ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries April 1988 / 249 in the National Cooperative Cataloging proj­ ect. Throughout her career Peck has participated on numerous library and LAUC committees, as member and chair. She has been active in ALA and the California Library Association, serving as a member of the CLA Council during 1983-1986. Peck has also served on numerous statewide com ­ mittees and on the Research Libraries Group’s BIBTECH during its formative period. Deaths Jo h n A. B r e n n a n , curator of the Western His­ torical Collection and University Archives at the University of Colorado, Boulder, died January 21 at the age of 59. Brennan had been curator since 1964 and was largely responsible for the Collec­ tion’s growth and increasing importance. He at­ tended the University of Detroit and Michigan State University, from which he received a bache­ lor’s degree. After serving as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Brennan earned master’s and doctoral degrees in history from Boulder. He was the author of a book, Silver and the New Deal, published by the University of Nevada Press, as well as a number of monographs and articles, and edited some 15 guides to manu­ script collections. Brennan also served as reviewer or editor for the University of Oklahoma Press, So­ cial Science Journal, Western Historical Quar­ terly, and other publications. An officer of the So­ ciety of Colorado Archivists, he was also a member of the Colorado History Group, the Organization of American Historians and the Western History and Western Social Science Associations. M a r g a r e t S c h i n d l e r B r y a n t , retired former chief of the Division of Bibliography (1947-1961) at the National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland, died December 1, 1987. Bryant had also been ch ief o f the R eference Section (1943-1947). She was known as a founder of the Bibliography o f Agriculture, which she managed from its inception in 1943 until her retirement. Bryant had been active in the League of Women Voters since leaving the Library. L e w i s C . C o f f i n , retired law librarian of the Li­ brary of Congress, died December 21, 1987, at 78. Coffin earned a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College and a law degree from George Washington University. Appointed to a position in the Library’s former Card Division in 1931, he remained in the Processing Department for 33 years, working suc­ cessively as assistant chief or chief of three divisions and as assistant and associate director of the De­ partment. From 1942 to 1946 Coffin served in the U.S. Navy. He was appointed law librarian and general counsel of the library in 1964, remaining in the latter position until 1970, when a separate O f­ fice of the General Counsel was created. He retired in 1971. Coffin was active in the District of Colum­ bia, American, and Federal bar associations, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the International Association of Law Libraries, of which he was elected president in 1968. T h e l m a E a t o n , retired professor of library sci­ ence at the University o f Illin ois, Urbana- Champaign, died in July 1987. Eaton taught cata­ loging and the history of books and printing in the School of Information and Library Science from 1949 until her retirement in 1964. E t h e l B . K e l l a r , retired librarian of the Schaf­ fner Library at Northwestern University, Evan­ ston, Illinois, died November 27, 1987, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the day before her 99th birthday. Kellar had been head of the Circulation Depart­ ment in the Schaffner Library before becoming as­ sistant librarian. Shortly thereafter she was named head librarian and remained so until her retire­ ment in 1955. PUBLICATIONS • Africans in the New World, 1493-1834, by Larissa V. Brown (62 pages, February 1988), is a guide to the exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, that commemorates the 350th anniversary of the first arrival of blacks in New England in 1638 and the centenary of the abo­ lition of slavery in Brazil in 1888. This exhibition catalog describes 81 items from the Library’s col­ lection. Copies may be obtained for $10 from the John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Provi­ dence, RI 02912. ISBN 0-916617-31-9. • Approval Plans, SPEC Kit #141 (124 pages February 1988), contains the results of a June 1987 ARL survey that covered the points of continuity and consensus in approval plan use over the pre­ vious four years and the diversity of ways in which librarians assess these plans. The kit contains the tabulated survey results, two examples of questions , 250 / CirRL News and criteria for evaluating vendors, five examples of profiles and guidelines, three examples of proc­ essing and review of approval receipts, and a se­ lected reading list. Individual SPEC kits cost $20 (prepayment required) and may be