ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 222 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 N o t h e D a m e and the Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia announce the purchase, by the university, of books and bound periodi­ cals from the William Bacon Stevens Library of the Divinity School. Approximately 20,500 titles in about 29,500 physical volumes are involved in the transac­ tion, which will enhance the University of Notre Dame’s holdings in such areas as Ameri­ can Protestantism, Anglicanism, church history, ecumenism, and liturgies. This acquisition will bring Notre Dame’s holdings in religion and church history to approximately 130,000 vol­ umes, and represents the largest single increase in the university’s religion collection in recent years. The sale of the books by the Divinity School was prompted by the merger of the Philadel­ phia institution with another seminary of the Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The insti­ tution resulting from this merger will be located at Cambridge and will be named the Episcopal Divinity School. The approximately 30,000 vol­ umes retained by the Divinity School and to be moved to Cambridge will provide a greatly strengthened library resource for Episcopal theological education in Cambridge as well as contribute to the area library resources of the Boston Theological Institute. The books from Philadelphia destined for both Notre Dame and Cambridge will be cata oged into the collections at their new locations and in due time will be reported as holdings in the appropriate regional union catalogs. • The A m e r i c a n A n t i q u a r i a n S o c i e t y has acquired a rare collection of 134 of the earliest laws of the United States enacted by the first four congresses between 1790 and 1796. Acqui­ sition of these documents was made possible by a gift of $6,800 from the First Federal Sav­ ings and Loan Association of Worcester. In 1789, individual laws were first printed immediately upon enactment: one copy each for the president, the secretary of state, each senator and representative, and two for each state. Additional copies were printed later for distribution to state officials and government agencies, so that the total printing for an im­ portant law might run as high as 300 to 400 copies. These slip laws were not intended for public dissemination and government offi­ cials seldom filed them for long. They were rare even one hundred years ago and are even more so today. The laws in this collection fall within the pe­ riod 1790 to 1796. Of the First Congress, sec­ ond session, the collection consists of about half the laws passed; of the Second Congress, first session, about three quarters; of the Third Con­ gress, both sessions, virtually complete; and of the Fourth Congress, first session, nearly com­ plete. All these acts of Congress were printed by Childs and Swaine, first in New York and later in Philadelphia when the government moved there in 1791. In all but a very few cases the laws are in surprisingly good condi­ tion. Most of them were never bound and all are uncut, just as issued. Examples of some of the most significant of these laws: the first American copyright law (May 31, 1790); Hamilton’s act providing for the debt of the United States (August 4, 1790); an act to regulate trade and intercourse with Indian tribes (July 22, 1790); the first law establishing a uniform rule for naturalization (March 26, 1790); the act authorizing the president to call out the militia (May 2, 1792); and the act establishing a federal mint and reg­ ulating coins of the U.S. (April 2, 1792). • With the receipt of the original illustra­ tions and manuscripts for Edwin Tunis’ last book, Tavern at the Ferry, the U n i v e r s i t y o f O r e g o n Library is pleased to announce that the entire working collection of this outstanding American author and illustrator of books for children and adults is now available for re­ search. The collection is a bequest of the late Mr. Tunis, who died in August of 1973. Tunis was one of those rare authors and il­ lustrators who saved all his notes, sketches, and working files in addition to the finished draw­ ings for the book illustrations and the final pub­ lisher’s manuscripts for eleven books, his entire output. The collection includes about 2,085 original drawings plus the working material for each book and was organized and inventoried by Nancy Farmer of the library staff. • New collections in the Urban Archives Center of T e m p l e U n i v e r s i t y Library in­ clude local records of the Big Brother Associa­ tion (1915–1970), Citizen’s Committee on Public Education (including the Public Educa­ tion Association) (1907–1967), Pennsylvania Child Labor Association (1905–1915), De­ fender Association (1968–1974), A Modem Constitution for Pennsylvania, Inc. (1965– 1968), Citizen’s Council of Montgomery Coun­ ty (1965–1968), and Penn-Jersey Transporta­ 223 tion Study (1958–1965). The last collection “File-Search” is capable of accommodating an unlimited number of reels of film, with each reel containing 32,000 pages of data. Each page of data is coded according to content. The machine can search its memory for materials on any of thousands of specific oceanographic topics. The system is expected to be operational in the library during the fall semester. In making the equipment available, Rear Admiral J. Edward Snyder, Jr., oceanog­ rapher of the Navy, said he viewed the loan as a continuation of the long and fruitful coopera­ tion between the Navy and TAMU in working toward common goals in ocean research and de­ velopment programs. TAMU’s Oceanography Department has received approximately $1.1 million from the Navy this year in support of its research programs and ship operations. • The National Endowment for the Arts ha awarded a grant to the F i l m a n d T e l e v i s i o n S t u d y C e n t e r o f S o u t h e r n C a l i f o r n i a to compile a union catalog of motion picture and television manuscript and special collections throughout the eleven western states. The Study Center is a consortium of USC, UCLA, Loyola, the Motion Picture Academy, the AFI, Cal Arts, LA County Museum of Art, Television Academy, and FILMEX. The grant will make possible for the first time data on all film and television manuscript and other col­ lections in California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho, and Arizona. By means of this union catalog a film student or historian will be able to determine easily where his source materials are located, if they are within the purview of this catalog, without lengthy preliminary investigation. It will also establish precisely what source materials are now held in this area. Anne G. Schlosser, librarian at the AFI’s Charles K. Feldman Library and vice-chairman of the Study Center, will be project director for the catalog and Linda Harris Mehr will be bibliographer. M E E T I N G S O c t o b e r 24– 26: T h e K e n t u c k y L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n Annual Conference will be held at the Ramada Inn in Louisville. The main speakers will be Dr. Jean Lowrie, the immedi­ ate past president of ALA, and Frances Neel Cheney, the associate director of the Peabody School of Library Science. Other featured speakers will be Elaine Konigsburg, author of A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, and the team of Myrl Ricking and Dr. Robert E. Booth, authors of the recent book, Personnel Utiliza­ tion in Libraries: A Systems Approach. For fur­ includes the complete raw data from the mas­ sive surveys and home interview series done in 1960. The Archives also acquired scrapbooks of local political figures H. W. Salus, Sr. (1924–1930) and R. W. Pitman (1945– 1949), and early records of the Philadelphia local of the American Federation of Teachers (1934–1941). Major additions to existing col­ lections include case records and office files of the Philadelphia American Civil Liberties Union (1950–1970) and bound minutes and ledgers of the local YMCA (1854– 1939). • The L o y o l a -N o t b e D a m e L i b r a r y i n Baltimore has announced the opening of a per­ manent exhibition of some 300 rare fore-edge paintings donated to the institution by Marion and Henry J. Knott of Baltimore. The collection of volumes, most of which date back to the eighteenth and nineteenth cen­ turies, is one of the largest of its kind in the country and features the fore-edge art which has all but disappeared from bookbinding to­ day. Fore-edge painting is done, usually in wa tercolors, on the inner edges of a book while the pages are fanned open. When the book is closed, the painting is invisible under the deco­ rated gilt edges. Valued in excess of $150,000, the Knott col­ lection is the largest of the special collections housed in the library which serves the Charles Street campuses of Loyola and Notre Dame of Maryland. Owing to the fine care and concern of Mr. Knott, the books remain in excellent con­ dition and are doubly valuable for their fine bindings, most all of which are in leather. A number of the Knott books contain up to six paintings on their edges, and the painted scenes depict landscapes, religious scenes, sea­ scapes, sports, or messages. The newest book in the collection, painted in 1953, depicts the coronation coach of Elizabeth II leaving Buck­ ingham Palace, while one of the oldest, dating back to 1556, bears a portrait of Erasmus. G R A N T S • The Navy is lending T e x a s A&M U n i v e r ­ s i t y ’ s Library and Oceanography Department a $250,000 data storage and retrieval system which will serve as the nucleus for a project to cope with the “information explosion” in ma­ rine-related fields. In addition to serving TAMU’s own oceanographers and other re­ searchers interested