ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries May 1988 / 307 lar planning, and be a part of the institution’s gov ernance structure. 3. Contracts. A librarian’s appointment should be by written contract, agreement, or letter of ap pointment which states the terms and conditions of service. After a probationary period of no longer than seven years and through a process which in cludes peer review, librarians should be granted continuing employment if they have met the ap propriate conditions and standards. 4. Compensation. The salary scale and benefits for librarians should be the same as for other aca demic categories with equivalent education, expe rience, or responsibility. 5. Promotion and Salary Increases. Librarians should be promoted on the basis of their profes sional proficiency and effectiveness. A peer review system should be an integral part of procedures for promotion and decisions on salary increases. 6. L ea v es an d R esearch Funds. Librarians should be eligible for research funds within the University, and encouraged to apply for such funds from sources outside the University. University and library administrations should provide leaves of absence, sabbaticals, and other means of adminis trative support to promote the active participation of librarians in research and other professional ac tivities. 7. A cadem ic Freedom . Librarians must have the protection of academic freedom. Library resources and the professional judgment of librarians must not be subjected to censorship or abuses of civil lib erties. 8. Dismissal o f Nonreappointment. Dismissal of librarians during the terms of appointment may be effected by the institution only for just cause and through academic due process. Nonreappointment should involve adequate notice, peer review, and access to a grievance procedure. 9. Grievance. Grievance procedures should be accessible to librarians and should include steps to be completed within specified time limits, effective safeguards against reprisal by the institution, or abuse of the procedures by the grievant, and must be consistent with applicable institutional regula tions and contracts. Statement on the Certification and Licensing of Librarians The Association of College and Research L i braries, having affirmed that the master’s degree from a program accredited by the American L i brary Association is the appropriate terminal pro­ fessional degree for academic librarians, opposes the certification of licensing of academic librari ans, either by state agencies or by state or local pro fessional associations. News from the fi e l d Acquisitions •Brenau College, Gainesville, Georgia, has ac quired a 200-volume collection of assorted works from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. The transfer was made in memory of the late John L. Snare, a friend of the institute who taught at the college. Ti tles in the collection range from Adam Smith’s W ealth o f Nations and Theory o f Moral Sentiments to modern works such as Charles Murray’s Losing Ground, Richard Epstein’s Takings, and Rosen berg and Birdzell's How the West Grew Rich. •Harvard University’s Loeb Library, Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, has received the profes­ sional papers of architect Hugh A. Stubbins Jr., chairman of The Stubbins Associates, Cambridge, and an alumnus and former faculty member of the Graduate School of Design. Stubbins also donated funds to catalog, conserve and store the materials. Comprised of correspondence, plans, drawings, sketchbooks, photographs, color transparencies, artwork, and memorabilia, the collection spans Stubbins’ more than 50 years in professional prac­ tice. Stubbins was a member of the GSD faculty for 12 years during the 1940s and ’50s, and chaired it briefly following Walter Gropius’ retirement in 1953. He left Harvard the following year to enter private practice but has maintained a close rela­ tionship with Harvard ever since. Among the uni­ versity buildings designed by The Stubbins Associ­ ates are the Loeb Dram a Center (1960), the Countway Library of Medicine (1965) ‚ and the Pu- sey Library (1976). •The Library of Congress, Washington, D .C ., has acquired an unusual collection of sound record­ ings, motion pictures and other materials pertain­ ing to the South Sea islands of the Pacific from Mar­ garet Fahnestock of G reat M ills, M aryland. Together with her late husband, Sheridan Fahnes­ tock, and his brother Bruce, Mrs. Fahnestock sailed throughout the region in the early 1940s on an expedition sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. The collection includes 143 16- 308 / C&RL News inch disk recordings of music from the Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, Fiji, Samoa, New Caledonia, Bali, Java, Madura and the Kangean Islands. Five reels of color film and numerous letters, magazine arti­ cles, and