ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 179 Publications NOTICES • Archives and Manuscripts on Microfilm in the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is a checklist (with 400 entries) that provides a guide to m ore than 6,300 reels of microfilm of unique Latin American materials. The checklist may be ordered for $10 (plus 5 percent tax for Texas re s id e n ts ) from th e G e n e ra l L ib ra rie s Office, University of Texas, Perry-Castaneda Li­ brary, Austin, TX 78712. • Calendar o f the Papers o f Benjamin Frank­ lin in the Library o f the American Philosophical S o ciety, e d ite d by I. M inis H ays (5v., P h il­ adelphia, 1908), is available free to libraries upon w ritten request by the librarian from the Amer­ ican Philosophical Society Library, 105 S. Fifth St., Philadelphia, PA 19106. The society still has several sets of the Calendar. • The Library of Congress is making available copies of the en tire CONSER (CONversion of SERials) Project File. The CONSER File con­ tains 259,054 records contributed by fifteen in­ stitu tio n s from 1975 through D ecem b er 1979. The file was copied from the on-line CONSER data base at O CLC as of D ecem ber 1979 and converted to the MARC Communication Format. It is available on 9-track, 800, or 1600 BPI tape with undefined variable length records for $1,000 from the Cataloging D istribution Service, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20541. • Cumulative Index of Philosophical Books (a journal published by L eicester University) has been prepared for the first fifteen volumes (1960- 74). C opies may b e o rd e r e d for $3 ($4 from Europe) from Julius F. Ariail, Box 8074, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460. • D irecto ry o f Planning and Urban Affairs Libraries in the United States and Canada (112p., January 1980) is available for $15 from the Coun­ cil of Planning Librarians, 1313 E. 60th St., Chi­ cago, IL 60637; (312) 947-2007. • The Future o f Scholarly Communication: The Minutes o f the N inety-fifth Meeting is an edited transcript of the program and business ses­ sions of the m em bership m eeting of the Associa­ tion of R esearch L ibraries (ARL). C opies are available (prepaid) for $7.50 to non-ARL m em ­ bers from the Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New H am pshire Ave., NW, W ashington DC 20036. • Guide to Besearch by Katherine Jordan and Barbara W yles is a self-instructional workbook that leads the student through the research pro­ cess. C opies may be p u rch ased for $3.20 (in­ cludes postage and handling) from the Annandale Campus Bookstore, N orthern Virginia Comm un­ ity College, 8333 Little River Turnpike, Annan­ d a le , VA 22003. M oney o rd e r , in s titu tio n a l check, or purchase order is required. • Illin ois H ealth Science L ib ra ries Serials Holdings L ist, sev en th edition, Jam es Parrish, e d ito r (C hicago, U n iv ersity of Illinois at th e Medical C enter, 1980) is available to Illinois li­ braries for $10 and out-of-state libraries for $35. C opies may be o rd ered from the Office of the University Librarian, Library of H ealth Sciences, University of Illinois at the Medical C enter, P.O. Box 7509, Chicago, IL 60680. Checks should be made out to the University of Illinois. • Inform ation L earn in g Packages are self- in stru c tio n a l m aterials d e scrib in g inform ation sources in a particular subject. Each package con­ tains a student handbook and a teacher’s kit. C ur­ rently packages are available for British history, 1760-1960; biology; social welfare; and mechan­ ical engineering. For further information contact T ravelling W orkshops E x p erim en t, N ew castle upon Tyne Polytechnic Library, Ellison Building, Ellison Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, United Kingdom. • Information Searching: A Handbook fo r De­ signing and Creating Instructional Programs, has now been reprinted to m eet the requests of lib ra ry /m e d ia sp ecialists who w ere unable to obtain th e manual when copies paid for by an LSCA T itle III G ra n t w ere d is trib u te d . The handbook is available for $6.50 from Dr. Harold Bantly, Salem State College, Salem, MA 01970. • Library Management without Bias is the title of th e p u b lish ed p roceedings of a conference sponsored by th e Sim m ons C ollege G raduate School of Library and Information Science in May 1979. The pro ceed in g s, e d ite d by C hing-chih Chen, include papers by Clara Jones, E. J. Josey, Patricia Batten, Connie Dunlap, Margaret Myers, Mary Hall, Barbara Conroy, Margaret Chisolm, Estelle Jussim, and A. J. Anderson. The proceed­ ings will be published in the fall of 1980 by JAI Press. • The Log o f the Carla Mia, Being an Account o f a Single-H anded Passage across the Atlantic Ocean in a 30-Foot Auxiliary Ketch by W. Carl Jackson, dean of libraries at Indiana University, will be published in a limited edition of 300. It may be obtained, only by subscription, for $35. For a prospectus and o rd er form w rite to Ms. Sue W ilson, Office of th e D ean, Indiana Uni­ versity Libraries, Bloomington, IN 47401. • Online Bibliographic Search Services, SPEC Kit and Flyer # 6 2 (107p., March 1980), examines the current state of on-line services based upon the experiences of a select num ber of ARL m em­ bers. It is available to non-ARL m em bers for $15, 180 prepayment required, from SPEC, Office of Man­ agement Studies, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036. • Report on the Installation of an Automated Circulation System describes the installation at the University of Waterloo Library of an auto­ mated circulation system supplied by GEAC C om puter C orporation Lim ited. It may be ordered for $10 from Jorn Jorgensen, Library Business Administrator, Dana Porter Arts Li­ brary, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L3G1. • The Status of Librarians in ARL Libraries, SPEC Kit and Flyer #61 (105p., February 1980), contains the results of a survey of ARL libraries on the status of librarians. It is available to non- ARL m em bers for $15 from SPEC, Office of Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New H am pshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036. • The Use of General Collections at the Uni­ versity of California: A Study o f Unrecorded Use, At-the-Shelf Discovery, and Immediacy o f Need fo r Materials at the Davis and Santa Cruz Cam­ pus Libraries is a report by Gary S. Lawrence and Anne R. Oja of the Office of the Assistant Vice President—Library Plans and Policies, Uni­ versity of California. Copies of the report (120 pages) are available at a cost of $5, prepaid, from Kay Sakalay, Office of the Assistant Vice Presi­ dent—Library Plans and Policies, 7 University Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. AUDIOVISUAL NOTICES • “Authority Control—The Key to Tomor­ row’s Catalog” was the title of an institute spon­ sored by the Library and Information Technology Association of ALA on May 22-23, 1979, in Atlan­ tic City, New Jersey, and on September 17-18, 1979, in Los Angeles. Unedited cassette record­ ings of the papers presented at the Los Angeles institute may be ordered from Information Yield, 311 Stonecrest Dr., Syracuse, NY 13214. The full set of eleven tapes is $40; individual cassettes are $4. • An Online Searching Tape-Slide Package, produced by the College of Librarianship Wales, is designed to give a general introduction to on­ line searching. It consists of seventy-six slides and an audiocassette. Inquiries about purchasing the package should be addressed to Drake Education­ al Associates, 212 W hitchurch Rd., Cardiff, United Kingdom. • A self-instruction program on the use of ERIC is now available from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. The program consists of a slide- tape (eleven minutes, forty seconds) giving an overview of ERIC, self-instruction packets cover­ ing the ERIC Thesaurus, RIE and CIJE, and a culminating activity designed to apply the skills learned from the slide-tape and learning packets. The cost of the entire program is $55. Previews may be arranged by contacting: Cynthia Welch, IL L /Film Rental, Media R etrieval Services, Pierce Library, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI 54751; (715) 232-1112. RECEIVED (Selected items will be reviewed in future issues of College ír Research Libraries.) • The Library of Congress has issued the Final R eport of th e N ational Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CON- TU). The report, dated July 31, 1978, may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Price: $4.75 (Stock No. 030-002-00143-8). The report includes the commission's “recom­ mendations based on three years of data collec­ tion, hearings, analysis, and deliberations,” with major sections addressing “ C om puters and Copyright” and “Machine Reproduction—Photo­ copying. ” • The Association of Specialized and Coopera­ tive Library Agencies of the American Library Association (ALA) has issued Standards o f Service for the Library o f Congress Network o f Libraries for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Avail­ able from ALA. Price: $4.50. • The Association of Research Libraries has re­ cently published its 1978-79 Annual Salary Sur­ vey. Compiled by Gordon Fretwell, the report is available from ARL for $5. • The January/February 1980 issue of Library Technology Reports (ALA. $40 for single issue) contains laboratory test reports on one reader for opaque microforms and twelve photocopiers. • John Mark Tucker provides a historical approach to the bibliography of library instruction in his newly published Articles on Library In­ struction in Colleges and Universities, 1876— 1932. This 121-item annotated bibliography is issued as number 143 in the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science Occasional Papers (February 1980, $2). Readers of the series will note a new size for the series with this pub­ lication. • In her Bibliographic Instruction in Academic Libraries: A Review o f the Literature and Selected Bibliography, Jacquelyn M. Morris not only presents a literature review and a bibliogra­ phy but also proposes an indexing language “based on the terminology of bibliographic in­ struction, which will make possible more precise searches on specific aspects of the field than the languages currently used can provide.” Published by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Re­ sources and available from the Syracuse Univer­ sity Printing Services, 125 College Ph, Syracuse, NY 13210. Price: $4.75. • William S. Pierce's Furnishing the Library Interior (Marcel Dekker, 1980, $39.75) deals Faxon Acquires Stechert Macmillan- Expands Internationally This acquisition enables Faxon to expand its scope of international publications, enhancing Faxon’s position as a world leader am ong library serials subscription agencies. W e welcome Stechert’s clients to join the over 18,000 libraries who already use our comprehensive services. A t Faxon we com bine the m ost advanced autom ation w ith 99 years o f experience, giving clients the m ost personal and efficient service possible. 