ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 151 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • Several rare and extremely valuable books dealing with the discovery and early history of the San Diego region have been found among the 550 volumes of the Hill Collection of Pa­ cific Voyages recently placed on permanent loan in the Central University Library at the University of California, San Diego. Among the volumes certain to be of impor­ tance to scholars of early San Diego and Cali­ fornia history are several early descriptions and accounts of the expedition of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, discoverer of San Diego Bay in 1542; several accounts of the rediscovery and nam­ ing of San Diego by Sebastian Vizcaino in 1602; and several reports dealing with the trek of Father Junipero Serra from Loreto to San Diego. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages was placed on permanent loan to UCSD last sum­ mer by its owner, Mr. Kenneth E. Hill of Westfield, New Jersey. The collection includes reports and commentaries of important voyages in the Pacific from those of Ferdinand Magel­ lan and Sir Francis Drake to explorations through the first half of the nineteenth century. Under the terms of the deposit the collec­ tion is housed and maintained in the UCSD Library’s Mandeville Department of Special Collections where it has been made available to students and scholars. Among the - more valuable items dealing with San Diego in the collection is a copy of Antonio de Herrera’s “Descripcion de las Indias Ocidentalles,” ( “Description of the West In­ dies” ) printed in Madrid between 1726 and 1730. This is the basic source for study of the Cabrillo expedition. The Hill Collection also includes an eighteenth century English trans­ lation. Another important volume containing information of Cabrillo’s voyage is Francisco Antonio Lorenzana’s “Historia de Nueva-Es- pana,” ( “History of New Spain” ) printed in Mexico in 1770. The first English book to give an account of Cabrillo is James Burney’s “A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea, or Pacific Ocean,” printed in 1803. The first separately printed account of Ca­ brillo’s voyage was issued as a supplement to the San Francisco Herald in May, 1853, and is now exceedingly rare and valuable. The Hill copy of the supplement, written by Alexander S. 'Taylor, was originally a part of the famed Streeter Library. Several works dealing with the rediscovery and naming of San Diego by Sebastian Viz­ caino are included in the Hill Collection. Ac­ companying Vizcaino on his expedition was Father Antonio Ascension who described the voyage in a manuscript account called “Re- lacion del descubrimiento . . . en la Mar del Sur, desde el puerto de Acapulco . . . del Cabo Mendocino,” ( “A Report on Discoveries in the Southern Sea, from Acapulco to Cape Mendo­ cino” ). This fine manuscript, written in a very legible hand, is preserved in a handsome leather box. • It may seem incongruous here in the flat coastal plain of New Jersey, but one of the nation’s premier collections of mountaineering literature can now be found at Princeton University. Strengthening dramatically an al­ ready fine collection, according to Librarian, William S. Dix, are the papers and personal library of the late James Ramsey Ullman, Princeton 1929, author, climber, and one of the world’s most widely-recognized writers on mountains and mountaineering. The Ullman papers, bequeathed by him, and the Ullman library, given by his wife re­ cently, include his incoming correspondence, diaries, memorabiha, and manuscripts of all his works, as well as 124 volumes of his pub­ lished writings in the original, in translation, and in anthologies. Among them are such clas­ sics of mountaineering hterature as his first pub­ lished novel, The White Tower, which was an international best-seller and a Book of the Month Club selection in 1945; his 1964 best­ seller Americans on Everest; and High Con­ quest, a history of mountaineering. A native of New York City, Ullman had attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass, before studying at Princeton. He began his professional career as a reporter on the old Brooklyn Standard Union in 1929. While work­ ing as a reporter, he also started writing plays and, ultimately, he produced 10 plays for the Broadway stage between 1933 and ’37. Best- known, perhaps, is “Men in White,” which won a Pulitzer prize. The scripts for these plays, as well as his magazine articles and travel jour­ nals, also are among the recent Princeton ac­ quisitions. Ullman began climbing in the 1920s with ascents in Switzerland,, Mexico, and the Grand Tetons in Wyoming and his library re­ flected his interest in mountaineering through­ out the world. He was a member of the Amer­ ican expedition to Mt. Everest in 1963. • Nine extremely rare Southwest Territory and Tennessee Official Journals, the object of intensive search over the past forty years, are 152 SCIENCE CITATION INDEX® ... the reference that sheds a whole new light on literature searching... belonss in every scientific library Science Citation Index — the uniquely effective search tool that organizes the world’s current scientific journal literature by the authors ’ own reference citations — retrieves more pertinent articles on almost any givei subject, faster, than any other reference of any kind. It’s the one multi-disciplinary retrospective search tool that serves all departm ents because it covers all scientific subjects with unmatched authority. 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(Special matching grants are available to smaller departm ental and branch libraries to make it economical to obtain multiple sets of SCI.) For more on what the Science Citation Index can do for your library, send for our new brochure. ©1971 ISI iSi ® Institute for Scientific InformationDept. 12-300, 325 Chestnut S t, Phila., Pa. 19106, (215) 923-3300 153 now a part of tire historical materials in the Special Collections Division of the University OF Tennessee library in Knoxville. The nine items, printed in Knoxville in the years 1794 to 1796 by George Roulstone, Tennessee’s first printer, and carefully preserved by several gen­ erations of his family, are among the earliest printing in the territory south of the Ohio. According to John Dobson, UT Special Col­ lections Librarian, a study made in 1933 on early printing in Tennessee pointed to the journals of the legislative sessions of 1794 to 1799, known only in a reprint edition pub­ lished in Nashville in 1852, as “the outstanding missing Tennessee imprints.” Diligent searches for copies of the original journals brought to light only a House and a Senate journal for 1796. The elusive missing imprints, the legislative journals of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio and the State of Ten­ nessee for the years 1794 to 1796, were re­ cently “discovered” in the care of a descendant of George Roulstone. Bound with them in the single volume is a journal of the proceedings of the constitutional convention held in Knox­ ville in 1796, the first complete copy of the three known originals extant. The University of Tennessee’s acquisition of these exceedingly important works, seven of them the only known complete copies, fills a vacuum in the history of frontier printing. “More importantly,” said Richard W. Boss, director of UT libraries, “it restores a part of Tennessee’s earliest records to an appropriate location within the State.” He further stated that by this one acquisition the university has rounded out one of the most significant collec­ tions of eighteenth century Tennesseana in the state or in the country. “The experts who au­ thenticated these items on the basis of analyz­ ing paper and typography called this find ‘a once-in-a-lifetime event.’ ” • The importance of the Air Force Acad­ emy library’s historical aeronautical center has increased with the recent acquisition of the Richard Upjohn Light Aeronautical Collection. Containing about 400 items, the Light collec­ tion includes 218 books, more than half of which were published before the Wright broth­ ers era. The material was presented to the academy by Light, a noted surgeon, explorer and aviator who resides in Kalamazoo, Michi­ gan. It was previously housed at the Culver Military Academy in Indiana. Most items in the collection are unique and supplement the Richard Gimbel Aeronau­ tical Library established at the Academy in 1971. While a few of the books duplicate those in the Gimbel Library, many of them are rare works by early scientists and philosophers. Among the most important books are three works by Francis Bacon; ’Thomas Baldwin’s “Airopaidia,” a 1785 treatise on ballooning; Marco Antonio Costa’s rare and autographed “Saggi suU’aeronautica e sull’aerostatica,” 1837- 38; Athanasius Kircher’s “Ars magna lucis et umbrae,” 1671; and Julius Caesar Scaliger’s 1615 description of the construction of a bal­ loon. Nearly all of the collection’s twenty-four drawings and water colors of aeronautical events and equipment are new to the academy library. There are also 136 pamphlets, many periodicals and excerpts from nineteenth cen­ tury newspapers and periodicals. As part of the academy library’s aeronautical history collection, both the Gimbel and Light material is available for use by cadets, faculty, and other scholars engaged in aeronautical re­ search. F E L L O W S H IP S /S C H O L A R S H IP S • Miss Grace Heggie, social science bibli­ ographer, collections development, York Uni­ versity libraries, has been granted a Canada Council Award to continue her research proj­ ect Canadian Political Parties since Confedera­ tion; an Historical Bibliography. • Miss Babetta Jimpie, a senior at Oklahoma State University, has been chosen the winner of the 1972 Reverend Andrew L. Bouwhuis Scholarship sponsored by the Catholic Library Association. The Bouwhuis scholarship in the amount of $1,000 is offered annually by the Cathohc Li­ brary Association for graduate study toward a master’s degree in library science. Applications may be requested from the Scholarship Com­ mittee, Catholic Library Association, 461 W. Lancaster Ave., Haverford, PA 19041. • With the United States’ population grow­ ing, and people living longer lives, Wayne State University is offering librarians a unique opportunity to learn about the problems of older readers. Wayne State has fellowships available for full-time study leading to a mas­ ter’s degree in librarianship (MSLS) with a specialty in service to the aging. The pro­ gram is offered through the Department of Li­ brary Science, College of Education, in coop­ eration with the University of Michigan/ Wayne State University Institute of Gerontol­ ogy. The institute is one of the first of its kind in the country, and brings together experts in the area of aging, with offices only one block from the Wayne State University libraries and the Detroit Public Library’s combined four mil­ lion volumes. Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree and need financial assistance to be a full-time student. The fellowships provide full tuition. 154 a stipend of up to $300 per month and travel expenses if the student’s course work re­ quires visits to libraries outside the Detroit area. The application deadline for admission in the Fall of 1972 is June 15. Applications and further information can be obtained by writing or calling; Associate Professor Gene­ vieve M. Casey, Department of Library Science, College of Education, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202. Telephone: (313) 577- 1832. G R A N T S • The American Antiquarian Society has been notified by The Kresge Foundation of Birmingham, Michigan that the foundation has granted the sum of $50,000 to be used toward the construction of the new addition to and renovation of the Society’s library building. The announcement was made today by How­ ard B. Jefferson, general chairman of the So­ ciety’s development program. Although much of its collection is in micro­ form, the need to preserve the original ma­ terial is essential. The addition to the library building on Regent Street will contain new air handling equipment for control of temperature and humidity and will provide the best preser­ vation techniques possible for this irreplaceable collection. The addition will also house study carrels for students and researchers, a new manuscript room, acquisitions area, and staff offices. Construction begun last June is seventy- five percent completed, and the new facilities should be ready for occupancy at the end of May. Renovation of the existing building, built in 1909, will begin this spring. When finished in the fall of this year, capacity for readers, cataloging, map, photograph and print areas, and reference room will have been nearly doubled. It will also include a new rare book and conference room, and an exhibition room which the Society has never had. Total cost of new construction and renova­ tion will approximate one million dollars. Both are part of the Society’s five million dollar long range development program to provide for increased use and to make its resources more available. Other parts of the develop­ ment plans include endowment for staff sal­ aries, additional staff, book acquisitions, research fellowships, and a lecture series. • The National Science F’oundation has re­ cently announced a grant to the Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, Illinois, to form the Clearinghouse and Laboratory for Census Data (CLCD). The CLCD, to be developed jointly by the Center and National Data Use and Access Laboratories (DUALabs) of Ross- lyn, Virginia, will build on the previous ex­ perience of these groups in helping univer­ sities use the 1970 Census. The ideas for the CLCD are aimed at increasing the return to the society on the $200 million invested in creating the 1970 Census summary tapes, pub­ lic use samples, and geographic aids, collec­ tively referred to as “the census data base.” The census data base is very large, expen­ sive, and complicated to use. The basic premise of the CLCD is that the full potential of the census data base for research applied to Na­ tional needs can be realized only if the Na­ tion’s scientists can quickly and economically comprehend and apply its contents to their problems. The