ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


322 /  C&RL News

H erbert C. Morton and others (151 pages, April 
1988), is an annotated bibliography of books and 
articles on publishing, libraries, scholarly research, 
and issues related to the advancement of learning
in the humanities and social sciences. It provides 
substantial annotation for more than 100 books 
and journal articles as well as a listing of an addi­
tional 150 related titles. H erbert C. Morton, for­
merly director of the Office of Scholarly C om m un­
ic a tio n  an d  T echnology, discusses th e  m ajo r 
themes emerging from the literature in an intro­
ductory essay. Copies are available for $27.50 
(hardback) or $14.75 (paper) from the University 
Press of America, 4720 Boston W ay, L anham , MD 
20706. ISBN 0-8191-6825-4; 0-8191-6826-2 (pb).

• Die Wunderbare Neue Welt, compiled by Ilse 
E. Kramer (229 pages, 1988), is the first “pilot edi­

 

tion” of a comprehensive list of G erm an books and 
related materials about the Americas in the John 
C arter Brown Library from 1493 to 1840. This vol­
ume begins w ith a 1474 calendar by Joannes Re­
giomontanus (a copy of which Columbus carried 
w ith him on his fourth voyage) and ends w ith the 
b e g in n in g  of th e  T h irty  Years’ W a r in 1618. 
Roughly one q u a rte r of th e L ib ra ry ’s G erm an 
Americana holdings are listed; some 1,500 entries 
will be included in subsequent fascicles, bringing 
the im print dates forw ard to 1840. The catalogue 
lists work by G erm an authors in any language and 
works by non-Germ an authors th a t were trans­
lated into Germ an. A limited num ber of copies are 
available for sale at $20 from the John C arter 
B row n L ib rary , Brow n U niversity, Box 1894, 
Providence, RI 02912. ■ ■

CALENDAR

May
23-24—Electronic text: “The Coming of Age of 

Electronic T ext,” a sem inar presented by the 
Study Group on the Structure of Electronic Text, 
w ill be held a t C arnegie M ellon U niversity, 
Pittsburgh. The seminar program consists of five 
parts: real-w o rld  experience w ith  electronic 
text; the capture of information; text processing; 
structuring text for interaction and retrieval; 
and issues in the economics of inform ation. Pre­
sentations will feature discussion of m ark-up 
language, projects w here the full text of docu­
ments are m ade available online, the possibilities 
of hypertext, copyright issues, and the distribu­
tion of information. Registration fee: $150. Con­
tact: SGSET Office, H unt Library, Carnegie 
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; (412) 
268-8599.

June
4 -7 —Serials: Annual Conference, North Ameri­

can Serials Interest Group, Oglethorpe Univer­
sity, Atlanta. Contact: Ann Vidor, 1981 Inwood 
Road, Atlanta, GA 30329; (404) 894-4523.

8-1 0 —SUNY: 20th Annual Conference, State Uni­
versity of New York L ib ra ria n s Association, 
SUNY M aritime College, Bronx. Topics will in­
clude: innovative ways to handle stress; CD- 
ROM; BITNET; electronic mail; technology 
anxiety; and locally developed micro programs.

R e g istra tio n  d e a d lin e  is M ay 13. C o n ta c t: 
Stephen B. Luce Library, SUNY M aritime Col­
lege, Fort Schuyler, Bronx, NY 10465; (212) 409­
7231.

21- 23—Rare books: 29th A ntiquarian Book Fair, 
Park Lane Hotel, Piccadilly, London, organized 
by the A ntiquarian Booksellers’ Association. The 
fair will be opened by BBC-TV film critic Barry 
Norman. A special exhibit will commemorate 
T.S. Eliot’s birth in 1888. Contact: Secretary, 
Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association, Suite 2, 26 
Charing Cross Road, London W C2H ODG.

22- 25—Publishing: “Scholarly Publishing: An E n ­
dangered Species?” is the them e of the 10th an­
nual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Pub­
lishing, Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers. 
The opening reception will be held at the Boston 
Athenaeum. Keynote address will be given by 
Patricia Battin, president of the Commission on 
Preservation and Access. Full registration fee be­
fore June 10: SSP members $225, non-members 
$275; onsite, $250 and $300. Contact: SSP’88 
Meeting Registration, P.O. Box 53421, W ash­
ington, DC 20009; (202) 328-3555.

27-July 1—User instruction: “T he Inform ation 
Search Process,” a residential institute intended 
for practicing librarians, will be held at the 
Rutgers School of Com m unication, Inform ation 
and Library Studies. Each participant will be in­
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for presentation to the group. The institute will 
be conducted by C arol K uhlthau and M ary 
George. Contaet: Jana Varlejs, Director of Pro­
fessional Development, SCILS, Rutgers Univer­
sity, 4 Huntingdon Street, New Brunswick, NJ; 
(201) 932-7146.

30-July 9—Northern Ireland: Tour of Irish library 
collections, including the Ulster Folk and Trans­
port Museum, Ulster-American Folk Park, Fer­
managh Museum, Armagh Public Library, Ar­
magh Museum, Queen’s University of Belfast, 
Linenhall Library, and others. The program is 
offered by the British Council in association with 
the Ulster Historical Foundation. Fee: $400 (in­
cludes accommodations, most meals, and trans­
p o rt in N o rth ern  Irelan d ). C ontact: C arm el 
McGill, Northern Ireland Cultural Exchanges 
Officer, The British Council, British Embassy, 
3100 Massachusetts Avenue, N .W ., Washing­
ton, DC 20008; (202) 898-4277.

July
22-29—New technology: Summer institute on 

“Technology in Transition: Issues, Dilemmas, 
and T rends,” sponsored by Nova University’s 
Center for Computer-Based Learning, Airport 
Hilton, D ania, Florida. Keynote speakers in­
clude Cecil Beach, Roger W yatt, and John Blair. 
Topics: LANs, optical disk technology, artificial 
intelligence an d  expert systems, interactive 
video, and computer-based training. Contact: 
M arlyn K em per, D irecto r, Inform ation Sci­
ences, C enter for Computer-Based Learning, 
N ova U n iv ersity , 3301 C ollege A ve., F o rt 
Lauderdale, FL 33314; (305) 475-7047.

August
1-12—Federal libraries: 16th annual Institute on 

Federal L ibrary Resources, sponsored by the 
Catholic University of America’s School of Li­

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7-12—Rare books: 10th annual Out-of-Print and 
A n tiq u arian  Book M arket Sem inar, Driscoll 
University Center, University of Denver. A com­
prehensive survey of the market through a series 
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October
17-20—EUSIDIC: Annual conference, European 

Association of Information Services, Heidelberg, 
Germany. Speakers include: Brigitte Henne­
mann (Genios), Clemens Jochum (Beilstein In­
stitute), David W hitaker (Whitakers), Christian 
D uteuil (CN IC), Hans H aller (University of 
Saarbrücken), Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, 
Jacques Michel (International Patent Office), 
Peter Jones (DEC), and Ev Brenner (API). Con­
tact: Barbara Sarjeant, EUSIDIC, First Floor 
Offices, 9/9A High Street, Calne, Wiltshire, E n­
gland.

20-24—Paper: “Papermaking by Hand in Amer­
ica,” a national conference on paperm aking, 
sponsored by the Friends of the Lilly Library and 
the Friends of the D ard Hunter Paper Museum, 
Indiana University Bloomington. A tour of the 
Twinrocker Handm ade Paper Mill in Brookston, 
Indiana, is scheduled. Contact: Friends of the 
Lilly Library, Lilly Library, Indiana Univer­
sity, Bloomington, IN 47405.

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