ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 159 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • The outstanding gift o f a large collection of manuscript material by the great American author John Dos Passos has recently been made to the U n i v e r s i t y o f V i r g i n i a ’ s Alderman Li­ brary. Presented by Dos Passos’ widow, the collection augments similar gifts made to the library by the author himself before his death in 1970. The manuscript collection is now one o f the most complete in existence for a single writer, covering the entire span of his writing career from his early days at Choate and Harvard to his late years on his Westmoreland County, Virginia farm. The newly acquired material in­ cludes notebooks, drafts, typescripts, drawings, and proofs for his books Prospects of a Golden Age, The Head and the Heart of Thomas Jef­ ferson, A Tour of Duty, and The Great Days. Also of significance are Dos Passos’ 1918 diaries, kept while he was on Red Cross ambu­ lance duty in Italy, and the typescript for an unpublished novel, “ Seven Times around the Walls of Jericho,” which he wrote with Robert Hillyer in 1917. Among the fifty-six printed volumes included in the gift are editions o f Dos Passos’ work in Spanish, French, German, Polish, Japanese, and other languages. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f M a r y l a n d has ac­ cepted the official vice-presidential papers of Mr. Spiro T. Agnew. The gift includes papers from Mr. Agnew’s tenure as Baltimore County executive as well as governor of Maryland. There are 600 letter–size boxes which, in addi­ tion to papers, contain tapes, photographs, in­ vitations, and other memorabilia. In accepting the gift, the university has agreed that Mr. Agnew’s papers will not be available to researchers until January 1977. The official vice-presidential papers of Mr. Agnew will be of tremendous value to future historians and researchers. For many years, the University of Maryland libraries have been gath­ ering the archives of prominent Marylanders, and Mr. Agnew’s gift to the university consti­ tutes a major contribution. • An extraordinary and hitherto unknown collection o f letters from author John Steinbeck has been presented to S t a n f o r d U n i v e r s i t y by the Associates of the Stanford Libraries. The collection consists o f the author’s letters to brothers Jack and Max Wagner, his close friends, and members o f the Hollywood film in­ dustry just before and just after W orld War II. The Steinbeck letters focus on the Hollywood world and Steinbeck’s remarkable success in adapting his writings to the screen, and range over a wide variety o f subjects touching both his private and professional life. By happy acci­ dent the correspondence tends to cluster around two periods, just before (1939–4 1 ) and just after (1945–47 ) W orld War II. By 1939, when The Grapes of Wrath appeared, he had becom e recognized as a major American author, the quintessential Californian, and was at the height of his creative powers. In the correspon­ dence o f the latter period he becomes, very self-consciously and even assertively, the New Yorker, and struggles to broaden and build on his reputation as a novelist, stage and film writ­ er, and social critic. Steinbeck attended Stanford in the thirties but did not graduate. • A m e r i c a n C h r i s t i a n C o l l e g e , located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has recently acquired a major college library. The like-new library consists o f 38,000 hard­ bound volumes, 20,000 bound periodicals, ap­ proximately 800 reels o f microfilm o f major city newspapers, and one microfilm reader. The new-copy price of the volumes is esti­ mated to have been around $600,000. They have been acquired from the now defunct Col­ lege o f Emporia in Kansas, which closed its doors amidst financial difficulties in January, af­ ter ninety-two years o f continuous operation. Purchase price of the material is reported to be $60,000. American Christian has a present library of 12,000 volumes, and needed more depth in its ten established major study areas. The acquisi­ tion will boost its library to the level o f many larger and older colleges in Oklahoma, with ap­ proximately 50,000 books. The newly acquired books are in the areas of business administration, psychology and counseling, education, English and communi­ cations, history, political science, biblical stud­ ies, Christian education, and music— all current majors at ACC. Also included were volumes sufficient to support majors in biology, chem­ istry, mathematics, social welfare, and sociol- S LIP–ON BOOK JACKETS BO OF O CLE K AR PLA s P ST A IC am ples pa L l e ® n terp rises one 4646 gravois do lla r st. louis, mo. 63116 (refun dable) (314) 481-2779 160 ogy, plus books in five preprofessional subjects o f dentistry, law, medicine, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine. AC C is considering add­ ing some of these additional majors in the near future and may also add the preprofessional programs to its liberal arts curriculum. G R A N T S • New York Metropolitan Reference and Re­ search Library Agency, Inc. (M E T R O ) has granted an award o f $1,000 to Teachers Col­ lege of C o l u m b i a U n i v e r s i t y to facilitate a program o f cooperative use of an on-line com ­ puter terminal providing access through the Lockheed/D ialog system to ERIC and other machine-readable files dealing with education, psychology, and related fields. The grant is to be used for the benefit o f the M ETRO member libraries and will fund, on a prorated