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 • The S U N Y - B i n g h a m t o n L i b r a r y has ac­ quired a manuscript o f two works by Petrarch which was transcribed by two German monks around 1420. It is the oldest work in the li­ brary’s collection. Of particular note is the fact that half the funds for the manuscript were raised by Broome County residents. Their contribution was matched by the library. Aldo S. Bernardo, co-director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and pro­ fessor of Italian and Comparative Literature formally presented the manuscript to the library Sunday, November 12, at a reception for donors and others. Willis Bridegam, director of li­ braries, and C. Peter Magrath, president o f the university, accepted the gift on behalf of the university. • The papers of Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Wat­ son, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s military aide in the years before and during World War II, have been donated to the U n i v e r s i t y o f V i r g i n i a . The papers, encompassing some 16,000 documents and other articles, reflect both the full scope of Watson’s duties as an aide to Roosevelt and his personal associations with the president and other national leaders during his years of service. Watson, known affectionately in the administration as “ Pa” Watson, served as Roosevelt’s military aide and secretary from 1933 until his death in 1945 on the return trip from the Yalta conference, several months before Roosevelt’s own death. The papers were bequeathed to the university’s Alderman Library by Mrs. Watson, who died this year. The bulk of the collection consists of White House memoranda on the president’s schedule and the granting of patronage to southern politicians, according to Miss Vesta Gordon, an assistant curator at the Library. There are also letters to Watson from members o f Con­ gress and the departments of war and navy. In addition, the papers include memoranda made by Watson for his own use during 1939- 45 and memos to the president on military af­ fairs beginning in 1935. Another group con­ sists of personal notes to Watson from FDR covering the same period. While most of the collection reflects the general’s career, some of the letters to Watson came from illustrious friends such as Generals George C. Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower, William O. Doug­ las, Felix Frankfurter, James Farley, Bernard Baruch, and J. Edgar Hoover. G R A N T S • The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science has announced its first four research contracts totaling $52,000 in awards for fiscal 1972. One of these studies, “ A Feasibility Study of Centralized and Re­ gionalized Interlibrary Loan Centers,” has been awarded to the A s s o c i a t i o n o f R e s e a r c h L i ­ b r a r i e s . Dr. Rolland E. Stevens, professor of library science, University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science, will direct the study for ARL, and he will be assisted by Dr. Terry L. Weech, visiting lecturer, University o f Illinois Graduate School of Library Science. Dr. Stevens and Dr. W eech expect to com­ plete the study by April 1973. They welcome any suggestions, contributions, and notices of related articles which might not be discovered in a literature search. • B e l o i t C o l l e g e has received a $35,000 grant from the Robert R. McCormick Chari­ table Trust, Chicago, to support the college li­ braries, Dr. Miller Upton, president of the col­ lege, announced. The grant was received just at the time of the tenth anniversary celebration o f the Col. Robert H. Morse Library on the Beloit campus. Money from the grant will be used, Dr. Upton said, to assist in providing new book and periodical funds for the next three years, to increase audiovisual equipment, and for other capital needs. • The G eorge W ash ington U niversity li­ brary has received a gift o f $100,000 from W illiam G regg W hite, G eorge W ashington trustee and alumnus. The funds w ill b e used to b u y new books and other printed materials ( through the University Library G ift Book F u n d ) for the new library n ow under co n ­ struction at the southeast corner o f 22nd and H Streets, N .W . “ This is a timely and significant gift since the new library will provide the additional space necessary to service the new acquistions,” President Elliott said, adding, “ This gift will have lasting value to the University com­ munity.” White, president and chairman of the board o f Consolidated Freightways, Inc., holds the degree of Bachelor o f Science in Civil Engi­ neering (1936) from George Washington. He is an alumnus o f the University o f California and a graduate of the Harvard University Ad­ vanced Management Program. 