CLCD provides assistance on the use of the census data base so that a researcher can answer these kinds of questions: Can the census be used for research on a specific problem? What census data are available that relate to the problem? How are the census data arranged and pre­ sented? If the data are printed, which reports are they in? If the data are on computer tape, which tapes? How does one use the tapes? What are economical and efficient ways to retrieve and process the data on tape? How much should computer manipulation cost? Where are facilities located which are ca­ pable of processing the part of the data base which is on tape? What specific research problems using the census data base are already underway? The CLCD is set up so that a user can call or write in about his research problem and get most of the assistance he requires to determine if the census can meet his needs, how to over­ come technical barriers to using the census, and how much his use of the census will cost. The CLCD has arrangements for visiting scholars to make use of the data base at its site. Regular training courses are also provid­ ed. Associated with the CLCD are User Contact Sites located at universities and other places in the nation where the census data base is used for research. Potential data users can re­ ceive general census use orientation at no cost at the CLCD or any User Contact Site. For further information contact Carolee Bush at the CLCD offices. • Drexel University has received a grant of $71,700 from the National Science Founda­ tion to undertake an international study of pri­ vate industrial periodicals. The study is to be performed by a team composed of faculty members of Drexel’s Graduate School of Li­ 155 brary Science and of the Graduate Library School of Antwerp, Belgium, and will encom­ pass publications in the United States, Great Britain, and France. According to the project director. Dr. Bel- ver G. Griffith, no one even knows how many such periodicals exist in the three countries, but estimates run as high as 10,000 in the U.S., 2,000 in Great Britain, and 500 in France. The purpose of the study will be to identify all periodicals and then to evaluate them as to subject matter, substance, and qual­ ity. Hopefully, when the one-year study is com­ pleted, scientists and technical researchers will have a reference available to them which ex­ amines these journals by subject matter and evaluates their quality. • The National Endowment for the Hu­ manities has announced the awarding of a $1 million matching grant to the Research Li­ braries of the New York Public Library. Un­ der the terms of this grant the National En­ dowment will match dollar for dollar up to five-hundred thousand dollars sums that the library can raise from other sources in the cur­ rent fiscal year, which ends June 30. If fully met, the grant will bring to the Research Li­ braries one million dollars for its operational costs in the humanities. Announcement of the grant was made by Dr. Ronald S. Berman, chairman of the Na­ tional Endowment for the Humanities. In mak­ ing the announcement. Dr. Berman stated that “if this program is successful, the endowment will consider making another such matching grant next year.” In accepting the grant, Mr. Richard Gou- per, president and chief executive officer of the New York Public Library, described it as “a giant step in recognition of our library for what it is—a truly national resource.” Couper added: “The trustees and officers of the li­ brary remind our users that this is a challenge grant; the challenge must be met before the monies from the National Endowment for the Humanities can be paid over.” M E E T IN G S June 11-14: The University of Massachu­ setts, Amherst, will be the site of the Seven­ teenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, June 11-14, 1972. Special attention will be given at the confer­ ence to the education and training of librarians for work in Latin American collections. The conference coordinator is Mrs. Pauline P. Gollins, Latin American Librarian, The Li­ brary, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002. Information on the content of the program and working papers may be procured from Mr. Glenn Read, Jr., Latin American Li­ brarian, 110 Olin Library, Gomell University, Ithaca, NY 14850. For other information, refer to the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Or­ ganization of American States, Washington, DG 20006 and to the Meetings section of the May News. June 19-23: The American Theological Li­ brary Association will hold its 26th annual conference, June 19-23, 1972, on the campus of Waterloo Lutheran University, Waterloo, Ontario, Ganada. Host librarian, to whom in­ quiries about the conference may be directed, is Erich R. W. Schultz of Waterloo Lutheran University. Details may be found in the Jan­ uary News. July 2-5: The American Association of Law Libraries will meet at the Drake Hotel in Ghi- cago. Members—who serve the legal profes­ sion in the courts, bar associations, law so­ cieties, law schools, private law firms, federal, state, and county governments, and business— will participate in sessions on a code of ethics for law librarians, library networks, psychiatry and the law librarian, nonbook materials, and government documents. The registration fee of $25.00, for members; $30.00, nonmembers should be sent to Robert Q. Kelly, Local Ar­ rangements Chairman, DePaul University Col­ lege of Law Library, 25 E. Jackson Blvd., Chi­ cago, IL 60604. The association’s annual Rotating Institute will be held at the University of Ilhnois June 25-30. Approximately 125 practicing law li­ brarians will study legal bibliography in basic and advanced sections. Shirley Bysiewicz, law librarian. University of Connecticut, and Leah Chanin, law librarian, Mercer University are co- . chairmen. Local arrangements are being han­ dled by Sandra Meyer, assistant reference li­ brarian, University of Illinois College of Law library. July 16-28: The School of Library and In­ formation Services, University of Maryland, is planning the sixth annual Library Administra­ tors 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. 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. 