ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


News From the Field
A C Q U I S I T I O N S

•  McMaster University in Hamilton, On­
tario, announces the acquisition of the Bertrand 
Russell Papers. Comprising hundreds of thou­
sands of manuscripts, books, periodicals, films, 
and tapes, this collection was purchased by Mc­
Master with funds “from purses public and 
private, from foundations and from individuals, 
alumni and friends.” As part of the contract, 
Earl Russell will also deposit all of his subse­
quent papers in the Canadian institution, to­
gether with his private library of some four 
thousand volumes.

•  The University of Colorado libraries 
have received as a gift a Persian manuscript of 
the late sixteenth century. The donor is Dr. 
Mehdi Nakosteen, Professor, History and Phi­
losophy of Education, University of Colorado. 
The manuscript contains the works of Katibi of 
Nishapur, died 1435, a poet of the later Ti- 
murid period. The volume has the two major 
works of the poet, Book of the Divine, and 
The Observer and the Observed, together with 
five of his other writings. The manuscript is on 
paper, in nasta’liq script, 315 leaves, two col­
umns, nineteen lines, with ruled margins of 
seven lines in color. There are two full double­
page decorated pages, several single-page dec­
orated pages, and most of the pages have orna­
mental geometric designs dividing the text. The 
calligraphy and decoration are of a high qual­
ity. The manuscript measures 21.5 X 13.5 cm. 
with a text page size of 15 X 8 cm. The binding 
is of worn green morocco, with blind tooling, 
and with decorative cloth doublures. Katibi 
manuscripts are by no means common. It is 
probable that the one described above is the 
only Katibi manuscript in the country. A search 
has not revealed an English translation of the 
works of this poet.

•  The Olin Library of Wesleyan Univer­
sity, Middletown, Connecticut, has purchased 
the library of H. L. Beales of London, social 
historian who for many years taught at the Lon­
don School of Economics. Built up over a span 
of nearly sixty years, the Beales collection il­
lustrates every phase of the British movements 
for social, political and economic reform in the 
past two hundred years. Among its many treas­
ures are a magnificent first edition in original 
boards of Sir Frederick Morton Eden’s State of 
the Poor (three volumes, qto., 1797), a con­
siderable number of bound volumes of early 
radical and Chartist periodicals, and numerous 
scarce books and pamphlets by Robert Owen 
and his followers. Mr. Beales, now approach­

ing eighty and still active as a lecturer and 
publisher’s consultant, combines a collector’s 
nose with a scholar’s eye. Many of his best 
finds were made in the open air book market in 
London’s Faringdon Road, now, alas, almost 
defunct.

• Recently acquired by the Library of 
Congress on exchange from the Biblioteca Na- 
zionale Centrale in Florence is the 39-volume 
Catalogo Cumulativo, the first all-inclusive Ital­
ian national bibliography. This work is pub­
lished by the Kraus-Thomson Organization Ltd. 
and was edited and prepared under the direc­
torship of Luigia Risoldi, librarian of the Uni­
versity of Bologna; Aldo Ferrabino, President of 
the Centro Nazionale per il Catalogo Unico in 
Rome; and Emanuele Casamassima, Director of 
the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence. 
The Catalogo Cumulativo lists printed works 
published in Italy between 1886 and 1957 and 
contains 639,590 entries. This great bibliograph­
ical undertaking was completed in the winter 
of 1967 after seventeen years of work. Actual 
work began in 1950 With the creation of the 
Centro for the specific purpose of establishing 
procedural policies, methods of recording, and 
bibliographic control. After several proposed 
plans for the publication of the catalog were re­
jected, it was finally decided to feed into a 
computer all entries in the Bollettino delle 
Pubblicazioni Italiane, a monthly published 
since 1886, which lists the copyright deposits at 
the library in Florence. Beginning with the 
1958 issue of the Catalogo, Kraus-Thomson 
will publish and distribute continuations in 
monthly issues and in annual cumulations. The 
price of the 39-volume catalog, clothbound, is 
$1,980.

