ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 2 7 4 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • Fresno State College library has pur­ chased the Roy Brady collection of books and related materials on wine, grapes, and wine­ making. The collection consists of about fifteen hundred books, fourteen hundred pamphlets, nine hundred wine merchants’ catalogues, two hundred wine lists, seventeen hundred and fifty issues of periodicals, and miscellaneous ephemera. The collection was formed over a period of twenty years by Mr. Brady. • Recent accessions of the manuscript divi­ sion of the Library of Congress have in­ cluded the papers of John Glenn, astronaut, numbering about ninety thousand items. While they consist chiefly of fan letters sent to Glenn between 1962 and 1964, plus some copies of Glenn’s replies, there are also subject files, space manuals, newspaper clippings, scrap­ books, certificates and awards, and maps and charts. The literary collections have been aug­ mented by the papers of novelist John Barth. These include notes, manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs, and page proofs of Giles Goat- Boy, The Sot-Weed Factor, The Floating Opera, and The End of the Road. Recent additions to the papers of Daniel Webster include letters and autograph notes to a speech to the Senate, March 7, 1850, in favor of Clay’s compromise measures. Attached to the notes is an autograph letter of Joseph H. Choate, Ambassador to Great Britain, Decem­ ber 3, 1900, in which Choate, referring to the notes, says that probably Webster expected his speech would startle his friends in New England “and he wanted to be sure of every word.” Two of the Presidential collections have re­ ceived additions, the papers of Franklin Pierce and the papers of John Tyler. • A large number of the papers of former Vice President Henry A. Wallace have been placed with the University of Iowa libraries by his widow, Mrs. Ilo B. Wallace, of South Salem, New York, and his children: Robert B. Wallace, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Henry B. Wallace, of Des Moines, Iowa, and Jean Wallace Douglas, of Washington, D.C. • Two additions to the Bowdoin College library’s special collections of individual authors have been made by Elizabeth Coatsworth Bes­ ten, wife of the late naturalist and author Henry Besten, and Marguerite Yourcenar, the noted French author. Mrs. Besten presented a collection of her husband’s works and books containing selections and references to him and to his work. Mr. Besten is perhaps best re­ membered for his book, “The Outermost House.” Miss Yourcenar’s reconstruction of the life and times of the Emperor Hadrian in her book, “Memoirs of Hadrian,” has been trans­ lated from the original French into Croatian, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and English. These books and copies of her many novels, essays, plays, poems and translations are included in her gift to the Bowdoin library. • At a small reception in the rare book room of the Linda Hall library, Joseph C. Shipman, director of the library, received the first forty- two volumes of the eighty-two-volume fac­ simile reprint edition of the “Annual Reports and General Appendices of the Smithsonian In­ stitution, 1846-1932.” The set was donated by the publisher, William Buchanan of Carrollton Press, in Washington, D.C. • The papers of Andrew Nelson Lytle, dis­ tinguished Southern author and educator, have been acquired by the Joint University Li­ braries, Nashville. The collection contains ap­ proximately thirty five hundred items for the period 1868-1966 and includes both incoming and outgoing correspondence, manuscripts, ac­ counts, biographical and genealogical material, contracts, clippings, diaries, land and estate records, invitations, passports, programs, and wills. • The Lois Goodard Morrison collection of eighteenth century English literature has been acquired by the San Antonio College library. The Morrison collection consists largely of books published before 1800, along with later bibliographical and supportive monographs with special emphasis on the works of Eustace Budg- ell, publications by A. Moore, and with rep­ resentation of more than two hundred different authors. • Sam Houston State College has pur­ chased the entire criminology library of San­ ford Bates of Pennington, N.J. Dr. Bates was head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons from 1930 to 1937 and served as the U.S. Com­ missioner on the International Prison Commis­ sion. He is the author of many articles and the book, Prisons and Beyond. The collection of 2,000 volumes will be used to support the noted Institute of Contemporary Corrections and Behavioral Sciences at the college. • Dr. Milburn Lincoln Wilson of Washing­ ton, D.C., Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, has presented to Montana State University li­ brary his extensive collection of books and pamphlets relating to economics and to agricultural 275 history. The university library already possesses Dr. Wilson’s correspondence from the years when he was a member of the faculty. This forms a very rich lode for research and has already been used by a number of scholars who are interested in Dr. Wilson’s life or in agricultural policy and experimentation of the 1930’s. A W A R D S , GIFTS • A SCIENCE INFORMATION NETWORK o f l i ­ braries throughout the Gulf Coast area, to dis­ seminate technical and scientific information to business, commerce, industry, and academic in­ stitutions is known as the