ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 34 News from the Field A CQUISITIONS • At an informal dedication ceremony held October 26 in the Henry and Doris Dreyfuss Study Center of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, the American Society of Interior Designers donated its complete library to augment the Coopeh-Hewitt Museum Design Library. In accepting the gift, Lisa Taylor, director of the Cooper-Hewitt, said, “It’s fitting that this initial gift of books to the museum in its new home comes from the most important organiza tion for the design profession. We hope this contribution will serve as an inspiration to oth ers who might expand the invaluable resources that have already proven so helpful as a center of research and study in interior design.’’ “Only through cooperative efforts with the Cooper-Hewitt will there be a national design resource that will be available to people across the country,” noted Norman DeHaan, chairman of the ASID Educational Foundation. “Our commitment to this goal is such that we will continue to support the venture with an annual grant of $6,500 to help defray the expenses of maintaining a library and to assist in preparing a national interior design bibliography.” DeHaan reported that the foundation had ex plored numerous alternate possibilities of having a current bibliography and a national design library, and the ASID National Board of Directors had selected this approach as the most viable and effective. • The papers of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1839-1937), comprising 800,000 items, have been given by his grandsons to the Rockefeller Archive Center of Rockefeller University and are now available for study by qualified scholars. They include financial records, cor respondence, and scrapbooks of press clippings covering personal, business, and philanthropic activities. The Rockefeller Archive Center, which is lo cated in Pocantico Hills, New York, is adminis tered by the university. In addition to the university’s archives, it contains the archives of The Rockefeller Foundation, from 1913 to 1941; the General Education Board, from 1903 to 1955; the Bureau of Social Hygiene, from 1911 to 1939; and the papers of several related organizations. • The library of the Monterey I nstitute of F oreign Studies recently received a gift of more than 200 Canadian books from the gov ernment of Canada. Most of these books deal with French-Canadian literature, arts, history, and social sciences. On the occasion of the for mal presentation, the Canadian vice-consul to San Francisco, Dr. François Beaulne, also pre sented the library with a copy of Canada’s Bi centennial gift to the United States, Between Friends/Entre Amis, a photographic essay of life along the international boundary between the United States and Canada. • A rare first edition of Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams), one of Sig mund Freud’s major works, was presented to the Library of Congress by the Baltimore- District of Columbia Society and Institute for Psychoanalysis in ceremonies at the library on December 3, 1976. The gift was made possible through the ini tiative of Dr. George W. Roark and Dr. Zelda Teplitz and the generous contributions of more than 30 other members of the Baltimore-Dis- trict of Columbia Society and Institute for Psychoanalysis. It will be presented to the li brary as the society’s observance of the Ameri can Bicentennial. The acquisition of this rare book will be an important addition to LC’s distinguished hold ings of Freud manuscripts, books, and volumes from his library. The Freud collection is one of the library’s more important holdings in the behavioral sci ences. Begun in 1951, the Sigmund Freud Col lection now includes Freud’s papers, including the holograph manuscripts of his books and ar ticles; his incoming and family correspondence; numerous letters from Freud to other persons (1872-1939), including series of letters to other important psychiatrists, e.g., Carl Jung; and a large collection of biographical and miscellane ous items about Freud. • The following manuscript collections have been processed for use by Brown University Library. Two letterpress books of John Hay, American diplomat and man of letters, have joined a sim ilar book (1869-70) previously available. One covers the period 1865-67, when he served as secretary of the U.S. legation in Paris. The sec ond records elements of his correspondence as ambassador to Great Britain in 1897-98, imme diately before he became secretary of state. A third Hay addition consists of 73 pieces of fam ily business correspondence (1895-1915) per taining chiefly to real estate investments in Washington, D.C. Approximately 150 letters by John Buchan, first baron Tweedsmuir, British author and statesman, are now available for research. Buchan’s literary and editorial career between 35 1907 and 1938 is reflected in this correspon dence. More than a thousand items by and to noted American chemist Walter Nickerson Hill (1846- 84) will be of interest to students of the de velopment of modern explosives. Correspon dents include Lammot du Pont, Gen. Henry L. Abbot, Levi P. Morton, Oliver W. Gibbs, John Trowbridge, and John T. Wilder. G R A N T S • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant of $190,000 to Princeton University toward the support of a four-year program to improve user access to the collec tions of the university library. Descriptions of the methods used and the results obtained in the program will be shared with other research libraries. “The Mellon Foundation’s grant to Princeton represents part of a major effort to diminish obstacles between the resources of research li braries and their users,” said university li brarian Richard W. Boss. “The foundation is supporting the study of allied problems among various library groups as well as within the Princeton Library.” The Mellon Foundation has supplied related grants to the Association of Re search Libraries, of which the Princeton Uni versity Library is a member; to the Research Libraries Group, which comprises the libraries of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia Universities and the New York Public Library; and to Stan ford University, for a cooperative program with the University of California, Berkeley. The goal of the Princeton Library project is to increase the percentage of the library collec tion that is readily available, on demand, to the user. Library officials plan to meet this goal through use of the library’s newly installed au tomated circulation system, which permits the application of modern technology to traditional library maintenance techniques. The Mellon grant will aid, specifically, com puter analysis of the library collection to deter mine the need for duplication of heavily used books and for removal and outside storage of those rarely used. Statistical analysis will also indicate which areas in the open-stack collec tion are especially subject to shelving errors; the library will then seek to introduce system atic, possibly electronic, shelf-reading of these problem areas to decrease the number of “lost” books. • Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley have announced that they will join in a cooperative program of unprecedented scope. Grants of $300,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and $280,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, both of New York, will provide initial three-year funding for the cooperative effort which is ex pected to slow rapidly rising library costs. Stanford and Berkeley together have 8.7 mil lion books in their combined collections. In the past, these have doubled about every 16 years. Cost increases on books and journals have ranged from 15 to 20 percent in recent years, with some forecasts of 30 percent increases in the rest of this decade. “No single research li brary can acquire all the books it requires to keep up with the complex needs of graduate students and faculty it must serve,” library di rectors Richard M. Dougherty of Berkeley and David C. Weber of Stanford noted. Developed jointly through faculty committee and library administrators at both institutions, the program intends to facilitate: • Coordinated acquisitions policy for books and other materials; • Direct borrowing privileges for faculty, graduate students, and academic personnel at both institutions; • Reciprocal lending privileges to eligible users by all campus libraries except under graduate libraries; • Intercampus movement of patrons and books, with several trips originating at each campus daily; and • Expansion of Stanford’s BALLOTS library automation system to Berkeley, with fur ther network services to other northern California institutions. The end result might be that one institution continues a comprehensive acquisition program in a subfield, while the other reduces its full extent of the same coverage. Stanford has ex ceptional strength, for example, in art history, business, and 20th-century European and Asian social sciences, where the Hoover Institution has extraordinary resources. Berkeley, on the other hand, has exceptional strength in musicol ogy, classical publications of oriental languages, and canon law. The overall result should enable the two libraries to reallocate at least 5 percent of current annual expenditures for acquisitions at each institution in order to purchase addi tional titles. In selected fields, the reductions might be greater. • Students in the University of Southern California’s Lidrary School will have an opportunity to take classes in a nontraditional setting at their own pace because of a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. The program is called “Library School Edu cational Program without Walls: Independent Self-Paced Professional Educational Program.” Under the direction of Martha Boaz, dean of the School of Library Science, library stu dents may take courses on campus, on week ends or in the evenings, at their own rate of study. 