ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • The papers of the late Louis Fischer, and much of the library of the news correspondent and famed authority on the Soviet Union, have been given to the Library of Princeton Uni­ versity. Fischer, who had been a resident of Princeton at the time of his death in 1970, authored more thap twenty books, including the prize-winning volume on The Life o f Lenin. He was a research associate and visiting lec­ turer at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wil­ son School of Public and International AfFairs for almost a decade. The papers are contained in eighty-six archival boxes and include more than 6,500 letters to and from public figures, writings (articles, speeches, diary notes, proofs, inter­ views), background material for his books, articles about Fischer himself, and such per­ sonal records as address and appointment books, diplomas, tax returns, and family photographs. There are also records and tapes of speeches and other memorabilia. The library, given to the university earlier, contains more than 1,000 volumes, including some 200 of Fischer’s own works, both in the original and in translation. Fischer’s library and papers were donated to Princeton by his sons, George, of High Falls, New York, a faculty member at the City Uni­ versity of New York, and Victor, of Fairbanks, Alaska, a professor at the University of Alaska. Princeton has also announced the acquisition of a major portion of the files of the Develop­ ment and Resources Corporation, New York. The firm, headed by David E. Lilienthal, a former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Au­ thority and later the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, has for the last nineteen years been engaged in formulating and executing programs of economic and social development in many countries. Much of the firm’s emphasis, however, has been concen­ trated in Iran, where, as a consultant to that nation’s government, D & R prepared, and for a number of years administered, a plan for the unified development of the Khuzestan region of Iran and other development undertakings. More than half the files given to the Princeton University Library covering the period from 1956 to 1970 concern Iran, according to Thomas Mead, an executive with the firm from 1957 until his retirement this spring. Mead will spend about a year at Princeton re­ viewing the files and assessing their particular value to scholars in a broad range of disciplines. • During the first half of 1974 the Manu­ script Division of the L ibrary of Congress acquired a number of significant manuscript collections, made available to readers a long- awaited body of Harold Ickes papers, anc published an index to President James A Garfield’s papers. The descendants of the Joseph E. Willard and Kermit Roosevelt families have donated about 45,000 items which have been added to the papers of the two families already among the division holdings. These records afford additional primary sources for treatments of the American social scene, of World Wars I and II, and of social and political life abroad in Spain, England, and France— especially Paris. In addition, they contain materials for more personal studies of Ambassador Willard and Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt as well as a wide variety of correspondence addressed to them or their families by prominent individuals. The papers of Joseph Pulitzer II (1885- 1955), successor to his father as editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, have come to the library as the gift of Pulitzer’s widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Pulitzer. The collection of 60,000 items will be useful both for studies in political history (especially for the period between the Coolidge and Eisenhower admin­ istrations) and for the role of the press in the development of public policy. Moreover, the papers will provide essential biographical data on one of the nation’s foremost journalists, ex­ press the philosophy upon which the evolving policies of a leading national newspaper were based, and provide additional background on Pulitzer Prize awards. The library also has a collection of papers of Joseph Pulitzer (1847- 1911). The Agnes Meyer Papers constitute the be­ ginning of another family collection. Approxi­ mately 30,000 items, dating from 1860 to 1970, treat the family background, childhood, edu­ cation, and the multifaceted career of Mrs. Meyer as wife and mother, social critic, au­ thority on Chinese art, literary critic, linguist, and author. There is extensive correspondence with Charles L. Freer, noted collector and donor of the Freer Art Gallery in Washington, D.C., with whom Mrs. Meyer shared an inter­ est in Oriental art and culture. The papers of Kathleen (Katie) S. Louch- heim (Mrs. Walter C. Louchheim, Jr.), an active politician as well as an author, are also now available to readers. The approximately 19,000-item collection spans the period from 1937 to the present. A major portion concerns Mrs. Louchheim’s work in the higher coun­ cils of the Democratic Party (1948-60), and 253 in the State Department (1961-69), both as deputy assistant secretary for cultural affairs (later community affairs) and ambassador to UNESCO (1968-69). Mrs. Louchheim’s spe­ cial interest in women’s fuller participation in public affairs is evident throughout. A comprehensive source