ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries I l l News From the Field A C Q U IS IT IO N S • The library of the University of Al ­ berta in recent months has purchased the collections of two private collectors of Western Americana, covering such fields as history, In ­ dians, travel, and literature. The first collection, the Robert Woods Collection, was purchased in Los Angeles, the second, the Alfred Powers Collection, came from Portland, Oregon. The two collections number about 20,000 volumes, and place this university library first in Canada as a centre for research and study of the his­ tory and development of the Western United States. Perhaps the finest collection of books in pri­ vate hands on early western Americana was sold by the estate of Robert S. Woods at auction in Los Angeles. The collection num­ bers some 6,500 volumes and contains some of the rarest books in this field. It covers every aspect of the subject from rare atlases to the best of the Pacific Coast voyages and from the Cattle Trade to detailed histories of California and Los Angeles. Expeditions to the Rockies, railroad reports, long runs of historical maga­ zines, fine early pamphlets, bibliographies, the North American Indians, and even rare literary first editions were included. Woods was in­ terested in every aspect of his chosen subject even to the extent of collecting limited editions, Private Press books, fine bindings and fine il­ lustrated books where they impinged on the subject. Perhaps the best example of this is that he had a nearly complete collection of the Grabhorn Press publications some of which are so scarce as to have been issued only in editions of 15-20 copies. The second collection was put together over thirty-five years by Dean Alfred Powers, some 14,000 volumes in all. The books all pertaining to the West, include 1,150 volumes on Alaska alone. There are missionary writings, geology, botany, forestry, logging, agriculture, the Co­ lumbia River, wild life, churches, discovery and exploration—170 in the latter category alone. Some 240 books are on Indians, another 280 are elementary schoolbooks used in the Amer­ ican W est before 1900, and 560 are books by western authors; there are 90 by or about Bret H arte alone. The collection is by no means limited to the W est coast b u t is strong in the writings relating to the Plateau states, and the Plains states as far east as the Dakotas. Among the “gems” in the collection is one of the three copies in existence of The Sazerac Lying Club (1878). All the Hudson’s Bay Record Society publications are present. The collections are in the process of being processed by the library b ut will not be generally available to users for some time. • The library of The Ontario Institute for Studies in E ducation ( O ISE ) has pur­ chased the larger part of the library of the Canadian Association for Adult Education (CAAE), including all books, pamphlets and journals published through 1965. The CAAE continues to operate a current information serv­ ice. This collection is comprehensive with re­ spect to Canadian materials and contains other relevant publications as well; it comprises 1,800 books, 2,600 pamphlets and the contents of 48 vertical file drawers. It will be maintained and enlarged by the OISE library as part of its own collection, and is available for use in general circulation in the library and for inter- library loan. Donations to the OISE Library of single items or special materials which will help to build up this unique collection would be appreciated. OISE, a centre for graduate studies, research and development in education, is located at 102 Bloor Street West, Toronto 5, Ontario, Canada. • The Hugh M. Morris Library of the University of D elaware has acquired a large and excellent collection in the history of chemistry consisting of over 2000 volumes pub­ lished from 1494 to 1960. I t was purchased from the firm of L ’Art Ancien of Zurich, Switzerland through Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. of New York. Collected over a period of thirty years by a chemist whose hobby is the history of chemistry, it includes works in alchemy, pharmacy, occult sciences, per­ fumery, and works in physics and medicine related to chemistry. In the collection are many landmarks in the history of chemistry in­ cluding works by Avogadro, Sir Humphry Davy, Justus Liebig, Robert Boyle, Lavoisier, Louis Pasteur, Madame Curie and many oth­ ers. The collection also includes complete files of several extremely rare chemical journals and some ten early manuscripts on alchemy and natural philosophy. The collection will be called the Unidel Collection of the History of Chemistry. • Recent accessions of the manuscript di­ vision of th e Library of Congress have in­ cluded the Eloge civique de Benjamin Franck- lin, the holograph manuscript of the eulogy delivered by Claude Fauchet on July 11, 1790 (Franklin died in Philadelphia, April 17, 1790, at the age of 85). I t was printed later the same year by order of the Paris Commune and presented to the Assemblée Nationale. The Fauchet eulogv comnlements the first. 112 second, and final drafts of Condorcet’s E u ­ logy in th e Library’s Benjamin Franklin Pa­ pers. Additions to the Irving Brant Papers num­ bering approximately 25,000 items have been placed in the Library. These include material concerning James Madison, conservation, and Brant correspondence w ith Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Truman. Permission of the donor is required for access to the Brant Pa­ pers. The League of W omen Voters has donated an additional 30,000 items to the League of Women Voters Records in th e Library of Con­ gress. The recent addition includes records, state files, subject files, and published material, and covers th e 1960-63 period. Approximately 4100 items have been added to the Elmer Gertz Papers, including some 750 items con­ cerning Carl Sandburg which are chiefly cor­ respondence of Gertz w ith Gene Loritz, the photographer. Radio scripts numbering about 4700 items have been added to th e m a­ terials of th e Columbia Broadcasting System in the Library. Those are scripts for various programs during th e period 1935-58 and con­ tain a variety of programs, from “Honest Abe” to “King Arthur’s Court.” Recent additions to the Library’s literary manuscripts include holo­ graph m anuscripts of Robert Frost’s “The Bon­ fire,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (th ree var­ iants), and “On Looking U p by Chance at the Constellations” (apparently a working draft). Another addition to th e literary manuscripts which have been placed in th e Library of Congress are th e very complete manuscripts of the works of Marcia D avenport and m a­ terials related thereto. These include Mozart; O f Lena Geyer; Valley of Decision; East Side, W est Side; M y Brother’s Keeper; Garibaldi; The Constant Image; and Too Strong for Fantasy. Various stages of the compositional and editorial processes are well represented, w ith documentation including research notes, the manuscript in various draft stages, proofs, and press clippings showing th e critical and popular reception of th e work. In addition, there is correspondence w ith editors, agents, and others relating to th e preparation of sev­ eral volumes, the most im portant of which are letters from th e editor, Maxwell E. Perkins of Scribner’s, which are often quite full. The Li­ brary has also added to the Bill M auldin Pa­ pers manuscripts of th e texts of Up Front and Bill Mauldin in Korea. Almost every sheet of the former bears the stamp of a field censor indicating approval for publication. • Robert S. and H elen M. Lynd have given their papers to th e L ibrary of Congress. Al­ though they are probably best known for their husband-wife collaboration on th e famous so­ ciological study, M iddletown, published in 1929 and followed by M iddletown in Transition in 1937, each has had an individual career as well—Mrs. Lynd primarily at Sarah Lawrence College and Mr. Lynd at Columbia University. E ach has also published articles and books of his own. In th e Lynd papers at present are manuscripts and notes for lectures, reviews, ar­ ticles, and addresses; the working m anuscript of Helen Lynd’s On Shame and th e Search for Identity; m uch of the research material gath­ ered while the Lynds were working on the re­ port which became Middletown; and m uch m a­ terial concerning the reception of their several works. There is also a small amount of profes­ sional correspondence, some w ith correspond­ ents also interested in the social sciences, such as David Riesman, Charles Beard, Saul Alinsky, Jacques