ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries D ecem ber 1987 / 719 tion, and restoration of m aterials; th e need for help in planning. N etw orking and autom ation: th e great need for consulting help; planning; ongoing cost problems; difficulties w ith fu n ding present cooperatives; the desire for shared access to n ational bibliographic databases an d collections. Collection D evelopm ent: questions about fac­ ulty cooperation, funding (including m oney for processing), an d special collections. Bibliographic Instruction: ideas on tying in w ith collection developm ent; th e pros and cons of fac­ ulty involvem ent; program planning; disciplinary tra ining for course–related BI program s. T h e m e etin g ad jo u rn ed a t 11:15 a .m ., a fter hea rin g com m ittee ch a ir Beverly Lynch’s prom ise to m ove fo rw ard w ith all d u e haste to set up one or m ore projects an d seek th e necessary funding. ■ ■ * New s fr * om th e f * i eld Acquisitions • G eorge W ashington U niversity, W ashington, D .C ., has acquired a nu m b e r of m anuscript and archival collections to support research on th e past and contem porary history of th e city of W ashing­ ton. O ne collection is the papers of Polly Shackle­ ton, w ho served on the D .C . C ouncil for 16 years; the collection includes inform ation on planning, zoning, an d h u m a n services. T h e L ib rary has also acquired th e records of th e C om m ittee of 100 on the F ederal C ity, a p rivate citizens’ organization overseeing m ajor city p lanning issues. O rganized in 1923, the C om m ittee has been active in areas such as conservation, historic preservation, and land use planning. O th er acquisitions of note in­ clude th e archives of th e G r e a te r W a sh in g to n Board of T ra d e, consisting of 200 lin ear feet of rec­ ords datin g from 1889 to 1980; th e archives of the Jewish C om m unity Council o f G reate r W ashing­ ton; and a group of papers on th e history of the M etrorail system, including plans, m em oranda, reports, an d oral histories. • I d a h o S ta te U n iv ersity , P o catello , has re- ceived th e en tire library of G lenn E . Tyler, late chairm an of th e History D ep artm en t an d an ISU faculty m em ber from 1955 to 1975. T h e approxi­ m ately 22,000 books an d m anuscripts cover a vari­ ety of topics, w ith notew orthy collections on the history of science an d th e R eform ation period, es­ pecially Calvinism an d P uritanism . M ore th a n a hundred rare volumes include th e collected ser­ mons of John Calvin on th e Book of Job, p rinted in 1584. O th er notable items are a second edition of S prat’s H istory o f the Royal Society (1702), Isaac N ew to n ’s O b servations u p o n th e Prophesies o f D a n ie l a n d th e A p o c a ly p s e o f J o h n (1733), D oum ergue’s seven-volume biography of Calvin, and a group o f works on English an d A m erican P u­ ritanism . In accordance w ith Tyler’s w ish, all of the books except those req uiring special care and attention will become p a r t of th e regular circulat­ ing collection. They w ill be identified by a specially designed bookplate. • Johns Hopkins U niversity, B altim ore, M ary- la n d , has been chosen as th e repository for th e a r ­ chives of th e Association of A m erican Universities. T h e records consist of correspondence, com m ittee m inutes an d reports, an n u a l conference materials, an d office files. F ounded in 1900, th e AAU now in ­ cludes 54 A m erican an d 2 C an a d ian universities. Johns Hopkins U niversity w as a founding m em ber. • T he L ib rary of Congress, W ashington, D .C ., has a c q u ired 44 volum es th a t once belonged to Thom as Jefferson (1743-1826), th e gift of M ary G resham M achen, M r. an d Mrs. A rth u r M achen Jr. an d M r. and Mrs. C. H arvey P alm er Jr. T he books are p a r t of th e collection Jefferson form ed af­ te r he sold his library to Congress in 1815 to replace books b urned by British soldiers du rin g th e W a r of 1812. T h a t lib rary becam e th e foundation of the L ib rary of Congress. In his la ter years, Jefferson’s litera ry interests focused on th e classics, in their original languages as w ell as in English. In th e col­ lection is a n eight–volum e set of th e W orks of T