ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • A large and im portant collection of Bra­ zilian materials has been purchased recently by the University of Arizona library. The great­ est strength of this collection is in long back- runs of periodicals. One of the most significant is the Colecao da Revista do Instituto Historico e Geografico Brasileiro, 325 volumes. Included in the collection are 1,000 volumes on Brazilian folklore as well as strong holdings in history, literature, and language. Additionally, a gift of books concerned w ith legal problems of Brazil from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro adds materially to the strength of this acquisi­ tion. These have been divided betw een the university’s main library and the law library. • The Bowdoin College library, Brunswick, Maine, has recently received two gifts which are of great importance to the study of the lit­ erary history of early-day America. The first of these gifts consists of a three-page letter of Longfellow’s (1807-1882) w ritten from Bow­ doin in 1823, and a pocket notebook kept by Longfellow on his trium phal European tour of 1868-69. These were acquired for the college from W arren Howell by Sumner Pike, an alum­ nus from Lubec, Maine. The second gift is a collection of fifty-four letters by Charles Brockden Brown (1 7 7 1 - 1810), America’s first professional author, pre­ sented by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hargraves of Somes Sound, Maine, and Wilmington, Dela­ ware. The letters were w ritten to Joseph Bring- hurst, a figure long a mystery to Brown’s biog­ raphers b u t evidently Brown’s closest friend. Also presented were one hundred and five let­ ters from the Bringhurst-Deborah Ferris court­ ship of 1795. Among related manuscripts is a tw enty-three page love poem of Brown to Miss Ferris, who was also courted by Brown until her marriage to Bringhurst. The collection had always been in the possession of th e family of Mrs. Hargraves, a descendant of Bringhurst. • The author’s working copy of a rare six­ teenth-century treatise on mathematics has been the latest addition to the Peter Ramus Collection at the Pius XII Memorial Library of Saint Louis University. The acquisition, en­ titled P. Rami Arithm etical libri dυo; Geo- metriae septem et viginti, was m ade possible through a special fund drive conducted by a group of members of the Associates of the Saint Louis University Libraries. The recently dis­ covered volume, which deals w ith arithmetic and geometry, is by the French philosopher and educational reformer Peter Ramus, and was published in Basel, Switzerland, in 1569. It contains handw ritten revisions by the author and is bound w ith Ramus’ Latin lectures on mathematics. The library contains a sizable col­ lection of Ramist material. Most of the au­ thor’s works were published in Latin, b u t a few were published in French. Several members of the faculty at the University are conducting re ­ search on Ramist material. • The Milne Library, State University College of Arts and Science at Geneseo, has acquired a collection of 195 of th e p u b ­ lished works of Aldous Huxley. The collection, purchased from th e estate of a Toronto indus­ trialist, includes first editions, hoth English and American, of most of Huxley’s novels, essays, and poems, works for w hich he wrote prefaces or introductions, copies of articles appearing in popular magazines, as well as works about Hux­ ley and files of literary periodicals to w hich he contributed. More than fifty first editions are in ­ cluded in Geneseo’s new Huxley collection, ranging from his first book, The Burning W heel (19 1 6 ), to his last, Literature and Science ( 1963) . At least forty-five of the major entries are m int copies. A num ber of the works are of a very limited edition, and some are inscribed and signed by Huxley. The collection contains complete runs of The Chapbook, The Coterie, and The Golden Hind, important periodicals in which Huxley appears. Included also are in­ creasingly scarce publications by Huxley, such as Holy Face and Other Essays, The Most Agreeable Vice, and, W ha t Are You Going to Do About It?—together with C. Day Lewis’ re­ ply, W e ’re N ot Going to Do Nothing. Geneseo’s new holdings comprise a significant gathering of materials by and about one of the most nota­ ble writers of our times. • Nineteen letters from E zra Pound to a young writer, Helene Magaret, advising her on metrics and poetry, have been acquired by Th e N ew York Public L ibrary. D ating from about 1928, E zra Pound advises the poet before she published her first volume of poetry. H e of­ fers to read the poems “and cross out th e dead nonfunctioning words.” H e recommends her work to an anthologist; comments on poets from Ovid to Masefield; advises her to study Greek—“ridiculous to talk about study of technique of poetry sans Greek”—and puts her in touch w ith other poets in New York. The letters are w ritten from Rapallo in Pound’s best conversational style. The correspondence is un­ published and was acquired from Dr. Magaret, who is now professor of English at Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York. Since the thir- 145 ties she has published several volumes of poetry and a number of biographies. • King’s College library, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, has acquired the entire collec­ tion of tapes, manuscripts, books, and letters of the late George Korson the eminent folklorist. Mr. Korson is known as a pioneer in the col­ lecting of industrial folk music. His books Min­ strels of the Mine Patch and Coal Dust on the Fiddle and others are now being reprinted. Mrs. Rae Korson, his widow, who has recently retired as Head of the Archive of Folk Song in the Library of Congress is assisting in the or­ ganization and classification of the material. Inquiries should be addressed to Mary Barrett, Librarian, King’s College Library, Wilkes-Bar­ re, Pennsylvania 18702 or to Mrs. Rae Korson in care of the Library. • Two atlases recently received at the F ol­ ger Shakespeare Library (Washington, D .C .), the Geographia (Strassburg, 1513) of Claudius Ptolemaeus, and the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the Theatre of the Whole World ( London, 1601) of Abraham Ortelius, were the library’s most significant purchases of 1969. The 1513 Ptolemy may be considered to be the first modern atlas, and the most important of the early printed editions. It adds twenty new maps to the earlier corpus of twenty-seven maps. Prepared by the German cartographer Waldsemüller and others, it contains the fa­ mous “Admiral’s Map.” This world map takes into account the discoveries in the New World and shows an outline of the South American coast, as well as the two islands touched by Columbus, Isabella (C uba), and Spagnuola ( H aiti). Southeast of Greenland appears a faint territorial outline which suggests the Cabot dis­ coveries in North America. The Theatrum is the only edition of the fa­ mous series of atlases by tire renowned Flemish cartographer Ortelius, with an English transla­ tion of the text. In fact, it is the first world atlas to be published in English. The 196 maps re­ tain the nomenclature of