ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 174 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • The Library of the University of Cali­ fornia, I rvine, has recently acquired an ex­ tensive collection of Ecuadorian government documents as well as important monographs dealing with primarily political and social his­ tory topics. A particularly valuable portion of this acqui­ sition consists of the principal historical publi­ cations of the cities of Quito and Guayaquil. In the former are included, under the general heading of “Publicaciones del Archivo Munci- pal,” their documentary collections ( such as the transcript series of the Libros de Cabildo), their series, Documentos para la Historia de la Audiencia, and their journal Museo H istórico. In the latter, under the general heading of “Publicaciones del Archivo Histórico del Guyas” are included their documentary series (such as the Actas del Cabildo Colonial de Guayaquil), their series of monographs, and the Reυista del Archivo Histórico del Guyas. Irvine now has a basic corpus of source material for the study of colonial Ecuador. Some of this material is unique in the country. For the national period, Irvine has acquired important collections of government documents with a concentration in the period from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth cen­ tury. These documents include the records of congressional debates, collections of laws for the period, and Informes of the Ecuadorian president as well as of various government min­ istries such as “Guerra,” “Interior,” “Prevision Social,” and “Relaciones Exteriores.” Included among the monographs are the complete fifteen volumes of the Colección Rocafuerte, the fifteen volumes of the complete works of José Velasco Ibarra, and the Historia de la Republica del Ecuador by José LeGouhir y Rhodas. This last work, together with those of Pedro Fermin Ceballos and Federico Gon­ zalez Suarez which are already in the UCI collection, give the Irvine campus the classic general histories for the study of Ecuador. • The U niversity of Arizona Library has received the personal library of the late G. Ernest Wright, a Harvard University pro­ fessor and a foremost American biblical scholar and archaeologist. Dr. and Mrs. Nathan S. Kolins, of Tucson, donated the collection of some 700 volumes. W right’s collection covers most aspects of the study of the Hebrew Bible, especially biblical theology. Dr. William G. Dever, a UA Oriental studies professor and a biblical historian and archae­ ologist, said W right’s collection contains virtual­ ly all theological commentaries on the Hebrew Bible that were published in English, French, German, and other languages between 1930 and 1974. • Dr. James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer prize-winning author and president of the American Political Science Association ( APS A ), lectured and participated in the presentation ceremony of the APSA archives to the George­ town University Library on April 23. Joseph Jeffs, university librarian, accepted the associa­ tion’s archives, amounting to more than 200,- 000 items covering over sixty years. The ar­ chives have been moved to Georgetown and are now available for study and research. • The United States Volleyball Association has chosen the University of T exas as one of ten centers in the U.S. to be an official reposi­ tory of USVA archives on microfiche. John P. Koch of Dallas, who is a member of the USVA board of directors, recently present­ ed the material to Helen Smith, Battle Hall li­ brarian and bibliographer for health, physical education, and recreation, who accepted the archives on behalf of the UT General Libraries. The 9,000-page collection of historical ma­ terial was amassed and filmed during a five- year project by USVA. The resulting microfiche copies were presented to the repositories as a Bicentennial observance by the organization. The archives constitute an important refer­ ence source on the history of sports in this country and supplement the volleyball materi­ als already in the UT libraries, according to Ms. Smith. • Letters describing an underground railroad station for fugitive slaves and correspondence related to Susan B. Anthony’s participation in the women’s suffrage movement are among im­ portant collections recently acquired by the University of Rochester Library. The acqui­ sitions make the library a rich national resource for the study of the suffrage and other reform movements in the U.S. during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most recently acquired were nearly 2,000 autograph letters and other manuscripts from the personal family records of Isaac Post (1798-1872) and his wife, Amy. The Posts were among the leading antislavery and reform advocates of western New York in the mid- nineteenth-century period. The papers, a gift of Mrs. Rüden W. Post of Rochester, New York, tell of the close friend­ ship the Posts enjoyed with Frederick Doug­ lass and other free black leaders and of their 175 maintenance of an underground railroad station in Rochester. Among their frequent correspon­ dents were Douglass; Samuel May, Jr., and Lydia Maria Child, white abolitionists; So­ journer Truth, famous black woman lecturer; Susan B. Anthony; and the Fox sisters, Kate and Margaret, the famous spiritualists. Six other collections related to the suffrage and reform movements are included in the li­ brary’s holdings. The Anthony-Avery Papers contain 161 letters from Susan B. Anthony to Rachel Foster Avery, corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage As­ sociation (NAW SA), and thirty-six copies of letters from Rachel Foster Avery to her. The correspondence, which discusses the suffrage movement, includes letters of May Wright Sewall and Anna Howard Shaw. The efforts of Harriet Taylor Upton, treasurer of NAWSA, to obtain congressional support for the cause of women’s suffrage are examined in forty-three letters from Susan B. Anthony to Harriet Upton. A collection loaned permanently to the Uni­ versity of Rochester Library by the board of directors of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial, Inc., custodians of her Rochester residence, contains numerous papers relating to the suf­ frage movement. Another group of papers, giv­ en by the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, includes letters from church members active in the suffrage movement in Susan B. Anthony’s era. The library’s Anthony collection includes twenty-eight Anthony letters in the papers of Emma B. Sweet, secretary to her from 1895 to 1906. The Sweet papers also contain forty let­ ters from Carrie Chapman Catt, once president of NAWSA. Complementing those collections are the let­ ters of Kate Gannett Wells, antisuffragist, au­ thor, and lecturer, to her brother, William Channing Gannett, minister of the First Uni­ tarian Church of Rochester. These letters are part of the collection of William Channing Gan­ nett papers, which includes some twenty-five letters to Gannett from Susan B. Anthony. • The Ryan Library of Point L oma Col­ lege, San Diego, dedicated the Nicholas A. Hull Arminian-Wesleyan Theological Library on April 1, 1976. Approximately 2,000 volumes were purchased bv special collections’ librarian, Esther Schandorff, on a recent book-buying trip in the U.S., Holland, and the United King­ dom. The library is the nucleus for a resource center of primary materials for the study of the Wesleyan Arminian tradition in a historical per­ spective. The books acquired include: first edi­ tions of Arminius, Grotius, Limborch, Ueten- bogart, and Triglandius as well as English Arminian and anti-Arminian writers of the sev­ enteenth century. A checklist of the collection is being prepared and will be available at cost to anyone interested. W rite to: Esther Schan­ dorff, Ryan Library, Point