in marine data, the system — dubbed “File-Search”—will be available to qualified representatives of other institutions, government, and industry. The new system stores the data from sci­ entific books or journals in its memory drum. s ther information contact: Tom Sutherland, 224 KLA Executive Secretary, 555 Washington St., Paducah, KY 42001. O c t o b e r 27–29: D r u g I n f o r m a t i o n . The Drug Information Association will sponsor a symposium on unusual and underutilized drug information resources. It will be held at the Hil­ ton Inn 1776, in Williamsburg, Virginia. Regis­ tration is limited to the first 200. Registration information can be obtained from: Dr. Fred Salter, VADICS Center, Virginia Common­ wealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA 23298. N o v e m b e r 2 : P o t o m a c T e c h n i c a l P r o ­ c e s s i n g L i b r a r i a n s . Annual meeting to be held at the Sheraton-Park Hotel & Motor Inn, Wash­ ington, D.C. N o v e m b e r 3–6: The 1974 M o u n t a i n P l a i n s L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n ’s Annual Con­ vention will be held at the Sahara Tahoe Ho­ tel, Lake Tahoe, Nevada. “A New Direction” will be the theme. Those interested in receiv­ ing further information concerning the conven­ tion should contact Mr. Joseph Edelen, I. D. Weeks Library, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, in order to be placed on the mailing list. All of those interested in ex­ hibiting at the convention should contact the local arrangements chairman, Dr. Larry W. Crandall, Learning Resources Center, Western Nevada Community College, 813 North Carson St., Carson City, NV 89701. N o v e m b e r 6: B i b l i o g r a p h y . The Graduate School of Library Service at Rutgers University has announced its fourth annual Richard H. Shoemaker lecture on bibliography. The lec­ ture, “Priorities in Bibliography,” will be de­ livered by Mr. Daniel Melcher. It will be given at 8:00 p.m. in Lecture Hall 114, Hill Math Statistics Center, Busch Campus, New Bruns­ wick, New Jersey. N o v e m b e r 1 0 – 1 3 : C o l l e c t i v e B a r g a i n i n g i n L i b r a r i e s will be the topic of the twentieth annual Allerton Park Institute of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science. The institute will be held at Allerton House, the university’s conference center at Robert Al lerton Park, near Urbana. The conference will include papers and discussions both by librari­ ans and by experts from the field of industrial relations, including arbitrators, union represent­ atives, lawyers, etc. The trend toward unioniza­ tion and collective bargaining has been pro­ nounced in American libraries in the last few years, and the institute topic is therefore of par­ ticular current interest to librarians. The institute is co-sponsored by the Illinois State Library and the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science. The in­ stitute chairman is Frederick A. Schlipf, assist­ ant professor of Library Science. Further in­ formation may be obtained from Mr. Brandt W. Pryor, Institute Supervisor (OP–003), Univer­ sity of Illinois Office of Continuing Education and Public Service, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. N o v e m b e r 14–16: The V i r g i n i a L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n Annual Conference will be held at The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia. For further information contact: Sylvia E. Dawson, Local Arrangements Committee, Charles Pinck­ ney Jones Memorial Library, Inc., 406 West Riverside St., Covington, VA 24426. N o v e m b e r 16–23: N a t i o n a l a n d I n t e r ­ n a t i o n a l L i b r a r y P l a n n i n g is the theme for the first IFLA General Council Meeting to be held in the United States. The meeting will be the 40th General Council Meeting of the Inter­ national Federation of Library Associations (IFL A ). The theme is related to the UNESCO International Conference on Planning of Na­ tional Overall Documentation, Library and Archives Infrastructures to be scheduled for Paris in late September 1974. The IFLA 1974 Conference will be held in Washington, D.C., at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Overall conference chairman is Robert Vosper, vice-president of IFLA and professor of library service at the University of Califor­ nia at Los Angeles. Speakers at the plenary sessions will include Dr. Frederick H. Burk hardt, chairman, National Commission on Li­ braries and Information Science, and Dr. Har­ ry T. Hookway, executive director, the British Library, London. For further information, contact: IFLA 1974 Conference Secretariat, c/o Association of Re­ search Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036; (202) 232-2434. N o v e m b e r 22–24: I n t e r n a t i o n a l D o c u ­ m e n t s . The International Documents Task Force of the American Library