ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 126 News from the Field ACQUISITIONS • A rare book valued at $10,000 was pre­ sented as the one-millionth volume at dedica­ tion ceremonies of the five-story, multimillion- dollar John H. Freeman Wing of the M. D. Anderson Library of the University of H ous­ ton January 28 at the University Central Campus. Written by Albrecht Dürer in 1525, the book, Underweysung der messung, m it dem zirckel und richtscheyt in Linien ebnen und gantzen corporen (The Instruction in Measures with the Compass and the Straight-Rule of Lines, Two and Three Dimensional Bodies), was the first comprehensive German text for sculptors, builders, and painters. It has 150 woodcut figures and two half-page woodcut illustrations and is bound in unornamented calf. Volume number 999,999 in the Central Campus Library was given by UH President Philip Hoffman. It is a fifteenth-century edi­ tion of N odes Atticae (Attic Nights) by Aulus Gellius, which was written in the second cen­ tury. This edition was printed in 1474 by Nico­ laus Jenson, who is considered one of the greatest printers of all time. He was the first to perfect the roman letter, the standard character for book printing. • The personal papers, correspondence, scrapbooks, photo albums, and manuscripts of a World War I “flying ace” with the famed Lafayette Escadrille have been donated to the University of Texas at El Paso Library. The collection belonged to the late Rear Ad­ miral Edwin C. Parsons (1892-1968) and was given to the library’s Archives and Special Col­ lections by the admiral’s widow, Mrs. E. C. Parsons of Hollywood, California. Admiral Parsons was a pioneer aviator who learned to fly in 1912 and who served in Mex­ ico (1913-14), flying in Pancho Villa’s Army of the North, and with the French during World War I in both the Lafayette and SPAD 4 ( “Storks” ) squadrons. He was credited with eight German aircraft shot down and ended the war with such decorations as the Croix de Guerre with eight palms, Belgian Croix de Guerre, Cross of Leopold, Medaille Militaire, and Legion of Honor. The Parsons papers include several hundred photographs and negatives, mostly of the World War I era, scrapbooks, photo albums, and a large mass of historically valuable cor­ respondence and documents. Many manuscripts of unpublished fiction and nonfiction works are included, as well as a complete set of the ad­ miral’s own published writings—more than 100 magazines and excerpted magazine articles and various editions of his Great Adventure memoir. Another feature of the collection is a number of tape recordings of interviews with Admiral Parsons and a film taken of the last reunion of the surviving members of the Lafayette squad­ ron. The papers and materials have been desig­ nated the “RADM Edwin C. Parsons Collec­ tion ( Lafayette Escadrille) ” and will be housed with the existing S.L.A. Marshall Collection on Military History. • The University of Georgia Library has acquired from Georgia author Erskine Caldwell a 935-book personal collection containing a copy of every edition of Caldwell’s fifty books. Caldwell presented the books to the library’s special collections department. They are dis­ played on the library shelves in the same order Caldwell kept them arranged. Richard Harwell, special collections curator, said Caldwell’s books have sold 75 million copies in fifty languages—more than the works of any other living author. More than half the university collection is foreign-language edi­ tions, including books printed in Japanese, Rus­ sian, German, Spanish, Scandinavian, and French. Robert Willingham, a staff member in the special collections department, said the Cald­ well collection should help Georgians better know and understand one of the state’s most famous and admired authors. Though best known for his novels of the De­ pression-era South, Caldwell wrote almost as much nonfiction as he did fiction. He traveled America during the Depression and recorded its victims in You Have Seen Their Faces, il­ lustrated by photographer Margaret Bourke White. He wrote a similar book on Russia en­ titled North of the Danube. His most recent book, published in 1976, is Afternoons in Mid America. • John W. Warner, former secretary of the navy and former administrator of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, has an­ nounced that he will present to the University of Virginia his personal papers covering eight years of public service. Warner said the Bicentennial papers “tell the history of the nation’s 200th anniversary and it seems appropriate that they be housed at the university founded by Thomas Jefferson.” An alumnus of the university’s School of Law, Warner added, “It is a special honor for 127 me as a former student to present papers re­ flecting a record of public service made possi­ ble by an education received at the university.” In addition to the Bicentennial papers, War­ ner will deposit at the university’s Alderman Library the papers of his five-and-a-half-year tenure as undersecretary and secretary of the navy (1965-74). He was administrator of the Bicentennial from 1974 through 1976. • The acquisition of a unique collection of family papers “which makes Vassar College one of the significant centers of Mark Twain scholarship” has been announced by Vassar president Alan Simpson. Known as the Jean Webster McKinney Fam­ ily Papers, the gift to Vassar includes more than 600 letters and telegrams from Mark Twain, as well as a vast array of manuscripts, notebooks, and other documents by or relating to the noted author. It also includes a large collection of original documents by or relating to Jean Webster McKinney, a grandniece of Mark Twain, who, as Jean Webster, was a cele­ brated novelist and dramatist of the early twentieth century. She was graduated from Vassar in 1901. Simpson simultaneously announced the es­ tablishment at Vassar of a Jean Webster Chair in American Literature, Creative Writing, or Drama, funded at $750,000, and has recom­ mended to the Board of Trustees it be filled initially by a distinguished appointment in the Department of Drama. The donors of the entire collection and of the fund to establish the chair are Jean Connor, Jean Webster’s daughter, and her husband, Ralph Connor, a former Vassar trustee. The couple lives in LaGrangeville, New York, on the farm where Jean Webster and her husband, Glenn Ford McKinney, once lived, and where the Mark Twain manuscripts, letters, and me­ morials have been stored for several decades. “The Mark Twain papers in this collection will fill one of the biggest gaps in modern Twain scholarship,” according to Simpson. Pointing out that the bulk of Twain’s private papers now is permanently housed in the Ban­ croft Library of the University of California, he said that successive literary editors of the Mark Twain estate have drawn on the Twain writings there, as well as at “significant collections” else­ where, “but they have not had access to this collection.” Knowledge of its contents has been derived chiefly from Mark Twain, Business Man, which Samuel Charles Webster, Jean Webster’s brother, published in 1946. Describing generally the significance of the McKinney papers, Simpson said, “It represents a confluence of three streams which were flow­ ing through the culture of middle-class Ameri­ ca between about 1840 and 1916—the letters and memorials of Mark Twain and his relatives, those of Jean Webster and her friends, and those of the McKinney family into which Jean Webster married.” • The papers of Tennessee Congressman Joe L. Evins, a thirty-year veteran of the House of Representatives, were donated to Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville on November 22, 1976. The documents, now be­ ing processed at Evins’ Smithville, Tennessee, home, pertain to the years 1947-77, the period during which Evins represented Tennessee’s Fourth Congressional District. University president Arliss Roaden said that long-term plans call for a room or wing of the university’s library to be designated as a de­ pository for the Joe L. Evins Papers and mem­ orabilia. At the time of his retirement from Congress early this year, Evins was fourteenth in seniori­ ty in the House. Evins was chairman during his last eight years in Congress of the public works subcommittee which funded such federal agen­ cies as the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Ap­ palachian Regional Commission, the Corps of Engineers, and the Energy Research and De­ velopment Administration. Evins also was chairman of the House Small Business Committee and a member of the House Committee on Appropriations. The Evins papers will be made available to students and scholars who are interested in the legisla­ tive history of the past three decades. • The National Libertarian Party, which re­ ceived the third highest number of votes in the 1976 presidential election, and its candidate, Roger L. MacBride of Charlottesville, have giv­ en a collection of political papers to the Uni­ versity of Virginia Library. The gift includes presidential campaign speeches, briefing materials, campaign literature and memorabilia, and news clippings, accord­ ing to Edmund Berkeley, Jr., curator of Aider- man Library’s manuscripts department. “With this gift the library’s treasury of po­ litical archives increases its scope, balancing its holdings among the nation’s political parties,” Berkeley said. “We also have a tremendous amount of illustrative material, such as gavels, buttons and badges.” Berkeley estimated that scholars and interest­ ed persons will be able to use the National Libertarian Party and MacBride’s papers by this August, after the approximately fifteen cubic feet of material is cataloged by library staffers. • Brigham Young University announces the establishment of the William Primrose Viola Collection at the Harold B. Lee Library. Named after the distinguished virtuoso, the 128 BYU collection has not only the distinction of the famed violist’s name, b u t has also been des­ ignated the depository of his own private col­ lection of materials pertaining to the viola and viola music. The library will become a resource center for students, violists, and music scholars. Primrose, who became interested in BYU through his former student and friend, Dr. David Dalton of the Music Department, is a singular phenomenon in the history of musical performance, being the only artist to have ever achieved