ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 304 News from the Field ACQUISITIONS • The U n i v e r s i t y o f M i n n e s o t a Library re­ cently purchased, for $ 1 2 5 ,0 0 0 , the extensive manuscript collection assembled by John Berry­ man, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and member of the university’s faculty until his tragic death in 1972. Berrym an, among America’s best-known poets, was a professor in the university’s Human­ ities Program since 1955. The collection extends beyond that o f many literary collections. In addition to the manuscripts of his published works there are letters written to him from an im p ressiv e array o f tw e n tie th - century American and English writers. Among these are E zra Pound, R obert Penn W arren, Norman Mailer, Allen Tate, W. H. Auden, Saul Bellow, Dylan Thomas, William Faulkner, and William Butler Yeats. There also are Berryman’s numerous plays in varying states of completion, which were never published, and a voluminous amount of material on Shakespeare, also unpub­ lished. Berryman won numerous prizes for his poetry. Among them were the Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for his D ream Songs, the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize, both in 1969, as well as the Kenyon-Doubleday Award, which he received in 1945 for the short story, “The Imaginary Je w .” Among Berryman’s other writings were a criti­ cal biography of Stephen Crane, numerous essays and works of literary criticism, and the posthu­ mously published novel R ecov ery (1973). • Perkins Library at D u k e U n i v e r s i t y is now the repository for a noted collection of books, manuscripts, and scholarly reprints in the fields o f ancien t histo ry , papyrology, and classical studies. Consisting o f some 1,500 volumes on ancient history and more than 10,000 individual scholarly writings, the collection was the personal library of two late historians, Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff and C. Bradford W elles, both renowned in their fields. Rostovtzeff, who died in 1952, was an eminent R ussian a cad em ician , who em ig rated to the United States in 1920 via England and wound up a career spanning more than sixty years of teach­ ing and writing as Sterling Professor of Ancient History at Yale University. W elles was a noted American papyrologist who died in 1969 at the height of his career as scholar and teacher. R o sto v tz e ff was known for his work as philologist, sociologist, economist, paleographer, art critic, and student of religion. His library be­ came W elles’, and in their twenty-four-year as­ sociation at Yale the collection was enlarged and enhanced by W elles, who had risen to the fore­ front of scholarship in the field of papyrology. The collection came to Duke on permanent loan from the A m erican S o cie ty o f P apyrologists, whose first president was Welles. Arrangements for its acquisition were made by John F. Oates, chairman of the Department of Classical Studies at Duke, a former doctoral de­ gree student of Welles at Yale. O a tes, an n ou ncin g th e a c q u isitio n o f th e Rostovtzeff-Welles Collection, said that it is “an extremely valuable scholarly resource for research in a n c ie n t h istory and th e field o f classical studies.” • The U n i v e r s i t y o f G e o r g i a Libraries now hold a complete set of the radio and television commercials and programs Jimmy Carter used in his presidential campaign. T he collection includes four hours of video programs, including thirty-second, sixty-second, and five-minute commercials and a thirty-minute program titled “Ask Jimmy C arter.” There are also one and one-half hours of radio materials, mostly sixty-second commercials, and one thirty-minute program that includes his ac­ ceptance speech at the Democratic National Con­ vention. The materials are on about seventy-five dif­ ferent audio and video tapes, which were extrac­ ted and compiled from some 14,000 tapes given to the university libraries last year, by the Raf­ shoon advertising agency. The agency handled Carter’s campaign adver­ tising and owned the original tapes. They were given to the university on the condition that they be used only for educational purposes. The tapes have been duplicated and are avail­ able for use in other classes through the univer­ sity’s Instructional Resources C enter. O ther li­ braries in Georgia may borrow copies of the tapes through the university libraries’ interlibrary loan department. People using the main university library can listen to the radio materials in the audio listening services section on the sixth floor and view the television materials in the electrom edia audio production service area on the seventh floor. • M orris L ib ra ry at S o u t h e r n I l l i n o i s U n i v e r s i t y — C a r b o n d a l e has recently acquired notable items for its Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Miller collections. T he Grant item s include handwritten pencil drafts of the sixth (7 D ecember 1874) and eighth 305 (5 D ecem ber 1876) messages to Congress; mes­ sages to the Post Office Department, the Navy, the Army, the Treasury; and special subject mes­ sages “On Tariff,” “On China,” and on “Law.” This collection, comprising 103 folio pages and 4 pages on W hite House stationery, was acquired from the estate of the late Philip Sang, who had been a long-time friend and benefactor of Morris Library and who possessed one of the nation’s largest private collections o f historical documents and memorabilia. During the past year Morris Library