ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 108 News from the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S Foremost among significant recent acquisi­ tions at University of California, Santa Barbara, is the John K. Martin collection of modern literature. Roughly the authors within the collection fall into two categories: British and American fictional and dramatic writers, and a second section of contemporary poetry (overwhelming­ ly American), including both monographs and periodicals. The Mellon collection of alchemy and the occult has been acquired by the Yale Uni­ versity library. The collection includes 159 manuscripts dating back to the thirteenth cen­ tury and 170 printed volumes, five of them from the fifteenth century. Besides alchemy, the manuscripts embrace texts on astronomy, astrology and medicine, while the books in­ clude the adjoining fields of astrology, magic, witchcraft and the occult. Chicago attorney Elmer Gertz has given the Library of Congress a collection of his papers comprising approximately one hundred thousand items. Throughout his career, Mr. Gertz has had strong literary interests. He is the co-author of a biography of Frank Harris, and the author of an unpublished biography of George Sylvester Viereck. A large amount of the material in the Gertz collection relates to the two biographies of Viereck and Harris or is correspondence pertaining to Mr. Gertz’ active memberships in civic, religious, and legal organizations and to his legal work. Washington University, St. Louis, an­ nounces the acquisition of a group of the cor­ respondence, manuscripts and notebooks of Elizabeth Jennings, 1926- , English poet. Manuscripts, dating from 1957-1966, and note­ books, 1954-1966, include drafts of Miss Jen­ nings’ poems, essays and reviews, as well as a draft of Christianity and Poetry, published in 1965. Part of the correspondence of Babette Deutsch, 1895- , American poet and critic, has also been accessioned. Writing from 1921- 1966, Miss Deutsch’s correspondents include Conrad Aiken, E. A. Robinson, Robinson Jef­ fers, Theodore Roethke, Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams. A collection of the correspondence of Robert Duncan, 1919- , San Francisco poet, has recently been de­ scribed. In it is an exchange of letters, 1962- 1964, between Duncan and LeRoi Jones, dis­ cussing San Francisco and New York literary scenes. The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence and editorial matter per­ taining to A Book of Resemblances, written by Duncan, illustrated by Jess Collins and pub­ lished in 1966 by Henry Wenning, New Haven. A segment of the correspondence and manu­ scripts of James Dickey, 1923- , poet, Li­ brary of Congress consultant and National Book Award winner, is being processed. Dick­ ey’s correspondents include a large number of contemporary authors; his writings are repre­ sented by drafts and revisions of both un­ published poems and those appearing in Drowning with Others, Helmets, and Buck­ dancers Choice. A body of correspondence, drafts of poems, short stories, novels and plays of David Wagoner, 1926- , Pacific North­ west poet, as well his early notebooks, is also being arranged. Dr. Edmund V. Cowdry, emeritus professor of anatomy at Washington University school of medicine, has presented his collection of cor­ respondence, notebooks, pictures, films, medals and personal memorabilia to the institution’s library. The archives of the publishing house of Charles Scribner’s Sons—a collection of over a quarter-million documents assembled by the New York firm in publishing the works of literally 100’s of American and English writ­ ers—have been presented to Princeton Uni­ versity. The firm’s records include files of cor­ respondence with some eleven hundred fifty authors, letterbooks documenting Scribner’s early publishing activities, the “office histories” of such epochal undertakings as the “Dictionary of American History” and the “Dictionary of American Biography,” and business, financial and copyright correspondence. Texas A&M University library has recently received a gift of atlases and histories from General Howard C. Davidson of Washington, D.C. Included in the gift are the famous Mer­ cator and Hondius Atlas, 1629 edition; Nicolas Sanson’s Atlas du Monde, maps dated indi­ vidually from 1673 to 1680; and the Johan and Wilhelm Blaeu Nieuwe Atlas, 1650 edition. University of Wisconsin library’s rare books department has recently added a collec­ tion of books and pamphlets written by the early 19th-century French socio-political philos­ opher, Claude Henri Saint-Simon and his fol­ lowers. The collection, numbering about 100 items, was purchased from the Dutch book­ seller and publisher, Martinus Nijhoff. G IF T S , G R A N T S The Medical Library Association has just received $33,000 from the estate of Mrs. Eileen R. Cunningham, author of A Classifica­ tion for Medical Literature and librarian of the anderbilt University school of medicine from V 109 1929-1956. The money is to be used to aid medical librarians from other countries to continue their education in the United States. It is anticipated that the gift will become the nucleus for a reserve fund, the income from which will provide fellowships for foreign graduate students. 