ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • Cooperation between two archival collec­ tions has resulted in the increased availability of manuscript materials in criminology to schol­ ars on opposite sides of the continent. The Conwellana-Templana Collection in the Samuel Paley Library of Temple University in Phila­ delphia and the Archive of Contemporary His­ tory at the University of Wyoming in Lara­ mie have exchanged copies of their separate correspondence between Harry Elmer Barnes and Negley King Teeters. The Barnes Collection at the University of Wyoming Library, the major portion of which was deposited by Barnes prior to his death in 1968, extends to nearly 200 document boxes, almost half consisting of his wide-ranging cor­ respondence. On various college and university faculties during his lifetime, Barnes was well known to generations of college students for his many works in sociology and history. Teeters, whose teaching career at Temple be­ gan in 1927, was a recognized writer in the field of criminology, and before his retirement from the Temple faculty in 1963, he presented copies of his publications to the Conwellana- Templana Collection. The largest deposit of his papers, however, was made in the late 1960s, after his move to Oneonta, New York, where he was a member of the faculty at Hartwick College until his death in 1971. Collaborating on a text in criminology in 1943 titled New Horizons in Criminology, Barnes and Teeters began an extensive corre­ spondence that spanned many years and totaled approximately 200 letters apiece. Of greatest interest to criminologists will be Barnes and Teeters’ correspondence, articles, and reports concerning several highly publicized defendants in criminal cases of mid-twentieth century— notably Caryl Chessman in California and Rob­ ert Stroud, the “birdman of Alcatraz.” • The Folger Library has acquired a copy of the rare first edition of Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton For the Library of Unlicenc’d Printing. . . . Printed in London in 1644, Areopagitica is Milton’s plea against gov­ ernment censorship and by far the best known of his many prose works. It was written as a protest against an ordinance of Parliament passed in June 1644, that required books to be licensed— and thus approved by government officials—before being published. The book has been on public exhibit since Milton’s birthday, December 9, and is presently part of the Folger’s current show, “The Age of Milton,” mounted for the 300th anniversary of his death in 1674. The earliest copy of Areopa­ gitica previously owned by the library was an 1890 reprint published by the Grolier Club. The 1644 edition is the only one printed during Milton’s lifetime. The book derives its title from the Areopa­ gus, the Athenian parliament. It is considered the finest defense in English of the assertion that “when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. . . .” In another famous passage, Mil- ton declares: “As good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a man kills reason itself, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a Man lives a burden to the Earth, b ut a good Booke is the pretious life—blood of a master spirit, im’balm’d and treasur’d up on purpose to a life beyond life.” The Folger acquired the Areopagitica at the recent Sotheby Parke Bernet sale of the Wil­ liam E. Stockhausen Collection of English and American Literature. Acquisition of this volume fills the most serious gap in the Folger’s out­ standing collection of Milton’s prose and poetry in first editions and editions of the later seven­ teenth and eighteenth centuries. • Deeds of gift have been signed for two new major acquisitions of the Archives of American Art, a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, it was announced recently by Wil­ liam E. Woolfenden, director. The papers and records of Joseph Cornell and Moses Soyer have been given to the ar­ chives by the families of the late artists. Both collections contain thousands of items now be­ ing microfilmed for distribution to the five re­ gional centers of the archives in Washington, New York, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco. Voluminous notes written on loose pieces of paper, each one carefully dated, filled dozens of boxes of the Cornell gift. Photographs and memorabilia of movie stars and ballerinas, post­ cards, and masses of material for use in collages are still being processed. The Soyer gift in­ cludes portrait photographs of Soyer and his family by Arnold Newman, letters, sketches, doodles, family snapshots, reviews of early shows, and a typed manuscript entitled “Three Brothers.” Dates covered extend from 1920 to Soyer’s death in 1974. Scholars wishing to research the Cornell pa­ pers must direct written requests to the director for approval. The Soyer papers are available to qualified researchers as are the majority of pa­ pers in the archives. 76 • The graduate school and library at D rew U niversity, Madison, N.J. have been selected by the government of West Germany to receive a continuing gift of books about Germany and the Federal Republic. Consisting of newly pub­ lished works in the area of German politics and culture over the past century, this gift from the Federal Republic’s Research Council was ar­ ranged and presented by Dr. Phillip Schmidt- Schlegel, W est German consul general in New York City. Dr. Schmidt-Schlegel has been a lec­ turer in the graduate school at Drew for the past two years. Some of the books already received include the new biography of Willy Brandt by Terrence Prittie of the Manchester Guardian, several vol­ umes by Brandt himself, A. J. Ryder’s Twen­ tieth Century Germany from Bismarck to Brandt, and The Balance of Power, a book by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, written when he was defense minister. According to Professor Arthur E. Jones, Jr., director of the University Library, the books will add depth to Drew’s existing collection in German cultural and po­ litical history. G R A N T S • The University of Kentucky and Mills College ( Calif.) are recipients of matching grants of $50,000 and $48,608 respectively un­ der the joint College Library Program of the Council on Library Resources (C L R ) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (N E H ). The two grants bring to nineteen the number made jointly by CLR and NEH under their five-year-old program designed to enhance the college library’s role in the humanities educa­ tion of undergraduates. At Kentucky the CRL-NEH funds—together with $50,000 of the university’s own funds— will be used over the next five years to provide liaison between the library and the General Studies Division of the university, particularly in the areas of literature, the classics, social sciences, and philosophy. A library services co­ ordinator—-a new position—will be responsible for this activity. In addition, the coordinator will teach certain segments of courses where library experience is needed. He will also be available for instruct­ ing and advising individual students about term papers and research projects. At Mills a five-year, $97,216 program, aimed at exposing students from all academic disci­ plines to direct contact with the great books and rare manuscripts in its library’s rich collec­ tion, will be launched with the CLR-NEH grant and the college’s matching commitment. A research librarian is being added to the li­ brary staff to serve as curator of the Bender Room (rare book) collection and to do biblio­ graphic work