ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 220 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f V i r g i n i a L ibrary at C harlottesville recently acquired its tw o-m il­ lionth book, th e gift of th e Thom as Jefferson M em orial F oundation. T he w ork is L ’Architec- ture consideree b y C laude-N icolas Ledoux, th e eig h teen th -cen tu ry F ren ch arch itect w hose d e­ signs influenced T hom as Jefferson. T h e rare, tw o-volum e edition was published in Paris in 1804. U niversity P resident F ran k L. H ereford, Jr. announced th e acquisition of th e tw o-m illionth volum e, saying, “All of us in th e U niversity com m unity are deeply grateful to th e fo u n d a­ tion for such a superb gift.” H e called th e gift a fitting one, “no t only because of Mr. Jeffer­ son’s abiding interest in architecture, b u t also because he chose for Pavilion IX a t th e U niver­ sity a n en tran ce m otif designed b y Ledoux for a pavilion a t L ouveciennes, w here Mr. Jefferson picnicked w ith M aria Cosway.” • T h e m anuscripts of A lexander G raham Bell, distinguished inventor a n d scientist, have been d o nated to the L i b r a r y o f C o n g r e s s by his heirs. T h e m assive an d extraordinarily rich collection (c a . 130,000 item s) w ill b e a valu­ able source for scholars, as it docum ents in g reat detail Bell’s entire career an d varied ac­ tivities. A lthough h e is best know n as th e fath er of th e telephone, Bell w as th e outstanding w orker of his generation in education of the deaf, and his scientific an d technological in te r­ ests ranged from eugenics to aviation, in w hich he was a pioneer. Bell’s papers include h u ndreds of laboratory notebooks in w hich he recorded his daily ex­ perim ents. In one is th e prophetic 1876 entry, accom panied b y a draw ing: “I th e n shouted into M [outhpiece] th e follow ing sentence: ‘Mr. W atson— come here— I w an t to see you.’ To m y delig h t he cam e an d d ecla red th a t he h ad h e a rd an d understood w h a t I said.” T h e Bell correspondence is volum inous, including both originals a n d retained copies o f Bell’s letters, as w ell as letters he received in great variety from th e obscure a n d th e im portant. Bell cor­ responded w ith m any of th e noted persons of his day, from such scientists as G uglielm o M ar­ coni an d Joseph H enry to presidents of th e U nited States. T h e letters are not w ithout h u ­ mor; included in th e papers is a com plaint from M ark T w ain to B ell’s father-in-law a b o u t his C onnecticut telephone: “ . . . th e inventor is re­ sponsible for all this. . . . L et him com e u p & work th e H artford telephone till h e pines for th e solace & refuge of his long h o t hom e.” In clu d ed in th e papers are num erous p h o to ­ graphs of historical significance, m any of them taken by Bell’s son-in-law, D r. G ilbert H. Gros- venor, editor of th e N ational G eographic for fifty-five years, as w ell as a m iscellany ranging from d a ta concerning Bell’s p a te n t suits to bio ­ graphical an d genealogical m aterials. T h e li­ brary has also received a substantial volum e of the papers of o th er Bell fam ily m em bers, am ong th em th e scientist’s father, th e elocu­ tionist A lexander M elville Bell, an d his father- in-law G ardiner G reene H u b b ard , one of th e founders of th e telephone industry and first p resident of th e N ational G eographic Society, w here th e Bell Papers have b een on deposit. A separate gift to th e library is Bell’s first draw ­ ings of his telephone, presented b y his g ran d ­ son M elville Bell Grosvenor, w ho is also one of th e donors of th e Bell Papers. T h e collection greatly strengthens th e li­ b ra ry ’s extensive m an u scrip t holdings in th e his­ tory of A m erican science an d technology, w hich range in tim e from th e papers of Benjam in F ranklin to those of J. R obert O ppenheim er, as w ell as such inventors as Jo h n F itch, Sam uel F. B. Morse, an d the W rig h t brothers. A fter ar­ rangem ent and description b y th e library, the A lexander G raham Bell Papers w ill b e avail­ able for use in th e M anuscript D ivision by qualified scholars. • A n u n published m an u scrip t containing tw o short stories b y th e nin eteen th -cen tu ry E n ­ glish novelist C harlotte B ronte has been p re ­ sented to th e U n i v e r s i t y o f M i s s o u r i b y the S