•  The archives of Dr. Paul Carus and the 
Open Court Publishing Company of LaSalle, 
Illinois, have been deposited in the Morris Li­
brary of Southern Illinois University by the 
Carus family. The Carus papers, consisting of 
some 60,000 pages, the largest body of manu­
scripts thus far acquired by the SIU library, 
constitute one of the major archives of modern 
philosophy. The Open Court Publishing Com­
pany was founded in 1887 by Edward C. Hege- 
ler, a LaSalle manufacturer, who brought Dr. 
Paul Carus to LaSalle the following year as 
editor of the Open Court, a new journal of the 
philosophy of science and comparative religion. 
Through the Open Court and The Monist, 
which was established later, and through his 
work as director of the editorial policies of the 
Open Court Publishing Company, Dr. Carus 
made LaSalle the most important publishing

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center for philosophy in America for a period of 
more than thirty years. After Dr. Carus’s death 
in 1919 the Cams family carried on the work 
and the Open Court is still one of the nation’s 
major publishers in the fields of philosophy and 
religion.

•  Authoress Natalia Maree Belting has be­
come a donor to the special collection of manu­
scripts and illustrations of children’s literature 
at the University of Southern Mississippi. 
The collection which now ranks as the largest 
of its type in the world is valued at approxi­
mately one-half million dollars. Its administra­
tor and creator, Dr. Lena Y. de Grummond, es­
timates that the assemblage now contains the 
works of more than 700 authors and illustrators. 
Materials contributed to the collection by the 
Urbana, 111., authoress include galley proofs 
and manuscripts from her published works as 
well as unpublished typescripts. The writer’s 
contributions to the USM collection will be dis­
played along with those of other donors at a 
special Children’s Book Festival slated for
March 17-18 at the university. The event will
include a conference on the writing, editing, 
and illustrating of children’s literature.

•  Recent accessions of the Harry S. Tru­
man library included papers of Edwin G. Ar­
nold, longtime Federal Government official in­
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curity Administration, the Department of the 
Interior and the Economic Cooperation Ad­
ministration, 1933-56; James P. Aylward, Mis­
souri State Democratic Committee Chairman, 
and Missouri State Democratic National Com­
mitteeman, 1932-36; and of Willa Mae Rob­
erts, Democratic National Committeewoman 
from Missouri, 1934-56.

•  Washington University has recently 
added to its special collection of modern litera­
ture a group of single items, including cor­
respondence, worksheets and editorial matter, 
complementing its larger collections of the pri­
mary material of modern British and American 
authors. Included is material representing W. S. 
Merwin, American poet, John Updike, John 
Barth, Richard Eberhart, Allen Tate, William 
Carlos Williams, Robert Nathan, Marianne 
Moore and John Gould Fletcher. Now avail­
able to users are unpublished descriptions of 
the Samuel Beckett worksheets, comprised of 
manuscripts, typescripts and notebooks of titles 
written by Beckett during the past six years; 
the worksheets and notebooks of Elizabeth Jen­
nings, English poet; the correspondence of Ba- 
bette Deutsch; letters and manuscripts of Rob­
ert Creeley and Robert Duncan; manuscripts 
of the recent work of George P. Elliott and 
Stanley Elkin; and two groups of the papers of 
Alexander Trocchi, British novelist and editor.

• The papers of the late Edwin W. Kem­
merer, whose work in guiding the reconstruc­
tion of the monetary systems of a dozen na­
tions earned him the appellation of “money 
doctor,” have been given to the Princeton 
University library by his son, Dr. Donald L. 
Kemmerer, also a distinguished economist.

Professor Kemmerer, who died in 1945 at 
age 70, was the organizer and first director of 
the International Finance Section at Princeton 
and was the University’s first Walker Professor 
of International Finance.

Included in the gift of some 67,000 items, 
now housed with the manuscript division of the 
Princeton library, are papers spanning nearly a 
half-century dating from student days in 1897 
—letters, diaries, drafts of articles, speech texts, 
financial records, offprints, clippings, academic 
notes, photographs, and personal copies of nu­
merous reports. There are scrapbooks, diplomas, 
maps and charts, books from his own library, 
and a wealth of memoranda and mementos.

The use of the Kemmerer Papers is current­
ly restricted. This means that access to the col­
lection can only be granted by the library with 
the permission of the donor.