9 • A half-million dollar grant from the Me lon Foundation has just been received by the H u n t i n g t o n L i b r a r y , A r t G a l l e r y and Bo­ t a n i c a l G a r d e n s as a first major step in the new program to expand the educational fa­ cilities o f the world-famous institution in San Marino. The expansion program, launched recently by the Board of Trustees under the chairman­ ship of R. Stanton Avery, will make the trea­ sures of the Huntington available to a greater number of people by enlarging buildings, strengthening the acquisition programs, and introducing new educational programs. The Mellon grant which will be used to pro­ vide research fellowships means, according to Dr. Thorpe, that “ more scholars who have need of the Huntington’s vast resources in the fields of Anglo-American culture will be able to pursue their advanced research problems here in California.” M E E T I N G S F e b . 7-9: A three-day Indexing in Perspec­ tive Seminar to be held February 7-9, 1973, has been announced by the American Library Association and the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services. The seminar will be sponsored by the Subject Analysis and Organization o f Library Materials Committee, Cataloging and Classification Section of ALA’s Resources and Technical Services Division. It will be hosted by Pratt Institute, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences in its Manhattan Center at 46 Park Ave., New York City. The seminar will cover the vocabularies used in indexing; indexing systems and formats; and the effects of indexing on the retrieval process. Emphasis will be placed on relating indexing developments of the past twenty years to the entire field o f information science and library science; against this background lecture spe­ cific case histories will be presented and dis­ cussed. The principal lecturer for the course is E. H. Brenner (American Petroleum Institute) with the following guest lecturers: Marguerite C. Soroka ( Engineering Societies Libraries); Davis B. McCarn (National Library of Medicine); Robert G. Kinkade (American Psychological Association); and Stella Keenan (National Fed­ eration o f Abstracting and Indexing Services). The course is designed to serve as an intro­ duction for the person with little or no experi­ ence and to provide a perspective review to the more experienced. Each day there will be a special session at the basic level and an oppor­ tunity for an in-depth examination and discus­ sion of the specific case history presented. The following questions will be covered; What is the relationship between classification l­ and indexing? What differences and similarities exist between classification decimal entries, sub­ ject headings, terms, descriptors, etc.? What are the characteristics of a classification scheme, a subject heading list, and a thesaurus? What effect has the computer had on indexing vocab­ ularies and the manual card file? What are the characteristics of serial and inverted (horizon­ tal and vertical) files? How do subject indexes differ from coordinate indexes? The cost of the three-day seminar is $80.00. The registration fee includes a special kit being prepared for the course. Full details from the National Federation of Abstracting and Index­ ing Services, 3401 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; or from Mrs. Carol Kelm, Executive Secretary, Resources and Technical Services Division, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. A p r i l 9-10: Information retrieval systems and libraries are faced with the problems of the increasing cost of covering the literature of interest to their users. A s the literature pro­ liferates, many organizations face the lack of professionals to cope with its organization for use (especially in a machine-readable form). One partial solution is to utilize available ser­ vices which provide already processed ma­ chine-readable input covering some subject lit­ erature for subsequent individual utilization by information retrieval systems and libraries. The problems of selection, utilization, and especially integration o f the available machine-readable services into individual systems and libraries are to be explored in this seminar. The two-day seminar is organized by the National Federation of Abstracting and Index­ ing Services and the host is the Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The seminar will be held at Drexel Activities Center on April 9 and 10, 1973. The seminar will focus on the utilization of machine readable abstracting and indexing services based on actual operating ex­ perience and the integration o f these services into individual information systems. Topics to be covered include a survey of available ser­ vices; user requirements in terms of case his­ tories of actual use in a variety of environments, together with a consideration of cost factors involved. A summary session will discuss the ACRL Membership November 30, 1972 12,403 November 30, 1971 11,983 November 30, 1970 12,079 10 impact of these services on existing systems. Speakers in the seminar will include Philip R. Bagley (Information Engineering); Kay Durkin (BIO SIS); Bart E. Holm (DuPont Company); and Stella Keenan (National Fed­ eration of Abstracting and Indexing Services). The seminar is intended for people con­ cerned with the problems posed by information systems that are being developed in the 1970s and who have to make value judgments on acquiring machine-readable services for their organizations. The