ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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

Northern Arizona University library has 
recently established a special collections divi­
sion. Several recent sizeable collections acquired 
by the division are the A. & B. Schuster busi­
ness records, which include ledgers (1891-1920) 
and file cases of company correspondence (1948- 
63); the United Verde Mines records, com­
prising bound ledgers of purchasing records 
(1892-1940), transfer cases of correspondence 
and contracts relating to purchases (1915- 
1935), notebooks of data on smelter smoke 
damage to crops within the vicinity (1920’s), 
identified photos on crop damage due to smelter 
smoke (1920’s), transfer cases of records of 
the Verde Tunnel and Smelter Railway ( 1920’s­
’30’s); and the Norman Allerdice Collection, 
which consists of books, periodicals, and ephem­
era on right and left-wing social and political 
action groups but with emphasis on those 
groups to the right of center.

The papers of Samuel Gompers, founder 
and longtime president of the American Federa­
tion of Labor, have been given to the Library 
of Congress by the AFL-CIO. More than three 
hundred volumes of letter books, spanning the 
period 1883-1924, make up the gift.

Frazar memorial library, McNeese State 
College, Lake Charles, La., through the efforts 
of the Friends of McNeese College Library, 
have acquired several fore-edge paintings 
among which are five double paintings, and 
one Oriental fore-edge. The Friends of Mc­
Neese library received $4,000 from Mrs. Alice 
Barr Smith for the purchase of modern Ameri­
can first editions, the largest single cash dona­
tion ever made to the library. Mrs. Smith also 
donated her family library of six thousand 
volumes. These volumes included numerous 
modern American first editions, and significant 
Louisiana imprints, and were donated in mem­
ory of Mr. and Mrs. Mason P. Erwin.

The Gerhart Hauptmann collection of the 
late Professor Siegfried H. Muller has been 
acquired through a gift to the Adelphi Uni­
versity library. Dr. Muller was an authority on 
Hauptmann, author of Gerhart Hauptmann and 
Goethe, as well as several books on general 
linguistics, and one of three scholars invited by 
the Federal Republic of Germany to the Ger­
hart Hauptmann Centennial in 1962. The 
Hauptmann collection, containing some three 
hundred and sixty items, consists of works by 
and about Hauptmann, translations, phono rec­
ords, tape recordings, newspaper clippings, ar­
ticles, and photographs.

The papers of Dwight L. Moody, 19th cen­
tury evangelist, were given to Syracuse Uni­

versity by his granddaughter, Mrs. Emma 
Moody Powell.

The William R. Perkins library of Duke Uni­
versity has added eight new items to its col­
lection of Greek manuscripts. These newest ac­
quisitions obtained through a London sale in 
December increase the library’s total holdings 
to thirty-nine, the third largest in the United 
States. Duke has been collecting Greek manu­
scripts since the early 1930’s emphasizing By­
zantine manuscripts of the gospels and Byzan­
tine lectionaries containing gospel texts. They 
have been used to support research in the text 
criticism of the New Testament and are a 
principal resource of the International New 
Testament Project of the Duke divinity school. 
In addition to Biblical and liturgical manu­
scripts the collection also contains several 
manuscripts of early liturgicals and church fa­
thers and one manuscript of Aristotle’s Organon. 
Three Latin manuscripts were purchased at 
the same time as the Greek.

A collection of letters written during the 
American Revolution has been acquired by the 
M. D. Anderson memorial library at the Uni­
versity of Houston. To be known as the 
Emily Scott Evans Collection of the American 
Revolutionary War, the gift contains sixty-four 
letters written by or to Colonel Israel Shreve, 
colonel of the Second Regiment of the New 
Jersey Line.

B U IL D IN G S

The new $1,300,000 library at Illinois Wes­
leyan University will incorporate a unique 
“quadrant concept” which places four areas of 
stacks on each of three floors around a central 
lounge and stairway area. Ground was broken 
for the library on Dec. 14, and completion is 
expected in the spring of 1968. The building 
will seat seven hundred persons and will have 
a maximum capacity of two hundred thousand 
volumes.

