ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 5 News From the Field ACQUISITIONS • The Romero Collection, the most impor tant single acquisition since the Renaissance library of Don Cameron Allen, has been re ceived by the library at the University of California, San Diego. The Romero Collec tion contains 4,100 volumes and is especially strong in Latin works of classical authors print ed during the sixteenth and seventeenth cen turies, many of which are rarely found today. There are also many books on Spanish history, literature and culture, from the Middle Ages through modern times but with the greatest concentration on the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. There are many works dealing with the local history of Seville and Andalusia and of the Peninsular War from the Spanish point of view. French and Italian literature is also represented. Important examples of the work of great printers of the past are seen in the Romero Collection—printers such as Giambattista Bo doni, Simon de Colines, the Elzevirs, the Es tiennes, Johann Froben, Sebastian Gryphius, Joachim Ibarra, Aldus Manutius, Antonio Marin, Chrostophe Plantin, and Alonso San chez. A few of the outstanding volumes are: Pliny “the Elder,” Naturalis Hystoria, Venice, 1483; the Latin Bible of 1483, Venice, and another of 1491, Basel; Valerius Maximus, Facta ac dicta memorabilia, Venice, 1485; Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Ven ice, 1486; Cornelius Nepos, De vita excellenti- um imperatorum, Brescia, 1498; and Stephanus Brulefer, Opuscula, Paris, 1500. The Romero Collection was obtained by UCSD largely through the efforts of Dr. Claudio Guillen, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Litera ture on the campus, who had lived in the Romero house as a boy. Part of the purchase funds were contributed by the Del Amo Foun dation. • The Robert W. Woodruff Library at E mory University has been presented by Charles Forrest Palmer, of Atlanta, with files of his personal papers, books and other printed materials, devoted largely to slum clearance, low-cost housing, town planning, and related topics. Mr. Palmer, since his presidency of Palmer, Inc., in 1921, has been vitally inter ested in problems of urban renewal. His con cern with urban deterioration resulted in the clearing of one of Atlanta’s blighted areas and the building in 1933 of Techwood Homes, the first slum clearance program in the nation. He served as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Defense Housing Coordinator, 1940-42. As representative of the President, he headed a special housing commission to Great Britain, March-December 1942, studying war devasta tion and planning postwar reconstruction and resettlement with British officials. Mr. Palmer’s files of letters and other docu ments contain at least 15,000 pieces, including a large number of letters from government officials, commission heads, and other public figures. The correspondence with F.D.R., mem bers of his family, and officials of his adminis trations, is especially interesting. The diaries kept by Mr. Palmer on his missions to Great Britain, illustrated with his own photographs, and the reports to the President based on the diaries, portray the devastation of the war and the measures resorted to for rehousing bombed- out communities. Correspondence with housing authorities, notably those concerned with Brit ish undertakings continuing to the present, discuss all phases of urban planning. No ac curate count has been made of printed ma terials, which include official documents on housing from wartime to the present, but the collection is almost certainly the largest private library concerned with these matters in the United States. Approximately 2,000 books are in the gift to Emory. The books and papers are housed together in the Special Collections De partment of the Woodruff Library, together with pictures and other objects of art from Mr. Palmer’s study at his home. • The Kent State University libraries have acquired collections of letters by Gary Snyder and Louis Zukofsky and a complete collection of the books of Edward Dahlberg. They are available to students and faculty in the Department of Special Collections. The Snyder collection consists of thirty-seven let ters and postcards and nineteen poems, some of them unpublished. They cover the period from 1956 to 1967. All of the letters are to the artist, author, and translator Will Petersen. The Zukofsky collection consists of thirty-eight letters, also to Will Petersen, covering the period from 1960 to 1964. Much of the cor respondence concerns Zukofsky’s book It Was, which Petersen designed and printed under the Origin Press imprint. There are twenty- eight books and one broadside in the Dahl berg Collection, including the very rare limited 6 edition of his first book; Bottom Dogs; and Kentucky Blue Grass Henry Smith, one of 95 copies