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Publications
NOTICES

•  On the occasion of the fifth Annual Con­
ference of the Art Libraries Society of North 
America, held in Los Angeles January 28 
through February 2, 1977, a new publication 
was issued, entitled A Guide to Art Resources 
in Los Angeles, edited by Joan Hugo, librarian 
at the Otis Art Institute, and produced by 
members of the Southern California Chapter 
of the society.

Included in the pioneer effort in Los Angeles 
are museums, galleries, art libraries and visual 
resource collections, bookstores, notable archi­
tecture and landmarks, and restaurants from 
east to west in Pasadena, the San Fernando 
Valley, Downtown, Hollywood and the Sunset 
Strip, Wilshire and La Cienega, Beverly Hills 
and Century City, Westwood and Venice, and 
the Coast.

It is available for $3.00 from ARLIS/NA, 
P.O. Box 3692, Glendale, CA 91201.

•  How to Use Biological Abstracts, written 
by Eva S. Jonas, is a slide-cassette program 
now available from the Cabot Science Library, 
Harvard University. It consists of a script, sixty 
slides, and a twenty-minute tape with cue 
pulses of 1,000 Hz for automatic advancement 
of slides on automatic equipment (e.g., Singer 
Caram ate). It describes the format and indexes 
of Biological Abstracts and BioResearch Index 
and basic research techniques. The program 
can also be presented by using a cassette player 
and a manual slide projector. The script desig­
nates appropriate time intervals between slides 
for manual advance. The program has been 
used for self and group instruction at Harvard 
University and in a science and technology ref­
erence course at Simmons School of Library 
Science.

Orders, accompanied by a check for $100, 
should be made to Cabot Science Library, in 
care of Eva S. Jonas, Cabot Science Library, 
1 Oxford St., Harvard University, Cambridge, 
MA 02138.

•  A new publication from the Library of 
Congress, Unidentified Flying Objects: A Se­
lected Bibliography, provides a list of bibliog­
raphies, books, journal articles, and proceedings 
for the general reader on the subject of UFOs. 
The works cited range from such firsthand ac­
counts as My Trip to Mars by William Fergu­
son to the Final Report of the Scientific Study 
of Unidentified Flying Objects, commonly 
known as the Condon report or Project Blue- 
book report.

The bibliography provides selective coverage

of the UFO literature that has appeared since 
1969, when the U.S. Air Force published Lynn 
Catoe’s comprehensive UFO’s and Related Sub­
jects. The 200 references in the Library of 
Congress bibliography are limited to English- 
language works, but do include translations and 
materials published abroad. The bibliography 
was compiled by Kay Rodgers of the Library 
of Congress Science and Technology Division. 
It is available free from the Library of Con­
gress, Science and Technology Division, Wash­
ington, DC 20540.

•  On-Line Searching; A Self-Instruction 
Manual, by Edw ard Stockey and Sandra Jan- 
schewsky, is available from the Drexel Univer­
sity Book Store, Philadelphia, PA 19104, for 
$3.90 plus postage. The manual, prepared by 
two students in the Graduate School of Library 
Science under the supervision of Professor 
Brigitte L. Kenney, is designed to provide basic 
skills in Boolean logic, set construction, search 
strategy, and several basic types of searches as 
well as the major commands of both the 
ORBIT and DIALOG systems. It also contains 
a chapter on free-text searching. Using the 
ERIC data base throughout, the manual is or­
ganized into three chapters; at the end of each 
chapter, there is an on-line exercise, which 
should take approximately eight minutes each, 
or a total of about twenty-four minutes for ei­
ther ORBIT or DIALOG. The objective of the 
manual is to instruct prospective searchers 
(both library science students and librarians) 
in the fundamentals of on-line searching, using 
ERIC. Working through the manual will take 
about six hours and will enable the person com­
pleting the manual to go on to data-base-spe­
cific instruction available from vendors and 
data base producers. I t can also be used as a 
refresher for those persons who received train­
ing but have not searched for some time. In ­
tended as a preliminary edition, the manual 
contains an evaluation form. Based on responses 
from the field, the manual will be revised.