Ground was broken on Feb. 16 for a new 
addition to the University of Rochester’s 
Rush Rhees library. Construction of the addi­
tion, along with the remodelling of the existing 
building, will more than double the library’s 
space. The new wing is scheduled for comple­
tion by the fall of 1968, with the renovation 
of the present library building to follow. Aiding 
the library expansion will be nearly $2 million 
in grants from the state and federal govern­
ments under the Higher Education Facilities 
Act of 1963. The expanded library will provide 
seating for 1,500 undergraduates, study cubicles 
for 570 graduate students, and studies for 125 
faculty members. In addition, the enlarged fa­
cilities will include rooms for typing, improved

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facilities for rare book collections, increased 
space for staff operations, and additional stack 
space.

Construction has begun on a new 42,000- 
square foot library building to house the Scar­
ritt College division of the Joint University 
Libraries, Nashville.

F E L L O W S H IP S , 
S C H O L A R S H IP S

The University of Kentucky is pleased to 
announce that two additional work-study schol­
arships are now being offered to provide an 
opportunity for well-qualified students to en­
roll in the department of library science and, 
at the same time, acquire intensive work ex­
perience in the university library. This scholar­
ship is offered on a cooperative basis by the 
university library and the department of li­
brary science. A stipend of $3,000 is paid for 
a ten month period. Students work 20 hours per 
week and register for nine hours of course work. 
This is a two year scholarship; the persons se­
lected could continue for a second year at the 
same stipend, $3,000. Interested applicants 
should request forms from the Chairman of 
the Department of Library Science, University 
of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. Applications 
must be postmarked not later than July 15.

The Welch medical library, Johns Hopkins

University, has accepted a U.S. Public Health 
Service grant to train four graduate librarians 
in the subspecialties of biomedical librarian­
ship. A year-long intensified program will be 
given to one trainee in each of the following 
fields: Public Services, Administration, Tech­
nical Services, History of Medicine. Training 
includes tuition-free academic courses, semi­
monthly informal seminars, and supervised work 
experience. A two-month special research proj­
ect, selected by the trainee and an adviser, is 
another facet of the program. Candidates must 
be U.S. citizens who have received a master’s 
degree from an accredited library school before 
starting the program. Librarians who are al­
ready employed in the field will be considered 
as well as recent library school graduates. 
Trainees will be accepted to begin the program 
on July 1 or September 1. The stipend will be 
$5,500. Applications will be accepted until 
May 1 for those who wish to begin the pro­
gram in July and until July 1 for those who 
wish to begin in September. For application 
forms and additional information, write to: 
Alfred N. Brandon, Director and Librarian, 
Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins Univer­
sity, 1900 E. Monument Street, Baltimore, 
Maryland 21205.

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the availability of approximately ten graduate 
assistantships for the academic year 1967/68. 
These include library work-study assistantships 
and teaching and research assistantships. Some 
are offered as ten-month appointments carrying 
a stipend of $2,600 and others on a twelve­
month basis at $3,120. Library work-study as­
sistants work in the professional library of the 
school under the direction of the librarian, 
while teaching and research assistants serve 
under other members of the faculty and aid 
in the educational program or in research un­
dertakings being carried out by faculty mem­
bers. All assistantships provide for exemption 
from tuition and holders may pursue up to ten 
semester hours during fall and spring semesters 
and three semester hours during the summer 
session.

Applicants may also apply for University of 
Maryland fellowships of $1,000. These are 
awarded on a competitive basis by the gradu­
ate school, to outstanding applicants upon the 
recommendation of the school of library and 
information services. Fellowship holders are 
expected to pursue their studies on a full-time 
basis and are exempt from tuition charges. 
During 1966/67 two fellowships were awarded 
to students in the school.

Further information is available from the 
Director of Admissions, School of Library and 
Information Services, University of Maryland, 
College Park, Maryland 20740.