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 ar­ ticles abstracted in the Center’s bibliographies, Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life. The librarians who worked for Henry R. Luce at Time, Inc. have made a memorial donation to the library of Yale University. Their gift will be used to acquire a major set of reference books, inscribed in his memory. Mr. Luce, co-founder and editorial chairman of Time, Inc., died February 28. The development of techniques which will make it possible to use the collections of li­ braries without having to visit them in per­ son is the purpose of a $250,000 grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Project INTREX by the Council on Library Resources. The one-year grant will be used to continue research initiated under an earlier grant from the Carnegie Corporation, New York City. The Maurice and Laura Falk library of the health professions at the University of Pitts­ burgh has been awarded a support grant of $26,314 by the National Library of Medicine, division of research grants, National Institutes of Health in Washington. Supplementing the regular operating budget the funds will be used to purchase books, back issues of medical journals, bindings for publications, and a microfilm reading machine. University of Wisconsin has received a grant from the Ford Foundation to develop a new Western European area program, con­ centrating on the period from 1930 to the present. Initial development will be in Italian, German and French materials. Part of the money from this grant will assist in the com­ pilation by the library of desiderata lists of pamphlet material and other ephemera, as well as serials, periodicals and documents that the library did not acquire when they were first published. M E E T IN G S 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) CUSHING-MALLOY, INC. 1350 North Main Street P.O. Box 632 A n n A rb o r, M ic h ig a n 48107 Printers of Who’s Who in Library Service L IT H O P R IN T E R S Known for QUALITY– ECONOMY– SERVICE Let us quote on your next printing 110 Chapter of the Association of College and Re­ search Libraries, at Shepherd College Library, Shepherdstown, West Virginia. May 12: The University of Wisconsin library school will have a one-day meeting devoted to the topic “Impact of Public Law 480 on Over­ seas Acquisitions by American Libraries.” The meeting is planned on the basis of the convic­ tion that, except for librarians directly par­ ticipating, the PL 480 Program is not so well understood as is desirable and also that its by-products such as improved channels of over­ seas procurement for all libraries are not wide­ ly recognized. It is the hope that this meeting can assist in these two respects. The speakers will be H. Vail Deale of Be­ loit College, a recipient of selected English­ language publications under the program; Don­ ald F. Jay of the Library of Congress, the pro­ curement agency; Maureen L. P. Patterson of the University of Chicago, a recipient of re­ search publications; and Gordon R. Williams of the Center for Research Libraries, repre­ senting a regional viewpoint concerning the fruits of the program. No fee is involved in attendance. Further in­ formation is available from William L. Wil­ liamson at the Library School, 425 Henry Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. Although no ad­ vance registration is required, Mr. William­ son will be grateful for notification from those who hope to attend. “Obras de Consulta Agricolas en Español.” Comp, by Pablo Velasquez, M.S.L.S. and Ramón N adurille, M.L.S. Nearly 1200 agricultural reference works written in Spanish. Includes, Bib­ liographies, Indexes, Encyclopedias, Dic­ tionaries, Guides, Handbooks and Man­ uals, Statistics sources, etc., covering all fields of agriculture; with an index of the KWIC type manually elaborated. To be published next June. $8.00 post paid Pre-publication price: $6.00 Before July 1st. BIBLIOTECA AGRICOLA NACIONAL Apdo. Postal Nos. 6-882, 6-883 México 6, D.F. May 13: ACRL Philadelphia Chapter will meet in the Samuel Paley Library in Phila­ delphia on May 13. Morning sessions will in­ clude a speaker and panel discussion on re­ classification to the LC system, and afternoon session will be concerned with area college li­ braries cooperative program. Seminar at Kan­ sas State College in Pittsburg, on Junior College Library and Instruction, and Federal Support for Junior College Libraries. Deans of Instruc­ tion and Librarians in junior colleges in the area have been invited to attend. 