36 The $44,900 grant from the Research Divi sion of the U.S. Office of Education provides an independent program for those who cannot attend the daily schedule because of other obli gations. The program began at USC last year with a grant of $86,000. • Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C., will become the 24th institution to partici pate in the College Library Program, jointly supported by the Council on Library Resources, Inc. (CLR) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). CLR and NEH will each contribute $25,000 toward the university’s five-year program, while the university will provide $51,160. Under terms of the award, the university will make basic changes and improvements in its library program so that the library can be come “fundamentally a teaching facility of the institution.” A staff member with training in reference work and familiarity with the univer sity’s curricular programs will serve as orienta tion librarian, working chiefly with the English and history departments to improve library ser vices to students. It is estimated that nearly three-fourths of the student body will have the opportunity to improve their library skills by the end of the program. CLR initiated the College Library Program in 1969 and with NEH established a fund now totaling $1,600,000 from which matching grants can be made to individual colleges and universities. Copies of new guidelines for the program may be obtained from the Council on Library Resources, Inc., 1 Dupont Circle, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036. Preliminary pro posals were to be submitted to the Council by February 1 for programs to begin during the 1978-79 academic year. • The F olcer I nstitute of Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies at Amherst College has been awarded a three-year grant of $115,400 by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will support the in stitute’s lectures, conferences, colloquia, and re lated administrative expenses through June 1979. An announcement of the award was made by Dr. Richard Ekman, assistant director for higher education projects of the endow ment. John Andrews, chairman of the Folger In stitute, expressed gratitude for the endowment’s award. “The NEH has provided generous fund ing for the institute’s activities since its incep tion in 1970,” observed Dr. Andrews. “We are pleased by the endowment’s continuing assist ance, and we trust that this new award will offer the flexibility we need during the next three years as we endeavor to locate other sources of income to develop a more permanent base for the institute’s future.” In this context, Dr. Andrews noted that the new NEH grant provides no direct support for the institute’s seminars or fellowships, now funded almost entirely through dues contrib uted by the institute’s eleven university spon sors. “One of the institute’s most urgent needs at present,” Dr. Andrews commented, “is to obtain additional funding (at least $50,000 per year) for these central components of its pro gram.” • The history of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) recounted by the people involved will be recorded by the State Histor ical Socety of Wisconsin in an oral history project funded by a $49,112 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). In a two-year project starting January 1, the society will tape interviews with former and present leaders of the union, which was once the third largest in the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The written records of the TWUA comprise an important collection in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, one of the country’s fore most resources for the study of American labor history. The oral histories will enrich the writ ten documentation with materials not covered in the records which span the entire 40-year period of the union’s existence. Interviewing will be done by James A. Cava naugh, society field representative. Rarbara Kaiser, head of the Field Services Division, is the director of the project. MEETINGS March 11-12: Science fiction will come to the Atlantic provinces at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Weekend events will in clude a Friday evening speech by author-ed itor Judith Merril, followed by a rap session between Merril and Spider Robinson, Galaxy’s irreverent reviewer. On Saturday, Ms. Merril will conduct an all- day workshop on “Learning to Think S-F.” The workshop will be limited to 35 partici pants, so serious students of s/f will want to register early. The workshop will focus on the arts of extrapolation and question-asking. Those not attending the workshop will be able to visit displays of science fiction materials and exchange tables and have an opportunity to meet with people who share s /f interests. Ms. Merril will be available on Saturday after noon to talk informally with interested people. For further information contact Professor Rroderick, School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4H8, (902) 424-3656. March 15: “Collection Building: Prob- 37 Lems and Possibilities” is the topic of a one- day conference to be sponsored by the School of Library Science at the University of Iowa. All sessions will be held in the Iowa Memorial Union. The conference will feature two main speak ers. At the morning session, Lolly Eggers, direc tor of the Iowa City Public Library, will speak on “Problems and Possibilities in Building Col lections;” at the afternoon session, Mike Phipps, director of the Waterloo Public Library, will speak on “Library Journal vs. Booklist vs. Kir- kus vs. Publishers Weekly vs. Choice as Selec tion Aids: One Person’s Opinion,” Each talk will be followed by a question-and-discussion period. Following both general sessions, there will be