for the program, which, if suc­ cessful, will make it possible for the outstand­ ing rare books and manuscripts in the Mills College Library to become a basic element in the college’s instructional program. • The viable b ut informally manned Library Orientation-Instruction Exchange ( LO EX ) at Eastern Michigan University will expand its services aimed at improving training in use of college libraries under terms of a three-year grant of $42,771 from the Council on Library Resources ( C L R ). Project LOEX was established at Eastern Michigan—recipient of the grant—in May 1972 as a result of the university’s Library O ut­ reach Orientation Program supported by a matching grant under the joint College Library Program of CLR and the National Endowment for the Humanities. LOEX is a clearinghouse for information and materials relating to academic library orienta­ tion and instruction not only at Eastern Michi­ gan b ut also at almost 200 cooperating institu­ tions. Study of Urban University Libraries Consortia The Urban Universities Library Com­ mittee of the ACRL University Libraries Section is presently engaged in a study of consortia and other formal cooperative library groups which include urban uni­ versity libraries, in an effort to determine conditions and programs which make for cooperative success. The chairman of the committee, David E. Pownall, Director of Library Services, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11550, would appreciate hearing from already formed, or forming, cooperative groups which include urban university libraries. The members of the committee are: John W. Aubry, coordinator of library systems, Five Associated University Li­ braries, Syracuse, New York; George C. Grant, associate director of libraries for public services, Southern Illinois Univer­ sity, Edwardsville; Dean W. Halliwell, librarian, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Beth A. Hamilton, executive director, Illinois Regional Li­ brary Council, Hinsdale; Dr. Vern M. Pings, director of libraries, Wayne State University, Detroit; and William C. Roselle, director of the library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 77 Its objectives are threefold: (1 ) to facilitate communication among academic libraries with orientation and instruction programs, (2 ) to as­ sist libraries in developing such programs, and (3 ) to aid librarians in their research endeavors and in furthering their education in orientation on an informal basis. Project LOEX, now manned informally, will broaden its services under the direction of a member of the university’s Center of Educa­ tional Resources faculty assigned half time to­ ward furthering its objectives. The director’s responsibilities will include ex­ panding membership, planning and conducting LOEX meetings, supervising the collection, preparing the LO EX News and other written materials, and evaluating services and proce­ dures. Eastern Michigan University’s Center of E d ­ ucational Resources is providing the project with office space, and the library is assisting with personnel and books as needed. The uni­ versity is hopeful that Project LOEX will prove largely self-supporting by the end of the CLR grant b ut is committed to carrying on the work as a continuing part of its service program in any event. Mary Bolner will be in charge of Project LOEX, according to Center of Educa­ tional Resources director Fred Blum. • The Iowa State University Library has recently received a matching grant of $5,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts for the restoration of its famed Grant Wood murals. A similar $5,000 amount to match the grant was provided by the Iowa State alumni Class of 1959. The College and University Libraries Section, Kansas Library Association, meeting in Manhattan, Kansas, October 14-15, 1974, approved the following resolution: resolved, that the College and Univer­ sity Libraries Section of the Kansas Li­ brary Association strongly endorses the criteria and procedures for appoint­ ment, promotion in academic rank and tenure for use in academic libraries as outlined in both the “Model Statement of Criteria and Procedures for Appoint­ ment, Promotion in Academic Rank, and Tenure for College and University Librarians” as published in College ‹b Research Libraries News, September 1973, and “Statement on Faculty Status of College and University Li­ brarians” as published in College br Research Libraries News, February 1974. The nine mural panels which adorn the lob­ by and stairwell of the Iowa State University Library depict the first breaking of Iowa’s vir­ gin soil in the 1840s as well as panoramas of the activities of Iowa State’s colleges. These works of art, reproduced in national publica­ tions and films, were painted under the direc­ tion of the late Grant Wood, world-renowned Iowa artist, during the 1930s. The series is based upon the theme that agriculture stimu­ lates the pursuit of all the other arts and sci­ ences. Details in each mural are exacting, great care having been made to provide complete authen­ ticity. Illustrations of chemical experiments in progress, the breeds of livestock, harness, ropes and equipment, Iowa wildflowers, and even the blueprints shown are exactingly reproduced. Restoration required several months of careful cleaning, surface coating, and in-painting by Iowa conservator Margaret Ash and her assist­ ants. M E E T IN G S March 26: Beverly P. Lynch, executive sec­ retary, ACRL, will be the luncheon speaker at the Stony Brook Spring Conference to be held at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Dr. Lynch will speak on the arbi­ tration, mediation, and inquiry program of ALA. Dr. Lynch will also participate in the after­ noon panel discussion, “Librarians in Unions.” Other panelists will include Anne Commerton (director, SUNY Oswego); I. Vera Jerwick (documents, Nassau Community College); Jackie K. Eubanks (reference, CUNY Brooklyn & Social Responsibilities Round T able); C. James Schmidt (director, SUNY Albany and chairman of ACRL Academic Status Commit­ te e ); and Marilyn Sternberg (reference, Adel­ phi University and president of Adelphi AAUP Bargaining U nit). The morning program will offer workshops on the status and implementation of the CONSER project, OCLC cataloging develop­ ments, and the present design for acquisitions processing through OCLC. The conference is being cosponsored by the State University of New York Librarians Asso­ ciation. For further information phone (516) 246-3615. The cost of registration is $10.00 (includes lunch). Send payment to SUNYLA, c /o Mr. Terry E. Hubbard, Reference Dept., Library, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794. April 4: “The Library as Consumer” is the subject of the 1975 Institute of the Library As­ sociation of the City University of New York. To be held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York 78 City, the institute, open to librarians, interested students, faculty, and administrators, will be concerned with the problems and prospects for libraries as institutional consumers. Among the topics to be considered are: consumer problems involved in acquiring library books and equip­ ment; use of review media and evaluative re­ ports; and new and intensified efforts toward improving library consumer information and protection. Speakers will be: Thomas J. Galvin, dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh; May Vir­ ginia Valencik, director, and Doris Allebach, interior design consultant, White Plains (N.Y.) Public Library; and Ellsworth