Association has announced a workshop on “International Docu­ ments and the Depository Library” to be held in Philadelphia on 22-24 November 1974. The workshop has been planned to coordinate with the annual conference of the International Fed­ eration of Library Associations, and it will cov­ er, through speakers and panelists from interna­ tional libraries, and group discussions, the fol­ lowing topics: 1. international documents in the research li­ brary; 2. the sources, information practices, and poli­ cies of intergovernmental organizations; 22 5 3. acquisition and organization of international documents; 4. utilization of international documents; 5. the depository system, its history, and evalua­ tion; and 6. the depository relationship, its effect and its meaning for the library. For that part of the workshop concerned with “International Documents: The State of the Art,” Sources, Organization, Utilization o f International Documents is recommended as background material. This publication contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on Documentation of the United Nations and Other Intergovernmental Organizations, held in 1972 in Geneva, and has been published by FID. Copies are available from the Sales De­ partment of the Federation Internationale de Documentation for $20.00 ( FID 506). Further information about the workshop is available from Carolyn Kohler, Government Publications Department, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA 52242. A registration fee of $45.00 covers luncheons and dinners. M I S C E L L A N Y • The Heinrich H. Fick Collection of Ger man-Americana has been established in the Special Collections Department of the U n i v e r ­ s i t y o f C i n c i n n a t i Library. It is one of the largest collections of German-American prose and poetry in the U.S. The library acquired the collection from Dr. Fick in the 1930s. Fick was the editor of several German-American journals and a well-known German-language poet. His book collection contains most of the Cincinnati German imprints and many rare German- American books such as the first anthology of German-American poetry, Deutsch-Amerikani scher Dichtenυald (Detroit, 1856). Also in the collection are the unpublished autobiographical and literary manuscripts of several German- American poets. One scrapbook contains the autographs and pictures of hundreds of Ger man-American authors. The checklist of the collection was published in German-American Studies (1969–7 0 ). An exhibition of these rare materials will coincide with a symposium at the University of Cincinnati in 1975 on Emigrant Literature. Don H. Tolzmann, reference librarian and bibliographer in Germanic languages and litera­ ture, has assembled and organized the Fick Collection. Mr. Tolzmann has compiled some bibliographies from this collection of Cincinnati German imprints and they are available on re­ quest. • The P e o p l e s B i c e n t e n n i a l C o m m i s s i o n has produced a complete Bicentennial display package to books on the American Revolution, ‘‘In the Minds and Hearts of the People.” The display, especially suited to library and school use, contains eight large posters based on quotes from the founding fathers and mothers, thirty reproductions of revolutionary era en­ gravings, captions and headlines describing the major events and themes of the American Rev­ olution, and a syllabus and study guide com­ piled by Dr. Page Smith, PBC senior staff his­ torian and a Bancroft Award-winning author. “In the Minds and Hearts of the People” can be ordered for $20.00 from the Peoples Bicen­ tennial Commission, Washington, DC 20036. The Peoples Bicentennial Commission has also published material on the American Rev­ olution and the Bicentennial. PBC publications include guides to: “Community Programs for a Peoples Bicentennial”; “Student and Teacher Programs for a Peoples Bicentennial”; religious participation in the Bicentennial; and a special youth activity guide for the Bicentennial. All four guides contain scores of program ideas, ac­ tivities, and suggestions, as well as historical material about the Revolution and its implica­ tions for today. Also included in the kit are study guides, a quote book from the founding mothers and fathers, an American history magazine, and posters and buttons. The com­ plete PBC kit, along with a one year’s subscrip ton to the PBC newsmagazine, Common Sense, costs $10.00. Write to the Peoples Bicentennial Commission, Washington, DC 20036. • The B r i t i s h L i b r a r y Board has ap­ pointed Mr. Maurice Line as director general of its Lending Division at Boston Spa near Wetherby in Yorkshire. Mr. Line has also been appointed by the secretary of state for educa­ tion and science as a full-time member of the Board. Mr. Line served in Glasgow, Southampton, and Newcastle university libraries on his way to Bath, where he was the university