basis, capital costs and equipment rental charges incurred by the Teachers C ol­ lege Library in support o f the cooperative pro­ gram. Teachers College will furnish overhead costs, and the staff expects to aid research workers is using the terminal in the most ex­ peditious and economical manner. Institutions or individual users will be required to pay for terminal time and printout bibliographies fol­ lowing procedural details which will be estab­ lished in the near future. • The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant o f $117,000 to the Graduate Library School o f I n d i a n a U n i v e r s i t y to con­ duct a year’s study o f the present critical situa­ tion facing publishers and libraries in the pro­ duction and use of scholarly and research jour­ nals. Growing economic pressures upon both pub­ lishers o f scholarly and research journals and research libraries which acquire and make them available have intensified in recent years, plac­ ing this entire communication system in jeop­ ardy. The study team includes Dean Bernard Fry o f the Graduate Library School as principal in­ vestigator, with Dean W . Carl Jackson o f the University Libraries as associate investigator of the research project. An Advisory Committee to the project study team includes national rep­ resentatives from all major components o f the communications system including concerned learned associations, university presses, profes­ sional society publishers, commercial publish­ ers, large academic and public libraries, the Center for Research Libraries, and the Federal Library Committee. Under a subcontract Beck­ er and Hayes, Inc. is assisting the study team in gathering and analyzing data on the econom­ ics o f journals published by commercial pub­ lishers. The focus of the proposed study will be on the “ Economics and Interaction o f the Publish­ er–Library Relationship in the Production and Use o f Scholarly Journals.” Recent trends in large-scale library cooperation, specifically the lending o f journals as a means o f reducing pres­ sures on library budgets, could have quite seri­ ous side effects on the unstable economic mech­ anism which has allowed the publishers of limited circulation scholarly and research jour­ nals to maintain a narrow margin o f economic viability. Although journal publishers are beginning to experiment with new approaches and alterna­ tives, the traditional journal remains the most widely used tool offered by the present system for the storage and communication of scholarly and research information. Whether or not such journals are obsolescent, it is important that they survive until satisfactory replacements are available. On the basis o f data gathered from all sec­ tors o f the publishing and library communities, a primary study objective is to propose joint ac­ tions aimed at achieving cooperative and rea­ sonable results agreeable to all involved com ­ munities. In addition to identification of both practical and legal problems, the study team is also charged to recommend changes o f an in­ stitutional, organizational, and philosophic na­ ture that must be brought about in order to create the kind o f environment necessary for a direct attack on the broad systems–planning problems that lie at the heart o f the matter. M E E T I N G S J u l y 2 8 - A u g . 9: A d m i n i s t r a t o r s . The Col­ lege o f Library and Information Services, University o f Maryland, is planning the eighth annual Library Administrators Development Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of manage­ ment at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. Participants will include senior administrative personnel o f large library systems—public, research, academic, special, governmental, and school— from the United States and Canada. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Administrators Development Program, College o f Library and Information Services, University o f Maryland, College Park, M D 2 0 7 4 2 . See the January N ews for further infor­ mation. A u g u s t 5–6: M e d i a . “ Differentiating the Me­ dia: A Focus on Library Selection and Use of Communication Content” will b e the topic of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference o f the University o f Chicago Graduate Library School. The aim o f the conference is to go beyond the 161 current pro and con arguments about the “ new media” and to stress, instead, the characteris­ tics o f each medium which influence its effec­ tiveness as a carrier of different kinds of com ­ munication to serve different kinds of needs for different kinds o f audiences. The conference will be held at the Center for Continuing Education on the University o f Chi­ cago campus. For further details about registra­ tion, housing, etc., write to either o f the con­ ference directors, Lester Asheim or Sara I. Fen­ wick, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. See the April News for more informa­ tion. S e p t e m b e r 12-15: O r a l H i s t o r y C o l l o ­ q u i u m . The Oral History Association is holding its ninth National Colloquium at Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Lake Lodge, Jackson, W yoming. The workshop will begin at midafternoon on Thursday, September 12, and continue through a noon luncheon on Friday. The colloquium will begin at Friday noon, September 13, and continue through a noon luncheon on Sunday. One may register for either the workshop or colloquium or both. Registrations for the workshop and/or col­ loquium must be submitted by August 15, 1974. Forms can be obtained by writing George