Loma College, 3900 Lomaland Dr., San Diego, CA 92106. • The Goucheb College Library, Towson, Maryland, has recently received a gift of un ­ paralleled distinction as a result of a bequest by the late Alberta Hirshheimer Burke, class of 1928. Ms. Burke’s gift of approximately 1,000 volumes by and relating to Jane Austen and her times constitutes not only the largest single gift to the rare book room, it also is believed to be one of the largest collections of Austen mem­ orabilia in the U.S. A W A R D S • The E unice R ockwell Oberly Me­ morial Prize, now more commonly referred to as the Oberly Award, honors American citi­ zens whose bibliographic contributions to agri­ cultural and related fields have been judged su­ perior in the eyes of their colleagues. The award is made biennially in odd-numbered years and consists of cash and a certificate. The award recognizes Ms. Oberly, who was born in 1878 and died unexpectedly on No­ vember 5, 1921. At the time of her death she was librarian of the U.S. Department of Agri­ culture Bureau of Plant Industry. Library col­ leagues and scientists with whom she worked responded generously with cash contributions that would serve as “a permanent memorial which would not only perpetuate her memory b ut also help in carrying forward the work in which she was so deeply interested.” Ms. Ober­ ly made a number of contributions to bibliog­ raphy, particularly in the field of phytopathol­ ogy. These contributions to systematic bibli­ ography began as early as 1914 and were con­ tinued until her death. One of these publica­ tions was Bibliographical Contributions no. 1 of the Department of Agriculture Library. I t was decided at the outset th at the me­ morial fund would be turned over to the Amer­ ican Library Association for purposes of admin­ istration, with the first prize to be awarded in 1925. In time, the Oberly Award became the responsibility of the Agriculture and Biological Sciences Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries of ALA, which still ad­ ministers it. ACRL administers no other awards for ALA. A number of librarians have received the awards through the years; included among them are J. Richard Blanchard, Harald Ostvold, Olga Lendvay, Ann E. Kerker, and Henry T. Murphy. The next award will be presented in 1977 for the best bibliography produced in 1975/76. Librarians, scientists, and others are encouraged to nominate authors and compilers. Nominations should be sent to David K. Oyler, Chairperson, Oberly Awards Committee, Steen- 176 bock Memorial Library, University of Wiscon­ sin, 550 Babcock Dr., Madison, W I 53706. • Five outstanding librarians have been chosen as the first scholarship recipients under the Council on Library Resources’ new Ad­ vanced Study Program for Librarians. The suc­ cessful candidates, who will begin a year’s graduate work in the fall of 1976, are Ellen H. Brow, Latin-American bibliographer, University of Kansas Libraries; Jill R. Cogen, former asso­ ciate music librarian, University of California, Los Angeles; Barbara Halporn, librarian for philosophy, classics, history, and philosophy of science, Indiana University Libraries; Gloria Hubbard, reference librarian, Humboldt State University Libraries; and Nancy W. Zinn, li­ brarian and university archivist, University of California, San Francisco. Each of the recipients has demonstrated an interest and competence in a scholarly disci­ pline within the liberal arts and sciences. All five have master’s degrees in both library sci­ ence and a subject field; four of the five are en­ rolled in programs leading to the Ph.D. Their fields range from Iberian history to classical studies and the history of the health sciences. The Advanced Study scholars will receive stipends of up to $15,000, based on salary and normal benefits. The Council will also pay grad­ uate school tuition and fees and will provide some assistance for appropriate moving costs. Nearly 500 requests for applications were re­ ceived at the CLR offices, with over sixty-five candidates actually completing the application process. All applications were carefully re­ viewed and evaluated by two panels of eminent scholars and librarians. Ten finalists were brought to Washington for interviews prior to selection of the winners. Serving on the initial CLR screening commit­ tee were: William W. Pusey III, professor of German, Washington and Lee University; Rob­ ert Lystad, professor, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies; Roger Rosen­ blatt, literary editor, N ew Republic; Blanche Henry Weaver, retired professor of history, Vanderbilt University; Robert Lumiansky, president, American Council of Learned Socie­ ties; Stephen McCarthy, retired executive di­ rector, Association of Research Libraries, and CLR consultant; and Foster Mohrhardt, retired CLR senior program officer. The final selection committee was composed of Logan Wilson, retired president of the Uni­ versity of Texas and the American Council on Education; Louis B. Wright, director emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library; John Roger Porter, professor of microbiology at the Univer­ sity of Iowa; and William S. Dix, director emeritus of the Princeton University Library, who served as chairperson for the program. Assisting the committees were Fred C. Cole, president; E dith M. Lesser, secretary and trea­ surer; Leone I. Newkirk, program associate; and Nancy E. Gwinn, information and publica­ tions officer, all of the CLR staff. The five recipients of the Council on Library Resources Advanced Study Program for Li­ brarians scholarships and their plans for the academic year 1976-77 follow: Ellen Hodges Brow, Latin American bibli­ ographer, University of Kansas Libraries, plans to spend her year at the University of Wiscon­ sin, Madison, pursuing studies in Iberian his­ tory. Currently a doctoral candidate at that in­ stitution, Ms. Brow holds master’s degrees in librarianship (San Jose State University, 1966) and Ibero-American area studies (University of Wisconsin, 1969). Ms. Brow’s work experi­ ence began in 1961 when she taught English as a foreign language in Quito, Ecuador. Since then she has held several positions involving cataloging and acquisition of Hispanic materi­ als, culminating in her current appointment. As part of her responsibility for collection building at the University of Kansas, Ms. Brow carried out a book-buying trip to Guatemala, Costa Rica. Colombia, and Venezuela in early 1975. Jill R. Cogen plans to pursue her study of British imperial history, specializing in South and Southeast Asian history, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She received master’s degrees in li­ brary science and history from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1966 and 1973, re­ spectively. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the same institution. Although her most re­ cent professional position was as associate mu­ sic librarian in UCLA’s Music Library, Ms. Cogen hopes to continue her career as a subject area bibliographer. Barbara Crawford Halporn received a mas­ ter’s degree in library science from Indiana Uni­ versity in 1966 and one in classics from the same institution in 1975. Since 1969 she has been the librarian for philosophy, classics, his­ tory and philosophy of science, and psychology at the Indiana University Library, following experiences as both a rare books cataloger and gifts librarian. Currently enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate in classics at Indiana, Ms. Halporn plans to continue a study of the Greek lan­ guage, history of science, and the classics at Harvard University during her scholarship year. Gloria Jean Hubbard is currently reference librarian at Humboldt State University, Arcata, California. She received a B.A. in Slavic lan­ guages from UCLA in 1963 and continued as a graduate student both there and at the Uni­ versity of Zagreb. In 1968 she was awarded a master’s degree in library science from UCLA and will complete an M.A. in English this spring. Ms. Hubbard plans to pursue courses 177 in comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, beginning this fall. In ad­ dition to her duties as reference librarian at Humboldt State, Ms. H ubbard has been respon­ sible for cataloging microforms and has acted as subject bibliographer for the foreign lan­ guage and literature, mathematics, and linguis­ tics departments. Nancy W h itten Zinn has spent nearly ten years in charge of a major collection in the his­ tory of health sciences ( dentistry, nursing, medicine, pharm acy), in addition to being the university archivist at the University of Califor­ nia, San Francisco. She was granted an M.A. in history by Bryn Mawr College (1959) and an M.S. in library science by Drexel University (1962). The next year she completed an intern­ ship in medical librarianship at Emory Univer­ sity. Ms. Zinn now plans to undertake a course of studies in the D epartm ent of History of the Health Sciences at her home institution with related courses on the Berkeley campus. Before moving to San Francisco, she worked as head of reference and circulation at the library of the College of Physicians in Philadelphia. G R A N T S • Scott Bruntjen, Madelyn Valunas, and Signe Kelker, all on the library faculty at Shippensburg ( Pennsylvania) State College, have been awarded a National Science F oun­ dation Institutional grant to develop a pi­ lot program for the searching of on-line data bases. The primary purpose of the project is to increase the literature-searching capabilities of the college’s faculty and graduate students so that they will have the same library opportuni­ ties as their colleagues at larger, research in­ stitutions. In addition, the program includes lo­ cal workshops on search techniques for inter­ ested faculty, students, and members of the li­ brary staff. The grant provides for the partici­ pants’ educational expenses and for subsidized literature searches for faculty members. The three librarians received th e grant after a cam­ pus-wide competition for the available Nation­ al Science Foundation funds. • The Association of American L ibrary Schools (AALS) announces the establishment of a program of small grants to support re­ search in education for library and information science. The amount of money available each year will be determined by the board of direc­ tors of the association. For 1976, the first year of the program, $1,500 will be available. Proposals will be received until October 1 of each year by the AALS executive secretary and forwarded to the Research Committee for re­ view and recommendations. The board of direc­ tors will make th e final selection. Awards will be made at th e annual m eeting of the associa­ tion each January. Those submitting proposals must be personal members of AALS. Grants will not be given in support of work leading to­ ward a degree or certificate. Proposals will be judged on the appropriateness of the project to the goals and objectives of AALS, on methodol­ ogy and research design, on the qualifications of the researcher, and on evidence that other possible sources of funding were explored but were not available. Full details on the Research Grant Program are available from: Janet Phillips, Executive Secretary, Association of American Library Schools, 471 Park Lane, State College, PA 16801. • The W heaton College Library (Norton, Massachusetts) recently received a $4,200 grant from the Japan Foundation Library Sup­ port Program. The library has acquired over 300 English-language books published in Japan relating to Japanese history, culture, and poli­ tics. Also acquired were complete back files of two Japanese newspapers, Japan Advertiser (1916-38) and Japan Mail (1886-1916) plus the Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko (1926-67) on microfiche. These materials will further enhance the col­ lege’s Asian studies program, which consists of thirty-nine courses offered by ten faculty from seven departments. The Japan Foundation, which is based in Tokyo, was established in 1972 under the Japan Foundation Law to en­ hance international cultural exchange activities between Japan and other countries. M E E T I N G S July 26-August 20: The tenth annual Ar­ chives I nstitute at the Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia, will include general instruction in basic concepts and practices of archival administration; experi­ ence in research use; management of traditional and modern documentary materials. Program focuses upon an integrated archives— records management approach to records keeping and features lectures, seminars, and supervised lab­ oratory work. Instructors are experienced ar­ chivists and records managers from a variety of institutions. Subjects include appraisal, ar­ rangement, description, reference services, rec­ ords control and scheduling, preservation tech­ niques, microfilm, manuscripts, educational ser­ vices, among others. Fee: $480 for those wish­ ing six quarter hours graduate credit from Emory University; $175 for noncredit partici­ pants. A certificate is awarded to those who successfully complete the institute course. Housing is available at a modest rate. For further information write to: Archives Institute, Georgia Departm ent of Archives and History, Atlanta, GA 30334. 179 August 16-21: “C reative Problem-Solv­ ing for M edia Specialists—I n T imes of F i­ nancial Adversity” is the theme of a work­ shop to be held on th e University of Michigan campus by the School of Library Science in cooperation with the UM Extension Service with a follow-up weekend October 22-23, 1976. Sessions in August will b e held from 9 :0 0 - 12:00, 1:30-4:00 weekdays and 9:00-12:00 on Saturday. October sessions will be 7:00-9:00 p.m. Friday and 9:00 -4 :0 0 on Saturday. Par­ ticipants will learn the process of creative prob­ lem solving and will have the opportunity to define, explore, and find solutions for problems relating to their own school media programs. Two hours of graduate credit is optional. Fees are: for participants desiring graduate credit— $122.00; for participants not desiring credit— $40.00. Enrollment will be limited. Preference will be given to media specialists currently em­ ployed in schools and on the basis of date ap ­ plication is received. Helen D. Lloyd, associate professor, and Kenneth E. Vance, professor and assistant dean, School of Library Science, will direct the work­ shop. Consultants will include specialists in: creative problem-solving techniques, school media programing, and school administration. For an application and further information, please w rite to: Helen D. Lloyd, School of Li­ brary Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Septem ber 9-12: The O ral H istory As­ sociation will hold its eleventh National W ork­ shop and Colloquium. The workshop will be held at the Public Archives of Canada in O tta­ wa from September 9-10; th e colloquium will m eet at Le Chateau Montebello, Montebello, Quebec, Canada from September 10-12. For further information, write: Ronald E. Marcello, Secretary-Treasurer, P.O. Box 13734, N. T. Station, North Texas State University, Denton, TX 76203. Septem ber 21: Personnel: T he H uman R e­ source in L ibraries is the topic of a one-day conference to be sponsored by the School of Li­ brary Science of the University of Iowa. All sessions will be held in the Iowa Memorial Union. Drawing on speakers from outside as well as w ithin the library field, th e conference is de­ signed for librarians who are involved in super­ visory and leadership roles. Morning sessions will be devoted to general considerations of supervision: motivating employees, th