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M a r t h a  B ovee has been appointed head of
the serials department o f the University of
California, San D iego library.

R o bert E. C o n n e l l  has been appointed
librarian at Washington and Jefferson College, 
effective March 1.

Ja m e s D o n a l d  C raig becomes assistant to 
the director for planning, Joint University li­
braries, Nashville, on June 1.

M a r y  C a t h e r in e D u n n ig an  has been ap­
pointed head o f the architectural library of 
Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

M rs. M a r c ia  (M cG rew ) F in d le y has
joined the staff as assistant librarian and head 
o f technical services, Spring Hill College, M o­
bile, Ala.

D ouglas D . G ordon has been appointed 
order librarian at Simon Fraser University 
library, Burnaby, British Columbia.

(M iss) C l e m  M. H a l l  has becom e assistant 
director o f the Washington Office o f ALA.

On June 1 M rs. F ran ces H a r d ie  becomes 
catalog librarian for Slavic materials, Joint 
University Libraries, Nashville.

H o l l a c e  H en k el has been appointed mech­
anization librarian at the medical library 
of the University o f Virginia School of 
Medicine.

M r s. Z oia  H orn has been appointed head, 
reference department at the Ellen Clarke 
Bertrand library, Bucknell University.

Susan I. K noke has been appointed bibliog­
rapher for African studies at Michigan State 
University.

M rs. C a r o l  L a it e  will join the Wilson 
College ( Chambersburg, Penna.) library staff 
as cataloger on June 15.

D avid O. L a n e  has been appointed to the 
position o f assistant librarian at the University 
of California, San D iego campus. The appoint­
ment is effective June 14.

Jess A. M a r t in , chief, library branch, Na­
tional Institutes of Health, will assume his new 
duties at Temple University health sciences 
library on July 15. He will becom e director of 
the health sciences library with the academic 
rank of associate professor o f medical librarian­
ship. Soon after his arrival, the present medical 
library will b e relocated to a new Basic Sci­
ences building. Plans for a health sciences 
library to accommodate 250,000 volumes will 
then get underway.

R e d m o n d  K a t h l e e n  M olz, editor of the 
Wilson Library Bulletin for the past six years, 
has been named chief o f the Library Planning 
and Development Branch in the Division of 
Library Services and Educational Facilities, 
U.S. Office o f Education, and will assume her 
new post on June 1.

T h o m a s  M o r to n  has been appointed head

of technical processes in the biomedical library, 
University o f California, San Diego.

G eorge J. R au sch, Jr ., has been named 
director o f the Drake University libraries.

A u s tin  C h i-w e i Sh u , formerly with the Uni­
versity of Singapore, is now bibliographer for 
East Asian studies at Michigan State Uni­
versity.

C ath e r in e  V irg in ia  v o n  Sch o n  is subject 
specialist in English and American literature, 
State University o f New York at Stony Brook. 
Miss von Schon’s chief responsibility will be 
systematic development o f the collection of 
English and American Literature.

M a r y  E. W in n ik e has been appointed ref­
erence librarian with the Rush medical college 
library o f Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital, 
Chicago.

N E C R O L O G Y

Je a n  Ka u f f m a n , for twenty-six years on the 
library staff o f Northwestern University, and 
music librarian since 1945, died on April 20.

B il l ie  C o r n e t t  M c N e a l  (Mrs. Archie L .) 
passed away on Easter Sunday, April 14.

Sa m r a y  Sm i t h , until recently editor o f the 
A L A  Bulletin, died on April 19 in Chicago. 
Mr. Smith served as A C R L  Publications Of­
ficer and Acting Executive Secretary in 1956 
and 1957.

Jo h n  C ook W y l l ie , director o f libraries 
at the University of Virginia, died on April 18 
at the age o f sixty. He had been associated 
with the Alderman library for four decades.

Z-39 Standards 
Committee

S C /l  o f Z-39 Stan dards C o m m it t e e , the 
International Subcommittee, whose member­
ship is comprised o f the chairmen o f all sub­
committees, held an all-day meeting April 5 
at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the call of 
Chairman Jerrold Orne, librarian o f the Uni­
versity o f North Carolina libraries. Ernest Sohns 
and Henry Tovey, o f the National Science 
Foundation, and Fred Croxton, o f the Redstone 
Scientific Information Center, Huntsville, Ala­
bama, joined the subcommittee chairmen.

