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NOTICES

•  T h e L ib r a r y  o f  th e  W o m an  $ C o lle g e , D u k e 
U niversity, 1 9 3 0 -1 9 7 2  by B etty Irene Young has 
ju s t been published.

The 140-page paperback edition tells not only 
the history o f what is now the East Campus L i­
brary but also something o f the history of Duke 
University as it evolved from Trinity College.

Young, who has b e en  with the library since 
Sep tem ber o f 1970, is head o f circulation. The 
idea for such a book, she said, came “through my 
own inability to answer the frequ ent questions 
posed by library patrons about various art objects 
in the library or why the library has the particu­
lar type of books that make up the collection.”

A second incentive was the phasing out o f the 
Woman’s College in 1972, when the Duke Board 
o f T ru stees approved the m erger o f the m en’s 
and women’s undergraduate college.

In h e r work Young traces the m ovem ent at 
Trinity College in the late nineteenth century to 
provide facilities for the education o f women. In 
1896, Washington Duke gave $10 0 ,0 0 0  to the col­
lege with the stipulation that women would be 
adm itted to all dep artm ents on an equal basis 
with men.

T he book is dedicated to Evelyn Harrison, the 
p re se n t librarian o f the E a st Campus L ib rary, 
who will retire this summer and who was librar­
ian of the W oman’s College Library from 1949 to 
1 9 7 2 . M iss H arriso n  was c o n n e c te d  w ith th e  
W om an’s C ollege Library during the forty-two 
years of its existence.

O rd e r from  th e  R e g u la to r B ook S h o p , 7 2 0  
Ninth S t., Durham, NC 27701, for $8 prepaid.

• M em phis S ta te U n iversity T h ese s a n d  D isser­
t a t i o n s ,  1 9 5 1 - 1 9 7 6  has b e e n  c o m p ile d  by 
Rosanne M oore and published as J. W. B rister 
Library Monograph Series no. 6. T he theses are 
arranged by author, su bject, and date of accep­
tance. A lim ited num ber of copies are available 
for $5 each from Rosanne Moore, Reference D e­
partm ent, M SU  Libraries, Memphis, TN 38152. 
Please make checks payable to M em phis State 
University.

• M ore than 750 titles not previously recorded 
in bibliographies of Canadian drama have now 
been recorded in C a n a d ia n  P la y s —a S u p p lem en ­
ta ry  C h e c k list to 1945 b y  P a tr ic k  B . O ’N eill.

Records contained in the Copyright Office, O t­
tawa; the Copyright Office o f the United States, 
Washington, D .C .; and the Catalogue of P e te r L. 
Morris &  Company o f London, Ontario, together 
with O’Neill’s own collection o f tides, form the 
basis o f this p re sen t work. I t  supplem ents the

B r o c k  B ib lio g r a p h y  o f  P u b lish e d  C a n a d ia n  Stage 
P la y s  in E n g lis h , 1 9 0 0 - 1 9 7 2 , D o ro th y  S e d g e ­
w ick ’s A B i b l i o g r a p h y  o f  E n g l i s h - L a n g u a g e  
T h e a tr e  a n d  D ra m a  in C a n a d a , 1 8 0 0 -1 9 1 4 , and 
th e studies that appeared in C a n a d ia n  D r a m a / 
L ’A rt d r a m a tiq u e  c a n a d ie n  under th e direction of 
Rota Lister.

T h e compilation is arranged alphabetically by 
author, with a title index. Locations are given for 
those titles found in libraries in Canada and the 
United States.

It is available for $3 from Occasional Papers, 
School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, 
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4H 8. Please add 50 
cents handling charge to each order.

• T h e Tarlton Law Library is pleased to an­
nounce the fifteenth in its series o f Legal Bibliog­
ra p h ie s, T h e  F r e e d o m  o f  I n f o r m a t i o n  A c t: A 
C o m p r e h e n siv e B ib lio g r a p h y  o f  L a w  R e la te d  M a­
teria ls. Sifting through the incredible mountain of 
commentary, reports, and hearings regarding the 
act, which have em erged in the last ten years, 
has heretofore been a Herculean task. This bibli­
ography, with its extensive table of contents, will 
serve as a guide through the many items discuss­
ing the act. It is an indispensable tool for the in­
dividual who must deal with problems relating to 
freedom of information issues.

T h is v e n tu re  marks th e  in itia tio n  o f a new 
method o f formatting and typography for the se­
ries, as new and more advanced equipm ent has 
been installed. T he book is far more attractive 
than the older item s in the series and easier to 
use. I t  is paperbound and priced at $15. Orders 
should b e  sen t to: T h e  T arlto n  Law L ib rary , 
Legal Bibliography Series, 250 0  Red River, Aus­
tin, T X  78705.

• A rep ort en titled  D is a s t e r  P r ev e n tio n  a n d  
D is a s t e r  P r e p a r e d n e s s  has been released to all 
nine campuses of the University of California and 
is also available for distribution outside the UC 
system.

T he report, prepared by Hilda Bohem  for the 
UC Systemwide Task Group on the Preservation 
o f Library M aterials, contains a comprehensive 
listing of factors and options in disaster planning 
and is designed as a model that can b e  used by 
o th er lib raries to form ulate individual disaster 
plans. T he report covers the formation and con­
stitution of disaster prevention and disaster action 
teams, disaster prevention planning, procedures 
for recovery from disaster, and postdisaster as­
sessment. A detailed list o f equipm ent needed to 
minimize the damage associated with a disaster 
and to salvage damaged materials and a list of 
nationwide sources o f expert conservation assis­
tance are also included.