A pioneering scholarship program for able 
junior college graduates will start next fall at 
New York University, financed by a trust es­
tablished by Richard P. Ettinger, has assigned 
to the program the income from a bloc of 
Prentice-Hall stock to enable NYU to provide 
annual scholarships for one hundred students 
transferring from junior colleges for their last 
two years of undergraduate work.

A training program in medical librarianship 
and communication in the health sciences will 
be initiated by the school of library science of 
Western Reserve University in July 1967 
with the support of a five-year grant of 
$377,915 from the U.S. Public Health Service 
through the Extramural Program of the Na­
tional Library of Medicine. The program, lead­
ing after one year to the degree of MS in 
Library Science, will utilize the resources and 
facilities of the school of library science and 
the Center for Documentation and Communica­
tion Research, the school of medicine and the 
Cleveland health sciences library on the West­
ern Reserve University campus. Six stipends of 
$2,400 plus dependency allowance and full 
payment of fees will be available to applicants 
of excellence and potential. For further in­
formation contact the Program Director, Profes­
sor Alan M. Rees, School of Library Science, 
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 
44106.

G IF T S , G R A N T S

A comprehensive state-wide survey of library 
service is being conducted by the Arizona 
State University bureau of educational re­
search and services, sponsored by the Arizona 
Department of Library and Archives directed 
by Mrs. Marguerite Cooley.

A $5,000 grant has just been made by the 
Council on Library Resources to enable the 
university to conduct a three-day seminar in 
connection with the survey, which itself is 
being financed by funds provided by the Li­
brary Services and Construction Act. Findings 
of the survey will be reviewed at the seminar, 
to be held in May, and recommendations de­
veloped for their implementation. Currently 
the data concerning sixty public libraries, one 
hundred and five special libraries, eleven col­
lege and university libraries, and eight hundred 
and eleven elementary and secondary school li­
braries are being tabulated and analyzed. The 
analysis is being conducted under the direction 
of Dr. Harold E. Moore and Mrs. Grace T. 
Stevenson.

The study is scheduled for completion next 
summer, when a comprehensive report will be 
made to the director of the Arizona Depart­
ment of Library and Archives.

The Council on Library Resources has made 
a grant in the amount of $9,119 to the Univer­
sity of California, Berkeley, for an experi­
ment, by the Institute of Library Research, in 
library application of facsimile transmission be­
tween the university’s Berkeley and Davis cam­
puses. The two campuses are seventy-five miles 
apart. The experiment, under the direction of 
Raynard C. Swank, is being conducted with 
the use of LDX equipment loaned by the Xerox 
Corporation. The experiment follows a previous 
one with loaned Magnafax equipment in which 
the Reno and Las Vegas campuses of the Uni­
versity of Nevada were linked with the Davis 
campus.

The Council on Library Resources has made 
a grant of $2,000 to the American Biblio­
graphical Center to support the preparation 
of a new type of subject index. The grant will 
be applied to the preparation of a computer 
program for the index to the periodical articles 
abstracted in the Center’s bibliographies, His­
torical Abstracts and America: History and 
Life. The Center’s publications feature an index 
in which each entry gives an abbreviated sum­
mary of topics, places and years covered. The 
new system was developed by Eric H. Boehm, 
the Center’s director, to speed search by users, 
reduce the number of “false drops” and serve 
as a means of arranging the abstracts in mean­
ingful order. The abbreviations have the ad­
vantage over library code numbers in that they 
are easily recognizable, as “FOR” for Foreign 
Relations. The computer facilitates the rear-

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rangement of these so-called cues under their 
appropriate headings.

The University of Colorado libraries have 
received a $54,000 grant from the National Sci­
ence Foundation to study development of a 
cooperative book processing center to serve all 
Colorado publicly supported college and uni­
versity libraries. The one-year grant is the first 
given by the NSF to a group of academic li­
braries to develop a central processing center.

