ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 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, THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE BULLETIN OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF 20TH CENTURY ECONOMICS, POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Unique among the m ajor indexing services in the Social Sciences, PAIS offers selective coverage of the full spectrum of printed materials in its m ajor fields of interest. The fact that no type or form at of publication is specifically excluded, results in the inclusion of English Language books, pamphlets, government publications (national, state, local and foreign), studies and reports by public and private institutions (including corporations), processed material, and, of course, a truly large selection o f periodicals. Currently, PAIS in­ dexes more than 1000 periodicals, as compared to 160 fo r Readers Guide, 262 fo r The Social Science Index, 260 fo r the Humanities Index, 156 fo r Business Periodi­ cals Index, and 375 fo r the B ritish Humanities Index Many of the various types of publications indexed by PAIS include materials published in foreign countries w hich have been translated or otherwise made available in the English Language. As for scope, the broad PAIS interpretation of “ public affairs” over the years has proven increasingly im portant as more and more public problem s cut across traditional discip lin a ry boundary lines. Such subjects as “ energy” for instance, now fall under a variety of PAIS categories, including business and economics, politics and public adm inistration, sociology, and even international relations. Subject searchers in the “ energy” field would find this com bination of full coverage in PAIS, but not in indexing services of more lim ited scope. Selectivity c rite ria emphasize factual and statistical inform ation, and still follow the philosophy of Charles W illiam son, one of the PAIS founders who w rote in 1919 that “ The PAIS is not, and should not attem pt to be, a system atic index of a definite list of periodicals or other publications. It should aim to present only the best and most useful material, carefully selected from a w ide range of sources, w ith a view to furnishing its subscribers, consisting mainly of general and special libraries, a guide in building up th e ir co llections and at the same tim e an index to th e ir co lle ctio n s.” NO PREVIOUS MULTI-ANNUAL SUBJECT CUMULATIONS Until now, PAIS has offered no cum ula­ tions covering periods greater than one year. This has meant that in order to conduct exhaustive research on a topic, or even to locate a w ork whose date of publication was unknown, the reader has had to search year-to-year through large numbers of annual Bulletins. COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE SEARCHING IN ONE ALPHABET INSTEAD OF SIXTY This 60 year cum ulative index, w ith its more than 1.2 m illion entries interfiled by subject into one alphabetical sequence, is contained in fifteen folio-size volumes, casebound to stand up under the heavy reference use they w ill receive. The more w idely used a particular reference tool, the greater the aggregate savings if and when non-productive search tim e can be cut down or eliminated. Therefore, considering the popularity and accepted reference use of the retrospective run of the PAIS Bulletin the savings resulting from the availability of its Cumulative S ubject Index should be substantial. Also, of course, both the do lla r savings and the gains in research efficiency are benefits which w ill repeat themselves year after year— and w ill continue long after the one-time cost of this Subject Index has been forgotten. Actually, at the pre-publication price of $1,075.00, the approxim ately 1.2 m illion interfiled subject entries are being offered at less than 90 cents per thousand. THE COST EFFECTIVENESS OF CUMULATIVE INDEXES LeRoy Schwarzkopf, the well known d o cu ­ ments librarian, explained the cost effectiveness of cum ulations of long runs of periodical indexes in his review of the C arrollton's other 15 volume single-alphabet index, the 72 year Index to the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1900-1971. In his two-page review, w hich appeared in the 1975 edition of American Reference Book Annual, he concluded by stating that although the price of the set may seem expensive, “ . . . when judged by its value in practical use, in tim e saved fo r librarians and other users of federal documents, and in the more exhaustive searches w hich it allows and encourages, the set is quite inexpensive and is considered to be an outstanding bargain.” The most comprehensive English Language Index to the social sciences will now have a single source o f subject access fo r its entire sixty year r u n ... CUMULATIVE SUBJECT INDEX TO THE P.A.I.S. A N N U A L BULLETIN 1915-1974 By special arrangem ent w ith the P ublic A ffa irs In form ation Service, C a rro llto n Press is adding the vital fa c to r o f cum u la tive in d e x in g to the recognized reference value and unparalleled coverage of the PAIS B ulletin. The com b in a tio n should result in one o f the largest and m ost e ffe ctive su b je ct reference system s ever produced in the social sciences. For lib ra rie s not already h o ld in g co m p le te runs o f the PAIS A nn u a l B u lle tin we also offer the q u a lity fa c s im ile volum es p ro d u ce d by the Kraus R eprint C om pany. These co ve r the years 1915-1965 and are ava ila b le fo r im m ediate d e liv e ry e ith e r as a set o r as single volum es. DELIVERY: Volum e O ne is now b e in g sh ip p e d , Volumes Two a n d Three w ill be a v a ila b le in M a rc h an d subsequent volum es w ill be d e liv e re d a t d e cre a sin g in te rv a ls . Please n o te how ­ e ve r th a t o u r P R E -P U B L IC A TIO N PRICES ARE STILL IN EFFECT. 