ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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•  The Annual Report o f the American Rare, 
Antiquarian, and Out-of-Print Book Trade, 19781 
1979, edited by Denis Carbonneau, “is the first 
of a projected series whose purpose is to give a 
p icture of the antiquarian book trade for the 
year.” It is divided into six sections: auctions and 
auctioneering; review of specialized areas; librar­
ies and librarianship; professional associations; 
conservation of material; and trends in bibliogra­
phy. Available from: BCAR Publications, P.O. 
Box 50, Cooper Station, New York, NY 10003. 
Price: $15.95 cloth, $9.95 paper, plus $1 postage 
and handling.

•  R. E. Bellamy’s Private Presses ćr Publishing 
in England Since 1945 (K. G. Saur, 1980, $33) 
has three objectives: “to examine the varied na­
ture of private publishing and printing presses in 
England; to describe the way in which they have 
developed during the last thirty years; and to dis­
cover what their relationships are with the com­
mercial printing and publishing industries.”

•  Michael Lane and Jeremy Booth’s Books and

Publishers: Commerce against Culture in Post­
war Britain (Lexington Books, 1980, $16.95) 
deals “with the decisive issue book publishers 
have today and always ultim ately faced: which 
books to publish” and then tries “to establish how 
changing external constraints and pressures in­
teract with the inner workings of publishing in­
stitutions and what consequences this is having 
both for publishers themselves and the world of 
culture they serve.”

•  Scarecrow’s newest addition to its Great Bib­
liographers se ries is n u m b e r 5: Roy Stokes’ 
a p p reciation of Michael S adleir, 1888-1957 
(Scarecrow, 1980, $8.50).

•  A Study of Library Cooperatives, Networks,
and Demonstration Projects, by Ruth J. Patrick, 
Joseph Casey, and Carol M. Novalis (K. G. Saur, 
1980, $39), is a two-volume report evaluating 
“ the im pact and e ffectiveness of two USOE 
administered grant Programs to develop and im­
prove library and information services”: HEA II- 
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Calendar
The following continuing education activities 

and meetings have been listed with ACRL’s Con­
tinuing Education Clearinghouse. If your orga­
nization is sponsoring an activity that you think 
may be of interest to ACRL mem bers, please 
send the pertinent details to the ACRL Office, 50
E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

July
29-30—Online Searching: Online Bibliographic 

and Information Systems, workshop, School of 
Library and Inform ation Sciences, Brigham 
Young University, Provo, Utah. Fee: $99. Con­
tact: Library Workshops, Room 242 HRCB, 
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 
or call Gary Bascom at (801) 378-4853.

31-August 1— Statistics: Statistical Approach to 
Solving Library Problems, workshop, School of 
Library and Inform ation Sciences, Brigham 
Young University, Provo, Utah. Fee: $99. Con­
tact: see July 29-30 listing above.

August
10-14— Book Trade: The Out-of-Print and Anti­

quarian Book M arket, sem inar/w orkshop. 
Graduate School of Librarianship and Informa­
tion Management, University of Denver, Col­
orado. Fee: $215. Contact: Anne Mathews, 
C o n tin u in g  E d u ca tio n  D ire c to r, G ra d u ate

School of Librarianship and Information Man­
agem ent, U niversity of D enver, U niversity 
Park, Denver, CO 80208; (303) 753-2557.

September
13-15— Mental Health: Mental Health Librarians 

and Bibliography Roundtable, allied groups of 
the Hospital and Community Psychiatry Insti­
tu te , com bined m eeting-w orkshop, Boston 
Sheraton H o tel, B oston, M assachusetts. 
Theme: “The Patient Where? The Role of the 
L ibrarian in P a tie n t E d u c a tio n .” C ontact: 
Lucile S. Stark, Director, W estern Psychiatric 
I n s titu te  and C linic L ibrary, 3811 O ’Hara 
Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261; (412) 624-2378.

15-19—Archives: International Congress on Ar­
chives, London Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, Lon­
don, England. Themes: “The Uses of Archives; 
The ICA, Its Achievements and Its F u tu re .” 
Fee: £28. Contact: International Congress on 
A rchives, IX S e c re ta ria t, c/o C onference 
Organizing Division, Peter Peregrinus, Ltd., 2 
Savoy Hill, London WC2R OBL, United King­
dom.

30-O ctober 3— Archives: Society of American 
Archivists, annual meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Theme: “The Agenda for the 80s.” Contact: 
Society of American Archivists, 330 S. Wells, 
Suite 810, Chicago, IL 60606; (312) 922-0140.

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