ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries February 1989 / 159 How to publish in ACRL: Non-serial publications Are you working on a survey, directory, pam ­ phlet, bibliography, or any other project w ith pub­ lication potential? Then you need to be aw are of the publication procedures for non-serial publica­ tions developed by the ACRL Publications Com­ mittee. If your idea is appropriate for the Publications in Librarianship series, contact the editor, Jonathan A. Lindsey, Coordinator of Library Affairs, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798. If your idea is appro­ priate for a CLIP Note, contact the chair of the CLS Clip Note Committee, Pamela Snelson, Coor­ dinator of Access Services, Drew University Li­ brary, Madison, NJ 07940. If your idea is more appropriate as an ACRL non-serial p u b lic a tio n , your proposal w ill go through the following steps on the way. Step One. Fill out a “Preliminary Publication Information F orm ,” available from ACRL H ead­ quarters, early in the planning stages of your proj­ ect. This form asks for basic information about the scope and content of the proposed publication and the individual(s) responsible for developing it. Send the com pleted form to Mary Ellen Davis, ACRL’s publications officer, at ACRL H eadquar­ ters. Step Two. The ACRL publications officer re­ views the proposal and offers ALA Publishing Ser­ vices the first chance of accepting the project as an ALA publication. This “right of first refusal” is specified in the operating agreement between ALA and its divisions. Step Three. ACRL’s Publications Subcommittee on Non-Serial Proposals and the ACRL publica­ tions officer review the content and viability of the proposal and make a recommendation as to its fea­ sibility. (In some cases, an outside reader w ith ex­ pertise in the subject area will be asked to review the publication for editorial content. This review will next be considered by the Subcommittee and the publications officer.) The Subcommittee will review a n d ac t u p o n p u b lic a tio n p roposals throughout the year, as well as at ALA annual con­ ferences and m idwinter meetings. Step Four. After reviewing the recommenda­ tions of the Subcommittee (and any outside review­ ers) the ACRL publications officer then accepts, rejects, refers back to ALA Publishing Services, or asks for further development of each proposal from the author or sponsoring body. Step Five. If your proposal is accepted, submit your completed manuscript to ACRL H eadquar­ ters for further review by the Subcommittee and the ACRL publications officer. For further inform ation, contact Mary Ellen Davis, ACRL Publications Officer, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; (312) 944-6780, x287. ■ ■ ★ ★ ★ Ne ws from the Field Acquisitions • Southeast Missouri State U niversity, C ape G irardeau, has acquired the largest private collec­ tion in the world of books and manuscripts by au­ thor W illiam Faulkner, valued at $3.5 million. The collection was donated by Louis Daniel “L. D .” Brodsky, a St. Louis poet who collected the m aterial and who will serve as curator, and his fa­ ther, Saul L. Brodsky, a St. Louis businessman. Most notable among the 10,000 items in the collec­ tion are W arner Bros, files and screenplays from Faulkner’s stints as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1940s, m ore th a n 120 books inscribed by Faulkner, three one-of-a-kind “books” typed and bound by Faulkner, and the 606-page carbon type­ script of “The H am let,” the only Faulkner novel m anuscript not held by an institution. The collec­ tion also includes an assortment of personal letters to, from , and about Faulkner, including previ­ ously unpublished letters by his wife Estelle, his early mentor Phil Stone, and his Random House editor and confidante Saxe Commins. • The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has acquired the “Lon G. Nungesser Papers: Hope for H um anity” for its Joseph A. Labadie Collection, p art of the University’s D epartm ent of Rare Books and Special Collections. Nungesser, a social psy­ chologist, author, and AIDS victim, donated his papers to the Labadie Collection, one of the largest 160 / C& RL News collections of radical activist m aterial in the coun­ try, so th at his work will be preserved as a founda­ tion, and a departure point, from which to build m ed ical an d social system s th a t p ro m o te a healthier personal psychology. Diagnosed w ith AIDS in 1983 and given a prognosis of death within six months, Nungesser rejected medical advice and developed his own treatm ent, concentrating on aerobics, vitamins, meditation, and the creation of a positive living environment. His papers include correspondence, drafts of unpublished