ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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N e w s  F r o m  t h e  F i e l d
A C Q U I S I T I O N S

• The library of the University of Cali­
fornia at Davis has recently purchased some 
twenty-five hundred volumes of eighteenth and 
nineteenth century German books, the collec­
tions of two Viennese scholars. The collection 
offers a cross-section of the reading of the 
period 1780-1890. This ranges from Goethe’s 
works in the last edition he corrected himself, 
to the “Trivialliteratur” of the nineteenth cen­
tury.

•  Sonoma State College, Rohnert Park 
( Cal.), recently received a collection of 650 
volumes of Celtic literature donated by W. W. 
Lyman, of St. Helena. The collection consists 
of Irish, Scotch and Welsh fiction, poetry and 
plays. Mr. Lyman is a professor emeritus of 
English, Los Angeles City College.

• The Theodore Debs collection of letters, 
pamphlets and papers written to and about 
Eugene V. Debs during his lifetime have been 
presented to Indiana State University’s Cun­
ningham Memorial Library by Theodore’s 
daughter, Mrs. Marguerite Debs Cooper. The 
more than 2,000 letters in the collection cover 
the American labor movement from 1875 to the 
1940’s and among the writers are Clarence 
Darrow, Upton Sinclair, Margaret Sanger and 
many others.

•  The Korean Section of East Asian li­
brary in MIT has purchased works collected 
by Yi Sŏng-ŭi, Seoul, Korea, for which inten­
sive and somewhat complex purchase nego­
tiations have been carried on over the past 
year and half. The collection consists exclusive­
ly of Korean movable-type editions of classics. 
It comprises 2,041 volumes in 583 titles, printed 
between the latter part of the seventeenth and 
the early part of the twentieth centuries.

•  Washington University, St. Louis, has 
recently added some two hundred letters, work­
sheets and typescripts and editorial matter 
from Poems: 1957-1967 to its collection of the 
papers of James Dickey.

• The Kent State University libraries 
have received a gift of over seventy volumes 
by and about Robert Frost from Harrison Hay- 
ford of Evanston, 111.

Kent State University libraries has re­
cently acquired the complete stock of the for­
mer Charles S. Boesen Bookstore in Detroit. 
The collection comprises some fifteen to twenty 
thousand items.

•  North Texas State University library 
has acquired the library of Dr. Isaac Lloyd

Hibberd, professor of musicology at NTSU 
from 1945 until his death in 1965. The col­
lection, comprising approximately nine thou­
sand volumes is especially rich in music and 
books about music. This part of the collection 
—about 5000 volumes—has been placed in 
the Music Library of NTSU and has been 
given temporary limited cataloging in order to 
make it more immediately available to musical 
scholars.

North Texas State library also has recently 
purchased a collection of the early manu­
scripts and letters of the composer Arnold 
Schoenberg. The Viennese-born composer was 
the originator of the 12-tone system of musical 
composition. The collection has been cata­
loged and, although the originals are kept 
in a vault, microfilm copies will be available 
for consultation.

•  The personal library of Pitirim A. Soro­
kin, Russian-American sociologist, was bought 
in 1967 by the library of the University of 
Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. The books, num­
bering about eleven hundred, include a vir­
tually complete collection of Dr. Sorokin’s own 
writings, notebooks, manuscripts, and corre­
spondence, as well as numerous clippings and 
reprints and extensive journal files.

G R A N T S
•  Wendell W. Simons, assistant university 

librarian at the University of California, 
Santa Cruz, and Mrs. Luraine C. Tansey, slide 
librarian, have been named principal inves­
tigators in an $18,841 grant made by the 
Council on Library Resources.

The grant is being used in the development 
of a classification and cataloging scheme for 
slide collections. The UCSC project seeks to 
create a system that will help libraries organ­
ize and service slides. As proposed such a 
system would have a universal classification 
scheme, accommodating visual materials for 
all disciplines; cataloging would be computer­
ized to produce numerous indexes and cross­
indexes.

•  Irene Zimmerman, Latin American librar­
ian in the department of reference and bibli­
ography of University of Florida libraries 
and J. Ray Jones, Jr., assistant librarian, de­
partment of reference and bibliography, have 
each received a faculty development grant for 
part of 1969.

