ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 30 both the fall 1968 and fall 1969 surveys the “volume equivalents” of these holdings h ad been reported so th a t in each year they could have been added to the num ber of physical volumes, it is clear th a t th e increase in the total num ber of physical volumes a n d volume equivalents to w hich students an d faculty have had access would b e perceptibly higher than th e increase for physical volumes alone. F or each of the four types of institutions, chart 2 shows the holdings of microfilm reels, w ith percent increases from th e previous year. Simi­ lar d ata for physical units of microtext other than microfilm reels are given in chart 3. For both types of microform the increases were relatively large for the 4-year institutions w ith graduate students and the 2-year institutions. Although in fall 1969 the 2-year institutions h ad only slight holdings of microtext other than microfilm reels, these holdings represented a near doubling (93 p e rc e n t) from the previ­ ous year. T he authors’ comments on p. 10-11 are in line w ith the current thinking of th e Office of E d u ­ cation’s Higher E ducation agencies, advocating consortia activities as a solution to dwindling funds. There is comparatively little variation from one type or size of institution to another w ith re­ spect to holdings or expenditures p er student. U nderstandable though this may be, it does not m ean th a t access to library resources is about th e same in larger or smaller institutions. In ­ deed, th e comparatively small holdings of the smaller institutions m ust occasion a rath er se­ vere handicap, relatively speaking, for their students and faculties in respect to library re­ sources. For the future one can hope th a t more of th e smaller institutions can be served by joint libraries or other arrangem ents to expedite access to larger holdings. ■ ■ N e w s F ro m t h e F ie ld A C Q U IS IT IO N S • T h e Ball State University library, Muncie, Indiana, has recently acquired more than 180 items of Steinbeckiana. This collection includes a num ber of autographed first editions, deluxe editions, Armed Service editions, such rare items as Si. Katy th e Virgin, a booklet, w hich Steinbeck privately p rin ted in 1936, Their Blood Is Strong (1 9 3 8 ), Un Americain a N ew -York et a Paris, published by René Jul- liard in 1956, letters, several printed nonbook materials including a map of the Steinbeck C ountry published by N orm andie House P u b ­ lishers in 1939, German, French, and Italian editions, as well as critical books about Stein­ beck. These Steinbeck items will be placed in th e special collections of th e university library. • T he papers of the late James C. Rettie, senior economist, D epartm ent of the Interior, have been placed in th e University of Ore­ gon library b y Mrs. James C. Rettie of Arling­ ton, Virginia. R ettie was a career economist in the federal government, specializing in econom­ ic research and programming in w ater and pow er development, forest and land economics, resources utilization, and river basin develop­ ment. From 1942 to 1944 he was U nited States director of th e North Pacific Planning Project, which produced a series of economic studies of Alaska. In the 1960s, he was involved in Alaska studies, this tim e w ith the Federal Review Com mittee and the Federal Field Com mittee for D evelopm ent Planning in Alaska. As senior economist in th e Interior D ep art­ ment, R ettie kept a close and practical w atcf on a variety of programs and plans proposec or underw ay in th a t departm ent. His critique: of official memoranda and position papers indi­ cate th a t he was a stout opponent of bureau­ cratic obfuscation and “Federalese,” as well a: a keen analyst an d detector of economic im­ becilities. T he Rettie papers provide an inside view of federal planning and internal operations a t the top level. They are of major importance to students of public adm inistration and to his­ torians. • T he University of W ashington library has acquired the personal papers of Rev. Syd­ ney Dix Strong, his son Tracy Strong, and daughter, Anna Louise Strong. They are now open for research (u n d er some minor restric­ tions ). E ach was educated at Oberlin for which there is material. T he Reverend Strong, a Con- gregationalist com mitted to social reform and pacifism, worked mainly out of Oak Park, Illi­ nois and Seattle. Tracy Strong, a leader in the W orld Alliance of YMCA’s and executive secre­ tary of W ar Prisoners’ Aid, worked m ainly from Geneva from 1924. Anna Louise Strong was d i­ rector of Child W elfare Exhibits of Children’s Bureau (ca. 1912-1914), reporter for Seattle Union Record, m em ber of the Seattle School Board (recalled, 1917), editor M oscow News, world traveller, and author. T he collection is of value for studies in social gospel movement, American reform and labor movements, the So­ viet revolution, pacifism, aspects of Chinese his­ tory in th e 