ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 95 People A P P O I N T M E N T S N o r m a B . B h a v e r —instructor, Medical Sci­ ences Library— T e x a s A&M U n i v e r s i t y , Col­ lege Station. J o h n D . B u r l in s o n —instructor, librarian in the Humanities Division— T e x a s A&M U n i v e r ­ s i t y , College Station. R o b e r t A. C a l v e r t — associate professor, University Archives— T e x a s A&M U n i v e r s i t y , College Station. A b i g a i l D a h l - H a n s e n — associate librarian — P r i n c e t o n U n i v e r s i t y , Princeton, New Jer­ sey. K a t h e r i n e M. J a c k s o n — assistant professor, divisional librarian in the Science and Tech­ nology Division—T e x a s A&M U n i v e r s i t y , College Station. K a r e n M c D a n i e l —assistant librarian— K e n ­ t u c k y St a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Frankfort. D o u g l a s L e a d e n h a m — head, Swain Hall Li­ brary— I n d ia n a U n i v e r s i t y , Bloomington. D a r l e n e K l o e k —assistant librarian— K e n ­ t u c k y S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Frankfort. G l a d y s W. J a r r e t t —chief librarian—Y o r k C o l l e g e o f t h e C i t y U n i v e r s i t y o f N e w Y o r k , Jamaica. Su m a t i M e h t a — assistant librarian— K e n ­ t u c k y St a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Frankfort. K. L e o n M o n t g o m e r y — a s s o c ia te p r o fe s s o r, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences— U n i v e r s i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h . S u z a n n e R e i s n e r —assistant librarian, tech­ nical services, government documents, Wahlert Memorial Library—L o r a s C o l l e g e , Dubuque, Iowa. D . B r u c e R o b in s o n —head librarian— S o u t h ­ e r n St a t e C o l l e g e , Magnolia, Arkansas. D o n R . S t e e b —instructor, reference librari­ an, Science and Technology Division— T e x a s A&M U n i v e r s i t y , College Station. M a r y L o u S t e w a r t —reference librarian— I n d ia n a U n i v e r s i t y - P u r d u e U n i v e r s i t y , Fort Wayne. E u g e n i a C. T a n g —instructor, reference li­ brarian, Technical Reports Center— T e x a s A&M U n i v e r s i t y , College Station. G a h r y W ig g in s—head, Chemistry Library— I n d ia n a U n i v e r s i t y , Bloomington. R E T I R E ME N T S V e l m a L e e A d a m s , head librarian at S o u t h ­ e r n S t a t e C o l l e g e , Magnolia, Arkansas, re­ tired after twenty-five years of service and is now working part time with special collections. J a m e s R . O ’R o u r k e , S r ., director of libraries, K e n t u c k y St a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Frankfort, re­ tired on December 31, 1975, after twenty-six years of service. ■ ■ ALA Meetings 1976 Annual Conference Chicago July 18-24 1977 Midwinter Meeting Washington Jan. 30-Feb. 5 1977 Annual Conference Detroit June 19-25 1978 Midwinter Meeting Chicago Jan. 22-28 1978 Annual Conference Chicago June 25-July 1 1979 Midwinter Meeting Chicago Jan. 21-27 Handbook for Chapters A subcommittee of the ACRL Chap­ ters Committee has been appointed to develop a handbook for chapters. Pres­ ent and previous chapter officers are asked to advise members of this subcom­ mittee as to what information would be most useful to the chapters. The hand­ book is not to replace the guidelines for establishing chapters prepared by George M. Bailey and approved by the ACRL Board on January 23, 1975 ( C&RLN‚ March 1975, p.89-90). However, ques­ tions regarding the establishment as well as the operation of chapters are solicited. Members of the subcommittee working on the chapters handbook are: Anne F. Roberts, Associate Librarian, SUNY Al­ bany Library, 1400 Washington Ave., Al­ bany, NY 12222; Diane Lutz, Assistant Librarian, New Hampshire College, Manchester, NH 03104; and Thomas H. Cahalan, 32 Allen Rd., Tewksbury, MA 01876, chairperson. CHECKLIST OF UNITED STATES PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 1789-1975 THIS DUAL-MEDIA EDITION CONTAINS NOTHING LESS THAN THE COMPLETE SHELFLIST OF GPO’S PUBLIC DOCU­ MENTS LIBRARY— WITH ITS CARD CAT­ ALOGS ON MICROFILM AND WITH TWENTY-ONE HARDCOVER INDEX VOL­ UMES. CHECKLIST ’75 — contains some 1.3 million full bibliographic entries for more than 2 million U.S. Government publications issued from 1789 through 1975. — is arranged on microfilm according to the Su Docs Classification System but is also accessible by title and by the names of government author-organizations via its printed index volumes. Accordingly, it is a primary source for the bibliographic data needed in identifying and ordering copies of out-of-print U.S. Government publications. — includes, in one place, all the bibliographic data contained in the 7909 Checklist (1789-1909), the Doc­ uments Catalogues (1893-1940) and the Monthly Cata­ logs (1895-1975), plus entries for thousands of pub­ lications never listed in any of those publications. — expands and updates Checklist '70 with the addition of more than 100,000 new entries accumulated over the past 5½ years. UPDATING CHECKLIST 7 0 During the years since we first began filming Check­ list '70 ‚ the U.S. Government has published more than 100,000 documents, many on such vital topics as the Viet Nam War, Watergate, recession, detente, fuel shortages, agripower, terrorism, environmental pro­ blems, consumer protection, foreign policy realignment, and of course, investigations of everything from in­ telligence operations to aerosol sprays. The cards des­ scribing these new additions were interfiled into the Shelflists in Su Docs Class order, and re-filming oper­ ations began when the file was current as of Jan­ uary 1, 1976. Those new entries which involved changes in government author-organizations were picked up and listed in supplementary