ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 244 News from the Field A C Q U IS IT IO N S • The U n i v e r s i t y o f G e o r g i a , Athens, has re­ ceived from Patricia A. Turner of Augusta, Geor­ gia, “one o f the most valuable gifts of books ever received by the university.” Included in the gift are color-plate books, the works o f nineteenth- century illustrators, books on heraldry, and sev­ eral rare first editions. Among the first editions is Robert Louis Stevenson’s T h e S tran g e C a se o f D r. J e k y ll a n d Mr. H yde. O ther important items are Samuel R. Meyrick’s A C ritica l In qu iry into A n tien t A rm o u r (London, 1824) and a copy of O ration es d e V era M obilitate printed in Leipzig, Germany, in 1494. • U . S . Representative Claude Pepper is donat­ ing his collection of official papers, documents, and memorabilia to F l o r i d a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Tallahassee. Pepper’s wife, Mildred Irene W eb­ ster Pepper, who died March 31, in her lifetime also determined to donate her papers to Florida State. The congressman has asked that the collec­ tion be named the “Mildred and Claude Pepper Library.” • T he U n i v e r s i t y o f W a s h i n g t o n L ib raries, Seattle, have acquired as a gift more than 600 monographs and serials on Byzantine studies from the library of the late professor Paul Alexander. In addition to professor Alexander’s collection of Byzantine material, his Jewish studies library was also made available by his widow. College Checklist and Access to Original Research Materials At the ALA Annual Conference in Dallas the ACRL board endorsed the “Statement on Quantitative Standards for Two-Year Learning Resources Programs” prepared by the Ad Hoc Su b c o m m itte e to D ev elo p Q u a n tita tiv e Standards for the “Guidelines for Two-Year College Learning Resources Programs.” The board also approved the “Joint Statement on Access to Original Research Materials” pre­ pared by the Committee on Manuscripts Col­ lections o f the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ACRL and the Committee on Ref­ erence and Access Policies of the Society of American Archivists. ACRL members may obtain single copies of the above documents by sending a stamped (15¢ ) self-addressed envelope to the ACRL office. Non-ACRL members should include $1 for each reprint. • T he Cuneo Press has given a twelve-foot w orking re p lic a o f the G u te n b e rg p re ss to N o r t h w e s t e r n U n i v e r s i t y Library. The gift also includes 750 handmade bookbinding tools, 3,000 pounds of unused type in many styles, several books p rin te d d uring th e fifte e n th c e n tu ry , paper, leather, and other related materials. • The R h o d e I s l a n d H i s t o r i c a l S o c i e t y has announced the opening of the Brown & Ives col­ lection of manufacturing records. Included in this co llection are records o f the ven erab le Prov­ iden ce firm of Brown & Ives; th e ir principal m an ag em en t a g en c y , th e firm o f Goddard Brothers; and cotton mills owned by Brown & Ives. • Mrs. Donald F . Yakeley o f Armonk, New York, has presented the Esther Raushenbush L i­ brary of S a r a h L a w r e n c e C o l l e g e with a col­ lection of books on the history of the American southwest. The volumes contain source material, on exploration, westward expansion and frontier life, Indians and Indian wars, cowboys, rangers, oudaws, and state and local history. • T he Atkins Library o f the U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a at C h arlotte has com pleted p ro cessin g th e papers (1 9 4 5 -1 9 7 0 ) o f H arry Golden, editor of the Charlotte-based C a ro lin a Isra elite and author of Only in A m erica and other best-sellers. The library has also recently acquired papers and p rin te d m aterials re la tin g to th e 1970 Su prem e C o u rt ca se o f S w an n v. C h a r l o t t e ! M ecklen bu rg B o a r d o f E d u ca tion , and the E v e­ lyn Bottome Lewis Collection of about 200 chil­ dren’s books. • T h e Joh n Davis W illiam s L ibrary in the U n i v e r s i t y o f M i s s i s s i p p i has a cq u ire d the folklore library o f Professor K enneth S. Gold­ stein, noted folklorist and author of A G u id e f o r F ie ld W o r k er s in F o lk lo r e , Tw o Penny B a lla d s an d F o u r D olla r W hiskey, T h rice T old T ales, and F o lk lo re, P erfo rm a n ce a n d C om m unication. One of the largest folklore collections ever formed pri­ vately, the Goldstein Collection comprises more than 12,000 volumes and 4,500 phonodiscs. It in­ cludes a comprehensive 3,000-volume collection of editions of collected folksongs and works about the evolution of the Anglo-American folksong, as well as a complementary array of works (ca. 3,850 volumes) treating the folklore and folk life of Brit­ ain, Ireland, Canada, and Australia. The collection contains specialized holdings on children’s lore and