ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries July /August 1986 / 459 breathtaking and I could not get enough of it. This was the first program meeting for the Mon­ tana Chapter, which also includes the Special L i­ braries Division members. The meeting, which in­ cluded an A CRL Continuing Education course tau g h t by M aureen S u lliv a n , was en title d “Librarians— An Endangered Species? Challenges for Librarians in the 1990s.” Gail Schlachter, presi­ dent of Reference Services Press, and I shared the platform in addressing this intriguing theme. After our presentation the audience (approximately 50 participants) broke into small groups to discuss the “ negative and positive forces” that librarians would have to deal with in the 1990s. A summary of the discussions concluded the program. In the morning I also addressed the joint meeting of the Montana Academic and Special Libraries Divisions and spoke about the im p ortan ce of ACRL and its chapters. In the evening I talked briefly about the importance of being an ALA and A C R L member at a dinner for M ontana ALA members. All in all my visit to the Montana ACRL chapter was a most enjoyable and educational one. Mon­ tana librarians are few in number and spread over an enormously large territory, but they are eager to encompass new technologies and new ideas and they certainly exhibit much cooperation and the warmest hospitality. While there I could not help but feel that I was experiencing the spirit of pioneer and frontier hospitality, aptly demonstrated by the never-ending supply of homemade cookies at the exhibits’ hospitality table, as well as the warmth and assistance provided by my hostesses, Barbara DeFelice and Janice Brandon.—H annelore B. R a­ der. News from the Field Acquisitions • Brow n University L ib r a r y , P rov id en ce, Rhode Island, has established a collection of more than 1,200 items relating to Judaism, to be known as the Ernest S. Frerichs Library of Biblical and Ju ­ daic Studies, after a former Dean of the Graduate School. The foundation of the collection is a gift of Judaic Studies materials from Professor Jacob S. Neusner, emphasizing analyses and criticism of the Mishna, Talmud, Bible, Midrash and general reli­ gious thought; ancient history; archaeology and art; and general Jewish studies and thought. ♦ The Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, has acquired some important and rare historical items, including Zadock Cramer’s The Ohio and Missis­ sippi N avigator, Third Corrected Edition. The book was a very popular guide to western rivers and went through twelve editions. Other new Soci­ ety acquisitions include: Col. James Sm ith’s A Treatise on the M ode and M anner o f Indian W ar­ fa r e , printed by Joel R. Lyle in Paris, Kentucky, in 1812, an early guide to Indian fighting; and the second known copy of an unrecorded broadside of Thomas Jefferson’s inaugural speech, printed on silk by Nathaniel Willis in Chillicothe in 1801. All items are available for researchers investigating the early history of the Northwest Territory. •Rutgers University’s Archibald Alexander L i­ brary, New Brunswick, New Jersey, has recently acquired the only known surviving copy of a French book of 1534. The little volume (3” x 4 ”) is a c o lle c tio n of the poetry of C lem en t M arot (1496-1544) to which he gave the title L ’A doles­ c e n c e C lem en tin e. The edition was previously thought to have appeared in Paris, but is now known to have been printed in Lyons, and is the earliest known illustrated edition. The book was first published in Paris in 1532 and was followed by the Suite d e L A d olescen ce C lem entine in 1533. Al­ though best sellers in their time, copies are now ex­ tremely rare. The Suite, also present in the newly acquired volume, was constantly added to as Marot wrote new poems, and so the successive new editions put out by enterprising publishers enable the chronology of this group of Marot’s poems to be more firmly established as his books come to light. A pirated edition, the book also gives information on the activities of a printer who evaded the equiv­ alent of today’s copyright laws. Grants • Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan, has received an NEH grant of more than $82,000 to establish a direct visual ac­ cess system for the photograph collection in the Museum’s Archival and Library Collections. The project will make more than 30,000 images from the Ford Motor Company Photograph Collection, currently staff-serviced and largely unresearched, directly accessible to researchers. The photos illus- 460 / C & R L News tr ate products, m anufacturing plants, industrial design and m anufacturing processes, and labor and social history topics from 1900 to 1950. They also d o cu m e n t m an y of H en ry F o r d ’s n o n automotive interests. • Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, has