ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 105 Publications N O T IC E S • The Adelphi University Press has pub­ lished a major new resource book for anyone seeking funding for programs in the field of aging. A National Guide to Government and Foundation Funding Sources in the Field of Aging was published on January 15. The 175- page guide is a cooperative effort of the Adel­ phi University Programs on Aging Office and the Nassau County Department of Senior Citi­ zen Affairs. Comprehensive information is given for more than 85 federal funding programs in the follow­ ing categories: funding under the Older Amer­ icans Act, employment, volunteerism, economic self-sufficiency, community development, hous­ ing and construction, health, mental health, nu­ trition, transportation, education and training, arts and humanities, social and behavioral re­ search, and supportive and protective services. Listed and described are 125 foundations that have awarded 500 grants within the field of the aging from 1972 to 1976. Extensive bib­ liographies and appendices include definitions of federal assistance available, commonly used abbreviations, information contacts, a directory of state agencies on aging, etc. A National Guide to Government and Foun­ dation Funding Sources in the Field of Aging costs $13.50. It is available from: Adelphi Uni­ versity Press, Room 103L, Garden City, NY 11530. • A new book on collection development has been published by the General Libraries at the University of Texas ( U T ) at Austin. Entitled Collection Development Policy, the publication is a working guide, relating the General Libraries’ acquisitions policy to specific UT teaching and research needs. “One thing we have attempted to demon­ strate is the interlocking nature of research in­ terests,” says Carolyn Bucknall, assistant director for collection development. “Old de­ partmental boundary lines have simply van­ ished and it is no longer valid, if indeed it ever was, to assume hegemony over a particular sub­ ject. For that reason, our ‘Collection Develop­ ment Policy’ is based on a subject rather than departmental approach.” A total of 48 subjects of collecting interests are identified, and collecting levels that support those subjects are assigned. Additional policies related to dissertations, duplication, newspapers and reference collections, as well as a topical index, are included. The publication was pre­ pared by the General Libraries Collection De­ velopment Committee. “The ‘Policy’ is specific enough to guide daily book selection, to help frame parameters of blanket-order arrangements, and to assist in gift acceptance,” Ms. Bucknall says. “W e ex­ pect that it will be revised many times as uni­ versity needs and objectives continue to evolve.” Cost of the book is $10. Remittances should be made payable to The University of Texas at Austin General Libraries and mailed to The General Libraries Office, The University of Texas at Austin, Main Building 2100, Austin, TX 78712. • The National Center on Educational Me­ dia and Materials for the Handicapped (NCEM M H) announces the availability of its newest catalog of special education instruction­ al materials. The twenty-page catalog lists nearly thirty items placed into distribution by NCEMMH. The instructional media and ma­ terials deal with a variety of handicapping condi­ tions, including hearing impairment, cerebral palsy, speech impairment, retardation, and oth­ ers. Both print and nonprint items are listed, such as books, films, audiotape cassettes, trans­ parencies, filmstrips, and mixed media kits. To obtain a free catalog, send a self-ad­ dressed, business-size envelope with your re­ quest to: Catalog, Information Services, National Center on Educational Media and Ma­ terials for the Handicapped, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210. • The Proceedings of the Symposium on the National Health Planning Act, published by the Columbia University Health Sciences Library and edited by C. Lee Jones, is now available. Included is an examination of the act itself by Florence Fiori, director of the Division of Resource Development, Public Health Service Region Two. Dr. Lowell E. Beilin, commission­ er of health of the City of New York, examines the implications of the act for health providers and health consumers. Dr. Donald Hendricks, director of the South Central Regional Medical Library Program— Dallas, considers what the impact of this legislation may be for health sci­ ence libraries and librarians. Responding