B U I L D I N G S

•  Dr. Vera Micheles Dean, of the graduate 
school of public administration at New York

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University delivered an address entitled “West 
and Non-West: New Perspectives” to those in 
attendance at the library dedication program 
at Shippensburg State College, Shippens­
burg, Pa., on October 24, 1968. The Shippens­
burg library contains 72,416 square feet, has a 
seating capacity of 1,200 with individual seat­
ing for 909 including 747 carrels. It is fully air 
conditioned and humidity controlled, carpeted 
throughout, and has a capacity of 250,000 vol­
umes plus. It is of modular construction and 
built for future expansion to the rear. The cost 
of the building, including carpeting, steel stacks 
with wood end panels, wall carrels, air condi­
tioning and humidity control, is $23.42 per 
square foot. A Dial Access Information Re­
trieval System is being installed with remote 
stations throughout campus.

F E L L O W S H I P S ,
S C H O L A R S H I P S

•  Three tuition and partial travel grants are 
available to participants in the University of 
Hawaii—East West Center Summer Asian Li- 
brarianship Program, June 16-July 25, 1969. 
Applicants must be currently employed librar­
ians working with materials published in or 
about Asia or assured of such an assignment fol­
lowing the summer’s work. Librarians employed 
in undergraduate colleges as well as those em­
ployed in specialized collections of Asian ma­
terials are eligible for the program. Participants 
in the program register in at least one course 
in Asian librarianship and one other course in 
the graduate school of library studies which 
may be individualized study designed to meet 
specific needs of the participant’s home institu­
tion. Housing is available in East West Center 
dormitories at nominal cost. Application dead­
line is April 15, 1969. For further information 
and application blanks write to: Dr. Robert D. 
Stevens, Dean, Graduate School of Library 
Studies, University of Hawaii, 2425 Campus 
Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822.

• For the third consecutive year the Welch 
Medical Library, one of the Johns Hopkins 
Medical Institutions, has accepted a grant 
from the U.S. Public Health Service to offer 
postgraduate training in biomedical librarian- 
ship in 1969-70. One intensified year-long pro­
gram will be offered in each of the four follow­
ing areas: public services, technical services, 
medical library administration, and history of 
medicine. Training includes tuition-free aca­
demic courses, semimonthly informal seminars, 
and work experience. Also included is a re­
search project, selected by the trainee and his 
advisor, which may lead to a publishable paper. 
Each candidate must be a United States citizen 
and hold a master’s degree from an accredited

library school. Librarians who are now in the
field will also be considered. Though a bio­
science background is preferred, educational re­
quirements will differ according to the area in
which the candidate wishes to specialize. Com­
petence in at least one foreign language is ex­
pected. Trainees will be accepted to begin the
program on July 1 or September 1, 1969.
The stipend will be $5,500. Applications will be
accepted until May 1 from those wishing to
begin the program in July, 1969, and until
July 1 from those wishing to begin in Sep
tember. Completion of this one-year program
may lead to Grade II Certification by the Med­
ical Library Association. For application forms
and/or additional information write to: Mr. Al­
fred N. Brandon, Director and Librarian,
Welch Medical Library, 1900 E. Monument
Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.

•  The Medical Library Association has
named its $1,500 scholarship for the academic
year 1969-70 in memory of Ralph T. Ester-
quest, the late librarian of the Francis A.
Countway Library, Boston, who died in August
1968. Mr. Esterquest had served the association
as a member of the Board of Directors, as
chairman of the Committee on Federal Rela­
tions, and as the MLA representative to the
Council of the American Library Association.

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The scholarship will be granted to a qualified 
student who will enter library school in the 
summer or fall of 1969. Applications are avail­
able from any ALA accredited library school 
or from the MLA Scholarship Committee Chair­
man, Jean Foulke, National Institutes of 
Health, Division of Research Services, Building 
10, Room 5N118, Bethesda, Md. 20014.

M E E T I N G S

Mar. 7: The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presi­
dential Library will host a conference on west­
ern history. The speakers at the one day con­
ference are Dr. John Hawgood of the Uni­
versity of Birmingham, England; Dr. Joe B. 
Frantz, Chairman of the History Department, 
University of Texas; and Dr. William E. 
Unrau, Professor of History, Wichita State 
University, Wichita, Kansas. Coinciding with 
the conference is an art show entitled “The 
West in Art.” This exhibit will open a newly 
decorated exhibit gallery and will be open to 
the public for two weeks. The paintings ex­
hibited are select works from General Eisen­
hower’s private collections.