received a grant of $600,000 from the Pew M e morial Trust to complete automation of the Uni­ versity’s Libraries. W ith the new automation proj­ e c t, the M ain and L aw L ib ra rie s w ill acq u ire hardware and software for an automated circula tion system, a patron access catalog, an acquisi­ tions subsystem, and a periodicals control subsys­ tem. •The New York University Libraries have been awarded a $1 million grant by the Pew Memorial Trust to develop a prototype interconnected com ­ puter information system. The grant will be used to develop and test a new application of standard tele­ communications protocols using the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model formulated by th e In te r n a tio n a l Stan d ard s O rg a n iz a tio n (ISO ). The OSI model allows dissimilar computer systems to com m unicate and exchange inform a­ tion. This reference model will be used to link Bob- C at and R L G ’s Research Library Inform ation Net­ work (RLIN ) database. The OSI model will let NYU establish the link without the intervening step Friedlander new assistant editor Gus Friedlander has joined A C R L as assistant editor of C &R L News, filling the position recently vacated by Lorraine D orff. His most recent posi tio n w as as a ra d io new sw riter in the N a­ tional Broadcasting D e­ p a r tm e n t o f U n ited Press In te r n a tio n a l in C h ic a g o . He has also worked as a copy editor for E n cy clo p ed ia B ri­ tannica, and is actively involved as a musician and a teacher. F rie d la n d e r holds a bachelor’s degree in E n ­ glish from Pomona C ol­ lege, C larem ont, C a li­ Gus Friedlander fornia. His responsibili­ ties at A C R L include compiling the Appointments, News from the Field, and Calendar columns for C &R L News, coordinating the classified advertis­ ing and production of A C R L section newsletters, and general assistance w ith the produ ction of C &R L News and Rare Books and Manuscripts L i brarianship. ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ of learning the commands of different database systems. W hen linked, the two computers will then e x ch a n g e b o th b ib lio g r a p h ic and a u th o r ity records— the first such exchange between a utility and a local system. Once the new system is installed and tested at NYU, it will be generalized and made available to other libraries wishing to participate in distributed processing networks. NYU’s Tam im ent Institute Library has also been awarded a $20,000 grant by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), to establish a video­ cassette collection of films on the history of labor and leftist politics in the United States. In several instances the makers of independent documenta­ ries began th eir research in T a m im e n t’s book, manuscript, photograph, and oral history collec­ tions. • O berlin C o lleg e, O h io , h as re ce iv e d a $ 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 grant from the C harles E . C ulpeper Foundation of New York City. The grant will sup­ port the installation of an online, automated cata­ log and circulation system in the Oberlin College Library system. Installation of the system is sched­ uled for 1987. • Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massa- chusetts, has been awarded a $10,269 Conserva­ tion Project Support G rant by the Institute of Mu­ seum Services for museum projects during 1986 and 1987. The grant, matched by Old Sturbridge Village, will fund personnel training to perform paper deacidification as part of the Museum’s li­ brary conservation program. Research methodol­ ogy for the proper conservation of painted tinware and a database of paints and finishing materials used in identifying antique tinware will also be de­ veloped. News Note •U .S. Department of Education assistant secre­ tary for educational research and im provement Chester E . Finn Jr. has named a 13-member panel to study the redesign and operation of the Ed u ca­ tional Resources Inform ation Center (E R IC ). The redesign study panel will advise on the future di­ rection of E R IC . Finn has asked the panel, drawn prim arily from the information science and educa­ tion communities, to examine E R IC to determine whether it adequately meets current requests for inform ation and is technologically prepared to meet future needs; whether its dissemination ef­ forts effectively meet the needs of current and po­ tential users, and whether awareness and access to E R IC can be improved; and whether its quality control procedures are adequate to assure that the materials put into the system are accurate, reliable and of high quality. Six individuals including a principal and a college president were asked to re­ view the recommendations of the E R IC Redesign Study Panel. A final report from the panel, which meets tw ice, is expected in September.