cost o f the two-day seminar is $100 ($75 for Federation member service staffs). The registration fee includes a special kit being prepared for the course. Full details from the National Federation of Abstracting and Index­ ing Services, 3401 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; and from Dr. Barbara Flood, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Rush Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104. A p r i l 16-17: Pressure groups and would-be censors who try to tell libraries what books and other library materials are fit for public con­ sumption will be put in the spotlight at a na­ tional meeting in Chicago, April 16 and 17, 1973. A representative group of librarians and re­ source persons will participate in a national prototype workshop on intellectual freedom sponsored by the Intellectual Freedom Com­ mittee of the American Library Association. The workshop is funded by the annual J. Mor­ ris Jones-World Book Encyclopedia-ALA Goals Award, of which the International Freedom Committee was a winner this year. Participation will be limited—the IFC will sponsor the attendance of one representative from each state Intellectual Freedom Commit­ tee (hopefully, the committee chairman). In addition, each state library association has been asked to send one representative—preferably another committee member or perhaps a li­ brary trustee. The goal of the workshop is to prepare each participant to plan and carry out a similar workshop on the state or regional level. To this end, a total educational program is planned. Among the specific topics to be covered will be: 1. The history, development, and rationale for the Library Bill of Rights, its interpreta­ tions and supporting documents; 2. A descrip­ tion of the pressure groups and would-be cen­ sors that try to influence libraries, and the various tactics they employ; 3. A description of the many local, state, and national resources available when censorship problems arise; 4. The most effective strategies to use in countering an attack on intellectual freedom; 5. How public relations techniques and the media can be used effectively to influence favorable community opinion; 6. How to plan a workshop program, gather the necessary re­ sources, and conduct an evaluation and fol­ low-up. Through a variety of conference methods involving role-playing, audiovisuals, small group discussions, and group meetings, librarians will be meeting the censor before he comes. A p r i l 29-M ay 3, 1973: Port-of-Spain, Trin­ idad, West Indies will be the site of the Eighteenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, April 29-May 3, 1973. The Library Association of Trinidad and Tobago and the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, will be cohosts for the seminar. Registration in the Eighteenth Seminar is $15.00 for members of SALALM and $25.00 for nonmembers. The conference coordinator is Ms. Irma Hannays, Librarian, Industrial De­ velopment Corporation, Salvatori Building, P.O. Box 949, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Information on the content of the program and working pa­ pers may be procured from Donald F. Wisdom, Serial Division, Library of Congress, Washing­ ton, DC 20540. For other information, refer to the Executive Secretary, Ms. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Organization of American States, Washington, DC 20006. Consult the November News for further details. M a y 3-4, 1973: Changing Patterns in In­ formation Retrieval will be the theme of the tenth annual National Information Retrieval Colloquium, to be held May 3 and 4, 1973, at the Independence Mall Holiday Inn, 400 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA 19106. Chairwoman of the tenth NIRC is Carol Fe- nichel, Auerbach Associates. For program and registration information, contact Susan Nick- leach, P.O. Box 15847, Philadelphia, PA 19103, (21 5) 561-4100. The December News con­ tains further details. M a y 10-12: The fourth annual seminar on “ Management Concepts for Librarians,” spon­ sored by the graduate School of Business Ad­ ministration and Washington University li­ braries will be held May 10, 11, 12, 1973, at Bromwoods, the residential conference center of Washington University, located sixty miles southwest of the St. Louis Metropolitan area. The purpose of this seminar is to provide professional librarians managerial instruction applicable for use in their organizations, an opportunity to improve their backgrounds for work in supervisory or managerial positions and to discuss mutual problems with colleagues. To accomplish this purpose, a basic over-view of management concepts will be presented, with particular emphasis upon how those con­ cepts are applicable to the unique problem of library organizations. In addition to the de­ velopment o f a general understanding of the 11 basic functions and activities of management, the special problems of directing and motivat­ ing library personnel will be stressed. Both theoretical concepts of management and the practical applications of these concepts will be discussed. Seminar sessions will include lectures, dis­ cussions, and case studies in which participants will actively analyze and discuss organizational problems and their managerial solutions. Group exercises will be used to supplement the ideas presented in lecture and discussion sessions. Material covered will include functions of man­ agement: planning, organizing, directing, and controlling. Other topics will be considered in­ cluding such important aspects of management as: decision-making, communications, motiva­ tion, and financial management. These will be related to the basic problems of management of creative and professional personnel. Registration is limited to thirty-five on a first-come first-served basis. The $145 fee covers all instructional costs, materials, meals, and lodging while at Bromwoods. For further in­ formation please telephone William H. Kurth, Washington University Librarian, 314-863- 0100, extension 4523 or Mrs. Marilyn Pryor, The School of Continuing Education, Washing­ ton University, extension 4261. M a y 18-19, 1973: The Midwest Academic Librarians Conference (M ALC) will hold its eighteenth annual meeting on May 18 and 19 at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. The theme for the conference is, “ The Library’s Role in the Teaching Process,” and will include discussion meetings on the college and university settings for AV materials, archives, museums, coopera- tional activities, etc. MALC is a nonstructured and informal gath­ ering of professional academic librarians who meet annually on the site of a newly construct­ ed building without dues or membership fees. All librarians are welcome. Conference local arrangements chairman is Mr. Oivind Hovde, Librarian, Luther College, Decorah, IA 52101. Ju l y 15-27, 1973: The School of Library and Information Services, University of Mary­ land, is planning the seventh annual Library Administrators Development Program to be held July 15-27, 1973. Dr. John Rizzo, profes­ sor of management at Western Michigan Uni­ versity, will serve as the director. Consult the December News for more complete information. P U B L I C A T I O N S • The Library Staff and the Afro-America Studies Department, Indiana University, have cooperated to produce a new publication titled The Black Family and The Black Woman, a bibliography, dated September 1972, with a total of 107 pages. Library call numbers are included. The Black Family part includes slave nar­ ratives and related works: nineteenth century; selected references for historical background to the twentieth century black family; and the twentieth century (book length studies, sec­ tions from books, journal articles and govern­ ment publications). The Black Woman part covers general back­ ground/history; identity and liberation; auto­ biography/biography; literary works (antholo­ gies with black women as editors, other an­ thologies with writings by black women, works by individual authors, and bio/critieism); fine arts; performing arts (theater and music); the professions ( medicine/nursing/the sciences, ed­ ucation, law, politics/govemment/armed ser­ vices, journalism/business/engineering); gener­ al labor force; sports; children’s literature; records/tapes; and government publications. Copies are available from the Indiana Uni­ versity Bookstore, Mail Order Department, Bloomington, IN 47401, for $1.75 each. • THE GREAT DEBATE ON PAN1ZZI ’S RULES IN 1847-1849: the issues discussed. (89 p., soft cover, $3.00), by Nancy Brault, will be published this month by the Graduate School of Library Service and the University Library of UCLA. The commissioners appointed to inquire into the Constitution and Government of the British Museum conducted this inquiry during the years 1847 to 1849. During this time the com­ missioners heard testimony from no less than four trustees and eight officers of the museum, and twenty distinguished members of the pub­ lic, concerning the catalog and the “ famous 91 rules.” Evidence was forthcoming from some of the leading scholars of the day—in­ cluding Carlyle, Payne Collier, De Morgan, Frederick Madden, Henry Ellis, Viscount Ma­ hon, Henry Hallam, and Edward Edwards. Criticism of the new catalog—termed by one witness “ a magnificent mistake” —and the rules was severe and much concerned with minutiae. Nevertheless, the commissioners, in their Re­ port, supported Panizzi’s position and approved what he had done with respect to the catalog. Mrs. Brault, a former student at the Graduate School and now at the Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles, has an­ alyzed the debate, illustrated it with repre­ sentative portions o f testimony, and presents her own conclusions on such vital issues as the need for cataloging rules; the choice of classed or alphabetical catalogs; the provision of full or brief entries; the treatment of author entry; n the problems o f recording anonymous works; and, the use of form headings. Copies of the publications, $3.00 each, may At last, one source o f subject access to 2o CUMULATIVE MONTHL This new fourteen volume single-alphabet subject index set . . . is o ffe red by itself — fo r lib ra rie s h o ld in g c o m p le te ru n s o f th e M o n th ly