the continental edi­ tions. Maps in both atlases were colored by con­ temporary hands. The Ptolemy also contains a map of Lorraine that was an experimental at­ tem pt at printing maps in color. A comparison of the two atlases shows the great advance made in cartography during the century of the great explorations. • The library of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, has recently acquired one of the finest collections of jazz materials in the Midwest. The collection includes more than 500—78rpm recordings, 100 radio transcription shows, 275—10" LP discs, and 450—12" LP discs. Also included are several limited edition sets, almost fifty historical reissue LP’s and oth­ er special sets. In addition, some 350 books and special issues of periodicals were acquired as part of the collection. Among the most valuable recordings are all the Original Jazz Band of 1917 discs, early Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington selections. The more valuable and irreplaceable discs will be taped for general use. The originals will be housed in the university’s special collections area for the use of scholars. F E L L O W S H I P S / S C H O L A R S H I P S • The following schools have announced the availability of fellowships and scholarships for graduate work in library science. 1. Graduate Department of Library Science, Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois. Title II, Part B, and a Wilson Scholarship are avail­ able. For further information contact Janise G. Meyer, Assistant to the Director, Graduate De­ partment of Library Science. 2. School of Library Science, University of Michigan. Title II, Part B fellowships are available for master’s degree and Ph.D. work. Information and application forms are available from the School of Library Science, The Uni­ versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. 3. School of Library Science, University of Southern California. Master’s and Ph.D. fellowships under Title II, Part B, are avail­ able. Information and application forms can be obtained from the office of the Dean, School of Library Science, University of Southern Cali­ fornia, University Park, Los Angeles, California 90007. G R A N T S • Mount St . Mary’s College, Los Ange­ les (California), has received $10,000 from the Mayer Foundation for special education li­ brary holdings. These books are needed for the new Master of Science in Special Education— a degree resulting from the recent affiliation of tlie college with the Marianne Frostig Center of Educational Therapy. Mrs. Lawrence O. Mackel, the former Suzanne Mayer and daugh­ ter of film magnate Louis B. Mayer, is an alum­ na and regent of Mount St. Mary’s. Mount St. Mary’s is proposing a master’s degree that takes two years, double the usual program time. • A limited number of awards for partial support of travel to the FID Conference and International Congress on Documentation in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will be awarded by the U.S. National Committee for the In­ ternational F ederation for Documenta­ tion. Requests for such support should be ad­ dressed to the USNCFID before 1 June 1970. 146 BOOKS FOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES Selected Titles on M icrofiche Microcαrd Editions is pleased to announce an extended project whereby a large percentage of the books cited in Books for College Libraries will be made available on microfiche. Books for College Libraries, published by the American Library Association in 1967, cites approximately 53,400 titles, and, as stated in the preface, is essentially "a list of monographs designed to support a college teaching program that depends heavily upon the library, and to supply the necessary materials for term papers and suggested and independent outside reading." No standing or advance orders required: Unlike other m ulti-title projects, stand­ ing orders, or advance orders, are neither required nor are they being solicited. Groups of titles will be offered at intervals as they become available— a library can then either buy or not buy each group depending on its needs and budget. Each group w ill consist of selected titles from a chapter in Books fo r College Libraries, therefore groups will be subject oriented rather than consisting of miscellaneous titles. Lists of titles supplied in advance: Libraries will not be asked to purchase titles to be selected at some future time; a list of all the titles in a given group will be available at the time orders are solicited. Titles actually available: Orders w ill not be solicited to any group until the titles have been film ed and are available for delivery. First three groups now ready BCL-I (History— Great Britain)..................................................................................$260.00 BCL-2 (American Literature).....................................................................................$375.00 BCL-3 (English Literature).........................................................................................$575.00 M I C R O C A R D E D I T I O N S 901 TWENTY-SIXTH STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C. 20037, 202/333-6393 IN D U S T R IA L PRODUCTS D I V I S I O N , THE N A T IO N A L C ASH REGISTER C O M P A N Y 147 Requests should be accompanied by copies of papers submitted to the Congress, together with any supplementary information of rele­ vance to the Committee. Requests for travel support, and other infor­ mation on the FID meetings should be ad­ dressed to: U.S. National Committee for FID, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitu­ tion Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20418. • A $90,135 grant has been awarded to the Ohio College L ibrary Center, Columbus, Ohio, for tlie development of a computerized regional shared-cataloging system. Located in Ohio State’s Research Center at 1314 Kinnear Road, Columbus, the Ohio Col­ lege Library Center on-line shared cataloging system will be based on a central computerized catalog that will also form the data base of four other subsystems. Shared cataloging will speed the cataloging process and reduce cataloging costs in member libraries by taking advantage of cataloging performed elsewhere and thereby eliminating duplicate effort, and by employ­ ment of labor-saving machines. The grant, which has been awarded by the U.S. Office of Education in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, will enable professors and students to locate library ma­ terials throughout the fifty-one-member group of Ohio colleges and universities which hold a total of about 12,000,000 volumes. Kilgour said that the initial project for the production of catalog cards for libraries has progressed to the card development stage and will continue with the new grant. • The library at the University of Cali­ fornia, San D iego, has received a grant of $11,258 from the U.S. Office of Education to conduct an Institute on Training for Service in Undergraduate Libraries under Title II-B of the Higher Education Act. The institute will be held for one week, August 17 through August 21, 1970, at UCSD, located thirteen miles north of downtown San Diego. Thirty partici­ pants will