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 11-16: Staff members and administra­ tors in nine types of medical libraries are ar­ ranging special luncheon or dinner meetings during the annual meeting of the Medical Li­ brary Association in Miami. Time and place of the meeting in which you are interested may be obtained from the group chairman. Dental School Libraries: Mrs. Hilda Harris, chairman. Medical Center library, 1919 7th Ave., S., Birmingham, Ala. 35233. History of Medicine Libraries: Miss Ellen B. Wells, chairman. National Library of Medi­ cine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Md. 20014. Hospital Libraries: Mrs. Betty Manson, chairman. VA Hospital library, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables, Fla. 33134. Medical School Libraries: Mrs. Miriam Haw­ kins Libbey, chairman. A. W. Calhoun library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. 30322. Medical Society Libraries: Mr. Wesley Drap­ er, chairman. The Academy of Medicine of Brooklyn, 1313 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn 11216. Mental Health Libraries: Mrs. Joy Richmond, chairman. 7511 S.W. 57th Ave., Apt. 1, Miami, Fla. 33143. Nursing School Libraries: Mrs. Dora Platt, chairman. St. Thomas Hospital, nursing li­ brary, 2000 Hayes St., Nashville 37203. Pharmacy School Libraries: Miss Marjorie Wannarka, chairman. Creighton University, medical-pharmacy library, 1401 Davenport St., Omaha 68102. Research Libraries: Miss Joan Staats, co- 110 Chapter of the Association of College and Re­ search Libraries, at Shepherd College Library, Shepherdstown, West Virginia. May 12: The University of Wisconsin library school will have a one-day meeting devoted to the topic “Impact of Public Law 480 on Over­ seas Acquisitions by American Libraries.” The meeting is planned on the basis of the convic­ tion that, except for librarians directly par­ ticipating, the PL 480 Program is not so well understood as is desirable and also that its by-products such as improved channels of over­ seas procurement for all libraries are not wide­ ly recognized. It is the hope that this meeting can assist in these two respects. The speakers will be H. Vail Deale of Be­ loit College, a recipient of selected English­ language publications under the program; Don­ ald F. Jay of the Library of Congress, the pro­ curement agency; Maureen L. P. Patterson of the University of Chicago, a recipient of re­ search publications; and Gordon R. Williams of the Center for Research Libraries, repre­ senting a regional viewpoint concerning the fruits of the program. No fee is involved in attendance. Further in­ formation is available from William L. Wil­ liamson at the Library School, 425 Henry Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. Although no ad­ vance registration is required, Mr. William­ son will be grateful for notification from those who hope to attend. “Obras de Consulta Agricolas en Español.” Comp, by Pablo Velasquez, M.S.L.S. and Ramón Nadurille, M.L.S. Nearly 1200 agricultural reference works written in Spanish. Includes, Bib­ liographies, Indexes, Encyclopedias, Dic­ tionaries, Guides, Handbooks and Man­ uals, Statistics sources, etc., covering all fields of agriculture; with an index of the KWIC type manually elaborated. To be published next June. $8.00 post paid Pre-publication price: $6.00 Before July 1st. BIBLIOTECA AGRICOLA NACIONAL Apdo. Postal Nos. 6-882, 6-883 México 6, D.F. May 13: ACRL Philadelphia Chapter will meet in the Samuel Paley Library in Phila­ delphia on May 13. Morning sessions will in­ clude a speaker and panel discussion on re­ classification to the LC system, and afternoon session will be concerned with area college li­ braries cooperative program. Seminar at Kan­ sas State College in Pittsburg, on Junior College Library and Instruction, and Federal Support for Junior College Libraries. Deans of Instruc­ tion and Librarians in junior colleges in the area have been invited to attend. 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 11-16: Staff members and administra­ tors in nine types of medical libraries are ar­ ranging special luncheon or dinner meetings during the annual meeting of the Medical Li­ brary Association in Miami. Time and place of the meeting in which you are interested may be obtained from the group chairman. Dental School Libraries: Mrs. Hilda Harris, chairman. Medical Center library, 1919 7th Ave., S., Birmingham, Ala. 35233. History of Medicine Libraries: Miss Ellen B. Wells, chairman. National Library of Medi­ cine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Md. 20014. Hospital Libraries: Mrs. Betty Manson, chairman. VA Hospital library, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables, Fla. 33134. Medical School Libraries: Mrs. Miriam Haw­ kins Libbey, chairman. A. W. Calhoun library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. 