ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 306 News From the Field A C Q U IS IT IO N S • The University of West F lorida has announced its first acquisitions from the Syner­ gistics Fund established in 1974. The fund was created by an anonymous friend of the univer­ sity’s John C. Pace Library to support the de­ velopment of its comprehensive collection of rare books, manuscripts, and documentary sources relating to West Florida and the Gulf Region. Among the printed materials acquired are a wide variety of regional imprints, manu­ scripts, and other primary works touching on the life and history of the region over the past four centuries. Recent acquisitions include Barcia’s Ensayo Cronologico (1723); William Roberts’ An account of the first discovery … of Florida (1763); the first London edition of Bartram’s Travels (1792); Darby’s Memoir … of Florida (1821); and McCall’s Letters from the frontiers (1868). Manuscript additions include the logbook of the HMS Mentor, Robert Dean, captain, con­ taining an eyewitness account of the Siege of Pensacola, 1781; and the Keep Family Papers, relating to the earliest years of the Pensacola Navy Yard, 1826-1830. The Synergistics Fund has also supported a number of related bibliographical activities, in­ cluding the microfilming of West Florida coun­ ty newspapers and the collection of materials relating to the frontier trading firm of Panton, Leslie Company, 1783-1821. Also published with the assistance of the fund was the micro­ fiche edition of A Bibliography of W est Florida, compiled by James A. Servies. For information on availability of this regional bibliography and guide to local imprints, contact the Director of Libraries, University of West Florida, Pensaco­ la. • The government of India, through its em­ bassy in Washington, D.C., has presented a col­ lection of books on India to the University of T exas Center for Asian Studies (CAS). The 469 volumes cover a wide variety of topics including philosophy, economics, litera­ ture, politics, law, education, science, technol­ ogy, art, and music. All the English-language books were written and published in India. According to Dr. F. Tomasson Jannuzi, CAS director, the collection is valued at more than $5,000. The books are available for informal use by faculty and students in the CAS library in Speech Building 310. Also, a list of the specific works included in the gift is available at the CAS. • San D iego State University library has acquired a collection of books and other items by and about H. L. Mencken, the great Amer­ ican iconoclast. Consisting of 130 items, the col­ lection contains a copy of the first edition of ev­ ery book written by Mencken including his ex­ ceedingly scarce first work, Ventures into Verse, Baltimore, 1930, which is inscribed and auto­ graphed. Besides the first editions, there are copies of all known English-language editions, some inscribed and many autographed. Also in­ cluded are issues of the American Mercury dur­ ing his editorship years, many books about Mencken, pamphlets, some letters, publishers’ encomiums, and fugitive pieces. San Diego State University library also re­ cently added to its history of science collections a copy of the very scarce first edition of Tycho Brahe, Historia Coelestis, Augsburg, 1666, and a fine incunable, C. Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis, Venice, 1483. • The Milne Library of the State Univer­ sity of New York College at Geneseo has ac­ quired by gift two collections of manuscripts and other unique materials of regional and na­ tional significance. Donated by William P. Wadsworth of Genes­ eo, great-grandson of James Wadsworth (1768- 1844), pioneer settler (1790) and major land­ holder in the Genesee Valley, are the “Home­ stead Papers.” These number ninety shelf feet of manuscript correspondence and business pa­ pers, ledgers, receipts, and unique maps relat­ ing to land sales, family land management, and agricultural and business pursuits in western New York’s rich Genesee Valley and in Ohio and Michigan. These date from the late 18th century through 1915. Additionally, the “Pa­ pers” include printed documents and early pub­ lished maps of the area. Together, the “Papers” are an invaluable source record for more than a century of history in the Genesee Valley. From Michael Moukhanoff of Valley Center, California, formerly of Ashantee, New York, the library has received an important collection of more than five thousand black-and-white photo­ graphs and glass plates made by Martha Blow Wadsworth (Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth) in the first decade of this century. This extraordinary collection includes a photographic record of overland travel by horseback from Fort Riley, Kansas, to Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and southeastern Utah, with survey­ ing units of the U.S. Army in 1907, 1908, and 1910. Of special interest in these series are pho­ tographs of the Navajo and those documenting life and ceremonials in the Hopi and other In­ 307 dian pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona. Ad­ ditional photograph series record journeys to Alaska, ca. 1911, the Panama Canal during con­ struction, Europe, ca. 1909, and travel on horseback in western New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. They are equally val­ ued for their unique historical contexts and as specimens of early photography by a woman. • A private collection of photographs and memorabilia tracing the history of the Long Is­ land Railroad from 1885 through 1974 has been acquired by the Stony Brook Foundation for use by students, staff, and the general public at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The collection, housed in the special collec­ tions section of the university’s Melville Li­ brary, contains more than 5,000 photographs of various stages of railroad construction, de­ velopment, and locations. Rare photographs in­ clude great train wrecks, turn–of–the–century conductors’ dress, and depots which no longer exist. The photographs, all identified and many in color, date from 1885 through 1968. Two glass cases hold rare framed maps show­ ing the LIRR track spread in 1904 and 1927. Scale drawings of track runs, penciled track diagrams, and crew sheets for LIRR engineers and staff are included in the collection. Round­ ing out the collection are 263 timetables (local and system) dating from 1894 through 1974. The collection was amassed during the past 38 years by Robert Emery, a former resident of Port Jefferson who retired from the LIRR last year after 33 years as a conductor. Mr. Emery said he became interested in the railroad at the age of 13 when he accompanied his fa­ ther, Theodore (also a lifetime LIRR conduc­ to r), on track runs