small group sessions focusing on specific subject areas of collection-building. The registration fee of $14 includes all ses sions, materials, luncheon, and morning and afternoon coffee; 0.5 Continuing Education Units will be given. Attendance is limited to 175. For a program brochure and registration form, write to Ethel Bloesch, School of Library Science, The University of Iowa, 3087 Library, Iowa City, IA 52242. March 23: Nancy Larrick, award-winning author, editor, and educator in the field of chil dren’s literature, will be honored at Drexel Uni versity during a conference on “The Magic of Poetry,” cosponsored by Drexel’s Graduate School of Library Science and the Free Library of Philadelphia. Poet Myra Cohn Livingston will be keynote speaker. A luncheon and workshops led by poets and anthologists of poetry will round out the day’s proceedings at Creese Student Cen ter, 32nd and Chestnut streets. The day’s agenda will begin with registra tion at 8:45 a.m. and close at 3:30 p.m. De scriptive literature and registration forms are available by writing: Director, Continuing Pro fessional Education, Drexel University, 32nd and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19104, (215 ) 895 2154. March 27-30: Critical E valuation of Quantitative Methods for Library Man agement. This unit will focus on evaluation of quantitative methods. Attendance at Unit I (November 19-20, 1976) is not required for participation at Unit II. Fee $65. Contact: Tim othy W. Sineath, Coordinator of Continuing Education, School of Library Science, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115. March 29-30: An institute on the E valua tion of On-Line Data Bases will be held at Simmons College, School of Library Science. It is intended for professionals with a basic functional understanding of on-line data bases to gain further knowledge on the evaluative as pects of these data bases. Fee: $50. Contact: Timothy W. Sineath, Coordinator of Continuing Education, School of Library Science, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115. April 1-2, 15-16: A Workshop in P ublic Relations fob Library and I nformation Service will introduce librarians to the prin ciples and procedures of the management func tion of public relations as it is successfully practiced by corporate and nonprofit organiza tions. Contact: Timothy W. Sineath, Coordi nator of Continuing Education, School of Li brary Science, Simmons College, 300 The Fen way, Boston, MA 02115. April 15: The I ndiana Library Associa tion College and University Roundtable spring meeting will be held at Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana. April 19-22: The Office of University Li brary Management Studies of the Association of Research Libraries is sponsoring a Library Management Skills Institute at the Breck enridge Inn at Kansas City, Missouri. The institute is designed for supervisory and man agerial staff in academic libraries and will uti lize a laboratory approach in which learning results from the interactions of participants among themselves, as well as with the trainers. The discussion and application process will in- cude consideration of motivational forces in the library context, problem-solving techniques, group leadership requirements, interpersonal behavior, and group dynamics. The members of the institute staff are: Dr. William B. Eddy, professor and director of pub lic administration at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, and Duane E. Webster, director, and Jeffrey J. Gardner, management research Books and Journals for Asia BOOKS FOR ASIA, a project of The Asia Foundation, asks that you send books and journals you are no longer using to the address given below. Books must be published in 1965 or later and be in excellent condition. At least one complete year of a journal published since 1950, and long complete runs in particular, are needed. Donations of books and journals are tax deductible. If you have any questions or wish to send materials, please direct them to BOOKS FOR ASIA, Carlton Lowenberg, Director, 451 Sixth St., San Francisco, CA 94103, (415) 982-4640. 38 specialist, from the Office of University Library Management Studies. The institute fee, includ ing all lunches, is $200. Enrollment informa tion is available from: Duane Webster or Jeffrey Gardner, Association of Research Li braries, Office of University Library Manage ment Studies, 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20036, (202) 232- 8656. May 12-13: Project LOEX, the national academic library clearinghouse located at East ern Michigan University’s Center of Education al Resources, is planning the seventh annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries to be held on the Eastern Michigan University campus, Ypsilanti. The program will include speakers, discussions, and working sessions and will be titled “Putting In struction in Its Place: In the Library and in the Library School.” Librarians, administrators, faculty, and stu dents are invited. Registration will be limited to 150 persons. For further infonnation, write to Carolyn Kirkendall, Director, Project LOEX, Center of Educational Resources, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197. May 17-20: Dallas, Texas, will host the National M icrographics