1930s, th e Spanish Civil W ar, and the YMCA. 31 GRANTS • Howard University, Washington, D.C., will receive a $100,000 grant under a joint pro­ gram of the Council on Library Resources and the National E ndowment for the Hu­ manities that will provide funds for a program which seeks to establish the university library as an integral part of students’ intellectual en­ vironment. This will be done by demonstrating the library’s ability to respond to students’ cur­ ricular needs and interests while at the same time anticipating and stimulating other intellec­ tual requirements in a broad range of areas. The award, which will be matched by $100,000 from Howard, is the eighth under the joint Col­ lege Library Program of the Council and the National Endowment. The project at Howard is expected to result in the assumption by Founders Library of a more focal role in the instruction of undergrad­ uates, thus contributing to greater efficiency in the learning process. It is hoped that it will al­ so lead to the identification of areas in which the overall resources and services of the library to the university may be improved. One aspect of the five-year program will be student information/orientation service operat­ ed out of the revamped Browsing Room in the university library. Through a variety of media and methods, including audiovisual, and on as personalized a basis as possible, undergraduate students will be made aware that the library can service both classroom and noncurricular needs. There will be a revolving collection of current and topical print and nonprint materials dealing with such student concerns as drugs, black awareness, and ecology; portable “mini­ collections” will be developed for student dor­ mitories. The university believes that reference and information services are the initial points of contact between the library and its public and that through this part of the program the indi­ vidual student’s image of the library will change for the better, with a concomitant im­ provement in his attitude toward it. A second element of the project is a series of workshops which will demonstrate the library’s capabilities as an active agent of ideas and thought. Workshop topics will be those selected by the students themselves, and will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas on issues of interest and concern to students at Howard. To a large degree, these workshops will deal with the problems of the black student and the black community. In addition to creating an opportu­ nity for an open intellectual forum, it is hoped that the workshops will provide both the library and the university faculty with the opportunity to experiment with a variety of teaching and informational resources, which may herald The American Association of Univer­ sity Professors (AAUP) has revised its policy regarding membership in the As­ sociation for college and university li­ brarians. College and university librari­ ans will no longer need to have faculty status to be eligible for active member­ ship in the AAUP. The new ruling makes eligible for membership any professional librarian who holds at least a half-time appointment in a college or university li­ brary. AAUP is accepting the ALA defi­ nition of a professional librarian. changes in future curriculum presentations. • The man who pioneered the national “Morris Plan” for consumer bank credit in Nor­ folk, Virginia more than sixty years ago has giv­ en the University of Virginia $350,000 for its law library to be housed in a new building for the School of Law. Announcement of the gift from Arthur J. Morris of New York City was made by Uni­ versity President Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., a t a dinner honoring Morris in the university’s Rotunda. Dr. Shannon also announced that the Board of Visitors had decided to name the new law library for Morris, who received his law degree from the university in 1901. Construction for the new law school build­ ing, expected to cost an estimated $4.8 million in state and private funds already secured, is scheduled to begin next year. It will be situated northwest of the main grounds of the university on the Duke property and will be the first structure in the law-graduate business complex there. The law school, which has an enrollment of 950 śtudents, is now housed in Clark Hall. Its library is considered one of the most exten­ sive of any law school in the nation. MEETINGS March 22-25, 1972: The Alaska Library As­ sociation annual meeting will be held at the YWCA Building, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. The general theme will be “Redesign.” Program chairman is Miss Nancy Lesh, 1802 11th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501. April 4, 1972: “Management, Instruction and Technology in the Academic Library” is the subject of the 1972 institute of the Library Association of the City University of New York. The Institute, to be held at the Statler-Hilton Hotel in New York City on April 4, is open to librarians, interested students, faculty, and ad­ ministrators, and will feature presentations by the following persons. 