to these three major papers are three members of the academic community: Dr. Harold M. Schoolman, assistant director of the National Library of Medicine, responds from NLM’s point of view; Erich Meyerhoff, librari­ an, Cornell University Medical Center, concen­ trates on the librarian’s response; and Dr. Bruce Vladeck, assistant professor of public health in health administration at Columbia University, zeroes in on the political implica­ 106 tions of the three major papers and the act it­ self. Dr. Lucie Young Kelly, also of Columbia’s School of Public Health, as the moderator of the symposium, places the act in its historical perspective and throughout the proceedings asks penetrating and revealing questions of the participants. Appended to the Proceedings is a “Selective Bibliography on the National Health Planning Act” prepared by Ellen Nagle, data base ser­ vices librarian at Columbia’s Health Sciences Library. It is available for $6.00 from C. Lee Jones, Health Sciences Librarian, Columbia University Health Sciences Library, 701 W. 168th St., New York, NY 10032. • The first issue of On-Line Review— the international journal of on-line information sys­ tems—was published in March. The journal was launched with a companion bibliography compiled by Donald Hawkins of Bell Labora­ tories, New Jersey. The bibliography covers the on-line information retrieval literature from the late 1960s to the present. On-Line Review is edited by Martha W il­ liams, director of the Information Retrieval Laboratory and research professor at the Co­ ordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, and Alex Tomberg, head of Methods Division at Shell Central Offices, in The Hague, Netherlands. On-Line Review is issued quarterly, and the annual subscription price is $45 for institutions and $25 for individual subscribers. Further in­ formation may be obtained from the publishers: Learned Information, 200 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019. • The National Library of Canada has now published volume 4 in its series, Research Col­ lections in Canadian Libraries, II Special Stud­ ies, 4: Slavic and East European Resources in Canadian Academic and Research Libraries, by Bohdan Budurowycz. (ISSN 0316-0319) Copies of this report may be ordered by mail from Publishing Centre, Printing and Publish­ ing, Supply and Services Canada, Ottawa K1A 0S9, Canada. All orders must be accompanied by a cheque or money order made payable to the Receiver General for Canada. Price: Can­ ada, $5.00; other countries, $6.00. • A Selective Guide to Materials for Mental Health and Family Life Education, 3d. ed. ($65.00), fully describes 500 of the best edu­ cational publications and audiovisuals needed by mental health professionals and others en­ gaged in mental health and family life educa­ tion. The items were evaluated by the editorial staff of the nonprofit Mental Health Materials Center and by dozens of nationally recognized subject specialists for this new edition. It is now available to libraries from Gale Research Co., Book Tower, Detroit, MI 48226. • The National Science Foundation has published Federal Scientific and Technical Communication Activities: 1975 Progress R e­ port. It contains brief program descriptions and highlights of 1975 activities prepared by each contributing agency. More than sixty federal scientific and technical information programs in fifteen executive departments and indepen­ dent agencies are represented. An introductory chapter summarizes significant developments and trends in federal information programs; a glossary of acronyms and abbreviations and an index are appended. Additional copies of the 1975 Progress Re­ port may be obtained from: National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Com­ merce, 5285 Port Royal Rd., Springfield, VA 22151. (O rder No. PB 253-975; domestic, $5.00 paper copy, $2.25 microfiche; foreign, $7.50 paper copy, $3.75 microfiche.) • The Serials Librarian, a new quarterly journal, has just begun circulation. The first periodical devoted exclusively to serials man­ agement since ALA’s old Serials Slants in the 1960s, this new journal is edited by Peter Gel- latly, head of the Serials Division at the Univer­ sity of Washington Libraries, Seattle. The premier issue provides a mixture of ar­ ticles dealing with the art and science of serials 107 librarianship. Bill Katz discusses the frustrations of “Joining Art and Technics at the Serials Desk” in times of shrinking budgets; Mary El­ len Soper provides a comprehensive