games, Afro-American folk­ lore, and folklore theory. Also represented in the co llectio n are 132 d ifferen t E nglish -language folklore series, mainly in com plete runs. Both Professor G o ld stein ’s form er association with Riverside and Prestige records and his continuing 245 research interests are reflected in the phonodisc component of the collection. Composed chiefly of LP recordings, the phonodisc collection is rich in examples of American, English, Scottish, and Irish revival. G R A N T S • The B a l c h I n s t i t u t e f o r E t h n i c S t u d i e s , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has received a grant of $55,867 from the National Endowment for the Hum anities to support the microfilming of its ethnic newspapers. The project will cover a full year, from July 1979 through June 1980. More than 700,000 pages of newspapers will be filmed. Inqu iries about titles included in this p ro ject should be directed to Roy H. Tryon, Library D i­ rector, The Balch Institute, 18 S. Seventh S t., Philadelphia, PA 19106. • The A m e r i c a n A n t i q u a r i a n S o c i e t y has re­ ceived a $149,072 grant from the National E n ­ dowment for the Humanities and the H. W. W il­ son Foundation of New York for the compilation of a definitive catalog of American engravings to 1821. The catalog will revise A m erican E n g rav ers u pon C o p p e r a n d Steel, a two-volume work by David McNeely Stauffer published in 1907 with biographical sketches of about 700 American en­ gravers active through the nineteenth century. • C o r n e l l U n i v e r s i t y and the U n i v e r s i t y o f W i s c o n s i n — Madison were among the recipients of grants awarded by the National Historical Pub­ lications and Records Commission at its June 7 -8 meeting. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, received a $50,269 award to conduct a collection/ record group level survey of manuscript and ar­ chival resources in repositories in nine New York counties. The University of Wisconsin-Madison was awarded $34,595 for a pilot program to de­ velop strategies for the scheduling, accessioning, and r e trie v a l o f info rm ation from m ach ine- readable records of Wisconsin state agencies. • The government o f Japan has awarded the U n i v e r s i t y o f N e w M e x i c o G eneral Library a $10,000 grant for the purchase of books and jou r­ nals about Japan. The grant will be used to pur­ chase English-language materials in all fields re­ lating to Japan. M E E T IN G S O c t o b e r 2 9 -3 1 : The F o u r t h I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e o n A p p r o v a l P l a n s a n d C o l l e c ­ t i o n s D e v e l o p m e n t will be held at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, W isconsin. “ Shaping L i­ brary C o llection s for the 1 980’s” will be the theme of the meeting. Topics discussed will in­ clude: impact studies, automation and the ap­ proval plan, which approval plan is right for you, and issues and trends. R egistration is $59 for A CRL m embers, $89 for non-ACRL members. Contact: Charles MacCleod, Conference Treas­ R E C E N T L Y PUBLISHED B U D G E T A R Y C O N T R O L IN A C A D E M IC L IB R A R IE S Murray S. Martin, Pennsylvania State University Published 1978 232 pages, index, appendix, bibliography $22.00 "T h is is a distinguished contribution to the literature o f librarianship. It can be read with profit by librarians in all types o f li­ braries and by library school students and their instructors.” L ib ra r y J o u r n a l C O S T A N A L Y SIS O F L IB R A R Y FU N C TIO N S: A T O T A L S Y S T E M A PPRO A C H Betty J o Mitcheli, Norman E. Tanis and Jack Jaffe, California State University-Northridge Published 1978 304 pages and 5 m icrofiche, index and appendices $23.50 “… the volume reports 'a comprehensive study o f the c o sts o f performing library ta sk s’ and concludes with the be lief that the program developed ‘can be used not only for in-home co st m easurem ent, but also for the comparison o f costs among li­ braries as w ell.’ ” C o lle g e a n d R e s e a r c h L ib r a r ie s N ew s A P R A C T IC A L A PPRO A C H T O S E R IA L S C A T A L O G IN G Lynn 5. Smith, University o f California-Riverside Published 1978 441 pages, index, appendix, bibliography $32.50 “ … th is is a m a jo r c o n tr ib u tio n to cataloging. It is readable, even witty, and co m m un icates cle a rly and w ell. R eco m ­ mended for serialists and all ca ta lo g e rs ." L ib ra r y J o u r n a l JAI PRESS INC., P.O. Box 1678 165 West Putnam Avenue Greenwich, Connecticut 06830. Telephone: 203-661-7602 Cable Address: JAIPUBL 246 u r e r, th e L ib ra ry , U n iv ersity o f W isco n sin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, W I 53211. O c t o b e r 3 1 : The A r c h i v e s - L i b r a r i e s C o m ­ m i t t e e , A f r i c a n S t u d i e s A s s o c i a t i o n , will hold its fall