ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 139 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • One of the Southwest’s most distinguished architects, John Gaw Meem, has deposited his entire professional library and archives at Zim merman Library of the U n i v e r s i t y o f N e w M e x i c o . Included are a large group of photo graphs of New Mexico buildings, some of which are no longer in existence, by famous photographers such as Ansel Adams and Laura Gilpin; all of the Meem firm’s architectural drawings and renderings; the extensive files of correspondence; and many artifacts and me mentos of Meem’s career. The gift was ap praised at $310,000. In addition, a further gift of $25,000 has been received from Mr. and Mrs. Meem. The collection also includes the pa pers of William R. Buckley, Meem’s partner for many years. • The Galston-Busoni Archives and the Gal ston Music Collection, a collection including 2,000 pieces of music for piano, manuscripts, letters, and memorabilia, have been donated to the U n i v e r s i t y o f T e n n e s s e e Library at Knox ville. The collection was donated by Helen Galston Tibbe of Menlo Park, California. The items are associated with the lives of composer-conduc tor Ferrucio Busoni and concert pianist Gott fried Galston, Ms. Tibbe’s late husband. A bib liography of the collection is in preparation by UTK music librarian, Pauline Shaw. M E E T I N G S J u n e 21-22: The conference entitled “ M a n a g i n g u n d e r A u s t e r i t y , ” sponsored by the Stanford University Libraries and the Associa tion of Independent California Colleges and Universities, will be held at Stanford Univer sity. The program will focus on three major top ics: funding projections for libraries over the next five years; coping with the budget pinch at private and public college and university li braries; planning strategies in the areas of col lections, technical processing, public services, and administration; and a look at consortia problems and promises. Twenty speakers from all sizes and types of institutions are sched uled to participate in the two-day conference. A program brochure and registration infor mation is available by writing to: John C. Hey eck, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305. J u n e 21-25: The A m e r i c a n T h e o l o g i c a l L i r r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n will hold its thirtieth annual conference at the Calvin Theological Sem inary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Further in formation may be secured from: The Reverend Erich R. W. Schultz, University Librarian, Wil frid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2C5. J u n e 24-26: Washington University is spon soring a seminar on S u p e r v i s o r y M a n a g e m e n t C o n c e p t s for Librarians. The purpose of the seminar is to present a basic overview of man agement concepts which professional librarians will find applicable to the unique problems of library organizations. It will stress ways to im prove their managerial and supervisory posi tions and provide opportunities for discussion of mutual problems with colleagues. Partici pants will actively analyze and discuss organi zational problems and their managerial solu tions. Group exercises will supplement the ideas presented in the lecture and discussion sessions. The basic problems of the supervision of creative and professional personnel will be stressed. Emphasis will be on both the theo retical concepts of management and the prac tical application of these concepts. Chairman of the seminar is Dr. Raymond L. Hilgert, professor of management and indus trial relations at Washington University. Regis tration fee: $125. For further information or registration form, contact Marilyn S. Pryor, Washington University, Campus Box 1099, St. Louis, MO 63130. J u l y 9-A ugust 2 1 : Four library workshops will be given at the Un iversity of C alifornia, Santa C ruz, in July and August. “National and Regional Access to Library Resources in a Period of Austerity” is scheduled on July 9 -1 0 ; “New Directions in Academic Library Management,” July 3 0 -3 1 ; “Developing Patterns in Interli brary Communication,” August 6 -7 ; “Preser vation of Library and Archival Resources,” Au gust 2 0 -2 1 . E ach workshop will meet from 9 :0 0 a .m .-5 :0 0 p.m. Friday and 9 :0 0 a.m.— 1 :0 0 p.m. Saturday. For details, write to Uni versity of California Extension, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, or phone (4 0 8 ) 429-2522. J u l y 1 2 - A u g u s t 6: The Graduate School of Librarianship at the University of Denver will be conducting a seminar entitled “ W e s t e r n S e m i n a r i n P u b l i s h i n g a n d E d i t i n g W o r k s h o p .” Address further inquiries or applications to: Dean, Graduate School of Librarianship, University of Denver, Denver, CO 8 0 2 1 0 . See the March News for more information. J u l y 1 3 - 1 6 : The ARL Office of University 1 40 Library Management Studies has announced plans for its second L i b r a r y M a n a g e m e n t S k i l l s I n s t i t u t e to be held at Airlie House, located forty-five miles outside of Washington, D.C. Discussion will include consideration of per formance standards for professional and non professional staff, motivational forces in the li brary context, problem-solving techniques, and group leadership requirements. Enrollment will be limited to forty-two persons. Cost: $175 plus room and board. For additional informa tion, contact Duane Webster or Jeffrey Gard ner at the Association of Research Libraries, Office of University Library Management Studies, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036. J uly 14-17: “Maps and Atlases: A New World in Rare Book and Manuscript Collec tions” will be the theme of the ACRL R are B o o k s a n d Manuscripts P re-Conference to be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The program, designed for librarians, antiquarian bookmen, and collectors by program chairman Kenneth Nebenzahl, will focus on maps and atlases from