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Copies of the report may be obtained from Ms. 
Catherine Sakalay, Office of the Assistant Vice- 
President— Library Plans and Policies, 635 Uni­
versity Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 
CA 94720. A check in the amount of $2, payable 
to the Regents of the University of California, 
should accompany the request.

• The automation of acquisitions functions has 
helped standardize processes and has resulted in 
more efficient use of staff, but few libraries report 
reduced costs for processing as a result of auto­
mation, according to the most recent SP E C  Kit 
and Flyer A u tom ated  A cquisitions in A RL L ib r a r ­
ies (May 1978, #44).

T he two-page flyer and ninety-five-page kit 
report on the results of a recent SP E C  survey, 
which was answered by seventy-seven ARL L i­
braries. O f that number, thirty-six have instituted 
some kind of automated acquisitions activities. 
Most libraries use campuswide computers and a 
batch or combination batch-on-line mode of oper­
ation. O f libraries without automated acquisitions, 
most cite lack of funds as the main prohibitive 
factor. The most often reported applications o f 
automation are for order generation, claiming, 
and record keeping.

Kit # 44 contains analysis o f SP E C  survey re­
sponses, two planning documents, three descrip­
tions o f system use, and four, evaluation docu­
ments. It is available to SP E C  subscribers and 
ARL m embers for $7 .5 0 , and to all others for 
$ 1 5 .0 0 , prepaym ent requ ired , from: O ffice of 
University Library Management Studies, Associa­
tion of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire 
Ave., N .W ., Washington, DC 20036.

• Acquisitions and reference librarians in pub­
lic and academic libraries will gain help in select­
ing medical materials from three new bibliog­
raphies. M edical L ib r a r y  M aterials f o r  N on m edi­
ca l L ib ra r ies  is a thirty-page annotated guide. In­
cluded are selection aids, a selected list of medi­
cal p u blish ers with addresses, recom m ended 
primary referen ce sources (dictionaries, hand­
books, and textbooks), and sample pages from 
medical indexes and related tools. Librarians can 
build a referen ce file by ordering fre e  single 
copies o f items listed in the bibliography’s 6 Vι- 
page reprint of the Keyword Index to National 
Library of Medicine management sources (from 
“abuse, child’’ to “water fluoridation”).

S ou rces o f  F r e e  o r L ow  C ost H ea lth  E d u ca tion  
M aterials f o r  C onsu m ers is a twelve-page list of 
agencies, organizations, societies, and companies. 
Included are each agency’s name and address, 
the subject of the material offered, and symbols 
that ind icate if th e  agency has a catalog and 
whether the information is in the form of print, 
audiovisual, or both. A three-page annotated list 
of A v ailab le C a talog s o f  Listings o f  S ou rces f o r  
H ea lth  E d u c a tio n  M a ter ia ls  helps identify the 
hundreds o f organizations that produce health 
education materials for the general public.

M E T R O  (New York Metropolitan R eference 
and Research Library Agency) will mail copies of 
all three bibliographies for $5 if a check accom­
panies the order and $10 if  an invoice is re ­
quired. Checks should be made out to M ETRO  
and sent to: M ETRO , 11 W. 40th St., New York, 
NY 10018.

• T he R elatio n sh ip  o f  th e L ib r a r y  to In stru c­
tion al System s is a collection of four papers pre­
sented at the 1977 Catholic Library Association 
preconvention institute of that name held in San 
Francisco, California.

This institute was designed to examine the role 
o f the media cen ter in an instructional system 
that emphasizes learning rather than teaching. In 
particular, the papers focus on the role of the 
media cen ter as an integral part of the educa­
tional program of the school; the librarian’s role 
in planning activities and opportunities that will 
enable students to assume an increasing amount 
of responsibility for planning, undertaking, and 
assessing their own learning; how the librarian 
can analyze learner characteristics, such as vari­
ous abilities, interests, needs, and learning styles; 
the librarian’s role in the evaluation and modifica­
tion of library instruction programs; the media 
cen ter’s function in various alternative learning 
environments.

This book is the second in a series entitled 
CLA Studies in Librarianship. It is available from 
the Catholic Library Association, 461 W. Lancas­
ter Ave., Haverford, PA 19041 at $3 per copy.

• Capital Systems Group has revised its publi­
cation e n title d  D ir e c t o r y  o f  O n -L in e  B i b l i o ­
g ra p h ic  S ervices, originally published in January 
of 1978. T he new edition covers an additional 
twenty-five data bases that have become available 
and incorporates numerous changes to the data 
base descriptions included in the first edition. 
Overall, the second edition describes more than 
120 data bases available from 11 different organi­
zations as of August 1, 1978. As before, subject 
and source indexes are included to facilitate the 
location and accessing o f appropriate data bases.

The D irecto ry  is designed to be a handy work­
ing tool for individuals and organizations in­
terested in using commercially available informa­
tion sources via on-line access. The second edi­
tion has been renamed T he D irecto ry  o f  O n-Line 
In fo rm ation  R esou rces to reflect the inclusion of 
data bases that provide primary information as 
well as those that provide purely bibliographic in­
formation.

The second edition is available at $10 per copy, 
$8 if payment accompanies the order. Orders 
should be sent to: Publications Department, Cap­
ital Sy stem s G ro u p , I n c ., 6 1 1 0  E x e c u tiv e  
Boulevard, Rockville, M D  20852.

T he D ir e c to r y , which C SG  will continue to 
update semiannually, is also available on a two- 
year subscription basis for $30. ■■