of modern American cultural history now among division holdings is the archives of the Bollingen Foundation, formally established in 1945 by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and deactivated in 1969. The pa­ pers show foundation support of research, writ­ ing, and publication in the humanities through fellowships and grants, subventions, and other forms of aid to scholars and authors. A file of its own publications, the Bollingen Series, will be maintained in the library’s Rare Book Di­ vision. The bulk of the Bollingen material con­ sists of extensive subject/correspondence files on applications, publications, contributions to institutions, and special projects. All the papers of Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior from 1933 to 1946, are now available for reader use, including the “secret diaries” (1933-41). An extensive card index will facilitate use of the latter; together, all of them will provide an unusually intimate and detailed record of the administrations of presi­ dents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Tru­ man. Among the additions to the scientific collec­ tions in the division are the Draper Family and Merle Tuve Papers. The first consignment of the Draper Papers, about 9,000 items, chiefly concerns the eminent nineteenth-century Amer­ ican scientist John William Draper (1811-82) and his third son, Daniel (1841-1931), an im­ portant meteorologist. The papers include John William Draper’s holograph account of his reading of the paper at the 1860 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a presentation which furnished the opportunity for the celebrated exchange be­ tween Bishop William Wilberforce and T. H. Huxley on Darwinism. The papers of Daniel Draper include correspondence, scientific and other notebooks, and miscellaneous materials— the latter concerning the New York Meteoro­ logical Observatory. The papers of physicist Merle Tuve (1901- ), approximately 145,000 items covering the period 1916-72, are now available. His scientific correspondence (1924-72) documents virtually all of his contributions from his radar- ionosphere experiment through work in nuclear physics, seismic wave studies, and various radio telescope projects. Correspondence for the late 1920s and 1930s is especially rich in information about his work in atomic physics. Among well-known scientists represented in the correspondence during this period are Gregory Breit, J. A. Fleming, Robert J. Van de Graaff, J. D. Cockcroft, George Gamow, and E. O. Lawrence. The bulk of the Tuve papers concerns his activities after World W ar II ( approximately 300 boxes). Many of the collections identified above are more fully described in the Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress (October 1974). The library has also published the Index to the James A. Garfield papers and released the microfilm edition (177 reels). Garfield is the twenty-second president whose papers have been indexed and microfilmed in the Presi­ dential Papers Program of the library. • The Cinema Library at the University of Southern California has added two im­ portant collections of movie memorabilia to its archives. The Ronald Reagan Collection was made possible through the cooperation of J. Neil Reagan, the governor’s brother. Included are fifty-six volumes of Death Valley Days radio scripts from the period 1931-1944. Of special interest to historians and those involved in po­ litical science is extensive material on film and videotape covering the former actor’s political campaign for the California governorship. Also received during the summer was early silent film material from noted film historian Anthony Slide, author of Early American Cinema and The Griffith Actresses. This remarkable gift in­ cludes taped interviews with pioneer film per­ sonalities Lillian Gish, Anita Loos, Blanche Sweet, and Ruth Waterbury. There also are files of correspondence and stills covering such personalities as Marion Davies, Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd, Hal Roach, and Charles “Buddy” Rogers. An annotated copy of the manuscript of Mr. Slide’s latest book is also a part of the Anthony Slide Collection. • The major portion of bibliographer Charles Beecher Hogan’s collection of Edwin Arling­ ton Robinson has been added to the Dimond Library, University of New H ampshire, through the generosity of the university UNH Fund. The collection consists primarily of printed books and pamphlets by and about Robinson, but also includes forty-five original letters, seventeen by Robinson. There are twenty-eight Robinson inscribed or presentation copies. • Among recent acquisitions in the Special Collections Division of the Northern Arizona University Library are 381 boxes of corre­ spondence and other records of the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company, including the Ayer and Greenlaw Lumber Mills, all of Flag­ staff, Arizona. The collection spans the years 1886 through 1927. The records, donated by Robert Chambers to the Northern Arizona Pio­ neer’s Historical Society Collection housed in 254 Special Collections, is a major addition to the library’s already mammoth holdings of AL&T records. This company was one of the largest and oldest business firms in the Southwest. Special Collections has also acquired the Lloyd C. Henning Collection from the Hol­ brook, Arizona, Masonic Lodge. It consists of 650 