G. Mason, direc­ tor, University of Colorado Libraries. There will be a reactor panel following the presentations. For further information, please contact: Betty Seifert, City College Library, 135th St. and Convent Ave., New York, NY 10031; (212 ) 690-4188. April 4: The Association of College and Re­ search Libraries New England Chapter will hold a Conference on Writing and Publish­ ing for Librarians at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Registration informa­ tion is available from Phyllis L. Cutler, Science Librarian, Gerstenzang Science Library, Bran- deis University, Waltham, MA 02154. April 4-5: D ocuments Workshop. A re­ gional federal documents workshop for docu­ ments librarians and others responsible for doc­ uments collections and documents reference in the following states: Colorado, Kansas, Mon­ tana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming will be held at the College Inn (University of Colorado Conference Center), Boulder, Colorado. Organized by the Special Libraries Associa­ tion, Colorado Chapter, the two-day program will consist of seminars and discussion groups on: basic reference, acquisitions, and new aids; regional and selective depositories and regional resources; publishers (government and com­ mercial ); microforms and microform equip­ ment; promotion of documents use; and techni­ cal reports, patents, standards, and specifica­ tions. Registration will be limited to 120 persons. The conference fee will be $50.00, which will include cost of registration, room and board, and all conference materials. Without a room, the fee will be $25.00. Complete program in­ formation and preregistration forms are avail­ able from Jean McIntyre, Head, Documents Di­ vision, Denver Public Library, 1357 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203; (303) 573-5152 Ext. 208. April 11-13: Science Fiction. The Re­ gional Conference on Science Fiction, to be held in Denver, is being sponsored by the Sci­ ence Fiction Research Association and the Uni­ versity of Colorado at Denver. The conference will focus on the study and teaching of science fiction. In addition to the presentation of papers, workshops dealing with problems, methods, and resources in teaching SF and with the develop­ ment of SF collections will be offered. One of the aims of the workshops will be to produce bibliographies for public, college, and school li­ braries. Papers and bibliographers in this area are also invited. Please send all inquiries re­ garding papers to Dr. Peter Alterman, Dr. Richard Dillon, cochairmen, Division of Arts and Humanities, University of Colorado at Denver, 1100 14th St., Denver, CO 80202; (303) 892-1117 Ext. 217. Please send all in­ quiries regarding the conference to Bureau of Conferences and Institutes, University of Colo­ rado, Academy 217, 970 Aurora Ave., Boulder, CO 80302; (303 ) 492-6485. April 16-19: The sixty-eighth annual meet­ ing of the Organization of American His­ torians will be held in Boston, Massachusetts. Nonmembers are invited to attend. Registration information is available from the Organization of American Historians, 112 North Bryan, Bloomington, IN 47401. April 17-18: The ACM Conference on Space, Growth and Performance Problems of College and University Lirraries, spon­ sored by the Associated Colleges of the Mid­ west, will be held at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago. Can the growth rate of academic libraries be sharply curtailed without detriment to the edu­ cational and research missions of colleges and universities? This vital question will be an­ swered by some of the most distinguished au­ thorities in librarianship and operations re­ search. Their papers will survey the current space problems of academic libraries and present breakthrough strategies to reduce collection size, curb collection growth, improve delivery of wanted publications, and eliminate the need for new construction. The program is designed to help college and university deans, fiscal officers, and head librari­ ans find practical solutions to the economic and academic problems caused by the unexamined and unproductive growth of library collections. A reactor panel will respond to the new de­ partures proposed by the speakers. Chaired by Dan Martin, president of ACM, the panel will reflect the views of accrediting agencies, aca­ demic administration, state boards of higher ed­ ucation, and the teaching faculty. For registra­ tion information, write: ACM, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610. 79 April 27-30: Computers and Reference. The twelfth annual Clinic on Library Appli­ cations of Data Processing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois. The theme of this clinic will be “The Use of Computers in Literature Searching and Related Reference Activities in Libraries.” Further information may be obtained from Mr. Brandt Pryor, Office of Continuing Educa­ tion and Public Service, University of Illinois, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. April 28-30: The 1975 IEEE Conference on Scientific Journals, cosponsored by the Association for Scientific Journals, will be held at Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Further information is available from the general chairman, James Lufkin, G2118 Honeywell Plaza, Minneapolis, MN 55408. May 14-17: Technical Communications. Sponsored by the Society for Technical Com­ munication, the twenty-second International Technical Communications Conference will be held in Disneyland. The cheme of this year’s conference will be “The Challenge of Profes­ sional Development.” Registration information may be obtained from H. Small, 1630 S. Bar­ ranca, Sp. 170, Glendora, CA 91740. May 15-17: Lihrary Orientation. The Eastern Michigan University Center of Educa­ tional Resources is planning the fifth annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academ­ ic Libraries to be held on the EMU campus, Ypsilanti, Michigan. The program will include speakers, discussions, and working sessions. Librarians, administrators, faculty, and stu­ dents are invited. Registration will be limited to 100 persons. For further information, please write to Hannelore Rader, Orientation Li­ brarian, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197. May 18-30: Administrators. The College of Library and Information Services, Univer­ sity of Maryland, is planning the ninth annual Library Administrators Development Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management, Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. See the January News for more information. May 22-24: The twentieth annual meeting of the Midwest Academic Librarians Confer­ ence will be held at the Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus, Ohio. The theme will be “Magic and Libraries.” Contact Rita Hirsch- man, Main Library, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, for information and reg­ istration materials. June 15-20: XX SALALM. The XX Semi­ nar on the Acquisition of Latin American Li­ brary Materials will convene in Bogota, Colom­ bia, at the invitation of Dr. Jorge Rojas, direc­ tor of the Institute Colombiano de Cultura. Address inquiries concerning the program to Mrs. Emma C. Simonson, Latin American Li­ brarian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401. Other questions may be directed to Mrs. Pauline P. Collins, Executive Secretary of SALALM, Secretariat, University of Massa­ chusetts Library, Amherst, MA 01002. Mem­ bership in SALALM is $10.00 for personal members ($7.00 for members from Latin America