305. ■ ■