the viewpoint of librarians, geographers, cartog raphers, historians, archivists, and conservators. For further information, contact Dr. Ann Bow den, Chairman, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, Box 2287, Austin, T X 78767. See the March News for more information. J u l y 15-23: “ L i b r a r y S e r v i c e s a n d T h e i r U s e r s ” will be the theme of the fourth Euro pean Library Summer Seminar sponsored by the Department of Library and Information Studies, Liverpool Polytechnic. The keynote address ACRL at the Fair in the Park How would you like to throw a pie at the director of your library? your old boss? your cataloging professor? You may get your chance at the ACRL booth in the Fair in the Park during the ALA Chi cago Conference. Test your powers of manual persuasion at achieving faculty status on the high striker— the better your score (instructor, assistant profes sor, etc.) the more opportunities you will have for helping certain notables get more than their fingers in the ACRL pie. Wednesday, July 21 at the Fair may be your best chance to reward yourself and your ambitions for faculty status. Come see the action— come and develop sym pathetic satisfaction! will be given by Mr. M. B. Line, director general, British Library Lending Division. Cost of the seminar is £ 1 0 0 ($202.50). A daily rate can be quoted for delegates not able to attend the whole seminar. For further de tails contact: W. H. Snape, Course Director, Fourth European Library Summer Seminar, Department of Library and Information Stud ies, Liverpool Polytechnic, Tithebarn Street, Liverpool L2 2ER , England. See the March News for more information. J u l y 16-17: I n t e r l i b r a r y L o a n s . A pro gram for librarians who want to learn how to plan and conduct workshops on the basics of interlibrary loans ( I L L ) will be offered by the ALA’s Reference and Adult Services Division (R A SD ). The workshop, geared toward those inexperienced in IL L workshop techniques, will be held prior to the opening of the ALA’s Centennial Conference in Chicago at Rosary College in River Forest, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Expected participants include interlibrary loan librarians, reference librarians, continuing educators in large libraries, and staff of library systems, state libraries, state library associa tions, and library schools. No preparation or ex perience in conducting IL L workshops is re quired. Participants will come away from the pro gram with a workshop design and with the skills and materials necessary to go out and con duct their own interlibrary loan workshops lo cally. They will also discuss the continuing edu cation needs of IL L personnel. Virginia Bouch er, head, IL L Service, University of Colorado Libraries, will direct the workshop, through a series of discussions, lectures, and games. Fees for ALA members are: $85.00—work shop costs, room, board; $75.00— workshop costs and board. Fees for nonmembers are $95.00— workshop costs, room and board, $85.00— workshop costs and board. Those in terested in attending should contact: Andrew Hansen, Executive Secretary, RASD, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; (3 1 2 ) 944-6780. J u l y 16-17: CLENE will hold its first Annual Assembly at the Palmer House in Chicago. The keynote address will be given by Alan Knox, professor of continuing education and director of the Office of Continuing Educa tion and Public Service, University of Illinois. He will speak on adult learning strategies, linkage between sponsors of continuing educa tion and adult client systems, and program and policy evaluation. Other highlights of the assembly will include an audiovisual presentation on staff training and development in industry by James Sucy of 141 Eastman Kodak. There will be opportunity for consultation with continuing education experts, as well as a continuing education fair through out the two days. Several small-group discussions will deal with such topics as: competency-based continuing education and self-assessment (a continuation of work started at previous Assembly with Mal colm Knowles); evaluating continuing educa tion programs; how to initiate a statewide pro gram; nontraditional educational techniques; model program of continuing education and staff development; model program of continu ing education and staff development for aca demic libraries; principles of adult education that should be adhered to in continuing edu cation programs; development of instructional modules— self-contained learning packages. On Saturday the assembly membership meet ing will be held, at which time the newly elected Board of Directors and Advisory Com mittee will be introduced and results of the small-group discussions will be presented. Reg istration for the assembly will be $25.00 for CLENE members and $35.00 for nonmembers; students will be free. J u l y 18: T h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l F l o w o f B o o k s will be the subject of an all-day meeting scheduled to precede the American Library As sociation Annual Convention in Chicago. The meeting will open with an address by Julian Behrstock, director of UNESCO’s Department of Free Flow of Information and Development of Communication, followed by a paper and discussion on the free importation and exporta tion of information. From 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., small group meetings, led by subject specialists, will focus on publishing and the book trade in Africa, Canada, the British Commonwealth, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Western Europe, East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, and on the U.S. book trade abroad. The afternoon will conclude with a ses sion on “The World of Books.” On Monday evening, July 19, the Resources Section, Re sources and Technical Services Division, will sponsor a complementary program of small dis cussion groups to consider collection develop ment problems in specific geographic areas. For additional information, contact Frank M. McGowan, Chief, Overseas Operations Divi sion, The Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540. J u l y 21-23: The F i r s t C h ic a g o I n t e r n a t i o n a l A n t i q u a r i a n B o o k F a i r will be held at the Prudential Building Auditorium (Ran dolph St. at Michigan Ave.) and will display rare and fine books, incunabula, prints, maps, manuscripts, autographs, and letters. There will be seventy-eight exhibitors from the U.S., England, Japan, Western Germany, Sweden, and Belgium. Open to public 1 1 : 0 0 a.m. to 9 : 0 0 p.m. daily. Single admission, $ 2 . 