ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 302 News from the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • The U n i v e r s i t y o f C o n n e c t i c u t Library recently acquired the Pierce Gaines Collection of Americana consisting of some 4,600 items relating to United States secular history for the period 1789-1809. Original contemporary ma­ terials form the bulk of the collection, while approximately 1,000 volumes of relevant sec­ ondary sources also are provided for historical and bibliographical reference. The collection is especially rich in early gov­ ernment documents, including the journals of the House and Senate, accounts of receipts and expenditures of the government through 1802, and acts passed by the first through the tenth congresses. The public writings of great Americans of the period are generously repre­ sented. There are, for example, fifty-four Alex­ ander Hamilton items, twenty-nine James Madison items, fifty-eight Thomas Jefferson items, and twenty-nine Thomas Paine items. Among association copies some of the more prominent owners represented are John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Albert Gallatin, Hamilton, John Jay, Jefferson (a book from his Monticello library with his secret bookmark), Benjamin Rush, George Washington ( a book from his li­ brary signed by h im ), and Daniel Webster. Connecticut owners include Timothy Dwight, Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Jeremiah Wadsworth, and John Cotton Smith. There is a law library of United States im­ prints such as might have been collected by a well-to-do lawyer of 1810. Included are the statutes of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Washington (c ity ), Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, and Orleans Territory. Trials and treatises number about forty volumes each. Other original materials include contempo­ rary periodicals, newspapers, and a few dozen manuscripts, as well as a host of important pamphlets dealing with all of the vital issues of the times. The secondary materials are particularly strong in works of travel in the U.S. for the period 1789-1817. This section contains 108 works by sixty-eight authors and includes land­ mark works by William Bartram, Crèvecoeur, Andrew Ellicott, Washington Irving, Benjamin Latrobe, Lewis and Clark, and Zebulon Mont­ gomery Pike. The collection was formed over a period of about twenty-five years by the late Pierce W. Gaines of Fairfield, Connecticut. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f D e l a w a r e Library has recently acquired the Ulick O’Connor Ar­ chives, a collection of material accumulated over the past twenty-five years by the well- known Irish biographer, poet, playwright and journalist Ulick O’Connor. The archives, a rich source for research in Irish literature, are available to qualified schol­ ars in the special collections room of the Hugh M. Morris Library on the campus. O’Connor’s biographies of Irish dramatist Brendan Behan and Irish poet Oliver St. John Gogarty have been internationally recognized as definitive, and much of the archives consists of material used by O ’Connor in writing the books, according to John W . Dawson, director of university libraries, who announced the ac­ quisition. • A working collection of more than 10,000 volumes of German literature has been ac­ quired by the Eugene McDermott Library at the U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s a t D a l l a s . The Helmut Rehder Collection of German literature, which he acquired over a thirty-year period, has been obtained from his estate by UT-Dallas library officials and is in the process of being cataloged and shelved, said James T. Dodson, university librarian. Rehder was the Ashbel Smith Professor of German Literature at UT-Austin before his death earlier this year. A native of Germany, he traveled extensively in Germany throughout the years to collect volumes, and corresponded with German dignitaries, including Karl Jas­ pers, Benno von Wiese, and Hugo Friedrich. The collection includes several benchmark works. About 300 of the volumes were pub­ lished before 1800, many of which are six­ teenth-century works. More than 75 percent of the collection is in German. G R A N T S • Y e s h i v a U n i v e r s i t y , New York City, has recently received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to help the uni­ versity preserve, arrange, and describe its manuscript collections. The grant is for two years, with matching funds for a third year. Bernard Leibtag, a Ph.D. candidate in Jewish history at Columbia University and former ar­ chivist for the World Jewish Congress, has been appointed archivist for the project. The ar­ chives are composed of thirty collections, with approximately 825 cubic feet of records of various American Jewish organizations, congre- 303 gations, and papers of prominent American Jews dating back to the middle of the nine­ teenth century. Many of the collections have photographic records along with usual reports, correspondence, etc. Although the records are of American origin, a number of the collections deal with aid to Eastern European and Pales­ tinian Jewish communities during the interwar period and thereby shed light on Jewish life in those areas. • The N e