ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 165 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • Marcia Davenport, the well-known novel ist and biographer, has placed an important group of literary manuscripts and correspond­ ence in the L i b r a r y o f C o n g r e s s . The de­ posit represents a first installment of a collec­ tion, to which Mrs. Davenport expects to add from time to time. T he daughter of the great operatic soprano Alma Gluck, Marcia Daven­ port made h er name first as a writer about and critic of music. H er biography of Mozart (1932) was the object of considerable acclaim. Mrs. Davenport has presented a large group of man­ uscript materials documenting the composition of the book from research notes through man­ uscript and typescript to the preface for the revised edition. A small group of correspond­ ence pertaining to Mozart is included. The first group of papers also includes manuscripts, proofs, and other material relating to O f Lena Gey er (1936), Mrs. Davenport’s first novel about a great opera singer. Other books by Marcia Davenport, manuscripts of which have been placed in the Library, are Valley o f Deci­ sion (1 9 4 2 ), M y Brother’s Keeper (1954), Garibaldi (1957), The Constant Image (I9 6 0 ), and the recent autobiographical memoir, Too Strong for Fantasy (1967). Each book, more­ over, is exceptionally well represented a t var­ ious stages of the compositional and editorial process, with documentation ranging from re­ search notes to abundant press clippings docu­ menting its critical and popular reception and editorial correspondence with those responsible for bringing the author’s manuscript into print. Of special interest in the Davenport papers is a group of more than 30 letters of Maxwell Perkins, her editor at Scribner’s and the man who nurtured the talents of Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others. One of the letters, a 10-page typed letter concerning proposed revisions of her novel, East Side, W est Side (1 9 4 7 ), is a classic example of the close working relation­ ship between an editor and his authors. (This letter has been printed in the collection of Perkins’ letters, Editor to Author, edited by John Hall W heelock.) The author’s manuscript of East Side, W est Side and related material are included in the first installment of Daven­ port papers. Mrs. Davenport’s important roles in the early history of The N ew Yorker magazine, in the campaign of W endell Willkie for the Presi­ dency in 1940, and in the struggle for au­ tonomy by Czechoslovakia following World W ar II are as yet unrepresented in the pa­ ­ pers, except as these episodes are revealed in Too Strong for Fantasy. The Davenport papers are available for consultation in the Library’s Manuscript Division. • Orchestral parts and the conductor’s scores for several thousand popular songs and special musical effects used in vaudeville and movie houses from th e turn of the 20th Cen­ tury to the end of the silent picture era in the late 1920’s are a recent gift to the Princeton University library. Thirty-seven cartons con­ taining the working theatre-orchestra library assembled by Fred D. Valva (1878-1933), of Worcester, Mass., will be housed in the Uni­ versity’s William Seymour Theatre Collection in the Firestone Library. Recognized as one of the few extant theatre orchestra libraries, the Valva Collection is th e gift of Worcester ( Mass.) Public Library and th e Central Massa­ chusetts Regional Library System, which have turned th e collection over to Princeton as more appropriate for a research library. Some of the scores are annotated. Included are the scores for such old-time favorites as “Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean,” “Over There!,” “Ramona,” “Alice Blue Gown,” “Barney Google,” “Man­ hattan,” “Oh, Lady Be Good.” Other popular titles include “Pagan Love Song,” “It H ap­ pened in Monterey,” “Always,” “Three O’clock in the Morning,” “Fascinating Rhythm,” “Song of the Vagabond,” and “Limehouse Blues.” • A gift to T h e N e w Y o r k P u b l i c L i b r a r y of nearly 1,000 drawings in various media for illustrated books by the late Reginald Marsh, “pictorial poet laureate of the sidewalks of New York,” has been announced by Edw ard G. Freehafer, director of the library. Mr. Free- hafer formally accepted the gift from its donor, Mrs. Felicia Meyer Marsh, the artist’s widow, at a ceremony unveiling her name on the bene­ factors’ pylons in the main lobby of the Fifth Avenue library. The ceremony also marked th e opening of an exhibition, called “w ith illus­ trations by Reginald Marsh,” which highlights the artist’s work as a book illustrator. The drawings join two earlier gifts of etchings, en­ gravings, and lithographs making th e Reginald Marsh collection in the Library one of the most comprehensive representations of his graphic work. Drawn w ith pencil, pen and ink, and w ater colors, the drawings range from first rough sketches, through many successive stages to finished drawings for th e printer. A checklist of th e drawings reveals th e prodigious amount of work the artist gave to each book project: 97 pages of original drawings for one title, 120 for another, and 57 for still another. Altogether, Mr. Marsh illustrated 15 books for 166 children and adults. After the exhibition, th drawings will be available to researchers alon w ith the other Reginald Marsh material through the Print Room, Room 308 in th Fifth Avenue Library. • The Hebrew Union College library in Cin cinnati has acquired the Philip Goodman Col lection of Bookplates, comprising over 7,00 bookplates of Jewish interest gathered b Philip Goodman of New York over a 20 yea period. The Collection also contains about 10 books on ex libris, copies of practically al articles on Jewish bookplates, and notes an related ephemeral material. Bookplates are o considerable value to historians and sociolo gists as well as to art historians. They ofte contain biographical and genealogical ma terial of significance; and they always reflec to a considerable degree the time and plac of execution and use. Together with the severa hundred bookplates, dating primarily from th nineteenth century, th at the library previousl had among its special collections, the Book plate Collection is perhaps the largest of it kind in th e world. