ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


N ovem ber 1983 /  383

Seattle Aquarium

T h e u n d erw ater d o m e  at th e Seattle A qu ariu m . T he A qu ariu m  is also n o ted  f o r  its successful effo rts in
b reed in g  sea otters.

Seattle '84
As with past ACRL national conferences, the 

major program elements for the Third National 
Conference will be contributed papers and theme 
sessions. For the Seattle Conference, however, the 
Conference Executive Committee has invited pro­
posals for alternative format sessions. Of the pro­
posals received, four were selected. These sessions 
are briefly described below.

“Automating a Community College Library: An 
Opportunity To Be Solved” is the theme of a pre­
sentation organized by the ACRL Community and 
Junior College Libraries Section. Marilyn House­
man, Director, and Charity Kirkpatrick, Special 
Projects Librarian, Rio Hondo Community Col­
lege Library, W hittier, California, will address the 
issues of vendor research, database conversion, 
MARC format, financing and consortium develop­
ment for resource sharing for a total online library 
system.

“Public Services in Research Libraries: Today’s 
Realities” will examine the assisted self-study pro­
cess which has been applied to public services in six 
research libraries in a developmental program op­
erated by the Association of Research Libraries’s 
Office of Management Studies and supported by 
the General Electric Foundation. A panel of speak­
ers involved in the self-studies will assess the useful­

ness and effectiveness of the assisted self-study for­
mat in enabling a library staff to address complex 
public services issues and analyze, improve and 
adapt library programs and facilities to new tech­
nologies, to changing economic conditions, and to 
users’ needs. Speakers are Paula T. Kaufman, Co­
lumbia University; Karen S. Seibert, University of 
North Carolina; Nancy Huling, University of C ali­
fornia, Riverside; Clifford H. Haka, Michigan 
State University; and Duane Webster and Patricia 
K. Swanson, ARL Office of Management Studies.

“Comprehensive Access to Library Holdings: In ­
tegrating Archival Management with Library Net­
works” will be moderated by Barbara J. Brown, 
Research Libraries Group. Speakers for this session 
are L a rry  D o w le r, H arvard  U n iv ersity; H. 
Thomas Hickerson, Cornell University; and Alan 
Tucker, Research Libraries Group. In past years, 
archivists and manuscript curators seeking to bene­
fit from the use of library bibliographic networks 
have been faced with the inapplicability of library 
methodology and systems. The speaker in this ses­
sion will discuss the successful effort to develop a 
common bibliographic format for archival control, 
enhancements to the Research Libraries Informa­
tion Network designed to facilitate the manage­
ment of archival holdings, and the potential bene­



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fits of comprehensive access to library holdings.
“A House Divided: Public Service Realities in 

the 1980’s” will discuss the development of an inte­
grated role model for public services librarians. 
Participants in the program are Charles Martell, 
California State University, Sacramento; Kathleen 
Gunning, University of Houston; Patricia Swan­
son, University of Chicago and ARL/OMS; and 
Phyllis Jaynes, Dartmouth College.

To help conference attendees become better ac­
quainted with the Seattle area, several tours will be 
offered. These include a Wednesday morning gen­

eral city tour and several post-conference trips on 
Saturday afternoon and Sunday. These trips in­
clude: a tour of Seattle’s International District fol­
lowed by a tea ceremony at the Japanese Tea House 
in the University of Washington Arboretum, a m a­
rine life exploration cruise, a tour of the Ste. Mi­
chelle Winery and Snoqualmie Falls, and a trip to 
Mt. Rainier. More information on the tours and a 
reservation form will be included in the preregis­
tration packet mailed to all A C R L members in 
early December. ■  ■

News from the field
ACQUISITIONS

•The J o h n  J a y  C o l l e g e  o f  C r i m i n a l  J u s t i c e , 
City University of New York, has received from the 
New York Correctional Association the original 
worksheets from which Richard Dugdale compiled 
tables for his criminal and genealogical study, T h e 
Ju kes. These sheets contain handwritten raw data 
on over 800 individuals collected during a tour of 
New York county jails in the summer of 1874. They 
are in the process of being cleaned and encapsu­
lated.

• P e n n s y l v a n i a  S t a t e  U n i v e r s i t y ’s Pattee L i­
brary, University Park, has received the papers of 
Richard S. Schweiker, former Secretary of Health 
and Human Services, U.S. Congressman, and Sen­
ior U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. The collection 
consists of legislative and bill files, press notices, 
speeches, political campaign materials including 
those from the 1976 Vice-Presidential race, photo­
graphs, and audio and videotapes covering 22 
years of public service.

• T e x a s  A & M  U n i v e r s i t y ’s Sterling C. Evans L i­
brary, College Station, has acquired the book col­
lection of Henry Seldis (1925-1978), noted lecturer 
and art critic. A figure of international respect in 
the art community, Seldis is remembered most as 
art critic for the L o s A n geles Tim es from 1958 to
1978. The Seldis C ollection, consisting of over
4.000 rare exhibition and museum catalogs and 
1,500 monographs, reflects Seldis’s lifelong con­
cern as a critic with contem porary art and the 
makers of the modern movement.

•The U n i v e r s i t y  o f  M i c h i g a n  Music Library, 
Ann Arbor, recently acquired a W omen’s Music 
Collection. The core of the collection consists of
2.000 scores by women composers published in E u ­
rope from about 1780 to 1960 and illustrates the 
work of some 400 women. Included are over 100

pieces of sheet music by the F ren ch  composer 
C écile C ham inade (1 8 5 7 -1 9 4 4 ), and nearly as 
m any by L o ïs a  P uget ( 1 8 1 0 - 1 8 8 9 ) , A ugusta 
H olm es ( 1 8 4 7 - 1 9 0 3 ) , and L iz a  L e h m a n n  
(1862-1918). The first catalogue of scores will be 
available at cost in early fall of 1984.

•The U n i v e r s i t y  o f  P i t t s b u r g h ’s Archives of 
Industrial Society has been given over 16,000 pho­
tographic images by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie 
Railroad depicting its history from 1903 to 1970. 
The railroad began operating in 1879, financed in 
part by the Harmony Society, a communal reli­
gious sect located at Economy, Pennsylvania. The 
photographic records, along with other historical 
documents and business records, capture railroad 
operations and various aspects of life in the cities, 
small towns, and rural areas along the P & L E ’s 
lines in southwestern Pennsylvania and eastern 
Ohio. Complementing the still photographs are 
over 2,000 feet of 16mm movie film which depict 
such scenes as railroad work crews in the 1930s, 
construction projects, and a parade of boats along 
the Monongahela River.

GRANTS

•The A c a d e m y  o f  N a t u r a l  S c i e n c e s  o f  P h i l a ­
d e l p h i a  Library has received an HEA grant of 
$19,060 to enter its 3,500 current serial titles into 
the Pennsylvania Union List of Serials (PaULS) on­
line database. Approximately 500 non-current ti­
tles will also be entered during this 12-month proj­
ect.

•The B o s t o n  C o l l e g e  Library, Chestnut Hill, 
Massachusetts, has received a grant of $250,000 
from the Pew Memorial Trust. The money will be 
used to further the computerization of the library. 
Boston College already has in operation a Geac cir­
culation system and an online catalog that includes