32 Melvin S. Day, Head, Office of Science In ­ formation Service, National Science Founda­ tion, who will discuss management in academic libraries; David Roy Watkins, Director of Li­ braries, Brandeis University, who will consider the subject of instruction in the use of college and university libraries; and Susan A. Artandi, Professor of Library Service, Rutgers Universi­ ty, who will speak on the role of technology in the academic library. Welcoming remarks at the luncheon will be made by Timothy S. H ea­ ly, Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, The City University of New York. For further information contact Professor Betty Seifert, City College Library, 135th St. and Convent Ave., New York, NY 10031 (Phone: 212-621-2268). April 6-8, 1972: The Seventh Annual Con­ ference of Junior College Libraries will be held on the campus of Rock Valley College, Rock­ ford, Illinois, from April 6 through April 8, 1972. The theme for this year’s conference is “The Junior College Library—Putting It All To­ gether.” The conference is definitely not limit­ ed to junior college librarians or media spe­ cialists from Illinois. The formal program and other details are available from Beverly H. Humphries, Reid Memorial Library, Lewis & Clark Community Librarians: have you or­ dered your copy of New Li­ brary Design: Guide Lines †o Planning Academic Li- brary Buildings, by Stephen Langmead and Margaret Beckman? (A Wiley-Becker & Hayes publication.) 117 pages 70-155107 $12.25. O rder from your wholesaler or College, Godfrey, IL 62035. Further details can be found in the January News. April 7-8, 1972: The Washington D epart­ ment of Audio-Visual Instruction will hold its spring conference at the Chinook Hotel in Yak­ ima, Washington, April 7-8, 1972. April 13-15, 1972: T he Oklahoma Library Association will m eet a t Oklahoma State Uni­ versity, Stillwater, Oklahoma. Mrs. Neysa E ber­ hard, Curriculum Materials Laboratory, Univer­ sity Library, Oklahoma State University, Still­ water, OK 74074, is the convention publicity chairman. April 24-26, 1972: A three-day seminar on indexing to be held April 24-26, 1972, has been announced by the National Federation of Sci­ ence Abstracting and Indexing Services and the American Library Association. The seminar will be sponsored by the Subject Analysis and Or­ ganization of Library Materials Committee, Cataloging and Classification Section of ALA’s Resources and Technical Services Division. It will be hosted by the University of Maryland’s School of Library and Information Science at the University of Maryland’s Center of Adult Education. The seminar will cover the vocabularies used in indexing; indexing systems and formats; and the effects of indexing on the retrieval process. Emphasis will be placed on relating indexing developments of the past twenty years to the entire field of information science and library science; against this background lecture, specif­ ic case histories will be presented and dis­ cussed. The principal lecturer for the course is E. H. Brenner (American Petroleum Institute) with guest lecturers including Hans Wellisch (U ni­ versity of M aryland) and Stella Keenan (N a­ tional Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services). The course is designed to serve as an intro­ duction for the person with little or no experi­ ence and to provide a perspective review to the more experienced. Each day there will be a special session at the basic level and an oppor­ tunity for an in-depth examination and discus­ sion of the specific case history presented. The following questions will be among those covered in the seminar: W hat is the relation­ ship between classification and indexing? W hat differences and similarities exist between clas­ sification decimal entries, subject headings, terms, descriptors, etc.? W hat are the character­ istics of a classification scheme, a subject head­ ing list, and a thesaurus? W hat effect has the computer had on all indexing vocabularies? W hat are th e characteristics of serial and in­ verted (horizontal and vertical) files? How do 33 subject indexes differ from coordinate indexes? How is the computer affecting the manual card file? Seminar fee is $85.00 which includes lunch for three days, background writing, bibliogra­ phies and special kits developed for the semi­ nar. Full details may be obtained from the Na­ tional Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services, 2102 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA 19103; or from Mrs. Carol Raney Keim, Ex­ ecutive Secretary, Resources and Technical Ser­ vices Division, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. April 27-29, 1972; The Department of Li­ brary Science at Indiana State University will hold a three-day institute entitled “Library Management: Quantifying Goals” at the Uni­ versity’s Allendale Lodge, Terre