librarian from 1968 to 1971. He then became librarian of the National Central Library. When this li­ brary was incorporated into the British Li­ brary’s Lending Division in 1973 he moved with it to Yorkshire, becoming deputy director general under Dr. D. J . Urquhart, who now re­ tires. Mr. Line was a member of the committee set up in the planning stages of the British Library (the British Library Organising Committee), and is a member of the Aslib Council, the Li­ brary Association Council, and the Library Ad­ visory Council (England). He has a particular interest in user surveys, reader instruction, and automation and information services, and has published numerous papers on these and other subjects. He is the author of three books. On its formation in July 1973, the British Li­ brary acquired the library departments of the Announcing Biographical Dictionary of American Labor Leaders This book fills a serious inform ation gap by providing sketches o f over 5 0 0 men and wom en who have had a substantial im pact on the Am erican labor m ovem ent. Although the emphasis is historical, a number o f the leaders o f the co n tem p o rary labor m ovem ent are represented. Each biographical sketch contains n o t only such basic inform ation as time and place of birth and death, m arital status, and educa­ tional achievem ent, but also inform ation on ethnic background and religious affiliation, political party preference, m ajor union positions held, and im p ortan t contributions to the labor m ovem ent. Bibliographical references are given for each subject. A variety o f useful appendices as well as a general subject index are provided. The D ic tio n a ry is part o f G reenw ood’s ongoing e ffo rt to provide significant original reference tools for the social sciences. Gary M Fink E d ito r-¡n -c h ¡e f Milton Cantor A d v is o ry E d ito r LC 7 4 -9 3 2 2 . IS B N 0 -8 3 7 1 -7 6 4 3 -3 . 55 9 pages, appendices, in d e x . $19.95 G R now a a E d iv is E vail N able f W rom io n o f W i llia m h o O u se -R O e g e n D cy In c. PRESS 51 Riverside Avenue, Westport, Connecticut 06880 22 7 British Museum as its Reference Division, and, as its Lending Division, (1 ) the National Lend­ ing Library for Science and Technology, which started life in the early 1960s and built up an international reputation for rapid postal supply by loan or photocopy of scientific journals and books, and (2 ) the National Central Library, which brought with it the important facility of access to the holdings of other libraries and a large stock of humanities and social sciences literature. Lending Division receives some 40,000 loan requests each week and demand is increasing at the rate of about 15 percent per annum. The staff numbers 500. P U B L I C A T I O N S • The Library of Congress has recently pub­ lished To Set a Country Free, an account de­ rived from an exhibition commemorating the Bicentennial of American Independence which is scheduled to open at the Library of Congress on April 24, 1975. That day will mark the oc­ casion of the 175th anniversary of the estab­ lishment of the Library of Congress, which the Sixth Congress created on April 24, 1800, with legislation containing authorization “for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress … and for fitting up a suitable apartment for containing them.” The seventy-four-page softcover booklet on the history of the American Revolution contains more than one hundred rich illustrations, eight in full color, selected from the library’s Geography and Map, Manuscript, Prints and Photographs, and Rare Book divisions. To Set a Country Free is part of the library’s continuing series of pub­ lications designed to further the public’s ac­ quaintance with both the story of the Revolu­ tion and the library’s extensive holdings in Americana. The title is taken from Thomas Paine’s American Crisis: “We fight not to en­ slave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.” To Set a Country Free, produced through the Verner W. Clapp Publication Fund, may be purchased for $4.50 by mail from the Li­ brary of Congress, Information Office, Wash­ ington, DC 20540. • Available from the Columbia University Libraries is The Administrative Organization of the Libraries of Columbia University: A De­ tailed Description. This unit by unit definition of the functional structure of the libraries was developed by a majority of the libraries’ pro­ fessional staff following a study conducted by Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc. and the Library Management Studies Office of the Association of Research Libraries. The primary objective of the study was to provide an organization which would respond more effectively to the changing university and library service environ­ ment. Each unit has been defined in terms of its objectives, functional responsibilities, report­ ing and working relationships, and