ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries January 1990 / 49 5. D o not ask th a t an a u th o r subm it th e original copy o f a m anuscript. It is perfectly acceptable to ask authors to state th a t th e ir articles are not u n d e r consideration by o th e r publications, b u t to req u ire th at a m anuscript be rety p ed w hen you reject it (since you will have m angled its corners or left coffee stains on its pages) is unconscionable. In your position you probably have a c o m p u ter or w ord processor, b u t n o t every w riter can afford one. 6. Be fair about tim e limits. I f it has taken you m onths to review and accept a m anuscript, do not expect its au th o r to re tu rn proofs to you w ithin 72 hours o f receipt. Also authors should realize th a t you have little control over your referees, b u t it should n o t take a n o n -re ſe re e d periodical m ore th a n six w eeks to review a m anuscript n o r a re fe ­ re e d one longer th a n four m onths. T h e approxi­ m ate tim e yours will take should b e listed in your guidelines; if delays occur after submission, notify th e au th o r o f them . 7. Enjoy your work. E ditin g is an honor, not a right, and deserves th e b est you can give it. A uthors n e e d you, and you n e e d th em . ■ ■ News from the Field Acquisitions • T h e L o u is ia n a S t a t e U n iv e r s it y Libraries, Baton Rouge, have recen tly acq u ired an im p o rtan t group o f 19th-century m anuscript m aterials. T he papers, consisting o f m ore th a n 3,000 m anuscript item s, d o cu m en t th e activities o f m em b ers o f th e Stirling, T u rn b u ll, Joyce, L o b d ell, a n d Allain Fam ilies. Covering nearly th e en tire 19th century, th e m aterials d o cu m en t th e com m erce and tra d e in w hich th e se families w ere engaged, th e operations o f th e ir n um erous plantations, including th e buy­ ing and selling o f slaves, and th e personal m atters o f th e various family m em bers. This collection co m ­ p lem en ts th e already extensive holdings in th e Louisiana an d L ow er Mississippi Valley C ollec­ tions at LSU th a t d o cu m en t n o t only th e very sam e families, b u t th e en tire W est F lorida area. T he m anuscripts fall into four m ain family groupings: th e Lewis Stirling Fam ily Papers, w hich relate to th e Civil W ar c a re e r o f Lewis Stirling and th e life o f th e family du rin g reconstruction; th e T urnbull- Joyce P artn ersh ip an d estate records, w hich d o cu ­ m en t th e trad in g activities o f John Joyce an d his p a rtn e r John T urnbull, including accounts w ith individual Indian trad ers on th e Louisiana-M issis­ sippi frontier, and bills an d receipts for tra d e goods; th e L obdell Fam ily Papers, w hich trace th e arrival John L obdell in L ouisiana du rin g th e 1820s an d his su b se q u en t participation in th e legal, political, and econom ic life o f th e state, including his leadership in th e M asonic Lodge; th e Allain Fam ily Papers, w hich consist o f personal an d family letters as well as th e business and financial records o f V. F. and Sarah Allain. T h e acquisition o f th ese im p o rtan t papers was m ade possible th ro u g h th e generous su p p o rt o f th e F rien d s o f th e LSU Library, m e m ­ bers o f th e Stirling family, th e W est F eliciana H is­ torical Society, and o th e r generous anonym ous benefactors. • The St. L o u is M e r c a n tile L ib rary A sso cia tio n has acquired an im p o rtan t new collection received in re c e n t m onths from th e T ransportation R e­ search F o ru m (TR F) F oundation, o f W ashington, D .C . M ost notable am ong th e titles received in th e T R F F o u n d a tio n ’s gift is a nearly com plete run from th e early 1870s to th e p re se n t o f The Official G uide o f the R ailw ays a n d Steam N avigation Lines o f the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico a n d Cuba, known to generations o f its users simply as The Official Guide. Long one o f th e m ost im p o r­ ta n t railroad periodicals, The Official G uide and various rela ted p red ece sso r titles has published each m onth since Ju n e 1868 th e m ost com plete available com pilation o f th e passenger and freight service tim etables o f all railroads in th e U nited States, and later, all o f N o rth America. R oute and service m aps and advertisem ents, listings o f serv­ ices offered, station lists, and rosters o f principal m anagers and officers are