Barzun, Harold Laski, and Erich Fromm. Permission for access to th e Lynd p a ­ pers m ay be sought through the Chief of the M anuscript Division. • A significant addition to the Cuban collec­ tion of the U niversity of Mia m i library has been announced by Dr. Archie L. McNeal, di­ rector of UM libraries. W ith th e purchase of “Gaceta Ofìcial de la Republica de Cuba,” the Otto G. Richter Library becomes one of two university libraries in the country to own a complete set of the Gazette published daily since 1902. The University of Missouri also has all volumes of the Gazette. The Official Gazette contains all laws and decrees of the Cuban gov­ ernment. It lists also the Tribunal’s decisions, all government appointments and positions, and all government registrations. An official appoint­ m ent is not considered legal in Cuba until it has been published in the Gazette. A four vol­ ume index to the Gazette by Milo A. Borges, “Compilacion ordenada y completa d e la legis- lacion Cubana de 1899-1950,” will be used in conjunction w ith the publication. The Borges index lists all laws and legislation and is a cross reference to the Official Gazette. • Manuscripts from the prolific pen of New York state authoress Alida W right Malkus have been added to th e special library collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Mrs. Malkus, a native of the Genesee Valley of New York, who now resides in New York City, is both a free-lance w riter and illustrator. During her writing career the authoress has produced more than 40 books, most of which have been translated into eight languages. Among her m any works are such creations as Raquel of th e Ranch Country, a 1927 H arcourt publica­ tion; Caravans to Santa Fe, Harper, 1928; The Silver Llama, Winston, 1941; and Along the Inca Highway, a 1941 H eath publication. • A rare, uncut copy of a first edition of a 113 literary masterpiece by Jonathan Swift has been acquired by the Cornell University library. The work, considered one of the best known by the Irish author and satirist, is titled A Modest Proposal for preventing the Children of Poor People from being a burthen to their Par­ ents or the Country, and for making them Ben- efitial to the Publick. Published in 1729, the 16-page book is an ironic letter of advice in which a public-spirited citizen of Ireland sug­ gests that that country’s social conditions could be improved if children were used for food. George H. Healey, Cornell’s curator of rare books, said the acquisition caps many years of searching for the book, which joins the Uni­ versity’s Kaufmann collection of Swift’s works, one of the principal collections of that author’s writings. The collection was left to the Universi­ ty by the late Eugene M. Kaufmann, Jr., a Philadelphia investment banker, who started a collection of Swift’s works about 20 years ago. • Drake Memorial Library at SUNY Brock­ port has acquired the Morgan Papers. The official journals of the Globe Iron Works, also known as the D. S. Morgan Company, have been presented to Drake Memorial Library by the Morgan family. Dayton S. Morgan was one of the owners of this firm which operated in Brockport, New York from about 1844 until 1895. This firm has the distinction of being the first reaper factory in the world. They manufactured the first successful McCormick reapers for the harvest of 1846. The papers consist of company transactions, correspondence with salesmen throughout the United States and Europe and official records of court cases which ensued between Cyrus McCormick and the company regarding patent rights. • Oregon State University has received a gift of ten incunabula from F. A. Gilfillan, re­ tired Dean of Sciences at OSU. The gift, pre­ sented on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Oregon State University, represents examples of Italian and German printing from 1480 to 1498. The rarest items are two works of Lam- bertus de Monte ( a prominent Thomist of Cologne, d. 1499) Copulata super tres libros Aristotelis De anima iuxta doctrinam Thomae de Aquino [Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, about 1492] and Copulata super octo libros Phy- sicorum Aristotelis iuxte doctrinam doctoris Thomae de Aquino, Cologne, Heinrich Quentell [14:93. The latter is the only recorded copy in the United States. • J. Alan Montgomery, Jr., President of the Board of Trustees of The Free Library of Philadelphia, has recently presented the li­ brary with a group of thirty-six notebooks be­ longing to James Wilson, signer of the Declara­ tion of Independence and a major framer of the Constitution. The notebooks are largely in Wil­ son’s handwriting and constitute the first part of a series of lectures on law delivered at the University of Pennsylvania in 1790 and 1791. The lectures deal primarily with Wilson’s phi­ losophy of law and legal education. They were published in 1804. These notebooks are a note­ worthy addition to the Free Library’s law col­ lection, which is particularly devoted to the his­ tory and development of law in England and America. Miss Ellen Shaffer, head of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library, notes that “Wilson strove to be regarded as the American Blackstone and used the lecture se­ ries as an opportunity to lay the foundations of an American system of jurisprudence.” A W A R D S • The Academy of American Poets has awarded its 1969 fellowship, which carries a stipend of $5,000 and is awarded for distin­ guished poetic achievement, to Richard Eber­ hart, who will complete his second 3-year term as Honorary Consultant in American Letters to the Library of Congress in March and who served as the Library’s Consultant in Poetry in English in 1959-61. In 1962 Mr. Eberhart was co-winner of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and he received a Pulitzer Prize for his Selected Poems 1930-65. B U IL D IN G S • The first joint-venture library building completely merging the staffs and collections of two schools of higher education will be built in Baltimore. To be constructed on the campuses of the College of Notre Dame and Loyola College, the proposed structure is now in the design-development stage. Announcement of this major step toward construction was made February 7, 1969, by Sister Mary Elissa, SSND, acting president of the College of Notre Dame, and the Very Reverend Joseph A. Sellinger, SJ, president of Loyola. It is expected that con­ struction of the $3,500,000 educational struc­ ture will begin within the year, with comple­ tion in the Fall of 1971. Extensive evaluation of the facilities of both colleges over the last four years preceded the selection of the site northeast of the Evergreen Estate between the two institutions. Loyola and Notre Dame, rep­ resented by a Library Corporation and Board of Trustees, under the chairmanship of the Most Reverend T. Austin Murphy, Vicar-General of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, have agreed on the general development scheme submitted by the architectural firm of Meyer, Ayers, and Saint. Constructed with provisions for future expansion, the modernistic four-level building will have space for 310,000 volumes. The main entrance will be on the second level, and the study areas will accommodate 700 readers in 114 a variety of seatings. A joint library planning subcommittee composed of four librarians rep­ resenting the two institutions prepared the re­ quirements for the 80,000 square foot building. Sister Mary Ian, SSND and Mr. William Kir- w an wrote the building program, with the as sistance of Sister Mary David, SSND and the Reverend William Davish, SJ. They placed special emphasis on interior relationships, ex pansion, and adaptability to future needs. I N T E R N A T I O N A L SCE N E • The following projects are presently bein carried out by The International Federation o Documentation under contracts with UNESCO: 10-Year Supplement (1959-1968) to the Tri lingual Abridged Edition of the UDC— $200 for preparing the manuscript by 1 Decembe 1968, to be followed by another contract fo publication in the Spring of 1969. The wor is being carried out by the FID Secretariat. Abstracting services in science and technology— $2500 for preparation and publication of th 2nd edition of FID 372 by 1 December 1969. The work is being carried out by th FID Secretariat, which will add the fields of medicine and agriculture. Note: a further contract is being negotiated for the second edition of the abstracting service in Social Sciences and Humanities in FID 372. Congressional Digest PRO&con M icrofilm All volum es of Congressional D igest since 1921 are now available on 16mm positive m icrofilm in m in