meeting at the Los Angeles Hilton Hotel in conjunction with the twenty-second African Studies Association Annual Conference. Topics to be discussed include bibliographical needs and cataloging problems. A panel on “African Gov­ ernment Archives and the Expatriate Researcher” will be presented during the conference. For fur­ ther information, contact Elizabeth A. W iden- mann, Herbert Lehman Library, Columbia Uni­ versity, New York, NY 10027. O c t o b e r 2 8 - N o v e m b e r 3: The annual confer­ ence of the A s s o c i a t i o n o f C a r i b b e a n U n i v e r ­ s i t y a n d R e s e a r c h L i b r a r i e s (ACURIL) will be held in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. The theme of the conference will be “The Posi­ tion of the Librarian in a Developing Society.” F or information, contact: María Elena A. de Car­ dona, P re s id e n ta , C o m ité de P rom o ció n , ACU RIL, a/c Universidad Interamericana, Apar­ tado Postal 1293, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00919; (809) 753-8008, ext. 205, 207. N o v e m b e r 11-14: The T w e n t y - F i f t h A l l e r t o n I n s t i t u t e will have the title “Organizing the Li­ b r a ry ’s S u p p o rt: D o n o rs, V o lu n te e rs , and Friends.” Sponsored by the University of Illinois, U rbana-Cham paign, Graduate Library School, the institute will be held at Allerton Park, about twenty miles southwest of Champaign. The regis­ tration fee is $100. Contact the Institute Super­ visor 0 3 -9 0 3 , U niversity of Illin ois, 116 Illin i Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. ■■ ACRL MEMBERS SHOULD VOTE “NO” ON ALA DUES INCREASE Dear Editor: According to the latest issue of A m erican L i­ b ra r ies , ALA members will be asked to approve a $15.00 increase in personal dues, or 42.8 percent above the cu rrent rate, making a new total of $50.00 for each personal member, and $15.00 for each d ivisio n, thus effe c tiv e ly in crea sin g an A C R L m em b er’s dues to $ 6 5 .0 0 per year (for comparison, the p r o p o s e d SLA dues increase, in­ cluding divisional and state chapter memberships, is $55.00). Understandably, in times o f inflation, every­ thing costs more. All of us who operate libraries or library schools have be en faced with stable budgets and some with actual decline in income. Adjustments have been made by reducing ser­ v ic e s, cu ttin g a c tiv itie s , or re o rd e rin g our priorities. Perhaps the time has come for ALA to do the same and to moderate continual increases in dues and registration fees. F o r at the same tim e as the dues in c r e a s e , ALA proposes to spend $10,000 for ERA activities, and to establish a new Chapter Relations Office which will proba­ bly cost about $50,000 per year. These are new activities, which may very well be worthwhile, but they are being added without any reduction in previous commitments. One comment is that there has not been a per­ sonal dues increase for five years. While that is true, the statement is also misleading. In 1978 co n fe re n ce reg istratio n fees for m em bers in ­ cre ased from $ 3 0 .0 0 to $ 5 0 .0 0 (or $ 2 5 .0 0 to $40.00 if one paid in advance). A new organiza­ tional dues sch ed u le also w ent into e ffe c t in 1977-78, resulting in higher dues for many librar­ ies. According to the Executive D irecto r’s R e­ port, conference income (always a money-maker, as Jo h n . B e rry p o in te d out a year ago [L J 103:1097]), publishing income, and grant income are all up this y ear. T otal inco m e last y ear, excluding gifts and grants, amounted to almost $7 million, a lot of money even in these inflationary days. My ch ie f concern is the impact on ALA di­ visions, which must generate their own income through personal memberships. ACRL and other divisions seem likely to suffer a decline in mem­ b e rsh ip if th e $ 1 5 .0 0 in c r e a se is passed. I f C O PES had proposed a smaller increase, perhaps $5.00 or even $10.00, that might have made a dif­ ference in my attitude. However, I share the views o f the AASL, RASD , and A CRL boards that a dues increase of $15.00 is not warranted at this tim e, and I urge A CRL m embers to vote against it. Edward G. Holley Dean, The School of Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ■■ AC R L Nonprint Media Publications Series T he A C R L Nonprint Media Publications Editorial Board invites submission of material for inclusion in the A CRL Nonprint Media Publications Series. A ud iocassette tape program s, slide-tap e packages, or videotapes that are of interest to the ACRL membership and deal with such topics as library instruction, personnel man­ agem en t, in stru ctio nal d ev elo p m ent, e t c ., should be sent to Dr. Dwight F . Burlingame, Editor, Bowling G reen State University L i­ braries, Bowling Green, OH 43402. Inquiries about the ACRL Nonprint Media Publications board and its activities may also be addressed to Dr. Burlingame.