Mar. 24-25: Institute in Los Angeles jointly 
sponsored by the Library of Congress Informa­
tion Systems Office, the Division of Library 
Automation of ALA, and UCLA libraries to

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explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC 
magnetic tapes which became available for dis­
tribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is 
directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, 
heads of these departments, data processing 
librarians and heads of technical processes. 
Registration is limited to 100. Send name and 
address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, 
American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., 
Chicago, 111. 60611, with fee of $47.

Mar. 27-29: Fourth Annual Conference on 
Junior College libraries, University of Southern 
Illinois, Carbondale, Illinois. The main con­
ference theme will be “The Multi-Media Cen­
ters in Action.” Main speakers scheduled to 
date are Louis Shores and Peter Kim. Programs 
and registration information are available from: 
Mr. George A. Fox, Dean of Learning Ser­
vices, Prairie State College, 10th Street and 
Dixie Highway, Chicago Heights, Illinois 60411.

April 14-15: Institute in Houston jointly 
sponsored by the Library of Congress Infor­
mation Systems Office, the Division of Library 
Automation of ALA, and the Rice University 
libraries, to explain the organization and use 
of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which became 
available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. 
The program is directed at catalogers, acquisi­
tions librarians, heads of these departments, 
data processing librarians and heads of tech­
nical processes. Registration is limited to 100. 
Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC 
Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. 
Huron St., Chicago, 111. 60611, with fee of $47.

May 2-3: Fourteenth annual Midwest Aca­
demic Librarians Conference at Miami Uni­
versity, Oxford, Ohio.

May 5-9: Third International Congress of 
Medical Librarianship 1969, in Amsterdam. 
The theme of the Congress is “World Progress 
in Medical Librarianship.” The subject areas 
include the contribution of medical libraries 
toward an increase of biomedical knowledge; 
the functions of medical libraries in the trans­
mission of biomedical knowledge; the functions 
of the organization of medical knowledge: in­
dexing and classification; modern information 
systems in medicine; technical developments 
in the medical library field; and problems of 
medical information systems and centers in de­
veloping countries. There will be invited lec­
turer’s, as well as contributed, papers. Regis­
tration fee is $60. Registration forms are avail­
able from the office of the Secretary-General. 
Information about special transportation to 
Amsterdam from the United States will be 
available from Mrs. Jacqueline W. Felter, The 
Medical Library Center of New York, 17 East 
102 Street, New York 10029, and for Canada 
from Miss Doreen Fraser, Dalhousie University

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Medical Dental Library, Carleton and College 
Streets, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

June 17-20: Puerto Rico will be the site 
of the Fourteenth Seminar on the Acquisition 
of Latin American Library Materials, June 
17-20, 1969. The acquisition of Latin
American scientific and technological materials 
will be the special topic for discussion. Other ses­
sions will deal with progress made in the past 
year on matters concerning the booktrade and 
acquisitions, bibliography, exchange of publica­
tions, official publications, photoduplication of 
Latin American materials, and archives. Meet­
ings of the Seminar Committees will take place 
on Wednesday morning, June 18. The first gen­
eral session will be held Wednesday afternoon 
to initiate committee and progress reports, and 
the last one on Friday morning, June 20. Meet­
ings of the Executive Board of the newly incor­
porated SALALM will be held on the evening of 
Tuesday, June 17, and at luncheon on Wednes­
day, June 18. Institutional registration in the 
Fourteenth Seminar is $15.00, which includes 
preprint working papers only available through 
payment of the institutional registration. These 
papers, including the Progress Report on books 
in the Americas, will be distributed at the time 
of the meeting to participants and to those 
registered but not attending. The registration 
fee for additional participants from the institu­
tion registering is $7.50, and includes preprint 
working papers. Additional sets of working pa­
pers can be subscribed to in advance for $5.00 
each. The Final Report and Working Papers 
will be subsequently published by the Pan 
American Union. Information on the content 
of the program and working papers can be 
procured from Mr. James Andrews, Argonne 
National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, 
Argonne, Illinois 60439. For other information, 
refer to the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marietta 
Daniels Shepard, Pan American Union, Wash­
ington, D.C. 20006.

June 29-July 2: Annual meeting of the 
American Association of Law Libraries, Hous­
ton, Tex.