im u m u n its of one vol­ um e-year. R ates: $8 p e r volum e; 5 o r m ore volum es @ $7.50 each. 45-year basic lib rary , 1921- 1966, $320. A n n u al in d e x reel (1921- 1968), $5. S tan d in g orders accepted. F o r free descriptive b ro ch u re, w rite: C on gression al D ig est 3231 I St. N .W ., W a sh in g to n D.C. 20007 ­ ­ g f ­ 0 r r k e e s Manual on the application of mechanization and data processing to documentation and library work— $4000 for preparing a manu­ script giving practical recommendations of particular interest for developing countries. The work is undertaken jointly by VINITI, Moscow, and the Bochum University Library in Germany and shall be completed by 1 September 1969. Guide for an introductory course on documen­ tation—$2500 for preparing the manuscript which shall include the syllabus and text, both for theoretical lessons and practical work. The work, undertaken by VINITI, Moscow, is to be completed by 1 July 1969. A study on the international standardization of library and documentation techniques—$3000 for establishing a report on minimum re­ quirements of standardization. The study is being carried out by the Hungarian Com­ mittee for Documentation; IFLA experts co­ operate in the study which shall be com­ pleted by 31 October 1969. Minimum standards for professional training of librarians and documentalists—$3000. Prof. Z. Majewski, Chairman of F ID /T D , co-op­ erates in the preparation of the study, for which the major contractor is IFLA ( Mr. J. Letheve, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris). The projects shall be completed in 1969. • Eight countries are reported to have agreed on adoption of the British standard book numbering system: United States, France, Ger­ many, Great Britain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark and Norway. Study and sponsorship are conducted through a special committee of the International Standards Organization. M E E T IN G S April 14-15: Institute in Houston jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Infor­ mation Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and the Rice University libraries, to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which became available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisi­ tions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of tech­ nical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISA D /LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, 111. 60611, with fee of $47. April 25-26: “New England College Li­ braries Association will meet on April 25-26, 1969 at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.” May 2-3: Fourteenth annual Midwest Aca­ demic Librarians Conference a t Miami Uni­ versity, Oxford, Ohio. 115 May 5-7: A symposium on The Computer Utility—-Implications for Higher Education will be held jointly by the Interuniversity Com­ munications Council and the Whittemore School of Business Economics of the University of New Hampshire, with sponsorship by the National Science Foundation. Inclusive dates are May 5-7, 1969 at the Sheraton Wayfarer Inn, Manchester, New Hampshire. The sym­ posium stems from the Federal Communications Commission inquiry concerning regulatory and policy problems caused by the interdependence of computer and communication services and facilities. Its purpose is two-fold: to present authoritative opinions on the impact of a regu­ lated computer utility on those areas where computers use interfaces with higher education, and to determine what should be an education­ al policy toward the computer utility concept. There will be two days of panel sessions and a third day of workshops at which the panelists and interested parties will attempt to coalesce presentations into a cohesive viewpoint. The panel sessions will deal with: Implications for the Information Sciences; Implications for Data Banks; Implications for Libraries and Informa­ tion Services; and Implications for Instruction and Testing. Featured speakers at luncheon and dinner meetings will be Senator Ralph Yar­ borough of Texas and the Honorable Lee Loevinger, former FCC Commissioner and As­ sistant Attorney General for the United States in Antitrusts. Symposium directors are Profes­ sors Michael Duggan and Manley Erwin, both of the Whittemore School of Business Eco­ nomics. Further information can be obtained from Professor Duggan at: Computer/Educa- tion Symposium, Box 68, Durham, New Hamp­ shire 03824, telephone: (603) 868-5511, ext. 739. May 5-9: Third International Congress of Medical Librarianship in Amsterdam. The theme of the Congress is “World Progress in Medical Librarianship.” The subject areas in­ clude the contribution of medical libraries to­ ward an increase of biomedical knowledge; the functions of medical libraries in the transmis­ sion of biomedical knowledge; the functions of the organization of medical knowledge: index­ ing and classification; modern information sys­ tems in medicine; technical developments in the medical library field; and problems of med­ ical information systems and centers in devel­ oping countries. There will be invited lecturer’s, as well as contributed, papers. Registration fee is $60. Registration forms are available from the office of the Secretary-General. Information about special transportation to Amsterdam from the United States will be available from Mrs. Jacqueline W. Felter, The Medical Library Center of New York, 17 East 102 Street, New York 10029, and for Canada from Miss Doreen Fraser, Dalhousie University Medical Dental Library, Carleton and College Streets, Halifax, Nova Scotia. May 10: The Annual May meeting of the Tri-State Chapter, ACRL will be held on May 10, 1969 at Indiana State University, Indiana, Pennsylvania. June: The American University has an­ nounced an Institute on Document Identifica­ tion Systems to be held in Washington, D.C. in June 1969. Suggestions for system proposals, relevant topics which should be treated or other program matters are invited. They should be addressed to Professor Lowell H. Hattery, The American University, 1901 F Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. June 8-14: The School of Library and In­ formation Services, University of Maryland, will conduct an Institute on Middle Management in Librarianship. The Institute is planned as a response to the clearly expressed need for ap­ propriate training of the increasing number of librarians who are functioning in middle-level administrative roles. The Institute is being or­ ganized with the view that some of these needs can be met through an intensive program uti­ lizing a number of small group and discovery techniques stressing maximum participant in­ volvement. The Director of the Institute will be Dr. James Liesener, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Services with Mr. Edward S. Warner, Assistant Professor, serving as Associate Director. Faculty members from the School of Library and Information Services representing both library science and other sub­ ject disciplines as well as outside management consultants will complete the staff. Forty par­ ticipants will be chosen from eligible applicants. All practicing librarians will be eligible with special preference given to those in middle- level managerial roles in libraries and informa­ tion centers. The program will be funded by the Office of Education under the Higher E du­ cation Act, Title II-B program and each partici­ pant will receive a per diem stipend. June 16-20: There will be an Art Institute entitled Art Libraries: Their Comprehensive Role in Preserving Contemporary Visual Re­ sources” at the State University of New York at Buffalo. It will be funded by the Higher Edu­ cation Act of 1965, Public Law 89-329, Title II, Part B. Participants will be art librarians, cata- logers of art books, and slide librarians working in art collections of academic institutions or mu­ seums. Registration is limited to 25. Informa­ tion and applications may be requested from Mrs. Florence S. DaLuiso, Art Librarian, Harri­ man Art Library, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y. 14214. B lan ket Order Plan For College Er U n iv e rs ity Libraries A new concept in college library book selection and acquisition enabling you to receive all pertinent U.S. titles as published. This plan provides the following: • Automatic selection and shipment of new U.S. titles according to your predetermined guidelines and selection criteria. • Automatic preparation of your m ultiple-copy order slips • Automatic notification by temporary shelf list card copy o f the books to be shipped • Automatic return privileges on books deemed to be unsuitable. Although the details of this plan are processed on a computer, we still examine each book thoroughly before shipment thereby eliminating unsuitable titles and reducing returns. We use the "Publishers' Weekly" Weekly Record as the basis for our selections. An annotated copy of the "Publishers' Weekly Record is sent to you so that you may check and verify our selections and shipments. 