ordered from SPEC, Office of Management Studies, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N .W ., Washington, DC 20036. •The D irectory o f A erospace E d u cation al P ro­ gram s in C anada, the United States an d A b road , compiled by Anneli Sheridan and Judy Mills (April 1988), was initially intended for the use of gradu­ ate students at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies, but has been revised to ac­ commodate a wider audience. The information was obtained from calendars, catalogs, courses, and bulletins issued by various institutions. Both degree and non-degree programs are included. Each listing provides degrees and awards con­ ferred, detailed program descriptions, the number of faculty members, costs, and a contact address. The directory costs $15 Canadian (checks payable to the University of Toronto), and may be ordered from the Publications Department, Institute for Aerospace Studies, 4925 Dufferin Street, Downs­ view, Ontario, Canada M3H 5T6. •The D irectory o f F ed era l H istorical Program s an d Activities (1988) has recently been published by the American Historical Association and the Soci­ ety for History in the Federal Government. The only complete guide to Federal historical activities, both in Washington and around the country, the directory contains a brief description of each pro­ gram, its mailing address, and a list of program personnel with individual telephone numbers. Also included is organizational data on large programs like those of the Department of the Army, the Na­ tional Park Service, and the National Archives. Copies may be obtained for $6 from the American Historical Association, 400 A Street, S.E., Wash­ ington, DC 20003. • F e d e r a l D o c u m en ts L ib r a r ia n s h ip , 1 8 7 9 - 1987, by Alan Edward Schorr (215 pages, March 1988), contains 2,153 references to articles, mono­ graphs, and other materials on issues, trends, prob­ lems, and accomplishments in the field of govern­ Consultant list Consultants who may wish to be included in a library management consultant list to be pub­ lished by ALA’s Library and Administration Management Association can request an appli­ cation form and guidelines from Robert F. Moran Jr., Library, Indiana University North­ west, Gary, IN 46408. Experienced library consultants in the areas of automation, finance, governance, organiza­ tion, organizational development, planning, and risk management will be listed. Comple­ tion of five library consulting projects in one or more of these areas is required. ment docum ents librarianship and federal information policy. Citations are primarily, but not exclusively, from the literature of librarian­ ship. The bibliography is available for $25 (plus $2 shipping) from the Denali Press, P.O. Box 021535, Juneau, AK 99802-1535. ISBN 0-938737-14-7. •The second Five-Y ear R eport o f the Register o f C opyrights on P h otocopyin g o f C opyrighted Works (3 vols., January 1988) describes the extent to w hich Section 108 o f the C opyright Act has achieved the intended statutory balancing of the rights of creators of original material and the needs of users of photocopy machines. Although many of the involved parties agree that library photocopy­ ing does reflect that balance, the Copyright Office recommends that Congress expand the subject matter of the five-year review to include specifi­ cally the effects of new technology. The first report was presented to Congress in 1983. This report also includes a transcript of the Congressional hearings on reproduction of copyrighted works in April 1987, and copies of written comments. The report may be obtained for $37 from the Superintendent o f Docum ents, Governm ent Printing O ffice, Washington, DC 20402-9325. Stock no. 030-002- 00162-4. •The L ibrarian C areer R esource N etw ork D irec­ tory, compiled by the ALA Office for Library Per­ sonnel Resources (37 pages, 1987), lists librarians who have volunteered to answer questions about specific library/information specialties from col­ leagues who want to know about different types of libraries or positions before making career deci­ sions and changes. Career Resource Network vol­ unteers can also provide information about geo­ graphic areas. The directory is indexed by career specialty and geographic area. To order, send $2 to ALA/OLPR, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0-8389-7205-5. • T h e L in k e d System s P roject: A N etw orkin g T ool f o r L ibraries (140 pages, February 1988), pub­ lished by OCLC in cooperation with the Library of Congress, contains 12 papers that describe the progress of the Linked Systems Project (LSP) ‚ a col­ laborative effort to develop computer-to-computer links among the Library of Congress, the Research Libraries Group, the Western Library Network, and OCLC. Several papers were presented at the LSP Preconference Institute held June 25-26, 1987, in San Francisco. Topics covered include the Standard