0 0 ; three-day pass, $ 5 . 0 0 . Sponsored by the Midwest Chap ter, Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. J u l y 2 6 - A u g u s t 2 0 : The tenth annual A r c h i v e s I n s t i t u t e at the Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia, will include general instruction in basic concepts and practices of archival administration; experi ence in research use; management of traditional and modern documentary materials. Program focuses upon an integrated archives— records management approach to records keeping and features lectures, seminars, and supervised lab oratory work. Instructors are experienced ar chivists and records managers from a variety of institutions. Subjects include appraisal, ar rangement, description, reference services, rec ords control and scheduling, preservation tech niques, microfilm, manuscripts, educational ser vices, among others. Fee: $ 4 8 0 for those wish ing six quarter hours graduate credit from Emory University; $ 1 7 5 for noncredit partici pants. 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Box 13734, N. T. Station, North Texas State University, Denton, TX 76203. O c t o b e r 28-29: The second annual L i b r a r y M i c r o f o r m C o n f e r e n c e will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia. N o v e m b e r 14-17: The 1976 annual Aller ton Institute will be on the theme, “ C h a n g in g T i m e s : C h a n g i n g L i b r a r i e s , ” and will consid er likely social trends in the next twenty-five years and their implications for libraries. Spon sored by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, the institute will be held this year at Century 21 near the univer sity campus in Champaign-Urbana. A special effort will be made to attract younger librarians to this year’s institute. The planning committee is chaired by George S. Bonn and Sylvia G. Faibisoff. For the full program and registration forms, write Ed ward C. Kalb, Conference Coordinator, 116 Illini Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. M I S C E L L A N Y • The new name of the M o n a s t i c M a n s c r i p t M i c r o f i l m L i b r a r y (M M M L) at St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, re flects the many contributions made to it by the Hill Family Foundation of St. Paul. University President Michael Blecker, OSB, has announced that the internationally ac claimed research institute will now be known as the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library ( HMM L). “The change in name recognizes the profound role which the Hill Family Founda tion, now the Northwest Area Foundation, has played in the success of the library since its in ception,” he said. The HMML, founded in 1964, microfilms and preserves all pre-1600 manuscripts (books copied by hand before the invention of print ing) to make them available to scholars. From its initial grant to fund a pilot project through its most recent grant of $385,575, the North west Area Foundation has provided more than u $1.2 million to carry on microfilming operations in Austria and Spain. Fr. Urban Steiner, OSB, director of field op erations for HMML, is currently overseeing the microfilming of manuscripts in Toledo, Spain. Fr. Urban succeeded Fr. Oliver Kaps ner, OSB, who began microfilming operations in 1965 in Austria where he continued to work until his retirement in 1972. “The microfilming in Austria, now complet ed, was an unqualified success. And good prog ress is being made in Spain,” Fr. Michael said. "None of this would have been possible with out the generous help of the Hill Family Foun dation.” At the same time as the announcement of the name-change of the institute, Fr. Michael also announced the name chosen for the new building which will house HMML. The struc ture, now nearing completion, will be called “The Bush Center” in honor of the Bush Foun dation of St. Paul which provided a grant of $540,000 to construct the facility. • Armed with a $99,690 grant from the Na tional Endowment for the Humanities, the So c i e t y o f A m e r i c a n A r c h i v i s t s (SAA) has be gun a comprehensive study of the problem of theft in archives and historical libraries. Plans for the study were announced earlier this winter by the project’s associate director, Timothy G. Walch, who declared the problem one of “crisis proportions.” Director of the project is Ann Morgan Campbell, executive director of the SAA. Kathryn M. Nelson ’63 is program assistant. The task now confronting the project staff is a broad investigation of the nature and extent of the archival security problem, and, with the help of legal and technical experts, manuscript dealers, and curators and archivists, discern ment of possible solutions to the problem. The itemized agenda for the project includes compilation of a registry of missing manuscripts (listings for which currently are being solicit ed ); devotion of a special section of the SAA Newsletter to developments and innovations in archival security, with circulation of security news planned eventually to extend to interested nonmembers; establishment of a consultation service to make expert advice available to ar chival institutions in the areas of security sys tems, internal archival procedures, legal prob lems, and other aspects of archival security; and, ultimately, the publication of an archival security manual. • C o e a n d C o r n e l l C o l l e g e s in Iowa have begun a three-year study of ways in which these traditional rival institutions