to East End depots. Robert Emery now lives in Florida. Evert Volkersz, director of special collections for the Melville Library, said the Emery collec­ tion “provides detailed historical documentation about the growth and development of railroad transportation on Long Island through its tech­ nical and original material on the predecessors, rivals, and mergers leading to the present Long Island Railroad.” “Its greatest value,” he added, “lies in the fact that it is a unique, unduplicated source for original research in such fields as economics, political science, sociology, technology, real es­ tate, and general Long Island history and de­ velopment.” G R A N T S • The Michigan Library Consortium, a nonprofit corporation composed of 69 Michigan library agencies (38 colleges and universities, 11 community colleges, 15 public libraries, 2 school systems, 2 hospitals, and the state li­ brary), has received a two-year $145,000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation. The work to be supported by this grant is directed toward im­ proving library services throughout the state. The consortium staff will work with its member libraries and other interested individuals and groups within Michigan through seminars, com­ mittees, and other study groups to bring about such improvements. There are five areas of concentration: (1 ) to make the most effective use of the 2,500,000- record computer-readable Ohio College Library Center data base which 49 members already have or will have access to through cathode ray terminals, (2 ) to utilize the 35 or more other bibliographic computer-readable data bases available through national computer networks, (3 ) to improve and extend document delivery services, (4 ) to establish responsibilities for building and preserving library collections for statewide needs, and (5 ) teaching library per­ sonnel and user groups within Michigan the possibilities for service through innovations brought about through technology and the es­ tablishment of the consortium’s library network. A parallel program effort is being supported by the Kellogg Foundation through the Michi­ gan State Library Services. The grant to the Michigan Library Consortium is part of a na­ tionwide program on the part of the Kellogg Foundation to encourage libraries to share their resources by exploiting existing technology. The Michigan Library Consortium is present­ ly housed at the G. Flint Purdy Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202. • The Council on Library Resources has awarded a grant of up to $10,000 to the Princeton University Library as partial sup­ port for the improvement of the services of the library’s Microform Division. CLR funds will be used to support the training of division staff and the orientation of faculty and students to the use and availability of microforms. A seminar featuring authorities in micro­ graphics and covering such topics as biblio­ graphic sources, organization, storage, retrieval, and equipment will be held for librarians in the surrounding area. CLR funds will also be used to develop signs and other graphics to aid users of microforms. This project is just one segment of an overall program initiated by the Princeton library to develop more extensive microform service and to improve user and staff attitudes toward the medium. As a first step, the microform collec­ tion and reading room were relocated earlier this year to prime space adjacent to the main library entrance. In the month following the move, usage of the facilities increased dramat­ ically. Other segments of the overall program in­ clude replacing worn-out equipment, increasing 308 the number of machines, enhancing the phys­ ical appearance of the microform reading room, reducing the cataloging backlog of microforms, and completing the cataloging of microform sets. The library is currently seeking a qualified professional to head the reorganized division. According to Princeton Librarian Richard Boss, it is necessary to develop a positive cli­ mate for the use of microforms before a li­ brary can consider relying on them in place of hard copy. In many libraries, microforms are housed in dimly-lit, isolated reading rooms. The special equipment used to read microforms of­ ten is old, poorly maintained, and insufficient in quantity. Moreover, materials in this format are not easily accessible through card catalogs or printed guides. “The negative experiences that have built up must be replaced with posi­ tive experiences before serious consideration can be given to a microform acquisitions pro­ gram,” says Boss. Princeton library staff wilf publish a report on their experience. • The Council on Library Resources has awarded a grant of $1,950 to Suzanne D odson, head of the Government Publications and Mi­ croforms Division of the University of British Columbia Library, to enable her to complete a book designed to facilitate the use of large collections of microforms. The guide will con­ tain descriptions of approximately 200 sets of wide general interest and will incorporate de­ tails of the contents of each collection, along with references to published reviews. For reasons of economics, micropublication of uncopyrighted and out-of-print works no longer covered by copyright is normally in the form of large sets, containing hundreds or thou­ sands of items. Bibliographic aids provided with the sets are frequently scanty. The pro­ duction or acquisition of catalog cards for in­ dividual items is too expensive for many li­ braries. The new guide will be helpful, not only to libraries that own the sets, but to all librar­ ies with facilities for reading microforms. They may use the guide to determine if materials re­ quested by their patrons appear in the collec­ tions described by Mrs. Dodson. If so, they may be available on interlibrary loan. • Marcus A. McCorison, director and li­ brarian of the American Antiquarian Socie­ ty, announces a National Endowment for the Humanities grant of $104,207 for the catalog­ ing of manuscripts held by the society. The project will be directed by William L. Joyce, curator of manuscripts. The purpose of the project is to organize and prepare for publication a catalog of the manu­ script collection, which numbers over 500,000 individual items now held on 1,400 running feet of shelving. Relating directly to the United States from 1621 to the early 20th century, the collection is particularly strong in the era of the American Revolution. Manuscripts at AAS are housed in the com­ pletely climate-controlled Kresge Manuscript Room. The project will include conservation and restoration of the collection and is expected to be completed in two years. M E E TIN G S December 29: “T he L iterary Research Scholar, Libraries, and Librarians” is the title