Regional Communi­ cations and Information Exchange, and is lo­ cated at the library of Rice University. Rice is developing centralized bibliographic refer­ ences, and an intranetwork location and trans­ fer service. The service is available to the eighteen academic institutions participating in the network, and—on an individual fee basis— to outside investigators. The National Science Foundation has granted $119,250 for the work of the Center; industry has invested approxi­ mately $40,000, and the Office of State Tech­ nical Services of the U.S. Department of Com­ merce has given a total of $53,325 in support. Head of the project is Richard L. O’Keeffe, director of the Regional Communication and Information Exchange. The Exchange will use teletype facilities to link the college and uni­ versity libraries participating in the system. In addition, Rice University will study and plan for an expanded computer-based regional bib­ liographic reference service, through a coordi­ nated program of regional library acquisition and exchange. • Montana State University library has been granted $2,000 by the Louis W. and Maud Hill Family Foundation as a renewal to complete the microfilming of the Yellowstone National Park archives. These cover the period of the Army’s administration of the park and contain a wealth of material in all areas re­ lating to the park. They should be of interest to many scholars. • The University of Washington health sciences library has been designated the Pa­ cific Northwest Regional Health Sciences li­ brary, and was awarded a grant of $142,532 to expand its services. As a regional health sci­ ences library it will serve physicians, dentists, nurses and other health professionals in the states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Part of the grant will be used to establish a request center for MEDLARS. The regional library will prepare requests for a com­ puter-directed search of principal medical pub­ lications for references on a particular topic. The computer processing takes place at the Na­ tional Library of Medicine. B U IL D IN G S • Construction is complete on the new li­ brary building for Clinch Valley College at Wise, Va., which cost $594,000. The library has a total of 20,722 square feet, with a book capacity of 75,000 volumes, and reader space for 331 persons. The undergraduate facility was funded with state and federal funds. New equipment for the building will cost approxi­ mately $100,000. Dedication of the library will take place during the coming academic year. The library was named for John Cook Wyllie, the late librarian of the Alderman library at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. • The projected East-West Center library building of the University of Hawah to house Asian reference material, will be con­ structed next to the newly-completed graduate research library on the Manoa campus. F E L L O W S H IP S , S C H O L A R S H IP S • The library school of the University of Minnesota invites application for $2,400, tui­ tion-free fellowships available under a grant from the Public Health Service. The purpose of the program is to prepare information spe­ cialists conversant with and capable of han­ dling the expanding activities of biomedical in­ formation centers, especially in the use and development of new information storage and retrieval techniques. Successful applicants may begin their study in September or in January 1969. To be eligible for these fellowships, stu­ dents should hold a bachelor’s degree, pref­ erably in the biological sciences. The stipend of $200 per month for twelve months of full­ time study leading to an MA degree is sup­ plemented by free tuition. Men and women interested in a career in biomedical librarian- ship are invited to write to Wesley Simonton, Professor and Director of the Biomedical Li­ brarians Program, Library School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455. • The Old Dominion Foundation of New York has made a grant of $55,000 to the Bodleian library at Oxford, the University li­ brary at Cambridge and the British Museum, so that they may carry out together some ex­ periments in the collection of cataloging in­ formation and its handling by computer. These experiments are to be a pilot project for a union catalog of early books (up to 1801) in all languages in the British Museum and in the college and university libraries at Oxford and Cambridge. The experiments, called col­ lectively Project LOC, are expected to take a year. The project will be administered and controlled by representatives of the three in­ stitutions and will be under the direction of J. W. Jolliffe of the British Museum. The processing 2 7 6 of the information will be carried out on the Titan computer at Cambridge. M E E T I N G S Sept. 22-26: 42nd Annual Conference of As- lib, Canterbury. Sept. 22-Oct. 4: Institute on Planning, Pro­ gramming, and Budgeting Systems for Li­ braries, Wayne State University College of Ed­ ucation, Department of Library Science, and School of Business Administration, at McGregor Memorial Conference Center, conducted under a grant from USOE, Title II-B. Sept. 24-Dec. 10: The department of li­ brary science at Rosary College, River Forest, will conduct an HEA Institute in systems anal­ ysis, as applied to libraries. This part-time institute for special librarians in the Chicago area is being conducted under a grant from the United States Office of Education through the Higher Education Act of 1965 and par­ ticipants may request three semester