ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 274 He was a principal developer of the pneumatic bicycle tire, manufactured trucks during World War I, and, in his retirement, devoted himself to extensive projects in the interests of bicycle riders. Correspondence with such prominent figures as Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, Chauncey DePew, Lyman Gage, Charles Duryea, Hamilton Fish, Mark Hanna, John Hay, Henry Cabot Lodge, and T. C. Platt is included. Other material refers to such lead­ ing figures as J. P. Morgan, John J. Astor, G. J. Gould, and F. W. Vanderbilt. The collection consists of 300 papers, includ­ ing manuscripts written by Bidwell about the bicycle field, letters to and from him, and mis­ cellaneous papers. The collection was pur­ chased from the library of Lucille Bartlett and Constance Whitten, Hempstead, New York, and is available for scholars to use. Also acquired by the library recently was the historically significant Visscher map. The Vis- scher map was produced in the Netherlands around 1655 and was the map used by the English to colonize New York State in 1665. The map is said to be an exact duplicate of the one by which the Privy Council in 1685 set­ tled the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania and which was in the hands of William Penn’s son, Thomas, in 1768. It was notarized by David Ewart, London, March 25, 1768, for Robert Charles, agent for the colony of New York, and docketed by John Jay. John Jay, later to become chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was secretary of the commission to negotiate the 1783 peace treaty which lib­ erated New York, and used the Visscher map to decide the boundary line between New Jer­ sey and New York states. The map was in John Jay’s hands in 1769 and passed down through his family for several generations. The map was purchased with money accu­ mulated through the James MacLean American Legion Long Island and New York State His­ tory Fund. It is framed and on exhibit daily in the university’s Special Collections Department. • Gaylord Music Library of Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, has acquired an outstanding collection of vocal music, in- sonn, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Rossinm, and w agner. The facsimiles are of manuscripts of Bach, Bee­ thoven, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, and Wagner. When cataloged, the collection will be housed in the special collections of the Gaylord Music Library. • Aaron M. Orange has given the library of the City College, City University of New York, his valuable collection of books and memorabilia related to the American an­ thropologist Lewis Henry Morgan. Morgan was born in 1818 in upper New York State. Follow­ ing his graduation from Union College in 1840, he read law and began a career that combined a successful law practice with political activity, culminating in a decade’s service in the New York State Assembly and Senate. Morgan is best known as an ethnologist. His interest in the Iroquois Confederacy led him to undertake extensive research in American Indi­ an society. Basing his conclusion on the Seneca- Ojibwa method of family designation, he theo­ rized that the American Indian had migrated from Asia. Morgan was also a pioneer in the study of Australian ethnology. It should be noted that his interest in the American Indian was more than academic: he was an early pro­ tester against the oppression to which the In­ dian was subjected. One of the results of Morgan’s research was Ancient Society (1877), the first scientific dis­ cussion of the evolution of civilization. Mor­ gan’s inclusion of property as a factor in cul­ tural evolution and his assumption of the revo­ lutionary nature of social change drew Marx’s attention to the book and influenced Engels in writing his Origin of the Family, Private Prop­ erty, and the State. Among the approximately 100 items now in the archives are first editions of all Morgan’s works, his contributions to the New York State Museum Reports, lectures, biographical ma­ terial, newspaper articles, and pamphlets. Of special importance are first editions of Ancient Society, The League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, and The American Beaver and His Work. Much of this material would be difficult to obtain to­ day. The completeness of the collection prom­ ises to make Orange’s gift a treasure for schol­ ars. 215 • The Urban Archives Center of Templ University Libraries has acquired the records of the Citizen’s Crime Commission of Philadel phia (1949-73), the Legal Aid Society (1933- 76), the YMCA of Germantown (1874-1971), the Citizen’s Charter Committee (1949-63), the Citizen’s Budget Committee (1950-57), and the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Com­ mission (1965-72). • The archives/special collections of the City College, City University of New York, has received the Phonographic Library of Contemporary Poets, taped at the college be­ tween 1938 and 1941. Included are readings by Edgar Lee Masters, Richard Aldington, Marianne Moore, Robinson Jeffers, Allen Tate, John Peale Bishop, and W. H. Auden; in some cases, these were the first recordings made by the poets reading from their own works. In ad­ dition to the recordings, the collection com­ prises some seventy-five volumes of poetry from the period, many of them signed first editions. The recordings are being transcribed onto cassette tapes by the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts. When the project is completed in the fall, both the Lincoln Center Library and the City College will have cassette copies available for public use. G R A N T S • The library of the City College, City University of New York, has received a $5,000 grant from the Japan Foundation, To­ kyo, for the microfilming and preservation of the Townsend Harris papers. Townsend Harris, who founded City College as the Free Academy in 1847, served as the first American minister to Japan. The journals and correspondence that make up the collection are primarily concerned with Harris’ diplomatic career in Japan. The papers span the years 1855-58 and in­ clude correspondence with Secretary of State William L. Marcy, with the king of Siam, and with representatives of the emperor of Japan. The collection also includes ceremonial presen­ tation letters from the Japanese government and Townsend Harris’ official credentials, signed by President Franklin Pierce. When the preservation project is completed, microfilm copies of the Townsend Harris papers will be available for public use at the City Col­ lege Archives, located in City College’s Cohen Library, 135th Street and Convent Avenue. In addition, positive copies will be presented to the Japan Foundation for deposit in Japanese scholarly archives. The project, which