purchased a rare copy of the S even Mile F u n eral C o rteg e o f G e n era l G ran t in N ew Y ork, August 8, 1885, is­ sued in Boston by the U.S. Instantaneous Photo­ grap h ic Com pany. T his volu m e re p re se n ts a made-to-order collection of mounted photographs depicting the route and events in connection with Grant’s funeral procession. In addition, sixty-five family letters and sixteen massive scrapbooks with photographs, clippings, letters, and memorabilia related to three generations of the Grant family were received as gifts from Chapman Grant of Escondido, California, sole surviving grandson of General Grant. Th ese items add to Morris L i­ brary’s valuable and growing Grant collection and help support research for the university’s mul­ tivolume P ap ers o f Ulysses S. G ra n t publication project. The Henry Miller items include an extensive collection of more than 350 books and pamphlets by and about Miller along with correspondence b e tw een M ille r and C hicago atto rn ey E lm e r Gertz who successfully defended M iller in the T rop ic o f C a n c e r obscenity trials. The book col­ le c tio n is p a rticu la rly stro n g in fo reig n and foreign-language editions, including twenty-three editions o f T rop ic o f C a n c e r, thirteen of T ropic o f C a p rico rn , and twelve of T he W orld o f Sex. The lengthy correspondence with Gertz records a crucial time in M iller s career, when his major books w ere banned in the United States, and shows the bond of friendship that developed be­ tween the beleaguered author and his undaunted attorney. Portions of the correspondence appear in a volume published by the Southern Illinois University Press, H en ry M iller: Y ears o f T rial a n d T riu m p h , by E lm er G ertz. G ertz has also been a long-time friend and benefactor of Morris Library. • It is th e ce n te n a ry of the b irth o f Jo h n M asefield (1 8 7 8 -1 9 6 7 ), poet lau re ate, so it is timely that the Shields Library of the U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a a t D a v i s has received a handsome gift of eighty of his first editions fro m Prescott Pervere of Sausalito, California. Thirty-two of the volumes are bound in full polished rose calf and the remainder housed in matching half-leather slipcases, all by Zaehnzdorf, the famous London binder. W ith the items already in the library and a few recent purchases, the total Masefield holdings at Davis now num ber about 250 volumes. O f the nearly 150 titles in the oeuvre o f this prolific writer, not counting works he edited, prefaced, or to which h e o th erw ise co n trib u te d , Davis lacks no more than a dozen, and none of these are major works. Almost all are held either in the first English edition or the first U .S. edition, and in many instances in both forms, especially when, by strict chronology, American publication actu­ ally preceded the English. T h e full diversity o f M asefield’s talen t and labors is not often realized. He wrote a number of plays that were well received in their time, but Masefield himself concluded that he should not take his work as dramatist too seriously and in his later years wrote short plays and acted in them as an avocation. He wrote sixteen novels, of which B ir d o f D a w n in g , 1933, and V ic to rio u s T ro y , 1935, both tales of the sea, are perhaps the best. Several of his children’s books, like M artin H yde, th e D u k e's M e s s e n g e r , 1910, and J i m D a v is, 1911, are still in print after three-quarters o f a century. Two of his historical works, Sea L ife in N els o n ’s Tim e, 1905, and On the Spanish Main, 1906, have recently been released in new edi­ tions, p u blished in this co untry by the U .S . Naval Academy at Annapolis. Two of his works of c r itic is m , W illia m S h a k e s p e a r e , 1 9 1 1 , and C h a u c e r, 1931, are still standard works, highly regarded for their deep insight into the work of two other great storytellers. The Davis Library has first editions of all these and more. • T h e papers o f the black C hicago author Willard Motley have been placed on permanent deposit at N o r t h e r n I l l i n o i s U n i v e r s i t y by the Motley E state. The collection is housed in the D epartm ent o f Rare Books and Special C ollec­ tions, Founders Memorial Library. T h e co llectio n , m easuring thirty-one linear fe e t, co n ta in s m an u scrip t m a teria l for all of Motley’s published novels (K n ock on Any D oor, 1947; L et No Man W rite My E p ita p h , 1958; W e F is h e d A ll N ight, 1951; and L et N oon B e F air, published posthumously in 1966). Included in the papers are nine unpublished book-length works, short stories and articles (both published and un­ published), diaries, and more than 2 ,1 0 0 letters. There are also photographs, wire recordings (with a w ire record er/player), and various p rin ted pieces relating to Motley. As a lot, the material presents an excellent pic­ ture o f m id-tw entieth-century publishing prac­ tice, following the production from manuscript to book. There is also a considerable amount of ma­ terial, photographic and written, on Chicago in the 1930s and 1940s. F or a more complete account o f the Motley Collection, see the article by Craig Abbott and Kay Van Mol in R eso u rces f o r A m erican L itera ry Study (vol.VII, n o .l, Spring 1977), p .3-26. Northern Illinois University has also ju st re­ ceiv ed th e co lle ctio n o f its form er p re sid en t 306 Richard J. Nelson. The Nelson Collection of ap­ proximately 4,500 volumes is particularly strong in first and early editions of