ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries January 1988 / 43 and was prom oted the following year to senior ac­ quisitions librarian. He received awards in 197.5, 1976, 1981, and 1985. Benjamin Jacobson, assistant university librar­ ian for adm inistrative services at N orthw estern University, Evanston, Illinois, retired effective January 1. Mary Agnes Sepanik, associate director of p u b ­ lic services at the University of South Florida, Tam pa, since 1974, retires this month. Sepanik joined the library in 1969 as a reference librarian after serving as a school librarian in Illinois and as cataloger/acquisitions lib rarian at M iami D ade County C om m unity College. She holds an MLS from Rosary College. Alma D. Steading, assistant library director for technical services at Furm an University, Green­ ville, South C arolina, has retired. Deaths H oward W . C ordell, founding director of li­ braries at Florida International University, Mi­ ami, from 1970 to 1980, died October 21, 1987, at his home in Gainesville. Cordell had also served as government documents librarian on the North Mi­ ami Campus of FIU until his retirem ent in 1986. He had served previously as director of libraries at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and on the staffs of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Florida Atlantic University, and W estern Illinois University. Cordell served in the U.S. Air Force during W orld W ar II and the Korean W ar. J. M itc h ell Reames, re tire d d irec to r of the Francis Marion College Library, Florence, South Carolina, died August 28, 1987. Anna Komon W aterman, retired head of the Se­ rials Preservation Section of the Library of Con­ gress, died July 30,1987, at 84. A native of Vienna, W aterm an lived in Prague, Budapest, and Berlin before coming to the United States in 1939. First employed by the Red Cross, she joined the Library in the early 1940s, working in the C ard Division before transferring to the Binding Division Office. W aterm an also translated European and Slavic language documents for the Federal Research D i­ vision of the Library. ■ ■ NEW T E C H N O L O G Y • D u Pont has introduced a compact disk infor- m ation system th a t accesses data on the toxicity and safe exposure levels of thousands of chemicals. DUTOX provides inform ation on physical and chemical data, m anufacturers, exposure hazards and standards, toxicity, regulatory requirements, environm ental fate, disposal guidelines, em er­ gency handling, and first aid procedures. The in­ form ation is contained on three databases, two from the D u Pont Haskell Laboratory for Toxicol­ ogy and Internal Medicine and the third from the N ational L ib rary of Medicine. A com pact disk reader is provided w ith the service, which also pro­ vides subscribers w ith an annual search or sum­ m ary by Haskell L aboratory of their choice of chemical not in the database. The system runs on IBMs or compatibles. • T he Faxon C o m p an y is now o fferin g en- hanced versions of its autom ated serials control ser­ vices, MicroLinx and SC-10. MicroLinx v.3.2 of­ fers greater speed and security, as well as such ad­ ditional search functions as: the ability to sort by call num ber on claims status reports; the ability to search address and location IDs w ith any charac­ ters, including diacritics and blanks; autom atic calculations for the database m anagem ent utility; and autom atic re-display of search requests. The enhancements to the SC-10 system include b ar­ code scanning, a new binding screen, and a more comprehensive display of SC-10 files. Faxon has also released a software package th a t transfers selected Faxon invoice d a ta into files readable by Lotus 1-2-3, Symphony, dBASE II, or dBASE III. T hesoftw are, called FI$CAL, runs on IBM PCs and PC -compatibles. Yet another Faxon service offers subscriptions to the M EDLINE Knowledge Finder CD-ROM d a ta ­ base, which contains full citations of medical jour- IT WOULD TAKE YOU AROUND fo u r minutes to boil this egg IT WOULD TAKE YOU AROUND s ix ty seconds to access o u r million title database via ou r LIBTEL system So why make a m eal ou t o f acquiring B ritish academic books? John Menzies has the perfect recipe. W e’re based in England and have a database of over 1,000,000 British titles. It takes just 60 seconds to access this database via our LIBTEL system which is available 24 hours a day for the cost of a local telephone call. LIBTEL provides: □ Enquiry and pre-order verification on over 1,000,000 British titles. □ O n-line ordering. □ Hard copy order confirmation and reporting. We believe th at we’re faster, more competitive and more reliable than whoever you’re currently dealing with and our complete range of Library MENZIES Services includes: John Menzies □ Comprehensive new title forms service. Library Services □ Subject listings - new and back list titles from our database. 24 Gamble Street □ Fully automated Periodicals and Continuations subscription service. N ottingham John Menzies have been active in book selling since 1833. Today we’re part N G 7 4FJ of an international Library Supply Network. O ur associates include Coutts England Library Services and Readmore in N o rth America as well as Bennetts in PH: 602 708021 Australia. TWX: 37577 W e’re well established, efficient, fast and dependable. We don’t just deliver JMLSNG G the goods. We deliver the goods quickly. C heck us out and see. FAX: 602 787718 To obtain your LIBTEL access code or more information get in touch with Electronic mail Mike Dyche or Jo Buxton in N ottingham now - by phone (collect), Telex, Fax O C LC DX: MNZ or Electronic Mail. W .L.N : MENZ January 1988 / 45 nal articles with up to five years of citations on a single optical disk. Developed by the Aries Systems Corporation, Knowledge Finder provides a variety of search options, including natural language ex­ pression. The system runs on Macintosh computers and is compatible with most CD-ROM disk players that support SCSI protocol. For information on all Faxon products and ser­ vices, contact The Faxon Company, 15 Southwest Park, Westwood, MA 02090; (617) 329-3350. • The Public Affairs Information Service now has an enhanced CD-ROM version, PAIS-on-CD- ROM, which contains over 275,000 records from 1972 to the present. PAIS-on-CD-ROM, which