Ellsworth, Editor, W estern Historical Quarterly, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84321. Se p t e m b e r 29—O ctober 2: P u b l i c R e l a ­ T i o n s — A L i b r a r y T o o l will be the theme of the Pennsylvania Library Association Confer­ ence to be held at Host Farm Resort, Lancas­ ter, Pennsylvania. Information may be request­ ed from Stephen D. W ood, Lancaster County Library, 125 N. Duke St., Lancaster, PA 17602. O c t o b e r 15: A N o n p r i n t M e d i a I n s t i t u t e will be held in Galveston, Texas on the South­ western Library Association’s annual conference registration day. The one day institute, spon­ sored by SW LA, will feature morning speakers including Pearce Grove discussing progress in resolving differences among three cataloging standards for nonprint media, and Vivian Schrader, head o f the AV section of Library of Congress, reporting on the progress of L C ’s nonprint cataloging standards. Afternoon in­ formal discussion forums will focus on tech­ nical service handling o f art prints, microforms, films, kits, phonorecords, and audiotape. The Nonprint Media Institute is open to members and nonmembers o f SW LA, but is limited to 150 registrants. Registration fee is $20.00. For registration, hotel reservations, and transportation information, write: Ann Adams, Head Cataloger, Houston Public Library, 500 McKinney, Houston, T X 77002. O c t o b e r 18-19: I n t e r n a t i o n a l S t a n d a r d s f o r C a t a l o g i n g : An Institute on ISBD, ISSN, NSDP, and Chapter 6, AACR. The seventh an­ nual institute of the Library Institutes Planning Committee will be held at Rickey’s Hyatt House Hotel, Palo Alto, California. Paul W . Winkler, principal descriptive cata­ loger, Library of Congress, will speak on the application of the International Standard Bib­ liographic Description to monographs and on related topics. The establishment of biblio­ graphic control of serials through International Standard Serial Numbers, Chapter 6 of the An­ glo-American Cataloging Rules, and the Na­ tional Serials Data Program will be presented by a knowledgeable serials librarian (to be an­ nounced later). The program is designed to be of particular interest to technical service li­ brarians, serials librarians, bibliographers, and administrators. Registration for the two-day meeting is lim­ ited; the fee is $20.00 and includes two lunch­ eons. Further information, including a list of hotel accommodations, will be mailed to appli­ cants. Registrants o f the 1972 and 1973 institutes will automatically receive registration forms. Others may obtain forms by writing Joseph E. Ryus, 2858 Oxford Ave., Richmond, CA 94806, or by telephoning him during weekday hours at the University o f California, Berkeley: (4 1 5 ) 642-4144. All registration forms will be mailed early in September. O c t o b e r 22: The C o n n e c t i c u t L i b r a r y A s ­ s o c i a t i o n , College and University Section will hold its meeting October 22, 1974 at the Uni­ versity of Connecticut in Storrs. O c t o b e r 23-25: The I l l i n o i s L i b r a r y A s­ s o c i a t i o n C o n f e r e n c e will be held in Spring­ field at the new Ramada Inn Forum XXX. The three days of sessions will explore “ The Com- pleat Library— Real or Imagined?” More than 1,200 librarians are expected to attend. All conferees will attend four general sessions for presentation of four different topics con­ cerned with “ The Compleat Library.” After the general presentation, the conferees will break into small groups to discuss the topics. Group reports o f the discussions will be pub­ lished as part o f the proceedings of the confer­ ence. The topics o f the discussions, not necessarily in this order, will be: sensitivity of the needs o f the public; personnel confidence and compe­ tence; library resources, significant and compre­ hensive; and cooperation. Meal meetings are the opening luncheon on 162 Wednesday, section luncheons on Friday, and further information contact: Sylvia E. Dawson, Local Arrangements Committee, Charles Pinck­ ney Jones Memorial Library, Inc., 406 West Riverside St., Covington, V A 24426. N o v e m b e r 16-23: N a t i o n a l a n d I n t e r ­ n a t i o n a l L i b r a r y P l a n n i n g is the theme for the first IF L A General Council Meeting to be held in the United States. The meeting will be the 40th General Council Meeting o f the Inter­ national Federation of Library Associations (I F L A ). The theme is related to the UNESCO International Conference on Planning o f Na­ tional Overall Documentation, Library and Archives Infrastructures to be scheduled for Paris in late September 1974. The IF L A 1974 Conference will be held in Washington, D.C ., at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Overall conference chairman is Robert Vosper, vice-president of IF L A and professor o f library service at the University o f Califor­ nia at Los Angeles. Speakers at the plenary sessions will include Dr. Frederick H. Burk- hardt, chairman, National Commission on L i­ braries and Information Science, and Dr. Har­ ry T. Hookway, executive director, the British Library, London. For further information, contact: IFLA 1974 Conference Secretariat, c / o Association o f Re­ search Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave. N W , Washington, D C 20036; (2 0 2 ) 232-2434. M I S C E L L A N Y • Seven n i n e t e e n t h - c e n t u r y p o s t e r s se­ lected from the collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library o f Con­ gress are now for sale at the Information Coun­ ter, Ground Floor, Main Building, or