ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 339 Publications NOTICES • T h e Boston T h eo log ical In s titu te L ib rary Development Program this spring began publish­ ing a bibliographic new sletter titled R e n e w a ls . Through this new publication the B T I librarians are seeking to assist the B T I community in mak­ ing increasingly critical and creative use of library resources in the context of theological education and ministry. T he venture signals the librarians’ concern to augm ent responsible collection s de­ velopment with active dissemination o f informa­ tion about those growing resources beyond the walls of the actual library. Popular in style, R e n ew a ls highlights the spe­ cial collection s within the B T I lib raries, notes significant new purchases and reference tools of special value, discusses library research methods, and answers questions brought to the attention of the librarians. R en ew a ls is addressed to faculty and students o f all degree programs, but the tools esp ecially p e rtin e n t to m aster of divinity pro­ grams receive the greatest attention. Two issues w ere published this spring. Six is­ sues will be published during the next academic year, three each sem ester. A sample issue is available without charge to lib r a r ie s if a c c o m p a n ie d by a s e lf-a d d r e s s e d stamped business envelope (# 10). A single sub­ scription is $3 annually. Bulk rates also are avail­ able for potential distribution in o th er in stitu ­ tional settings. Address inquiries to BTI Library D evelopm ent Office, 45 Francis Avenue, Cam­ bridge, MA 02138. • T he role o f personnel officers in ARL librar­ ies has changed over the past few years due to a growing num ber o f governmental regulations and guidelines, increasing staff needs and demands within a complex organization, and recognition by library leaders o f the importance o f a committed and well-trained staff. This and other findings of telephone interviews conducted in the spring of 1978 are reported upon in the latest S P E C Kit and Flyer (# 4 5 , Jun e 1978) on the C h a n g in g R o le o f th e A R L L ib r a r y P ers o n n e l O fficer. T h e tw o -p age fly er d iscu sses sev e ral areas where personnel officers have assumed more re­ sponsibilities and briefly discusses future trends. T he seventy-six-page kit contains nine documents from ARL m em ber libraries including three re­ ports on changes in personnel functions, three examples o f selection and performance evaluation programs, and three examples of staff develop­ ment and training programs. F ly e r and Kit # 4 5 on the C h a n g in g R o le o f P erso n n el O ffic er s in A R L L ib r a r ie s is available for $ 7 .5 0 to ARL m embers and S P E C subscrib­ ers, and for $15 to all oth ers, prepaym ent re quired, from S P E C , O ffice o f M a n a g em en t Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New H am pshire A ve., NW , W ashington, DC 20036. • T he P ro c e ed in g s f r o m S o u th ea s tern C o n fe r ­ e n c e on A p p r o a c h e s to B ib lio g r a p h ic In stru c tio n ‚ M a r ch 1 6 -1 7 ‚ 197 8 ‚ have been published by the College o f Charleston and are now available for purchase. T h e conferen ce papers cover several areas of concern in the field of bibliographic in­ struction: construction of ob jectives, uses of in­ structional evaluation, faculty-library communica­ tion techniques, grantmanship, and instructional methods. Included in the publication are lectures from several scholars in the field of bibliographic education: James Ward, director o f Southeastern B ib lio grap hic In stru ction C learin gh o u se; Evan F arber, director of Lilly Library, Earlham Col­ lege; Carla Stoffle, assistant director, University of W isconsin-Parkside Library; Richard W erking, head of referen ce, U niversity of Mississippi L i­ brary; L a u re n ce S h e r r ill, asso ciate p ro fesso r, Pratt Institute, among others. C opies of the proceedings can be purchased from Continuing Education Office, T he College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29401. T he price is 340 $7 per copy and prepayment is required. • The American Jewish Com m ittee’s William E . W einer Oral History Library, now the largest Jew ish lib rary o f its kind in the country, an­ nounces the publication of its first catalog o f 600 oral memoirs, developed in less than a decade, recording the life and times of American Jews from all walks of life during the twentieth cen­ tury. The memoirs represent more than 2 ,0 0 0 taped hours and 6 1,000 pages of typed transcription. In addition to individual biographies, the library’s program includes special projects handling such issues as “Jews in American p o litics,” “Jewish participation in civil rights in the 1960s,’’ and a three-generational study of American Jewish wo­ men. The project, made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, in­ cludes interviews from 250 Holocaust survivors and family m embers concerning th eir wartime experiences, their adaptation to life in the United States, and the effects of the Holocaust on their children. The library is developing cooperative projects with a number of major American colleges and universities, including the Schlesinger Library of R adcliffe C o lle g e , Yale U n iv ersity Scho ol of Music’s oral history program, Schaffer Library at Union College, and the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and is exploring the possibilities of exchanging memoirs with the F ree University o f Berlin in Germany. It re­ c e n tly has en larged its research resou rces to serve as a center of information and a clearing­ house for American Jewish oral history projects across the country. The catalog is available for $2.50 prepaid from the W einer Oral History Library, c/o American