and the Caribbean) and $25.00 for institutions. Dues may be forwarded to the Secretariat. See the January News for more in­ formation. June 15-27: The Catholic University’s library science department will host the third annual Institute on the Library and the Govern­ mental Process. The institute offers partici­ pants an opportunity to study and observe, at first hand, the governmental processes and forces affecting libraries and information cen­ ters. The techniques of library legislation will be analyzed on the federal, state, and local lev­ els. Conducting the sessions will be Robert E. Frase, consulting economist and author of L i­ brary Funding, and Public Support, and Al­ phonse F. Trezza, executive director of the Na­ tional Commission on Libraries and Information Science. Participants in the library science institute may receive three graduate credits. Tuition and fees total $215.00. The program is open to qualified practicing librarians and graduate stu­ dents in library science. For more information write: Dept. of Library Science, The Catholic University, Washington, DC 20064; (202) 635- 5085. June 22-25: Law Librarians. The Amer­ ican Association of Law Libraries will meet in the Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, Califor­ nia. More information from AALL, 53 W. Jack- son Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604. June 23-27: Manpower Planning. The theme of the 1975 annual management course organized by the London and Home Counties Branch of the Library Association will be “Li­ brary Manpower Planning in the ’70s and ’80s.” The course will be held at Woburn, Bedford­ 80 shire. Inclusive residential course fee is $95.00. Techniques and experiences relating to staíf utilization, work measurement, and manpower requirement projection in public and academic libraries will be described and critically as­ sessed by senior librarians. Full details are available from David Baynes, 61, Crossways, Crawley, Sussex, U.K. June 23-27: A short, one-week course in In­ formation Retrieval and D ynamic Lirrary Processing will be taught by Professor Gerard Salton at Cornell University under the auspices of the Continuing Education Office at Cornell. The course is intended for information sci­ entists, librarians, and library science educators who may be interested in the application of novel techniques and technologies to informa­ tion retrieval and automatic library processing. The course covers new techniques for auto­ matic indexing and document content analysis, automatic term classification and optimum thesaurus construction, automatic document classification and file organization, interactive search and retrieval techniques, automatic file growth and document retirement methodology, and dynamic collection control. For further information, contact: Director of Continuing Education, College of Engineering, Cornell University, Upson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853; (607) 256-5088. June 25-28: “Eighteenth-Century English Books Considered by Librarians and Booksell­ ers, Bibliographers and Collectors” is the theme of the 1975 Rare Books and Manuscripts Preconference to be held in San Francisco. John W. Jolliffe, the keeper of catalogues, Bodleian Library, Oxford University and direc­ tor of Project LOC, and William Cameron, dean, School of Library and Information Sci­ ence, University of Western Ontario and direc­ tor of the HPB project, will discuss the short- title catalog. G. Thomas Tanselle, professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present problems of bibliographical description. Problems of editing manuscript ledgers will be discussed by Patricia Hernlund, professor of English, Wayne State University. Keynoting the conference will be William B. Todd, professor of English, University of Texas at Austin. Herman W. Liebert, librarian emeri­ tus, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, will provide the conference summary. The preconference is sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Donald D. Eddy, associate professor of English and librari­ an of the Department of Rare Books, Cornell University, is chairman of the Program Plan­ ning Committee. Peter E. Hanff, coordinator of technical services, the Bancroft Library, Uni­ versity of California, Berkeley, is chairman of local arrangements. The chairman of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section is Hendrik Edelman, assistant director for development of collections, Cornell University Libraries. Further information and registration details can be obtained from Beverly P. Lynch, Execu­ tive Secretary, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chi­ cago, IL 60611; (312 ) 944-6780. June 26-28: Collective Bargaining. “Col­ lective Bargaining in Higher Education: Its Implications for Governance and Faculty Status for Librarians” will be the topic of a precon­ ference meeting in San Francisco. Sponsored by the ACRL Academic Status Committee, the program is part of the continuing effort of the committee to provide information which will help librarians in understanding and evaluating status and governance issues. Further information and registration forms are available from: Beverly P. Lynch, Executive CONSER Pact Signed The Council on Library Resources ( C R L ) and the Ohio College Library Center (O CLC) have signed an agree­ ment providing for use of OCLC’s com­ puter network in the CLR-managed CONSER (CONversion of SERials) Project over the next two years. The CONSER Project, which should be op­ erational within five months, is a cooper­ ative effort to convert serials records to a machine-readable format and will re­ sult in a relatively comprehensive serials data base. The file produced by CONSER will be available to the library community through the Library of Con­ gress and the National Library of Cana­ da. The initial participating institutions that will input their serials via CRT ter­ minals on OCLC’s on-line shared catalog­ ing system include the Library of Con­ gress, the National Library of Canada, the National Library of Medicine, the National Agricultural Library, the State University of New York, the New York State Library, Cornell University, Yale University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of California. The In­ ternational Serials Data System will par­ ticipate through the two national cen­ ters: the National Serials Data Program within the Library of Congress, and the ISDS/Canada within the National Li­ brary of Canada. 