Haute, Indi­ ana. The institute is open to all librarians; those with administrative and planning responsibili­ ties will benefit especially. It will be conducted by eight speakers most of whom are leading li­ brary practitioners. For additional information, interested persons may write to the Department of Library Science, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809. April 30-May 3, 1972; The annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Li­ brary Science, University of Illinois, from Sunday, April 30, to Wednesday, May 3, 1972, The theme of the Clinic will be “On-Line Sys­ tems Applied to Library Automation.” Further information may be obtained from Mr. Leonard Sigler, Division of University Extension, 111 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. May 4-6, 1972: The Council on Library Technology will hold its sixth annual confer­ ence May 4-6, 1972, at the Hotel Radisson, Denver, Colorado. The theme of this year’s con­ ference will be “The LTA and Employment— How to Fulfill the Promise.” The conference will focus on the many problems related to the employment of the library technical assistant. Emphasis will be given such topics as the tech­ niques of securing a job, and problems involv­ ing the placement of LTA’s by the institutions they attended. During one session, the confer­ ence registrants will have a chance to discuss among themselves particular problems relating to the employment of graduates of their LTA programs. Speakers for the conference will include Mrs. Anna Mary Lowrey, associate director, School Library Manpower Project, ALA, and Mr, John J. Donahue, managing director of Library Ca­ reer Consultants. A fee of $30.00 will be charged for the en­ tire conference. A preregistration fee of $25.00 will be accepted until April 10. Hotel accom­ modations should be made directly to Hotel Radisson, 1790 Grant St., Denver, CO 80203. For registration and further information write Mrs. Noel R. Grego, Program Chairman, COLT, Chicago State University Library, Rm. 311 C, 6800 S. Stewart Ave., Chicago, IL 60621. May 18-20, 1972: The Midwest Academic Librarians Conference will meet May 18, 19, 20, 1972, at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Included is a visit to the Regenstein Library at the University of Chi­ cago. Convention chairman is Donald E. Thompson, Wabash College Library, Craw­ fordsville, IN 47933. June 19_23, 1972: The American Theolog­ ical Library Association will hold its 26th an­ nual conference, June 19~23, 1972, on the campus of Waterloo Lutheran University, W a­ terloo, Ontario, Canada. Host librarian, to whom inquiries about the conference may be directed, is Erich R. W. Schultz of Waterloo Lutheran University. Details may be found in the January News. July 16-28, 1972: The School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, . the forget-you-not subscription T s h e at' r s v jus i t c an e oth ! er name fo r our popular “ till forbidden” service — automatic annual re­ newal of y o u r s u b s c rip tio n s . F. W. 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To see how subscription service from Stechert-Hafner, Inc. can work for you, write for our brochure. STECHERT-HAFNER, INC. A CCM Company Serving libraries since 1872 31 East 10th Street, New York, N.Y. 10003 Branch offices and agents throughout the world SHA-075 Telephone: 212-674-6210 S E T S O u t o f P r i n t Antiquarian Firm Disposing of its out-of-print set department History, Literature, Reference, etc. One of America’s finest collections A worthwhile purchase for a new college or junior college system. BOX NUMBER 815 COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 50 E. HURON STREET CHICAGO, IL L 60611 is planning the sixth annual Library Adminis­ trators Development Program to be held July 16-28, 1972. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of man­ agement at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. As in the past five sum­ mers, participants will include senior adminis­ trative personnel of large library systems—pub­ lic, research, academic, special, governmental, and school—from the United States and Can­ ada. The faculty is made up of well-known scholars, educators, management consultants, and lecturers drawn from universities, govern­ ment, and consulting fields. Seminar sessions will concentrate on the prin­ cipal administrative issues which senior man­ agers encounter. Leadership, motivation, com­ munication, personnel policy, decision-making, problem-solving, financial planning and control, performance appraisal, the impact of technolo­ gy, and the planning of change are among the issues considered in lecture, case analysis, group discussion, and seminar. The two-week resident program will again be held at the University of Maryland’s Don­ aldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland, a serene twenty-acre estate overlooking the Sus­ quehanna River and offering a variety of recre­ ational facilities and an informal