review of the literature dealing with the “Entry of Seri­ als”; and Frank Clasquin discusses how sub­ scription agencies can be useful in planning final periodical subscriptions ( and cancella­ tions ) in terms of subject coverage. A systems analysis of microform serials col­ lections is dealt with by R. J. Coffman, and a colloquy on copyright is presented by a law librarian and an attorney. Elizabeth Groot pro­ vides an annotated bibliography on unique identifiers for serials, covering the development of the ISSN and CODEN. Rounding out the issue are a news section edited by Gary Pitkin, serials librarian, Bierce Library, University of Akron, Ohio, and a “Cur­ rent Abstracts” service, which covers articles on serials published elsewhere from a com­ puterized file data base. Subscriptions to The Serials Librarian cost $18.00 a year and may be ordered from The Haworth Press, 174 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010. Canadian orders must add $2.00; other foreign orders, $5.00. • The Hennepin County Library (HCL) Authority File has been issued in microfiche format (42x). Quarterly recumulations for an at-cost, annual fee are $30. Single copies or partial subscriptions will also be available at $7.50 per cumulative list. The Authority File reflects the changing ter­ minology, user-oriented data, and other innova­ tions developed at HCL under the leadership of head cataloger Sandy Berman. Based on the New York Public Library’s computer-generated authority control system, the 139,000-term Authority File contains in one alphabet personal and corporate authors, sub­ ject headings, cross-references, and the names of traced individuals, groups, and producers. It features HCL-generated “public notes,” which provide the user with background or ex­ planatory data, and “catalogers’ notes,” which furnish distinguishing information for similar name or subject forms. HCL’s authority records are being offered in the hope that libraries will find them a good al­ ternative or supplemental authority-term source, according to Liz Dickinson, head book catalog editor. Order a year’s subscription ($30) or single cumulation ($7.50) from the Secretary, Technical Services Division, Henne­ pin County Library, 7001 York Ave. S., Edina, MN 55435. Checks should be payable to “Hen­ nepin County Library.” For more information or a sample fiche, contact Ms. Dickinson at the above address. • The second edition of the bibliography, American Doctoral Dissertations on the Arab World, 1883-1974, has been issued by the Li­ brary of Congress. The publication lists 1,825 dissertations related to the Arab world accepted mainly during the academic years 1968 through 1974 by universities in the United States and Canada. The first edition, published in 1970, covered dissertations issued between 1883 and 1968. Like its predecessor, the second edition in­ cludes dissertations dealing with science and technology, as well as with the humanities and the social sciences. Geographically, it covers all the Arabic-speaking countries of the Near East and North Africa and all communities where Arabic is spoken. Minorities living in Arabic­ speaking countries are included. Titles related to Islam as a religion, regardless of the part of the world involved, are also listed. The period of time covered extends from the rise of Islam (about A.D. 610) to the present. The publication was compiled by George D. Selim of LC’s Orientalia Division. Titles were taken from Dissertation Abstracts, other au­ thoritative bibliographies, and unpublished sources, such as university records. The 173-page clothbound publication is available for $4.60 by mail from the Superin­ tendent of Documents, U.S. Government Print­ ing Office, Washington, DC 20402 ( Stock Number 030-000-00074-9) or in person from the Information Counter, Ground Floor, Li­ brary of Congress Building. • Kent State University has just released a new set of OCLC videotapes. Two are public Information Wanted For a future book, An Information Guide to Racket and Paddle Games, the editor would appreciate hearing from libraries or individuals with large collec­ tions of books and AV materials on bad­ minton, court tennis, paddle tennis, pad- dleball, platform tennis, racketball, rack­ ets, squash rackets, squash tennis, table tennis, and tennis. The information de­ sired includes (1) number of volumes and/or titles, films, prints, etc., in the collection, (2 ) which of the above men­ tioned sports are included, (3 ) is a sep­ arate list or catalog of the racket game materials available? (4 ) information about the accessibility of the collection, i.e., may individual items be borrowed by others or inspected on-site by others and on what terms. Address letters to David Peele, College of Staten Island Library, 130 Stuyvesant Place, Staten Island, NY 10301. 