ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 248 people with jobs trim their spending on outside pleasures. But suppliers of in-home activities pro­ sper. The creator of the game Monopoly became a millionaire during the Depression. Perhaps videotex com panies will also b e n e fit from a recession -In form ation courtesy o f Online, In c., W eston, Connecticut. : ■ ■ Publications NOTICES • The ALA Survey o f Librarian Salaries (108 pages, July 1982) presents the findings of a na­ tional mail survey of 1,400 libraries conducted in January, 1982, by the ALA Offices for Research and for Library Personnel Resources with assist­ ance from the University of Illinois Library Re­ search Center. The report features 39 tables in­ cluding, for each of 13 positions, a table of scheduled salary ranges and a table of salaries ac­ tually paid to academic or public librarians in four geographic regions of the U.S. Copies are avail­ able for $40 from the American Library Associa­ tion, Order Department, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. • Approval Plans in ARL Libraries (109 pages, April 1982), SPEC Kit # 8 3 , reports on a sur­ vey which requested specific data on the number and types of approval plans in major research li­ braries and the current justifications for using or not using plans. The kit includes 22 documents responding to the survey, questions and criteria for evaluating vendors, statistics, general com­ ments, and guidelines. SPEC kits are available by subscription from the Systems and Procedures Exchange Center, OMS/ARL, 1527 New Hamp­ shire Ave., N.W .‚ Washington, DC 20036. Indi­ vidual kits may be purchased for $15 (prepayment requested) with checks made payable to the ARL Office of Management Studies. Library members of ARL receive kits for $7.50. • The University of Texas Collection Develop­ ment Policy (2d edition, 1982) is now available from UT-Austin. Organized by subject of collect­ ing in te re s t, the guide contains co llectio n guidelines that specify the language of the collec­ tion, chronological guidelines, treatment of sub­ ject, types of materials to be collected, and date of publication. The policy may be ordered for $15 from Publications, The General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin, P.O. Box P, Aus­ tin, TX 78712. • Cooperative Collection Development in Mul­ titype Library Networks (131 pages, 1982) out­ lines the essential elements of cooperative collec­ tion development and includes guidelines, proce­ dures, and examples of successful projects. This report is the result of a statewide m eeting of M issouri librarian s who convened to draft guidelines for the new Missouri Libraiy Network. Copies are available for $10 to Association members, $15 to non-members, from the Metropolitan Washington Library Council, 1875 Eye Street, N.W ., Suite 200, Washington, DC 20006. Checks should be made payable to MWCOG; a $5 fee is charged for billing. • Directory of Library Reprographic Services‚ compiled by Joseph Z. Nitecki (540 pages, 8th edition, 1982), has been published by Meckler Publishing. Sponsored by the Reproduction of Library Materials Section of ALA’s Resources and Technical Services Division, the guide reprints survey forms returned by over 500 photoduplica­ tion departments in both the United States and some foreign countries. Copies are available for $24.95 from Meckler Publishing, 520 Riverside Avenue, Westport, CT 06880. • Directory o f Michigan Academic Libraries 1981-1982‚ edited by Joy Pastucha (31 pages, 3d edition, 1982) may be purchased for $3 from the M ichigan L ib rary A ssociation, 2 26 W. Washtenaw, Lansing, MI 48933. • Directory o f Special Libraries and Collec­ tions in Florida (300 pages, 1st edition, 1982) has been published by the Florida Chapter of the Special Libraries Association and includes data on more than 500 collections and libraries. Copies are available ($12 for SLA m em bers, $15 for non-members) from Linda Wyman, Corporate Library, R E L , In c ., 3800 S. Congress A ve., Boynton Beach, F L 33435. • Document Delivery Systems in ARL Librar­ ies (101 pages, March 1982), S P E C Kit # 8 2 , has been published by the Association of R e­ search Libraries. Both internal and external de­ livery are covered in this survey report, which contains 26 documents illustrating certain aspects of these systems, including telefacsimile transmis­ sion and electronic mail. SPEC kits are available by subscription from the Systems and Procedures Exchange Center, OMS/ARL, 1527 New Hamp­ shire Ave., N.W ., Washington, DC 20036. Indi­ vidual kits may be purchased for $15 (prepayment required) with checks made payable to the ARL Office of Management Studies. Library members of ARL receive kits for $7.50. • Finding a Position: Strategies f o r Library Science Graduates‚ by Robert Delzell (26 pages, May 1982), details the art of writing resumes for librarian positions, how to make the most of a cover letter, common mistakes to be avoided, and recent trends in the libraiy employment market. The manual is number 153 in the O ccasional Papers 249 series published by die University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Sci­ ence. Copies are available for $3 each, prepaid, from G SLIS Publications Office, 249 Armory Building, 505 E. Armory Street, Champaign, IL 61820. • Harvard’s Distributable Union Catalog on microfiche is now available in its second edition. The catalog includes author, title, and subject en­ tries for computerized cataloging produced by various Harvard libraries since July 1, 1977, as well as author and title entries for works on order but not yet received and for works received but not yet cataloged. The second edition consists of 411 microfiche (reduction ratio 48:1) and is avail­ able to non-Harvard libraries and interested indi­ viduals for $95 from Laura Margolis, University Library, Wadsworth House, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. • LEX Locator (12 pages, 1982) has been pub­ lished by METRO (New York Metropolitan Ref­ erence and Research Library Agency) as its Mis­ cellaneous Publication No. 25. This source in­ cludes locations for legal materials in 33 libraries in New York and New Jersey. Copies may be ob­ tained for $5 ($10 if an invoice is required) from M ETRO , 33 W. 42d S tre e t, New York, NY 10036. • Scholars’ Access to Inform ation: Public Responsibility /Private Initiative is an edited tran scription of the proceedings of the 99th Mem Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries, held October 30, 1981, in Washington, D .C . Copies are available (prepaid only) for $12.50 (or $7.50 to ARL library members) from the Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, N .W ., Washington, DC 20036. • T eacher and Administrator Evaluation, compiled by Marita Moll (107 pages, December 1981), has been published as number 74 in the Bibliographies in Education series by the Cana­ dian T ea ch ers’ Federation. The sources are primarily Canadian and cover the period from 1975-1981. Copies may be ordered from the Canadian Teachers’ Federation, 110 Argyle Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 1B4. • This Country o f Louisiana‚ compiled by Florence M. Jumonville (14 pages, 1982), is a tricentennial bibliography of selected material about Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643- 1687) in The Historic New Orleans Collection. This source listing is the first in a series of bib­ liographies describing this special collection. The pamphlet is available free from The Historic New Orleans Collection, Research Library, 533 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130. • Training o f Egyptian Information Sp e­ cialists: A Multifaceted System Approach‚ by Bahaa El-Hadidy (222 pages, January 1982), de­ ­ scribes a project that provided for the training bership over a two-year period of a core group of 15 250 Egyptian information specialists in the technical skills required for the development of national in­ formation services and the implementation of a national information system in Egypt. The Project was supported by the U.S. Agency for Interna­ tional Development. Copies are available for free while the supply lasts from Bahaa El-H adidy, Sch ool of L ib rary and In fo rm atio n S c ie n c e , Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064. • Twenty-five Fine Books: Twenty-five Years o f Collecting at the University o f Waterloo‚ com­ piled by Susan Bellingham (1982), outlines the history of building the university library’s rare and special book collections and includes photo­ graphs and descriptions of 25 of the collection’s most notable books. Copies may be ordered for $10 from Jorn Jorgensen, Library Business Ad­ ministrator, Dana Porter Arts Libraiy, University of W aterloo, W aterloo, O ntario, Canada N 2L 3G1. • United States Federal Document Holdings in the Linda Hall L ibra ry‚ 1982‚ provides biblio­ graphic information for some 6,700 titles in the library’s collection. Copies may be purchased for $12 from the Linda Hall Library, Documents D i­ vision, 5109 Cherry S tre e t, Kansas City, MO 64110. ■■ Calendar August 8-13— Book Trade: “The Out-of-Print and Anti­ quarian Book M a rk e t,’’ a seminar/workshop sponsored by the University of Denver Gradu­ ate School of Librarianship and Information Management. F e e : $250. C redit: 3 .0 C E U . Contact: University of D enver G S L IM , D e ­ nver, CO 80208; (303) 753-2557. September 2 0 - 2 2 — Inform ation Systems: An inform ative course, prepared by the American Manage­ ment Association, for directors of data proces­ sing, M IS, information systems, managers of systems, and information systems user mana­ gers. F ee: $625 for AMA members, $720 for non-members. Credit: 2.2 C EU . Held in New York. Contact: American Management Associa­ tion, 135 W est 50th S treet, New York, NY 10020; (212) 246-0800. 22-24— Conservation: A workshop sponsored by the Society of American Archivists at the Ken­ tucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort. Limited enrollment; the $50 tuition will cover the cost of a conservation supply kit. Contact: Basic Archival Conservation Program, S o ciety of A m erican A rchivists, 330 South W ells Street, Chicago, I L 60606; (312) 922- 0140. October 9-11— Mental Health: Annual meeting, Associa­ tion of Mental Health Librarians, an affiliate of the In s titu te on H ospital and C om m unity Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association, at the Galt House, Louisville, Kentucky. Theme: Update 82— State of the Art, Science and Pro­ fession. Contact: Maggie Dem chuk, Medical Library, Portsmouth Psychiatric Center, 301 Fort Lane, Portsmouth, VA 23704; (804) 393- 0061, ext.303. 1 1 -1 4 — Automation: “In creasin g Productivity through Library Automation,’’ the Essen Sym­ posium 1982, Essen, West Germany. Experts from Europe and the United States will give presentations supported by terminal dialogues. The official language of the meeting is English. Contact: Essen University Library, U niver­ sitatsstrasse 9, 4300 Essen 1, W est Germany. 1 1 -1 4 — Information Systems: The Information M an agem en t E x p o sitio n and C o n fe re n c e , IN F O 82, at the New York Coliseum, New York City. Contact: Clapp & Poliak, Inc., 245 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10167. 16-18— Conservation: A workshop sponsored by the Society of American Archivists at Boston prior to the SAA annual meeting. See the Sep­ tember 22-24 entry for further information. 18-20 — Information Systems: An American Man­ agement Association course, held in New Or­ leans. See the September 20-22 entry for fur­ ther information. 22-24— Humanities: American Association for the Advancement of the Humanities, annual meet­ ing, Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington, D .C . Session topics include: The Preservation of Re­ sources, The Ownership of Information and the Future of Research, and Censorship. Contact: AAAH Annual M e e tin g , 918 16th S tr e e t, N .W ., Suite 601, Washington, DC 20006; (202) 293-5800. November 3 -6 — Arizona: Arizona State Libraiy Association, Southwestern Library Association, and Arizona Educational Media Association concurrent con­ ference. The theme is “Unity out of Diversity: A Southwestern Challenge,” held at the Civic Plaza/Hyatt Regency Hotel, Phoenix. Contact: K aren W h itn ey , 8 2 4 7 W e st V ale D riv e , Phoenix, AZ 85033. 8 -9 — Rhode Island: Rhode Island Libraiy Associ­ ation annual conference, Sheraton-Islander Inn, Goat Island, Newport, Rhode Island. Fee: $12