aci­ tus, Jefferson’s favorite R om an au th o r, and a 12- volum e collection of Cicero’s Letters. Both contain m arginal corrections of gram m atical errors in Jef­ f e r s o n ’s h a n d . J e f f e r s o n ’s c o p y o f P la t o ’s R epublic— a w ork he disliked—an d works by Aris­ tophanes, H orace a n d H om er a re also included. T h e collection was first purchased in 1829 by Lewis H enry M achen, la ter p rin c ip al clerk of th e Senate, a t an a u c tio n fo llo w in g Jefferso n ’s d e a th , an d passed through successive generations of his fam ­ ily. • P o rtla n d S tate U niversity, O regon, has re- ceived th e Italian history research lib rary devel­ oped by G eorge A. C arbone, professor em eritus of history. Consisting of m ore th a n 1,300 volumes, th e collection includes books an d pam p h lets on 19th- an d 20th-century Ita ly an d th e diplom atic 720 / C& RL N ews history of Europe, particularly since W orld W ar II. O f principal im portance are materials related to the unification effort of 1848-1849 led by Giuseppe G aribaldi (1807-1882). Included are m any unu­ sual items such as a copy of La Proprieta Fondiaria e L a Popolazioni Agricole in L om bardi: Studi Economici by Conte Stefano Jacini (Milan, 1854), the m onum ental Storia del Risorgimento (eight volumes, 1933-1965), and the writings of histo­ rians such as Carlo C attaneo (Scritti in 20 vol­ umes), Benedetto Croce, Antonio Monti and Carlo Tivaroni. There are also a considerable num ber of volumes on the Fascist movement of 1922-1943 by its leaders; among them are works by Luigi Villari, Count Carlo Sforza, and General Francesco Rossi. • Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, has purchased a substantial portion of the library of noted anthropologist E leanor Burke Leacock. Leacock chaired the D epartm ent of Anthropology at City College/CUNY from 1972 until her death last April, and is considered a leading figure in the em ergence of feminist anthropology. Leacock’s historical and com parative scholarship dealt with issues of class, gender, and racial oppression; among her best-known work was her 1972 edition of Friedrich Engels’ classic, The Origin o f the Fam­ ily, Private Property and the State. • The University of California, Los Angeles, has acquired the papers of famed Japanese-American journalist Yoneo Sakai (1900-1978) from his fam­ ily. As foreign correspondent for th e Japanese n ew sp ap er Asahi S h im b u n , Sakai tra v e le d to Spain, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia during the 1930s, later covering hostilities in China and M anchuria as a w ar correspondent. In 1938 he was sent to the U nited States, w here he was interned briefly during W orld W ar II before being commis­ sioned to teach the Japanese language at the Uni­ versity of Colorado. Following the w ar he devel­ oped a weekly radio news program , “Amerika D ayori,” for the Japanese Broadcasting Corpora­ tion. Included among his papers are writings such as Am erika Tsushin (Letters from America), nos. 1-4; Vagabondo Tsushin (Letters From a Vaga­ bond); Z oku Vagabondo Tsushin (Sequel to Letters from a Vagabond); Am erika Zakkicho (A Note­ book from A m erica); N ik k e i Sh im in Y uki (A Japanese-A m erican C itizen, Yuki); an d Sakai Yoneo Shishu (A Collection of Poems by Yoneo Sa­ kai). Also included are notes and manuscripts from “Amerika Dayori” ; documents, correspondence, and newspaper clippings regarding the major in­ terviews he had w ith im portant political and liter­ ary figures of Japan and the United States; photo­ graphs he took as a traveling correspondent; and many unpublished notes and manuscripts from his later years in Washington, D .C. • The University of Missouri-Kansas City re- cently established the M arr Sound Archives, a col­ lection of American popular music and spoken- w ord recordings. The archives are nam ed for G ay­ lord M arr, associate professor of communication studies, who has been collecting sound recordings for 35 years. M arr serves as curator of the archives, which contain 80,000 recordings in a variety of for­ m ats including Edison cylinders, music box discs, grand roller organ rolls, 78’s, LP’s, tapes, and 16- inch radio transcription discs. There is also an as­ semblage of