•  A unique perspective on the history of 
communism in America, The Earl Browder 
Papers, 1891 to 1975, housed in the George 
Arents Research Library a t Syracuse University, 
is now available on microfilm. The collection 
can be purchased by libraries and other re­
search facilities through the Microfilming Corp, 
of America, 21 Harristown Rd., Glen Rock, 
New Jersey, a New York Times Company. The 
price is $1,250.

Browder (1891-1973) was general secretary 
of the Communist Party of the United States 
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when the party had its greatest impact on the 
American political and labor scene. The papers 
are a detailed chronicle of the activities and 
programs of the party’s leaders, sympathizers, 
and critics during what has been described as 
the true heyday of the party.

The collection comprises approximately 
100,000 pages of materials on forty-five reels 
of 35mm microfilm. It is arranged in six series: 
correspondence, 1891-1960; subject files, 1904- 
60; manuscripts, 1924-67; photographs, 1901- 
41; legal files, 1938-58; and published mate­
rials, 1921-75. The originals were purchased by 
Syracuse University in 1967 from Massachu­
setts book dealer Paul C. Richards.

The Browder papers are part of a collection 
of papers of people in American political life, 
most of them from New York State, in the 
George Arents Research Library.

•  The Bronx Library Association has pub­
lished the Bronx Library Directory, compiled 
by Janet Butler. This twenty-two-page work 
describes the library collections of all of the 
Bronx libraries: college, public, medical, school, 
and high school—public and private as well as 
the special libraries of the borough. Detailed 
information on the various Bronx libraries is 
given in terms of hours, size and strengths of 
collections, special collections and services, ac­
cess, interlibrary loan policy, and photodupli­
cation facilities.

To obtain a copy of this work, send a check 
in the amount of $1.50, payable to the Bronx 
Library Association, to Mr. Edmund Maloney, 
Duane Library, Fordham University, Bronx, 
NY 10458.

•  The American Society of Indexers an­
nounces the publication of its Directory of 
Courses on Indexing in Canada and the United 
States, compiled by James D. Anderson of the 
Library Science Department, Queens College, 
City University of New York.

The Directory lists and describes courses on 
indexing offered by library schools, information 
science programs, government agencies, profes­
sional associations, and private organizations. 
A topical index indicates which courses cover 
each of twenty discrete topics related to index­
ing. A bibliography of textbooks lists all text­
books used in the courses described.

The Directory is distributed by the Library 
Science Department, Queens College, and is 
available to members of the American Society 
of Indexers for $2 and to nonmembers for $3, 
post-paid. Payment must be enclosed with or­
ders. Checks should be made payable to the 
American Society of Indexers. Address the or­
ders to James D. Anderson, Library Science 
Department, Queens College, Flushing, NY 
11367.

•  The Central New York Library Resources 
Council announces the availability of the third 
edition of the Central New York Union List of 
Serials, previous editions of which were pub­
lished in 1968 and 1970.

This new edition, produced through the State 
University of New York’s Union List of Serials 
office, contains 19,632 unique entries and 
10,349 cross-references, and represents selected 
holdings of forty-eight institutions in the Onon- 
daga-Madison-Oneida-Herkimer county area 
served by the council. This edition is substan­
tially larger than previous editions, which in­
cluded 11,107 unique entries for thirty-two 
libraries in the region.

This list is being made available in micro­
fiche form at $15 per set incorporated in a 
binder with printed explanatory text. A limited 
number of printed copies will be available at 
$35 per copy. Orders should be sent to the 
Central New York Library Resources Council, 
4302 S. Salina St., Syracuse, NY 13205.

