ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 87 Publications NOTICES • A nnual S tatistics o f M ed ical S c h o o l L ib r a r ie s in t h e U n ited S ta te s a n d C a n a d a ‚ 1 9 7 7 -1 9 7 8 ‚ p u b lish ed by th e H o u s to n . A cadem y o f M ed icin e-T exas M edical C e n te r L ibrary, p re­ sents four groups of tables (summary statistics ta­ bles, rank order tables, rank summary tables, and salary tables) based on data received from 127 li­ braries whose p arent institutions are affiliated with the Association of American Medical C ol­ leges. M em b ers o f th e A sso ciatio n o f A cad em ic Health Sciences Library Directors will be billed $10 per copy; nonmembers should send $12.50 and a self-addressed mailing label to: Houston Academy of M edicine—Texas Medical C enter L i­ brary, 1133 M. D. Anderson Blvd., Houston, TX 77030. • C a talog in g & C lassification Q u arterly ‚ a new journal in the field of bibliographic organization, will appear in the fall of 1979 under the editor­ ship of C. Donald Cook o f the faculty of library science (University of Toronto). The new journal now welcomes the submission of manuscripts for review and possible publica­ tion. Prospective authors are invited to request an “Instructions for Authors” brochure from C. Donald Cook, D .L .S ., Faculty o f Library Sci­ e n c e , U niv ersity o f T o ron to , 140 S t. G eorge Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1 (re­ quests should include a self-addressed envelope). Papers are welcomed in such areas as the prin­ ciples, functions, and techniques o f descriptive cataloging; methods of subject analysis and classi­ fication; the administration and management of the cataloging function; the bibliographic record in an information network; and policies and plan­ ning leading to the enhanced use of bibliographic records in modern society. The C atalogin g & C lassification Q u arterly will emphasize full-length research and review arti­ cles; descriptions o f new programs and technol­ ogy; and material related to improving methods of bibliographic control for the future. Volum e I, num ber 1 o f th e new jo u rn al is scheduled for publication in fall 1979. Subscrip­ tions cost $25 a year and may be ordered from T h e Haworth P re ss, 149 F ifth A venue, New York, NY 10010. Canadian orders must add $5 postage and handling; for orders ou tside the United States and Canada, add $10. • The Library of Congress, in cooperation with the National Library of Canada, has announced the publication of CO N SER M icrofich e for winter 1979. Funded by a grant from the Council on L i­ brary Resources, In c., C O N SER Microfiche is a computer-output-microfiche listing of all records in the C O N SE R (CONversion of SERials) data base authenticated either by the Library o f Con­ gress or by the National Library o f Canada. Useful for cataloging and bibliographic verifica­ tion, this new service provides access to approxi­ mately 7 5 ,000 records for serial publications. Ap­ proximately 21,000 records represent Canadian ti­ tles created or authenticated by the National Li­ brary o f Canada. The remaining 54,000 represent titles published outside Canada and created or authenticated by the Library of Congress. These records are cu rren tly distributed on m agnetic tape through the MARC Records Distribution Service o f the National Library of Canada and the MARC Serials Distribution Service of the Library of Congress. All records m eet the standards o f the A nglo- A m erican C atalogin g R ules (AACR) as applied by the Library of Congress and the National Library of Canada. Records authenticated by the National Serials Data Program (NSDP) and International Serials Data System (ISDS)/Canada also carry the registered ISSN and key-title for the serial. R ec­ ords are in English only, with the exception of those for which English and French name and subject headings have been assigned by the Na­ tional Library of Canada following its bilingual cataloging policy. Subscribers to the new service will receive the base register of authenticated records, sequen­ tially arranged, and five indexes (author/title/ series, ISSN , Library o f Congress card number, C a n a d ia n a serial num ber, and O C L C control number). The base register and indexes, on 4 2 x fiche, will be updated by an annual supplement containing additional register entries and cumu­ lated indexes to the base and supplement. The cost of the base register and indexes on THE HOLOCAUST An Artist’s Personal Story 1977 Int’l Film and TV Festival of N.Y. S ilv e r M e d a l "A co n tro lle d and h e artfe lt productio n that w ill serve as a sob er and cau tio ning rem inder of the m ost extrem e form of racial cru elty in history, art, and hum ani­ tie s courses, and in p u b lic and re ligious organization lib ra rie s .” — BOOKLIST "B e a u tifu lly photog rap hed! 