be chosen from librarians involved in either planning or operation of undergradu­ ate libraries in institutions which also have sig­ nificant graduate programs. The basic objec­ tives of the institute are to increase the com­ petency of librarians serving undergraduate li­ braries by providing specialized training, to stimulate fresh approaches to library service for undergraduates, and to encourage further de­ velopment of a specialty by presenting it as a fertile field for study and by fostering a work­ ing relationship between its practitioners. Melvin Voigt, University Librarian at UCSD, will direct the institute with John R. Haak, Undergraduate Librarian at UCSD, as assistant director. Instructors for the institute will also include: Irene Braden Hoadley, Librarian for General Administration and Research, Ohio State University Library; Patricia Knapp, Asso­ ciate Professor, Department of Library Science, Wayne State University; Warren Kuhn, Direc­ tor of the Library, Iowa State University; and Billy R. Wilkinson, Doctoral Candidate, School of Library Service, Columbia University. Six papers will be presented, one by each of the institute staff members. In addition, there will be five less-formal presentations on subsidiary topics by the members of the staff. A brochure describing the institute in more detail is avail­ able from Melvin J. Voigt, University Librari­ an, University of California, San Diego, P.O. Box 109, La Jolla, California 92037. • Grants totaling over $2.1 million have been given the University of St . T homas, Houston, Texas, to build a new library. Princi­ pal donors were the Brown Foundation, $500,- 000; Houston Endowment, $500,000; M. D. Anderson Foundation, $250,000; Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Lyons, $50,000; Strake Foundation, $50,000; Scanlan Foundation, $25,000; and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pace Doherty, Jr., $25,000. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare granted UST $688,000 for the project, a major step in the expansion and development of the university. The library will be the largest building on the campus of UST and will be entirely debt free. I t will be constructed on the south end of the academic mall and will encompass an esti­ mated 50,000 sq. ft. and accommodate 800 students at a time. It will house approximately 100,000 volumes. Father William Sheehan, CSB, is librarian. M E E T I N G S May 21-22: “Transferring School Building Systems Experience” will be the subject of a special national conference to be held at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., on May 21-22, it was announced today by Benjamin H. Evans, AIA, Executive Secretary of the Building Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences. Sponsored by the Building Research Institute and supported by a grant of $10,500 from the Educational Facili­ ties Laboratories, Inc., of New York City, the conference will provide a forum for factual pre­ sentations by nationally known individuals with direct experience in school building systems and will be open to the public, as well as to facility planners, architects, educators, engi­ neers, manufacturers, developers, and others interested in systems building. Attendance will be limited to 400. The conference will focus on developmental programs supported by the E d ­ ucational Facilities Laboratories, a nonprofit corporation established by the Ford Founda- 149 tion to help schools and colleges with their physical facility problems; for example, School Construction Systems Development (SCSD), University Residential Building System (URBS), Study of Educational Facilities (S E F ), and other programs. Knowledge derived from ef­ forts to systematize educational facilities will have application to other facilities, such as hospital, government, and commercial facilities. Additional information is available from the Building Research Institute, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20418. June 1-12: The American University Depart­ ment of History presents its twenty-fourth in­ stitute: Introduction to Modern Archives Ad­ ministration in cooperation with the National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, The Library of Congress and The Maryland Hall of Records. To enroll or to request further information, write Department of History—Summer Archives Institute, The American University, Washington, D.C. 20016. June 22-July 3: The School of Librarian- ship at Ealing Technical College, London, England, is offering a summer school for li­ brarians from the United States and Canada. The course will cover the “Scene in British Li- brarianship.” There will be lectures and sem­ inars in the mornings followed by visits to se­ lected libraries in the afternoons. Some full- day visits to Oxford and Cambridge to see the university libraries and particular college li­ braries will be arranged, and the library of the British Museum will be seen. The course fee will be $100.00. Further information and application forms can be secured from the of­ fice of L. C. Guy, F.L.A., Course Secretary, School of Librarianship, Ealing Technical Col­ lege, Ealing, London, W.5, England. June 22-July 31: A six-week institute on the “Development and Administration of Slav­ ic and East European Library Resources” will be held at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science from June 22 to July 31, 1970. The institute, which is funded by the U.S. Office of Education, is the first opportunity for library training in this vital and growing area. Additional information as well as application forms for admission and fellowship support may be obtained from Lau­ rence H. Miller, Director, Slavic Library In­ stitute, 225 Library, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801. June 26-27: The Equivalencies and Reci­ procity Committee of the Library Education Division, American Library Association, in co­ operation with Pratt Institute and Wayne State University, will present a preconference insti­ tute on “International Library Manpower: E d­ ucation and Placement in North America,” at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, on June 26 and 27, 1970, immediately preceding the 1970 Annual Conference of the American Library Association. The institute will discuss problems inherent in the evaluation of profes­ sional qualifications of persons trained in other countries who apply for positions in North American libraries and the evaluation of the academic qualifications of foreign students ap­ plying for admission to North American library schools. Participants will be invited from li­ brary education programs and large and medi­ um-sized public and academic libraries. Other interested individuals are also welcome to par­ ticipate if facilities permit. Anyone wishing ad­ ditional information may contact Dr. Nasser Sharify, Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 11205. June 28-July 1: Annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Wash­ ington, D.C. June 28-July 4: American Library Associa­ tion Annual Conference to be held in Detroit, Michigan. July 19-31: The School of Library and In­ formation Services, University of Maryland, is planning the