ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries

News From the Field

A C Q U I S I T I O N S

• Musical scores for practically all the major
symphonic works of the twentieth century are
included in a collection acquired by the Uni
versity of New Mexico’s Zimmerman Library.
The complete musical library of the late world-
famed conductor Alexander Smallens will be
housed in the UNM Fine Arts Library. This
very rich collection includes 3,700 musical
scores of opera, chamber music, and symphonies
from Europe and the United States. Included
are conductor’s scores, study, and miniature
scores.

Smallens, who died last year at age eighty-
three, had a long and successful career in this
country and abroad as a conductor of sym
phony, opera, and ballet music. He was with
the Philadelphia Orchestra for more than
eighteen years, and also was a guest conductor
with virtually every major symphony orchestra
in this country and with leading opera compa
nies in Europe. The “modern” American opera
music in the collection reflects Smallens’ close
association late in his career with the music
of George Gershwin and particularly “Porgy
and Bess,” which he called his “favorite Ameri
can folk opera.”

The Zimmerman Library, University of New
Mexico, also recently took possession of a col
lection of the records of the U.S. Marshal’s
Office, Santa Fe. Fifty boxes of office records
were given to the library by Doroteo R. Baca,
New Mexico’s U.S. Marshal. These records date
from New Mexico’s territorial dates to 1948
and cover many exciting exploits of the Mar
shals of the period. They will be stored, or
ganized, and indexed in Zimmerman Library’s
Special Collection Department.

FELLOWSHIPS
• The need to investigate new methods of

library operations, including library procedures;
library management; and library automation is
today more important than ever. Richard Abel
& Company, international library suppliers, now
will support original investigations in this field
by establishing a fellowship program in library
analysis and library automated systems.

Five Abel Library Fellowships of $2,500
each will be offered for projects in (1) Library
analysis and cost analysis, (2) Library auto
mation, (3) Library systems analysis and de
sign, or (4) Library management. Projects
should reflect between two and three months
of full-time effort. The first awards will be
made in June 1974.

Applicants should have a minimum of five
years of professional experience as a librarian
or information scientist. Interested persons
should send, before March 15, 1974, an in
formative abstract of their proposed project,
along with a resume and samples of their
published or unpublished writing to this ad
dress: Abel Library Fellowships, Richard Abel
& Company, Inc., P.O. Box 4245, Portland,
OR 97208, Attn: F. Spigai.

G R A N T S

• The New York Public Library has become
the recipient of a $500,000 grant from the Wil
liam R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.

The grant will be placed in a special account
to be expended over a five-year period at an
approximate rate of $100,000 per year. The
usage will be for badly needed work in con
servation and preservation of materials in the
collections of the Research Libraries. Deteriora
tion of a substantial portion of the collections
has been aggravated by the atmosphere and
by the lack of air conditioning.

William Rand Kenan, Jr. combined a dis
tinguished scientific and business career with
a deep devotion to civic improvement and the
advancement of education. The William R.
Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust was established by
Mr. Kenan’s will in order to provide for the
continuation of his efforts to support education

IT’S NICE TO KNOW YOU’RE
PAYING ATTENTION …
Drury College library has sent the

following letter to the editors of the
News:

“The response to the library’s offer of
its pocket guide, which ran in the No
vember issue of CRL News (p.270) has
been spectacular! I am really pleased
that so many individuals were interested.
Sorry to have to say that now no more
copies are available for distribution. I
hope you’ll run this in the next issue.
Please convey my thanks to the many
people who wrote in; sorry to disappoint
those to whom I’m unable to send a copy.

“Thank you.”
Paul M. Duckworth
Reference Librarian

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the benefit of mankind in general.

• The Seeley G. Mudd Fund of Los Angeles
has given Lawrence University $1,265,000 to
ward a new library. The gift is the largest to
date in the university’s $10 million Lawrence
Leadership Fund campaign. It raises to $5.5
million the amount given and pledged, one
year after the three-year campaign was
launched.

The new building will be named the Seeley
G. Mudd Library. The new library will have
space for 500,000 to 600,000 volumes and
seating for about 750, both about double the
capacity of the present building. The library
also will house a rare book room, four seminar
rooms, the university’s archives, an art exhibit
center, and six study spaces which will be
available to faculty members on sabbatical,
scholars of the university, and others working
on individual projects. A media center will have
facilities for production and distribution of
audiovisual materials.

M E E T IN G S

F eb. 28-M arch 1: Bibliographic Net
works. “Alternatives in bibliographic network
ing, or how to use automation without doing
it yourself’’ is the theme of an ISAD Institute
in New Orleans sponsored by the Information
Science and Automation Division of the Ameri
can Library Association.