of a program which will be held at the Modern Language Association in New York from 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the Conrad Hilton Hotel. Three papers will be presented: “Literary Scholars, Librarians, and the Teaching of Liter­ ary Research Methods,” by Margaret Patterson, Gainesville, Florida; “Literary Scholars, Li­ brarians, and Bibliographical Systems,” by Rob­ ert Colby, Queens College, City University of New York; and “Literary Scholars, Librarians, and the Utilization of Library Collections,” by Mary Ann O’Donnell, Manhattan College. The respondent for the program will be Mary George, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the discussion leader will be Eric Carpen­ ter, State University of New York, Buffalo. For further information or advance copies of the papers please contact: Eric J. Carpenter, Reference Department, Lockwood Library, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214. January 28-30: “The New Information Pro­ fessional” will be the topic of the Association of American Library Schools (AALS) an­ nual program meeting, to be held in Washing­ ton, D .G , immediately preceding the Midwin­ ter Meeting of the American Library Associa­ tion. Presentations and discussions will focus on alternative programs for professional educa­ tion, content of curricula, recruitment, markets for the new information professional, and other aspects of planning educational programs. Ronald G. Havelock, Center for Research in the Utilization of Knowledge, Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan, will deliver the keynote address, “Information Professionals as Change Agents.” Responding to the address, Robert S. Taylor will discuss academic aspects of the education of new information profession­ als, and Robin D. Crickman will address the need for training in interpersonal and communi­ cations skills. Taylor is dean, School of Informa­ tion Studies, Syracuse University, and Crick- man is with the Mental Health Institute, Uni­ versity of Michigan. A luncheon meeting will feature Elaine Svenonius, University of Western Ontario, and Diana Thomas, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UCLA. They will discuss 309 the integration of the information-science com­ ponent in their respective curricula, Western Ontario in a five-quarter program and UCLA in a two-year program. The closing program session will explore four topics of current curriculum interest: “Changes in School Media Certification,” “Joint Degree Programs,” “Sixth-Year Programs,” and “Off- Campus Education.” In addition, AALS will join with the Government Documents Round­ table of ALA to offer a program on teaching government documents. Guy Garrison, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, is president of the Association of American Library Schools. Pro­ gram chairperson for the January conference is Brigitte L. Kenney, also of Drexel Universi­ ty. January 28-F ebruary 2: The Fifth Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America will be held in Los Angeles at the Statler Hilton Hotel. Included in the pro­ gram are visits to the Getty Museum, Los An­ geles County Museum of Art, architectural highlights of Los Angeles, etc. For more in­ formation, contact: Judith A. Hoffberg, Execu­ tive Secretary, P.O. Box 3692, Glendale, CA 91201. March 7-9: Dr. William O. Baker, president, Bell Laboratories, will present the Miles Con­ rad Memorial Lecture at the 1977 Annual Con­ ference of the National F ederation of Ab­ stracting and I ndexing Services. The con­ ference will be held at Stouffers National Cen­ ter Hotel, Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia. Dr. Baker has long been active in scientific and technical information matters at a national level. He chaired the panel of the President’s Science Advisory Committee which authored the landmark study “Improving the Availability of Scientific and Technical Information in the United States” (the Baker Report) in 1958. He also served as chairman of the Science Informa­ tion Council of the National Science Founda­ tion from 1959 through 1961 and was a mem­ ber of the Weinberg Panel which produced the report “Science, Government, and Information” in 1963. He currently is a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, a director of Annual Reviews, Inc., a member of the National Commission on Li­ braries and Information Science, and a partici­ pant in many other important national commit­ tees and commissions. Dr. Baker’s accomplishments as scientist and research executive have brought him many honors and awards, including the American Chemical Society’s Priestley and Perkin medals, the Honor Scroll of the American Institute of Chemists, and the Industrial Research Institute Medal. April 13-16: The Texas Library Associa­ tion and the New Mexico L ibrary Associa­ tion will hold a joint conference at the El Paso Civic Center in El Paso, Texas. The theme for the joint conference will be “In Search of Learning.” For further information, contact: Margaret Mathis, Publicity Chairman, TLA ’77 Conference, 9901 Cork Dr., El Paso, TX 79925. April 24-27: The theme of the spring 1977 Clinic on Library Applications of D ata Processing will be “Negotiating for Computer Services.” The clinic is sponsored annually by the Graduate School of Library Science of the University of Illinois and will be held at the Illini Union on the Urbana campus. Prof. James L. Divilbiss is chairperson of the Planning Committee. A complete program of the clinic, including details of the practice ses­ sion in contract negotiation, will be available in January 1977. For further information write Edward C. Kalb, Office of Continuing Educa­ tion, University of Illinois, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820 (217– 333-2884). May 6-7: Ohio Valley Group of T ech­ nical Service Librarians (OVGTSL) annual meeting, Western Kentucky University, Helm- Cravens Library. Contact person: Eunice Wells, Head, Technical Services Section, Helm- Cravens Library, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101. May 8-20: The College of Library and In ­ formation Services, University of Maryland, is planning the eleventh annual Library Admin­ istrators D evelopment Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University, will serve as director. Par­ ticipants will include senior administrative per­ sonnel of large library systems—public, re­ search, academic, special, governmental, and school—from the United States and Canada. The faculty is made up of well-known scholars, educators, management consultants, and lec­ turers drawn from universities, government, and consulting fields. Seminar sessions will concentrate on the prin­ cipal administrative issues which senior man­ agers encounter. Leadership, motivation, com­ munication, personnel policy, decision making, problem solving, financial planning and con­ trol, performance appraisal, the impact of tech­ nology, and the planning of change are among the issues considered in lecture, case analysis, group discussion, and seminar. The two-week resident program will be held at the University of Maryland’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland, a se­ rene twenty-acre estate overlooking the Susque­ hanna River and offering a variety of recrea­ tional facilities and an informal atmosphere conducive to study, reflection, and discussion. 