in­ dexes public policy literature, was developed by a team of library indexers, programmers, systems analysts, inform ation and reference specialists. The system runs on IBMs or compatibles with 640K RAM. • Spacesaver Corporation has introduced the S- Line series of high density mobile filing/storage sys­ tems that will fit any room size, overcome architec­ tural constraints, and solve difficult space configu­ rations. The systems range from five feet in length to more than 80 feet, with load capacities from less than 5,000 pounds per carriage, to more than 1,000 pounds per lineal foot. The small manuals can be set on any type of floor, including carpet, and are especially adaptable for cul-de-saes or other tight spaces. The larger electrical systems have push­ button operating controls and passive safety fea­ tures. The Yale University Divinity School Library re­ cently installed 8,500 linear feet of Spacesaver’s mechanical assist mobile shelving in order to ac­ commodate collection growth for at least 20 years, with only a minimal amount of vertical construc­ tion. The total Divinity Library now occupies over 30,000 volumes and space for 320 readers. Some 100,000 volumes, as well as manuscript and archi­ val records, have been located on the mobile sys­ tem. Architect W inthrop Cannon of Yale’s D epart­ ment of Architectural and Engineering Services planned the project, which added two new levels over a passageway connecting two buildings. To make the best use of the additional 3,200 square feet, the mechanical assist systems sold by Space- saver were chosen after comparing several differ­ ent products. Although the cost of mobile systems per square foot is higher than that for static shelving, the con­ struction cost per book is very low because dead aisle space is eliminated. Yale estimated that mo­ bile shelving had a net per volume savings of $1.22 compared to static shelving. While the entire proj­ ect including space renovation cost Yale $1.4 mil­ lion, over the long term compact shelving at cost per square foot came down dramatically. This was a key factor in estimating air conditioning costs, because minimizing square footage reduced the amount of energy required at a cost of over $3.00 E very day, you’re challenged by tough questions. Where can I get a chronology of the Iran arms-Contra aid scandal? What legislative steps is Japan taking to remove import quotas and other non tariff trade barriers in response to U.S. and EEC criticism? If your users want the answers to these and other public policy questions, it’s time to search PAIS. PAIS is the foremost indexing service covering national and international politi­ cal, economic, and social issues. It’s the unique, one-stop resource that gives you immediate access to a huge, eclectic range of material, including books, peri­ odical articles, directories, government documents, statistics, and much more. And it’s the only index of its kind that covers literature published around the world in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Where are your searches consistently productive, adding a valuable dimension to your research efforts? Where do you find answers to the toughest questions? Easy . . . PAIS! PAIS is available in print, online, and now via CD-ROM. For informa­ tion, call 800-841-1416. In New York or outside the continental U.S., call 212-736-6629. Easy Answer: Public Affairs PA Info I rm S ation Service 11 W. 4 0 S tr e e t N ew York, NY 10018-2693 46 / C&RL News Yale D ivinity School L ibrary’s technical services area, where a small mobile compact SpaceSaver system was installed. per square foot per year. Spacesaver’s heavy-duty, wheel-m ounted car­ riages ride on tracks, compacting right or left si­ multaneously when hand-pressure is applied to the 3-arm spoke on the face of the carriage. It takes only one pound of force on the arm to move 4,000 pounds of load. The library has reported no safety problem s, com plaints, or service m ain ten an ce problems. For further inform ation, contact Mark H au b e n sc h ild , SpaceSaver C o rp o ra tio n , 1450 Janesville Ave., Fort Atkinson, W I 53538. • Thom son & Thom son's T radem arkscan— Federal database will be one of the first to utilize D IA LO G ’S new image capability. The database al­ lows DIALOG users to display, type, and save im ­ ages of the tradem ark logos and other tradem ark design elements it contains. The database, avail­ able on DIALOG since 1983, provides access to all active registered and pending tradem arks on file in the U.S. Patent and Tradem ark Office. Each rec­ ord contains the tradem ark, a description of the goods or service, the ow ner’s nam e, and other per­ tinent inform ation about the status of the mark. It allows for retrieval of unconventional presenta­ tions of w ords, c o rru p te d spellings, n o n -L atin characters, and languages other th an English. Of the 785,000 records in the database, about 40% contain some design element. L ater on this year, users will be able to search for tradem arks th a t con­ tain a specific design element. This will be accom­ plished by the addition of design codes th a t index the most salient features of a tradem ark. For more inform ation, contact Thomson & Thomson, One Monarch Drive, North Quincy, MA 02171-2126; (617) 479-1600. ■ ■ National Library Week, April 17-23 National Library Week will be celebrated April 17-23, 1988, w ith the theme, “The C ard w ith a C harge.. .Use Your Library” (or “Charge up at the L ibrary,” w here there is no card). ALA’s Public Inform ation Office has developed them e m aterials including four posters, book­ m arks, an d balloons fe a tu rin g “ c h arg ed u p ” cartoon-style characters. PIO ’s 1988 Library Pub­ licity Book w ith publicity and prom otional ideas is also available. Other 1988 ALA Graphics products of interest to academic librarians are the M argaret Sanger and G andhi additions to the “G reat Minds Meet at the L ibrary” poster series, celebrity READ posters of O prah W infrey, Phil Collins, Michael J. Fox, and Ruben Blades, notecards featuring ALA poster art from W orld W ar I and an enamel pin w ith the clas­ sic “Red Read” graphic. For a free, full-color catalog, write: 1988 ALA Graphics Catalog, American Library Association, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ■ ■