81 Secretary, Association of College and Research Libraries, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. July 7-25: “Ethnicity and Librarianship,” an institute funded by the U.S. Office of Edu­ cation for school, public, and college librarians, will take place at Queens College of the City University of New York. The leaders of the in­ stitute will be Professor David Cohen, director, Queens College Library Science Department, and Miss Lillian Lopez, coordinator of special services, New York Public Library. With the goals of the institute being the im­ provement in the ability of librarians, publish­ ers, writers, editors, and teachers to meet more effectively the recognized information needs of the minority population, the institute will deal with the selection and evaluation of library ma­ terials and services for all minority groups. Em­ phasis will be on the concept of ethnicity and the responsibility of librarians for developing library collections which clearly reflect the mul­ tiethnic composition of our society. The institute is designed to contribute to the improvement of library service to children, young adults, and adults with minority/ethnic orientation. It will attempt to identify materials which present a more positive view of minority groups and will invite authors, editors, and publishers to discuss criteria for evaluation of available materials and goals for the production of better materials in this field. This institute is a followup of an institute held in 1972 at Queens College which concen­ trated on such groups as Asian-Americans, Blacks, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans, and Puerto Ricans. In addition to these groups, the institute will include Polish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans, and Irish Americans. Applications should be addressed to Profes­ sor David Cohen, Queens College Library Sci­ ence Department, Flushing, NY 11367. Those librarians who themselves come from minority/ ethnic groups and who have had some experi­ ence in working with minorities are urged to apply. Those completing the program satisfac­ torily will receive a certificate showing comple­ tion of nine graduate credits. All students or participants will be paid stipends of $75.00 per week plus a dependency allowance. The deadline for applications is April 15, 1975. July 22-25: The fifth Cranfield Confer­ ence on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems will be held at Cran­ field Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bed­ ford, England. The conference will be fully residential and the cost, including accommodation, meals, and the conference dinner will be $82.00. Full de­ tails of the program, together with application forms, are available from Cyril Cleverdon, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford MK 43 OAL, England. August 24-28: The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) will hold its thirteenth annual conference at the Washington Plaza Hotel in Seattle, Washing­ ton. The theme will be “The Role of Informa­ tion Systems Technology in Community Man­ agement.” October 23-26: The Oral History Asso­ ciation will hold its tenth National Colloquium on Oral History at the Grove Park Inn in Ashe­ ville, North Carolina. The theme for the colloquium will be “Oral History Comes of Age: The Tenth National Col­ loquium on Oral History.” The program chairperson for the colloquium is Thomas Charlton, Baylor University, and the workshop chairperson is Waddy Moore, State College of Arkansas. For further information about the Oral His­ tory Association write Ronald E. Marcello, Sec­ retary, Box 13734, North Texas Station, North Texas State University, Denton, TX 76203. November 9-12: Classification Systems. The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science will hold a four-day institute at Allerton Park, the university’s conference center near Monticello, Illinois, about twenty- five miles southwest of Champaign-Urbana. The institute for 1975, the twenty-first in the series, is scheduled to be on “Major Classifica­ tion Systems.” With the centennial of the first edition of Dewey’s classification system coming in 1976, the faculty of the school decided to devote next fall’s institute to a study and evaluation of clas­ sification systems. The cosponsor of the 1975 Allerton Institute will be the Forest Press, Al­ bany, New York, publishers of the decimal classification. The institute, however, will con­ cern itself not only with Dewey but with other major classification systems being used in En­ glish-speaking countries. A brochure describing the program in detail will be issued in June 1975. Individuals inter­ ested in receiving the brochure and registration information should write to Mr. Brandt W. Pryor, Institute Supervisor, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. M ISC E LLA N Y • Inflation and other economic pressures un­ derscore the need for improved business com­ munications among publishers, wholesalers, and their library customers. Task forces appointed by committees of the Association of American Publishers and the Resources and Technical 82 Services Division of the American Library As­ sociation are conducting a major investigation of book marketing and selection procedures of all concerned groups. The goal: to collect and report current data and expert opinions for the mutual benefit of all engaged in the marketing and selection of adult books. Through question­ naires mailed to 300 academic, research, and public libraries, one task force, led by William Bunnell (County College of Morris, New Jer­ sey) will survey library acquisition budgets, policies, and procedures—what tools are em­ ployed in book selection, which departments or individuals in various kinds of libraries have most direct influence on purchasing decisions, and how books are ordered. Another group, di­ rected by Shirley Sarris (Franklin W atts), will determine how 100 publishers market new titles to libraries through catalogs, bibliographies, promotion and advertising, etc. What methods work to the benefit of publisher and library, What fail? A third task force chaired by Laura Dudley ( Hofstra) will gain similar insights into the wholesaling sector of the trade by querying 100 wholesalers and jobbers. Jean Boyer (Tem­ ple University) is responsible for the fourth task force which will critically evaluate existing bibliographic and other alerting services. Over­ all coordination of the task force efforts is in the hands of Sandra Paul (Random House). Responses to questionnaires will be analyzed and the findings discussed at the ALA Midwin­ ter Meeting in Chicago. From discussions at Midwinter, a full-day seminar, “Book Marketing and Selection: A Publishing/Library Forum," will be developed for presentation on July 1, 1975, at the ALA Conference in San Francisco. • As a result of the “literature explosion” and its subsequent advances in scientific instru­ mentation and ready availability of computer storage and retrieval capabilities, there are hun­ dreds, perhaps even thousands, of scientific and technical data banks today. Some of the well- known ones include the National Oceanograph­ ic Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Office of Stan­ dard Reference Data of the National Bureau of Standards, the entomological data service of the Agricultural Research Service (Depart­ ment of Agriculture), the Arkansas Archeologi­ cal Survey, the Scripps Institute of Oceanogra­ phy (ocean sediment data), the Oak Ridge Na­ tional Laboratory (nuclear data), and the Thermodynamic Properties Research Center of Purdue University. Although results contained in these data banks are generally accessible to qualified users, many other data banks that op­ erate within the walls of a given research insti­ tution remain virtually inaccessible to the broader scientific and technical community. Therefore, large bodies of data, often generated and stored at great cost, remain underutilized. Science, technology, and society do not derive full benefit from the efforts represented by the contents of these “private,” but often publicly- funded, data banks. This situation of under­ utilization can be changed, but significant im­ provements will come only if a number of or­ ganizations work together. Thus, the Office of Science Information Service of the Na­ tional Science Foundation (OSIS) is seek­ ing involvement with appropriate organizations to carry out its goal “to promote the banking of factual data.” OSIS does not intend to sup­ port the operation of data banks. Rather, it proposes to fund strategic