On the campuswide distribution of these 
grants, the Libraries were allowed to submit 
two proposals out of a total of 52 from the 
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of A Guide to Current Latin American Peri­
odicals, Humanities and Social Sciences (1961), 
plans a “state of the art” study of Latin 
American bibliography, analyzing present bib­
liographic resources. Mr. Jones anticipates re­
search at the University of London, surveying 
its great research collections in the social 
sciences, and examining particularly the area 
collections concerning the Far East and Africa.

•  Columbia University libraries’ program 
of research and development in the area of 
systems and automation, initiated in 1965, will 
he substantially accelerated through a grant 
of $200,000 recently received from the Na­
tional Science Foundation. A combination of 
university and grant funds will enable the 
Columbia libraries to enlarge their systems 
staff to the equivalent of ten full-time staff 
positions. In addition, the systems staff will 
be augmented by utilizing the staff time of a 
number of library personnel from various tech­
nical and reader service units.

The primary focus of the libraries’ approach 
to the project will be to develop and test gen­
eralized computer-based library processing sys­
tems. During the next eighteen months, the 
libraries’ system staff will concentrate on de­
signing and testing a computer-based system 
for monograph acquisitions. The work to be 
done during this project will be interrelated 
as practicable with similar research and devel­
opment activities in other research libraries. 
The project has three major objectives: (1) 
more efficient and timely acquisition and proc­
essing of materials within the Columbia Uni­
versity library system; (2) increased capacity 
to process material at Columbia; and (3) the 
development of systems and subsystems that 
will have maximum applicability in other insti­
tutions of comparable size and scope.

BU IL D IN G S

• Plans for the construction of a new library 
to serve the students and faculties of Loyola 
College and the College of Notre Dame 
of Maryland has been announced by the re­
cently formed Loyola-Notre Dame Library 
Corporation. The new educational building, 
which is expected to cost approximately 
$3,000,000.00, will be designed to provide for 
future expansion and have the capacity to 
house approximately two hundred and thirty-six 
thousand volumes and accommodate about one 
thousand readers.

•  Wayne State University Medical School 
in Detroit will build a new medical library 
supported in part by a grant from the U.S. 
Department of Health, Education, and Wel­
fare’s Public Health Service. The $1,432,246 
award is the first construction grant to be

awarded under the Medical Library Assistance 
Act (P.L. 89-291).

•  A new million dollar library building, the 
W. B Roberts Memorial, will open this sum­
mer at Delta State College in Cleveland, 
Miss. Containing 54,800 square feet of floor 
space, the structure will house capacity for 
two hundred thousand volumes and some 
three hundred readers.

•  Ohio Northern University, Ada, will 
dedicate its $1,700,000 Heterick memorial li­
brary on October 5. The two-story, modem 
library “opened for business” on Feb. 15. The 
air-conditioned facility provides for one hun­
dred sixty thousand volumes of books, seating 
capacity for six hundred and twenty-five stu­
dents with 75 per cent placed in carrels. Con­
struction of the library permits the addition of 
third and fourth floors as they are needed.

•  Southern Oregon College opened a 
new library building during the winter term. 
The 65,000 square-foot building presently 
houses some one hundred ten thousand vol­
umes, which is expected to increase at the rate 
of fifteen thousand volumes per year.

•  Millersville State College (Pa.) will 
dedicate its new ten-level Helen Ganser library 
on May 4.

THE IN T E R N A T IO N A L  SCENE
•  Rudolf Fiedler, Oberstaatsbibliothekar 

of the Vienna National Library, has been ap­
pointed by Franz Jonas, president of the Aus­
trian Federation, to succeed Dr. Stummvoll 
as director general of the Austrian National 
Library, effective Feb. 1. He is known among 
American librarians, especially in the Library 
of Congress, from his study trip in the United 
States in the fall of 1967, and he has partici­
pated in a number of international meetings 
and conferences.

•  On Dec. 31 Josef Stummvoll, director 
general of the Austrian National Library in 
Vienna since October 1949, left active govern­
ment service. Dr. Stummvoll helped to estab­
lish the library of the Ankara Agricultural Col­
lege in Turkey, and he helped to plan the new 
United Nations Library building in New York 
City and the extension of the National Library 
into the “Neue Hofburg” in Vienna in 1966. 
His first study trip through the United States 
took place in 1948-49 and won him a number 
of friends, and his stay in this country as a 
director of the United National Dag Hammar­
skjöld library strengthened these ties.

