ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 672 / C & RL News eluding ALA, the International Federation of L i brary Associations, and the Association of Researc Libraries. E d w a r d J . Sw e n y retired September 12 after 1 years of service as manager of the New Englan Deposit Library at Harvard University. P h i l l i p W e s l e y , dean of the library at Califor nia State University, Dominguez Hills, retired ef fective November 1 after seventeen years of service ­ h 8 d ­ ­ . Deaths E d w a r d J . B a c h u s , senior assistant librarian at California State University, Long Beach, died Sep­ tember 13. P a u l P a r h a m , university librar ian at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, died August 31 after a lengthy illness. N E W TECHNOLOGY •Geomail is a newly formed commercial asso­ ciation of 25 private electronic mail system opera­ tors of the GeoNet Mailbox System, who are work­ ing toward establishing a fully international elec­ tronic mail service. Its present membership covers all of Europe and will shortly be expanded to sys­ tems in the United States, the Middle East, Austra­ lia, and the Far East. Some 10,000 subscribers are now supported. Th e continuous integration of telecommunication-based services (telex, facsim­ ile, teletext, etc.) with electronic mail systems makes it important to find the most cost efficient routing of information. Geomail intends to create a full spectrum of optimized telecommunication packages for their operators and their subscribers. The service will use the X400 international stan­ dard for message handling services, developed by the Comité Consultatif International pour Tele­ phone et Télégraphe. For more information, con­ tact J. Hoffman, Geomail S.A., BP. 262 Luxem­ bourg. •IBM now offers an ASCII station that can dis­ play nearly twice as many characters per screen as other displays in the IBM 316X family. The new IBM 3162 display station is a general purpose ter­ minal for use with computers using ASCII proto­ col. The 3162 can attach to the IBM Series/1, IBM Series/88, IBM PCs, and most non-IBM host com­ puters. The station sells for $645. IBM also announced a new function cartridge and keyboard that allows the IBM 3163 and 3164 models to display the ALA character set for termi­ nal applications in libraries. The cost for the IBM 3163 model 860 is $976 and for the IBM 3164 model the cost is $1,376. Contact the IBM Systems Group, 900 King St., Rye Brook, NY 10573; (914) 934- 4828. • Lenco Energy Management has modified a portion of the 3d-floor flourescent lighting system at San Diego State University’s Love Library that may save over $42,000 annually in electrical costs. Lenco’s procedure involved removing the existing four flourescent bulbs and two ballasts from each fixture, then equipping the fixture housing with two custom-designed specular optical reflectors, a single solid-state ballast, and only two flourescent bulbs. The actual light output is only 3% less, but the energy savings are at least 50 %. Lenco Energy Management, located in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and serving the entire southern California area, specializes in retrofitting lighting systems. • T h e L i b r a r y C o r p o r a t i o n has announced custom-designed enhancements to BiblioFile, the company’s desktop catalog system. The upgraded system allows a library to maintain an in-house cat­ alog, establish a multi-station local area network, and laser print presorted catalog cards. Special fea­ tures include a bar code reader to augment MARC records with circulation information, additional C D - R O M drives, and up to eight additional work stations. Contact: The Library Corporation, P.O. Box 400 35 , Washington, D C 20016; (800) 624- 0559. •NewsBank now has available a C D - R O M ver­ sion of its database of over 500,000 newspaper cita­ tions that combines five years of N ew sB an k, N am es in the N ews, and R eview o f th e Arts on a single disk. The NewsBank Electronic Index uses an IBM PC with a Hewlett-Packard Thinkjet printer and a Hitachi C D - R O M player. For more information, contact NewsBank, I n c ., 58 Pine St., New C a ­ naan, C T 06840; (800) 243-7694. •Sharp Electronics has introduced a compact, N ovem ber 1986 / 673 full-color copier with a suggested list pr ice of $10,995. Designed with a thermal printing process that uses specially treated bond paper, the CX- 5000 can produce a full-color copy with a resolu­ tion of 300 x 300 dots-per-inch. T h e machine can also reduce by 50 % or enlarge portions of an origi­ nal up to four times its size on a maximum copy pa ­ per size of 8 x 14 