The purpose of the institute is to review the
options available in cooperative cataloging and
library networks, to provide a framework for
identifying problems and selecting alternative
cataloging systems on a functional basis, and
to suggest evaluation strategies and decision
models to aid in making choices from alterna
tive bibliographic networking systems. For ho
tel reservation information and a registration
blank write to: Donald P. Hammer, ISAD,
American Library Association, 50 E. Huron
St., Chicago, IL 60611. Further information is
in the January News.

March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30: Multi-Media
W orkshop. The workshop is designed to be an
introduction to audiovisual work in libraries
and media centers: the location, critical evalua
tion, and selection of a variety of audiovisual
materials and equipment. Attention is given to
types of audiovisual services provided by li
braries and to procedures for the acquisition,
cataloging, classification, circulation, and stor
age of materials. A part of each session will be
a laboratory period for the purpose of familiar
izing participants with audiovisual equipment.
The workshop will be presented on the above

as a means of individual betterment and for

Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at St.

John’s University, Jamaica, New York. The fee
is $80.00. For further information and/or ap
plication, write or call: Dr. Mohammed M.
Aman, Chairman, Department of Library Sci
ence, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY 11439
telephone (212) 969-8000, ext. 209. Applica
tion deadline: February 25, 1974. The numbe
of participants is limited.

March 14: I ntegrated Media in Communit
College L ibraries … A State of the Art
A “Drive-in Conference” will be held a
Cosumnes River College library, 9:30 a.m.-4:00
p.m., organized by the college’s Library/M edia
Services Staff and sponsored by the Californi
Junior College Association’s Committee on In
struction. Five workshops will be held o
“Let a Computer catalog your slides,” “Non
print media and technical services,” “Medi
packages for library orientations,” “Public ser
vices and mediated reference,” and “TV an
related equipment for librarians.” For furthe
information about the conference, write Mr
Terry Kastanis, Director of Educational Re
sources, Cosumnes River College, 8401 Cente
Parkway, Sacramento, CA 95823.

March 14-16: Junior College Libraries
The Ninth Annual Conference, Junior Colleg
Libraries will be held at Waubonsee Commu
nity College, Sugar Grove, IL. Send direc
inquiries to publicity chairman, Duane Paulsen
Sauk Valley College, Dixon, IL 61021.

April 18: F ederal D ocuments Regiona
W orkshop will be held in Boston at the Shera
ton-Boston. The program, a series of seminar
on various aspects of government publication
with emphasis on practical problem-solving an
exchange of ideas and methods, is designed t
serve public, school, college and university
and special librarians in the New Englan
states. There will be a registration fee, an
enrollment will be limited to 200. For furthe
information contact Mrs. Virginia Vocelli
Planning Committee Chairman, Nelinet Tas
Force on Government Documents, Connecticu
State Library, 231 Capitol Ave., Hartford
CT 06115.

April 22-M ay 3: I ntroduction to Moder
Archives Administration. The thirtieth in
stitute will be held at the National Archive
Building. While emphasizing public record
and archives, the institute features a facult
experienced in all phases of work with archive
and manuscripts, and is offered by the Na
tional Archives and Records Service as a pro
fessional service. It is directed by Dr. Fran
B. Evans, assistant to the archivist. The insti
tute is offered for three semester credits by th
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versity, and is cosponsored by the Library of
Congress and the Maryland Hall of Records.

Inquiries should be addressed to: Depart
ment of History, Thirtieth Archives Institute,
The American University, Washington, DC
20016, or telephone (202) 686-2401.

April 23-26: L atin American Materials.
The University of Texas at Austin will be the
site of the Nineteenth Seminar on the Acquisi
tion of Latin American Library Materials. The
Acquisition of Central American Materials will
be the special topic for discussion. In addition
there will be reports of progress made in the
past year on matters concerning Latin American
acquisitions and bibliography in general and
a series of workshops which will include: “In
struction in the Use of Latin American Library
Materials including Formal Courses in Latin
American Bibliography,” “Publications of Inter-
American and International Organizations,”
“Book Dealers and Their Problems,” and the
“Commercial Reprinting and Reproducing of
Latin American Materials.” For further infor
mation see the January News.

April 26-27: The Mid-Atlantic Regional
Archives Conference will hold its spring
meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia. For further
information contact Michael Plunkett, Manu
scripts Department, University of Virginia Li
brary, Charlottesville, VA 22901.