156 A l e r t Librarians PRINT, IMAGE, AND SOUND Acquire… John Gordon Burke, editor Five stimulating essays on media trends of the sixties— new journalism, educational television, pop music, cine­ ma, and the “little magazine.” $6.95 THE AGITATOR A Collection of Diverse Opinions from America’s Not-so-PopuIor Press (A Schism Anthology) Donald L. Rice, editor Writings by "pamphleteers" representing all political stances. Right, left, or center, you’ll find something to raise your hackles. Paper $3.95 CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF INTERNATIONAL INTEREST A Selection from Four Decades of American Publishing Virginia Haviland, editor Over 300 children’s books selected for literary value and universality of interest to promote international exchange of good children’s literature. Paper $2.50 THE YOUNG PHENOMENON Paperbacks in Our Schools John T. Gillespie and Diana L. Lembo Surveys the use of paperbacks in schools and provides advice on selection, handling, school bookstores, book fairs, and book clubs. Lists of binderies, display manufacturers, and bibli­ ographic aids are included. ALA Studies in Librarianship No. 3. Late Spring PAPERBACK BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE An Annotated Guide to Publishers and Distributors John T. Gillespie and Diana L. Lembo A practical companion volume to The Young Phenomenon. $4.50 BOOKS FOR CHILDREN, PRESCHOOL THROUGH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, 1970-71 The latest of ALA’s reliable guides to best buys in children’s books selected and reviewed by The Booklist’s experts. Ordering and cataloging details included. Late Spring A MULTIMEDIA APPROACH TO CHILDREN’S LITERATURE A Selective List of Films, Filmstrips, and Recordings Based on Children’s Books Ellin Greene and Madalynne Schoenfeld A selected “child-tested” guide to nonprint material for preschool through eighth grade. With six handy indexes, directory of distributors, and buying information. Paper $3.75 GUIDE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA SELECTION CENTERS Cora Paul Bomar, Program Director, Phase 11 M. Ann Heidbreder and Carol A. Nemeyer, Program Coordinators Phase II of the EMSC Program provides guidelines for the development and operation of media selection centers. Essential for the evaluation and maximum use of educational media. ALA Studies in Librarianship No. 4. Late Spring A LA PUBLISHING SERVICES BOOTH S 1810-12 157 BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL OF NONPRINT MEDIA Pearce S. Grove and Evelyn Clement, editors Current thinking on the problems of classification, processing, storage, and retrieval of the ever-growing mass of nonprint material. $15.00 GUIDE TO REFERENCE BOOKS Eighth Edition. Third Supplement, 1969-1970 Eugene P. 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Succeeding volumes are planned. A $20.00 L American Library Association 50 East Huron Street Chicago, Illinois 60611 A … B o o k s f o r m " A n im p re s s iv e . . . dual media collec­ tion . . . [a ] monumental w o rk ." Joe Morehead, RQ, Spring 1971 UPDATES THE 1909 CHECKLIST AND OTHER BASIC REFERENCE TOOLS USED BY DOCUMENTS LIBRARIANS Here’s how the two standard reference books on U.S. Government documents evaluate the public Docu­ ments Library, its collection, the SuDocs Classifica­ tion scheme, and the need for updating the predeces­ sors of Checklist ’70. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS AND THEIR USE, L. F. Schmeckebier and R. B. Eastin, 2nd Revised Edition, Brookings Institute, 1969. “There is probably no complete collection of govern­ ment pubhcations in existence, but the one in the Public Documents Library is probably the most nearly complete . . . it has aU issues listed in the Monthly Catalog and the biennial Documents Catalog. It also has some material not so listed, as back issues are often sent to the hbrary after the catalogs are printed.” U N IT E D STATES GOVERNMENT PUBLICA­ TIONS, A. M. Boyd and R. E. Rips, 3rd Revised Edition, Wilson, 1953. “The Library of the Office of Superintendent of Documents is of interest to librarians . . . because of the classification scheme by which its collection is arranged. It has been adopted by many other hbraries throughout the country as a most convenient and satisfactory method of organizing and arranging collections of government pubhcations. “There have been three checkhsts of government pubhcations.. . . The third, which was much more inclusive and a monumental work of incalculable value covering the entire period of United States pubhcations to 1909 . . . was published in 1911. “A fourth edition, bringing the third edition to date, is the aid to government publications most needed by the librarians.” The United States Histoi by special arrangement with and the Acting Superintendent CHECK U .S. PUBLIC 1789-1970 …list ofa IST ments ON M ICROFILM 1,200,000 shelf list cards on 16mm microfilm (roh or cartridge); arranged in SuDocs classification order by some 3000 government authors; and current as of October 1970. The active file contains approximately 550,000 cards describing pubhcations of existing govern­ ment authors and continuous series. The inactive file contains 650,000 cards describing pubhcations in discontinued series and items pubhshed by government authors that are no longer active. Also, both files contain about 50,000 guide cards which indicate changes of titles and identify predecessor and successor organizations. SEPARATE SUBSETS OFFERED FOR MAJOR GOVERNMENT AUTHORS Department level author breakouts are available separately upon request. For example, you may order individual microfhm reels covering the shelf lists of pubhcations of the Department of Agricul­ ture, Interior Department, Health, Education and Welfare. Please write for price information. ical Documents Institute the U.S. Public Printer o f Documents announces the OF DOCUMENTS dual media collection of the Active and Inactive shelf the Superintendent o f Documents’, Public Docu- Library, Washington, D.C. "The m ost comprehensive single source o f published inform ation on U.S. Government Documents." Carper W. Buckley U.S. Superintendent o f Documents 1953-1970 BIBLIOGRAPHIC D ATA ON MORE THAN 1.5 M ILLIO N U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS Now available to librarians for the first time in any format. As stated by Carper W. Buckley, who until his retirement in 1970 had served as U.S. Superin­ tendent of Documents since 1953. “Checklist ’70 provides librarians with the most comprehensive single source of published information about United States Government documents. It lists all titles which appear in the shelf lists of the Public Documents Library of the U.S. Government Printing Office, covering the period 1861 through October 1970. Also included are the publications listed in the Checklist o f U.S. Public Documents, 1789-1909, the Monthly Catalog and Mary Elizabeth Poole’s Docu­ ments Office Classification to 1966. ” Each citation is at least as complete as the entries in the Monthly Catalog and often provides more infor­ mation. Eor instance, bibliographic data on each issue of certain periodicals are included, as well as com­ plete cross-references for changes in classification numbers, titles, or issuing agencies. Cutterized sepa­ rates are listed for some series publications. IN BOUND VOLUMES - NOW A V A IL A B L E FOR IN D IV ID U A L PURCHASE These five full size indexes to the microfilm collection are now being supplied as part of the dual media edition and are also for the first time being made available as individual volumes. All but Index IV were computer generated and were compiled by Mr. and Mrs. Daniel and Marilyn Lester o f Mankato State College in Minnesota. INDEX I. SUDOCS CLASSIFICATION ORDER INDEX OF U.S. GOVERNMENT AUTHOR-ORGANIZATIONS, 1789-1970 lists the names of some 6000 government “author-organizations” in SuDocs Class order showing microfilm reel numbers. casebound $42.50 INDEX II. U.S. GOVERNMENT AUTHOR-ORGANIZATION INDEX, 1789-1970 arranged alphabetically by the official names of 6000 active and inactive publication-issuing offices. This index brings together aU SDC numbers for any issuing office regardless of its reorganization history. casebound $42.50 INDEX III. 