hours of graduate credit. Criteria for eligibility include the BALS or MALS, experience in a library, and the same standards required of all who enter the department of library science at Rosary College. The exception, however, would be the applicant who does not have a BALS or MALS, but where professional experience and qualifications would be con­ sidered for enrollment. Purpose of the three- hour sessions, which will meet on twelve con­ secutive Tuesday evenings, is to orientate li­ brarians and administrators of special libraries to improve service, increase effectiveness, and coordinate all operations in their libraries through systems analysis. Application forms can be obtained by writing to: Sr. Marie Norbert Webner, HEA Institute in System Analysis, Rosary College, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest, Illinois 60305. 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. 7–10: 20th annual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Dokumentation, Bad Dürkheim. Oct. 17–18: Institute in Chicago jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Informa­ tion Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and University of Chicago libraries, to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which will be available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, ac­ quisitions librarians, heads of these depart­ ments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Associa­ tion, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, 111. 60611. 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. Nov. 1968: The Washington University school of medicine is planning to present its fifth Symposium on Machine Methods in Libraries in November, 1968, if enough people are interested. It will be a 3-day meeting and registration will be $35. Speakers will discuss automation at the libraries of the UN, The Royal Society of Medicine, The Upstate Med­ ical Center’s Biomedical Network, The New York Medical Center, The University of Louis­ ville medical school, and other institutions, as well as the work of the Washington University school of medicine library. Those who might be interested in attending the Symposium should communicate with Dr. Estelle Brodman, Librarian and Professor of Medical History, School of Medicine Library, Washington Uni­ versity, St. Louis, Missouri 63110. Nov.: Institute in Boston jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Sys­ tems Office, the Division of Library Automa­ tion of ALA, and Harvard University library to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which will be avail­ able for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Insti­ tutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, 111. 60611. Nov. 25–29: 19th meeting of FID/C3, So­ cial Sciences, at Utrecht, Netherlands. D ec. 2-7: (AIBD A) 2d Inter-American Meeting of Agricultural Librarians and Docu- mentalists in Bogota, Colombia. Dec. 12-13: Institute in Atlanta, Ga., jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Informa­ tion Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and Georgia Institute of 277 Technology library to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which will be available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these depart­ ments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send nam e and address to: ISA D /LC MARC Institutes, American Library Associa­ tion, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, 111. 60611. Jan. 8-10: International Conference of ad­ ministrators of colleges, universities, junior col­ leges, and independent schools at the Ameri­ cana Hotel in New York City. The theme of this conference is “Challenging a New Future” and its goal is to promote an interchange of ideas and experiences among the leaders of the higher and independent educational sys­ tems of the United States, Canada, and other nations of the world. Jan. 27-June 5: Institute in information science, University of Southern California. Participants will be admitted on a highly se­ lective basis. Each person will be paid $75 per week, with $15 per week for each de­ pendent. Persons who are admissable and who wish credit may earn from nine to twelve units of course credit during the semester. Further information about this institute may be obtained by writing to: The Dean, School of Library Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90007, Telephone: (213) 746-2548. February: Institute in Cleveland jointly spon­ sored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Auto­ mation of ALA, and Case Western Reserve University school of library science to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC mag­ netic tapes which will be available for distribu­ tion beginning Oct. 1. The program is di­ rected at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing li­ brarians and heads of technical processes. Reg­ istration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, Ameri­ can Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chi­ cago, 111. 60611. Mar. 24-25: Institute in Los Angeles jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Informa­ tion Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and UCLA libraries to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which will be available for dis­ tribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, 111. 