can cooperate. The entire study is being underwritten by a $169,000 grant awarded jointly to Coe and 145 Cornell by the productivity program of the Northwest Area Foundation, St. Paul, Minne sota. Part of the study effort includes examina tion of bilateral and integrated library services. Library faculty at both colleges have formed planning task groups to consider the impact of closer cooperation on their department func tions and policies. This fall term, shuttle-bus service will transport students fifteen miles be tween the two campuses for cross-registered courses and other joint activities. The use of circulating and reserved library collections by the commuting students is being planned, along with a joint publication program that will pro vide orientation and library use information aids. Other areas being studied by the library faculties include a comparison of selected book holdings and periodicals for development of complementary acquisitions guidelines, visita tion to a similar-sized joint academic library system for organizational data gathering, con sideration of OCLC as an instrument to achieve improved productivity in library technical ser vices, and audiovisual resource sharing. The library task groups submit proposals for support of their planning studies to a coopera tive joint planning committee. Approved coop erative library projects will be carried on throughout 1976 and 1977. • Some m i s s i n g l i n k s i n I l l i n o i s h i s t o r will be rescued from the obscurity of such government storage sites as attics and missile silos under an archival program which Southern Illinois University-Carbondale has been asked to join. SIU -C is the first state university invited to sign a contract with the Illinois Regional Ar chival Depository (IR A D ), a program designed to save local government records from destruc tion or neglect. Each IRAD center will house local govern ment records— which include election returns, court, school, birth, marriage, death, naturaliza tion, and tax papers— that it receives from an area of about fourteen counties. “As far as SIU -C ’s own depository goes,” said the university’s retiring dean of library affairs, Ralph E. McCoy, “the counties in our area rep resent the earliest settlements in Illinois, and such archives will be invaluable.” Faculty mem bers in geography, geology, political science, history, economics, and sociology already have expressed interest in using the SIU -C deposi tory, which will be directed by University Archivist Kenneth Duckett. The Illinois State Archives will supervise op eration of the depositories. A field representa tive from the state archives will work with governing bodies in assessing legal and histori cal value of their records. But counties and y towns make the final decision on which papers they want to give up. Funding for the program will come from money allocated to the archives by the Illinois legislature. The universities will provide ade quate housing and supervision for use of the records. A descriptive catalog for the holdings of the depositories will be compiled. The cata log, expected to be published in 1978, will be available to libraries, archival institutions, and individuals. • The W a s h i n g t o n U n i v e r s i t y R a r e B o o k D e p a r t m e n t has received a $250,000 gift from the George N. Meissner estate, Chancellor William H. Danforth announced today. The university’s Rare Book Department is named in honor of the late George N. Meissner, a long-time St. Louis resident and collector, who died on May 3, 1960. Dr. Danforth, in accepting the bequest, said: “This gift will enable us to continue to add to the holdings of our Rare Book Department, which were enormously enriched in the early sixties when the Meissner family very generous ly donated the magnificent book and manu script collection of the late Mr. Meissner to Washington University. From time to time, the university’s Rare Book Department has mount ed exhibits featuring highlights from the Meiss ner Collection of some 2,500 book titles and 400 manuscripts. We look forward to assembling future exhibitions based not only on treasures from the Meissner Collection never before dis played publicly, but also on rare titles and manuscripts purchased with funds provided by this most recent beneficence from the Meissner trust.” The Meissner Collection of rare books spans a period of some 445 years from the earliest volume in the assemblage, Johannes Gerson’s Opus tripartitum d e praeceptis D ecalogi, d e conf essione, et d e arte m oriendi (Cologne, Ulrich Zell about 1467), to examples from 146 modern presses. Mr. Meissner’s particular inter ests were Americana and nineteenth-centur English and American literature, but there ar in his collection fine examples from every cen tury from the fifteenth to the present. Many of the volumes in Mr. Meissner’s li brary are of special interest to the scholar an the collector because they contain related ma terial such as presentation inscriptions from the author and letters or other documents boun into the volume. Such features of the book tell of its history, documenting the hands through which it passed. One example of this is the late Mr. Meissner’s copy of Chapman’s W hole W orks o f H om er (1 6 1 6 ) which belonged to Coleridge and bears annotations in his hand. The book also includes a presentation inscrip tion and a letter to Sara Hutchinson, a close friend, to whom Coleridge dedicated some of his poems. The Meissner manuscripts include letters, literary papers, journals, and diaries. These range from a fifteenth-century manuscript of Cicero, a document of Vespucci, a Michelange lo letter, and a letter written in 1628 by Peter Paul Rubens, to twentieth-century letters and documents. In the collection, for example, are unusually fine letters and documents from Pres idents Washington, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt and from such writers as Washington Irving, Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walt Whitman, Theodore Dreiser, and William Dean