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The D irecto ry , which contains in­ formation on 3 ,2 5 0 institutions throughout the United States housing historical records, was compiled by means o f a nationwide survey of more than 11,000 libraries, archives, museums, and similar institutions. The D irectory reports on repositories that con­ tain documents, photographs, architectural draw­ ings, oral history interviews, and other source materials. Subjects cover a wide range, from ath­ letics to zoology. Although the volume is primar­ ily o f in te re s t to archivists and historical r e ­ searchers, researchers from other fields will find much relevant information within its 905 pages. Entries are arranged alphabetically by state, town, and repository name. A typical listing in­ cludes name of repository, address, telephone number, hours of service, availability of copying facilities, restrictions on access, descriptions of the institution s acquisition policy and holdings of historical source materials, and citations to pub­ lished bibliographic references. Other features of the volume include a com­ prehensive index to subjects and proper names, special lists of institutions by type (such as corpo­ rate archives, religious archives, and state histori­ cal societies), and descriptions of local public rec­ ords programs within each state. The D irectory, which includes more than twice the number of institutions listed in the fourteen- volume N ation al Union C a ta lo g o f M an u script C ollection s and the commission’s 1961 G u ide to A rchives an d M anuscripts in the United States, may be ordered for $25, payable to the National Archives Trust Fund, from the Publications Sales Branch (NEPS), National Archives and Records Service, Washington, DC 20408. • T h e I n d e x to t h e L i b r a r y o f C o n g r e s s Cataloging S ervice Bulletin is now available in a final ed ition indexing b u lle tin s 1 - 1 2 5 , Ju n e 1945-Spring 1978. This 90-page index, with 2 ,3 0 0 en tries, in­ cludes a new section: an extensive table of con­ tents for each bulletin. The index provides access to all changes to, and interpretations of, the A nglo-A m erican C atalogin g Rules as announced in C ataloging Service. An annual cumulative index to C ataloging S er­ vice Bulletin beginning with no. 1, Summer 1978, is also available. The index will be the same size as C a ta lo g in g S e r v ic e B u lle t in , th re e -h o le punched, and p rinted on yellow paper. It is available for $5. Orders for the Index to bulletins 1-125 or for the annual cumulative index should be sent to Nancy B. Olson, Box 863, Lake Crys­ tal, MN 56055. • The Union L ib r a r y C a ta lo g u e o f P en n sy l­ vania on M icrofilm has been made available for sale by the Pennsylvania Area Library and Infor­ mation Network and the Union Library Catalog of Pennsylvania (PALINET/ULC). The Union L ib ra ry C atalogu e o f Pennsylvania is a file of approximately 4 ½million bibliographic entries listing locations of items in more than 200 libraries in Pennsylvania, of which 127 are cur­ rently active. A main entry file compiled from 1936 through 1975, the C a ta lo g u e was microfilm ed in two stages and consists of two sequences: a main file, of four million entries through the early 1970s with no single cutoff date and a supplement of 6 0 0 ,0 0 0 en tries rec eiv ed through D e c e m b e r 1975. The Union L ib ra ry C atalogu e on M icrofilm is available in the form of 16mm negative microfilm on 353 3M ® cartridges, selected for their high­ speed retrieval and specific indexing capabilities, which are compatible only with a 3M ® cartridge reader or reader-printer. The microfilm is accompanied by an index con­ taining approximately 14,000 en tries keyed to index register numbers on the 3M ® cartridge reader, enabling rapid access to any entry in the film. An introduction to the index explains the scope, arrangement, and use o f the C a ta lo g u e and identifies the symbols for library locations. The inclusion of a location on a microfilm does not necessarily mean that the item is available for interlibrary loan from the institution that owns it. The main file and supplement with indexes are available for $3,350 plus shipping. The main file with index may b e purchased sep arately for $2,845 plus shipping, and the supplement with index may be purchased separately for $550 plus shipping. Orders are to be placed with PALIN ET and Union Library Catalogue of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104. Institutions will be invoiced the appropriate amount, and the film will subsequently be ordered shipped from the manufacturer. • T h e w riting o f an annual rep ort is a standard, yearly activity in most large library or­ ganizations. SPEC flyer/kit 49, T h e Use o f An­ nual R e p o rts ‚ finds that administrators use re­ ports for several reasons—as communication links with library users and