108 services programs—Finding Information in the OCLC System Part I and Part II. These were oriented for the library user to help explain what OCLC is and how it helps with library work. The tapes can also be used to teach users how to use an OCLC terminal placed in the public services part of a library. In addition, one program aimed at librarians and library science students has been produced, On-Line Cataloging, which includes a detailed explanation of the terminal and its special capa­ bilities for cataloging. Two more will be produced by spring 1977. The Check-In Record introduces special prob­ lems encountered in searching for a check-in record and compares it with the bibliographic or “cataloging” record. The Automated Check- In features procedures and techniques for ma­ nipulation of on-line check-in records. The tapes cost $50 each for ½-inch EIAJ and $55 each for ¾-inch U-matic. Both are in color. Order from Jack W. Scott, University Li­ braries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240. • The Tarlton Law Library of the School of Law of the University of Texas at Austin an­ nounces the publication of numbers twelve and thirteen of its Legal Bibliography series. Select­ ed Bibliography on Child Abuse and Neglect, compiled by Karen L. Kretschman (1976, 26p. $10.00), and Legal Novels: An Anno­ tated Bibliography, compiled by Karen L. Kretschman (1976, 27p. $10.00). Copies may be ordered from: Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas, 2500 Red River, Austin, TX 78705. • New for those interested in computer output microfilm ( COM) is the National Micro­ graphics Association’s ( NMA) latest publica­ tion, COM and Its Applications. This 192-page compendium of thirty-two ar­ ticles about COM represents the most outstand­ ing COM articles that have appeared in NMA’s Journal of Micrographics over the last three years. The compendium also represents the first in a series of collections of articles on subjects of interest to particular segments of the micro­ graphic field. COM and Its Applications (RS19-1976) is available for $4.50 for NMA members and $6 for nonmembers from: NMA Publication Sales, 8728 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20910. Payment or purchase order must accompany all orders. • The American Library Association’s Office for Library Service to the Disadvantaged ( OLSD) is offering two ethnic studies direc­ tories—Directory of Ethnic Studies Librarians and Directory of Ethnic Publishers and Re­ source Organizations. Both are spiral-bound, approximately 100-page directories, compiled by Beth J. Shapiro, urban affairs librarian at the Michigan State University Libraries. For each directory ordered, send $1.50 plus 50 cents postage to OLSD, American Library As­ sociation, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. The Directory of Ethnic Studies Librarians is designed as a tool to facilitate communica­ tion among librarians and others involved in ethnic studies. Information includes the librar­ ian’s name, home/business address, position, and area of responsibility or interest. Indexes list librarians by type of library, state, institu­ tion, and ethnic or subject specialty. The Directory of Ethnic Publishers and Re­ source Organizations is a guide to organizations and small presses that publish ethnic-related materials. The emphasis is on third-world eth­ nic groups (Afro-Americans, native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans). Each entry includes the company or organi­ zation’s address, telephone number, major pur­ pose or emphasis, and publications (with sub­ scription and ordering information ). Appendices include lists of archival and re­ search collections and distributors. There is also a complete subject index. R E C E IV E D Access to Canadian government publications in Canadian academic and public libraries I Edith Jahvi. — Ottawa : Canadian Library Association, 1976. 116p. $12.00. (ISBN 0- 88802-113-5) A bibliography of dissertations in classical stud­ ies : American, 1964-1972; British, 1950- 1972, with a cumulative index, 1861-1972 / compiled by Lawrence S. Thompson. — Hamden, Conn. : Shoe String Press, 1976. 