60611. April 14-15: Institute in Houston jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Infor­ mation Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and the Rice University libraries, to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which will be available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisi­ tions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of tech­ nical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, I11. 60611. May 5-9: A general call has been issued for “free communications,” or unsolicited pa­ pers, for the Third International Congress of Medical Librarianship 1969, in Amsterdam. Pa­ pers should be 2,000 to 2,500 words long and may be submitted in one of the five Congress languages—English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish. Each paper should be accompa­ nied by an abstract of not more than fifty words in English. October 15, 1968 is the final date for submission of papers. They should be addressed to the Office of the Secretary-Gen­ eral, Third International Congress of Medical Librarianship, c/o Excerpta Medica Founda­ tion, 119 Herengracht, Amsterdam, The Neth­ erlands. The theme of the Congress is “World Progress in Medical Librarianship.” The sub­ ject areas include the contribution of medical libraries toward an increase of biomedical knowledge; the functions of medical libraries in the transmission of biomedical knowledge; the functions of the organization of medical knowledge: indexing and classification; modern information systems in medicine; technical de­ velopments in the medical library field; and problems of medical information systems and centers in developing countries. There will be invited lecturer’s as well as contributed papers. Registration fee is $50 if paid before January 1; $60 thereafter. Registration forms are available from the office of the Secretary-General. In­ formation about special transportation to Am­ sterdam from the United States will be avail­ able from Mrs. Jacqueline W. Felter, The Medical Library Center of New York, 17 East 102 Street, New York 10029, and for Canada from Miss Doreen Fraser, Dalhousie University Medical Dental Library, Carleton and College Streets, Halifax, Nova Scotia. M IS C E L L A N Y • The fifth Medical Library Internship Pro­ gram 1968/69 under the sponsorship of the 278 National Institutes of Health library, which was announced earlier, has been cancelled due to recent Government employment restrictions. It is hoped that the program may be resumed for 1969/70. • CCM Information Sciences has concluded an agreement to publish the translations and other materials produced by Research & Micro­ film Publications, Washington, D.C. In addi­ tion to an annual average of more than two hundred thousand pages of research transla­ tions and related bibliographic compilations, Research & Microfilm produces indexes and catalogs. Under terms of the agreement, CCM Information Sciences, a subsidiary of Crowell, Collier and Macmillan, will also provide man­ agerial, sales, and product development serv­ ices for the privately held micropublishing and indexing film. Research & Microfilm Publica­ tions provides microfilm, microfiche and printed bibliographies and indexes of all translations published by the United States Joint Publica­ tions Research Service, an intergovernmental agency that is the largest single producer of research translations in English. All subject fields are included, from more than fifty for­ eign languages, with emphasis on the social sciences, science and technology. Backfiles dat­ ing from 1957 are available, as are scientific and technical book translations published orig­ inally in Russian and Chinese. • In honor of her service to the Chicago and the Illinois medical profession in general, and to the Crerar library in particular, the Crerar library Board of Directors has estab­ lished the Ella M. Salmonsen Endowment Fund, the income from which will be devoted to medical collections and services. Contribu­ tions from seventy-four of Miss Salmonsen’s friends and admirers have brought the fund to a present total of $12,095. • The Governing Boards of Bellarmine College and Ursuline College announce the merger of the two institutions to form Bellarmine-Ursuline College, in Louisville, Kentucky. • Charles P. Yerkes and David R. Wolf have announced the formation of a professional con­ sulting organization in the field of microre­ production and microfilm information sys­ tems. Services will include information systems planning and development, product planning, market planning, market research, training, ed­ ucation and systems evaluation. The company, Yerkes-Wolf Associates, will be based in the Washington, D.C. area, with offices at 140 Main St. in Annapolis, Maryland. • An 1855 first edition of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,” part of the type for which the poet set himself, was presented to the li­ braries of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ nology as a symbol of the MIT library sys­ tem’s having passed the one-million volume mark. The book was the gift of I. Austin Kel­ ly, III, a member of the MIT Class of 1926. • Information Dynamics Corporation (ID C ) of Reading, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $75,000 contract by the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C., to conduct a study which will provide the library and infor­ mation services community with an in-depth analysis and history of the experience of the federal government in automating library and information services. The detailed analysis and history of federal automation projects, both successful and unsuccessful, will benefit the entire