also featured. L ong runs o f th e G uide are rare, and nearly com plete runs such as th a t received from th e T R F F o undation exist in only a few repositories. W ith th e G uides cam e o th e r im p o rtan t titles o f high research value. N otable is a com plete ru n o f The Pocket L ist o f Railroad Officials, w hich has four tim es yearly 5 0 / C&RL News since 1895 published the most extensive listings of railroad managers and officials to be found any­ where. As such, The Pocket List is an especially useful resource for biographical and genealogical research. And th e q u arterly Official Railw ay Equipm ent Register provides exhaustive listings by type and owner or operator of all railroad freight and passenger cars in service. The nearly com plete run from the 1880s of this title will be especially useful to many technological history researchers using the Barriger Collection. Finally, a long run from the late 1800s of the Proceedings o f the Am eri­ can Association o f General Passenger and Ticket Agents will provide useful information on the or­ ganization o f rail passenger service in its heyday, as well as in its long period o f decline in the last 40 years. All of these titles are especially notable for being the publisher’s own file copies, donated to the TR F Foundation by International Thomson Transport Press, formerly the National Railway Publication Co. and related firms, through its for­ m er chairman and president, Mr. Paul H. Moore. All issues, originally published in paperbound edi­ tions, were hardbound by the publisher. • The T ex a s A&M U n iv e r s ity Archives have begun to receive the papers o f Eugene Butler, a native of Mississippi and long time resident of Dallas, Texas. Butler was at one time assistant editor of the Texas edition of the Progressive Farmer and eventually rose to the position of chair­ man of the editorial board and editor-in-chief, which he retained until his retirem ent when the company was sold in 1985. Throughout his long association with Progressive Farmer, Butler took an active interest in all phases of agriculture and was a crusader for b etter rural life, legislation to assist farmers, and improved farm practices. Butler kept all of his papers filed under a variety of topics including fertilizer, rural health, seeds, cotton, cotton acreage allotments, and cotton diseases. O ther topics included are Operation Blackland Incom e Growth (BIG) of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, the Prairie View A&M Univer­ sity Centennial Council, and the Man of the Year in Agriculture. The Progressive Farmer is itself the topic of a large num ber of files. Several of them deal with the history o f the magazine as Butler has been working on a history for several years. • The U n iv e r s ity o f I llin o is Library has ac- quired the original manuscript of From Here to Eternity, by James Jones, com plete with the many handw ritten changes made at the request of his publisher’s censors. D espite what the critics had to say, From Here to Eternity is now considered one of the greatest war novels ever written, yet it has never been available in its original, uncensored form. In addition, UI English Professor George Hendrick has donated a signed edition of the book and a copy of Jones’s second novel, Some Came Running, both from Jones’s own library. They were given to Hendrick by Jones’s widow, Gloria Mosolino Jones. Grants • The A sso c ia tio n o f R e s e a r c h L ib r a r ie s has received a grant of $65,000 from the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation to support the ARL Statistics Database Developm ent Program. The program is designed to refine and enhance the ARL database in order to extend the current data available on the ARL libraries. This project will make reliable data available to library managers and researchers in an easily-used format with documentation. It will al­ low a more thorough analysis of the development of ARL libraries and tim e studies for various data elements. In addition, new elements will be d e ­ fined in the critical areas of automation and p e r­ formance measures. • The B o s to n P u b lic L ib ra ry and the Handel & Hayden Society have received a $4,000 m atch­ ing grant from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities to microfilm the Handel & Hayden archives. The two-year grant will u n d er­ write approximately half the cost of microfilming Handel & Hayden concerts programs and scrap­ books