ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 282 / C&RL News Oklahoma and Sacramento symphonies. P a t r i c i a H. F o l e y , head of the University of Iowa Business Administration Library since 1979, died January 28. Foley received a bachelor’s degree in International Realations and Russian, an MLS from the University of Wisconsin, and a master’s in public administration from the University of Iowa (1983). Before coming to Iowa, she was a reference librarian at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and earlier at New Mexico State University. Foley was active in the Library Administration and Man­ agement Association’s Library Organization and Management Section, and was a member of the ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Section’s Policy and Planning Committee. She served for two years as president of the Iowa Chapter of ACRL. A me­ morial fund has been established at the University. E l l e n L o r d , former director of the Gene Ep- pley L ibrary at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, died September 16, 1986. Lord came to the University of Omaha in 1938 and assumed the directorship in 1944. She retired in 1969. ■ ■ NEW T E C H N O L O G Y •Carlyle Systems now offers an enhancement to its integrated library system that allows the user to input, display and print diacritical marks. The Ex­ tended Character Set (ECS) terminal permits the display of all combinations of characters and char­ acter modifiers normally used in 34 Latin alphabet languages or in the Romanized form of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and other non-Roman languages. The system also supports the musical sharp, the copyright mark, and inverted exclama­ tion and question marks. Contact Carlyle Systems In c., 2930 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley, CA 94702; (415) 843-2111. •Dukane Corporation is now marketing a ver­ satile microfilm reader, the MMR 16 + 35, that projects 35mm roll film and is easily adaptable for cartridge loaded film. Six interchangable, snap-in lenses offer magnifications ranging from 15X to 48X. The reader comes in black and pewter styling, with a new generation push-button high-and-low speed film drive that provides quick film travel and a smooth screen image. Contact Dukane Corp., 2900 Dukane D r., St. Charles, IL 60174; (312) 584-2300. • General Research Corporation has developed a CD-ROM public catalog system that can provide users with library floor plans as well as access to holdings information. LaserGuide also offers Bool­ ean search in g and au th o r, title , and su b ject searches. Contact General Research Corp., 5383 Hollister Ave., P.O . Box 6770, Santa Barbara, CA 93160-7724. • Micro Design has introduced a microform reader/printer that prints on plain paper. The Mi­ cro Copy 1000 is only 16 inches wide and 28 inches deep, and can print one page in eight seconds. List price is $2,700. Contact Micro Design, 857 W . State St., Hartford, W I 53027-1093; (414) 673­ 3920. • Online Consultants of Indiana is now offering Online Search Analyst, a diagnostic and tutorial program designed for library school students, prac­ ticing librarians, information professionals, and others who may need advice on aspects of conduct­ ing an online search. The program offers sugges­ tions on what tactics to use if your search retrieves completely irrelevant records, no records at all, some relevant records but not enough, too many ir­ relevant records, or too many records to print. On­ line Search Analyst was written in TURBO Pascal for IBM PCs or compatibles using MS-DOS or PC ­ DOS 2.0 (or greater) and at least 64K memory. The cost is $40. Contact Online Consultants of Indiana, 4300 Cambridge D r., Bloomington, IN 47401. • The University of Guelph Library has pub­ lished its catalog of 750,000 bibliographic entries on C D -RO M . The catalog replaces microfiche that has served as a backup to the library’s Geac Online Public Access Catalog. The data is accessible from PC-based workstations throughout the library and may be retrieved by title, author, LC subject head­ ing, call number, format, and any word used in the catalog record. The database and search software were manufactured by Reteaco, In c., of Toronto. Copies of Guelph’s CD-ROM catalog are available for $249 from the University’s Library Business Of­ fice, Guelph, Ontario N IG 2W1. ■ ■ May 1987 / 283 F a c sim ile n etw o r k speeds m e d ic a l d o c u m e n t d eliv e ry in N e w Jersey The University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), a facility composed of three med­ ical schools in four cities as much as 100 miles apart, recently began using high-speed facsimile transmission for the exchange of several thousand health care and biom edical inform ation docu­ ments each year. Often documents are required within 30 minutes of the request to accommodate medical emergencies within the university library network. The New Jersey program was inspired by the success of a network developed by the College of Physicians Library in Philadelphia in 1984. Shortly afterward, UMDNJ librarians submitted a grant proposal to the University’s Foundation to analyze and purchase facsimile systems for each campus li­ brary. At the same time, the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, one of the core institutions of the UMDNJ, and three other af­ filiated hospital libraries applied for a grant to the Plunterdon Health Fund for facsimiles to provide health care inform ation to professionals in central New Jersey. A University–wide library subcommittee began investigating facsimile technology, developing sys­ tems specifications to meet the needs of a statewide university library network. The prim ary objective was to secure a system th at would provide depend­ able 24-hour service at the lowest possible cost and still ensure im m ediate response tim e upon de­ mand. The search resulted, according to assistant uni­ versity librarian Victor A. Basile, in the selection of Pitney Bowes Facsimile Systems as the preferred vendor. The chosen system for the major lending li­ braries was the Pitney Bowes 8900, which can send or receive a hard copy image in several seconds. The subcom m ittee established a netw ork tim e schedule to ensure th a t each lib rary had non­ competitive access to each participating library for a specified in te rv a l each day. R o u tin e lo n g ­ distance transmissions were scheduled during low­ cost time periods, and librarians also used a feature known as turnaround polling th at allows a single machine, with one telephone call, to send and re­ ceive documents from a second location. First-year costs for the interlibrary system start­ up and operation are covered by the two grants. The costs for transm itting a 10-page article vary depending on distance between libraries and the amount of text per page. Basile reported th at cur­ rent monthly usage figures indicate the system can move an estimated 12,000 documents in its first 12 months of operation—about one-third more than the num ber of documents moved by courier and mail services last year. ■ ■ PUBLICATIONS • Academic and Public Librarians: Data by Race, Ethnicity and Sex, compiled by the ALA Office for Library Personnel Resources (34 pages, 1986), con­ tains the statistical results of a survey of library per­ sonnel th at can be used in affirmative action plan­ ning. This study, with data valid as of September 1, 1985, updates the previous OLPR survey using data collected in 1980. Copies may be ordered for $4.00 directly from the ALA Office for Library Personnel Resources, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0-8389-0761-3. • Australian and New Zealand Academic Library Statistics, Part A Tables, 1953-1983, edited by Alice Leong (345 pages, 1986), has been published by the Library of the Curtin University of Technol­ ogy as no.6 in the Western Library Studies series. D ata on library personnel, services, bibliographic resources, expenses, and user groups are included. Copies may be ordered for A$59.00 from the T.L. Robertson Library, Curtin University of Technol­ ogy, GPO Box U 1987, Perth 6001, Western Aus­ tralia. ISBN 0-908155-29-8. • Berlin: 750 Years, A Selective Bibliography, compiled by M argaret B. Krewson (1986), lists German- and English-language works on the intel­ lectual and cultural life of the city, which cele-