4 Steps to th e P lan 1 We send you an annotated 2 We prepare a multiple- 3 We send you a temporary 4 You receive the books with copy of the "Publishers’ part order form for each shelf list copy of the titles additional copies of the Weekly" Weekly Record title you will receive. you will be receiving. multiple-part form in the with our selections. front cover o f each book. WEEKLY RECORD SPEIZM A N, Milton D . comp. Î O l . J W W Î Î Urban America in the twentieth century; documents selected, ed. by Milton D. Speiz- man. New York, T .Y . Crowell [1968) x, 228p. 20cm. (Crowell source readers in Amer. hist.) [HT123.S67] 68-13386 pap., / . Cities and towns — U. S. 2. U. S. — Soc. condit. — 1945- I. Title. SPENCE. John Edward 968.6 Lesotho: the politics of dependence (by) J. E. Spence. London, New York [etc ] pub. for the Inst, of Race Relations [by] Ox­ ford Univ. Pr.. 1968. [8], 88p. map. 21cm. Bibi. [DT787.4.S63] 68-93949 pap , 2.00 Temporary Shelf List SP IN XA . Matthew. 1890- 209' 496 A history o f Christianity in the Balkans; a study in the spread of Byzantine culture among the Slavs [Hamden. Conn.) Archon 1968 [cl933] 202p. 23cm. Bfl›l. [BR737.S6S6 1968 ] 68-20379 600 1. Slavs. Southern- -Church history. 2. Orthodox Eastern Church— Hist. I. Title. IL Title: Christianity in the Balkans. STONE, Wilfred Healey. 808.04-275 1917- ed. Form and thought in prose [ed. by] Wil­ fred Stone, Robert Hoopes. 3d ed. New York. Ronald [1968] viii, 804p. 22cm. [PS 645 S8 1968] 68-19839 6 75 I . College readers. I. Hoopes, Robert, loint ed. I I . Title. Textbook for freshman English courses in composition or expository writing. New selections have been added since the pub­ lication of the second edition in 1960. M ID W E S T LIBRARY SERVICE 11400 Dorsett Road Maryland Heights, Missouri 63042 For additional information, call us collect in St. Louis at 314-845-3100. 116 117 June 17-20: Puerto Rico will be the site of the Fourteenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, June 17-20, 1969. The acquisition of Latin American scientific and technological materials will be the special topic for discussion. Other ses­ sions will deal w ith progress made in the past year on matters concerning the booktrade and acquisitions, bibliography, exchange of publica­ tions, official publications, photoduplication o f Latin American materials, and archives. Meet­ ings of the Seminar Committees will take place on Wednesday morning, June 18. The first gen­ eral session will be held Wednesday afternoon to initiate committee and progress reports, and the last one on Friday morning, June 20. Meet­ ings of the Executive Board of the newly incor­ porated SALALM will b e held on the evening of Tuesday, June 17, and at luncheon on Wednes­ day, June 18. Institutional registration in the Fourteenth Seminar is $15.00, which includes preprint working papers only available through payment of the institutional registration. These papers, including the Progress Report on books in the Americas, will be distributed at th e time of the meeting to participants and to those registered but not attending. The registration fee for additional participants from the institu­ tion registering is $7.50, and includes preprint working papers. Additional sets of working pa­ pers can be subscribed to in advance for $5.00 each. The Final Report and Working Papers will be subsequently published by the Pan American Union. Information on the content of the program and working papers can be procured from Mr. James Andrews, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439. For other information, refer to the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Pan American Union, W ash­ ington, D.C. 20006. June 29-July 2: Annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Hous­ ton, Tex. July 20-Aug. 1: Third annual Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program at the Uni­ versity of Maryland’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland. Seminar sessions will concentrate on the principal administrative is­ sues which senior managers encounter. Director of the program will be John Rizzo, associate professor, School of Government and Business Administration, George Washington University'. Those interested in further information are in­ vited to address inquiries to the Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742. July 28-Aug. 8: A two-weeks’ institute, to be conducted under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education, will be held at the State Uni­ versity of New York at Buffalo, July 28-August 8, 1969, on the subject of interpersonal and group communications for librarians and infor­ mation specialists. Designed to educate top and intermediate level management of major aca­ demic libraries and school libraries in the skills of group dynamics and conflict management, and set against the background of our new media, the institute’s program will center about an integrated series of laboratory and workshop learning experiences. Information concerning the institute may be obtained from the institute director, Dr. Mary B. Cassata, Reference De­ partment, State University of New York at Buf­ falo Libraries, Buffalo, New York 14214. Aug. 4-6: “The Deterioration and Preserva­ tion of Library Materials” is th e topic for the 34th Annual Conference of the Graduate Li­ brary School, University of Chicago, to be held August 4-6, 1969, in the Center for Continuing Education on the University campus. The gen­ eral director of the program is Professor How­ ard W. Winger of the Graduate Library School, and the speakers have been selected from the fields of conservation, industry, paper chem­ istry, photography, publishing, and librarian- ship. The printed program, including applica­ tion blanks for registration and lodging, will be sent on request to: Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, 1116 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637. Aug. 10-15: “Change Frontiers; Implications for Librarianship,” is the subject of an Institute to be offered at the University of Maryland August 10 to August 15, 1969. The insights of guest lecturers and panelists will provide stimu­ lus for interaction among th e participants as they seek to comprehend, assess, and synthe­ size diverse facets of the library role in a changing world. The shared framework of the participant group will be one of attitude rather than area of expertise. Discussion will incor­ porate consideration of the library environment and current developments in the business, tech­ nological and organizational aspects of the li­ brary’s commodity, information. The Culture, Establishment Responses, The Information In­ dustry, and The Political Behavior of Li­ brarians are major components for the sessions. The Institute will be held at the Adult Educa­ tion Center at the University of Maryland. Par­ ticipation will be limited to 20 applicants, each of whom will receive a $75 stipend, plus $15 for each dependent. Gilda Nimer is Director of the Institute, and direction and continuity for the sessions will be provided by Dean Paul Wasserman and Professor Mary Lee Bundy of the School of Library and Information Services. The Institute is sponsored by th e U.S. Office of Education under Title II-B of the Higher E d ­ ucation Act of 1965. All practicing librarians 118 will be eligible to apply, with special prefer ence given to those who indicate a concer w ith change and an institutional role whic allows for experiment. For more information write to Gilda Nimer, Director, “Change Fron tiers,” School of Library and Information Serv ices, University of Maryland, College Park Maryland 20742. Sept. 1-6: Fourth IATUL (International As sociation of Technological University Libraries Seminar will be held at the Library of th Technological University Delft, The Nether lands, under the direction of Dr. L. J. van de Wolk. This annual international course is ope to all directors or their co-workers from li braries affiliated to universities, institutes or or ganizations of research level. The Semina teaches practical daily international library co operation. Teachers—experts from various coun tries—will introduce the situation and possibili ties of each international method and tech nique. There will be approximately 15 lectures each theme is allocated l ½ hours. The first hal hour is used for a concise survey of the presen day situation or possibilities in the internationa field to be discussed. This introduction is fol lowed by a discussion of at least 45 minutes i which participants and the lecturer contribut from their own experience. The number of par FOR THE RUSSIAN BOOK SECTION Reference and Source Material • Russian Literature: Classics, Contemporary • Linguistics and Literary Criticism • English-Russian and Russian-English Dictionaries • Russian Language Records, Folk Songs and Dramatic Readings • Children’s Literature • Books on Art • Books on Science • Textbooks on mathematics, geography, natural sciences, history, etc. • Socio-Economic Literature • Russian Atlases and Maps • Soviet Magazines and Newspapers Inquire about our out-of-print books and back issue magazines. W rite fo r Catalogs & Prices Phone 212 CH 2-4500 F O U R C O N T I N E N T B O O K C O R P . DEPT, 7 7 0 , 156 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N. Y. 10010 ­ n h , ­ ­ , ­ ) e ­ r n ­ ­ r ­ ­ ­ ­ , f t l ­ n e ­ ticipants is limited to 25 in order to establish good contact and opportunity for efficient dis­ cussions. The official language of the Seminar is English. The fee for the Seminar is Dfl. 400.