bibliographic items printed by Elbert Hubbard and his son, Elbert Hubbard II, at their Roycroft Press between 1893 and 1937. Hubbard was the founder of the Roy crofters, a group of utopian artisans who banded together at East Aurora, New York. He was a philoso­ pher, lecturer, printer, and writer, and his most famous work was A Message to Garcia. Among other items included in the collection are com­ plete runs of Hubbard’s avant-garde periodical The Philistine, as well as the Fra, the Roycroft, and the Roycrofter. Many of these editions are limited, signed, and hand illuminated. FELLOWSHIPS • The American Antiquarian Society has announced the availability of short-term visiting fellowships (to Worcester, Massachusetts) for the period June 1, 1975-May 31, 1976. Dead­ line for applications is March 1, 1975. Compe­ tition for the awards is open to persons en­ gaged in scholarly research and writing, in­ cluding those at work on doctoral dissertations. Fellowships will be awarded not only on the basis of the applicant’s scholarly qualifications and the general interest of the project but also on the appropriateness of the inquiry to the society’s holdings. Duration: one to three months. Stipends: varying, up to $2,500. For further information and application forms, write The Director, American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury St., Worcester, MA 01609. • The Association of College and Re­ search L ibraries is now accepting applica­ tions for the second year of its internship pro­ gram for administrators of predominantly black college and university libraries. The program is intended to accelerate the development of the management ability of librarians in black colleges and universities by providing them with experience in the administration of strong and progressive academic libraries. The intern­ ships are designed for librarians in black col­ leges who have potential as administrators, based upon experience and/or performance as a student in the library school. Ten internships, ranging from three to nine months, will be funded for the academic year 1975/76 under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Deadline for submission of applications from interns and host institutions is December 1, 1974. For application forms and further infor­ mation contact the project director, Casper L. Jordan, Associate Professor, School of Library Service, Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA 30314. G R A N T S • The Princeton T heological Seminary received a grant of $74,730 from the Rocke­ feller Brothers Fund to support four programs to be administered through the seminary’s Rob­ ert E. Speer Library. Two programs are con­ cerned with the development of theological li­ braries and librarianship; the others are for cooperative programs involving the Princeton University Library. An in-depth study of four major theological research libraries, under the direction of the newly formed Committee for Theological Li­ brary Development, is designed to explore the potential for extensive interaction among these and related collections. The study may lead, for example, to the development of compre­ hensive bibliographical resources and the in­ auguration of cooperative services among these libraries. The second program provides for three continuing education workshops for theo­ logical librarians in the areas of microform ap­ plications and equipment, acquisitions, and archival management. The third and fourth programs enable Speer Library to exploit complementary relationships with the Princeton University Library in two areas: computer applications to libraries, and Latin American literature. In each the long- range purpose is to seek patterns whereby the large general resources of a major university- library and the more specialized functions of a theological research collection may be effec­ tively harnessed. • As a first step in developing a superior Mexican-American studies library collection at the University of T exas, President Stephen H. Spurr has authorized a $50,000 budget for that purpose for 1974-75. That sum includes $15,000 set aside in the university library budget for acquisition of Chicano materials and a special grant of $4,235 awarded by the De­ partment of Health, Education and Welfare under Title IIA. The Mexican-American Col­ lection will be established and housed within the Latin American Collection under the gen­ eral supervision of Merle N. Boylan, director of general libraries. Staff appointments will in­ clude a professional librarian and a senior li­ brary assistant. M E E T IN G S April 27-30: Computers and Reference. The twelfth annual Clinic on Library Appli- 255 UMULATIVE SUBJEC UIDE TO S. GOVERNMENT IBLIOGRAPHIES 924-1973 H arness the reference power of more than C T G U B 1 More than 40,000 complete entries describing bibliographies were taken from 50 years of the Monthly Cata­ log of U.S. Government Publications, arranged alphabetically by subject, indexed by Su Docs Class Numbers, and keyed to the Bibliography Masterfile microfiche collection. Each subject entry describes a bibliography which was published by the U.S. Government—either as a sepa­ ate book or pamphlet, or as a part of another gov­ rnment publication. As the descriptions are identical o those in the Monthly Catalog entries, they include uch data as title, government author-organization, ompiler, pagination, size, LC