Network Interconnection (SNI) that is the LSP’s implementation of communication pro­ tocols based on the International Standards Orga­ nization’s Open System Interconnection Reference Model. The book also covers the process of author­ ity records exchange, which supports the work of the National Coordinated Cataloging Operations (NACO) project. Copies are available for $13.50 (non-members of OCLC must prepay) from the OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Dept. 630, Box ONB, Columbus, OH 43265. April 1988 / 253 • N ation w id e N etw orkin g (65 pages, 1987), the Proceedings of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee Meetings, July and Decem ­ ber 1986, has been published as L C ’s Network Planning Paper number 15. Program papers in­ clude “ T w o Years in the Making: A Common V i­ sion o f N etw orking,” by Henriette D. Avram ; “ NCLIS: A Look Ahead,” by Vivian J. Arterbery; and “ L ib ra ry N etw ork in g : The N AC A ction Agenda,” by Mary W . Ghikas. There are five ap­ pendixes, including one on networks and public policy by Carol C. Henderson of A LA ’s Washing­ ton Office. Copies may be ordered for $7.50 from the Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, Washington, D C 20541. ISBN 0-8444- 0573-6. •The P resid en t’s Task F o rc e on the V alue o f the In fo rm a tio n P rofession al, the final report of a Spe­ cial Libraries Association Task Force (56 pages, 1987), examines how the services of the corporate information center and the information profes­ sional can be quantified in terms of real-dollar cost savings, financial gains, and liability avoidance for the corporation. The report documents specific techniques and strategies that have been used suc­ cessfully by corporate information managers to document these tangible contributions, as well as such other benefits as time saved by other corporate staff when they use the information center to locate data essential to their work. Chaired by James Ma- tarazzo, of Simmons College, the Task Force also included Miriam A. Drake, Helen Manning, Ann W . Talcott, James B. Tchobanoff, and Allen B. Veaner. A copy of the report may be requested from David Malinak, Director of Com m unica­ tions, SLA, 1700 18th Street, N .W ., Washington, DC 10009. •Volume 8, no. 2/3 (1987) of R estau rator, the international journal for the preservation of library and archival material, contains the eight reports on mass preservation techniques from the IFLA C on­ ference on Preservation of Library Materials held at the National Library of Austria in Vienna, April 6-11, 1986. An additional paper solicited by the journal rounds out the information assembled by William J. Welsh, deputy librarian of Congress, w ho con ceiv ed and planned the C on feren ce, which was featured in the PBS program, “ Slow F ires.” Inquire about single co p y price from Munksgaard International Publishers, 35 Nörre Sögade, Postbox 2148, DK-1016 Copenhagen K, Denmark. ISSN 0034-5806. • S election o f the University L ib r a r ia n , by Ruth J. Person and George C. Newman (23 pages, Feb­ ruary 1988), has been published as OMS O cca­ sional Paper #13 by the ARL Office of Manage­ ment Studies. The paper addresses key issues regarding the search process, committees and their roles, the acceptable applicant pool, affirmative action, and the “ select list” and final candidate. The critical role of outsiders in searches, as well as the necessity for an assertive search, is also ex­ plored. Copies may be ordered for $15 (prepay­ ment required) from the ARL Office of Manage­ ment Studies, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N .W ., Washington, D C 20036. • S trateg ic M a rk etin g f o r L ib r a r ie s : A H a n d - b o o k , by Elizabeth J. W ood and Victoria L. Young (240 pages, February 1988), explains and inter­ prets general marketing principles for practitioners in the library and information science fields. Appli­ cations of marketing principles appropriate for ac­ ademic, public, and special libraries are described in detail. The book stresses market segmentation, marketing opportunity analysis, and principles of strategic planning. The cost is $37.95, and it may be ordered from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport, CT 06881. ISBN 0-313- 24405-7. • W orth N oting, by Sanford Berman (176 pages, 1988), reprints editorials, letters, essays, and an in­ terview with social critic Berman, who is the head cataloger at Hennepin County Library, Minne­ tonka, Minnesota. The topics of these 34 selections, edited by Bill Katz, cover “ Herrenvolk” terminol­ ogy, access to fiction, subject headings for con­ sumer health information, the Creationists’ hidden agenda, South A frican censorship, and much more. A 16-page annotated bibliography of Ber­ man’s writings is also included. Copies may be or­ dered for $18.95 from McFarland & C o., Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640. ISBN 0-89950-304-7.