e super­ visor as group leader, and performance evalua­ tion. Afternoon sessions will cover specific ap­ plications to library situations in th e areas of staff development, nondiscriminatory interview­ ing, and collective bargaining. For a program brochure and registration form write to E thel Bloesch, School of Library Science, The University of Iowa, 3087 Library, Iowa City, IA 52242. September 26-29: The P ennsylvania L i­ brary Association annual conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Pittsburgh, Penn­ sylvania. The association will celebrate its sev­ enty-fifth anniversary at the conference banquet on Tuesday, September 28. Featured speaker will be Richard Adams, author of the best­ sellers Watership D own and Shardik. For further information contact the confer­ ence chairperson, Mary Elizabeth Colombo, B. F. Jones Memorial Library, 663 Franklin Ave., Aliquippa, PA 15001. Septem ber 29-O ctober 1: The Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences of the University of Pittsburgh will sponsor a three-day national conference on Resource Sharing in L ibraries at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh. Designed to provide a critical assessment of the present state of the art and a systematic consideration of future strategies in those areas of librarianship where resource sharing has become a critical concern, the conference will be concerned w ith such m a­ jor topics as the characteristics of an ideal re- source-sharing network, current progress to­ w ard realization of resource-sharing and n et­ working goals, obstacles th at must b e overcome, the economics of networking, and new modes in network evaluation and design. The object of the conference will be to assist library ad­ ministrators in evaluating current and anticipat­ ed future progress in resource sharing as a basis for budget planning and decision making in such priority areas as staffing, collection devel­ opment, monograph and serials acquisition, and participation in consortia. Extensive critical state-of-the-art review p a­ pers will be provided in advance to all confer­ ence registrants and will serve as a focus for the working sessions. Principal speakers will in­ clude Alphonse J. Trezza, executive director, National Commission on Libraries and Informa­ tion Science; William J. Welsh, deputy Librari­ an of Congress; Allen B. Veaner, assistant di­ rector, Stanford University Libraries; Connie R. Dunlap, director of libraries, Duke Univer­ sity; Henry G. Shearouse, director, Denver Public Library; H. William Axford, director of libraries, University of Oregon; Roderick G. Swartz, state librarian, W ashington State Li­ brary; John P. McDonald, director of libraries, University of Connecticut; James E. Rush, asso­ ciate director, Ohio College Library Center; Donald W. King, vice-president, Market Facts, Inc.; Eleanor A. Montague, director of the W estern Network Project, W estern Interstate Commission on Higher Education. Participat­ ing members of the University of Pittsburgh 181 faculty will include Dean Thomas J. Galvin, Professor Allen Kent, K. Leon Montgomery, Jacob Cohen, and James Williams. Conference registration is limited. For infor­ mation and registration forms, contact John Fetterman, LIS Building, University of Pitts­ burgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. October 7-8: No-Growth Budget: I m pli­ cations for Academic L ibraries. The Cun­ ningham Memorial Library, Indiana State Uni­ versity, presents a conference on issues and problems in the m anagement of a no-growth budget for academic libraries. The program will feature speakers w ith varied experience and expertise in academic library budgeting process. The conference will provide a forum for stimulating discussion and exploring these current problems. Librarians, faculty, adminis­ trators, and fiscal officers are invited to partici­ pate. Registration will close on September 6, 1976, and is limited to 100 persons. For further information please contact: Sul H. Lee, Dean of Library Services, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809. October 24-29: OCLC W orkshop. The Kent State University Library announces a five- day intensive workshop on OCLC. Planned chiefly for middle management and systems personnel in institutions about to begin network participation, it will also be of interest to li­ brary school faculty concerned with networks and with interinstitutional bibliographic control. Each participant will be guaranteed individ­ ualized hours working on-line. Source people in a num ber of remote locations will be avail­ able as consultants and lecturers. Topics will include: “The OCLC System”; “The MARC Format” (as the system’s bibliographic medi­ u m ); “The OCLC Terminal” (operation, possi­ bilities, limitations, printing attachm ents); “In- House Procedures” ( work-flow adaptations, management implications); and “Teaching Methods” (sharing this complex of information with others). For maximum personalization, the group will be limited to thirty registrants. Special consid­ eration will be given to individuals in libraries whose “on-line” date is imminent. For further information contact: Anne Marie Allison, As­ sistant Professor, Library Admin., University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242. October 28-29: The second annual L ibrary Microform C onference will be held at the H yatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia. November 14-17: The 1976 annual Aller­ ton Institute will be on the theme, “Changing Tim es: Changing L ibraries,” and will consid­ er likely social trends in the next twenty-five years and their implications for libraries. Spon­ sored by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, the institute will be held this year at Century 21 near the univer­ sity campus in Champaign-Urbana. A special effort will be made to attract younger librarians to this year’s institute. The planning committee is chaired by George S. Bonn and Sylvia G. Faibisoff. For the full program and registration forms, write E d ­ w ard C. Kalb, Conference Coordinator, 116 Illini Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. M IS C E L L A N Y • At the suggestion of the Joint Committee on the Union List of Serials, and with the unan­ imous concurrence of the American Library As- sociation/Resources and Technical Services Division Serials Section Executive Committee, libraries and other information communities are encouraged to incorporate the I nternational Standard Serial Number ( ISSN ) in their serials data bases whenever the existence of these numbers is known. The ISSN serves as a nationally and internationally accepted iden­ tification code, suitable for use in both manual and machine-readable files— and will provide a common link between the CONSER data base and other serials data files. Why not handle your foreign affairs domestically? There is no need to rely on one sub­ scription agency for your domestic periodi­ cals and another for your foreign. The F. W. Faxon Company is an international sub­ scription agency handling periodicals from around the world. (We presently list over 8,000 foreign titles and are constantly add­ ing more.) Now you can place one order for all your periodicals-dom estic and foreign — and receive one annual invoice. Our Foreign Departm ent translates foreign correspondence, keeps up-to-date with the changing status of foreign curren­ cies, and maintains up-to-the-minute records on foreign publication frequencies. Use Faxon s expertise. You’ll find there’s no language barrier at Faxon. Library business is our only business — since 1881. THE DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS REFERENCE SYSTEM “ … highly recommended fo r academic and public research libraries.” “ This should become a valuable research tool fo r scholars.” “ … the sooner the system is brought to the attention o f scholars, the better. ” “ I have had an opportunity to peruse a number o f the documents now available in fu ll text on microfiche. They are, beyond peradventure, o f stunning significance … ” These quotations are contained in the following excerpts from three reviews of the Declassified Documents Reference System and from an article in a library perio — BOOKLIST, American Library Association, v. 72 no. 12 (February 15, 1976) “Reference & Subscription Books Reviews” (unsigned) pp. 875-6. “This should become a valuable research tool for scholars.