performance criteria. The resulting unit definitions afford a documentary base for the periodic examination of goals, evaluation of progress or activity rela­ tive to those goals, and adjustment of resources as conditions or objectives change. Copies of the volume may be ordered from Mr. Alfred Lane, Columbia University Libraries, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY 10027. The price is $5.00. The report of the original study is recom­ mended for the best understanding of the de­ tailed descriptions. It is entitled Organization and Staffing o f the Libraries o f Columbia Uni­ versity: A Case Study, and has been published by Redgrave Information Resources Corp., 53 Wilton Rd., Westport, CT 06880. • An index to the Library of Congress Cat­ aloging Service Bulletins, no. 1-107, June 1945–December 1973, has been compiled at Mankato State College, Mankato, Minnesota, by Nancy B. Olson. The index is available for $5.00 from Mrs. Nancy Olson, Box 567, Lake Crystal, MN 56055. • The papers of the conference on Special Black Collections and Archives, held at Ala- FACTS ABOUT FACS Fact 1: FACS stands for Faxon’s Automated Claim System Fact 2: FACS is a new automated system intended to make life a lot easier for you. Fact 3: To place a claim, all you do is complete and return our claim notice form. We then acti­ vate our computer to process the claim to the publisher with com­ plete order and payment informa­ tion included. 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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20007 omprehensive collection of m B A N m n – i t i P T H : r ON MICROFILM The 12 million page collection of the Con­ troller’s Library will be contained on more than 4000 reels of 35 mm microfilm, and can be purchased either as a complete set or in a variety of sub-sets. For instance, microfilm sets of Parliamentary or Non-Parliamentary publications may be purchased separately, either for complete runs or for individual years. ARRANGEMENT A N D ACCESS The microfilm collection is arranged in the same sequence as the HMSO Annual C ata­ logues, and all references to it from the Cumu­ lative Index are by Catalogue year and Cata­ logue page number [e.g., “(70) 1655”]. In order that the reader can go directly from the index entry to the microfilm (without re­ ferring to the Catalogues), an image of each Catalogue page has been reproduced on the microfilm and each publication listed on it has been assigned an “Item N um ber” relative to its position from the top [e.g. “(70) 1657-5”]. T o assist the reader in finding the Catalogue page and the title page of the referenced document on microfilm, we have incorporated two search features into the retrieval system; namely a “Catalogue-Page-Scale” and “Item N um ber Inserts”, each of which appears be­ tween every other microfilm frame. Therefore, once a reference has been selected from the Cumulative Index, the reader can: 1. go directly to the microfilm carton which is clearly marked with the year and C ata­ logue page numbers, 2. locate the Catalogue page on film by matching the Catalogue-Page-Scale pat­ tern on the moving film to the Catalogue- Page-Scale pattern on the microfilm car­ ton, 3. identify the Item Num ber from the Cata­ logue page on microfilm, and 4. search the “Item N um ber Inserts” se­ quentially until one o f the proper inserts (showing the referenced Item Number) is located, a t which time the reader can use the document’s own page numbers to re­ wind to its title page. Alternatively, the reader can go to the years and pages of the HMSO Catalogues themselves to select references from their detailed descrip­ tions (and incidentally, identify the Item N um ­ bers) before referring to the microfilm. 230 PRESTON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Plenty Road, B u n d o o r a , 3 0 8 3 . Vic., Australia HEAD ED U CA TIO N R E S O U R C E C E N T R E P r e s t o n I n s titu te of T ech n o lo g y is o n e o f s ix m u lti­ d iscip lin e co lle g e s o f a d v a n ce d e d u c a tio n s e rv in g the C ity o f M elb ou rn e. I t is d ev elo p in g a n ew c a m p u s a p p r o x i m a te l y 12 m il e s to th e n o rth of M elb ou rn e and a p p r o x im a te ly tw o m ile s n o rth o f L a T r o b e U n iv e r­ s it y , w ith w h ich it h a s c lo s e t ie s . E n g in e e rin g , A ppli c e d S c ie n c e , A rt and D esig n , B u sin e ss S tu d ies, P h y s i ­ c a l E d u ca tio n and S o cia l w ork sch o o ls a r e l o c a te d on th e c a m p u s in new buildin gs, alth o u gh a n u m b e r of th e s e sch o o ls a r e te m p o r a ri l y l o c a te d w ithin the union building. T h e l ib r a r y o f th e In s titu te h as been u n d erg oin g in­ itia l d e v e lo p m e n t o v e r the l a s t fiv e y e a r s to w a rd s a t e r t i a r y s ta n d a rd lib r a r y . I ts u se and th e e x p e n d itu re on r e s o u r c e s w ithin