Illinois and midwest­ ern authors, among them G eorge Ade, O pie Read, Ernest Poole, Carl Sandburg, Hamlin Gar­ land, Ben Hecht, Vachel Lindsay, Eugene Field, and Edgar L ee Masters. Nelson also collected material on Illinois history, midwestern private presses, and fine printing. The collection contains a complete run of the Lakeside Classics and of the publications of the Caxton Club of Chicago. GRANTS • R a d c l i f f e C o l l e g e has been awarded a grant for the Schlesinger Library in the amount of $16,270 by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for a project entitled “Archives of Women s Organizations.” The one- year project, scheduled to begin in October, will enable archivist Katherine Kraft to work with the Washington staff of the National Organization for Women (NOW) to devise the best way to arrange both th e ir cu rre n t records and those already deposited at the library. P ro ject d irecto r Eva Moseley reports that the grant will also make it possible for the Library to hire a new staff mem­ b er to process the noncurrent records of the Na­ tional Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), the S o cie ty for H um ane A bo rtio n , and th e Women s Equity Action League (WEAL). The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America is a re­ search library at Radcliffe College that collects, preserves, and makes available for research un­ published and published materials documenting the roles and activities of women in the United States from 1820 to the present. T he library’s holdings do not circulate and are open for the use of students, scholars, and the general public. • The first increment of a research grant total­ ling $248,731 has been awarded to the U n i v e r ­ s i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h by th e National S c ie n ce Foundation for the project, “A Survey of Man­ power Requirements for Scientific and Technical Communication.” The proposal for this research, which resulted from the April 1976 Manpower Conference organized by the university, has been endorsed by members of the Manpower Consor­ tium for the Information Profession. It has been reported that close to 50 percent of our gross national product involves information activity. Despite this estimate, there are few data pertaining to the need for professionals who can m anage th is im p o rtan t national re s o u r c e — information— nor is it clear what skills are re­ quired to meet the needs of public and private institutions. The research will determine the functions in information work and will identify those persons who exercise these functions in society (govern­ ment, industry, and academe). The identification of functions will lead to a study of the roles as­ sumed by those who exercise them and, sub­ sequently, to recommendations for new job clas­ sifications. This research is expected to provide concrete data on competency skills required to perform inform ation functions; th ese data are n ecessary for the developm ent o f educational programs in information science. It will also pro­ vide educational institutions with quantitative es­ timates of the need for information professionals. The two-year program of research will be di­ rected by Anthony Debons, professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Uni­ versity of Pittsburgh, as principal investigator, and a distinguished group of specialists will serve as advisors to the program. The survey portion of the study will be conducted by King Research Incorporated of Rockville, Maryland. The results of the research program will be distributed to governmental, industrial, and academic institu­ tions directly concerned with the need and avail­ ability of information professionals. MEETING SUMMARIES • “American Libraries as Centers of Scholar­ ship” was the subject of a daylong convocation held to climax an observance o f the fiftieth an­ niversary o f the opening of D a r t m o u t h C o l ­ l e g e s B a k e r L i b r a r y . The convocation on June 3 0 featured two papers read by distinguished figures of the scholarly world, as well as a panel discussion, based on the papers, put forward by a cad em ic lib ra ria n s and m em b ers o f the Dartmouth College faculty. Gordon N. Ray, president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation of New York City, presented a paper in which he reviewed developments and considerations relating to re­ search libraries, concentrating on the period of the past half-century. While noting that growth in size during the past fifty years has been “a nota­ b le a c h ie v e m e n t’’ o f such lib r a r ie s , h e also pointed out that such size was “their greatest problem.” Technological innovations, such as microrepro­ d u ctio n o f lib ra ry m a te ria ls and au tom ated cataloging and retrieval systems, are “add-ons,” Ray said, and, as such, “if they are paid for out of a fixed library budget, they will reduce library services. ” Despite the problems of storage and preserva­ tion o f m aterials, Ray d escribed the country’s research libraries as “achievements of which we can be proud,” and he drew his paper toward its close by saying, “T hose who seek to promote substitutes for books or to make libraries other than book-centered institutions have never com­ prehended the extent to which b e lie f in books remains a living faith both to general readers and to scholars.” The second paper was presented by Warren J. 307 Haas, p resid en t o f the C ou ncil on Library R e ­ sources in W ashington, D .C . In it, he attem pted to describe “a model library for the