… “For large academic and public libraries whose patrons do ex­ tensive research in subjects in which the government may have a controlling interest, the Declassified Documents Quarterly Catalog and its Index will provide access to materials heretofore unavailable and even unknown, although their existence may have been assumed or suspected. In the expectation that future issues will appear and that coverage will expand, the Declassified Documents Quarterly Catalog with its Cumulative Subject index is recommended for these large libraries or any library whose patrons require access to this type of information.” — RQ, Reference and Adult Services Division, ALA. v. 15 no. 1, (Fall 1975) pp. 72-73. A discussion of DDRS was the lead item in the regular “U. S. Government Documents” column written by Dr. Joe Morehead, Professor of Library Science at the State University of New York. Albany. Dr. Morehead is also author of the critically acclaimed new textbook. Introduction to United States Public Documents. (Libraries Unlimited) 1975. “As publisher Buchanan continues to add declassified docu­ ments to the system, its value for the research community will increase. I envisage literally hundreds and hundreds of books articles, and dissertations resulting from this service. Our post- World War II history has been tumultuous; now libraries have a chance to subscribe to the system so that student, scholar, and interested lay person alike may benefit from these hitherto inaccessible materials. “I have had an opportunity to peruse a number o f the docu­ ments now available in fu ll text on the microfiche. They are, beyond peradventure, o f stunning significance in the analysis dical. evaluation, and interpretation (or reinterpretation) of policy­ making at the highest levels of government.” — SERIALS REVIEW , July/Septem ber, 1975, page 51. Quoted below are excerpts from a review by Bernard A. Block, Documents Librarian at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. “So far The Declassified Documents Reference System is im­ pressive as a well-organized, competently-published source for a type of material which has never before been dealt with by a commercial publisher.… ” “The Carrollton Press has made a strong beginning toward developing a good collection of declassified documents, well cataloged, abstracted, and indexed. The importance of such material for historians, political scientists, and other researchers cannot be overestimated. The Declassified Documents micro­ fiche collection and related catalogs and indexes are highly recommended fo r academic and public research libraries.” — G O V E R N M E N T PU BLICA TIO NS REVIEW , v. 3 no. 2 (forthcoming 1976). The following was extracted from an advance copy of a review of DDRS by Professor Robin Higham, Department of History, Kansas State University. Professor Higham is also author of Official Histories (1970) and an Editor of Military Affairs and Aerospace Historian. “The great advantage of what Carrollton Press is doing is that it provides the researcher and the librarian with one compact set of Declassified Documents complete with finding aids and the sooner the system is brought to the attention o f scholars the better. ” “When all these aids are combined with the NARS finding lists, scholars will have more than they can easily handle in the way of access to U. S. Government documentation, while librarians will enjoy an increasing sense of delight at being able to locate original materials without being trained archivists, too.” Your patrons will want access to the entire system — so use this convenient coupon to make certain that your coverage is complete. THE ANNUAL COLLECTIONS —quarterly catalogs of abstracts with cumulative sub­ ject indexes and full-text documents on microfiche. THE 1975 COLLECTION contains 1,648 documents, abstracted on 330 pages of 4 quarterly Catalog vol­ umes, and indexed under an average 3.2 headings in their cumulative annual Subject Index. Although early subscribers received four quarterly Index volumes, the first three have now been superseded by the 1975 an­ nual cumulative volume and will be omitted from fu­ ture shipments. All Catalogs and Index volumes include their own User’s Guides; the Catalogs also contain Cumulative Glossaries of intelligence terminology. THE 1976 COLLECTION will contain a larger num­ ber of documents than that for 1975, although the sub­ scription price will remain the same (see coupon). The first and second quarterly catalogs and indexes will be combined, however, because of delays encountered in finishing the larger Retrospective Collection (and the merging of 1975 Index entries into the Retrospective Index). This double-issue will be published in June, 1976, with quarterly distribution resuming thereafter. THE RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION —microfiche copies of more than 8,000 documents, plus two volumes of abstracts and one combined subject index volume. It is important to note that none of the abstracts or microfiche copies of the documents contained in the 1975 or 1976 Annual Collections are included in the Retrospective Collection. However, all entries from the 1975 Cumulative Subject Index have been merged into a combined cumulative subject index in the Retro­ spective set in order to provide a single source of sub­ ject access for the entire system. The entries in the Retrospective Index which refer to documents from the 1975 catalogs and microfiche have the designation “ (7 5 )” placed before their page-and- ¡tem numbers in order to differentiate them from the page-and-item numbers for documents in the Retro­ spective set (see example at far right). The Cumulative Subject Index in the Retrospective set contains approximately 700 pages, including front matter; the two Catalog volumes of abstracts contain approximately 1300 pages, with a User’s Guide and a Cumulative Glossary of intelligence terminology. CHRONOLOGICAL COVERAGE. Although the documents in both collections range over a period from thirty years to the recent past, the breakdown between our Annual and Retrospective Collections has nothing to do with the original dates of documents but rather is based on the dates when they become available to our system. It is anticipated, however, that future Annual Collections will include much more recent materials (as documents will be declassified sooner under the Freedom of Inform ation Act Amendments). DOCUMENT ANALYSIS. All indexing and abstracting activity for both Collections is carried out by Carrollton’s Washington Staff under the direction of our Executive Editor, Ms. Annadel Wile, who retired recently after more than 20 years as chief of CIA’s indexing operations. Her familiarity with the wide variety of intelligence documen­ tation (from terse telegrams to finished National Intelligence Estimates) was invaluable in training our staff to ana­ lyze and index these materials. EXCLUSIONS. Omitted from both collections are (1 ) documents which were declassified automatically in bulk following expiration statutory time periods, (2 ) documents which already have been given wide public dissemina­ tion, such as parts of the “Pentagon Papers”, documents included in Foreign Relations o f the U.S. or items indexed in Government Reports Announcements (G R A ), and (3) documents which we believe to be of marginal interest to anyone other than the requestor. Some documents older than 30 years are included in the collection, but only if they had been originally exempt from automatic declassification because they dealt with intelligence operations and related subjects (e.g. formerly TOP SECRET documents describing OSS activities leading to the early surrender of the German armies in Italy). 