-; hotel and travel expenses are not in­ cluded in this amount. D ue to the restriction in the number of participants it is advisable to contact the secretariat as soon as possible: Miss B. G. Sinnema, c /o Library of the Technolog­ ical University, 101 Doelenstraat, D ELFT, The Netherlands. Se pt. 2-5: The Second Cranfield Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Re­ trieval Systems will be held from September 2 to September 5, 1969. The Conference will be sponsored jointly by The College of Aeronautics and “Information Storage and Re­ trieval.” Details concerning presentation of pa­ pers or attendance can be obtained from the Conference Director, Cyril Cleverdon, The Col­ lege of Aeronautics, Cranfield, Bedford, Eng­ land. Oct. 1-3: The Missouri Library Association 1969 convention will be in Jefferson City, Mo. Oct. 1-5: 32nd annual meeting of ASIS will be held a t the San Francisco Hilton; San Francisco, California. The Convention Chair­ man for the 1969 meeting is Mr. Charles P. Bourne; Director, Programming Services, Inc.; 999 Commercial Street, Palo Alto, Calif. 94303. Oct. 26-30: 68th annual meeting of the Medical Library Association will be held at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Miss Joan Titley, director of the Kornhauser Me­ morial Medical library, University of Louis­ ville, is convention chairman. The advance pro­ gram and registration forms will be a part of the May, 1969 issue of M LA News. June 28-July 1, 1970: Annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Washington, D.C. Oct. 4-9, 1970: 33rd annual meeting of ASIS will be held at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Con­ vention Chairman for the 1970 meeting is Mr. Kenneth H. Zabriskie, Jr.; Biosciences Infor­ mation Services of Biological Abstracts; 2100 Arch Street; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. M IS C E L L A N Y • The National Aeronautics and Space Ad­ ministration has selected Technical Information Services Co., a subsidiary of Informatics, Inc., Sherman Oaks, Calif., for award of the contract for continued operation of NASA’s Scientific and Technical Information Facility at College Park, Md. (Leasco Systems and Research Cor­ poration, Bethesda, Md. is the former con­ tractor. ) The cost-plus-award free contract, for 119 an amount up to $4.3 million, will run through November 1969, with options for two succeed­ ing one-year periods. The mission of the facility is to acquire and organize worldwide scientific and technical reports in the aerospace sciences; index and abstract documents of value in the exploration of space; prepare announcement journals; process selected items on microfiche for economical reproduction and distribution; and provide a central reference service to NASA and its contractors. • The Association of Research Libraries an­ nounced the establishment of th e Slavic Bibli­ ographic and Docum entation Center. The pur­ pose of this new Center is to help m eet the li­ brary and bibliographic needs of students and scholars working in the field of Slavic studies. It will be located in the headquarters of the ARL at 1527 N ew Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. The Ford Foundation, through a grant of $350,000 to the Association, has provided support for the Center for a three- year period. T he award was made in response to recommendations from the Coordinating Committee for Slavic and East European L i­ brary Resources of the Joint Committee on Slavic Studies and th e Association of Research Libraries. The Joint Committee is composed of a group of scholars draw n from th e American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. The Association of Research Libraries, an organization of th e m a­ jor research libraries in th e United States and Canada, will administer the Center. The Center will undertake a variety of ac­ tivities in order to aid scholars in the field of Slavic studies and th e libraries which serve them. It will make available bibliographic and other reference tools, provide indexing and ab ­ stracting services, and identify and prom ote re­ publication of im portant titles. All of these ac­ tivities will b e focused on publications printed in the Slavic languages, wherever published and w ithout chronological limitations. Policy guidance for th e activities of the Center will be provided by an advisory committee m ade up of professors and librarians. Mr. Marion A. Mil- czewski, director of Libraries at the University of W ashington (S eattle), has been named chairman of th e advisory committee. An ap­ pointm ent to th e position of director of the Center is expected by July 1. The Slavic Bib­ liographic and Documentation Center is the second area center” to be established by the Association of Research Libraries w ith funds from the Ford Foundation. The first, the Center for Chinese Research Materials, began its op­ erations in May, 1968. • American Library Line has announced the availability of a 6-up die cut catalog card sheet suitable for Xeroxing. Xerox tim e and cost are reduced by 50 per cent when compared to the standard 4-up perforated sheet. T he 6-up sheets may be run w ithout the use of a power cutter. Top and bottom of th e cards are smooth and pre-cut; perforations appear only at the sides. Each card is 7.5 X 12.5 cm. when sep­ arated. Stock is offered in both 100 per cent Rag and Permalife and is packed 1000 sheets to th e carton. A p aten t has been applied for. A tem plate Library Kit is also available with this stock. The tem plate aids in positioning mas­ ter cards and eliminates th e black lines repro­ duced at th e card edges. Also included in the kit is a seventeen page booklet, Reproduction of Library Catalog Cards w ith Xerox Models 914 and 720, specifically w ritten for library op­ erations. The Booklet may be ordered separate­ ly for $2.50. F or additional information, please w rite to American Library Line, P.O. Box 2442, Atlanta, Georgia 30318. • The Associated Colleges of the Midwest Central Library began operation in January with over 1500 periodical subscriptions and backfiles, on microform w hen available. Through this cooperative action th e ten mem­ ber libraries are able to more than double their periodical resources. Current subscriptions aug­ m ent local lists and the pooled backfiles di­ minish duplication of valuable b u t seldom used titles. Member colleges’ faculty and students are served w ith copy from the central li­ brary’s holdings through regular inter-library loan requests communicated by teletype. The copy is sent out by first-class mail the same day the request is received. At present, the Central Library is using th e Filmac 400M reader- printer for all microform copies and the 3M 209 copier for paper. Library materials have been purchased through a $270,000 Title II-A grant from the Office of Education. The col­ leges are participating in funding the equip­ ment, supplies and staff salaries. Offices are lo­ cated in the Newberry Library adjacent to the ACM office at 60 W est W alton Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610. • IIT Research Institute has begun develop­ ing an Information Center to provide industry and academic institutions greater access to sci­ entific information, initially concentrating on Chemical Abstracts Service data, according to an announcem ent by M artha E. Williams, M an­ ager