fourth annual Library Adminis­ trators Development Program to be held July 19 to July 31, 1970. Dr. John Rizzo, Associate Professor of Management, Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. As in the past three summers, participants will include senior administrative personnel of large library systems—public, research, academic, and school —from the United States and Canada. The faculty is made up of well-known scholars, educators, management consultants, and lec­ turers drawn from universities, government, and consulting fields. Seminar sessions will con­ centrate on the principal administrative issues which senior managers encounter. Leadership, motivation, communication, personnel policy, decision-making, problem solving, financial planning and control, performance appraisal, the impact of technology, and the planning of change are among the issues considered in lec­ ture, case analysis, group discussion, and semi­ nar. The two-week resident program will again be held at the University of Maryland’s Don­ aldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland, a serene twenty-acre estate overlooking the Susquehanna River and offering a variety of recreational facilities and an informal atmos­ phere conducive to study, reflection, and dis­ cussion. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to the Library Administrators Development Program, School 150 Announcing the publication of the first two volumes of a work that will vastly influence the study of history and the understanding of science Dictionary of Scientific Biography Charles C. Gillispie, Editor in Chief Edited under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies with the support of the National Science Foundation Until now, there has been no adequately comprehensive reference work to which his­ torians, scientists, students, and interested laymen cotdd turn for authoritative infor­ mation on the entire history of science. The D ictionary of Scientific Biography has been planned to fill that need. It will bring together for the first time the accumulated knowledge of an international body of his­ torians of science and general scholars. The entire work is expected to comprise thirteen volumes. More than 4,500 subjects— natural scientists and mathematicians of all periods and all regions— will he covered in articles of vary­ ing lengths. Each article will contain precise and essential information, often based on original research and always composed from a direct knowledge of original sources. Not a mere tabulation of titles, dates, discover­ ies, and laws, the articles, each written by an eminent modern specialist, will convey in essay form the subject’s scientific per­ sonality and describe his work in relation to that of his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors. A valuable selective bibli­ ography follows each article. The final vol­ ume, an extensive index, will permit the reader to trace given concepts, periods, or topics throughout the entire work. Destined to become an invaluable reference work for the whole world of learning, the D ictionary of Scientific Biography will also stimulate readers to think through sci­ entific problems as they developed in the history of science, and help them under­ stand them in relation to the state of scien­ tific knowledge, both past and present. Modeled on the celebrated Dictionary of American Biography and the Dictionary of National Biography, the D ictionary of Scientific Biography will prove indispens­ able to scholars, students, researchers, sci­ entists and educators, and to all public, school, and college libraries. Volumes I and I I available now. $35.00 per volume. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 151 Concept … saves money and space without sacrificing research effectiveness As viewed by Evan Farber, author of Classified List of Periodicals for the College Library (Faxon, 1957 & 1970) and a member of the Institute’s Editorial Advisory Board, “Because The Congressional Record and its pre­ decessors contain so much information about the activities of Congress, including the votes and near-verbatim reporting of debates, it is an essen­ tial resource for all courses relating to American government and should, therefore, be available in every academic library. On the other hand, its very comprehensiveness not only creates a space problem for most libraries, but also results in dis­ proportionately high acquisitions costs for new libraries attempting to acquire complete backfile runs. Microfilm offers a partial solution in that it is less expensive initially and saves valuable shelf space. One of the major obstacles to its acceptance how­ ever, has been the fact that students and other researchers find that searching for references in microform indexes is inconvenient, time consum­ ing, and ultimately discouraging to effective research. “Having the Proceedings of Congress available then, in the Dual-Media Edition, with the proceed­ ings and appendices on microfilm and the Ses­ sional Indexes and Histories of Bills and Resolu­ tions in printed form (the Record is almost use­ less without its Indexes), means that libraries can now offer the wealth of this resource plus the convenience of the Indexes in book format, yet use a minimum of space and money.” THE UNITED STATES HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS INSTITUTE … has been founded in Washington, D.C. to repub­ lish complete collections of basic out-of-print histori­ cal reference materials in “Dual-Media Editions.’’ Initially, special emphasis will be placed on those basic serials which have been recommended for new or expanding academic libraries which are building collections in the fields of U.S. History and Govern­ ment. These “Dual-Media Editions” will be reproduced in optimum combinations of microfilm and book for­ mats to provide maximum gains in serials reference capacity at minimum cost. EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD This distinguished and representative Editorial Ad­ visory Board has been organized to assist the Institute in its planning and program evaluation activities. (D-Wash.); Chmn. Sen. Com­ Sen. Warren Magnuson merce Com m .; Chmn. Sub- comm. Labor-HEW Appropriations Sen. Mark Hatfield (R. Ore.); Former Dean,Willamette üniv. (R-Iowa); Member, J t. Comm, Rep. Fred Schwengel on th e Libr. of Cong.; Comm, on House Administration Libn., Earlham Col.; 1968-69 Evan Ira Farber Dir., Col. Libr. Sec., ACRL Dir. Dept. o f Amer. Studies Dr. Wm. Goetzmann Univ. of Texas; Pulitzer Prize, History {1967) Roger Smith Exec. E ditorPublishers' Weekly, New York, N.Y. Dual-media sets for each Congress and Session are also available, as are single microfilm reels and index volumes. Send for our detailed catalog listing individual units. All items are sold “on approval” and may be returned for credit within sixty days after delivery. USE THIS CONVENIENT PRICE SCHEDULE AS YOUR ORDER FORM FOR DUAL-MEDIA SETS. A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences 1962-68 In the broad field of the social sciences no other work of the size and scope of the London Bibliography exists. The present supplement to the series begun in 1931, records the 