future”: I t should exist within a context of a new biblio­ graphical stru cture nationally and improved bib­ liographical controls in a system that should em ­ phasize the need to restrain individual library costs and simultaneously increase the amount of accessible research materials in general. Libraries should b e connected by a sophisticated communi­ cation s n e tw ork , and th e r e shou ld b e an im ­ provem ent in the training o f library staffs. The management practices of libraries should also be improved, with a focus on reducing costs while enhancing perform ance, and there should be an expanded and continuing research effort, directed toward the operation o f the m odel library o f the future. A chieving th e s e o b je c tiv e s , Haas co n ce d e d , “implies more complexity and thus m ore, rather than fewer, constraints,” and he warned against reliance upon technology m erely for technology’s sake. “O ur focus,” he concluded, “should b e on (unctions and not on form s.” Jo h n Slo a n D ic k e y , p r e s id e n t e m e r itu s o f D artm outh, presided over the m orning session that heard the reading of these papers. In the af­ tern oo n , P re sid e n t Jo h n G. K em en y p resid ed o v e r th e d is c u s s io n se s s io n th a t had as its panelists the following head librarians from four o f D a r tm o u th ’s s is t e r in s tit u t io n s in N ew England— Douglas W . Bryant, Harvard; John P. M cDonald, University o f C onnecticut; Rutherford D . R ogers, Yale; and L aw ren ce E . W ikand er, W illiam s— and th r e e D artm ou th faculty m em ­ bers— Blanche H. Gelfant, professor o f English; W alter H. Stockmayer, A lbert W. Sm ith Profes­ sor o f C hem istry; and Arthur M. Wilson, Daniel W eb ster Professor E m eritus. T he panel cam e up with the following observa­ tions: T h ere is a need for a shift in the education o f librarians to a b road er g en eral background, su pplem ented with specialization in o n -th e-jo b training. I t was proposed that computers b e used in som e in s ta n ce s for storage and re trie v a l o f data, in lieu o f traditional publications. This was seen as a necessity, and the attendant possibility o f publishing less in certain fields was raised, but it was also questioned w hether such a develop­ m ent on a national basis would b e economically feasible. T h e financial crisis facing libraries, the panel thought, would make undertaking cooperative so­ lutions m ore likely, and the search for new ways o f providing services always done more intensive. G iven the size o f the U nited States, the panel was o f the opinion that regional, as well as na­ tional, efforts at cooperation are needed. The danger o f actions that might mean the loss o f seldom used b u t valuab le p u b lication s was stre s se d . T h e se c u rity o f c o lle c tio n s was d is­ cu ssed , and th e moral d ilem m a b e tw e e n rela tively open access and the specters o f vandalism and theft was put forward. Two humanist views o f libraries w ere also put before the panel in the face o f some o f the dis­ cussion of automated access and retrieval. One was that a library is a wonderful place because of the things a u ser found th e re in co m p letely by c h a n ce; and the second was the im pact that a good library had upon a “seat o f learning,” such as D artm outh, through its influence upon the d e­ velopm ent o f both students and teachers. MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS N o v e m b e r 2 1 : R am ap o C o lle g e L ib r a r y , Mahwah, New Je rse y , will host a workshop on B e r g e n C o u n t y a n d N e w J e r s e y docum ents. F o r fu rth e r info rm ation c o n ta c t Paul H in se n ­ kamp, R eference Librarian, Ramapo C ollege of New Je rse y , 505 Ramapo Valley R d ., Mahwah, N J 07430. N o v e m b e r 2 7 - D e c e m b e r 1 : B i b u o t h e r a p y . 2 q u arter hours c re d it. D aily 9 a .m .- 1 2 noon, 1 p .m .-3 p .m . Participants will becom e acquainted with the processes of bibliotherapy and its many uses in public, school, and institutional libraries with em phasis p laced on institutional use. In ­ stru ctor: A rleen H ynes, L ib rarian , C ircu lating L ib rary , St. E liz a b e th ’s H ospital, W ashington, D C . Tuition is $99 p er qu arter hour. F o r more in­ formation contact: T h e Admissions O ffice, Gradu­ ate School o f Librarianship, University o f Denver (Colorado Sem inary), D en v er, C O 8 0 2 0 8 ; (303) 7 5 3 -2 5 5 7 . D e c e m b e r 4 , 5 , 6 : M i c r o f o r m s F o r L i b r a r ­ i e s . 2 qu arter hours. Daily 9 a .m .- 1 2 noon, 1 p .m .- 4 p .m . How to evaluate, se le ct, and use microform equipm ent and maintain bibliographic control o f microforms and conserve microforms. Use o f microforms in conjunction with computers and data bases is emphasized. Instructor: H erbert C. C ohen, Editorial D irecto r of the Library and Education Division of Information Handling S e r­ vices, D enver, Colorado. Tuition is $99 p er qu arter hour. F o r more in­ formation contact: T h e Admissions Office, Gradu­ ate School of Librarianship, University o f D enver (Colorado Sem inary), D en v er, C O 8 0 2 0 8 ; (303) 7 5 3 -2 5 5 7 . D e c e m b e r 10 -1 5 : Henry C . Chang, territorial librarian and p roject director, has announced that an I n s t i t u t e f o r T r a i n i n c i n L i b r a r y M a n a g e ­ m e n t a n d C o m m u n i c a t i o n s S k i l l s will b e held in S t . Croix, U . S . Virgin Islands. T h e institute, which will focus on personnel aspects o f library administration, will be in the form o