will take about a year to complete, is under the direction of Professor Virginia N. Cesario, chief librarian at City College, assisted by Samuel A. Streit, the college’s archivist. The Harris papers were given to City College e ­ in 1903 by Bessie A. Harris, grandniece of Townsend Harris. • President Matina Horner has announced that Radcliffe College has received a two- year grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in the amount of $98,700 to support a biograph­ ical oral history project on the lives of black women. The grant will be administered by the Schlesinger Library. In the course of the project, developed under the guidance of the late Letitia W. Brown, pro­ fessor of American history and civilization at the George Washington University and member of the Advisory Board of the Schlesinger Li­ brary, interviews will be conducted with wom­ en educators, businesswomen, entertainers, writers, artists, social workers, community or­ ganizers, religious leaders, and women in pol­ itics, government, and the health professions. Interviewees will be older black women, most of whom began their involvement in civic and professional activities prior to the 1930s and whose contributions and achievements have re­ sulted in the improvement of the quality of life for black people. The project will be under the direction of an advisory committee whose members include: Professor Margaret Walker Alexander, Jackson State College; the Honorable Yvonne Brath- waite Burke, U.S. House of Representatives; Marcia Greenlee, graduate student, George Washington University; Professor Elsie Lewis, Hunter College, City University of New York; Dr. Dorothy Porter, retired director of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard Tape Available Retrenchment in Higher Education: Implications for Libraries, a fifty-minute black-and-white videotape, is now avail­ able from the State University of New York at Albany. The featured speakers, G. Richard Wynn of Cedar Crest Col­ lege, Millicent D. Abell of SUNY Buffalo, and C. James Schmidt of SUNY Albany, address questions that face libraries in a time of shrinking budgets. The video­ tape was filmed at the first Eastern New York Chapter of ACRL Conference, held at Albany on November 14, 1975. A one-half- or three-quarter-inch videotape ( E IA J) may be borrowed from the Film Library, State University of New York at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222. A fee of $3.00 is charged to help defray the cost of mailing. 276 University; Professor Margaret Rowley, head of the History Department, Atlanta University; Muriel Snowden, co-director, Freedom House, Boston; and Professor Merze Tate, Howard University. The interviews will be conducted by grad­ uate students at different colleges and univer­ sities, under the supervision of members of the advisory committee. The interviews will be transcribed at the Schlesinger Library, where the manuscripts and other supporting documen­ tation will be housed for research use. Copies of the transcripts will also be deposited at a se­ lected number of black colleges and universi­ ties throughout the country. The final selection of the women to be inter­ viewed will be made by the advisory commit­ tee, whose members welcome suggestions of possible interviewees as well as information on other oral history projects in similar areas. Sug­ gestions can be sent to Patricia M. King, Direc­ tor of the Schlesinger Library, or Betty S. Leonard, Coordinator of the Black Women Oral History Project, The Schlesinger Library, 3 James St., Cambridge, MA 02138. • Cornell University is one of twelve col­ leges and universities to receive a Library Ser­ vice Enhancement Program grant from the Council on Library Resources ( CL R ). The one- year grant of $20,000 provides funds to im­ prove services and increase use of campus li­ braries. The CLR grant will pay the salary and bene­ fits of a librarian to spend full time developing a program to expand and improve library ser­ vices. J. Gormly Miller, director of the Cornell University Library system, has selected Joan Ormondroyd, associate librarian, to develop such a program. She will be working closely with faculty, students, and staff to improve li­ brary instruction for undergraduates, to provide instruction and guidance in bibliography, doc­ umentation, and library research methods for upperclassmen and graduates, to review the course reserve system, and, with Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education June Fessenden- Raden, to create an Academic Resources Cen­ ter for the dissemination of information about learning and instruction materials, equipment, and expertise. Attention Florida Searchers If you are an on-line searcher in Flor­ ida and are interested in attending a users meeting, contact Mrs. Lois Burdick, Science-Technology Division, Strozier Li­ brary, Florida State University, Talla­ hassee, FL 32306. Ormondroyd has been at Cornell since 1971, working as a reference and reserve librarian. She came to Cornell from California, where she worked as an outreach librarian in the Con­ tra Costa County public library system after re­ ceiving a master’s degree in library science in 1969 from the University of California, Berke­ ley. Her undergraduate work included a bache­ lor’s degree in Spanish from the University of the Americas in Mexico and a bachelor’s degree in history and English from UC, Berkeley. She also holds a master’s degree in teaching arts from UC, Davis, and taught for a number of years in both public and private schools in California and Canada. • Simmons College, Boston, has received a grant from the Kellogg Foundation for the purchase and installation of an Ohio College Li­ brary Center (OCLC) terminal. The terminal will be used on a cooperative basis by the School of Library Science and the College Li­ brary for instructional purposes as well as for on-line access to the OCLC cataloging data base. According to Robert Stueart, dean of the school, and Dorothy Senghas, director of the College Library, the cooperation and support of NELINET and the New England Board of Higher Education helped make the joint ven­ ture possible. M E E T IN G S November 10-13: The Middle East Li­ brarians Association (MELA) will hold its fifth annual meeting and program at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Los Angeles, California, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. MELA will cosponsor a MESA con­ ference panel on Islamic printing and publish­ ing chaired by Richard S. Cooper (Islamica li­ brarian— UC Berkeley) with Fawzi Khoury (Near East bibliographer—Univ. of Washing­ ton ) as commentator. Further details are available from Janet Heineck, Secretary-Treasurer of MELA, Room 560, University of Chicago Library, Chicago, IL 60637. For more information about the MESA