card number, Su Docs lass Number, ordering information, and a symbol ndicating whether or not the publication was avail­ ble for selection by depository libraries. ach entry has been assigned a unique ascending ontrol number for locating the full text of the bib­ iography itself on microfiche in our Bibliography asterfile collection (which is also arranged by sub­ ect for retrieval efficiency and browsability). separate index volume lists all entries in Superin­ endent of Documents Classification order. This, in ffect, offers access by U.S. Government author- rganization. The control numbers also appear in his index in order that the user can either 1) refer o the full Monthly Catalog entry in the Subject uide OR 2) go directly to the microfiche contain­ ng the full text. sed alone, the seven volume Cumulative Subject uide is also a valuable reference and cataloguing ool, particularly as it can be used for identifying ibliographies which can be obtained in facsimile or n loan from regional depository libraries (or others ith large holdings of U.S. Government documents). uture Developments n Annual Updating Service will be offered on a sub­ cription basis. It will include a Subject Guide in ook form (including the addition of the hundreds of ppended bibliographies not indexed in the Monthly atalog) and a microfiche edition of the bibliographies hemselves arranged by subject. Sub-sets of Bibliography Masterfile 1924-1973 will e offered separately in major subject groupings, con­ inuous runs of individual bibliographical serial titles, nd by Government author-organization (Su Docs lass Number). r e t s c C i a E c l M j A t e o t t G i U G t b o w F A s b a C t “ b t a C US. G O V ERN M EN T BIBLIOGRAPHY MASTERFILE on microfiche 1924-1973 40,000 U.S. G overnm ent Bibliographies The full text of more than 40,000 bibliographies published by the U.S. Government since 1924 were accumu­ lated, arranged hierarchially 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 bibliog­ raphies which were published as separate books and pamphlets, and more than 22,000 which were parts of other U.S. Government publications. All are in­ dexed 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. It is important to note that orders placed now will be recorded and delivered at today’s prices and discounts— regardless of future increases brought about by inflationary pressures. cations of Data Processing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois. The theme of this clinic will be “The Use of Computers in Literature Searching and Related Reference Activities in Libraries.” Over the last decade we have witnessed a very rapid growth in the availability of ma­ chine-readable data bases and of information retrieval systems for the exploitation of such data bases. The rapid developments in this area have put machine literature searching capabilities within the reach of many libraries. Many data bases can already be accessed on­ line by individual libraries. Service from other data bases can be obtained from the producer of the data base or from one of the scientific information dissemination centers. We are now beginning to see the devel­ opment of regional information centers, de­ signed to make a wide range of machine-read- able files accessible to all the libraries in a designated geographic region. In addition, the minicomputer has put data processing capa­ bilities within the reach of even quite small libraries, allowing such libraries to develop their own special data bases and to exploit these on behalf of a particular user group. One result of these activities has been the emergence of the “information services libra­ rian,” a professional librarian who specializes in the exploitation of machine-readable files. It is these activities, and their impact on the reference functions of libraries of all types, that will be discussed at the 1975 clinic. F. W. Lancaster, professor of library science, is chairman of the clinic. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Brandt Pryor, Of­ fice of Continuing Education and Public Ser­ vice, University of Illinois5 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. June 15-20: XX SALALM. The XX Semi­ nar on the Acquisition of Latin American Li­ brary Materials will convene in Bogota, Colom­ bia, at the invitation of Dr. Jorge Rojas, direc­ tor of the Institute Colombiano de Cultura. Mr. Luis Eduardo Acosta Hoyos, Jefe de la Biblioteca, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, Bogota, and Mr. J. Noe Herrera, manager, Libros de Colombia, Bogota, are assisting the SALALM planning committee with local ar­ rangements for the meeting. The program, being planned by Mrs. Emma C. Simonson, president of SALALM, will be concerned with the new writers of Latin Amer­ ica. Among the topics to be discussed will be the publications of new writers, bibliography of new writers, and criticism of new writers. Full details of the program and information con­ cerning other arrangements for the seminar will be distributed in the fall of 1974. Address inquiries concerning the program to Mrs. Emma C. Simonson, Latin American Li­ brarian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401. Other questions may be directed to Mrs. Pauline P. Collins, Executive Secretary of SALALM, Secretariat, University of Massa­ chusetts Library, Amherst, MA 01002. Mem­ bership in SALALM is $10.00 for personal members ($7.00 