enator S tu art Sym ington family. T h e m inia­ tu re m anuscript represents a m ajor addition to th e m anuscript holdings of th e U niversity of Missouri. T h e m anuscript, containing th e stories “T he S ecret” an d “L ily H art,” was w ritten in 1833, w hen Miss B ronte was seventeen, and has been unavailable to scholars since 1915. T h e m an u ­ script w ill be edited for publication b y Profes­ sor W illiam H oltz, a m em ber of th e E nglish de­ p artm en t, U niversity of M issouri-Colum bia, a n d is expected to show th e developm ent of C h arlo tte B ronte’s talents in th e years p reced ­ in g th e publication of Jane Eyre. G R A N T S • T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f M i c h i g a n has been aw ard ed a g ran t of $50,000 b y th e N ational Science F o u n d atio n ’s Office of Science Inform a­ tion Service to stu d y a com puter-based system to en h an ce th e sharing of technical inform a­ tion in a system of scientific com m unities. Co­ principal investigators for th e project are D r. K arl L. Zinn, associate director of th e M E R IT FOREIGN & DOMESTIC SERIALS SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE TO ALL TYPES & SIZES OF LIBRARIES FROM 11 REGIONAL OFFICES IN THE U.S A.. 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Inform a­ tio n ab o u t resources at M ichigan State U niver­ sity, W ayne S tate University, an d th e U niversi­ ty of M ichigan will be shared th ro u g h th e com­ p u te r netw ork in an on-line, interactive m ode to show how com m unication can be facilitated am ong these an d o ther scientific com m unities. • A $348,800 C ouncil on L ib rary Resources ( C L R ) g ran t to S t a n f o r d U n i v e r s i t y w ill en­ ab le th a t institution ’s fully operational BALLOTS (B ibliographic A utom ation of L arge L ibrary O perations U sing a T im e-Sharing Sys­ te m ) to undertake new developm ent tasks to ­ w ard a C alifornia library autom ation netw ork. U n d er term s of the tw o-and-one-half-year grant, th e B A LLOTS softw are an d file structure w ill b e altered to support the com plete MARC ch aracter set, b ro ad en its ta p e com m unication system, and expand its serial processing cap a­ bility. T he aim of this developm ent is a re ­ liable, flexible, an d econom ical on-line netw ork to su p p o rt an d im prove library service in the libraries of California. Since N ovem ber 1972, B A LLOTS has p ro ­ vided com prehensive on-line technical process­ ing services in th e Stanford libraries using the university’s central com puter (a n IBM 3 6 0 /6 7 ) . A t th e h e a rt of th e system is a 400,000-record file accessible th ro u g h a pow erful set of in­ dexes. C urrently these include a file of L ibrary of Congress MARC d ata, a file of individual items being purchased b y Stanford, a n on-line catalog of all th e items cataloged thro u g h th e system, and a n on-line catalog of th e en tire u n ­ derg rad u ate library holdings. A pproxim ately 100 languages are rep resen ted in th e files, as h alf of S tanford’s acquisitions are foreign im ­ prints. Stanford U niversity b egan w ork on BALLOTS in 1967, receiving ab o u t $2 m illion in developm ent funds from th e U.S. Office of E d u catio n thro u g h 1971. In 1972 C LR m ade a $325,000 g ran t tow ard continuation of th e BALLOTS developm ent, m a tc h e d b y a sim ilar sum from th e N ational E n dow m ent fo r th e H u ­ m anities. D avid W eb er is director of th e Stanford U ni­ versity L ibrary, an d A. H . E p stein of th e Stan­ ford C en ter for Inform ation Processing is in charge of th e BALLOTS Project. • T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f C h i c a g o ’s com pre­ hensive library d a ta m anagem ent system is ex­ p ecte d to achieve full operational status in 1976 an d to be available for sharing w ith other libraries u n d er term s of a new C ouncil on L i­ brary Resources ( C L R ) grant of $350,000. T h e C hicago system — in th e planning, d e ­ sign, and im plem entation stages for alm ost a decade— perform s a full range of adm inistrative i an d read er services via th e library’s Varian m inicom puter, w hich has d irect access to the single in teg rated d a ta file stored in th e u niver­ sity’s central com puter (a n IBM 3 7 0 /1 6 8 ). B ibliographic records in th e Chicago system are to b e fully com patible w ith L ibrary of C on­ gress