April 28-M ay 1: Clinic on Library
Applications of D ata Processing. Conducted
by the Graduate School of Library Science,
University of Illinois, the theme of this eleventh
annual clinic will be “The Application of Mini
computers to Library and Related Problems.”
The clinic will include a tutorial on minicom
puters, demonstrations, and papers describing
specific applications. Mr. F. W. Lancaster, pro
fessor of library science, is chairman of the
clinic. Further information may be obtained
from: Mr. Leonard E. Sigler, Clinic Supervisor
OS-97, Conferences and Institutes, 116 Mini
Hall, Champaign, IL 61820.

May 2-3: Managing D ata E ffectively

C orrection
Mr. David Pownall, director of library

services at Hofstra University, has in
formed us of an important omission in
the information we were given for his
October profile. The appointment is for
1973/74 only.

A committee is actively engaged in a
nationwide search for a permanent di
rector and is still interested in receiving
the names of possible candidates.

will be the theme of the tenth annual National
Information Retrieval Colloquium, to be held
at the Holiday Inn, 18th and Market Streets,
Philadelphia.

The National Information Retrieval Collo
quium (N IRC) is an annual two-day confer
ence sponsored by fourteen regional societies
and organizations with interests in the informa
tion storage and retrieval sciences. The collo
quium brings practitioners and academicians to
gether to discuss and interpret new trends and
technologies, current applications, and theo
retical approaches to old problems.

Content of this year’s colloquium will be
structured into three broad areas—the man
agement or handling of data, the technical re
quirements of data management, and the appli
cation of data management. Each of the three
areas will be divided into sessions on the state
of the art or a survey of the field, its impact,
and applications or examples.

For additional information contact: Collo
quium on Information Retrieval, Inc., P.O.
Box 15847, Philadelphia, PA 19103.

May 9-11: Library Orientation. The
Fourth Annual Conference on Library Orienta
tion, to be held at Eastern Michigan University,
will include speakers, panels, and small group
discussions.

Librarians, administrators, faculty, and stu
dents are invited. Registration will be limited
to 100 persons. For further information, please
write to: Hannelore Rader, Orientation Librari
an, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
48197.

May 24-25: Midwest Academic Librarians
Conference, to be held on the campus of
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. De
tails: William C. Roselle, Director, UWM
Library, Milwaukee, W I 53201.

July 4-6: J uvenilia as a Scholarly Re
source. A preconference sponsored by the Na
tional Planning of Special Collections Commit
tee, Children’s Services Division, American Li
brary Association, will be held prior to the
1974 ALA Annual Conference in New York.

This symposium, to be held at Fairleigh
Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey,
will consider such themes as: forms of ju
venilia being utilized in research now; forms
neglected by research collections; prototypes
of collecting programs on state, regional, na
tional and international levels in public, aca
demic, special, and national libraries. Speakers
will include researchers, curators, teachers, li
brarians, from institutions abroad as well as
from this country.

Registration will be limited to 200, and will
close May 15, 1974. Application blanks will be

available from the Children’s Services Division,
American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St.,
Chicago, IL 60611, after February 15, 1974.
Registration fees, including room and meals, are
$75 for ALA members; $85 for nonmembers.
Special registration fees, without room and
meals are, $45 for ALA members; $50 for non
members. Accommodations will be in Dorm Vil
lage with meals at the Student Center.

July 7-8: Census D ata. The Education
and Behavioral Science Section will spon
sor the Clearinghouse and Laboratory for Cen
sus Data (operated by Data Use and Access
Laboratories of Rosslyn, Virginia) in a day and
a half seminar/workshop on access and use of
1970 Census of Population and Housing data
during the 1974 ALA Annual Conference in
New York. For further information see the
January News.

July 7-13: Library Automation. A workshop
on the latest techniques in library automation,
sponsored by Richard Abel & Company, will
precede the 1974 American Library Association
conference in New York City. Further informa
tion on the exact time and place of the work
shop will be available at the 1974 ALA Mid
winter Meeting in Chicago.

The workshop will include forums, lectures,
and open discussions. They will be presented
by recognized leaders in the fields of library
automation.

There will be no charge to attend the work
shop, but attendance will be limited, to provide
a good discussion atmosphere. The workshop
is intended for librarians working in library
automation.

Maintaining the theme of state-of-the-art
reporting, the basic content of the workshop
will consist of what is happening in library
automation today. And looking to the future,
there will also be discussions and forecasts of
what is to come.