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f U t a h libraries has re cently acquired a Yiddish collection of fou thousand titles which originally came from th private collection of Samuel Mendelson. Mr Mendelson was a staff member of the Jewis Daily Forward for many years and was recog nized as a formidable critic. Many of the title in this collection are not available at an other source. They were printed in Poland, Russia and Central Europe before th e Secon World War. The collection covers th e entire span of Yiddish culture b u t concentrates o Yiddish literature and includes a number o world literary classics translated into Yiddish. This collection will eventually be shelved in th e University of Utah libraries Middle East Center library. A W A R D S • The Journal of Library History announces the recipient of its third annual award for the most outstanding manuscript published in its pages during 1968: Joseph Z. Nitecki, whose “Reflection on the N ature and Limits of Li­ brary Science” appeared in th e April, 1968, issue. Mr. Nitecki is assistant professor and coordinator of technical processes at the library of the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. Holder of an MA in philosophy from Roosevelt University, as well as the MA in LS from the University of Chicago, Mr. Nitecki has w ritten and studied in th e area of the philosophy of librarianship, the topic with which the award paper deals. e g s e ­ ­ 0 y r 0 l d f ­ n ­ t e l e y ­ s ­ r e . h ­ s y d n f I N T E R N A T I O N A L S C E N E • A new building for the Royal Library i Brussels was dedicated in 2-day ceremonies on February 17 and 18. The dedicatory events were attended by the Librarian of Congress, L. Quincy Mumford, and by the heads of most of the European national libraries, as well as representatives of other distinguished insti­ tutions. The ceremonies on February 17 be­ gan with speeches by several government of­ ficials climaxed by an address by King Bau- douin. There was then a tour of the library, following w hich Mr. Mumford, along with other special guests, was presented to the King, Queen Fabiola, and other members of the royal family. T he day ended with a formal banquet. T he second day, February 18, was devoted to a symposium on the general them e of the fu­ ture of large general libraries in the next quar­ ter of a century. Symposium speakers were Robert Vosper, Director of the Library at the University of California at Los Angeles; M. L. Borngässer, Director General of the State Li­ brary in Berlin; M. I. Kondakov, Director of the Lenin State Library in Moscow; and Sir Frank Francis, recently retired Director of the British Museum, London. The new building has been in th e process of construction for several years. The Royal Library has general collections totaling 2,600,000 volumes and 882,016 other items. The new facility will pro­ vide much needed additional space and allow for future expansion. M E E T I N G S J u n e ; The American University has an­ nounced an Institute on D ocum ent Identifica­ tion Systems to be held in Washington, D.C. in June 1969. Suggestions for system proposals, relevant topics which should be treated or other program matters are invited. They should be addressed to Professor Lowell H. Hattery, The American University, 1901 F Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. J u n e 8-14: The School of Library and In ­ formation Services, University of Maryland, will conduct an Institute on Middle Management in Librarianship. The Institute is planned as a response to the clearly expressed need for ap­ propriate training of the increasing number of librarians who are functioning in middle-level administrative roles. The Institute is being or­ ganized with the view th at some of these needs can be met through an intensive program uti­ lizing a number of small group and discovery techniques stressing maximum participant in­ volvement. The Director of the Institute will be Dr. James Liesener, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Services with Mr. Edw ard S. W arner, Assistant Professor, serving n 167 as Associate Director. Faculty members from the School of Library and Information Services representing both library science and other sub­ ject disciplines as well as outside management consultants will complete the staff. Forty p ar­ ticipants will be chosen from eligible applicants. All practicing librarians will be eligible with special preference given to those in middle- level managerial roles in libraries and informa­ tion centers. The program will be funded by the Office of Education under the Higher E d u ­ cation Act, Title II-B program and each partici­ p ant will receive a per diem stipend. J u n e 1 6 - 2 0 : There will be an Art Institute entitled “Art Libraries: Their Comprehensive Role in Preserving Contemporary Visual Re­ sources” at the State University of New York at Buffalo. It will be funded by the Higher E d u ­ cation Act of 1 9 6 5 , Public Law 8 9 - 3 2 9 , Title II, Part B. Participants will be art librarians, cata- logers of art books, and slide librarians working in art collections of academic institutions or m u­ seums. Registration is limited to 2 5 . Informa­ tion and applications may be requested from Mrs. Florence S. DaLuiso, Art Librarian, Harri- man Art Library, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y. 1 4 2 1 4 . J u n e 1 7 - 2 0 : Puerto Rico will be the site of the Fourteenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, June 1 7 - 2 0 , 1 9 6 9 . The acquisition of Latin American scientific and technological materials will be the special topic for discussion. Other ses­ sions will deal with progress made in the past year on matters concerning th e booktrade and acquisitions, bibliography, exchange of publica­ tions, official publications, photoduplication of Latin American materials, and archives. Meet­ ings of the Seminar Committees will take place on W ednesday morning, June 1 8 . T he first gen­ eral session will be held Wednesday afternoon to initiate committee and progress reports, and the last one on Friday morning, June 2 0 . Meet­ ings of the Executive Board of the newly incor­ porated SALALM will b e held on the evening of Tuesday, June 1 7 , and a t luncheon on Wednes­ day, June 1 8 . Institutional registration in the Fourteenth Seminar is $ 1 5 . 0 0 , which includes preprint working papers only available through payment of the institutional registration. These papers, including the Progress Report on books in the Americas, will b e distributed at th e time of the meeting to participants and to those registered b u t not attending. The registration fee for additional participants from the institu­ tion registering is $ 7 . 5 0 , and includes preprint working papers. Additional sets of working pa­ pers can be subscribed to in advance for $ 5 . 