Jewish Committee, 165 East 56 S t., New York, NY 10022. • A n a ly t ic a l A c c e s s : H i s t o r y ‚ R e s o u r c e s ‚ N ee d s‚ by Richard J. Hyman, has been published by the Queens C ollege Press. This sixty-eight- p age m onograp h, No. 2 in Q u e en s C o lle g e Studies in Librarianship, General Editor, Robert A. Colby, can be ordered prepaid for $5 from Campus Store, Queens C ollege, Flushing, NY 11367. Checks should be made out to Campus Store, Queens College. Dr. Hyman deals with access to units of infor­ mation within other works: periodicals, newspap­ ers, series, composite and noncomposite books. He traces analytical cataloging, periodical index­ ing, and abstracting from their beginnings to to­ day’s on-line indexing and abstracting services. He offers practical suggestions for effective utili­ zation, even by com puterized libraries, o f the many printed indexing and abstracting services and relates them to computerized counterparts. Dr. Hyman’s monograph is designed as a man­ ual for librarians as well as a text for library school students and instructors in both readers and technical services. Included are illustrations; notes; glossary; chronology; list of the abstracting and indexing services coded in Ulrich's In te r n a ­ tion al P erio d ica ls D irecto ry ; lists of the data bases available from SD C , DIALO G , and BRS; and an extensive bibliography. • Libraries and individuals who use them may someday have access to a centralized collection of periodical literature if a plan for a National Peri­ odicals Center, just published by the Council on Library Resources, Inc. (CLR), is put into effect. The 272-page document, A N ation al P erio d ica ls C e n te r T ec h n ic a l D ev e lo p m e n t P la n ‚ sets forth the goals, o b je c tiv e s , stru ctu re, techn ical r e ­ quirements, pricing schedule, and stages of de­ velopment of such a facility. In 1977 the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science proposed a periodicals center for the U .S. in its E ffe c tiv e A ccess to P eri­ o d ic a l L itera tu re: A N ation al P rogram (Washing­ ton, D .C ., 1977). That document recommended that the Library of Congress assume responsibil­ ity for developing, managing, and operating the center. LC asked the Council to put together a technical development plan that could be used by the Library of Congress or any other agency pre­ pared to establish a m ajor periodicals facility. Several foundations contribu ted to the cost of preparing the plan, which was completed in Au­ gust 1978 by a C L R project team headed by C. 341 L e e Jon es, health sciences librarian at Columbia University. In his foreword C L R President W arren J. Haas says the plan “is not a formal pronouncement by the C ou n cil … but is ra th e r a docum ent for consideration, to b e refined if necessary and used without delay to help turn the aspirations long held by librarians and users o f libraries into ac­ com plishm ent.” T h e document discusses possible new relationships betw een publishers and a na­ tional periodicals cen ter and takes into account re q u ire m e n ts o f th e 197 6 co p y righ t law. Im ­ plementation and a possible governance structure are also explored. Copies of A N a tio n a l P er io d ic a ls C e n te r T e c h ­ n ic a l D e v e lo p m e n t Plan are available upon re ­ quest from the Library of Congress, Information Office, Washington, D C 20540. ■■ L ib rarian s a t Boston University Choose Union R epresentation On August 11, 1978, the professional librar­ ians at the Mugar Memorial Library at Boston University voted 1 1 -7 for rep resentation by Local 925, Se rv ice Em p loyees International Union, A F L -C IO . T he BU librarians join the Brandeis University librarians, represented by Local 925 since 1976, thus becom ing the sec­ ond group o f private academ ic librarians in the Boston area to successfully seek collective bargaining rights. “T he librarians hope to use collective bar­ gaining to im prove salaries and b e n efits as w ell as to fu r th e r p ro fession al c o n c e r n s ,” com m ented Jackie Ruff, Local 925 rep resenta­ tive. G rad uate Assistantships Available T he Graduate School of Library Service of the U niversity o f Alabama will have twelve g ra d u a te a s s is ta n ts h ip s a v a ila b le fo r th e academic year 1 9 7 9 -8 0 . Assistants will partici­ pate in a b ib liograp hic instru ctio n program that is offered cooperatively by the library and the English Departm ent. T en hours o f service per week is req u ired with rem uneration ex­ ceeding $5 an hour. T he out-of-state tuition differential is waived for non-Alabamians. Ap­ plicants without prior library experience will b e e x p e c te d to b e g in in s u m m e r sch o o l; others may await the fall sem ester. T he dead­ line for selecting recipients is March 15, 1979. Applications from m inorities are encouraged. O berly Award for Bibliography in the A gricultural Sciences A biennial award given in odd-num bered y e a rs , c o n s is tin g o f a c ita tio n and a cash award, the E u nice Rockwell Oberly M emorial Award is p re sen ted to an Am erican citizen who co m p iles th e b e s t bibliography in the field of agriculture or one of the related sci­ en ces in th e two-year period preceding the year in which the award is made. T he bibliog­ raphies are judged on accuracy, scope, useful­ ness, format, and special features such as ex­ planatory introductions, annotations, and in­ dexes. Made possible by a fund established by col­ leagues in memory o f E u nice Rockwell O b­ erly, the award is adm inistered by the Ag­ ricultural and Biological Scien ces Sectio n of the Association o f College and Research L i­ braries. D e a d lin e for n o m in a tio n s is M arch 15, 1 979. 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