Of major importance is Dr. Stummvoll’s early 
interest and participation in the Shared Cat­
aloging Program of the Library of Congress. 
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European National Librarians in Vienna in 
1966, which prepared for the extension of this 
program to Eastern Europe, has enormously 
contributed to the program, and the operation 
of Shared Cataloging in Vienna has become a 
model for similar operations elsewhere.

Two Festschriften (1952 and 1967) in his 
honor contain contributions from librarians all 
over the world and testify to the international 
significance of Dr. Stummvoll’s work.

•  Marking the adoption of a new concept 
in American exchanges with Eastern Europe, 
the Institute of History of the Czechoslovak 
Academy of Sciences has accepted the invita­
tion of Indiana University to exchange Czech 
books for American fellowships. The university 
and the academy concluded an agreement on 
Jan. 1. The agreement provides for the annual 
exchange of four thousand Czechoslovak books, 
journals and newspapers pertaining to history, 
the social sciences, and Czechoslovak culture 
and art for one full graduate fellowship of 
$3500 and one full research fellowship of 
$5000 in the social sciences or humanities at 
Indiana University. In addition, Indiana will 
send to the Institute five hundred books pub­
lished in the United States relating to history 
and the social sciences. The agreement runs 
for one year after which time it may be re­
newed. The librarians responsible for the tech­
nical side of the book exchange are Andrew 
Turchyn at Indiana University and Miloslay 
Kudelasek at the Institute of History.

•  Sir Frank F rancis, director and principal 
librarian of the British Museum, will serve as 
consultant on foreign library developments to 
the Council on Library Resources. Sir Frank, 
who is continuing his duties at the British 
Museum, will advise the Council of develop­
ments, current and potential, in both advanced 
and underdeveloped nations which may come 
within the scope of the Council’s interests.

•  Three members of the American Library 
Association’s Subcommittee ( of the Internation­
al Relations Committee) for Liaison with Jap­
anese Libraries visited Japan during the 
month of November 1967 for the purpose of 
promoting international library cooperation. 
They were: Thomas R. Buckman, director of 
libraries, University of Kansas and immediate 
past director of the International Relations Of­
fice of ALA; Yukihisa Suzuki, head, Asia li­
brary, University of Michigan, and chairman, 
International Relations Subcommittee of the 
Committee on East Asian Libraries of the As­
sociation for Asian Studies; and Warren Tsu- 
neishi, chief, Orientalia division, Library of 
Congress, and chairman, ARL Subcommittee 
on the Far East.

The three attended the All Japan Library 
Conference sponsored by the Japan Library

Association in Kanazawa, November 8-10. Mr. 
Buckman read a letter of greeting from Foster 
M. Mohrhardt, president of ALA, at the open­
ing session.

Members of the mission, individually or as 
a team, visited and conferred with over thirty 
library, faculty, government and business 
groups at university libraries, regional library 
associations, the National Diet library, the 
Ministry of Education, and American Cul­
tural Centers (two members of the team were 
sponsored by the State Department’s American 
Specialists Program).

At the National Diet library, the three joined 
Donald Jay, coordinator, overseas programs 
office, Library of Congress, in talks leading to 
an N.D.L.-L.C. agreement on a shared catalog­
ing program to commence in 1968.

The mission also met with the Council of 
Seven National University Library Directors 
and others in planning for a proposed bina­
tional conference on library cooperation. It 
was agree that a conference should be held 
in Japan, possibly in the fall of 1968, to discuss 
concrete problems—such as the acquisition of 
government documents—as well as generalized 
questions—such as the application of computers 
to automation of library operations in the 
United States and Japan. The Directors Coun­
cil and the ALA Subcommittee for Liaison with 
Japanese Libraries constituted themselves as 
the planning groups for the conference.

M E E T IN G S
Apr. 18: Library Association of the City 

University of New York conference “New Di­
rections for City University Libraries,” Brook­
lyn College Student Center. The conference 
is open to all professional librarians and to 
others who are interested in the development 
of library cooperation. Those interested in at­
tending should contact Miss Betty-Carol Sellen, 
LACUNY Conference Co-chairman, Brooklyn 
College Library, Brooklyn, New York 11210.