printed. The collection also includes The Sorrows of Priapus, limited to 150 copies, signed by the author and the artist Ben Shahn, with an original print signed by Shahn laid in. • A work considered to be extremely rare has been presented to the University of Il linois main library at the Urbana-Champaign campus. The Bishop Collection—Investigations and Studies in Jade was given by Robert Lau ber of River Forest, Illinois, Prof. Robert Downs, dean of library administration, an nounced today. Published in an edition of 100 copies in New York in 1906, it consists of two volumes, “elephant portfolio” in size, weighing a total of 110 pounds. Dean Downs said the contents are made up of fine hand- colored prints of jade objects which form the Heber R. Bishop Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. “The cost of producing the edition of 100 copies was more than a million dollars,” Downs said. “Each plate is an engraving, colored by hand, with as many as fifteen colors being used in some plates. “After printing, the type was distributed and all materials used in the preparation of the work were destroyed. The surviving sets are now practically all in museums and li braries,” he explained. Principal sections of the Bishop work deal with jade in China, illustra tions of modern manufacture of jade as a min eral, and methods of working jade. The illus trations include many archeological specimens of jade, ancient and tomb pieces from China, and art objects of jade. The second volume is an illustrated catalog of the Bishop Collection in the Metropolitan. An article in the Lapidary Journal in September of 1965 estimated the value of the set at that time as $25,000. • The Cushing-Martin Library at Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts has announced the receipt and availability of the papers of the late Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (1884-1968), Representative from Massachusetts. He served as Republican mi nority leader intermittently from 1939 to 1959 and Speaker of the House in the Eightieth (1947-49) and Eighty-third (1953-55) Con gresses. The collection comprises approximate ly 2,500 letters, speeches, photographs, and 104 scrapbooks, plus miscellaneous autographed books and memorabilia. Inquiries should be addressed to Mrs. Carol E. Fraser, Library Director, or to Dr. James M. Kenneally, Stone hill College, North Easton, Massachusetts 02356. • The University of Michigan library, whose collections began with 3,400 volumes purchased in 1839, has just added its four millionth book. It is the gift of one of the li brary’s most generous benefactors, Col. Thomas M. Spaulding of Washington, and forms a part of the 6,000-volume Stephen Spaulding Col lection. For many years Col. Spaulding has taken a special interest in books printed during the first fifty years after the invention of print ing. His gifts account for more than a fourth of the 506 early-printed books now held by the University library. His latest gift is a book printed in 1489 by England’s first printer, William Caxton, at his press near Westminster Abbey. The book is The Fayttes of Armes and of Chyualrye, written originally in French about 1408 by Christine de Pisan, who, with the single exception of Joan of Arc, was the most famous woman of her age. She was dis tinguished both as a Latinist and a scholar, but she was also deeply concerned with the affairs of her own time. She is regarded as the first advocate of women’s rights and was looked up on by her contemporaries as an able antagonist. The English translation of Christine’s book was done by Caxton himself at the special re quest of King Henry VII from a French manu script that the king himself supplied. Although it is essentially part translation and part para phrase of a late fourth century Roman treatise on the conduct of war, it is, because of the author’s additions, an important source for diplomatic law and custom. It is perhaps for this reason that the English king wanted the treatise placed in the hands of his emissaries and attaches abroad. • Acquisition of a rare fifteenth century book of philosophy by the University of New Hampshire library highlighted ceremonies held this week to mark the library’s purchase of its 500,000th volume. The book, translated from medieval Latin as Of the Lives and Morals of the Philosophers, was written by fourteenth century scholar and author Walter Burley, and is believed to have been published before 1473 by an anonymous printer thought to be the teacher of William Caxton, widely regard ed as the father of modern printing. Donated as a gift of the UNH Alumni Fund to the Ezekiel Dimond Memorial Library to mark the accumulation of one-half million volumes, the book was termed a “fifteenth century best seller” by English Instructor Jack Hanrahan, a specialist in early printed books who bought the ancient work from an Exeter rare-book dealer. 