for members from Latin America and the Caribbean) and $25.00 for institutions. Dues may be forwarded to the Secretariat. June 26-28: Collective Bargaining. “Col­ lective Bargaining in Higher Education: Its Implications for Governance and Faculty Status for Librarians” will be the topic of a precon­ ference meeting in San Francisco. Sponsored by the ACRL Academic Status Committee, the program is part of the continuing effort of the committee to provide information which will help librarians in understanding and evaluating status and governance issues. Program participants will include persons who have studied and practiced collective bar­ gaining in higher education and who can ad­ dress the following subtopics: nature of col­ lective bargaining and its influence on gov­ ernance in higher education; objectives of various collective bargaining agents; and aca­ demic library experiences with collective bar­ gaining. Further information and registration forms will be available after March 15, 1975, from: Beverly P. Lynch, Executive Secretary, Asso­ ciation of College and Research Libraries, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. M IS C E L L A N Y • A $5,000 grant in 1975 to aid junior mem­ bers’ participation in American Library Asso­ ciation activities has been announced by the Detection Systems unit of 3M Company. The grant will fund transportation, lodging, and related costs for several members of the Amer­ ican Library Association’s J unior Memrers Round T arle (JMRT) to attend the ALA An­ nual Conference, since few of them can regu­ larly afford to participate. To be eligible for a 3M professional devel­ opment grant, applicants must be members of both the American Library Association and its Junior Members Round Table. Application forms are available from (and should be re­ turned to) 3M—JMRT Professional Develop­ ment Grant Committee, c/o Illinois Library As­ sociation, 716 N. Rush St., Chicago, IL 60611. All applications must be postmarked no later than January 1, 1975. Each applicant will be no­ tified of the action taken on his or her applica­ 258 tion immediately after the ALA Midwinter Meeting in January 1975. Final selection of applicants rests with the Grant Committee: Ms. Arlene Schwartz, Illi­ nois State Library, Springfield, coordinator; James A. Harvey, Illinois Library Association, Chicago, Illinois, chairperson, JMRT; Ms. Nancy Doyle, Meadville, Pennsylvania, chair­ person-elect, JMRT; David Warren, Cumber­ land County Public Library, Fayetteville, North Carolina, JMRT publicity coordinator; Ms. Marilyn Hinshaw, El Paso Public Library, Texas, committee member at large; Ms. Jeri Baker, Dallas Public Library, Texas, former student to Dallas; and William T. Stone, De­ tection Systems, 3M Company, nonvoting ex- officio committee member. • The staff of the British National Bib­ liography have joined the British Library and are now members of its Bibliographic Services Division. Mr. A. J. Wells, BNB’s director, has been appointed as interim director general of the division. The incorporation of the Council of the British National Bibliography Ltd. into the British Library marks an important stage in establishing a national library with compre­ hensive reference, lending, and bibliographic services, envisaged in the British Library Act 1972. BNB was built up over a period of twenty- five years under the leadership of Mr. Wells. Its principal functions have been to produce and publish a current listing of all British publications, and the development in the UK of a computer-based system for storing and handling bibliographic information for the use of libraries, publishers, and booksellers. These functions have been carried over with BNB to the British Library’s Bibliographic Services Division, whose role is to process the acqui­ sitions of the British Library and to provide its catalogs and similar bibliographic services. Libraries generally will benefit because the services formerly rendered to them by BNB will be considerably enlarged and enhanced. The division’s address from October will be The British Library, Bibliographic Services Division, Store St., London WC1E 7DG, al­ though the offices of the department responsible for the publications of the former BNB will remain, for the time being, at 7 Rathbone St., London W1P 2AL. • Columbia University’s Avery Library and Graduate School of Architecture and Planning will be enlarged in a $5.4 million building project. Avery is the foremost architectural li­ brary in the nation and one of the two most renowned in the world. Construction began in September on Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus in New York City. A two-level structure will be built beneath the quadrangle behind Avery Hall, home of the library and the school since 1912. Completion is expected by the fall of 1976. The Avery research collection now numbers 105,000 volumes and is growing by 3,500 every year. Its 10,000 rare books include the first published book on architecture, L. B. Alberti’s De Re Aedificatoria of 1485, and works of Palladio and Vitruvius. The library has the world’s most complete set of editions of all books on architecture printed during the Ren­ aissance. A prized collection of some 12,000 original drawings includes those of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the famed eighteenth-century Italian engraver and architect; Louis Sullivan, the American