•  The Instructional Materials Thesaurus for 
Special Education, third edition, is now avail­
able for $2. It is published by the National 
Center on Educational Media and Materials for 
the Handicapped.

This thesaurus, the official list of terms used 
in the National Instructional Materials Informa­
tion System (NIM IS), is the basic tool used to 
index the more than 25,000 instructional ma­
terials listed in NIMIS. The indexing terms 
( descriptors) are invaluable in helping to 
match instructional materials to the educational 
needs of handicapped children.

Sections of this third edition include an al­
phabetical listing of more than 850 defined de­
scriptors, a categorical breakdown of these 
terms, a career cluster of occupational titles, a 
rotated key-word index, and a bibliography. 
Guidelines for indexing and retrieving are given 
in a how-to-use section, making it a useful 
publication for those interested in either ab­
stracting or information retrieval processes.

The thesaurus may be ordered from Ohio 
State University Press, 2070 Neil Ave., Colum­
bus, OH 43210.

•  A Survey on Telefacsimile Use in Li­
braries in the United States is the title of a re­
port written by Dr. Hans Engelke, professor 
and associate director of libraries at Western 
Michigan University, contained in the Micro- 
File Series by the Library of Congress Photo­
duplication Service. The report deals with the 
effectiveness of telefacsimile use for interlibrary 
loan functions during 1975. It is the result of 
a questionnaire sent to all state libraries and 
compares speed and cost factors of telefacsimile 
devices versus telephone and teletype as a 
means of transmitting interlibrary loan requests.

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tive silver halide microfiche for $4.50 and in 
unbound electrostatic positive prints for $19.00, 
both including postage, from the Library of 
Congress, Photoduplication Service, Depart­
ment C, 10 First St. SE, Washington, DC 
20540.

•  The Queens College Press announces the 
initiation of the Queens College Library Sci­
ence monograph series Queens College Studies 
in Librarianship; general editor, Robert A. Col­
by. The first monograph, scheduled for May 
1977, is From Cutter to MARC: Access to the 
Unit Record, by Richard J. Hyman. Professor 
Hyman traces the format of the unit-record cat­
alog from book and card to CRT display screen, 
and gives suggestions for manual, multiple, and 
coordinated access to non-computerized files. 
Further information may be obtained from Mrs. 
Lee Cogan, Director of Publications, Queens 
College of the City University of New York, 
Flushing, NY 11367.

•  The Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin 
American Library Materials ( SALALM) an­
nounces the publication of two numbers of its 
Bibliography Series:

No. 2. Woodbridge, Hensley C., ed. Basic 
List of Latin American Materials in Spanish, 
Portuguese and French. 1975. 205p. $5.00.

No. 3. Fernandez-Caballero, Carlos F. S. 
Paraguái tai hñme, tone Paraguái arandu taisa- 
rambi ko yvy apére: The Paraguayan Bibliog­
raphy. Vol. II. 1975. 221p. $5.00. (Note: vol­
ume one of this bibliography was published by 
the compiler in 1970 and is in print. Write the 
SALALM Secretariat for the address from 
which it may be ordered.)

The Final Report and Working Papers of the 
nineteenth seminar, held at Austin, Texas, in 
1974, have also appeared. The theme of the 
seminar was “The Acquisition of Central Ameri­
can Library Materials.”

Orders for all the above may be addressed 
to Ms. Louella V. Wetherbee, Executive Secre­
tary of SALALM, Benson Latin American Col­
lection, The University of Texas at Austin, 
SRH 1-108, Austin, TX 78712. It is not neces­
sary to pay in advance. Those enclosing money 
with their orders should add $.50 per title for 
handling and postage.

•  Minorities and Women: A Guide to Ref­
erence Literature in the Social Sciences is a 
comprehensive guide to more than 800 refer­
ence publications on women and other minori­
ties, including black, Spanish, Asian, and native 
Americans.

Minorities and Women has been prepared to 
assist those interested in the social, educational, 
psychological, political, economic, or historical 
aspects of minorities and women in America.