0 0 each. The Final Report and Working Papers will be subsequenüy published by th e Pan American Union. Information on the content of the program and working papers can be procured from Mr. James Andrews, Argonne National Laboratory, 9 7 0 0 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 6 0 4 3 9 . For other information, refer to the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Pan American Union, W ash­ ington, D.C. 2 0 0 0 6 . J u n e 2 3 - 2 4 : Meeting of the Engineering School Libraries Division of the American So­ ciety for Engineering Education at Pennsyl­ vania State University, University Park, Pa. Tentative topics are: Teaching the engineering student to use the library; Environmental Science Information; Magnetic Tape Services in the Engineering Library; Microfiche in the Engineering Library, and a business meeting. J u n e 2 7 - 2 8 : Engineering School Libraries Division of th e American Society for E n ­ gineering Education Institute. To be held in the United Engineering Building, New York, New York. Additional information about this institute which will be of interest to all those engaged in the engineering/information inter­ face may be obtained by writing to Miss Karen Takle, Dept. 5 0 5 , Building 0 1 4 , IBM Corpo­ ration, Monterey and Cottle Road, San Jose, California 9 5 1 1 4 . J u n e 2 9 - J u l y 2 : Annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Hous­ ton, Tex. J u n e 3 0 - A u g . 8 : The Columbia University Summer Session announces an Institute for College Librarians on Acquisition of non- W estern Library Materials for College Librar­ ies, to b e held on the Morningside campus from June 3 0 to August 8 , 1 9 6 9 . This program will be sponsored by the U.S. D epartm ent of Health, Education, and Welfare Office of E d ­ ucation. The institute is designed to accomplish two objectives: (1 ) to help college librarians to become more familiar with areas and cul­ tures of th e non-Western world and Latin America; and (2 ) to enable them to cope more effectively with the bibliographical prob­ lems which arise as they build collections in these fields for their college communities. The number of participants will be fifteen. They will meet in seminar and make field trips in the New York metropolitan area, hear guest lecturers, and work on individual projects. Each participant will audit two semester courses in non-Western areas offered by the Summer Ses­ sion during the six week period. Areas repre­ sented in th e 1 9 6 9 program are Africa, East Asia, Latin America, the M iddle East, the So­ viet Union, and Eastern Europe. The institute is under th e general direction of D ean Jack Dalton of Columbia’s School of Library Serv­ ice. Mr. Evan Ira Färber, Librarian at Earlham College, will direct the program and seminar. 168 Colleges are invited to nominate librarians to the program. The nominee should have a bachelor’s degree, a degree in library science, a satisfactory record of appropriate experience, and recommendations from officials of his own institution. He should have a record of three or more years of experience and serve in a college—not a large university. The nominee should not be “over-qualified”-—that is, already doing highly specialized work or having already had extensive specialized training. Application should be made by the academic dean an d /o r the head librarian of the college on behalf of the nominee. The letter should include a cur­ riculum vita of the nominee and a brief state­ ment about how his participation in the in­ stitute will advance his institution’s interest in foreign area studies. Applications should be ad­ dressed to The Director of the Summer Ses­ sion, Institute for College Librarians, 102 Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 10027. J u l y 2 0 - A u g . 1 : Third annual Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program at the Uni­ versity of Maryland’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland. Seminar sessions will concentrate on the principal administrative is­ sues which senior managers encounter. Director A rm o r books are paperbacks w hich have been lib ra ry - bound in hard covers to the standards of the L ibrary B in d in g In stitu te . They cost less than h ardback e d ition s and w ill provide library-bound service a t low est cost per c irc u la tio n . Many books not a vailable in hardbacks may be obtained in A rm o r q u a lity because pa­ perbacks are obta in ab le and we w ill bind to your order. Make up y o u r lis t and send i t to us. W rite to d a y fo r a sam ple o f A rm o r B ooks — no o b lig a tio n . Armor Division of Rey B nol o ds o Bi k nd s er ® y 1703 Lister, K a nsas City, Mo. 816 C H 1-0163 of the program will be John Rizzo, associate professor, School of Government and Business Administration, George Washington University. Those interested in further information are in­ vited to address inquiries to the Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742. J u l y 28-A u g . 8: A two-weeks’ institute, to be conducted under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education, will be held a t the State Uni­ versity of New York at Buffalo, July 28-August 8, 1969, on the subject of interpersonal and group communications for librarians and infor­ mation specialists. Designed to educate top and intermediate level management of major aca­ demic libraries and school libraries in the skills of group dynamics and conflict management, and set against the background of our new media, the institute’s program will center about an integrated series of laboratory and workshop learning experiences. Information concerning the institute may be obtained from the institute director, Dr. Mary B. Cassata, Reference D e­ partm ent, State University of New York at Buf­ falo Libraries, Buffalo, New York 14214. A u g . 4-6: “T he Deterioration and Preserva­ tion of Library Materials” is the topic for the 34th Annual Conference of the Graduate Li­ brary School, University of Chicago, to be held August 4-6, 1969, in the Center for Continuing Education on th e University campus. T he gen­ eral director of th e program is Professor How­ ard W. W inger of the Graduate Library School, and the speakers have been selected from the fields of conservation, industry, paper chem­ istry, photography, publishing, and librarian­ ship. The printed program, including applica­ tion blanks for registration and lodging, will be sent on request to: Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, 1116 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637. A u g . 