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KEYWORD INDEX TO THE PUBLICATION-ISSUING OFFICES OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, 1789-1970 Note: This computer generated index was recently added to the 4 originally offered with Checklist '70, in order to provide a form o f subject access to the massive collection. It lists the 6000 Government “issuing offices” under some 27,000 subject oriented keyword entries. Because of the unusual length and descriptive nature of the names of U.S. Government offices, this keyword index provides a surprising degree of subject access. The fact that each “issuing office” is listed under an average o f 4.5 descriptive entries (even after the exclusion of such general words as “bureau” , “committee”, etc.), attests to the effectiveness of the index. 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Address your nearest Baker & Taylor division. 161 Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. More complete details are also to be found in the February News. July 16-Aug. 11: The University of Den­ ver, Department of History and the Graduate School of Librarianship, in cooperation with the State Archives of Colorado, will conduct its Eleventh Annual Institute for Archival Studies and Related Fields, July 16-August 11, 1972. Contact Prof. D. C. Renze, Attn. Depart­ ment of History, Institute of Archival Studies, 1530 Sherman St., Denver, CO 80203 for fur­ ther information and application forms. Also see the March News for complete information. July 17: “The Media Development Chain” will be the theme of this year’s conference of the Audio-Visual Education Forum in Kansas City, Missouri, July 17, according to conference chairman W. Daniel Cogan, Audiovisual Ser­ vices, Central Missouri State College. The A-V Education Forum, a one-day pro­ gram for educators, media specialists, and oth­ ers interested in instructional technology, is de­ signed to stimulate thinking about the expand­ ed use of modern communications media in providing quality education. Registration for the A-V Education Forum, which includes a luncheon and access to ex­ hibits during the three days, is $12.50 if paid in advance, or $17.50 at the door. Additional details on the conference program, including advance registration forms and hotel reserva­ tions forms may be obtained by wriHng to A-V Education Forum, National Audio-Visual Asso­ ciation, 3150 Spring St., Fairfax, VA 22030. The April News contains further details. July 24-26: Keynoting the 7th Annual E d­ ucational Media and Technology Conference sponsored by the University of Wisconsin— Stout at Menomonie, will be Dr. Lee Sherman Dreyfus, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point, and Dr. Robert N. Hurst, Department of Biological Science, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. Dreyfus is chairman of the Governor’s Commission on Cable Television and has been involved in the development of educational television on a na­ tional basis. Hurst has been deeply involved in the Postlethwait Auto-Tutorial Approach to In­ dividualizing Instruction at Purdue. Contact Dr. David P. Rarnard, Dean of Learning Resources, University of Wisconsin— Stout, Menomonie, WI 54751, for additional information concerning the conference and reg­ istration. Jack 1. Morehouse, administrative as­ sistant, is in charge of reservations for exhibit space. M IS C E L L A N Y • The 1972-73 ALA Nominating Commit­ tee is soliciting suggestions from membership for candidates for the olBce of president-elect; and councilors-at-large, 1973-77. The com­ mittee is especially interested in securing the names of individuals who have made contribu­ tions to state and regional organizations but who may not yet be known nationally. Short statements, outlining the contributions of those persons suggested, which accompany the rec­ ommendations will be particularly helpful to the committee. Letters can be addressed to any member of the committee: Dr. Hardy R. Franklin, Library Science De­ partment of Queens College of the City Uni­ versity of New York (home address: 100 Caro­ lina Avenue, Hempstead, NY 11550-chairman.) Mrs. Mary Frances K. Johnson, Associate Professor, School of Library Education, Uni­ versity of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 27412 Virginia H. Mathews, Deputy Director, Na­ tional Library Week, One Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Hal B. Schell, Associate Director of Libraries, Southern Methodist University Libraries, Dal­ las, TX 75222 Mrs. Brooke E. Sheldon, Head, Libray De­ velopment Division, New Mexico State Library, P.O. Box 1629, 300 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe, NM 87501 • Any libraries holding copies of Richard Aldington’s (1892-1962) Letters are asked to contact either Professor Miriam Benkovitz, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York or Professor Norman Gates, Rider College, Trenton, New Jersey. They are in the process of compiling a check list of Aldington’s letters. • Nine libraries, ranging in size from a small branch serving a community of oyster fisher­ men and tobacco farmers to a 3M million- volume university facility, have been named winners in the 1972 Library Buildings Award Program sponsored jointly by the American Institute of Architects, the National Book Com­ mittee, and the American Library Association. From the 204 entries submitted in the program, a jury of two architects, an architectural stu­ dent, a representative of the National Book Committee, and three Ubrarians, selected two libraries for First Honor Awards and seven li­ braries for Awards of Merit. The First Honor Award winners are: the Providence College Library, Providence, Rhode Island, and the Ohio Historical Center Li­ brary-Archives, Columbus, Ohio. The architects of the Providence College Library are Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates, Inc., Watertown, 162 Massachusetts. The architects of the Ohio His­ • Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachu­ / setts, is developing a five-year program to ex­ periment with methods of orienting the library ­ to its users, sponsored by the Council on Li­ brary Resources and the National Endowment ; for the Humanities. As part of this project, ­ Hampshire hopes to serve as an informal clear­ , inghouse for information on both experimental , and established library orientation and instruc­ ­ tional programs. t Hampshire’s project includes the training of ­ student reference assistants, the development of nonprint media resources for self-instruction, , classroom instruction on library resources, de-, velopment of multimedia and video presenta­ ­ tions on the library, and preparation of sub­ ­ ject-oriented research guides. The proposed ­ clearinghouse would comprise data on similar , activities, regardless of scope and intended ­ audience, and includes academic, special and public library activities. Information on library orientation and in­ e struction programs, and sample materials, may be addressed to Gai