by mail from the Information Office, Library o f Con­ gress, Washington, D C 20540. Among L C ’s extensive poster collection are advertisements for: beer, wine, whiskey, cloth­ ing, shoes, fashions, foods, horses, cattle, cir­ cus, and theater, to mention a few. Many of these posters were acquired through copyright and have becom e rare or unique. “ Dr. C. Y. Girard’s Ginger Brandy, For Sale Here” (1 8 6 0 ), “ Harper’s March” (1 8 9 7 ) by Edward Penfield, “ The Modern Poster” (1 8 9 5 ) (this is No. 416 o f the 1,000 copies originally printed by W ill H. Bradley), and “ S. D. Sollers & Co. Manufacturers o f Chil­ dren’s Fine Shoes” (1 8 7 4 ), are priced at $3.50. Posters available for $4.00 are “ Payn’s Sure- Raising Flour Sold Here” (18 73 ) by H. C. Dart, “ Harrison’s Handkerchief Extracts” (1 8 5 4 ) by A. D. Harrison, and “ Dr. Roback’s Unrivaled Stomach Bitters” (18 66 ) b y Gibson & Co. Posters can be purchased at the library’ s In­ formation Counter. Mail orders should be ac­ companied by check or money order. the banquet Friday evening when Senator Charles Percy will be the speaker. A reception for members of the General Assembly will be held Wednesday night after dinner. The IL A business meeting will be held Thursday from 4 -6 p.m. Committee meetings will be scheduled for Wednesday morning, late Wednesday afternoon, Thursday after dinner, and Friday afternoon. Small committees may schedule meetings at lunch or dinner time when there are no general meals. For further information contact Sella Mor­ rison, Chairperson, Publicity Committee for Illinois Library Association Conference, Lin­ coln Library, Springfield, IL 62701. N o v e m b e r 3 -6 : The 1974 M o u n t a i n P l a i n s L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n ’ s Annual Con­ vention will be held at the Sahara Tahoe H o­ tel, Lake Tahoe, Nevada. “ A New Direction” will be the theme. Those interested in receiv­ ing further information concerning the conven­ tion should contact Mr. Joseph Edelen, I. D. Weeks Library, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, in order to be placed on the mailing list. All of those interested in ex­ hibiting at the convention should contact the local arrangements chairman, Dr. Larry W . Crandall, Learning Resources Center, Western Nevada Community College, 813 North Carson St., Carson City, NV 89701. N o v e m b e r 10-13: C o l l e c t i v e B a r g a i n i n g i n L i b r a r i e s will be the topic o f the twentieth annual Allerton Park Institute o f the University o f Illinois Graduate School o f Library Science. The institute will be held at Allerton House, the university’s conference center at Robert Al- lerton Park, near Urbana. The conference will include papers and discussions both by librari­ ans and by experts from the field of industrial relations, including arbitrators, union represent­ atives, lawyers, etc. The trend toward unioniza­ tion and collective bargaining has been pro­ nounced in American libraries in the last few years, and the institute topic is therefore o f par­ ticular current interest to librarians. The institute is co-sponsored by the Illinois State Library and the University of Illinois Graduate School o f Library Science. The in­ stitute chairman is Frederick A. Schlipf, assist­ ant professor o f Library Science. Further in­ formation may be obtained from Mr. Brandt W . Pryor, Institute Supervisor (O P -0 0 3 ), Univer­ sity o f Illinois Office of Continuing Education and Public Service, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. N o v e m b e r 14-16: The V i r g i n i a L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n Annual Conference will be held at The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia. For 163 • Dr. Morris H. Saffron has received the C o l u m b i a U n i v e r s i t y P r e s i d e n t i a l C i t a t i o n f o r D i s t i n c t i o n for his service to the univer­ sity and its libraries. Dr. Saffron, who earned his Columbia Ph.D. six years ago at the age o f 63, was cited in part for “ his contributions to the academic world as an authority in the field of the history of medicine.” His doctoral dissertation dealt with the life and works of a physician who lived in the twelfth century. The presidential citation recognized Dr. Saf­ fron’s “ noteworthy tenure” as chairman o f the Council of the Friends o f the Columbia Li­ braries, a post he held from 1967 to 1972. It also noted his gifts to the libraries and his en­ couragement of gifts by others. • A concurrent Law/Librarianship Degree program leading to the J.D. and M.L.S. de­ grees has now been approved at the U n i v e r ­ s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , B e r k e l e y . Designed pri­ marily for those wishing to becom e law librari­ ans, the program requires separate admission to the School o f Law (Boalt Hall) and the School o f Librarianship. Students admitted to the program would normally acquire both de­ grees in approximately three–and-one-half years. Normally, the first year would be devoted com ­ pletely to work in the School o f Law. There­ after, work would be divided between the two schools. Ten units of credit in librarianship course work will be counted toward fulfillment of J.D. unit requirements, and nine units of credit in law course work will be counted to­ ward fulfillment o f M.L.S. unit requirements. Normally an internship in a law library would be required as part of the program, though in some cases work in a law firm will suffice. It is generally considered desirable— though perhaps not essential— that law librarians