atmosphere conducive to study, reflection, and discussion. Those interested in further information are in­ vited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. MISCELLANY • A Charter of the Book, stressing the im­ portance of the free flow of books across fron­ tiers and setting forth the treatment to which books are entitled nationally and international­ ly, has been approved by international profes­ sional organizations at a meeting in Brussels in support of International Book Year 1972. The first internationally approved statement on books, the Charter notes the vital role of print­ ed matter in education and also points to the way in which books can contribute to interna­ tional understanding and peaceful cooperation. It outlines the key contributions of the produc­ ers and distributors of books in making avail­ able to readers the books that help foster indi­ vidual well-being and economic and social progress. The meeting of the fourteen-member com­ mittee expressed its satisfaction with prepara­ tions for the celebration of International Book Year in 1972. Members decided to link their 1972 international conferences to International Book Year. Chaired by Mr. Herman Liebaers, Royal Librarian of Belgium and president of the International Federation of Library Associ­ 35 ations, the committee included representatives of the major publishing oountries and spokes­ men from the International Community of Booksellers Associations, the International Con­ federation of Societies of Authors and Compos­ ers, the International Federation for Documen­ tation, the International PEN and the Interna­ tional Publishers Association, as well as the In ­ ternational Federation of Library Associations. International Book Year 1972 was pro­ claimed by the General Conference of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. U nder the slogan of “Books for All,” the Year has four main themes: (1 ) promotion of authorship and translations; (2 ) stimulation of the production and distribution of books, including librarian- ship; ( 3 ) the promotion of the reading habit; and (4 ) the use of books in the service of edu­ cation, international understanding, and peace­ ful cooperation. • Charles H. Stevens, associate director for library development, Project Intrex, Massachu­ setts Institute of T echnology, has been ap­ pointed the first executive director of the N a­ tional Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Washington, D.C. The announcement was m ade by Frederick Burkhardt, the commis­ sion’s chairman. Dr. Burkhardt, president of the American Council of Learned Societies, who was named head of the new commission by President Nix­ on earlier this year, expressed satisfaction with the commission’s choice: “The library field and the information community as a whole have awaited this appointment with some anticipa­ tion, and we are fortunate indeed to find a man who is at once a librarian of acknowledged na­ tional stature and an expert on the technical as­ pects of information retrieval systems. W e have every expectation th at Mr. Stevens will bring to his new duties a balanced consideration for th e mounting problems of traditional libraries as well as for innovations in the field.” The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science was created by act of the 91st Congress in July 1970 in response to the m ultitude of problems facing library systems throughout the country. Established as an inde­ pendent agency within the Executive Branch, the commission is charged with developing plans, studies, and analyses with librarians and others interested in information problems in the various library systems th at exist in federal, state, local, and private agencies, and with ad­ vising the President and the Congress on over­ all policies to meet national needs for library and information services. The commission con­ sists of the Librarian of Congress and fourteen members appointed by the President, who di­ rect the new agency. • Declining library budgets and soaring costs of library materials have resulted in the formation of a cooperative group among college and university libraries in Northern Utah. The University and College L ibrary Council ( uclc) includes directors and other profes­ sional librarians from the University of Utah li­ braries, Brigham Young University libraries, Utah State University Media Center, and the W eber State College library. Dr. Brigham D. Madsen, University of U tah director of li­ braries, will serve as chairman of the new coun­ cil for 1971-72. Mr. August Hanniball,’ univer­ sity extension librarian, was named executive secretary. Member libraries have already instituted many cooperative enterprises, including a daily van service interconnecting each library, recip­ rocal borrowing privileges for faculty and grad­ uate students, guidelines to avoid duplication in the purchase of expensive items, and the use of microfilmed catalogs to immediately deter­ mine possession and location of