ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 7 1 am ong their institutions; reducing resistance to change. • new professionals are not ready to w ork on T he day continued w ith sessions on funding, a d ­ their first day on the jo b —how do we train them ? dressed by Ted W elch, N orthern Illinois Univer­ • recruitm ent potentials am ong rural junior col­ sity, and Ken Peterson, Southern Illinois Univer­ lege librarians; sity, as well as innovative solutions to cutbacks, • the assertion th a t the for-profit sector will pay w ith speakers D onna G oehner, W estern Illinois for inform ation and will make contributions if a p ­ University, R uth McRride, University of Illinois, proached. U rb an a, an d D arrell Jenkins, S outhern Illinois Illinois, November 2. The suburban train ca r­ University. After lunch, there was a business m eet­ ried me from Chicago to Glen Ellyn to atten d the ing, followed by fu rth er small group sessions: one Fall Conference of the Illinois C h ap ter (IACRL) at on th e p arap ro fessio n al’s role and th e o th er on the College of D uPage, a very large com m unity group dynam ics in m aintaining quality services, college serving th e residents of D uPage County. including papers by John Tyson, N orthern Illinois T he full-day m eeting began w ith my talk on o r­ University, and Karen Bingham , University of Illi­ ganizational change. I described organizations as nois, U rbana. having life cycles and pictured change as equiva­ The closing session was addressed by George F. lent to grow th. After noting some of the most sig­ G ruendel, of the m anagem ent faculty at Sanga­ nificant changing trends in higher education and m on State University. His topic was “M aintaining their im pact on libraries, I spoke about the w ay in Q uality W orklife in U ncertain T im es.” w hich organizations (among them libraries) deal Both of th e chapters presented program s e n ­ w ith change in the external environm ent via the riched by outside speakers, b u t gave th e ir ow n techniques of differentiation and integration. m em bers an im p o rtan t opportunity to m ake p re ­ D escribing th e w ay in w hich libraries apply sentations to their colleagues at the local level—an these concepts led to an exam ination of conflict and invaluable experience for encouraging m em bers’ its resolution in the academ ic library, and to a p re­ professional d e v e lo p m e n t.—JoAn Segal, A C R L sentation on open com m unication as a strategy for Executive Director. ■ ■ ★ ★ ★ News from the Field Acquisitions • Iowa State University’s Archives of Am erican A g ric u ltu re , Ames, has received th e p a p e rs of Roswell G arst, a friend of H enry A. W allace and an ard en t advocate of hybrid corn. G arst spent considerable tim e in Russia at the invitation of So­ viet Prem ier Nikita Khruschev and encouraged im ­ proved tra d e relations w ith Eastern E urope. T he A rchives, recen tly estab lish ed by Io w a S ta te ’s Parks L ibrary and located in Special Collections, offers m any agriculture-oriented m anuscript col­ lections for scholarly use, especially the papers of individuals prom inent in A m erican agriculture. • M ichigan State University L ib ra rie s, E ast Lansing, has received a collection of rare cookery books assembled by the late Beatrice V. G ran t, professor of foods and n u trition at MSU. Included are about 50 works on cookery and related subjects. Most w ere published in the 18th and 19th centu­ ries, b u t a num ber of 17th-century works and a few from th e 20th cen tu ry , in cluding b ib liographic tools, are in c lu d e d . O f p a r tic u la r in te re st is a French work on candy m aking, La Cannam eliste Française, ou nouvelle instructions por ceux qui d é sire n t d ’a p p re n d re I ’o f f i c e ..., p u b lish e d a t Nancy in 1751. Its plates offer splendid depictions of 1 8 th -c e n tu ry ta b le w a r e . A m ong A m e ric a n works in the collection, the most interesting is an early work by an A m erican black author, The H o­ tel K eep e r’s, H e a d -W a ite r’s and H ousekeeper’s G uide, w ritten by Tunis C am pbell and published in Boston in 1848. • The University of Toronto L ibrary held a cere- m ony O ctober 5 to m ark the official deposit of the M illenium Collection of 21 Old U krainian books. Purchase of this invaluable collection of 17th and 18th-century U krainian titles from the estate of Paul Fekula, a leading N orth Am erican book col­ lector, was m ade possible through funds obtained by th e C h a ir of U k rain ian Studies F o u n d atio n . E d w ard Keenan, H arvard University professor, and E d w ard Kasinec, chief of the Slavonic D ivi­ sion of the New York Public L ibrary, w ere featured speakers at the presentation. An illustrated c a ta ­ logue is available from th e C h a ir of U krainian Studies, P aul Magocsi, a t th e U niversity of T o­ ronto. 