containing clippings from 1815 to 1989. Two sets of positive microfilms will be created with one being kept at the Boston Public Library and the other at the H andel & Hayden Society’s office. • The C om m ission o n Preservation an d A ccess has received a three-year pledge of $5,000 a year from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. The Commission was founded in 1986 by a coali­ tion of institutions and becam e a non-profit organi­ zation in 1988. Its goals are to foster, develop, and support systematic, nationwide collaboration of library preservation efforts, and to provide equi­ table access to that information. The organization is an outgrowth of a national strategy planned by the Council on Library Resources, an organization created to put em erging technologies to use for the im provem ent and expansion of library services. A major thrust of the Commission is the establish­ m ent of a nationwide, collaborative, large-scale microfilming program to capture the intellectual contents of brittle books in a new m aster copy format and to create a central distribution service to provide equitable access to these preserved materials. As one of 26 universities throughout the U nited States to sponsor the Commission’s activi­ ties, Washington University will contribute finan­ cially to the organization’s projects and programs as well as participate in discussions regarding preser­ vation priorities for the higher education com m u­ nity. O ther institutions of higher education in the Midwest that are assisting in the Commission’s programs include Indiana University, University of January 1990 / 51 Michigan, University o f M innesota, N orthw estern University, and Ohio State University. In addition, th e Com m ission is receiving funding assistance from th e H ew lett C orporation, th e Council on Library Resources, and th e M ellon Foundation. • D ’Y o u v illc C o l l e g e , Buffalo, N ew York, has b een aw arded a $65,300 grant from th e U.S. D e ­ p a rtm e n t o f E ducation to begin th e co m puteriza­ tion o f th e library’s catalog system. T he award, u n d e r th e College L ibrary Technology and C oop­ eration G ran t Program , was one o f 28 nationw ide and will extend for a 3-year period. T he program is designed to encourage th e sharing o f resources am ong college libraries through th e use o f com ­ p u te r technology an d networking. T he grant will cover th e cost o f th e tran sfer o f all files for existing holdings and fu tu re acquisitions onto co m p u ter records. T h e g rant will also allow D ’Youville to join th e O nline C o m p u te r Library C e n te r (O CLC). D ’Youville will provide 64% o f th e funds n e e d e d to com plete th e library project. • T he I llin o is L ib r a r y C o m p u t e r S y s te m s O r g a n iz a t io n has b e e n aw arded a $108,673 com ­ bination grant by th e U.S. D e p a rtm e n t o f E d u ca­ tion u n d e r th e auspices o f th e College Library T ech n o lo g y an d C o o p e ra tio n G ran ts P rogram (H igher E ducation Act, T itle II-D ). This grant will b e used to expand and en h an ce th e interlibrary loan resource sharing netw ork in Illinois. W hen fully im plem ented, th e p ro ject will enable 2,500 Illinois libraries o f all types to initiate interlibrary loan transactions against th e nearly 5 million biblio­ graphic records in th e IL L IN E T O nline database. T hese libraries will b e able to access th e database th ro u g h dial access nodes placed in 11 m etropoli­ tan areas across th e state. • T h e N o r t h C a r o lin a S ta te U n iv e r s it y Li- braries and th e N a t io n a l A g r ic u ltu r a l L ib r a r y (N A L) have re c e iv e d a jo in t g ra n t, to ta llin g $57,000, from th e U n ited States D e p a rtm e n t o f A griculture. T h e funding will support a d em o n stra­ tion p ro ject th a t tests th e technical feasibility and adm inistrative stru ctu re s necessary to cap tu re, transm it, and receive m achine-readable page im ­ ages at rem o te sites th ro u g h SURAnet, p a rt o f th e international research In te rn e t. T h e NAL an d th e N C SU L ibraries will establish a teleco m m u n ica­ tions link th ro u g h th e In te rn e t w hich will enable NAL to tran sm it digitized page im ages o f r e ­ q u ested m aterial to N CSU. As p a rt o f th e six- m onth dem onstration project, th e im ages will be d istrib u ted to com puters on th e N C SU cam pus, one at th e library and a n o