w E n g l a n d L i b r a r y B o a r d (N E L B ) reports a grant of $73,745 awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for the development of an archival microfilm capability and an archival consulting service at the New England Docu­ ment Conservation Center in North Andover, Massachusetts. One of N EL B’s major programs, the Con­ servation Center makes its services and facili­ ties available to public libraries; state and local archival agencies; and private nonprofit his­ torical, educational, and cultural institutions located mainly, but not exclusively, in New England. The present role of the center is to operate a workshop with the necessary facilities and staff to restore and preserve the physical condi­ tion of books, prints, maps, broadsides, manu­ scripts, and similar documentary materials of historic, archival, or cultural interest; to provide field inspection and consultation services to as­ sist institutions in carrying out conservation programs; to give emergency aid in cases of damage to collections by water, fire, or other disaster; to conduct seminars, workshops, and other training opportunities for staffs of libraries and archives; and to publish conservation bul­ letins. The grant from the National Historical Pub­ lications and Records Commission will enable the center to expand its services to provide archival quality microfilm reproduction; advice and assistance in the use of microfilm for his­ toric projects; and assistance to state, county, and local public records repositories, archives, historical societies, libraries, and other institu­ tions in microfilm publication of appropriate materials. • A New York Historical Resources Center is being planned at C o r n e l l U n i v e r s i t y , with its first objective being to develop a computer­ ized index pinpointing the location of manu­ script and archival collections, artifacts, docu­ ments, photographs, genealogical materials, architectural records, and other historical infor­ mation bearing on New York State. Supported by a $17,000 grant from the Na­ tional Endowment for the Humanities and a $2,000 grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, the center will provide both schol­ ars and the general public greater access to the materials illustrative of the state’s history. The aim is to stimulate scholarly and popular inter­ est in the heritage of the area. Funding will cover planning over the next year leading to the formal establishment of the center. Activity will be limited to identifying, not collecting, things of historical significance. Herbert Finch, assistant director of Olin L i­ brary at Cornell and overall supervisor of the project, emphasized that the center would be gathering information, not taking physical cus­ tody of any materials. He said the center also would provide techni­ cal information to organizations requesting guidance in the care and administration of manuscripts, archives, and other items. In cases where records face imminent danger, attempts would be made to locate an appropriate reposi­ tory. Finch said Cornell is the ideal location for such a project. He cited Cornell’s central geo­ graphic location, its outstanding collection of New York history materials, and its public ser­ vice mandate as the state’s Federal Land Grant institution. Funding to continue the center be­ yond the initial grant period will be sought from various sources, both public and private, according to Finch. • The Urban Archives Center of T e m p l e U n i v e r s i t y libraries has received a grant of $15,650 from the National Historical Publica­ tions and Records Commission for a one-year field work project. A full-time field worker will identify, locate, and collect records and per­ sonal papers documenting the social history of Philadelphia over the past 100 years. It is hoped that the project will provide some guide­ lines for documenting subjects, such as social welfare, housing, planning, education, criminal justice, and ethnic communities, in all of the nation’s largest cities. • The College Park Library System, U n i ­ v e r s i t y o f M a r y l a n d , has received a $117,- 079 grant to preserve the library’s valuable and unique East Asian Collection of allied-occupa- tion materials. The grant, awarded by the National Endow­ ment for the Humanities, will support a three- year project resulting in the creation of a fully catalogued and integrated research and refer­ ence collection. It is the largest single grant to be received by the library system. According to Jack Siggins, project director and assistant director of libraries for reader services, this project establishes the University of Maryland as a major university center for allied-occupation research and enhances the 304 reputation of the Washington metropolitan area as the major source of materials for the study of Japan during the immediate post-war period. Included in the E ast Asia Collection are ap­ proximately 11,000 titles of newspapers, 11,000 titles of periodicals, 40,000 volumes of books, and numerous other documents. • The National Endowment for the Hu­ manities (N E H ) is supporting a joint study of community colleges-public library cooperation in humanities education by the A m e r i c a n A s s o c i a t i o n o f C o m m u n i t y a n