Apr. 25: The first New England Church 
and Synagogue Library Conference will be 
held in Providence, R.I. from 9:00 a.m . to 5:00 
P.M. at the Central Congregational Church. 
This one-day meeting will be sponsored by 
the graduate library school of the University 
of Rhode Island, The Rhode Island Council 
of Churches, the Catholic Library Association 
of Rhode Island, and the Association of Jewish 
Libraries. The program will include speakers, 
workshops, and exhibits. All associated with 
or interested in starting church libraries are 
cordially invited to attend. For particulars, 
write to Miss Helen T. Geer, Associate Pro­
fessor, Graduate Library School, University of 
Rhode Island, Promenade and Gaspee Streets, 
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Apr. 27: Spring seminar on information 
science co-sponsored by the San Francisco 
chapters of the American Society for Informa­
tion Science and the Special Libraries Associa­
tion. The seminar will be an all-day meeting at 
the facilities of the Ampex Corporation in 
Redwood City, Cal. Lunch will be included 
in the registration fee of $10.

Apr. 28-May 10: Interlibrary Cooperation 
institute to be conducted by the department 
of library science at Wayne State University 
April 28 to May 10, 1968 in cooperation with 
the U.S. Office of Education, at the McGregor 
Memorial Conference Center of the Division 
of Urban Extension, to acquaint participants 
with plans being made by the states for inter- 
library cooperation, with the kinds of studies 
and surveys necessary for wise planning with 
present state, regional and national patterns, 
with information networks, and electronic com­
munications systems. The institute will be 
limited to fifty state, public and academic li­
brary administrators with priority given to 
state library personnel responsible for admin­
istering Title III, Library Service & Construc­
tion Act. Stipends and dependency allowances 
will be paid to participants.

May 3-4: The Midwest Academic Librarians’ 
Conference, at Winona, Minnesota, will be con­
cerned with cooperative projects and automa­
tion in small college libraries during the Friday 
meetings. Participants will have an opportu­
nity to visit the new library buildings at St. 
Mary’s, St. Theresa’s, and Winona State Col­
lege. For the Friday evening meeting, the pro­
gram committee hopes to secure an outstand­
ing speaker. On Saturday morning, discussion 
groups will consider statistics for government 
reports, problems of changing classification 
systems, library-college concepts, North Cen­
tral visitations, curriculum librarians, teaching 
materials centers, and grants.

May 3-4: Fifth Annual National Colloquium 
on Information Retrieval, Philadelphia.

May 3-4: The Chemical Literature Division 
of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and 
he Chemistry Division of the Special Libraries 
ssociation (SLA) joint meeting, Columbus, 
hio. The technical sessions of the meeting 
ill be devoted to acquisition, processing and 
issemination of chemical information.
May 17-18: Annual spring meeting of Tri 

tate Chapter of ACRL, at Case Western Re­
erve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Location 
f meetings and housing arrangements will be

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June 2-7: Special Libraries Association 
Conference in Los Angeles. Theme will be 
Special Libraries, Partners in Research for 
Tomorrow’s World.

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June 3-14: Department of library science of 
Wayne State University, in cooperation with 
the U.S. Office of Education institute on “Pro­
gram Planning and Budgeting for Libraries,” 
at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center 
of the Division of Urban Extension.

Instruction will be offered through lecture- 
demonstrations and in workshops at which 
participants will learn by working on problems 
of their own institution’s budget. Registration 
will be limited to forty participants from state 
libraries, large public libraries and academic 
libraries, all being either administrators or 
business managers and all having experience 
in and responsibility for budgeting.

June 10-21: School of library and informa­
tion services, University of Maryland, Institute 
on the Automation of Bibliographical Services, 
funded by the U.S. Office of Education under 
the Higher Education Act Title II-B. The 
Institute, for a limited number of participants 
already involved in or planning for automa­
tion, will be offered with the cooperation of 
the Library of Congress Project MARC, the 
University of Maryland, and the Computer 
Science Center. Director of the Institute will 
be David Batty, head of the department of 
information retrieval studies in the College of 
Librarianship, Wales.

June 17-21: Samford University, Birming­
ham, Ala., Seventh Institute of Genealogy. 
Registration and tuition is $30 for the week 
(plus $15 additional if academic credit is 
desired). Housing will be available on campus 
for $2 per night.

June 23-29: ALA Conference, Kansas City, 
Mo. Those planning to attend are urged to 
register in advance. For their convenience, 
an advance registration form has been in­
cluded in the April issue of the ALA Bulletin. 
It should be filled out completely and then 
returned, with check or money order payable 
to the American Library Association, 50 East 
Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. This 
form must be mailed no later than May 31.