30322. Medical Society Libraries: Mr. Wesley Drap­ er, chairman. The Academy of Medicine of Brooklyn, 1313 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn 11216. Mental Health Libraries: Mrs. Joy Richmond, chairman. 7511 S.W. 57th Ave., Apt. 1, Miami, Fla. 33143. Nursing School Libraries: Mrs. Dora Platt, chairman. St. Thomas Hospital, nursing li­ brary, 2000 Hayes St., Nashville 37203. Pharmacy School Libraries: Miss Marjorie Wannarka, chairman. Creighton University, medical-pharmacy library, 1401 Davenport St., Omaha 68102. Research Libraries: Miss Joan Staats, co- 112 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. Sept. 12-22: International Federation for Documentation (F ID ), thirty-third conference and International Congress on Documentation, in Tokyo, Japan. Sept. 17-20: Data Processing in University Libraries Conference. Drexel Institute of Tech- Now available Culturally Disadvantaged A Keyw ord-O ut -of-Cont exł Index (K W O C ) C o m p ile d by R o b e rt E. Booth, T heodore M anheim , D iane A . S a tte rt hw aite , and G loria L. D ard a ria n Concern for the culturally or economically disadvantaged has mounted in recent years and is producing a growing body of literature important to anyone working in the field. Culturally Disadvantaged is both a bibliog­ raphy of and an index to this literature. As a bibliography, it identifies about 1400 items drawn from a wide range of sources. As an index, it has between ten and 25 keywords or de­ scriptors for each bibliographic item. All items have been examined in their original source to verify the accuracy of the listings. Culturally Disadvantaged is an essential tool for librarians and school per­ sonnel. The compilers are members of the staff of the department of library science, Wayne State University, and of the Wayne State University Li­ braries. 813 pages, clothbound $25.00 W AYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS / Detroit, Michigan 48202 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 The Center for Library Studies of Kent State University’s school of library science has undertaken an investigation of patterns of library use of university faculty members. Characteristics of faculty members will be studied in order to determine the relationship of such factors as age, sex, earned degrees, and teaching specialty with amount and type of library use. Faculty opinions of library service and their suggestions for improving such service will also be studied. Methods of investigation include study of library circulation records and interviews of a random sample of Kent’s more than seven hundred full-time faculty members. The research project is being carried out by John McCrossan, director of the center, and Mary Ann Gamble, research assistant. Drexel Institute of Technology’s graduate school of library science has initiated a new program to expand its services to church li­ brarians. There are currently twenty-five thou­ sand church libraries in the country. The Church Library Exchange, a new project di­ rected by Mrs. Alice Booker, Abington, Pa., has been designed to bring together those re­ sponsible for organizing, maintaining and de­ veloping church libraries, and will supplement the annual Church Library Conference spon­ sored by the Drexel graduate school of library science, the Greater Philadelphia Council of Churches, The New Jersey Council of Churches, and the Catholic Library Association. Rev. Jovian Lang, O.F.M., has been named President of the Catholic Library Associa­ tion for 1967-1969. Presently librarian of Quincy College, Quincy, Illinois, Father Lang succeeds Sister M. Claudia, I.H.M. of Mary­ grove College, Detroit. Sister Helen, S.N.D., Trinity College, Washington, D.C. was elected to the office of Vice-President (President- Elect). Sister Helen served on the Executive Board from 1959-1965. Elected to the CLA Executive Board were James C. Cox, Loyola University, Chicago, and Reverend Luke R. Yaeger, O.S.B., Benedictine High School, Cleve­ land. The Israel Society of Special Libraries and Information Centres, recently founded, publishes a Bulletin, containing descriptions of Israeli special libraries, current information about cataloging and classification (with special emphasis on U D C ), library mechanization, bib­ liographies of library literature and reference works and news about the activities of its members. 