C a ta lo g — o r, in a COMBINED REFERENCE EDITION w h ich c o n ta in s a c o m p le te M I C R O F I L M c o lle c tio n o f th e M o n th ly C a ta lo g fro m 1 89 5 th ro u g h 1971 f o r c o n v e n ie n t re fe re n c e use w ith th e in d e x v olum es. Y The complete backfile o f the Monthly Catalog was micro­ filmed by the Photoduplication Division o f the Library of Congress especially for use with our Cumulative Sub­ ject Index. The 53 reel set contains the full text o f all 867 indexed issues o f the Monthly Catalog and its 3 World War II supplements, plus the two Decennial In­ dexes, and some 60 pre-1900 issues which were not indexed. Monthly Catalog entries contain complete bibliographical data for almost every U.S. Government publication; in­ cluding title, personal author, collation, LC number, Su- Docs classification number, price, ordering information, and a symbol indicating if the publication was sent to depository libraries. All Subject Index entries before September 1947 show year-and-page numbers whereas later entries give year- and-entry numbers. Each two digit year number ( ’00 through ’ 71) serves as the reel number in the microfilm collection. Page and entry numbers appear in numerical sequence on the film; and as all entries for any given year o f Monthly Catalog are on the same reel, the numerical sequences are never broken and it is never necessary to look on more than one reel for any single year. Because of the lack o f standardization in the microfilm industry, we offer our sets with a variety o f film options; including a choice between silver halide film or Diazo, roll or cartridge, and 16mm or 35mm film size. UPDATING PROGRAM: In response to many inquiries as to whether or not we plan to continue cumulative cover­ age after 1972, it is our current plan to merge future Monthly Catalog indexes and publish them as annual accumulating supplements until such time as it appears beneficial to integrate the resulting five-or-ten-year cumulative into the main 72-year subject index. We would then repeat the cycle. With this approach, there would never be more than two separate sources for subject access to 20th Century U.S. Government publications. th Century U.S. Government Publications SUBJECT INDEX TO THE CATALOG OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 1900-1971 Subject A ccess has long been the missing key to the wider research use o f U .S . Govern­ ment publications. N ow, f o r the f i r s t tim e, librarians and scholars can unlock the massive reference potential o f the more than one million congressional and departmental publications listed in 72 years o f the M onthly Catalog and its supplements. The unique new CUMULATIVE SUBJECT INDEX will eliminate 34 search steps which were formerly necessary to trace subjects through these indexes to 20th Century U.S. Government publications: — 21 Biennial Document Catalogs (1900-1940), — 2 Decennial Indexes (1941-60), and — 11 Annual Indexes (1961-1971). All subject entries in the fourteen volume cumulative index were accumulated from 81 separate sources in the Monthly Catalog series and merged into one reference set. These sources include: 48 Annual Indexes to the Monthly Catalog, 2 Decennial Indexes, (1941-1950; 1951-1960), 1 Six-month Index, and 30 Monthly Catalogs for which no annual in­ dexes were made. Delivery: The complete microfilm segment is now ready for IMMEDIATE DELIVERY, with Index Volume I and the remaining volumes scheduled to follow at decreasing intervals until the projected completion date of June 30th, 1973. Meanwhile, all Monthly Catalog indexes and the 2 Decennial Indexes will be shipped with the microfilm segment for temporary use. USE THIS COUPON TO RESERVE YOUR SETS AT PRE-PUBLICATION PRICES T o: Carrollton Press, Inc. 1647 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20007 Please record our order for the following: □ The complete COMBINED REFERENCE EDITION containing: 1. 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N am e___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________________________________________________________ C ity_______________________________________________State_________________________________Z ip ____________ DEDUCT ANOTHER 5% FROM TO TAL IF PAYM EN T IS SENT WITH ORDER. _ _ 14 be ordered from: The Graduate School of Li­ brary Service, University of California, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024. Billing and instructions for payment will follow ship­ ment of orders. • Proceedings of the Institute on Cable Tel­ evision for Librarians, attended by more than 100 professionals from thirty-five states held last September at Drexel University may now be ordered in printed form or, appropriately, on videotape. Printed proceedings will be published in the January, 1972 Drexel Library Quarterly, and the cost is $3 per copy. They are available through Brigitte L. Kenney, the Institute’s di­ rector, at the Graduate School of Library Sci­ ence, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Videotapes may be ordered through William G. McFadden, Spectra-Vision Corp., 719-25 N. 24th St., Philadelphia, PA 19130. A