meeting please write to MESA Head­ quarters and Secretariat, 50 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10003. November 11-13: The Southwestern Li­ brary Association and the Mountain Plains Library Association will hold a joint confer­ ence at the Albuquerque Convention Center. An outstanding program of speakers, work­ shops, and preconference institutes is being planned around the theme “T he-N et Worth of Networking.” John F. Anderson, director of the Tucson Public Library, and Vern West, head In the 1940's, when libraries talked about the need for book cover protection, our people listened. Result: we developed the acetate book jacket cover. In the 1950's, when libraries talked about the need for a way to make popular titles available to patrons while they were still popular, our people listened. Result: The McNaughton book leasing plan. Our people are listening today as libraries talk about the need for better book ordering and cataloging. Result: our Library Automation Division offers a number of sophisticated new systems to aid in catalog management and the acquisition process. At Brodart, we exist for one reason alone—to provide academic, public, school and special interest libraries of all sizes with solutions to problems, your problems. Result: TALK TOUS. we offer products and services that fulfill needs in every area of library operation, from supplies and equipment, to furniture, to book and record­ ings acquisitions, to automated systems. Talk to our people about a need. We'll Esten, and you'll benefit. 278 of technical services, Jefferson County Public Library, Golden, Colorado, are in charge of program planning. Featured speakers will in­ clude Clara Jones, president of ALA, and Rod­ erick Swartz, Washington State Librarian. For further information, contact: Allene Kleweno, 3700 San Mateo N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87110. November 12: OCLC Update Workshop. An OCLC update will be the topic of a work­ shop sponsored by the School of Library and Information Science at the State University of New York at Albany. Program director is Glyn T. Evans, director of library services, SUNY Central Administration. The cost of the workshop is $10 (free to SUNY/OCLC network member library staffs). For further information, contact: Dr. Lucille Whalen, Coordinator of Continuing Education, SUNYA School of Library and Information Sci­ ence, Albany, NY 12222, or call (518) 457- 8575. November 14-17: The 1976 annual Aller­ ton Institute will be on the theme, “Changing Times: Changing Libraries,” and will consid­ er likely social trends in the next twenty-five years and their implications for libraries. Spon­ sored by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, the institute will be held this year at Century 21 near the univer­ sity campus in Champaign-Urbana. A special effort will be made to attract younger librarians to this year’s institute. The planning committee is chaired by George S. Bonn and Sylvia G. Faibisoff. For the full program and registration forms, write Ed­ ward C. Kalb, Conference Coordinator, 116 Illini Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. November 16-17: Copyright Conference. The Indiana University Graduate Library School will sponsor a conference on the topic “The Copyright Dilemma; A Rational Out­ come.” The conference, to be held on the Indi­ ana University campus at Bloomington, Indi­ ana, will bring together spokesmen for the fields significantly affected by alternative pro- Instructional Tapes Offered Kent State University library has pro­ duced a new series of instructional tapes, in color, on the use of the OCLC auto­ mated cataloging system. The tapes have been prepared in the following sequence: Public Services Programs Finding Information in the OCLC Data Base— Part I Finding Information in the OCLC Data Base— Part II Technical Services Programs The OCLC System On-Line Cataloging The Local Data Record Automated Check-In Finding Information in the OCLC Data Base—Part I covers simple search­ ing, using the author-title and title al­ gorithms. Finding Information in the OCLC Data Base— Part II develops searching skills introduced in Part I, covers excep­ tions to the searching “rules,” corporate entry problems, use of the “stop list,” and introduces the author search. It is as­ sumed terminals will be turned on and logged-in in public areas of the library, and instructions for these operations are not presented. The Technical Services series begins with The OCLC System, aimed at li­ brarians and library science students who plan to be involved in system interface. It introduces network concepts, hard­ ware, bibliographic format, and catalog­ ing based on records that are already part of the on-line union catalog. On-Line Cataloging includes a detailed explanation of the terminal and its spe­ cial capabilities for cataloging mono­ graphs and serials. This is written for li­ brary staff and library science students but is specially aimed at individuals who wish to develop skills in operating the terminal for cataloging and input. Two additional programs in the Tech­ nical Services series are scheduled for late fall 1976. They are The Local Data Record and Automated Check-In. The first covers form and function of the lo­ cal data record’s fields. It compares and contrasts these with the bibliographic “cataloging” record. The second is fo­ cused on library staff whose work in­ cludes serial check-in. It highlights pro­ cedures and techniques for manipula­ tion of the on-line check-in record. These programs are available singly or in sequence and can be ordered on ¾- inch cassette or ½-inch tape. Informa­ tion on price and ordering is available from: Jack W. Scott, Assistant Director, University Libraries, Kent State Univer­ sity, Kent, OH 44242. 279 posed changes in copyright legislation, and will allow interaction between speakers and with the conference attendees. Those interested in further information should contact: Herbert S. White, Professor at the Graduate Library School and Director, Re­ search Center for Library and Information Sci­ ence, Library 005, Indiana University, Bloom­ ington, IN 47401. November 19-20: The School of Library Sci­ ence, Simmons College, announces the Institute on Quantitative Measurement and Dynamic Library Service, to be directed by Professor Ching-chih Chèn. It will consist of two two-day units: Unit 1— Statistical Applications and System Approaches in Library Management (Novem­ ber 19-20, 1976). Faculty: Professor Morris Hamburg, Wharton School, University of Penn­ sylvania; Professor Ferdinand Leimkuhler, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue Uni­ versity; and Professor Ching-chih Chen, School of Library Science, Simmons College. Unit 2-—Critical Evaluation of Quantitative Methods for Library Management (March 