Ralph E. Ellsworth, University of Colorado 
director of libraries; Richard M. Dougherty, CU 
associate director of libraries, and Don S. Cul­
bertson, librarian for research and development 
at Colorado State University, are the three 
principal investigators. They received the grant 
as representatives of the Colorado Council of 
Libraries which has contributed $10,500 for 
the study. Institutions represented on the coun­
cil besides CU and CSU are the United States 
Air Force Academy, Fort Lewis College, West­
ern State College, Colorado State College, 
Metropolitan State College, Adams State Col­
lege, Southern Colorado State College and the 
Colorado School of Mines.

The objective of the study is to investigate 
whether a centralized processing center com­
prised of all of Colorado’s academic institutions 
would improve the dissemination of materials 
to library users throughout the state.

A grant of $108,855.00 from the Council on 
Library Resources, Inc., to the American Li­
brary Association, Chicago, Illinois, for the con­
tinued support of CHOICE, a book review 
journal, has been announced.

The Council on Library Resources, Inc., 
Washington, D.C., has awarded a grant of 
$5,668 to the University of Chicago graduate 
library school to study book losses through 
theft in academic libraries. The principal in­
vestigator will be Mrs. Maxine H. Reneker, 
whose work has been initiated under the direc­
tion of Herman H. Fussier and Philip H. Ennis. 
For this study, a questionnaire requesting fig­
ures on losses through theft and data on the use 
of control devices was distributed to all of the 
1670 academic libraries serving student bodies 
of less than five thousand listed in the U.S. 
Office of Education publications, Library Sta­
tistics of Colleges and Universities, 1963-64 and 
its Supplement. Approximately ten hundred 
ninety libraries returned the questionnaire, a 
response of 65 per cent. Forty-five per cent of 
the responses included figures indicating the 
number of books lost.

A grant in the amount of $62,300 to the 
New England Board of Higher Education, 
Winchester, Mass., to further the design of a 
regional library cataloging and processing cen­
ter for six New England university libraries, 
has been made by the Council on Library Re­
sources. The grant supplements a previous grant 
of $45,860 to NEBHE by the Council for the

same purpose. The libraries participating in the 
NEBHE project are those of the University of 
Connecticut, University of Maine, University 
of Massachusetts, University of New Hamp­
shire, University of Rhode Island, and Univer­
sity of Vermont. The project is an investigation 
of the feasibility of a regional computer center 
for the processing and cataloging of books.

The Louis W. and Maude Hill Family Foun­
dation has made a grant to the Endowment and 
Research Foundation of Montana State Uni­
versity, Bozeman, to enable the library to 
microfilm the Yellowstore Park records.

A grant to the National Book Committee, 
in the amount of $4,500, to assist its attack on 
the critical manpower shortage in the library 
field, has been made by the Council on Library 
Resources. A major part of the grant has been 
applied toward the expenses of a three-day con­
ference sponsored by the American Library As­
sociation in cooperation with the National Book 
Committee. A second portion of the Council’s 
grant will be used to support for six months the 
formation of the National Book Committee’s 
Library Manpower Panel and a planning con­
ference of manpower and personnel manage­
ment experts reflecting education, business, 
labor and other non-library professions.

The American Jewish Historical Society 
is the recipient of a grant from the New York 
State Council on the Arts to catalog the book, 
manuscript, and art collections of the Society 
by providing the services of two librarian­
museum trainees. Scheduled completion of the 
project is December 1967.

The Council on Library Resources has made 
a grant in the amount of $4,470 to Edward A. 
Chapman, director of libraries at Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute, and Paul L. St. Pierre, 
assistant director for library operations, to assist 
them in preparing a monograph, “Systems 
Analysis and Design as Related to Library Op­
erations.” The book is intended to be a guide 
to the theory of systems analysis and design, 
and to provide a working knowledge of stan­
dard methods, procedures and tools which li­
brarians can use in analyzing and evaluating 
operating problems.

Receipt of a grant in the amount of $5,000 
from the Council on Library Resources will 
assist a subcommittee of the U.S. American 
Standards Institute to seek the development 
of uniform practices in preparing machine­
readable bibliographical information for com­
puters. The grant was made to the University 
of North Carolina in behalf of the Institute and 
supplements a grant of $7,000 from the Na­
tional Science Foundation.