list of the subject matter, videotape size, and prices can be obtained from Spectra-Vision. • A recently issued catalog compiled by Tetsumaro Hayashi and Donald L. Siefker, The Special Steinbeck Collection of the Ball State University Library: A Bibliographical Hand­ book‚ lists and briefly describes the Steinbeck materials held in this library’s collections. This collection was announced in CRL News, Feb­ ruary 1972 in the “ News From the Field—Ac­ quisitions” section. The handbook is published by The John Steinbeck Society o f America, English Department, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306. • Staff members of the Institute of Library Research (IL R ) at the University of California, Berkeley have announced the completion of the U.C. Union Catalog Supplement. This is the first of a planned series of five-year supple­ ments to the 1963 catalogs which contain book holdings of the Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses, respectively. The supplement repre­ sents the monographic records of all nine U.C. campuses cataloged during the period from 1963-67. The Union Catalog Supplement fills multiple needs previously felt within the U.C. library community. First, it will not only facilitate, but will increase the use of the university’s own library collections. This increased use will come from both the nine U.C. campuses and from libraries outside U.C. A user will be able by reference to the supplement, to de­ termine whether or not any library in the university has a particular work available for lending and, if so, its location. An increase in intercampus loans among U.C. libraries will serve to restrain some amount of duplicate book purchasing expenditures for added copies. A second objective of the supplement is to support library operations through its use as an alternate source of cataloging information. To enhance accessibility of records, the Author- Title section of the catalog contains over 1.6 million entries under all headings in one alpha­ betic arrangement. A user can thus make a rapid search even if he is unsure of the proper choice of the main entry. The forty-eight-volume catalog is divided into two parts: the Author-Title section in thirty-two volumes and the Subject section, sixteen volumes. All of the subject entries are in the subject section, including names as sub­ jects; all other types of entries (author, title, series, conferences, etc.) are in the Author- Title section. The development of the computer-based bibliographic processing system was an im­ portant subsidiary objective of the project which produced the supplement. Techniques were developed which resulted in significant operational economies. In the conversion of bibliographic records to magnetic tape form, for example, a reorganization of the produc­ tion process resulted in a high capacity input system which operated at a conversion rate in excess of 80,000 records per month. Because of the modularity of the production function and the consequent reduction of education and training requirements, even higher conversion rates than this could conceivably be obtained. The majority of the computer programs used in the supplement project for file maintenance, automatic field recognition, file improvement, and composition. The Institute of Library Research is present­ ly making the Catalog Supplement available for purchase in both book form and magnetic tape form. In addition, the computer programs and auxiliary data bases developed by the Institute during the course of the supplement project will be available for purchase or a form of lease arrangement. For further information about the supplement project and its products, contact: Director, Institute of Library Research, South Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. • For the first time, the field of art librarian­ ship now has a monthly periodical devoted to its interests. All major art librarian organiza­ tions such as the ALA /A C R L/A rt Section, the CAA/Art Libraries Session, and the SLA/Mu­ seums, Arts and Humanities Division have immediately welcomed the establishment of the new Worldwide Art and Library Newsletter and will be using its pages to convey news and views of their respective organizations. The Worldwide Art and Library Newsletter will be published monthly during the academic year (9 issues/year). The first issue, that for September 1972, carries accounts of the history and aims of the ALA, CAA, and SLA art and museum librarian sections, each prepared by 15 the present or past Chairman of these groups. Future issues of the W orldwide Art and Library Newsletter will carry preconvention announcements and postconvention reports by the ALA, CAA, and SLA art library sections; articles by leading librarians and art teachers on various aspects of art librarianship; surveys of art libraries, standards, and salaries; an­ nouncements of research projects of special interest to art libraries; news o f art publishing; a classified “ Positions Open— Positions Wanted” section for art library placements, and an open letters column. The W orldiwide Art and Library Newsletter will supplement existing divisional