Complete bibliographic information and full

annotations, detailing purpose, scope, arrange­
ment, special features, publication history, etc., 
are included. The bibliography is arranged by 
type of reference source (fact books, direc­
tories, citation sources, etc.) and subdivided by 
the groups covered. Author, title, and subject 
indexes complete the work.

The publication is written by Dr. Gail 
Schlachter with assistance from Donna Belli. 
It is available on thirty-day approval from Ref­
erence Service Press, 9023 Alcott St., Suite 201, 
Los Angeles, CA 90035, for $19.50 per copy.

•  The University of Colorado’s Western 
Historical Collections has produced three addi­
tional publications for its series of guides to in­
dividual manuscript collections. In addition to 
an inventory of the papers and a name index, 
the guides provide a brief historical introduc­
tion or biography and a useful chronology. The 
new titles are:
Guide to the Paul D. Harrison Collection 1860-

1973 (Colorado transportation promoters and 
enterprises)

Guide to the Hal Sayre Papers 1859-1925
( Colorado surveyor and mining promoter) 

Guide to the Colorado Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union Papers 1878-1975.
Copies may be obtained by writing to John 

A. Brennan, Curator of the Western Historical 
Collections, University of Colorado Libraries, 
Boulder, CO 80302. Cost: $2 prepaid, $3 post­
paid.

•  The Classified Directory of Artists’ Signa­
tures, Symbols and Monograms, by H. H. Cap- 
lan, has been published by Gale Research. A 
classified arrangement locates the correct name 
of a particular artist from an example of his 
signature, monogram, or symbol, and helps the 
researcher to discover the various forms an 
artist may have used to identify his works. The 
directory contains more than 6,000 entries.

The material is arranged in four major sec­
tions. The first section, covering about half of 
the book, is arranged alphabetically by the 
names of the artists. Section two covers mono­
grams exclusively. The third section is devoted 
to illegible or misleading signatures. Section 
four covers symbols, which have been arranged 
as far as possible according to their form. Pub­
lished in America by Gale Research Co., De­
troit, 1976, the directory is available for $75.

•  The University of California, Berkeley, 
Study Group of the Committee on Bibliograph­
ic Control has recently completed a report on 
the third phase of its study, entitled Future of 
the General Library Catalogs of the University 
of California at Berkeley, Report-Phase 3. It 
proposes a plan of action for providing public 
and staff access to a unified bibliographic data 
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using the BALLOTS system, phased in over an 
eleven-year period. The primary means of ac­
cess to data for both public and staff proposed 
is on-line, combined with computer output 
microform auxiliary lists, such as back-up data. 
The plan proposes closing the present card 
catalogs and the conversion of retrospective 
bibliographic data. Information on costs of the 
system and the necessary equipment, as well 
as projected cost savings and benefits, is pro­
vided.

Copies of the report are available to individ­
uals and to other libraries at a cost of $3 per 
copy. Requests should be addressed to: The 
Librarian’s Office, University of California Gen­
eral Library, Berkeley, CA 94720. Prepayment 
is requested; checks should be made payable 
to the Regents of the University of California.

RECEIVED

Authors in the news : a compilation of news 
stories and feature articles from American 
newspapers and magazines covering writers 
and other members of the communication 
media /  by the staff of Biography News ; 
Barbara Nykohuh, editor. — Detroit : Gale 
Research Co., 1976. 306p. $24.00. (LC 75- 
13541) (ISBN 0-8103-0045-1)
Volume 2 of the series.