international reputation as a viola soloist. Along with Lionel Tertis and Paul Hindemith, it was he especially who “proved” the viola a viable concertizing instrument. At the center of the viola library will be Primrose’s memorabilia, including his forthcom­ ACRL Cinema Librarians Discussion Group Is Formed The new ACRL Cinema Librarians Discussion Group m et for the first time at the Midwinter Meeting in Washing­ ton, D.C. At the initial meeting a small but enthusiastic group talked over pos­ sible goals for a discussion group of cine­ ma librarians. The term cinema librarian needs further definition, but it was decid­ ed that overlap between this group and the ACRL AV group should be mini­ mized. Therefore, programs and discus­ sion topics relating to library problems of film study would be considered before topics clearly related to the format of the material, such as shelving systems for 16mm film. Possible topics include control of pri­ mary source material for film study; im­ proved control of bibliographic, and particularly, reference sources in cinema studies; discussion of film study organiza­ tions and projects, etc. The group is lo­ cated in ACRL because film study in academic and research institutions is a rapidly expanding area of scholarship, and libraries in these institutions, as well as other research collections, are all being affected by this growth. The cinema li­ brarians group is an attem pt to provide a forum for the exchange of information and ideas for librarians working with film study and to keep apace with changes and developments in the field. If readers wish to submit suggestions or questions, they may contact either Jill Caldwell, Fine Arts Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401, or Nancy Manley, Undergraduate Library, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801. ing biography, his transcriptions for viola, his technical studies for viola, his books on viola pedagogy, and tapes and records of his record­ ings as a solo virtuoso and chamber music player. Surrounding this unique material will be a library of all currently available music pub­ lished for the viola, all available recordings of viola music by Primrose and others, and books, treatises, articles, etc., which pertain to the his­ tory and pedagogy of the viola, as well as its literature. • A collection of manuscript and audio­ visual materials documenting the fifty-year his­ tory of the community of Jewish farmers in Farmingdale, New Jersey, will be deposited in the YIvo Institute for Jewish Research, New York City, in July 1977. The Farmingdale Collection of audiotapes, written tape sum­ maries and transcriptions, videotapes, papers of community organizations, newspaper articles, photographs, legal documents, and other ma­ terials spans the years 1890—that is, from the earliest memories of its first settlers—to the present. This collection of materials provides a unique source of information for historians and social scientists interested in the Jewish immigrant experience and the problems of acculturation and ethnic identity as they were manifested in a rural setting. Scholarship in American Jewish history has largely been concerned with Jews in an urban setting because most Jews settled in cities and because there has been so little primary source material relating to Jewish farm­ ers. As a result, few are aware of the contribu­ tion these fanners made to American agricul­ ture generally. The Farmingdale Collection should generate interest and scholarship in a previously neglected area and thereby help balance what is known about the American Jewish experience. • Mrs. Dolph Briscoe, wife of the Texas governor, presented the four-millionth volume to be added to the University of Texas Li­ brary at a brief ceremony which was held to climax Library Week at the university. During th at week a succession of important books were also added to the collections, each focusing on a particular aspect of the campus libraries. The book of honor, which took the UT Li­ brary over the four-million mark, is a two- volume first edition of Noah W ebster’s An American Dictionary o f the English Language, published in 1828 with a printing of only 2,500. A manuscript in W ebster’s hand, explor­ ing spelling differences between British and American usage, accompanies the book. “W e felt the milestone of four million vol­ umes might be most suitably marked by a book of great universality,” said Merle Boylan, direc­ tor of General Libraries. “Webster’s Dictionary symbolizes the generalized, intellectual charac­ ter of our libraries—offering services on the local campus to freshmen and faculty alike. The libraries also serve as the greatest educa­ tional resource in the State of Texas and as a major national resource.” • Dr. Aziz S. Atiya, Distinguished Profes­ sor of History at the University of Utah, has donated numerous Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, and Western-language materials on the Middle East to the Marriott Library of the University of Utah. Dr. Atiya’s latest gifts to the library include 1,435 rare manuscripts, papyri fragments, and scrolls which he donated in 1975. These includ­ ed 180 rag paper and old paper scrolls from Egyptian excavations dating from the tenth century; four papyri scroll fragments (three Arabic and one Coptic-Arabic); 1,185 original manuscript folios for paleographical studies dating between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries; and sixty-six Arabic manuscript co- dices (tracts and treatises on a wide variety of cultural Middle Eastern subjects ranging from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries). In 1976 Dr. Atiya’s thirty-one-item gift of rare material included two ninth-century Koran folios in Kufic on ancient rag paper; three four­ teenth, fifteenth, and seventeenth-century em­ bossed leather bindings (one with gold leaf in­ lay); three eighteenth-century views of Grand Cairo and Alexandria; eleven steel plate prints of eighteenth-century views of Egypt ( some dated 1803 and one watercolor); and twelve early Middle East maps (two dated 1803, nine seventeenth century, and one sixteenth cen­ tury ). • Mr. Nicolaas Steelink has donated to the University of Arizona Library a life’s work in the form of translations of the published works of the Dutch social philosopher Eduard Douwes Dekker, who wrote under the pen name Multatuli. Dekker is well known in Eu­ rope as a prose writer, moralist, and social philosopher. He published many works in Dutch during his lifetime (1820-87), but only a few of his books were ever translated into English. After his death, his widow produced an edition of his collected worki and a ten- volume collected edition of his letters. Dekker was an atheist whose aphorism “Man’s calling is to be a human being” became well known in the late nineteenth century. His major work, Ideen, was published in seven volumes through the years 1865-77. Writing on education, society, the position of women, poli­ tics, philosophy, and religion, he was usually far ahead of his time; and many of his ideas were not generally accepted or even seriously discussed for 100 years. Dekker’s works, whether they be essays, fic­ tion, or dramas, are filled with aphorisms and parables. He saw these forms as a most useful way of educating his contemporaries. Through­ out his works, the main theme is his insistence that people must think for themselves, not sim­ ply accept what their leaders tell them. Since so much of Dekker’s work has never been translated into English, it has been rela­ tively inaccessible to modern scholars outside of Europe. Steelink’s translations are, therefore, especially significant. They can serve as a basic scholarly resource for students not fluent in Dutch or German. They will be housed in the University of Arizona Library’s Department of Special Collections. • John P. Herling, librarian of the Brook­ lyn College Library of the City University of New York, has announced the addition of ten transfile cases of correspondence from Norman Cousins, editor of Saturday Review and expert on international affairs. The Norman Cousins Papers, the most pres­ tigious in the Brooklyn College Library’s his­ torical manuscripts collection, at present White House Conference Planning Panel Chosen The White House Conference on Li­ brary and Information Services, to be held in the fall of 1979, will be planned by a panel of twenty-eight persons from twenty-four states whose names were an­ nounced by the chairman of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Dr. Frederick Burkhardt. The White House Conference—the first of its kind—will bring together 500 leading educators, librarians, publishers, specialists, and local, state, and national officials. It will be preceded by state con­ ferences throughout the nation. According to Burkhardt, the goals of the national conference are to seek im­ provement of the nation’s libraries and information centers and increased and more effective use of libraries by the public, through development of a bal­ anced intergovernmental system of ser­ vices and funding from local, state, and federal sources. The White House Conference was au­ thorized by a Joint Resolution of the Congress in late 1974. Hearings on the $3.5 million appropriation request for the conference were held by the Senate and House Appropriation Committees on February 8. 