d J u n i o r C o l l e g e s (A A C JC ) and the . NEH has awarded a grant of $17,326 for the project, which will involve a survey of current cooperative efforts. Results will b e published and widely disseminated by the two national organizations. Findings will also be reviewed and discussed at workshops and meetings of ALA and AACJC. Sandra L. Drake, information and research associate with AACJC, will direct the survey. M E E T I N G S & W O R K S H O P S • December 2; A C o p y r i g h t W o r k s h o p on the consequences of the new copyright law for librarians and other information specialists will be held at the University of Pittsburgh, cosponsored by the university’s Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Pennsylvania Library Association, Special L i­ braries Association (Pittsburgh Chapter), and American Society for Information Science (Pittsburgh Chapter). Rights and responsibilities of information handlers and users under the regulations to take effect January 1, 1978, will be discussed by Robert Stevens, Copyright Office, Library of Congress; Ronald Naylor, chairman, Inter- library Loan Committee, American Library Association; William Z. Nasri, assistant profes­ sor, G SLIS, University of Pittsburgh. Inquiries about the workshop may be ad­ dressed to Dr. William Z. Nasri, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. • January 6: The Pratt Institute Graduate School of Library and Information Science will offer a workshop on P r o j e c t M a n a g e m e n t i n L i b r a r i e s a n d I n f o r m a t i o n S y s t e m s . The purpose of the workshop will be to pro­ vide an overview of important management techniques. Emphasis will be placed on Pro­ gram Evaluation and Review Techniques (P E R T ) and Critical Path Method (C P M ) and on their applications for library and infor­ mation systems. The participants will learn by optimizing PERT/CPM networks representing projects of their own choice. The workshop is designed for library and in­ formation systems administrators, middle-man­ agement-level individuals, and those involved in acquisitions, marketing, and evaluation of li­ brary and information systems. The workshop will be held at the Pratt Man­ hattan Center, 160 Lexington Ave. at 30th St., New York City. Registration fee, which in­ cludes lunch, is $80. For further information and registration form, contact Rhoda Garoogian, Assistant Dean, Pratt Institute Graduate School of L i­ brary and Information Science, Brooklyn, NY 11205; (2 1 2 ) 636-3702. • January 14, 17, 19; 21, 24, 26: The Pratt Institute Graduate School of Library and Infor­ mation Science will once again offer two insti­ tutes on O n - L i n e T e r m i n a l S e a r c h i n g . The first, On-Line Terminal Searching; Per­ spective and Practice, which is designed for reference librarians and information scientists with little or no experience in this area, will be given on Saturday, January 14, 1978; Tuesday evening, January 17; and Thursday evening, January 19. The second, On-Line Terminal Searching; Advanced Strategies, will be offered on Satur­ day, January 21; Tuesday evening, January 24; and Thursday evening, January 26. Both institutes will be held at the Chemists Club, 52 East 41st Street, New York, N.Y. Registration fees will vary; $75 for one full- day session only, $140 for full-day and two evenings (no cred it); and $175 for full-day and two evenings for one credit. This includes a computer laboratory fee of $25. For further information and registration form, call or write Rhoda Garoogian, Assistant Dean, Pratt Institute, Graduate School of L i­ brary and Information Science, Brooklyn, NY 11205; (2 1 2 ) 636-3702. • February 24-M arch 3; The School of L i­ brary Science of Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, will sponsor an I n s t i t u t e o n t h e L i b r a r i a n a s M a n a g e r . Designed to offer an opportunity for librarians in manage­ ment, as well as those interested in assuming managerial responsibilities, to study new man­ agement techniques and their implication for libraries, the institute will be directed by Ken­ neth E . Beasley, vice-president, University of Texas at E l Paso, assisted by the following panel members; Bernard M. Franckowiak, School of Librarianship, University of Washing­ ton; Beverly Lynch, director of libraries, Uni­ versity of Illinois at Chicago Circle; and 305 Patricia Woodrum, director, Tulsa City-County Library. The director and panelists will utilize a va­ riety of program formats to highlight such topics as the philosophy and principles of man­ agement, styles of management, decision-mak­ ing, budgeting, goal setting, leadership, public relations, and evaluation. In addition, in a series of clinics, each par­ ticipant will study an actual management prob­ lem and design a viable solution to that problem. Participants must have had at least two years of significant library experience (e.g., responsi­ bility for administering a unit or program), supervisory responsibility or consultant respon­ sibility, and must submit with the application a statement of an actual management problem worthy of study in depth. Each participant must also be recommended by the respective supervisor as an outstanding person whose li­ brary will be benefited by this week