ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 590 / C&RL News Warning signs •Intestinal distress •R a p id pulse •F re q u en t illness •Insom nia •Persistent fatigue •Irritab ility •N ail-biting •L a c k of concentration •Increased use of alcohol or drugs •H unger for sweets Ways to cope •M aintain a sense of hum or •M editate • G e t a massage •Exercise regularly • E a t more sensibly •L im it intake of alcohol and caffeine •T a k e refuge in family and friends •D elegate responsibility •S ta n d up to the boss •Q u it Summary Stress is n o t in h e r ite d , r a th e r th e w o rk environm ent—or how people interpret their work environm ent—is a major contributor of stress. Im ­ p ro v in g m ost stress situ a tio n s req u ires tim e, money, and sincere effort; however, the elimina­ tion or m anipulation of stress can be accomplished. Although the study could have been improved by establishing a better plan prior to the start of the project, it provided us w ith valuable data. The results in Figure 2 (see previous page) show the highest and lowest categories of stress and satisfac­ tion from the general comparison of the three divi­ sions. W hen compared with our results, the study by Bunge showed a higher level of stress when dealing w ith patrons and supervisor/m anagem ent. The lower level of satisfaction in th e area of “patrons” in the HBLL also stood out in comparison w ith the study by Bunge. This correlates w ith Bunge’s ob­ servation th at m any or most aspects of library jobs are not inherently stressful; rather, w hether or not they produce stress depends on the situation or other factors. ■ ■ News from the Field Acquisitions • The Auburn University Archives, Alabama, recently acquired the photographs and measured drawings of the Alabam a collection of the Historic American Building Survey (HABS). Nicholas H. Holmes III, Mobile architect, was instrum ental in obtaining the HABS for Auburn University. The Historic American Building Survey originated in 1933 under federal relief program s and became perm anent in 1934 through an agreement between the Library of Congress and th e American Institute of Architects. Included in the collection are h un­ dreds of black and white photographs taken be­ tween 1930 and 1960 representing structures in 27 Alabama counties. Some of the structures repre­ sented in the holdings have since been demolished, making this collection an im portant docum enta­ tion of the outstanding historic buildings of Ala­ bam a. • Boston University has received a gift of papers representing over a quarter of a century of Con­ gressional banking history from Fernand St. G er­ m ain of Rhode Island, form er chairm an of the House of Representatives Banking Com m ittee. The collection contains a large store of materials from St. G erm ain’s 28 years in Congress including legislative histories of bills he sponsored as chair of th e H ouse C o m m itte e on B a n k in g A ffairs (1980-1988) and as chair of the House Subcommit­ tee on Financial Institutions (from 1972) and 28 years of congressional correspondence, constituent m ail, and casework. I t contains a w ealth of infor­ m ation related to the history and development of government regulation and oversight of financial institutions. • C a lifo rn ia S ta te P o ly te c h n ic U n iv ersity ’s W .K . Kellogg A rabian Horse L ibrary, Pomona, has acquired the research library of noted Arabian horse authority Gladys Brown Edw ards. The ap­ proxim ately 2,500-volum e collection was p re ­ sented by an anonymous donor after the death of Edw ards. The m aterial includes m any rare edi­ tions, such as an 1881 printing of Gleanings fro m the Desert of Arabia. Receipt of the gift was made possible by the donation of $ 1,100 for relocation ex­ penses by Mrs. Joseph Paul of Clarem ont, Califor­ nia. • Indiana State University, Terre H aute, has re­ July/August 1989 / 591 ceived a donation of over 600 volumes on Latin American history from John Hoyt W illiams, ISU professor of history. Many of these books are in Spanish or Portuguese and emphasize the history of Argentina, Paraguay, and U ruguay in the Rio de la P lata region of South America. O ther books cover the history of Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, and Spain. • The Kansas State University Libraries, Man- h a tta n , have received the D. C. Keyse Collection, donated by G. A. and D onna Keyse Rudolph in October 1988. The collection honors th e late D . C. Keyse, a Scott C ounty (Kansas) farm er and the fa­ ther of Mrs. Rudolph. It contains about 500 vol­ umes dating from th e 16th to the 20th centuries em bracing philosophy, lite ra tu re , history, and medicine. Included are such landm ark works as a first edition of Beaum ont’s classic Experim ents and Observations on the Gastric