and experimental ac­ tivities that will stimulate effective development and use of data banks. Hence, several ap­ proaches are being pursued. By encouraging the abstracting and indexing services to extend their coverage to data banks and by supporting development of inventories and guides to data banks, OSIS hopes to in­ crease awareness, access, use, and the economic viability of data services. In addition, OSIS is sponsoring research into the data management policies of selected federal agencies. The pur­ pose is to identify effective ways of providing access to data and to illuminate options avail­ able to those who compile and distribute data. Other activities will include studies to en­ courage compatibility among data banks; test­ ing ways to reduce the costs of capturing data in machine-readable form, strengthen quality control, and to convert English to metric units; and projects to link data banks in resource shar­ ing networks. Still another approach to strengthening data bank operations consists of efforts to educate and motivate potential users to buy and use such advanced information capabilities. In these ways, OSIS hopes to contribute to the orderly growth in the development and use of scientific and technical data banks. Individ­ uals interested in discussing OSIS’s activities in this area are invited to contact Dr. Harold E. Bamford, OSIS Program Director; (202) 632-5824. • “The Centennial of the Japanese Col­ lection in the Library of Congress,” an exhibit mounted by the Japanese Division of the Orientalia Division commemorating the first 100 years of the library’s Japanese Collection, will be on view in the Fifth Floor Foyer of the Library Annex Building from January 1 through April 30. To be exhibited are photocopies of the essen­ tial documents of an agreement made in No­ vember 1875 with the government of Japan es­ tablishing an exchange of government publica­ tions, as well as several books and a miniature scroll which illustrates the development of the Japanese Collection over the past 100 years. 83 Included are Heiyō Nihon chiri shoshi, an 1875 publication on the military geography of Japan, one of the documents received in the first ex­ change; an original and rare album of water- color drawings by Hiroshige (1797-1858) from the Noyes Collection; a volume of the first Tripitaka printed in Japanese and acquired by Kan-ichi Asakawa of Yale University for the li­ brary during 1906-7; a miniature scroll printed in 770 A.D., the oldest extant printed work from Japan and possibly the earliest specimen of printing in the library’s collections; a volume of Shigure, a Nara picture book (seventeenth century); a volume from the 1852 Dutch-Jap­ anese dictionary, Oranda jii, acquired during the 1930s; Nasu no shokubutsu, a botanical work by Emperor Hirohito; a volume of select­ ed poems by Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako; and the first book printed on plastic paper. Also shown in the exhibit are two books pre­ dating the 1875 agreement. One is The Narra­ tive of a Japanese, the autobiography of Joseph Heco, who was the first Japanese ever to visit Washington (in 1853) and who was also the first Japanese to work in the Capitol, as an aide to Senator William M. Gwin of California from October 1857 to February 1858. The second work is P. Joâo Rodriguez’s Grammaire japo- naise (1825), one of the books exhibited by the Library of Congress for the visit of the first Japanese Embassy in 1860. • The Pennsylvania Area Library Net­ work (PALINET) has recently established ad­ ministrative offices in Philadelphia and has ap­ pointed Robert C. Stewart as its executive di­ rector. PALINET, organized in December 1972 un­ der the auspices of the Union Library Cata­ logue of Pennsylvania, serves as an administra­ tive center for OCLC services and related co­ operative activities of libraries in the region. W ith the receipt of an LSCA grant from the State Library of Pennsylvania, PALINET has expanded its membership to nearly fifty li­ braries and has established headquarters in the Union Catalogue offices in Philadelphia. The present membership includes libraries in eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey. Mr. Stewart, formerly with the University of Pennsylvania Libraries where he implemented use of the OCLC system, has also worked with PALINET since its inception, serving as secre­ tary-treasurer of its Operations Committee. A graduate of Columbia University School of Li­ brary Service, Mr. Stewart was also formerly government publications librarian at the State Library of Pennsylvania and has been active in the Pennsylvania Library Association as a mem­ ber of the Board of Directors. • “Love Letters in American History,” an exhibit drawn from numerous manuscript collections, will be on display in the Reading Room of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress from January 2 through March 31. The letters of two of America’s most distin­ guished jurists, James Kent and Felix Frank­ furter, indicate that while the style of expres­ sion may alter dramatically over the years, the message remains essentially the same. In stately phrases addressed to his wife Elizabeth in 1804, Kent wrote, “. . . I do love my wife most warmly, & look forward to her Society as yield­ ing the most solid & lively Happiness of my Being.” One century later, Felix Frankfurter concluded a whimsical note to his wife with the observation, “. . . such as is I is yours.” Among the earliest manuscripts to be shown is Alexander Hamilton’s letter of September 6, 1780, to Elizabeth Schuyler, written two months before their marriage. In the midst of a discus­ sion devoted to the perils confronting America’s Revolutionary army, he suddenly interrupts, “Pardon me my love for talking politics to you. W hat have we to do with anything but love? . . . If America were lost we should be happy in some other clime. . . . W hat think you of Geneva as a retreat?” Hamilton’s contemporary, Thomas Jefferson, is represented in the exhibit by one of the most extraordinary love letters in the English lan­ guage—a twelve-page letter to Maria Cosway, written entirely with his left hand, after having dislocated his right wrist when attempting to jump over a fence. Jefferson assured Mrs. Cos­ way that though her letters to him might be “as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. only let them brim full of affection.” Love let­ ters exchanged by James and Lucretia Garfield, a quarter of a century before his assassination, are overcast with somber allusions to death. James speaks of the possibility that the “Silent Angel [mightJ claim your loving James ere the year is done,” while Lucretia implores him to “go not before me. Leave me not one hour, one moment to the terrible consciousness that I live without you.” Also to be shown are manuscripts of Presi­ dents Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft, as well as Whitelaw Reid, Josephus Daniels, Belle Case La Follette, Lucy Stone, and Henry B. Blackwell. In addi­ tion, the exhibit will include a letter whose lack of literary sophistication is more than compen­ sated for by its passionate intensity. In her let­ ter to Andrew Jackson, who in 1814 was en­ gaged in combat with the Creek Indians in the Mississippi Territory, Rachel Jackson wrote, “my prayers my tears is for yoúr safety daye and night.” 