ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 440 / C &RL News next few years. The system can be accessed by any terminal linked to the University’s IBM 3081. Information can be called up by author, title, partial title, sub­ ject, call number, ISBN number, or shelf position (roughly equivalent to browsing). Using the Socra­ tes system in the library is a free service to patrons. However, the system can be accessed for a fee by any individual or department having an account with Stanford’s Center for Information Technol­ ogy. There is even a group rate for dormitories and departments who wish to purchase a month of use (300 hours) for $1,000. • U n i v e r s i t y P r o d u c t s , I n c ., is serving as U.S. agent for the British manufacturer of tissues pre­ coated with acrylic adhesive to simplify laminating techniques used for conservation. Crompton lami­ nating tissue may be used for full or localized repair and for protecting bound volumes, documents, and charts. The material is a 10 gram/meter2 long fibered tissue with neutral pH, coated on one side only and can be removed easily. Pure acrylic can also be obtained as an unsupported supple film used as a fixative or material adhesive for remount­ ing book plates, mounting prints and drawings, and restoring split textiles. Contact University Products, In c ., P .O . Box 101, South Canal S t., Ho­ lyoke, MA 01041; (800) 628-1912. •Users of the UTLAS system can now have on­ line access to R .R . Bowker’s Books in Print data­ base of over 150,000 titles which are out-of-print and out-of-stock indefinitely. Under a new agree­ ment the database was loaded into the UTLAS sys­ tem and made available in September. Libraries may eliminate unnecessary orders by determining the unavailability of titles at the pre-order stage. The Bowker database is retrospective to 1979 and is kept current by monthly updates. ■ ■ PUBLICATIONS NOTICES •The ALA Library Clip Art Book (December 1983) offers specially-designed illustrations and headline type for library newsletters, annual re­ ports, bookmarks, flyers, announcements, ads, signs, or other material requiring library-related graphics. The instructional material, written by Peggy Barber, explains how to use the artwork and offers suggestions for designing simple publica­ tions, doing paste-ups, and how to find and work with graphic artists and printers. This loose-leaf bound book may be ordered for $30 (plus $3.50 shipping and handling) from the ALA Public Infor­ mation O ffice, 50 E . Huron S t., C hicago, IL 60611. •Australasian College Libraries (vol . 1, no. 1, May 1983- ) is a new quarterly journal published by the Footscray Institute of Technology Library in Melbourne. The premier issue includes articles on library service to rural health workers, external de­ gree programs in librarianship, and education in the use of online information retrieval in Australia. Also of interest are notices of recent publications, book reviews, new products and services, and ab­ stracts of items from the Australian Clearing House for Library and Information Science (Achlis). The jo u rn a l plans to cover lib ra ria n sh ip in New Zealand and other areas of the Southwest Pacific as well as Australia. Overseas institutional and per­ sonal subscriptions are AUS$19 and may be or­ dered from ACL Publications, F IT Library, P.O . Box 64, Footscray, Victoria 3011, Australia. •Careers in Research Libraries, a pamphlet is­ sued by the Association of Research Libraries, will be helpful to undergraduates who may be consider­ ing the MLS. A limited number of free copies are available from ARL, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N .W ., Washington, DC 20036. •Clifford Library and Learning Resources Collec­ tion D evelopm ent Policies 1 9 8 3 -8 4 (42 pages, 1983), developed by the University of Evansville Library, Indiana, may be useful to librarians who are developing policies for an institution of similar size and curriculum. Copies are available for $5 (prepaid) from Clifford Memorial Library, Uni­ versity of Evansville, P.O . Box 329, Evansville, IN 47702. •Earthquakes, Tides, Unidentified Sounds and Related Phenomena, compiled by William R. Cor­ liss (214 pages, November 1983), is the third cata­ log and bibliography in a series on geophysical anomalies that are often left out of standard text­ books. Included are description, background, data The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue PHASE I • 1801-1815 T h