Juice (1833) and a fine example on parchm ent of an English real estate docum ent from the reign of H enry VII. • Seton Hall University’s M cLaughlin Library, South Orange, New Jersey, recently received the Basil W. Steciuk Collection. Steciuk was a profes­ sor and chairm an of the university’s D epartm ent of Classical Studies from 1959 to 1975. Along w ith the donation of the book was a $5,000 gift from Ste- ciuk’s son, George L. Steciuk, Seton Hall ’64, and his wife. The money will be p u t tow ard the p u r­ chase of additional books in th e fields represented by the collection. The collection of some 7,800 vol­ umes focuses on classical studies, b u t is rich in the fields of history, literature, cultural studies, m yth­ ology, and philosophy. The publication dates of these books span four centuries. Most of the collec­ tion is housed on open shelves. The rare books will be shelved in the Falk Rare Book Room. The rare books of the collection include Apicius, a cookbook originally w ritte n in the 3rd century; and Das P fe n n ig -M a g a z in e der G e s e lls c h a ft z u r V e r ­ breitung gemeinnütziger Kenntnisse, a G erm an periodical dated 1835, one of only 5 issues in the United States. • The Texas A & M University Archives, College Station, recently received th e papers of Ruth M ar­ garet Hull, w hich contain a great deal of inform a­ tio n a b o u t 19th c e n tu ry Texas M ethodists a n d Methodism. Hull, who died in 1987, provided in her will th a t her papers should come to Texas A & M partly because m uch of the inform ation in them relates to people and places in the geographic area surrounding th e University. R uth H ull was the great-granddaughter of W alter Smith South, a cir­ cuit riding M ethodist minister in Texas during most of the second half of the 19th century. Through all of his m inisterial career, South kept a diary in w hich he m ade brief records of his travels and ac­ tivities as well as the people he m et and visited. The H ull papers contain four original diaries; type­ script copies of all fifteen diaries dated 1855-1897; and extensive files of notecards on Methodist minis­ ters, relatives, other people and places. A great deal of genealogical inform ation on the South and Burleson families is included. South m arried Mary Ann Burleson on March 21, 1861. Also included in the Hull papers is inform ation on Indians and In ­ dian tribes encountered by South in his travels as well as on the counties and towns South visited. A delegation from th e P eople’s R epublic of C hina headed by H ouston’s Consul G eneral on February 14 presented Texas A & M University w ith m ore th an 700 volumes w ritten in Chinese. The books, including volumes in literature, his­ tory, political science, art, travel, and science, are intended as a step tow ard creating a better under­ standing betw een China and the United States. The Chinese collection will be housed in the Ster­ ling C. Evans Library. • The University of Illinois Archives, U rbana, has received the records of the National Association of Farm Broadcasters (NAFB) and the photo files of C. F. Marley, one of the country’s top agricultural photographers. T he NAFB collection includes as­ sociation minutes, newsletters, bulletins, radio lis­ teners’ surveys, and other items covering the associ­ ation’s 46-year history. The collection also contains hundreds of photographs of farm radio and televi­ sion personalities and association events, and biog­ raphies of notable members. This collection will be the first for which th e Archives will identify docu­ ments of bibliographic value to researchers for en­ try into a subject-area database, in addition to cre­ ating a traditional archival finding aid. The Marley Collection of photographs, nega­ tives, and slides covers the 40-year career of agri­ cultural photographer C. F. Marley, of Nokomis, Illinois. Included in the collection are photos of m any first-of-a-kind inventions or farm ing tech­ niques, including strip-till corn planters, which preceded the zero-till planters; George McGib- bens’s first zero-till planter; the first Dickey-John seed m onitor; H enry Larson’s first pneum atic grain probe; and tandem tractors, w hich preceded the four-wheel drive. The indexing of these slides and photographs is being supported by th e Illinois Agri­ cultural Experim ent Station as a w ay of helping make them widely available to researchers. Frank W . Smith, a 1941 alum nus in journalism of the University of Illinois, has donated his exten­ sive collection of 4,000 phonograph recordings to the Music L ibrary. The album s include not only standard orchestral and operatic music, b u t also special genres such as Gregorian chant, jazz, mili­ tary bands and choruses, and folk music traditions. Some of th e m ore unusual item s