1962-68 acquisitions of the British Library of Political and Economic Science of the London School of Economics. It occupies a greater number of volumes than any preceding supplement and contains well over 100,000 entries arranged under some 38,000 headings and sub-headings. By applying methods developed by the publishers in connection with the British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books and its supplements, and the National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints the Bibliography now includes work published little more than a year ago. This supplement to the Bibliography is issued case bound to full library standards at a lower per volume price than the preceding paper-bound supplement. Orders should be placed with booksellers or may be sent direct to the publishers, from whom a prospectus is available A L on don B ib lio g r a p h y I1 × 8jins: 27.9 × 2 i. 7cms o f th e S ocial S cien ces 5400 pages Sixth Supplement 1962-68 Printed on permanent/ 7 volumes durable paper. mansell Case bound in buckram to library standards. £98: US$235 the set 3 Bloomsbury Place Publication date: London W C I 20 April 1970 154 of Library and Information Services, Univer­ sity of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742. July 27-Aug. 21: The University of Den­ ver Department of History and the Graduate School for Librarianship in cooperation with the State Archives of Colorado will conduct its Ninth Annual Institute for Archival Studies and Related Fields, July 27-August 21, 1970, under the direction of Dolores C. Renze, State Archivist of Colorado and adjunct professor, Department of History, University of Denver. Designed for those employed in archival, li­ brary, or related professions and also for ad­ vanced students of history or related subjects. Presents theory, principles, and methodology of archives administration, resources, and re­ lated manuscript source materials, with lectures and discussions by specialists in the profession. Field trips to archival agencies, departments or institutions nearby, and historical places in the area. For those especially interested in manuscript administration, arrangement, and methodology, specific assignments will be made. Credit: up to five quarter-hours, with University Institute Certificate upon comple­ tion. I t is also possible to coordinate a com­ bined certificate with the M.A. program for American Studies in the Department of His­ tory or cognate with the M.A. or M.S. program in the Graduate School for Librarianship in ac­ cordance with conditions established by these departmental graduate programs. Graduate credit for institute work transferable to another university will require approval of the Dean of Admissions; for those who do not desire credit but certificate only, the institute will be designated as “continuing education.” Tuition: $190; living accommodations available in the Centennial Conference Center at additional cost. Apply to Prof. D. C. Renze, Institute of Archival Studies, 1530 Sherman Street, Den­ ver, Colorado 80203. Aug. 4-14: The School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, will sponsor an Institute on the History of Li­ brary Education. It is to be conducted by Dr. Paul A. Winckler, visiting professor of library science. Enrollment will be limited to thirty students. Complete details can be secured from Miss Shelagh Keene, Administrative As­ sistant, School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sept. 14-24: The 1970 Conference and Congress of the International Federation for Documentation (F ID ) will take place in Bue­ nos Aires, Argentina, September 14-24, 1970. Participation in the Congress is open to all those who are interested in the problems of documentation and scientific information. The general theme of the Congress is: “Documen­ tation from the Viewpoint of Users.” The Con­ gress will consist of invited lectures and the presentation of contributed papers in the fol­ lowing areas: A. Communicating information to users 1. improving efficiency 2. user studies 3. building user profiles B. Training of users C. Tools for users 1. conventional tools 2. non-conventional tools Meetings of the FID General Assembly and of FID Study Committees will take place be­ fore the Congress, and will constitute the 35th Conference of FID. A regional conference on problems in information of particular interest to Latin American countries, and technical visits and tours are also included in the pro­ gram. The preliminary schedule of events is as follows: Sept. 14-18—Meetings of the FID General Assembly, the FID Council, FID Study Committees and the FID Regional Commission on Latin America Sept. 19-20—Technical and Sightseeing Ex­ cursions Sept. 21-24—International Congress (invited and contributed papers), Re­ gional Conference Additional information and preliminary reg­ istration forms are available from: U.S. Na­ tional Committee for FID, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Wash­ ington, D.C, 20418. Oct. 11-15: 33rd annual meeting of ASIS will be held at the Sheraton Hotel; Philadel­ phia, Pennsylvania. The Convention Chairman for the 1970 meeting is Mr. Kenneth H. Zabriskie, Jr., Biosciences Information Ser­ vices of Biological Abstracts, 2100 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Oct. 21-24: The 1970 annual conference of the Pennsylvania Library Association, Sheraton Hotel, Philadelphia, will be a unique conven­ tion. Headlined “A New School for Librari­ ans,” the conference will be under the direc­ tion of a management firm and will seek to re­ orient librarians, trustees, and interested indi­ viduals to the library technology of the 1970s. Under the premise that many librarians have been away from the classroom for several years, the college within a conference is meant to update the individual’s professionalism, pro­ vide insight into the new directions of libraries, 155 and, finally, to develop through group discus­ sions a set of recommendations for library de­ velopment in the seventies. More information is available from the Pennsylvania Library As­ sociation, 200 South Craig Street, Room 506, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15113. OCT. 30: The Department of History of No­ tre Dame University, the Society of American Archivists, and the National Archives and Rec­ ords Service (Region 5) are cooperating in the presentation of a symposium on using the re­ sources of the Presidential Libraries. It will be held Friday, October 30, 1970, in the Continu­ ing Education Center on the Notre Dame cam­ pus. An informal gathering of participants and those arriving the afternoon of October 29 is also being planned. The program will consist of an address by Dr. Herbert Angel, Deputy Archivist of the United States, on the development of the sys­ tem of Presidential Libraries, its current status, and plans for the future. Representatives from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and the Herbert Hoover Library will present papers on the holdings and operation of their institutions and a panel of scholars who have conducted research projects at a Presidential Library will discuss their experiences. Time will be avail­ able for