university administration and as tools for developing public support and influ en cin g acce p ta n ce o f lib rary goals and programs. The flyer, based on a review of seventy-two NEW FROM ISI® FOR 1979 Index to Social Sciences & Humanities ProceedingsTM Send for our the unique table-of-contents FREE flyer. fo rm a t th a t displays n ot o n ly the proceedings title , b u t also in fo rm a tio n on The fly e r describes a new individual papers. Y o u 'll service fro m ISI — available in 1979 — the Index to see examples fro m each o f ISSHP'sSocial Sciences & H um ani­ six index sections — and how easy it is to ties Proceedings. It details search the 1,000 proceed­the contents and coverage ings (over 20,0 00 in d iv i­o f this im p o rta n t new re f­ dual papers) covers erence to o l to the c o n fe r­ ISSHP annually. The examples w ill ence lite ra tu re o f the social show you how q u ic k ly and sciences and hum anities. easily you can id e n tify in ­ Y o u 'll fin d samples o f the dividual authors and papers main entries in ISSHPTM, in in the conference literature. The new fly e r is F R E E . F or y o u r co p y, sim ply send us the coupon below. Please send me a free co py o f y o u r new b o o k le t describing the IN D E X TO S O C IA L SCIENCES & H U M A N IT IE S P R O C E E D IN G S ™ 90 current annual reports of members of the Associa­ tion of Research Libraries, discusses the format, purpose, and content of reports issued over the past three years. It also suggests how reports can be used to advance the library’s position within the university setting. The accompanying 109-page kit contains four complete reports and excerpts illustrating various approaches to report writing: four examples of a goals/future approach, five focusing on un iversity-library relations and support, and seven illustrating ways to inform readers o f inter­ nal library issues. Kit/Flyer 49, The Use o f An­ n u a l R e p o r t s (N ovem b er-D ecem ber 1978), is available for $7.50 to ARL members and SPEC subscribers and for $15 to all others, from the Participants Rate Boston Conference What did participants think about the first ACRL National Conference held in Boston in November? In order to obtain an answer to this ques­ tion, conference planners inserted an evalua­ tion questionnaire in every registration pac­ ket. Twenty-four percent of those who regis­ tered for the conference returned the ques­ tionnaire. Among this group, 35 percent rated the conference “excellent,” and 51 percent judged it “very good.” A follow-up questionnaire mailed to 200 conference participants brought a similar pat­ tern of response. Of the 185 persons who re­ turned this questionnaire, 30 percent rated the conference “excellent,” and 51 percent judged it “very good.” What did participants like about the confer­ ence? Their comments on the questionnaires singled out for praise the planning and organi­ zation of the conference, the absence of com­ mittee meetings, the manageable size, and the focus on academic librarianship. One par­ ticipant noted that “the number of registrants was sufficient to provide intellectual stimula­ tion, but not so large as to make participation difficult.” At the heart of the conference schedule w ere the eight m ajor invited papers and sixty-six contributed papers. One comment sums up the response of many people to the paper sessions: “From my perspective… the paramount achievement of the ACRL meeting was the contribution of papers. Librarianship has so far failed to follow the lead of every oth er discipline in using meetings for the broad dissemination of information. Some of the papers were first rate, others weak, but taken as a whole, the papers were a great suc­ cess.” Office of Management Studies, Association of Re­ search Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N .W ., Washington, DC 20036 (prepayment re­ quired). • The New England Chapter o f ACRL has published A D irectory o f B ib liog rap h ic Instruc­ tion Program s in New England A cadem ic L ib r a r ­ ies. The computer-produced directory covers pro­ grams in 115 libraries in detail and includes an 83-page classified index. A limited number of copies are available for $2 each from the com­ piler, Joan Stockard, Wellesley College Library, W ellesley MA 02181. Orders must be accom­ panied by a check made out to ACRL New Eng­ land Chapter and by a self-addressed label. RECEIVED (Selected items will be reviewed in future is­ sues of C ollege & R esearch L ibraries.) Progress in E ducating the L ib ra ry User, edited by John Lubans, Jr. (Bowker, 1978, $15.95), is meant to complement and update the 1974 vol­ ume, Educating the L ib ra r y User, also edited by Lubans. The new volume includes fifteen papers on “recent international trends, innovations, and new directions in the field.” Other recent works on bibliographic instruction include the P roceed in g s from the Southeastern