include m any items distributed only in W estern Europe on such labels as Deutsche G ram m ophon, Eurodisc, Tele- funken, and Polydor. Also donated by Smith were 175 record magazines and music books, wooden shelving for the recordings, reviews of some of the albums, and a catalog providing im m ediate access to the collection. July/August 1989 / 593 • The University of M iami’s Otto G. Richter Li- b rary , C oral G ables, F lorida, has acquired a 3,000-volume collection of rare publications on Spanish and C uban history and genealogy from David M asnata, who died recently in New York. The collection also includes M asnata’s archives which occupy 15 filing cabinets and deal with doc­ uments and personal memoirs of his ancestors. M asnata, who practiced law in Cuba and Spain, was the grandson of Gonzalo de Quesada, a favor­ ite disciple of José M arti, and was also the great- grandson of Ramon Luis M iranda, M arti’s physi­ cian. Material providing links to these ancestors and their times include copies of newspapers edited by M arti, by Quesada, and by Enrique Trujillo, as well as a manuscript poem by M arti dated Christ­ mas Day, 1892. • The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, re- cently received a num ber of im p o rta n t m a n u ­ scripts w ritten by Soviet dissident writers. The au­ thors’ originals, donated by relatives of the late U-M professor, Carl Proffer, are housed in the Uni­ versity L ibrary’s D epartm ent of Rare Books and Special Collections. All of the materials, most of which are unpublished in the Soviet Union, are w ritten in Russian. The manuscripts are available for viewing on request. • Yale University Library’s Collection of West- ern Americana has acquired papers and artwork by Philadelphia artists Richard and Edw ard Kern. The collection comprises eleven sketchbooks con­ ta in in g num erous finished w a terco lo rs of th e southern plains, New Mexico, California, C hihua­ hua, and various locations overseas. In addition there are hundreds of prelim inary sketches, three journals, and a miscellaneous assortment of letters and documents relating to the exploration of the American West in the 1840s and 1850s. Retween 1846 and 1853, Edw ard and Richard Kern were the most active and influential Anglo-American artists working in the American Southwest. Their sketches, draw ings, and w atercolors provided Americans w ith their first comprehensive visual record of the territory acquired in the course of the Mexican W ar. Before the days of photography, a rt­ ists were employed by expeditions to record the A C R L Publications in Librarianship The ACRL Publications in Librarianship Editorial Board invites manuscripts or prospec­ tuses for monographs or collections of articles on im portant issues and problems in academic librarianship. Those interested should contact: Jonathan A. Lindsey University L ibrarian Baylor Univerity B.U. Box 7143 Waco, TX 76798-7143 landscapes and peoples th a t w ere encountered. The Kern brothers accompanied numerous U.S. government expeditions. The collection includes Edw ard Kern’s illustrated journal of John C. Fré­ m ont’s third expedition, which entered California just as the Mexican W ar began, and his fourth ex­ pedition, a privately sponsored enterprise to deter­ mine whether a trans-continental railroad could be built along the 38th parallel. This collection re­ m ained in private hands until April of this year, when it was acquired by the Yale Collection of W estern Americana. Grants • Davidson College’s E. H. L ittle L ib rary , Davidson, North Carolina, now has more than $1 million in its endowed book funds, thanks to a re­ cent boost from Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. SAE’s gift of $5,200 raises the fraternity’s book en­ dow m ent to $25,800. SAE set up its book fund eight years ago and has continued to donate funds from the sale of its popular campus calendar. It is the only student organization with an endowed book fund. The library buys 10,000 new books and 1,500-2,000 periodicals each year to add to its col­ lection of almost 350,000 books. • Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, has received a gift of $250,000 from the St. Petersburg Times. This gift will be awarded $25,000 annually over the next ten years. Part of th e gift will be used to sustain the library’s subscription level of 1,000 periodicals. T he rest will be used annually to aw ard funds to faculty members for collaborative collection development efforts. • Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, has received a grant from the Ford Foundation to establish a program in comparative scientific tradi­ tions. The aw ard includes a $40,000 budget for the purchase of books and other library materials deal­ ing with science in other cultures. • Indiana