Association’s An nual C onference and E xposition at the Dal las Convention Center. For information con tact: NMA, 8728 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20910, (301) 587-8444. June 3-4: Pulitzer Prize-winner Dr. N. Scott Momaday of Stanford University will be the keynote speaker a t a symposium, “Research, the Creative Process and C hildren’s Lit erature,” at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Momaday, author of On the W ay to Rainy Mountain and House Made of Dawn, will discuss transmission of cultural heritage through language. The symposium will explore the relationship between the creative process and children’s lit erature and the role of research in that process. Featured on the program will be scholars from the fields of cultural anthropology, linguistics, and children’s literature, special collections li brarians, and artists who create for children. The symposium is sponsored by the Univer sity of Washington School of Librarianship, with the cooperation of the Committee on Na tional Planning for Special Collections and the Children’s Services Division, American Library Association. Registration fee is $90. For further information about the confer ence, contact the Office of Short Courses and Conferences, Lewis Hall DW-50, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, (206) 543- 5280. June 12-17: The University of Florida at Gainesville will be the site of the twenty-sec ond Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American L ihrary Materials. The theme of the seminar will be “The Mul tifaceted Role of the Latin American Subject Specialist.” A series of workshops, panels, and round tables will examine the multiple and di verse activities engaged in by present-day sub ject or area specialists. These activities range from the selection of library materials in all for mats tlirough the technical procedures involved in acquiring the material and making it avail able to the public to the provision of reference service and classroom instruction. See the January C&RL News for more in formation. June 14-17: The 1977 annual R are Books and Manuscripts P reconference, sponsored by the Association of College and Research Li braries (ACRL), will be held at the Park Plaza Hotel in Toronto. The preconference theme is 19th-century books, and the tentative title is “Book Selling and Book Buying: Aspects of the 19th-century British and North American Book Trades.” Speakers will include Simon Nowell-Smith, Stuart Schimmel, Robert Nikirk, Terry Belan ger, Douglas Lochhead, Franklin Gilliam, Ju dith St. John, and Robert Stacey. Institutions th at will exhibit at the preconference are the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library of the Uni versity of Toronto, Massey College, the Osborn Collection of the Toronto Public Library, and Victoria College. Additional information on the preconference will be available after March 15 from the Executive Secretary, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. June 27-July 20: “Copyright and the L i brary,” University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Speaker: Dr. William Z. Zasri, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Library and In formation Sciences. Contact: Library School Office, 329 Library, University of Illinois-UC, Urbana, IL 61801. J uly 3-8: The 9th Brazilian Congress of L ibrary Science and D ocumentation jointly with the 5th Rio-Grandense Meeting, both sponsored by the Librarian Association of Rio Grande do Sul (ARB), will be held at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. The central theme will be “Integration of Information Systems Viewing National Development.” Further details and ap plication forms may be obtained from Bibliote- ca Central, UFRGS, Av. Paulo Gama, S/N , 90.000—Porto Alegre— RS, Brazil. Aug. 29-Se p t. 3: The IFLA/UNESCO P re-Session Seminar, to be held at Antwerp 39 University, will deal with “Resource Sharing of Libraries in Developing Countries.” The seminar is linked to IFLA’s 50th Anni versary Meeting (Brussels, 3-10 September) and to the UNESCO Conference on Universal Bibliographical Control (starting in Paris on September 12). Subthemes to be discussed are cooperative acquisition plans, processing centers, coopera tive storage, cooperative delivery, library net working. Participants prepare a paper on the seminar theme. Each lecture is followed by a discussion. Preprints of the papers will be cir culated before the seminar. The Pre-Session Seminar will take place at the Library of the Universitaire Instelling Ant werpen (UIA). Founded in 1972, UIA is Bel gium’s youngest university institution; it provides for graduate studies. Participation forms may be obtained at the following ad dress; Antwerp University Library, c/o Pre- Session Seminar, P.B. 13, B-2610, Wilrijk, Bel gium. M IS C E L L A N Y • More than 1,000 librarians from 14 states gathered in Albuquerque, November 11-13, for the first joint conference of the Southwestern Library Association and the Mountain Plains Library Association. At the opening general session, the conference was dedicated to the late Allie Beth Martin, former president of the American Library Association and of the Southwestern Library Association.. The conference theme, “The