Those who pre-register will pick up their 
complete annual conference kits and programs 
at a special preregistration desk in Kansas 
City. The desk will be located in the foyer of 
the Music Hall of the Municipal Auditorium 
—13th Street entrance.

July 8-26: University of Oklahoma school 
of library science Institute for Training in 
Librarianship on Problems in Administration

and Organization of Multi-Media Resources,

on the campus of the University of Oklaho
in Norman. Request application forms from 
Mrs. Evelyn Clement, Director, Institute on 
Administration and Organization of Multi- 
Media Resources, University of Oklahoma,

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School of Library Science, Norman, Oklahoma 
73069. Forms should be completed and re­
turned to the Director by May 1.

July 23-25: 2d session ICSU/UNESCO 
Central Committee to Study Feasibility of 
World Science Information System.

Aug. 5-30: The Georgia Department of 
Archives and History in cooperation with the 
Emory University Division of Librarianship 
will hold its second Archives Institute. The 
institute is designed for those presently em­
ployed or preparing for employment in the 
fields of archives, manuscripts, records man­
agement, or special libraries; or advanced stu­
dents in history or related disciplines. Appli­
cants should hold a Bachelor’s degree from 
an accredited institution. Enrollment will be 
limited to ten. The Institute will be under 
the direction of Carroll Hart, state archivist 
and director of the Georgia department of 
archives and history, and will be held in the 
new Archives and Records Building, Atlanta.

Participants may register on a non-credit 
basis or receive six quarter hours academic 
credit. For non-credit registrants the fee is 
$50; for credit awarded by the Emory Uni­
versity graduate school, the fee is $275. Dor­
mitory housing will be available on the Emory 
University campus. For further information 
contact Miss Carroll Hart, Director and State 
Archivist, Georgia Department of Archives and 
History, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.

Aug. 5-10: 4th Congress of the International 
Federation for Information Processing (IF IP ), 
Edinburgh.

Aug. 11-23: Second Annual University of 
Maryland Library Administrators Development 
Program. Senior administrative personnel of 
large public, research, academic libraries and 
school library systems will study organization 
and administration under the direction of man­
agement consultants, professors of business and 
public administration and library scholars. The 
program will be held at the University of Mary­
land’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit 
(M d.), and will be directed by John Rizzo of 
the school of government and business admin­
istration, George Washington University.

Aug. 18-25: 34th Conference of IFLA, 
Frankfurt/Main.

Aug. 19-23: University of Pittsburgh’s grad­
uate school of library and information sciences 
summer institute to train teachers in the use 
of m odern equipm ent in  lib raries, D ire c to r of

the institute will be Jay E, Daily, assisted by 

George Sinkankas.
Sept. 2-7: Third IATUL Seminar on the 

Application of International Library Methods 
and Techniques at the Delft Technological

University library under the direction of L. J. 
van der Wolk. Number of participants is lim­
ited to 25. Fee will be 400 guilders. Please 
direct all correspondence to Miss T. Hall, c/o 
Library Technological University, 101 Doelen- 
straat, DELFT, The Netherlands.

Sept. 9-18: 34th FID Conference and In­
ternational Congress on Scientific Information, 
Moscow.

Sept. 19-24: Frankfort Book Fair.
Sept. 23-26: 42nd Annual Conference of As- 

lib, Canterbury.
Oct. 4-5: Indiana Chapter of the Special 

Libraries Association and the Purdue Univer­
sity libraries two-day meeting at Purdue Uni­
versity on “Automation in the Library.” Mrs. 
Theodora Andrews, pharmacy librarian at Pur­
due University, is chairman in charge of meet­
ing plans.

Oct. 20-24: American Society for Informa­
tion Science, formerly American Documenta­
tion Institute, 31st annual meeting in Colum­
bus, Ohio. Papers are invited on all facets of 
methods and mechanisms to improve the op­
erations of information systems. The technical 
sessions chairman, David M. Leston, Jr., Bat- 
telle Memorial Institute, should be notified 
of intent to submit papers, by March 1.

M IS C E L L A N Y
•  A nineteen-member Library Advisory 

Council has been formed at George Wash­
ington University to consider programs and 
activities aimed at increasing the effectiveness 
of the GW Libraries and to stimulate support 
for the libraries’ continued growth and de­
velopment. The council, while aiding in the 
interpretation of library programs to the com­
munity, will also study the role of an urban 
university library in Washington, D.C.