Conference on Approaches to Bibliographic In­ struction, March 16-17, 1978. Cerise Oberman- Soroka is the editor, and it is available for $7 from the Continuing Education Office, College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C. Stuart Wayne Miller’s L ib ra ry Use Instruction in S elected A m erican C olleges has been issued as no. 134 in the Occasional Papers series by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science. Among other new titles in the Illinois Occa­ sional Papers series are Helen Q. Schroyer’s A G u id e to a C o u rse in G ov ern m en t D ocum ents (no. 135) and Gordon Ste v e n so n ’s A n d r e a s S ch leierm a ch e rs B ib liog rap h ic Classification an d Its R elationship to th e D ew ey D ecim al a n d Li­ brary o f Congress Classifications (no. 136). Single copies of the Occasional Papers are available at $2 each and may be ordered from the Publications Office, 249 Armory Building, University of Illi­ nois, Champaign, IL 61820. Two recent reports in the British Library Re­ search and Development series are Curriculum D evelopm en t in L ib ra r ia n sh ip a n d In fo rm ation Scien ce—Proceedings o f a W orkshop H eld at the C ollege o f L ibrarian sh ip , W ales (BLR& D Report 5439, 1978, $13) and R. K. Fisher’s L ib rary Ser­ v ic es to U n iversity E x ten sion S tu d en ts in th e USA: A C ritical Survey, with a C o m parative As­ sessm ent o f E qu ivalent Services in G reat Britain (BLR&D Report 5432, 1978, $7). Fisher, librar­ ian at the University of Birmingham, was one of 91 the speakers at the 1978 Boston A CRL confer­ ence. (Both reports are available from the British L ib ra ry R & D D e p a rtm e n t, S h e ra to n H ou se, Great Chapel S t., London W1V 4B H .) ALA has recently published two new books by Robert B. Downs, 1978 recipient o f the A CRL Baker & Taylor Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award. The first is the second edition of his B o o h s that C h a n g e d th e W o r ld (ALA, 1978, $15). T he second edition expands upon the first by in c lu d in g w orks from th e a n c ie n t and medieval worlds and by enlarging its coverage of scientific writings. The second work, In S ea rc h o f N ew H orizon s: E p ic T ales o f T ra v el a n d E x p lo ra ­ tion (ALA, 1978, $15), includes twenty-four es­ says on major writings, ranging from Herodotus on the Persian W ars to Sir John Hunt on the climbing o f Mount Everest. Ruth W einstock’s T he G ray in g o f th e C am pu s presents a short report on older persons returing to educational studies. The new study from the Educational Facilities Laboratories is designed to assist educators in planning and im plem enting necessary alterations and programs necessary for the “successful age integration o f the cam pus.” (Available from E F L , 850 Third Ave., New York, NY 10022, $8 paper.) Pierian Press has issued as the second volume in its Library Research Guide Series Thomas G. Kirk’s L ib r a r y R esea rc h G u id e to B io lo g y : Illu s­ tra ted S ea r c h S trateg y a n d S o u rc es (Pierian Pr., 1978, $ 8 .5 0 cloth, $ 4 .5 0 paper). As a companion volume to the authors’ earlier volume on abstracting, Academic Press has pub­ lished Harold Borko and Charles L. B ernier’s In ­ dexin g C o n ce p ts a n d M eth od s (Academic Press, 1978, $14). R e c e n t works in lib ra ria n sh ip from L in n e t Books (Shoe String Press) include C h et Gough and Taverekere Srikantaiah’s System s A nalysis in L i b r a r i e s : A Q u e s tio n a n d A n s w e r A p p r o a c h (1978, $9.50); Richard Fothergill and Ian Butch­ art’s N o n -B o o k M aterials in L ib r a r ie s : A P ra ctica l G u id e (1978, $ 1 7 .5 0 ); the second edition o f J. Gordon Brew er’s T he L ite ra tu re o f G e o g ra p h y : A G u id e to its O rg a n isatio n a n d Use (1978, $15); and volume one of Brian Redfern’s O rg a n isin g M usic in L ib r a r ie s (1978, $9.50). In the volume, A s M uch to L e a r n a s to T ea c h (1979, $1 2 .5 0 ), fourteen colleagues and former students of L ester Asheim present a series of essays in his honor. Joel M. L ee and Beth A. Hamilton have edited the festschrift. J. B. Howell is the editor of S p ec ia l C o llection s in L ib r a r ie s o f t h e S o u th ea st (Southeastern L i­ brary Assn., 1978, $15). Based on a regional sur­ vey conducted in 1977, this work is designed to update in part the R obert Downs 1938 survey. (Available from the Southeastern Library Assn., P .O . Box 987, Tucker, GA 30084.) A new collection of articles on O C L C is in­ cluded in Anne M arie Allison and Ann Allan’s O C L C : A N a t io n a l L i b r a r y N e t w o r k (Enslow , 1979, $14.95). The editors solicited contributions from “individuals who were at the ‘cutting edge’ of O C L C — in regional networks, library schools, and libraries.” They include Glyn Evans, Teresa Strozik, Jack William Scott, D. Kaye Gapen, Alan