th er at an agricultural research area. T h e p ro ject will te st not only long- range transm ission o f im ages b u t ways to d istribute th e m w ithin a cam pus network. • S a g in a w V a lle y S ta te U n iv e r s it y has re- ceived a $353,111 m atching grant from th e H arvey Randall W ickes F oundation. S ecured on b e h a lf o f th e Valley Library C onsortium to expand its m e m ­ bership from its c u rre n t th re e m em bers to seven­ te e n public, special, and academ ic libraries in th e central M ichigan area and to replace its existing au to m ated circulation system. P roject costs, w hich to ta l an e s tim a te d $ 1 ,067,570, in c lu d in g th e W ickes grant and $714,059 in m atching funds, are d irec ted tow ard th e developm ent o f a jo in t au to ­ m ated library system. • U n it e d T h e o lo g ic a l S e m in a r y , Dayton, Ohio, has received a $69,000 grant from th e A rth u r Vin­ ing Davis F oundations, o f Jacksonville, Florida. T h e m ajor portion o f th e grant will provide for th e com puterization o f U n ite d ’s 31,000 bibliographic records not currently on co m p u ter and reclassify m aterials from th e D ew ey D ecim al to th e Library o f C ongress classification system. O nce this is com pleted, th e library will have all o f its 85,000 bibliographic records, rep resen tin g over 114,000 volum es, on th e O C L C database. In clu d ed in th e conversion will b e m aterials relating to th e history and work o f th e fo rm er Evangelical U n ited B re th ­ ren C h u rch th a t h ad its national h ead q u arters in D ayton for m any years. T he rem aining p a rt o f th e grant will fund th e planning and design o f an online catalog w ith th e u n iq u e featu re o f a Theological R esources C om ponent. This will provide for th e indexing o f m edia, bibliographic m aterials, and curricular and hum an resources. • T he U n iv e r s it y a t A lb a n y , S ta te U n iv e r s it y o f N e w Y o rk , has received a $37,500 grant from th e state o f N ew York in support o f th e ongoing H arry Van Arsdale, Jr., L abor H istory Project. T he funds enable th e University to com plete resto ra­ tion o f th e records o f several im p o rtan t Schenec­ tady labor organizations, including th e Schenec­ tady A rea C en tral L abor Council, th e Schenectady F ed eratio n o f T eachers, and IU E Local 301 (In te r­ national U nion o f E lectronic, Electrical, Salaried, M achine, and F u rn itu re W orkers). T hese historical records date from th e early decades o f this century alm ost to th e p re se n t and include m eeting m inutes, publications, and o th e r files th a t help tell th e story o f A m erican organized labor in th e 20th century— union organizing, negotiations, strikes, political activism, and o th e r activities. T hese records will be organized, cataloged, and m icrofilm ed at th e U ni­ versity for use th e re by researchers in te re ste d in th e labor and industrial history o f th e “E lectric C ity.” As p a rt o f th e project, th e University will survey h u n d red s o f labor organizations in S chenec­ tady and elsew here in th e C apital D istrict by June 1990. • T he U n iv e r s it y o f I llin o is Library, U rbana- C ham paign, has received a gift o f m ore th an $1 million from th e estate o f G eorge F. and E d n a Brown T itus o f Falls C hurch, Virginia, to help m e et th e $3 million goal o f th e N ational E n d o w m en t for th e H um anities challenge grant. T h e m oney will 5 2 / C&RL News provide support for the humanities collections. • The U n iv ersity o f N o rth C arolin a a t C h a p el H ill has received a $153,000 National Endow m ent for the Humanities grant to preserve manuscripts in the Southern Historical Collection. The Univer­ sity could receive an additional $25,000 from the N E H ’s Office of Preservation if it matches that am ount through its own fund-raising efforts. The Southern Historical Collection, founded in 1929, holds diaries, letters, business records, p h o to ­ graphs, oral histories, and other material docu­ m enting the South from the 18th century to the present. Its more than 11 million items make it the largest com ponent of the Manuscripts D ep art­ ment, which also includes the University Archives, the Southern Folklife Collection, and general and literary manuscripts. • The U n iv e r s ity o f S o u th e r n C a lifo rn ia 's School of Business Administration has received a pledge of $250,000 from Albert and