University’s East Asian Collection, Bloom ington, has received a lib ra ry m aterials grant from the Japan Foundation. The grant, un­ der the Foundation’s Library Support Program B, w ill pay th re e -fo u rth s of a to ta l of Y800,000 ($6,000) to buy Japanese m aterials for the East Asian Collection and ship them to the Bloomington campus directly from Japan, w ith handling and postage paid. The East Asian Collection will pay the other one-fourth to satisfy the cost-sharing stip­ ulation of the grant program . The major item in­ cluded in the grant proposal, prepared by Thomas H. Lee, East Asian Library, is the 90-reel micro­ film set of Daitokyo Collection o f Edo Literature, a collection of essential illustrated novelistic and dra­ m atic works of the Edo period of Japan. The cost of this microfilm set alone is Y800,000 (about $5,800). 594 / C&RL News • New York University’s Bobst Library has re- ceived two separate preservation grants under the New York State 1989/90 Coordinated Preservation Projects. Funding for the larger of the two projects will go tow ard support of a pilot project in photo­ graph preservation. Four thousand photo negatives from the District 65, United Auto Workers Union non-print collection, which is housed in the Robert F. W agner Labor Archives, will be transferred from diacetate to a m ore stable polyester film. Bobst Library, serving as grant sponsor, will coor­ dinate the distribution of funds to other cooperat­ ing institutions. Cornell University will be preserv­ ing photographs from its labor history collection and Columbia will focus on materials from its Rus­ sian History and theatrical collections. A second aw ard will support the preservation of labor history sound recordings, also p a rt of the W agner A rchives collection. R ecorded rad io broadcasts, speeches, mass rallies, and demonstra­ tions from the Transport W orker’s Union collec­ tion th at are on acetate-based tapes will be trans­ ferred to a more stable medium. This cooperative project is currently in its fourth phase, having re­ ceived state funding for the past three years. Other institutions working in tandem w ith NYU to pre­ serve recordings are the New York Public Library (the project’s sponsor), Syracuse University, Cor­ nell University, and the University of Rochester. • The Saint M artin’s College Library, Lacey, Washington, has received a gift of $110,000 from Saint M artin’s alumnus Tom O’Grady. The m ajor­ ity of the gift is earm arked to strengthen the li­ brary’s collection of reference works, and will ap­ p ro x im a te ly d o u b le th e size of th e colleg e’s reference collection. The rem ainder will be used for audiovisual equipment to support classroom and curriculum activities, as well as increase the use of research materials. • Stanford University’s D epartm ent of Special Collections and University Archives has received a grant of $14,478 from the California State Library under the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) for a six-month project to catalog the pa­ pers of fo u r im p o r ta n t C a lifo rn ia lead ers in Mexican-American affairs. The personal papers of Armando Valdez, Eduardo Quevedo, Alfredo Cas­ taneda, and Bert Corona, containing fifty-two lin­ ear feet of correspondence and organizational rec­ ords, w ill be a rra n g e d for research use, and descriptive inventories for each of the collections will be written. • The University of California, Berkeley, has re- ceived a grant of $10,000 from the Lucius N. Lit- tauer Foundation. The grant is to be used for sup­ plemental acquisitions of Hebraica/Judaica for the Main Library and the Near Eastern Studies D e­ partm ent Library. • The University of Illinois, U rbana, has re- ceived two separate donations of $5,000 each, one from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation and one from retired New York accountant Allen Toby, for the library’s Judaica collection. The donations will form the new Ruth H. Toby Memorial Judaica Book Fund. Mrs. Toby died in 1988. The gift from the Littauer Foundation will be used immediately to purchase books published in Europe on Jewish culture, society, language, and literature. The gift from Allen Toby will form an endowm ent whose interest will provide ongoing funds for book pur­ chases over the years. • The W ashington Research Library Consor- tium (WRLC) has received a six-month grant of $46,746 from the National Endow m ent for the H u­ manities, Office of Preservation. The W RLC li­ braries will contribute an additional $59,664 in cost sharing. The grant will support planning for a coordinated preservation program am ong the members. It will support the conduct of a statistical survey of the condition of collections in seven gen­ eral university libraries and four academic law li­ braries. The data will be analyzed individually and collectively to determine the urgency and magni­ tude of the deterioration problem in these large heavily used research collections, and to make rec­ ommendations for future preservation programs to be supported by W RLC and by grant funding. Special attention will be given to identifying and preserving the unique m aterials which form the core of the W RLC combined research collections. The following universities are W RLC members: the American University, Catholic University of America, G allaudet University, George Mason University, Georgetown University, George W ash­ ington University, M arymount University, and the University of the District of Columbia. Further in­ formation on th e grant is available from Paul Vas- sallo at (202) 265-1313. • York University Libraries, North York, On- tario, have been aw arded $17,000 by the Canadian Council of Archives. The grant will support sort­ ing, arranging and describing tw o groups of Uni­ versity records and the records of the Canadian lit­ erary journal Waves. News notes • Boise State University’s Hemingway Western Studies Center is sponsoring a new project to pre­ serve and catalog the work of Idaho writers. The Idaho W riters’ Archive will compile a database of Idaho writers, both established authors and strug­ gling artists, and collect and catalog books, m aga­ zines, manuscripts, and other works by these au­ thors. The archive already has donated collections on ten Idaho writers and poets. They include Var- dis Fisher and Ernest Hemingway as well as poet Charles David W right, filmmaker Nell Shipman, outdoor w riter Ted Trueblood, legislator and nov­ elist Earl W ayland Bowman, essayist Paul Tracey, and others. The works will be cataloged and stored in the BSU Library and will be available to literary July /A ugust 1989 / 595 s c h o la rs. I n c lu d e d in th e a rc h iv e a re files on H em ingw ay o b tain e d from th e FB I an d th e old O f­ fice of Strategic Services, th e predecessor of th e C e n tra l Intelligence Agency. T h e files w ere do­ n a te d by John D e G root, along w ith 130 books he u s e d in w r i t i n g P a p a , a p la y b a s e d on H em ingw ay’s life. • T h e Boston L ib ra ry C onsortium com pleted a m ajo r p o rtion of its C ollection Analysis Project in A pril a n d has issued a R eport. T h e project is the largest a u to m a te d conspectus-based analysis done to d a te , according to N Ìarianne Burke, consortium executive director. T h e project sorted th e collec­ tions of th e tw elve m em b er libraries into 4,000 sub­ ject areas, counted th e titles in each collection, and co m pared titles for overlap in each subject. F in d ­ ings w ill im prove cooperative use of collections and serve as a know ledge base for collection develop­ m en t in each institution. F u n d in g for this project w as provided by a g ra n t from th e C om m onw ealth of M assachusetts, a n d adm inistered by th e Board of L ib ra ry Com m issioners. T h e R ep o rt is available on a lim ited basis from th e B oard. M embers of th e Boston L ib ra ry C onsortium , a resource-sharing co­ operative, include Boston College, Boston Public L ib ra ry , Boston University, B randeis University, M IT , N ortheastern U niversity, T ufts University, U niversity of M assachusetts cam puses a t A m herst, Boston, a n d W orcester, W ellesley College, a n d th e M assachusetts S tate L ib rary . F o r fu rth e r in fo rm a­ tio n con tact M a ria n n e Burke, Boston L ib ra ry C on­ sortium , Room 339, 666 Boylston S t., Boston, MA 02117; (617) 262-0380. • H a rv a rd U niversity L ib ra ry has recently es- tablished th e C harles J. T a n e n b au m F u n d for P ro ­ fessional D evelopm ent in th e U niversity L ib rary . T h is is n o t th e fir s t e n d o w m e n t m a d e by M r. T a n e n b au m for th e library. M r. T a n e n b au m and his w ife, M ary, h a d also endow ed th e D ouglas W . B ry a n t F ellow ship p ro g ra m w h ic h su p p o rts r e ­ search by lib rarian s. T he T a n e n b a u m F u n d for Professional D evelopm ent w ill su p p o rt a variety of program s to aid lib rarian s in th e ir c u rre n t w ork settings a n d to e n c o u ra g e th e ir c a re e r d evelop­ m ent. I t w ill be used to cover th e costs of w ork­ shops, sem inars, a n d speakers b ro u g h t to th e U ni­ versity L ib ra ry from th e outside a n d to develop in-house program s w hen th e c a p ab ility a n d exper­ tise is available. In some cases th e fu n d m ay be used to assist lib ra ria n s to a tte n d tra in in g sem inars or conferences, including costs of registration, trav el, housing, etc. T h e fu n d m ay also be used to supple­ m en t th e B ry a n t Fellow ship A w ards w h e n espe­ cially w o rth y applications