Persons interested in further information or
in participating in the workshop should contact
the Abel Workshop Director, at this address:
Abel Workshop Director, Richard Abel & Com
pany, Inc., P.O. Box 4245, Portland, OR
97208.

July 28-Aug. 9: Administrators. The Col
lege of Library and Information Services,
University of Maryland, is planning the eighth
annual Library Administrators Development
Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of manage
ment at Western Michigan University, will
serve as the director. Participants will include
senior administrative personnel of large library
systems—public, research, academic, special,
governmental, and school—from the United
States and Canada. Those interested in further
information are invited to address inquiries to

Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant,
Library Administrators Development Program,
College of Library and Information Services,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
20742. See the January News for further infor
mation.

M IS C E L L A N Y

• The libraries of Memphis State Univer
sity will begin to offer formal instruction to
students in the use of its libraries in the spring
semester of 1974. The need for such instruction
has long been noted by various members of the
library staff. The course title is “The Use of
Library Materials, Resources, and Bibliog
raphy,” and will carry two semester-hours
credit. Its description is “an introduction to
the organization of academic library material
with emphasis on bibliographic access to in
formation. Course content will consist of lec
tures and assigned research problems designed
to acquaint the student with general and spe
cialized methods of access to library material.”
It will be taught by various library faculty
assisted by others who will appear as “guest
lecturers” on various topics. Credit for the
course will be elective, applicable toward the
baccalaureate, and will be granted through the
MSU libraries.

• Some modern language and literature
subject librarians have for some time now
felt a need for an organization which would
provide the opportunity to come in contact
with other subject specialists working in the
area of modern languages and literatures in col
lege and university libraries.

We are looking forward to the establishment
of a section, possibly within the division of the
Association of College and Research Libraries
of ALA (though other possible organizations
could be explored). Such a group would repre
sent subject specialists and librarians working
in the subject areas of American and English
literatures, Germanic literatures, Romance liter
atures, and other literatures now covered
through area sections. The section or group
would provide an organization in which said
librarians could stimulate and develop their
professional interests through discussion of
problems, exchange of information, and the
planning of programs contributing to their own
growth and that of the profession.

If you find the idea of interest to you, please
contact Marianne Goldstein, SUNY at Buffalo,
Reference Department, Lockwood Memorial Li
brary, Buffalo, NY 14214.

• Each year the National Council of
Teachers of E nglish’s Committee on Class
room Practices in Teaching English holds an
open meeting at the Annual NCTE Convention.
Teachers come and express their concerns and
interests about teaching English. Out of this
open meeting comes the theme for the annual
issue of Classroom Practices in Teaching Eng
lish.

An invitation is extended to teachers and
other educators at elementary, secondary, and
college-university levels to share ideas on
change in classroom practices which resulted
from “Re-Vision” or reflection or from external
pressures. Each article should describe a change
in classroom procedures relating to the teach
ing of reading, writing, speaking, listening, lan
guage arts, or to student evaluation, communi
cation skills, film and media, emotional demands
on students or teachers, or any other concern.
Each article, which can range up to 2,000
words, should describe the new practice, wheth
er or not it was successful, and what stimulated
the change. Two copies should be mailed be
fore April 15 to Allen Berger, Co-Editor, Class
room Practices in Teaching English, The Uni
versity of Alberta Education Centre, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada.

• Beginning in January, The Catholic Uni
versity is offering a post-masters degree pro
gram in library science, the only such program
in Washington, D.C., as part of C.U.’s Contin
uing Professional Development Programs.

Designed to meet the specific needs of prac

ticing librarians, the program offers twenty-
four credits beyond the M.L.S. degree in addi
tion to noncredit workshops, special courses,
and institutes. The students enrolled in the pro
gram will be eligible for an advanced certificate
in library science.

Registration for the post-masters program in
library science will be handled by C.U.’s Of
fice of Continuing Education, McMahon Hall.
For more information, contact John Gilheany,
director, (202 ) 635-5256.

• The University of New Mexico General Li
brary, Albuquerque, announces the provision of
computer tape data bases for its faculty mem
bers. Each search produces a printed bibliog
raphy on a narrow subject. Through a coopera
tive service project developed by the General
Library in close cooperation with the Technol
ogy Application Center, twenty-eight tape data
bases are searched. These bases cover the phys
ical, biological, and social sciences. Search strat
egies are developed by Reference Department
librarians. The cost of these searches is paid
from the book budget, two copies of search re
sults, including abstracts as well as indexing en
tries, being sent to the library to be checked
into the serial record. In addition, one search
copy is sent to the professor.