materials by call number. • The staff of the U niversity of Massa­ chusetts library in Amherst has presented to the library as its 1,000,000th volume, a copy of the first edition of Jonathan Edw ards’ Free­ dom o f th e W ill. Published in 1754, and gen­ erally considered the greatest philosophical and literary work to come from English North America in the eighteenth century, Edw ards’ Freedom of the W ill, and this copy of it, are closely associated with the Connecticut Valley. Edwards matured its principal ideas toward the end of his twenty-first-year incumbency as minister of the First Church in Ipswich. H e had been expelled ten years earlier in his senior year at Yale College for refusing to dissociate himself from the religious radicalism preached by George Whitefield, a philosophy known as th e “New Light,” of which Edw ards was at first also a proponent. PUBLICATIONS • The 1971-72 edition of the A L A H and­ book of Organization (formerly, A L A Organi­ zational Information) is available, free upon request, to personal members of the American Library Association. Copies are being mailed, automatically, to organizational members, spe­ cial members, and to members listed in this year’s edition. Nonmembers wishing to order copies must pay a charge of $3.00 per copy. Please direct your request to the Public Rela­ tions Office, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. • A Bibliography of Use Surveys 1950-1970, by Pauline Atkin, has now been published as 36 a special issue (no. 14) of the Library and In ­ formation Bulletin. Mrs. Atkin, a research as­ sistant at the Polytechnic of N orth London, compiled the bibliography during the last six months of 1970 as p art of a larger project on cooperation between public and academic li­ braries. Some 700 titles of surveys are includ­ ed, w ith brief abstracts in many cases. T he list is closely classified and there is a subject index. Copies are available a t £ 0 .7 5 . from Librarian and Information Officer, T he Library Associa­ tion, 7 Ridgmount St., London W C 1E 7AE. • Black Perspectives: A Bibliography, com­ piled by the Library D epartm ent a t New York City Community College of The City Universi­ ty of New York, lists 1,353 titles relating to the black experience in the U nited States, Africa, and elsewhere. Entries are arranged alphabeti­ cally by author’s name under such headings as Race, Afro-American Curricula, Non-Book M a­ terials, and others. Those interested in building black studies collections may obtain this useful bibliography for $1.00 a copy. Checks payable to Community College Press should be mailed to Faculty Student Association, Community College Press, New York City Community Col­ lege, 300 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY 11201. • Coming o f A g e o f L T A s. Proceedings of th e F ourth Annual M eeting of the Council on Library Technology held a t Palm Beach, Flori­ da, June 4-6, 1970 is now available; it is edited by Sister Mary Chrysantha Rudnik, CSSF, and published b y the Council on L ibrary Technolo­ gy, 1971. Topics include T he Role of th e Li­ brary Technical Assistant—Actual and Poten­ tial; LTAs—Themselves and Their Employers; Certification of LTAs; and Job Descriptions. T he publication is available for $3.00 ($4.50 outside the U.S.A.) from Council on Library Technology, 3800 Peterson Ave., Chicago, IL 60659. • Now available from the Minnesota His­ torical Society is a G uide to a Microfilm E d i­ tion of th e Mexican Mission Papers of John L in d by D eborah K. Neubeck. It accompanies seven rolls of manuscripts on film w hich have been extracted from th e society’s larger collec­ tion of John L ind papers. Film ed in a single, integrated sequence of correspondence and mis­ cellaneous papers, the bulk of th e m aterial cov- BUSINESS • COMMERCE • ECONOMICS Specialists in Out-of-Print Books in the Social Sciences Want Lists Searched Collections Fulfilled— Catalogs Issued HIVE OF INDUSTRY, BOOKSELLERS Box 602 Easton, Penna. 18042 ers th e years 1913-1914, plus those items from the period 1917-1931 w hich relate to Mexico. Lind, a Swedish-born Minnesota progressive, former governor, congressman, and university regent, was selected by President Woodrow Wilson to serve as his personal representative to revolution-torn Mexico in 1913. Of th e eight months he spent in th a t country, th e first half was devoted to implementing W ilson’s plan to reestablish social, economic, and political order by removing from power Mexico’s military dic­ tator, Victoriano H uerta. W ith th e failure of this effort, L ind was instructed to remain on the scene to report and observe. The story of the mission itself is contained primarily in the d ip ­ lomatic dispatches'—usually from L ind to Sec­ retary of State W illiam Jennings Bryan. But L ind’s observations of th e Mexican situation continued to pour back to W ashington and w ere frequently augm ented w ith letters, mem­ oranda, and reports sent to him from various Mexican-based