D. Hogan, and Harry Kamens. (Address for the publisher: Enslow Publishers, 60 Crescent Place, Box 301, Short Hills, NJ 07078.) Another recent work on O C LC is Gabriele E . Cope’s. eighty-one-page volume, C o p in g w ith th e O C L C C a talog in g S u bsystem (Ego Books, 1978, $8.40 prepaid. Available from the publisher, 6011 Meadowbrook Lane, Lincoln, NB 68510.) The Canada Council has published the report of its Consultative Group on University Research L ib raries. T h e rep ort, e n titled U n iv ersity R e­ se a r c h L ib r a r ie s , presents a review of the state of research libraries in Canada and offers a number of recommendations to the Council— among them the development of a national lending library; a program to maintain and develop specialized col­ lections o f national significance in Canadian uni­ versity libraries; reserving funds for special acqui­ sitions; and creation of a microform collection of C anadiana. T h e re p o rt is a v a ila b le from th e Canada C ouncil, P .O . Box 1047, Ottawa, O n­ tario, K 1P 5V8. Price, Canada $2.50; other coun­ tries $3. D onald D avin son , head lib rarian at L eed s Polytechnic, has prepared a revised edition of his You're one o f a kind. UNIQUE! So is AASL: th e o n ly national m edia organization serving library media professionals, grades K-12. Join AASL. Write: A m erican A ssociation of School Librarians, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, III.60611. 92 work, T h e P e r io d ic a ls C o lle c tio n (W estview , 1978, $18.75). It is divided into three parts—the history of periodicals, their bibliographic control, and organization and management of periodicals. Eva L. Kiewitt’s E valuatin g In fo rm a tio n R e­ triev a l System s: T he PROBE P rogram (G reen­ wood, 1979, $15.95) presents a case study of the ERIC/PROBE Project at Indiana University, a local program developed to search ERIC tapes. The volume “describes the history and m eth­ odology of computer retrieval system evaluation … in order to determine the best way to con­ duct the evaluation of P R O B E .” An earlier article on PROBE by Kiewitt appeared in C &RL, No­ vember 1975. A C om puter N etw ork Protocol f o r L ib rary an d Inform ation Science A pplications is the title of a report released by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. It describes a “proposed computer-to-com puter protocol for electronic communication of digital information over a nationwide library bibliographic network … regardless of differences in computer archi­ tecture or operating systems at the individual in­ stallations. Single copies of the report are avail­ able without charge from NCLIS (Suite 601, 1717 K St., N .W ., Washington, DC 20036). Also avail­ able for sale at $2.75 from the Government Print­ ing Office. In his B la c k P lots & B la c k C h a r a c t e r s : A H a n d b o o k f o r A fr o -A m e r ic a n L i t e r a t u r e (Gaylord, 1979, $25), Robert L. Southgate gives plot summaries for ninety-five novels, plays, poems, essays, and folklore, followed by a dic­ tionary on Afro-American literature and history and two bibliographies. The New York State North Country Three Rs Council has prepared a G uide to In d ex ed P eri­ odicals: A List o f Titles C urrently In d ex ed by H. W. W ilson C o . In d ex es. The guide lists about 2,600 current titles included in the indexes as of late 1978. Copies are available at $2 from the North Country R e fe r e n c e and R esearch R e ­ sources C ouncil, P .O . Box 568, Canton, NY 13617. Recent library statistics for the 105 members of the Association of Research Libraries are assem­ bled in ARL Statistics, 1977-78 (ARL, 1978, $5). In her introduction, compiler Suzanne O. Fran­ kie notes a continuation of the themes for the 1970s: Allocation of the library budget has re­ m ained co nstan t, with 58 p e r c e n t used for salaries and wages and approximately 30 percent for materials; although materials expenditures rose 10.7 percent in the last year, volumes added increased only by .3 percent and number of cur­ rent serials by 3 .5 percent; although there was a 10.7 percent increase in expenditures for salaries in the last year, number of staff have increased by only 1.7 percent. ■■ COMPUTER-BASED CIRCULATION SYSTEMS Library Technology Reports has published an update of its July/S ep­ tember, 1975 report on automated circulation control systems. The new report by William Scholz describes and evaluates the following systems: LIBS 100 (CL System s Inc.) / SCION (System s C o ntrol, Inc.) (ULISYS Universal L ib ra ry Systems, Ltd.) G aylo rd’s C irc u la tio n C o ntrol System 3M ’s Inventory C o ntrol System. The 92 page report is contained in the May, 1977 issue of LTR now available to non-subscribers as a single issue for $40. L ib ra ry T echn ology R eports A m e ric a n L ib ra ry A sso cia tio n 50 East H uron S tree t C hicago , Illin o is 60611