inches. Th e C X -5 0 0 0 uses a four- color ribbon that features cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, and it can also create a two-color copy from a black-and-white source. Contact: Sharp Electronics Corporation, Sharp Plaza, Mahwah, NJ 07430; (201) 529-8920. • University M icrofilm s In tern ation al will re­ lease a C D - R O M version of its D issertation A b ­ stracts in January. T h e database, D issertation A b ­ stracts O n disc, features citations and abstracts for 135,000 doctoral dissertations published from 1983 to 1986 and will be updated annually. T h e intro­ ductory price is $995. Contact: UM I, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 4810 6; (313) 761-4700. • Th e University of Tulsa L ib raries has c o m ­ pleted the transport of their online integrated sys­ tem, L I A S - T U , from Pennsylvania State Univer­ sity facilities to campus computer equipment in Tulsa. L I A S - T U is now a completely independent system, maintained locally. In addition to Univer­ sity of Tulsa holdings, by January 1 the system will contain the entire current and retrospective MARC file. Contact: Robert G. Anderl, Associate Director for Automation and Technical Services, University of Tulsa Libraries, Tulsa, OK 74104. •Th e U niversity of T o ro n to completed testing last M a r c h on a proto typ e m i c r o - o p a q u e card reader/printer that precludes the necessity of con­ verting any of their library’s 1 , 0 3 8 ,5 0 0 microprints and 5 4 , 8 0 0 microcards to another format. Costs as­ sociated with converting only the most used seg­ ments of these collections had been calculated at $ 2 0 0 , 0 0 0 , but the cost of the machine will only be about 5 % of that. T h e equipment consists of a spe­ cial modular carrier, light hood, and lens attac h­ ment for the Agfa-Gavaert C O P E X L K P model reader/printer, which is marketed in the United States as a Bell & Howell model 5100 reader/prin­ ter. Using a dry toner reprographic process, the unit makes plain bond paper copies from micro­ card and microprint, com pa ra bl e in quality to photoreproductions from microfiche. For more in­ formation, contact: M . I . C . R . Systems L t d . , 2255 Sheppard Avenue East, Suite W 3 0 0 , Willowdale, Ontario M 2 J 4Y1; (416) 496-1221. •Th e Arts A ddress B o o k , edited by Peter M a r ­ can (2d ed., 1 9 8 6 , 1 3 7 pages), is a classified guide to some 1 , 5 0 0 artistic org anizatio ns o p e r a t in g at many levels within the United Kingdom, Ireland, and internationally. Selected subjects include arts administration, cultural development, museums, libraries, photography, graphic arts, architecture, music, theatre, cinema, and dance. T h e entry for each organization contains a brief description of its scope and activities, as well as address, telephone number, and publications. Copies may be ordered from Peter Marcan Publications, 31 Rowliff Road, High W yc om be , Bucks, England. T h e cost is £ 9 . 9 5 (plus postage of £ 2 . 5 0 surface mail, £ 5 . 0 0 air m a i l ) . ISBN 0- 951 0289-3-6. • T he Belvedere Press, founded by an interna­ tional consortium of publishers, will be the exclu­ sive English-speaking market publisher of a series of high-quality facsimiles of rare Vatican Library manuscripts. Twelve titles and three maps have been published in 1986, ranging in price from $75 to $ 7 , 5 0 0 and including very important works of P U B L IC A secular and religious history. Th e V ergilius R o ­ m an u s, an illustrated collection of Vergil’s works, dates from the 5th century A. D. and is believed to be the oldest extant manuscript of the poet’s works. T h e C osm o g ra p h y o f P to le m y , a specially commis­ sioned copy of the 2d-century work for the Duke of Urbino’s private library rendered in 1472, contains 44 colored charts of the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa. A lavishly illustrated N ew T estam en t, a 13th-century copy of St. Je r om e’s Vulgate trans­ lation, features miniature paintings and initial let­ ters illuminated with gold and silver on every page. Six titles have been selected to be strictly limited editions, a one-time printing with a predetermined quantity. E a c h facsimile has 23K gold and silver leaf hand-applied to the illuminations just as it was in the original. E a c h will be hand-bound in fine, hand-tooled leather. For further information, con­ tact the Belvedere Press, 19 W . 36th S t . , New York, NY 10018; (212) 307-1300. •A B ib lio g ra p h y o f L atin A m erican a n d C a rib ­ b e a n B ib lio g r a p h ie s , 1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 6 , com piled by T IO N S