This reference service project has been in
operation for five months, and more than fifty
searches have been completed. Half of the lit
erature searches have concentrated on the social
sciences and humanities, and half on the biolog
ical and physical sciences.

• State University of New York students
will soon benefit from more direct access to the
7.5 million books and 6.2 million slides, films,
recordings, and other research materials con
tained in libraries on the university’s thirty-four
state campuses.

The proposed system, which has the endorse
ment of the Faculty Senate of the university,
will greatly improve upon the university’s cur
rent interlibrary loan program under which
books at cooperating libraries can be borrowed
through the mails.

Working in cooperation with State University
librarians, Chancellor Boyer has announced the
formation of a committee of librarians and ad
ministrators to develop a timetable and proce
dures to implement the program. In addition to
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the committee will also explore the future pos
sibility of extending access privileges to the
faculty and students at the thirty-eight locally-
sponsored community colleges.

The expanded library access policy is seen as
an essential step in the university’s efforts to use
its library resources more effectively, particular
ly since the cost of acquiring books and period
icals has grown at an extraordinary rate in re
cent years. Some publications costs have in
creased at the rate of 15 percent per year.

State University of New York is the first ma
jor multicampus system to introduce such a
reciprocal program on so wide as scale, al
though the library system of the State Univer
sity of Illinois was a similar policy, limited to
faculty and graduate students. The growing use
of modern computer and data processing tech
niques is another cost control program the uni
versity has implemented in administration of
its libraries. Shared cataloging techniques and
the compilation of lists of university-wide loca
tions will be developed to enable library users
expeditiously to locate books and reference
tools.

The policy will be particularly beneficial to
students of the university’s Empire State Col
lege, since they are not campus-based and must
rely heavily on library collections near their
homes or places of employment. The policy will
also make it much more convenient for students
and faculty to conduct research and complete
reference assignments in other parts of the state
during vacation and intersession periods.

• The Afro-American Music Opportunities
Association announces the initiation of a series,
to be known as AAMOA resource papers, de
signed to assist researchers, educators, and per
formers in various information areas related to
black music. The series, offered as one of the
services of AAMOA, will be under the editor
ship of Dr. Dominique-Rene de Lerma.

MEMO TO STATE
AND REGIONAL

LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS
The ACRL office is compiling a list

of the current chairmen of the college
or academic library sections of state and
regional library associations. Please send
the correct name of the section, the title
of its officer, and the officer’s name and
address to Beverly P. Lynch, Executive
Secretary, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chi
cago, IL 60611.

If the association has a committee on
academic status, please include similar
information concerning the name and
current officer of that committee.

The first release to be issued on the AAMOA
label is by the great jazz composer David Baker,
a man of considerable reputation nationally.
This recording is of his Piano Sonata with
String Quintet performed by the Brazilian pian
ist Elena Fiere. Title of the album is “Sonata.”
This and future recordings will be available to
AAMOA patrons only. Subsequent releases will
include the broad concept of black music from
jazz to the classics. Releases will be issued ir
regularly and announced to all patrons.

There is a vast vacuum of materials on black
music and musicians that AAMOA hopes to fill
in the years to come. As a part of this plan
AAMOA will be releasing records, monographs,
and other published material on a regular basis.
The only way to receive any of this material
which is free, is to donate to AAMOA. The
level of donation determines what you receive.

A pledge or donation of $25 or more annual
ly entitles you to record releases, two publica
tions, and other services as well as the bi
monthly newsletter. A pledge or donation of
$15 entitles you to a record or a monograph
and the bi-monthly newsletter. ( High school
and college students can receive the newsletter
free of charge).

For further information contact AAMOA,
Box #662, Minneapolis, MN 55440.

P U B L I C A T I O N S

• The American Library Association has pub
lished The Rise of the Public Library in Cali
fornia by Ray E. Held, a study of the American
public library within the confines of one state
during one historical era.

The formation of California public libraries
is related by Professor Held to the ideas and
conditions appearing in a specific locale. The
legal background, economic conditions, histor
ical precedents, and philanthropic activities
which influenced the founding of California’s
municipal, county, and state libraries are
analyzed. In addition, the initial organization
of library services receives focus, together with
the vision and efforts of pioneer California li
brarians. The beginning of reference work, ser
vice to children, and branch libraries are spe
cifically described, and the activities of the
state association and the contribution of pioneer
ing figures like James Gillis are detailed.

Because The Rise of the Public Library in
California relates the public library develop
ment to the economic and cultural conditions
of an area, it is of interest to students of library
history, social history, and the history of Cali
fornia.

