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 volved in seeking inform ation on a research topic May 1988 / 323 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 THE CLASSIFIED ADS Deadlines: Orders for regular classified advertisements must reach the ACRL office on or before the second of the month preced ing publication of the issue (e.g. September 2 for the October issue). 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Con tact: SLIS, C atholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064; (202) 635-5085. 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 of lectures, dem onstrations, discussions, and workshops. Keynote speaker: Bernard M. Ro senthal. CEUs: 3.0. Free: $450 (deposit due by July 1, check payable to Book Seminars, Inc.). Contact: M argaret K. Goggin, 4024 N.W. 15th Street, Gainesville, FL 32605; (904) 378-8144. 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). 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