Carpenter, Media Re­ sources Adviser, Library Center, Hampshire l College, Amherst, MA 01002. ­ • Black music, jazz, and rock will be in the ­ spotlight at a meeting of the Music Library ­ Association at 9:30 a.m., Thursday, June 29, l during the 1972 Annual Conference of the e American Library Association. The meeting will f be held in the Tower Hall, Sheraton-Chicago , Hotel. Subjects to be covered are: Librarian as Detective: The Search for Black Music’s - Past; The Critical Evaluation of Jazz: Whom ­ Can We Trust?; and Andrew Carnegie Meets ­ the Rolling Stones: Are Librarians Tuned In? r • The Graduate School of Library and In­ f formation Sciences (GSLIS) University of ­ Pittsburgh will administer the 1972 Multina­ ­ tional Librarian Project, a fifteen week cultural exchange program sponsored by the U.S. De­ , partment of State for career librarians from foreign countries. ­ This is the second time GSLIS has admin­ istered the project at the invitation of the State Department. GSLIS arranged the last ­ such program in the fall of 1970. The project, ­ which will run from April 6, 1972 through s July 20, 1972, is designed to acquaint partici­ pants with American librarianship and to pro­ vide a comprehensive view of American life and society as well. , The five women and five men who have ­ been selected by the U.S. Embassies abroad to participate in the project represent university, ­ public, school, and special libraries. Countries sending librarians include Argentina, Brazil, ­ Chile, Ghana, Hong Kong, Kenya, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Yugoslavia. After a twelve-day orientation in Washing­ torical Center Library-Archives are Ireland Associates, Inc., Columbus, Ohio. Winners of Awards of Merit are; Tate Li brary, Fieldston School, Riverdale, New York (Murphy & Mackey/Architects, St. Louis) Bailey Library, Hendrix College, Conway, Ar kansas (Philip C. Johnson, New York City and Wittenberg, Delony & Davidson, Inc. Little Rock, Arkansas); Katharine Brush Li brary, Loomis Institute, Windsor, Connecticu (Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates, Inc., Wa tertown, Massachusetts); Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago (Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Chicago); Richardson Public Library, Richardson, Texas (Jarvis, Put ty, Jarvis, Inc., Dallas); South County Li brary, Deale, Maryland (RTKL, Inc., Balti more); and Corte Madera Branch Library Marin County Library, Corte Madera, Califor nia ( Smith, Barker, Hanssen, Architects, San Francisco). Presentations of certificates of award wer made to architects of these libraries during National Library Week, April 16-22, 1972, and will be made to librarians during the Annua Conference of the American Library Associa tion in Chicago, June 25-July 1, 1972. Photographic exhibits of all the winning li braries were displayed at the Regenstein Li brary, University of Chicago, during Nationa Library Week, April 16-22. The exhibits wer also shown at the American Institute o Architects Conference in Houston, May 6-10 and will be displayed at the American Library Association Conference in Chicago, June 25 July 1. Pictures of the winning libraries are in cluded in the May 1972 issue of American Li braries. Library building folders with pictures, floo plan sketches, and explanatory materials o the winning libraries (and of several other li braries which were entered in the 1972 pro gram) have been added to the ALA Library Administration Division’s buildings collection available on interlibrary loan from the ALA Headquarters Library, 50 E. Huron St., Chi cago, IL 60611. • Donations of books in excellent condi tion dated 1962 or later, and scientific, tech nical, and scholarly journals in runs of 10 year or more dated from 1950 are needed for Asian colleges, libraries, and research groups. If you will get your donations to Books for Asian Students, 451 Sixth St., San Francisco CA 94103, this program will arrange for over seas shipping and country distribution. Contributions of money specifically for ship ping expenses are also needed. Donations in kind, or money, to the Asia Foundation, spon sor of the program, are tax deductible. Write the program if you wish further information. 163 ton, D.C., the ten participants will come to GSLIS for a four-week seminar on American librarianship. They will then serve four-week internships in libraries around the country for training and consultation in their fields of spe­ cialization. Following their internships, they will travel throughout the U.S., to visit repre­ sentative, and unique, library operations. They will spend a few days at the Annual Confer­ ence of the American Library Association, to be held in Chicago late in June. Dr. Harold Lancour, dean emeritus of CSLIS, is director of the program; Ms. Ann Lee Alexander is coordinator. • The National Serials Data Program enters its third phase with the appointment of Paul Vassallo as director of the program. Sup­ ported jointly by the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine, the National Serials Data Program will continue the development of a central machine-readable source of serial cata­ loging information and an economically feasible system of handling serials that will eliminate the costly duplicative input and conversion projects that would otherwise be necessary. Although progress has been made over the last 100 years in developing standard bibli­ ographic description and centralized cataloging for books, libraries have experienced a grow­ ing need for similar controls for serial publica­ tions which are more difficult and expensive to handle. In the first phase of the program the Library of Congress developed a format for recording bibliographic data about serials in machine-readable form. In 1969 the Associa­ tion of Research Libraries, with a grant from the National Agricultural Library, began the administration of a two-year National Serials Pilot Project, supported thereafter by the three national libraries and the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Using the scientific and tech­ nical serials held by the three national libraries, the pilot project began the development of a union list and provided data about the char­ acteristics of serials and the effectiveness of various techniques for handling serial informa­ tion. The third phase of the program will pro­ vide the three national libraries, and other re­ search libraries as well, with an authoritative automated bibliographic resource upon which serials processing systems can be built; pro­ vide a base record of serial titles to which the International Standard Serial Number can be permanently affixed, thus ending the confusion about precise indentification of serials; provide a machine-readable bibliographic resource for serials which will supply important cataloging information to libraries and at the same time permit the uniform transfer of data on serials among libraries; provide a base from which several kinds of library tools can be developed; and provide a serial system which will con­ stitute the U.S. segment of the developing In­ ternational Serials Data System. Paul Vassallo, now chief of