The book is available for $12.50. For further
information contact: Robert G. Hershman, Or
der Department, American Library Association,
50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

• Some 50,000 theses accepted for higher
degrees in the universities of Great Britain and
Ireland will now be indexed in a new biblio
graphical guide published by the European
Bibliographical Center—Clio Press. The British
Theses Retrospective Index will document
theses accepted for higher degrees between the
early eighteenth century and 1950. Coverage
will be divided into two volumes. The first vol
ume will include theses titles within the social
sciences, arts, and humanities and be published
late next year. The second volume indexing
material in science and technology is planned
for publication at a later date.

The index fills an information gap in the field
by covering in one source the 200 year period
prior to the introduction of ASLIB’s Index to
Theses which began publication in 1950. The
bibliography will provide a central means of
reference to a large body of scholarship that
has hitherto received limited exposure.

For further information, contact Dr. Roger
R. Bilboul, British Theses Retrospective Index,
European Bibliographical Center—Clio Press, 30
Cornmarket St., Oxford OXI 3EY, Telephone:
Oxford 41533.

• The Baker Library of the Harvard Busi
ness School has published new editions of its
Current Periodical Publications in Baker Li
brary (by main entry, subject, and geographic
region) and Core Collection: An Author and
Subject Guide. The former lists 7,000 period
icals and serials, the latter 4,000 monographs in
the library’s open shelf collection. They are
available at $10 and $6, respectively, from the
Business Manager, Baker Library, Harvard Busi
ness School, Boston, MA 02163.

• Currently available: Roth, Dana L., Serials
and Journals in the C.I.T. Libraries. Pasadena:
California Institute of Technology, 1973, which
lists approximately 5,000 periodicals and serials
held by the institute’s libraries, with titles
entered under both the Library of Congress
(N ST) entry and the scientific (Chemical Ab
stracts) entry. It also offers an excellent ex
ample of COM (Computer-output-microfilm)/
offset printing.

Copies may be obtained by remitting $5.00
($5.25 for California residents) to the Califor
nia Institute of Technology and sending your
order to Millikan Library, Caltech, Pasadena,
CA 91109.

• The Tarlton Law Library of the University
of Texas announces the release of three new
publications. The first is entitled Organized
Crime: A Selected Bibliography compiled by
Isabella Hopkins, John K. Maxwell, and Charyl
Mattson, all of the Criminal Justice Reference
Library. Five major categories are covered, in
cluding (1 ) general works; (2 ) criminal or

ganizations; (3 ) organized crime involvement;
(4 ) organized crime control and prevention;
(5 ) reference materials. These are further sub
divided into more specific subject areas, where
the entries are grouped under books and mono
graphs, journal articles, and government docu
ments. The cost is $15.00.

The second publication is the seventh in the
Tarlton Law Library Legal Bibliography Series
and is entitled Law and the Environment; an
Annotated Bibliographic Guide to Materials in
the Tarlton Law Library, compiled by Lance E.
Dickson. (1973. 40p. $10.00) Materials on en
vironmental law are numerous, diverse, and
scattered throughout the legal literature. The
purpose of this reference guide, while restricted
to the extensive materials held by the Tarlton
Law Library, is to create an awareness of the
variety of available resources, and of the means
by which they may be located. Emphasis is
placed on the identification of other reference
and bibliographic sources.

The third publication is the Eighth Annual
Report of the Tarlton Law Library, University
of Texas at Austin (1973. 48p. $5.00) It con
veys data for the 1972-73 fiscal and academic
year. Besides detailing financial restrictions, it
also announces a long-awaited significant in
crease in the book budget. W ith the addition
of just over twenty thousand volumes, the col
lection now stands at just under three hundred
thousand volumes.

If you are interested in acquiring any of
these publications, please write to: Adrienne
deVergie, Tarlton Law Library, University of
Texas School of Law, 2500 Red River, Austin,
TX 78705. You may make your check payable
to: University of Texas Law School Foundation.

• The Tarlton Law Library of the University
of Texas and the Brigham Young University
Law Library announce the publication of For
eign Law Classification Schedule, Class K. (1973.
$3.00) This work is the product of the joint
efforts of Heinz Peter Mueller, head cataloger
at the BYU Law Library and Adrienne de
Vergie, Technical Services Specialist at the
Tarlton Law Library.

This publication shows how BYU has solved
its problem of classifying materials for which
the Library of Congress has not yet fully de
veloped its classification schedules. The authors
hope that it can serve as a guide for other li
braries that wish to fit their foreign legal
materials into the context of LC without facing
the specter of massive reclassification sometimes
in the shadowy future.

