ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries February 1986 / 151 the University of Michigan, Ohio State University, and Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania. Mike MacInnes, assistant university librarian for personnel at the University of C alifornia, Ir ­ vine, retired F ebruary 1. A retired Navy captain with 26 years of service, MacInnes joined the UCI library in 1970. Ann Smith, head of Interlibrary Loan at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, retired in June after 15 years of service. Smith joined the library in 1970 as an assistant catalog librarian. Deaths Paul D. Barton Jr., fine arts librarian at the University of Arizona since 1970, died December 12. Barton was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (London). He was a founding m em ber of the University of Arizona C am pus L ib rary Council and the L ibrary Faculty Assembly, and served the latter as chairm an for three terms. D onald L . Leavitt, chief of the L ib rary of Congress Music Division from 1978 until his retire­ m ent in October due to ill health, died November 28. L eavitt’s 29 years of LC service included work as a music reference librarian, as head of the Re­ corded Sound Section (then p a rt of the Music D ivi­ sion), as assistant chief of the Music Division, and as acting chief of the division until his appointm ent as chief in 1978. Leavitt is credited w ith in au g u rat­ ing num erous in n o v ativ e series, in c lu d in g th e “Concerts from the Collections” series. Lillian J. Lee, fo rm er G eology lib ra ria n at N orthw estern University, died July 14 after a long illness. David Arnold Peele, periodicals librarian at the College of Staten Island, died November 9 of a heart attack. ■ ■ ♦ Blackwell North America now offers an Ĭndi- cator Fix service th a t autom atically checks and cor­ rects filing indicators in title fields of MARC rec­ ords. W hen properly set, filing indicators show the num ber of initial characters to be ignored w hen fil­ ing title field data. The service autom atically com ­ pares lists of definite and indefinite articles orga­ nized by language against the d ata string in the 245 and other fields. For more inform ation, contact Blackwell N orth America, 6024 S.W. Jean Road, Building G, Lake Oswego, OR 97034; (503) 684- 1140. ♦ Inform ation Access Com pany has introduced an enhanced version of its InfoT rac system d e­ signed for use in corporate and academic libraries. The new option adds downloading, w ord process­ ing, and dial out access to rem ote online databases to the electronic search and retrieval capabilities of the InfoTrac system. The InfoTrac database, in ­ troduced in January 1985, contains indexes to a p ­ proxim ately 1,000 business, technical, and general interest magazines and newspapers. The new en­ hancem ents allow the searcher to dow nload se­ lected references or full text onto a floppy disk for editing or inclusion in other documents. ♦ O C L C , In c., has m ade available the United States Newspaper Program National Union List, derived from inform ation added to the O C LC database by participants in the National E ndow ­ m ent for the H um anities’ United States Newspaper Program . P articipating national repositories in­ clude the L ibrary of Congress, the American Anti­ quarian Society, C enter for Research Libraries, Kansas State Historical Society, New York H istori­ cal Society, New York State Library, Rutgers Uni­ versity, and the State Historical Society of Wiscon­ sin. The union list provides inform ation on more th an 25,000 U.S. newspapers and identifies the li­ braries, archives, and historical societies th a t col­ lect them . Four indexes provide access to the list: place of publication, intended audience, language, and date of publication. H ard copy and microfiche editions of the union list, containing entries input through June 1985, may be ordered from O C L C , 6565 F rantz Road, D ublin, OH 43017. ♦ ScholarNet is a new electronic m ail service for scholars in the hum anities and social sciences h ead ­ quartered at North C arolina State University. The system allows scholars in 65 countries to com m uni­ cate w ith each other and receive notices of new journals, books, and software programs. Two net­ works, PoliNet for political scientists and public adm inistrators, and H um aN et for scholars in the hum anities, are online w ith others to be added in the future. An initial subscription costs $29.95 for an individual or $100 for a com pany or academic N E W T E C H N O L O G Y 152 / C&RL News departm ent. Online fees are $16/hour weekdays, $6 for off-hours. C ontact: R ichard W. Slatta, ScholarNet, North Carolina State University, Ra­ leigh, NC 27695-8101; (919) 737-2908. • The University of California’s Division of Li- brary Automation has developed a talking term i­ nal to enable blind and other visually impaired stu­ dents at UC to use a library catalog without assist­ ance. The terminal unit incorporates a keyboard labelled with large letters and braille, a screen dis­ play th at magnifies print, and a digital speech syn­ th e siz e r. It is c o n n e c te d to th e U n iv e rsity ’s MELVYL online catalog, consisting of 2 million book titles and over half a million periodical titles. The term inal responds to users in two ways. To those who are totally blind the unit speaks by means of digital speech synthesis th at can be re­ corded by a built-in cassette recorder. For those with partial vision a large print adapter enlarges th e screen d isp la y up to 16 tim es its n o rm a l size. ■ ■ 9 The Automation Inventory o f Research Li- braries 1985, edited by Maxine K. Sitts (78 pages, August 1985), summarizes the status of automated systems in 92 member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries as of March 1985. Libraries may use the inventory to locate colleagues to con­ ta c t for c o m p a ra tiv e in fo rm a tio n , to analyze trends for research and planning efforts, to provide background material for automation proposals, to identify bellw ether institutions, or to locate li­ braries with specific hardw are and software to pre­ pare RFPs or deal with vendors. The data is ar­ ra n g e d b o th by lib ra ry an d by a u to m a tio n function. Copies may be ordered for $40 ($20 to ARL members) from the ARL Office of Manage­ m ent Studies, 1527 New H am p sh ire Avenue, N .W ., Washington, DC 20036. 9 Books in My Life, by Robert B. Downs (19 pages, 1985), has been published as P am phlet num ber 14 in the Center for the Book’s Viewpoint series. Downs, former director of libraries at the University of Illinois, reflects on the impact that books have had on his career and on civilization in general. Copies are free on request from the Cen­ tral Services Division, Library of Congress, W ash­ ington, DC 20540. 9 Careers in Other Fields fo r Librarians, by Rhoda and Andrew Garoogian (192 pages, Decem­ ber 1985), analyzes numerous job opportunities in business, government, and education in terms of transferable library skills. It also tells how to iden­ tify information-related jobs among all those being advertised and how to present oneself to an em­ ployer who is unfamiliar with a librarian’s profes­ sional preparation and expertise. Copies are avail­ able for $12.95 from ALA Order D epartm ent, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0-8389- 0431-9. 9 Catalog Maintenance Online in ARL Libraries, SPEC Kit #119 (122 pages, December 1985), de­ tails the results of an Office of Management Studies survey of 23 ARL institutions representing several stages of autom ation, from preliminary planning to nearly fully integrated status. The kit includes ten examples of catalog maintenance procedures, job descriptions and organization charts from five institutions, and a selected bibliography. SPEC kits are available by subscription from the SPEC Center, ARL/OMS, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N .W ., W ashington, DC 20036. Individual kits are available for $20 each, prepaym ent required. 9 Chinese Newspapers in the Library of Con- gress, compiled by Han-chu Huang and Hseo-chin Jen (206 pages, 1985), describes 1,200 Chinese newspapers dating from the 1870s to the present. The entries are arranged alphabetically, with the titles romanized according to the modified Wade- Giles system. National, regional, and local govern­ ment newspapers are included, as are specialized trade and technical publications. Copies may be purchased for $13 from the Superintendent of Doc­ uments, U.S. Printing Office, W ashington, DC 20402. Stock no. 030-005-00014-7. 9 The Corporate 1000, edited by Teri Carabrese (639 pages, September 1985), is a directory of offi­ cers, management personnel, and boards of direc­ tors of the top 1000 U.S. corporations. Besides names and titles, the directory provides a brief business description for each company and an ap­ proximation of sales or assets. Direct dial phone numbers are given for individuals when available. There are four indexes: a name index, a company index, an index of companies by industry classifica­ tion, and a geographical index by state. Copies may be ordered for $59.95 from The Washington M onitor, Inc., 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N .W ., PUBLICATIONS