44 A.I.C.C.U.; Richard Dougherty, University of California, Berkeley; Pat Barkey, the Claremont Colleges; William Axford, University of Ore­ gon; and Raymond Bacchetti, vice provost, Budget and Planning, Stanford University. The 182-page report costs $12 and may be obtained from John C. Heyeck, Stanford Uni­ versity Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305. • Launching the Performing Arts Informa­ tion Guide Series of the Gale Information Guide Library, Performing Arts Research is an evaluative, annotated bibliography of sources useful to research in the theater arts. Specially designed to aid the independent re­ searcher, this guide is arranged in seven major parts by type of reference work. A subject classified arrangement is followed within each part, with numerous cross-references provided to facilitate maximum usage. All of the works cited were closely examined by the editor, Marion K. Whalon, who is collection develop­ ment librarian for the humanities and fine arts, University Library, University of California at Davis. Part One (Guides) cites bibliographic ref­ erence works providing a basic or comprehen­ sive view of the following areas; theater arts; dance; costume; visual arts, music, and esthet­ ics; literature; rhetoric; general reference works; and periodicals. Parts Two through Sev­ en each cover a particular type of reference work. Subject classified arrangements of cita­ tions and numerous cross-references within each part aid the researcher in using these dif­ ferent types of reference sources: dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks; directories; play indexes and finding lists; sources for reviews of plays and motion pictures; bibliographies, in­ dexes, and abstracts; and illustrative and audio­ visual sources. This guide is completed by a 60-column in­ dex, which provides author, subject, and title access in one alphabet. It is available for $18 from Gale Research Co., Book Tower, Detroit, MI 48226. • The University of Southern California Li­ brary will have its February 1977 edition of the USC Union List of Serials available for limited distribution. It will include more than 28,000 entries, including the holdings of the USC Li­ brary, its branches and the affiliated libraries at the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Cen­ ter, the Asa Call Law Library, the Hancock Library of Biology and Oceanography, the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, and the Hebrew Union College Library. Both current and ceased serials are included. For each title, the libraries and the holdings are clearly identified to assist librarians in patron referral and interlibrary loan services. The February 1977 edition will have about 600 pages and will be available for $20. Please send inquiries or orders to Mark Merbaum, Univer­ sity of Southern California, Doheny Library, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90007. • A complete 1976 revision of the U.S. copyright statute, substantially unchanged since 1909, brings this law into step with modern de­ velopments in communications and technology, notes Commerce Clearing House which an­ nounces publication of Copyright Revision Act of 1976. Perhaps the most important change made in the revision, signed by the President on Octo­ ber 19, is an increase in the term of copyright protection— a copyright will endure for the au­ thor’s life plus 50 years. Federal preemption of rights equivalent to copyright, provisions on divisibility of copyrights, and provisions for terminating grants of transfers or licenses of copyright are other important changes. CCH said the revision is generally effective January 1, 1978. The new law contains four separate types of compulsory licenses—for ca­ ble systems, public broadcasters, phonorecords, and jukeboxes. The manufacturing requirement has been eased and will be eliminated July 1, 1982. Stat­ utory expression is given to the doctrine of “fair use,” and specific provisions are added on reproduction and distribution of copies and phonorecords by libraries. A Copyright Royalty Tribunal is created to handle revision of rates for the compulsory licenses. The 280-page Copyright book contains a CCH explanation of the law, full text of the law, and selected committee reports. In the ex­ planation, references at the end of each para­ graph are made to the law and to the appropri­ ate committee report material. A topical index is also included. The price is $12.50 from CCH, 4025 W. Peterson