MARC records and h en ce ad ap ta b le for use in o th er systems su pported by CLR . I t is expected th a t th e C hicago system will prove transferable for use b y o ther large libraries or by groups of sm all libraries connected to a cen­ tral facility via rem ote terminals. T he Chicago system, initially su pported by th e N ational Science F oundation betw een 1966 and 1970, also received a $400,000 grant from C L R in 1971 m atch ed by a sim ilar g ran t from the N ational E n dow m ent for th e H um anities. Principal investigators fo r th e U niversity of Chicago in connection w ith th e library data m anagem ent project are C harles T. Payne, the project director; Stanley M cE lderry, director of th e library; a n d F re d H. H arris, director of the com putation center. • T he Council on L ibrary Resources (C L R ) has m ade a tw o-year grant of $111,431 to th e A m e r i c a n L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n (A L A ) on b e­ h alf of th e Joint Steering C om m ittee for th e Re­ vision of A nglo-A m erican Cataloging Rules (A A C R ) of 1967. T h e Joint Steering C om m it­ tee is com posed of representatives of ALA, the C anadian C om m ittee on C ataloguing, th e ( B rit­ ish ) L ib rary Association, th e B ritish L ibrary, and th e L ibrary of Congress. T h e 1967 A A C R has play ed a significant role in E nglish-speaking countries in standardiz­ ing th e choice of entry, form of heading, an d physical description of library m aterials. Such rules for recording th e contents of library col­ lections are essential to th e collections’ acces­ sibility. N eed for A A C R revision after less th a n eight years is based in large m easure on the need for revision of rules for entry, heading, a n d d e ­ scription. In 1967 it was im possible to reach full agreem ent on rules in th e N orth A m erican an d B ritish texts. A nd w ith th e developm ent of m achine-readable cataloging (M A R C ) systems internationally, it is im perative th a t as m any co­ operative agreem ents as possible b e m ade in or­ d e r to avoid th e cost of d uplication of catalog­ n g in th e w orld’s libraries. U nder th e term s of th e C L R grant, royalties resulting from the sale of the new A A C R will b e p lace d in a comm on fu n d for th e purpose of supporting fu tu re activities associated w ith A A C R as these m ay b e defined by a com m ittee ap pointed b y th e A A C R authors for th a t p u r­ pose. 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T h e D o c u m e n t Catalog, w hich m ost docum ents librarians have used to search fo r docum ents published betw een 1895 and 1940, w as actually a tw o-year cum ulation o f subject entries as well as entries fo r issuing agency and p ubli­ cation series. T h e M o n th ly Catalog has, since 1900, p rovided an an n u al index o f the entries in the m onthly issues (except fo r a 30-m onth period, Ja n u a ry 1906 to Ju n e 1908). T w o decennial indexes to the M o n th ly Catalog have been published by G P O : the 1941-1950 cum ulation, and th e 1951-1960 cum ulation issued in 1968. A plan n ed quinquennial cum ulation fo r the years 1961-1965 is still in preparation. “ T h e lack o f com prehensive cum ulative indexes is a p ro b lem fam iliar to users o f periodical indexes. In o rd e r to use the M o n th ly Catalog fo r exhaustive re ­ search o f a topic, o r to find a w ork w hose date of publication is unknow n, one has to search m onth by m o n th during th e cu rren t year, then year by year to 1961, and th ro u g h the tw o decennial issues to 1941. F o r earlier m aterials, m ost docum ents librarians p refer to use th e biennial D o c u m e n t Catalog. “A s th e title indicates, this is p rim arily a cum ulative “subject” index to th e M o n th ly Catalog. I t does no t contain th e follow ing entries included in the source indexes: nam es o f persons w ho w ere beneficiaries of individual “relief” m easures, and “personal authors.” T h e la tte r entries have been cum ulated by E dw ard P rzebienda in tw o decennial and tw o quinquennial volum es covering th e years 1940-1970 (published by P ierian Press as C um ulative Personal A u th o r Indexes to th e M o n th ly C atalog). H ow ever, the follow ing types o f entries contained in the source indexes have been cum ulated: governm ent agency “a u th o r” entries, and title entries. “ T his cum ulation represents a m assive m erging of entries in all previously published official cum ulative indexes to the M o n th ly Catalog-. 