130 comprise 550 document cases of research ma­ terials. The papers covering the period 1942-58 in­ clude personal and business correspondence, minutes of committee meetings and other pa­ pers dealing with the United World Federalists, material relating to the Hiroshima Maidens, and printed material relating to Cousins’ con­ nection with the United States Office of War Information. Most of the letters in the collection relate to Cousins’ role as editor of the Saturday Review and are usually short answers to business ques­ tions. The personal letters deal with a variety of topics and include letters to Harrison Brown, Marshall Field, Carlos Romulo, and many others. The papers of the 1958-70 period feature correspondence, speeches, articles, oral history notes, pamphlets, clippings, photographs, and other papers relating to Cousins’ activities with the Albert Schweitzer Foundation, the Ameri­ can Association for the United Nations, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, the Johnson Foundation, the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, National Educational Television, and United World Federalists. Manuscripts are included of Freedom to Breathe: Report of the Mayor’s Task Force on Air Pollution in the City of New York (1966), In God W e Trust (1958), and In Place of Folly (1961). Persons represented in the Norman Cousins Papers include Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jawa- harlal Nehru, Albert Schweitzer, Adlai Steven­ son, and U Thant. Access to the Norman Cousins Papers is by prior arrangement. • Two rare 400-year-old medical books written by two of the greatest figures in the history of modern medicine have been given to the Thomas Jefferson University Library by a 1952 alumnus, Dr. Robert L. Phillips of Greensboro, North Carolina. The books are De Humani Corporis Fabrica, a landmark text on human anatomy by Andreas Vesalius, the “father of modern anatomy,” and Cinq Livres de Chirvgie by Ambroise Paré, the “father of surgery.” The Paré book is one of only four copies known to exist in the United States. The Fabrica was printed in 1543 and, says Dr. Phillips, “is considered by many to be the very foundation-stone of modern medicine and the first great positive achievement of science itself.” I t corrected centuries-old errors by of­ fering new data based for the first time on di­ rect observation of human anatomy. The illustrations, done with the help of paint­ er Jan Kalkar, a student of Titian, were scien­ tifically exact and artistically beautiful. They set the fashion for anatomic illustration for the next century. The fine typography, supervised by Vesalius himself, set a new standard for the printing art. Cinq Livres, published in 1572 by Paré, re­ flects the philosophy of a doctor who, like Vesalius, chose to cast aside old superstitions and incorrect beliefs. He initiated a new ap­ proach to surgery based on observation and clinical experience. “Both books,” said Phillips, “capture the spirit of the Renaissance and I hope, as they did then, direct our future with new meaning.” • Dr. William P. Cumming, Virginia Lasa- ter Irvin Professor Emeritus of English at Davidson College, has given a rare and beauti­ ful edition of the Works of William Hogarth to the E. H. Little Library, Davidson College. The Works of William Hogarth from the Original Plates, reads the title page, Restored by James Heath, Esq., R.A.; with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected: to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Essay on the Genius and Productions of Hogarth, and Explanations of the Subjects of the Plates, by John Nichols, Esq. F.S.A. The imprint is: Lon­ don: Printed for Baldwin and Cradock, Pater­ noster Row, by G. Woodfall, Angel Court, Skinner Street. No date is given but the time of publication was almost certainly in the mid 1830s. The Li­ brary of Congress union catalog lists only six other copies in America of this, the largest col­ lected edition made from Hogarth’s own copper plate engravings. Dr. Cumming found and pur­ chased the edition in a Charing Cross rare bookstore in 1927 and had to buy a special trunk to bring it back. The 119 plates in this impressive elephant- folio volume form a detailed and startlingly vivid history of life in eighteenth-century En­ gland. Hogarth saw his work as related to dra­ ma. “My picture is my stage,” he once wrote, “and men and women my players.” In several sequences of from four to twelve plates, such as in The Rake’s Progress, The Harlot’s Prog­ ress, and Marriage à la Mode, each picture corresponds to the central scene in the act of a play. Hogarth was also a reforming social satirist with a powerful influence on many later English writers. Library director Leland M. Park expressed “our deep gratitude for this rare and valuable contribution.” Dr. Cumming donated the book to the library “with happy memories of the hours I have spent using it since 1917 and of work of many years on its Library Committee, and with gratitude to members of the staff.” 131 AWARDS • The fifth Triennial Prize for Bibliogra­ phy has been awarded to C. William Miller, author of Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia Printing ( American Philosophical Society, 1974), it has been announced by Warren R. Howell, president of the Antiquarian Booksell­ ers Association of America (ABAA), on behalf of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Dr. Miller, professor of English at Temple University, is the first American to be so honored. The Triennial Prize Jury, composed of six bibliographical experts, selected Dr. Mil­ ler’s work from a distinguished international group of recent bibliographies on the basis of its comprehensive and scholarly study of Frank­ lin’s colonial printing from 1728 to 1766. Dr. Miller’s work has been hailed as “magis­ terial . . . indispensable for any student of any aspect of 18th-century America” (Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America), and as “one of the most comprehensive studies ever undertaken of the publications issued from an American printing house” (New England Quar­ terly). Formal presentation of the prize, which car­ ries a $750 stipend, was made at the annual meeting of the ABAA on March 30, 1977, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Dr. Miller gave a talk on “Benjamin Franklin and the Booksellers.” Previous winners of the Triennial Prize include J. Peeters-Fontainas (Bibliogra­ phie des Impressions espagnoles des Pays-Bas méridionaux), Wytze and Lotte Hellinga (The Fifteenth Century Printing Types of the Low Countries), Ir. C. Koeman (Atlantes Neerlandi- ci), and Claus Nissen (Die Zoologische Buchil­ lustration). Competition for the sixth Triennial Prize closes on December 31, 1977. Further information can be obtained by writing Dr. Frieder Kocher-Benzing, Stutgarter Antiquariat, Rathenaustrasse 21, 700 Stuttgart 1, West Germany. COURSES May 23-July 1: Dean Richard L. Darling of Columbia University’s School of Library Service has announced that a unique course, Library Labor Relations, will be offered in its 1977 summer session. An advanced course, it will commence with a study of union history and collective bargaining principles. The heart of the course will be a detailed analysis of major library labor contracts. The course, which car­ ries three points of graduate credit, will meet Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:00 to 4:10 p.m. for six weeks. A special feature will be an all-day negotia­ tions simulation training session. Students will be assigned to labor or management teams to gain insights into the actual bargaining process. The session will be conducted by personnel of the U.S. Department of Labor and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The instructor for the course will be Dr. Philip Harris, associate professor of manage­ ment, visiting from Baruch College of the City University of New York. Dr. Harris is editor of the Library Employee Relations Newsletter and a labor negotiator representing library trustees. He previously served for many years as arbi­ trator, mediator, fact-finder, and hearing officer in collective bargaining disputes. Dr. Harris has presented numerous papers and published widely in his academic discipline. He is now completing a book on library labor relations. Those desiring additional information should write to Richard L. Darling, Dean, School of Library Service, 516 Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. June 13-July 1: The School of Library Ser­ vice, Columbia University, has announced that it will offer a new course, Serials Librarian- ship, in its 1977 summer session. The course will be given in a concentrated three-week ses­ sion and will be taught from 6:40 to 8:50 p.m., Monday through Thursday. The course will cover current issues in acqui­ sition, organization, preservation, storage, and servicing of serials collections, including prob­ lems of rising costs and budgetary restraints in libraries. Special attention will be given to the impact of automation, microforms, and net­ works on management of serials. The instructor for the course is Mrs. Marion C. Szigethy, recently serials librarian at New York University, and for many years reference librarian with Radio Free Europe. For additional information, write to Richard L. Darling, Dean, School of Library Service, 516 Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. June 20-24: Cornell University announces a course on Automatic Information and D ata Base Retrieval. It will cover both the structured data base manipulations of the kind used for business files and the reference re­ trieval operations used for library and informa­ tion center environments. The course is intend­ ed for computer and information scientists, and for library and information center specialists interested in the application of novel computer methods to the processing of data and docu­ ment materials in information center and li­ brary environments. Instructors for the course are Gerard Salton, professor of computer science, Cornell Univer­ sity, and Hubert Chung-shu Yang, assistant professor of computer science, University of Iowa. The fee of $150 covers instruction, course 132 materials, and parking. It does not cover meals and housing. For application materials, contact R. H. Lance, Director of Continuing Educa­ tion, Carpenter Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; (607) 256-4236. July 16-August 20: A special professional course on The Binding, Maintenance and Restobation of Books will be offered on Sat­ urday mornings from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Walnut Creek, California. The fee is $42. For further information and registration, con­ tact Arts Education, Civic Arts, 1445 Civic Dr., Walnut Creek, CA 94596; (415) 935-3300, ext. 251 or 252. GRANTS • The Council on Library Resources, Inc., has awarded a $122,000 grant to the Ohio College Libbaby CenteR ( OCLC) for a study of OCLC’s governance and organization by the consulting firm of Arthur D. Little, Inc. OCLC’s Advisory Council, a group estab­ lished by the OCLC Board of Trustees and composed of thirteen individuals from librarian- ship, science, business, and government, select­ ed A. D. Little from eight consulting firms that submitted proposals for the study. The Advisory Council will guide and direct the consulting firm in the study that is expected to take about six months. Based on the findings of the study, the Advisory Council will submit to the OCLC Board of