Dr. Orne explained the responsibility o f these 
chairmen in handling documents from the 
International Standards Organization (I S O ), for
it is this International Subcommittee, S C / l ,  
which is charged with casting the U .S. vote. 
Recently, votes as the U.S. member body of 
ISO have been called for on such subjects as 
Transliteration o f Cyrillic Characters, Titles 
Leaves o f a Book, Indexing and Bibliographic 
References. Each such international standard 
is referred first to the subcommittee chairman



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concerned with the special area of interest and 
then to the full S C /l , with a specific deadline 
to b e met. Dr. O m e also circulated two bro­
chures from USASI on the procedures necessary 
for the achievement o f a national standard.

Mr. Croxton presented a proposal for the 
development o f a draft standard on the com ­
mon registration code for serials, and outgrowth 
of discussions held earlier this year by ISTIM 
(the task group for the Interchange o f Scien­
tific Information in Machine Language, a 
working body set up at the initiative of Donald 
Hornig, science adviser to the President). This 
project, conceived as a separate venture like 
the Curran report for S C /2 , would forward the 
work of the joint task force of the three na­
tional libraries on the National Serials Data 
Program. This proposal will be considered by 
the full Z-39 Committee at its May meeting.

There is also a movement underway, recom­
mended in the report o f ISTIM b y  which the 
scope o f Z-39 would b e expanded to include 
Information Science. At the same time Z-39 
would be funded to operate on a far broader 
basis with a paid executive staff and to take 
on additional projects as they appear to be 
useful.

The quarterly reports o f the Z-39 subcom­
mittees as presented on April 5 follow.

S C /2 — Machine Input Records— Chairman, 
Henriette D. Avram, Library o f Congress.

S C /2  held no meeting this quarter. Work 
has been completed on the second draft stand­
ard. However, additional suggestions from 
several sources made a rewrite necessary. The 
third draft of the machine-readable format is 
now ready for Z-39 members and other inter­
ested parties.

Mrs. Phyllis B. Steckler, R. R. Bowker Com­
pany, has been asked to becom e a member 
of the subcommittee, as a representative of 
the publishing industry.

S C /3 — Periodical Title Abbreviations— Chair­
man, James L. W ood, Chemical Abstracts Serv­
ice.

During the first quarter o f 1968, S C /3 ’s 
activities were directed at the revision o f the 
“ American Standard for Periodical Abbrevia­
tions, USASI Z39.5 (1 9 6 3 )”  and at maintaining 
the services offered by Z-39’s National Clear­
inghouse for Periodical Title W ord Abbrevia­
tions.

On December 1 copies of the first working 
papers for the revision of Z39.5 were distribu­
ted to S C /3  members. The working papers 
contained rules for abbreviating periodical 
titles taken from Z 39.5 , British Standard 4 1 4 8 : 
1967 “ Recommendations for the Abbreviation 
o f Periodical Titles,”  ISO Recommendation 4 
International Code for the Abbreviation of 

Periodical Tides,”  and Draft ISO Recommenda­
tion No. 1278 “ Revision o f ISO Recommenda­
tion R4-1953-International Code for the A b ­

breviation of Titles of Periodicals.”  Each sub­
committee member was asked to review the 
rules and to submit suggestions for the re­
vision o f Z39.5.

On February 29, a special S C /3  Task Group 
consisting o f Mrs. Thelma Charen, o f the 
National Library of Medicine, Harold Oatfield, 
o f the Chas. Pfizer Company, Inc., and Mr. 
W o o d  met at the National Library of Medicine 
and prepared the first preliminary draft for the 
revision of Z39.5. This draft, based upon the 
comments received from the subcommittee 
members, was circulated on March 8  to mem­
bers o f the subcommittee, the chairman of 
Z-39, the National Science Foundation, and to 
the British Standards Institution Subcommittee 
on Periodical Title Abbreviations. A special 
working party o f the British Standards Insti­
tution’s Subcommittee, consisting o f Kenneth I. 
Porter, editor, British Union Catalog o f Peri­
odicals Incorporating W orld List of Scientific 
Periodicals, Miss Phippen of the Science L i­
brary (L o n d o n ), and Dr. Bernard Crowther, 
former editor o f Physics Abstracts, is reviewing 
the Z39.5 revision work of S C /3 . As this Brit­
ish group is also responsible for preparing a re­
vision to British Standard 4148: 1967, the 
BSI working party and the S C /3  Task Group 
are jointly directing their efforts toward the 
preparation o f an Anglo-American Standard for 
Periodical Title Abbreviations.

Comments on the preliminary draft were re­
quested by April 1. The Task Group will re­
view all comments and prepare a second draft 
revision. This new draft will receive sub­
stantially wider distribution than the prelimi­
nary draft in order to solicit response from 
the widest possible audience prior to final 
submission to Z-39 on July 1.