The resources of outstanding collections 
in southeastern university libraries will be made 
more available to scholars through a project fi­
nanced by the Mary Reynolds Babcock Founda­
tion of Winston-Salem, N.C. The Association

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of South Eastern Research Libraries has an­
nounced plans for a guidebook to distinguished 
collections in the libraries of its membership. 
Editor for the project is Thomas H. English, 
professor emeritus of English at Emory Uni­
versity, under the direction of a committee 
headed by Guy R. Lyle, director of libraries at 
Emory. Other members of the committee of 
librarians are W. Porter Kellam, University of 
Georgia, Benjamin E. Powell, Duke, Stanley 
L. West, University of Florida, and Jerrold 
Orne, University of North Carolina.

Ferrum Junior College’s library fund has 
received a joint gift of $200,000 from former 
Virginia governor Thomas B. Stanley and Mrs. 
Stanley. With a federal grant for the major part 
of its cost already approved, the gift makes 
possible construction of a new library for the 
college.

A pilot project to attack problems in pre­
serving the content of countless thousands of 
“brittle books” of the last century will be 
undertaken by the Library of Congress through 
a $26,800 grant which the Council on Library 
Resources has made to the Association of Re­
search Libraries.

M E E T IN G S

Apr. 12-14: The University of Pittsburgh will 
hold its second national conference on Elec­
tronic Information Handling. The conference 
will be co-sponsored by the university, Good­
year Aerospace Corporation, Western Michigan 
University, the Office of Naval Research, and 
the Special Interest Group on Information Re­
trieval—Association for Computing Machinery. 
Further information regarding the conference 
may be obtained from Professor Allen Kent, 
Director, Knowledge Availability Systems Cen­
ter, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
15213.

Apr. 13: Fifth annual Symposium for Li­
brarians, sponsored by the alumni and faculty 
of the Graduate School of Library Service, Rut­
gers University. “Planning—Process, Problems, 
Politics” will relate planning for the develop­
ment of libraries of all types to the problems of 
operating within the political and social sphere. 
For more information or reservation forms, 
write to Glenn Reed, Franklin High School, 
Francis Street, Somerset, N.J. 08873.

Apr. 28-29: A conference on The Developing 
Junior College Library will be held at DeKalb, 
Illinois, under the joint sponsorship of the Illi­
nois Library Association and Northern Illinois 
University. Sessions will be held on the general 
topics of Library Administration, Collections, 
Services, Buildings, and Curriculum for Train­
ing Library Clerks. For further program in­
formation, write to: Sherman Zelinsky, Librar­
ian, Danville Junior College, 2000 East Main

Street, Danville, Illinois 61832. For conference 
reservations, write to: Mr. James B. Dodd, Far­
aday Library, Northern Illinois University, De- 
Kalb, Illinois 60115.

May 5-6: Midwest Academic Librarians 
Conference, Chicago Circle Campus, Univer­
sity of Illinois.

May 5-6: The annual Spring meeting of the 
Tri-State (Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) 
Chapter of the Association of College and Re­
search Libraries, at Shepherd College Library, 
Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

May 21-26: Seminar in Public Library Ad­
ministration. Drexel Institute of Technology. 
Led by Edwin Castagna, Enoch Pratt free li­
brary, Baltimore.

May 27-28: Symposium, Libraries and the 
Future, at Dalhousie University library. Keynote 
Speaker, Robert M. Hayes, UCLA. Sponsored 
by Atlantic Provinces Library Association in 
association with Dalhousie University. For 
further information contact Miss Nancy Stuart, 
Dalhousie University Library, Halifax, N.S. Pre­
registration is required; the fee of $10 includes 
two “official” meals.

June 11-16: The sixty-sixth annual meeting 
of the Medical Library Association will be held 
at the Americana in Miami, Fla.