of Technical Information Research at IITRI. The center will develop a system for disseminating chemical information to students, university faculties, research personnel, and in­ dustrial chemists. The information will be draw n from com puter tapes prepared by Chemical Abstracts Service (C A S). IIT R I’s technical information research staff is w riting general purpose file, search and output com­ puter programs for use w ith CAS tapes. These 120 programs also will be applicable to other tape resources, such as Biological Abstracts, Engi­ neering Index and NASA STAR, to be incor­ porated as the center expands. Access to scien­ tific information will be provided through pro­ gram services and through search services. Sub­ scribers to abstracting services, such as CAS, can obtain a basic set of computer programs from the center to use in their own computer facilities for searching information tapes. Search services involve matching information tapes maintained at the IITRI Center against interest profile tapes, providing printout of information corresponding to each user’s interests. This printout will be distributed approximately every two weeks as “current awareness reports” to users requesting the service. Special tape searches also will be performed at th e IITRI Center when requested, Miss Williams said. During initial development, CAS references will be offered in a pilot phase on a no-fee basis. After center operations and user reactions have been evaluated, services will be expanded and a fee schedule will b e established to make the center self-supporting. Mr. Eugene S. Schwartz, Senior Scientist with IIT R I’s Tech­ nical Information Research section, is principal investigator for the design and development of center operations. In connection with the cen­ ter, an effort will be made to educate future chemists in computer processing of information. A graduate course titled “Modern Techniques in Chemical Literature” will be taught at Illi­ nois Institute of Technology during the 1968- 69 year. IIT graduate students and faculty ad­ visors will be among the first users of the cen­ ter. • Medical College catalogs on microfiche complete with a reader and an in depth index/ guide are now available from Academic Infor­ mation Methods, Division of Dataflow Systems Inc., Rockville, Md. This INFACTtm informa­ tion system covers U.S. and Canadian Medical Schools. The system consists of an ind ex /guide designed for the medically oriented user, the complete Medical catalogs on microfiche and a portable microfiche reader. The price for the complete 1968-69 system is $195. W ithout the reader, the price is $139.50. Other similar INFACTæM college catalog information systems will b e available in the future. • The Missouri Library Association officers for 1969 are as follows: President Mr. John Herbst Metropolitan Jr. College Librarian 560 W estport Road Kansas City, Mo. 64111 Vice President—-President Elect Mr. Jim Leathers Mid-Continent Public Library Service 605 N. High Independence, Mo. 64050 Secretary Miss Pam W arren Rolling Hills Regional Library 413 N. Belt St. Joseph, Mo. 64506 Treasurer Mrs. Judy Armstrong Southwest Missouri State College Library Springfield, Mo. 65802 • A new Recordak Microfiche Master System consists of 16mm film, which can be cut and assembled in rows to make up master filmcards. U pdated strips can be inserted quickly and eas­ ily among the unchanged rows of images on original master filmcards, before generating new distribution microfiche. Associated equip­ ment in a complete system may consist of the Recordak Micro-File Machine, Model MRD-2, which can microfilm up to 350 documents an hour. A small volume user may choose print distribution microfiche inside his own plant, or may send stripped-up microfiche masters for duplication by a regional Kodak Microfilm Proc­ essing Laboratory. These labs will continue to complete any or all of the steps in this overall production process, including the mail distribu­ tion of microfiche publications. Additional ques­ tions, or requests for more information should be sent to Business Systems Markets Division, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York 14650. • Atlantic Microfilm Corporation has an­ nounced the availability of a microfiche print- er/processor, for which significant advances are claimed. Capable of delivering a diazo micro­ fiche duplicate in seconds, the unit is adapted to roll-to-roll, strip-to-strip, and strip-to-roll du­ plication. Accommodating material up to 11" wide by any length, the printer-processor offers synchronized printing and developing speeds up to 16 feet per minute. The average printing speed with microfilm diazo materials is five feet per minute. The vendor states th at the unit de­ livers sharp, scratch-free duplicates without the use of a protective envelope in the developing stage. The unit sells for $1750. Details are available from Atlantic Microfilm Corporation, Spring Valley, N.Y. 10977. • A new service th at enables information centers and libraries to run an in-house SDI (selective dissemination of information) pro­ gram for as little as $35.00 per year per user has been announced by the Institute for Scien­ tific Information. Called ASCA® Tapes (Auto­ matic Subject Citation Alert), the new service provides a weekly magnetic tape containing de­ scriptions of newly published material pertinent 121 FROM McGRAW-HILL GUIDE TO THE USE OF BOOKS AND LIBRARIES, Second Edition By Jean Key Gates, University of South Florida. 200 pages. Available Spring in soft cover and cloth editions. A comprehensive textbook in layman’s language for college freshmen and other students who require instruction in the use of books and libraries. Emphasis is placed on the many kinds of library materials, both general and specialized, and on the skills needed in locating, selecting, describing, and using and evaluating these materials for specific pur­ poses. The new edition covers the new library technology brought about by the applica­ tion of computers to library science and resulting in specialized, computer-established centralized libraries for law, medicine, rocketry, etc. INTRODUCTION TO REFERENCE WORK: Vol I, Basic Inform a­ tion Sources By William Katz, State University o f New York, Albany. McGraw-Hill Series in Li­ brary Science. 352 pages. Available Spring. Describes the basic reference sources employed by the school, public, college, and university librarian and relates the types of sources to specific reference problems. Throughout the text emphasis is placed upon how to best answer questions and where the answers are to be found—not on titles per se. All of the basic forms are considered and the principles applicable to the forms are illustrated with specific titles. A short history is given of each form (dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.) The appendix lists a basic reference collection for the small public library and the school library. INTRODUCTION TO REFERENCE WORK: Vol. II, Reference Services By William Katz (see above). Explains the fundamentals of reference services and makes suggestions as to how they may be improved. A brief background history is followed with specific instructions on how to carry out a reference interview, how to evaluate reference works, and the prob­ lems one is likely to encounter in a reference situation and how they are solved. The ap­ proach is practical and pragmatic and is directed at the general reference situation in any type of library from the elementary school to the university. INTRODUCTION TO LIBRARIANSHIP By Jean Key Gates, University of South Florida. McGraw-Hill Series in Library Edu­ cation. 415 pages, $7.50. Answering a long felt need in library education, this text treats the major topics which generally make up the introductory course in librarianship and provides adequate ref­ erences to enable the student to pursue any given topic to further lengths. It sets forth the most fundamental elements of librarianship in sufficient detail to help the student acquire a historical background and an understanding of major library objectives, services and needs. M cGRAW -HILL BOO K COM PANY 3 3 0 West 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. 1 0 0 3 6 122 First printing,1609. 500 copies. 