Trustees and member­ ship recommendations for governance and or­ ganization of OCLC. OCLC, a not-for-profit corporation chartered by the state of Ohio, operates a computer net­ work system in which more than 800 libraries in forty-two states participate. However, only libraries in Ohio participate actively in the governance of OCLC because of OCLC’s pres­ ent corporate charter. Formation of the Ad­ visory Council, and subsequent selection of a consulting firm to study OCLC’s governance and organization, resulted from a resolution passed by the Ohio membership of OCLC at its 1975 Annual Meeting directing the Board of Trustees to investigate extension of mem­ bership in OCLC outside the state of Ohio. • The library faculty of Ezba Lehman Me­ morial Libbaby at Shippensburg State Col­ lege, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, has received a matching grant from the state of Pennsylvania and the college’s Professional Development Committee to conduct a self-study project based on the Library Management Review and Analysis Program (MRAP). The funds will be used to employ a consultant who has been a management research specialist involved with MRAP to lead the library faculty in the self- study. The project will extend for a six-month period with a final report being made during the first semester, 1977-78. • The Committee fob the Pbesebvation of Abchitectubal Recobds has been awarded a two-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the amount of $79,633. The committee was organized in 1973 by a group of architectural historians, librarians, preservationists, architects, archivists, and mu­ seum curators who gathered in New York and addressed themselves to the problems of locat­ ing and making accessible architectural records in America. An initial grant from the Architec­ tural League of New York and another from the New York State Council on the Arts enabled the committee to begin a guide to architectural re­ sources in the five boroughs of New York City, to make a mail survey of more than 600 insti­ tutions in the state to learn whether they held architectural records, and to publish a quarter­ ly newsletter. The grant from the National En­ dowment for the Humanities allows the com­ mittee to continue its work in New York and expand to a national organization, and to begin a national catalog of architectural records in American collections. Any additions to this catalog or index will be gratefully received. For further information, contact Catha Grace Rambusch, Executive Director, Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, Inc., 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003. • The National Library of Medicine (NLM ) has funded a grant to the Region XI Medical Libhabies (California, Hawaii, Ari­ zona, and Nevada) to develop an on-line co­ operative serials system. The project, which has the acronym of COSAP (Cooperative On- Line Serials Acquisitions Project), is the first of its kind to be developed. The thirteen re­ source medical libraries in Region XI are the participants in the project. Through the grant, NLM is creating a sep­ arate data base for the serial titles held by the Region XI resource medical libraries. The specially created data base will add ab­ breviated holdings statements and codes as to whether the title is received by purchase, ex­ change, or gift; whether the library will retain or cancel the title and/or whether the library has committed itself to retain the title; and whether the title is considered a core journal (defined as one held by ten or more of the thirteen libraries). Other capabilities to be studied will be foreign titles and those held by four or fewer of the thirteen libraries. The thirteen libraries will be able to access, search, and modify the COSAP data base through in-house computer terminals. Training for the staffs of the libraries will begin in April. 133 • The Council on Library Resources, Inc. (CLR), has awarded a $55,000 grant to the Library of Congress (L C ) for continuation of the COMARC (Cooperative MAchine- Readable Cataloging) project, initiated in No­ vember 1974 with CLR assistance. The grant covers the salary and benefits for calendar year 1977 of three individuals who were hired by LC for the project. Under the COMARC project, LC accepts bibliographic records based on LC cataloging copy but converted to machine-readable form by other institutions. LC validates the access points (e.g., author, title, etc.) of the records against the LC official catalog, updates them where necessary, and distributes the records without charge to COMARC participants and as a separate subscription to others through the MARC Distribution Service. Because the project was delayed in its early stages, only approximately 14,000 records thus far have been validated and distributed. The new grant will enable LC to process enough records to analyze the project’s effectiveness. If successful, COMARC will both broaden LC’s MARC coverage of books and demonstrate how a comprehensive national bibliographic data base can be built using decentralized input while maintaining integrity and consistency of the data. Current contributors to the COMARC proj­ ect are Washington State Library, 3M Co. Li­ brary Systems, Boston Theological Institute (a consortium of nine institutions), University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Cornell Uni­ versity, Yale University (including the Divinity and Medical Libraries), and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The Boston Public Li­ brary, the University of Illinois at Champaign- Urbana, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville have agreed to participate but have not yet begun to send records on an operational basis. • The Council on Library Resources, Inc. (CLR), has received $1,500,000 in grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Mellon Foundation’s gift of $1 million will provide general support of CLR programs over a period of approximately five years. The $500,000 award from the Carnegie Corporation will be devoted over at least three years to pro­ grams to improve research library management. Both grants will take effect in July 1977. Since 1956, when CLR was established at the instance of the Ford Foundation “for the purpose of aiding in the solution of problems of libraries generally and of research libraries in particular,’’ its funding has come almost en­ tirely from the Ford Foundation, which has provided $29 million to CLR thus far. When Ford Foundation president McGeorge Bundy announced the 1974 grant to CLR, he noted that it introduced a “new chapter” in the continuing relationship of the two organiza­ tions. “Up to now, the Council has depended on the Foundation for the bulk of its support. . . . Hereafter the Council will increase its ef­ forts to seek financial assistance in support of its programs from a variety of other sources, including other foundations.” According to Fred C. Cole, council president, these grants are the first to be received under the council’s new support structure. “In view of the urgent need for a national system to serve the libraries of the nation,” Cole said, “the support of the Carnegie Corporation and the Mellon Foundation is especially timely and encouraging.” • The Council on Library Resources, Inc. (CLR), has authorized a grant of $25,000 to the Minnesota Higher Education Coordi­ nating Board on behalf of the Minneso­ ta Interlibrary Telecommunications Exchange (MINITEX) for the planning phase of an ex­ perimental project designed to link standard holdings statements to large serials files. The end goal is to provide library users with more efficient physical access to needed journals at a lower cost to the libraries involved. If suc­ cessful, this pilot project may serve as an initial component of a national serials location system. The planning phase is expected to last six months. The project calls for linking certain local and regional serials holdings statements to the na­ tional automated data base for serials cur­ rently being built through the CLR-managed CONSER (CONversion of SERials) project. The Library of Congress, which will assume responsibility for CONSER, will be involved, along with the MINITEX and INCOLSA (In ­ diana Cooperative Library Services Authority) networks. MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS May 20: A workshop entitled The E ffects of Automation on Technical Services: All’s Well That Ends Well will be held at McLannan Community College in Waco, Texas. It is sponsored by the Acquisitions Round Ta­ ble, College and University Libraries Division, and Texas Regional Group of Catalogers and Classifiers of the Texas Library Association. There will be presentations and discussions on such topics as costs, workflow, benefits versus losses, and effects on existing card catalogs and cataloging formats. Registration fee is $20 and registration will be limited to 100 participants. For further information, please contact Leila Payne (713-845-6632) or Sharon Smith (713- 845-6211), Texas A & M University Library, College Station, TX 77843. 