310 Those interested in further information are in­ vited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. May 12-14: Midwestern Academic Li­ brarians Conference ( MALC) 22nd annual meeting will be held at St. Cloud State Uni­ versity, St. Cloud, Minnesota 56301. Contact person: Tony Schulzetenberg, Library & Audio­ visual Education. Telephone: 612—255-2062. June 20-24: The American Theological L ibrary Association will hold its thirty-first annual conference at the Vancouver School of Theology in Vancouver, British Columbia, Can­ ada. Further information may be secured from: Dr. John B. Trotti, Librarian, Union Theologi­ cal Seminary in Virginia, 3401 Brook Rd., Rich­ mond, VA 23227. M I S C E L L A N Y • The National Commission on Libraries and I nformation Science (NCLIS) has an­ nounced a joint project on the bibliographic control of nonprint media with the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (A EC T). Entitled Project Media- base, the first phase of the project will be to de­ velop goals, objectives, and functional specifi­ cations for the bibliographic control of nonprint media. The advisory panel to NCLIS for Project Mediabase brings together specialists from both private and public sectors. The panel includes Wesley Doak, California State Library; Janice Gallinger, Plymouth State College; Kay Guiles, Library of Congress; Emory Koltay, Bowker Company; Suzanne Massonneau, University of Vermont; Jean McCauley, National Audiovisual Center; William Quinly, Florida State Univer­ sity; and Tom Risner, National Information Center for Educational Media. Commissioners serving on this project are Julia W u and Joseph Becker. Ruth Tighe, NCLIS staff member and project liaison, explained that advisors were not necessarily chosen solely to represent their spe­ cific agencies or institutions, but to represent the special interest of their sectors as well be­ cause of their involvement and broad experi­ ence with nonprint materials. The development and writing of recommen­ dations th at emerge from the project are being done by a team headed by Jerry Brong, Wash­ ington State University. Other team members are George Abbott, Syracuse University; Jim Brown, ERIC/Information Resources; and Jen­ ny Johnson, American Association of Medical Colleges. After a recent meeting with A1 Trezza, NCLIS executive director, Howard Hitchens, AECT executive director, said, “The problem of locating and retrieving nonprint materials could easily reach crisis proportions in the next few years. We already have a difficult, b u t not insurmountable, problem. There are any num­ ber of agencies serving overlapping markets of users. Each agency develops its own system of cataloging nonprint materials. This is fine as far as it goes. Local and special needs should be served. But as the collections of information about nonprint materials grow, there is an un­ avoidable duplication of effort as each agency catalogs each item for its own database. Then, if the systems are not compatible—that is, if they don’t carry the same information using standardized formats or protocols—there is dif­ ficulty in combining the information into a sin­ gle master data system. From a user point of view, not having a central, combined database means searching a variety of different sources to track down a needed film or filmstrip. Anoth­ er problem is that after the item is located, all the information which the user needs may not be available. We hope this project will be the basis for a system which would set the basic minimum specifications for a nationwide data­ base for nonprint materials.” Trezza concurred, pointing out that this was one of the basic rec­ ommendations made by NCLIS in its commis­ sion report. “We feel strongly,” Trezza added, “about users of materials being able to find and get and then use the materials they need with­ out going through a long struggle. But we need to start moving now before the problems get too big to cope with.” Current plans for Project Mediabase call for open forum hearings at the national conven­ tions of ASIS, ALA (M idw inter), and AECT. Information and reactions will be gathered, and draft recommendations will be revised in the late spring of 1977. Project Mediabase promises to be a landmark in the area of bibliographic control of nonprint media. For further information, contact the National Commission on Libraries and Information Sci­ ence, 1717 K Street, N.W., Suite 601, Wash­ ington, D.C. 20036, telephone: 202— 653-6252; or the Association for Educational Communica­ tions and Technology, 1126 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, telephone: 202— 833-4180. • The I owa H istorical Materials P res­ ervation Society ( IHM PS) was formed on Sept. 18, 1976, at an organizational meeting in Ames. The society is comprised of archivists, manuscript and museum curators, historians, genealogists, records managers, librarians, and members of county and local historical societies. The officers of the society are president, Toby Fishbein, Iowa State University archivist and member of the Society of American Archi­ 311 vists and the Midwest Archives Conference; vice-president, Earl M. Rogers, University of Iowa assistant manuscripts librarian and mem­ ber of the Society of American Archivists, Mid­ west Archives Conference, and the American Library Association; and secretary-treasurer, Dorothy Goldizen, state genealogical society president and member and past president of Davis County and Wapello County Genealog­ ical Societies, treasurer of Davis County His­ torical Society, and chairman of the Davis County Bicentennial Committee. Council members, representing the four quarters of the state, are Christine Baedke, state records management administrator and member of the Association of Records Man­ agers and Administrators; Duane W. Fenster­ mann, Luther College Library acquisitions li­ brarian and head of technical services, mem­ ber of the Midwest Archives Conference, Amer­ ican Library Association, Iowa Library Asso­ ciation, Winnishiek County Historical Society Executive Committee, Iowa OCLC Council Ex­ ecutive Committee, and director of the Serials Project of the Northeast Iowa