general discussion. Registration is $6.00 and includes coffee breaks and lunch. Rooms are available at the Morris Inn on campus at $12.00 single and $17.00 double. Motel accommodations are within a two-mile radius and rates vary from $11.00 single to $19.00 double. A printed pro­ gram is to be prepared in September 1970 and will be mailed to members of the Society of American Archivists, Society of Ohio Archivists, Michigan Archivists Association, and depart­ ments of history at colleges and universities in the states comprising Region 5 of NARS (Illi­ nois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Wisconsin). Others desiring to receive a program should send their request to the following address: Regional Archives Branch, Federal Records Center, 7201 South Leamington Avenue, Chi­ cago, Illinois 60638. Jan. 6 12, 1971: Following on the XXVIIth International Congress of Orientalists Library Panel at Ann Arbor in 1967, Library Seminars will be held during the 28th International Con­ gress of Orientalists, Canberra, 6-12 January, 1971. These may be regarded as the first ma­ jor activities of the International Association of Orientalist Librarians set up at the Ann Arbor meetings. 156 SERVICE UNSURPASSED The v e ry best se ria l s u b s c rip tio n s e rv ­ ice a v a ila b le — d e c e n tra liz e d fo r m ore pe rsona l a tte n tio n . A s u p e rio r lis tin g o f bo th d o m e s tic and fo re ig n title s . E B S C O S U B S C R I P T I O N S E R V I C E S EBSCO Building 415 Douglas Plaza Bldg. 826 S. Northwest Highway Dallas, Texas 75225 Barrington, Illinois 60010 (214) 369-7591 / 369 7592 (312) 381-2190/381-2191 EBSCO Building Red Bank, New Jersey 07701 512 Nicollet Building (201) 741-4300Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 (612) 333-5081 P. 0. Box 92901 Los Angeles, California 90009 540 Granite Street (213) 772-2381Braintree, Massachusetts 02184 (617) 843-2383 I 843-2384 Room 245 Continental Terrace Building 681 Market Street 2785 North Speer Boulveard San Francisco, California 94105 Denver, Colorado 80211 (415)319-3500 (303) 433-3235 1230 First Avenue North 5265 Port Royal Rd. Birmingham, Alabama 35203 Springfield. Va. 22151 (205) 323-6351 (703) 321-7516/321-9630 157 In tr o d u c in g A N e w SC I / TEC H QUARTERLY IN D E X to U.S. Government translations Each year the U.S. Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) translates more than 2,800 foreign documents (over 130,000 pages) of importance to the scientific community. Material is drawn from research in 125 countries pub­ lished in 775 scientific and technical journals. Of these 284 are from Eastern Europe, 181 from Russia, 71 from China, and 339 from Africa, Latin Amer­ ica, the Middle East, etc. In addition, there are translations of books, news­ paper articles, and research reports. Now, for the first time, there is a guide and index to these documents which provides complete and timely access to this invaluable collection. Each issue of the Seil Tech Quarterly Index includes: Document listings with ► complete contents ► of each document name of country of origin ► bibliographic information ► length of article ► microfilm and microfiche accession numbers Detailed subject index arranged under 56 broad subject heads. Country of origin and document accession number are included in the listing. The new Seil Tech Quarterly Index will begin with the issue of January 1970. The price is $95.00 per year. Microfilm of all translated documents is available on a quarterly basis at $1600 per year (the Index is included). For microfiche, please inquire. 158 M IS C E L L A N Y • The University of Hawaii dedicated its graduate research library building which was completed in 1968 in conjunction with the in­ auguration of the new university president, Harlan Cleveland, former ambassador to NATO. The dedication took place at 3:00 p .m . on March 16, beginning a week of festivities highlighted by the inaugural ceremony. The library has been named the Thomas Hale Hamilton Library in honor of the man who was president of the university during its planning and construction. Dr. Hamilton spoke at the dedication, as well as Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce. Mrs. Luce has recently made a signifi­ cant gift of over 1,800 volumes to the library. Included in the gift are valuable first editions such as James Joyce’s Ulysses, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and a very rare edition of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. A display of some of these ti­ tles was made in the lobby of the library. The Thomas Hale Hamilton Library was de­ signed by Jones & Emmons of Los Angeles, California, in association with Hogan & Chap­ man of Honolulu. The building provides ap­ proximately 106,000 square feet of space over four floors. This includes almost 1,000 individu­ al carrel reader stations and open-stack book­ shelves for a maximum of 800,000 volumes. The total cost was $3,451,000, $1,088,000 of which was granted under Title II of the Li­ brary Development Act. The building program was brought to frui­ tion under the leadership of Dr. Ralph R. Shaw who relinquished his duties as Dean of Library Activities at the time of the occupancy of the new building due to ill health. Present university librarian is Dr. Stanley L. West, for­ merly of the University of Florida. • An invitational symposium concerned with the flow of agricultural information to land- grant researchers, teachers and U.S. Depart­ ment of Agriculture field personnel was held in Washington, D.C., February 10-12, 1970. The 120 registrants included deans of colleges of ag­ riculture, directors of state agricultural experi­ ment stations, librarians from the land-grant institutions and the National Agricultural Li­ brary. The symposium was conducted by the Interuniversity Communications Council (EDUCOM) on a continuing grant from the National Agricultural Library and was called to provide a forum for the discussion and con­ sideration of the concepts and recommenda­ tions in the Agricultural Sciences Information Network Development Plan prepared by EDUCOM. The report served as the basis for the two and one-half days’ deliberations which included presentations on the information needs of the agricultural researcher and ad­ ministrator, the current status of information networks and their potential for meeting this need, agricultural research networks which might serve as analogous models, and a de­ tailed examination and discussion of the three basic components recommended to provide the responses and coordination desired: a land- grant libraries component; an information anal­ ysis centers component; and a telecommunica­ tions component. Two direct actions came from the final Ple­ nary Session at the close of the symposium. One was a unanimously passed resolution calling for action by the Secretary of Agriculture and the President of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges to estab­ lish a task force within tire Agricultural Re­ search Policy Advisory Committee to imple­ ment the report and to help develop exten­ sions of it. A council of librarians within the NASU and L-G was also recommended. Five working sessions brought