Howells. • Responding to the need for more oppor nities for career development, the American So ciety for Information Science (A SIS) and the Catholic University of America (CUA ) are jointly producing a H o m e - B a s e d C a r e e r D e v e l o p m e n t P r o g r a m , which will consist of a series of courses for those engaged in library and information center work. The first course in the Management series— Motivation: A Vi tal Force in the Organization— will be avail able on July 1, 1976. It is offered to those in terested in exploring motivation as it affects em ployees in the various information professions. Shortly thereafter, additional courses will be available in two major areas: ( 1 ) management in libraries and information centers and (2 ) technology in libraries and information centers. Courses to be offered in the Management series are: Management: Approaches and Concepts Motivation: A Vital Force in the Organi zation Planning, Budgeting, and Cost Analysis Performance Evaluation Organizational Communication Systems Analysis as a Management Tool Courses to be offered in the Technology se ries are: y e d d tu Management of Information Systems Impact of New Technology on Libraries and Information Centers Computers: Characteristics and Applica tions Data Bases: Characteristics and Uses Micrographics Networking Special features of the home-based concept allow interested persons to begin the course at any time and still receive personalized interac tion with a qualified faculty member who will read and respond to all exercises mailed in by the participants. The faculty will be composed of leaders in the fields of library management and technology applications. The home-based course will provide a type of instruction which is independent of the num ber of participants. Geographical location pre sents no barriers to participation, as the course is designed for study at home or in the work place. The length of each course will vary. Participants will be encouraged to set their own pace and carry out a schedule that meets their own particular learning style and needs. The expected average time to complete the six-mod ule course on Motivation will be six to eight months. Four continuing education units (C E U ’s) will be awarded upon the satisfactory comple tion of the Motivation course. The actual num ber of CEU’s to be awarded will be determined individually for each course. CEU records will be kept at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. CEU ’s are nationally rec ognized and are awarded by a growing number of universities, associations, and other organi zations. The Motivation course includes a study guide and six modules consisting of learning objec tives, text, practical questions, exercises, case studies, self-tests, annotated bibliographies, and readings. The total Motivation package costs $120 for ASIS members and $130 for nonmembers. Non members who submit their application with an enclosed check before July 1, 1976, can regis ter at the ASIS member rate ($ 1 2 0 ). Please submit payment for the Motivation course or inquiries and requests for additional information to: ASIS Career Development Pro gram, 1155 16th Street, NW, Suite 210, Wash ington, DC 20036, or call (2 0 2 ) 659-4899. • The Chicano experience in the U.S. is re flected in the collections and further document ed by the accomplishments of the Bibliograph ic Research and Collection Development Unit of the University of California’s Los Angeles h i c a n o S t u d i e s C e n t e r . This unit, whose functions are to carry out bibliographic research nd to develop a basic core of bibliographic C a and audiovisual materials related to the Chi cano experience, contains two divisions: the Bibliographic Research and Documentation di visions. T he Bibliographic Research Divi sion’s primary function is to support academic endeavors at UCLA by developing bibliogra phies and reference works in Chicano studies. The Research Division has just published, by means of the Chicano Studies Center’s Publi cations Unit, an exhaustive bibliographic study on the Chicano entitled: T h e Chicano, A Com prehensive B ibliographic Study. This work was compiled and edited by Roberto Cabello-Ar gandoña, Juan Gómez-Quiñones, and Patricia Herrera-Durán, University of California at Los Angeles, Chicano Studies Center, Publications, 1976. It is a 308-page bibliography with in dexes and sells for $7.95. T he work is the re sult of several years of bibliographic research and assembling of information and should prove to be useful to reference librarians, schol ars, students, and the public at large interested in a topic for which there is very little infor mation available: the Spanish-speaking wom an. The second division of the Bibliographic R e search and Collection Development Unit is the Documentation Division. T he division’s main function is to develop and expand materials in the area of Chicano studies. The core of this effort is the Chicano Studies Research Library and the Film Collection. T he library is a re search facility with a broad and rich collection of materials encompassing books, selected ar ticles, newspapers and journals, and pamphlets. T he library has recently completed the acquisi tion of 2 ,000 theses and dissertations on Chi cano themes written mostly for doctoral degrees throughout the U.S. and Mexico since 1897 to the present. The dissertations cover various as pects of the Chicano experience. Anyone who wishes to use this collection should write to: Chicano Studies Center, Chicano Studies R e search Library, 3121 Campbell Hall, Universi ty of California, 40 5 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 9 0024; ( 2 1 3 ) 825-2105. T he Film Collec tion, a successful cooperative program between the UCLA Media Center and the Chicano Studies Center, has resulted in the recent ac quisition of thirty-three films, including rare and important historical documents. Those in terested in requesting films and brochures of the collection should write to the address above. For rental information please