July 20-Aug. 1: Third annual Library Ad­
ministrators Development Program at the Uni­
versity of Maryland’s Donaldson Brown Center, 
Port Deposit, Maryland. Seminar sessions will 
concentrate on the principal administrative is­
sues which senior managers encounter. Director 
of the program will be John Rizzo, associate 
professor, School of Government and Business 
Administration, George Washington University. 
Those interested in further information are in­
vited to address inquiries to the Library Ad­
ministrators Development Program, School of 
Library and Information Services, University of 
Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742.

Oct. 1-5: 32nd annual meeting of ASIS 
will be held at the San Francisco Hilton; San 
Francisco, California. The Convention Chair­
man for the 1969 meeting is Mr. Charles P. 
Bourne; Director, Programming Services, Inc.; 
999 Commercial Street, Palo Alto, Calif. 94303.

Oct. 26-30: 68th annual meeting of the 
Medical Library Association will be held at the 
Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Miss 
Joan Titley, director of the Kornhauser Me­
morial Medical library, University of Louis­
ville, is convention chairman. The advance pro­
gram and registration forms will be a part of 
the May, 1969 issue of M LA News.

June 28-July 1, 1970: Annual meeting of 
the American Association of Law Libraries, 
Washington, D.C.

Oct. 4-9, 1970: 33rd annual meeting of 
ASIS will be held at the Bellevue Stratford 
Hotel; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Con­
vention Chairman for the 1970 meeting is Mr. 
Kenneth H. Zabriskie, Jr.; Biosciences Infor­
mation Services of Biological Abstracts; 2100 
Arch Street; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

M I S C E L L A N Y
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of Trustees of the Bibliographic Center for 
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tered in Denver, Colorado, for a four-year term
at the organization’s annual meeting on Novem­
ber 15.

•  A librarian is compiling a bibliography en­
titled, Books in All Fields Written or Edited
by U.S., British, Canadian and Australian Li­
brarians, arranged by author, title, subject. If
you are a librarian and have written or edited
a book in any field, please send a full citation
and give the subject according to the LC List
of Subject Headings to Christopher Kendris,
Associate Librarian, University Library, State
University of New York at Albany, 1400 Wash­
ington Ave., Albany, N.Y. 12203.

•  Elizabeth Homer Morton, former executive
director of the Canadian Library Association/
Association canadienne des bibliothèques, who
retired from that position 30 April 1968, has
been appointed to membership in the Order 
of Canada by The Right Honourable Roland
Michener, C.C., C.D., Chancellor of the Or­
der, it was announced on 20 December 1968. 
An investiture is planned when Miss Morton 
will be decorated with the Medal of Service of 
the Order. Miss Morton is entitled to use the 
initials “S.M.” after her name.

P U B L I C A T I O N S

•  The Dewey Decimal Classification is the 
name of the proceedings of a Workshop on the 
Teaching of Classification held at Columbia 
University on December 8-10, 1966. Edited by 
Maurice F. Tauber, Carlyle J. Frarey, and Nath­
alie C. Batts, the 121-page book may be ob­
tained for so long as the edition lasts from the 
School of Library Service, 516 Butler Library, 
Columbia University, New York, New York 
10027, for $3.50 each, postpaid. Orders ag­
gregating less than $10.00 must be accompa­
nied by payment with checks or money orders 
made payable to Columbia University.

•  A limited number of copies of a 120-page 
Evaluation of the Serial Holdings of 24 Bio­
medical Libraries in Texas may be had upon 
application to its author, C. Lee Jones. Mr. 
Jones is director of the library at the University 
of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. The 
study, which was funded by the Regional Med­
ical Program of Texas through the Texas Coun­
cil of Health Sciences Libraries, is designed pri­
marily to facilitate cooperative acquisitions pro­
grams and to aid in the strengthening of bio­
medical literature collections in Texas.

•  In the series UNESCO Manuals for Li­
braries, a new work has just been published en­
titled International Distribution of Catalogue 
Cards: Report and Prospects. Written by R. S. 
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at Moscow, it contains the results of a study 
carried out in 1965-66 under a UNESCO con­
tract with the International Federation of Li­
brary Associations. This study is based on re­
plies to a questionnaire sent to 120 library as­
sociations, national libraries, and agencies and 
firms distributing catalog cards in thirty-twc 
countries. It describes the activities of card 
distribution centers and considers the desirabil­
ity of the international distribution of printed 
catalog cards. It also discusses the international 
standardization of cataloging rules and the ex­
periments with cataloging at source carried out 
in the United States and the USSR. Annexes 
contain the text of the questionnaire, a list of 
countries to which it was sent, the names and 
addresses of institutions which replied, a sum­
mary table of replies received, and some thirty 
sample catalog cards. The 94-page publica­
tion is available at $1.50 a copy from UNESCO, 
Place de Fontenoy, Paris Vile, France.