During the first quarter o f 1968 the Na­
tional Clearinghouse for Periodical Title W ord 
Abbreviations, which is operated for Z-39 by 
the Chemical Abstracts Service, sold eighty- 
nine copies o f the “ Revised and Enlarged 
W ord-Abbreviation List”  for USASI Z39.5. 
Thirty o f these copies were sold to organiza­
tions in eleven foreign countries, and fifty-nine 
to organizations in the United States. During 
that same period 128 U.S. and twenty-two 
foreign subscriptions were received for the 
Quarterly Supplement to the “ Revised and En­
larged W ord-Abbreviation List”  and twenty- 
eight complimentary subscriptions were entered, 
these latter being made available to various na­
tional and international standards bodies.

N in e ty  n e w  w o r d  a b b rev ia tio n s w e r e  as­
sig n e d  b y  th e  C lea rin g h o u se  a n d  these n e w  
w o r d  a b b rev ia tio n s w ill b e  p u b lis h e d  in  the 
N C PTW A  Quarterly Supplement, Vol. 2, No. 1, 
January-March 1968.

S C /4— Bibliographic R eferences— Chairman, 
Maurice Tauber, Columbia University School 
o f Library Service.



S C /4  has revised its preliminary draft and 
distributed it in February 196 8  to the other 
subcommittee chairmen and various other indi­
viduals representing libraries, publishers, edi­
torial operations and bibliographic agencies. 
As of April 5, replies have been received from 
ten individuals, some involving other people 
as well as the person signing the letter. The 
Library of Congress and the National Library 
of Agriculture will send notes later.

In general categories, the observations and 
criticisms have been concerned with the fol­
lowing aspects:
1. Organization of examples (follow sections 

for all item s).
2. Elements included— number of authors, U.S. 

location, publisher’s names abbreviated.
3. Capitalization in titles should be re-ex­

amined.
4. Language is not always clear; substitute 

phrases in some cases.
5. Check on the elements for certain types: 

e.g., abstracts, conferences, patents and mu­
sic.

6. Separate handling of abstracts.
7. Relate work to other committee activities: 

S C /2 — Machine Input Records; S C /3 —  
Periodical Title Abbreviations; S C /5 — Trans­
literation; and S C /1 2 — Indexing.

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Comments do not reflect any basic criticism 
of the present general over-all approach. The 
draft needs some amplification, definition, clari­
fication and addition of examples for all items. 
Organization of items and their order under 
types will be reviewed.

S C /5 — Transliteration— Chairman, J e r r o l d  
Ome, University of North Carolina Libraries.

The chairman has m et three times with Dr. 
Tsuneishi (fo r Japanese) and Mr. Spalding 
(fo r L C  considerations of R 9: Cyrillic letters, 
and for A rab ic). New correspondence concern­
ing the work on Hebrew is now being con­
ducted with an Israeli organization. Our pres­
ent efforts are being bent toward production 
of an American draft standard for Cyrillic let­
ters (based on the revised IS O /R 9 ), for Ara­
bic (considering IS O /R 2 3 3 : 1 9 6 1 ), for Hebrew 
(considering IS O /R 2 5 9 : 1 9 6 2 ) , and for Japa­
nese. It is hoped that most of these drafts will 
be ready for circulation to the membership 
within the next six months. Other language 
problem areas are being considered. The British 
counterpart member will be consulting with 
S C /5  early in June to consider the possibility 
of other joint U.S. and British common stand­
ards.

S C /6 — Abstracts— Chairman, John H. Grib- 
bin, Tulane University.

The preliminary draft of a proposed Ameri­
can Standard for Writing Abstracts received 
the criticism of some twenty-five persons 
throughout the United States who are involved 
in abstracting. Subcommittee 6 met at the 
offices of B iological A bstracts in Philadelphia 
on February 16 and reviewed the criticisms. 
T he draft was extensively revised. A second 
draft is now being distributed for additional 
criticism. The subcommittee expects to sub­
mit its final draft during the April-June 1968 
quarter.

S C /7 — Library Statistics— Chairman, Frank 
L . Schick, School of Library and Information 
Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The work of this subcommittee has been 
completed. The approved standard has been 
referred by the sponsor of Z-39, CNLA, to 
USASI for adoption.

S C /8 — P roof Corrections— Chairman, Bruce 
Young, University of Chicago Press.

The subcommittee expects to complete work 
on a draft standard during the summer and 
have it ready for circulation in the fall.

S C /9 — Term inology— Chairman, Jerrold Orne, 
University of North Carolina Libraries.

This subcommittee forwarded its recommen­
dation on one IS O /T C -3 7  document, after col­
lecting opinion by correspondence. It has in 
hand proposals from IS O /T C -4 6  for work on 
the Terminology of Documentation, supported 
by memoranda from the British, German and 
Rumanian member bodies. All current work 
is being carried on by correspondence and has

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to do essentially with IS O /T C -3 7  activities.
S C /1 0—Arrangement of Periodicals— Chair­

man, Anne J. Richter, R. R. Bowker Company.
The work o f this subcommittee has been

completed and the standard has been pub­
lished.