If you would like to order a copy of this
publication, please write to: Heinz Peter Muel
ler, Brigham Young University Law Library,
Provo, UT 84601.

• Available from the Clearinghouse and Lab-

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oratory for Census Data is the Librarian s Guide
to Accessing the 1970 Census of Population and
Housing, a free series published on an oc
casional basis, providing information about ref
erence sources related to different aspects of
census data access and use. (Issue No. 1 of the
series was originally distributed in November
1972.)

Issue No. 3 of the Librarians Guide, provid
ing information about public use sample refer
ence sources, will be available in the next few
months. Topics being considered for future is
sues of the guide include the 1970 Census Sub
ject Reports and special tabulations, plus topics
organized around areas of use, such as educa
tion, health, and income. For further informa
tion contact: Clearinghouse and Laboratory for
Census Data, Suite 900, 1601 N. Kent St.,
Rosslyn, VA 22209.

• Available from Chapin Library, Williams
College is a handlist of their current exhibition:
Potpourri of Treasures, 1923-73; which was
published to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary.

Copies of this are available gratis to any in
terested collectors and librarians who may want
them. Send requests to: H. Richard Archer,
Chapin Library, Williams College, Williams
town, MA 01267.

• The General Library, University of New
Mexico has a new publication, entitled Catalog
of Indexes and Abstracts in the General Li
brary. It lists the indexing and abstracting ser
vices to which the General Library subscribes.
This catalog of 152 pages includes government
publications as well. More than 1,000 indexing
and abstracting services in all subject fields are
covered.

The catalog is arranged alphabetically by sub
ject fields, and entries are alphabetically ar
ranged. Under each entry the reader will find a
library classification number, title holdings, and
occasional notes. Essential bibliographic infor
mation is given for each title. Two indexes to
degree programs are included. Under the mas
ters degree listing, the indexing and abstracting
services for forty departments are given. Under
doctoral programs, twenty subject areas are cov
ered. In addition, the list contains sections con
cerned with general indexes and abstracts and
with general education, humanities, science,
social science, and government publications.

Copies of this publication may be purchased
from the UNM Bookstore, University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, for $1 per
copy postpaid.

• Information about more than 1,000 grants
of $500 or more is now available in Financial
Assistance for Library Education: Academic
Tear 1974-1975, prepared by a committee of
the Library Education Division of the American
Library Association. The publication is made

possible by a grant from the H. W. Wilson
Foundation, Inc. Information about scholar
ships, fellowships, and other grants was received
from national, state, regional, and provincial li
brary associations, library agencies, educational
institutions, foundations, and other donors. The
fifty-four-page booklet, covering the United
States and Canada, lists the granting body and/
or name of the award, type of assistance, number
available, amount of the award, academic and
other requirements, deadline for application,
and address to which application should be sent.

Compilation of the booklet is one of many
committee activities of the Library Education
Division undertaken as a service to librarian-
ship and education. Intended primarily for po
tential recruits to librarianship and for librarians
and others who accept the responsibility of as
sisting them in their search for financial assist
ance, the publication is free on request from
the Library Education Division, American Li
brary Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago,
IL 60611.

• The Association of Research Libraries an
nounces publication of Organization and Staff
ing of the Libraries of Columbia University.
Sponsored by the ARL in cooperation with the
American Council on Education under a grant
from the Council on Library Resources, this is
a report of a management study which aimed at
developing innovative organizational approaches
to the operation of research libraries. While the
report will not provide a model for other aca
demic and research libraries, it is expected that
specific elements of the report will stimulate
further interest and action in improving library
management practices. Booz, Allen & Hamilton,
Inc. acted as principal investigators for the
projects.

The report is available from Redgrave Infor
mation Resources Corporation, 53 Wilton Rd.,
Westport, CT 06880. The cost of this publica
tion is $12.

• The first comprehensive guide to the re
sources of The New York Public Library is now
available with the November publication of
“Beyond the Lions: A Guide to the Libraries of
The New York Public Library.”

“Beyond the Lions” has been developed to
meet the needs of the general reader, research
ers, faculty members, businessmen, and students
and provides A to Z access to information on
the New York Public Library ranging from a
listing of its branches to the most specialized
aspects of its research collections. Included is
a detailed map giving the locations of all the
libraries within the New York Public Library
System. The new guide is available by mail
from the Development Office, Room 210, The
New York Public Library, 5th Ave. and 42nd
St., New York 10018.