123 Second printing,1968. One copy. We don’t know exactly how many copies of this book were originally published 359 years ago. But we do know that as fewer and fewer of these copies remained in existence, more and more people have wanted to read them. And those copies that are still intact are diffi­ cult for even a scholar to get his hands on. Be­ cause the most effective way for a library to pro­ tect its rare books from being destroyed is to pro­ tect them from being used by too many people. University Microfilms is in business to make sure that the available supply of any given book is precisely equal to the demand for it. If so much as one copy of a book exists, and that copy is capable of being microfilmed, we can make as many additional copies as anyone wants. As of this moment, we have over 30,000 out-of- print books on microfilm And if we don’t have a book, we’ll find it, film it, and turn out copies like the one above. Books printed in Roman alphabets cost you 4t per page. Books in non-Roman alphabets cost 2t a page more. And the minimum order we fill is one copy. If you’re interested in seeing which books we already have on film, send $3.25 for our 800-page catalog. (If you’re a librarian, send us a letter on your library’s stationery instead of the money.) In addition to the catalog, we’ll send you our monthly publication listing all the books we’ve added to it. Then, should what you want turn out to be something other than what we have, send us the title, author and publisher’s name. If copies of the book are still around, we’ll see that you get one, also. University Microfilms 300 N o rth Z eeb Road, Ann Arbor, M ich. 48103, (313) 761-4700 U niversity Microfilms Lim ited, H igh W ycomb, England. A XEROX COMPANYXEROX 124 to the individual interests specified by the peo­ ple enrolled in the SDI program. The descrip­ tions are organized on the tape by user names, so that the only computer operation the sub­ scribing organization has to perform is to print the tape in a simple “dum p” operation. This requires only a few minutes of computer time a week. The new service greatly increases the economic practicality of SDI programs by elim­ inating the three major expenses involved in them: the cost of creating the data base (suit­ able bibliographic descriptions of each new is­ sue of the publications in which the users are interested), the cost of computer programs for searching the data base for material pertinent to the individual interests of the users, and the cost of the computer time required to perform the searches and print the individual reports. Data base and computer-time costs generally run approximately $20,000 per year for an SDI program serving 40 users; thousands of ad­ ditional dollars are usually spent on developing or buying the computer-search programs. Sub­ scribers to ASCA Tapes can run an SDI pro­ gram for as little as $1500 a year for the same number of users. The service enables them to provide their users with coverage of the lead­ ing 2000 scientific and technical publications in the world. Since all searching is done by the Institute for Scientific Information, no computer search programs are required, and the only computer time the subscribers must use is that required to print the reports from the pre­ searched weekly tapes. In addition, the Institute can provide tear sheets of specified articles through its Original Article Tear Sheet (OATS®) service. This serv­ ice provides overnight response. Subscribers can offer their users as much selectivity as they want. Profiles of a user’s interests can be de­ fined in terms of words, word stems (both ini­ tial and floating), and phrases appearing in titles; specific authors, journals, or organiza­ tions; and citations. These various criteria for identifying pertinent material can be used in different combinations to provide a highly-se- lective current-awareness service. The ability to notify users of papers containing specified cita­ tions or floating word stems is exclusive to the ISI service. Additional information about ASCA Tapes is available by writing to the Institute for Scientific Information, 325 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106. • A partially automated Serials Control Sys­ tem has entered the final testing phase at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Library of The Pennsylvania State University in Hershey, Pa. The new system is based upon findings from the library’s automated Serials Catalog (SCAT) project. The latter, p ut into production in 1966, utilized a time sharing, online IBM 1440 computer system, and an IBM 1050 Com­ munications Terminal. The terminal was located in the Medical Center Library and the com­ puter was housed at the University’s Computa­ tion Center, a distance of about 105 miles from Hershey. The library’s entire serials holding collection of approximately 35,000 volumes was recorded at the terminal and entered on the random access disc storage of the computer. Each serial title was assigned a unique number, and the terminal was used to update the hold­ ings by entries of the serials issues which arrive in each day’s mail. Approximately 2000 serial titles were entered into the system and six out­ put listings were produced by computer pro­ grams, the major listing being a Serials Catalog in book form. Copies of the catalog are dis­ tributed to the faculty periodically. The Serials Control System combines the data files of the Serials Catalog with a special data base per­ taining to each serials title. The special data base includes frequency, language, publishing company, MeSH titles and claim indications, binding indications, subscription expiration dates, number of medical subject headings as­ signed, room num ber where serial is kept, room number where current copies are kept, mono­ graph indications and additional information which expands the system’s capabilities. Trans­ actions for modifying the SCAT II master file are prepared offline by a library clerk using the IBM 1055 paper tape punch. Simultaneously, a hard copy is produced so th at the data can be readily edited by the clerk. D ata is entered into the IBM 360/67 operation system under OS and HASP via The Pennsylvania State Uni­ versity Remote Job Entry System. • Automated processes and their application to university libraries is the subject of the 21st lecture in the University of Tennessee Library Lecture Series, to be delivered on April 22 by Carl Jackson, former Assistant Order Librarian at UT and now Director of Libraries, the Uni­ versity of Pennsylvania. The publication of Lec­ tures 19-21 will follow shortly, edited by Robert J. Bassett, Assistant Professor and Assistant Ac­ quisitions Librarian. Lectures 19 and 20 are “Librarianship Today—Crisis or Change,” by Jerrold Orne and “Twentieth Century Scholar­ ship in the Research Library: A Marriage of Convenience,” by John Berthel. P U B L I C A T I O N S • A recent contribution to library literature is a new edition of Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies ( Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1968, 515 p., $30). Compiled by Arthur E. Gropp, Librarian of the Columbus Memorial Library, Pan American Union, this new edition brings up to date the 1942 revised and en­ 125 larged second edition compiled by Cecil Knight Jones and published by the Library of Con­ gress. The present up-to-date and much aug­ mented Bibliography of Latin American Bibli­ ographies contains some 7,210 references to bib­ liographies bearing imprint dates before Jan­ uary 1, 1965, including approximately 2,900 entries cited by Jones in the 1942 edition. More than 4,000 new references to bibliographies published in monographic form are in the 1968 edition, and extensive coverage is provided for bibliographic periodicals and library catalogs. Titles cited in the work are arranged under some 70 general subject headings, with geo­ graphical subdivisions by country where appro­ priate. A comprehensive index to names of per­ sons, corporate bodies, governmental offices, ti­ tles of series, and subject entries is provided. In instances where copies are located in institu­ tions other than the Columbus Memorial Li­ brary and/or the Library of Congress, locations of titles are indicated, substantially enhancing the utility of the work. A copy of the bibli­ ography is currently available for consultation in the Hispanic Foundation. • The University of Michigan with the aid of a non-profit systems engineering firm, using stu­ dent engineers, has conducted a series of stud­ ies for improved library operations. These studies have been reported in Barton R. Berkhalter, editor, Case Studies in Systems Analysis in a University Library. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1968. 