have legal training as well as training in librarian­ ship. The concurrent program represents the natural conjunction of the two separate profes­ sional programs. • A training program in medical librarian­ ship and communications in the health sciences has been initiated by the U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s Health Science Center Library in Dallas. Each student’ s program is custom designed to suit individual interests and to allow a va­ riety of educational avenues. The student may elect to work on some project within the library itself; to investigate an area involving library/ instructional communications relationships or li­ brary/computer interaction; or to work as a bibliographic or research assistant to a faculty member engaged in writing. The library will have new quarters for its medical history col­ lection, and the intern may wish to work in that area. W hen the area has been selected, the student will be assigned to a library staff mem­ ber who will help coordinate the project. There will be opportunities to visit and use other li­ braries in the Dallas area and attend profes­ sional meetings. Courses that the student feels will help with the project may be taken at any of the institutions in the community. Students accepted into the program must have a master’s degree in library science from an accredited library school. They should also have a science background and some language competency. The application should be sup­ ported by three letters o f reference and a com ­ plete transcript o f grades; however, no work ex­ perience is required. Students start the pro­ gram during June and will spend the summer receiving an orientation to the library by ro­ tating their work through the various depart­ ments. By the beginning of the fall term, it is expected that the student will have identified some area or project o f special interest. The student will then continue to work half-time in the library in this chosen specialty while inde­ pendently pursuing the project during the rest o f the time. Upon completion o f the courses and the in­ ternship, the trainee should be eligible for cer­ tification by the Medical Library Association. The student will complete the program on June 1 of the following year. A stipend of $4,800 is paid for the period. Four internships are granted each year. Applications are also in­ vited from those who have finished their pre­ liminary work on the doctorate at an accredited library school, and who have identified a topic in medical librarianship that they wish to pur­ sue for their dissertation. In such cases, the stipends will be extended each year until the thesis is completed, up to three years. Persons interested in the program should re­ quest an application form from the program di­ rector: Donald D. Hendricks, Director o f the Library, The University o f Texas Health Sci­ ence Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, T X 75235. Applicants should also be prepared to sub­ mit transcripts of their undergraduate record as well as graduate work completed. In addi­ tion, the names of three persons from whom letters of reference may be requested should be submitted. P U B L I C A T I O N S • A Directory of Information Resources in the United States: Social Sciences (Revised Edition, 1973) is the eighth in a series com ­ piled by the National Referral Center, Library of Congress. This volume updates and extends the coverage o f a directory with the same sub­ title published in 1965. These revisions are At last, one source o f subject access to 2 CUMULATIVE MONTHL 0 Y This new fourteen volume single-alphabet subject index set … is offered by itself — for libraries holding com plete runs o f the M o n th ly C atalog — or, in a COMBINED REFERENCE EDITION which contains a com plete M IC R O FIL M collection o f the M o n th ly C atalog from 1895 through 1971 for convenient reference use with the index volumes. The complete backfile o f the M onthly Catalog was m icro­ filmed by the Photoduplication Division o f the Library o f Congress especially for use with our Cumulative Sub­ ject Index. The 53 reel set contains the full text o f all 867 indexed issues o f the Monthly Catalog and its 3 W orld War II supplements, plus the two Decennial In­ dexes, and some 60 pre-1900 issues which were not indexed. M onthly Catalog entries contain complete bibliographical data for almost every U.S. Government publication; in­ cluding title, personal author, collation, LC number, Su- D ocs classification number, price, ordering information, and a symbol indicating if the publication was sent to depository libraries. A ll Subject Index entries before September 1947 show year–and-page numbers whereas later entries give year- and–entry numbers. Each two digit year number ( ’00 through ’ 71) serves as the reel number in the microfilm collection. Page and entry numbers appear in numerical sequence on the film; and as all entries for any given year o f Monthly Catalog are on the same reel, the numerical sequences are never broken and it is never necessary to look on more than one reel for any single year. Because o f the lack o f standardization in the microfilm industry, we offer our sets with a variety o f film options; including a choice between silver halide film or Diazo, roll or cartridge, and 16mm or 35mm film size. Note: Although we believe the Combined Reference Edition concept described above is a most efficient yet inexpen­ sive system, the Cumulative Index Volumes can also be used effectively with sets o f the original M onthly Catalogs, or with other microfilm versions o f the series. Libraries having incomplete collections o f the Monthly Catalog can, o f course, complete their holdings with the purchase o f microfilm reels for individual years. 