e NSTC series will cover the period 1801-1918 in three phases: 1801-15, 1816-70 and 1871-1918. It will list with increasing completeness all works of the period published in the United Kingdom, its colonies and the USA, all books published in English anywhere in the world, and all translations from English. Each phase will be initiated by a hard copy union catalogue listing of relevant books held in the Bodleian Library, the British Library, the University Library, Cambridge, the Library, Trinity College, Dublin, the National Library of Scotland and the University Library, Newcastle. Th e primary listing in each volume will be in author order with complete subject and place of imprint indexes appended. Each of these initial sets will be concluded by volumes listing works under general headings on the model of the ENGLAND volumes of the British Library Catalogue. Relevant works listed under authors in the other library catalogues will also be interfiled in this sequence. To assist in location of materials concealed in the complex sub-headings of this form of entry, every title will be rearranged into an alphabetical sequence, which will be appended to the volumes in the form of microfiche indexes. The combination of hard copy listings by author, subject and place of imprint, and by title on fiche, will provide an unique research resource for perhaps the most important period in the history of the English speaking peoples. Order Information The 1801-1815 section of the NSTC will appear in five volumes: Volume I, Authors A-C; Volume II, Authors D-H; Volume III, Authors I-Q; Volume IV, Authors R-Z; (Volumes I-IV each contain an index of all books listed by subject and place of imprint); Volume V, General Sections: Directories, England, Ephemerides, Ireland, London, Periodical Publications and Scotland. (Volume V will contain an index of all books listed by subject and place of imprint, and a fiche rearrangement of the full text in alphabetical order of the titles). The first volume will be published on 1st February 1984. The price of each volume of this phase is € 175.00. The series is only available from: Avero Publications Ltd. 20 Great North Road Newcastle upon Tyne England. NE2 4PS 442 / C &RL News evaluation, anomaly evaluation, and possible ex­ planations for 80 different events, such as cold- water geysers, earthquake magnetic effects, sea seiches, auroral sounds, and underwater musical sounds. The author provides subject, tim e-of- event, place-of-event, author, and source indexes. Copies may beordered for $12.95 from The Sour­ cebook Project, P.O . Box 107, Glen Arm, MD 21057. • Editing the Maximus Poems: Supplementar Notes, by George F. Butterick (132 pages, August 1983), has been published as a companion to the University of California Press edition of Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems. The book features an appendix of previously unpublished writings by Olson, notes to the text that offer insight into the poet’s creative process and intentions, and an intro­ ductory essay that discusses the problems of editing the work. Copies are available for $10 from Busi­ ness Services, Box U-5B0, University of Connecti­ cut Library, Storrs, CT 06268. •Independent Scholarship: Promise, Problems, and Prospects, by Ronald and Beatrice Gross (68 pages, 1983), is the final report of a two-year proj­ ect supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. The recommendations of the National Conference on Independent Schol­ arship are given in full and include recommenda­ tions to libraries that were touched upon in Mi­ chael Kathman’s C&RL News report, March 1983, pp. 75-77. Copies may be ordered for $7.95 from College Board Publications, Box 886, New York, NY 10101. •The Michigan Library Automation Directory (180 pages, 1983) contains profiles and indexed in­ formation on automation activities, hardware, software, products, and contacts in over 300 Mich­ igan libraries. Published by the Michigan Library y Consortium, the directory costs $22.95 to MLC members and $27.95 to non-members (add $2 more if not prepaid). Contact the Michigan L i­ brary Consortium, 6810 S. Cedar Street, Suite 8, Lansing, MI 48910. •The final reports on the Task Force on Library and Information Service to Cultural Minorities and the Task Force on Community Information and Referral Services have been released by the Na­ tional Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS). The former, chaired by E .J. Jo- sey of the