Ave., Chicago, IL 60646. • An update service on data bases will be launched by the American Society for Informa­ tion Science with the October 1976 publication of a directory volume entitled Computer-Read­ able Bibliographic Data Bases—A Directory and Data Sourcebook, compiled and edited by Professor Martha E. Williams and Sandra H. Rouse of the Information Retrieval Research Laboratory (IRRL) at the University of Illi­ nois. The initial volume contains 814 pages of in­ formation and data on 301 bibliographic and bibliographic-related data bases produced in the United States and Europe. The volume in­ cludes 717 pages devoted to data base informa­ tion, plus five appendixes (four indexes and a data element list). The volume is an 8K" x 11" 45 size with pages inserted into the sturdy three- ring binder provided. The directory was produced from the data base of data bases file which is maintained on­ line at the IRRL. The directory will be contin­ uously updated with new data bases and changes and additions to the data for those data bases currently in the directory. Subscrib­ ers to the update service will receive updates at six-month intervals, and all indexes will be regenerated annually. The directory should be of interest to data base users, processors, producers, researchers, and students who need to be kept informed of the latest changes concerning data bases. The new directory update service is the only one of its kind. Data bases were included in the directory if they fulfilled three criteria: (1 ) if they con­ tained bibliographic or bibliographic-related in­ formation; (2 ) if they are commercially or pub­ licly available—either through the producer or through a processing center; and (3 ) if they were designed or used primarily for information retrieval purposes rather than for library pro­ cessing purposes. The data base data pages which comprise the bulk of the volume provide anywhere from 5 to 370 elements of data about a given data base. Some of the major data elements are: name of data base; producer; distributor; gen­ erator; availability; size, frequency, scope; sub­ ject matter; type of material covered ( e.g., jour­ nal articles, reports, etc.); data elements in data base; tape specifications; search software pack­ ages and related computer configuration; cen­ ters that process data bases; search center services; user aids associated with data bases. The four indexes are: (1 ) Subject Category Index, (2 ) Name/Acronym/Synonym Index, (3) Producer Index, and (4 ) Processor Index. All indexes provide access pointers to the data base data pages which are arranged alphabet­ ically by data base acronym or short name. This directory was developed as a result of a need expressed by the ASIS Special Interest Group on Computer-Readable Services ( SIG / CRS) to update the 1973 Survey of Commer­ cially Available Computer-Readable Biblio­ graphic Data Bases. The 1973 survey, edited by John H. Schneider, Marvin Gechman, and Stephen B. Furth, was so well received that the need for an update was quite apparent. Subscription prices: $54.40, ASIS members; $61.20, ASIS affiliates; $68, list price. Send order with payment to: American Society for Information Science, P.O. Box 19448, Washing­ ton, DC 20036. • Tour Guide to USBE Services, a new 16- page pamphlet, tells librarians how to tap the resources of the Universal Serials & Book Ex­ change, Inc. The 29-year-old nonprofit clearing­ house now has four million issues of 35,000 periodical titles from which it fills requests. Member libraries contribute periodicals and can order them for modest fees both to fill gaps in their collections and as a substitute for inter- library loan. USBE sent copies of the stream­ lined guide to the staff of its 1,600 member libraries. For a free copy write: USBE, 3335 V Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20018. • The University of Michigan Library an­ nounces the publication of a new title in the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library Guide Series: The American Revolution, 1763-1783, Selected Reference Works by Grace Ann York. This is a salute to the Bicentennial. Copies may be pur­ chased for $1.50 by sending a check or money order to Robert J. Starring, made out to the University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Other titles in the series, also available for $1.50, are: Documents Handbook; French Language and Literature, A Selected Annotated Bibliography; American Literature, Selected Basic Reference Works; American Politics and Government, Selected Basic Reference Works; English Literature, Selected Basic Reference Works; and Special Microform Collections. • A guide to French archives containing documentary source materials on American his­ tory has been published in Paris by France Ex­ pansion and is available in the U.S. through Clearwater Publishing Company, Inc., 75 Rocke­ feller Plaza, New York, NY 10019. Entitled Guide des Sources de l’Histoire des Ētats-Vnis dans les Archives Françaises, the 390-page pa­ perback is priced at $35 and is available imme­ diately from inventory in New York. The book covers all documents of the various French archival depositories from the