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Szladits, the acquisition is noteworthy because “a heretofore completely unknown O’Neill correspondence has become available in a research collection of a public institution.” O’Neill wrote the letters to Mrs. Maher (then Beatrice Ashe) between 1914 and 1915, with one exception dating from July, 1916. During this period, O’Neill was enrolled in Professor George Pierce Baker’s playwriting course at Harvard and his first book, Thirst and Other One-Act Plays, was being pub lished. The letters have not been seen by any O’Neill scholar or biographer. In addition to the usual contents of love letters, the corre spondence ranges from discussions of the au thor’s work under the guidance of Professor Baker, through plays read or seen, to personal hopes, ambitions, and health. There is de tailed criticism of Cabiria, a moving picture highly praised by O’Neill, mentions of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s The Magistrate, Maxim Gorki’s The Lower Depths, and an invitation to see Bernard Shaw’s Captain Brassbound’s Conversion. O’Neill mentions ideas for one of his earliest one-acters, Abortion, and his col laboration with Colin Ford on Belshazzar, a seven-act, full length biblical drama, on which he worked in addition to his classroom assign ments. His anti-war play, The Sniper, a one- act play, based on the slaughter of the first World War, was considered by the Professor to be “worthy” but “not timely.” The romance inspired a number of poetic pieces. 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Among the books is an eighteenth century English work on neurology by Robert Whytt entitled, Observations on the Nature, Causes, and Care of Those Disorders Which Have Been Commonly Called Nervous Hypo chondriac or Hysteria. Another of the books, a collection of illustrations by Samuel George Morton published in Philadelphia in 1834, was the first book on tuberculosis of the lungs published in the United States. • A significant collection of Spanish books covering five centuries (from 1499 to 1966) has been acquired by Southern Methodist University with the help of federal funds. A large portion of the books relate to the history of printing and bookmaking in Spain, accord ing to SMU Director of Libraries Robert M. Trent. The earliest product of the Spanish press in the collection is Enrique de Villena’s Doze Trabajos de Hercules, printed in Burgos in 1499. La Historia de Grisel y Mirabella by Juan de Flores, another very rare quarto, was printed in Sevilla in 1529. A second sixteenth century copy is Libros de Alabanzas de las lenquas Hebrea, Grieqa, Latina, Castallana, y Valencia by M. De Viciana. Among the sub jects treated in the collection are Spanish architecture, philately in Spain, history of edu cation in Spain, early manuscripts and docu ments in Spain, including royal cedulas, pro hibited books, bullfighting and early dramatic literature in Spain. BUILDINGS • The State University of New York, College at Fredonia celebrated on October 17 the formal dedication of a vast new academic complex. An integral part of this complex is the new Daniel A. Reed Library. The high- fight of the ceremonies was an address by Nelson A. Rockefeller, governor of New York. The new library bears the name of the late Daniel A. Reed (1875-1959), congressman from Western New York for over forty years. This ultramodern, growing library is a fitting tribute to a man who for many years champi oned the cause of United States education. De signed by the internationally renowned archi tectural firm of I. M. Pei and Partners the structure reaches only 19 feet above ground level but its floor space covers an area larger than a football field. Within this sprawling, single-level structure of glass and preformed, stressed concrete are accommodations for more than 250,000 books and seating capacity for 850 students. Carpeted and air-conditioned, with furnishings and facilities of contemporary design, the emphasis has been placed on user needs and comforts—including stereo record players and stereo headsets. The interior pre sents few decorating or maintenance problems since the emphasis is on the natural concrete, but the concrete is “warmed” by a vast sea of orange carpeting. Unique in concept and de sign are the structured carrels of preformed concrete which serve to integrate interior func tions with structural and architectural con­ cepts. John P. Saulitis is College Librarian. • The newly remodeled Davis and E lkins College library building was dedicated in honor of West Virginia Senator Jennings Ran dolph during Founder’s Day ceremonies, Oc tober 20, in Elkins, West Virginia. The library building is now named Jennings Randolph Hall. The dedicatory address was given by Li brarian of Congress L. Quincy Mumford. Mr. Mumford praised Senator Randolph for his aid to librarianship in general, and to the Library of Congress