library and information service commu­ nity by providing a comparative data base for further implementing automated services. The Federal Library Committee, through its task force on automation, is serving as an advisory committee for the project. • An end-of-campaign statement for the 1967/68 annual fund drive for the privately- supported Research Libraries of the New York public library has just been issued by Edward G. Freehafer, director of the library. Mr. Freehafer reported that $804,100 has been raised by the business and industry leaders who solicited gifts within their fields, and from foundations and about twenty-five hundred individuals. The campaign is the nineteenth annual appeal since that of 1949/50. The branch libraries of NYPL are supported pri­ marily by city and state funds, but the re­ search libraries, with a current annual budget of almost $7,500,000, derive 80 per cent of their income from private sources consisting of income from endowment and from the gifts which are raised each year in the fund drives. • In an attempt to improve service to schol­ ars in Ohio and to reduce some interlibrary loan costs, the Ohio State University li­ braries has announced that faculty members of institutions which are members of the Ohio College Library Center may borrow materials from the Ohio State University libraries di­ rectly, subject to the following provisions: (1) student circulation policies and loan periods will be followed; (2) all borrowed materials are subject to recall; ( 3 ) limitations may be placed on some materials which are on de­ mand at the Ohio State University; (4) re­ newals should not be expected; (5) journals will not be loaned; (6) borrowers are expect­ ed to produce proper identification (faculty ID card or a letter from home campus librar­ ian, etc.). It is hoped that home campus libraries 279 will make arrangements with their fac­ ulties to return materials and will cooperate with and assist the Ohio State University li­ braries in the retrieval of overdue material. The Ohio College Library Center member li­ braries will send copies of their faculty direc­ tories to the circulation department, the Ohio State University libraries for the identification of faculty members. The Ohio State University libraries take this step to open library collec­ tions to all scholars in Ohio in the hope that other libraries in the state will do likewise and will continue to press for more accessibility to all library collections by scholars. If this serv­ ice is successful, the Ohio State University li­ braries will consider further liberalizing and ex­ tending its policy. • A John Cook Wyllie Memorial Publication Fund is being established by the Biblio­ graphical Society of the University of Vir­ ginia, where Mr. Wyllie had been associated with the Alderman library for forty years. The revolving fund will be used for bibliographical publications. Contributions should be made payable to “The Wyllie Memorial Fund of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia” and mailed to the Society president, Mr. Linton Massey, Charlottesville, Virginia. P U B L IC A T IO N S • A.L.A. Rules for Filing Catalog Cards, 2d edition Abridged ( Chicago: American Library Association Publishing Department, 1968. LC 68-21020. 104p. Paper. $2) marks comple­ tion of one phase of a five-year project. It is the first revision of ALA’s filing rules. The compre­ hensive, unabridged Filing Rules is scheduled for late August release. These new, official Filing Rules were pre­ pared by a special subcommittee of ALA’s Editorial Committee. The comprehensive ver­ sion constitutes a very full and detailed code. The abridgement presents the same basic rules, but omits most of the specialized and explana­ tory material. It is expected to meet the needs of most small and medium-sized libraries for a simpler code and to serve as a basic tool for teaching filing, both on the job and in library schools. Pauline A. Seely, chairman of the com­ mittee to revise the rules, served as editor of both the comprehensive and abridged versions of the rules. • ALA has just published the First Supple­ m ent to W inchell’s G u id e to R e fe re n c e Books 8th edition. The new supplement updates this internationally famous aid to the selection, use, and study of reference books. Similar in ar­ rangement and scope to the main volume, it gives annotated descriptions of more than one thousand reference works published in all fields t l T o t f P l b w during the 1965-66 period. Entirely new works, new editions of works fisted in the basic vol­ ume, and new parts of continuations are fisted. Succinct annotations indicate content. Prices are included for most items. New features in this Supplement are Library of Congress card numbers and references to reviews in selected ALA periodicals. There are cross references to the main volume and an author, subject, title index. Eugene P. Sheehy was the compiler. • Printing of the long-awaited National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints commenced recently in ceremonies at Wisbech, a small in­ dustrial village on the eastern coast of England. This massive retrospective bibliography, begun at the turn of the century at the Library of Congress and containing contributions from the major research libraries in the United States and Canada, is the key to all knowledge and information from the beginning of printing through 1955 on record in North America. In the glaring fights of BBC television cameras, Ruth Eisenhart, NUC editor for