it h a v e now i n c re a s e d to th e e x ­ t e n t w h e re new p ro c e d u re s and s e r v i c e s need to be d evelop ed to allow it to fu n ctio n e f f e c t i v e l y a s a l a rg e t e r t i a r y E D U C A T IO N R E S O U R C E C E N T R E . A t the s a m e tim e a new C e n tre h a s f ir s t p r io rity on th e In­ s t i t u t e ’s building p r o g r a m m e . T h e In s titu te su p p o rts c o -o p e ra tio n b e tw e e n lib ra rie s w ith in th e C A E s y s te m and c lo s e a s s o c ia tio n e x i s t s w ith t h e s e lib r a r i e s th rou gh th e V i c t o r i a In s titu te of C o lleg es Ch ief L i b r a r ia n s ’ A ss o c ia tio n . T h e C e n tr e c u r r e n t l y s e r v e s a p op ulation of 1700 w hich is e x p e c t e d to g ro w to 4000 by 1978. B o ok sto ck is a p p r o x i m a te l y 17,000 v o lu m e s, c u r r e n tl y g ro w in g a t ab o u t 6500 v o lu m es a y e a r . E x p e n d itu r e is e x ­ p e c te d to i n c r e a s e su b s ta n tia lly in th e 1976–78 tri e n niu m . T h e In s titu e h a s r e c e n tl y in tro d u ce d a c o m ­ p u te r b ased a c q u isitio n s p r o g r a m m e an d is a c ti v e l y i n v e s tig a tin g th e e x te n s io n of c o m p u t e r a p p lica tio n s . C o n stru ctio n of th e n ew E D U C A T IO N R E S O U R C E C E N T R E is e x p e c t e d to c o m m e n c e in 1976. D U T IE S : U n d e r th e d ire ctio n of the P r i n c i p a l : • t o d e v e l o p t h e E D U C A T I O N R E S O U R C E C E N T R E in o r d e r to p ro v id e th e w id e st r a n g e of r e s o u r c e s and s e r v i c e s f o r th e c o m m u n ity s e r v e d : • t o i n te g r a t e th e r e s o u r c e s and s e r v i c e s o f th e C E N T R E a s c lo s e l y a s p o ssib le into th e e d u c a t ­ io n al p r o g r a m m e o f th e In s titu te . • to b e re sp o n sib le fo r th e con tin u ed lo n g -te rm p la n ­ ning o f th e C E N T R E a s w ell a s th e im m e d i a t e d e v e lo p m e n t o f th e new c e n t r e building. Q U A L IF IC A T IO N S : A p p ro p ria te p ro fessio n al and a c a d e m i c q u a lifica tio n s a r e re q u ire d a s w ell a s e x p e r i e n c e a t s e n io r ad m in is­ t r a t i v e le v e ls . S A L A R Y : T h e a p p o in tm e n t will be a s C h ief L i b r a r ia n in th e s a l ­ a r y r a n g e $A 15.260 –$A 16,389 p e r an n u m . A p p lica tio n f o r m s an d t e r m s an d co n d itio n s o f e m ­ p lo y m e n t m a y b e o b tain ed f r o m th e S ta ffin g O ff i c e r , w ith w h om th e c lo sin g d a t e f o r a p p lica tio n s w ill b e F r i d a y , O cto b e r 1 1 ,1 9 7 4 . ( R e f e r e n c e 1 1 4 ). G / 27 /1 9 0 1 bama State University, April 12-14, 1973, are available for $2.50 from Institute for Training Librarians, Box 282, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL 36101. • The Hudson-Mohawk Association of Col­ leges & Universities has recently published Womens Periodicals, a bibliography of the re­ sources available at academic and public li­ braries in New York state’s capital district. The publication is significant for both the locational information it provides and as a representative sample of the variety of publications which have been published for and about women. Copies of the bibliography are available for $1.00 by contacting: Hudson-Mohawk Associa­ tion of Colleges & Universities, 849 New Lou­ don Bd., Latham, NY 12110. • A Bibliography of Legal Tapes and Cas­ settes has been published by the Tarlton Law Library of the University of Texas School of Law as the eighth in its Tarlton Law Library Legal Bibliography Series. The new bibliog­ raphy has more than 350 entries, compiled by Ann Beardsley, a student in the UT Graduate School of Library Science, from the holdings of the Tarlton Law Library and from many other sources. It includes author, title, date (when known), length of tape (time), price, speed, and descriptive annotations ( if avail­ able). Addresses of publishers are supplied for the convenience of those wishing to order items. Orders should be sent to Adrienne deVergie, Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas School of Law, 2500 Bed River, Austin, TX 78705. The publication price is $10.00, and checks should be made payable to University of Texas Law School Foundation. • The Rasmuson Library of the University of Alaska has published a second edition of Jo­ seph Drazan’s Picture Alaska, an illustration in­ dex to a select number of popular books and periodicals that reflect the history of Alaska and ts people from its earliest beginnings to the resent. This 206-page second edition, edited by Joseph A. Burke, is available for $5.00 from: he Director’s Office, Rasmuson Library, Uni­ ersity of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99701. • Several new publications are available rom the International Federation for Docu­ entation (F ID ). They include: ources, Organization, Utilization of Interna­ ional Documentation. Proceedings of the Inter­ ational Symposium on the Documentation of he United Nations and Other Intergovern­ ental Organizations (Geneva, 21–23 August i p T v f m S t n t m 231 1972). The Hague: FID, 1974. 