in particular. Quoting from an old college catalog, he noted the parallel prob lems that both the D&E library and LC suf fered then and continue to suffer now, quoting a 1917 statement that the … books cannot be properly protected as presently arranged, in cramped and crowded quarters.” Mr. Mum ford reviewed the myriad services offered by LC, and how they are central to meeting the nation’s needs, and how the Madison Memorial building will give the Library of Congress the space it needs to continue these supporting services. • One of America’s finest university libraries was dedicated at E mory University (Atlanta, Georgia) on Friday, October 31, attracting li brarians and university officials from across the country. Dr. George H. Healey, Curator of Rare Books at Cornell University, spoke at the dedication ceremonies at 10:00 a.m . on the plaza in front of the new $7 million Robert W. Woodruff Library for Advanced Studies, de signed by architects Warner, Bums, Toan and Lunde of New York. The handsome ten-story structure is named for Robert W. Woodruff, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Coca-Cola Company, alumnus and longtime friend of the university. Guy R. Lyle, Director of Libraries at Emory, describes the new li brary as “a beautiful building which fitly houses one of the most important libraries in the United States.” The product of seven years of planning, the library incorporates the latest ideas in univer sity libraries, from the bibliographical seminar in the reference department to private studies for graduate students writing their theses and 11 dissertations. Various portions of the building are underlaid with a network of ducts which permit connections for any electronic device the university now possesses or may add in the foreseeable future. Some 60 percent of the seating in the library is in private studies or carrels. This, coupled with heavy carpeting throughout the main and special collection floors, gives it an air of calm and quiet even when crowded with students. The tenth floor, at the top, will house Emory’s valuable special collections, many of which relate to Atlanta’s history. There will be a Woodruff Room. The papers of the late Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, will be in Special Col lections along with other notable collections. The building includes 239,267 square feet of floor space, the equivalent in floor space of more than 100 large residences. It will hold a million books and has a seating capacity of 1,456. There are 80 faculty studies, 126 dis sertation studies, 634 carrels, 6 seminar rooms, 8 typing rooms, 1 bibliographical seminar room and 1 library instruction room. The central book tower rises eight stories from a large paved patio that surrounds it. The entrance floor contains the executive of fices, lounges, and student lockers. The next six floors above contain the main book collec tions plus faculty studies, dissertation studies, seminar rooms and private carrels. The top floor houses special collections. A spiral stair case winds down from the entrance floors to the two largest floors in the building. These two lower levels are more than twice the size of the tower floors, extending out beneath the plaza. These floors house areas that make the library function—card catalogs, the reference suite, periodicals, microform reading services, and technical services such as circulation, re ceiving and cataloging. Three separate collec tions are also located on these levels—the gov ernment documents center containing U.S., foreign and United Nations publications, a sci ence collection providing easy access to sci entific material and a large collection of micro film and other types of photocopy material. The building was financed by funds raised in Emory’s successful $35 million MERIT Program, including a $1.9 million U.S. govern ment grant and a major gift from the Ford Foundation. Many gifts helped make the li brary possible, including a $25,000 planning grant from the Division of Higher Education of the United Methodist Church Board of Education which enabled architectural studies to begin. • Stevens Institute of Technology’s modern four-story library and computer cen ter has been completed on Castle Point in Hoboken, New Jersey. Overlooking the Hud son River, it provides a unique look into the future of education and the coming transfor mation of the downtown Manhattan water front. The $3 million brick and glass building with weathering steel outer paneling to match its brick tones, is situated in the center of the institute’s 55-acre site. Separated from the riv erside cliff by a broad expanse of grass and trees, it follows the 1966 recommendations of the Regional Plan Association for the develop ment of the Lower Hudson: that the New Jer sey shore be utilized for social and educational use, and that buildings and parks be designed to allow more people to