the ALA, pulled the lever that started the first pages rolling through the presses. The Mayor and Mayoress of Wisbech, bedecked in gold chains of office; representatives of the American Li­ brary Association; members of Balding & Man­ sell Ltd, the printers, and Bemrose & Sons Ltd, the binders; and officials of Mansell In- formation/Publishing Ltd, the publishers, wit­ nessed the ceremonies. Now begun, the presses will not stop rolling until some ten years hence when the 704th page of the estimated 610th volume of The National Union Catalog, Pre- 1956 Imprints has been printed. The Mansell offices are at 3 Bloomsbury Place, London W C 1 and at 360 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago 60601. • A survey, titled North American Library Education Directory and Statistics 1966-68, and cosponsored by the ALA Library Administra­ tion Division and the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee school of library and information science, has just been published by ALA. The survey is based on statistics gathered from insti­ utions and agencies of education for librarian- ship in the United States and Canada. • Acquisitions librarians and others in the ibrary field can now receive without charge he O-P Bookfinder, a monthly book fist of ut-of-print and scarce titles recently added to he microfilm collection of University Micro­ ilms. • ALA has just published revised editions of ersonnel Organization and Procedure, for pub­ ic libraries, and for college and university li­ raries. These manuals are written as models hich provide a framework to assist an indi­ vidual library in formulating its own basic personnel 280 procedures. Designed for easy modifica­ tion these manuals treat all the generally ac­ cepted principles and procedures of sound per­ sonnel administration which a library should consider in preparing its own policy statement. Areas covered in the main sections are: objec­ tives; organization and administration; relation­ ship with community; classification of positions; salary schedules; appointments; development of the staff; performance evaluations; promo­ tions, transfers, demotions, tenure; separation from service; working conditions; welfare and economic benefits; and staff relationships. Ad­ ditional reference material appended include sample personnel forms, a suggested list of references, statements of Principles of Intel­ lectual Freedom and Tenure for both librar­ ians and nonprofessional employees, the Li­ brary Bill of Rights, and the Resolution on Loyalty Programs. These revisions of the 1952 editions were prepared by the Personnel Pub­ lications Committee of LAD’s Personnel Ad­ ministration Section. • Copies of the Publications List: 1968 are available at no charge from the Publications Office, University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, 435 Main Library, Urbana, Illinois 61801. • Scientific Serial Publications in the Joint University Libraries by Eleanor F. Morrissey is the title of a new computer-produced list of serial holdings in a major research library. The 138-page list records scientific serial hold­ ings in JUL’s science, biology, engineering, and medical (Vanderbilt University Medical Center library) libraries; some six thousand ti­ tles are listed. Copies of the list may be pur­ chased for $1 from the Data Processing Cen­ ter, Joint University Libraries, Nashville, Ten­ nessee 37203. • A Short Summary of the Papers and Pro­ ceedings of the Conference on the Bibliograph­ ic Control of Library Science Literature (Al­ bany, April 19-20, 1968) is now available for distribution. The papers and discussions con­ sidered the problem of improving library and indexing services for the field of library and information science. The conference, sponsored by ALA-LED and funded by a grant from the R. W. Wilson Foundation, was initiated and directed by the State University of New York Library at Albany. Single copies of the Short Summary and the previously released Summary of Recommendations (April 26, 1968) may be obtained by writing to: David Mitchell (COBCOL), University Library, B98, State University of New York at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12203. • The Special Libraries Association’s Docu­ mentation Division has published a Member­ ship Directory. It is available to nonmembers for $3 prepaid, from Mrs. Audrey N. Grosch, treasurer, SLA Documentation Division, 3314 Kyle Avenue North, Minneapolis, Minn. 55422. • The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has just issued the Tentative Recom­ mended Practice for Protection of Library Col­ lections from Fire (NFPA No. 910-T). Intend­ ed as a guide for librarians, library trustees and others concerned with safekeeping of book collections, the new manual was adopted ten­ tatively at the 1968 NFPA annual meeting and is subject to revision before being sub­ mitted for official NFPA adoption. The 36-page manual applying to library collections is intend­ ed to provide general recommendations and to point up problems which must be con­ sidered in protecting new and existing library buildings. There are sections on library con­ struction, operation and maintenance, altera­ tions and renovations, fire protection organiza­ tion and training, and fire protection equip­ ment. For information of a more technical na­ ture, there are numerous references to other appropriate NFPA standards and codes. Copies (36 pages, $1.00) are available from the Na­ tional Fire Protection Association, 60 Battery- march Street, Boston, Mass. 02110.