134 June 1-June 4: The Graduate Library School of C. W. Post Center, Long Island University, is sponsoring a non-credit Institute on Space Planning and Practical D esign for Special Libraries. Consideration will be given to effi­ cient and effective space use and relationships; and to revitalization, remodeling, and renova­ tion of libraries. At least one library case study will be examined in depth. Emphasis will be on the needs and requirements of special li­ brarians. Participants will study the practical problems of interior design and space planning pertinent to the special library. Emphasis will be placed on documentation of conditions, in-depth cost analysis, and methods of presentation of needs to higher management. The institute will be structured so as to foster maximum interaction between instructors and participants. If there is sufficient demand, the institute will be repeated June 9-12. Enrollment will be limited to thirty-five persons per session. The fee for the institute will be $100. For further information, contact Joseph N. Whitten, Grad­ uate Library School, C. W. Post Center, LIU, Greenvale, NY 11548; (516) 299-2866. June 2-3: The Ninth Annual State Uni­ versity of New York Librarians Association (SUNYLA) Meeting will be held at the SUNY College at Purchase campus in Westchester County, New York. In addition to business meetings, there will be a banquet and several seminars, including workshops on “Library User Surveys,” “The Teaching Role of Academic Librarians,” and “OCLC/CONSER in SUNY.” Florence Howe, president of the Feminist Press, will speak about her seven years of ex­ perience in publishing at the press. For registration forms and further informa­ tion, please write or telephone Joe Petraitis, The Library, SUNY College at Old Westbury, Box 229, Old Westbury, NY 11568; (516) 876- 3151. June 3: A workshop entitled On-Line Re­ trieval of Biomedical Literature will be held at the Medical Research Library of Brook­ lyn. The workshop is under the sponsorship of the Pratt Institute Graduate School of Library Science and is one of the school’s spring offer­ ings under its Continuing Education Program. The purpose of the workshop is to provide an intensive experience and exposure to the procedures, problems, and potential of on-line access to biomedical literature. Participants will be anyone working in a biomedical library, graduates of library and information science schools who have not had the opportunity to take courses which provide this experience, and any medical or biomedical professionals who would like to know more about on-line access of biomedical literature. Dr. Anindya Bose and Professor Kenneth E. Moody are codirectors of the workshop. Robert J. Lord and June Rosenberg will also provide instruction. Registration is limited to twenty-five persons. For information, write or call Pratt Institute, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Brooklyn, NY 11205; (212 ) 636-3702. June 3-4: Pulitzer Prize-winner Dr. N. Scott Momaday of Stanford University will be the keynote speaker at a symposium, Research, the Creative Process and Children’s Liter­ ature, at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Momaday will discuss transmission of cultural heritage through language. The symposium is sponsored by the Univer­ sity of Washington School of Librarianship, with the cooperation of the Committee on Na­ tional Planning for Special Collections and the Children’s Services Division, American Library Association. Registration fee is $90. See the February C&RL News for more in­ formation. June 11, 14, 16; June 18, 21, 23: As part of its Continuing Education Program, the Pratt Institute. Graduate School of Library and In­ formation Science is offering two institutes about On-Line Terminal Searching. 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, June 11, Tuesday evening, June 14, and Thursday evening, June 16, 1977. The second, “On-Line Terminal Searching: Advanced Strategies,” will be offered on Satur­ day, June 18, Tuesday evening, June 21, and Thursday evening, June 23, 1977. This institute is designed for reference librarians and informa­ tion scientists who have had some experience with on-line searching or who have completed the first institute. Everett Brenner, who is the instructor, is presently the director of the Pratt Institute Graduate School of Library and Information Science series “Library and Information Center Up-Date, 19—” and has been manager of the Central Abstracting and Indexing Service of the American Petroleum Institute since 1959. Registration fees will vary: $75.00 for one full-day session only, $106.00 for full-day and two evenings for no credit, and $128.50 for full-day and two evenings for one credit. For further information and registration form, call or write the Graduate School of Li­ brary and Information Science, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 11205; (212) 636-3704. June 13-17: The University of Washington School of Librarianship will offer three short workshops in the field of Archival Manage­ ment. 135 1. Introduction to Archival Management provides a basic orientation to the literature and problems in the archival and manuscript field. Sessions will include: history of modern archival theory, developing a manuscript col­ lection, development of corporate archives, ap­ praisal, facilities and equipment, microfilming, and legal problems. 2. Records Center Management is a thirty- hour advanced workshop with primary empha­ sis on planning, establishing, and maintaining a cost-effective records center operation. Ar­ chival values and processes in the context of records center operations will be addressed, and considerable attention will be given to managerial concerns and analytical tools: pro­ gram promotion, procedures development, bud­ geting, and evaluation. 3. Advanced Workshop on Arrangement and Description is designed for those who have completed a previous archival management course or institute. This workshop will include Library of Congress Distributing GPO Monthly Catalog Records in MARC II Format The Government Printing Office and the Library of Congress have announced the start of distribution of the cataloging appearing in the Monthly Catalog in ma­ chine-readable form. The Cataloging Dis­ tribution Service of the Library of Congress inaugurated the distribution of GPO Monthly Catalog tape records in the MARC II format in April. The records on each monthly tape will be those appearing in the Monthly Cata­ log. The cataloging is prepared by the staff of the Library Division of GPO’s Library and Statutory Distribution Ser­ vice following AACR rules and Library of Congress main entries. Subjects are derived from Library of Congress Subject Headings, 8th edition, and its supple­ ments. The cataloging is done on-line by GPO with the Ohio College Library Cen­ ter ( O CLC) and is converted to the MARC II format by the Cataloging Dis­ tribution Service. Cooperative efforts between the Gov­ ernment Printing Office and the Library of Congress continue. The distribution of printed catalog cards using cataloging created for the Monthly Catalog is being actively explored. Joint study of means by which LC and GPO can collaborate more closely to share authority files and each other’s cataloging of federal docu­ ments is also in progress. A U S T R A L IA EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTRE TECHNICAL SERVICES LIBRARIAN Applications are invited tor the position of Technical Services Librarian in the Education Resource Centre of the Melbourne State College. The person appointed will assist the Chief Librarian in the formulation of library policy, and will be responsible for administering a division staff of approximately 28 charged with acquiring, processing and cataloguing a large annual volume of monographs, serials and non­ book materials. Applicants should have professional library qualifications and a degree together with extensive relevant experience in a university or college library, preferably a library with automated systems. Proven administrative ability is essential as well as knowledge of modern library management techniques. Important attributes are the abilities to plan carefully and to maintain good personal relations. GRADE AND SALARY: Senior Librarian, A$18,795—$22,010 p.a. (The Australian dollar is valued at $1.10 U.S.). The College, which is situated in the centre of Melbourne, is the largest tertiary institution in Australia devoted to the preparation of Primary, Secondary Teachers and School Librarians. Diploma and degree courses, as well as Master’s programs are offered in a wide selection of disciplines. Assistance with fares and removal costs will be given to the appointee and his family. Applications giving personal and professional details, and naming three referees should be forwarded by May 30, 1977, to: 136 instruction, demonstrations, and exercises in the arrangement of family or personal papers hav­ ing archival characteristics, and corporate rec­ ords. Registration fee for each workshop is $85. For registration information, contact Short Courses Registration, University of Washing­ ton, DW-50, Seattle, WA 98195; (206) 543- 9233. June 13-17: The Institute of Gerontology and the School of Library Science, the Univer­ sity of Michigan campus, are cosponsoring a conference on Organizational Resources for the Development of Programs for the Aged. It is intended for librarians who are serving or preparing to serve as collectors or disseminators of materials on the aging. The registration fee is $135. For further information, write to Mrs. Doro­ thy H. Coons, Director of Continuing Educa­ tion, Institute of Gerontology, 520 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. June 19: An Institute on Workshop Plan­ ning will be conducted during the Detroit ALA Conference. It is sponsored by L A D / PAS-SDC, JMRT, and RTSD-CRG. It will be limited to 150 people by preregistration. This institute is being developed to provide assistance with the planning of workshops, se­ lection of formats, and evaluation tools to mea­ sure the obtainment of developed goals and objectives. Interested persons should contact Jane E. Marshall, Joseph Regenstein Library, Univer­ sity of Chicago, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637. June 20-July 1: The Third Annual Oral History Institute will be sponsored by the University of Vermont. The fee is $114 for resi­ dents and $156 for nonresidents. For further information, contact Charles T. Morrisey, Uni­ versity of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401; (802) 656-2020. June 27-July 20: Copyright and the Li­ brary, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Speaker: Dr. William Z. Zasri, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Library and In­ formation Sciences. Contact: Library School Office, 329 Library, University of Illinois-UC, Urbana, IL 61801. July 18-20: George Hall, director of tele­ communications for the Commonwealth of Vir­ ginia, and Alice Ihrig, a library-public relations consultant, will keynote the University of Wis­ consin-Stout’s Twelfth Annual Educational Media and Technology Conference to be held in Menomonie. Hall’s topic, “Is It Time to Turn Television Off?,” is aimed at taking a hard look at com­ mercial and public television and its effect on people. His presentation will be on Monday evening, July 18. Ihrig’s topic, “How to Massage the Decision Maker with the Message,” is directed at media professionals who are striving to communicate with supervisors, administrators, governing boards, and the public. Her presentation will be on Tuesday evening, July 19. Five concurrent workshops will be held on Monday afternoon: "Super 8 Sound: The State of the Art”; “Microfiche Readers: Their Future Is Now!”; “Simple