enjoy the views of Manhattan. The upper three floors of the building have been named the Samuel C. Williams Library in honor of the late Curator of Special Col lections, Emeritus Professor of the Institute, and the prime mover in the funding, planning, and programming of the building. The Samuel C. Williams Library, with 50,000 square feet of space and seating for approximately 550, replaces a forty-four-year-old library of 15,000 square feet. Space for 150,000 volumes is pro vided in the new structure, as compared with 40,000 in the old building. A three-story center court, extending from the main entrance floor to the roof, opens the library to the view of students walking into the building and along the open stairways and balconies. Plexiglass skylights pour light down into this lobby and the Circulation Desk. The entrance level in cludes the open court with its Circulation Desk, the Reference Room, a Rrowsing Room con taining art books, current newspapers and mag azines, and the administrative offices and staff work areas. Separating the reference from the browsing areas is a room-sized glass case in which can be displayed working scale models of machinery developed at the institute in former years, as well as book displays and oth er special exhibits. Also on this level, near the Main Entrance, is the handsome two-storied Special Collections Room, glass-walled on the lobby side, and with great picture windows overlooking the athletic field. Here may be viewed the Lieb Collection on Leonardo da Vinci, the finest such collection in the Western Hemisphere, and the original manuscripts of Frederick Winslow Taylor, originator of Sci entific Management. The second and third floors of the library house the book stacks, study carrels, and group or private study rooms, three seminar rooms, audiovisual rooms and a Staff Room. 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Speakers will include Lucille Rather of the Library of Con gress who will discuss the MARC project, and Dr. Earl Farley who will address the con ference on the topic of library automation. May 5-7; The 1970 Spring Joint Computer Conference will be held in the Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, from Tuesday through Thursday, May 5 through May 7. Har ry L. Cooke of the RCA Corporation’s David Sarnoff Research Center has been named gen eral chairman of the conference. The conference will be the thirty-sixth event of its type sponsored by the American Federation of Information Processing Societies. The theme of the conference will be “The Com puter: Gathering Force of the Seventies,” re flecting the growing impact computers will have on all forms of business and society in the next decade. Attendance is expected to reach more than 40,000 people drawn from business, education, science, and government, making it the largest computer conference ever held in the United States. May 7-8; Sponsors of the Seventh Annual National Information Retrieval Colloquium have announced the theme for the 1970 meet ing and a call for presentations. To be de veloped around the “Social Impact of Informa tion Retrieval Systems,” the program will in clude feature sessions focusing on important contemporary issues of the field including the future of media such as journals, books, pro ceedings, microforms, display consoles, etc., and questions of information ownership, pro tection, and reliability and whether customers will pay for information. Papers judged less controversial will be presented in parallel tech nical sessions. Continuing a highly successful experiment in information exchange started last year, the meeting will include the “Information Bazaar” event at which operating systems will be demonstrated, films shown, and provision made for discussion sessions. To get complete details on how to participate in the meeting, whether you want to present a paper, moderate a discussion, demonstrate a system, or pro vide an exhibit, write Mr. Philip Bagley, Presi dent, Information Engineering, 3401 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The pro gram will be arranged around presentations for which 500-word summaries of papers and short descriptions of other information exchange activities have been received by the end of January 1970. The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia on May 7 and 8. It is jointly sponsored by nearly a dozen local, regional, and national nonprofit organi zations interested in information retrieval. May 8-9: Fifteenth annual Midwest Aca demic Librarians Conference at Drake Uni versity and Grand View College, Des Moines, Iowa. June 28-July 1: Annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Wash ington, D.C. June 28-July 4: American Library Associa tion Annual Conference to be held in Detroit, Michigan. Aug. 4-14: The School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, will sponsor an Institute on the History of Li