sections added to the five original indexes. THE PROBLEM LONG-OUT-OF-PRIN T DOCUMENTS HAS Now that the world’s largest retrospective collection of GPO to the National Archives— and re-shelved in libraries, for the first time, can order facsimiles or U.S. Government documents published since 1789 CHECKLIST ’75 AND ITS NEW INDEXES WER I II, , AND ORDER THE The collection, of course, is GPO's Public Documents Library, long recognized as the most complete U.S. Government doc­ uments collection because of its statutory retention require­ ments. During 1972, all pre-1971 materials were moved to the Printed Archives Branch of the National Archives and Records Service, whose staff has just recently completed re-shelving them in Superintendent-of-Documents Classification order (the same arrangement used in the Shelflist card files). Mean­ while, the materials for 1971 and 1972 have recently been received and are now in the re-shelving process. The complete card catalogs and the later documents are still kept at GPO. As GPO had kept the Public Document collection closed during its decades of custodianship, the sudden availability of facsimiles and microfilm copies under the usual National Archives sales terms must be considered an important new step toward the wider and more effective reference use of U.S. Government documents. USE THIS COUPON TO ORDER AT PRE-PUBLICATIN EDESGNEDTOHELPYOUDENTFYSELECT SEDOCUMENTS O It also means that the identification of documents by Su Docs Class Numbers has become more important than ever— and this of course, is where the Checklist 75 indexes will play their most important part. Libraries having their own substantial documents collection arranged in Su Docs Class order, or those which find it con­ venient to order or borrow copies of documents from their local Regional Depository Libraries will, of course, also find the Checklist Indexes invaluable in retrieving their documents without having to order copies from National Archives. The important point, however, is that their existing systems are now backed up by the potential availability of copies of even the oldest and rarest documents through the Public Docu­ ments Library. Orders and inquiries to National Archives should be addressed to C. F. W. Coker, Chief, Public Archives Branch, National Archives & Records Service, Washington, D.C. 20408. PRICES — OR TO RECEIVE A FREE BROCHURE. CUMULATIVE TITLE INDEX TO U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 1789-1975 THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE TITLE INDEX TO U.S. GOVERNMENT DOCU­ MENTS EVER PRODUCED IN ANY FORMAT. H ere is the lo n g a w a ite d sin g le -a lp h a b e t listing o f a ll titles co n ta in e d in the shelflists o f the Public D o cum e nts Libra ry— the “ M illion Title" index to C H E C K LIS T O F UNITED STATES DOCUMENTS, 1789-1975. Now, for the first time, librarians with documents col­ lections of every size and type will be able to identify the Superintendent of Documents Classification Numbers for more than one million titles published by the U.S. Government over the past 186 years-and, also for the first time, be able to use these Su Docs Class Numbers to order facsimile or microfilm copies of specific docu­ ments from a centralized source. The massive Cumulative Title Index can be used either by itself to order documents when the title, date, and Su Docs Numbers are sufficient identification; or in con­ junction with Checklist 75, when it is desirable to learn complete bibliographic data on a publication prior to ordering copies (e.g. to find out the numbers of pages which will have to be copied @ 15¢ apiece, or to isolate specific numbers or parts of series). In addition to the title, Su Docs Class Number, and the date of the information in the document, each entry also gives the microfilm reel number on which the full des­ cription can be found in Checklist 75. in sixteen hardcover volumes (8½’’ X1 1 ’’) compiled by Daniel Lester and Sandra Fault UNITED STATES CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE PRINTS From the First Issued through 1969 Phase I: C o m m itte e P rin ts in th e U.S. S enate L ib ra ry The complete collection on NMA silver-halide fich e — $8,975.00 Committee Prints are the studies prepared by congressional legal and research staffs for use by various committees of the United States Congress. Usually produced in limited quantity and rarely available, except for use by com ­ mittee members, these studies are generally not sent to depository libraries or listed for sale in the Superintendent of Docum ent’s M onthly Catalog. They are also generally ex­ cluded from the U.S. Serial Set. Phase I of Greenwood Press’ United States Congressional Committee Prints microform program includes nearly 4 ,0 0 0 Committee Prints beginning with the 6 1 s t Congress in 1911 through the 1st Session of the 9 1 s t Congress in 1 9 6 9 . A large number of prints come from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and House Committees on Foreign Affairs, and Un-American Activities. Other com­ mittees heavily represented are House Com ­ mittees on Government Operations, Veterans Affairs; and Senate Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs, Judiciary, and Labor and Public Welfare. A com puter-produced, clothbound index ac­ companying Phase I of the collection is divided into four sections: 1) Author main-entry listing with complete bibliographic citations, sequenc­ ing and fiche identification numbers; 2) Com­ plete title list with fiche and sequence numbers; 3) Chronological congress, session, and year list with fiche and sequence numbers; 4) A “ shelflist” of fiche numbers correlated to the main entry. For further information, including free copies of sample pages from the Bibliography, please write: GREENWOOD PRESS 51 Riverside Avenue, Westport, Connecticut 06880