184 An ISSN is an eight-digit number consisting of seven digits plus a check digit (which is re­ garded as an essential part of the number) and is written in the form: ISSN 1234-5679. In those instances in which the check digit is ten, the roman numeral “X” is recorded instead of the Arabic numeral. As the U.S. representative to the Internation­ al Serials Data System (IS D S), the National Serials Data Program (N SD P) at the Library of Congress is responsible for the assignment of ISSN to serials published in this country and is also charged with making these numbers ac­ cessible to interested communities. ISSN as­ signed or validated by NSDP and other ISDS centers are available through a number of pub­ lished sources. The Library of Congress in­ cludes these ISSN on its printed catalog cards, in the MARC Serials Distribution Service, and in New Serial Titles. Preparation is under way for publication of an “ISSN/Key Title Regis­ ter” by the end of the year, which will contain ISSN and bibliographic information on all titles processed by NSDP through February 1975. Titles registered after that date, in addition to being in the above, are being input by NSDP into the OCLC system as a CONSER partici­ pant and are therefore available via that ve­ Library Buildings Consultants’ Directory The Library Administration Division of the American Library Association is revising its Directory of Library Build­ ings Consultants and is now interested in contacting librarians who serve the profession in that capacity. The direc­ tory, when completed, will be sent to li­ brarians, trustees, and others who request names of librarians who specialize in that field of consulting. Many requests are re­ ceived at ALA Headquarters for the names of consultants, and, in the past, such names were supplied with very little information about the consultant’s quali­ fications, experience, specialties, and in­ terests. The new directory will include a great deal of information not previously available, such as the time and geograph­ ical limitations of the consultant, type of library specialty, specific area of exper­ tise, and previous building projects. For more information and for an appli­ cation, contact the Library Administra­ tion Division at the American Library Association Headquarters, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; telephone number (312) 944-6780. hicle to anyone who has access to an OCLC terminal. In addition to these sources of ISSN informa­ tion, the International Centre of ISDS publishes a quarterly ISDS Bulletin, which includes ISSN and essential bibliographic information for titles registered by ISDS centers. Several years ago the R. R. Bowker Company was allocated blocks of ISSN to be used in asso­ ciation with titles listed in the Bowker serials bibliography (Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory and the Irregular Serials and A n­ nuals) as well as the 1950-1970 cumulation of New Serials Titles. A great deal of technical and editorial work on the part of the Bowker Company was involved in these operations, and their efforts have produced valuable sources of bibliographic information on serials. However, since the ISSN registered for titles included in these publications were assigned to entries based upon various cataloging codes or conven­ tions which were not always compatible with the bibliographic specifications of ISDS, some erroneous assignments were inevitable. This does not unduly jeopardize the validity of these numbers, however, and their use is both advo­ cated and encouraged. In those instances where a title was inadvertently numbered twice, the lower number is generally considered to be the valid ISSN, and the higher one(s) are canceled by the appropriate ISDS center. Further information may be obtained by con­ tacting Joseph H. Howard, Library of Congress (202) 426-5333. • The N ational L ibrary of Australia has installed an IBM System/3-15 computer system, the largest of its kind in Australia. The computer is already being used to print refer­ ences output from a number of information-re­ trieval services and will soon be used for copy­ ing Australian MARC (machine-readable cata­ loging) tapes each week for exchange and dis­ tribution throughout the world. It will also be used to produce catalog cards from selected MARC records to be distributed to subscribing libraries. The National Library has for some years been creating MARC records for Australian books and pooling them with similar records from the U.S. Library of Congress and the British Library. In 1974 it became the first to offer a selective distribution service based on a file of all available MARC records. It will be transferring this successful application from current commercial-bureau operation to the System/3 later this year. The computer has a Model 15 CPU with 128k bytes of main storage divided into two partitions in which job streams can be run concurrently. Peripheral equipment includes three 3411 tape units (nine-track, 800/1600 bp i), for 3340 disc units providing a total of 200M 185 bytes of direct-access storage, a 1403-N1 line printer fitted with a special 120-character-set library print train, and a 3741 data station as the system input/output device in place of the more common card reader/punch. The library’s systems development director, R. A. Simmons, said today that the 3741 would shortly be upgraded to enhance its usefulness as a stand-alone data-entry unit. A 3751-2 ma­ trix printer would be added, together with such special features as an extended character set capability, dual disc units, check-digit verifica­ tion, and record insertion. • Beginning September 1, Rosary College will offer a Certificate of Advanced Study in the college’s Graduate School of Library Sci­ ence, 7900 W. Division St., River Forest, Illi­ nois. The new program consists of thirty semes­ ter hours of study beyond the Master’s of Arts in Library Science. Individual programs will be provided for school, public, academic, and spe­ cial librarians. The course work will be taken at Rosary Col­ lege and also in one of the following cooperat­ ing graduate or professional schools: Concordia Teachers College, DePaul University, North­ western University, and Roosevelt University. For further information, phone or write to: Director, Program for Certificate of Advanced Study, Graduate School of Library Science, Rosary College, 7900 W. Division St., River Forest, IL 60305; (312 ) 369-6320, ext. 326. • An endowment has been established in memory of Virginia Gearhart Gray ( Mrs. Irving E. Gray), who was for many years a member of the staff of the Manuscript Department of the William R. Perkins Library at D uke Uni­ versity. As the cataloging and reference spe­ cialist for the Socialist Party of America pa­ pers in the department, Ms. Gray prepared these papers for use and assisted the many scholars who came to Duke to consult this im­ portant collection. Wishing to honor her in a manner that would be appropriate and perma­ nent, her colleagues in the department recom­ mended that royalties received from the Micro­ filming Corporation of America on sales of a microfilm edition of the Socialist Party Papers be used to establish an endowment fund. The first royalty payment received by the university has therefore been combined with donations that have been made to the library by friends