84 P U B L IC A T IO N S • A grant provided by the Devonian Group of Charitable Foundations and the support and encouragement of many Canadian libraries, have made it possible for the National Library of Canada to undertake the task of reproducing on microfiche all of the items listed in Bruce Peel’s Bibliography of the Prairie Provinces. First published by the University of Toronto Press in 1953, followed by a supplement in 1963, and now published in a new enlarged edition (University of Toronto Press, 1973), this extensive bibliography is the result of twenty-six years of research in Canada and the United States, and, more recently, in seventeen European countries. The new edition lists 4,500 items relating to the history of Canada’s prairie provinces, arranged in chronological order, and indexed by subject and author. The microreproduction will be done by the Central Microfilming Unit of the National Li­ brary and Public Archives. The Devonian Group’s grant will cover the cost of this filming, and thus the microfiche collection can be sold on a nonprofit basis to subscribers. Over thirty libraries in Canada and the U.S. have agreed to buy the collection. The project staff will make every effort to lo­ cate the items described by Mr. Peel and to procure them for filming. In addition, efforts will be made to contact the owners of copy­ right material in order to request permission to reproduce such works for the microfiche collec­ tion. The success of a project of this magnitude will depend on the cooperation of many indi­ viduals (librarians, authors, collectors, publish­ ers) in Canada and abroad. Information about material listed in Peel’s Bibliography, and ques­ tions or information concerning copyright should be addressed to the project head, Miss Linda Hoad, Room 478A, National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Canada K1A ON4; (613) 992-1273. • The Robert B. Downs Publication Fund Series is devoted to describing the many special collections at the University of Illinois Library. Collections Acquired by the University of Illi­ nois Library at Urbana-Champaign 1897-1974 is the second in the series. This fifty-nine-page catalog, compiled by Jean A. Major, describes private collections which have been acquired as units by the University of Illinois Library, both by purchase and as gifts. Each of the nearly 200 entries includes identification of the collector, indication of the collection’s size, and narrative description of the contents. The col­ lections are indexed by subject and name. Ex Libris F. S. Ferguson, A Checklist of the F. S. Ferguson Collection of Scottish Im­ prints and Scotica at the University of Illinois was the first number in the Robert B. Downs Publication Fund Series, and is still available. This catalog, compiled by James L. Hamer, describes a collection of boks, many unique, printed in Scotland from 1640-1700. These publications may be ordered for $1.00 each from Publications Office, 249 Armory Bldg., Graduate School of Library Science, Uni­ versity of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. All orders must be prepaid. • Starting with the January 1975 issue, the Oryx Press of Scottsdale, Arizona will be the new publisher of the Bibliography of Agricul­ ture. The monthly publication, which is pro­ duced from data provided by the National Ag­ ricultural Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has been published by Macmillan since 1970 but has been dropped from the Macmillan list in its recent cutback. Renewal forms for 1975 were mailed to subscribers, along with notification of the change in publish­ ers, in early December. There will be no inter­ ruption of service to subscribers. Orders for the 1974 Bibliography of Agricul­ ture Annual Cumulation will be filled by Mac­ millan as planned; starting with the 1975 edi­ tion, however, Oryx Press will be the publisher of the cumulations as well. The Bibliography of Agriculture Thesaurus, previously announced by Macmillan, will be published by Oryx Press. Subscribers are asked to write directly to the Bibliography of Agriculture, c/o The Oryx Press, 7632 East Edgemont Ave., Scottsdale, AZ 85257 for complete information and in­ structions. • The Library Association and Learned In­ formation announce the forthcoming publica­ tion of a Cumulative Index to Library and In­ formation Science Abstracts, 1969-1973. The Cumulative Index is designed to be an essential companion piece to all collections of LISA, providing a key to the information con­ tained in the more than 14,000 abstracts of pe­ riodical articles, conference papers, books, and Special Morris Printing Sought John J. Walsdorf is currently survey­ ing libraries for copies of the T. J. Wise 1894 printing of William Morris’ Let­ ters on socialism. Rare book librarians with copies of this edition in their col­ lections are asked to contact him at 13775 Forest Knoll Dr., New Berlin, WI 53151. 85 IN BOUND VOLUMES Here at last is a single source of subject, au­ thor, and title access to 51 years of Parliamen­ tary and Non-Parliamentary British Govern­ ment publications, the unique new CUMULA­ TIVE INDEX TO HMSO CATALOGUES OF PUBLICATIONS, 1922-1972. This new 2 volume single-alphabet index set eliminates these 24 separate search steps which were formerly necessary to trace any subject through existing indexes to British Government documents published during this period: 14 Annual Catalogues 1922-1935 7 Quinquennial “Consolidated Indexes” 1936-1970 3 Annual Catalogues, 1971-1972 More than 200,000 subject and author entries were accumulated from these annual and quin­ quennial indexes and merged into this one single alphabet set. Subject entries are arranged hierarchially and each author, subject or title entry refers to the year and page where its full description appears in the Annual Catalogue. The year always ap­ pears as a two digit number in parentheses, followed by a page number [e.g. “(70) 1657”]. These year and page numbers can be used either to locate the full description of the pub­ lication in the Annual Catalogues themselves, or as the initial access number to the retrieval system of the microfilm collection. Index entries referring to such documents as Command Papers. House of Lords and House of Commons Bills and Reports, all include serial numbers as well as Catalogue page numbers. The Cumulative Index to HMSO Catalogues of Publications 1922-1972, in two hard-cover volumes. P o stp a id _______________ $165.00 REPRODUCTIONS OF HMSO ANNUAL CATALOGUES, 1922-1972 The Cumulative Index to HMSO Catalogues of Publications, 1922-1972 may be purchased either by itself, as a part of the Controller’s Library microfilm system, or as a combined reference edition including reproductions of the 51 Annual Catalogues themselves. These edi­ tions have been announced as available either on 35 mm or 16 mm microfilm, in reduced “compact” editions, or in full-size facsimile reprint volumes. Available from us for immediate delivery are the full texts of 51 HMSO Annual Catalogues on 6 reels of 35 mm or 16 mm silver halide microfilm. P o stp aid ______________ $118.50 A n n o u n c in g the m ost co 2 0 th C entury B r itis h G overnm e THE CONTROLLERS LIB H E R MA STATIONER PUBLICATIO T h e complete holdings o f Parliam publications are offered on microfilm CUMULATIV HMSO ANNUAL CATALO 1922- By special arrangement with Her Majesty’s Sta­ tionery Office, the Historical Documents Institute has been authorized to micropublish the entire con­ tents of the HMSO Controller’s Library collection of official British Government documents published during the years 1922-1972. Meanwhile, the Carrollton Press office in Inver­ ness has just completed editorial work on its Cumu­ lative Index to HMSO Catalogues of