9-29: T he Division of University Ex­ tension and the Graduate School of Library Science, of the University of Illinois, announce a three week non-credit seminar on PL-I Li­ brary Programming. The Seminar will be held from Saturday, August 9, through and includ­ ing Friday, August 29, 1969, on the Urbana campus of the University. T he course to be offered is for the preparation of library sys­ tems programmers. The seminar is expressly directed toward the needs and interests of university and research libraries. Candidates for the seminar should possess the following qualifications: fifth year degree in librarianship; minimum of two years of varied experience in technical processing activities of the library (i.e., acquisitions, serials, cataloging) and a familiarity with the funda­ 169 mentals of data processing and computers and with the operation of the keypunch. The sem­ inar is specifically not for administrators, but is directed instead toward library systems pro­ grammers who will be expected to return to their libraries and work in the implementation of library computer programs. The seminar will deal expressly w ith the de­ sign and development of computer programs for library computer-based data systems in such areas as acquisitions, serial work, catalog pro­ duction and circulation. It will not deal with information retrieval or SDI programs. The instruction will be at a practical level w ith the objective of imparting th e techniques and prac­ tices which characterize computer applications in the library. The language which will be used is Programming Language One (P L -I) which is a powerful, general purpose language avail­ able on most models of the IBM System 360 computer series. Candidates for the course should have either th e PL-I compiler or a PL-I-like compiler available to them if the course is to have any value to them. The seminar aims to present a maximum amount of information and instruction in a minimum amount of time. Experience indicates that participants should not plan to bring their families to Urbana for the period of the sem­ inar, but should be prepared, rather, to de­ vote their full energies to the program. Previous experience also indicates th a t participants w ith­ out a native command of the English language find themselves at a considerable disadvantage in absorbing a new and technical vocabulary in such a short period of time, and should anticipate considerable difficulty in keeping pace w ith th e class. The tuition fee for the seminar is $400.00 and should be remitted only after notification of acceptance to the seminar. Applications will be considered in the order of their receipt, and no more than 15 applicants will be ac­ cepted for the seminar. Housing in th e air- conditioned Illini Union will b e available at $6.70 per person (double occupancy) or $9.27 ( single occupancy) per day. Registrants should plan to arrive in Champaign the day preceding the first day of the seminar. Reasonably priced meal service is also available in the Illini Union, where the seminar will meet. The sem­ inar will be cancelled if less than 15 eligible persons apply by July 1, 1969. Those interested in applying for the course should apply to Mr. Hillis Griffin, Information Systems Librarian, Library Services Department, Argonne Na­ tional Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois (312-739- 7711, Ext. 4701). The seminar will be directed by Mr. Griffiin. A u g . 10-15: “Change Frontiers; Implications for Librarianship,” is the subject of an Institute to be offered at the University of Maryland August 10 to August 15, 1969. The insights of guest lecturers and panelists will provide stimu­ lus for interaction among th e participants as they seek to comprehend, assess, and synthe­ size diverse facets of the library role in a changing world. The shared framework of the participant group will be one of attitude rather than area of expertise. Discussion will incor­ porate consideration of the library environment and current developments in the business, tech­ nological and organizational aspects of the li­ brary’s commodity, information. The Culture, Establishment Responses, The Information In ­ dustry, and The Political Behavior of Li­ brarians are major components for the sessions. The Institute will be held at the Adult E duca­ tion Center at the University of Maryland. Par­ ticipation will be limited to 20 applicants, each of whom will receive a $75 stipend, plus $15 for each dependent. Gilda Nimer is Director of the Institute, and direction and continuity for the sessions will be provided by D ean Paul Wasserman and Professor Mary Lee Bundy of the School of Library and Information Services. T he Institute is sponsored by th e U.S. Office of Education under Title II-B of the Higher E d ­ ucation Act of 1965. All practicing librarians will be eligible to apply, with special prefer­ ence given to those who indicate a concern with change and an institutional role which allows for experiment. For more information, write to Gilda Nimer, Director, “Change Fron­ tiers,” School of Library and Information Serv­ ices, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742. S e p t . 1-6; Fourth IATUL (International As­ sociation of Technological University Libraries) Seminar will be held at th e Library of the Technological University Delft, The Nether­ lands, under the direction of Dr. L. J. van der Wolk. This annual international course is open to all directors or their co-workers from li­ braries affiliated to universities, institutes or or­ ganizations of research level. The Seminar teaches practical daily international library co­ operation. Teachers—experts from various coun­ tries—will introduce the situation and possibili­ ties of each international method and tech­ nique. There will be approximately 15 lectures, each theme is allocated 1½ hours. The first half hour is used for a concise survey of the present day situation or possibilities in the international field to be discussed. This introduction is fol­ lowed by a discussion of at least 45 minutes in which participants and the lecturer contribute from their own experience. The number of par­ ticipants is limited to 25 in order to establish good contact and opportunity for efficient dis­ cussions. The official language of the Seminar is English. The fee for the Seminar is Dfl. 170 400.-; hotel and travel expenses are not in­ cluded in this amount. D ue to the restriction in the number of participants it is advisable to contact the secretariat as soon as possible: Miss B. G. Sinnema, c /o Library of the Technolog­ ical University, 101 Doelenstraat, D E LFT , The Netherlands. S e p t . 2-5: The Second Cranfleld Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Re­ trieval Systems will be held from September 2 to September 5, 1969. The Conference will be sponsored jointly by The College of Aeronautics and “Information Storage and Re­ trieval.” Details concerning presentation of pa­ pers or attendance can be obtained from the Conference Director, Cyril Cleverdon, T he Col­ lege of Aeronautics, Cranfleld, Bedford, Eng­ land. O c t . 1-3: The Missouri Library Association 1969 convention will be in Jefferson City, Mo. O c t . 1-5: 32nd annual meeting of ASIS will be held a t the San Francisco Hilton; San Francisco, California. The Convention Chair­ man for the 1969 meeting is Mr. Charles P. Bourne; Director, Programming Services, Inc.; 999 Commercial Street, Palo Alto, Calif. 94303. O c t . 26-30: 68th annual meeting o f the Medical Library Association will be held a t the O T T O H A R R A S S O W I T Z Library A gen cy W IESBADEN • G ERM AN Y D irect service on all Germ an language books a n d periodicals * O rders an d in q u iries are in v ite d on both new a n d o ut-of-print m aterial * Please request in fo rm a tio n a b o u t our b la n ket order service a n d dealer’s selection program * F arm ington P lan agent fo r W est an d East G erm any OTTO HARRASSOWITZ Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Miss Joan Titley, director of the Kornhauser Me­ morial Medical library, University of Louis­ ville, is convention chairman. The advance pro­ gram and registration forms will be a p art of the May, 1 9 6 9 issue of M L A News. J a n . 