newspapers document the progress of the expedition, including its disastrous end when the Fahnestock’s three-masted, 137-foot schooner “Di­ rector I I ,” struck a shoal and sank on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. •North Park College, Chicago, Illinois, has ac- quired the library of the DeLiSa Norwegian Liter­ ary Society of Chicago, a collection of nearly 500 volumes. Included are works of poetry, fiction and prose from many well-known Norwegian authors such as Ibsen, Bull, Garborg, Falkberget, Grieg, Lie, Bjornson, Lutken and Hamsun. • North Texas State University, Denton, cently received a collection of more than 2,000 vol­ umes concentrating on the modern evangelical movement in America from Timothy W. Grogan of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection as a whole en­ compasses a broad range of philosophical and reli­ gious subjects. • Ohio University, Athens, has been design as the United States depository for Malaysian mate­ rials by the government of Malaysia. The designa­ tion follows the joint establishment in 1985 of the Malaysian Resource Center in the Libraries’ South­ east Asia Collection by Ohio University and the Malaysian government. The depository arrange­ ments will be handled by Malaysia’s National Li­ brary, the national depository agency, which is ex­ pected to supply Ohio University with copies of materials it receives. University officials believe it is the first such arrangement established between an American institution and a foreign government. Malaysians are the second largest group of foreign students in the United States, totalling more than 21,600 in 1987-87. • The State University of New York at Alb has acquired the records of the Society for the Pres ervation of Water Resources, Inc. ‚ an environmen tal group founded in 1977 to prevent construction of a shopping mall on the Rotterdam-Schenectady line over a natural aquifer. Of related interest are two collections concerning the construction of the Crossgates Shopping Mall in the Albany Pine Bush (1979-1982), which were previously added to the Archives of Public Affairs and Policy, housed in the Department of Special Collections and Archives. SUNY/Albany has also acquired the papers of Samuel B. Gould (b. 1910), documenting his ca reer as a leading American educator since the 1950s and as chancellor of SUNY from 1964 to 1970 dur ing the system’s greatest years of expansion. Gould also served as president of Antioch College (1954-1959), chancellor of the University of Cali fornia at Santa Barbara (1959-1962), and presi­ dent of the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (1962-1964). • Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kansas, has r at an a quired approximately 2,800 hymnals from the family of the late Paul Wohlgemuth, music profes sor at Kansas Christian College from 1961 to 1976. The hymnals range from pocket-sized books dating from the 18th century to modern editions from var ious parts of the world, and have been classified into 42 categories encompassing 25 denominations. Represented are Jewish hymnals, German hym nals, Christmas music, and music for various voice groupings, as well as a large proportion of gospel music. Of particular interest is a 1580 Geneva Bible with Sternhold-Hopkins psalter attached. The psalter, a translation of psalms set to music, is the earliest known hymnal in English. • The University of Delaware, Newark, has a quired an extensive group of letters by American e-author Djuna Barnes (1892-1974). The collection contains 224 letters— numbering more than 800 pages—written by Barnes to her friend and fellow American expatriot, author Emily Coleman. They span a 40-year period beginning in 1934 and in clude an early typescript excerpt from Barnes’ most famous novel, Nightwood. Barnes had great diffi edculty in attracting a publisher for the book, and complained in February 1934 that “all say that it is not a novel; that there is no continuity or life in it, only high spots and poetry.” Coleman campaigned actively for the book, which was published by Fa ber and Faber in 1936 at the instigation of T.S. Eliot. • The University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Ma Sound Archives and the Conservatory Library have received a gift of cylinder recordings and sheet music from Dr. James Hopkins of Kansas City. The 341 cylinders in the collection, which is comprised primarily of popular music recorded be tween 1900 and 1929, include rare cylinders of speeches by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, as well as speeches on vari yous topics by Senator William Jennings Bryan. The 1,600 pieces of sheet music, which will be added to the Library’s Popular American Sheet Music Col lection, likewise date mostly from the early 20th century and include a large number of rare ragtime pieces as well as Kansas City and Missouri publica tions. • The University of Pittsburgh’s Library Scien Library, Pennsylvania, has received a collection of 274 historically notable children’s books from Mrs. Charles Covert Arensberg. Included are many first editions and numerous books with illustrations by artists such as Louis Boutet de Monvel, Walter Crane, Henriette Willebeek Le Mair, Gustave Doré, Charles and William Heath Robinson, Ho ward Pyle, Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, W illy Pogány, Kay Nielsen and Feodor Ro- jankovsky. Grants c­ • Fort Valley State College, Georgia, has bee c- rr ce n May 1988 / 309 awarded a $40,100 grant by the W .K . Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan, to develop a videotape collection for persons who might not otherwise patronize the library. Together with North Carolina A&T State University, the FVSC Cooperative Extension program will develop a se ries of 15- and 30-minute videos designed to appeal specifically to small and part-time farmers, single p aren t fam ilies, inner city youths, and other groups with limited economic and educational re sources. Subjects to be covered will include agricul ture and natural resources, home economics, 4-H, youth and community and rural development. Once completed, the tapes will be available for check-out or loan at local Extension offices, or open to viewing at various community sites. Fort Valley State will use a second Kellogg grant of $40,132 to complete the equipping of its unique mobile teaching trailer. Known as Track III: New Educational Delivery Systems Mobile Teaching Unit for Adult Learners, the 45-foot customized trailer, built with the help of an earlier Kellogg grant, features an onboard generator that will en able it to function in isolated areas lacking the nec essary power sources. The trailer’s main function will be to heighten awareness of the variety of elec tronic and non-traditional means of access to infor mation among local librarians, educators, health officials and others. • George Washington University, Washingt D .C ., has received a $54,951 grant from the Na tional Historical Publications and Records Com­ mission to develop an archives and records man agement program for the University. Principal activities will include survey identification of his torically valuable records, creation of a compre hensive organizational plan, and definition of poli cies and procedures for appraisal, arrangement, description, preservation, housing and servicing of records. The grant is for a two-year period. • Ohio State University, Columbus, has re- ceived th e first y e a r’s funds of a th ree-y ear, $170,725 grant from the U.S. Department of Edu­ cation’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecon­ dary Education. The grant is being used to develop microcomputer programs for students not familiar w ith lib rary autom ation. P art of Ohio S tate’s “Gateway P ro ject,” the programs will function as an introduction to the library’s mainframe system, as well as other specialized databases, without re quiring specialized knowledge. •T he University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, has been awarded a $172,571 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to begin the bib liographic phase of the Arkansas Newspaper Proj ect. Begun in January, the phase will involve the inventorying and cataloging of nearly 2,600 news paper titles held by libraries throughout the state. Work is expected to proceed through the end of 1989. • The University of California system has re­ ceived a continuation grant of $160,236 from the National Library of Medicine to fund the third year of the M ELV Y L M ED LIN E project. The grant covers the period from April 1 of this year through M arch 31 , 1989, and brings the total amount awarded to $521,392. During the second year of the p ro ject, the M E L V Y L M ED LIN E database of 900,000 records was released for public access in the UC health and life sciences libraries. The emphasis during the final year will be on train ing and refinement of the system based on user evaluation. The database will also be made avail able in all UC libraries. • The University of Maryland, College Park, has received a $192,255 NEH grant for its Mary- landia Department to locate, catalog, and prepare a guide to all Maryland newspapers as part of the United States Newspaper Project. It is estimated that more than 1,400 newspapers have been pub lished in Maryland since the Maryland Gazette ap peared in Annapolis in 1827. The project is ex­ pected to take two years. •The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has received a $125,000 grant from the Andrew W . Mellon Foundation to establish three one-year in ternships in preservation management. The posi tions will provide professional-level training for qualified librarians seeking administrative posi tions