call (2 1 3 ) 825-0755. These developments certainly should prove to be useful to most academic and re search librarians concerned with innovative collection development efforts and programs. • The L i b r a r i a n s A s s o c i a t i o n o f t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a ( L A U C ) , which achieved official status from the Regents of the 148 University of California in 1975, includes as members all librarians of the University of Cal ifornia. The association advises campus chan cellors and library administrators through its local divisions and advises the university presi dent through its statewide officers and Execu tive Board. LAUC announced the following statewide officers for 1976 after elections on each of the university’s nine campuses: Presi dent— Allan J. Dyson (U C Berkeley); Vice- President/President-Elect— Beverly Toy ( UC Irvine); Secretary— Michael Homan (UC Los Angeles). P U B L I C A T I O N S • The D rexel Library Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 3, examines “Current Issues in Serials Li brarianship.” Serials librarians often have diffi culty identifying up-to-date sources of informa tion directly related to their work. The upcom ing issue deals with these difficulties which are affecting on-the-job librarians. The articles, selected for their timeliness, often emphasize the manner in which serials librarians can have impact upon the issues un der discussion. Benita M. Weber, serials librarian of Mont gomery County ( Pennsylvania) Community College, and Toni Carbo Bearman, executive director of the National Federation of Abstract ing and Indexing Services, are guest editors for the issue. Articles included in the issue are: “The Serials Librarian as Activist” by David C. Tay lor; “Main Entry for Serials” by Joseph J. How ard; “IS B D (S ) and Title Main Entry for Se rials” by C. Sumner Spalding; “International Cooperation in Serials” by Joseph W. Price; “National Serials Data Program” by Mary Sauer; “The CONSER Project” by Paul Vassal lo; “CONSER Inter-Relationships” by Law rence G. Livingston; “Serials: Costs and Budget Projections” by F. F. Clasquin; and “Education of Serials Librarians” by Benita M. Weber. Copies of vol. 11, no. 3, “Current Issues in Serials Librarianship,” are available for $4.00 each ($5.00 outside the U.S. and Canada) from the Drexel Library Quarterly, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104; (2 1 5 ) 895-2483. • In 1976, IN IS ATOMINDEX converts from a world-renowned bibliography to the world’s only international nuclear science ab stracting service. ATOMINDEX fully incorpo rates into its data base the service heretofore provided by Nuclear Science Abstracts— the U.S. Energy Research and Development Ad ministration (E R D A ) periodical which is being discontinued— including full coverage of all nuclear-related input generated by ERDA and other U.S. sources, Produced since 1970 by International Nu clear Information System (IN IS ), an informa tion dissemination project of International Atom ic Energy Agency (IA EA ), ATOMINDEX pin points information necessary to identify, locate, assess, and obtain all items recorded in the sys tem. These items include books, technical re ports, journal articles, conference papers— and such nonconventional literature as patents, stan dards, and theses. Each twice-monthly issue of ATOMINDEX is fully indexed, and multi volume cumulative indexes are published semi annually. Among subjects covered in ATOMINDEX are: life sciences; health, safety, and the en vironment; engineering and technology; isotope and radiation applications; physical sciences; chemistry, materials, and earth sciences; other aspects of nuclear energy— economics, law, documentation, safeguards, inspection. INIS ATOMINDEX is available from Uni pub, exclusive U.S. distributor of IAEA publi cations. Subscription rates for 1976 are as fol lows : ( a ) twenty-four issues plus two cumula tive indexes @ $150.00; (b ) twenty-four issues @ $110.00; ( c ) two cumulative indexes only @ $40.00. A specimen copy of ATOMINDEX is available on request. For subscriptions to INIS ATOMINDEX, or further information, write to: UNIPUB, Box 433, Murray Hill Station, New York, NY 10016. • The University of Arizona Library recent ly announced the publication of a new series entitled Center for Creative Photography. Each issue of this publication, to be published on an irregular basis, will focus on one particular as pect of the library’s collection and should be of interest to photographers and historians of pho tography. The first issue is titled “A Stieglitz Talk at a New York Art Center.” Future issues will be devoted to Wynn Bul lock, Aaron Siskind’s earliest photographs, early Ansel Adams correspondence, and Edward Weston’s original account to Johan Hagemeyer (written on the train while returning to Cali fornia) of his 1922 visit to Alfred Stieglitz and other New York photographers. Subsequent is sues will reproduce material from the archives of Harry Callahan, Frederick Sommer, and Paul Strand. Because of storage and economic considera tions, the issues printed of each number will al ways be closely related to the number of sub scriptions, thereby making each issue of this publication a limited edition. 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If you are hunting for a jobber w ho gives this kind of " C o n cerned Service", w hy not give the B o o k House a trial order and find out how well it works. They will deliver any U.S. or Canad ian titles, all university presses. Government publications and all paperbacks. A N Y Q U E S T I O N S ? Call 517-849-9361 C O L L E C T ! Let us know if you want to receive the occasional newsletter. 