27- 28, 1977). Faculty: Professor F. Wilfrid Lan­ caster, Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois; and Professor Ching-chih Chen, School of Library Science, Simmons Col­ lege. Although participants can register for a sin­ gle unit, registration for both units is strongly recommended since participants will be en­ couraged to conduct a quantitative and/or sys­ tems study in their own environments during the interval between units one and two. For further information, contact: Coordinator of Continuing Education, School of Library Sci­ ence, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Bos­ ton, MA 02115; (617) 738-2222. December 29: “The Literary Research Scholar, Libraries, and Librarians” is the title of a program which will be held at the Modern Language Association in New York from 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the Conrad Hilton Hotel. Three papers will be presented: “Literary Scholars, Librarians, and the Teaching of Liter­ ary Research Methods,” by Margaret Patterson, Gainesville, Florida; “Literary Scholars, Li­ brarians, and Bibliographical Systems,” by Rob­ ert Colby, Queens College, City University of New York; and “Literary Scholars, Librarians, and the Utilization of Library Collections,” by Mary Ann O’Donnell, Manhattan College. The respondent for the program will be Mary George, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the discussion leader will be Eric Carpen­ ter, State University of New York, Buffalo. For further information or advance copies of the papers please contact: Eric J. Carpenter, Reference Department, Lockwood Library, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214. January 28-30: “The New Information Pro­ fessional” will be the topic of the Association of American Library Schools (AALS) an­ nual program meeting, to be held in Washing­ ton, D.C., immediately preceding the Midwin­ ter Meeting of the American Library Associa­ tion. Presentations and discussions will focus on alternative programs for professional educa­ tion, content of curricula, recruitment, markets for the new information professional, and other aspects of planning educational programs. Ronald G. Havelock, Center for Research in the Utilization of Knowledge, Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan, will deliver the keynote address, “Information Professionals as Change Agents.” Responding to the address, Robert S. Taylor will discuss academic aspects of the education of new information profession­ als, and Robin D. Crickman will address the need for training in interpersonal and communi­ cations skills. Taylor is dean, School of Informa­ tion Studies, Syracuse University, and Crick- man is with the Mental Health Institute, Uni­ versity of Michigan. A luncheon meeting will feature Elaine Svenonius, University of Western Ontario, and Diana Thomas, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UCLA. They will discuss the integration of the information-science com­ ponent in their respective curricula: Western Ontario in a five-quarter program and UCLA in a two-year program. The closing program session will explore four topics of current curriculum interest: “Changes in School Media Certification,” “Joint Degree Programs,” “Sixth-Year Programs,” and “Off- Campus Education.” In addition, AALS will join with the Government Documents Round­ table of ALA to offer a program on teaching government documents. Guy Garrison, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, is president of the Association of American Library Schools. Pro­ gram chairperson for the January conference is Brigitte L. Kenney, also of Drexel Universi­ ty- January 28-F ebruary 2: The Fifth Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America will be held in Los Angeles at the Statler Hilton Hotel. Included in the pro­ gram are visits to the Getty Museum, Los An­ geles County Museum of Art, architectural highlights of Los Angeles, etc. For more in­ formation, contact: Judith A. Hofīberg, Execu­ tive Secretary, P.O. Box 3692, Glendale, CA 91201. March 7-9: Dr. William O. Baker, president, Bell Laboratories, will present the Miles Con­ 280 rad Memorial Lecture at the 1977 Annual Con­ ference of the National Federation of Ab­ stracting and Indexing Services. The con­ ference will be held at Stouffers National Cen­ ter Hotel, Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia. Dr. Baker has long been active in scientific and technical information matters at a national level. He chaired the panel of the President’s Science Advisory Committee which authored the landmark study “Improving the Availability of Scientific and Technical Information in the United States” (the Baker Report) in 1958. He also served as chairman of the Science Informa­ tion Council of the National Science Founda­ tion from 1959 through 1961 and was a mem­ ber of the Weinberg Panel which produced the report “Science, Government, and Information” in 1963. He currently is a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, a director of Annual Reviews, Inc., a member of the National Commission on Li­ braries and Information Science, and a partici­ pant in many other important national commit­ tees and commissions. Writing Seminar The University of Connecticut Library, supported by a grant from the Council on Library Resources, announces the for­ mation of a New England Academic Li­ brarians’ Writing Seminar to be directed by Dr. Norman D. Stevens. The seminar is designed to bring together ten to twelve participants on a regular basis during 1977-78 in an effort to improve their writing skills. The end products will include a series of essays for a book to be published by Scarecrow Press, a series of shorter essays for a column in the Journal of Academic Librarianship, and at least one other major piece of writing by each participant. The grant from the Council on Library Resources will pro­ vide for clerical assistance for the semi­ nar as well as for the travel expenses of the participants. Applications are solicit­ ed from candidates with an MLS degree who are currently employed in a profes­ sional capacity in an academic library in New England. Application forms, along with further information about the semi­ nar, can be obtained from Dr. Stevens, University Librarian, University Library, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268. Completed applications must be postmarked no later than November 14, 1976. Participants will be selected in De­ cember 1976 and the seminar is sched­ uled to begin in January 1977. Dr. Baker’s accomplishments as scientist and research executive have brought him many honors and awards, including the American Chemical Society’s Priestley and Perkin medals, the Honor Scroll of the American Institute of Chemists, and the Industrial Research Institute Medal. April 13-16: The Texas