72 • Williams College’s C hapin Library of Rare Books, W illiamstown, Massachusetts, has received a William Saroyan collection begun in 1934 with the appearance of the author’s first book, The Dar­ ing Young Man on the Flying Trapeze. The collec­ tion is especially thorough in materials from 1930 through 1942. Included are more th an 100 reviews and clippings about Saroyan’s early reception and first successful plays (My H eart’s in the Highlands and The Time o f Your Life), and some 50 issues of the Boston Armenian newspaper Hairenik and lit­ tle magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, each w ith a Saroyan story or essay. The collection is a gift from the family of Raymond C. W ashburne. Grants • The Academy of Natural Sciences Library, Philadelphia, has received an HE A Title II-C grant for the cataloging and conservation of its photo­ graphic collection, including motion pictures, lan­ tern slides, stereographs, albums, and portraits of 19th and 20th century figures in natural history. Their goal is to catalog some 20,000 images at the item level. The wealth of access points available on the project’s microcomputer will make inform a­ tion accessible in detail never before accessible. Project director is head librarian Sylva Baker, w ith Carol Spawn as project manager. • Aurora College, Illinois, has received a gift of $3,000 from the estate of the late Jeannie Lowdon, professor em erita of English at Aurora. The be­ quest is to purchase books relating to Scottish and English literature. • Clemson University Library, South Carolina, received a grant of $49,960 from the National His­ torical Publications and Records Commission to help develop its university archives and records m anagem ent program . The two-year project be­ gins this m onth. The grant provides for the hiring of a records m anager to develop a program of rec­ ords adm inistration and provide guidance to de­ partm ents on records retention. D uring the second year a university archivist will be hired to arrange and describe the archives. Clemson University will perm anently fund both positions after the grant program is completed. • Gonzaga University L ibrary, Spokane, Wash- ington, has received a $56,800 grant from the N a­ tional Historical Publications and Records Com ­ mission to enable the Oregon Province Archives of the Society of Jesus to complete the microfilming of its unique Indian mission collections. Indexing, re­ pairing of documents, and the actual microfilming will proceed during the 1985/86 academ ic year w ith a scheduled completion date of September 1, 1986. Similar NHPRC grants enabled the micro­ filming of the Oregon Archives Indian Language Collection in 1976 and the Alaska Mission Collec­ tion in 1980. • Northern Illinois University Libraries, De- Kalb, have been aw arded an HEA Title II-C grant in the am ount of $93,480 to provide support for im ­ proved bibliographic access to N IU ’s Southeast Asia Collection. Part of the program will be a com­ puterized T hai vernacular and romanized catalog­ ing pilot project in which software will be devel­ oped for control of Thai language bibliographic records. An international directory of social science data sources relating to T hailand will be prepared, edited, and m ade available at a future date. • N orthw estern U n iversity’s M elville J. Herskovits L ibrary of African Studies has received an HEA Title II-C grant of $172,193 to provide in­ form ation about its holdings to a wider audience. An inventory of about 10,000 individual publica­ tions, m aintained online and updated continually, is scheduled for completion by December 31,1985, and will be distributed to other major Africana col­ lections on magnetic tape. Inform ation on publica­ tions from African governments, political parties, trade unions, companies, and universities will be included. • The University of Kentucky L ib rary , Lex- ington, has received a grant of $142,136 from the N ational E ndow m ent for the H um anities for a three-year project to identify and locate holdings of Kentucky newspapers and to enter th a t inform a­ tion into the CONSER database. The grant is p art of the United States Newspaper Program. • The University of Toronto L ibrary has re- ceived two grants from the Social Sciences and H u­ manities Research Council of C anada’s Program of S upport for Specialized Research Collections: $20,000 in support of its Brazilian Collection, in particular to fill gaps in the holdings of p re-1966 monographs; to purchase backfiles of serials and government documents in microform by way of the L atin A m erican M icroform Project; and to strengthen the collection of tow n plans and topo­ graphic maps. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Li­ brary also received $20,000 to strengthen its N atu­ ral History Collection from the Renaissance period to the 19th century. News notes • The Library of Congress Copyright Office has returned a reel of microfilm subm itted for copy­ r ig h t by th e I n te r n a t io n a l S ta r R eg istry of Northfield, Illinois, and closed the file on the firm ’s application. The microfilm contains a list of names of individuals who paid a fee to the company to register a star in their name. Since the company was founded in June 1979, an estimated 100,000 people have paid $25-$35 each w ith the under­ standing th a t a star in their nam e “will be listed in a book which will be copyrighted at a later date in the L ibrary of Congress,” according to the firm ’s recent prom otional literature. LC has repeatedly emphasized th a t it has no connection in any way w ith any star registry. The Science and Technology A C Q U IS IT IO N PERSPECTIVES 4. We have established a reputation for accuracy in billing and shipping to your specifications. Invoices arranged alphabetically by author or title, or numerically by purchase order, and separate billing available upon request for Grant Funds, Title II, gifts, etc. Book House error rate last year was less than one percent of the books we delivered. The best value is accurate fulfillment o f yo u r orders. CALL TOLL-FREE t h e TODAY 1-800-248-1146 BOOK In Canada & Michigan HOUSE CALL COLLECT (517) 849-2117 JOBBERS SERVING LIBRARIES WITH ANY BOOK IN PRINT SINCE 1962 208 WEST CHICAGO STREET OCLC Vendor No. 17397 SAN 169-3859 JONESVILLE, MICHIGAN 49250 74 Division of the Library has stated th a t the only offi­ cial organization th a t gives designations to astro­ nomical bodies or planetary features is the In tern a­ tional Astronomical Union. The Registry’s application file was closed be­ cause of the com pany’s failure to respond to a re­ quest for clarification of authorship of the list of nam es it su b m itted for copyright. H ow ever, a copyright registration would not guarantee the au­ thenticity of inform ation contained in a work, nor would it protect the association of a proper name with any star or planetary feature. Theoretically, the same star could be “sold” to two different indi­ viduals by two different star registration systems (many others are in existence) w ithout any copy­ right violation. • The New York Public Library’s Public Cata- log Room and Main Reading Room closed on Janu­ ary 18 for the first time since the Central Research L ib ra ry opened its doors in 1911. T he closing launched a 9-12 m onth project which entails m a­ jor restoration of the room and its conversion from an obsolete card catalog system to a contem porary bibliographic com puter system. Service resumed on Jan u ary 19 in the M ain Reading Room, the North Hall of which will serve as an interim cata­ log room through the duration of the project. Pub­ lic users can enter through the Local History Divi­ sion. This major project, enabled by grants from the Kresge Foundation, the Pew Memorial Trust, and other foundations, will take two im portant steps: the 8,000-drawer card catalog will be replaced by the library’s 800-volume Dictionary Catalog, re­ cently completed for materials cataloged before 1972; and 50 com puter terminals will be installed to serve as the catalog for materials cataloged more recently. This new Catalog of The New York Pub­ lic Library (CATNYP) was developed by Carlyle Systems of Berkeley, California. The restoration of the Public Catalog Room will include cleaning and repairing of the bronze chan­ deliers, the bronze gallery railing, reading lamps, and the museum -quality oak reading tables. A new ceiling m ural will be painted, and tem perature and hum idity controls will provide a better envi­ ronm ent for both books and patrons. ■ ■ .P E O P L E . Profile People in the news Earle C. Ferguson has been appointed director Thomas J. Galvin, dean of the University of of libraries for the University of M anitoba, W inni­ Pittsburgh School of Library and Inform ation Sci­ peg, effective July 1. Since July 1983 he has been ence, has been elected to a three-year term on the director pro tern; during the previous year he was board of the Council on Postsecondary Accredita­ appointed associate director and three months tion (COPA). He will serve as one of three repre­ later, acting director. sentatives of the Assembly of Specialized Accredit­ Ferguson first came to the University in 1970 ing Bodies, the 37-m em ber group th a t includes when he was appointed cataloger for the Law Li­ ALA, the American Bar Association, the Liaison brary. He is a graduate of the Universities of W ind­ Comm ittee on Medical Education, and the Ameri­ sor and Toronto, where he earned his bachelor of can Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. arts and bachelor of library science degrees respec­ COPA is th e n atio n al non-governm ental self- tively. He has served on a num ber of professional regulatory organization th a t works to foster and fa­ committees in the C anadian Association of Univer­ cilitate the role of accrediting agencies in prom ot­ sity Teachers, the C anadian Library Association, ing an d en su rin g th e q u a lity an d d iv ersity of the C anadian Association of College and Univer­ American post-secondary education. sity Libraries, the C anadian Association of Law Martin Lewis, assistant librarian at the Medical Libraries, and the American Association of Law and D ental Library at the University of Leeds, E n ­ Libraries. gland, has joined the Barker Engineering Library Ferguson chaired the Law Libraries Coopera­ at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for tive Cataloguing Group from 1972 until his ap­ one year as an exchange program participant. E ar­ pointm ent as associate director in 1982. lier, Lewis had been assistant librarian at the Leeds