Academic Li­ braries Association; Dale C. Mayer, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library archivist and mem­ ber of the Society of American Archivists, Mid­ west Archives Conference, and the West Branch Heritage Foundation; and Roger Natte, Iowa Central Community College history in­ structor and member of the Iowa Local Histor­ ical and Museum Association, American Asso­ ciation for State and Local History, Organiza­ tion of American Historians, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Anyone concerned with the preservation of Iowa historical materials may obtain member­ ship information from Dorothy Goldizen, Sec­ retary-Treasurer, Route 9, Bloomfield, IA 52537. P U B L IC A T IO N S • In the three years since the preliminary edition of the Handbook of National and In­ ternational Library Associations was published, library organizations have grown in number and in range of activities. To help profession­ als communicate and cooperate on national and international library projects, Josephine Riss Fang and Alice H. Songe improved and en­ larged their earlier work, superseding it with International Guide to Library, Archival and Information Science Associations, published by R. R. Bowker. The new guide provides com­ prehensive contact and reference information on 361 associations located in 101 countries. The main text consists of two separate sec­ tions: an alphabetical listing of 44 international associations and a geographical listing of 317 national groups. Entries are numbered in se­ quence and each gives official name, address, and acronym (if any), as well as names and ti­ tles of major officers and type and number of staff. Also noted are major fields of interest, languages used, historical data on founding, aims, and activities. Additional information cov­ ers structure, means of financing, membership, general meeting dates, and publication pro­ grams. Finally, a bibliography is given for each association, wherever such items could be lo­ cated. Nine special features further enhance the value of this work for librarians, publishers, and scholars. These include a list of acronyms, offi­ cial journals of the associations, chief officers of national and international library associa­ tions, statistical data concerning the associa­ tions, and general bibliography 1965-1975. The following indexes are also furnished: sub­ ject index, official names of library associations, countries with international associations, and in­ dex of countries. American Historical Association Endorses Joint Statem ent on Faculty Status The American Historical Association, through the executive committee of its council, recently approved the following resolution on faculty status of college and university librarians: The inclusion of librarians among persons eligible for the recently cre­ ated status of associate member of the American Historical Association has led to a new looking at librar­ ians and at their importance to the historical profession. As historians we are in our own work indebted to librarians and de­ pend—both for ourselves and for our students—upon their profession­ al skills. This relationship makes it appropriate for the AHA to be the first society based upon a learned discipline to support recognition of college and university librarians as having a faculty function in circum­ stances where they do indeed per­ form a teaching and research role. Accordingly, BE IT RESOLVED THAT: The American Historical Associa­ tion endorses the Joint Statement on Faculty Status of College and University Librarians, prepared by the Joint Committee on Col­ lege Library Problems, represent­ ing the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Associa­ tion of American Colleges, and the American Association of Uni­ versity Professors. 312 Josephine Riss Fang is professor of library science at Simmons College and Alice H. Songe was formerly reference librarian, National In­ stitute of Education. • Librarians, researchers, and faculty mem­ bers throughout the country will find the new METRO Directory of Members 1976-77 a valuable guide to the resources and services of the 77 leading libraries that are members of the New York Metropolitan Reference and Re­ search Library Agency. The 130-page, 8½ x 11 paperback includes a 6-page index to subject strengths and special collections that librarians can use before requesting interlibrary loans and that faculty members can consult when plan­ ning research trips. The entries, which range from one page for the Engineering Societies Library to 20 pages for the Columbia University Libraries, include: library name, address, phone, key staff (includ­ ing interlibrary loan librarian), requirements for access to the library, services, special collec­ tions, subject strengths, classification system, and National Union Catalog symbol. NUC sym­ bols are included in this edition for the first time. Hours of service, which now change fre­ quently, are omitted. Cost of the directory for nonmember librar­ ies and others is $20.00 each if a check ac­ companies the order and $25.00 if an invoice is required. Checks should be made out to METRO and orders sent to: METRO, 11 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018. • In January, the Midwest Region Library Network ( MIDLNET) called a number of prominent librarians to a symposium to consid­ er current thinking on the differing roles of li­ brary networks at the national, regional, state, and local levels and their relationships to state agencies and to research libraries. Report of the First M IDLNET Symposium on the Role of Lo­ cal Consortia, State Networks, and Regional Networks in the Emerging National Library Network, the document compiled as a result of this symposium, is now available from MIDLNET, c/o University of Wisconsin— Green Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin 54302 for a handling fee of $1.00. Prepayment will be ap­ preciated. • Of interest to anyone doing research in northern New York history is the Northern New York Historical Materials, second edition. This 450-page reference book and bibliography was published in July 1976 by the North Country 3R’s Council, Canton, New York, with the as­ sistance of the Adirondack Museum of Blue Mountain Lake. The museum also contributed to the publication of the first (1968) edition. Both the 1968 and 1976 editions of the book have been edited by G. Glyndon Cole of Sara­ nac, New York, chairman of the North Coun­ try 3R’s Council’s Committee on Northern New York Historical Materials. Mr. Cole recently re­ tired as librarian of the North Country Histor­ ical Research Center at State University of New York, Plattsburgh. The 1976 edition of Northern New York His­ torical Materials has been extensively revised and is 