brary Education. It is to be conducted b v D r. 15 Paul A. Winckler, visiting professor of library science. Enrollment will be limited to thirty students. Complete details can be secured from Miss Shelagh Keene, Administrative As sistant, School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sept. 14-24: 35th FID Conference, Buenos Aires. The Conference will be organized by the FID National Member in Argentina: Con sejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Rivadavia 1917—R. 25, Buenos Aires, Argentina, attn: Mr. R. A. Gietz. Oct. 4-9: 33rd annual meeting of ASIS will be held at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Convention Chairman for the 1970 meeting is Mr. Kenneth H. Zabriskie, Jr.; Biosciences Information Serv ices of Biological Abstracts; 2100 Arch Street; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MISCELLANY • In accordance with action taken by the Executive Board of the American Library As sociation at its annual conference in June, the Office for Library Education announces the appointment of a new, permanent standing committee to replace an ad hoc committee which has served as adviser to the Office dur ing its first two years. The Advisory Committee consists of nine persons, selected from both the library field and outside it, to represent differ ent kinds of library service, professional edu cation in general, library education, student concerns, and professional accreditation. The new members of the nine-man committee are Charles D. Churchwell, director of libraries, Miami University Library, Oxford, Ohio; Philip H. Ennis, professor of sociology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut; Paul C. Janaske, chief, Library and Information Sci ence Branch, Division of Library Programs, De partment of Health, Education and Welfare, U.S. Office of Education; Helen F. Schmierer, doctoral candidate, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago; Joseph J. Semrow, as sistant secretary, North Central Association of College and Secondary Schools; Wesley Si monton, professor, Library School, University of Minnesota. Three members of the ad hoc committee have been reappointed to provide continuity. They are John Frantz, director, Brooklyn Public Library; Frank H. Hurley, dean of graduate studies, Case Western Re serve University; Raynard C. Swank, dean, School of Librarianship, University of Cali fornia, Berkeley. Dr. Swank is chairman of the committee for 1969-70. The committee will hold its first meeting during the Midwinter session of the American Library Association in January. • General information about federal aid programs from which libraries might benefit is available from the American Library Associa tion’s Washington office. Librarians of all types —college, school, public, etc.—who are striving to improve their facilities and collections, but who need help in financing these projects, may write to the Washington Office for information on requesting aid from the federal government, including where to write for detailed eligibility requirements and application forms. (In many cases, federal library programs are adminis tered through an official agency of each state.) The Washington office cannot answer ques tions about individual state plans, the status of a submitted application, or similar inquiries that are the province of official agencies. Librarians wanting to know where to seek federal funds to help alleviate their problems should write to: Miss Clem M. Hall, Assistant Director, ALA Washington Office, 200 C Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003. • Six Lehigh Valley (Pennsylvania) aca demic libraries—those of Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales, Cedar Crest, La fayette, Lehigh, Moravian, and Muhlenberg— have joined in a cooperative interlibrary loan project to provide fast and comprehensive ex change of materials for users in each institu tion. The six libraries are linked by teletype, and daily pickup and delivery service by sta tion wagon to each is provided five days a week. The project is designed to meet the everyday needs of students in particular by furnishing them with materials available in one library which another may not own or which may be in use locally at the time of the re quest. The total book resources of the six li braries is over 1,000,000 volumes. The project is one phase of a cooperative arrangement among the institutions themselves, which have incorporated as a consortium under the name of The Lehigh Valley Association of Inde pendent Colleges. Funds for the library phase of the operation are being supplied by the member institutions. • The Education and Behavioral Sciences Subsection requests nominations for the offices of vice-chairman and chairman-elect for the year 1970-71. These nominations are for the spring, 1970, election. The names should be sent to Mrs. Barbara Marks, Education Library, New