Lily Quon. T he gift will support th e construction o f the school’s new state-of-the-art electronic library. The 100,000-square foot library, part of a new building estim ated to cost $20 million, will function as the central learning laboratory for the School of Business Administration. The library will provide a place w here students can interact with professors and trained staff to acquire hands-on knowledge of how to use today’s most advanced technology to solve business problems. • T he U n iv e r s it y o f W a t e r lo o has b e e n awarded a grant of $4,000 from the W aterloo Regional H eritage Foundation to translate the Germ an language portions o f the diaries of Louis Jacob Breithaupt (1855-1939). The diaries are a part of the Breithaupt Hewetson Clark Collection, donated to the library by the family of H. Spencer Clark (1903-1986) and Rosa B reithaupt Clark (1888-1981) in 1988. Louis Jacob Breithaupt was a local industrialist and form er mayor of Kitchener. In his diaries w ritten from 1867 to 1929, Breithaupt docum ented both his family’s social and business life and many local events: the dramatic Freiden- fest o f 1871 celebrating the end of the Franco- Prussian War; the transport o f local troops to the Northwest Rebellion; and the extreme reactions in the Germ an community during the tum ultuous period of W orld W ar I. Since he was writing with no particular audience in mind, these diaries present a unique picture of 19th- and early 20th-century life not only in the W aterloo region, but also in Ontario and Canada. News notes • The A s s o c ia tio n f o r L ib ra ry a n d I n fo r m a - tio n S c ie n c e E d u c a tio n (ALISE), Sarasota, Flor­ ida, has announced appointm ent o f a special com ­ m ittee to study the state of affairs of including ethnic and multicultural content in curricula for library and information science education. The Com m ittee is charged with preparing a report on the following: 1) the extent of inclusion o f ethnic and multicultural concerns in library and informa­ tio n scien ce c u rric u lu m o f A L ISE m e m b e r schools; 2) prepare a response to the “Report on Ethnic and Minority Concerns in Library E duca­ tion” prepared by EM IERT; 3) explore the possi­ bility of establishing a SIG for ethnic and multicul­ tural concerns in the library and information sci­ ence curriculum. M embers of the ALISE Com m it­ tee are: E. J. Josey, Chair, University of Pittsburgh; Benjamin Speller, North Carolina Central Univer­ sity; Kathleen Heim, Louisiana State University; Spencer Shaw, Retired, University of Washington; and representatives from the ALA Black Caucus, Asian/Pacific Librarians, REFORM A and E M I­ ERT. • The A s s o c ia tio n o f R e s e a r c h L ib r a r ie s has adopted a set of Guidelines for Bibliographic Rec­ ords for Preservation Microform Masters (Books), which balances the cost o f record creation with the need for reasonable access. The guidelines are intended to provide mutually acceptable rules for record fullness and consistency. More information is available from: Association of Research Librar­ ies, 1527 New H am pshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC, 20036. • The C o u n c il o n L ib ra ry R e s o u r c e s , Wash- ington, D.C., invites applications for the CLR F el­ lows Program of competitive research grants for librarians. The program offers financial support for professional staff m em bers of academic, research, and public libraries who wish to undertake re ­ search, conduct analytical studies pertinent to li­ brary operations and services, or pursue other professional projects of importance. Possible re ­ search areas include: library operations, biblio­ graphic systems, user requirements, historical subjects, and information systems. Each candidate must show evidence of institutional support for the CLR Fellowship, including provision of leave with pay for at least a portion of the fellowship period. The awards might include limited salary support (when m atched by the employing institution) and direct costs o f the research project. Grants may not be used for tuition in any degree’ program, for p u r­ chase o f equipm ent, or for indirect costs. Applica­ tions are considered three times each year, with deadlines o f O ctober 1, D ecem ber 1, and March 1. F o r more information, contact: Council on Library Resources, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 313, Washington, DC, 20036; (202) 483- 7474. • I d