f a five-day retreat located at a restored is­ land great-house hotel. Its isolated setting will allow the twenty selected participants to concen­ trate w ithout interruption on a broad range of communications techniques and theories. An ex- 308 p ert team o f com m unications consultants will guide the group, designing learning exercises to fit each individual’s need. Brenda D ervin, associate professor o f com ­ munications at the University of Washington, will head the teaching team. She will be joined by Jeffrey Katzer, associate professor at the School of Information Studies of Syracuse University. The institute is sponsored by the Bureau o f Li­ braries, Museums, and Archaeological Services of the U.S. Virgin Islands, assisted by a grant from the U .S. Office of Education under the Higher E ducation Act, T itle II-B . Bonnie Isman, r e ­ search librarian for the bureau, will coordinate institute arrangements. For more information or to apply, write to: In­ stitu te Coordinator, W illiams P ublic Library, 4 9 -5 0 King S t., Christiansted, St. Croix, U .S. Virgin Islands 00820; (809) 773-5715. D e c e m b e r 11-15: L i b r a r y S e r v i c e s f o r t h e H a n d i c a p p e d . 2 quarter hours. Daily 9 a.m .—12 noon, 1 p .m .- 3 p.m . Topics of discussion: the psychological and behavioral manifestations of various disabilities, an overview o f current library services to the handicapped, technologies that as­ sist the handicapped, and the federal and state agencies that could assist in the development of library service programs for the handicapped. Instructor: Phyllis Dalton, former California state librarian, will coordinate presentations by the C en te r on Deafness, the D enver Mayor's Commission on the Disabled, and the Helen Kel­ ler National Center for Deaf-Blind Youth/Adults. Tuition is $99 per quarter hour. For more in­ formation contact: The Admissions Office, Gradu­ ate School of Librarianship, University of Denver (Colorado Seminary), Denver, CO 80208; (303) 753-2557. D e c e m b e r 11-15: T h e P u b l i s h i n g W o r l d , A n O v e r v i e w . 2 quarter hours. Daily 9 a.m .-1 1 a.m. 1 p.m .—3 p.m. This course is designed to give participants an introduction to and an overview of American publishing practices. Instructor: Fred­ erick Praeger, adjunct professor, Graduate School o f Librarianship, and presiden t and editor o f Westview Press, Ltd. ‚ Boulder, Colorado. Tuition is $99 per quarter hour. For more in­ formation contact: The Admissions Office, Gradu­ ate School of Librarianship, University of Denver (Colorado Seminary), D enver, CO 80208; (303) 753-2557. M a r c h 1 8 -2 0 : T h e S e c o n d I n s t i t u t e o n A m e r i c a n B o o k P u b l i s h i n g will be held at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. The focus of the institute will be book distribution systems. The program will cover the methods used by var­ ious types o f publishers, wholesalers, distributors, and jobbers. It will feature presentations on the econom ics, technologies, and future trends of book distribution. Concerns o f bookstores and li­ braries will b e topics for workshop discussion groups. R e g istra tio n fe e w ill b e $45. F o r in s titu te brochure and registration form write to the Divi­ sion of Librarianship, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322; (404) 329-6840. M a r c h 19-22: A s s i m i l a t i o n o f G o v e r n m e n t P u b l i c a t i o n s i n S t u d y a n d R e s e a r c h is the topic of an institute to be sponsored by the li­ brary of the University of Illinois at Chicago Cir­ cle. T he institute, which is funded through a grant from the U .S. Office of Education, will em­ phasize the wide array of subjects addressed in government publications, with individual days being devoted to the study o f documents in the three broad areas of scholarship: the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences. Three scholar-researchers will discuss the use of government publications in their respective fields. Speakers will be Andrew Hacker, professor of political science at Queens College of the City University of New York; Francis O ’Connor, au­ thor of A rt f o r th e M illions; and a prominent sci­ entist. These sessions will be followed by presen­ tations on government publications and tools of access by two documents librarians, Yuri Nakata and B arbara Ford. Mary Jo L yn ch, d irecto r, Office for Research, American Library Associa­ tion; Patricia Swanson, Reference Department, University of Chicago; and Bernard Fry, dean, Graduate Library School, Indiana University, will also participate. Enrollment in the institute is limited to thirty librarians. Each participant will receive a stipend o f $75. In selecting participants the following criteria will be observed. Applicants must: 1. hold an ALA-aceredited MLS; 2. have three or more years’ experience in a general reference department and be currently w orking in a g en eral r e fe r e n c e d ep artm en t (documents librarians are not eligible); 3. work at an academic institution offering a minimum of ten doctoral programs. In addition, preference will be given to persons from libraries designated as federal depositories, and an effort will be made to attract candidates from a variety of geographical areas. Beverly P. Lynch, university librarian and the institute’s principal investigator, invites interested persons to contact: Edith D. Balbach, University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Box 8198, Chicago, IL 60680; (312) 996-2716. M a y 7-10: IASSIST, the International Associa­ tion for Social Science Information Systems and Technology, is planning to hold its next interna­ tional conference in Ottawa, Canada. The theme o f the co n feren ce will be D a t a A r c h i v i n g : M o d e l s f o r I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o o p e r a t i o n . For further information, contact John de Vries, Pub­ licity Chairman, 1979 Programme Com m ittee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carle­ ton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, KIS 5B6. 