forth many recom­ mendations for immediate, long-range and spe­ cific actions. The basic concept and philosophy of the network were strongly supported. There was concern about the necessity to expand the subject scope from agriculture to a broader base such as science and technology. The sym­ posium participants noted an attitude of impa­ tience with the current state of affairs, called for immediate implementation of functions wherever possible, and expressed the need for more forceful leadership and a stronger com­ mitment by the National Agricultural Library T H E LM M S U P E ­ R I O R * , th e first c o m p l e t e w ork - s ta tio n lib ra r y m i­ c r o film r e a d e r in ­ d u c e s p a tr o n s to e n j o y u s in g m i ­ c r o f ilm . N o n e e d to c h a n g e r e a d in g h a b its . In th e c e n ­ te r o f th e w a ln u t F ilm /C a r r e l ( p a t ­ e n t p e n d i n g ) a f u l l p a g e o f a n e w s p a p e r a p ­ p e a r s i n f u l l s iz e . T h e r e is w r itin g sp a c e o n b o th s id e s , c o n v e n ie n t fo r r ig h t- a n d le ft-h a n d e d p e r s o n s . N o m e c h a n is m is in s ig h t. A s in g le k n o b c o n tr o ls th e s m o o th e le c tr ic film d r iv e . C o n v e n ie n t, r u g g e d , e f ­ f ic ie n t , a n d b e a u t if u l, th e n ew r ea d er c h a n g e d th e w h o le lib r a r y m ic r o film p ic ­ tu r e . S e e it at th e ALA C o n fe r e n c e in D e ­ tr o it, J u n e 2 8 -J u ly 2 , 1 9 7 0 , B o o th 1 1 2 8 . L ib r a ry M ic r o film s & M a te r ia ls C o ., 5 7 0 9 M esm e r A v e ., C u lv e r C ity, C a lifo r n ia 9 0 2 3 0 . 159 and USDA. The symposium was the first ma­ jor national meeting with such a large attend­ ance and mixture of land-grant agricultural administrators and librarians, professionals from closely related subject fields, and USDA in­ formation people. • The American Library Association receives many inquiries about “Library Technicians.” This job title is used most often to refer to per­ sons who work on a subprofessional level and who have had some college education (b u t less than a bachelor’s degree) including some for­ mal library technical courses. Some libraries use the position title “library technician” when em­ ploying persons who have completed library technician training in junior colleges; other li­ braries use job titles such as “library assistant,” “cataloging aide,” or “audiovisual assistant” for similar subprofessional or paraprofessional posi­ tions. The Library Administration Division will ap­ preciate your assistance in providing informa­ tion about such positions in your library. Job descriptions and titles, the library technician’s salary and its relation to salaries paid to your beginning professional librarians and clerical staff, as well as your qualifications for such li­ brary technician positions, are needed. All re­ lated information will be appreciated. Please send to: Mrs. Ruth R. Frame, Executive Secre­ tary, Library Administration Division, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron Street, Chi­ cago, Illinois 60611. • The 1969 George Freedley Memorial Award will be presented on Wednesday, 6 May 1970, at a cocktail reception at The Play­ ers in New York City. The award was estab­ lished by the Theatre Library Association in 1968 to honor the late founder of the associ­ ation, theatre historian, critic, author, and first curator of the Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library. Winner of the 1968 Award was Louis Sheaffer for his O’Neill, Son and Playwright (New York: Little, Brown). The presentation will be made at 6:00 p .m . in The Walter Hampden Memorial Library at The Players. For information regarding reservations write or call Miss Dorothy L. Swerdlove, The­ atre Collection, Research Library of the Per­ forming Arts, 111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10023. • The Library of Congress has announced that it will establish a Preservation Research Office, or laboratory, to undertake basic re­ search in the preservation of library materials. A grant from the Council on Library Resources will meet the expense of scientific equipment for the new laboratory, which is to be estab­ lished in the Annex of the Library of Congress. Space for the new laboratory, which will be equipped for a broad-scale research program, is now undergoing renovation. Pioneer investigations in this field were con­ ducted for many years by the late William J. Barrow, whose laboratory in Richmond, Vir­ ginia, is financed by the Council on Library Resources. Barrow’s studies, and those of other investigators, have provided significant insights into the causes of paper deterioration and some knowledge of the remedies, but there remain many problems for which there are no answers, or at best only partial solutions. The research program of the Library of Congress will be aimed primarily at solving problems related to the preservation of paper, but problems in other fields will also be investigated. Among these are problems relating to adhesives, bookbindings, microfilm, magnetic tape, and motion picture film. While the basic thrust of the program will be research, the laboratory will also assume re­ sponsibility for testing and evaluating materi­ als, equipment, and methods used in preserva­ tion. It is intended that the new program will be national in scope by providing a laboratory which will seek to develop solutions to preser­ vation problems for libraries and archives throughout the United States. It will possess a viability it could not otherwise have because of its association with the Library’s Preservation Office, a major restoration shop where the sci­ entist and the craftsman can discuss and ex­ plore preservation problems together. P U B L I C A T I O N S • The American National Standards Insti­ tute Standards Committee Z39 on Standardiza­ tion in the Field of Library Work, Documenta­ tion, and Related Publishing Practices an­ nounces the recent publication of the American National Standard for the Abbreviation of Ti­ tles of Periodicals. This standard was prepared by Subcommittee 3 of Committee Z39 under the chairmanship of James L. Wood, Librarian at Chemical Abstracts Service; the development of the standard was made possible by support received from the Council on Library Re­ sources and the National Science Foundation. The publication of this standard, a revision of the 1963 standard entitled Periodical Title A b ­ breviations, culminates a successful two-year joint American National Standards Institute- British Standards Institution effort to develop an Anglo-American standard for the abbrevia­ tion of periodical titles, and the rules contained in this standard are fully compatible with those in the British Standard 4148:1969, Recom­ mendations for the Abbreviation of Titles of Periodicals. In addition, the standard has been recommended by a special ad hoc committee of International Standards Organization Tech­ nical Committee 46 on Documentation for 160 adoption by ISO as the revision of ISO Recom­ mendation R4-1953. The recommendations of the standard are applicable to serial publications of all types and to many non-serial publications, including