American confidants. Mrs. Neubeck’s informative G uide provides a brief biography of L ind and a selective chron­ ology of events in his life, a sketch of th e his­ torical background of the U nited States-Mexi- can involvement, a list of events in th e history of th e Mexican revolution from 1910 to 1920, and a description of the microfilmed material. A bibliography, a selected list of authors, and a subject index are included. T he microfilm edition of John L ind’s Mexi­ can mission has been published by th e M in­ nesota Historical Society because of th e collec­ tion’s dem onstrated value to scholars in the field of U nited States and Mexican relations. It is the seventh such project to be com pleted and th e first to be published independent of monetary support from the National Historical Publica­ tions Commission. T he earlier NHPC-sponsored microfilm editions include the papers of Igna­ tius Donnelly, Alexander Ramsey, H enry H. Sibley, Law rence Taliaferro, James Wickes Taylor, and the N ational Nonpartisan League papers supplem ented by those of H enry G. Teigan. Seven rolls and guide, $105; individual rolls, $17.50; G uide only, $2.00. • Publication of th e fourth edition, revised, of th e Library Telecommunications Directory: Canada— United States has been announced. T he Directory has been u p d ated through Oc­ tober 1971, and contains 882 listings of li­ braries in the U nited States and C anada using TWX or T E L EX for interlibrary communica­ tions. A rrangement is by state or province, and by Answerback identification code. T he Direc­ tory is available at a price of $2.00; copies will be sent automatically to libraries w hich pur­ chased th e third edition. Orders from libraries in the U nited States 37 THE NEGRO E M A N C IP A T IO N TO W O RLD W A R I. Books and pamphlets (254 titles) written between 1863 and 1914 by and about the Negro. Includes representative poetry and fiction as well as works on emancipation, freedman, reconstruction, Jim Crow laws, education, and the Negro’s economic and social condition in both the South and the North. Send for a list of titles. [4x6 microfiche] $550.00 NEGRO PERIODICALS A collection of 40 major Negro periodicals issued from 1825 to 1960. Includes African Repository, Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines Friend, Colored American Maga­ zine, Crisis (N A A C R ), National Anti-Slavery Standard, National Era, Quarterly Review o f Higher Education Among Negroes and Southern Workman. [4x6 and 35mm m icrofilm ], $1610.00 SLAVERY SOURCE MATERIALS Consists of books and pamphlets (441 titles) written before the Civil War by and about the Negro and about slavery and anti-slavery. The reprinting of these titles on microfiche makes available to all libraries a sig­ nificant collection of rare and scarce titles which pro­ vide basic source material for researchers at all levels. [4x6 microfiche] $699.00 40 THE CAREER OF THE ACADEMIC LIBRARIAN Perry D. Morrison Studies the social, economic, demographic, m o tiv a tio n a l, and psychological factors in the career patterns of 707 aca­ demic librarians. Indicating tal­ ents and traits in long and short supply, the study is of significance in dealing with the current man-power crisis. ACRL Monograph No. 29 Paper $4.50MONOGRAPHS ACRL RARE BOOK COLLECTIONS Some Theoretical and Practical Suggestions for Use by Librarians and Students H. Richard Archer, editor Ten essays by experts review the needs and special prob­ lems pertaining to the care, handling and use-of rare book collections, large and small. Bibliography. ACRL Monograph No. 27 Paper $3.00 INTERLIBRARY LOAN INVOLVING ACADEMIC LIBRARIES Sarah Katharine Thomson nalyzing thousands of actual ansactions, the author deter­ ines the influence of pro­ edures, policies, readers, braries, and other factors on e success or failure of inter- brary loan requests. CRL Monograph No. 32 aper $5.00 THE CASE FOR FACULTY STATUS FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS Lewis C. Branscomb, editor A colle ctio n of papers from College and Research Librar­ ies, with additional ones writ­ ten for this book, which provide lively arguments in favor of academic recognition for col­ lege and university librarians. ACRL Monograph No. 33 Paper $5.00 A tr m c li th li A P SCIENTIFIC SERIALS Characteristics and Lists of Most Cited Publications in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Physiology, Botany, Zoology and Entomology Charles Harvey Brown The technique of citation anal­ ysis on w hich the book is based is compared with pre­ vious works in the field. “ Most cited” lists are reviewed and objective criteria provided for selection, 29 tables. ACRL Monograph No. 16 THE ABBREVIATED CITATION A Bibliographical Problem Mary R. Kinney An annotated guide to major English language references in selected fields which iden­ tify coded or shortened-form citations of serials, standard works, and research reports: Includes sources for identifi­ cation in 34 subject categories. ACRL