a h o S ta te U n iv e r sity , Pocatello, has re- cently im plem ented an innovative staff profes­ sional leave program — in effect, a sabbatical for January 1990 / 53 non-faculty em ployees. T h e first aw ard has gone to Phyllis J. Brown, h e a d o f th e Acquisitions D e p a rt­ m e n t o f th e Eli M. O b o ler Library. She will b e released from h e r reg u lar duties for 25% tim e, January th ro u g h Ju n e 1990, to develop an index to art books. • T h e M o d e m L a n g u a g e A s s o c ia t io n , N ew York City, an d I n d i a n a U n iv e r s it y , Bloom ington, have in itiated a p ro je c t to provide an academ ic hom e base for one section o f th e M L A In tern a ­ tional Bibliography. T h e M LA /IU C ooperative B ibliography P ro ject in Folklore is in te n d e d to im prove coverage o f folklore scholarship in th e M L A B ibliography, already co n sid ered one o f th e prim ary research tools in folklore, by creating a cen tral office an d te a m o f subject specialists w ork­ ing w ithin th e F olklore C ollection at th e IU Li­ brary, th e largest collection o f its kind in N o rth A m erica. T h e M L A B ibliography is a subject index to books an d articles p u b lish e d on m o d e m lan­ guages, literatu res, folklore, and linguistics. It is com piled by th e staff o f th e M odern Language Association in N ew York C ity w ith th e cooperation o f m ore th a n tw o h u n d re d co n trib u tin g bibliogra­ p h ers in th e U n ite d States an d abroad. • P a c e U n i v e r s i t y has n am e d its library in th e Civic C e n te r cam pus in M anhattan in h o n o r o f H e n ry B irnbaum , w ho has served as P ace’s c h ie f librarian for 28 years. T h e four Pace U niversity libraries house 850,000 volum es an d are located in M a n h a tta n an d at P a c e ’s W e s tc h e ste r C o u n ty cam p u ses in P leasan tv ille/B riarcliff an d W h ite Plains. T h ey serve m ore th a n 24,000 stu d en ts and a faculty o f 1,500. • T e x a s T e c h U n i v e r s i t y Library, Lubbock, has o p e n e d T h e V ietnam Archive, a u n it o f th e Special C ollections area. T h e p u rp o se o f th e A r­ chive is to collect, house, an d p reserv e inform ation re la te d to th e A m erican experience in V ietnam , w ith special em phasis on th e experiences o f peo p le o f Texas an d th e Southw est. P u b lish ed m aterial collected for th e Archive will com prise item s in all form ats p erta in in g to th e V ietnam W ar, including military, civilian, econom ic, social an d dom estic opposition, an d including literatu re, m usic, and poetry. N o n -p rin t m aterial collected will include diaries, letters, p h o tographs, m aps, sound re c o rd ­ ings, film an d video, oral history, scrapbooks, and album s. ■ ■ • P E O P L E • People in the news Sally B uchanan, assistant d ire c to r for p re s e r­ vation services an d conservation p lanning at th e U niversity o f P ittsburgh, recen tly re tu rn e d from South A m erica w h ere she served as co n su ltan t to th e N ational L ibrary o f V enezuela. B uchanan h ad b e e n w orking w ith th e N ational L ibrary to develop disaster p re p a re d n e ss guidelines an d train in g for libraries an d archives in L atin A m erica. S ponsored by U N E S C O an d th e In tern atio n al F e d e ra tio n o f L ibrary Associations, this effort will provides e d u ­ cation an d training tools, especially for developing countries, to p reserv e library collections. In April B uchanan will travel to L en in g rad to assess th e progress m ade in th e disaster recovery w ork at th e A cadem y o f Sciences L ibrary in L eningrad. I rene G o d d en, associate d ire c to r o f libraries at C olorado State University, received th e C olorado L ibrarian o f th e Year Award in recognition o f th e prim ary role she played in re-establishing g ra d u ­ ate library ed u catio n in C olorado. Since th e last class g rad u ated from th e U n iv e rs ity o f D e n v e r G rad u ate School o f Li- b ra ria n sh ip a n d In fo r­ m ation M an ag em en t in 1985, th e re has b e e n no access to g ra d u a te li­ b rary ed u catio n in C olo­ ra d o . T h ro u g h G o d - Irene G odden d e n ’s lead ersh ip as chair and th e efforts o f those on th e CLA G rad u ate L ibrary School C o m m ittee, fo u r years o f plan n in g cu lm in ated this S ep te m b e r in E m p o ria State U niversity’s G rad u ate School o f L ibrary an d In fo rm atio n M an ag em en t bringing