182 “with all aspects of selection, evaluation, and pur­ chasing of library furniture and equipment. • What Else You Can Do with a Library D e­ gree, e d ite d by B etty-C arol Sellen (G aylord, 1980, paper, $14.95), p resen ts b rief essays by some sixty professionally trained librarians who have found careers outside of formal libraries— as free-lancers, in information management and re­ search, in the book industry, and in communica­ tions, the arts, education, and government. • The proceedings of a three-day conference h e ld at th e U n iv ersity of N o rth C aro lin a at C hapel Hill in March 1978 have been recently published by ALA in the volume The Role o f the Humanities in the Public Library. Price: $20. • Alfred H. Lane, in charge of gifts and ex­ changes at th e Colum bia U niversity Libraries, has prepared “a practical guide to the pitfalls and possibilities of gifts and exchanges” in his Gifts and Exchange Manual (Greenwood Press, 1980, $15). • C ornell U niversity L ibraries has issued a second edition of its Manual o f General Search­ ing Procedures. This loose-leaf volum e (price: $8), prepared to train staff in the acquisitions de­ partment and elsewhere in the Cornell system in p r e o r d e r and p recatalo g sea rc h in g , m ay be obtained from the Budget & Accounting Office, 234 Olin Library, Ithaca, NY 14853. • A 1978 report prepared for French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, L ’informatisation de la société, by Simon Nora and Alain Mine, has been translated into English and published by MIT Press u n d er th e title The Com puterization o f Society. Daniel Bell has prepared an introduction for the English-language edition. Price: $12.50. • Papers from the 1979 University of Illinois Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing have recently been published in the volume The Role o f the L ibrary in an Electronic Society, edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster. Available from th e P u b licatio n s Office, 249 A rm ory B ldg., Champaign, IL 61820. Price: $9. • Gale Research has recently issued in two volumes a reprint of Bulletins 1-125 (1945-78) of the Library o f Congress Cataloging Service. The bulletins, which “serve as a medium of occasional communication between the Library of Congress and the libraries, agencies, firms, and individuals purchasing Library of Congress catalog cards,” offer information about LC cataloging and clas­ sification practices as well as addressing problems related to LC card distribution. This reprint also includes a subject index to the bulletins. Price of the two-volume set: $78. • Jack Burkett’s Library and Information Net­ works in the United Kingdom (Aslib, 1979, $36 in North America) presents information on the im­ portant organizations included in British networks and especially details of their research and de­ velopment activities and staff involvement in ex­ ternal affairs. • T h e first tw o volum es in A slib’s R ead er S eries are: (1) N ation al L ib ra ries, e d ite d by Maurice B. Line and Joyce Line, which brings together a num ber of previously published arti­ cles on the nature and aims and special functions and aspects of national libraries as well as articles on national libraries in individual countries, and (2) The Scientific J ou rn al, e d ite d by A. J. Meadows, which includes also a selection of p re­ viously published articles treating the develop­ m ent of the scientific jo u rn al, econom ics and problems of journal publication, refereeing of sci­ entific jo u rn als, ch a ra c te ristic s and in te rre la ­ tionships of journals, alternative viewpoints, and the future of the scientific journal. Price in North America for each volume: $27. • C h ris tin e O ld m an and G o rd o n W ills’ A Reappraisal o f Academic Librarianship ( MCB Publications, 1979, $27) is a thirty-five-page pub­ lication based on the Cranfield School of Manage­ m e n t’s “ Beneficial L ibrary” study. C ontending that traditional approaches to the solution of lib­ rary problems are inadequate, the study proposes a group of new er methodologies from which a different philosophy of academ ic librarianship emerges. “It describes the potential available to the library manager to market his services to his audience, and it proposes how the educator and the information professional would work together in an activity called Joint Information Planning.” Available from MCB Publications, 198/200 & 210 K eighley Road, B radford, W est Y orkshire, England BD9 4JQ. ■■ ACRL EXHIBIT BOOTH V isit th e ACRL E x h ib it B ooth at th e ALA Annual Conference in New York and learn more about ACRL services and mem bership activities. Pictured below are Philip Wei and Judith Blight, two of the people who staffed the ACRL Booth in Dallas. ■■