1 6 - 1 8 , 1 9 7 0 : The Association of Amer­ ican Library Schools, annual meeting, Grad­ uate Library School, Indiana University, Bloom­ ington, Indiana. J u n e 2 8 - J u l y 1 , 1 9 7 0 : Annual meeting of th e American Association of Law Libraries, Washington, D.C. O c t . 4 - 9 , 1 9 7 0 : 33rd annual meeting of ASIS will be held at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Con­ vention Chairman for the 1 9 7 0 meeting is Mr. Kenneth H. Zabriskie, Jr.; Biosciences Infor­ mation Services of Biological Abstracts; 2 1 0 0 Arch Street; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. M I S C E L L A N Y • Courses formerly available only to grad­ uate students in the school of library science a t the U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h e r n C a l i f o r n i a are now open to juniors and seniors on th e u n ­ dergraduate level according to a recent an­ nouncement from Dean M artha Boaz. Because of the great manpower shortage and the large num ber of job opportunities in libraries (over 100,000 professional vacancies) students on the undergraduate level are being encouraged to go into the library profession. Eighteen semester units of course work will be open to undergraduate students beginning in the 1 9 6 9 summer session. These will in­ clude the general courses of Introduction to Librarianship, Reference Sources and Services, Introductory Cataloging and Classification, and History of Books and Printing. Also included will be Reading Guidance for Children and Reading Guidance for Young People. Persons who plan to go into library work in the public schools or in public libraries may b e especially interested in being admitted to these courses. The proper combination of library science and education courses will lead to a minor for the standard teaching credential in a Bachelor’s D egree program. Persons going on for th e Master’s Degree in library science will be expected to complete the regular requirements for the Master’s D e­ gree. However, they would not repeat any course work taken on the undergraduate level; rather they would take other electives in library science or certain electives in other subject fields. In addition to the above changes, the li­ brary school is offering a new course on In- 171 tellectual Freedom and Censorship. This will begin in th e 1969 fall semester, on Tuesday evenings. Also, the school’s courses in Library Automation are being expanded. For further in­ formation, please contact The Dean, School of Library Science, University of Southern Cali­ fornia, Los Angeles, California 90007. Tele­ phone: (213) 746-2548. • The C o l o r a d o A c a d e m i c L i b r a r i e s B o o k P r o c e s s i n g C e n t e r became a reality as the first books were processed and catalogued at the University of Colorado based facility. Un­ der study and in the design steps for about three years, the center will operate on a one- year trial basis. The center will serve CU and five participating college and university li­ braries in Colorado. Goals of the new center include putting new books on the shelves of participating libraries quicker and cheaper and gradually releasing library personnel from rou­ tine work to spend more time serving faculty members and students. Participating universities and colleges are CU, Colorado State University, Colorado State College, Adams State College, the Colorado School of Mines and Metropolitan State Col­ lege. Representatives of all university and col­ lege libraries, except Adams State, were at the University March 24 to visit the center and see the first collection of more than 100 newly processed books. University of Denver and Fort Lewis College representatives also attend­ ed the meeting at the center. Mrs. Joan Maier, coordinator of the book processing center, said during the one-year trial about 60,000 books will be processed, 35,000 for CU and 25,000 for participating libraries. Dr. Richard M. Dougherty, associate director of CU libraries, said the center’s activities con­ sist of ordering and cataloguing books for par­ ticipating libraries. This means the ordering and cataloguing process will be done once in­ stead of six times. Dougherty said individual institutions could not afford specialized equip­ ment necessary for the rapid processing of books; the high volume of orders is expected to make the cost feasible. Establishment of the center was made possible through the participa­ tion of the National Science Foundation (N S F) which contributed three grants totaling $126,100. The first grant was for a study of the feasibility of the center, the second was for the design of the center and the th ird was for the one-year trial operation. Participating libraries also have contributed $66,000 to es­ tablish the center. • D ean Paul Wasserman of the school of library and information services, U n i v e r s i t y o f M a b y l a n d , announces th e beginning of the second phase of the H i g h J o h n P r o j e c t , an experimental program in library education for work with a specialized clientele, and the ap­ pointment of Annie T. Reid as Project Director. The purpose of the project is to provide Master’s degree students in librarianship with academic and field experience in library service to the disadvantaged and to develop a pro­ gram of research as an integral part of the ed­ ucation program. In th e first phase of this effort the School mounted a laboratory library in a poverty area, the High John Library. D ur­ ing the next year this laboratory, now oper­ ational as a fledgling branch library of the Prince George’s County system will continue their partnership in a joint program designed to create field experience for students and to provide a shared involvement in public library experimentation and adaptation. One objective is to broaden the concept of traditional public library clienteles by deliberately seeking to at­ tract non-users through viable library and in­ formation programs which serve their needs and interests. The University’s goal is to im­ prove th e capacity of librarians who can fulfill such an objective in public library service. Student interns and researchers will under­ take projects designed particularly for special populations. Examples of contemplated field work are: • use of the story-telling hour to enhance self- concept: an effort in limited intervention with pre-school children; • a library-parent venture in creating a pro­ gram of high stimulus impact to prepare pre­ school children for reading; • recruiting for measles inoculation by locally produced video tapes; • exploration of the dissemination of selective information to a target sub-group; • compilation of homegrown prose and rhyme for th e library collection to be used as an adjunct to a one-to-one adult literacy effort. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f M i n n e s o t a library an nounced in December 1968 the establishment of a two-year pilot project under which it would conduct a demonstration of accelerated lending and copying service to selected librar­ ies in th e state, outside of the Twin City metro­ politan area. Known as M INITEX ( Minnesota Interli­ brary Teletype Experiment) this project was designed to obtain information from actual experience in expediting interlibrary requests through teletype communication, custom han­ dling, and rapid delivery arrangements, as to the kinds of local library needs th a t can be effectively m et by sharing the University’s ex­ tensive collections w ith other libraries, both ac­ ademic and public. The two-year project, which will be adm in­ istered by Mrs. Alice Wilcox of th e University ­ 172 library staff, has been m ade possible by equal grants totalling $103,200 from th e Louis and Maud Hill Family Foundation and from state and federal (LSCA) funds provided through the Library Division of the State Department of Education. The libraries th a t will participate in the M INITEX experiment were carefully selected to represent private college, state college, jun­ ior college, university branch campus, and pub­ lic library needs for access to the resources of the University library. They include: Bemidji State College, D uluth Public Library, St. John’s University, Mankato State College, Roch­ ester Public Library, University of Minne­ sota—Duluth, Southwest Minnesota State Col­ lege, Rochester State Junior College, St. Mary’s College, Saint Cloud State College, and the University of Minnesota—Morris. The purpose of M INITEX, which is a co­ operative research and demonstration under­ taking, is to obtain cost, volume, and operation­ al data th at will provide a basis for develop­ ing recommendations for a more long-range state-wide interlibrary service program. By m aintaining detailed transaction records, the project will seek answers to the following types of questions: ( a ) W hat kinds of material not presently available in participating libraries can be pro­ vided effectively from th e University Library, by lending and copying? ( b ) W hat effect will increased off-campus lending of volumes from the University Li­ brary have on the Library’s service to its own faculty and students? (c ) W hat volume of requests can b e an­ ticipated in a complete state-wide service, as­ suming rapid location and delivery of materials by a staff exclusively available to handle inter- institutional needs? ( d ) W hat procedural improvements and shortcuts can be introduced to speed th e han­ dling time (a major element of delay under the present system) w ithin requesting libraries and within the University Library? ( e ) W hat communication equipm ent and delivery arrangements can be effectively u ti­ lized to reduce the “turn-around tim e” between initiating requests and receiving needed ma­ terials? (f) W hat staff, equipment, and delivery costs would b e required to finance an eventual state­ wide enriched service from the University Li­ brary to all Minnesota academic and public libraries? ( g ) W hat proportion of interlibrary requests can be met by photocopying, and w hat pro­ portion requires the loan of original publica­ tions? (h ) W hat guidance could a careful exami­ nation of pilot project experience provide in identifying fields of local college library col­ lections that need strengthening? ( i) W hat implications would such a pil project reveal for further areas of interlibrary cooperation among Minnesota institutions? The service will utilize TWX equipm ent to speed the filing of citation and verification information to the project center, and will experiment w ith varying delivery arrangements (e.g., United Parcel) to determine which m eth­ od will get desired materials to out-state p a­ trons with th e least transportation delay. Each library in the M INITEX network will have its own teletype installation, on which requests for books or periodical articles can be instantaneously transm itted to th e University library. Immediately as such requests are re­ ceived, project personnel will locate the de­ sired publications and mail them directly to the requesting library—usually the same day or within 24 hours. Books will be sent on loan, while magazine articles will b e furnished in xerox copies so th e original journal may re­ main on campus for use by University library patrons. Thanks to the outside funding that has been obtained for this project, the accelerated service provided by M INITEX will be without any charge to patrons. I t will not affect th e regular Interlibrary Loan service which the University library has long provided to libraries through­ out Minnesota and the U.S. Its unique features, which necessitate special funding, include TWX transmission, th e hiring of personnel to handle M INITEX requests exclusively (locat­ ing and furnishing publications from any of th e 20 libraries on the Minneapolis and St. Paul Campuses, copying and mailing material on a “same-day” schedule), free teletype and copying services, and special record keeping for analyses an d evaluation. • R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s f r o m s ix s t a t e l i b r a r y a s o c i a t i o n s m e t i n P h i l a d e l p h i a o n F e b r u a r y 24 t o f o r m a l l y a d o p t t h e b y l a w s f o r t h e M i d d l e A t l a n t i c R e g i o n a l L i b r a r y F e d e r a t i o n , I n c . T h e p u r p o s e o f M A R L F i s t o e n c o u r a g e d e ­ v e l o p m e n t o f c o o p e r a t i o n o f l i b r a r i e s i n t h e a r e a a n d t h e c o n t i n u i n g e d u c a t i o n o f t h e l i ­ b r a r i a n s . I n c a r r y i n g o u t t h e s e o b j e c t i v e s , M A R L F w i l l w o r k c l o s e l y w i t h t h e A m e r i c a n L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n a n d t h e s t a t e a s s o c i a t i o n s r e p r e s e n t e d i n t h e f e d e r a t i o n . The business of th e Federation is conducted by a board of directors consisting of two mem­ bers from each state library association. At the meeting in Philadelphia on February 24 the various representatives in attendance were: Christopher Devan, Wilmington Institute Free Library, and Richard Williams, Eleutherian Mills Historical Library, representing Dela­ ware; Grace P. Slocum, Enoch P ratt Free Li­ brary, and John Zimmerman, Frostburg State ot s ­ 173 College, representing Maryland; Miriam R. Evans, Ocean County Library, and William J. Roehrenbeck, Jersey City Public Library, rep­ resenting New Jersey; Charles F. Gosnell, New York University Libraries, and