Binding and Repair”; “Graphics: Increasing Productivity with New Technology”; and “Security Systems: Pro and Con.” Further information may be obtained by con­ tacting Dr. David P. Barnard, Dean of Learning Resources, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, W I 54751. July 25-August 5: The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research is offering a workshop on Management, Li­ brary Control and the Use of Nonbiblio- craphic Machine-Readable D ata Files. The workshop is designed to meet the needs of indi­ viduals whose responsibilities may include pro­ viding data services or information about machine-readable data files to users. The focus will be on both survey and aggregate numeric data files typically used by social science re­ searchers. The objective of the workshop is to introduce individuals to data management, data library, and data servicing procedures and techniques employed at established data service centers. Specific attention will be given to the practical aspects of making machine-readable data available to users. The workshop contains two entry points contingent upon the back­ ground, experience, and interests of the partici­ pant. The first week of the workshop will consider the process of collecting and making data ma­ chine-readable, documenting data collections, and processing (cleaning) data for primary analysis and use or storage centrally for public access. Hands-on experience with machine- readable data will be provided at each step of the data cleaning process. Computer experience is not required. The second week will focus on data library procedures, user services, and the administration and organization of data service centers. It should be noted that an intensive format for this workshop will be used. Scheduled ses­ sions will be held both in the morning and afternoon. Additional sessions may be sched­ uled for the evenings as needed. Enrollment will be limited. For further information and application forms, contact Summer Program, ICPSR, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106; (313) 764-2570. 137 MISCELLANY • At the semiannual meeting of the New England Library Board (NELB) Panel of Counsellors on October 14-15, 1976, keynote speaker Ruth L. Tighe, research associate with the National Commission on Libraries and In­ formation Science, set the stage for a considera­ tion of multistate cooperatives within the con­ text of national planning. The present structure of networking in the United States as Tighe de­ scribed it comprises two major entities—the bibliographic utility and the bibliographic ser­ vice center. The former—including OCLC, BALLOTS, and LC—have thus far been single-service providers. The latter—including NELINET, SOLINET, etc.— are the dispensers of utility-originated services. Both entities have been concerned thus far only with automated bibliographic services rather than with a broad concept encompassing all aspects of library ser­ vice to multiple clienteles. The national program envisioned by NCLIS does cover the widest range of services, includ­ ing the development of coherent governance structures and funding patterns. Since federal funding has traditionally flowed through the states, direct multistate application seems un­ likely at this juncture. The use of multistate regions as formal hierarchical components of the national program, in the NCLIS view, can­ not be imposed from the top. Multistate consortia covering large geograph­ ical areas and formed of political subdivisions without previous patterns of cooperation have not yet found the focus of “critical mass” which would identify their roles, according to Tighe. It has been difficult for several such con­ sortia to assume leadership in resource sharing when state agencies can often dispense avail­ able services more feasibly by contracting with utilities and service centers on behalf of li­ braries in their states. Because of its small size and its long-recog­ nized character as a traditional entity, Tighe saw New England as an exception to the na­ tional pattern. Where other multistate consortia have assumed primarily a coordinating role, NELB has been able to fill operational func­ tions as well. Examples of these are the New England Document Conservation Center and the New England Serials Service, and other direct-service programs are planned. Tighe cautioned, however, that New England is unique and should therefore not be taken as a yardstick for the rest of the country. While a multistate role in the national hierarchy may develop, it is as yet premature except in New England. • Members of the Universal Serials and Book Exchange (USBE) elected Alfred H. Lane, head, Gifts and Exchange, Columbia University Libraries, as vice-president, presi­ dent-elect for 1977. In January Joseph H. Treyz, director of libraries, University of Wis­ consin-Madison, began his one-year term as USBE president and chairman of the board. For twenty-nine years USBE, a not-for-profit agency, has filled orders for periodicals (single issues and runs), government documents, and books. Its present stock, housed in two Wash­ ington, D.C., warehouses, includes more than four million periodical issues (40,000 titles) and more than 100,000 books and documents. Member libraries located in fifty-six countries deposit with USBE materials they do not need, order publications from monthly lists, send re­ quests for periodicals, and pay service fees for each order that is filled. For a pamphlet on USBE’s services and operations, write or phone USBE, 3335 V St. NE, Washington, DC 20018; (202 ) 529-2555. • Wesley W. Posvar, chancellor of the Uni­ versity of Pittsburgh, announced that $100,- 000 of the proceeds from Pitt’s Sugar Bowl appearance will be allocated to the University Libraries for academic acquisitions. In making the announcement Dr. Posvar said, "We are very proud of our football team, the Sugar Bowl Champions and the 1976 na­ tional champions. This gift justly increases that pride because it demonstrates how an outstand­ ing athletic program can directly contribute to the academic excellence of the University.” According to Rhoten A. Smith, provost of the university, approximately $80,000 will be allo­ cated to the University Libraries for purchase of books and other print materials, and $20,000 will go to the University Center for Instruction­ al Resources to purchase nonprint materials, particularly instructional films. • The Environmental Studies Institute at Santa Barbara and Lockheed/DIALOG Online Information Service of Palo Alto, California, have announced an agreement for making available for computerized literature searches the sophisticated environmental sci­ ence data base compiled by the institute over the last five years. ENVIROBIB will be the code name for the indexed bibliographic ma­ terial available through DIALOG. Starting in the spring of 1977, DIALOG sub­ scribers will be able to search on-line for spe­ cific environmental information published in a variety of the world’s literature treating with all aspects of the environment. Close to 300 important periodicals are indexed by the En­ vironmental Studies Institute for publication in the printed version of their bibliographic ref­ erence work, Environmental Periodicals Bibli­ ography. Under the new agreement, DIALOG sub­ scribers searching the ENVIROBIB file will The largest and most comprehensi retrospective searching of U. . . . is now available for immediate delivery in these 3 sets of hard­ cover indexes and catalog volumes, C U M U L A T IV E S U B J E C T IN D E X T O T H E M O N T H L Y C A T A L O G O F U.S. G O V E R N M E N T P U B L IC A T IO N S , 1900-1971 For decades, subject access had been the missing key to the wider retrospective use o f U.S. Government documents in historical research. With the com pletion o f this 72 year Cumulative Index however, single- alphabet subject indexing was finally made available to more than one m illion 20th Century congressional and departmental publications. This fifteen volume set eliminates 34 separate search steps which were formerly necessary to trace any subject through the various indexes to these U.S. Government publications: 21 Biennial Document Catalogs (1900-1940), 2 Decennial Indexes (1941-1950; 1951-1960), and 11 Annual Indexes (1961- 1971). At a rate of 140 lines per page, and an average of approximately 1.7 entries per line, the total number of individual index citations is in the neighborhood of 3 m illion (or more than 2.5 citations per publication). This means that, at our current price, libraries can acquire cumulative subject citations at a rate of less than 39 cents per thousand! Subject entries in the fifteen volume Cumulative Index were accumulated from 81 separate sources in the M onthly Catalog series and merged into one reference set. These sources include: 48 Annual Indexes to the M onthly Catalog, 2 Decennial Indexes (1941-1950; 1951-1960), 1 Six Month Index, and 30 M onthly Catalogs for which no annual indexes were made. ... in 15 hardcover volumes, 13,336 pages (two column, 8½" x 11").......................................................... $1160.00 T H E “C L A S S E S A D D E D ” S E T O F U.S. M O N T H L Y C A T A L O G R E P R IN T S , 189 5-1924. C o m p iled by M ary E lizabeth Poole. The fact that the firs t th irty years o f the GPO M onthly Catalog contained no Superintendent o f Documents Classification Numbers was a severe drawback to their research use, as most of the documents cited were lo ng -out-of-print and were held only by a few o f the most im portant documents collections (most of which were shelved in Su Docs Class order). This became especially im portant when the largest GPO collection of U.S. documents, the Public Documents Library, was transferred to National Archives, which fo r the first time offered facsim ile copies of government documents fo r sale to the general public. Obviously, their response time in supplying documents is cut considerably when documents are ordered by Su Docs Class Number. Fortunately, before we finalized our plan to reprint the M onthly Catalog, Mary Elizabeth Poole agreed to apply her expertise to seeking out the hundreds of thousands o f Su Docs Class Numbers fo r addition to the entries contained in these 360 M onthly Catalogs. As a result, our reprint edition emerged as the only printed source of Su Docs Class Numbers for the 30 years before they began appearing in the M onthly Catalog. . . .in 30 hardcover volumes, $2160 (single volumes @ $74 each). T H E M O N T H L Y C A T A L O G R E P R IN T E D IT IO N , 1925-1962 Now libraries can complete th e ir holdings of the entire M onthly Catalog series with these 76 additional fullsize facsimile volumes. M onthly Catalog entries contain complete bibliographical data fo r the overwhelming m ajority o f U.S. Government Publications whether congressional, departmental or otherwise. Each entry includes title, personal author, collation, LC card number, Su Docs Classification number, price, ordering inform ation, and a symbol indication if the publication was sent to depository libraries. Here's how Boyd & Rips described the M onthly Catalog series in th e ir standard reference work, United States Government Publications (Wilson), “ The M onthly Catalog and its index is to the field o f general book publications what the Cumulative Book Index is to the field of general book publication. It must be regularly read and checked by all those who work with Government Publications in Libraries . . . " and this was even before we enhanced its value with cumulative subject indexes and added Su Docs Class Numbers. . . . in 76 hardcover volumes, $3660 (or.