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costs of th e nation’s libraries m ust be obtained 
to guide fu tu re developm ent and evaluation.

T h e rep o rt—w hich assesses inform ation te c h ­
nology today, identifies examples of current 
use, a n d  recom m ends ways to  w ork tow ard a 
national program —w as p rep ared  b y  th e Infor­
m ation Systems Panel for th e  Council on L i­
b rary  Resources, Inc. Copies m ay be obtained 
a t $3.25 each from P rinting and Publishing O f­
fice, N ational A cadem y of Sciences, 2101 C on­

stitution Ave., N .W ., W ashington, D C .

•  T h e bibliography association, Societas 
Schegkiana-D egenverein, has com pleted th e  
w orld census of Schegk m anuscripts. Before the 
census is published (1 9 7 4 ), inquiries are to be 
directed to  eith er D. M atthias M ueller-H enne- 
berg, 360 F orest Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, or 
Andreas Planer, 45 F rancis Ave., C am bridge, 
MA 02138. ■■

News From the Sections
C O L L E G E  A R T  A S S O C I A T I O N

- A R T  L I B R A R I E S  S E S S I O N
T h e A rt L ibraries session of th e  College A rt

Association was h eld  on Jan u ary  26, 1972, w ith
J u d ith  A. H offberg, B rand A rt C enter L ibrary,
Glendale, C alifornia as chairm an.

K ate Steinitz, honorary curator o f the E lm er
Belt L ib rary  of V inciana, U CLA, reco u n ted  th e
efforts of R aphael T rich e t du F resne, ed ito r of
th e first p rin ted  edition of L eonardo da V inci’s
Trattato ’della Pittura, 1651, w ho in clu d ed  a  list
of authors w ho w rote on art, thus furnishing th e
first know n a rt bibliography. D u  F resne later
becam e K eeper of Collections and L ibrarian to
Q ueen C hristina of Sw eden. A t his d eath  a sale
catalog of his personal library was printed, con­
taining 50,000 entries.

E v a W isbar, of V isual Resources, Inc., dis­
cussed th e  need fo r th e  a r t  lib rary  to becom e
a m ultim edia research center, w ith m ore em ­
phasis on nonbook m aterial. A good example
of this was presented by C laire D uessen, Junior
Arts C enter, Los Angeles, w ho show ed slides
of h e r students eng aged in  a rt technology ac­
tivities.

M arth a K ehde, art librarian, U niversity of
Kansas, reported th e results of h e r survey of th e
book and serial bu d g ets in  tw elve academ ic art
libraries. T h e ran g e is b etw een  $8,200 an d
$28,000, w ith  a m ean of $14,877, a n d  a m edian
betw een $10,000 an d  $14,000. T h e cost of th e
average art book published from 1967 through

 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

1969 increased 29.9 percent, w ith th e  aver­
age cost p e r book in  1970 being $16.16. 1,169 
a rt books w ere published in  th e  U.S. alone in 
1970. H er survey shows th a t th e  academ ic a rt 
library’s book funds are totally in a d e q u a te  to  
su p p o rt th e  academ ic d ep artm en t it serves.

A t the business m eeting, E lizab eth  R. U sher, 
lib rarian  of the M etropolitan M useum  of Art, 
was elected chairm an of th e  1973 CAA A rt L i­
braries session, to  b e  h e ld  in  N ew  York.

T w o possible answers to th e need for an in ­
ternational bibliography of art history w ere p re ­
sented.

M ichael R inehart, lib rarian  of th e  Sterling 
and Francine C lark A rt Institute, reported on 
a CAA-sponsored International C onference on 
the B ibliography of A rt H istory in  W ashing­
ton, D .C ., O ctober 1971. A t this m eeting, an 
editorial com m ittee w as appointed to  p rep are 
a trial issue of Repertoire International d e  I’A rt, 
w hich will g ath er th e  a rt bibliographies c u r­
rently being p rep ared  in  various countries, r e ­
gions, an d  institutes, com puterize the inform a­
tion, a n d  publish these com bined efforts. T he 
first trial issue should be read y  for distribution 
in  1973, w ith  regular publication beginning in 
January 1975.

A p an el consisting of R oger Bilboul, E ric 
Boehm, an d  A lexander Davis of th e  A m erican 
B ibliographical C enter; H enri D orra, U niversi­
ty  of California, a n d  m o d erated  by W illiam 
Treese, a rt librarian, U niversity of California, 
presented th e plans of the Arts R eference L i­
brary. T his will consist of A R T  Bibliographies 
Current Titles, w hich will reproduce contents 
pages of 250 art journals; A R T  Bibliographies 
M odern, an  a b stra c tin g /indexing of m odem  
a rt contents of 2 50 periodicals; A R T  Bibliog­
raphies Historical, an ab stractin g /in d ex in g  of 
basic a rt periodicals an d  books. T he first tw o 
publications will be read y  in 1972, the th ird  in  
1974. ■ ■