Library Associa­ tion and the New Mexico Library Associa­ tion will hold a joint conference at the El Paso Civic Center in El Paso, Texas. The theme for the joint conference will be “In Search of Learning.” For further information, contact: Margaret Mathis, Publicity Chairman, TLA ’77 Conference, 9901 Cork Dr., El Paso, TX 79925. June 20-24: The American Theological Library Association will hold its thirty-first annual conference at the Vancouver School of Theology in Vancouver, British Columbia, Can­ ada. Further information may be secured from: Dr. John B. Trotti, Librarian, Union Theologi­ cal Seminary in Virginia, 3401 Brook Rd., Rich­ mond, V A 23227. M ISCELLA NY • The Board of Trustees of the Ohio Col­ lege Library Center (OCLC) is pleased to announce that thirteen individuals from librari­ anship, science, and business have accepted in­ vitations to serve on an advisory council which will recommend to the Board of Trustees and the Ohio membership a plan for extending membership outside Ohio and for a reorganiza­ tion of OCLC. At the first meeting of the advisory council at OCLC in Columbus on July 9, the council members agreed to guide and direct a consult­ ing firm in suggesting what a computerized, na­ tionwide library network might look like in the future and what OCLC’s functions might be among the various elements in such a network. The advisory council also will review and re­ vise the consultant’s recommendations for func­ tions and structure of OCLC. The Ohio mem­ bership of OCLC will vote on the report of the council. Formation of the advisory council came about because of a resolution passed by the Ohio membership of OCLC at its last annual meeting, in November 1975, directing the Board of Trustees to investigate extension of membership in OCLC outside the state of Ohio. Individuals on the advisory council are: Thomas H. Anderson, partner, the Andersons, Maumee, Ohio; Dr. Frederick H. Burkhardt, chairman, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; William Chait, direc­ tor, Dayton and Montgomery County (Ohio) Public Library; Richard DeGennaro, director of libraries, University of Pennsylvania; Dan M. Lacy, senior vice-president, McGraw-Hill, Inc.; 281 Barbara Evans Markuson, executive director, Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority (INCOLSA); Dr. Charles B. Maurer, director of the library, Denison University, Granville, Ohio; Roderick G. Swartz, state librarian, Washington State Library; R. L. Wagner, ex­ ecutive director, Data and Mobile Communica­ tions Division, Bell Laboratories; David C. Weber, director, Stanford University Libraries; Robert Wedgeworth, executive director, Amer­ ican Library Association; William Welsh, Dep­ uty Librarian of Congress; and Dr. Ronald L. Wigington, director of research and develop­ ment, Chemical Abstracts Service. P U B L IC A T IO N S • In association with the London School of Economics, Bowker has recently published A Manual of European Languages for Librarians, by C. G. Allen ($56.50; LC 73-6062; ISBN 0-85935-028-2). In this 803-page volume, Al­ len, former superintendent of readers’ services at the British Library of Political and Economic Science, has provided an introduction to thirty- six languages, grouped according to the follow­ ing families; Germanic; Latin and Romance; Celtic, Greek, and Albanian; Slavonic; Baltic; Finno-Ugrian; and with separate consideration for such individual national tongues as Basque, Maltese, and Turkish. A chapter is devoted to each language, pro­ viding an analytical, concise study based on ex­ amination of relevant books and periodicals. Each chapter begins with a specimen passage and general remarks on the language. The lin­ guistic aspects of the title page, colophon, and preface are then considered, with reference to authorship, title, translators, sponsoring bodies, edition, imprint, and series. A short systematic grammar, a glossary of about 100 librarian- oriented words, and grammatical indexes of words and word endings complete each lan­ guage section. • The Center for Business Information, Par­ is, has begun publication of a new loose-leaf ser­ vice providing a continuously updated refer­ ence guide and source catalog on both eastern and western European business and economic information sources. Entitled The European Di­ rectory of Business Information Sources and Services, the new publication is to give a de­ tailed critical analysis of each new European information source or service as it appears. A six-month trial subscription is being made available to initial subscribers at the special rate of $75.00. A loose-leaf binder with preprinted divider tabs, plus a “core” or starter collection of fifty reports on the standard, essential Eu­ ropean sources and services for each geograph­ ical area will be mailed to the subscriber. Sample reports may be obtained from the publisher, Center for Business Information, 7 Rue Buffon, Paris 75005, France. • The Art Libraries Society of North Ameri­ ca has recently published a series of essays, Library Classification Systems and the Visual Arts, edited by David J. Patten. Among the problems discussed are theoretical questions, a general survey of library classification in the arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library classification system, the Photograph and Slide Library of the Metropolitan, the National Gal­ lery of Art Library artist classification scheme, the Crafts and Dewey decimal systems, and classification at the Archives of American Art. A limited number of copies are available for $1.00 (prepaid) from ARLIS/NA, P.O. Box 3692, Glendale, CA 91201. The cost is $2.00 if an invoice is required. • The 1976 edition of the Council on Li­ brary Technical-Assistants’ (COLT) Directory of Institutions Offering or Planning Programs for the Training of Library Technical As­ sistants, edited by Richard L. Taylor, has been published. This edition resembles its predeces­ sors in format, but contains more information. It includes data from 157 schools in the United States and Canada; only 134 schools were rep- Harness the reference power o f more thar (the majority o f which have never been CUMULATIVE SUBJECT GUIDE TO US. G O V ERN M ENT BIBLIOGRAPHIES1924-1973 M ore than 40,000 complete entries describing bibliographies were taken from 50 years of the Monthly C ata­ log of U.S. Government Publications, arranged alphabetically by subject, indexed by Su Docs Class Numbers, and keyed to the Bibliography Masterfile microfiche collection. As pointed out by Dr. Joseph Morehead* in the “Introduction and User’s Guide” which he has written for this set, “The Cumulative Subject Guide.... provides the user with a single location source for bibliographies in the full sense of the term. The volumes include some 18,000 entries citing self- contained bibliographies, but the