$55pervolum e,2volum esperyear).Theset price is $520 lowerthan the total cost of individual volumes. If you r library already has parts of these sets, we suggest you act now to fill in gaps and com plete the system. Otherwise, you can buy all three sets for $6580 and save $400. ve S. reference tool for the Government documents collections, THLY CATALOG REFERENCE SYSTEM, . . . and soon will become even larger and more comprehensive with these four new reference sets NEW from NEW from Edna A g a th a M a ry E lizabeth KANELY POOLE Co-editor of the Cumulative Documents Librarian at Subject Index to the Monthly North Carolina State Catalog of U.S. Government University, author of Publications, 1900-1971, and Documents Office Classifica­ compiler of Subject Guide to tion and other standard U.S. Government Biblio­ reference works on graphies, 1924-1973 Government publications CUMULATIVE INDEX TO THE “CLASSES ADDED" HICKCOX’S MONTHLY REPRINT EDITION OF CATALOG OF U.S. HICKCOX’S MONTHLY GOVERNMENT PUBLI­ CATALOG OF U.S. CATIONS, 1885-1894 GOVERNMENT PUBLI­ Cumulative subject and author access is at CATIONS, 1885-1894 last provided to these ten annual catalogs of A fter adding Superintendent of Documents U.S. Government publications which were Classification Numbers to the first 30 years of compiled and published privately by John H. GPO's M onthly Catalog (1895-1924), Miss Poole Hickcox. The Preface to the 1909 Checklist, in has now reached back 10 more years to add referring to Hickcox, stated that "This cata­ Class Numbers to our reprint edition of John logue can be relied on for general excellence." H. Hickcox’s U.S. Government Publications, a The new decennial index is arranged in roughly M onthly Catalog, (1885-1894). This means that the same format as Miss Kanely's new quin­ all Catalog entries located by our three Cumu­quennial index which follow s Hickcox without lative Indexes (which range from 1885 through any gap in coverage. 1970) w ill have Su Docs Class Numbers. These — in three hardcover volumes. Prepublication numbers, of course, are invaluable when re­ price, $235 (until December 1, 1977). questing copies of older documents from the National Archives or other major documents collections which are shelved according to this classification scheme. CUMULATIVE SUBJECT — in six hardcover volumes, prepublication INDEX TO THE MONTHLY price, $380 (until December 1, 1977). CATALOG OF U.S. GOVERN­ MENT PUBLICATIONS, 1895- THE NEW 1977, FIFTH 1899 EDITION OF THE . . . fills the last indexing gap in the complete run o f the GPO Monthly Catalog. DOCUMENTS OFFICE CLASSIFICATION The years 1895-1899 were not included in our 72 year Cumulative Subject Index to the Several months ago, upon selling the last M onthly Catalog because these catalogs had copies of Miss Poole's “ definitive" Fourth no indexing whatsoever from January, 1895 Edition, USHDI decided, rather than reprinting through November, 1897; and only m onthly it, they would produce a revised edition which indexes from December 1897 through Decem­ could be checked against their newly m icro­ ber 1899. To fill this gap, Miss Kanely pro­ filmed Checklist 75 (GPO’s card catalog). The duced original entries fo r the 35 catalogs prepublication price fo r the new set is the which had no indexing, and merged them with same as the standard price of the Fourth the entries from the 25 m onthly indexes. Edition. — in two hardcover volumes. Prepublication — in three hardcover volumes, prepublication price, $165 (until July 1, 1977). price, $265 (until July 1, 1977). Special Offer: Buy all four sets for $970 and save $75 off th eir com bined pre-publication prices. Carrollton Press, Inc., 1911 Ft. Myer Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22209 N gain access not only to material already pub­ lished in the first five volumes of Environmental Periodicals Bibliography, but also to current material from the forthcoming volume 6 for 1977. In many cases reference information will be available for on-line computer interrogation before hard copy of the bibliography is pub­ lished. Thus environmental specialists may maintain current awareness of developments in their field, as well as enjoy access to complete background information in their specialty areas. The ENVIROBIB file for 1975 and 1976 alone will contain some 46,000 bibliographic records on environmental topics, and another 22,000 entries should be added during 1977. The DIALOG system, now in its sixth year of commercial service, provides libraries and other subscribers in government, industry, and academia with access to data bases covering disciplines in natural and social science, busi­ ness and finance, medicine, and the humanities. For detailed information concerning ENVIROBIB or hard copy of Environmental Periodicals Bibliography, please write to En­ vironmental Studies Institute, 2074 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. • Timothy Mellon of Guilford, Connecticut, has made a gift of approximately three-quarters of a million dollars to the Research Libraries Group (RLG) for the acquisition of computer hardware to support its bibliographical system. RLG President James Skipper expressed the gratitude of the board of directors for the far­ sighted vision that prompted this gift. Although the decision on hardware has yet to be made and may be one or two years in the future, such equipment is central to the main objectives of the consortium. To have a substantial financial base for implementing this part of the RLG program is of the greatest significance to the fu­ ture of RLG.—HUL Notes. • The Richard B. Russell Memorial Li­ brary at the University of Georgia opened for research January 10, and applications are being accepted for access to the large manu­ script collection of the late Georgia senator. Russell, who was Senate president pro tem­ pore from 1969 until his death, was adviser and confidant to six presidents—Franklin D. Roose­ velt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon. The Russell Library, a joint effort of the Richard B. Russell Foundation, the State of Georgia, and the University System of Georgia, was dedicated in 1974. It is located in an annex to the university’s main library on the north campus in Athens. Inquiries may be addressed to the Richard B. Russell Memorial Library, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, GA 30602. • Representatives of the British Library, the National Library of Australia, the Na­ tional Library of Canada, and the Library of Congress met at the Library of Congress on November 8-9 for informal discussions of problems and strategies on cooperative aspects of cataloging. One of the major topics was the impact that will result from the promulgation of two major compilations of cataloging stan­ dards that are now in the final stages of editing. The first of these is the second edition of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. The latest information available on the publication time­ table of AACR II seems to indicate that the new edition is unlikely to appear before mid- 1978. Although AACR II is not a new code, adapting to the changes it does embody will in­ volve staff training, development of new inter­ nal procedures, and perhaps some modification in the formats of the programs for machine in­ put of bibliographic data. The four libraries agreed that the minimum allowable period for preparation is at least six months, which would mean that they would not be ready to imple­ ment AACR II until mid-1979. The second work in progress is the 19th edi­ tion of Dewey Decimal Classification, which, at latest report, is scheduled to appear in 1979. The four libraries felt strongly that adoption of DDC 19 should be targeted for January 1, 1980, for substantially the same reasons cited for AACR II. Simultaneous adoption of AACR II and Dewey 19 will also make pos­ sible better coordination of their conversion ef­ forts. Accordingly, the four libraries agreed to an­ nounce immediately their concurrence in a joint strategy for implementing AACR II and Dewey 19 effective January 1, 1980. • A contract of nearly $200,000 has been awarded to Applied Management Sciences, Inc., of Silver Spring, Maryland, to help define the federal role in library services. The study will determine the impact of ex­ isting federally funded library services pro­ grams and recommend the extent of federal in­ volvement in that area in the future. Two Office of Education programs are in­ volved: Title III of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), which aims to make better use of existing library resources by de­ veloping cooperative arrangements adminis­ tered at the state level; and Title II-B of the Higher Education Act (H EA ), which awards grants to institutions for library research and demonstration projects. The study will be conducted at the federal level by means of personal interviews; at the state level through mail surveys to state library agencies; and at the project level by means of telephone and mail surveys. In addition, ten state library agencies, ten LSCA III funded 140 projects, and twelve HEA II-B funded projects will be visited. Dr. Ruth Patrick and Dr. Visita Mathur, both of Applied Management Sciences, Inc., are