writings, articles, videotapes and cassettes of interviews, and copies of his three books, Homosexual Acts, Actors and Identities, Epidem ic o f Courage: Facing AID S in America, and Notes on Living Until W e Say Goodbye: A Personal Guide. The University has also acquired a limited edi­ tion portfolio called “More Printing for Theater: A Portfolio of E phem era” as a first gift from the Friends of the University of Michigan Library. The portfolio is a collection of memoirs and original creations by the late printer and book designer Adr­ ian Wilson (1923-1988) who was born in Ann Ar­ bor. One of the founders in 1947 of the Interplayers Theater Company in San Francisco, Wilson cre­ ated announcements, posters, programs, and other printed items for the theater. The portfolio in­ cludes original creations for the Interplayers, in­ cluding rare woodblock and linoleum-cut prints. • The Wheelock College Library, Boston, has acquired a collection of historical children’s books from alum na M artha W heatley Ingraham . The more than 500 British and American volumes date prim arily from the 19th century but span the mid- 18th through 20th centuries. Included are a battle- dor, chapbooks, miniatures, primers, and other early textbooks, as well as works by such well- know n au th o rs and illu stra to rs as C ald eco tt, C ruikshank, C rane, C arroll, Potter, Rackham, Greenaway, Parrish, Milne, and Shepard. Grants • Auburn University, Alabama, has received a $246,514 NEH grant to support 640 reading and discussion sessions in Alabama libraries focusing on southern literature. • The Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island, has received a $197,653 HEA Title II-C grant to convert to machine-readable form the bibliographic records for the monographs in the John Hay Library. The grant will fund the sec­ ond year of this three-year project. D uring the first year 70,000 bibliographic records were converted; during the second year another 52,000 records, foc­ using on the records from the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays and other special col­ lections, will be converted. The records produced through the conversion project will be loaded into the RLIN and OCLC online databases, making them available to scholars around the country as well as at Brown. In addition, the University’s John C arter Brown Library has received a $10,500 NEH grant for the planning of an international conference, an exhibi­ tion w ith interpretive catalog, and public lectures on how New W orld discoveries influenced E uro­ pean ideas about civilization. • The California School of Professional Psychol- ogy has received a $75,000 grant from the Fletcher Jones Foundation to begin autom ating the libraries across the four-campus CSPP system. The libraries will use the microcomputer-based Sydney data sys­ tem. • The Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, Illinois, has been awarded a $90,642 NEH grant for preservation of newspapers produced by the men in the Civilian Conservation Corps camps from about 1934 to 1938. The grant will enable the Center to film the papers, produce service copies in microfiche, and produce a printed bibliographic guide th at indexes the titles, companies, and geo­ graphic locations of the camps. It is estimated th at there are over 3,000 titles in the collection. • Doane College, Crete, Nebraska, has received a $47,887 grant from the D epartm ent of Education for a cooperative journals sharing project among members of PICK LE, a consortium of nine inde­ pendent college libraries in Nebraska th at also in­ cludes the College of St. Mary, Concordia Teach­ ers College, Creighton University, D ana College, Hastings College, Midland Lutheran College, Ne­ braska Wesleyan University, and Union College. The grant will cover the costs of a comprehensive serials study and the purchase of telefacsimile m a­ chines for each library. • The Fenway L ibrary Consortium, Boston, re- ceived a $35,000 LSCA Title III Special Project grant to add member library holdings to O CLC ’s union list of serials. The project resulted in biblio­ graphic access to over 7,000 titles both online and through a printed list. • The Indiana University Libraries and nine sis- ter institutions have been awarded two grants for a coordinated preservation m icrofilm ing project. The outright and m atching funds total $909,781 from NEH and $370,000 from the Mellon F ounda­ tion for a three-year grant period th at began in Oc­ tober 1988. The project, shared by the universities of Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, Iow a, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, and Wisconsin, will result in the preserva­ tion of more than 22,000 volumes from collections im portant for