Net Worth of Networking,” was explored in more than 20 programs and meetings. General session speak ers included Alphonse Trezza, executive direc tor, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; Clara Jones, president, ALA; and Roderick Swartz, Washington state librarian. Forty librarians participated in an SWLA- sponsored postconference tour of libraries in Mexico City, November 13-20. • The Norris Medical Library on the Health Sciences Campus of the University of South ern California has joined with the USC- based Western Research Application Cen ter of NASA (WESRAC) to expand comput er-assisted search services for USC faculty, students, and staff. Services are also available to off-campus users, including hospitals, aca demic institutions, business, and industry. Operating at different locations but joining together as the University Computer-Assist ed Search Services (UCASS), Norris and WESRAC are searching more than 50 data bases in a wide variety of subject areas. The Norris Medical Library staff has primary re sponsibility for searching the biological and life science data bases, while WESRAC con centrates on those for the physical sciences, en gineering, and technology. For further informa tion write to: Nelson J. Gilman, Director of Libraries, Norris Medical Library, Health Sci ences Campus, University of Southern Califor nia, 2025 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90033. • Approximately 130 people attended a No vember 9 ceremony held in Auditorium II to formally dedicate the library of Point Park College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the late Dr. Helen-Jean Moore. Dr. Moore was director of the library from the time she came to Point Park in 1962 until her death in the spring of 1976. She was also an English professor and one of the original incorporators of the Pittsburgh Regional Li brary Association. Brief remarks honored Dr. Moore’s expertise as a librarian and her deep concern for students, faculty, and friends. She was credited with building the library from around 50 volumes when she arrived to more than 100,000 volumes today. It was pointed out that the Middle States Association, when reviewing the college for accreditation as a four-year college in 1966, was astounded by the library’s well-rounded collection because Point Park was such a young institution. Also recognized were Dr. Moore’s teaching achievements at various colleges in Pittsburgh and one in New Orleans. Lastly, Dr. Moore’s work as a book indexer was praised. It was noted that Dr. Moore indexed more than 15 books for the University of Pitts burgh Press. • The Library Research Round Table of the American Library Association announces its 1977 Research Competition for two $400 awards and invites entries from all researchers. The deadline for submitting entries is April 1. The LRRT Research Development Committee is conducting and judging the Research Com petition, and the decision of the committee will be announced by Gary Purcell, LRRT chair person, prior to the 1977 Annual Conference of the ALA. The Research Competition will be conduct ed in accordance with the following guidelines: 1. All research papers submitted must repre sent completed research not previously pub lished. 2. All research papers must be related in at least a general way to library and information science. Any research mode is acceptable. 3. Research papers completed in the pursuit of master’s and doctoral studies (e.g., theses, seminar papers, dissertations, etc.) are not eligi ble for consideration. Research utilizing data which was gathered by a master’s or doctoral student is eligible unless the research report is 40 taken directly from the paper submitted for de gree requirements. Papers which are spin-offs of such research are eligible for the competi tion. 4. Papers generated as a result of a research grant or other sources of funding are eligible for the competition. 5. Research papers prepared by joint investi gators are eligible for entry. 6. Research papers will be judged on the fol lowing points: (a) definition of the research problem; (b) application of research methods; (c) clarity of the reporting of the research; (d) significance of the conclusions as judged by the committee. 7. The committee reserves the right to select no winning papers if, in its judgment, none of the papers is considered satisfactory. 8. Each winner of the competition will re ceive a $400 award. 9. Winners of the competition will be ex pected to present their research papers at the LRRT Information Exchange Suite at the An nual Conference of ALA. In the event that the recipient of the award is unable to attend the conference, he may designate an alternate to make the presentation or the presentation may be delayed, with the approval of the commit tee, until a later conference. 