of study. Each institute participant will receive a stipend of $75. One hour of graduate credit is optional. For more information write or call the School of Library Science, (3 1 6 ) 343-1200, ext. 203 or 204. • February 26-March 3: Kent State Uni­ versity Libraries announces the continuation of its series of I n t e n s i v e W o r k s h o p s o n OCLC. Additional workshops will be held in 1978: April 23-28, and June 4-9. The workshops will be especially useful to ( 1 ) technical services librarians in an institu­ tion about to go on-line or to the same individ­ uals in libraries that have been on-line less than one year, (2 ) the public services librarian wish­ ing to become further acquainted with the sys­ tem as it now begins to affect work with patrons more directly, and (3 ) the library edu­ cator who is concerned with networks and with interinstitutional bibliographic control. Each participant will be guaranteed individualized hours working on-line. A fee of $325 will cover all sessions, materi­ als, and single-room accommodations in uni­ versity housing, Sunday through Thursday nights. For further information contact Anne Marie Allison, University Libraries, Kent State Uni­ versity, Kent, OH 44242; (2 1 6 ) 672-3021. • March 6 -8 : The 13t h A n n u a l C o m m u ­ n i t y C o l l e g e L e a r n i n g R e s o u r c e s C e n t e r C o n f e r e n c e will be held at the College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The conference theme is “Learning Resources: Trends for the 80’s.” For further information contact Robert Veihman, Learning Resources Center, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137. M I S C E L L A N Y • The L i b r a r y o f C o n g r e s s and the B i b - l i o t e c a N a c i o n a l of Brazil recently agreed to a major international exchange program in­ volving microfilms of Brazilian newspapers. This new program will strengthen the holdings of Brazilian newspapers in both national li­ braries as well as resources throughout Brazil and the United States. In recent years the Biblioteca Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, under the leadership of Dona Jannice Monte-Mor, has developed its capabili­ ties for archival microfilming and inaugurated a preservation microfilming program for the major newspapers published throughout Brazil during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Biblioteca National’s microfilming program presents to the Library of Congress and other research libraries a unique opportunity to ac­ quire film holdings of Brazilian newspapers, for which there are relatively sparse holdings in the United States. The Library of Congress has been microfilm­ ing a selected group of contemporary Brazilian newspapers since 1962 and over the years has built up a significant collection of holdings on film. Further, in 1970-72, the Library of Con­ gress arranged for the cooperative microfilm­ ing, in Brazil, of the complete holdings of the São Paulo newspaper O Estado d e São Paulo for the period January 1875 through August 1956. Under the program, the Library of Congress and the Biblioteca Nacional will exchange reels of positive microfilm of the titles each institu­ tion has filmed, thereby mutually strengthening the holdings of each library and eliminating duplicative original filming. Filming the complete holdings of the Rio de Janeiro newspaper O Jornal do Comm ercio for the period 1827 to date has the highest priority under this program. O Jornal do Commercio is the oldest continuously published newspaper in all of South America and is considered by many historians to be the most significant Brazilian newspaper for the nineteenth century and one of the more important national news­ papers published today. • The Council on Library Resources, Inc. (C L R ) and the National Library of Medicine (N LM ) will offer three internships in health sciences library management for 1978-79. Interns will spend one year, beginning Sep­ tember 1978, working closely with the director and top administrative staff of a leading aca­ demic health sciences library. The purpose of the program is to provide opportunities for mid­ career librarians to be exposed to and partici­ pate in all facets of health sciences library management. Although individual programs Evan Farber talks a b o u t the reference va lue o f b o o k re vi a n d their lack of retrospective in d e x in g — all o f w h ic h led to C o m b in e d R e t r o s p e c t iv e I n d e x t in Sc h o l a r l y Jo u r n a l s , Evan Ira Farber Ba ck gro u n d : W h ile w riting his " In t r o d u c t io n " a n d “ U s e r ’s G u i d e " to C a rro llto n 's C o m b in e d R e tro sp e c tiv e “ B o o k Review D igest, for instance, is retrospective to In d e x Sets (C R IS ) — w h ic h in d e x all articles in the 1905 but quite w eak in its co v e rage o f scholarly journals. c o m p le te b ackfiles o f 531 jo u rn a ls in H istory, Political “M e a n w h ile , the n ew indexes w h ic h recently b e ga n to S c ie n c e , a n d S o c io l o g y — Fa rb e r q u ic k ly c a m e u p with cover large n u m b e rs of scholarly journ als are not the su g g e s tio n that w e also d o a c o m b i n e d a n d retrospective. c u m u la tiv e in d e x to all the b o o k review s w h ic h a p p e a re d “Therefore, this substantial ga p in co verage can o n ly be in these sa m e jo u rn a ls d u r in g their c o m p le te runs. The filled by an index w hich is retrospective a n d m ore fo llo w in g text attem pts to r e c o r d the e sse n c e o f a th o ro u g h in its co verage of scholarly journals.” n u m b e r o f d is c u s sio n s w h ic h w e re h e ld o n the subject. Farber: B o o k re vie w s in th e s c h o la rly jo u rn a ls o f the social scie n c e s p ro v id e a c ru c ib le in w h ic h the o u t p u t of S u b s c rip tio n B o o k s R e v ie w s se c tio n o f the sc h o la rly re se arch is e x a m in e d , tested, a n d r e s p o n d e d to. B o o k list w h e r e o n e re v ie w is d e e m e d sufficient. T h r o u g h th e se review s, o n e can trace the a cc e p ta n ce or R e v ie w s m u st h a v e a p p e a re d w ith in e ig h te e n rejection o f n e w ideas, o b s e r v e the e sta b lish m e n t or m o n th s f o llo w in g a b o o k ’s p u b lic a tio n ; at least u n d o in g o f in d iv id u a l r e p u t a tio n s , a n d f o llo w o n e re v ie w m u st b e fro m a jo u rn a l p u b lis h e d in intellectual deb ates, n o t o n ly be tw e e n a u th o r and the U n ite d States.” review er, but also a m o n g re v ie w e rs th em selves. Farber: M a n y im p o rta n t but sp e c ia lize d w o r k s are C a rrollton : I’m c o n v in c e d that th e se b o o k re v ie w s are om itte d b e c a u se o f th e se restrictions, e sp e cially t h o se va lu a b le re fe re n c e tools, bu t a re n ’t m o st o f th e m a lre a dy p u b lis h e d in G re a t Britain a n d C a n ad a . A ls o , m a n y c o v e re d in e xisting b o o k re v ie w in d e x e s? re v ie w s d o n o t a p p e a r in t h o se fe w sc h o la rly jo u rn a ls Farber: w h ic h B R D d o e s c o v e r until after th e 1 8-m o n th s-a fte r- D e fin ite ly not. O u r C o m b i n e d R e tro sp e ctive o r ig in a l-p u b lic a t io n d e a d lin e , a n d th e re b y e sca p e In d e x to R e v ie w s in S c h o la rly Periodicals, 1886-1974, will in d e xin g .c o m p le m e n t all o th e r b o o k re v ie w in d e x e s rather than c o m p e te w ith them . Ca rro llto n : I u n d e rsta n d th e re a re n o w tw o cu m u la tiv e C a rrollton : Just h o w d o e s o u r c o v e ra g e c o m p a re to that in d e x e s w h ic h in c lu d e all the e n trie s in B o o k R e v ie w o f B o o k R e v ie w D ig e s t ? D ig e st fro m 1905 t h ro u g h 1970. W ill th e se cu t in to o u r m a rke t? Farber: In term s o f n u m b e r s o f sc h o la rly jo u rn a ls c o v e re d , of cou rse , o u r In d e x c o v e rs 472 jo u rn a ls in Farber: T h e y s h o u ld n 't . A lt h o u g h v a lu a b le as s in g le ­ H istory, Political S cie n ce , a n d S o c io lo g y (59 of th e 531 a lp h ab e t in d e xe s to th e ge n e ra l re v ie w in g m edia, the y C R IS Jo u rn a ls c o n ta in e d n o b o o k review s) w h ile B R D m e re ly a cc u m u late the s h o rt c o m in g s o f the a n n u a l c ov e rs 75 journa ls, o f w h ic h fifteen can b e c o n sid e re d v o lu m e s w h e n it c o m e s to c o v e ra g e o f sch o la rly sch o larly jo u rn a ls in th e se fields. In d isc u ss in g B o o k jou rn a ls. A lso , o f co u rse , o u r c o v e ra g e g o e s b a ck to R e v ie w Dige st, of co u rse , w e m ust r e m e m b e r that its in c lu d e re vie w s in jo u rn a ls p u b lis h e d b e fo re 1905. e m p h a sis is o n literature a n d p o p u la r a n d s e m i- p o p u la r C a rrollton : In a ny event, I gu e ss w e c a n ’t cla im to be w orks. It in c lu d e s adu lt a n d ju v e n ile fiction as w ell as a the first to re c o g n iz e B R D 's " s c h o la r ly jo u rn a l g a p ” u n ive rsa l ra n g e o f n o n -fic t io n su bje ct matter, and, c o n s id e r in g all o f the recent efforts to in d e x large the re fore , q u ite co rre ctly co n ce n trate s o n the b r o a d - n u m b e r s o f th e se p u b lic a tio n s. base d re v ie w in g se rvice s to an extent that the m ajority of Farber: Precisely. T h e se in c lu d e W il s o n 's o w n C u rre n t its entrie s c o m e fro m s u c h p u b lic a tio n s. M e a n w h ile , in B o o k R e v ie w C itation s, w h ic h first a p p e a re d in 1976, a d d itio n to its lim ite d n u m b e r o f s c h o la rly jo u rn a ls an d c o v e rs s o m e 1300 titles; A B C / C l io 's A m e ric a : cov e re d , B o o k R e v ie w D ig e st has several se lf-im p o se d H isto ry a n d Life “ Part B, In d e x to B o o k R e v ie w s ”, w h ic h restriction s w h ic h lim it e v e n its c o v e ra g e o f the 75 b e g a n in 1974 a n d c o v e rs 115 e xc lu siv e ly s c h o la rly p u b lic a tio n s w h ic h it d o e s index. T h e se are d e sc rib e d in jo u rn a ls; a n d G a le R e s e a rc h ’s B o o k R e v ie w In d e x , the "P r e fa t o r y N o t e " to the M a y , 1976, issu e of B o o k w h ic h has c o v e re d a m o re g e n e ra l c o lle c tio n o f 235 R e v ie w D ig e st as fo llow s: titles sin ce 1965. “ T o q u a lify fo r in c lu s io n a b o o k m u st have b e e n C a rrollton : But as y o u said, th e se n e w in d e x e s are not p u b lis h e d o r d istrib u te d in th e U n ite d States. A retrospective.w o r k o f n o n -fic tio n m ust ha v e re ce ive d tw o or m o re re vie w s and o n e o f fictio n fo u r o r m o re Fa r b e r : C o r r e c t ! W h e n it c o m e s t o la r g e s c a le re v ie w s in the jo u rn a ls selected. E x ce p tio n is m a d e re trosp e ctive c o v e r a g e of re v ie w s in sc h o la rly journa ls, fo r b o o k s re v ie w e d in the R e fe re n c e a n d o u r C o m b in e d In d e x leaves off w h e r e th e o th e rs begin. EVAN IRA FA RBER is Librarian of Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana and author of five editions of the standard serial selection guide, Classified List of Periodicals for the College Library. He also writes the column “Periodicals for the College Library” which ews o appears monthly in Choice magazine. From 1969 through 1971 he served as a member of the Council of the American Library Association and was Chairman of A L A ’s College Library Section from 1968-1969. He is now also serving as a member of the Board of Consultants to the National Endownment for the Humanities. in sc h o la rly jo u rn a ls o u r p u b lic a tio n o f his Bo o k R e view s 1886-1974 in fifteen hardcover volum es From the com plete backfile runs of 472 scholarly journals in History, Political Science, and Sociology, com es this single source of author/title access to m ore than 1.2 million b o o k reviews — the majority of w hich have never before been in clud ed in any b o o k review index. SAMPLE ENTRIES A N D COVERAGE C O M P A R ISO N S T h e E xh ib its s h o w n b e lo w n o t o n ly illustrate th e fo rm a t th e m se lv e s are listed a lp h a b e tic a lly b y jo u rn a l title. a n d c o n te n t o f th e e n trie s in o u r C o m b i n e d S e p a ra te in d e x v o lu m e s list titles a lp h a b e tic a lly w ith R e tro sp e c tiv e In d e x to B o o k R e v ie w s in S c h o la r ly c ro ss r e fe re n c e s to a u t h o rs ’ nam es. Jo u rn als, 1886-1974 (RSJ), b u t a lso c o m p a r e its c o v e r a g e to that o f B o o k R e v ie w D ig e s t (B R D ) fo r the s a m e w o rks. F o r p u r p o s e s o f c o m p a r is o n , th e E xh ib its a lso s h o w R S J's m a in e n trie s are a rra n g e d first a lp h a b e tic a lly by e n trie s f ro m th e c u m u la t iv e B o o k R e v ie w Digest, a u t h o r s ' nam es. M u l t i p le titles by th e sa m e a u t h o r are A u t h o r / T itle In d e x , 1905-1974 a n d se p a ra te lists o f all th e n listed alp h ab e tica lly, a n d u n d e r e a c h title, re v ie w s re v ie w s cite d in th e B R D a n n u a l v o lu m e s. 308 will vary, interns will take part in the variety of planning and decision-making experiences required for high-level positions in academic health sciences libraries. The internship covers a full year, with about ten months spent at the host library, up to a month at NLM, and a month for leave. The award consists of a stipend equal to the normal basic salary and benefits (up to $25,- 000) received by the intern during the 1977- 78 academic year. Costs of travel and other activities required by the program, as well as up to $1,500 for moving expenses, also will be covered by the grant. The program is open to U.S. citizens, non­ citizen nationals, and foreign nationals with permanent resident status in the United States. Applicants must have had by September 1978 at least five years of professional library experi­ ence. The selection panel also will take into consideration the candidate’s statement of goals and concerns as expressed in the application, recommendations from personal references, and the candidate’s interest in health sciences li­ brary management as evidenced by experience, education, and/or training. Completed applications must be postmarked no later than February 1, 1978. The names of successful candidates will be announced by May 1978. Applications may be obtained by sending a self-addressed # 1 0 envelope or mailing label to: Health Sciences Library Management In­ tern Program, Council on Library Resources, Inc., One Dupont Circle, Suite 620, Washing­ ton, DC 20036. • C A C I C is t h e a c r o n y m f o r C h i c a g o A r e a C o m p u t e r I n f o r m a t i o n C e n t e r s , a n e w p r o je c t s p o n s o r e d a n d c o o r d i n a t e d b y t h e I l l i ­ n o is R e g i o n a l L i b r a r y C o u n c i l t o p r o v i d e b r o a d e r a c c e s s t o c o m p u t e r - a s s i s t e d r e f e r e n c e s e r v i c e s f o r r e s i d e n t s o f t h e C h i c a g o m e t r o ­ p o l i t a n a r e a . T h e C A C I C p r o je c t , w h i c h b e g a n o f f i c i a l l y o n M a y 1, 1977, m a k e s u s e o f e x i s t i n g e q u i p m e n t a n d e x p e r t i s e t o o f f e r o n - l i n e b i b l i o ­ g r a p h i c s e a r c h s e r v i c e s t o t h o s e C h i c a g o - a r e a l i b r a r y u s e r s w h o s e p r i m a r y l i b r a r i e s d o n o t o f ­ f e r s u c h s e r v i c e s . Since May 1, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago Public Library, John Crerar Library, and Northwestern University’s Main Library have been performing on-line searches as CACICs for users or librarians of other council- member libraries. The Library of the Health Sciences (University of Illinois/Medical Cen­ ter) and Northwestern’s Medical School Li­ brary will begin accepting CACIC referrals in the near future. Through these institutions, Chicago-area residents have access to all data bases available from the major vendors: the Information Bank, Lockheed, National Library of Medicine, and System Development Corpo­ ration. A particularly important facet of the project is the installation, for a two-year pilot period, of the Information Bank service of the New York Times in the Newspapers and General Periodicals Center of the Chicago Public Li­ brary. Because the Information Bank, the data base of greatest potential value to the general user, is not available elsewhere to the general public of the Chicago metropolitan area, CPL and IRLC are offering the service as a coopera­ tive venture. IRLC is underwriting the costs of installation and training, and CPL provides space and staffing for the terminal. The referral mechanism used by a participat­ ing library to send one of its users to a CACIC is the Datapass. This four-part, self-carboning form contains the pertinent information about the referring library, the CACIC, and the per­ son for whom the search is to be performed, in­ cluding a natural language statement of the information request. It also includes the time and date of the prearranged search appoint­ ment, and it can be used as either receipt or bill, depending on whether payment is made at the time of the search or later. The expense of on-line searching precludes offering free services, as neither the council budget nor the budgets of the majority of council members could absorb the costs in­ volved. Thus, the actual cost of each search plus an administrative fee (to partially offset CACIC overhead costs) are charged back to the referring libraries and/or their patrons who use the service. While the most obvious objective of the CACIC project is (in line with the mission of the council itself) to improve access to informa­ tion for Chicago area residents, CACIC has several additional key purposes: to educate council-member librarians and library users in the appropriate uses of on-line searching; to determine the extent of demand for such ser­ vices; and to encourage member libraries to of­ fer these services if demand for them is demonstrated. The educational function has received most attention to date from the council’s Standing Committee on Data Base Services, the group with direct responsibility for planning and or­ ganizing the CACIC project. The committee has organized a CACIC Introductory Work­ shop, which offers an overview of data-base searching, guidelines to help referring librari­ ans determine the searchability of an informa­ tion request, and specific CACIC access procedures. Each workshop attendee receives a copy of the CACIC Procedures Manual and Directory, a reference tool developed by the 309 committee to supplement the workshop infor­ mation and to be used by the referring librarian when making Datapass referrals. Attendance at a workshop is a prerequisite for issuing Datapasses, a condition set by the com­ mittee to insure understanding of the program and proper use of Datapasses by referring li­ brarians. During April and May the Introduc­ tory Workshop was repeated eight times to a total audience of 161 area librarians from all types of libraries. The committee has planned additional repeats during the summer and fall of 1977, toward the goal of having at least one CACIC-trained librarian in each of the 314 council-member institutions by the end of the year. The monitoring and demand assessment functions of the project are expected to come into play after it has been underway for several months and as awareness and use of the service grow. • The L i b r a r i a n s A s s o c i a t i o n o f t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a (L A U C ), which achieved official status from the regents of the University of California in 1975, includes as members all librarians of the University of Cali­ fornia. The association advises campus chan­ cellors and library administrators through its local divisions, and advises the university presi­ dent through its statewide officers and execu­ tive board. LAUC announced the following statewide officers for 1977 after elections on each of the university’s nine campuses: presi­ dent— Katherine Mawdsley (U C D avis); vice­ president/president elect— Virginia Sherwood (U C San D iego); secretary— Charles Martell (U C Berkeley). • The N a t i o n a l C o m m i s s i o n o n L i b r a r i e s a n d I n f o r m a t i o n S c i e n c e (N C L IS ) adopted a resolution at the meeting of June 1, 1977, supporting the approval of a protocol (or supplement) to the Florence Agreement ex­ tending duty-free import status to nonprint ma­ terials. Extending duty-free import status to audio, visual, and microform materials on the same basis as printed materials is essential not only to the commission’s long-range goal of equal opportunity of access to information for all but also to the International Federation of Library Associations’ (IF L A ) long-range goal of the universal availability of publications interna­ tionally. The Florence Agreement, which has been of great benefit to library and information systems in the United States and sixty-five other coun­ tries through elimination of import duties on