pioneer in architectural orna­ ment and skyscraper design; and Frank Lloyd Wright. Costs of the expansion project, which will include renovation of the upper floors of Avery Hall, will be met partly by an endowment gift made sixty-one years ago by Columbia bene­ factor Samuel Putnam Avery, Jr. He gave the university $250,000 in 1913, asking that the fund be allowed to grow until it reached suffi­ cient size to support a building project. The fund has grown to $4,567,000 today. • The American L ibrary Association Ar­ chives is seeking photographs relating to the history of ALA and the development of li- brarianship and libraries. Among the photo­ graphs in the archives collections recently trans­ ferred to the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign were many photographs of annual conferences and excursions, library services in World War I, American and European library buildings, and prominent librarians. The ar­ chives is especially interested in photographs of groups and individuals identified by name, date, and location, and in negatives for reproduction of prints. Photographs of library buildings and extension activities are useful in documenting professional development. If you have photo­ graphs of libraries and librarians, please write to ALA Archives, c/o University Archives, 19 Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham­ paign, Urbana, IL 61801. • Librarians are invited to honor excellence in reference services by submitting nominations for the 1975 I sadore Gilbert Mudge Cita­ tion. This annual award is presented by the Reference and Adult Services Division of the American Library Association in honor of Miss Mudge, who died May 16, 1957, in recognition of her contributions to the development of refer­ ence services. It is given to a person who has made a distinguished contribution to refer­ ence librarianship. This contribution may take 259 260 the form of an imaginative and constructive program in a particular library; the writing of a significant book or articles in the reference field; creative or inspirational teaching of reference services; active participation in pro­ fessional associations devoted to reference services; or in other noteworthy activities which stimulate reference librarians to more distin­ guished performance. Recommendations of per­ sons for the award should be sent to the Mudge Citation Committee Chairman, Charles A. Bunge, The Library School, University of Wis­ consin-Madison, Helen White Hall, Madison, W I 53706. Nominations must be submitted be­ fore March 15, 1975. P U B L IC A T IO N S • Two new publications from the Kansas State University Library Bibliography Series, Cavalry Journal/Armor Cumulative Indices, 1888-1968 ($12.50) and The Detective Short Short Story; A Bibliography and Index (paper bound $12.50, hard bound $15.00), are avail­ able from Library Publications, Kansas State University Library, Manhattan, KS 66506. • Xerox University Microfilms has published the first issue of Monograph Abstracts, a re­ view medium for monographs and research pa­ pers which have been accepted into this spe­ cialized publishing program. Similar in func­ tion to Dissertation Abstracts International, this new journal serves as an awareness tool that abstracts those monographs available for distribution from Xerox University Microfilms. Research topics in this initial issue cover bibliography, business, administration, econom­ ics, education, language and literature, li­ brary science, mathematics and physics, physiol­ ogy, psychology, and sociology. A 300-word ab­ stract written by the author, the author’s cre­ dentials, and an order number for copies are provided for each of the thirteen entries. In order to have a master copy available at Xerox University Microfilms for demand publi­ cation, an author may submit a monograph to the editor for a $35.00 fee which includes all handling and publication costs. There are no limitations on subject matter published or length of the monograph. In addition to the publishing and abstract service, Xerox Univer­ sity Microfilms will file the necessary copyright application and deposit two positive microform copies of the monograph in the U.S. Copyright Office. Uniform charges for single copies from the master are $5.00 for microform and $11.00 for xerographic reproductions, regardless of length. Authors may purchase multiples of fifty copies printed on both sides of twenty-four-pound book paper and bound in buckram cloth. Please write to Xerox University Microfilms, 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106, for a sample copy of Monograph Abstracts. • The Tehran Book Processing Centre an­ nounces the publication of its reference mono­ graph, The Directory of Iranian Periodicals, 1973-74, the most complete of its kind. This directory provides full bibliographic descrip­ tion for 318 periodicals and has been published in both a Persian and an English version. The periodicals are arranged alphabetically by title, according to Anglo-American Cataloging Rules for main entry, and the full address, telephone number, founding date, subject matter, fre­ quency, affiliation, name of editor and pub­ lisher, price, and language of publication are given. In addition, there are four indexes: in­ dex of publications by provinces; index of pres­ idents, directors, editors, and corporate bodies; subject index; and in the Persian edition, index of