research in Western European litera­ ture and history, African studies, Slavic and East­ ern European studies, and the history of science and technology. The IU libraries will use its share of the grant to microfilm and catalog 1,500 vol­ umes of rare Slavic periodicals. February 1989 / 161 • The North Carolina State University, Raleigh, library system has received a $36,357 HE A Title II- D grant to expand its services throughout the state via electronic networks. NGSU holdings are listed in its online catalog, the Bibliographic Information System, developed by the Triangle Research Li­ braries Network comprised of NCSU, the Univer­ sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Duke University. By 1989 an autom ated circulation com­ ponent will give users across the state expanded ac­ cess to BIS and the TRLN libraries’ collections. • The Ohio State University Libraries, Colum- bus, has received a two-year $115,000 NEH grant to assist in the completion of a comprehensive com­ puterized database of approximately 14,000 titles of American fiction published from 1901 through 1925. The project’s goal is to make available a com­ prehensive bibliographic resource th at is not only accurate in content and structure, but adaptable for future additions and modifications, and can be m ade inexpensively available online, in m icro­ form, or on magnetic tape to the scholar-user. All records will appear in the Online Union Catalog maintained by O CLC and will be m ade available to RLIN. • Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, has received a $220,073 grant from the U.S. De­ p a rtm e n t of E d u catio n to com plete th e in tra ­ campus telecommunications network for the Li­ brary Automation Program. The two-year project funds the internal wiring of the libraries to support 200 terminals and printers in the multiple library and media facilities on campus. The grant also sup­ ports connecting hardw are w ithin the libraries to the SMUISN network cable and in Bradfield Com­ puter Center. This will place the C entral Univer­ sity Libraries into regional, state, and national comm unication systems supported by Bradfield Computer Center for sharing information on li­ brary resources. • The University of British Columbia, Vancou- ver, has been aw arded a $37,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant to its Spe­ cial Collections. The grant, under the C anadian Research Tools Programme, will make possible a computerized catalog of the library’s unique C ana­ d ian p am p h let collection of m ore th a n 20,000 pamphlets on subjects like C anadian history, poli­ tics, and literature, w ith emphasis on British Co­ lum bia, voyages of exploration to the west coast of North America and the Arctic, the fur trade, the W ar of 1812, C anadian railw ay history, the Riel Rebellion, and the 1837 Rebellion. The com puter­ ized catalog will make the collection accessible to all library users, and 200 UBC Library-produced microfiche sets of the catalog will be distributed to university, college, and public libraries throughout Canada. • The University of California, Berkeley, has re- ceived a $192,000 grant from the D epartm ent of Education for the second year of its East Asiatic L i­ brary’s project to catalog and carry out conserva­ tion work on special collections of Japanese m ateri­ als. T h e g ra n t w ill e n a b le th e U n iv ersity to complete the cataloging of the 5,645 volumes pub­ lished between 1868 and 1945 acquired from the Mitsui L ibrary in Japan. The four professional Jap­ anese librarians working on the project will also process 2,500 works of contem porary literature and criticism selected from the personal library of the distinguished author Endo Shusaka. In addi­ tion, the grant will provide funds for preservation care for the two collections to repair bindings and place volumes w ith soft covers in protective portfo­ lios. Conservation care will also be given to the col­ lection of 2,877 titles of Japanese manuscripts from the Mitsui Library, dating from the 14th to the early 20th centuries, w hich w ere cataloged in 1983. • The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has received an $18,539 N EH grant to support the planning of a series of public programs th at explore the Jewish role in the discovery, conquest, and set­ tlement of the New World. • W ake F o rest U niversity, W inston-S alem , N orth C arolina, has received a $105,990 NEH grant to support a series of lectures, a continuing education course, and other presentations examin­ ing the thought of the Constitution’s framers in light of competing ideas about m an, nature, and politics th at have emerged since 1789. News notes • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, re- cently created