50 percent larger than the first edition. The new edition includes sections devoted to history, geography and travel, conservation, re­ gional history, biography, natural history, gene­ alogy, and social and economic history. Sepa­ rate listings are contained of northern New York newspapers, periodicals, and maps. Both author and title indexes are provided. The Northern New York Historical Materials book may be purchased from the North Coun­ try 3R’s Council, 73 Park Street, Canton, N.Y. 13617 at $15.00 a copy. For further informa­ tion call the council office (315) 386-4569. A special price of $10.00 per copy is available to libraries who are members of the council. • “Aspects of Publishing in Philadelphia, 1876-1976,” a special issue of the Drexel Li­ brary Quarterly, volume 12, no. 3, takes a his­ torical look at the Bicentennial City as an im­ portant center of publishing and printing ac­ tivity during the 100 years since the 1876 Cen­ tennial. Edited by Thomas M. Whitehead, head of special collections and curator of rare books and manuscripts at the Temple University libraries, the issue examines commercial publishing, spe­ cialized publishing, periodical publishing, and printing innovation in the city. The articles included in this special issue are: “Book Publishing in Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Others” by Walter Kahoe, vice- president (retired) of J. B. Lippincott and Co.; “Specialized Publishing, 1876-1976” by Edwin B. Chatfield, editor of National Pub­ lishing Co.; “Philadelphia Booksellers as Pub­ lishers and as Authors, 1876-1976” by J. E. Molloy of Samuel T. Freeman & Co.; “Philadel­ phia’s Ethnic Press, 1876-1976” by Philip F. Mooney, librarian at the Balch Institute; “Cur­ tis: Philadelphia’s Best Known Publisher” by Robert DePue Brown, former assistant to the president, Curtis Publishing Co.; “Decade of Dissent: The Alternative Press in Philadelphia, 1966-1976” by Elliott Shore, curator of Tem­ ple University’s contemporary culture collec­ tion; and “Philadelphia Printing and Publish­ ing” by Thomas M. Whitehead of Temple Uni­ versity. Copies of volume 12, no. 3 (July 1976), “Aspects of Publishing in Philadelphia, 1876- 1976,” are available at $5.00 each from the Drexel Library Quarterly, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Philadel­ phia, PA 19104. Telephone (215) 895-2483. 313 • An expanded, updated, and revised Guide to Educational Resources 1976-77 with two new features has been compiled and made available from the ERIC Clearinghouse on In­ formation Resources at Stanford University. This new Guide, as previous editions, is an annotated bibliography for the education spe­ cialist who receives, processes, and fulfills client requests for information needed to resolve spe­ cific curricular, instructional, or administrative problems. It begins with highly-selective introductory sections on how to locate and organize informa­ tion. Major current activities, products, infor­ mation sources, and innovations then are cov­ ered, including funding sources, books, curric­ ulum guides, periodicals, information centers, current research, and directories. All references, gathered by Clearinghouse staff member Pa­ tricia Files, are current as of spring 1976. New to the 1976-77 version is an expanded and improved Multimedia Selection Tools sec­ tion. In addition, a subject-title index has been included, to assist readers in locating refer­ ences. The new 38-page Guide is available for the same price as the older version, $3.50. It can be ordered from: Box E, School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305. Checks must be included with orders and made payable to “Box E.” Purchase orders cannot be accepted. It also will be available from the ERIC Doc­ ument Reproduction Service when its ED num­ ber is announced. • A paper written as a resource for the heightened interest in career/occupational ed­ ucation has been issued by the ERIC Clearing­ house on Information Resources at Stanford University. The paper, The Use of Media in Career Ed­ ucation, is offered as an aid to educators who are adopting wide varieties of validated and nonvalidated education programs and media in this area and who desire useful information on the subject. Author Anita M. Mitchell has organized the 59-page paper around the uses of media, rather than around their types. References are from the Educational Resources Information Center (ER IC ) and other sources. Chapters cover me­ dia use directly with students and indirectly with students (i.e., teacher use of curriculum guides, career education courses, and teacher resource materials). Evaluating and selecting career education materials also are discussed in final chapters. Although some resources cited are from local sources, complete information for obtaining all reports is given. The Use of Media in Career Education, with over 110 annotated references, is available for $3.25 from Box E, School of Education, Stan­ ford University, Stanford, California 94305. Checks made payable to “Box E ” must be in­ cluded with orders. Purchase orders cannot be accepted. It also will be available from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service in mi­ crofiche and photocopy when its ED number is announced. • A volume containing the proceedings of the First Annual Government Document Work- The New York Public Library, with the generous assistance of the Pope Foundation, plans to microfilm the New York City newspaper Il Progresso Italo- Americano from 1881 to date. Il Prog­ resso is the longest continuously pub­ lished Italian-American newspaper pub­ lished in the United States. NYPL’s effort to preserve it on microfilm represents what may well be the last opportunity to assure the availability of this unique historical and social resource to future generations. The publisher of Il Progresso has gen­ erously donated the entire hard copy backfile in his possession. This will be filmed and integrated with another por­ tion of the newspaper which was filmed by the library in 1960 under its preserva­ tion program. With the aim of assembling as com­ plete a file as possible, the New York Public Library is urgently seeking to lo­ cate backfiles to fill the following gaps before it completes the filming of this newspaper. 