186 pp. Twelve of forty studies conducted since 1963 are reported. The contents are: 1. Introduction, by Barton Burkhalter and Robert Muller 2. Memo on Effective Labor Costs 3. An Analysis of Renewals, Overdues, and Other Factors Influencing the Optimal Charge-Out Period, by B. R. Burkhalter and P. A. Race 4. Investigation of a Standardized Circulation System for the Divisional Libraries, by M. C. Drott, C. G. Uligian, D. A. Wood 5. Development of Methods and Time Stand­ ards for a Large Scale Library Inventory, by R. E. Beck, Jr., R. McKinnon 6. Analysis of Book Reshelving, by H. L. Benford, B. R. Burkhalter, G. C. Ehrn­ strum, L. L. Hoag 7. Feasibility Study of an Exterior Book Re­ turn System, by M. C. Drott, L. L. Hoag 8. Investigation of a Centralized Book Re­ labeling System for the Divisional Libraries, by R. E. Beck 9. Methods Analysis of the Exit Control and Charge-Out Functions, by M. C. Drott, G. C. Ehrnstrum, L. L. Hoag 10. Investigation of the Cost of Periodical Re­ placement in the Periodical Reading Room of the University Library, by D. A. Wood, C. G. Uligian, R. E. Beck 11. Analysis and Improvement of the Account­ ing System for the Photoduplication Serv­ ice, by R. E. Beck, H. L. Benford, E. W. Deardorff 12. A Photo Copier Accounting System for the Library Photoduplication Department, by R. E. Beck, M. C. Drott 13. Increased Seating in the Undergraduate Li­ brary: A Study in Effective Space Utiliza­ tion, by J. J. Cook 14. Cost Appraisal of Xerox Copying Service, by J. J. Cook, M. C. Drott • The Cataloguing Requirements of the Booh Division of a Rare Book Library by Josiah Q. Bennett is the third in a series of Occasional Papers published by the Kent State University Libraries. For the administrator, curator and cataloguer, this study includes a detailed, tech­ nical discussion of each entry on the 3” X 5” card in relation to standard cataloguing pro­ cedures. The 48 page pamphlet is available for $2.00 from Occasional Papers, Kent State Uni­ versity Libraries, Kent, Ohio 44240. • UNESCO has issued a revised “Guide for the Preparation of Authors’ Abstracts for Pub­ lication.” The two page set of recommendations is available from Department of Advancement of Science, UNESCO, Place de Fontenoy, Paris Vile, France. • F. W. Lancaster. Information Retrieval Systems. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Publishers, 1968. $9.00 is a new book for IR specialists. According to the author, the book is “concerned primarily with those ‘intellectual’ factors that significantly affect the performance of all information retrieval systems; namely, in­ dexing policy and practice, vocabulary control, searching strategies, interaction between the system and its users.” The book is intended for “students of librarianship and information sci­ ence . . . and all concerned with the design, operation, and evaluation of information re­ trieval systems.” • The second issue of Library Lectures, con­ taining numbers 5-8 and published by the Lou­ isiana State University Library in Baton Rouge, is now available. The issue is dedicated to Mrs. Calvin Schwing, a former librarian and patron of Louisiana State University, who sponsors the series. The publication contains: “Some Experi­ ences in Library Surveys and Classification” by Maurice F. Tauber, “The National Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging” by John W. Cron­ in, “Myths and Realities in Library Education: The Blue Stamp Syndrome and the Library Schools” by Wallace J. Bonk, and “The Im­ provement of Book Collections for Academic Libraries” by Robert A. Miller. Published in a 126 limited quantity, Library Lectures is available without charge to college and university li­ braries, library schools, and large public li­ braries. Requests should b e addressed to: Li­ brary Lecture Series, Louisiana State University Library, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803. o M echanized Information Storage, Retrieval and Dissemination. Proceedings of th e F I D / IFIP Conference, Rome, June 14-17, 1967. 1968, XIV + 729 pages (F ID 416), $27.00. The first international conference sponsored jointly by F ID and the International Federa­ tion for Information Processing. The 49 pages presented at the Conference are arranged under the following Conference chapters: —Introduction to the field of mechanized in­ formation storage, retrieval and dissemination —File organization and search strategy. Auto­ matic indexing, classification and retrieval —Economics and comparison of documentation systems —Computer-aided production of publications and indexes —Information networks and on-line systems This publication is available from: North- Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Netherlands or International Federation for Documentation ( F I D ) , 7 Hofweg, The Hague, Netherlands. • The findings of a landmark study of the li­ brary systems concept has been published by the American Library Association under th e ti­ tle Public Library Systems in the United States; A Survey of Multi-Jurisdictional Systems. The national survey itself was supported by a grant of more than $50,000 from the Council on Li­ brary Resources, Inc. The 384-page report ( available from ALA Headquarters in Chicago at $10 each for cloth-bound copies) is in three parts, introduced by a chapter on the objectives and methodology of the study and details about the ALA Public Library Association’s MOVING If you are changing your mailing address, please be sure to le t ALA know at least six weeks in advance. Important: Please send ALA both your old and new addresses plus the date you would like the change made. ( A copy of your address label clipped to your notice would h e lp .) Membership Records American Library Association 50 East Huron Street Chicago, Illinois 60611 identification of existing multi-jurisdictional sys­ tems. Part I gives a general and historical re­ view of system development, outlines the char­ acteristics of 491 systems, and, for 58 systems selected for study, details their structure, de­ velopment, resources, and services. P art II pre­ sents case studies which examine in depth the background, structure, relationship of th e sys­ tem to the State and to member libraries, per­ sonnel, services, finances, and resources of six systems selected for intensive study and com­ parative analysis. The six are the Three Rivers Library System in New Castle, Colo., North Central Regional Library in W enatchee, Wash., Fairfax County Public Library System in F air­ fax, Va., W ayne County Federated Library System in Wayne, Mich., Memphis and Shelby County Public Libraries in Memphis, Tenn., and the Pioneer Library System in Rochester, N.Y. Part III summarizes th e basic findings and supplies conclusions and recommendations drawn from the study. The raw statistics of re­ sponses to questionnaires are translated into de­ tailed tabulations in appendixes. • For the past three years the British Office for Scientific and Technical Information has supported a project on the linguistic properties of scientific English. A final report has recently been published: Sentence and Clause in Scien­ tific English by R. D. Huddleston, R. A. H ud­ son, E. O. W inter and A. Henrici, Communica­ tion Research Centre, Departm ent of General Linguistics, University College London, May 1968, 695 pp. I t can be purchased from the College for 28 shillings. T he report gives a lin­ guistic account of selected areas of the gram­ m ar of w ritten scientific English based on 27 texts each of 5,000 words. These are taken from three “strata,” high (specialist journals), medium ( undergraduate textbooks) and low ( more popular w orks), the first two being sub­ divided into biology, chemistry and physics. The grammatical description is based on the systemic model of language and deals mainly with the grammar of the clause. In addition there is a section on the statistical aspects of the work and an introductory passage describing the grammatical notions involved. Analysis of the texts was carried out manually as m echani­ cal parsing was not considered sufficiently ac­ curate for this purpose, b u t computers were used to compile statistics. The report describes the general structure of the texts and includes only a few numerical results, b u t the full fig­ ures are held in the D epartm ent of General Linguistics at University College London and may be consulted by interested workers. The results should be of use to people studying language generally and especially to those en­ gaged in research into automatic indexing and abstracting or working on parsing programs. ■ ■ Your free copy of the 1969-70 Demco catalog is ready! Over 3,000 Library Products 208 Pages Hundreds of time and money saving ideas for you! Easier, quicker methods of processing and cataloging. Supplies for book protection and repair. Suggestions for attractive periodical and book display. 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