its Friends of the Library Author of the Year Program and aw arded young, aw ard­ w inning w riter Kaye B. Gibbons of Raleigh as its first resident author. The program, thought to be unique among academic libraries, was announced by NCSU director of libraries Susan K. N utter as p art of the Libraries’ celebration of their centen­ nial year in 1989. It is intended to assist a series of promising new authors, especially those associated w ith NCSU, in their literary careers. Gibbons, 27, a native of Nash County, North Carolina, received international acclaim w ith her first novel Ellen Foster, published in 1987 by Algonquin Books. In May 1988 the novel was aw arded both the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction by The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a PEN /H em ingw ay First Novel C itation. D uring their tenure as authors of the year, Gibbons and her successors will be able to use the Friends of the Li­ brary study carrel at D. H. Hill Library as well as other library resources, and will be included in the libraries’ social functions. • The University of Michigan Library, Ann Ar- bor, has hired two information specialists to coor­ dinate the new M-Link project—a five-year pro­ 162 / C&RL News gram th at will, in time, bring the resources of the University Library closer to the citizens of Michi­ gan through their local public libraries. W endy P. Lougee, head of H arlan H atcher G raduate L i­ brary, has been named M-Link project director and will be responsible for long-range planning and policy decisions. Kathleen M. Bergen, former head of the UM Map Library, will serve as M-Link librarian and will be the prim ary liaison w ith M- Link sites. W ith the M-Link project, Michigan communities will have, for the first time, direct ac­ cess to the UM Library, the sixth largest academic library system in the country. ■ ■ P E O P L E Profiles Meredith A. Butler, assistant vice president for academ ic planning and developm ent at the State University of New York at Albany, has been a p p o in te d d ire c to r of university libraries and dean of the library fac­ ulty at the same institu­ tion, effective February 1. Butler has also served as associate for a c a ­ demic development and assistan t d ire c to r for planning and resources d e v e lo p m e n t in th e SUNY a t A lbany l i ­ braries; head of public services a t SUNY at Meredith A. ButlerBrockport; and bibliog­ rapher and head of the Humanities D epartm ent at Syracuse University. She earned her BA and MA degrees at Ohio State University, and her MLS from Syracuse Univer­ sity. Awarded the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarian- ship in 1980, Butler is also active in ACRL, the L i­ brary Administration and Management Associa­ tion, the National W omen’s Studies Association, and the N ational Association of Women Deans, Administrators and Counselors. She has published on a variety of subjects including copyright, the im pact of technology on libraries, and electronic publishing, and has been a frequent speaker at state and natio n al meetings on such topics as women and leadership development, fundraising, planning, and the future of libraries. Ruth Moore Jackson, assistant director of li­ braries and chief adm inistrator of public services at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, for the past four years, has been named dean of li­ braries at West Virginia U n iv ersity , M o rg a n ­ town. In her new role, Jackson will be responsi­ ble for development and management of the 2.5 million volumes and mi­ croform s contained in the Charles C. Wise, Jr. L ib ra r y a n d its n in e branches on three cam­ puses. She will also over­ see th e W est V irg in ia R uth Moore Jackson an d R egional H isto ry Collection which contains over 4.5 million m anu­ script items. Jackson received her b achelor’s degree from H am pton Institute, her MLS from Atlanta Univer­ sity, and her Ph.D . from Indiana University. Be­ fore joining the staff at UNF she held the positions of assistant education librarian, head reference li­ brarian, and associate professor and coordinator of the library science program at Virginia State Uni­ versity. She has sèrved as visiting lecturer and teaching fellow at Indiana University and as visit­ ing cataloger at Monroe County Public Library in Bloomington, Indiana. She is a member of ALA, ACRL, the Florida L ibrary Association, and the Southeastern Library Association, and has served on a variety of academic committees and university service organizations. An active participator in nu­ merous professional conferences and seminars, Jackson has contributed to two textbooks and is currently researching a third dealing w ith person­ nel management for libraries.