296p. $22.50. (LC 76-41178) (ISBN 0-208- 01457-8) Books and undergraduates : proceedings of a conference held at Royal Holloway College, University of London, 4th-6th, July 1975 / edited by Peter H. Mann. — London : Na­ tional Book League, 1976. 132p. £.3.35. (ISBN 8535-3245-1) Books in other languages : how to select and where to order them / compiled by L eon­ ard Wertheimer. — 1976 ed. — Ottawa : Canadian Library Association, 1976. 129p. $15.00. (ISBN 0-888-02-115-1) Books that changed the South / Robert B. Downs. — Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 1977. 291p. $10.95. (LC 76-13181) (ISBN 0-8078-1286-2) Catalog of the Sophia Smith Collection, W om ­ en’s History Archive / Mary Elizabeth Murdock. — 2d ed. — Northhampton, Mass. : Smith College, 1976. 78p. $3.00. U n iversity M icrofilm s, in c o o p e r a tio n w ith th e B ritish Library, o ffe r s you th e c o m p le te c o lle c tio n on 35m m m icrofilm . This unique, comprehensive collection includes virtually all the books, pamphlets, newspapers and monographs circulating in London during 1640-1661—the period of the English Civil War. The Thomason Tracts collection includes more than 22,000 publications—all primary source material—providing contemporary historians and political scientists with eyewitness accounts of such events as the Love Plot, the political victory of Oliver Cromwell, the restoration of the Monarchy and the coronation of Charles II. The Thomason Tracts will be published on microfilm in eight subscription units over the next several years, with units one and two to be released March 31. The pur­ chase of units one and two at $1,150 each enters your standing order and entitles you to a 15 % discount off the regular price of subsequent units. * With your order you also receive— at no additional cost—the Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, Newspapers and Manuscripts... compiled by G.K. Fortescue. Don’t delay! Order this important collection, and save on standing orders, too. 'Prices outside the U.S. and Canada are slightly higher. All prices sub­ ject to change without notice. Outside North and South America please inquire of University Microfilms International. 18 Bedford Row. London W C1R4EJ, England. 110 Citizen groups in local politics : a bibliograph­ ical review / John D. Hutcheson, Jr. and Jann Shevin. — Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Books, 1976. 275p. $19.75. (LC 76-23441) (ISBN 0-87436-231-8) Collective bargaining and the academic librar­ ian I John W. Weatherford. — Metuch­ en, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1976. 147p. $6.00. (LC 76-45424) (ISBN 0-8108-0983- 4) East Central and Southeast Europe : a hand­ book of library and archival resources in North America / edited by Paul L. Horec- ky and D avid H. Kraus. — Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press, 1976. 466p. $35.75 (LC 76-28392) (ISBN 0-87436-214-8) Faculty involvement in library instruction : their views on participation in and support of academic library use instruction : papers and summaries from the fifth annual Confer­ ence on Library Orientation for Academic Li­ braries, held at Eastern Michigan University, May 15-17, 1975 / edited by Hannelore B. Rader. — Ann Arbor : Published for the Center of Educational Resources, Eastern Michigan University, by Pierian Press, 1976. 115p. $8.50. (LC 76-21914) (ISBN 0- 87650-070-X) Federal policy and library support / Redmond Kathleen Molz, — Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, 1976. 118p. $12.50. (LC 76- 17102) (ISBN 0-262-13120-X) International bibliography of the book trade and librarianship. — 11th ed. 1973-1975. — New York : Bowker ; München : Verlag Dokumentation, 1976. 704p. $49.50. (LC 73-700) (ISBN 3-7940-1247-X) Major libraries of the world : a selective guide / Colin Steele. — London ; New York : Bowker, 1976. 479p. $18.50. (ISBN 0- 85935-012-6) Social responsibilities and libraries: a Library Journal/School Library Journal selection / compiled and edited by Patricia Glass Schuman. — New York : Bowker, 1976. 402p. $12.95. (LC 76-27894) (ISBN 0- 8352-0952-0) Terminology of documentation / compiled by Gernot Wersig and Ulrich Neveling. — Paris : Unesco Press, 1976. 273p. $21.45. (LC 76-355220) (ISBN 92-3-001232-7) Toshokan : libraries in Japanese society / Theodore F. Welch. — Chicago : Amer­ ican Library Association, 1976. 306p. $15.00. (ISBN 0-85157-220-0) World list of social science periodicals / Unit­ ed Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. — 4th ed. — Paris : Unesco Press, 1976. 382p. $24.00. (ISBN 92-3-001293-9) ■■