586p. $20.00. guistics, education and training, classification, information resources, and the Universal Deci­ mal Classification— reports and schedules. The publications are available from: The In­ ternational Federation for Documentation, 7 Hofweg, The Hague, Netherlands. • Volume 1, number 1 of the CaDocS Man ual of U.S. Government Series, Pseudoseries and Subscriptions has recently been released. Edited by Maria Broadbent, manager of Capi­ tal Documents Service, and her husband, Marv Broadbent, who is head acquisitions librarian for the Organization of American States, the Ca­ DocS Manual brings together under agency au­ thor the saleable publications of the U.S. gov­ ernment. More important is the indexing of these series four times per year on a cumulative basis. The cumulation is promised to extend for a period of five years. Since the issues are cumulative many small libraries might wish to purchase only one number per year. Single numbers are $3.00, annual subscriptions $10.50. Volume 1, number 1, however, is free from the publishers, Capital Documents Ser­ vice, 4410 Josephine Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705. ■ ■ (F ID 506) The proceedings contain the full texts of the fifty-one papers presented at the three sections of the symposium: (1 ) sources of international documentation, (2 ) acquisition and organiza­ tion of international documentation, and (3 ) utilization of international documentation. The proceedings furthermore contain the sixty-four recommendations, the reports of the rappor­ teurs of the three main sections, introductory reports, an author index, and a list of the par­ ticipants with full addresses. FID Annual Report—1973. The Hague: FID, 1974. 12p. free. The annual report for 1973 contains a summary statement, the usual detailed report including the current program, and lists of national mem­ bers, regional commissions, Council and Execu­ tive Committee members, and committees’ sec­ retariats. FID Publications Catalogue—1974. The Hague: FID, 1974. 48p. free. Lists more than 500 FID publications in follow­ ing subject areas: information science, docu­ mentation, reproduction, mechanization, lin­ ­ News From the Sections A R T S E C T I O N The ACRL Art Section meetings were held in conjunction with ALA New York Conference meetings, beginning July 7, 1974. The confer­ ence opened with a business meeting on Sun­ day, which included reports on the current ACBL meeting, preliminary plans for the 1975 San Francisco Conference, and a description of the Bicentennial Bibliography project of the Archives of American Art by Bernard Karpel, editor and coordinator of the project. On Monday the Art Section toured the Cloisters Museum and participated in an in­ formal session on library resources with Kate Chipman, librarian at the Cloisters Museum. Tuesday’s activities included a tour and lecture at the auction house of Parke-Bernet, followed by an examination of the Parke-Bernet library. Evening activities included an open house host­ ed by ARLIS/NY at the American Crafts Coun­ cil, followed by informal dinner arrangements and museum touring. Wednesday included the evening reception for ACRL members at the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library. The executive committee met for breakfast Thursday morning, at which time plans were discussed for the 1975 San Francisco meeting. From ten o’clock until twelve noon the Art Sec­ tion met at the Frick Collection with the cura­ torial staff, followed by a lecture on the collec­ tion and its development. During the remain­ ing time Art Section members viewed the col­ lection. The overall turnout for meetings was good, and the tours, arranged by Ms. Barbara Sevy, were particularly appreciated by the membership. C O L L E G E L I B R A R I E S S E C T I O N At the Las Vegas Conference, the executive board of the College Libraries Section, ACBL, voted that an ad hoc committee be established “to reexamine the Section’s position υis-a-vis ACRL and ALA [and] to clearly state goals and objectives recognizing the fundamentally unique needs of college libraries as distinct from junior college and university libraries. … ” Since that time the committee has held meet­ ings at Midwinter 1974 and at the Annual Con­ ference in July 1974. Liaison has been set up with the ACRL subcommittee on goals, and guidance has been sought from a variety of in­ dividuals including past officers of CLS. Committee consensus has emerged that dis­ cussions of the group should now be summa­ rized for the attention of CLS membership. Ac­ cordingly the following Draft Statement of CLS