Monograph No. 28 Paper $2.25 THE PRINTED BOOK CATALOG IN AMERICAN LIBRARIES: 1723-1900 Jim Ranz The first documented history of the printed public or reader catalog, from colonial times to the introduction of Library of Congress prin ted catalog cards. With selected bibliogra­ phy, index and list of 179 out­ standing catalogs. ACRL Monograph No. 26 Paper $4.50 Cloth $5,00 JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES Development, Needs, and Perspectives Everett Leroy Moore, editor Papers from the first national conference on junior college libraries define the nature of a vital junior college and ways in which libraries can and do play their role. ACRL Monograph No. 30 Paper $3.00 THE UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY Irene A. Braden The undergraduate libraries of six major universities are anal­ yzed for their purpose, devel­ opment, financing, physical layout, furniture, lighting, staff, and the acquisition, scope, and Size of their book collections. ACRL Monograph No. 31 Paper $7.50 41 must be sent directly to Library Systems and Communications Division, Duke University Medical Center Library, Durham, NC 27710, with payment directed to the Duke University Medical Center Library, accompanying the or­ der. Libraries in Canada may order directly from Mr. David Skene Melvin, Suite LL7, 24 Queen St. East, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, with pay­ ment accompanying order. It will not be possi­ ble to accept orders through jobbers. • LNR: Numerical Register of Books in Louisiana Libraries is a computer-produced lo­ cation list of 548,000 books represented by LC catalog card numbers. This 600-page offset publication is the work of a Louisiana Library Association committee under the chairmanship of William E. McGrath, Director of Libraries, University of Southwestern Louisiana. With an LSCA Title III grant from the Lou­ isiana State Library, 450,000 numbers were keypunched from the retrospective holdings of six major libraries, and sixteen participants re­ ported current acquisitions during the last year and a half. Entries are arranged in numerical sequence (600 on a page) and each is followed by alphabetic character location symbols. For additional information on LNR, write Mr. Sam A. Dyson, Librarian, Louisiana Tech University —Library, Ruston, LA 71270. • The University of Utah libraries and the University of Utah Middle East Center an­ nounce publication of Supplement One to Vol­ ume I of Middle East Catalogue Series: Arabic Collection Aziz S. Atiya Library for Middle East Studies. This volume includes 3,065 fac­ simile main entry cards for monographic works cataloged from September 1967 through Feb­ ruary 1970, along with a list of Arabic periodi­ cal holdings to the cutoff date of February 1970, and author and title indexes to both the Supplement and the earlier Volume I of more than 8,000 cards, which was issued in 1968. It is expected that the indexes will facilitate use of both volumes, which are arranged in the general subject areas of the Library of Congress classification. The supplementary volume, in­ cluding indexes to both Volume I and the Sup­ plement, is priced at $15.00. Orders and in­ quiries should be directed to Mr. Roger Mathi- son, Gifts & Exchanges Librarian, Marriott Li­ brary, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. Copies of Volume I are still available at the published price of $20.00 and can be or­ dered from the same address. • The Operational Archives of the Naval History Division recently prepared a micro­ film publication containing English translations of forty monthly volumes of the war diary of the Operations Division, German Naval Staff (Seekriegsleitung), 1939-1945. Although these translations cover only certain periods of the war years and were originally for internal na­ val use, they have been of value to a number of students of World War II history. The pub­ lication consists of sixteen 35mm reels which are available on interlibrary loan or which may be purchased for a fee of $8.00 per reel. In­ terested scholars and institutions can obtain a brief description of the translations, details on the exact months contained on each reel, and information on ordering procedures by writing to the Operational Archives, Building 210, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, DC 20390. • Kansas State University library, Manhat­ tan, has recently published number 9 in its Library Bibliography Series: Civil-Military Re­ lations and Militarism; a Classified Bibliogra­ phy Covering the United States and Other Na­ tions of the World; with Introductory Notes, by Arthur D. Larson, University of Wisconsin- Parkside. History professor Robin Higham is faculty adviser for the series, and acquisitions librarian John Vander Velde, editor. One hun­ dred thirteen pages in length, the volume sells for $3.00. Order from Bibliography Series Ed­ itor, KSU Library, Manhattan, KS 66502. 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