153 A subscription for five issues will cost $6.00; for ten issues, $12.00. Single issues, when avail able, will be $1.50 plus $.25 postage. Your check should be made payable to Center for Creative Photography. • The most detailed statement to date of how the Library of Congress plans to function as a national bibliographic center can be found in a 58-page document published in February 1976 by the Association of Research Libraries. Entitled T h e Library o f Congress as th e Na tional B ibliographic Center, the book contains the proceedings of a meeting held in conjunc tion with an ARL director’s conference, Octob er 1975. It can be obtained from ARL, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036 for $4.00. • The recently issued Union List o f Micro form Sets in the L ibraries o f the California State University and C olleges, edited by Janice Zlendich and published for the Council of Li brary Directors, California State University and Colleges by California State University, Fuller ton, is available in limited quantities to libraries requesting it. The publication lists some 476 microform sets held by the nineteen campuses of the CSUC system, indicates the location of each set, holdings, guides used to access the sets, and in some instances descriptive contents notes. It is fully indexed. Address requests for copies to: Janice Zlen dich, Department of Processing Services, Li brary, P.O. Box 4150, California State Univer sity, Fullerton, CA 92634. • The Columbia University Libraries an nounce the availability of the enlarged and re vised edition of “The Administrative Organiza tion o f the L ibraries o f C olum bia University: A D etailed Description.” This unit by unit definition of the functional structure of the li braries was developed by a majority of the li braries’ professional staff following a study con ducted by Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc., and the Library Management Studies Office of the Association of Research Libraries. The primary objectives of the study were to provide an or ganization which would respond more effective ly to the changing university and library ser vice environment. The revised edition includes descriptions of the Avery Library ( architecture and fine arts), the East Asian Library, the Health Sciences Library, the Law Library, and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Each unit has been defined in terms of its ob jectives, functional responsibilities, reporting and working relationships, and performance cri teria. The resulting unit definitions afford a doc umentary base for the periodic examination of goals, evaluation of progress or activity relative to those goals, and adjustment of resources as conditions or objectives change. Along with li braries’ policy, they comprise a set of general operating guidelines and a foundation for pro gram planning. Copies of the volume may be ordered from the Gifts and Exchange Department, Columbia University Libraries, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY 10027. The price is $5.00. • A directory on Continuing E ducatio Courses and Programs fo r Library, Inform a tion, and M edia Personnel, published by the Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange (C L E N E ) has been released for dis tribution. The information is arranged by main subject areas and has a geographical listing, separate listings of main sponsors and of lead ers of continuing education programs, analyses of programs contained and appendixes which include the questionnaire form used to collect the data. The entries for each program ( course, workshop, or seminar) give many details of the programs listed including sponsor, target group, location, dates, times (and frequency), meth ods, recognition given, fees, requirements for entrance to the program, preparation needed, teacher, source of description, evaluation to be used, contact person, details of special materi als (when pertinent), and, of particular inter est, objectives for the program. The directory is intended to serve four ma jor groups: library, information, and media per sonnel who are seeking information about avail able programs to meet their own needs; institu tions and associations who provide Continuing education for practitioners; planners concerned with manpower development and education; and continuing education instructors. Although the directory is priced at $50.00 for nonmembers of CLENE and at various dis counts for members, CLENE has established special pricing for this issue as an introductory offer to their new service. This service offers batch searching ( approximately every ten days) or on-line searching, of the continuous ly updated data base. The special offer prices are $15.00 to members and $25.00 to nonmem bers. Prices for batch searches are: $20.00 and $.25 per hit (members); $30.00 and $.25 per hit (nonmembers). On-line search prices are: $75.00 including hit costs (members); $100 in cluding hit costs ( nonmembers). Membership in CLENE is available to indi viduals for $10.00 per year and $200 for insti tutions or organizations. For further informa tion and to order the directory at the special of fer price, payments must accompany orders to: CLENE, Inc., Box 1228, 620 Michigan Ave nue, NE, Washington, DC 20064. ■ ■ n 155 Report Continued from page 138 ceiving such copies or phonorecords for distribution does so in such aggregate quantities as to substitute for a subscrip tion to or purchase of such work. At the same session, the subcommittee also approved an amendment adding a new section 108 ( i ) providing an automatic oversight of the photocopying section at five-year intervals by a review to be made by the Registrar of Copyrights in consultation with authors, pub lishers, library users, and librarians. While the six professional library organi zations consistently called for the deletion of 1 0 8 (g ) (2 ) and while that continued to be their preference to the end, the new language must be studied with the advice of legal counsel for its full impact. The library com munity may well be able to support it as it appears to be a decided improvement. Copy right proprietors themselves have been silent, and their reactions are not known. Susan Wagner reported in the April 18, 1976, issue of Publishers W eekly that the new language was “intended to dispel the fear of librarians that enactment … would force them to abandon interlibrary loans where