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W r i t e to d a y f o r y o u r c o p y o f th e L B I S ta n d a r d a n d o th e r fre e lit e r a tu r e , in c lu d in g a c o m p le te lis t o f LIBRARY C e r t B if ie IN d L D ib IN r a r y G B in d IN e rs S . TITUTE 160 State Street • Boston, Mass. 02109 114 its series “Contributions to Information Sci­ ence.” The eleven regional groups of the Medical Library Association have announced officers for 1967. Librarians need not be members of the association in order to attend the meet­ ings of these groups and dates of programs may be obtained from the chairman. Medical Library Group of Southern California. Mrs. Denise P. Kafrouni, chairman. Los An­ geles General Hospital, Unit I, 1200 N. State St., Los Angeles 90033. Midwest Regional Group. William Kona, president. Rush Medical Col­ lege library, 1758 W. Harrison St., Chicago 60612. New England Regional Group. Miss Margaret Bickley, chairman. McGill University medical library, 3655 Drummond St., Montreal 2, Quebec. New York Regional Group. Philip Rosenstein, chairman. New Jersey Col­ lege of Medicine and Dentistry library, 24 Baldwin Ave., Jersey City, N.J. 07304. Pacific Northwest Regional Group. Miss Margaret Hughes, chairman. University of Oregon medical school library, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Rd., Portland, Ore. 97201. Philadelphia Regional Group. Miss Pauline Johnston, chairman. Woman’s INDEXERS NEEDED: THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY has immediate open­ ings for indexers in the following periodical and book indexes—BUSINESS PERIODI­ CALS INDEX, CUMULATIVE BOOK IN ­ DEX, EDUCATION INDEX, and STAN­ DARD CATALOG. Applicants for the periodical indexes should be able to assign subject headings to articles in current journals. It is desirable that appli­ cants for, CUMULATIVE BOOK INDEX and STANDARD CATALOG have catalog­ ing experience. Applicants for BUSINESS PERIODICALS INDEX and EDUCATION INDEX should have some subject back­ ground. Salary will depend on qualifications and experience and will be reviewed an­ nually. Many Company benefits such as va­ cations, sick pay, pensions, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Major Medical, etc. 5 day, 35 hour week. Applications should be addressed to : The Personnel Department The H. W. Wilson Company 950 University Avenue Bronx, New York 10452 Medical College library, 3300 Henry Ave., Philadelphia 19129. Pittsburgh Regional Group. Frank Ziaukas, chairman. Magee-Women’s Hospital, Forbes Ave. and Halket St., Pitts­ burgh 15213. San Francisco and the Bay Area Regional Group. Mrs. Brigette Vadas, president. Children’s Hospital medical library, 3700 California St., San Francisco 94119. Southern Regional Group. Miss Christa Marie Sykes, chairman. Louisi­ ana State University school of medicine li­ brary, 1542 Tulane Ave., New Orleans 70112. Upstate New York Regional Group. Mrs. Ursula Anker, co-chairman. Albany medical College of Union University, Albany, N.Y. 12208. Washington, D.C. Area Group. Mrs. Claire R. Tedesco, chairman. VA med­ ical and general reference library, Room 976 (11A31), Vermont and H Sts. N.W., W ash­ ington, D.C. 20420. Courses in medical librarianship, approved by the Medical Library Association, will be offered in the summer of 1967 at the follow­ ing library schools: Columbia University School of Library Service, July 3-August 11; Emory University Division of Librarianship, June 17- July 28; University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, June 26-July 27; University of Michigan Department of Library Science, June 27-July 21; University of Southern Cali­ fornia School of Library Service, June 19-July 28. Gertrude Annan, librarian of the New York Academy of Medicine, will deliver the first Janet Doe Lectureship at the opening session of the sixty-sixth annual meeting of the Medical Library Association in Miami, June 11-16, 1967. The Lectureship, established by an anonymous friend of the association honors Janet Doe who was Miss Annan’s predecessor at the Academy. Miss Doe was editor of the second edition of the Handbook of Medical Library Practice; Miss Annan is co-editor of the third edition which will be published in the fall of 1968. Both women have served MLA as president. A recommended product standard, “F abrics for Book Cloths” (currently designated TS- 115), has been distributed by the National Bu­ reau of Standards, U.S. Department of Com­ merce, for consideration and acceptance. This standard, a revision of Commercial Standard CS57-40, “Book Cloths, Buckrams, and Im ­ pregnated Fabrics,” covers the requirements and test procedures for seven groups of plain finished book cloths and buckrams which are impregnated or starch filled and which are used in the bookbinding industry for book covers. Copies of TS-115 may be obtained from the Office of Engineering Standards Services, 115 National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Depart­ ment of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20234. A nationwide campaign to build a $6 mil­ lion library-research center as a national re­ source for scholars and practitioners in educa­ tion has been launched by the Harvard gradu­ ate school of education. Experts in in­ formation science and new areas of technology will help plan the building design and opera­ tion, thanks to a planning grant from the Edu­ cational Facilities Laboratories of New York City, an affiliate