June 12-16: Distinguished figures in librar­
ianship from three continents will speak at an 
International Conference on Education for Li­
brarianship at the University of Illinois, Urbana. 
The conference is being conducted by the 
graduate school of library science through the 
U. of I. division of university extension.

June 13-16: Technical Information Center 
Administration IV. Drexel Institute of Tech­
nology. Led by Arthur W. Elias, Institute for 
Scientific Information, Philadelphia.

June 14-17: International Federation for In­
formation Processing and Federation Interna­
tionale de la Documentation meeting on Mech­
anized Information Storage, Retrieval, and Dis­
semination, Rome.

June 22-24: 12th Seminar on the acquisition 
of Latin American library material. Principal 
topic for discussion will be development of 
Latin American collections, considered from 
points of view of libraries of varying sizes for 
study and research purposes. Institutional mem­
bership is $15, payable to the “University of 
California at Los Angeles: Twelfth SALALM,” 
and checks should be sent to William R. 
Woods, Latin American Bibliographer in the 
University Research Library, UCLA, Los An­
geles, California 90024. Preprint working pa­
pers are included in the membership fee, and 
are available only through payment of the 
institutional membership. The registration fee 
for additional participants from the member 
institution is $7.50, and includes preprint work­
ing papers. Additional sets of working papers 
can be subscribed to in advance for $5.00 each.

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June 25-July 1: Annual conference, ALA, 
San Francisco.

July 1-8: Following the ALA conference 
in San Francisco June 25-July 1, the Hawaii 
Library Association will sponsor the Mid-Pa­
cific Library Conference in Honolulu. Head­
quarters will be at the Princess Kaiulani Hotel 
in Waikiki.

Plans are underway for trips to the Poly­
nesian Cultural Center, Sea Life Park, the 
state Centralized Processing Center, the Uni­
versity of Hawaii, the East-West Center for 
Cultural and Technical Interchange, and var­
ious libraries on Oahu. An optional extension 
trip to the islands of Kauai, Maui, and Ha­
waii will be offered.

Travel arrangements are being handled by 
Bel-Air Travel, Inc., 600 North Sepulveda 
Boulevard, Los Angeles 90049. Further infor­
mation may be obtained from them or from 
Katherine Knight, Hawaii State Library, 478 
South King Street, Honolulu 96813.

July 9-30: Fourth Annual European Library 
Study Tour. Drexel Institute of Technology. 
Led by Emerson Greenaway, Free Library of 
Philadelphia.

July 10-28: Edward McLean will direct a 
workshop on the care, binding and repair of 
books and the basic principles of preserving 
historical documents, at the University of 
Denver graduate school of librarianship. The 
workshop will be limited to twenty participants, 
with preference given to those working with 
special collections. Advance registration is re­
quired. Application forms and further informa­
tion may be obtained from the co-director, 
H. W. Axford, Director of Libraries, University 
of Denver, Denver, Colorado 80210.

July 17-28: Seventh Annual School Librar­
ianship Workshop. Drexel Institute of Tech­
nology. Led by Beatrice Downin, Abington 
Township, Pa.

July 17-29: Senior administrative personnel 
of large public, research and academic libraries 
will participate in a two-week University of 
Maryland seminar to study library organizations. 
Sponsored by the university’s school of library 
and informational services. Brochure and ap­
plication materials are available from the Li­
brary Administrators Development Program, 
School of Library and Information Services, 
University of Maryland, College Park, Mary­
land 20740.

Sept. 4-9. IATUL seminar on application of 
international library methods and techniques, at 
Delft Technological University library. Intended 
for directors or coworkers from libraries at re­
search level. Official language is English. Num­
ber of participants will be limited to twenty­
five. Fee is 400 guilders. Address all correspond­
ence to Miss C. D. Wilson, c/o Library Tech­
nological University, 101 Doelenstraat, Delft, 
Netherlands.

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Sept. 12-22: International Federation fo
Documentation (F ID ), thirty-third conferenc
and International Congress on Documentation,
in Tokyo, Japan.