conspicuous achievement of the Subject Guide is the listing of over 22,000 additional entires of addended biblio­ graphies or lists of references.” The bibliographies in the latter group, of course, are those which have never been indexed as such in any previous publications. As all entries in the Subject Guide are identical to those in the Monthly Catalog, they include such data as titles, governm ent au th o r-o rg an iz atio n s, compilers, pagination, size, LC card numbers and Su Docs Class Numbers. Each entry has also been assigned a unique ascending control number for locating the full text of the bibliography itself on microfiche in our Bibliography Masterfile collection (which is also arranged by subject for retrieval efficiency and browsability). A separate index volume lists all entries in Superintendent of Documents Classification order, which in effect, offers access by U.S. Government author-organization. Future Developments A Supplemental Updating Service will be offered on a subscription basis. It will include a Subject Guide in book form (including the addition of the hundreds of appended bibliographies not indexed in the Monthly Catalog) and a micro­ fiche edition of the bibliographies themselves arranged by subject. * Dr. Morehead is Professor of Library Science at the State University of New York at Albany, and author of the textbook Introduction to U.S. Public Documents. He is also well known for his regular column on Govern­ ment Documents in RQ Magazine. THE SIX VOLUME SUBJECT GUIDE IS AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. The Su Docs Class N um ber Index is still in preparation and will follow shortly. 40,000 U.S. Government Bibliographies n indexed as bibliographies elsewhere) US. G O V E R N M E N T BIBLIOGRAPHY MASTERFILE1924-1973 The full text of more than 40,000 bibliographies published by the U .S. Government since 1924 were accumulated, arranged by subject, and reproduced on microfiche. Each fiche is keyed for rapid and pre­ cise retrieval via the Cumulative Subject Guide and our new eye-visible frame finding system. This massive collection includes some 18,000 bibli­ ographies which were published as separate books and pamphlets, and more than 22,000 which were parts of other U.S. Government publications. All are indexed in the Cumulative Subject Guide volumes. Arrangement and Access The microfiche collection is arranged in the same sequence as are the entries in the Subject Guide. A unique control number is assigned to each bibliog­ raphy, consisting of its Subject Guide page number plus a letter designating its position from the top of that page (e.g. “ 1432-B”). Thus when a responsive entry is identified, the user can go directly to the fiche marked with that page number and then, using our eye-visible frame find­ ing system, identify the bibliography’s title page frame on the fiche even before loading it into the reader. As all of the bibliographies in the microfiche collec­ tion are arranged together by subject, the reader can conveniently browse through a large number of fiche grouped under the same major subject heading. As an aid to this type of search and for general check­ ing purposes we have filmed every page from the Subject Guide and placed it in the first frame of its appropriate fiche. P L E A SE N O TE . Since the original announcement o f this project, we have increased the number o f free sets of Subject Guide volumes supplied with the Bibliography M asterfile from TWO to FIVE. Based on the price o f the Subject Guide, this amounts to an additional savings o f $2,085. Also remember that orders placed now will be recorded and delivered at today’s prices and discounts—regardless o f future increases brought about by infla­ tionary pressures. 284 resented in the last edition. This is an inval­ uable aid for directors of library training pro­ grams, students of librarianship, employers of library paraprofessionals, and, most of all, po­ tential library technology students and their ad­ visors. As with all COLT publications, compli­ mentary copies of this Directory are being sent to all institutional members of COLT. Other schools and libraries may purchase copies for $7.00 per copy. Orders may be placed with li­ brary book wholesalers, or may be sent directly to: COLT Publications, c/o School Management Institute, 750 Brooksedge Blvd., Westerville, OH 43081. • Computer-generated listings of foundation grants in forty-three broad subject fields are now available for 1975. Designed to provide low-cost information on recent foundation grants, the microfiche listings are produced by the nonprofit Foundation Center, the country’s leading research and publishing agency in the field of philanthropic foundations. A foundation’s grant-making history is the best information for determining which founda­ tions are interested in funding projects in par­ ticular subject areas. These microfiche subject listings provide an easy means of identifying major foundations interested in the subject categories most frequently requested by grant seekers. Each microfiche subject card is arranged by state location of the foundation and, within each state, alphabetically by foundation name. All of a foundation’s grants for a particular sub­ ject category are listed under the foundation name. Grant records include the grant amount, name and location of the recipient organization, and a description of the activity funded, where Correspondence Courses Offered Does data processing and its foreign- sounding language intimidate you? University of Wisconsin-Extension of­ fers “Data Processing: Basic Concepts” for librarians who will be working with computer systems in their circulation and reference departments. The ten-lesson correspondence course discusses what computers can do, termi­ nology, hardware, elementary applica­ tions, and the selection, design, and use of computer systems. For more information, write: Indepen­ dent Study Coordinator, Department of Business and Management, University of Wisconsin-Extension, 432 N. Lake St., Madison, WI 53706, or call (608) 262- 2155. available. Each category includes its own al­ phabetical index to foundations which have made grants in that field. The microfiche can be ordered from the Foundation Center, 888 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10019. • The year 1876 was an important one for libraries in the United States. It marked the founding of the American Library Association, the origin of Library Journal, and the publica­ tion of three important works—Dewey’s deci­ mal classification, Cutter’s rules for a dictionary catalog, and the report on libraries by the U.S. Bureau of Education. On the one-hundredth anniversary of these events, the Graduate School of Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham­ paign (UIUC) has published a special