10. After presentation of the report at the LRRT Information Exchange Suite, the LRRT Research Development Committee will assist in promoting the publication of the report. To enter the 1977 LRRT Research Competi tion, send three (3) copies of the research re port, postmarked no later than April 1, 1977, to: Leslie Morris, Chairman, LRRT Research Development Committee, Xavier University of New Orleans Library, New Orleans, LA 70125, (504) 486-7411, ext. 317. • The School of Library and Information Science at the State University of New York at Alhany will offer ten one-day work shops in the spring 1977 semester as part of its Continuing Education Program. Two series— one on Computer-Based Bibliographic Search ing and the other on the Structure of Individ ual Data Files—will include lectures, demon strations, and on-line practice. These are: Lockheed Dialog System, February 4 SDC Orbit System, February 9 BRS Stairs System, February 11 NTIS (National Technical Information Ser vice), February 18 Sei Search and Soc Sei Search (ISI), March 4 Enviroline/Energyline, March 11 41 CAIN (NAL), March 18 CIS/American Statistics Index, March 25 For further information on these, contact Robert Burgess (518) 457-8864. On April 1, Dr. Ryland Hewitt, director of the Capital Area Speech Center, will offer a workshop on improving communication skills: “Librarians as Formal/Informal Communica tors.” On April 15, “Documents Librarians and the Political Process” will feature Bernadine B. Hoduski, special library assistant on the staff of the Joint Committee on Printing. For further information, contact Lucille Whalen, School of Library and Information Science, State University of New York at Al bany, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222, (518) 457-8575. • The American Library Association is now funding the ALA Minority Scholarship. The $3,000 scholarship will be awarded to a worthy student who is also a member of a principal minority group (American Indian, Asian American, Black, Hispanic). The scholar ship’s purpose is to allow that student to con tinue or begin work at the graduate level to ward a master’s degree in library science. Funded by the Xerox Education Group, the first ALA Minority Scholarship will be present ed in June 1977. The deadline date for appli cations is March 1, 1977. For further information and application ma terials, contact Margaret Myers, OLPR, Amer ican Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ■■ Publications N O T IC E S • The Journal of Library History will be published by the University of Texas Press and edited at the UT Graduate School of Library Science, beginning with the 1977 winter issue. A quarterly journal, published at Florida State University Library School in Tallahassee since 1966, the publication will focus on library history, philosophy, and comparative librarian- ship. Dr. Donald G. Davis, Jr., UT assistant pro fessor of library science, will edit the publica tion. “For purposes of the journal, we interpret library history very broadly and will include a wide variety of materials,” Dr. Davis says. “The journal will deal with the history and develop ment of the whole range of theory and practice of library and information science.” The publication is planned to include three to five major articles and several smaller ones in each issue, to be written by scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and librarianship from across the country. Associate editors for the journal are UT li brary science faculty members, including Drs. C. Glenn Sparks, dean; William V. Jackson, professor; Chester V. Kielman, lecturer; W. Bernard Lukenbill, assistant professor; and Agnes L. Reagan, professor. • Gale Research Co. announces the publi cation of Transportation Economics: A Cuide to Information Sources. It is a comprehensive annotated bibliography of both live and print sources of information about all areas of trans portation economics, including business logis tics. The bibliography is arranged in eight major chapters: General Transportation, Railroads, Highway Transportation, Air Transportation, Water Transportation, Business Logistics, Ur ban Transportation, and Additional Sources of Information. Books and articles are cited in two separate sections of each chapter. Article cita tions are further subdivided into appropriate specialized topics. Because of the large number of citations, annotations are provided only when the title of the book or article requires clarifica tion. The final chapter brings together a num ber of miscellaneous sources of information other than books and specific articles, including other bibliographic publications, relevant aca demic journals, industry and professional asso ciations, trade publications, and government sources of information. Transportation Economics (215p., $18) is edited by James P. Rakowski, assistant profes sor of transportation and business logistics, Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Minnesota. It is Volume 5 in the Economics Information Guide Series, a part of the Gale Information Guide Library. • The summary proceedings of the confer ence entitled Managing under Austerity, spon sored by the Stanford University Libraries and the Association of Independent California Col leges and Universities, held at Stanford Univer sity last June, have now been published. The program focused on three major topics: funding projections for libraries over the next five years; coping with the budget pinch at pri vate and public college and university libraries; planning strategies in the areas of collections, technical processing, public services, and ad ministration. Eighteen speakers at the confer ence included Morgan Odell, executive director,