Sept. 17-20: Data Processing in University
Libraries Conference. Drexel Institute of Tech
nology. Led by Ralph Parker, director of li
braries and dean, graduate library school, Uni­
versity of Missouri.

M IS C E L L A N Y

Physicians throughout the Northwest paid
tribute to one of the nation’s leading medical
librarians when they presented a portrait of
Bertha Brandon Hallam to the University of
Oregon medical school.

Fifty or more Middle Atlantic area col
leges and research institutions may be linked
in a high-speed computer network designated
the Eastern Pennsylvania Information Center
computer network (EPIC) within the next two
to three years. The network center would be
at Franklin and Marshall College.

Jack P. Lewis, Harding College, Memphis,
is preparing a census of Bishops’ Bibles in
American libraries. He would appreciate being
informed of any libraries holding copies of the
following items: The Anglo-Saxon Gospels,
John Day, 1571; The William Fulke New
Testament, 1589, 1601, 1617, 1633; all print­
ings of The Bishops’ Bible and New Testa­
ments.

Eugene Miller, president of Documentation
Incorporated, has announced plans for eighteen
SEM IN A R S I N  IN F O R M A T IO N  RETRIEV AL, tWO of
them in Europe and two in Canada, during
1967. They will be conducted by Freeman H.
Dyke and Basil Doudnikoff, associates of the
Bethesda information handling firm, and spon­
sored jointly by DOC INC and IEI (Industrial
Education Institute) of Boston, Mass. The semi­
nars are intended to convey knowledge of how
to design and operate an effective information
retrieval system at minimal cost.

The new $1,600,000 Milne library on the
campus of the State University College at
Geneseo, N.Y., has been selected as the official
depository for the new Thoreau edition that is
jointly sponsored by the National Humanities
Foundation and the Center for Editions of
American Authors of the Modern Language
Association.

Frederick Fell, Inc., New York City book
publisher, has designated the manuscript col­
lections division of the Syracuse University
library as the repository for its permanent ar­
chives.

By action of the Executive Committee of the
Duke University Board of Trustees the univer­
sity’s general library has been named the Wil­
iam R. Perkins library in honor of the late

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A significant retrospective list of more than 53,000 monographic titles 
specially chosen to support a college teaching program which depends 
heavily on the library. The list itself has been developed from the 
initial selections made for three new undergraduate libraries by the 
University of California’s New Campuses Program. Subject specialists 
recognized for their expertise in evaluating undergraduate college 
library materials further reviewed all selections to make this new tool 
serve the needs of college libraries of various sizes and locations. 
Arrangement is by Library of Congress classification. Entries give 
author, title, edition, imprint, main pagination, and LC card number. 
This list encompasses all fields of knowledge, and includes essential 
titles for the general collection as well as some scholarly monographs, 
important out-of-print books, and original paperbacks. Supported in 
part by a Council on Library Resources grant. Indexed by author and 
subject. Useful to any library concerned with acquiring academic 
materials. Prepared under the direction of Melvin J. Voigt and Joseph 
H. Treyz. $45.00

Guide to Reference Books, 8th edition
This new edition of the guide to outstanding reference books of any 
language and date describes nearly 8,000 reference works basic to 
research and selected for inclusion in any large general reference 
collection. While retaining the general approach of earlier editions, 
it employs a new five-part classed subject arrangement in keeping 
with current library practice in subject organization and reflecting the 
content of courses in library science. The five major parts are: General 
Reference Works, The Humanities, Social Sciences, History and 
Area Studies, and Pure and Applied Sciences. Essential bibliograph­
ical information and full evaluative, descriptive annotations are given 
for each entry. Helpful essays and introductory statements throughout 
the text amplify and clarify the nature and use of the materials de­
scribed. All titles retained from the seventh edition have been re­
evaluated and annotations revised accordingly. Code numbers formu­
lated on the new arrangement are assigned to each entry as a finding 
device. Fully indexed. The standard guide to the selection, use, and 
study of reference books. Constance M. Winchell. Ready in June, 
price to be announced

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