bilingual or foreign-language periodicals, or in the English edition, index of periodical titles in Persian. Furthermore, beginning with this edition, a chapter on cessations has been added. The compiler is Poori Soltani, chairman of the Library Research Group, Tehran Book Process­ ing Centre. TEBROC is a national biblio­ graphic center offering technical service to Iranian libraries and carrying out research in Iranian librarianship. The directory is one of several TEBROC publication projects. A com­ plete list of publications (free) and copies of the directory (softbound only, $4.00 U.S.) are available from the Tehran Book Processing Centre, P.O. Box 11-1126, Tehran, Iran. • Locating Information about Companies (Library Guide # 1 2 ) , compiled by Rita Sparks and Jon Scheer, ten pages, annotated, is avail­ able from Rita Sparks, Reference Department, Oakland University Library, Rochester, MI 48063. • The more than 60,000 engineers, scientists, and educators in these fields in the New York City metropolitan area are not getting the in­ formation they need and it would cost $2⅛ mil­ lion annually (a t 1968 prices) to meet their needs. Dr. Russell Shank documented these con­ clusions in his 1968 report, Regional Access to Scientific and Technical Information, after con­ ducting a two-year study for METRO, New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Li­ brary Agency. METRO has reprinted the 218-page paper­ back report for a committee restudy of Dr. Shank’s eighteen recommendations. Copies of the report may be purchased for $22.75 each if a check accompanies the order and $25.00 each if an invoice is required. Checks should 261 be made out to METRO and orders sent to: METRO, 11 W. 40th St., New York, NY 10018. • The ARL Systems and Procedures Ex­ change Center (SPEC ) Flyer Number 10 on leave policies in academic libraries has been published and distributed to ARL directors and to SPEC liaisons. The Flyer describes current patterns of leave policy within ARL libraries and indicates recent changes in maternity leave and sabbatical leave. The SPEC kit on leave includes sample vacation and sick leave poli­ cies, sabbatical leave policies, and maternity leave policies. It is available to ARL members for $7.50, and to nonmembers for $15.00, from Office of Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036. • The American National Standard Criteria for Price Indexes for Library Materials was re­ cently published by the American National Standards Institute, 1430 Broadway, New York, NY 10018. Copies are available from ANSI at $3.00 each. • The second volume in the University of Utah Marriott Library Bibliographic Series, Black Bibliography, is available for distribu­ tion. The 850-page volume has been compiled over a period of two years by the library’s gen­ eral reference staff and represents the bulk of the Marriott Library’s holdings in black materi­ als. Materials included are monographs, jour­ nals, journal articles, government documents, Help Wanted Margo Sassé at the University of Cali­ fornia, San Diego, has asked us to pub­ lish the following request for help: “I ’m working on a bibliography of newsletters and other serial publications put out by ‘Radicals in the Professions.’ For example, the SRRT newsletters for librarians, Health-Pac Bulletin for health profes­ sions, etc., would fall into this category. I ’m not overly picky as to what consti­ tutes a profession, e.g., geologist, plan­ ner, librarian, journalist. I’ve already in­ cluded all items listed in Alternatives in Print. “If you know of serials th at m ight be in this category, I’d very much appre­ ciate a sample copy or as much informa­ tion as available (price, address, purpose, sponsoring organization, and so on). Thank you.” W rite to her at Cluster Undergraduate Library, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92037. ERIC materials, films, and other nonprint sources. The bibliography has been arranged by subject with an author index, and only ma­ terials published since 1954 are cited in the bibliography. The library’s extensive holdings in black history have been omitted, b u t will be published later in a supplementary volume. Black Bibliography will be sold for approxi­ mately $12.00 per volume. Inquiries should be addressed to Gifts & Exchanges Librarian, Mar­ riott Library, Room 242, Uniyersity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. • A free sample of Library Security New s­ letter is available to librarians who request one on their letterhead. This new technical newsletter is devoted ex­ clusively to problems involving theft and theft prevention in the library, fire hazards, vandalism and willful mutilation, library in­ surance, and prevention of natural deteriora­ tion. To receive a free sample, write to: Library Security Newsletter, Haworth Press, 130 W. 72nd St., New York, NY 10023. • The Sourdough, the official publication of the Alaska Library Association, is now ac­ cepting articles from “outside” librarians about Alaskan libraries, effects of the Trans-Alaska pipeline and Native Claims Settlement Act on their resources, their use of Alaskan library re­ sources, books on Alaska, or any theme relating to library service and Alaska. For more in­ formation please contact Alan Edw ard Schorr, Editor, Sourdough, c /o Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99701. • The Biomedical Library at UCLA an­ nounces the