“Beyond the Lions” retails at $1 and the

proceeds will be applied to the costs of future
editions.

• For the first time, seven major accountancy
institutes in the British Isles have cataloged
their recent acquisitions in one union listing.
The merged catalog constitutes a newly-pub
lished selective guide to recent books, pamph
lets, and periodicals on accounting and allied
subjects.

This volume, Current Accounting Literature
1972, records material acquired between 1971
and the end of 1972, providing an up-to-date
guide to the extensive literature serving the ac
counting professions.

The user can find, for example, literature on
accountancy, both general and related to specific
industries; computers, from p r o g r a m m in g
through management applications; taxation
(there are thirty-one guides to VAT alone);
business aids at all levels, from small retailing
to international trade.

This is the first of planned annual supple
ments to the 1971 catalog of the Members’ Li
brary of the Institute of Chartered Account
ants in England and Wales. Entries, arranged
by author and by subject, appear in full in
each section, providing author, title, date and
place of publication, publisher, pages, and price.
There is a separate periodicals list, and ap
pendix on statute and case law holdings, and a
guide to statistical services.

Current Accounting Literature 1972 is avail
able at £.7.50 (U.S. $19.00), clothbound edi
tion only, from the publishers: Mansell, 3
Bloomsbury Place, London WC1A 2QA, Eng
land.

• Iowa State University library offers as the
fourth publication in its Series in Bibliography
a bibliography covering residence halls, Resi
dence Halls in U.S. Higher Education: A Bib
liography compiled by Larry H. Ebbers, Ken
neth E. Marks, Kenneth L. Stoner. The cita
tions have been organized into ten sections:
Historical development of residence halls; Resi
dence hall financing; Residence hall planning,
construction, and facilities; Organization and
administration of residence halls; Programming
in residence halls; Residence hall personnel;
Counseling activities in residence halls; Food
service in residence halls; Legal issues and resi
dence halls; Miscellaneous. A significant pro
portion of the writings of the last seventy-five
years have been included in this bibliography.

This bibliography brings coverage of the lit
erature on residence halls up-to-date as well
as expanding it retrospectively. It also draws to
gether the materials cited in publications during
the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The result is a
compilation that should be of value not only to
residence hall personnel, university administra

tors, faculty, and students, but to all interested
observers of the higher education scene. Price:
$7.50.

Checks or money orders should be made pay
able to: Iowa State University, The Library,
Attn: Photoduplication Center, Ames, Iowa
50010.

• Now available to practitioners—Subject In
dex and Geographic Index to State and Urban
Technical Publications. The State and Urban
Publications Collection contains materials from
states, regions, metropolitan agencies, counties,
cities, and townships. The collection now num
bers more than 6,000 documents all of which
are cataloged and cross-referenced in both geo
graphic and subject catalogs. The development
of the retrieval system was sponsored by the
Mankato State College Memorial Library and
the Urban Studies Institute. The catalogs are
available from the Urban Studies Institute, Box
7, Mankato State College, Mankato, MN 56001
at a cost of $8.00 each, or $14.50 for the set
of both.

Publications will be checked out to subscrib
ers for three weeks. Subscribers are encouraged
to make use of the collection in person, al
though a reasonable number of publications may
be requested by mail or phone. MSC will mail
publications postage-paid; return postage will
be paid by the user. Photocopying service is
available at $10 per page, plus handling.

The catalog will be revised at regular in
tervals depending upon the interest of the
users and the growth of the collection.

• EN V IRO /IN FO has published Energy /E n
vironment/Economy; an annotated bibliography
of selected United States government publica
tions concerning U.S. energy policy, $2.00 each;
Stockholm ’72; bibliography of selected post
conference articles and documents on the
United Nations Conference on the Human En
vironment, Stockholm, June 1972, $1.00 each;
Science Policy, Technology Assessment, and the
Environment; an annotated bibliography of se
lected U.S. government publications concern
ing the relationships of scientific/technological
advancement and environmental quality, $2.50
each; and Energy/Environm ent/Economy; an
annotated bibliography of selected U.S. govern
ment publications concerning U.S. energy poli
cy. Supplement. (Updates and augments the
first item listed above), for $3.00.

EN V IRO /IN FO is an independent venture
attempting to (1 ) identify selected environ
mental information sources which represent a
variety of issues and points-of-view; (2 ) com
pile, print, and disseminate the results as a
current awareness service; and (3 ) provide this
service at reasonable cost. Users’ comments and
suggestions are invited. Order from: EN VIRO/
INFO P.O. Box 115, Green Bay, W I 54305.