309 M ay 1 7 - 1 8 : F e d e r a l I n f o r m a t i o n : P o l i c i e s a n d A c c e s s will be the theme of the third annual institute on federal information sponsored by the American University. The institute, which features both policy dis­ cussion and “nuts and bolts” information, will en­ able participants to explore such subjects as fed­ eral data bases and software programs, their ac­ cessibility, cost, and future; “on-line” develop­ ments; retrieval of fugitive government publica­ tions; micro-republishing; archival collections; na­ tional library developments; Congressional infor­ mation and federal agency practices; and private sector sources of federal information. The two-day meeting, to be held in Washing­ ton, D .C ., will be of particular interest to librar­ ians and information specialists in the public and private sectors, information entrepreneurs, fed­ eral agency publishers and editors, and represen­ tatives of professional and trade associations who pursue federal information. Q uestions should be addressed to M elinda Beard, College o f Public Affairs, American Uni­ versity, Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues, N .W ., Washington, DC 20016; (202) 686-2513. Copyright Policy Jerome K. Miller, of the University of Illi­ nois, is conducting a study to analyze and to compare library policies pertaining to the copyright law. He would appreciate receiving copies of library policy statements from all types and sizes of libraries relating to any of the following: copies made for patrons by the staff, photocopying for interlibrary loans, mak­ ing multiple photocopies for teachers, placing photocopies on reserve, and copying AV, TV, and graphic materials. Please send copies of these policies to: Dr. Jerome K. Miller, Graduate School of Library Scien ce, University o f Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801. Designing a L ibrary A seminar entitled “ Space Planning and Practical Design for Libraries” will be held at Mugar Library in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 6, 7, and 8, and repeated Novem­ ber 30 and Decem ber 1 and 2 at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel in New York. The workshop is designed to help librarians develop in boards of trustees, college administrators, and corpo­ rate managers an awareness of the problems of the libraries and of the librarians within their organizations. Participants in this course will study space planning and interior design, specially geared to the needs of the librarian, and will also explore methods of presentation of those needs to the powers that be. Regis­ tration is limited to thirty-five; cost is $200 for the three days. For further information con­ tact Aaron Cohen, Teatown Road, Croton- on-Hudson, NY 10520, (914) 271-8170 or (212) 689-8138. Advisory Service on Professional Development As an innovative educational service, the ACRL Continuing Education Committee is in the process of establishing, on a trial basis, an “Advisory Service on Professional Develop­ m ent.” A committee member with considera­ ble experience in continuing library education will assist inquirers who wish to be directed to educational resources that are relevant to their needs. In te re ste d individuals should1 contact Ju lie Blu m e, R eference Librarian, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 9 6 6 - 2111. Continuing Education Opportunities The following continuing education activi­ ties have been listed with ACRL’s Continuing Education Clearinghouse. If your organization is sponsoring an activity that you think may be of interest to ACRL members, please send the pertinent details to the ACRL Office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. N o v e m b e r T IT L E : Data User Education & Train­ ing Activities DATE: Varies LOCATION: Washington, D C. SPONSOR: U.S. Bureau of the Census COST: Not Available CONTACT: U ser Training B ranch , Data U ser S e rv ic e s D iv ision , (301) 763-5293 T IT L E : “Closed the Catalog” DATE: November 2 8 -3 0 LOCATION: Chicago SPONSOR: American Library Association COST: Not Available CONTACT: Donald P. H am m er (312) 944-6780 310 T IT L E : Conference on Retrieval and COST: $375 Use o f E du cation al R e ­ CONTACT: Ann Walton, The University of sources Michigan, 1735 Washtenaw DATE: November 30-D ecem ber 1 Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 LOCATION: Tucson, Ariz. T IT L E : Zero Base Budgeting for Pub­ SPONSOR: Office of Information and In­ lic Organizations structional Studies and the DATE: December 12-14 Program of Higher Educa­ LOCATION: Ann Arbor, Mich. tion, College of Education, SPONSOR: University of Michigan University of Arizona COST: $360 COST: Not Available CONTACT: Kathy Erwin (313) 763-1000 CONTACT: Lotus M. Knief, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 T IT L E : Automation of Administrative D e c e m b e r Systems DATE: D e c e m b e r 1 8 -2 0 , F eb ru a ry T IT L E : COM Catalogs 26-28, April 2 3-25 DATE: December 1-2 LOCATION: Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago LOCATION: Albany, N Y. SPONSOR: New York University SPONSOR: SUNY, Albany COST: $495 COST: Not Available CONTACT: New York U niv ersity , 326 CONTACT: Robert S. Burgess (518) 4 5 7 - Shimkin Hall, New York, 8574 NY 10003 T IT L E : University Library Problems T IT LE : Managing the Department DATE: December 2 DATE: December 18-20 LOCATION: Huntsville, Tex. SPONSOR: Sam Houston State University LOCATION: Orlando, Fla. SPONSOR: Not Available COST: $20 COST: $495 CONTACT: D r. B onn ie T h o rn e (713) 295-6211 CONTACT: New York University, School o f C ontinu in g E d u cation , T IT L E : Managing the Unsatisfactory Div. o f C a r e e r Prof. D e ­Performer v elop m en t, 3 2 6 Shimkin DATE: December 6 -8 Hall, New York, NY 10003LOCATION: Ann Arbor SPONSOR: University of Michigan J a n u a r y COST: $325 T IT L E : Effective Managerial Coaching CONTACT: Peggy Gantz (313) 763-1000 & Counseling T IT L E : Finance for the Non-Financial DATE: January 15-17 Manager LOCATION: Ann Arbor, Mich. DATE: December 11-13 SPONSOR: University of Michigan LOCATION: Ann Arbor, Mich. COST: $375 SPONSOR: University of Michigan CONTACT: Janet Smarr (313) 763-1000 Papers on Library Instruction Wanted The Robert Scott Small Library of the Col­ lege of Charleston is pleased to present the second Annual Southeastern Conference on Approaches to Bibliographic Instruction to be held on March 22-23, 1979. The program di­ rectors encourage all those with ideas in the philosophy and the practice of library instruc­ tion to propose papers for a panel on “Library Instruction in the Academic Curriculum: Iso­ lation or Integration?” Proposals should be ac­ companied by a 300-word abstract and a vita. All proposals should be mailed by Decem­ ber 1, 1978, and sent to: Cerise Oberman- Soroka, Robert Scott Small Library, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29401. D eci­ sions will be made by December 20, 1978. Fee-based Services An effort is being made to establish direct contacts among academic and public libraries that provide fee-based information services to the community, particularly to business, in­ dustrial, and other professional personnel and organizations. The purpose of the contacts is to exchange schedules of services and fees, policy state­ ments, brochures and other public relations materials, and other information and ideas. Interested persons are asked to get in touch with James B. Dodd, Coordinator of Service to Business & Industry, Georgia Institute of Technology Library, Atlanta, GA 30332; (404) 894—4526. 311 MISCELLANY • T h e H a m p s h i r e I n t e r - L i b r a r y C e n t e r (H ILC ), a library consortium established in 1951 and cu rrently maintained by Amherst College, H am pshire C o lle g e , M ount Holyoke C o lleg e, Smith C ollege, the University of Massachusetts (A m herst), and the F o r b e s L ib rary o f N orth­ ampton, Massachusetts, has been the ob ject of a m ajo r study sin ce S e p te m b e r 1976. A rep ort submitted by consultants Richard De Gennaro, D onald B. E n g le y , L ouis M artin , and David Kaser recommended dispersement of H IL C ’s col­ lection of approximately 6 0 ,0 0 0 volume equiva­ lents among the five academic libraries. In addi­ tion, the consultants suggested a review of each institution’s journal holdings, the bibliographic coordination of the decentralized collection, the investment o f funds in gaining access to the C en­ ter for Research Libraries, and the exploration of developing jointly a library of audiovisual mate­ rials at Hampshire College. In January 1978 the presidents of the four col­ leges and the chancellor of the University of Mas­ sachusetts accepted the consultants’ report and a subsequent report by the librarians o f the five in­ stitutions. T he librarians’ report supported the idea o f distributing H IL C ’s holdings among the five m em ber libraries and proposed feasibility studies for a cooperative, automated circulation and acquisition system and for a coordinated au­ diovisual plan. Most of H IL C ’s holdings will b e assimilated by the member libraries during the next three years. H ILC , however, will continue to exist as a con­ sortium, although its emphasis will be changed from the collection and storage of little-used ma­ terials to the general coordination of five college library activities. • T he U n i v e r s i t y o f N e v a d a , L a s V e g a s L i­ brary, during one week in August, received two m a jo r ad d itio ns to its en d o w m en t. A g ift o f $ 5 0 ,000 was received from the estate of Robert B. Griffith to be used for microforms. Griffith, a Las Vegas resid en t sin ce 1905, b e liev ed that water and aviation were the keys to the develop­ ment of the desert area. Las Vegas as it is today is in no small part due to his efforts. T h e second gift, $ 2 0 ,0 0 0 from th e D ayton- H udson C o rp o ra tio n , is b e in g added to th e Bertha “Mom” Ronzone endowment. Ronzone, a p io n eer in southern and cen tral Nevada m er­ chandising, began her career as a m erchant in 1904 in and around the mining town of Tonopah. The construction of Boulder Dam brought Ron­ zone to Las Vegas to begin store operations. In the early 1970s the Dayton-Hudson Corporation began its Las Vegas operation with the purchase of the Ronzone department store. and C Carr U ollt M on P U ress THE M NOW AVAILABLE FO Unlock the massive REFERENCE POTENTIAL of more than a decade of M ARC cataloging via in-depth subject access to O C LC and other search services. □ Step O n e — Locate specific subject terms in the index volumes. Search alphabetically for