Countries of the world and their leaders. —  3d 
ed. — Detroit : Gale Research Co., 1977. 
l,141p. $20.00. (LC  76-27210) (ISBN 
0-8103-1038-4)

Directorship by objectives /  Robert E. Kem­
per, Richard E. Ostrand. —  Littleton, 
Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1977. 80p. 
$8.00. (LC 76-56238) (ISBN 0-87287- 
138-X)
“Challenge to change: library applications 

of new concepts, no. 2”
Education and education-related serials : a di­

rectory /  Wayne J. Krepel, Charles R. 
D üVall. —  Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Un­
limited, 1977. 256p. $15.00. (U.S. and Can­
ada) $18.00. (elsewhere) (LC 76-47040) 
(ISBN 0-87287-131-2)

Government reference books 74/75 : a biennial 
guide to U.S. government publications /  
compiled by Alan Edward Schorr. —  Lit­
tleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1976. 
263p. $11.50. (U.S. and Canada) $13.50. 
(elsewhere) (LC 76-146307) (ISBN 0- 
87287-168-1)
“Fourth biennial volume.”

Hebrew printing and bibliography /  selected 
and with a preface by Charles Berlin. — 
New York : New York Public Library and 
KTAV Publishing House, 1976. 518p.
$35.00.
“Reprinted from publications of the New

York Public Library.”
International organizations : a guide to infor­

mation sources /  Alexine L. Atherton. — 
Detroit : Gale Research Co., 1976. 350p. 
$18.00. (LC 73-17502) (ISBN 0-8103- 
1324-3)
“International relations information guide 

series; v .l”
The Islamic Near East and North Africa : an 

annotated guide to books in English for non- 
specialists /  David W. Littlefield. —  Lit­
tleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1977. 
375p. $19.50. (U.S. and Canada) $23.00. 
(elsewhere) (LC  76-218) (ISBN 0-87287- 
159-2)

The library-centered approach to learning /  
Marie Schuster. —  Palm Springs, Calif. : 
ETC Publications, 1977. 112p. $8.95. (LC 
76-54328) (ISBN 0-88280-047-7)

Library technical services : a selected, annotat­
ed bibliography /  compiled by Rose Mary 
Magrill, Constance Rinehart. —  West- 
port, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1977. 238p. 
$14.95. (LC  76-27130) (ISBN 0-8371-9286- 
2)

Managing multi media libraries /  Warren B. 
Hicks, Alma M. Tillin. —  New York : 
Bowker, 1977. 264p. $13.95. (LC  76-49116) 
(ISBN 0-8352-0628-9)

Maryland : a guide to information sources /  
Michael M. Reynolds. —  Adelphi, Md. : 
Research and Reference Publications, 1976. 
151p. $11.95. (LC 76-44420) (ISBN 0- 
917698-00-2)

Participative management in academic libraries 
/  Maurice P. Marchant. — Westport, 
Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1976. 260p. 
$17.50. (LC  76-8740) (ISBN 0-8371-8935- 
7 )
‘ Contributions in librarianship and informa­

tion science, no. 16”
Proceedings of the personal evaluation institute 

held at Eastern Illinois University, Charles­
ton, Illinois, October 24-26, 1975 /  edited 
by F rancis M. Pollard. — Charleston, 
111. : Dept. of Library Science, Eastern Illi­
nois Univ., 1976. 161p. $4.00.
( Address orders to Mr. George Hackler, Con­

tinuing Education and Community Services, 
Eastern Illinois Univ., Charleston, IL 61920.) 
Serbs in the United States and Canada : a com­

prehensive bibliography /  compiled by
Robert Gakovitch, Milan Radovich ; 
edited by Joseph D. D wyer. — St. Paul, 
Minn. : Immigration History Research Cen­
ter, Univ. of Minnesota, 1976. 129p. $6.00.

“A visit from St. Nicholas” : an exhibition cata­
log /  compiled by H arriet D yer Adams, 
Marion P. Munzer ; forword by Anne Lyon 
Haight. —  Albany : State Univ. of New York 
at Albany, 1976. 40p. $2.00.
(Requests for copies should be addressed to

Special Collections, University Libraries, State 
University of New York at Albany, 1400 Wash­
ington Ave., Albany, NY 12222.) ■ ■