monographs and proceedings of meetings. They are intended to guide and assist authors, edi­ tors, librarians, and others working in various areas of information transfer activity in prepar­ ing unique, unambiguous abbreviations within a specific frame of reference for the titles of publications cited in footnotes, references, and bibliographies. To facilitate the effective use of this standard, a list of standard abbreviations for words found in serial and non-serial titles has been prepared by Z39’s National Clearing­ house for Periodical Title Word Abbreviations and is available from Chemical Abstracts at a nominal cost. Copies of the standard, desig­ nated Z39.5-1969, are available from the American National Standards Institute, 1430 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10018, at $2.75 per copy. • The Friends of Florida State University Library has just published a Catalog of the Ne­ gro Collections in the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Library and the Florida State University Library. It is available from the Friends of Florida State University Li­ brary, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, at $12.50 per copy plus postage. The Negro Collection at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical Univer­ sity had its beginning in the early 1920s. Flori­ da State University library’s emphasis in this area began in 1966 with the gift of Dr. David Sellers’ Negro Collection. In recent years both institutions have made a special effort to avoid duplication of volumes already in each other’s collection except in cases where it seemed nec­ essary to have a copy on each campus. This co­ operative effort made it possible to build a more extensive Negro Collection in Tallahassee and now it seems advisable to make the hold­ ings of these two collections better known to scholars everywhere. Reproduced in this vol­ ume are author cards from the main catalogs, for the books by and about Negroes in the Col­ lections of both universities as of July 1969. • The Franklin Institute Library, Philadel­ phia, Pennsylvania, announces publication of Serial Titles in The Franklin Institute Library, 1969, a comprehensive fisting of all periodicals maintained in the library as of December 1969. This new edition not only updates the 1963 and 1966 versions, but provides for periodicals which have ceased publication. The 1969 com­ pilation also features for the first time cross- references and changes in title. The complete title, city of publication, and exact holdings in­ formation are supplied for each periodical 161 cited. The Franklin Institute Library dates from 1824 and houses one of the major collec­ tions of literature in the physical sciences and technology in the United States. Included are many titles essential to the study of the his­ tory of science and technology. The new list will serve not only as a convenient guide to the library’s periodical holdings b ut also as a check­ list for many obscure and hard-to-find periodi­ cals. The list contains about 8,000 entries on 377 pages and may be purchased for $15.20, postage included. All orders must be prepaid and should be addressed to: The Franklin In­ stitute Library, Photoduplication Unit, 20th and The Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. • The Southeastern New York Library Re­ sources Council has published number one in their series of Studies in Interlibrary Relations. Entitled Library Service for Commuting Stu­ dents; a preliminary study of problems in four southeastern New York counties, the report focuses on the burden imposed on public li­ braries by students who attend college in one community but use the library facilities in an­ other community. The report is available from the Council, 103 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601, price $2.45. News from the Sections Note from the Editor: W ith this issue CRL News begins a new column, “News from the Sections.” This column will be set aside for items of interest to the members of the various ACRL sections and subsections. Items may be either submitted to the respective editors ap­ pointed by the section chairmen or sent direct­ ly to the editor of the News. The items will then be placed in this new column under the particular section name. I t is hoped that this new column will offer a place for the sections to place communications for their members. A R T S U B S E C T IO N Art Librarians meetings at Detroit (1970): Monday, June 29, at 2:00 p .m .: Garnett Mc­ Coy, archivist of the Archives of American Art will speak on “The Archives of American Art, Achievements and Goals.” Tuesday, June 30: half-day bus tour to Ann Arbor to visit the Collections of the Chinese National Palace Museums at the University of Michigan with a talk by Dr. Richard Edwards, Professor of Far Eastern Art. Luncheon will be followed by optional visits to the University of Michigan art and slide libraries and an oppor­ tunity to explore other libraries of the universi­ ty. Reservations are to be made in advance, payment of which includes chartered bus, luncheon and gratuities. Send check or money order to Judith A. Hoffberg, Secretary, Art Subsection, University Library, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037. Reservations are $5.75 and should be made before May 15, 1970; limited to fifty participants. Wednesday, July 1: William Treese, Head, Arts Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, will speak on “Experiences with Com­ puter-Indexing of Art Exhibit Catalogs.” This will be at 10:00 a.m . Thursday, July 2: Annual business meeting. Closed meeting, 10:00 a.m . to 12 Noon. Thursday, July 2: Dr. Jan van der Meulen, Professor of Art History, Pennsylvania State University, will speak on “Computer Applica­ tions to the History of Medieval Art.” 2:00 p .m . E D U C A T I O N A N D B E H A V I O R A L S C IE N C E S SU B S E C T IO N The Education and Behavioral Sciences Sub­ section of the Subject Specialists Section will ratify their new constitution and bylaws at their annual business meeting at the Detroit Confer­ ence. Date and time for the meeting will be Monday, June 29, at 4:30 p .m . The proposed constitution has been published in the News ( in the November 1969 issue). Speaking at the meeting will be Harvey Marron, head of the ERIC Program, U.S. Office of Education. His topic will be “Information Dissemination in E d ­ ucation: a Progress Report.” Proceedings of the 1970 Midwinter Conference, Chicago, Illinois Present were Donald Leatherman, Chair­ man; Sidney Forman, Vice-chairman, Teachers College; Mrs. Barbara Marks, Past chairman, New York University, Librarian, Education Li­ brary; and Miss Eleanor Buist, Vice-chairman, Subject Specialists Section of ACRL. Commit­ tee chairmen attending the meeting were Miss Margaret Mattem, Librarian, Education Li­ brary, University of Rochester; Mr. Earl Shaf­ fer, Acting Librarian, Teachers Curriculum Laboratory, Hunter College; Mrs. Toyo Ka- wakami, Assistant Librarian, Education Library, Ohio State University; and Mrs. Priscilla Lins- ley, Librarian, Educational Testing Service. Rex Hopson, secretary of the subsection was unable to attend, and Mrs. Linsley acted as secretary. 162