age of discovery to 1815 for all of North America and up to 1940 for the United States itself. For each archive, the book provides a general de­ scription of the collection and the nature of each series of documents, including period and regions covered. An inventory of existing refer­ ence tools, printed and manuscript, is included for each archive, as is a checklist of microform copies of materials available at the Library of Congress. Practical information for researchers is also given, such as addresses, hours, restric­ tions, etc. The book is the product of four years of work by a group of twelve archivists and librarians under the direction of M. Jean Favier, directeur des Archives de France. In addition to the book, Clearwater can also supply research work and paper or microfilm copies of documents from most of the archives discussed in the book. • The microfiche edition of The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe is available from 46 James T. White & Company. Published for the Maryland Historical Society, the set is issued in a unique book/fiche format designed to fa­ cilitate the information-retrieval process. This edition offers in microform the complete collection of the journals, correspondence, and drawings of America’s first professional archi­ tect and engineer, and in so doing, it illumi­ nates the society, politics, and culture of a new nation through the record of Latrobe’s associa­ tion with the leading figures of the American Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary genera­ tions. Provided also, in sketches and drawings, is a fine pictorial representation of early Amer­ ican towns, landscapes, and everyday life. More than 6,000 original Latrobe documents in the Maryland Historical Society, some 1,600 letters, reports, and drawings from repositories throughout the United States and Europe, and more than 300 sketches and drawings make up this remarkable collection. • Library Technology Reports (v.12, no.6) contains a long report by Nancy H. Knight en­ titled Theft Detection Systems—A Survey. It covers in depth seven of the systems now avail­ able: Book Mark, Checkpoint Mark II, Gay- lord/Magnavox, Knogo Mark II, Sentronic, Tattle-Tape, and Spartan. 18,000 LIBRARIANS KNOW... . . . there’s more to running a library than utilizing your professional training . . . for instance, there's the clerical work of keep­ ing track of hundreds of subscriptions to periodicals . . . Faxon's automated subscription service will keep track of your subscriptions for you. You place one order and receive one invoice. Now you’ll have more time to dis­ cover the exciting facets of professional library work. Write for our Service Brochure and our annual LIBRARIANS’ GUIDE. Or call today toll-free. Then you will know too! Library business is our only business — since 1881. • Telenet Communications Cobpohation has published a 42-page directory of data banks, commercial service bureaus, and colleges and universities that provide dial-up access to their computer facilities over the nationwide Telenet network. The directory is designed as “yellow pages” for interactive computing and information re­ trieval services. More than 40 organizations are cross-referenced by application specialties, pro­ gramming languages, and data base offerings. A researcher looking for a source of census data, for example, can use the data base section to locate a number of information retrieval ser­ vices that maintain this information online. If a company controller wants to find out who of­ fers interactive accounting packages, he or she can find this information in a special account­ ing applications listing. All computer services connected to the Tele­ net network can be reached by dialing a local telephone number in any of 47 cities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In-WATS lines are available for terminal users outside the local dialing area. Single copies of the directory are available free of charge by writing: Manager of Market­ ing Services, Telenet Communications Corpora­ tion, 1050 17th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036. ■ ■ ACRL 1978 National Conference in Boston Plans for a unique happening are be­ ginning to take shape for the ACRL 1978 National Conference in Boston. At the Summer ALA Conference the ACRL board approved a meeting, to be hosted by the New England Chapter of ACRL, which will meet in Boston November 8- 11, 1978. This is the first meeting of its kind which has been approved by ACRL and which meets outside the regularly scheduled ALA meetings. The conference will afford academic and research librar­ ians an opportunity to discuss topics of mutual concern without the encum­ brances of committee meetings, business meetings, and organizational structures to interfere with the exchange of ideas. The program format, including a call for pa­ pers and presentation of scholarly re­ search, will add to the quality of the program. The occasion affords ACRL the opportunity to celebrate its 40th birth­ day. More information will be forthcom­ ing from ACRL headquarters and from the planning committee chaired by Dean George Parks of the University of Rhode Island Libraries.