in library preservation and conservation pro on,grams. They are aimed primarily at experienced li brarians in mid-career. News notes • Eckerd C ollege, St. P etersbu rg, F lo rid a , hosted the third Earlham College-Eckerd College Bibliographic Instruction Conference from Febru ary 3 -5 . Ninety-three librarians and classroom fac ulty representing 69 institutions attended from 24 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada. In addition to presentations by Earlham head librar ian Evan F arber, and by librarians, faculty and ad ministrators of Earlham and Eckerd, six vendors demonstrated CD-ROM technology. •George Washington University, Washington, D .C ., has received a new contract extending the University’s role as the national clearinghouse for information on higher education. The contract places the U.S. Department of Education’s Educa tional Resources Inform ation Center (E R IC ) at George Washington for an additional five years, 1988- 1993. E R IC has been maintained at the uni­ versity since 1968. • Purdue University L ib raries’ Independent Study Center, West Lafayette, Indiana, was pre­ sented with one of three affirmative action awards by the president of the university. The unit was rec ognized for its programs for the visually impaired with a plaque and a check for $7,000. The service provides a reader program, audio and visual aids, 310 / C&RL News and special equipment including a Perkins Brailer and a speed synthesizer. •The University of Hawaii at Manoa Library, in partnership with the University Computing Center, opened a new Computerized Learning and Information Center in February. Students, faculty and staff can use the Center’s equipment to access information via computer workstations and related equipment. Computer-assisted instruction programs involving software that aids skill devel opment are being emphasized. Faculty are encour aged to deposit “reserve” copies of their own pro­ grams or com m ercially purchased softw are (within copyright limitations). The C LIC features 80 workstations incorporating IBM and Macintosh PCs as well as dumb terminals, dot matrix and la ser printers, and nine PLATO terminals. •The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio now offers access to the Microme- dex Corporation’s Computerized Clinical Infor­ mation System. The CCIS database contains infor m ation on drugs, poisonings, and emergency treatment through the D RUGDEX, POISINDEX, and EM ERG IN DEX files, and is available to au thorized users of the library’s VAX system at any li brary terminal. CCIS is generally located in hospi tals and emergency centers. P EO P L E Profiles MARY L OU GOODYEAR, assistant director for in struction and research services at the Auraria L i brary of the University of Colorado, has been ap pointed assistant direc tor for public services at Iowa State University, Ames. Goodyear’s accom plishments at the Auraria Library have included the implementation of a cooperative online pub lic access catalog, a con tinuing program of staff development for supervi sors, and an organization development planning Mary Lou Goodyearproject for library fac ulty. She also initiated a document delivery service for students and faculty. A graduate of Graceland College (1974), Good year received an MLS (1975) and a master’s degree in public administration (1981) from the Univer sity of Missouri. She will receive a doctorate in pub lic administration from the University of Colorado this year. From 1981 to 1983 Goodyear was head of the Reference Department at Wichita State University and was previously a referen ce lib ra ria n (1979-1981) at Stephens College and at the Univer sity of Missouri (1976-1979). She has been a library consultant and has authored articles in several pro fessional journals and given presentations. PAUL H . MOSHER, deputy director of libraries at Stanford University since 1985, has been named vice provost and director of the library system at the University of Penn sylvania, Philadelphia. At Penn, Mosher will be responsible for a system encom passing 15 l i braries containing more than three million vol umes. Mosher joined the staff at Stanford in 1975 as assistant director for collection development and later became direc­ tor for collection devel­ Paul H. Mosheropment and director for research services. He was assistant professor of history at the University of Washington from 1966 to 1975, serving as chair man of its Medieval and Renaissance Studies Group. Mosher has also spent many summers as visiting professor at Trinity College’s Rome, Italy, campus. A regular lecturer in Stanford’s Religious Studies Program, Mosher has received numerous awards and distinctions, including a Fulbright-Hays Sen ior Research Scholarship in Italy (1971), and the Blackwell North America Scholarship for the best article in the area of library resources (1984).