Publications, 1922-1972 which offers the first single-alphabet source of subject, author, and title access to this same 51 years of Parliamentary and Non-Parliamentary pub­ lications. The hundreds of thousands of British Government publ sets of Parliamentary or Non-Parliamentary publicatic contents of these sets, plus our pre-publication prices a below. A free set of the Cumulative Index volumes is IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT ORDERS P LIVERED AT TODAY’S PRICES AND DISCOUNTS MAY BE BROUGHT ABOUT BY FUTURE INFLA m n N G N T nprehensive collection o f n t Publications ever reproduced RARY COLLECTION OF JE S T Y ’S RY OFFICE NS, 1922-1972 lentary a n d N o n -P a rlia m e n ta ry f o r direct reference use w i t h the n e w E IN D E X TO GUES OF PUBLICATIONS 1972 As the Cumulative Index entries refer to the year and page numbers of the HMSO Annual Catalogue issues in which the publications are described; and whereas all the publications in the Controller’s Li­ brary collection appear on the microfilm in the same order they appear in the Annual Catalogues, the Cumulative Index can be used for direct access to the microfilm collection. Just how this self-contained reference system actu­ ally works is described in detail in a free brochure which will be sent to you on request. ications in this collection are being offered initially in ms, either annually or in multi-annual groupings. The ind estimated delivery dates are presented in the table included with each of the sub-sets listed. uACED NOW WILL BE RECORDED AND DE- »—REGARDLESS OF WHAT PRICE INCREASES [TON. 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 AND ACCESS The microfilm collection is arranged in the same sequence as the HMSO Annual Cata­ 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 Number” relative to its position from the top [e.g. “(70) 1657-5”]. To 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 Number 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 Cata­ 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-Seale pattern on the microfilm car­ ton, 3. identify the Item Number from the Cata­ logue page on microfilm, and 4. search the “Item Number Inserts” se­ quentially until one of the proper inserts (showing the referenced Item Number) is located, at 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 Num­ bers) before referring to the microfilm. pamphlets presented in the thirty issues of LISA published during its period of coverage. Its subject index, containing over 40,000 en­ tries, does not merely cumulate the five annual subject indexes to LISA. Each of the more than 14,000 abstracts has been reindexed to generate one modern and consistent sequence which does not suffer from the changes in terminology and emphasis which always occur over a five- year period. The chain-indexing method has been used in the compilation of the cumulative subject index and for each entry a string of terms has been generated which expresses, in summary form, the subject of a document. See and see also references are used extensively. In addition to merging the five annual author indexes to LISA into one alphabetical sequence, the cumulative author index presents full arti­ cle titles after each author entry—thus enabling the user to go directly to the abstract of inter­ est, no matter how prolific the author. The cu­ mulative author index will contain over 20,000 entries. This work will be published in the spring of 1975. A prepublication discount is available. Full details can be obtained from the following address: Learned Information, Penthouse 1, 15 West 55th St., New York, NY 10019. • A free sample of a new bimonthly news­ letter, The De-Acquisitions Librarian, will be available to librarians who request one on their letterhead. Tentatively scheduled for March 1975 publi­ cation, this newsletter will be devoted specifi­ cally to the identification and relegation of less- used books and periodicals in libraries of most types. The emphasis will be on research in de­ acquisitions policies, and practical strategies of storage, weeding, and discarding. To be placed on the mailing list for a free sample, write to: The De-Acquisitions Librari­ an, c/o Haworth Press, 130 West 72nd St., New York, NY 10023. • Measuring reference work—should you? —can you? is the subject of the sixty-six-page Proceedings of the Symposium on Measurement of Reference held at the ALA Annual Confer­ ence in New York City on July 8, 1974. The editor is Katherine T. Emerson, chairwoman of the Committee on Statistics for Reference Ser­ vices of the ALA Library Administration Divi­ sion, Library Organization and Management Section. The Proceedings are now available from the Library Administration Division of the American Library Association. The purpose of the symposium was to pro­ vide a forum for librarians in administrative or reference positions, to examine the needs for measurement and to find a common ground on which both quantitative and qualitative mea­ surement can be utilized. This purpose was carried out through speakers’ papers, audience participation, and discussion groups. Some of the papers were published in the fall, 1974 is­ sue of RQ, but the complete transcripts of ten papers are included in this paperback publica­ tion, along with the complete audience partici­ pation discussions and reports on the discussion groups. The Proceedings present arguments on both sides of the question of whether or not refer­ ence services should be measured. Additional­ ly, discussions are included on standards for reference service, on the need for measurement, on how to allocate personnel costs, on the mea­ surement of the worthiness or value of refer­ ence questions, and on the use of reference ser­ vice. Copies are available at $2.50 fropa the Li­ brary Administration Division of ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Payment must be included with your order. • The third edition of the Bermuda Trian­ gle Bibliography, revised and updated through January 1975, is now available for $2.00 pre­ paid. Make check out to Larry Kusche. Include stamped, self-addressed business envelope or a check for $2.25. Address: Larry Kusche or Deborah Blouin, University Library, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281. • Ogan Chubaryan’s English language Li­ braries in the Soviet Union has been reprinted in facsimile by the Memphis State University Libraries. Dr. Chubaryan is the deputy chief librarian of the Lenin Library in Moscow. His brief book offers a view of Soviet libraries and librarianship from a Soviet perspective. Single copies are available upon receipt of a stamped, 6½ by-9½-inch mailing envelope. Address re­ quests to Lester J. Pourciau, Jr., Director of Li­ braries, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN 38152. • A Guide to Research Collections in Micro­ form, by Iqbal Wagle, describes the subject coverage, location, and bibliographic access of approximately 100 microform collections avail­ able at the University of Toronto Library. The aim is to provide better access to these valuable sources of rare, out-of-print material and gov­ ernment documents. Although the guide is aimed primarily at users of the University of Toronto, it should be useful to researchers and librarians at other institutions who may obtain the material through interlibrary loan. The mi­ croform collections cover all subject fields. Copies can be ordered from the Reference De­ partment, John P. Robarts Research Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Can­ ada. M5S 1A5. 88