publication of its Subject Heading Authority List, a massive listing of subject head­ ings for the life sciences and the health sci­ ences. The authority list includes terms from Medical Subject Headings, issued by the Na­ tional Library of Medicine, appropriate head­ ings used by the Library of Congress and the National Agricultural Library, and taxonomic terms developed at the Biomedical Library. The authority file at UCLA had been put in a machine-readable form, permitting the merg­ ing of terms from other major files. The list includes main headings, subheadings, and cross- references, as currently employed in the library. The list is reproduced from a computer print­ out of the merged lists in a single alphabet, with the source for each term being designated as from Biomed, LC, NAL, or MeSH (Medical Subject Headings of N L M ). The resulting book, on 399 pages with three columns of headings on each page, has been issued in a limited edition of 250 copies only. The volume is 8½ by 11 inches in size, in a 262 paper binding. Its price is $12.50 net, post­ paid; checks should be made payable to the Regents of the University of California. Re­ quests should be directed to the Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024. • The Tarlton Law Library of the University of Texas School of Law announces the publica­ tion of the eighth in its Tarlton Law Library Legal Bibliography Series, A Bibliography of Legal Tapes and Cassettes, compiled by Ann Beardsley (68p., $10.00). This extensive bib­ liography of over 350 entries was compiled both from the holdings of the Tarlton Law Library and from many other sources. Some of them are the unique products of the conferences, in­ stitutes, and lectures sponsored by the Univer­ sity of Texas School of Law during the past decade. Most, however, have been created by continuing legal education institutions all over the United States. Included are author, title, date when known, length of tape (in terms of hours), price, speed, and descriptive annota­ tions, when available. Addresses of publishers are supplied for the convenience of those wish­ ing to order items. If you are interested in acquiring this publi­ cation, please write to Adrienne deVergie, Tarl­ ton Law Library, University of Texas School of Law, 2500 Red River, Austin, TX 78705. You may make your check payable to University of Texas Law School Foundation. • A new publication, Directory of Special Library Resources in the Hudson Valley Chap­ ter Area, first edition, edited by Martha Spiegel, is available for $10.00 a copy from the Special Libraries Association. The directory includes special library resources and special collections in the Hudson Valley Area, including Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Ulster, and West­ chester counties, and western Connecticut. Or­ ders with checks payable to Hudson Valley Chapter, SLA, should be sent to Ms. Olive Chypre, SLA, IBM, Building 705 Branch Li­ brary, Box 390, Poughkeepsie, NY 12602. • Now available is a unique publication, Hard-to-Locate Sources of Information, rang­ ing from “conservative” to libertarian anarchist. The list consists of more than 130 entries, with thumbnail characterizations. It includes peri­ odicals ranging from newsletters to scholarly journals. It includes little-known book publishers and distributors, plus a few periodicals that also distribute books—obviously outside the normal channels of the trade. And it includes educational organizations in ten different areas of special interest in current affairs and public policy. Some of these offer special services ranging from seminars and study materials to films and tape-recordings. The criteria for listing are (1 ) informative, and (2) hard-to-locate. It is not as compre­ hensive as Bowker’s forthcoming Dictionary of the American Right, but it has double the en­ tries of Ferdinand Solara’s latest work in the same field. Copies of this list are available postpaid at $1.00 each from Bayliss Corbett, 762 Avenue N, SE, Winter Haven, FL 33880. A business-size (9½-inch) envelope would be a big help. Videotape on Academic Library Governance Available on Loan An ACRL videotape on “Governance in Academic Libraries” is now available on interlibrary loan from the ALA Head­ quarters Library, in Chicago. The tape was shown at the 1974 ALA Annual Conference as part of a program meeting presented by the ACRL Committee on Academic Status. The tape features an informal panel discussion on academic library govern­ ance, with participation by Frederick Duda, assistant director for administra­ tive services at Columbia University Li­ braries; Jane Flener, associate university librarian at the University of California at Berkeley; Stuart Forth, dean of uni­ versity libraries at Pennsylvania State University; David Laird, university li­ brarian at the University of Arizona; Ellsworth Mason, director of libraries at the University of Colorado; and Eldred Smith, director of libraries at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The tape is a ¾-inch U-Matic video­ cassette, available either in color or in black and white. It lasts approximately forty minutes. Requests for borrowing the tape should be made on standard interlibrary loan request forms and ad­ dressed to the ALA Headquarters Li­ brary, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. On the form please specify your preference for color or black and white.