'th Century U.S. Government Publications SUBJECT INDEX TO THE CATALOG OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 1900–1971 “In this ambitious new library tool, cumulative access is brought for the first time to the overwhelming majority of United States Government publications issued during the period 1900-1971. In this, it is an accomplishment unrivaled in size and scope. Documents librarians will find it a new and convenient time–saver and one which should offer them an additional means of providing an expanded and improved Government publications service to their patrons.” From the Foreword by Carper W . Buckley, United States Superintendent of Documents, 1952-1970 The unique new C U M U L A T IV E SUBJECT IN D E X will eliminate 34 search steps which were formerly necessary to trace subjects through these indexes to 20th Century U.S. Government publications: — 21 Biennial D ocum ent Catalogs (1900-1940), — 2 Decennial Indexes (19 41 -60), and — 11 Annual Indexes (1961-1971). All subject entries in the fourteen volume cumulative index were accumulated from 81 separate sources in the Monthly Catalog series and merged into one reference set. 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N a m e ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Address____________________________________________________________________________________________________ C ity --------------------------------------------------------------------------------State________________________________ Z ip ____________ D E D U C T A N O TH E R 5% FR O M T O T A L IF P A Y M E N T IS SENT W IT H O R D E R . 166 being supported by the National Science Foun­ dation. The 2,480 entries in the directory are based on a register o f information resources main­ tained by the center since it was established in 1962. Listed in the entries are the address, telephone, areas o f interest, holdings, publica­ tions, and information services o f a w ide va­ riety of organizations capable of meeting spe­ cific information needs, including libraries, in­ formation centers, professional societies, uni­ versities, industrial firms willing to extend their information services beyond their own orga­ nization, and federal, state, and local govern­ ment offices. A subject index is included. T o ensure textual accuracy, each entry was submitted for review to the organization cov­ ered. As in the center’s previous directories, some significant resources could not b e in­ cluded because they did not respond to re­ quests for descriptions of their activities. This directory is available by mail for $6.90 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D C 20402 (Stock Number 3000-00065). Foreign orders should include 25 percent addition for mailing. • A two-volume reference work, India and Indians: A Bibliography, has been published by the Colgate University library. Prepared by Ravindra N. Sharma, reference librarian at Case Library, the bibliography is being released in conjunction with the India In­ stitute which will be a part o f Colgate’s under­ graduate summer term. The complete holdings on India in Case L i­ brary are contained in the two volumes, includ­ ing dictionary style listings of all the books un­ der the various subject headings. Librarians, students, and Indian scholars may order copies from the Reference Department, Case Library, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346. • A third survey o f salaries in academic li­ braries by Donald F. Cameron, former head of the Rutgers University Library, and economist Peggy Heim for the Council on Library Re­ sources shows the same “ pronounced pyramidal structure” noted in the earlier two (19 69 -70 and 19 70 -7 1 ), a structure “ with a handful of more or less well-paid librarians at the top and a wide base of very low-paid positions at the bottom.” Librarians in Higher Education: Their Com ­ pensation Structures for the Academic Year 1972-73, just issued by CLR, observes that “ fewer than 10 percent o f the professional li­ brarians are in positions in which the average compensation exceeds that of assistant professor in similar institutions.” In completing the comparison with faculty, Cameron and Heim write: “ On the other hand, among faculty receiving tenure, probably 80 percent or more ultimately achieve the rank of associate professor and salaries commensurate with the rank.” The average compensation o f university li­ brary directors in 1972-73 was $29,410, ranging from an average $32,370 in private institutions to an average $22,900 in church-related uni­ versities. Library directors in four-year colleges averaged $17,510 in public institutions, $17,190 in the private, and $15,380 in the church-related colleges. Library directors con­ stitute only 5 percent of professional librarians in colleges and universities. The question is raised “ whether it is more ap­ propriate to compare academic librarians with faculty or with general institutional adminis­ trators. … T o an increasing extent both gen­ eral institutional administration and academic libraries will have to solve many of the same problems. The problems relate specifically to basic occupational structures, to compensation levels, to career paths, and to psychological satisfaction derived from the job.” The twenty-four-page report, which includes fifteen statistical tables of compensation struc­ tures, is available at no charge from the Coun­ cil on Library Resources, Inc., 1 DuPont Circle, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036. • Open admissions at the City University of New York has been praised and disputed, its students dissected and analyzed, and the social implications of its policy argued across the na­ tion. Each author, whether for or against, has contributed to a growing public debate on what has becom e one o f the central issues in Amer­ ican higher education. Kingsborough Communi­ ty College associate professor Sharad Karkan- kis has successfully brought together the vari­ ous authors. He has compiled a complete bib­ liography of open admissions literature includ­ ing scholarly papers, books, conferences, pro­ ceedings, plus journal and newspaper articles. There is a broad range o f opinion among the authors cited on the subject o f open admissions, ranging from Clark Kerr and Daniel P. Moyni- han to Spiro T. Agnew. Copies o f the bibliography are available, free o f charge, from: The Office o f the Vice Chan­ cellor for Academic Affairs, 535 East 80th St., New York, NY 10021. • The Bibliography of Alaskana, October, 1969-December, 1973 has been published by the University o f Alaska. This computerized bibliography is a KW OC index to periodical ar­ ticles found in the periodical collection o f the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library that concern them­ selves with Alaska and Alaska-oriented sub­ 167 jects. It is a two-volume, 615-page work and costs $15.00. Monthly updates to this work are also available and will cost $15.00 per year. In­ quiries should be sent to the Director’s Office, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99701. • The third edition of the Union List of Seri­ als of the Consortium o f Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area has been pub­ lished. The list reports more than 27,000 titles and 47,000 holdings statements from American, Catholic, George Washington, Georgetown, and Howard universities. Law, medical, depart­ mental, and special library holdings are in­ cluded. The publication was photocomposed. Publication price is $27.50 plus postage. Or­ ders should be sent to Darrell Lemke, Consorti­ um of Universities, 1717 Massachusetts Ave. N W , Washington, DC 20036. • Public Housing in the United States; A Technology Society Seminar Research Report, produced at the School o f Engineering and A p­ plied Science, Princeton University, is now available. Subjects covered, as shown by the table of contents, are: “ History of Public Hous­ ing in the United States” ; “ Existing Situations and the State o f Today’s Housing Programs” ; “ Newark, New Jersey: A Case Study of Public Low-Incom e Housing” ; “ Political, Social and Economic Impact of New Planning Concepts and Technologies on Public Housing” ; and “ What Kind of Organization, Economic, Plan­ ning, and Political Requirements are Necessary to Satisfy the L ow Moderate Income Housing Needs in the United States, Now and in the Immediate Future.” For copies of this report send $3.50 to: Prof. Steve M. Slaby, Director, Technology and So­ ciety Seminars, Department of Civil Engineer­ ing, School o f Engineering and Applied Sci­ ence, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540. β A new guide to the emerging information industry, an enlarged, international second edi­ tion of the Encyclopedia of Information Sys­ tems and Services, has been announced. The new edition o f this directory and guide features detailed descriptions of more than 1,750 or­ ganizations involved in applications of new methods and media for information storage and retrieval. Among the organizations represented are data base publishers, computer time-sharing and software companies, micrographic firms, special libraries, government agencies, data banks, information centers, and clearinghouses in science and technology, medicine, social sci­ ences, education, and business and finance. The 1,750 entries in the new compilation represent a more than 100 percent increase over the first edition. Included in this total are 225 foreign services representing thirty-one countries. Among other features, detailed indexes pro­ vide access to information on 475 data base publishers, 350 commercially available data bases (both on magnetic tape and on-line), 135 networks and cooperative programs, 425 libraries and information centers which provide selective dissemination of information (S D I) services, and 450 data collection and analysis centers. Altogether, the 1,285-page book con­ tains thirteen indexes. Copies may be ordered from Edwards Brothers, 2500 South State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Price is $77.50. • The proceedings of the Conference on In­ terlibrary Cooperation at Peaceful Valley Lodge and Guest Ranch, Lyons, Colorado, May 23-25, 1973, are now available. At the cost of $5.20, the proceedings contain information on such topics as the following: “ Thinking Toward a Working Library Network,” by Mr. Charles H. Stevens; “ Cohesive and Divisive Forces in the Mountain Plains Library Association,” by Dr. Dwight Blood; “ Multi-State Regional Net­ working,” by Ms. Maryann Duggan; “ Motiva­ tion for Mountain Plains Interlibrary Coopera­ tion,” by Dr. Robert Kemper; “ Human Re­ sources to the Mountain Plains Library Asso­ ciation,” by Mr. John Eastlick; “ MPLA: What o f Its Future?” by Mr. Ralph Ellsworth; as well as further information. Copies may be secured from: Mr. Daniel Seager, Executive Secretary, Mountain Plains Library Association, Assistant Director of Libraries, University o f Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639. • The