the Congres­ sional Reference Division of the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, served as consultant to the National Serials Data Pro­ gram in its initial stages, 1967-68. A graduate of Wayne State University with an M.A. in Li­ brary Science from the University of Michigan, he came to the Library of Congress in 1962 under the Library’s special recruit program for selected outstanding library school grad­ uates and has served as assistant head of the Hispanic Exchange Section, Exchange and Cift Division; subject cataloger. Subject Cataloging Division; head of the Newspaper and Periodical Section of the Serial Division; assistant head of the Public Reference Section of the Cen- eral Reference and Bibliography Division; and assistant chief of the Serial Record Division, be­ fore becoming chief of the Congressional Ref­ erence Division. From September 1967 to April 1968, while acting as consultant to the NSDP, Vassallo was assistant to the dean of the School of Library and Information Service of the Uni­ versity of Maryland. The headquarters office of the National Serials Data Program will be at the Library of Congress. • At the 1972 ALA Midwinter Meeting the Reprinting Committee of the Acquisitions Sec­ tion, Resources and Technical Services Divi­ sion, discussed the question of the fees charged to reprint publishers by libraries for the loan of materials intended for publication in microfilm editions. It was suggested that the economics of microfilm publication are so radically different from that of book publica­ tion that in many instances the fees charged by librarians prohibit the publication of micro­ film editions, thereby limiting the availability of research materials to the scholarly commu­ nity. The committee is therefore prepared to con­ sider amendment of the following policy state­ ment which it adopted in April 1968: The philosophy behind lending materials for edition reprinting and microfilm publication is basically the same. However, it is recognized that the economics of these two forms of pub­ lications are different. Since it is impossible to know or estimate how many potential copies would be produced by microfilm publica­ tion, it seems reasonable that a similar fee should be charged for both forms of reproduc­ tion. Before the committee meets again in June it is anxious to soficit as many expressions of opin­ ion on the subject as possible from both re­ 164 print publishers and librarians. These should be addressed to Mr. Martin Colverd, Columbia University Libraries, 535 W. 114th St., New York, New York 10027. Mr. Colverd will present the opinions to the Committee at the 1972 ALA Annnal Conference in Chicago. • Robert Morris College broke ground for a $3 million library/learning resources cen­ ter on April 12 on the main campus in Moon Township. The building—the twenty-first on the -main campus—will be named Patrick Henry Center after the famous lawyer, orator, and statesman of Colonial America. The three-story struc­ ture is expected to be completed by Septem­ ber of 1973. With an initial capacity of 100,000 volumes and containing the most modern information retrieval systems available, the building will be one of the most impressive on the Main Campus. Contributions to the first capital fund drive of Robert Morris College will account for about half of the anticipated construction costs of the new building. • The University of Kansas libraries are extending to all interested subscribers a fort­ nightly search of Chemical Titles tapes at a cost per profile of only $41.00 per year (26 searches) including mailing and profile main­ tenance. The service employs a new and economical search program developed by the Kansas Uni­ versity Computation Center, and citations are drawn from the American Chemical Society’s Chemical Titles tapes, covering 700 leading chemical journals. Advantages of the service over use of the printed indexes and abstracts are speed ( up to three weeks’ advantage), convenience (printouts mailed directly to sub­ scribers), accuracy and sophistication: use of logical operators ( “AND,” “OR,” “NOT” ) per­ mits combination of such terms as author, key word, language, and CODEN for accurate reflection of researchers’ interests, and terms can be weighted for varying degrees of rele­ vancy. An initial profile charge of $20.00 can be waived if a subscriber can create his own pro­ file. The basic rate is increased $6.00 per year (to $47.00) if printouts are sent by airmail. Further information is available from Mrs. Mama Young, Science Librarian, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KA 66044. • The School of Library Science of Louisi­ ana State University welcomes input on the possiblity of an institute on Womanhood Me­ dia. Specifically, what images does the topic evoke? What needs do you—as a male or fe­ male hbrarian—have in this area? Access to knowledge about basic or new titles for Wom­ en’s Studies programs? Problem-solving in pub­ lic libraries re controversial “Movement” pub­ lications? Relevance to school library program­ ing? Lack of knowledge of the overall history of the Feminist Movement? Speakers you would like to hear . . . scheduling? Please send reactions, comments to Helen Wheeler, Associate Professor, School of Li­ brary Science, Louisiana State University, Ba­ ton Rouge, LA 70803. • Four two-day workshops for people con­ cerned with libraries and library technical processes will be held this August at the Uni­ versity OF California, Santa Cruz, under sponsorship of University Extension. “Workshop on Mechanization of Library Technical Processes” will meet August 11-12, and “Workshop on Cost Analysis of Library Op­ erations” on August 18-19. Both will be of di­ rect help to administrators, department heads, and analysts with all types of libraries. Prin­ cipal instructor is Charles P. Bourne, professor. School of Librarianship, and director. Institute of Library Research, University of California, Berkeley. “Workshop on Contemporary Manage­ ment Issues in Academic Libraries” will be held August 22-23. This workshop is for administra­ tors, department heads, and branch librarians with university, college and community college libraries, and for persons concerned with gen­ eral academic planning with respect to libraries. Principal instmctor is David C. Weber, direc­ tor, University Libraries, Stanford University. “Workshop on Library and Information Ser­ vices for Prison Populations” is scheduled for August 25-26. Recent California legislation re­ quiring that inmates have access to law libraries makes more urgent a problem already recog­ nized as important to our institutions and our society. This workshop is for any administrator, legislator or analyst concerned with this area. Principal instructor is Phyllis 1. Dalton, Assistant State Librarian, State of California. Coordinator of all workshops is Charles Bourne. Tuition for each is $95.00. Campus residen­ tial facilities are available for participants and their families. Additional information is avail­ able from Donald Hummel, University of Cal­ ifornia Extension, Santa Cruz, California, phone (408 ) 429-2821. P U B L IC A T IO N S • The Force and