1881-January to March 1894r–January 1896- December 1897- April to June 1900-December 1903- July to December 1904- January to December 1905- January 1907-January to June 1913- September 1914- January to June 1915- June 1916- July 1920-April to June 1924-January to March Anyone having these issues and willing to make them available for filming is en­ couraged to contact John P. Baker, Chief, Conservation Division, The New York Public Library, 480 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018. Now for the first time catalogers, reference librarians and researchers need look in only one place for LC class numbers and still be confident that they cov­ ered all aspects of every subject cited in the sched­ ules. In Reference Work The acquisition of these new Combined Indexes will enhance the accessibility— and hence the overall reference value— of all types of library collections in which the LC Classification system is being used or contemplated. The single-alphabet arrangement of the personal name indexes brings together in one place all numbers assigned to persons prominent in several fields, as well as to authors who have written in more than one language. Entries show class numbers with the proper form of each name as well as cross references and pseudonyms. In the case of geographical names, the bringing together of class numbers for all the various terms in the system which might apply to any given country or area, marks a major refer­ ence achievement in itself. Meanwhile, the specificity of the hundreds of thousands of key­ words sorted alphabetically in the general Subject Keyword Index offers researchers a means of identifying subject-oriented classes with in-depth accuracy not previously possible. The “ classified” indexes to authors and other persons will also prove to be major reference tools, as they will bring together the numbers of individuals in various categories and time-periods for use in various types of comparative studies. In Cataloging The personal name indexes will be invaluable as the first sources to consult when cataloging a literary work or biography. In the larger libraries they w ill replace many lengthy searches in the National Union Catalog. In smaller libraries without access to the NUC, the combined indexes will enable catalogers to find and use correct classifications immediately, rather than having to contact other libraries or resort to creating their own class numbers. The massive single-alphabet Keyword Subject Index will also prove to be a major cataloging tool for both large and small libraries. In the larger systems where catalogers are specialists and hence familiar with their assigned portions of the schedules, the major advantages of the combined index set lie in its con­ venient one-step format and the added dimension of its in-depth keyboard subject indexing. For new catalogers or lone cate- logers in small libraries, for whom identifying correct schedules is a time-consuming problem in itself, the combined indexes offer an immediate additional advantage. For about 10% of the an­ nual salary of one good cat­ COST aloger, a library can save EFFECTIVE? up to 25% of the search time of its entire catalog­ ing operation — and repeat that savings year after year. 316 shop held in May 1975 at Oswego, New Yor has been published as No. 6 in the serie Geneseo Studies in Library and Informatio Science. The new publication prints papers b speakers representing the U.S. Governmen Printing Office, the U.S. Senate Library, th U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency, Lock heed Information Systems, the New Yor State Library, the Congressional Informa tion Service, University Microfilms, Prince ton Microfilms, ERIC, and also by gov ernment documents librarians from various aca demic institutions. The place of governmen documents in school media centers is discusse by a specialist in that area. Canadian aspect of the government documents management ar described by the representative of the Univer sity of Guelph, Ontario. A special paper deal with the work of the New York State Govern ment Documents Task Force, and another of fers an outlook of new developments in the fiel of government documents. A subject and titl index enhances the usefulness of the volum which has been edited and introduced by Ivan L. Kaldor. The new publication is available fo $5.00 plus shipping from: Assistant Manager, College Bookstore, State University College o Arts and Science, Geneseo, New York 14454. • The July 1976 issue of Library Trends i a summary of “American Library History: 1876-1976” and commemorates a century o growth and change. The editor of this issue is Dr. Howard W. Winger, dean of the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago. There are 18 papers in this 416-page issue, the largest single number of Library Trends in 25 years. These papers are grouped into four main parts: the historical setting, the library profession, the organization of library resources, and special aspects of library service. The forthcoming Science Fiction Ref­ erence Book, edited by Marshall Tymn, will be the first handbook and guide to the field-at-large. It will contain an ap­ pendix listing library SF collections. The aim of this listing is to collect total infor­ mation in a single appendix. Therefore, it will include small, medium, and large collections of both specialized and gen­ eral content. Researchers or general read­ ers may discover that by using two or three libraries in their geographic range, they will have the information they seek. The appendix must be completed by Jan­ uary 15. Please send information and questions to Elizabeth Cummins Cogell, Department of Humanities, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri 65401. k, s, n y t e . ­ k ­ ­ ­ ­ t d s e ­ s ­ ­ d e e r f s f This issue of Library Trends costs $5.00 in paper covers, and a limited number of hard­ bound copies are available at $8.00 each. Or­ ders for either should be sent to the Subscrip­ tion Department, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois 61801. Subscriptions for Li­ brary Trends cost $15 per year. • A publication listing microforms in 44 ma­ jor library collections in Texas is available from The University of Texas at Austin. Entitled “Microforms in Texas Libraries: A Selective Union List," the publication was compiled by Lois Bebout of the Southwest Information As­ sociates and published by the UT General Li­ braries. The Texas Information Exchange, a public services network of libraries, and the Texas State Library sponsored the publication. Cost is $3.50 per copy. Remittances should be made payable to The University of Texas Gen­ eral Libraries and mailed to General Libraries, University of Texas, Main Building 2100, Aus­ tin, Texas 78712. • The Office of University Library Manage­ ment Studies ( OMS) of the Association of Re­ search Libraries has issued Staff Performance Evaluation Program at the McGill University Libraries: A Program Description of a Goals- based Performance Evaluation Process with Ac­ companying Supervisors Manual. This publi­ cation is a result of a collaborative project of the OMS and the McGill University Libraries conducted during late 1975 and early 1976. It includes a brief description of the design