of Ms. Gray since her death in 1971 to consti­ tute the Virginia Gearhart Gray Endowment Fund. The fund now stands at over $13,500. Income from the endowment will be expended for the purchase of manuscripts and related materials pertaining to the history and culture of the U.S. The Socialist Party papers at Duke comprise the most nearly complete archives of any American political party. The Microfilming Corporation of America in New Jersey was per­ mitted by the Social Democrats, U.S.A., the present successor to the Socialist Party of America, and the Duke University Library to film the collection for commercial distribution. Since the supervision of the filming and of the compilation of the guide and index to the microfilm was handled by the staff of the Man­ uscript Department, it was agreed that the de­ partment would receive the royalties from the sale of the film. Whatever subsequent royalties may come from additional sales of this film will also go into the Gray fund, as will further con­ tributions given to the library in memory of Ms. Gray. P U B L IC A T IO N S • Printed monthly indexes to the Detroit News and the Milwaukee Journal are now available from Hell & Howell’s Micro Photo Division, beginning with the January 1976 edi­ tion. Extensively cross-referenced, each monthly index contains a subject index and a name in­ dex for fast location of national, international, state, regional, and local news coverage. E di­ torials, letters to the editor, editorial cartoons, syndicated columns, reviews, and selected ad­ vertising are included in the listings. Subscrib­ ers receive a cumulated annual edition in addi­ tion to the twelve monthly issues. A calendar-year subscription to either index is priced at $225. However, the two new in­ dexes are grouped, for multiple-title discount purposes, with four other newspaper indexes published by Bell & Howell: The Washington Post Index, Chicago Tribune Index, Los An­ geles Times Index, and The New Orleans Times-Picayune Index. The price of each in­ dex drops to $210 per year if two titles are or­ dered; to $195 per year if three titles are or­ dered; and to $170 per year if four or more in­ dex titles are ordered for the same calendar year. All six of the indexes are prepared from the same editions which Micro Photo Division re­ cords on 35mm microfilm. Backfiles of the in­ dexes to the Post, Tribune, Times and Times- Picayune are available from 1972, and a retro­ spective 1971 edition of The Washington Post Index is scheduled for publication in the fourth quarter of this year. Further information may be obtained by writing to Ms. Lathrop in care of Bell & Howell, Micro Photo Division, Old Mansfield Road, Wooster, OH 44691. • The University of Southern California Norris Medical Library has issued its 1976 Me­ dia Resources Catalog Supplement. Arranged 186 by subject with a title index, 450 items are fully described. The supplement includes Norris’ ac­ quisitions for 1975/76 and the complete hold­ ings of the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center Libraries (General Hospital, Nursing and Women’s Hospital). Copies of the 1975 Catalog of Norris’ media collection are also available. W hile the items listed are not avail­ able for loan, sale, or rent to other institutions at this time, the catalog and supplement may be useful reference or selection tools. Prices are as follows: Media Resources Catalog 1975, $3.00; 1976 Supplement, $2.00; and both cata­ logs, $4.00. Payment should be by check payable to the Norris Medical Library and sent to: Media Re­ sources Center, Norris Medical Library, USC Health Sciences Campus, 2025 Zonal Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033. • The Register of Indexers, 1975-1976, listing members of the American Society of In­ dexers who are willing to accept free-lance in­ dex assignments, has iust been published. This nationwide list contains the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and special subiect and lan­ guage capabilities of more than 150 indexers. It also contains “Guidelines for Publishers and Editors on Index Evaluation” and “Guidelines on Employment Terms for Freelance Indexers.” To obtain a copy of The Register of Indexers, 1975-1976, send a $3.00 check made out to the American Society of Indexers to Peter Roo­ ney, Executive Secretary, American Society of Indexers, 30 Charles St., New York, NY 10014. • “Microimagery in the Library,” vol. 11, no. 4, of the Drexel Library Quarterly exam­ ines the world of microforms applied to library problems: historical development of micro­ forms, major issues of the day (such as, micro­ publishing, bibliographic control, and copy­ rig h t), and the changing state of the technol­ ogy and its effect on future use of microforms. Edited by Dr. Charles T. Meadow of Drexel University’s Graduate School of Library Sci­ ence, the issue includes: “Microfilm and the Li­ brary: A Retrospective” by Allen B. Veaner; “Microforms and the User” by Susan K. Nutter; “Bibliographic Control of Microforms” by Marcia Jebb; “Micropublishing” by Robert Asleson; “Current Status of Copyright Law and Its Relation to Library Photocopying” by L. Clark Hamilton; “A Technological Review: The Future of Microimagery in the Library” by Thomas C. Bagg; “The Effect of Transmission Technology on the Future of Microforms” by George W. Tressel and W. David Penniman; and “Microfilm and the Library: A Prospective” by Dr. Charles T. Meadow. Copies of volume 11, no. 4 (October 1975) are available for $4.00 each ($5.00 outside the U.S. and Canada) from the Drexel Library Quarterly, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 895-2483. • The January 1976 issue of Library Trends is on “Community Analysis and Libraries.” It was edited by Larry Earl Bone, director of the Burrow Library, Southwestern University at Memphis; until the fall of 1975, Bone was as­ sistant director of the Memphis Public Library and Information Center. “Community Analysis and Libraries” con­ sists of thirteen articles and an annotated bib­ liography of about forty items published in the last five years. The authors consider the “why” of community analysis, but they emphasize the “how.” Three authors work in υublic libraries, one in an academic library, five are library school instructors, and four are social scientists. Among the articles in this issue are “A History of Community Analysis in American Librarian- ship” by Charles Evans, “The Use of Data Gathering Instruments in Library Planning” by Arthur H. Kunze, and “Market Analysis and Audience Research for Libraries” by Morris E. Massey. Lowell A. Martin writes on “User Studies and Library Planning,” Margaret E. Monroe on “Community Development as a Mode of Com­ munity Analysis,” and Ernest R. DeProspo on “The Use of Community Analysis in the Mea­ surement Process.” The other authors include Allie Beth Martin, Robert Croneburger and Carolyn Luck, Muriel C. Javelin, James F. Govan, Kenneth E. Beasley, William R. Monat, and Rose Vainstein. This issue of Library Trends consists of 214 pages; it is available for $4.00 in soft covers from the University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL 61801. A subscription for the volume year may also be placed with the University of Illi­ nois Press for $15.00. • An index to forty-seven years of Research Studies, a Washington State University scholar­ ly quarterly, has just been readied by Joseph Drazan and Paula Scott. Full author-subject in­ dexing in fifty pages suitable for binding covers the journal from volume one (1929) through volume 43 (1975). Your $4.00 check made payable to Penrose Memorial Library, W hit­ man College, Walla Walla, WA 99362, will se­ cure a copy for you. • The Reference Service Manual of the Uni­ versity of Massachusetts (Amherst) Library is now available as ERIC document number ED 116-701. It was announced