project co-directors. The final report is sched­ uled for late 1977. • The Jewish Librarians Caucus was founded at the American Library Association 1975 Midwinter Meeting. The caucus, which does not require ALA membership, has adopted a statement which reads in part: . . . As Jews we have a special responsi­ bility to identify those issues affecting the Jewish people. We recognize a growth in anti-Semitism. We also recognize a general insensitivity of governments and institu­ tions with respect to these issues. According to Cookie Lewis-Soldinger, editor of the caucus’ newsletter, “the Jewish Librari­ ans Caucus is involved in many issues within the multifaceted library profession. For exam­ ple, it is involved in an intense lobbying effort for the reform of the offensive and discrimina­ tory treatment of Judaism and Jews in subject heading lists and classification schemes (e.g., LC, Sears, Dewey Decimal, Wilson, Bowker); pressuring Soviet officials to allow Jewish li­ brarians to emigrate; monitoring of anti- Semitic materials on all levels, in all media; and forming a Children’s Book Award.” The caucus’ quarterly newsletter features topics of current interest to the Jewish librarian such as Jewish library collections and the Jew­ ish press, guides to resources, and reviews of books, periodicals, and audiovisual materials. The newsletter subscription rate is $5 per year. Inquiries should be sent to Cookie Lewis- Soldinger, Editor, 5246 Beeman Ave., North Hollywood, CA 91607. • The New England Bibliographic In­ struction Collection (NEBIC), housed in the Simmons College Library, for the first time has affiliated formally with an academic library organization. The Association of College and Research Libraries’ New England Chapter (ACRL/NEC) has established a Bibliographic Instruction Committee, one of whose ongoing roles will be interaction with NEBIC. In fact, the committee has adopted NEBIC’s core of founders as its initial membership. Any librari­ an interested in joining the fledgling committee may contact either Arline Willar, chairperson, at the Northeastern University Library in Bos­ ton, Massachusetts, or Diane Lutz, ACRL/ NEC president, at the New Hampshire College Library in Manchester, New Hampshire. • Mr. and Mrs. Edmund J. Kahn of Dallas, Texas, have made the largest single gift ever made in support of the University of Penn­ sylvania Library—a gift of $1 million. Richard De Gennaro, director of libraries, said the Kahn gift will establish an endowment fund to be known as the Edmund J. Kahn Book Fund. Yield from the fund will be used to purchase books and other resource materials. Mr. Kahn was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1925 and has pursued a distinguished career in finance and investment. He has been active for many years in alumni affairs and has been a generous benefactor of the university. The Kahns have followed a policy of making equal contributions to the university and to Smith College, from which Mrs. Kahn was graduated. In addition, they have been active participants in Dallas civic and philanthropic affairs. The Kahns have matched their most recent gift of $1 million to the university with gifts of $1 million to Smith College, for sup­ port of its library, and of $1 million to the Dallas Foundation to support the Dallas Public Library. • The Canadian Union Catalogue Task Group, in a recent report, advocates the devel­ opment, with the guidance and support of the National Library of Canada, of a Canadian Li­ brary Network, with the objectives of equaliz­ ing opportunity for access to information and making more cost-effective use of total Canadi­ an library resources. This network would be composed of three interrelated components, a bibliographic network, a resource network, and a communications network. The bibliographic network would be based on a Canadian Na­ tional Bibliographic Data Base, compiled at the National Library of Canada. This data base would be used to support the production and maintenance of union catalogs, union lists, and cataloging support services at both the National Library of Canada and at provincial/regional bibliographic centers. The resource network would be made up of the holdings of the Na­ tional Library and other federal governmental libraries designated resource libraries across the nation, and unique items held in other libraries. Support for this resource network would be provided by the federal government for library collections both at the National Library and other libraries. A periodicals resource center and a storage center, to be operated by the National Library of Canada and the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Informa­ tion, are proposed. The communications net­ work would consist of a delivery system for the actual transfer of items by such means as the postal service and interorganizational delivery, and information transmission systems. Costs of transmitting materials among libraries and of communications among libraries would be ab­ sorbed, alleviated, or at the least regionally equalized by the federal government.—HUL Notes. 141 • The Research Libraries Group (RLG) annual report for 1975-76 chronicles and quan­ tifies progress made over a pivotal period, the year of its incorporation. The report abounds with meaty statistics. For example, during RLG’s first full year of operation, members re­ quested the loan of 5,423 items and asked for bibliographic information concerning 297 titles, a total of 5,720 requests. Of these, an estimated 80 percent of the items requested were found in RLG collections, with a filled rate of 72 per­ cent. The average number of exposures per photocopy request was thirteen, with 83 per­ cent of the transactions entailing thirty pages or less. It was also reported that sixty expensive items, with an average cost of $1,372 and a total cost of $82,320, were acquired by one member or more to be shared by all members. • January was a landmark month in the his­ tory of BioSciences Information Service (BIOSIS). Now observing its fiftieth anniver­ sary, the Philadelphia-based organization, the world’s largest abstracting service for biology in the English language, announced that its three-millionth abstract was published in vol­ ume 63, number 2 of Biological Abstracts, is­ sued on January 15. BioResearch Index, sister publication to Biological Abstracts, announced its one-millionth report in January in volume 13, number 1. The publication timing of the three million abstracts confirms the “scientific information ex­ plosion” and the growth of BIOSIS. The one- millionth abstract appeared in February 1961, thirty-five years after the founding of Biological Abstracts. The three-millionth appeared after less than half that time! The one-millionth item in BioResearch Index has appeared after only twelve years. This pub­ lication deals with such literature as proceed­ ings, symposia, etc. • The Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sci­ ences is celebrating its fiftieth birthday. Locat­ ed between two of America’s largest and most prestigious universities, the University of South­ ern California and the University of California at Los Angeles, both noted for their cinema and theater arts programs, the facility also is within easy commuting distance of five movie studios, three television networks, one of the country’s largest newspapers, and the American Film Institute’s Center for Advanced Film Studies. Altogether the faculties and students of ninety-seven educational instutitions make use of the facilities for research. Librarians from the academy, AFI, USC, and UCLA enjoy close cooperation, meeting monthly to exchange information and discuss mutual problems. As a project of the Film and Television Studies Center, Inc., the Librarians’ Committee advised bibliographer Linda Harris Mehr on the compilation of the Union List o† Special Collections in Film and Television in the Eleven Western States, to be published this fall by G. K. Hall. Occupying two floors of the academy’s new headquarters building on Wilshire Boulevard in the heart of Beverly Hills, the Margaret Herrick Library is considered by many experts to be the world’s leading source of facts and figures on every facet of the movie industry. More than 11,000 visitors used the library in 1976, and 22,000 telephone requests for in­ formation were logged. Reference materials may not be borrowed from the library, but reproductions of photo­ graphs and printed materials housed in the library are available at modest fees. Its reference collection consists of books, periodicals, and pamphlets; files of clippings and still photographs; and special research and archival collections, all related to the motion picture and its history. The library attempts to collect every book in English on motion pictures, as well as impor­ tant foreign reference sources and selected books in allied fields, such as television and theater. The book collection now numbers more than 9,000 volumes. Currently subscriptions to 140 periodicals of all types are maintained. Subject access to these is provided through clipping files and indexing, and occasional issues of many other periodicals are purchased and relevant articles added to the files. The production files, on more than 40,000 motion pictures, contain information and photo­ graphs from virtually every American film as well as major productions from foreign coun­ tries. Still photographs, programs and press- books, synopses, cast and credits sheets, and posters are added through the cooperation of producing and distributing companies, by spe­ cial arrangement with National Screen Service, and by individual gift. The biography files consist of information and photographs dealing with filmmakers of all crafts from the beginning of the industry to date. The files contain feature articles, news- clips, daily trade items, studio biographies and publicity releases, and portrait and publicity stills. A card file of obituaries is also main­ tained. The general subject files also contain clip­ pings, stills, and pamphlets. These are assigned subject headings and often form complete rec­ ords of an event, company, or special topic. Named in honor of the academy’s first li­ brarian, and later its executive director, the Margaret Herrick Library’s facilities are avail­ able without charge to the public and others from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, except major holidays. ■ ■ 142