vintage playback equipment. • The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, has established the Eugene O rm andy Memorial, w hich will include a new listening facility and an archive docum enting his life and work. O rmandy (1899-1985) was conductor of the Philadelphia O r­ chestra for more th a n 40 years and was considered a m aster of the Romantic repertory. O rm andy’s music collection, correspondence, and memorabi­ lia have been donated by his widow. The Philadel­ phia O rchestra and W FLN have contributed the complete file of Orchestra broadcast tapes from 1960 through 1981. T he listening center will allow students to study performances on digitally remas­ tered tapes as well as on conventional LP and tape formats. A grant of $25,000 from the Presser Foun­ dation of Bryn M aw r, Pennsylvania, will help sup­ port the listening center. • W heaton College, Illinois, has received a col- lection of archival material from the Voice of Cal­ vary Ministries, a black evangelical organization headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi. Founded in 1970, the VOCM operates a health clinic, a thrift store, and a housing redevelopment corporation as well as a church, and has organized boycotts of lo­ cal businesses, m anaged outlet stores, and spon­ sored educational workshops. The VOCM records include adm inistrative correspondence, annual re­ ports and audits, promotional materials, publica­ tions, curriculum materials from its International Study C enter, articles by organization leaders, news and prayer letters, Development D epartm ent records, interview transcripts for articles, summer volunteer files, H ealth Center education curricula and leadership development curricula, and records of its housing redevlopment corporation. Taped oral history interviews w ith organizational leaders recalling the civil rights unrest of the 1960s are also included. Grants • Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, has received a Title II-C grant of $210,000 to con­ vert m onographic holdings in the John H ay L i­ brary to m achine–readable form. The grant will fund the first year of a three-year project. The m a­ jority of the 70,000 records to be converted the first year will be from the Harris Collection of Ameri­ can Poetry and Plays, the largest of its kind in the w orld. Holdings from the Anne S.K. Brown Mili­ tary Collection and other special collections will also be made available, on RLIN and OCLC. • T he D enver P ublic Library, Colorado, re- D ecem b er 1987 / 723 cently received a $5,000 LSCA g ra n t to expand its collection o f V ietnam ese m aterials. L a st fall, a “fo­ cus group” of com m unity leaders expressed th e de­ sire for books in V ietnam ese. A pproxim ately 5,000 people of V ietnam ese origin live in th e D enver m e t­ ro p o litan a re a a n d m a n y live o r w o rk n e a r th e R oss-B arnum b r a n c h of th e L ib r a r y . P o p u la r books in th e new collection include rom ances, m a r­ tial arts novels, books on V ietnam ese tra d itio n s and folklore, a n d books on citizenship an d English la n ­ guage instruction. M usical scores are also very p o p ­ ular, as w ell as books on self-im provem ent a n d p e r­ sonal success. • G eorge W ashington U niversity’s Special Col- lections D e p a rtm e n t, W ashington, D .C ., has been aw arded a T itle I I –C g ra n t of $71,836 for a project entitled “ Collections: D .C .” By p la n n in g an d exe­ cuting a M ARC-based in stitutional survey, project staff will b u ild a m u lti-in stitu tio n al bibliographic database of research resources in th e greater W ash­ ington area p e rta in in g to th e study o f th e D istric t of C olum bia a n d th e m e tro p o litan region. T h e d a ta ­ base is m e a n t to facilitate research an d aid in devel­ o p in g r e c o m m e n d a tio n s f o r o n g o in g , m u lti- institutional co o rdination o f b ib liographic control and collection processing. P articip a n ts in th e sur­ vey will include, am o n g others, th e D istric t of C o ­ lum bia P ublic L ib ra ry an d th e C o lu m b ia H istori­ cal Society. • I n d i a n a U n iv e r s ity ’s M u sic L i b r a r y , B loom ington, has been aw a rd e d tw o T itle II-C grants, one fo r th e cataloging of op eratic