publications and other educational, scientific, 31 0 and cultural materials, should be extended on the same basis to nonprint materials. A resolu­ tion adopted by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science recommends to the president that he submit the protocol to the Florence Agreement to the U.S. Senate and further urges the Senate to approve the proto­ col. • In March 1975 the academic vice-presi­ dent at M i d w e s t e r n S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y asked the library to do a collection evaluation. This was done by checking the library holdings against the main bibliographies in the fields in which the university offers degrees. The results of this evaluation were presented to each de­ partment. They were asked, in turn, to provide a list of specific items that they felt were need­ ed to improve the library collection. The total amount of money involved was $270,000. In November 1976 the university launched the Advance Midwestern campaign— a drive to obtain private monies to help the university. The development of the library was one of the areas to be stressed in this campaign. W hen the 1977 Texas Legislature convened, univer­ sity president John G. Barker asked for a one­ time special appropriation of $134,000 for li­ brary development. This amount would be matched by funds obtained through Advance Midwestern. The legislature granted the special appropriation for the academic year 1977-78. The library portion of Advance Midwestern is making progress and will be used at a later date. • The C o u n c i l o f N a t i o n a l L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n s , which was founded in 1942 and which currently has fifteen national library as­ sociation members, has elected Theodore Wiener, Association of Jewish Libraries, as vice-chairman (chairm an-elect), and Susan T. Sommer, Music Library Association, as secre­ tary/treasurer for 1977-78. Other officers and board of directors are John T. Corrigan, C F X , Catholic Library Association (chairman, 1 9 7 7 -7 8 ); Morris Cohen, American Association of Law Libraries (director, 1 9 7 7 - 8 0 ) ; E rich Meyerhoff, Medical Library Associa­ tion (director, 1 9 7 5 -7 8 ); Claudia Hannaford, Church and Synagogue Library Association ( director, 1 9 7 6 -7 9 ); Immediate Past Chairman Robert M. Henderson, Theatre Library Associa­ tion. The Council of National Library Associations exists to provide a central agency for coopera­ tion among library associations and other pro­ fessional organizations of the United States and Canada in forwarding matters of common in­ terest. For further information concerning the Coun­ cil of National Library Associations, contact: John T. Corrigan, C F X , Catholic Library Asso­ ciation, 461 W est Lancaster Ave., Haverford, Pennsylvania; ( 2 1 5 ) MI 9 -5 2 5 1 . • A State University of New York campus library recently marked an impressive milestone in SUN Y’s participation in the Ohio College Library Center’s ( O C L C ) on-line cataloging system. The Crumb Memorial Library at the S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y C o l l e g e , P o t s d a m , had the distinction of adding the three millionth bibliographic record to the on-line library com­ puter data base being built cooperatively by libraries at the O CLC. Potsdam is one of the 126 libraries in New York and one of the 1,182 libraries in the nation which have termi­ nals linked to O C L C ’s computer system for li­ brary cataloging, interlibrary loan, and other services. The three millionth record was added at 5 :0 4 p.m. ( E S T ) on Friday, May 27, when Potsdam input catalog data describing M ore Irish S treet B allads, collected by Colm O ’Loch lainn, printed in Dublin in 1965. T he time was carefully logged, of course, since there was great competition for the honor of the three millionth. The Potsdam library edged out the University of Wisconsin-Parkside at Kenosha, which recorded the 2,999,999th entry, and Loma Linda Universities, California, which fol­ lowed with number 3,000,001. The extraordinary range and depth of the data base is demonstrated by these three rec­ ords. In addition to the music score input by Potsdam, the University of Wisconsin input a record for a videotape called T h e L y s e n k o A f­ fa ir and Loma Linda University created a record for a book by Franklin Beiden, M aster­ p ie c e s o f Art, published in Ohio in 1907. Four­ teen thousand seven hundred records were input into the system that week in May, with an average interval of twenty seconds between each addition to the file. This input rate is a current measure of an accelerating rate of growth for the data base. The first million records took more than three years to create, and the second million seven­ teen months. It took just fifteen months to create the last million records.— T h e N ew s (SU N Y ) • The U n i v e r s i t y o f C h i c a g o G r a d u a t e L i b r a r y S c h o o l will offer scholarships and fellowships for the academic year 1 978-79, of varying amounts, for study leading to the M.A. degree, to the Ph.D. degree, and to the Certificate of Advanced Study. Apply before February 1, 1978, to the Dean of Students, Graduate Library School, University of Chi­ cago, 1100 E . 57th St., Chicago, I L 60637. ■ ■