issue of Library Trends on “American Library History: 1876-1976.” Issue editor is UIUC alumnus Howard W. Winger, dean of the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago. The first section of the volume includes pa­ pers on the writing of library history, the spread of libraries, the growth of collections, statistical reporting, and the development of li­ brary buildings. Part two examines the library profession, in­ cluding education, associations, the library press, generalized characteristics of librarians, and some points of contact between librarians in the U.S. and abroad. The third section includes papers on biblio­ graphic organization, and the final chapters deal with developments in library service to children and young people, college students, adults, and specialized users in nonacademic settings. This special issue of Library Trends is avail­ able for $5.00 from the Subscription Depart­ ment, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL 61801. A few hardbound copies are available for $8.00 each. • Video and Cable Communications, Guide­ lines for Librarians is a new publication of the Information Science and Automation Division of the American Library Association. It was written by Brigitte L. Kenney and Roberto Esteves and is the only source book of informa­ tion on video specifically designed for librari­ ans and library staff members. The publication is intended for those who are interested in gaining an overall look at the use of video in libraries, for those who would like to understand the technology, for those who need to know how to establish and administer a vid­ eo unit, or seeking information about the legal and regulatory aspects of the field. It can also be used as a study-guide for staff development. Some of the chapters include video for li- I f you manage a science jo urnal collection, you should have JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS JCR™ can help you • determine the optimum makeup of your journal collection • select the most used journals in any scientific discipline • identify lesser known journals of proven value • determine the optimum size and life of back files • provide a basis for cost-benefit analysis in subscription budgets • learn which journals in other disciplines are related to your readers’ interests © 1 9 7 6 ISI JCR provides you with carefully selected statistical evidence of individual characteristics of over 2,500 leading journals. Its bibliometric analyses show you patterns of relationships between journals, and the way scientists use, read and refer to them. By manipulating the information in JCR to suit your own interests and needs, you’ll be able to use JCR to make your journal collection more manageable for you and more valuable to your readers. To learn how Journal Citation Reports can help you manage a science journal collection, complete and return the coupon below. 286 brary services, video for patron use, program­ ming for special groups, financing, hardware, sources for programming, software, regulations and franchising, and community organization and resources. The book includes checklists of things to do, sources for information, and an ex­ tensive annotated bibliography. Copies are available (prepaid only) at $3.50 each from the Information Science and Auto­ mation Division of the American Library Asso­ ciation, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Please make checks payable to the American Library Association. Payment must be included with the order. • The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science has recently released a 159- page publication of interest to librarians consid­ ering or involved with library automation proj­ ects. Papers presented at the twelfth annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Process­ ing, held at the University of Illinois, April 27- 30, 1975, have been pubhshed under the title The Use of Computers in Literature Searching and Related Reference Activities in Libraries, edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster. These papers provide an analysis of the evolution, current status, and future applications of computer pro­ cessing and machine-readable files in informa­ tion retrieval. Serials updating Service If you’re lost in the confusion of the period­ icals w o rld-ch an ge s in titles and frequency, additional volumes, delays in publication, etc. -F a x o n ’s Serials Updating Service can help you find your way. The Serials Updating Service, containing current information on changes and biblio­ graphic irregularities for all types of periodicals, is available in three ways: Serials Updating S e rv ic e -a monthly news­ le tte r sent no charge to selected Faxon customers. SUS Q ua rte riy-a quarterly cumulation of the new sletters-$7 one year, $13.50 two years, $20 three years. SOS A n n u a l-a n annual cumulation of the n e w sle tte rs-$10. The Serials Updating Service is an invalu­ able resource in the acquisition, serials records, reference and binding departments, wherever serials are processed. Copies are available for $8.00 from: Publica­ tions Office, Graduate School of Library Sci­ ence, 249 Armory Bldg., University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. • The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science has released no. 123 in its series of Occasional Papers: OCLC in Retro­ spect: A Review of the Impact of the OCLC System on the Administration of a Large Uni­ versity Technical Services Operations. Authored by Joseph Z. Nitecki, associate director for tech­ nical services at Temple University Libraries, this paper analyzes Temple University’s mem­ bership in the Ohio College Library Center net­ work, and outlines the emergence of the trend to a regional approach to the system. Library administrators will be interested in the discussion of the impact of recent develop­ ments on the OCLC system, the statistics pre­ sented to clarify Temple University’s experi­ ence with OCLC participation, and with what Nitecki refers to as the “pros and cons of shared cataloging.” This latter section is sub­ divided for discussion in terms of searching ac­ tivities, editing activities, original cataloging, catalog card production and reproduction, and processing problems. Numbers in the Occasional Papers series are available from: Publications Office, Graduate School of Library Science, 249 Armory Bldg., University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. Single copies are $2.00 each; subscriptions are available on an annual basis for $7.00 per year and will cover a minimum of five issues per year. • The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center of the Association of Research Libraries’ Office of University Library Management Stud­ ies has issued a new SPEC Kit. SPEC Kit no. 28, on Gifts and Exchange