A. Nicholas Kobe, Woodside, representing New York; Car­ olyn Field, Free Library of Philadelphia, and Marie A. Davis, Free Library of Philadelphia, representing Pennsylvania; and William Myers, W eir Public Library, representing W est Vir­ ginia. Nicholas Winowich, Kanawha County Public Library, is also a representative from West Virginia, b u t was unable to attend. An election held by the board resulted in John Zimmerman being selected to serve as President of the Board, William Roehrenbeck as Vice President and Marie Davis as Secre­ tary/Treasurer. One of th e major, current proj­ ects of this federation is to plan for a Mid- Atlantic Regional Library Conference for the Fall of 1973. • R o b e r t L. T a l m a d g e , since 1966 dire tor of technical departments, University of Il­ linois library, has been elected a director of Forest Press, Inc., the organization responsible for the editing and publishing of the (Dew ey) Decimal Classification. As a director, Mr. Tal­ madge succeeds Howard Haycraft, Chairman of the Board of the H. W . Wilson Company. P U B L I C A T I O N S • The publication of th e Catalogue of He- brew Books of the H arvard University library (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1968, 6 vol.) is a major event in the field of Hebrew bibliography, since it presents one of the large collections of H ebraica in this coun­ try. The 75,000 cards in this catalog (4 vol­ umes for author and selected subject entries, 2 volumes for title entries) are arranged in the order customary in most Jewish libraries— author headings in romanized form w ith titles filed according to the H ebrew alphabet, thus eliminating the necessity of romanizing the titles. A special feature of this catalog is the inclusion of all LC printed Hebrew cards, re­ gardless of w hether they are represented by books in th e Harvard collection or not. Inevi­ tably, this work invites comparison w ith two previously issued catalogs of Judaica, those of the Jewish Division of the New York Public Library (1960) and of the Hebrew Union College Library in Cincinnati (1964). These earlier productions include also their holdings in Yiddish and works of Jewish interest in all other languages, which is also reflected in their size (14 and 32 volumes, respectively). • The College Law Bulletin, appearing monthly except July and August for $6.00 per annum, is now being published by the United c States National Students Association. Designed to collect and disseminate current material per­ taining to the legal rights of students, faculty and administrators in American colleges and universities, the College Law Bulletin may be subscribed to at 2115 S Street, N.W., Washing­ ton, D.C. 20008. • John C. Merrill, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, has published a work entitled The Elite Press; Great Newspapers of the W orld (N.Y., Pitman, 1968) in which he provides brief “profiles” of some forty of the world’s great or leading newspapers. Professor Merrill has constructed a pyramid for cate­ gorizing the selected newspapers as Primary Elite (of which there are te n ), Secondary Elite (tw en ty ), Tertiary Elite (th irty ), and N ear Elite (forty). Beyond these, Professor Merrill recognizes b u t does not name other newspapers th at he considers to be “Middle- Area General Newspapers” and “Mass (popu­ ­ lar) Papers (M ainly E ntertainm ent O riented).” T he Primary Elite newspapers are: The New York Times, N eue Zürcher Zeitung, L e Monde, The Guardian, The Times (L ondon), Pra-υda, Jen-min Jih-pao (Peking), Borba (Belgrade), Osserυatore Romano (Vatican C ity), ABC ( M ad rid ). Professor Merrill explains th at papers “like Praυda and Osserυatore Romano were ad­ m itted to the top group so th a t extremely pres­ tigious dailies of a nonlibertarian nature would have proper representation.” • A list of 92 forthcoming institutes for training in librarianship, all scheduled for the summer of 1969 and the academic year 1969- 70 under Title II-B of the Higher Education Act of 1965, has been prepared by the D i­ vision of Library Programs in the U.S. Of­ fice of Education. Basic information about the name, date, location, director, subject, and general requirements of each institute is in ­ cluded. Libraries can obtain copies of “Insti­ tutes for Training in Librarianship” by writing to the Division of Library Programs, Bureau of Adult, Vocational, and Library Programs, U.S. Office of Education, Washington, D.C. 20202. • The first comprehensive international guide to books and technical reports on the use, ap­ plications and effects of computers in the scientific, commercial, industrial and social sec­ tors has been published by The National Com­ puting Centre of England in cooperation with Studiecentrum voor Administratieve Automa- tisering, Amsterdam. International Computer Bibliography includes nearly 6,000 abstracts w ithin 170 major subject sections, each of which is fully cross-referenced. Extensive Key­ word and Author Indexes ensure immediate access to any aspect of th e wealth of computer knowledge documented in this im portant new 174 tool. Prof. Lowell H. Hattery (The American University, W ashington) has w ritten the pref­ ace to this unique volume whose publication he hails as “an important event for the in­ formation processing community.” ICB was compiled by a team of top D utch and British librarians headed by L. C. M. J. Sicking utilizing th e extensive facilities of th e well-known “Studiecentrum” library, and the new Infor­ mation Service of NCC in Manchester. Future editions of ICB will be prepared in cooperation w ith other major information centers. Inter­ national Computer Bibliography contains over 700 pages (8" x 11¾" ) , and is priced a t $50.00 per copy. Orders and enquiries should be sent to Science Associates/International, Inc., 23 East 26th Street, New York, N.Y. 10010, ex­ clusive distributor in the W estern Hemisphere for all publications of T he National Computing Centre. • The Library of M ount Holyoke College, 1837-1968 is the title of a handsome and read­ able booklet prepared by librarian Anne C. E d ­ monds for th e occasion of the dedication of the renovated library building there on Novem­ ber 8-10, 1968. • The Literature of Science and Engineer­ ing, a 105-page volume of lecture notes and bibliographies used by E. Graham Roberts in his course in Information Science at Georgia Institute of Technology may now be obtained for $3.15 from the College Inn Book Store at Georgia Tech. • Mere Collectors’ Item s by M atthew J. Bruccoli is the fourth in a series of Occasional Papers published by the Kent State University Libraries. I t is the address which was delivered by Dr. Bruccoli on the occasion of the acqui­ sition by the Kent State University Libraries of their 500,000th volume. Copies of th e pam ­ phlet are available at $1.25 from Occasional Pa­ pers, Kent State University Libraries, Kent, Ohio 44240. The