Energy Directory, a comprehensive guide to U.S. energy organizations, decision makers, and information sources, has been pub­ lished by Environment Information Center, Inc. (E I C ) of New York. On the federal level, the Energy Directory covers both executive and congressional activ­ ities, including energy offices, special commit­ tees, regulatory commissions, and the energy divisions o f all federal departments. On the state level, the directory locates and profiles key energy personnel, programs, and departments in both executive and legislative branches. In the private sector, the directory provides profiles o f energy related trade and profession­ al organizations, citizen action groups, a roster o f energy companies, utilities, and energy co­ ordinators of leading industrial companies. All profiles include name, address, and telephone number. An annotated directory of energy periodicals, newsletters, information centers and systems describes the scope, coverage, price, and fre­ quency o f each, and provides complete order­ ing information. 168 The directory is completely indexed by or­ are based on a register of information resources - that has been continuously expanded and up­ 5 dated since the center was established in 1962. ., To ensure textual accuracy, each entry was sub­ mitted for review to the organization covered. The supplement (bound with the present di­ rectory) differs significantly from the supple­ s inm ent to the 1967 Federal Government volume, ) as reflected in the different subtitles. The 1967 ­ directory supplement listed any information re­ e source sponsored in whole or in part by the fed ­ f eral government; the more limited supplement ­ to this directory lists only those government- e sponsored organizations that are considered to n be “ information analysis centers,” as defined by t, the former Panel on Information Analysis and d Data Centers ( Panel 6) o f the Committee on Scientific and Technical Information , (C O S A T I). ­ This directory is available by mail for $4.25 ­ from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. f Government Printing Office, Washington, D C y 20402 (Stock Number 3000-00067). ■■ ganization, personnel, and subject, and is cross referenced for easy use. It is available for $4 from: Environment Information Center, Inc Energy Research Div., 124 East 39th St., New York, NY 10016. • A Directory of Information Resource the United States: Federal Government (19 74 is the ninth in a series compiled by the Nation al Referral Center, Library o f Congress. Th last of four currently scheduled revisions o earlier volumes in the series, this edition, pro duced with support from the National Scienc Foundation, updates a directory published i 1967 with the subtitle Federal Governmen W ith a Supplement o f Government-Sponsore Information Resources. Unlike the other directories in the series which are subject oriented, Federal Govern ment covers all subjects. All federal organiza tions were eligible for inclusion, regardless o their areas o f interest. Entries in the director People and later director o f documentation of the Thermophysical Properties Research Center. f He is the author o f approximately forty pa­ ­ pers in the field, lectures widely, and consults ­ on library activities for a number of universi­ ties. He was a member o f the Council o f the American Library Association and is a member o f the American Society for Information Sci­ ence, the Special Libraries Association, and other professional organizations. Mr. Stevens holds a B.A. in English from Principia College (Elsah, Illinois) and graduate degrees in English and in Library Science from the University o f North Carolina. He has also done further study in engineering at the Polytechnic Institute o f Brooklyn, New York. A P P O I N T M E N T S E i l e e n A d l e r — loan service librarian, Norris ­ Medical Library— U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h e r n C a l i f o r n i a School o f Medicine, Los Angeles. P a t r i c k B a r k e y — director o f the libraries— T h e C l a r e m o n t C o l l e g e s , California. R o g e r B e r r y — head of special collections— ­ U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , Irvine. M a r i o n B u z z a r d — head of acquisitions— U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , Irvine. H e n r y C h a n g — college librarian and lectur­ er in Social Sciences— C o l l e g e o f t h e V i r g i n I s l a n d s , St. Croix. J a m e s C r u s e — head, interlibrary loan divi- P R O F I L E S C h a r l e s H. S t e v e n s , executive director o the National Commission on Libraries and In formation Science, has been appointed execu tive director o f the Southeastern Library Network (S O L IN E T ), the nonprofit corpo­ ration of ninety-nine public and private li­ braries in ten South­ ern states. The S O L I N E T Board has also voted to affiliate with the S o u t h e r n R e g i o n a l E d u c a t i o n B o a r d ( SR E B ). Both orga­ nizations have signed Charles H. Stevens a memorandum of agreement, establishing procedures and condi tions for regional cooperative activities to be pursued jointly by both groups. SOLINET has established its headquarters at SREB’s Atlanta offices. Mr. Stevens served six years as associate di rector for library development, Project Intrex, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1959 to 1965 he was director o f library and publications at M IT ’s Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts. At Purdue Univer­ sity he was aeronautical engineering librarian