specific terms from among 400,000 primary and non-primary subject headings. Under the primary subject headings are listed all the Library of Congress Classification Numbers which w ere assigned to these entries by LC catalogers (Libraries using the LC Classifica­ tion can, of course, use these numbers alone for retrieval from their own shelves). □ Step Two — Use LC Card Numbers to order full M A R C entry print-outs (or printed cards). Each entry, w hether listed under a primary or secondary subject heading, contains th e LC Card O rder Number for that work. This number is th e key to online retrieval and offline print-out via search services. OCLC participants are not charged for read-out or offline printing of full bibliographic entries. Customers of Libcon® and oth er search services can minimize their "c o n n e c t tim e” charges by simply listing LC Card numbers when ordering offline print-out (rather than querying the data base for subject headings). ALSO AVAILABLE FO R IM M EDIATE D E L IV E R Y ... THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION NUMBER INDEX TO THE MARC DATA BASE, 1968-1978 . . . a unique cumulative listing of all the LC Class Numbers assigned to on e million MARC records during the ten year coverage period. The entries in this 8-volum e index set are arranged first by LC Classification Numbers (sorted through MARC Tag 050, Subfield “ A” ) and followed alphabetically by the primary subject headings under which the LC Card O rder Numbers are listed. This LC Class Number Index also picks up those MARC entries which w ere omitted from the Subject Index (principally from Schedule P, Fiction) because no subject headings w ere assigned to them by the Library of Congress. LATIVE ARC R IMMEDIATE DELIVERY the S D C Sear ch S Se UB rvice a JEC n n o u n T c e thei INDE r u n iq u e ne X w TO DATA BASE, 1968-1978 with an Introduction and User’s G uide by Nancy B. Olson Produced from S D C ’s L ib co n ® Database, this 14-volum e Cu m ulative Subject Index is outstanding in its depth, scope, and specificity. • M ore than 1.6 m illion subject entries refer to 640,000 non-fiction M A R C titles (for an average index-depth ratio of 2.6 listings per work). • 140,000 primary subject headings and 260,000 non-prim ary subject headings are listed in single-alphabet sequence (for an average of 4 entries per subject heading). • Sorting by the com plete sequences of terms assigned by LC eliminates most of the unwieldy listings that often appear under general headings. The smaller groups of entries sim plify the pin po inting of individual works w hich are relevant to the narrowest search criteria. B o th In d e x e s w ill be u p d a te d by Q u a rt e rly S u p p le m e n ts c u m u la t in g a n n u a lly . 314 The UNLV library began with $1,000 in 1969; it now approaches a quarter of a million dollars. • T h e p r o p o s e d n a t i o n a l p e r i o d i c a l s s y s t e m w ill p r o b a b ly in c lu d e p e r io d ic a ls s u p p lie d b y th e U n i v e r s a l S e r i a l s a n d B o o k E x c h a n g e to lo c a l, s t a te , a n d r e g io n a l lib r a r i e s , w h o w ill o f f e r t h e ir u s e r s r e c e n t is s u e s o f t h e c o u n t r y ’ s 3 , 5 0 0 m o s t h e a v ily u s e d t i t l e s . U S B E w ill a ls o b e a b l e to fill g a p s in t h e c o l l e c t i o n s o f t h e c o n t r a c t i n g l ib r a r ie s w h o w i l l , in t h e p r o p o s e d p l a n , s e r v e a s t h e c o u n t r y ’s r e f e r r a l lib r a r ie s . C. Lee Jones, librarian, Health Services Li­ brary, Columbia University, who is completing a technical development plan for the national peri­ odicals center (a Council on Library Resources project) made these predictions in a report to the USBE board of directors at a recent meeting in Washington, D.C. Joseph H. Treyz, director of libraries, Univer­ sity of Wisconsin— Madison, and chairman of USBE’s committee on networks, suggested that U SBE and one library network develop an ex­ perimental project to help the network fill inter­ library loan requests from its member libraries. This could be the prototype for a new USBE ser­ vice and a demonstration of linkage with first­ level libraries in the proposed national periodicals system. • Boyd Childress, periodicals librarian, has announced the release of a “Journal Holdings List” for W e s t e r n K e n t u c k y U n i v e r s i t y Li­ brary. The list is produced on computer output microfiche (COM) and will bring together the holdings of the Helm-Cravens Library, the Sci­ ence Library, the Kentucky Library, and the Educational Resources Center. Included will be entries for the microform editions of periodicals in series such as the Library of American Civiliza­ tion. There are more than 6,000 entries indicating title, notes, holdings (with format indicated for microforms), and location. This will greatly benefit the user, as there are a dozen locations for W estern’s heriodicals. Cross-references are used as necessary. The COM list is produced on 7 2 x reduction ratio to match the magnification of the library’s complete COM author-title and subject catalogs and will be placed with the fifty-two COM catalog reader stations throughout the library sys­ tem. There will also be five additional readers on the main periodicals floor of the library. Updates can be made monthly, quarterly, or semiannu­ ally, according to the necessity. In the future, the COM "Journal Holdings List” will be developed into an automated serials management system, which will include acquisi­ tions, check-in, claiming, and binding. ■■