49 an n u al indexes (calendar years 1900-1905, 1935-1940, an d 1961-1971; and fiscal years 1 9 0 8 /0 9 -1 9 3 3 /3 4 ); th e tw o decennial indexes; and one six-m onth index (July-D ecem ber 1934). O riginal indexing w as done fo r th e 30 m onthly issues th a t w ere not indexed, and th e entries were m erged. T h e com pilers did not include the years 1895-1899, since the M o n th ly Catalog was n o t indexed LeRoy C. 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P rivate enterprise has again com e to the rescue o f the h a rrie d docum ents lib rarian to fill a serious void left by official governm ent indexes and catalogs. D isregarding th e inadequate bibliographic c o n tro l over the full range o f federal docum ents, p a r­ ticularly “n o n -G P O ” publications, and the inadequate depth o f indexing and subject analysis, the m ost serious T h e la rg e st and m o st co m p reh en siv e sub­ je c t index to U.S. G overnm ent p u b licatio n s ever produced. • f if te e n v o lu m e s • 1 3 , 3 2 7 tw o -c o lu m n pages • m o re th a n 2 .5 m illio n s u b je c t c ita tio n s • offered with our 106 volume reprint edition of the Monthly Catalog itself from 1895-1962. Included is the 30 volume “ Classes Added” Edition (for 1895- 1924) to which previously missing Superintendent of Documents Class Numbers were added under the supervision of Mary Elizabeth Poole. All reprint volumes are specially bound and marked for easiest use with Cumulative Subject Index. Send for our free brochure on the M o n th ly C a ta lo g S u b je c t R e f ­ ere n c e S y s te m . It includes details of our unique offer of free "interim use” microfilm reels which can be used before (and after) complete sets of reprint volumes are delivered. Meanwhile, the C u m u la tiv e S u b je c t In d e x may also be purchased in the C o m b in e d R e fe re n c e E d it io n which, as ex­ plained on the coupon, includes the complete M o n th ly C a ta lo g on Microfilm. ication in federal documents bibliography” the CU M U LA TIV E SU BJECT IN D EX TO T H E M ONTHLY C A TA LO G O F U.S. NS, 1900-1971 in the 1975 American Reference Books Annual. this comprehensive review which appears on pages 47 and 48 of the 1975, Sixth Edition “General Reference Works, Government Publications, United States.” cduring this early period. In view o f th eir com m end­ able effort to close the 30-m onth gap m entioned, their failu re to do original indexing fo r this earlier five-year period is a regrettable, b u t not serious, oversight. “A lthough this com pilation will increase the use of the M o n th ly Catalog fo r the p erio d 1900-1940 and will m ake searches m ore convenient and com plete, it will no t elim inate the need fo r th e D o cu m en t Catalog. T his catalog was m ore com prehensive and includes m any additional docum ents. T h e indexing w as gen­ erally b etter and in g reater depth. T he D o cu m en t Catalog is also a com bined catalog-index. A rranged by subject, the entries provide com plete bibliographic inform ation, and the user m ust look only in one place and need n o t consult b o th index an d catalog listings. In those cases in w hich th e user can narro w the search to a short tim e fram e, th e D o c u m e n t Catalog m ight still be p referred . H ow ever, m ost docum ents reference w ork concerns m ore recent publications, and this cum ulative index is w arm ly w elcom ed since it fills a serious gap fo r th e period 1961-1971. “ D ue to variations in term inology and indexing rules th a t have o ccu rred over this span o f 72 years, the The complete 15-volume set is avail­ able for immediate delivery. Use this coupon to order today. b c o a t s o t c l s f V h p u f w e b om pilers have been forced to m ake certain arb itra ry , u t em inently reasonable an d p ractical, editorial de­ isions. Subject headings ap p ear in tact u n d er their riginal spellings. H ow ever, this p roblem has been lleviated by m erging m any see an d see also references h a t had disappeared over th e years. T h e p ro b lem of ubject headings in b o th singular and p lu ral form , ften w idely separated, has been solved by com bining h em u n d er either one o r th e o th e r heading. 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