of the Ford Foundation. Plans call for use of the latest technology in gather­ ing, storing, analyzing, and circulating infor­ mation, as well as in teaching and research. Data processing will interconnect the new center with Harvard’s Widener library and other research and library centers. The MLA Committee on Continuing Edu­ cation will offer five one-day courses on Mon­ day, June 12, 1967 preceding the annual meeting of the association in Miami. Members will receive preference. Implications of machines in libraries—social, economic, and administrative. A theoretical, philosophical seminar which will deal with fundamental library goals, modifications of pro­ cedures through mechanization, social, eco­ nomic, managerial and educational adjustments implicit in the introduction of machines. Techniques of systems analysis and design. Block diagramming, flow charting and the total systems analysis concept will be explored and the system’s parameter determined. A synthetic library procedure will be analyzed in depth. Human factors in medical library administra­ tion. Personnel management will be studied in terms of interpersonal relationships using the techniques of case study and psychodrama. Recent advances in the literature of special­ ized subject areas—dentistry. A survey of the literature of dentistry in which new services and sources are examined and analyzed. The major reference tools are reviewed and ex­ plored in depth. Interlibrary loan techniques. Involves a thorough analysis of the interlibrary loan trans­ action. Correct procedures for completing the Interlibrary Loan Request are emphasized. Sub­ sequent discussion pinpoints and evaluates tools for the verification and location of desired ma­ terial. Individual difficulties are identified and remedied in a problem-solving session. For further information, address Miss Mary E. Feeney, New York Academy of Medicine Library, 2 East 103rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10029. A $1000 gift from William Wiedman, who was the recipient of an NLM internship when he graduated from Columbia University in 1957, brings to three the scholarships offered for the 1967/68 academic year by the Med­ ical Library Association. This scholarship honors Dr. Archibald Malloch, president of the association from 1927-1931. It will be award­ ed to a qualified student entering an ALA ac­ credited library school this summer or fall. Mr. Wiedman is a second-time contributor of an MLA scholarship. The MLA-Bishop Scholar­ ship, which was awarded in 1966 to Beatrice Kovacs was also the gift of Mr. Wiedman. Edwards Brothers, Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich­ igan has entered into a contract with the Li­ brary of Congress to publish a 72-volume set of the Library of Congress Catalog covering the years 1963 through 1967. The set will en­ compass a complete listing of acquisitions by the Library of Congress during that period, totaling 1,210,000 entries with additional in­ formation indicating where titles may be found in libraries throughout the United States. Pub­ lication is planned for the spring of 1969, with editorial work at the Library of Congress com­ mencing immediately and manufacturing to take place at the firm’s plant in Ann Arbor during the fall and winter of 1968. P U B L I C A T I O N S Information Retrieval, with Special Refer­ ence to the Biomedical Sciences is a compilation of papers presented at the Second Institute on Information Retrieval held in November 1965 and conducted by the library school and “CO In N Ou F r I C D om E p N lete C E” Periodicals Service —American or foreign. A ll periodicals, handled with a degree of accuracy second to none! W rite for our Brochure—then ASK FOR REFERENCES from any one of the hundreds of Librarians taking ad­ vantages of our outstanding and accepted procedures. 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Master Directory to Latin America (438p., $15); Guide to Latin American Studies (approx. 900p., $25); Periodicals for Latin American Economic Development, Trade and Finance: An Annotated Bibliography (72p., $2.50); and Statistical Abstract of Latin Amer­ ica ( 180p., $10) have been researched and pub­ lished by the Latin American Center, UCLA. Late annual issues of the National Union Catalog Author List are now being reprinted in a limited quantity by Gale Research Com­ pany, Book Tower, Detroit 26, Michigan, for distribution in April. The issues of 1963, 1964, and 1965, totalling more than 21,000 pages, are being reissued in thirty-four volumes. A few sets not already subscribed for will be avail­ able. Prices and other details can be secured from the publishers. Off the Press contains a complete list of the newly published books in science, tech­ nology, business, and medicine. Copies may be obtained by writing Stacey’s, 2575 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, California 94304. The first edition