following papers have been previously published in this series and are still available: Richard Wright: Letters to Joe C. Brown, edited with an introduction by Thom­ as Knipp ($1.25); Rare Books and Very Special Collections by Joseph Katz ($1.25); T he Cataloguing Requirements of th e Book Division of a Rare Book Library by Josiah Q. Bennett ($2.00). • The National Computing Centre of Man­ chester, England has initiated publication of a series of specialized reports designed to re­ flect the results of NCC’s research and develop­ ment efforts. Established in 1966 as a quasi- governmental body, NCC is a public non-profit company sponsored by the Ministry of Tech­ nology as a partnership between government and industry. Its primary activities are in the areas of education, information, methods and systems development in order to encourage computer applications. Titles published to date include: Computer Courses 68/69 (a 52-page index to academic, commercial and governmental courses offered in the U.K., published in cooperation w ith the British Computer So­ ciety ) Computer Application Packages (results of a survey on whether commercially available software packages are used widely—53 pp.) Computer Aided Production Control (a 50- page compendium of practical experience in the U .K .) Commodity Coding—Its E ffect on Data Re­ cording and Transfer (studies the establish­ ment of industry-wide commodity codes on a national level—128 pp.) Computers in Distribution (results of a survey on the use of computers in th e distribution of merchandise—72 pp., 6 fold-out charts) Computers in Textiles (surveys computer ap­ plications in the textile and clothing indus­ tries—40 p p .) NCC reports, available on subscription only, reflect the directions of British computer ac­ tivities and as such will add significant di­ mension to the holdings of all industrial, tech­ nical and computer center libraries. Cost for the first six titles issued in 1968 is $19.20. In order to receive publications for 1969, sub­ scribers must open a deposit account of $25.00 minimum. In th e event costs exceed $25.00, subscribers will be billed the additional amount; or if costs are under $25.00 the over­ paym ent will be credited to the 1970 sub­ scription. All inquiries and orders should be sent to Science Associates/International, Inc., 23 East 26th Street, New York, N.Y. 10010, ex­ clusive distributor in the W estern Hemisphere for all NCC publications. • The graduate school of library science o the University of Illinois announces the publi­ cation of Reminiscences: Seventy-five Years of a Library School. Prepared for the 75th anniversary celebration of the University’s Li­ brary School, this work contains the recollec­ tions of 27 authors who represent every decade of the school’s existence. Professors past and present tell their favorite stories about each other and their students. Students recall their favorite classes, the time they spent with “bleeding” cataloging cards and the sixth edi­ tion of Mudge, their assigned seats in w hat is now the Library Science Library, the field trips to renowned libraries in the Midwest, and the situations that determined their professional f 175 (an d sometimes personal) futures. Elizabeth Windsor reminisces about her father’s relation to the School; Robert B. Downs summarizes the School’s third quarter-century; Alice Lohrer remembers the hazards and rewards of early extension teaching; and twenty-four others re­ call different aspects of the School, its faculty, and graduates. The publication was planned and edited by Barbara Slanker, Secretary- Treasurer of the Library School Association. Mrs. Slanker was assisted by Mrs. Barbara Wallen of th e Library School’s Publications Office. The paperbound volume, which contains several pages of pictures, can be obtained for $2.00 from: Graduate School of Library Science, Publications Office, 435 Library, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801. • The 4th edition of the University of Roch­ ester’s Science Libraries Consolidated Short- title Catalog of Books is now available at $8.00/copy. The libraries covered are: Chemis­ try, Engineering, Geological Sciences, Life Sciences, and Physics-Math-Optics-Astronomy. Address all inquiries to Leon Creek, Science Libraries Office, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627. Checks should be made out to the University of Rochester Library. • The latest part of the English Full Edition of th e Universal Decimal Classification to be published by BSI is BS 1000 (656/656.7) “Transport services, traffic organization and control.” Versions of the UDC are now pu b ­ lished in many different languages, and the British Standards Institution (BSI) publishes an abridged and a full edition of the English version as parts of BS 1000. This new section forms part of the full edition and comprises a systematic schedule with an alphabetical sub­ ject index for the classification of matter per­ taining to the organization, management and operation of land, w ater and air transport serv­ ices. It provides for such aspects as routes and timetables, traffic studies, tariffs, ticket issue and control, disruptions, liability of operator, traffic control and vehicle operation, types of service and administration, accidents and dam­ age, and various documents, e.g., certificates and licenses. Copies of BS 1000 (656/656.7) may be obtained from the BSI Sales Office at 101/113 Pentonville Road, London N .I. Price 20s each (postage Is extra to non-subscribers). • The United States of America Standards Institute has announced publication of USA Standard Basic Criteria for Indexes (USAS Z39.4-1968 Revision of Z39.4-1959). Sponsored by the Council on National Library Associ­ ations, the standard was prepared by Subcom­ mittee 12 of the USA Standards Committee on Standardization in the Field of Library Work, Documentation, and Related Publishing Prac­ tices, Z39, under th e chairmanship of Jerrold Orne. Copies of the standard are available from the USA Standards Institute, 10 East 40th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016, at $2.00 per copy. ■ ■ JC L /C L SECTIONS JO IN T M EETIN G At the Atlantic City Conference of the American Library Association, the Junior Col­ lege Libraries Section and the College Libraries Section of th e Association of College and Re­ search Libraries will hold a joint program meet­ ing. The topic for presentation is Library In ­ struction for th e Undergraduate Beyond the Orientation Level, and programs of instruction at both junior college and college level will be described, with discussion following. The meeting will be on Thursday, June 26 at 4:30 p.m. ■■ Join the A M E R I C A N L I B R A R Y A S S O C I A T I O N ...your Association works fo r you! MEMBERSHIP PROMOTION AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 50 EAST HURON STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60 6U