in the May 1976 issue of Resources in Education. Copies are available from ERIC Document Reproduction Service, P.O. Box 190, Arlington, VA 22210, at a cost of $0.76 for a microfiche copy and $1.75 for a hard copy. 187 The manual is the result of work on a policy statement begun by the Reference Department at the University of Massachusetts Library in 1971. A draft outline of the manual appeared in an article by Mary Jo Lynch which was published in RQ, spring 1972. • The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center of the Association of Research Libraries’ Office of University Library Management Stud­ ies has issued a new SPEC Kit. The SPEC Kit and Flyer on bibliographic access in ARL li­ braries consists of twenty-two documents de­ scribing developments in catalog automation and automated literature search services in ARL member libraries. The kit also includes figures summarizing “New, Eliminated and Planned Services in ARL Libraries,” and ways which libraries are “Dealing with Common Ob­ stacles to Ribliographic Access in Research Li­ braries.” The Kit and Flyer resulted from the SPEC User Services Survey conducted in No­ vember 1975. SPEC Kits are packages of documentation which are organized around management topics of wide interest. They may contain policy state­ ments, planning documents, forms, committee reports, guidelines, statistics, and other docu­ ments. Each kit is accompanied by a SPEC Flyer, which analyzes recent trends in that area of library management, presents the results of relevant SPEC surveys, and describes the kit. Requests for copies of these kits should be sent to the Office of University Library Man­ agement Studies, Association of Research Li­ braries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Wash­ ington, DC 20036. The cost to ARL members and SPEC sub­ scribers is $7.50 for each kit, and $15.00 to others. Information about SPEC purchases, sub­ scriptions, and standing orders is available from Nancy Zeidner, SPEC Coordinator, at the above address, (202) 232-8656. • The National Center for Education Sta­ tistics (N C E S ), in an effort to improve acces­ sibility to education data, is participating in a consortium with federal agencies interested in the collection and use of education statistics, as authorized by the Education Amendments of 1974 (Public Law 93-380). More than thirty federal agencies participate in the Federal In­ teragency Consortium of Users of Education Statistics. Consortium members agreed that the avail­ ability and accessibility of education data ob­ tainable from federal agencies were first priori­ ties and cooperated in the compilation of a Directory of Federal Agency Education Data. Tapes to identify and describe education data bases available on magnetic computer tape from agencies of the federal government. In­ formation available in the directory describes 188 tapes pertaining to elementary/secondary edu­ cation, postsecondary education; demographic, vital, health, and welfare data; manpower sup­ ply and demand, libraries and media centers, and federal outlays for education. Future areas for consortium planning include user needs and priorities, standardization problems, and utiliza­ tion of data for cross-agency analysis. Single copies of the Directory of Federal Agency Education Data Tapes may be obtained by writing to Barbara Feller, D epartm ent of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Cen­ ter for. Education Statistics, Room 3061, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20202. Multiple copies may be purchased from the Public Documents Section, Government Print­ ing Office, Washington, DC 20402. • The Bibliography of the Publications of the Librarians of the State University of New York, 1975, a comprehensive forty-five-page listing of monographs, articles, and other p u b ­ lishing activities of librarians at the seventy-two SUNY campuses, is available free from Mr. Terry Hubbard, University Library, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794. Letters Dear Editor: I question the basic assumptions on which Thomas Gwinup bases his assertion th at the master’s degree in librarianship is inadequate as a terminal degree for academic librarians, stated in his letter in the March, 1976 issue of C&R L News. Mr. Gwinup’s views are similar to those expressed in a number of letters re­ cently submitted to C&RL News. Mr. Gwinup apparently believes that because many candidates who are currently applying for positions hold additional graduate degrees, this in itself is reason to give such candidates preference over those who hold only the mas­ ter’s degree in Library Science. Mr. Gwinup’s second assumption seems to be that the master’s degree in Library Science does not provide an adequate graduate-level education for practi­ tioners of academic librarianship. Mr. Gwinup’s first assumption is questionable because the basis for hiring any candidate should be that in academic background and work experience he meets the specific require­ ments of a given job description. Additional academic degrees do not automatically qualify a candidate for any position. In some instances, such degrees may actually be detrimental since it is possible for one to be over-educated for the position for which he applies. Mr. Gwinup’s second assumption is also questionable because the depth of knowledge in a subject discipline required of an academi­ cian should be specifically based on what he does with th at knowledge. In that context, it is necessary to make a distinction between the librarian and the professor. The professor is re­ sponsible for imparting the substantive aspects of a subject and for integrating and synthesiz­ ing the knowledge of that subject. The librari­ an’s role in dealing with knowledge of a subject discipline is limited by comparison because he is responsible only for the bibliographic aspects of that subject. The librarian in fulfilling his role, therefore, does not need the same depth of knowledge in a subject discipline as does the professor. I be­ lieve that Mr. Gwinup confuses the librarian’s role with that of the professor when he insists that the librarian, to be adequately educated, must have an advanced degree in a subject dis­ cipline in addition to his master’s degree in Li­ brary Science. This does not, however, address the question of an additional advanced degree in Library Science for academic librarians. Administrator-librarians, particularly in larg­ er academic libraries, must engage in activities which do require an indepth knowledge of li­ brary and information science and an ability to integrate and synthesize the knowledge of those subjects. For th at reason, librarians who func­ tion on such an administrative level would cer­ tainly benefit from graduate study on a doctoral level in library science. It should be empha­ sized, however, that many practicing librarians have attained the equivalent of additional grad­ uate study in work experience and th at this must be a major consideration in any re-adjust­ ment of requirements for the terminal degree as they may relate to existing jobs. W hat termi­ nal degree is suitable for future academic li­ brarians, in my opinion, should b e based on the academic setting in which a given librarian chooses to pursue h is/h er career. It is my belief, therefore, that the ACRL Board of Directors would be correct in desig­ nating the master’s degree in Library Science as the terminal degree for academic librarians who do not intend to function on an adminis­ trative level in a large academic library. The Board should, however, study the advisability of establishing the doctorate in library science as the terminal degree for administrative li­ brarians in large research libraries. Raize W. Dorr Library Planning Officer University of Louisville Library Louisville, Kentucky