Functions in ARL Libraries, contains twenty- seven documents totaling 129 pages. The kit includes: a summary of data resulting from the University of California at Los Angeles survey on the organization, staffing, and operation of gifts and exchange functions; annual reports; policies and procedures for gifts and exchange functions; and gifts and exchange position de­ scriptions. Requests for copies of these kits should be sent to the Office of University Library Man­ agement Studies, Association of Research Li­ braries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Wash­ ington, DC 20036. The cost to ARL members and SPEC subscribers is $7.50 for each kit; the cost to others is $15.00. • The MIT Barker Engineering Library has produced a new series of audio and audiovisual point-of-use bibliographical instruction aids to introduce various science and technology ab­ stracting and indexing services and other li­ brary tools. The series updates and extends the 287 one developed by the Project INTREX Model tems operators, equipment manufacturers, mi­ croform publishers, and information brokers. The editorial focus of ONLINE will be al­ most entirely on articles that can be put to im­ mediate use in the everyday use of on-line sys­ tems. Among the major articles in the first issue will be a guide to choosing a terminal; an ar­ ticle on how to promote on-line systems to man­ agement and to end users; a user’s report on the best way to use the New York Times Informa­ tion Bank; a special study on using BIOSIS and MEDLINE as a team for biomedical searches; an article on where to obtain free on­ line searches; plus data base and equipment re­ views. Jeff Pemberton, the publisher of ONLINE, is a veteran of both on-line and off-line informa­ tion systems for the past ten years. He has been associated with Aspen Systems Corp., the New York Times Information Bank, and Lockheed Information Systems. He has also done work for data base and microform publishers such as Library Program, 1970-72. The new materials are available from the Barker Library at a nominal charge, on a pre­ paid sale basis only. For a list of titles and prices, please write: Katharine G. Cipolla, Me­ dia Services Librarian, Barker Engineering Li­ brary, MIT, Room 10-500, Cambridge, MA 02139. • A new magazine, ONLINE, aimed exclu­ sively at providing practical, “how-to” informa­ tion to users of on-line bibliographic informa­ tion systems, has been announced by Jeffery K. Pemberton, president and publisher of Online, Inc., a new company formed expressly for the purpose of providing products and services for the growing on-line market. ONLINE will begin as a quarterly, with each issue containing 64-96 pages of feature articles, data base reviews, equipment and communi­ cations news, and special columns, plus ad­ vertisements by data base suppliers, on-line sys­ Resolution on Racism & Sexism Awareness Adopted by the A LA Membership and Approved by Council in Meetings Friday, July 23, 1976 whereas, during the last 200 years the United States has failed to equalize the status of racial minorities and of women, and whereas, the American Library Association has professed belief in the principle of equality yet has failed to aggressively address the racism and sexism within its own pro­ fessional province; therefore, be it resolved, That the American Library Association actively commit its prestige and resources to a coordinated action program that will combat racism and sexism in the library profession and in library service by taking the following steps: THE ALA WILL SURVEY LIBRARY SCHOOLS TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH RACISM AND SEXISM AWARENESS TRAINING FORM A PART OF THE CURRICULA AND URGE THAT SUCH TRAINING BE ADDED TO THE CURRICULA IN EVERY LIBRARY SCHOOL WHERE IT IS NOT NOW IN­ CLUDED. THE LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION DIVISION-PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION SECTION WILL DEVELOP A MODEL IN-SERVICE PROGRAM PROVIDING RACISM AND SEXISM AWARENESS TRAINING FOR LIBRARY PERSONNEL. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS, THE CHILDREN’S SERVICES DIVISION, THE YOUNG ADULT SERVICES DIVISION, THE REFERENCE AND ADULT SERVICES DI­ VISION, AND THE ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES WILL BE URGED TO DEVELOP A PROGRAM TO RAISE THE AWARENESS OF LIBRARY USERS TO THE PRESSING PROBLEM OF RACISM AND SEXISM. THE RESOURCES AND TECHNICAL SERVICES DIVISION WILL DEVELOP A COORDINATED PLAN FOR THE REFORM OF CATALOGING PRACTICES THAT NOW PERPETUATE RACISM AND SEXISM. be it further resolved, That the President and Executive Board assess the extent of implementation of these steps and report on progress by the 1977 Annual Conference. 288 the Environment Information Center, INSPEC, and Greenwood Press. Pemberton is also a for­ mer newspaper reporter for the Wall Street Journal. For further information, call J. K. Pemberton at (203) 227-0949. • Government Organization Manuals: A Bibliography, published by the Library of Con­ gress, is a virtual “road map” of guides to the organization of over 140 national governments. The compiler of this bibliography is Vladimir M. Palic of the Library of Congress Serial Di­ vision. The first part of the bibliography includes basic works on public administration and gov­ ernmental organization in general. The second part lists individual countries and their publi­ cations in alphabetical order. Selected retro­ spective sources which provide information on past changes within individual governments are also included. Materials in this bibliography have been se­ lected from the collections of the Library of Congress. Entries and call numbers, generally, are those used in the Library of Congress card catalog. An index covers personal and corporate authors, selected titles of works, and names of geographic areas and countries. Government Organization Manuals: A Bib­ liography is available for $1.40 by mail from the Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. ■■ Anglo-American Cataloging Rules CHAPTER 12, REVISED This latest revision of Chapter 12 re­ flects the growing importance of non­ print materials in the collections of all types of libraries. The types of media covered in the revision were selected in 1972 following consulta­ tion held between the Library of Con­ gress and the Joint Advisory Commit­ tee on Nonbook Materials. The chap­ ter has been rewritten to improve the rules for films and filmstrips and to add new rules for the other media not previously included anywhere in the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. Slides and transparencies have been removed from chapter 15 and are in­ cluded in this expanded Chapter 12. 64 pages Paper LC 75-28192 ISBN 0-8389-3174-X (1975) $1.50 American Library Association 50 E. Huron, Chicago, IL 60611