pro­ cess used in developing the performance eval­ uation program, the “Program Description,” and the “Supervisor’s Manual for Performance Evaluation.” This publication is available from the Office of University Library Management Studies, As­ sociation of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. The cost per copy is $7.00 prepaid. • A new reference work, Musical Instru­ ments of the World: An Illustrated Encyclo­ pedia, includes descriptions of musical instru­ ments of all kinds and from all ages, ranging from primitive whistles to electronic synthe­ sizers. The encyclopedia divides instruments into families according to the classic Hornbostel and Sachs system of classification, as well as under their more familiar historical and geographical categories. More than 4000 drawings, derived from a variety of sources, are used to illustrate the structure and function of the instruments. The work is published by Two Continents/ Paddington Press (320p.; $16.95; ISBN 0- 8467-0134-0) and may be ordered from Two Continents Publishing Group, 5 S. Union St., Lawrence, MA 01843. 317 • The Information Technology Series, a cross-section of pertinent papers on high–inter- est topics presented at National Computer Con­ ferences and USA-Japan Computer Confer­ ences, will be published by AFIPS Press. Vol­ ume I of the series, Database Management Systems, is now available. The volume has been edited by Dr. Ben Shneiderman, Department of Information Sys­ tems Management, University of Maryland. Dr. Shneiderman, a noted authority of database management, is the coauthor of two books on FORTRAN and serves both on the editorial board of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems and as assistant editor of Information Processing and Management. In addition to the sixteen papers contained in Database Management Systems, Dr. Shnei­ derman has incorporated a historical review of the database management revolution plus per­ tinent introductions to each of the five major sections of the volume: management and utili­ zation perspectives; implementation and design of database management systems; query lan­ guages; security, integrity, privacy, and con­ currency; and specification, simulation, and translation of database systems. Volume I has a list price of $15.00, and may be ordered from AFIPS Press, 210 Summit Avenue, Montvale, New Jersey 07645, or by calling 201— 391-9810. • The Center for the American Woman and Politics ( CA W P) announces the publication of Voluntary Participation among W omen in the United States: A Selected Bibliography, 1950- 1976. This bibliography provides access to in­ formation about the nature, extent, and political impact of U.S. women’s voluntary activities and affiliations. The bibliography has emerged from the Center’s focus on voluntary activity in its 1974-75 Florence Eagleton Grants Program. It reflects CAWP’s continuing efforts to develop and disseminate knowledge about women’s public roles. The bibliography contains citations to pub­ lished, unpublished, and ongoing work regard­ ing the political, social, psychological, or eco­ nomic character of the voluntary participation of women in the United States. Included are both theoretical analyses and reports of re­ search. Studies concerning the ideology, moti­ vations, and rewards of women’s volunteerism are also included. Citations in the 30-page bibliography are ar­ ranged according to their format: bibliogra­ phies; directories and encyclopedias; period­ icals; books, monographs, and reports; articles; dissertations and unpublished papers; research in progress. An author index including listings for coauthors is also provided. The bibliography is available for $3.00, prepaid, from CAWP, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers Univer­ sity, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901. Fur­ ther inquiries should be directed to Kathy Stan- wick, research and information associate, CAWP. • A bibliography of recent literature com­ piled by th e Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange (C L E N E ), with nearly 400 citations, is available from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources at Stanford University. The new publication, An Annotated Bibliog­ raphy of Recent Continuing Education Litera­ ture, includes 51 pages of printed introductory materials and bibliographic references and two microfiche of complete annotations for all 396 references. The introductory materials by Ruth J. Patrick of Syracuse University discuss generally the subject of continuing library education, the pur­ pose of CLENE, and the structure of the paper. A “Guide to the Literature” discusses each of the six major sections of the bibliography: mod­ els, roles and issues; needs assessment; re­ sources; guidelines for program planners; de­ scriptions of continuing education programs; and adult education. Materials from other fields, such as nursing and law, are included where relevant. 318 The paper and accompanying microfiche are being made available for $5.00 from: Box E, School of Education, Stanford University, Stan­ ford, California 94305. Checks must be includ­ ed with orders and made payable to “Box E .” Purchase orders cannot be accepted. It also is available from CLENE, 620 Michigan Avenue, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20064, for the same price. The ERIC Document Reproduction Ser­ vice will make the paper available in microfiche and photocopy when its ED number is an­ nounced. • Russian–English Dictionaries with Aids for Translators: A Selected Bibliography by Wo- jciech Zalewski has been published by Stan­ ford University Libraries. The 51-page bibliog­ raphy focuses on bilingual dictionaries pub­ lished after 1945, but it also includes numerous multilingual specialized dictionaries useful for translations from Russian into English. Among the aids for translators listed are bibliographies of dictionaries, bibliographies of translations, dictionaries of abbreviations, dictionaries of personal names, gazetteers. Approximately 400 bibliographic entries are included, a significant portion of which are annotated. A subject ap­ proach has been followed. The bibliography is available from Business Services Department, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305 for $5.50. Also available is Zalewski’s Russian Materials in the Main Library of Stanford University: A Collection Survey, 1974, 19p., $3. • The Urban Archives Center, Temple Uni­ versity Libraries, has published two guides— Housing Association of Delaware Valley and Philadelphia Social Service Collections. The latter deals with 30 different collections. Both guides are available on request from the Urban Archives, Paley Library, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122. ■ ■