•  Beta Phi Mu, national library science 
scholastic honorary, inaugurated a new chap­
ter on Feb. 9 at the University of Hawaii 
graduate school of library studies. Xi Chapter, 
newest of fifteen Beta Phi Mu chapters, was 
installed along with officers and members by 
Dr. Maurice F. Tauber, current national presi­
dent of Beta Phi Mu and Melville Dewey 
Professor of Librarianship at Columbia Uni­
versity in New York.

•  Medical and bio-medical librarians will 
be trained in the University of Illinois

graduate school of library science at Urbana,
S u p p o rte d  b y  a  tw o  y e a r, $ 1 1 2 ,9 4 5  g ra n t

from the U.S. Public Health Service, admin­
istered by the National Library of Medicine.

The grant provides funds for ten trainee- 
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gram leading to an M.S. degree will take 
fourteen months—an academic year and two 
summer sessions. The last summer session will 
be split between a five-week medical literature 
and reference service course at the U. of I. 
Chicago Medical Center and a three-week 
seminar in computer-based systems for li­
braries at Urbana.

Another unique feature of the training pro­
gram will be a one-semester assignment for 
each trainee as a bibliographic assistant with 
a scientific research project in the medical or 
related fields. The practicum is scheduled for 
about ten hours a week.

Other courses include development and 
operation of libraries, reference, book selec­
tion, cataloging, the literature of science and 
technology, library administration, advanced 
cataloging, science reference service, govern­
ment documents, bibliography of the biologi­
cal sciences, and information storage and re­
trieval.

The proposed three-year program will start 
in June, 1968. Application forms and additional 
information may be obtained by contacting 
Mrs. Frances B. Jenkins, 322 Library, Uni­
versity of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801.

• Reclassifying of approximately fifty-four 
thousand volumes in the Library of Congress 
system has been completed by Barat Col­
lege library. Since 1961, nearly 30,000 books 
were converted from the Dewey decimal sys­
tem of classification while an average of 2,371 
new books were acquired each year. Both the 
new acquisitions and 9,100 periodical volumes 
were classified according to the Library of 
Congress system at the same time existing 
volumes were being converted. Approximately 
88,000 man-hours were spent on the project.

• Norman D. Stevens, acting university li­
brarian at Rutgers University has been 
elected chairman of the recently organized 
Council of New Jersey State College and Uni­
versity Librarians. The Council was formed 
to establish closer cooperation between the 
state-supported educational institutions and to 
consider those mutual problems arising from 
their relations with the state. Felix E. Hirsch, 
librarian at Trenton State College, is vice- 
chairman and Juliette A. Trainor, Paterson 
State College librarian, is its secretary.

•  The City University of New York 
adopts a new faculty salary schedule effective 
October 1 of this year. Since CUNY librarians 
hold professorial rank, this schedule applies 
to them as well as to teaching personnel. These 
new salary ranges are: instructor, $10,050- 
$13,900; assistant professor, $ll,000-$17,000; 
associate professor, $14,000-$21,000; profes­
sor, $18,000-326,000.

•  York (Pa.) Junior College has announced 
that approval to award baccalaureate degrees 
has been granted by the Department of Public 
Instruction of the Commonwealth of Penn­
sylvania, effective Sept. 1. The new name of 
the college will be York College of Pennsylvan­
ia.

•  Expansion of library services in Texas is 
evidenced by the agreement of Dec. 6 de­
signed to strengthen and preserve the library 
operations in the Texas Medical Center be­
tween the trustees of the the Houston Academy 
of Medicine and Baylor University college of 
medicine. This will change the name of the 
Texas Medical Center library, housed in the 
Jesse H. Jones library building, to the Houston 
Academy of Medicine library for The Texas 
Medical Center. The operating responsibilities 
are now shared by Baylor University college 
of medicine, the Houston Academy of Medi­
cine, the University of Texas, Texas Woman’s 
University, and the Texas Medical Center.

•  On March 7 the Board of Regents of 
Victoria University, Toronto, conferred upon 
the Victoria College library the name of “The 
E. J. Pratt Library” in honour of Edwin John 
Pratt (1882-1964), poet and a member of 
the teaching staff of Victoria College from 
1920 until 1953.

P U B L IC A T IO N S
•  Index Translationum, just issued, in its 

19th volume, by Unesco, lists 39,267 trans­
lations published in seventy countries during 
1966 plus a few earlier publications hitherto 
not listed. The national bibliographies are ar­
ranged in alphabetical order of authors under 
the ten major headings of the Universal Deci­
mal Classification.