m aterials and th e o th e r received indirectly, as p a r t of a coop­ erative pro je ct being coo rd in ated a t th e E astm an School of M usic a n d th e U niversity o f Rochester. T he o p e ra g r a n t, fo r m o re th a n $103,000, will fund th e cataloging of 5,000 sound recordings from the second p a r t o f th e Alvin M. E h re t Vocal Re­ cording C ollection. T h e collection consists of some 24,000 lo n g -p lay in g records d o n a te d to th e L i­ brary. In d ia n a has also received $54,000 as p a r t of a pro je ct in itia te d by th e A ssociated M usic L i­ braries G roup to convert its rem ain in g m usic hold­ ings to m a ch ine-re adable fo rm . A p ilo t p roject con­ c lu d e d in D e c e m b e r 1986 in v o lv e d I n d i a n a , UC-Berkeley, a n d E a stm an . • K ent State U niversity, O hio, has received a gift of $10,000 from an anonym ous donor w hich will be used to establish a n en d o w m e n t for m a te ri­ als on th e history of p rin tin g a n d publishing. Kent State presently ow ns th e W o rld P ublishing C om ­ pany H istory of P rin tin g an d P ublishing C ollection of about 3,000 books on th e history of bookm aking and the publishing trades, as w ell as a v ariety of trade periodicals, in c u n a b u la , an d original works by early printers. T h e p resent en dow m ent w ill be adm inistered th ro u g h th e Special Collections D e­ partm ent. • M ichigan State U niversity, E a st L ansing, an d W ayne State U niversity, D etro it, a re am ong five M ichigan researc h lib ra rie s a w a rd e d a to ta l of m ore th a n $4.7 m illion by th e W .K . K ellogg F o u n ­ datio n of B attle C reek. T h e funds w ill be used to develop a n in teractive d a tab ase of th e ir com bined holdings. M ichigan S tate has received $900,000, w hich it w ill use to convert som e 700,000 re m a in ­ ing records from its ca rd catalog. W ayne State will convert a half-m illion rem ain in g records w ith its g r a n t of $790,500. T h e L ib ra ry o f M ichigan in Lansing, th e D etro it P ublic L ib ra ry , a n d th e U ni­ versity of M ichigan a re also p a rtic ip a n ts in th e project, scheduled for com pletion in 1989. T h e five institutions hav e com bined holdings in excess o f 12 million. • T h e N ew York S tate L ib rary , A lbany, has re- ceived a g ra n t of $50,575 un d er th e H igher E d u c a ­ tion Act for strengthening research lib rary collec­ tions. T h e M anuscripts an d Special Collections D i­ vision w ill use th e fu n d s to m a k e its ho ld in g s available on R L IN . • T h e State University of N ew York a t Buffalo has been aw a rd e d a $155,000 T itle I I –C g ra n t to c rea te 5,500 catalog records on R L IN for th e m i­ croform set L a tin A m erican D ocum ents, issued by G eneral M icrofilm . T h e collection consists p rim a r­ ily of 19th- an d 2 0 th -c entury publications in the p ublic do m a in on a w id e variety of topics. G ra n t funds will also be used to ac q u ire ad d itio n a l RLIN term inals. T h e p roject is expected to ru n th rough th e en d of 1988. • Texas Tech U niversity, L ubbock, is a recipient of ALA’s H .W . W ilson S taff D evelopm ent G ra n t for im plem enting team m a n ag em e n t am o n g th e em ployees of its libraries. T h e $2,500 com pany- sponsored a w a rd w as presented a t th e ALA A nnual C onference in San F rancisco. Texas T e ch ’s team m a n ag em e n t p ro g ram , w hich encourages em ploy­ ees’ u n d ersta n d in g of th e L ibraries’ mission by in­ v o lv in g th e m in v a rio u s levels of th e d ec isio n ­ m aking process, w as begun in N ovem ber 1986. • T h e U niversity of C alifo rn ia , Los A ngeles, D e p a rtm e n t of Special Collections, w ill receive a $1 m illion en dow m ent from th e J. Paul G etty T rust fo r th e p u rc h a s e of E u ro p e a n m a n u sc rip ts an d books, p rim a rily Ita lia n , m a d e before 1600 A .D . T h e g ra n t is th e la rgest e n d o w m e n t fu n d overseen by th e D ep artm en t. I t w ill b e p aid in tw o install­ m ents, th e first h a lf this y ea r a n d th e re m ain d er a f­ te r Ju ly 1, 1988. • T h e University of Illinois a t C hicago’s Univer- sity L ib ra ry has bee n a w a rd e d $69,000 by th e C ouncil on L ib rary Resources