S C /1 2 — Indexing—Chairman, John Rothman,
The New York Times Index.

The subcommittee met in New York on
January 26 and March 15 to discuss whatever
comments on the preliminary draft had been
submitted. The draft has been revised accord­
ingly and is now  submitted for ballot. The sub­
committee’s work has thus been substantially
completed, culminating an activity o f  three 
years in the preparation o f a total revision of 
the Standard on Indexes issued in 1959.

S C /1 3 —Library Directories— Chairman, Karl 
Baer, National Housing Center Library.

The subcommittee met on February 19, 1968 
in New York City and discussed the comments 
received, upon its request, from some fifteen 
librarians and representatives o f library as­
sociations, including A L A  and SLA. Most of 
these dealt with details or minor changes. It 
was pointed out that state libraries presented 
a special situation; a separate section o f the 
standard will b e given over to them. The as­
sistance o f John A. Humphry, III, president

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o f the Association o f State Libraries and li­
brarian o f the New York state library, will 
be sought. During the review o f the section on 
school libraries, the opinion was expressed that 
the subcommittee as a whole lacked sufficient 
expert knowledge. The assistance o f Mary V. 
Gaver, o f Rutgers— the State ( N .J.) University, 
and o f Frances Henne, o f Columbia University, 
will b e sought.

The many changes made during the meeting 
will necessitate a rewriting o f the draft.

The draft for an International Standard sub­
mitted to ISO in M oscow has met with con­
siderable interest as evidenced by generally 
lengthy comments received from six countries.

S C /1 5 —Filing— Chairman, Theodore Hines, 
Columbia University School o f Library Service.

Copies o f the revised Draft USA Standard 
Basic Criteria: Collating Sequence for Alpha­
numeric Filing are being circulated for com ­
ment. This represents yet another change in 
title in the draft, and there have also been 
some changes in the examples. Experimental 
use o f the draft criteria has met with con­
tinuing success.

SC /1 6— Bookbinding—Chairman, Stephen 
ord, Grand Valley State College.
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two winter meetings of the A L A /R T SD -A B P C  
Joint Committee to discuss the Provisional 
Performance Standards for Binding Used in 
Libraries. The whole subcommittee will meet 
in New York on April 22 to receive the report 
o f the Library Binding Institute and set a 
schedule for future deliberations.

S C /1 7— Book Numbering— Chairman, Robert 
Frase, American Book Publishers Council.

A new subcommittee has been established to 
deal with standard book numbers, which is 
expected to explore the possibility o f establish­
ing as an American standard the system of 
standard book numbers which the U.S. book 
publishing industry is placing in operation and 
which is identical with and a part o f the system 
already adopted in Great Britain and expected 
to be put into effect in other English speaking 
countries as well.

S C /1 8— Book Publishing Statistics— Chair­
man, Anne J. Richter, R. R. Bowker Company.

The final draft o f the standard on Book 
Publishing Statistics is now  being submitted 
to the Z-39 Standards Committee for letter 
ballot. The original draft, which was circulated 
in Decem ber 1966, had the general approval 
of the committee, but several suggestions were 
made which were important enough to warrant 
a revision and recirculation of the draft.

The two major objections raised concerned 
the use of U D C  and omission o f all books under 
forty-nine pages. The revised draft translates 
the U DC numbers into Dewey classifications, 
and recommends the inclusion of hard bound 
juveniles under forty-nine pages in the count.

S C /19— Book Publishers Advertising— Chair­
man, Ellis Mount, Engineering Library, C o­
lumbia University.

The first meeting o f this new subcommittee 
was held on March 19 with all members pres­
ent. The following actions were taken: The 
committee reviewed thoroughly the document 
( approved in 1966 b y  the American Book Pub­
lishers Council and the Special Libraries As­
sociation) entitled “ Recommended Practices for 
the Advertising and Promotion o f Books.”  
Several changes and additions were proposed. 
The committee reviewed the various printed 
media used by publishers in the promotion of 
books, and categorized them as to the level of 
bibliographic data usually included in each 
type.

The committee will meet in April at which 
time it will pool the ideas o f the members as 
to the proposed level and types o f information 
which each type o f promotional material ideally 
should include.

All drafts of proposed Z-39 standards are 
available to any persons or groups interested 
in commenting, upon request to the subcom­
mittee chairman or Harold Oatfield, Pfizer 
Medical Research Laboratories, Groton, Conn. 
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