the actual item could not be lent.” At the date of this writing, April 27, 1976, the American Library Association had not yet taken an official po sition. The new language does clarify two aspects of the issue, however. First, the amend ment places the responsibility for photocopies in lieu of interlibrary loans on the library receiving copies and not on the library supply ing copies; and, second, the amendment stresses that libraries have a right to participate in interlibrary loan arrangements so long as these does not result in such aggregate quantities as to substitute for a subscription to or pur chase of the work copied. As John MacDonald of the Association of Research Libraries has pointed out, taken together these two changes seem to recognize the realities of library acquisitions and operating policies as well as the rationale of interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing. There is still considerable work ahead on the copyright bill. After further mark-up on other sections of the bill is completed, the entire bill will be voted on by the subcom mittee and additional amendments could then be made. The bill will then be sent to the full Judiciary Committee, chaired by Peter W. Rodino (D -N .J.), where it may also be amended. Finally, the bill will go to the floor of the House, where it may again be amended. After the House passes the bill, a conference committee will be appointed to resolve dif ferences between the House version and that of the Senate which voted favorably for an unamended section 1 0 8 ( g ) ( 2 ) . Additional amendments may occur at this stage. Even tually, the final version of the bill will come back to both houses for approval. At each of these stages parts of the library community may be asked to inform their members of Congress of their concern with the photo copying aspects of the bill with the idea of still working to delete section 108 ( g ) (2 ) . Meanwhile, a report to accompany the bill is being prepared in the House subcommittee. Undoubtedly, the report language will be a significant factor in the discussion and will have to do with how well the amended 1 0 8 (g ) (2 ) stands up against the Senate version. The report of the conference com mittee issuing the final version of the bill will determine how 108 ( g ) (2 ) is interpreted and applied in the future. Members of the ACRL Committee on Legis lation with the aid of Carol Henderson of the ALA Washington Office followed the progress of the legislation closely and specifically asked librarians living in key districts having mem bers of Congress on the subcommittee to write these members expressing their views on the bill’s effect on the availability of library re sources. An impressive volume of mail was re ceived supporting the library position. T i t l e IIC Another piece of legislation which will have major impact on libraries is that containing the amendments to the Higher Education Act which expires June 30, 1976. On April 6, 1976, the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Com mittee approved a five-year extension of the Higher Education Act ( S 2657) ‚ including Title II, parts A and B, “College Library Pro grams." The committee also approved a new Title II, part C, “Strengthening Research Li brary Resources.” (The old Title IIC, which traditionally benefited research libraries, sup ported the National Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging at the Library of Congress. This was repealed as no longer being neces sary since NPAC is now administered by the Library of Congress under its own authority.) CLR Fellowship Program The Council on Library Resources will continue its fellowship program for U.S. and Canadian librarians for the 1977-78 academic year. Interested librarians may receive an application form by sending a self-addressed # 1 0 envelope or mail ing label to: CLR Fellowship Committee, Council on Library Resources, Inc., One Dupont Circle, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036. The new Title IIC ’s purpose is to promote research and education of high quality through out the nation by assisting major research li braries and will be accomplished by providing grants for library resources to institutions of higher education, independent research li braries, and those state and public libraries which are recognized as major research li braries. This proposal is based on a recom mendation of the Carnegie Council on Higher Education and had the support of the Associ ation of Research Libraries and other major higher educational organizations. It should be noted that institutions receiving a Title IIC grant will be ineligible to receive Title IIA basic grants for library resources, thereby re serving the basic grants for the nation’s over 2,500 medium-sized and smaller institutions of higher education. More detailed information about Title IIC may be found in Christopher Wright’s description of the bill in C ollege & Research Libraries News, November 1975. The House version of the amendments to the Higher Education Act has been reported favorably from the Committee on Education and Labor, chaired by Representative Carl Perkins ( D-Ky.). It includes extensions of Title IIA and B for one year, but does not provide for the new Title IIC. When the bill goes to the House-Senate conference committee, it is expected that the new Title IIC will be introduced into the House version. Librarians in key districts will then be asked to explain the relationship of the bill to the increase in recorded knowledge and the rising cost of maintaining acquisition coverage in depth to their members of Congress as neces sary. ACRL C om m ittee on Legislation Susan Brynteson, Chairman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Joseph A. Boisse, University of Wisconsin, Parkside Bob Carmack, University of South Dakota Marjorie Dennin, Northern Virginia Community College Katherine Eaton, University of Oregon Harold H. J. Erickson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas E. J. 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