Influence of Change in American Society is the subject of an exten­ sive, annotated bibliography of 104 titles com­ piled by Carol Alexander and published by Wayne State University Oifice of Urban Li- 165 The incredible, cacophonous ‘6 0 s captured in PAINT IMAGE AND SO UND essays on media The ’60s stand out as a period of revolutionary upheaval. . . social, political, racial, religious, artistic, and economic. Those institutions not greatly modified underwent profound alteration and often a change of direction. This upheaval was most clearly reflected in the decade’s media. In this volume of five essays, one reads of the effect of the decade on the media . . . and of the considerabl effect of the media on the decade. These essays on media in the ’60s originally appeared in American Libraries: they now appear in Print, Image, and Sound. Edited by John Gordon Burke, Associate Editor of American Libraries. ISBN 0-8389-0122-0 (1972) Cloth $6.95 ' e AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION THE NEW JOURNALISM by James Ridgeway The author, former associate editor of the New Republic, is currently an editor of Ramparts, and one of the important figures in the development of the “new journalism” about which he writes. CINEMA IN THE SIXTIES by Charles T. Samuels A regular film columnist for the American Scholar, the author is professor of English at Williams College. Noted for his Casebook on Film, he will soon issue two new books on the cinema: Mastering the Film and Encountering Directors. A selected filmography is in­ cluded and lists every director of importance during the sixties. RO C K by John Burks Formerly managing editor of Rolling Stone, John Burks is currently on the staff of the San Francisco Examiner and one of the most knowledgeable writers on popular music today. His essay includes an extensive discog­ raphy and explores thoroughly this difficult area. EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION by Fred Ferretti The author, a member of the staff of the New York Times, joined the paper as a teievision critic-reporter in 1969 after working with the NBC News organiza­ tion. He has contributed widely to professional and popular magazines and has thoughtfully studied public television since its inception. ANIM A RISING: Little Magazines in the Sixties by Len Fulton The author, a leading figure in the small press move­ ment, has himself been a small press publisher for ten years (Dustbooks). He currently serves as chairman of the Board of Directors of The Small Magazine Editors and Publishers and is perhaps the most authoritative and knowledgeable person on little magazines today. 50 East Huron Street • Chicaeo. Ulinois 60611 166 Asian Publications from Mansell South Asian Government Bibliographies The volumes in this series provide the most complete listing of central government publications, serials and non-serials, of Ceylon, India, and Pakistan so far compiled. This vital record of primary sources for the study of South Asian affairs is available as a three-volume set or individually by country. Three volumes 10 x 7 in. 350 pages Approx. 7,000 entries £7.00 US $17.50 Union Catalogue of Asian Publications An author listing of most books from Asia purchased by British libraries since 1965, this catalogue includes books published in all languages in Asia outside the Soviet Union and those published in Arabic or the Ethiopic languages in North Africa. With the exception of pure science and technology, all subjects are covered and the 58,000 different titles range from modern works to works of great rarity published three or four hundred years ago. Four volumes (primary sequence) 13¾ x l0 ⅛ in. Approx. 66,000 entries each £140 US $336.00 Individual brochures are available from the publishers Mansell 3 Bloomsbury Place, London WCIA 2QA, England 167 " “Fundamentally, the wants of any li­ brary's users are easily stated. They want what they w ant—now." If you sometimes have trouble meeting these wants, here is a little help from a friend Melcher on Acquisition Daniel Melcher, who spent twenty-one years with the R. R. Bowker Company (where he initiated Books in Print, etc.) has been a leading figure in the publish­ ing world and a lifelong borrower of books from libraries. From these two points of view, he applies his common sense, wit, business acumen, and knowl­ edge of all aspects of publishing, to the problems of library acquisition. He of­ fers no pre-packaged solutions but has many practical suggestions for ways to dust off time-hallowed procedures, tell good suppliers from bad, cope with the bid process, fight city hall and L.C. cards, keep computers in their place, buy serials and paperbacks, and much, much more. Certainly one of the most provocative and entertaining books on this subject— and one of the most helpful. IS B N 0 -8 3 8 9 - 0 1 0 8 -5 (1 9 7 1 ) $ 8 .0 0 American Library Association 5 0 E. Huron St. Chicago, 111. 60611 168 brary Research and the Center for Urban Studies. The bibliography is an effort to identify the most significant literature on social change and the future pubUshed in the United States since 1970. A few basic works published in foreign countries prior to 1960 are also included. The first part of the bibliography lists ma­ terial on theories of change; planning for change; indicators and evaluation of change; and adjustment and adaptation to a changing society. The second section identifies books on urban and rural social conditions today; race relations; population trends and mobility, ecology, and alienation. A final section ex­ plores the direction of change in politics, econ­ omies, education, science, religion, and the arts. The compiler has starred the most important works in each category and indicates those available in paperback. Annotations summarize each title’s scope and point of view. Copies of the bibliography at 750 may be ordered through Wayne State University, Center for Urban Studies, 5229 Cass, Detroit, M l 48202. • The February 1972 issue of the list of Graduate Library School Programs Accredited by the American Library Association is avail­ able upon request from the Committee on Ac­ creditation, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Issued semi­ annually by the ALA Committee on Accredita­ tion, the official list gives the name and ad­ dress of each library school offering an ac­ credited program, the name of the dean or director, and the name of the degree to which the accredited program leads. Library schools offering doctoral and postmaster’s specialist or certificate programs are so designated on the list. • A Guide to the Study and Practice of Judaism, by Micha F. Oppenheim, is available for fifty cents per copy from National Religious Students Association, 84 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10011. The bibliography contains over 200 items of interest to the student of Judaism. The items are arranged by subject and the citations include complete bibliographic and ordering information. ■ ■ ACRL Membership April 30, 1972 .................. .............. 10,872 April 30, 1971 .................. .......... 10,746 April 30, 1970 .................. .............. 10,520