for a cooperative p ro g ram w ith th e U IC In s titu te for th e H u m a n i­ ties. U nder th e p ro je ct, “A Look to th e F uture: P lan n in g Issues for th e R esearch L ib ra ry ,” Fellows of th e In stitu te w ill join faculty of th e L ib ra ry to investigate th e process of scholarly com m unication a n d help to p la n th e L ib ra ry ’s role in th a t process. P a r tic ip a n ts w ill discuss th e c h a n g in g w ay s in w h ich scholars a r e con d u c tin g an d dissem inating research a n d suggest w ays in w h ich research li­ braries m ig h t change in response to these pattern s. 7 2 4 / C&RL News • The University of Texas at Arlington has been aw arded a second year of funding by the UT Board of Regents under the “Library Enhancement Pro­ gram .” The UTA Libraries will receive $289,000 in FY 1987-88 to complete a five-year automation program begun after an initial aw ard last year. The NOTIS system is being installed, w ith investi­ gation of local area network applications and mass storage optical peripherals underway. In addition, the Libraries will receive $1 million to improve li­ brary collections in support of graduate and re­ search programs as p a rt of a four-year, m ulti­ million dollar plan. The UT Regents have also approved $26,500 for the Special Collections Divi­ sion to acquire the Franklin Madis Collection. In two parts, the collection consists of various legal documents from 1722 to 1877 and the papers of Je­ sus de la Garza, an officer in the Mexican army in the 1830s and 1840s, and his family. • The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has re- ceived a $1.5 million matching grant from Univer­ sity Microfilms International of Ann Arbor, Michi­ gan, to expand its microform holdings and acquire new equipment. Tulsa is one of five research insti- Hospitality database launched A Consortium of Hospitality Research Informa­ tion Services called C .H .R .I .S., has been formed to develop both printed and electronic bibliographic database access to hotel, motel, restaurant, travel, convention, and related hospitality publications. C harter consortial members are Cornell Univer­ sity’s School of Hotel Administration Library, Pur­ due University’s Consumer and Family Sciences Library, University of Wisconsin-Stout’s Library Learning Center, and the Hospitality Lodging & Travel Research Foundation, an affiliate of the American Hotel & Motel Association, New York City. Currently C.H .R.I.S. is indexing forty-three hospitality periodicals and will begin abstracting in 1989. O n lin e access to th e d a ta b a s e is av a ilab le through the Cornell University School of Hotel Ad­ m inistration L ib rary , (607) 255-9992, and the American Hotel & Motel Association Information Center, (212) 265-4506. Database users will find major trade and research publications in the hospi­ tality field, most of which have not been previously indexed or abstracted. Anticipated users of the C . H . R . I . S. database will be hospitality employees, academic faculty, librarians, students, research­ ers, or anyone interested in the hospitality indus­ try. For information and a brochure regarding the availability of a printed index, contact the Restau­ rant, Hotel, and Institutional Management Insti­ tute, 101 Young Graduate House, Purdue Univer­ sity, W est L afay ette, IN 47907. F o r general information about the C .H .R.I.S database con­ tact: John J. Jax, C.H .R.I.S. Chairperson, Library Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, W I 54751. ■ ■ ACRL’S FAST JOB LISTING Looking for a job? O ur Fast Job Listing will send you job postings received at ACRL headquarters four weeks before they appear in C&RL News. The Fast Job Listing Service also contains advertisements which, because of narrow application deadlines, will not appear in C&RL News. The ACRL office prepares a Fast Job Listing circular at the beginning of each month and mails it to subscribers first class. The circular contains all job announcements received during the previous four weeks. The cost of a six-month subscription is $10 for ACRL members and $15 for nonmembers. You may enter your subscription below. Please enter my subscription to the ACRL Fast Job Listing Service. ________ I am a member of ACRL and am enclosing $10. ________ I am not a member of ACRL and am enclosing $15. NAM E:________________________________________________________________________________ ADDRESS:_____________________________________________________________________________ Please make checks payable to ACRL/ALA and send to Fast Job Listing Service, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron ST., Chicago, IL 60611. D ecem ber 1987 / 725 tutions to w hich UMI extended the offer. T h e L i­ brary plans to o rder com plete sets of m any titles now partially held as well as runs of som e 250 new titles and additional view ing equipm ent. • T he University of U tah, Salt Lake City, has re- ceived a $41,340 g ran t from th e U.S. D ep artm en t of E ducation to m ake its social sciences d a ta files accessib le to o th e r in s ti tu ti o n s in th e I n t e r ­ university C onsortium for Political an d Social Re­ search. Established in 1962, th e ICPSR collection includes m ore th a n 1,300 tapes on topics ranging from elections to geographic m obility of workers. A code book describes the contents of each file. W ith the gran t, U tah plans to purchase all ICPSR code books, collect existing O C L C catalog entries, iden­ tifying d a ta files for w hich no catalog record exists and crea ting records for them . News note • N orthern Illinois University, D eK alb, hosted six representatives of th e Jap an L ib rary Association on O ctober 12 as p a rt of th e ir nationw ide study to u r. T h e Japanese librarians w ere in th e U nited States as guests of the U.S. Inform ation Agency in order to study advanced library com puter netw ork systems an d services. T he NIU visitors included M asaharu Itoga, from the School of L ibrary and Inform ation Science at Keio University; H ajim e M ori, d ire cto r of th e Y am agata P refectu ral L i­ brary; H ajim e Nishio, chief of the Acquisition and Processing Section of the T ottori P refectural Civic L ibrary; Toshihiko O gaw a, deputy secretary gen­ eral of the Jap an L ibrary Association; Akira Toda, chief of the C om puter P lanning O ffice a t the Seta- gaya W a rd L ibrary in Tokyo; an d Shinji Tomie, associate professor at Tsukuba University. ■ ■ . P E OPLE . Profiles Peter G. W atson, assistant university librarian at C alifornia S tate U niversity, Chico, since 1985, has been nam ed university lib rarian at Idaho State University, Pocatello. W a tso n , a n a tiv e of O ldham , E n g lan d , re ­ ceived his MLS w ith dis­ tinction from th e U ni­ v e rs ity o f C a l if o r n ia , Los A ngeles, in 1969. His u n d ergraduate w ork was done in English and philosophy a t th e U ni­ versity of M anchester, and he holds a m aster’s degree in English from the U niversity o f C a li­ Peter G. W atsonfornia, S anta Barbara. W atson w orked a t the UCLA L ib rary from 1969 to 1976, w hen he joined the M eriam L ib rary at C alifornia State University, Chico, as reference lib rarian an d d a ta services co­ ordinator. In 1984 he w as nam ed head of the Ac­ cess Services D ivision, a n d o n e y ea r la te r w as nam ed assistant university lib rarian for program s and services. A m em ber of th e Id ah o L ib rary Association and ALA, W atson has been active in A CRL, LAMA, LIT A , LRRT, RTSD, an d RASD, w here he cu r­ rently chairs the Steering Com m ittee of th e Collec­ tion D evelopm ent and E valuation Section. H e has to his credit 16 m onographs, 34 articles, an d 16 book reviews. C harles Palm, head lib rarian and archivist at Stanford University’s H oover Institution, has been appointed associate director of the Hoover Institu­ tion. H e succeeds John B. D unlop, w ho will de­ vote his tim e to research an d w riting. A g r a d u a te of S ta n ­ fo rd U n iv e rsity , P alm w as appointed archivist in 1984 an d hea d lib ra r­ ia n in 1986, a n d has bee n a m e m b er of th e I n s titu tio n s ta f f since 1971. He holds graduate degrees in history an d li­ b ra ry science from th e Charles Palm University of W yom ing a n d th e U n iv e rs ity of O regon. He was an archivist in tern a t th e U.S. N a­ tional Archives from 1970 to 1971. Palm has played a leading role in both national an d state professional associations. A past president of th e Society of California Archivists (SAA), he has