York University, New York, New York 10003, PUBLICATIONS • The Library Technology Program of the American Library Association has announced that a second, revised edition of Carolyn Hor ton’s Cleaning and Preserving Bindings and Related Materials was published on November 16 25. Mrs. Horton is a hand bookbinder and an expert in the field of conservation of library collections. Her text, addressed to the inex perienced librarian as well as to the skilled conservator, describes methods of marking dis integrating books for attention, procedures for the attachment of loose materials, techniques for cleaning books and applying leather pre servatives, and outlines in detail the means by which book collectors, conservators, and li brarians may organize and carry out the reno vation and repair of book collections, large or small. Various leather preservatives and other materials used in conservation are appraised. A glossary and a selected, annotated bibliog raphy, together with lists of supplies and equip ment and sources of supply are included. • The University of Chicago Press has just published A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana, compiled by Colton Storm. It is available for $37.50 a copy. The Graff collection consists of more than 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the Cata logue, Detailed collations and binding de scriptions are provided, references to other bibliographical listings are cited, and many of the more important items have been annotated. • The University of Pittsburgh libraries anno DENTAL LIBRARIAN F ac u lty o f D e n tis try U n iv e rs ity o f M a n ito b a Applications are invited for the above position. Applicants should have li brary training and experience to en able them to direct a specialist scientific library. Rank and salary concomitant with experience. Range $9,700-$ 13,- 000. Moving expenses equivalent to one month’s salary. Please send re sume to Mr. David Wilder, Director of Libraries, University of Manitoba, Win nipeg 19, Manitoba. unce the fifth publication in the Bibliograph ic Series, A Descriptive Checklist of Manu script Collections in the Darlington Memorial Library. The price is 50 cents. Orders should be placed with the University of Pittsburgh Book Center, 4000 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213. Purchasers other than tax- exempt institutions must add a 6 percent sales tax to the prices quoted. Orders for less than $10.00 must be accompanied by remittance. • The Microfilm Technology Primer on Scholarly Journals is available at no charge from the Princeton Microfilm Corporation, Alexander Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08540. This is a very general pamphlet covering the basics of microform technology. It discusses the types of microforms available, the advantages of each, and the problems one can expect to encounter in the use of microforms. • A limited number of copies of the revised South Dakota Union List of Serials are now available. First issued in 1968, this revision corrects and updates the earlier issue and adds the holdings of two special libraries and three of the largest South Dakota public libraries to the holdings of fourteen college and univer sity libraries that made up the first issue. The publication consists of 640 computer-generated pages and sells for $15.00. Copies can be ob tained by writing James L. Dertien, Union List of Serials Project, University of South Da kota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069. • Stanford University libraries has available a limited number of the new fourth edition of its undergraduate book catalog. The catalog consists of eight author-title volumes (3906 p p .) and six subject volumes (2793 pp.). The more than 56,000 titles fisted in the catalog represent the holdings of the J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library cataloged as of July 1969. The titles were carefully selected to serve the needs of an undergraduate liberal arts pro gram. Periodicals in the collection are also cataloged. Library of Congress classification and subject headings are used. The 8½ ” x 11” catalog is clothbound. A gray cloth is used for the author-title volumes and red for the sub ject volumes. Only fifteen sets are available and these are being offered for sale at $250.00 a set, prepaid, including shipping. Because of the limited number of sets available, they will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. A few sets of the 1968 edition in mint con dition are also available. It consists of seven author-title and five subject volumes and fists about 50,000 titles. They will also be sold on a first-come, first-served basis at $150.00 a set. If you are interested in obtaining a set, please address your order to: Robert Goiter, Librari an, J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library, Stan ford University, Stanford, California 94305.