•  Libraries Unlimited, Inc., P.O. Box 9842, 
Rochester, New York 14623, has begun publica­
tion of a new series in East European Area 
Studies under the editorship of Bohdan S. 
Wynar. The first volume is entitled Junior 
Slavica: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of 
Books in English on Russia and Eastern Eu­
rope, by Stephan M. Horak, 244 p. $7.85. This 
bibliography of 611 titles is designed to em­
phasize material most useful in teaching courses 
in East European Area Studies on the under­
graduate level and is a helpful selection guide 
for college libraries that support instructional 
offerings in this rapidly developing area studies 
field. Teachers and librarians will find sugges­
tions for choosing the most valuable and pur­
poseful titles to form the nucleus of a worth­
while slavic collection. Junior Slavica is espe­
cially useful as a student guide to selected 
readings in the social sciences. A notable part 
of the annotation for each book is the citation 
of published reviews of the work.

•  National Union Catalog of Manuscript Col­
lections, 1967. 1968. (xxv, 525 p.) For sale by 
the Card Division, Library of Congress, Build­
ing 159, Navy Yard Annex, Washington, D.C. 
20541, at $15 a copy. An additional 2,244 col­
lections of manuscript sources in American his­
tory are reported in the sixth volume of this 
series—which now describes 20,661 manuscript 
collections permanently housed in American re­
positories that are regularly open to researchers.

Covering subjects as diverse as abstract art, 
civil rights, football, theater, Vietnam, and elec­
tions, the collections listed in the new volume 
were reported by 89 repositories. Forty-four re­
positories are new to the series and bring the 
total number of cooperating repositories to 660, 
located in all 50 States, the District of Colum­
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with the new volume is a general index for 
1967 entries intended as a base for a third 
cumulated index to the series; it provides some 
32,340 references to an estimated 17,040 sub­
jects and places, 11,400 personal names, and 
3,900 corporate bodies. (The 1966 volume con­
tained a cumulated general index for reports 
compiled in 1963-66.) Also in the 525-page 
1967 volume is an index to repositories holding 
the collections of 1967, and two special lists 
begun in the 1965 volume: the first showing 
holders of copies of manuscripts whose originals 
have been reported by other institutions, and 
the second showing holders of original manu­
scripts for which copies have been reported by 
others.

The first volume of the series, covering en­
tries prepared in 1959-61, appeared in 1962 
from the press of J. W. Edwards, Inc., Ann 
Arbor, Mich., where it may be purchased for 
$9.75. A second volume, accompanied by an 
index volume for entries in the first two vol­
umes, appeared in 1964 from the Shoe String 
Press, Hamden, Conn., which sells the second 
volume and the index at $13.50 for both. The 
last four volumes, produced by the Government 
Printing Office, are sold by the Library’s Card 
Division. The third volume is priced at $10 a 
copy, and the fourth, fifth, and present volumes 
are $15.

Suggestions regarding the compilation of the 
catalog and inquiries about taking part in the 
program should be addressed to Mrs. Arline 
Custer, Editor of the National Union Catalog 
of Manuscript Collections in the Library’s De­
scriptive Cataloging Division. Queries about the 
manuscript collections described in the catalog 
should be sent to the repositories holding the 
materials.