bulletins. An important aspect of the monthly Newslet­ ter is that it will carry its news and feature articles across divisional boundaries of existing art library organizations, thereby making all members aware o f what is happening in the entire field. The articles published will also be o f interest to acquisition librarians and library directors, as well as to art chairmen and others involved in building library support for their academic or public service art programs. Editor of the W orldwide Art and Library Newsletter is Judith C. Joy. Linda Martin is associate editor. Subscription rates are $5.00/ year in U.S.A. and Canada, and $6.00/year in all other countries. However, subscription is free to voting members o f the ALA, CAA, and SLA art library. Advertisements are sought and the publishers offer a circulation guaran­ tee of over 5,000 copies to art librarians and other librarians and art faculty members known to be involved in art library acquisitions. An advertising rate card is available. The Worldwide Art and Library Newsletter is published by W orldwide Books, Inc., known for its pioneering services to the art and library field. The Newsletter is the first fruit o f the new independence of W orldwide Books, the firm having been purchased this summer from Learning Resources, Inc. by Richard Carlton of New York City. W orldwide Books also pub­ lishes the W orldwide Art Catalogue Bulletin and its Annual Index, the Worldwide Art Book Bibliography, and Art for Schools and Libraries. W orldwide’s several former offices have been consolidated at 1075 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, M A 02215. For further information, please contact: Mr. Stewart Marks, Vice Pres. & Gen’l Mgr., W orldwide Books, Inc., 1075 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215, tel.: (6 1 7 ) 787-9100. • Serial Publications in The University o Iowa Libraries is now available. It contains some 48,148 entries representing most of the serial holdings in the University o f Iowa li­ braries as of April 1972, and includes all types of serial publications: magazines, newspapers, yearbooks, conferences, and monographic stud­ ies within a series. This two-volume listing is in the MARC format as published by the L i­ brary of Congress in 1969 and sells for $10.00. M I S C E L L A N Y • The K e n t u c k y L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n in conference at Louisville, Kentucky on October 6, 1972 passed the following resolution: W H ER EAS: the free interchange o f scholarly research and information is dependent upon access to and fair use of published materials; W H EREAS; librarians have been cognizant of and responsive to the traditional “ fair use” concept relating to published materials; W H ER EAS: certain publishers, acting on the opinion o f a commissioner of the United States Court o f Claims and while the case pertinent to the above use is still in adjudica­ tion, are attempting to impose a “ licensing fee” upon libraries to permit the production of a photocopy for internal library use only and prohibiting interlibrary use of such photocopy without further fees, thus inhibiting coopera­ tion among libraries and free interchange of ideas; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED 1. that the Kentucky Library Association deplores this impediment to education and research at all levels; 2. that it urges its members to refuse to pay these “ licensing fees” unless the court of the land ultimately sustains the publishers; 3. that copies of this resolution be sent to the American Library Association, the Association o f College and Research Libraries, the Associ­ ation of Research Libraries, the Medical Li­ brary Association, the Special Library Associa­ tion, the American Law Library Association, the National Library o f Medicine, the National Institute o f Health, the Association o f South­ east Research Libraries, the Southeast Library Association, and the Kentucky Department of Libraries. • Seven individuals prominent in informa­ tion creation and dissemination have been ap­ pointed to a National Advisory Committee to the National Serials D ata Program, Paul Vassallo, NSDP Director, announced today. Attending the first meeting of the Committee at the Library of Congress on November 14 were: Milton Byam, Director, District of C o­ lumbia Public Library, Washington, D.C. (p u b ­ lic libraries) ; William S. Budington, Execu­ tive Director and Librarian, John Crear Library, f Chicago, Illinois (research libraries); John Cal­ lahan, Vice President, Editorial Services, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., New York, New York (publishing industry); Frank F. Clasquin, Vice President, F. W . Faxon; Inc., Westwood, Massachusetts (subscription agents); Mrs. Mary Huffer, Director o f Libraries, Office of Library Services, U.S. Department of Interior, 16 Washington, D.C. (Federal and special li­ braries); Vern Pings, Director of Libraries, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan (university libraries); and James L. W ood, Di­ rector, Bibliographie Support Division, Chem­ ical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio ( ab­ stracting and indexing services). The commit­ tee, broadly representative of the various in­ terests in the national user community, will provide the program with a means of communi­ cation with these interests, enabling NSDP to take their needs and views into consideration. Policy direction for the program will con­ tinue to come from the heads of the three na­ tional libraries, the Librarian of Congress and the Directors of the National Agricultural Li­ brary and the National Library of Medicine. • The Gift and Exchange Department of the U n i v e r s i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h ’ s Hillman Li­ brary has donated 2,695 duplicate books and periodicals to the Library of Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to help replenish those lost in the recent flooding. • Nominations for the Bobert B. Downs Award for outstanding contribution to intellec­ tual freedom in libraries are being accepted by the U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s Graduate School of Library Science at Urbana-Champaign. The award was created in 1968 to honor Downs, dean of library administration at Illinois, and to mark his twenty-five years with the university. The award of $500 will be presented during a meeting of the Library School alumni at the annual convention of the American Library Association. The convention will be held June 24-30, 1973, in Las Vegas. The first award in June 1969 was to LeBoy Charles Merritt, dean of the School of Librari­ anship at the University of Oregon. Orrin Dow, librarian with the Farmingdale, New York, Public Library, received the second award in June 1970 at the convention in Detroit. In 1971, the award went to the President’s Com­ mission on Obscenity and Pornography, and in 1972 to John T. Carey, former librarian of Groton, Connecticut, Public Library. The award may be given for such things as research study, a publication or successful or unsuccessful opposition to censorship. It may be made to an individual or a group. “ The one main stipulation,” Herbert Gold­ hor, director of the school, said, “ is that the contribution for which the award is given be directly related to the furtherance of intellec­ tual freedom in any type of library.” The award may go to a library board mem­ ber, a nonprofessional staff member, a profes­ sional librarian or another person. Preference will be given to such contributions in the United States, but candidates from other coun­ tries will be considered. The award may or may not be made every year. Dean Downs has taken numerous stands against censorship of articles and publications. He edited The First Freedom‚ the ALA’s an­ thology of articles and tracts defending the basic freedoms, and was instrumental in estab­ lishing the ALA’s Liberty and Justice in Books Award, which consists of a citation and a $5,000 award. Nominations will be considered from any source up to April 15, 1973, and should be sent to Goldhor at the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801. Final decision will be made by vote of the school faculty. • The Donohue Boom at the U n i v e r s i t y o f S a n F r a n c i s c o ’ s Gleeson Library was officially dedicated October 8. The room will house one of the distinguished rare book collections in the United States. Given in memory of the late Papal Countess Bemardine Murphy Donohue, the facility is a splendid oak-panelled room on the third floor of the library where the priceless collections will repose in the utmost of safety from fire and aberrant climatic conditions. Installed by Cahill Construction Company, the Donohue Boom quadruples previous facilities and is ac­ tually several areas in one. It contains an office for special collections librarian Florian J. Shas­ ky, a lounge reading area, stack rooms for the precious volumes, and a conference “ room” at one end o f its 3,000 square feet total area. The conference area will not have solid walls but will be screened by free-standing shelving. The USF special collections are noted for unusual resources in history, English literature, and graphic arts. They include one of the finest collections outside England of books by and about Sir Thomas More. Among them is the first edition o f the statesman-martyr’s famed “ Utopia.” • It has been recommended to the U.S. Of­ fice of Education that an appropriate plaque be placed on each building for which financial assistance was provided under T i t l e VII, H i g h ­ e r E d u c a t i o n A c t , as amended (redesignation of the Higher Education Facilities A ct). Ac­ cordingly, each institution of higher education that received grants and/or loans under Title VII, HEA (H E F A ), is requested to have a plaque placed on each building for which aid was provided. Although the federal government cannot pay for the costs of such plaques, the cost will be considered as eligible for those projects not yet closed. Plaques should have the following citation: “ Constructed with the financial assistance of the American people through (use stat­ utory designation of institution’s choice).” The citation may be separate or included with other designations. ■ ■