of the Serial Holdings of South Georgia Academic Libraries is scheduled for publication on April 14. To be prepared on punched cards with semi-annual revised print-outs, the new union list will give the holdings of the nine member libraries of the South Georgia Academic Librarians organiza­ tion. The list is intended to be mainly a finding or holdings list. The member libraries will provide copies for mail or phone requests and access to the original for students or faculty members desiring to pursue research in an­ other institution’s library. The first edition will include the serial holdings of the nine insti­ tutional members of the South Georgia Academ­ ic Librarians—including junior and senior colleges and graduate research institutions. Plans call for future editions to include listings of all significant serial holdings of public li­ braries in South Georgia. Copies of the first edition may be obtained from the editor, W. 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The Bulletin has a quarterly supplement on new developments in the field of document reproduction, and occasionally carries review or survey articles. The annual subscription is 15.-Dutch guilders. “Geologic Reference Sources,” a biblio­ graphic guide to the literature of geology, has been published by the University of Colorado Press. The work is by Dederick C. Ward III, head of science libraries at CU. The booklet is the fifth in the Series in Earth Sciences and it is for sale at $3.50 from the University of Colorado Press, 206 Regent Hall, Boulder, Colo. 80302. The booklet is designed as a summation of what is currently available in the form of abstracting services and bibliographies which can lead researchers to specific information on a subject or a re­ gion. THE SOCMA HANDBOOK OF COMMERCIAL the ORGANIC CHEMICAL NAMES is a glossary of approximately 20,000 names for 6,300 commer­ SOCMA Handbook cially-used organic compounds. In the handbook, you w ill find the CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS index name, other chemical names, names of deriv­ atives and salts, trade names, molecular formu­ las, and structural diagrams for each compound. An alphabetical index of names makes locating information easy. You w ill also find names and structural informa­ tion for mixtures (elastomers, plastics and res­ ins, rubber-processing chemicals, surface-active agents) and polymers. This handbook is a must addition to your refer­ ence shelf. The price of the handbook is $25. Send your order to: Special Issues Sales, American Chemical Society, 1155 Sixteenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036. Chemical Abstracts Service American Chemical Society Columbus, Ohio 43216 118 Complete addresses are given for more than two thousand individuals and institutions in the biennial Directory of the Medical Li­ brary Association which was revised in 1966. Individuals are listed alphabetically; institu­ tions, geographically. Copies will be mailed from the central office of the Association, 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60611 upon receipt of $15. Harvard law school library has completed publication of its Catalog of International Law and Relations. The 20-volume set (21,138 pages) is a photo-offset reproduction of some three hundred and fifty thousand cata­ log cards, representing a collecting of approxi­ mately one hundred and fifty thousand books. The set is available from Oceana Publica­ tions, Inc., 40 Cedar Street, Dobbs Ferry, New York, 10522, U.S.A. A reference work—The New York Times Thesaurus of Descriptors—to help organize li­ brary and newspaper information files and make information retrieval easier, will be published later this year by The New York Times. The thesaurus, which will be produced by computer, will be a comprehensive guide for cataloging, indexing and searching news­ paper or other information files. It will list subject terms in alphabetical order and show, through annotated cross references, how they relate to synonymous, to more general and to more specific terms. The thesaurus will be edited by John Rothman, editor of The New York Times Index. More new periodicals were published in 1961-65 than in any ten-year period in history —in all, over seventy thousand titles. This re­ cent proliferation of periodicals has created a greater need for current bibliographic con­ trol over libraries’ serials resources. To meet this need, the R. R. Bowker Company in as­ sociation with Arno Publishing Inc. has just published New Serial Titles 1961-65, con­ taining data on some one hundred thousand international serial titles held by more than seven hundred and fifty U.S. and Canadian li­ braries. This five-year cumulation covers seri­ als issued since December 31, 1960 well as those published before that date, but with ad­ ditional library locations reported since 1961. 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