• The Library of Congress has published, as 
a reference guide for preliminary research on 
nuclear science in Mainland China, an an­
notated listing of 615 research reports, studies, 
articles, and related materials in the Library 
collections. The 70-page paperback, entitled 
Nuclear Science in Mainland China: A Se­
lected Bibliography, is for sale by Superin­
tendent of Documents, U.S. Government Print­
ing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 at 70 cents 
a copy. Part I of the bibliography contains 345 
items in the Chinese language, mostly pub­
lished between 1958 and 1966; Part II cites 
270 items in other languages, mainly English, 
issued between 1964 and 1966, with a few 
1967 publications. References in Part I are 
primarily writings of scientists and engineers of 
mainland China reporting original research and 
are technically oriented. Since most of the 
Chinese authors are not known in the West, 
the author’s affiliation, education, and reputa­
tion have been indicated whenever this infor-

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mation was available. References in Part II are 
mostly to journal and news articles published 
in the West—mainly in the United States—re­
lating to the development and potential of 
mainland China’s nuclear program. An author 
index, a subject index, and a list of Chinese 
journals cited, with Chinese characters, are pro­
vided. Chi Wang, currently of the Library’s 
orientalia division, compiled this reference 
guide while a staff member of the science and 
technology division.

•  The first edition of UCMP/II, a book-form 
catalog produced from the computer tapes of 
the Union Catalog of Medical Periodicals, New 
York, N.Y., was published on 1 January 1969. 
The 515 page volume includes in one alpha­
betical list selected periodicals and serials pub- 
fished prior to 1950 with holdings of eighty- 
three libraries in the New York Metropolitan 
Area. The 5,500 entries—-titles and cross ref­
erences—-reflect the rich retrospective research 
collections of the major medical libraries in 
New York City. Annuals and numbered mono­
graphic series are fisted. The buckram bound 
volume is priced at $11.50. Orders should be 
sent to the Medical Library Center of New 
York, 17 East 102 Street, New York, N.Y. 
10029.

•  A new publication, United States of Amer­
ica National Bibliographical Services and Re­
lated Activities in 1965-67, has been issued by 
the reference services division of the American 
Library Association. This bibliographic essay 
was compiled by Mrs. Helen Dudenbostel 
Jones, head, bibliography and reference cor­
respondence section, The Library of Congress. 
The 56-page booklet selling for $1.50 (10 or 
more copies, $1.25 each) describes bibliogra­
phies of books, theses, maps, audio-visual ma­
terials, and special subjects published and in 
production. Directories, union fists, and bibli­
ographies of periodicals make up one chapter. 
Interlibrary cooperation activities and publica­
tions about them are described. The compila­
tion can be an invaluable aid as a survey of 
the field, a book selection tool, and a reference 
book.

RQ reprints of National Bibliographical Serv­
ices and Related Activities in 1961-62 and Na­
tional Bibliographical Services and Related Ac­
tivities in 1963-64, both by Mrs. Jones, are 
available. The earlier one costs: 2-24 copies, 
25 cents each; 25 copies, $5.00; 100 copies, 
$18.00. Prices of the other reprint are: 2-9 
copies, 50 cents each; 10-24 copies, 45 cents 
each; 25 copies, $10.00. Single copies of these 
reprints are free. Orders with self addressed 
mailing labels and payment enclosed should be 
sent to Reference Services Division, American 
Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chi­
cago, Illinois 60611. ■■

Western Australian Institute of Technology

L IB R A R Y  S T U D IE S
The Institute plans to commence teaching 

in 1970 for a three year undergraduate course 
in Library Science. A course for graduate en­
trants is also planned for 1971.

Details of establishment have not yet been 
finalised but as the Principal Librarian will be 
travelling in North America during April and 
May, he would be glad to meet persons in­
terested in taking part in this significant new 
development. They should be interested in the 
design of curricula and in the introduction of 
recent technical developments in librarianship 
and library practice.

Current salaries which are under review are: 

Heads of
Departments $8,200 $8,600 or $9,000

Senior Lecturers $7,000 x 200 $7,600 $7,900 

Lecturers $4,800 x 200 $6,800

Statements in duplicate giving full personal 
data and professional and teaching experience 
should be submitted to:

Mr. G. G. Allen, c/o The appropriate following 
addresses:

Australian Consulate General, 350 Post St.,
Union Sq., San Francisco (before 18th April)

Australian High Commission, 90 Sparks Street,
Ottawa 4, (before 25th April).

Australian Consulate General, 636 Fifth Ave.,
N.Y. 20, New York (before 6th May).

Anyone interested in future teaching posi­
tions in this field at the Institute should also 
contact Mr. Allen as above.

Further information may be had from, and 
applications after May 6 sent to:

Personnel Officer,
Western Australian Institute of Technology,
Hayman Road,
BENTLEY, W.A. 6102.

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