c a n n o t be covered by th e B ryant A w ard. M r. T a n e n b a u m has been an enthusiastic su p p o rte r of th e lib ra ry a n d a m em b er of th e L ib ra ry V isiting C om m ittee since 1971. • T he L ib ra ry of Congress has begun a m ajor new p rogram to use new technologies to dissemi­ n a t e e le c tr o n i c c o p ie s of p o r ti o n s o f its collections— inclu d in g m anuscripts, photos, a n d books—to oth er libraries th ro u g h o u t th e U nited States. T h e p rogram is called “A m erican M em ­ o ry .” P relim inary p lan s call for tra n sfe rrin g m ate ­ rial rela te d to A m erican cu ltu re a n d history onto laser videodisks a n d various kinds of com pact disks. E ach disk will also include an in te rp re tiv e in tro ­ d u ctio n a n d a n n o ta te d biblio g rap h y to extend its usefulness. T h e digitized images a n d inform ation in “A m erican M em ory” will be fo rm a tte d in a w ay t h a t p e rm its e le c tro n ic c o p y in g in to a d v a n c e d w o rd processing or desktop publishing softw are. Recently a d em onstration of a n “A m erican M em ­ ory” p rototype was presented a t th e U.S. House of Representatives a n d Senate A ppropriations Sub­ com m ittee hearings on th e L ib ra ry ’s 1990 budget request. T h e d em onstration sim ulated th e experi­ ence of a college stu d en t using a n “A m erican M em ­ ory” w orkstation to p re p a re a research p a p e r for a political science class. T h e p ro to ty p e used an Apple M acintosh c o m p u te r w ith H yperC ard so ftw are. Some im ages w ere on a c o m p u ter screen, w hile others (including an excerpt from a m otion pictu re rela te d to th e topic) w ere displayed from a video­ disk on a television m onitor. In p re p a ra tio n of prototypes, th e L ib ra ry has been assisted by H eller In fo rm a tio n Services, w ith eq u ip m en t d o n a te d or loaned by A pple C om p u ter, Pioneer V ideo, a n d S harp Electronics. T h e p la n ­ ning process also includes a user-needs survey of state lib ra ry agencies a n d large research libraries c o n d u c te d by M ary C . C h o b o t a n d Associates. P lanning for “A m erican M em ory” is expected to continue th ro u g h 1989, w ith th e first products to a p p e ar in 1990. T h e L ib ra ry ’s coo rd in ato r for th e project is C a rl F leischhauer. • T he L ib ra ry of Congress a n d th e U.S. Forest Service have an n o u n ced a cooperative effort to o r­ ganize a p o rtio n of th e largest collection of personal papers in th e L ib ra ry . T h e collection, th e papers of G ifford Pinchot, b egan a rriving a t th e L ib ra ry in th e 1940s. T h e p a p e rs cover th e w hole life of P in­ chot (1865-1946), w h o w as th e first chief of th e Forest Service, a tw o -te rm governor of Pennsylva­ nia, a n d a lifetim e conservationist. Pinchot, to­ gether w ith T heodore Roosevelt a n d John M uir, in itia ted efforts to conserve th e n a tu ra l resources of t h e U n ite d S ta te s 100 y e a rs a g o . F r o m t h e i r activities— a n d those w ho follow ed th e m — have come to d ay ’s n a tio n a l forests, n atio n al parks, a n d w ild life a n d w ilderness p ro te c tio n . T h e p ro je c t w ill und ertak e th e processing of some 400 m a n u ­ scrip t containers of papers covering th e years 1890 th ro u g h 1910. T h e p e rio d selected in cludes th e y e a rs t h a t P in c h o t h e a d e d th e F o r e s t S erv ice (1905-1910) as w ell as th e beginnings of th e conser­ v atio n m ovem ent in th e U nited States. T h e w hole collection of P inchot papers is c o n tain ed in 3,235 m an u scrip t boxes ta k in g up m ore th a n 1,300 linear feet of shelf space. D u rin g th e course of th e project t h e p a p e r s w ill b e e x a m in e d a n d o r g a n i z e d , m arked for preservation w ork if a p p ro p ria te , in ­ serted into acid-free folders, a n d inventoried. T he 596 / C&RL News inventory will then be described in a database and cross-referenced for easy retrieval in the future. Be­ cause of the interest of the Forest Service, conserva­ tionists, and scholars in the life of Gifford Pinchot, the Service has made available $20,000 to cover the cost of the project. • N orth C arolina State University’s Class of 1989, Raleigh, will provide attractive furniture— tables, chairs, reading lamps, bookcases—for the new reading room and comfortable lounge furni­ ture for the lounges in the new addition to the D. H. Hill Library. T he class solicited ideas from across campus for an appropriate class gift and se­ lected the suggestion of the NCSU Libraries, cele­ brating their one hundredth birthday in 1989. The library’s building addition, to be completed this year, will comprise the new m ain entryway into the library. Although state funds were appropri­ ated for this construction, provisions for furnishing its interior were inadequate. Early in February, th e senior class held a p h o n e-a-th o n to solicit pledges for this gift from class members and ob­ tained $126,400 in pledge com m itm ents. Final payments on the pledges will be m ade in 1993. The reading room w ith its two lounges will serve as a central meeting place for future reunions and will stand in honor of the Class of 1989. • N o rth w e s te rn U n iv e rs ity ’s M elville J. Herskovits L ibrary of Africana, Evanston, Illinois, has completed the conversion of their catalog cards to m achine-readable form, now accessible in the m ain library’s com puter catalog system. The 18- m onth project, which accomplished the conversion of about 30,000 catalog records, was completed w ith the assistance of a grant from th e U.S. D epart­ m ent of Education under the Title II-C Program for Strengthening Research L ib ra ry Resources. T h e records are n o w a v a ilab le to researchers throughout North America via RLIN and OCLC bibliographic databases. • The University of California’s nine-campus online library catalog system, th e MELVYL ca ta ­ log, has just acquired its five-millionth book rec­ ord, continuing th e database growth and expan­ sion th at has m ade the catalog one of the largest online public access systems in the nation. The five- m illionth book is Guide to Integrating Digital Ser­ vices: T l, DDS, and Voice Integrated N etw ork A r­ c h ite c tu re by R o b e rt L. D a y to n (New York: Intertext Publications: M cG raw -H ill, 1989). In addition to book records, the MELVYL catalog contains over half a million serials records as well as records of other UC materials, such as maps and music. It also holds book records of the California State L ibrary and in the MELVYL M ED LIN E database, the current three-year file of the N a­ tional Library of Medicine’s M EDLINE database, over 600,000 article citations indexed from over 4,000 health sciences journals. • The University of Chicago has announced the addition of the five-millionth volume to its collec­ tions, an achievement celebrated by only ten other university libraries in North America. The work se­ lected for this distinction is D arw in and the Novel­ ists: Patterns o f Science in Victorian Fiction, by George Levine of Rutgers University, and pub­ lished by H arvard University Press in 1988. In es­ tablishing selection criteria for the five-millionth volume, the library searched for a work w ith sub­ stantial scholarly value, not overly esoteric or rare, and one which would frequently be used by library patrons. In the chosen work, its author, George Levine, explores the im pact of D arw in’s revolu­ tionary concept of evolution on 19th-century liter­ ature. The five million printed volumes of the Uni­ versity of C hicago L ib ra ry do not include the a p p ro x im a te ly seven m illio n item s in o th e r form ats—m anuscripts, maps, microforms, sound recordings, and other m edia—which the library has collected through the years. • The University of Nevada-Las Vegas Library has joined the Consortium of Hospitality Research Inform ation Services (C .H .R .I.S .). The Library, which has one of the largest gaming collections in th e w o r ld , becom es th e f o u r th m em b e r of C .H .R .I.S ., which has been formed to develop and p rint an electronic bibliographic database to hotel, motel, restaurant, travel, gaming, and related hos­ pitality publications. Currently, the Hospitality Index: A n Index fo r the Hotel, Foodservice, and Travel Industries, indexes and abstracts fifty-two publications in the hospitality industry and is avail­ able in both p rin te d and floppy-disk form ats. O ther C .H .R .I.S . members are: Cornell Univer­ sity, Ithaca, New York; University of Wisconsin- Stout, Menomonie; and the American Hotel & Mo­ tel Association. • The University of Rochester’s Eastm an School of Music, Rochester, New York, has announced the new Sibley Music Library. It opened on May 15, 1989, on the 1.5 acre-block adjacent to the East­ m an School of Music. The new building, called Eastm an Place, is an $18 million mixed-use facility which, in addition to the Sibley Music Library in its top three floors (approximately 50,000 of the to­ tal 122,000 square feet of the complex), houses commercial stores, restaurants, and office space on the lower level. The complex also includes an in­ door atrium and an outdoor public plaza which will accommodate com m unity arts performances and exhibitions. ■ ■ Dues increase passed The dues increase for m embership in ACRL asked for on the Spring ballot has passed. A to­ tal of 1,602 members approved the measure, w ith 1,279 voting no. ACRL members joining or renew ing after September 1, 1989, will now pay $35 annually.