New York State Education Department, was established to explore the current status of li­ brary and information service programs in support of the needs and desires of minority groups. The latter report includes 13 recommendations for pro­ viding community information and referral ser­ vices through education, policy and legislation, promotion, and experimentation and study. Single copies of each report are available free from Decem ber 1983 / 443 N C LIS, Suite 3122, 7th & D S t., S .W ., Washing- ton, D C 20024. Multiple copies are available from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office. •Telecommunications in ARL Libraries, SPEC Kit #98 (October 1983, 129 pages), contains two documents on networks, seven on interconnection among libraries, one on gateways/links, and two on standards, plus a short list of references. The flyer discusses local systems, interconnection, stan­ dards, and trends. Single copies may be purchased for $15, with checks made payable to the ARL O f­ fice of Management Studies, from the SPEC Cen­ ter, ARL/OMS, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N .W ., Washington, DC 20036. •Two new Topics in Personnel kits have been is­ sued by ALA’s Office for Library Personnel Ser­ vices. Kit #4, Humanizing the W orkp lace: Quality o f W ork L ife in Libraries, deals with such topics as part-time employment, alternative work sched­ ules, and job enrichment. Kit #5, Administering Staff Cutbacks: Planning and Implementing a R e­ duction in Force, offers suggestions on dealing with outplacement and retrenchment. Both kits include reprints of relevant articles and specially prepared bibliographies. They may be ordered for $10 each (prepaid) from ALA/OLPR, 50 E . Huron St., C hi­ cago, IL 60611. ■ ■ BI P O S T E R SESSIO NS N E E D E D The national L O E X Clearinghouse on Library Instruction has issued a call for abstracts for BI- related poster sessions, to be held in conjunction with the 13th National L O E X Library Instruction Conference on May 3 -4 , 1984. The theme of the Conference is “Marketing In ­ structional Services: Applying Private Sector Tech­ niques to Plan and Promote Bibliographic Instruc­ tio n .” Poster session presentations will include graphs, pictures, diagrams and narrative text and will allow presenters to expand informally and an­ swer questions relating to marketing BI services on their own campuses. Sessions can also report re­ search findings and describe innovative marketing techniques. Each session will be scheduled for an hour. Guidelines for the submission of abstracts and forms can be obtained by writing to the L O E X Clearinghouse, Eastern Michigan University L i­ brary, Ypsilanti, MI 48197; (313) 487-0168. The deadline for submitting abstracts for consideration is March 1, 1984. ■ ■ JanuALENARDCary 5 - 6 — Urban Libraries: “The Urban Electronic L i­ brary in the Communications E r a ,” sponsored by the Urban Libraries Council and the Univer­ sity of Pittsburgh School of Library and Infor­ mation Science, will be held at the Sheraton Washington (D .C .) Hotel. Fee: $150. Contact: A. Ladenson, Executive D irector, Urban L i­ braries Council, 425 N. Michigan Ave., C hi­ cago, IL 60611. 5 - 7 — Library Education: “Educating Information Professionals for the Future: Strategies and Op­ tions,” annual conference of the Association for Library and Information Science, Washington (D .C .) Hilton Hotel. Contact: Janet Phillips, Executive Secretary, A L IS E , 471 Park Lane, State College, PA 16801; (814) 238-0254. 17-M ay— Continuing Education: The University of Toronto is offering ten continuing education courses of varying times and costs in its Spring Term 1984 schedule. Subjects include: legal in­ formation sources; U.S. Government publica­ tions; labor relations in libraries; time manage­ ment; and disaster planning. For details, write: Faculty of Library and Inform ation Science, University of Toronto, 140 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1. February 2 2 -2 5 — Music Libraries: Annual Conference of the Music Library Association, Villa Capri Mo­ tel, Austin, Texas. Scheduled sessions include: planning music library buildings and facilities, grantsmanship, resources and collection devel­ opment, and historical bibliography. A Precon­ ference on “Computer Education for the Music L ib ra ria n ” will be held on F ebru ary 2 0 -2 1 . Contact: Olga Buth, Fine Arts Library, Univer­ sity of Texas, Austin, T X 78712; (512) 471-4777.