•  The dramatic story of the concept, found­
ing and operation of Library/USA, the famed 
library exhibit at the New York World’s Fair, 
is told in Library/USA, A Bibliographic and 
Descriptive Report, just published by ALA.

The book can be order at $5 per copy from 
Library/USA, American Library Association, 
50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

•  Medical Reference Works, 1679-1966, a 
selected bibliography of more than twenty- 
seven hundred titles has just been published 
by the Medical Library Association, 919 
N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111. 60611. This 
international list, which was compiled by Dr. 
John B. Blake and Mr. Charles Roos of the 
National Library of Medicine, has annotated 
entries, is arranged by over 50 medical special­
ities and related fields, dentistry, nursing, phar­
macy, etc., and is indexed in detail. Titles for 
the small library are starred. The price is $10 
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• Several ideas generally believed to explain 
the condition of nineteenth century publica­
tions in American libraries may be modified 
as a result of a new report from the W. J. 
Barrow Research Laboratory, prepared for the 
Council on Library Resources. Specifically, data 
presented in the report show that the major 
blame for the deterioration of book paper after 
the mid-point of the nineteenth century 
which has been laid at the door of wood 
pulp (at that time replacing rag fiber as the 
principal constituent of book papers) should 
be assigned to the use of alum-rosin size. The 
report in which these findings is presented is 
Strength and Other Characteristics of Book 
Papers 1800-1899.

LIBRARIANS OF SMALL 
COLLEGES OF BOSTON

In the Spring of 1966, a group of librarians 
of small four- and two-year colleges decided 
to meet together informally to discuss mutual 
problems and to seek areas for mutual coopera­
tion.

As the Librarians of Small Colleges of Bos­
ton, the group has been meeting twice a year, 
fall and winter. Although its meetings follow 
a prepared agenda and it is directing its ac­
tivities toward specific programs, it has elected 
to remain informal without officers. Each of 
the members volunteers to be host for a meet­
ing in order that the group may visit each 
others’ libraries and meet other staff members. 
The first meeting was held at Garland Junior 
College; the second was hosted by Wentworth 
Institute; the third by Bentley College; and the 
most recent was held at Wheelock College. 
The spring meeting is to be held at Pine 
Manor Junior College and the subject will be 
a discussion of possible cooperative acquisitions 
programs for some of the small academic 
libraries.

Between the middle of January and the 
middle of February, the group held a Catalog­
ing Workshop Institute for its members which 
was a series of four meetings held at Garland 
Junior College for head librarians and/or their 
catalogers. The workshop was set up as a dia­
logue between the twenty members from the 
group attending and the panel of cataloging 
experts: Ruth Leonard, associate professor, 
school of library science, Simmons College; 
Susan M. Haskins, associate librarian and cata­
loged Harvard College library; and Mrs. Doro­
thy P. Ladd, chief of the catalog division, 
Boston University library.

Topics discussed were based on Anglo-Ameri­
can Cataloging Rules. Materials used and re­
ferred to were:

New Rules for an Old Game, proceedings of 
a workshop on the 1967 Anglo-American cata­

loging code held by the school of librarianship 
cat: the University of British Columbia, April 
13 and 14, 1967, edited by Thelma E. Allen. 
(Vancouver, The University of British Colum­
bia Publications Centre, 1967. $6 [Can.]).

F. Berniece Field, “New Catalog Code,” 
Library Resources & Technical Services, X (Fall 
1966), 421-436 (reprints available from ALA).

C. Sumner Spalding, “Main entry: principles 
and counter-principles,” LRTS, XI (Fall 1967) 
389-96.

ALA Cataloging Rules Correlated with An­
glo-American Cataloging Rules, prepared at the 
University of Washington [Library], by Jean 
Hoodless (Seattle, University of Washington 
Library [1967]).

Other programs being planned are (1) a 
compilation of a union list of periodicals, films, 
and filmstrips and (2) a listing for the mem­
bers of the area of the strengths of their col­
lections as a preliminary step toward possible 
interinstitutional borrowing.

Anyone interested in knowing more about 
the programs and forthcoming activities may 
inquire from Arline Willar, librarian, Garland 
Junior College; Irene Christopher, G. K. Hall 
& Co., Boston (formerly director of Emerson 
College library), and Marie Cotter, librarian, 
Wheelock College.

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